or sheldon whitehouse is just in his full villain arc

honestly I think the answer to this is the Democrats *do* need to talk more about LGBTQ issues. because right now what's happening is the Republicans are defining the whole playing field

The meaning of democracy is that the people rule. The American people do not rule; in fact, I think a lot of them suck. So it's not a democracy. It's only a democracy if the people are cool. This is why Saudi Arabia is democratising so quickly; it's because of air conditioning

Someone was a little too obnoxious about asking for people's pronouns and now the President is outright like "yeah we need to deny hungry people food, that is our goal"

"It is easier for a trans woman to imagine herself a frankensteined agglomeration of machinery and flesh that a corporation has invested too much money in as equipment to let die, than to imagine another human showing her kindness and care for her wellbeing."

I mean, Rhode Island on its worst day is still better than a majority of non-New England states regardless of party in power, but that's just my increasingly-toxic regionalism speaking

(the real problem is that it's just wrong, I believe Hawai'i and Rhode Island also voted unanimously, at least)