Don't Get Me Started with Linda Sharp

Mind Your Own Damn Business

I have three children from my heterosexual marriage.  I shall now pause to allow JD Vance to applaud my achievements, hand me additional ballots for my efforts, and offer me a teaching position.

One of my children is transgender.  I shall now pause while JD Vance rips all of those things right back out of my hands and passes judgement on my parenting, my patriotism, and my child.

For those who have followed this blog and my sharing of my family's life for any period of time, you are aware that our youngest came out to me when he was 18.  I have detailed much of our journey on the sister blog to DGMS, Transparent Trans Parent (link on left).

I shared his/our story with his full permission as we all hoped to bring the subject into better focus, put a much needed human angle on the word 'transgender', and to let other parents/children know they are not alone. 

He is now 28 years old.  So a decade since he found the courage to share his deepest truth with me, our family, and a year later, the world.  In that time we have watched as more and more adults and children have come forward with their own truth to their parents, their friends, their coworkers.  We have also watched as the GOP has waged a systematic attack on the transgender community, their access to medical care, their very right to exist.

State after state have seen bills cruelly written and signed into law that target, restrict, and demonize anyone who is transgender or who may be parenting someone who is.  Bathroom bills prohibiting transgender people from using the bathroom of their gender.  Sports related bills introduced to prohibit transgender kids from playing on teams of their gender.  Access to care bills that force government into the most personal of parenting challenges and decision making.

That last one should not be a surprise, after all the GOP loves inserting themselves everywhere they should not be - bedrooms, contraception, abortion, marriage.

I currently live in Florida.  Last year, a bill was advanced that would severely restrict the ability to receive gender affirming care in this state - for both minors and adults.  Not surprisingly, America's most pathetic governor - Ron DeSantis - signed it into law.  In June of 2023, U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle blocked certain sections citing concerns over its constitutionality and potential discrimination.  

Monday saw the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit lift those blocks.  The results will be catastrophic.  

That is not hyperbole.  I'm the parent of a transgender human being.  I know what I am talking about.  While family and community support is so crucial to the well being of someone who steps into the light and fully claims their identity, access to care is just as paramount.  This law (and so many like it across the country) jeopardizes the very lives of those in this state who are transgender.

In terms of minors, this law prohibits any form of gender affirming care, with only two exceptions:

~ Patients with a medically verifiable genetic disorder of sexual development.

~ Patients who were already receiving such treatment before May 17, 2023.

For the uneducated, puberty blockers provide a desperately needed stop gap for children who are transgender.  Being able to suppress the hormones that will begin to make their body betray who they know themselves to be is huge in the care of their mental health.  I say stop gap because, as opposed to the lies routinely told by the GOP, minors are not having body parts cut off or reconstructed.  That assertion is just as egregious as their other favorite lie, that abortions are performed after birth.

We were lucky.  Our son was an adult when he came out.  Yet even with his age not being an issue, it was a full year of therapy before he was referred for HRT.  Because the journey is not a capricious one.  GOPers would have the public believe that parents just willy nilly walk their kid into CVS and buy some hormone treatments off the shelf and begin injecting.  IT. DOES. NOT. WORK. THAT. WAY.

As a parent with a transgender child, the revelation, the search for care, the journey is deeply personal, deeply profound, deeply private.  There is no place in this area of parenting for government to step in and deign to know the child better than the parent.  I can tell you that when our son came out to me, in an instant everything crystallized.  Every puzzle piece of my child slammed into place and it all made sense.

BECAUSE HE IS MY CHILD AND I KNOW HIM.

He is not a bill.  He is not a law.  He is not some scary talking point in what the GOP considers a juicy wedge issue in election years.  He is a human being, and like every human being, he is complex, multifaceted, and knows who he is.  

That last part is huge.  Just as you wake up each day knowing who you are, so does he. 

So, you are cis het.  Sorry, big words - straight macho male - better?  You wear jeans and boots and a flannel shirt and like looking at naked women.  Fine.  I'm just supposed to accept that?  Based on what?  Because you said so?  No, sorry, Zeke.  I think you are actually a woman.  So excuse me while I chloroform your bigoted ass and while you are out have some implants shoved into your chest and your penis surgically turned inside out to form a vagina.  Don't worry, we'll make sure you have a nice, flowy wig, and we'll get Bobbi Brown to personally do your make-up.

