Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), who is currently running for governor of Alabama, went on a 20-minute, lie-filled rant on the Senate floor accusing trans people of being violent and “deranged” and proposing that the United States bring back mental institutions to house them.

Tuberville claimed there is a “rise in violence coming from people who the left refers to as transgender.”

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    airforce pilots are livid right now. These mfers don’t yiff, they wouldn’t last a day in the skies.

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      $10 says it’s pornhub animation section. I highly doubt this guy can manage to type order:favcount

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    Conservatives will always look for ways to oppress as many of the normal people as possible. This is because all conservatives have a deep, instinctive need to harm others.

    When conservatives have power, they will always use that power to oppress the normal people. Always. Throughout all recorded human history, the conservatives of every civilization have been the source of every act of oppression ever commited.

    Tuberville’s comments are comical, but the absurdity comes from genuine, pure evil. We rationalize that evil by calling it conservatism. But that’s all conservatism is. It’s just evil by every definition of the word.

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    We need to start promoting and supporting trans and drag queen baby sitters. Because I know my kids will be safe, unlike leaving them with one of these churchy, sexually repressed, authoritarian assholes.

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    Projector jokes aside, who cares if trans furries fly plains? The whole entire internet would probably implode and disappear without them. Their backs must be broken beyond repair with how much they carry the web.

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    Where do these idiots get this shit? Is there just a room of guys at the Heritage Foundation sitting around seeing who can make people believe the dumbest thing?

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      Nothing they do isn’t intentional.

      ‘Furries’ are a bit weird, so its an easy target. There’s apparently a disproportionate amount of pilot furries. Pilots affect a lot of people. Since furries are weird, they are an outgroup. The outgroup they are targeting is transgender. Saying the transgender group is both weird and threatening gets people’s attention weather or not its true.

      They don’t intend to make anyone believe anything, other than the transgender outgroup is bad.

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    "Tuberville claimed, however, that affirming parents are guilty of “child abuse.” "

    Wouldn’t be suprised if they find child porn in his computer in the next year or so.

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    I know, freedom of speech and whatnot, but it’s amazing what these ass-backward morons will spout as fact, and worse, use to justify their horrendous policies. Seems like they should at least have to attend some basic “facts of reality” class before returning to work. At a minimum.

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      Or, you know, a functioning media apparatus that would do it’s job and keep the ruling class in check.

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        That only works when the media isn’t consolidated and owned by said ruling class.

        I think we don’t give enough consideration to just how comprehensively failure to enforce antitrust law has destroyed our entire society.

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      The thing is, for most of them, they know they’re spouting bullshit. The classes on “facts of reality” wouldn’t help. It’s all just the easy target bullshit they know the base eats up that can get them elected without having to do anything that would help people. It’s a lot easier to get elected on the right with policies of “I promise to hurt these people!” As opposed to “I’ll do something about your financial problems!”

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      They’re flailing now, they’re trying to instill fear with the most over the top lies they can.

      They know they’re about to be wiped off the map in the midterms and possibly even prosecuted.

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    I expect he spent a lot of time walking around barefoot down there in Blabalama. Enjoy those hookworms, boy.

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    Maybe the speed running community is over representative of trans folks, but I would feel quite safe in their hands. Those guys, gals, and nonbinary pals have crazy control of their manual dexterity.