Justice Department leadership is prepared to use its rule-making authority to declare transgender people as mentally ill and deprive them of their Second Amendment right to possess firearms, according to two Justice officials who shared internal discussions with CNN.

Deliberations at the highest levels of the DOJ follow the recent mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, an attack police say was carried out by a 23-year-old former student at the church’s school who may have been a transgender person or a de-transitioned individual. Two children were killed in the attack, and 21 others were injured.

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      Set up snitch lines for snitching on trans people, get medical doctor loyalists to snitch on trans people, they can find out who is trans pretty easily, then use ICE to sweep them up.

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    Hahahahahaha I bet removing trans peoples guns will be the straw that finally breaks the camels back in the US. LOLOLOL what a bunch of pathetic fash.

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      You would hope. I mean even the NRA came out against this bullshit! But I do Uber in a smallish town, and the shit I’ve heard…

      I look like the typical masculine “ideal” these idiots have in their head; y’all, well built, blonde hair, blue eyes. So they tend to over share. And I’ve gotten a couple complaints about “illegal driving” which is fucking laughable to anyone who rides with me, and Uber cause they use telemetrics on the phone out the ass, so they can see how my driving was.

      But I don’t just let shit go anymore. If you say something stupid I’m going to inform you of the truth and make you feel dumb while I do it. Recently some dude was gushing about alligator Auschwitz, and when I told him they are shutting it down you could see… Nothing, there was absolutely nothing behind this dude’s eyes.

      He also bragged about how him and his girl “are” Marines then immediately tells me he got kicked out of basic forrrr(drumroll please)… Selling fucking meth! These people vote.

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    As a gun owner, this is my promise for America

    If you come for my guns, we will have a gun fight, don’t worry I know I’ll lose, but I won’t be alive when you put dirty hands on my guns.

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      Lotta people willing to arrest people who are unarmed for a nice paycheck, a lot less are willing to die for that paycheck.

      The left needs to be armed like yesterday, and we need to be protesting armed to the teeth. Watch how magically the police and ice let them be.

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      Will you take up arms against the US government if they try to take away trans peoples guns??

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    Mentally defective? Voting republicunt is mentally defective!

    Nice distraction though: RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!!!

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    And now we get to the fascists beginning to disarm their enemies phase. After that it won’t be long before they label registered Democrats as mentally defective.

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    sigh All of this is a distraction scheme. He’s distracting from how poorly the people are doing economically.

    We can’t let trump control the narrative like that. We have to shift the narrative back to the economy every time something like this comes up.

    “Trump promised we’d have well-paying jobs again. Where are they?”

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      I dunno if you’re in the US or not, but here, the whole information pipe is so screwed up.

      Rage? You feed the trolls, and feed the algorithms/news.

      Be reasonable like that? No one hears you. Boring statements don’t sell ads. And Trump has ‘hacked’ that attention economy pretty good.

      …So you aren’t wrong, but I’m convinced that’s a useless sentiment now. I’m more into the “where are the Epstein files” meme because uncovering pedophile conspiracies are a core MAGA tenant. It’s the only thing that will get through and bust glass.

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        i have had the impression for years now (at least since 2012, because that’s when i started observing) that the world in the US is deeply broken on a deeper level than the surface.

        superficially, the US is possibly close to a civil war, with trump deploying troops to cities, angry trump loyalists storming the capitol just a bit earlier, and such. but if you look deeper, the whole picture looks a lot darker.

        it’s not so much that people are as stupid as they pretend to be (only caring about epstein, neglecting their own financial situation, not caring about sustainability & having a future), instead it’s that a lot of people have emotional struggles that reach deep and keep them from making reasonable choices.

        i think a lot of people are just really really emotionally hurt. if you look at the typical people in rural areas, a lot are emotionally broken, feel abandoned by society, feel as if they’re left to rot in their tiny, abandoned villages, that anger channels to the coastline cities, where it’s supposedly better, and then you end up with a “owning the libs” situation where basically the rural population is trying to take petty revenge on the people living in the coast cities for living a better, more meaningful life than themselves.

        this can’t be cured by just changing the communication channels somewhat. it would need a deep and fundamental processing of the soul of people. it can’t be done overnight, and at this point, i’m worried that nobody actually tries to care for the people who feel left behind and abandoned at all. basically, the rich move on, undertaking their enterprises, leaving large parts of the country behind, unemployed and without meaning and purpose in life. i’m pretty sure we’ll see some civil revolts (which will be forcefully bashed by the police and such), and then we’ll see the development of parallel societies where you practically have large ghettos in cities which is essentially like a parallel universe.

        i think it’s for the better though if some parts of the country secede. it’s not possible to give employment to everyone*, and if these people can at least form their own societies, they’ll have integrity and self-determination, and that’s worth something.

        * in the year 2040, AI and automation have replaced a lot of jobs.

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          The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

          There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

          -The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

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    Taking their guns is only the first step against transfolk. Once they’re declared mentally unwell they’ll start locking them up and forcing treatment on them.

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    JEFFERY EPSTEIN

    RELEASE THE FILES SO WE CAN GET ON WITH THE PUBLIC EXECUTIONS

    Every politician that is not pushing for the release is most likely complicit in this global child sex trafficking ring.

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    Where are the 2fa people howling to keep gun rights? They seem to be fine with this. Maybe their whining was never about guns at all?