Hi Zelda!  Nice to see you waking up.  Don't panic, you look great.  Here, let me help you over to the mirror.  Oh, come on now, don't be like that.  You look amazing.  No, Zelda, I believe you are a woman and that is what matters here.  

OK, fine - crass and hyperbolic to make a point (and the image is clearly AI - see manglewopped hand), but the point is valid.  I don't get to tell you who you are.  I don't know you.  I don't know your history, your life, your struggles.  I don't know your essential truth.  Only you do.  Which is my point to every politician - you don't know my son, not even remotely.  But that has not stopped you from creating some scary, monstrous, perverted image of him for your constituents.  

I have some questions.  What I would ask the politicians and the people who have no real clue yet choose to believe the garbage:

~ How has your life been affected since my son came out to our family?

~ How has your life been changed since he began HRT?

~ How has your sleep been altered since he had top surgery?

~ How does his existence make your life a struggle from day to day?

The answers are simple.  HIs existence, his journey, his life has had zero impact on yours.  None.  Zilch.  Nada.  But you?  You have an impact on him every single fucking day.

In every bill you script that targets his ability to use a bathroom in a public space.  In every glance you give him as he walks past while shopping.  In every interaction he has with you as he simply tries to live his life from sun up to sundown without incident.  I have said this for a decade now - he is not a danger to you, at all, not remotely.  But YOU?  You are a danger to him.  Because society is fucked, and he has no idea who is an ally and who is an asshole.

You know that question from last month that made the rounds - Man or Bear?  Who would a woman rather come upon in the woods?  Poor insecure menfolk everywhere were outraged that the majority of women said bear.  Well, using the same logic, who would I rather encounter in the bathroom?  You - man or woman, no matter, or a transgender woman.  I will take a transgender woman 8 days a week.  Because they are in there under duress.  I promise you they held off having to enter the bathroom as long as they could and all they want is to get in, use the toilet, wash their hands, and get out without danger.

Trans men and trans women are not lying in wait in the Target bathrooms to get you. 

But back to the Florida law.  The Trevor Project, a suicide prevention organization for LGBTQ+ youth, reports that 54% of transgender and nonbinary youth in Florida have seriously considered suicide in the past year.  54%.  Let that sink in.  If you are a parent - look at your child, and imagine that percentage touching your life.  And here's the kicker:  Kasey Suffredini, the organization’s vice president of advocacy, emphasized that although these young people do not have a predisposition to suicide risk, the stigma and mistreatment they experience in society are what drive them to such despair.

That is what keeps me up at night a decade into our journey with our son.  He is great.  He is forward facing.  He has friends, family that loves him to the point of irritation (sorry, T), a job, talent, pets.  But society is fucked to the point that all of that could be wiped away.  And you do not have the right to endanger my child.

This Florida law extends to adults as well, inserting hurdles that make accessing care so much more difficult.  From Transvitae:

The restrictions extend beyond minors to affect transgender adults as well. Under the new law, only licensed physicians are permitted to prescribe, administer, or perform gender-affirming care, effectively banning telehealth services and reducing the availability of care providers. Advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) and other healthcare providers are no longer allowed to offer these services, leading to increased barriers to access and higher potential costs for patients.

The penalties for healthcare providers who violate this law are severe. Providing gender-affirming care to minors is now classified as a third-degree felony, while non-compliance with the new regulations for adult care is considered a first-degree misdemeanor. Furthermore, the law allows anyone who received gender-affirming care as a minor to sue their healthcare provider for up to 20 years after the treatment, with no limitations on punitive damages.

I miss my kids everyday, but I am so glad our son does not live in a backass state like this.  As of July, half of the states in our country have enacted laws regarding care for trans youth and adults.  Based on what, I ask you?  Gender affirming care is backed by major organizations like the American Academy of Pediatrics and the World Health Organization.  It is widely acknowledged that puberty blockers and hormone therapies are imperative treatments for easing the distress associated with gender dysphoria.

And again, IT DOES NOT AFFECT YOUR LIFE.  My son receiving testosterone injections does not make your cornflakes taste different.  Him having scars from top surgery does not impact your enjoyment of the big game.  A parent being able to access puberty blockers for the child they know inside and out does not imperil your child's gender.

