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Eighteen Republican senators voted for the omnibus spending bill on Thursday,
defying a threat by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to tank the
legislation next year of any senator who supported the $1.7 trillion spending
bill.



Hard-line Republicans in the House sent a letter to their Senate counterparts on
Monday, urging them to oppose the legislation, which would extend government
funding through September. Included in that letter was a threat — vote “no” on
the omnibus or else the lawmakers “will do everything in our power to thwart
even the smallest legislative and policy efforts of those senators.”

SENATE PASSES $1.7 TRILLION OMNIBUS OVER PROTESTS FROM CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS

Instead of an omnibus, the group of sitting and incoming GOP members, whose
numbers swelled to 31 in a subsequent letter sent on Wednesday, want a stopgap
bill that extends funding to early next year, when the GOP takes over the House.

McCarthy, courting members of the conservative Freedom Caucus and lawmakers
aligned with it, gave his stamp of approval to Monday’s letter, saying bills
from those senators voting “yes” would be “dead on arrival” in the chamber next
year. By endorsing the letter, McCarthy, who needs the vote of almost every
hard-line Republican to become House speaker on Jan. 3, took aim directly at
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who brokered a deal with
Democrats to advance the omnibus.




Yet on Thursday, roughly a third of the Senate GOP Conference, McConnell
included, shrugged off the threat and voted for the bill.



“He’s focused on being speaker, and if I were in his shoes, that’s what I would
be focused on, trying to get enough votes. But I don't think that intimidates
anyone," Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL), the top Republican negotiator on the
omnibus in the Senate, told Axios two days before the vote.

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The 18 Republicans who voted “yes” were McConnell, Shelby, Roy Blunt (MO), John
Boozman (AK), Shelley Moore Capito (WV), Susan Collins (ME), John Cornyn (TX),
Tom Cotton (AK), Lindsey Graham (SC), Jim Inhofe (OK), Jerry Moran (KS), Lisa
Murkowski (AL), Rob Portman (OH), Mitt Romney (UT), Mike Rounds (SD), John Thune
(SD), Roger Wicker (MS), and Todd Young (IN).

The omnibus, which passed the upper chamber 68-29, now heads to the House, where
Democrats, who control a two-seat majority, can pass the legislation without any
Republican support. Democratic leadership has signaled to members that a vote
could take place as soon as Thursday night.

 

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Tags: Senate Republicans, Omnibus, Kevin McCarthy, Washington D.C., Mitch
McConnell

Original Author: David Sivak

Original Location: Revealed: The 18 Senate Republicans who ignored McCarthy’s
omnibus threat




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Anti-trans policies in the United States have hit a record high in recent weeks,
and discriminatory bills continue to pass in state legislative bodies across the
nation. While most of these bills are targeted at preventing people under the
age of 18 from accessing trans-related healthcare, more and more lawmakers are
drafting bills that would prevent both children and adults from transitioning.
As Republican politicians continue to rile up their supporters against the LGBTQ
community, it appears that trans people’s very right to exist has been called
into question.



One Republican pundit believes that trans people shouldn’t exist at all.

Meet Michael Knowles. He’s a right-wing commentator for The Daily Wire and an
absolute gremlin of a human being. He recently took the podium at the
Conservative Political Action Coalition and launched into a tirade against trans
people, in particular trans women, and flat out said that trans people should
not exist. Now here’s the thing, Knowles doesn’t actually believe that trans
people exist in the first place. The rhetoric of his speech breaks the “issue”
down into a binary (always the binary with these people). “If transgenderism is
true, then it is true of all ages,” he said. “If transgenderism is false, as it
is, if men really can’t become women … then we should not indulge it.”

Knowles and his ilk view “transgenderism” as a disease that needs to be
“eradicated” entirely in order to for society to function. And yes, he really
does say the word “eradicated”. His exact words were: “For the good of society …
transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely, the whole
preposterous ideology, at every level.”



If this strikes you as a rather genocidal way of putting it, you would be
correct. His audience didn’t seem to mind. They responded with thunderous
applause.

