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Posted: Feb 24, 2017

How much absurdity have we signed on for when there’s not just one question about bathroom use at a White House press briefing, but the bathroom questions go on and on and on . . . even though they’re basically all the same question and they keep getting the same answer? Sound familiar? Google “Trump presser Russia.” As they so often do, the media either totally miss the point or understand it perfectly well and still refuse to let the issue go. They seem to think they’ve got Trump because he once said “Caitlyn” Jenner could use whatever bathroom “she” wanted at Trump Tower. That, Spicer calmly and repeatedly tries to explain, is exactly the point. Trump Tower is a private property owned by Donald Trump, and he can make whatever rule he wants there. It is not a matter the federal government needs to be dictating to everyone. Seems simple enough to you and me, but . . . Spicer’s strongest point here may be when he points out how the Obama Administration completely disregarded legally established process when it issued this “guidance” on bathroom use. There was no opportunity for public comment, for example, and Spicer has the media dead to rights when he points out they would have had a conniption fit if a Republican president did that in the issuance of a policy they did not like. Remember, as well, there was never federal legislation passed on this matter. It was strictly an executive order that added a new requirement to states and other units of government receiving federal aid: Adopt Obama’s bathroom policies or else. This is a sneaky way Democrats like to impose their will by fiat on the rest of the country. Maybe they can’t get a matter through Congress, but someone somewhere is depending on federal money. Make your little cause a condition for them to receive it, and watch how quickly they’ll get in line. When the Texas court struck down the guidance, Obama demurred on complying, and he was treated as a hero. Now the media are all over Trump for following the law (just as he’s doing on the immigration order, by the way), which is kind of a strange criticism coming from people who are terrified the new president is going to be a seperation-of-powers-busting dictator. As so often happens, the press misses the point when a Republican says something is a matter for the states to decide. They keep coming at him with lurid tales of terrified “transgender youth,” and they can’t imagine that in light of such stories there could be any possible response besides a sweeping federal mandate. Spicer simply tells them, look, talk to the states. There are matters for Washington and matters for the states, and this is one of the latter. You have to remember, for liberal, politics is heroic. They imagine this litany of civil rights threats (as long as it’s not againt Christians) and envision brave Washington heroes swooping in and saving the day for everyone. It’s hard for them to understand or accept that some things are not the job of Washington because that’s how our system of government was set up. Either that or they know that perfectly well and they just don’t care because they think this issue is an effective hammer with which to pummel Trump. One of those ;

Right. All Trump did was give the issue back to the states. - It's called federalism, which means

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limited govt. The govt should only get involved when states cannot, like wars, roads, etc.

States' rights are better because it assumes people closest to the problem should regulate it.

Yeah, and they did that so well with segregation - and homosexuals, right?

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Human rights are important in our country too, not just to certain states, but to all states. I believe many things should NOT be left to the states, especially those who have proved to take away rights in the past.

Wait, that's what the Voting Rights Act was for, and controls were put on the very states who tried to deprive citizens of the right to vote. Oh look, it's happening again because the majority of the Supreme Court decided there was no longer racism in our country. Now, that's a joke.

I would say that all human right issues should be decided at the national level. There are far too many (red) states who have a very warped and nasty history when it comes to "states' rights" and it has become a euphemism.

Which states are trying to deprive citizens of the right to vote? - Unless, of course...

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...you wish to argue that:

1. Requiring ID to buy cigarettes is "depriving citizens of the right to smoke."

2. Requiring a driver's license is "depriving citizens of the right to drive."

3. Requiring ID to check out a library book is "depriving citizens of the right to read."

...I could go on.

But I bet you don't object to ID being required to buy a gun, eh? If I argue that's "depriving citizens of the right to bear arms" would you agree?

No? Well, that's cognitive dissonance and there's an outright epidemic of cognitive dissonance on the left these days.

Dump all that "depriving citizens of the right to vote" blather. It's garbage fed to you by your handlers and I should think you'd be able to smell the stink of it.
Obama sued Arizona for trying to uphold it's own laws, thus - growing govt even bigger.
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That's how he tried to force the immigration and transgender issue.
It's getting difficult to tell the difference between satire - and actual Democrat positions
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on the issues anymore.

There are many Americans - Resist Trump
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in this country who live in rural areas, who are well-known in their communities, whose births have been recorded in churches and family bibles and who have never gotten a driver's license or other photo ID. They have the right to vote!
I don't know where you get this rot. First, "many" is a gross - exaggeration. Second, EVERY state
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AND I MEAN EVERY SINGLE STATE has provisions for citizens who do not have birth certificates to prove their identity and become registered to vote.