I am always stymied at the mental gymnastics done to justify what is acceptable medical practice and what violates some personal or religious strictures.  I am long past pretending to tolerate the "God's will" bullshit so many hide behind.  Where is God's will when your dick stops working and you beg a doctor for a prescription for Cialis?  Where is God's will when you and your spouse cannot procreate yet run around God to beg a doctor to use IVF?  Where is God's will when you are found to have breast cancer and you beat a path to the surgeon's door?  Where is God's will when your child is diagnosed with a brain tumor yet you cannot get to specialist for removal fast enough?  Hell, where is God's will when your hair begins to thin and you reach for Rogaine?

You have no problem usurping God's will when it serves your selfish purposes, when it gets you what you want, when you know better than your "god".  

If there is a god - and let's be clear - there are currently over 6,000 of them out there floating around - if any of them have a problem with my parenting?  I will take the afterlife bullet.  Bring on the divine consequences.  My job here on Earth, in this life, is to love and protect and care for my people to the very best of my ability.  And that means knowing who they are, believing them when they talk to me, and helping them be the best, truest versions of themselves.

It also seems to be dealing with your bullshit all day, every day.  I get it.  Not every life will be touched by this particular place on the spectrum.  But that does not mean you can't educate yourself and get a bigger, better understanding - including grasping that you do not have any right to hurt other people who just don't happen to be exactly like you.

These laws are abhorrent.  And they are making their way up to the highest court - The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to a similar ban in Tennessee, which could have far-reaching implications for the legal status of gender-affirming care nationwide. The outcome of that case, expected to be argued in the upcoming term, will likely influence the future of transgender healthcare laws across the country.

If you are an ally, I beg that you help and make your voices heard.  And if you are not?  I ask that if you won't help, then don't go out of your way to hurt.  From the deepest part of my heart, the heart that beats because my son's beats, I echo Tim Walz - Mind your own damn business.

Take It To The Grave

Arlington National Cemetery is a gathering place.  Foremost for those who have served and offered their country the highest of sacrifice.  It is a gathering place for their families and friends to mourn them, to remember them, to walk among the fallen as they find the strength to continue standing.  For most of us, we are lucky to only know of Arlington through the media, most notably each year on Memorial Day as there is an official ceremony, and a speech and laying of the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, typically done by the current President.    

It is done with the utmost honor, seriousness, and thanks on behalf of a grateful nation.

What Arlington is not, is a photo op for desperate politicians.

Until yesterday.

Cue one D (for desperate) J (for massive jerk) Trump.  As his campaign continues to flail and fling all manner of political poo at their opponents, the brain trust that makes up his staff decided to use Arlington National Cemetery for a photo op.  I again highlight the word DESPERATE here as they are desperate to drown out the book tour interviews of Trump's former national security advisor, General H.R. McMaster, in which he offers blistering accounts of his time in the center of Trump's sycophancy.

McMaster's comments and book excerpts have also brought back into focus the myriad derisive comments draft dodger Trump has made about our military members.  "Losers" and "suckers"  - those slurs were uttered during a trip to France in which Cinderfella refused to go to Aisne-Marne American Cemetery to honor American dead for fear the rain would undo his 'do.  According to four people on that trip he said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.”  And as reported in the Atlantic, In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed.

His comments deriding John McCain for having been a POW - "I like people who weren’t captured.”

And of course, showing up at Arlington will surely obscure the memory of his five draft deferments - once for imaginary bone spurs, four others because of college.  And while it was certainly not uncommon for the sons of wealthy families to find ways to avoid the draft back in the day, you would think someone like Trump would keep his trap shut and simply honor those who have served.

But hey, Trump is Trump.  A blowhard, self aggrandizing narcissist who cannot help himself.  That is how we have heard him spout gems like comparing his sexual escapades to Vietnam during an interview with Howard Stern.  And stating that attending a military school  afforded him “more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military.”

Again, STFU.

Yesterday's stunt took his mocking of our troops to a new low.  While Memorial Day is obviously the one we are all familiar with in terms of laying the wreath, it can be done throughout the year, daily even.

A group may honor U.S. veterans and members of the armed forces by laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Public wreath ceremonies are limited to one per group per day, with a maximum of four participants in the ceremony. The wreath for the ceremony is provided by the participants.  

What happened beyond the wreath - supposedly to honor the 13 soldiers whose lives were lost during the Afghanistan withdrawal (and politicize their deaths against the Biden/Harris administration) - is where things took a serious turn for the worst in Trump's behavior towards our fallen and the hallowed ground of Arlington.  (Not “hollowed” as Trump lackey and mouthpiece Chris LaCivita wrote. Idiot.)

