The state’s ban on gender-affirming pediatric care “cannot be justified” by science, a two-year review concluded.
But according to the Salt Lake Tribune, legislators behind the ban are already dismissing the findings they asked for.
Of course they are. They never believed in science. It’s why they have so many anti-vaxxers in their camp. They tried to lean on it (science) because they hoped it would legitimize their hateful beliefs. It’s not difficult to throw it away when it doesn’t come out on their side.
They’ve been lying about what gender affirming care for kids looks like, why would they tell the truth about anything? There’s a coordinated effort to platform fake detransitioners, to claim that kids are getting handed out surgery and hormones willy nilly, to pretend that adult trans people don’t exist.
Arguing with these people is like trying to hold sand. They start with “I don’t want trans people to exist” and work backwards.
Doesn’t matter, they’ll ignore it or write it off as leftist propaganda despite being the ones that ordered the study. They don’t need reasons to hate as long as it keeps the sheep voting for them.
When Roald Reagan pushed tax cuts for the rich George W. Bush called it ‘voo-doo economics.’
In almost five decades, the taxcuts have never paid for themselves as reagan promised.
Funny since they both were propped up by the heritage foundation.
As Henry Ford said of the Model T. “You can get it any color you want, as long as it’s black.”
You can have any candidate you want, as long as it’s a Conservative.
*regressive
Reagan was president 1981-1989. During years 1981-2023, there were only 5 years (1982, 1991, 2008, 2009, 2020) where US growth was less than 1%. I don’t know enough to say whether that’s thanks to or despite Reagan, but he sure didn’t destroy the economy.
The word “economy” can mean different things to different people.
Before Reagan became President, ‘middle class’ was defined as one Union job supporting a family of four. In those days $1 million was considered a vast fortune. By the time Bush Sr. left office ‘middle class’ meant both parents working to keep the house going and $1 million was what a rich guy paid for a party.
During years 1981-2023, there were only 5 years (1982, 1991, 2008, 2009, 2020) where US growth was less than 1%.
2001 came vanishingly close, at 1.2%, and mostly because of timing and enormous state intervention.
And those were all famously inconsequential. Certainly, none of them broke critical industrial centers, forcing large scale consolidation and outsourcing.
The banking, automotive, airline, tech, and manufacturing sectors are - I think we can all agree - far more robust and prolific today than they were 40 years ago. So many consumer choices. All of them excellent products that never catastrophically fail on a routine basis. Certainly nothing that requires constant state bailouts and protectionists actions to preserve.
I don’t know enough to say whether that’s thanks to or despite Reagan
Giving one man all the credit for what has been a sizeable intergenerational ideological crusade seems naive.
I think there are a long line of people you could say “Thank you” to, from Jack Welch to Bill Gross to Alan Greenspan to Jeffrey Epstein.
You dropped this:
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Have you seen a debt to gdp ratio?
