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The “Freedom” Billionaires & the GOP are Selling Americans is Deadly
Which begs the question: What is freedom?
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Queer people in America are not feeling “freedom,” particularly after the most recent deadly attack on Club Q in Colorado Springs. As if to amplify the GOP’s message of hate and fear against this vulnerable group of our fellow Americans, it happened on Trans Remembrance Day, when we honor the memory of trans people who’ve been the victims of hate and violence.
Nonetheless, Republicans continue to peddle LGBTQ+ hate as part of their “freedom agenda” with Ron DeSantis saying he’s “saving” children from evil Florida teachers bent on “sexualizing children in kindergarten” and Governor Kristi Noem proclaiming “In South Dakota, only girls play girls’ sports.” And Hershel Walker released a brand-new anti-trans ad.
Mike Pence, no friend to queer people or women, announced his very own “Freedom Agenda,” telling reporters, “It really is an effort to put in one place the agenda that I think carried us to the White House in 2016, carried two Bush presidencies to the White House and carried Ronald Reagan to the White House in 1980.”
