Savage Love Episode 562
Savage Lovecast
Dan Savage
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2017
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the micro version of the Savage Lovecast, www.com. |
| 0:06.8 | If you're stuck in a relationship quandary, or if you're looking for sexual harmony, |
| 0:16.3 | while there's nothing you can last ask on the Savage Podcast. |
| 0:25.4 | Here again are the three tweets from at Real Donald Trump. |
| 0:31.6 | After consultation with my generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States government will not accept or allow |
| 0:37.8 | dot dot dot transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. military. Our military |
| 0:44.9 | must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous |
| 0:52.4 | medical costs and disruption that transgender in the |
| 0:56.3 | military would entail. Thank you. That blew up the internet. That made the news. We're recording |
| 1:02.5 | the opening for today's show earlier than we usually do five days earlier. So the day after |
| 1:07.0 | Trump attacked transgender people serving in the military. And things are moving fast. |
| 1:11.8 | So today's opening may be out of date or even moot by Tuesday because this could go nowhere. |
| 1:18.3 | There's been a lot of pushback against Trump's proposed ban on trans people serving openly in the military and pushback from some unexpected quarters. |
| 1:26.0 | Senator John McCain condemned it, but also bat-shit-crazy, |
| 1:29.8 | right-wing, anti-queer lunatic senator Joni Ernst condemned Trump's proposed ban on transgender people |
| 1:35.3 | serving openly in the military. And to be clear, executing Trump's orders or tweet storm, |
| 1:41.2 | it would require the military to expel trans people who are already serving openly, |
| 1:45.9 | which they've been able to do for more than a year now, which Trump doesn't seem to be aware of. |
| 1:53.0 | And if trans people serving openly is disruptive and they're already serving openly, |
| 1:57.5 | where's the disruption? Where are the example? Where are the news stories? |
| 2:02.5 | They don't exist because trans people serving openly in the military, just like lesbian, |
| 2:06.8 | gay and by people serving openly in the military, which they've been doing for a few years now, |
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