EVERY SINGLE STATE.
Yes. You can use any of a variety of other public records - such as...
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* Baptism record.
* School record.
* Public announcement of birth.
* Family Bible record
* Doctor's record of care.
* Driver's license.
* Delayed birth certificate (every state has provisions for such).
* Midwife's record.
* Letters of certification from neighbors, teachers, pastors, etc.

Gimme a break. None of this is about "rural people" - and we all know it, including YOU.
Funny. I was a sheriff's deputy in a very rural county for 5 years - and only ran across one who had no ID.
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She was a "person of interest" in a shooting and I verified her identity in 10 minutes by calling the elementary school she attended and talking to the owner of a restaurant who had employed her during high school.

One.

This is exactly why liberals hate states' rights and try to - force everything they want on a federal level.

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Government aren't the source of rights anyway. God is.

So I guess you are for a government forcing people to - violate their faith. Are religious

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Jewish photographers required to shoot Christian weddings under penalty of law or bake cakes?

Are devout Muslim photographers required to shoot Hindu weddings under penalty of law?

Why are Christian bakers and florists and photographers and pizza places required to provide their services for gay weddings under penalty of law?

There is no federal law that requires any institution - to refrain from discriminating

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on the basis of sexual orientation. There are only federal laws that require institutions to refrain from discriminating on the basis of sex.

People closest to this particular "problem" - are those who are trans themselves

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I see a lot of parallels with this and the gay marriage bill.

I imagine there are some members of the military who are trans, and when they are required to move around so much, why should their status be completely recognized in California and other states, yet this kind of nonsense apply when they are in the backwards states?

I believe small govt means NOT to get involved in the small stuff, to require money for legislation only for the big stuff (like wars, roads, etc.). Unfortunately, this requires them to live and let live, which they seem dead set against.

This kind of enabling of discrimination is getting MEGA involved in the private lives of those who reside in a particular state. And it costs money, bigly.

Ask Mike Pence and others who enacted "religious freedom" (anti-gay) laws about that. The states enacting those dubious religious freedom laws legalizing discrimination against gays lost $ bigly (from businesses who found them repugnant, anti-inclusive, and anti-American) and they also had to pay for the legislative process of the bills being enacted into law.

One can only imagine what kind of pretzel twisting they had to do with this litigation to make any "religious freedom" bill fit anything other than a right to discriminate, which should never be the law in any state.

Who do you think are the "people closest to the problem" then?

How is religious freedom anti-gay? I'm from Indiana and that whole - thing was started because of the

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Christian pizza restaurant that served gays, just didn't want to participate in a wedding. How is that anti-gay? No one's rights were violated.

Are you for anti-Christian rights?

I'm from Indiana and that place was targeted on purpose to push an agenda.

CNN's Chris Cuomo says that if 12-year-old girls are - uncomfortable seeing penises

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in locker rooms from biological males who identify as women, that the young girls are "the problem" and are being intolerant.

It was on Youtube but it appears to have been deleted. Figures.

This really crosses the line.

It was deleted because it is BS. There is no way for - sm

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anyone in the ladies room to know whether someone has a penis or a vagina under their skirt. It so happens that we pee in private behind a locked door. This is so a non issue.

It's not a non-issue at all. These rules can extend to other facilities - such as showers and locker rooms.

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There are also many restrooms where people aren't "peeing behind locked doors", and even where there are private stalls these can very easily be breached.

To me, since we've obviously completely lost every ounce of common sense God gave us, the only solution is a single-user restroom designed so that there are no hiding places, and anyone can see the moment they open the door whether there's someone lurking in there.

The point is Cuomo said it and blamed it on the - 12-year-old. It was Cuomo's own words.

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The question was what do you tell a 12-year-old girl who doesn't want to see a penis in the locker room?

Cuomo, without missing a beat, replied, “I wonder if she is the problem or her overprotective and intolerant dad? Teach tolerance."

This is literal insanity. If you don't teach your children - that boys and girls should

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shower together, etc. it is because you are being intolerant?

A little off topica, but I was at the VA yesterday and there was a lib - there thinking he could terrorize

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the people in the waiting room. He was yelling that Trump’s trips to Mar A Lago were more expensive than all of Obama’s entire first year vacations. Another woman there let him know that was fake news and I agreed with her. Besides, Trump actually does work when he’s there.

I told him Trump has done more in 30 days than Obama has done in 8 years. He said Trump hasn’t done anything and wanted to know what I believed Trump had done. I told him in 30 days Trump has reversed the Executive Orders Obama spent 8 years inflicting on us. He said, “But what has Trump done for anybody.” I said, "Well, now I can go to the bathroom without worrying about any man coming in there.” He couldn’t change the subject faster.

Hee hee.

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