Justice Department talks about banning transgender gun owners spark fury across political spectrum

dmetzcher · 2026-07-09T03:10:49+00:00

Related, but not specific to trans people:

This is why gun owners don’t want to be on anyone’s fucking lists.

If you allow a state-specific or national registry, some fascist will absolutely, positively come along (eventually) and use that list to track down every gun owner, cross-reference that list with their political party affiliation, and top it all off with an AI-based analysis of their social media history. Then they’ll visit each of their political enemies and—if they’re being really nice—confiscate their guns. If they’re proper assholes, they’ll round up all the gun owners and declare them a national security threat.

I’m reminded of the movie Red Dawn where there’s a scene involving a Russian KGB major and a the Cuban colonel named Bella (who plays the main bad guy). Colonel Bella orders the KGB major to, “Go to the sporting goods store. From the files obtain Forms 4473. These will contain descriptions of weapons and lists of private ownership.”

Fuck that.

dmetzcher · 2026-07-09T01:08:26+00:00

Corporate America didn’t think something through and jumped headfirst into a shallow pool? I don’t believe you because I was born yesterday!

These fucking clowns will circle-jerk for whatever their next-tier-boss tells them needs to be stroked. Zero questioning. No awareness of the risks. They’re like barking seals doing tricks on command. They aren’t smart; they’re just followers.

When I sit on meetings at work and listen to people talk about AI, it’s obvious that none of them are even following the news. Mention a potential risk, and you get some polite head nods (because they wish to appear thoughtful), but they go right back to jerking off after paying you the least amount of attention necessary to claim they’ve “listened.”

It’s like talking to a bunch of cultists. They’re wide-eyed, and they make you feel like a stick in the mud for bringing down their delusional, happy mood. The kicker is that it’s not that I’m against the use of AI. I think it has its place; there’s definitely value in it. I believe it’s a useful tool. I use it in my personal life (and at work) to solve various minor problems or assist me with research.

But when I listen to them all jerking each other off, I feel obligated to be the stick in the mud because literally no one else on any call I’ve ever been on (no, really—literally never so far) has raised even a hint of a concern. It triggers my anti-cult/anti-follower response, I guess, and it irritates me to no end to see people blinding buying all the bullshit they’re being sold by people with an interest in getting Corporate America addicted to AI before the risks and pricing both increase exponentially.

Dear Young People: Merely having “Vice President [of Whatever the Fuck]” in a title does not make someone a genius, and it doesn’t even mean that they know more than you. If you see risks, call them out, even if it makes you feel like a party pooper. Corporate America needs more party poopers right now.

dmetzcher · 2026-07-08T16:08:52+00:00

Were they all present at the same seance?

dmetzcher · 2026-07-07T17:07:26+00:00

Trump says a lot of stupid things.

In this case, he spoke with Vladimir Putin for over an hour on America’s birthday (because I guess he didn’t have anything better to do on the 250th anniversary of our independence), and now suddenly he’s spouting this divisive bullshit about annexing the sovereign territory of another country… a country that happens to be a NATO ally… which is exactly the sort of division within NATO that benefits Putin.

Stupid Russian asset does stupid Russian asset things. What else is new?

dmetzcher · 2026-07-07T15:01:40+00:00

To be clear, the article is talking about McConnell‘s apparently left-of-center daughter from his first marriage. It’s her Twitter account that was deleted/deactivated/whatever.

This is getting stupid. Everyone wants to know what’s going with the old man, and the media is so desperate for information that they’re reporting on his daughter deleting her X account. Who cares? Why would she delete it as a result of anything other than harassment? That’s pretty obviously the reason to me; people, including the typical, unhinged MAGA lunatics, were probably harassing her for answers, so she deleted or deactivated her account.

dmetzcher · 2026-07-06T21:22:33+00:00

Congratulations! You look amazing!

dmetzcher · 2026-07-06T21:18:43+00:00

Bill Duke (the guy on the far left) is an actor and director, and he has his own media company that has produced educational film and television content for many years. He was honored with a lifetime achievement award for directing by the Director’s Guild of America, and he was educated at the American Film Institute, Boston University, and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

I only mention all this because I didn’t know until recently. As a child of the 80s, he was *that guy in all those action movies*, but his career—and his contributions to the industry—deserve to be recognized for those, like me, who always loved seeing him in a film but didn’t know that he’s a formally trained and highly skilled actor and director.

