Posted on 02/07/2024 8:07:13 AM PST by Twotone
How many Republicans does it take to figure out someone’s God-given biological sex? Evidently, in Wyoming, 31-2 and 57-5 GOP majorities in the legislature are not enough.
Recent allegations by the Kolstad family that Montana Child and Family Services took their daughter to Wyoming to obtain “gender transition” therapy exposes a terrible truth about what should be the most conservative state in America. While Montana passed Senate Bill 99 last session to prohibit chemical castration of minors, Wyoming failed to pass what’s become known as Chloe’s Law thanks to opposition from Governor Mark Gordon and House Speaker Albert Sommers.
Lukewarm Republicans continue to conquer America’s reddest state for the Democrats thanks to the complacency of conservative media and like-minded groups.
After passing the Wyoming Senate 26-5 last February, Senate File 0144 was defeated in the Wyoming House Appropriations Committee. Sommers purposely sent the bill to the liberal Appropriations Committee rather than the Labor/Health Committee to ensure it would receive a “do not pass” recommendation.
The Wyoming legislature will be back in session later this month with a renewed urgency to ban castration in a state where such barbarism never should have taken hold in the first place. To blunt the momentum behind Chloe’s Law headed into the session, the liberal Republicans led by state Rep. Lloyd Larsen introduced HB 0063, which is advertised as banning castration of minors. The bill artfully excludes chemical castration from the prohibition, however.
A bait-and-switch bill
Just how lame are Republicans in Wyoming, a state where the Republican presidential nominee usually wins by 40 points? State Senator Wendy Schuler, a co-sponsor of the new bill, praised the new loincloth legislation as “a little less frightening for our medical folks.” You read that correctly. People like you and me who believe we shouldn’t sterilize and mutilate people are the frightening ones, not the people performing the mutilation.
It looks like California Democrats got lost on their way to the once Golden State and now occupy what should be God’s country.
In addition to allowing chemical castration, the new bait-and-switch bill guts all punishment for medical professionals who physically castrate the minor. Also, unlike Chloe’s law, HB 0063 leaves out nurses, mental health professionals, and insurance companies from potentially playing a role in these castrations. In other words, it is a perfect GOP bill designed to jujitsu the energy of the GOP voters into oblivion, all the while continuing to evince the image of a conservative for their upcoming primaries.
It is truly shocking how radical leftists have been able to operate as Republicans for so long in Wyoming. Their mindset is so extreme that in their new loincloth legislation, they even refer to God-given sexuality as “sex assigned at birth.” Larsen, the bill’s sponsor, hosted Artemis Langford, a massive guy who famously barreled himself into the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority at the University of Wyoming. You can see how Larsen gushed over Langford while referring to him repeatedly as a female.
Just as the university has disgraced itself with its embrace of transgenderism, it’s just as disgraceful that an abortion clinic in Casper, Wellspring Health Access, offers chemical castration “care.” How is it possible that an abortion clinic continues to operate within the state at all? The law banning abortions was enjoined last year by Teton County Judge Melissa Owens, a leftist appointed by the Republican governor just months prior. Even if Wyoming’s abortion law survives, the clinic can remain open to mutilate children instead of murdering them.
A land of lukewarm Republicans
Wyoming is a one-party state chock-full of Republicans who make Nikki Haley look like Ron DeSantis. Unless conservatives change the nature of the Republicans they elect, it will remain the “Brokeback Mountain” version of the Cowboy State.
Last year, Speaker Sommers argued passionately in favor of continuing to teach gender studies and queer theory at the University of Wyoming. He also blocked the Parental Rights in Education Act, which would have barred public schoolteachers in kindergarten through third grade from needlessly offering lessons on sexuality. All the while, Wyoming’s Republican governor quietly encourages the leftward tilt of the state as he gives speeches at Harvard promoting the global warming agenda.