In a news piece from NPR yesterday afternoon, it was revealed that campaign staffers had actually gotten physical with Arlington staff as they tried to make the Trump people adhere to the rules of the Cemetery regarding Area 60 - one of the most solemn of places, where the most recent of fallen soldiers are buried, and referred to as "the saddest acre in America."

“Federal law prohibits political campaign or election-related activities within Army National Military Cemeteries, to include photographers, content creators or any other persons attending for purposes, or in direct support of a partisan political candidate’s campaign,” the statement said, adding that “a report was filed” over the incident.

“Arlington National Cemetery reinforced and widely shared this law and its prohibitions with all participants,” the statement said.

His staff were verbally abusive and shoved their way past the staffer who tried in vain to do their job.  But let's be honest.  What do you expect from the likes of Corey Lewandowski and the boys?  

Photos then poured forth from Trump's campaign of him standing AT graves with families, giving his ridiculous and offensive thumbs up.  A thumbs up, at a grave site.  I just can't...

What is the translation here?  "Hey, way to go to this sucker and loser we are standing over!"

By evening the photos and video had been made into a Tik Tok by his campaign staff.  I'm not kidding.

The degree to which this campaign is tone deaf and so not self aware is staggering.  And that their equally dim cult lap it up?  I'm sorry, but if you shit in a bowl and then cover it with whipped cream, sprinkles and a cherry, IT'S NOT A SUNDAE.  It's still a bowl of shit.

Speaking of which...

In addition to Trump's disrespect yesterday, his running mate with the Simple Jack haircut was heard on yet another tape speaking ill about those with no children.  This time teachers.

In it he states that teachers without biological children, "disorient and really disturb" him.

 

Unearthed audio: JD Vance says teachers who do not have biological children “disorient and really disturb” him: “She should have some of her own [children]” pic.twitter.com/Rqx2PLfjT5

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) August 27, 2024

I'm sorry, WHAT?  This fixation on anyone without children, especially biological, is just creepy.  He was, not surprisingly, speaking at a Christian conference.  “So many of the leaders of the left, and I hate to be so personal about this, but they’re people without kids trying to brainwash the minds of our children. And that really disorients me, and it really disturbs me,” the then-Ohio Senate candidate lamented. “Randi Weingarten, who’s the head of the most powerful teachers’ union in the country, she doesn’t have a single child. If she wants to brainwash and destroy the minds of children, she should have some of her own and leave ours the hell alone.”

For the record, Weingarten is a parent by marriage, as are many in this world.  But think about that.  Poor Simple Jack is disturbed and disoriented by those teaching who don't have progeny.  I thought back over all my years in school and honestly cannot remember any teacher who I knew had children, save one.  A high school sub, and even then I only knew because I briefly dated one of her sons.

Given how we pay and treat teachers in this country, we are lucky young people still come out of college ready to take on the job.  Should they not be allowed into the ranks until they have married (cis het, obviously) and brought forth life?  Just stop.  Having a child come out of your body is not some magical qualifier, although Vance seems to think it should be one to vote, to participate in democracy, and now to teach.

Adding to the shit parfait that is the Trump campaign is the newly acquired leech of Robert Kennedy, Jr.  Having been spurned by the Harris campaign, he turned his attention to the easier target of Trump, suspending his campaign, and throwing his endorsement behind the tangerine twatwaffle.  His aspirations?  To be Secretary of Health and Human Services.  Yes, this antivaxxing, whale head chopping, bear dumping, brain worm addled, saddlebag looking mfer wants to be in charge of our health.  (The worm could not be reached for comment.)

Simple Jack, Trump, and RFK - if ever a picture was more apt...

It's only Wednesday and the cherry is already on top of the mess that is the MAGAsphere.  Trump ended the day yesterday with Jack Smith's superceding indictment against him, obtained from yet another grand jury.  Which was perfect timing for Trump's latest grift:  new NFT trading cards.  I'm not kidding.  Watch and laugh.

The pretend "cards" are $99 a piece - images of an imaginary buff Trump dancing, holding Bitcoin, etc.  But wait!  If you order 15 or more ($1485+) you will receive a physical card with - are you ready? - a piece of the clownsuit he wore to his debate with President Biden.  NOT KIDDING.

