'We haven't got the country we had when I was raised': 100-year-old veteran worried about America
Carl Dekle a brave World War II veteran …has seen lot in his life and he is a man to listen to.
Our country is going to shit. It’s bad with all of the race division , no upward mobility for the middle class like there used to be. We have men competing in women’s sports taking away scholarships from women …we have a Poor economic and foreign policy ….. mostly brought to us from the far left Democrats.
It’s on us Americans to take this country back and we will because in the end America prevails.
Uh huh. I bet the country was a lot skinner when he grew up too.
"All around the country, states are rushing to approve laws to address a supposed problem that, in reality, doesn’t actually exist.
Has there even been a case where a transgender athlete actually stole a college scholarship or gained an unfair competitive advantage?
That sound you hear is crickets.
Seriously, if folks are so concerned about the state of women’s athletics, there are no shortage of inequities they could turn their attention to.
For starters, the NCAA basketball tournaments.
Instead, states like Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee prefer to focus on transgender athletes, demonizing them as some sort of spurious group plotting the downfall of women’s sports.
All around the country, states are rushing to approve laws to address a supposed problem that, in reality, doesn’t actually exist...
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What a bunch of nonsense.
And dangerous nonsense, at that.
Transgender people already face a barrage of discrimination, incessant bullying and ridicule, and even occasional acts of violence for simply trying to be true to themselves.
A few years ago, it was those ridiculous, demeaning bathroom laws — another case of a solution in search of a problem that was merely floating around in the minds of bigots.
Now, they’ve taken up a new cause — stopping those glory-seeking transgender athletes.
Other than
an oft-cited pair of transgender runners in Connecticut, who combined to win 15 championships and sparked a lawsuit, we couldn’t find even the hint of a threat to the integrity of women’s sports.
But, judging from what’s happening in at least 20 states around the country, transgender athletes are roughly akin to a giant meteor hurtling toward Earth, threatening to destroy our very way of life.
First, let’s check in on Arkansas, which you might remember from its attempts in the 1950s to keep black kids from attending white schools.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed a law Thursday banning trans women and girls from competing on school sports teams that match their gender identity.
“This will help promote and maintain fairness in women’s sporting events,” Hutchinson said in an eye-rolling statement.
Next, let’s move to Mississippi, another state that’s never been known as a citadel of social justice.
It took the Magnolia State more than a century to purge the racist Confederate battle emblem from its official flag, but it
moved much more quickly to keep transgender athletes from taking part in female sports.
Gov. Tate Reeves said the state was merely reacting to — and this might sound familiar to those who lived through the civil rights movement — the overreach of the federal government.
Reeves said Mississippi had to act after President Biden signed an executive order on the day he took office banning discrimination based on gender identity in school sports and elsewhere.
Reeves claimed that Biden’s order “encourages transgenderism amongst our young people” — as though it’s nothing more than a lifestyle choice.
Of course, none of the debate has included any actual examples of transgender athletes gaining a dishonest edge in women’s sports.
“Legislators in Mississippi have not provided any examples of Mississippi transgender athletes gaming the system for a competitive advantage because none exist,” said Alphonso David, president of the LGBTQ civil rights organization Human Rights Campaign.
