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Musk self-termining his own conflicts of interest is hilariously messed up

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Aaron’s “Interesting” made me smile.

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Musk being able to determine his own conflict of interest IS ALREADY a conflict of interest.

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Thank you! Please get some rest - we need you.

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You had me at impeachment.

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Please everyone who keeps commenting on the typo…leave the man alone! He’s super sick AND still reporting the news to us. I think he deserves a little grace!

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I hear ya, but frankly, I'm down with the same kind of thing, but I'm able to read just fine.

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I hope you feel better soon! And I hope you are shown grace when you need it.

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What’s to say really? He’s allowed to get away with these unthinkable things… I’m shut down

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I'm so with you! No body is doing or saying nothing! Oh there is protests what's that going to do???

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I’m on Medicaid so are my children idk what we will do! I’m on a lot of medications for my mental health and I just want to shut down permanently

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Yeah I'll live maybe two months without Medicaid.

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I’ll probably end up in withdrawal from no meds and die.. I know one will in fact kill me without proper tapering

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Apparently that's muskrat's plan, Keifer.

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I feel the same way. Shut down so bad that I wished the world would end.

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Did you see the president’s donkey pasted with fake money with trumps face on them. With the saying IN TRUMP WE TRUST. That’s their version of the golden idol

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The Jews were banned from playing sports too…. This is terrifying

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What if transgender women competed in their own athletic class?

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How many of them do you think there really are? It's SUCH a small number, it would be a miracle if they could form enough teams of people in the same sport across the nation to even meaningfully compete with each other. That college swimmer trans woman people complain about.,.. is she just going to compete against herself? I'm pretty sure she's the only one at the collegiate level.

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10 are registered

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That’s not a team in a city let alone multiple. So I get what heather is saying.

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Feb 6Edited

The number (today or in the future) shouldn’t matter. In addition, the estimates of intersex people born is 1.7% of the global population, which is similar to the chance of being born a twin according to:

https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/magazine/features/rights-of-intersex-children/

I understand transgender is not the same topic as intersex. When a transgender person looks at the world through a mental and emotional lens that is the opposite of their biological gender, then in terms of athletics, there are more similarities to intersex athletes competing against transgender athletes than cis athletes competing against transgender athletes. A distinct class would recognize and elevate these human beings for who they are. Why is that so wrong? And, it would be best if transgender was distinct from intersex athletic competition.

Acknowledge athletics is about physical, mental, & emotional preparation and that transgender athletes have just as a distinct combination of those qualities as cis women and cis men do. Those distinctions should have representation in the same manner as cis men vs. cis women.

‘Competing against yourself’ is ultimately what athletics is all about regardless if you’re trans, cis, or intersex.

I support transgender and intersex human beings as much as cis human beings. The former two have distinct mental, emotional, & biological characteristics of being human just as a male vs female so why force these people into one or the other. Humanity is not a binary existence.

Read the linked article above and pay particular attention to how it discusses the damage of trying “to fix”.

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Out of 500,000+ female athletes only like 10 identify as transgender. The number is so incredibly small that they can’t possibly form their own class.

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Feb 6Edited

Acknowledge athletics is about physical, mental, & emotional preparation and that transgender athletes have just as a distinct combination of those qualities as cis women and cis men do. Those distinctions should have representation in the same manner as cis men vs. cis women.

Read the reply to Heather above.

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That’s just further invalidating trans women as women, come on

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It is not. You're invalidating these human beings by pigeonholing them into a binary existence. Read my reply to Heather, including the linked article.

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I am transgender. It is invalidating Doug. I appreciate you being an ally BUT we don’t want our own category. We want to be seen as the women and men we are.

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Feb 9Edited

I do see you as who you are and respect you as much as any other human being. Thanks for replying.

In athletics I see cis women facing a competitor that is different than other cis women. Not the same difference b/n cis men & cis women, but still a difference.

I also see a world that will resist accepting transgender people (regardless of athletics) if that difference is not acknowledged. That would be a shame.