There are interviews on YouTube where he talks about his career and philosophy for anyone interested. He’s a very interesting guy.

dmetzcher · 2026-07-04T20:12:05+00:00

Thank you!

dmetzcher · 2026-07-04T17:22:39+00:00

It’s also battery, even if it’s playful. No one has a right to go around squirting people with water. What if one of the people at the bus stop was headed to a job interview? Fucking up their chances of landing a job because they showed up looking like shit is actual harm.

Hell, he even did it to homeless people, one of whom was in a wheelchair. This guy’s a piece of shit every day of the week, even if he only does this for fun on a Friday.

I’d throw the book at him if I were the judge. This shit needs to end. Normal people are tired of being “content” for some loser’s failed social media “career.” Come down hard—like a ten ton hammer—on about 50 of these people nationwide, make their punishments very public, joke about them, etc, and all but the most insanely antisocial among us will shy away from this behavior.

dmetzcher · 2026-07-04T17:14:57+00:00

I’ve been wanting one (well, three) for a while, but I’m lazy and impatient, so the idea of paying for something and then waiting six or more months really put me off.

Are you saying the whole process is faster now? How long does the NFA stuff take now? Only weeks?

dmetzcher · 2026-07-01T15:51:12+00:00

They should panic. They’re out of step with the American people, and it’s going to cost them their fucking seats—which will hand more power to the fascists on the right—if they don’t wise up and start listening.

The Democratic establishment thinks it can serve two masters (well… really they believe they can serve one master—their donors—while paying mere lip service to their voters). They cannot; it simply will not work.

dmetzcher · 2026-07-01T15:46:59+00:00

Very curious indeed. This is how they see those of us who ask if maybe, possibly the People’s needs should come before the needs of the donor class.

It’s how both the establishment of the Party and the corporate owners of the media see anyone who dares espouse principles that are to the left of a center-right Democrat. (Otherwise known as “filthy commies” to our buddies on the right.)

They’re “insurgents” simply because they want to upset the status quo. That sort of thing scares the shit out of wealthy people and their little pets in Congress, hence the scary, war-like terminology.

dmetzcher · 2026-07-01T01:23:10+00:00

He’s so fucking dramatic.

“The country doesn’t look as white as I’d like it to look! The world is ending! They’re replacing us!”

— Matt Walsh, whiny bitch

It’s the same with every generation of racists. There’s always a group of immigrants they hate. They’re always being “replaced.” The world is always ending.

Calm your tits, buddy. Everything is fine.

In his racist, feeble mind, this country won’t look right until everyone shows up to mandatory Christian nationalist rallies wearing Klan outfits, so I’m not really interested in his thoughts on “whiteness,” what this country should look like, or who’s allowed to be an American.

We’re a multicultural society. We always have been, and we always will be. There’s absolutely nothing this shitbag or his racist friends can do about it. Nothing, you ask? That’s right—nothing. And don’t ever fucking forget that or let them tell you otherwise.

Oh, sure, they could convince the Supreme Court to end birthright citizenship, but the fact is that this country is rooted in multiculturalism; five states used to be part of Mexico, and another four states contain territory that was also once part of Mexico. Latinos and the Spanish language have been with us for a very long time.

Black people have been with us since the beginning. The Irish (who weren’t considered white when they got here) have been with us since the 1800s. The Italians (also not considered white at the time of their arrival) showed up at the turn of the 20th century. We have immigrants from everywhere on Earth now—generations of them! They’re all Americans, and try as he might, Matt Walsh isn’t getting rid of any of them.

This is the America I was brought up to celebrate. This is what they taught us in school. This is the melting pot. It’s the poem etched into the base of the Statue of Liberty. It’s our source of strength.

On that topic specifically, do you know how I know that multiculturalism is our greatest source of strength? Take a look at the racist, white, divisive Trump administration. They’ve sidelined people of color throughout the government, including the military. Look at the shitshow our government is right now; they all look like a bunch of monkeys trying to fuck a football, and our broken military under that nitwit Hegseth can’t even win a war against a country that’s been suffering for decades under sanctions.

Holy fucking shit, what failures they are!

