On Friday a federal judge in Seattle struck
down Donald Trump's latest trans-gender troop
ban for the United States military saying
that first of all, the ban really doesn't
stand up to any kind of legal muster.
But more importantly Donald Trump's rationale
for putting this ban in place makes absolutely
no sense whatsoever.
See, originally the Trump administration when
it came out with their first trans-gender
troop ban said they that were doing it because
the cost of medical care for these troops
was just too high.
We're spending too much money on them, so
we're just going to ban them from ever being
able to serve in the military.
And then after that got struck down they kind
of tweaked it a little bit, used the same
reasoning and then tried to pass it off as
if it were something new.
They judge in this case said, yeah, there's
really no distinction between the two trans-gender
bans and therefore neither of them are constitutional.
"You can not do this", the judge said.
So here's what we're looking at, at this point.
First of all, let's address the cost issue
that Donald Trump was talking about, the whole
reason for this allegedly.
While as it turns out Donald Trump's travel
and vacation time for the last year is actually
more expensive than what the United States
military spends in a year on trans-gender
troops.
So if it was really a cost issue, Donald Trump
wouldn't be traveling all over the country
to go play golf whenever the hell he feels
like it so he can pocket the profits off of
that from the federal government.
Yeah, that doesn't work, especially considering
the fact that didn't we just increase the
military's budget by 70 or $80 billion on
top of the hundreds of billions of dollars
they already got?
If there's one government agency or government
division, department, whatever we want to
call it, that has enough money to cover stuff,
it's the military.
Under no circumstances does Donald Trump's
reasoning hold up to reality.
That actually seems to be the case with most
everything Donald Trump does, but in this
specific case, this trans-gender troop ban
had nothing to do with money and everything
to do with bigotry.
That's what this was.
That's why he did this.
I guarantee you and in fact we do know that
Mike Pence had a hand in crafting this trans-gender
military ban.
This is all about the religious right trying
to make a statement that they do not like
people who are different from them.
They do not accept people who are different
from them and they're going to do whatever
they can to sneak that hatred and that bigotry
into United States policy and that is exactly
what this trans-gender military ban is all
about.
And this judge in Seattle saw right through
what this administration was trying to do
and struck it down.
