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Jacqui Oesterblad from Liberal with Words has one of the best responses to the "bathroom bill" controversy that I have read in a while.

Controversy over transgender people’s access to public bathrooms is not new—Arizona had a bathroom bill fight back in 2013. But the issue has risen to prominence in the past few weeks because of the recent hubbub in North Carolina, where the backlash to the bathroom bill led Bruce Springsteen and Bryan Adams to cancel concerts, PayPal and Deutsche Bank to cancel planned expansions, and porn site XHamster to shut down access from North Carolina-based IP addresses. The consequences for North Carolina may even include the loss of over $4.3 billion dollars in federal education funding.

Why, despite the economic and legal consequences, do states like North Carolina fight so hard to prevent transgender people from peeing?

The far-right likes to claim they are fighting to protect women and children.

So let’s talk about some little girls who need to be protected.

Lani Guinier was right when she argued our electoral system is deeply flawed. Though we don't have a Tyranny of the Majority so much in America, as a tyranny of two minority parties, who have blocked access to any attempt to wrestle away their hold on political power. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Who is this Lani Guinier person of whom you speak, Steven, and what, if anything does she have to do with the Clintons?

You really have to suspect that something is wrong when someone as clearly possessed of the criminal mentality as Hillary Clinton is the frontrunner in the 2016 Presidential race. You can see this in the electoral fraud that has accompanied a great number of primaries, from Iowa to Illinois to Arizona to New York and much, much more.

Just read an "insider's" article on Politico (http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/bernie-sanders-fundraising-list-22...) about Bernie's very much coveted contributor list of the millions of his supporters that contribute whenever he sends an email. The entire DNC and their down-ballot candidates want his campaign to be over already so they can get access to his list.

Just take a look at those 'Resources' ...

From earthjustice.org:

OK, that fucking does it.

I will apply the same logic to the general election.

I refuse to join the Democratic Party, and since many want to close their primary off, I wont vote for them in the general either.

See how that works?

DP supporters are becoming as shitty as GOP ones, we don't want your vote in our primary, but we want it in the general.

It doesn't fucking work like that.

The adult entertainment site GameLink has released the best selling porn titles in North Carolina, which are My TS Teacher, Shemale Shenanigans, and Joey Silvera'a Trans-Visions 6.

We have seen significant growth in the viewing of TS movies in North Carolina since 2012. Viewing TS movies has increased 64.3 percent [for North Carolina]; our average state increase during this time is 47 percent.

--Jeff Dillon, Vice President of eLine, GameLink's parent company

This is why I have given up arguing with idiots on the internet. I will guarantee GOS is filthy with these bastards. IIRC, GOS created a rule to Ban anyone who called another user a "troll". That may be a measure to protect the embedded trolls. Perhaps their true goal is to do a CIA-type communications operation to create uncertainty and doubt in the Bernie camp.

I am a pampered Jewish American Princess (at least in my more bizarre delusions) and thus the tremendous suffering I'm seeing has even reached moi. Oy!

I actually read on Twitter (and I make no claims to credibility here) that there's a video going around about a woman who breaks down crying because her vote didn't count.