News outlets across the nation thought similarly. Rolling Stone published an
article titled, CPAC Speaker Calls for Eradication of ‘Transgenderism’ — and
Somehow Claims He’s Not Calling for Elimination of Transgender People, while The
Daily Beast published a similar article featuring the quote “this is genocidal”.
Both raise a similar argument, that the eradication of trans people from
American society is tantamount to genocide, despite Knowles’ claims that his
statement was not a call to liquidate trans people. Knowles wishes to eradicate
the “ideology” of being trans, while conveniently refusing to state what will
happen to real trans people should trans expression be outlawed entirely. In
keeping with the longstanding traditions of conservative politics, Knowles
feigned outrage for being allegedly misquoted. He called the articles “libelous”
and demanded that their headlines be changed, and railed against other outlets
for “defaming” him. Both of the articles mentioned above did see their headlines
changed after Knowles threatened legal action over what were ultimately accurate
quotes.




Knowles has been feigning outrage over being “misquoted” by these outlets
because he says he called for “transgenderism” to be eradicated, not trans
people but 1) “Transgenderism” is a made-up word used by the far-right in order
to mistakenly identify a person’s trans identity as an ideological point of
view. 2) You cannot eradicate an identity without eliminating actual people. And
3) He himself has used the terms interchangeably in the very recent past.



This is not the first time Knowles has spouted anti-trans rhetoric. He’s had a
lot of practice. During a segment on The Michael Knowles Show, he attempted to
downplay his notions of trans genocide in an equally genocidal way, saying: “I
don’t know how you could have a genocide of transgender people because genocide
refers to genes, it refers to genetics, it refers to biology … and the whole
point of transgenderism is that it has nothing to do with biology.” Aside from
being bigoted, this statement offers an extremely narrow view of the definition
of genocide. While genocide has primarily been a “final solution” against
members of certain ethnic groups throughout history, the practice is not
exclusively related to one’s genetics or ethnicity. Most infamously, the
practice was carried out by the Nazis based on the ethnic and religious identity
of the Jews. Nazis also used the practice for dealing with Catholics, disabled
people, and the LGBTQ community.

“Nobody’s calling to exterminate anybody because the other problem with that
statement is that transgender people is not a real ontological category,”
Knowles said in that same segment. “It’s not a legitimate category of being.”
What he fails to realize is that calling the “legitimacy” of a group of people
into question is the definition of genocidal rhetoric. According to the 10
Stages of Genocide, the dehumanization of a group of people meets the criteria
for Stage Four, where people are equated to animals, diseases, or vermin. It
should be noted that “murder” is not used to describe the act of killing
persecuted groups by attackers. People are murdered, rats are “eradicated”.




But Knowles’ statements don’t just constitute Stage 4. His remarks were made at
a major conservative conference, where high-profile Republicans including former
President Trump also made statements. The air of “legitimacy” that this lends to
Knowles’ statements and their widespread acceptance by the Republican party meet
the criteria for Stage 6, where government officials “broadcast propaganda to
turn the populace against the group”. This is already occurring in state
governments across the nation, and one could argue that Stage 7 legislation
against trans people is currently being passed. Statewide “anti-drag” laws that
make it illegal for “male or female impersonators” to appear in public spaces
are a coded attack against trans people. The term “male or female impersonator”
is conveniently ill-defined. By refusing to recognize trans people as
illegitimate and “fake”, Conservative pundits are quietly framing trans people
as “male or female impersonators” who are therefore subject to prosecution and
arrest.



Transgender activist Erin Reed thinks similarly. In response to the statements
that Michael Knowles made on his show, she tweeted that anti-trans people are so
“rattled” by accusations of genocidal rhetoric that it has caused them to begin
saying the “quiet part out loud”. Refusal to recognize trans people as a
“legitimate category of being” is in fact doubling down on genocidal rhetoric,
not reducing it. The “quiet part” isn’t so quiet anymore, is it? After all,
Michael Knowles said it in front of the movers and shakers of the Republican
party.



In a way, Knowles did us a favor. By using the word “eradicate,” he has uttered
the thesis of the Republican party’s view on trans people aloud: that they must
not be allowed to exist. No more “protect the children”, no more “defend the
rights of women”. Women and children were never a priority (their overturn of
Roe v. Wade and refusal to restrict guns taught us that). What Republicans want
is to use legislation to inflict conditions on trans people that are calculated
to bring about our physical destruction. They say they want to murder the “idea”
of trans people, which will in reality bring about trans people’s corporeal
downfall. While they’re not actually ordering someone to pull a trigger, this
murder is just as cruel and cold-blooded.

(featured image: Brett Carlsen/Getty Images)

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