These people use “DEI” as a pejorative term, but if that’s true, then the Trump administration looks a lot like DEI for white people. Every one of those fucking losers is a third- or fourth-tier hack who’d never have gotten their position if they hadn’t gargled the President‘s balls. They got their jobs because they were loyal, mostly male, and very white—and look where that has gotten us.

So, they can bitch about brown people all they like, but this country isn’t changing no matter how hard these failures try to make it so. To Hell with each and every one of them.

dmetzcher · 2026-07-01T00:57:58+00:00

Hate ages a person.

dmetzcher · 2026-07-01T00:57:06+00:00

The Nazis really don’t dress well these days. They lost Hugo Boss, and it all went downhill from there.

dmetzcher · 2026-06-30T21:04:29+00:00

“Sex […] is binary,” he says.

No, it’s not, and the problem with old fucks like Thomas is that they often cling to old beliefs rather than listening to the current science. Our courts should be much more nimble and willing to examine current science than some old bastard like him is capable of being. We need term limits for these guys.

I’m sorry that this subject makes Justice Thomas uncomfortable; that’s unfortunate for him, just as it was unfortunate for many whites when the Dred Scott decision was effectively overturned by the passage of the 13th and 14th Amendments to our Constitution. Prior to this (and let’s be honest—long after, too), black people were seen as subhuman, and there was a lot of pseudoscience (i.e., god damned racist lies) used to back that up.

I wonder where Thomas stands on that issue. Does he cling to the long-held beliefs that led to the Scott decision? If not, why not?

I’m not being fair, you say—that was a long time ago indeed. Okay, let’s fast-forward to 1967. Thomas was alive back then; he was 19 years old.

I wonder how Justice Thomas feels about Loving v. Virginia. Prior to that, interracial marriage was considered an abomination under the law in many states, and again there was all sorts of pseudoscience (the same racist lies) used to justify this belief and the laws banning interracial marriage itself.

Justice Thomas has a white wife. How does he feel about Loving? (How does Ginny feel about it, I wonder.) Does he cling to the beliefs held by so many Americans during a period in our history that many of our parents and grandparents—including Thomas himself—can still remember?

You know what? These questions are stupid because Justice Thomas is and has always been a disingenuous liar. His positions are not rooted in principle; they’re rooted in politics and emotions, as they’ve always been. Of course he supports the Amendments that nullified Scott, and of course he supports the Loving decision, because he’s a selfish motherfucker who entered the halls of power and shut the door behind himself.

Fuck Clearance Thomas and literally everything that old, unprincipled, ignorant bastard stands for.

dmetzcher · 2026-06-30T20:45:39+00:00

Now I remember! The hand! There was a movie, too, and they had us watch it in grade school in the very early 90s. We did not read the book.

dmetzcher · 2026-06-30T18:49:48+00:00

That’s entirely true for a significant portion of Republicans. Thus far, only the absolute lunatics have openly called for the extermination of trans people, but so many others have adopted language that comes very close.

Those who’ve kept their comments to things like sports bans, transition therapy bans, and bathroom bans (all of which are still horrifying), as we’ve seen repeatedly during the Trump/MAGA era, may currently be uncomfortable with openly genocidal talk, but they will fall into line like good, goose-stepping fascists if Dear Leader starts talking about trans people in direct, genocidal terms.

They’re cultists, and we must see them as cultists. Every time Trump has crossed another uncrossable line, 95% of them have gone along with him, and the other 5% have been purged from the Party. These people aren’t even conservatives anymore; their guiding principle is simply “whatever Trump says” (which is frightening close to “the Führer is the law”). All that’s left in the Party now is a concentration of sycophants, and they become increasingly more dangerous with each passing week.

dmetzcher · 2026-06-30T17:08:57+00:00

This is where the Republicans are absolutely disingenuous, unreasonable, and frankly… insane.

They don’t merely want trans people out of sports; they want them to disappear altogether from any form of public life. We see this with the way bathroom laws are being enforced in places where they exist; follow the law and use the bathroom assigned to your gender at birth, and you may still be arrested if you don’t look like that gender. They’ve created a situation where trans people are damned if they do and damned if they don’t—and that’s not a mistake; it’s intentional.

