Republicans Kill Spending Bill Over Its LGBT Protections

Capt Michael Greene: creating a jobs bill is a waste of time and money. Governments can get out of the way, but they can't create useful jobs. The only thing they can create is bureaucracy. They may know how to investigate Hillary. What they don't know is how to prosecute her. In other words, they're pretty much useless.

MSG Donald Johnson - Too many, um, opportunities for enlightenment in your post to answer in a short post. Please focus more in the future.
Nobody is violently protesting at the Dem rallies because nobody is literally deathly afraid of the Dem candidates. Many libs, however, see Trump as a near-Hitler racist and misogynistic sociopath who must be stopped by any means. Millions feel physically threatened by him and his White Supremacist supporters.
Libs protest more. The “conservatives have jobs and libs do not” meme is a useful theory because the college kids have more lenient schedules, more energy than adults, and a sense of invulnerability. They go to protests.
Second, the nature of L and R violence: For the average person in a normal environment, we’re not killers. One has to be immersed in emotional propaganda for a while before killing for any cause. Your average college kid hasn’t been immersed in hatred or the culture of violence yet. But on the Right, we see adults carrying out assassinations and bombings, things that take planning and money. These things require immersion in hate propaganda. In the 60s, mostly the Left did that. Since the 80s, peaking in the 90s, there was real cause for Bush’s FBI to report that the biggest threats to America were coming from RW extremists. That’s still the case today. In the US during the past ten years, RW ideologues have killed more Americans than any other group, including Islamists. (And that doesn’t include racist hate crimes.)
Regarding the LGBT issue. First, they’ve always been with us and the Founders knew them, too. But the Founders did not exclude them from the Constitution. Second, genetic science, young as it is, is learning that the reason that some people are cisgender (that’s you and me) or other gendered (LGB or T) is a matter of prenatal development of brain structure, genetics, and exposure to androgen during pregnancy. Some people are left handed, some are super-smart, and some are TG.
As to disgracing the term “marriage:” Which Judeo-Christian tradition of marriage would you prefer: When rape victims were required to marry their rapists? When prepubescent daughters were sold for cash or goods? For most of Christian history, wives were property. Until 1800, wives could not enter into contracts. It was legal to beat your wife until 1920. Whites could not marry other races, depending on which state you were in, until 1967. So choose the type of marriage you prefer, because it changes every few generations. The only thing constant about marriage is that it is an agreement between people. If you don’t like gay marriage, don’t get gay married. Now who disgraces the term “marriage” more than Trump, who trades them in for younger models, like old cars; or Gingrich, who leaves them when they’re sick? As long as the government recognizes marriage as a factor in law, such as benefits, social security, or tax status, those things need to treat all marriages equally.

MSG Donald Johnson - My agenda was agreed by 55 delegates but only 39 were on hand at the time to sign it, plus a secretary. You probably have a copy of it.

Last clue: My agenda is the Constitution. So no, it's not exactly anti-American.
Really late on the East Coast. Enjoy your dreams.

SSG, that's how bills with riders work. Say I want to pass a bill on allowing oil drilling in a wild life preserve filled with rare pokemon and the last tree in the world, the left doesn't want me to do this so they tack on a part the end that says they get exclusive rights to make toothpicks with the last tree and regulate them. We both now have things to like, so we both agree or the bill or neither of us do. Thus, toothpicks = oil drilling i guess.

SGT (Join to see) - I understand how the system works...it sucks, that's all.

I agree! Each bill only needs to be a single line item. That way no one can hide crap like someone tried to do on this bill.

PO3 Frank Opalecky - That is how it was under the Confederate Constitution.
Article I, Section 9(20):
Every law or resolution having the force of law, shall relate to but one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title.