These lukewarm Republicans, these leftist fellow travelers, continue to conquer America’s reddest state for the Democrats thanks to the complacency of conservative media and like-minded groups. We see from former Rep. Liz Cheney garnering just 29% of the vote in her 2022 congressional primary that if conservatives stay focused and educate the public about these incumbents, they will not only be defeated but roundly humiliated.
Politicians like Sommers and Gordon are objectively to the left of Cheney on most issues. The fact that they continue to thrive is a testament to our failure to focus on our own sphere of influence.
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Politicians are whores, and GOP politicians are cheap whores.
The Democratic Party Cancer continues to spread. Can it be stopped much less reversed???
spinelessness, gutlessness.
And most of these people look at politics as a career field, not as a moment of service for a citizen.
Says you are a libtard pervert and you live in Wyoming, or Oklahoma etc. You want a political job so you run as a Repub. What do you care? It’s a job, and you can smirk as you do the work of the Dems and get well paid for it. And within that world, they all know who is who and keep each others secrets.
They’re confused and don’t know what they’re doing ,LOL
Democrats and their closet RINO "con-patriots" see a small State population with two Senators and see an opportunity both in terms of power and in pitching real estate development. The greenie population around Jackson Hole will be Wyoming's urban enclave importing illegals to trim their bushes.
The GOP has no leaders.
Most elected republicans are basically democrats
Jackson Hole is the smallest town I have been to that has an airport big enough for commercial passenger jets.
Rush once said “…given the scaredy-cat nature of the Republican Party.”
The most accurate statement about the GOP ever uttered.
With apologies to Sergeant Foley.
I used to believe it was just being ‘scaredy-cat’.
Now I realize they are just really complicit.
Perhaps they’re doing penance for the Matthew Shepard lie.
Lukewarm Wyoming Republicans support trans-genderism because they want to be trendy. They see all the trendy, happening Democrats having all the fun, the best drag queen parties, and they are jealous. Or their wives are all of this, and the Republican hacks go with flow to make her happy.
Reason #4 — Wyoming is a leader in public library drag queen story hours for the kiddies. Coming in right after California and Massachusetts.
Reason #5 —
Wyoming is where the men are men, and the sheep are worried.
“Wyoming ranks second in the United States in wool production and lamb crop1. Additionally, it is fourth in terms of lambs and sheep2. The state’s favorable climate conditions, available land, and well-established agricultural infrastructure contribute to its significant role in sheep production. As of 2024, Wyoming produces approximately 230,000 sheep3.”
Reason #6 — The Yellowstone TV series is full of closeted gays. Un- closeted ones too
Reason #7 —
The Broke Back Mountain movie took place in Wyoming. Or at least the man on man action did,
Gay cowboys eating pudding?
Because the GOP is not what you think it is.
A glimpse into the political leanings of Governor Mark Gordon can be had by looking at the agreement he and Bill Gates came to last year. The agreement was to team up to build a small modular nuclear reactor in Kimmerer, WY co-located with a coal fired power plant that will be shut down on activation of the nuclear plant.
In my mind that plan is a slap in face of the Wyoming coal industry that mines forty percent of the Nations coal and is in decline due to nothing more than radical environmentalists intent on destroying America, and the engine of it’s success and future progress.
Anyone with knowledge of the SMR industry, knows there is not one commercial SMR operating in the United States or approved for operation and a step further there is not even one approved plan for an SMR in the United States. Seems a bit premature for the Governor of the Energy State to go all in with Bill on what may appear to be a wing and a prayer, or a guess and by golly of an effort.
As an aside, Utah just shut down their effort to build an SMR based on an actual approved SMR plan, due to lack of investors. The approved plan was then quickly disapproved by the Idaho National Lab that initially given it’s approval.
There are a great many people who believe SMR’s are the answer to our energy grid problems caused by the shrinking of Base load power production. That might be a correct assessment if it were not for the long and difficult approval process through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for permission to plan build and operate such a plant. There are those who believe we are talking decades of a process.
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