By: Michael L. "Mikey" Weinstein, Esq. (Published in LAProgressive)
Date: March 26, 2018
Another day, another shameful and cowardly distraction from the President of the United States of America.
Why?
Because nothing exudes camaraderie and stability around our United States armed forces quite like an arbitrary and discriminatory ban against transgender troops.
This latest piece of red meat thrown to Trump's fundamentalist Christian religious extremist supporters is even more outrageously hypocritical given the enormous multibillion-dollar spending package shoehorned in for our armed forces. How exactly does it make us stronger if not every American who is able, fit, and willing to serve in the armed forces can do so, yet it's considered a bipartisan beacon of sanity to ramp up the war drums even further?
The answer points to dishonorable distraction - divide and conquer, pit your countrymen against one another. These are not the tactics of an American President, they are the petulant whims of an emotionally brazen man-child cum wannabe dictator using the late-Friday night "lede-burial policy-announcement" cliché to cover up an endless parade of uber-embarrassing and revelatory leaks, firings, and his own aberrant and repellent personal behavior.
The fraudulent Christian extremist theocrats, now eyeball-deep in the swamp that Herr 45 saw fit to fill with the sewage of his own criminal buddies and Washington's most vile swamp creatures, needed a handwave as Dear Leader's cavorting with porn stars and Playboy Playmates come to light. The same geniuses who clamor for an All-Jesus military see no irony in their starry-eyed adulation of an authoritarian tool who combines the criminality of Richard Nixon with the once-reviled sexuality of Bill Clinton. At least he never had the nerve to be born with gender dysphoria! The anti-trans bigotry is especially outrageous considering the fact one is statistically more likely to be harassed in a bathroom by a red-state Republican senator than they are a transgender person. And as one of our respected transgender clients of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) and a former member of the US Military can attest, the divisive edict yields absolutely no considerable advantage on any front and, in fact, damages not just our troops but our country as a whole.
Let's call it what it is. The Trans Ban is nothing short of base, evil, vile prejudice and bigotry of the most repugnant order. It is being aggressively challenged in the federal Courts and it is doomed to fail due to its glaring unconstitutionality. Trump and his fundamentalist Christian sycophants are joyously salivating with righteous glee, however, once again, they are on the wrong side of history.
"Make America Hate Again"; how disgusting!
Yesterday, March 25, 2018 was also National Medal of Honor Day, which was of course abused by a bone-spur ravaged, 5-time draft deferment president who adores the iconography of the U.S. military without even the remotest understanding of the ideals and core principles it is sworn to protect.
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