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      „Made it federal law that biology exists“ is such a gross, yet ironic misrepresentation of the actual matter it’s actually funny

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      Um, the sheer irony of even the “biology exists” part of what you said is that any biologist will tell you how factually incorrect his law is.

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        Lmao I’ve been told that “at least it’s a more coherent and accurate description of gender than the last administration had”

        And like, no, it’s inaccurate and incoherent. How do you define “the sex that produces the large reproductive cell” if someone never produced that cell? Are infertile people sexless, or is there some other sex characteristic that’s more reliable than gamete production? If there is, why not use that as a metric instead?

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            You could have just said “chromosomes.” Good job, you think some men can get pregnant. Of course, you probably think Swyer syndrome is an exception to your rule that XY=male and XX=female, which throws a bit of a wrench in the idea that sex can be defined by something like gamete production or chromosomes. These people exist and have to get driver’s licenses and shit, it’s not like you can just pretend they’re an outlier so they don’t matter. Should their sex be determined by chromosomes, or the gametes they have? Or is there perhaps a third, more useful method of determining whether to call them men or women?

            …maybe we could just ask them?

            It’s almost like it’s an insanely complicated subject that requires more than a grade school education to understand and more than one sentence to define

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    If one of Obama’s friends would’ve done a nazi salute behind the presidential seal, the Republicans would’ve lynched Obama on the lawn of the white house

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    Honestly, the current situation is beyond double standards. The Republicans have free reign to more or less break any of their own rules and suffer almost no consequences. Meanwhile, literally anything a Democrat does is spun into multiple mutually exclusive conspiracy theories that their base and the media somehow manage to spout simultaneously.

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      Not to mention leftists will latch onto it too and repeat the lie everywhere yet swear up and down that they voted for the Democrat even though they shit on them any time they open their mouth.

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    Whoever succeeds trump, (assuming that happens, and it’s not Vance), should do the same thing, so we can maybe get rid of that dumbass tradition.

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      “we separate church and state” Church throwing bibles at every god damn state and court event and making people swear on them.

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    It’s the ceremony organizers’ fault for neglecting to bring a bible small enough to put his hand on.

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    Sadly I think it would have been more than half. Personally I’d like less of the Bible in any of our swear ins, but Orange Hitler not doing it just keeps the process rolling forward.

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      Hell, even the racism and fake Christianity are just bones they toss to the base while doing their real business.

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    It is absolutely not a requirement to swear an oath on a bible, or even to have a bible nearby.

    It just happens to be a longstanding custom in the USA. Many politicians take the oath on a bible just for the optics. DT, of all people, is all about optics. Dude probably wasn’t paying any attention, and surely winging his swearing given the last minute changes.

    In any case, shouldn’t everyone be applauding a president for refusing to touch a bible, tacitly denouncing religious contexts near government?

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      Except when Trump was asked what his favorite book of all time was, can you guess what he answered?

      That’s right. He said The Bible was his favorite book. You do understand the difference between actually believing in something, or just being a hypocrite and a con-man, right?

      It’s not about whether it’s a requirement or not. It’s about a con artist revealing the con, and watching people like you handwave it away.

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      In any case, shouldn’t everyone be applauding a president for refusing to touch a bible, tacitly denouncing religious contexts near government?

      Not if it’s someone that got elected based on their support for the union of church and state. Now if someone like AOC got elected president and didn’t swear on the bible, that would mean something

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        AOC should have sworn in on a union contract. Maybe then she wouldn’t have voted to protect the rail corporation from a union strike.

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        I thought he won because the handling of the day to day economics of the average citizen was in shambles, but yeah, clearly magic sky man holds more weight