-=> Angela Walker wrote to Dennis Katsonis <=-

 AW>   Re: Re: Weakling
 AW>   By: Dennis Katsonis to Lee Lofaso on Tue Sep 08 2020 09:16 am

 AW> I can list a few ways that Trump being president has tangibly and
 AW> negatively affected my life in a real way!
 AW> Under Obama, LGBT individuals such as myself had federal legal
 AW> protections against discrimination. LGBT students could feel safe in
 AW> public - they could use public restrooms without fear of legal action
 AW> being taken against them - something that should be a basic human right
 AW> for all Americans. LGBT employees had federal non-discrimination
 AW> protections. Transgender persons could participate in the Armed
 AW> Services.  I could go on. Thanks to Trump, all of that has been
 AW> reversed and then some. He's actually gone as far as to legally
 AW> "disappear" transgender people by redefining gender in the legal
 AW> context as an un-changeable binary determined by a doctor's glance at
 AW> birth that can never be changed or modified on any legal documents
 AW> recognized by his government.  While I haven't been arrested for using
 AW> a public restroom nor have I been discharged from service or fired
 AW> because of who I am, knowing that those are the rules of the land has
 AW> profoundly affected my psyche and self-esteem. I feel vastly less-safe
 AW> as an LGBT American than I did under Obama - I feel at-risk when I go
 AW> to work, when I go shopping, when I pay my bills, when I fill out
 AW> forms, and very much so when I see a doctor or seek any sort of medical
 AW> care. When Trump was elected, I knew it would be bad for LGBT Americans
 AW> but he's done more to hurt us than I'd even imagined. His words when he
 AW> asked the Supreme Court to rule that LGBT Americans have no legal
 AW> protections against discrimination - and lost the case - "It's
 AW> unfortunate. It's very unfortunate." So I have to live with knowing
 AW> that the leader of my country believes it's very unfortunate that he
 AW> couldn't officially legalize discrimination against people like myself.
 AW> ... and now that he's installed his pet, Amy, into the Supreme Court,
 AW> that decision is likely to be overturned - along with dismantling the
 AW> Affordable Care Act that protects 30 million Americans with health care
 AW> in the middle of a pandemic, not to mention women's rights. Roe vs.
 AW> Wade? Gone, just a matter of time. Regardless of how you feel about
 AW> abortion, I submit that taking away the right of every woman to make
 AW> that decision for herself after decades of the status quo represents a
 AW> monumental step backwards in terms of personal rights and freedoms -
 AW> well, rights not pertaining to straight white men, that is. But I'm
 AW> getting off-topic so I'll return to my premise and conclude that yes,
 AW> my life is much worse than it was when Obama was in charge. I think
 AW> that actually applies to the vast majority of Americans, as COVID does
 AW> not represent an anomoly - it's not an external event that has nothing
 AW> to do with Trump's leadership as he'd like you to think - it's a direct
 AW> result of his empowerment! Consider this: China tried to hide the SARS
 AW> outbreak of 2008 just as they tried t hide COVID but American agents
 AW> and the CDC played a major role in exposing the truth in time to stem
 AW> the spread. However in 2019, the president of the United States was
 AW> praising China's leadership and even in early 2020 he was on TV
 AW> commending China's efforts in dealing with the virus - assuring us it
 AW> was not threat to America.  Forget everything he's done to hamper the
 AW> efforts to get the virus under control since it exploded in America...
 AW> I submit that it's the fault of himself and his global influence that
 AW> this thing ever got out of control worldwide in the first place! He's
 AW> done a 180 on China by calling it the "China virus," well I say we call
 AW> it the "Trump virus!"  To that end, Trump has made all of our lives SO
 AW> much worse, worldwide! --- SBBSecho 2.27-Win32

I worry greatly that people will use their feelings to impact others.
We see people being cancelled, being fired because of how people "feel".
I have a real problem with this.  I have a problem with action taken
against others because some people think that this or that could happen.

That is why I asked for tangible and real outcomes.  Because its easy to
say that this or that changes makes me feel bad.  But does it impact
you?  Is there anything more to it than you fear and how you feel about
it?


If as a result of Trump, you were fired, denied a job, attacked, lost
out financially, whatever, I can understand.  That is what I wanted to
know, and why I asked.

You yourself admitted that these things you fear haven't actually
happened.


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