Republican U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama and the current GOP nominee for governor of the state targeted trans people in a speech on the Senate floor, spewing transphobia and misinformation. In a tangent, the Republican also seemed to support a conspiracy theory that many flight attendants are furries.

The lawmaker accused trans people of violence and even proposed that they should be put in mental health facilities as he stood beside a poster with a pregnant man emoji with “transgederism is a mental disease” on the top.

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    They have to keep doing this to distract from the pedophile and the Epstein files. And the war profiteering. And the death camps. And the child murder. And the genocide. And the school shootings. And the deepening divide between the richest >1% and everyone else. And the food that will kill us. And the accelerating climate change. And the other atrocities these fucks have perpetrated. I’m sure I missed a good thousand.

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    JFC, “transgenderism”. These people act like it’s some kind of political system like conservatism.

    Also, why do they spend so much time and energy on such a tiny tiny fraction of the population, when they have so many real problems to address? Everything is unaffordable and this jackass wants to talk about furries and trans?

    Fuck all the way off.

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      Because fascism requires scapegoats. They have zero interest in solving problems. All they care about is power.

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    I would really enjoy furry flight attendants. The suits would have to be slimline and custom to fit through the aisles and maintain safety, but that’s totally doable. It would stop dirty old Saudi fucks from groping them too.

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    Gender dysphoria is a mental illness. The cure is transition. We’ve known this for over a century in modern medicine, and people like him’s only comprehension is to kill and hurt and stand on top of it and make a face like he shit his pants.

    Depression is also mental illness, but doesn’t have a clear easy solution.

    Homosexuality is not mental illness, neither is it to be transgender. Both of those are as natural as being alive and as harmful as breathing.

    Conservatives need to go touch grass.

    Edit: oh, also, furries? Nobody gives a shit. Totally harmless. It’s worse for you to go to church or be religious - for an example, see the piece of shit this post is about. I swear, it’s always projection with these assholes.

    It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia -> It’s Always Projection with Republicans

    It’s like motherfuckers are complaining about engineers being technical and obsessive. I’m so tired of how stupid these people are and how destructive it always becomes. Everything they touch rots.

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    Well I don’t know about this “trans people are mentally ill” business. Not sure he’s made a compelling case there.

    Have to admit: he’s convincing me that transphobes might be mentally ill, though.

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    This is a US Senator punching himself in the balls to drum up the base for the midterms. No one is going to be flying without pilots and fuel. Instead of expanding pilot training programs and ending the Iran war, we get this garbage.

    Do you know how to fly a fucking commercial airliner “coach” Tuberville? You know what’s actually terrifying? A constituency that thinks coaching football qualifies you to be a US Senator. What a fucking joke of a man.

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    They are eating our dogs and eating our cats…

    Shut up grandpa, are you watching furry porn again?