Donald Trump says transgender people will "end" if GOP keeps Congress in midterms

[u/HyacinthFT]

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/08/donald-says-transgender-people-will-end-if-gop-keeps-congress-in-midterms/

[u/SafeForTwerking]

You'd think at the least they'd be environmental conservatives to preserve nature for all the outdoorsy shit they claim to like and at the very least protecting the environments of the animals they want to hunt, but I'm guessing they'd be just fine with a modern variation on Royal Forests, reserved for white folks.

[u/arkiparada → u/SafeForTwerking]

They don’t care about the planet because Jeebus is coming to end the world any day now and they’ll all be in heaven…which ironic because they do so little of what Jesus told them to do to get into heaven.

[u/ProfSpaceTime → u/arkiparada]

That’s exactly it. We’re watching cristofacists attempt to incite armageddon. It is literally their goal to end the world in hopes of being raptured

[u/arkiparada → u/ProfSpaceTime]

Yeah and not a single one would ever be raptured is the ironic and amusing part.

They can hang out on the destroyed planet they didn’t care enough about.

[u/gusterfell → u/arkiparada]

Even if Christianity is real and true, they still wouldn’t be raptured, because the rapture as they understand it has no basis in traditional Christian dogma, only becoming a concept in the mid 1800s.

[u/Zombatico → u/gusterfell]

American evangelicalism is a goddamned cult. It's not a mainline Christian Protestant denomination. It's a cult like the mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses are.

[u/runnerofshadows → u/Zombatico]

A mix of death cult, doomsday cult, and with the prosperity gospel - mammon cult.

[u/sofaking1958 → u/arkiparada]

None will be raptured, not because they aren't good people (though they're not), but because that's not a real thing.

[u/Goodknight808 → u/ProfSpaceTime]

If only they actually read the book they pretend to worship.

Those who incite Armageddon go straight to Hell. Everyone is supposed to be nice to each other and do their best until the day comes. Speed it up, and you are the bad guy the Bible talks about. The heinously evil will make Armageddon happen and go straight to Hell.

[u/RedditTrespasser → u/arkiparada]

Christianity, particularly the evangelical American variety, is a fucking death cult. Those people have no business sharing power in an Earthly government.

Frankly, if they are so sure that the afterlife is real and it’s so much better than here, I’d prefer it if they just went to go be with god already.

[u/arkiparada → u/RedditTrespasser]

Can’t agree with you more. Sad I can only give you one updoot.

[u/Cheese__Weiner → u/arkiparada]

Also there is a crap load of money to made by exploiting the planet's resources and money generally trumps (pun intended) all in their minds.

[u/arkiparada → u/Cheese__Weiner]

Of course it does. Supply side Jesus told them so!

[u/benjtay → u/arkiparada]

That's the beauty of born-again evangelical/grace-centered Christianity. The only thing you need to do is accept Christ as your savior, and literally anything goes. You're saved.

[u/TrimspaBB → u/arkiparada]

You'd think they'd want to protect thid beautiful world gifted to us by God. I guess when ones version of Jesus is literally just saying "I'm sowwy and I believe in you so I'm forgiven now right?" it can really make for some fucked up world vuews.

[u/grape-fruit-witch → u/arkiparada]

This dead-eyed nihilism is the most disturbing aspect of evangelical Christianity. Fuck it, fuck other people. Fuck the planet. Fuck the animals. Fuck everything because Jesus is coming to bring me to heaven. It sounds like something a person inside a padded cell would say.

[u/gusterfell → u/SafeForTwerking]

Historically, conservatives were very much in favor of environmental conservation. It’s only in the last few decades that the notion has become an exclusively left-wing one.

[u/sofaking1958 → u/gusterfell]

Teddy Roosevelt being a fine example.

[u/TheOtherMaven → u/sofaking1958]

Teddy was actually a Progressive Republican (an extinct species) and eventually switched over to full-on Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party.

[u/rothrolan → u/gusterfell]

Like the rest of what American Republicans used to support before the Brand New Deal, when the big switch of ideologies happened between Democrats and Republicans. Hence why the "Dixie-Crats" (AKA Southern Democrats) of before that time were the SOUTH that supported slavery, and Lincoln's Republican party fought to free them. Nowadays you have modern Republicans flying the traitorous Confederate flags, and they refuse to understand that the above ever happened, despite literally cheering for inequality and regressive policies.

It's sad, ironic, and above all irritating that we're doomed to repeat history because they are too blind to seeing it being re-written.

[u/SanityInAnarchy → u/SafeForTwerking]

They used to be! The EPA was started under Nixon.

You can tie yourself in knots trying to take 'Conservative' as an actual description of what they believe. It's like trying to find out what's democratic about the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Meanwhile, us Progressives are out here saying maybe take a second and find out what something like USAID actually does before you start taking a chainsaw to it, maybe conserve some of what we've built over the past decades.

I'd even go so far as to argue that when it comes to the literal meaning of the words, it's entirely flipped: The Progressives are conservative and the Conservatives are progressive. Tempting to say they're regressive, because they're trying to turn the clock back to the 50's or whenever they think America was Great, but no, immigration enforcement was never what it is now.