“We’ll cut up the knock-out suit, and you’re going to get a piece of it and we’ll be randomly autographing five of them, a true collector’s item, this is something to give your family, your kids, your grandchildren.”

I can just imagine that thing being removed from a safe deposit box after the reading of a will.  The only thing I would want my granddaughter to use it for would be to wipe her ass.

BUT WAIT!

If you buy 75 digital cards, at a cost $7,425, you will get to attend a gala dinner with Trump at Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida.

To use one of his favorite words:  SAD.  Sad that his grift of the rubes is so relentless, but then those legal bills won't pay themselves.  Sadder still that his cult will happily pony up that much cash - all the while complaining about the price of eggs - and think they have something special, something to leave the grandkids.

This campaign cannot be over soon enough.  69 days till we send a blue wave so thunderous and sweeping that it washes him and his batshit supporters back into their hidey holes.  69 days until this charlatan, who thought so little of flouting the rules and defiling Arlington while his staffers assaulted a worker, is shown to the dustbin of history.  69 days until JOY kills Trumpism, Project 2025, and the threat of fascism taking over this country.

Take it to the grave, Donold.  Just leave our soldiers out of it.

It's 70 Days, Do You Know Where Your Voter Registration Is?

It's 10pm.  Do you know where your children are?

That line, traced back to a news broadcast in the 60's and carried forward for decades, is familiar to those of us of a certain age.  As you can see in the video below, it was uttered by anchors, guests, celebrities like Carroll O'Connor - all in a PSA attempt to remind parents that not much good could come of their children wandering around after dark.

And that's true, although when you are a kid, having your fun after dark time squashed by your parents is not cool.  Again, those of us of a certain age well remember the universal "get your ass home now" signal of the porch light coming on and having to dip out of a heated cul-de-sac game of Kick The Can.

Then you become a parent and realize the truth.  Fun you may have had, be damned.  Not knowing where something as precious as your child is, for even a millisecond, is simply not tolerable.  It sends a short circuit through the emotional electric system of the body.  Even if you are not a parent, but a decent person, you also understand that the potential for trouble increases sharply after dark when young ones are left to their own devices.

So parents were encouraged each evening to check.  OK, sure, maybe it felt like admonishment if you, in fact, did not know.  But again, precious things need to be monitored for safe keeping.

Which brings this allegory to its point.  Right now, 70 days out from the most important election of our lives, the question must be asked, and asked again about your most precious November belonging and its status:  Do you know where your voter registration is?

It's not a question to be waved away.  It does not matter if you have voted in every election since you turned of age.  It does not matter where you live, the color of your skin, who your state is run by - the march is on throughout this nation to disenfranchise voters, wholesale wipe out millions from existing voter rolls, and do it all under cover of darkness so it is too late when you post up to vote and are found to be missing from the registered voter lists.

Just yesterday it was announced that Texas has purged ONE MILLION people from the rolls.  Now, purging is not unusual and does have its place.  My father, father-in-law, and mother-in-law?  Dead, and obviously should not be listed as eligible.  But purging also sweeps away actual voters who may not have participated in an election in a couple of cycles.  Very much alive, very much citizens, but suddenly wiped out.

And time is of the essence.  In Texas, you only have until October 7 to register to vote in this election.  

In March Indiana passed a law that targets naturalized citizens. The law requires election officials to use DMV records to identify non-citizens – and has no safeguards to protect against removal of people who have since become naturalized citizens.  Texas pulled this shit in 2019 and tens of thousands of naturalized citizens were thrown on the rolls.

In North Carolina, state legislators passed S.B. 747 in 2023, another bill targeting non-citizen voting. Using lists of people excused from jury service because of self-identification as a non-citizen, the new North Carolina law triggers a removal process that lacks adequate matching criteria to ensure the correct person is being removed.

Another important one from the Voting Rights Lab: A 2021 Georgia law opened the door to frivolous mass challenges to voter registrations. Unfounded challenges inundated understaffed election offices in 2022. Out of nearly 100,000 challenges, 89% were submitted by just six individuals. This November will be the first test of this new policy in a presidential election year, where the number of voters – and potential challenges – will be much greater. Given how close voting margins in Georgia tend to be, wrongful removals or inactivations of voter status could have outcome-altering effects. In the 2022 midterms, 1.4% of active voter registrations were challenged – and the last presidential election was determined by a margin of just 0.26%. As of publication, a bill clarifying the scope of this law, but doing nothing to mitigate its impact is currently sitting on the governor’s desk.

