702 wrote:Just wanna say I love the thread title.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – A Pennsylvania lawmaker says he’ll reintroduce long-stalled legislation to outlaw discrimination based on someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

Rep. Dan Frankel (D-Allegheny) said his proposal would prohibit discrimination against people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender in the workplace, in housing, and in public accommodations such as restaurants and hotels.

“Pennsylvania polls for the past eight years have shown consistent 70-percent support for providing our LGBT relatives, friends, neighbors and co-workers with the same protections as the rest of us,” Frankel said in a statement. “Many Pennsylvanians are stunned when they find out state or federal law doesn’t already protect LGBT people.”

Frankel said more than 40 local governments across the state have added protections for the LGBT community.

“This would help us to compete for jobs and residents with all the other northeastern states, which already have these protections, and give us an advantage over the states that don’t,” he said.

Gov. Tom Wolf has supported previous legislation, but it’s up to the Republican-controlled legislature to approve it and get it to his desk.

Ahmad Majidyar, who leads the IranObserved Project at the Middle East Institute, believes that "many reformists are dismayed by the President's unwillingness to stand up to the country's judiciary and security establishment," meaning many may simply not bother to vote at all.

TenuredVulture wrote:A vulnerable Republican House member easily distance himself from Trump without alienating those voters.

TenuredVulture wrote:You might argue that the Republicans want Trump out of the picture for the long-term health of the party.

mozartpc27 wrote:In light of everything we know about Donald Trump, the man, which of the following sounds more plausible:

After a private, closed-door meeting with Mitch McConnell, John McCain, and a delegation of powerful and highly regarded Republican Senators, who assure the President that the Senate would vote to convict the President on an impeachment charge, President Trump, facing grim reality, elects to resign the Presidency in a dignified, and even somewhat poignant, if highly anticipated, statement given to the nation on national television;

OR

After a briefing from Paul Ryan and other powerful members of the U.S. House of Representatives, in which President Trump is informed that the House has enough votes and will therefore face impeachment, President Trump goes on national television to announce that he has secret but hugely important and true intelligence to the effect that the House has been infiltrated by Russian double agents, and therefore he has ordered the army to evacuate the U.S. Capitol and dismiss the current Congress, and all federal elections are suspended until such time as he can cut through all the fake news and secrecy and get to the bottom of things.


I know, I know... probably the former... but it's sad and frightening that you need to think about it for a minute.

“I just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job,” Mr. Trump said, according to the document, which was read to The New York Times by an American official. “I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.”