Kamala Harris, Transgender Rights, and the Rise of Partisan Power

What happens when government departments are staffed exclusively with loyalists and agencies labeled "woke" are dismantled? 

This clip episode addresses the potential upheaval in the U.S. government structure, the dangers of centralizing executive power, and the stark constitutional implications of replacing key departments like State, Justice, and Treasury with partisan figures. 

Shane Ivan Nash and Jessie McGrath analyze the threat posed by mass civil service turnover with each new administration and its potential to erode foundational governmental stability. Furthermore, we scrutinize Project 2025 and anti-transgender legislation, identifying them as possible conspiracies aimed at infringing upon civil rights, drawing disturbing parallels to historical disenfranchisement efforts.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Government Loyalty, Civil Rights, and Conspiracies
• 4:55 Transgender Advocacy in Politics

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

government put in loyalists to Trump only and ripped down any department that is considered woke, like the education, et cetera, et cetera.

Speaker 2: 0:12

I mean, yeah, I mean but we as reason is there, I don't know. Yeah, well, no, I mean, look, it is a crazy ass plan to to, yes, but advocating for removal of a government agency or service. You know, nothing is inherently wrong about that, necessarily. People have opposed the Department of Education from day one of legislation and executive action. Legislation can change that. You can't universally just get rid of it because it's authorized by Congress. You would have to take over Congress. It'd have to be an act of Congress to eliminate whatever wants. Now, certain departments are in the US Constitution. You can't get rid of the State Department. You can't get rid of the Justice Department.

Speaker 1: 1:02

You can't get rid of the. Treasury, those are all constitutional departments within most of the power in the executive branch, by getting rid of certain departments and then making them operate under the authority of the executive office of the president.

Speaker 2: 1:33

So it is transferring it from, which is a combination legislative and executive function, because legislature creates it. The executives are the ones who get to appoint the appointees, but most of them are all civil service anyway. You don't have a loyalty to a president or a party. When you get your job, you get it because you're a citizen and you get to keep it. You know it doesn't get changed out with the change of every administration. It doesn't get changed out with the change of every administration. Could you imagine the government trying to operate where, every single time there's a change of administration, everyone is fired and new people have to get hired? How would you have continuity of government or programs? It just doesn't exist. So what they're advocating for is basically the total destruction of the government of the United States and placing it all in the hands of the executive, which is a horrible, horrible thing to do.

Speaker 2: 2:31

There are aspects of Project 2025 which I think you could consider to be a conspiracy to violate individual civil rights.

Speaker 2: 2:39

I personally think that a lot of these anti-trans bills that are being put together, advocated for by these national organizations and hate groups, and being money being funneled to state legislators to bring this up and pass it, that that is the actual conspiracy to violate the civil rights of individuals, because they're seeking to use the power of government to take away our ability to exist as humans, and that, to me, is, you know, a violation of our civil rights and you know them engaging in that conspiracy. Now, whether I'm going to get anybody who wants to jump on the board and, you know, take on the legislature of Georgia for their actions and taking away the access to the same thing that they did to African Americans in trying to, you know, take away their voting rights and prohibit them from being able to vote, taking away their schools, those you know organizing to take those things away from people is wrong and illegal, and I think it's the same when they do it to go after the LGBTQ plus community, yeah, yeah, to go after the LGBTQ plus community.

Speaker 1: 4:02

Yeah, yeah, I mean, I heard, I think, this morning, that there is I forget who it was Someone's advocating basically some old law, basically in constitution, that because Kamala Harris is black, that she's technically not even allowed to be voted for as well because she's technically not a person. I mean the level that they're already going to and we're only in like what, a month and a half since the analysis.

Speaker 2: 4:33

Well, if you, if you go to the original constitution, and blacks were considered three quarters, I believe, of a voter, or four fifths, they were not given a full personhood for purposes of census and things like that. But that's just absolute bullcrap, because we've nobody's constitution since then.

Speaker 1: 4:55

Yeah, but it's, it's horrible that they're thinking it yeah.

Speaker 1: 4:57

Yeah, because here's the thing like I'm conflicted about Kamala, sometimes with some of it, because of the whole. It's not that she was a cop, but she was a cop to a degree and there's a lot of things that were problematic with what you know, affected a lot of community members. And looking at it in the way that she is just being hammered, hammered it's it's when you see her in the tan suit, in the same way that Obama wore the tan suit like I'm conflicted, like I'm excited to vote for her, but I'm also like still scared at the same time because of there's the whole cop city things that are popping up. There's a lot of different things that are popping up. There's a lot of different things that really directly affect trans people like they really do.

Speaker 1: 5:48

Trans folks, unfortunately, are in the system at a higher rate than most communities and it's really unfortunate that there's that history for her. Because at the same time, I'm also like looking at it and going, oh my God, like I feel like Disney magic, like hope in my heart, like you know, seeing the DNC and seeing you know there was even like mayor John Erickson there was from West Hollywood. I saw him posting and he was like right there, I think he even got an interview with I forget what major network, but there was a lot of beautiful moments that happened in that. But at the same time, there was like a, a really great streamer well, I wouldn't say great, sometimes he's a little problematic, but he was. He had a I think, like 90,000 folks on his stream and because he was talking about palestine, they like pulled him out of the building.

Speaker 1: 6:43

So there's like a lot of different things that are happening simultaneously and I know she can't fix it all at once and I know that we as community members also want to put our hope in. But I I still fear because there wasn't even a drop of trans representation, at least in her party that we're almost like well, we got the trans vote because they know that if they vote for Trump, it's you know. Well, everything's gone. And that's how I feel because Kamala still has my vote, but I just wish that my vote was more considered in a way that we're looking at the multiple genocides that are happening throughout the world and even people directly in this country legislatively.

Speaker 1: 7:28

I mean, as a trans person, I've got abortion rights that I'm fighting for and also trans stuff. So as a trans guy, I feel like I'm getting hit in both angles and nobody's even really platforming trans men at all or having those conversations. That's also why I wore a pussy boy, because I just wanted to make sure that that was known that I'm a trans guy, if anybody's watching this and has forgotten, but it's so many nuances that are happening at once and I'm still so hopeful. But it's like this, like I don't know.

Speaker 2: 7:58

You know what I mean well, to me, the way I look at it is is is there is no other choice. Do I do I know what she mean? Well, to me, the way I look at it is there is no other choice. Do I know what she's going to do? I have a very good idea of what she's going to do in relationship to trans rights and supported and signed into law the sanctuary provisions in Minnesota law to protect trans people who would come to Minnesota from another state that was seeking to persecute them, and he has a very, very good understanding of trans issues, from what I understand, and so he is going to be an advocate for us understand, and so he is going to be an advocate for us. And I know that President Harris has been, at times, an advocate for the trans community and at times, as Attorney General, she acted against it. You.