Republicans efforts to purge and disenfranchise voters is rampant across the country.  So what happens if you walk in to vote and suddenly you are persona non grata?  First, hope you live in one of the 28 states that allow for same day registration.  Does your state?  Check Here.

If you are registered, do you know for sure all is well?  Daily, people are sharing their stories of checking their registrations only to find out they are inactive or cannot be found.  I am new to Florida and registered when I got my driver license.  I am literally checking every. single. day.

Encouraging you to do the same is not being hyperbolic.  It's being smart.  In every election we hear about swing states over and over.  How Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Arizona, Nevada, and North Carolina will decide it all.  And yes, from an electoral college standpoint they are the pivotal pieces of the puzzle.  But that does not mean your vote is not important.  We must turn out in such large numbers, in a wave of blue so irrefutable, that none of the certification subterfuge can get a foothold.  There are positive indicators out there...

The Harris Effect - in the 13 states that have updated voter files since July 21st, we are seeing incredible surges in voter registration relative to the same time period in 2024, driven by women, voters of color, and young voters. pic.twitter.com/x6AGViJdjm

— Tom Bonier (@tbonier) August 27, 2024

But that subterfuge is out there as well. 

I know all our lives are busy and it is easy to confine ourselves and our information gathering to places we consider safe.  I see it daily in the various Facebook groups that sprang up overnight when Kamala got the nod to lead the ticket.  And safe spaces are great for camaraderie, especially when you live somewhere deep red and isolating.  But I also see that not enough people are staying abreast of news outside their groups.  And that's where bad games of telephone spring up, and there's often as much misinformation and fear being fomented in those groups as in comment boards on Red State.

I would encourage people to add some sources to their daily walk through the internet.  A big one would be Democracy Docket.

Marc Elias, one of this country's top election lawyers, and his team are daily fighting back in court against right wing efforts to subvert this election through voter suppression tactics.  And they are winning.  In fact, it does a body good to keep abreast and see their results playing out each week.  Marc has also been brought on as legal counsel by the Harris-Walz team for the expected fight after the ballot boxes. 

Again, why your vote needs safeguarded and counted.  We simply cannot afford Trump any "Find me 11,780 votes" wiggle room.  

Getting out and learning more can happen even in what feels like a heinous space, namely Twitter (again, fuck Musk and calling it X).  Yes, I am one who set up a place on Threads when it came to be, but I also stayed on Twitter because so many important voices are still fighting the good fight there.  It is possible to curate your list of "following" there and keep up to date with everything from court cases to the latest bullshit conspiracy theories, misinformation and flat out lies you should know about so you can counter them when you encounter them, to independent sources providing facts (add Meidas Touch to your Youtube channels) as opposed to legacy media that has been largely bought out by GOP billionaires.

I think it is great seeing how many people are turning out to volunteer; how many are placing signs in their yards, painting flamingos and fingernails blue, etc; how many young people are burning up Tik Tok virtually stomping for Harris and Walz.  We need all of that.  And the polls coming out look better each day, hell, Florida is coming into the margin of error.  But it is worth remembering how confident we all were about Hillary and her numbers back in 2016.  

And how gutted we were that night when the votes started coming in.

That simply cannot be repeated.  Even if you sit in a demographic where Project 2025 won't rock your boat, you know someone who will be tossed overboard and drowned.  Everything from reproductive rights to bodily autonomy to my son's right to simply exist as a trans person; from gutting Medicare and Social Security and raising taxes; from tracking a miscarriage and denying parents the right to assist their children on their LGBTQIA journeys; from baby formula never being held to standards again and the Department of Education being eradicated; from books being banned and burned and ONE religion being shoved into every classroom. 

It's all there waiting on the other side of voter apathy.  On the other side of protest voting.  On the other side of not being registered to vote.  On the other side of thinking it won't be that bad.

It will.  The biggest mistake they made was showing their asses and Project 2025 coming to light in time for us to read it, vomit, and begin spreading the word.  Trumpism and the MAGA cult must be yanked out by the roots, and the ground salted so it may never take hold again.

So I will again harken back to the 60s when that question began being asked each night and paraphrase it for our times today and the darkness we must vanquish.  

It's 70 days.  Do you know where your voter registration is?