Athletic competition should be about metal, emotional, & physical preparation without pharmaceutical involvement, otherwise the essence of sport & competitive lines are blurred.

Is everyone who is against distinct classes suggesting a transgender woman can decide to compete with or without GAHT? And, to what level of GAHT is a transgender woman competing compared to another transgender woman’s GAHT?

Blurred lines. Same concept in part (but obviously drastically different topics) as to why PEDs are banned. I get that PEDs are banned outright first and foremost because it goes against the essence of competitive sport and by no means am I comparing the two beyond the blurring of lines when pharmaceuticals are part of the competition.

All of which does NOT mean people will not support, recognize, accept, love transgender human beings outside of athletics.

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The EO allows them to play in CoEd sports.

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Feb 5Edited

Nevermind the EO or trump. He’ll be gone soon enough.

I support transgender people & believe any insistence transgender women should be allowed to compete in cis women classes will impede acceptance of the entire transgender community.

Athletics reflects not only the physical preparation but mental and emotional. There are distinct differences of those combined qualities across cis men, transgender, & cis women so why wouldn’t there be a representation of each?

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Thank you for our evening update. Take care & feel better. Have some 🍲! 💪🏻

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I love the email with one or two sentence bullet points about each announcement.

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The bulleted highlights much appreciated, so I can read the news when I can’t watch the video. You are my number 1 news source!

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Oh my goodness please go to bed! I kept yelling “Oh Aaron” at my phone, you sound terrible my friend. Take care of yourself, we need you and we can make do while you rest!

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Is there any way to fact check this spending they claim the USAID had authorized that Leavitt was talking about in her interview? A transgender opera, a transgender comic book etc. it just all seems a bit like BS.

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Andwe have no way of knowing if it is real, since Musk has already had accesss and could have entered tose things homself -just like “Hunter’s laptop” which couldn’t be used as evidence of anything since so many people had access to it.

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I've seen so many phoney posts and even a supposed CNN report that said 5,000 FBI agents have been terminated, nobody is fact checking anything

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I like this format! Thank you. Feel better.

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Here me when I say this -- you are not going to make it for four years if you do not take care of yourself. This is the last time I'mma mention it. Please rest. Find a way to take care of you. I wish you could find someone to help you. Please start thinking long term. This is your "Auntie Carmen" 😉 screaming at you from Los Angeles -- and I promise, it will be the last time I do it. We're just worried about you -- and yeah, we need you. But, it's four years... Thank you for the update.

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You're right, Carmen. This is a brutish marathon, not a sprint.

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There is so much crap happening at once, it’s hard to respond to it all!

I am happy about the church winning against the proud boys, but who is going to enforce that this is being adhered to?

Musk needs to be stopped!! I’m old and on SS, Medicare and Medicaid. Am I going to get my check every month? Are my medical expenses going to get covered every month? And what about my food stamps? Will they take that away to? If they F**k around with any of it I don’t know how I am going to survive? At age 71, am I going to become homeless? I live in the Northeast where we have very cold weather and snow!! And that leads into NOAA, is Musk going to stop its weather forecasts that we all depend on!!

This is all illegal what Musk is doing. Who is going to hold him accountable? He’ll just get pardoned by F47! Can we really stop this? There is so much damage being inflicted on our Country!! Damnit I’m so angry!! We are all being held HOSTAGE to this COUP!! This Oligarchy doesn’t care about our protests! We need more people to come together and physically carry out Musk out of our Capital and hold him Hostage to stop this madness!!

I hope you feel better soon, we need you!

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That's why they're doing it they're throwing so much at the wall to confuse people instead of focusing on what needs to be focused on right now we should focus on Musk and what he's doing and then we can focus on something else one thing at a time let's target Musk

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You are so right!

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Thank you for your commitment to concise, objective, unbiased reporting, even when you are unwell. Please take care and feel better.

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Feel better soon! (There’s a small typo on Army just FYI).

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