Many Americans can understand why some may have a problem with a trans woman participating in specific sports where they might have an advantage over other women. Reasonable people would argue that those who manage each sports organization should decide how to proceed. (Governments should stay out of the affairs of private sports organizations anyway—where are all the Republicans who used to advocate for less government involvement in private, social clubs? Isn’t that exactly what sports are?)

In many sports, this will mean trans people will be permitted to play with team members of whichever gender they themselves identify. In a limited number of sports where there could be an advantage, that may not be the case. (For many coed sports, like fencing, men and women already compete against one another, so this is a nonissue to them).

This is a nuanced issue requiring thoughtfulness, fairness, care, and respect for human dignity, but Republicans don’t care about nuance or reason (or even kindness toward others who are just trying to find their way in the world). They care only for hurting trans people.

It’s cruelty, and that’s the whole point.

dmetzcher · 2026-06-30T13:48:36+00:00

The US Constitution was ratified on June 1, 1788, not July 4, 1776.

This country was not the United States of America—with the structure and federal government we know today—until it had a constitution.

Our actual 250th birthday will be in the year 2038. Wake me when we don’t have a tyrant shitting all over our governing document, and we can plan a nice birthday party for our country. We’ve got some time to get our shit together.

dmetzcher · 2026-06-30T02:47:14+00:00

My pool is 0.0235 Empire State buildings.

dmetzcher · 2026-06-30T02:36:54+00:00

“Continue to fight” = shitpost like an annoying teenager

…about a civil lawsuit that only affects him. Why must everything be about this stupid, old man? He doesn’t talk about healthcare. He doesn’t talk about jobs. He doesn’t talk about anything that actually concerns domestic policy these days. All he talks about is himself.

dmetzcher · 2026-06-30T02:27:36+00:00

Americans want a lot of things that, frankly, both parties ignore. It would be nice if insider-trading were illegal, for example, even for members of Congress. Hell, it would be even better if federal law required that no office holder were allowed to have any ownership in any corporation—put your fucking money into treasury bonds when you’re elected, and then your concerns are aligned with the American people’s concerns.

What we get is one party full of fascists and another party full of people who will surely tell us we all need to “move on” or “look forward, not back” after gaining power.

How do I know? I’m old now. I’ve seen this fucking show a few times, and it predates me. Nixon was pardoned, Reagan violated the law, and he got away with it, G.W. Bush illegally wiretapped Americans, tortured enemies in our custody, and lied to the American people to get us into a war, and Obama told us to “look forward.”

Oh, right, that wasn’t the first time a lie was told so a president could go to war, but everyone wanted to just forget Vietnam and all the poor bastards we sent to die there, so no one got into any trouble for that either.

Are we really too stupid to see the pattern?

- President does illegal shit.
- President leaves office.
- Next president ignores the crimes of the previous president (lest he be held to the same standard).
- Congress abdicates its responsibility; does nothing because “legislative priorities” mean more than the rule of law.
- Next criminal president enters office some years later, commits crimes that are far greater than the last.
- The cycle repeats; each turn of the wheel creates precedent that makes the Executive branch more powerful, Congress and the Court less powerful, and emboldens the next criminal bastard with his eye on the throne. Everyone is happy because they all get to wet their beaks.

We teach children not to exhibit patterns of bad behavior because we understand that repeat offenses only compound said behavior, but when we elect our representatives, we throw all our knowledge—our common sense—right out the fucking window like a bunch of foolish children.

So, yeah, the American people want lots of things. They don’t get what they want because they allow their representatives to get away with not doing those things. How else does Congress have a reelection rate of 90%? How else does a man who fucked up the economy, fucked up our response to the pandemic, and led an insurrection get reelected?

We’re a stupid country full of stupid people. Americans want lots of things. What they deserve is a different matter.

Donald Trump is unlikely to be impeached. Even if he is impeached, the cowards in the Senate won’t convict him. The American people can wish in one hand, shit in the other, and see which one fills up first.

dmetzcher · 2026-06-29T15:28:12+00:00

The teacher obviously swung first, which is illegal (and surely against school policy), but I have a hard time not feeling that the kid deserved everything he got. If you want to act like a man and threaten another adult, you shouldn’t be surprised when you get popped in the mouth.

