Horrified by tweet

The morning started with this horrifying set of tweets.

 
I don't know what medical costs he is talking about, but I don't think being transgender affects how decisive a person is. And opening serving as transgender takes a lot more courage than what most people have.

If you want decisive and overwhelming victory, you should be looking at how to attract the best people and how to keep them, rather than worry about what's between their legs. Kristin Beck is transgender, but that did not stop her from being one of the best military personnel, making it to serve on the Navy SEALs. There are many more serving now who are just as effective as any other trained military personnel, and the least the top guy can do is not distract them from their duties.

If it is about medical costs, well, there are a lot of other conditions that require medical attention. Does that mean all these people are banned from serving too? According to some sources, transgender people serving in the US military may cost the military up to 8.4 million USD annually. Compare this with the 41 million USD spent annually on Viagra.

So when will people wake up and do the right thing to save the US. I hope it is soon, before it is too late and there is nothing left to save.

A new industry of fact checkers

Ever since Trump has entered the news running for president, there has been a whole new industry of fact checkers. No doubt there had been fact checkers in the past. It is a part and parcel of democracy for people to check if what someone said is true, and to expose any untruths. That is what free speech is about too. And therefore, people do check what they say beforehand so that they don't risk having someone come out and saying "that's not true."

But ever since Trump came into the picture, with so many twists and turns and what have you, it seems the usual number of fact checkers just can't keep up. Mainstream media has to get teams of fact checkers to run through everything just to make sure what they report are factually correct. And people are taking to social media to bring out any untruths too, bypassing the mainstream media (which, no matter how hard they work, is still limited by the size of their budgets). We now have YouTube channels dedicated (almost) to exposing such untruths.

If anything, he has provided employment for some people: fact checkers. But fact checking is not productive work; it doesn't produce anything new. It will be better for society if such resources are channeled into other areas. But I guess as long as people are not as truthful as they should be, or as thorough in their own checks before speaking out, fact checkers will continue to be necessary, and this industry's size will depend on how prominent (or how large the scale) of such behaviour.