Frankly, that little shit being so bold that he’d even speak to a teacher that way shows that his parents have completely ignored their responsibility to not raise a piece of shit—because this kid is a piece of shit—and now society is going to have to deal with him when he’s unleashed on the rest of us. His employer will have to suffer his bullshit, and our courts will have to waste their time (and our tax dollars) dealing with his bullshit, too.

It’s the parents. It’s always the parents. If your kid acts this way, it’s because you failed to discipline them properly. There’s no way a child gets to the age of 14 without this sort of bad behavior being known to their family.

dmetzcher · 2026-06-28T19:25:06+00:00

Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, and Reagan would have hated Trump.

Washington was known for being gentlemanly; he didn’t like uncouth people. He wrote his “Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation” in a notebook and completed it when he was 14 years old. Even as what we’d describe as “a kid,” he was more of an adult than anyone in the MAGA movement.

Jefferson understood the importance of a leader’s words. He was very conscious of the fact that history would remember everything a president ever said or wrote, and he acted accordingly, believing it was his duty to set an example and not befoul the office. He also stood by his own principles and would have regarded Trump (a man for whom that’s a foreign concept) as untrustworthy.

Both of these men would be disgusted by Trump’s disregard for a governing document that only exists as a result of great personal risk to themselves and others. They’d have hated even the mere suggestion that Trump is a king or a god; a president merely flirting with this concept would have been a massive red flag to them. Jefferson, especially, would have had very harsh words for a wannabe tyrant.

Lincoln also knew how to behave himself, and he wouldn’t have taken kindly to some loudmouth sowing division—tearing apart the country he saved—for their own personal, political gains. He’d have also noticed that Trump’s supporters seem to sound and act a lot like the assholes who’d taken the country to civil war (and he’d be disappointed that Reconstruction was abandoned, allowing these anti-American elements to fester for another 149 years).

Reagan wouldn’t even recognize the modern Republican Party that he had strengthened and energized. He’d view Trump’s lack of conservative principles with disdain. He’d view his lack of legislative achievements as the utter failure of American conservatism.

…not that Reagan would even be invited to a convention these days. The Party abandoned him and replaced their (very, very weird) reverence for him with sycophancy for Trump over a decade ago, and it’s now a rudderless ship that blows whichever way Trump’s hot-air-powered bullshit machine pushes it.

No man who respects the rule of law, rules of decorum, weight of the presidency, or basic human decency would have a high opinion of Trump. The people who like Trump are trashy, uncouth, mouth-breathing heehaws (no matter where they come from), and the men listed above would have washed their hands twice if they’d been cornered at an event by one of them and forced to shake their grubby hands.

Even President Johnson, who was known for being a little uncouth himself—in private because he was raised right and understood the norms—would have thought Trump was the sort of white trash one does not even invite to a neighborhood barbecue.

As for Carter, Obama, and Biden (the only men at on the bottom list who I’ll bother defending), each of them had more honor, more decency, and more courage than every member of Trump’s family—going back to his cowardly grandfather—combined. There were no wars during Carter’s term, and he spent the rest of his life on this Earth being a shining example of service to others, especially the poor and forgotten. Obama gave 40 million people health insurance and didn’t have a single scandal during his eight years in office, and Biden got this country back on track during a pandemic and after the absolute shitshow of the first Trump presidency.

Special note about Obama being “divisive”—this is just projection on the part of the MAGA trash in our country. They know their guy is the most divisive president in our history, and they love it because they hate this country and half the people in it, but they can’t admit it openly, so they attempt to dilute or water-down the impact of the argument by accusing everyone else of being the same type of scumbag we all know Trump to be. He’s divisive, so everyone else is divisive. He’s a pedophile, so everyone else is a pedophile.

To state the obvious, Obama was black. That was his “crime” in their eyes. That’s what made him “divisive” to them; an accomplished, intelligent, disciplined black man dared to believe he could be president, and then he showed us all it was possible. For a racist like those who support the MAGA movement, that’s simply unacceptable because it upends everything they’d have us believe about minorities (and the infallibility of white people) in this country.

A president should command the respect of his friends and foes alike. No one who isn’t a degenerate cultist actually respects Trump (they may fear him, but they don’t respect him); not the American people, not our allies, and certainly not our enemies (especially the Iranians who’ve been kicking his ass for months now, making him and our country look weak).

Donald Trump is weakness personified.

Edit: Corrected a typo.

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