GOP internal discussions: attacks on trans people aren’t attracting new voters, it’s time to scale things back
Polls: voters don’t care about the “trans panic”
Democrats: it’s time to take up the torch and double down on transphobia, and go even further and beyond
The ratchet effect in Amerikkkan politics in action. 🤡
Americans: “Please. I just want gas to stay under 5 dollars a gal-”
Democrats: “Shut up! We’re gonna kill trans people!”
healthcare please
we hear you and will spend even more money on the border wall and attacks on immigrants – DNC
My country hardcoded a right to healthcare into the Constitution and basically underfunded it so much that the only way to get timely medicali treatment is through private for-profit healthcare. It’s not a US exceptionality.
Many countries are happy to remove social services. Especially if gets money into donors friends. Or can screw over minorities
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How many more minorities do Democrats have to throw under the bus before realizing people just want healthcare?
Oh they know what the people want, but they also know what their donors want
Indeed
Any way of knowing which of the big donors are pushing this bigoted crap?
Why do you think Super PACs don’t have to disclose their donors?
Yeah
We have to VOTE to help marginalized communities, namely the most marginalized community of all: wealthy white folks who are “former” republicans 🥺
But but but I was told if I didn’t vote blue no matter who I hated trans people and didn’t want them to be safe
He’s running against an incredibly terrible candidate and unfortunately as most dems are perfect candidate to lose to hinson.
Hell he’s even running I’m not a democrat I’m actually independent and will vote like a republican ads
This just signals to the consultant class that anti-trans is a winning issue for democrats. I would just as soon let the Republican win because that’s a short term loss and having Democrats turn against trans people dooms us forever.
It’s not even the only issue he’s happy to pre capitulate on. He’s doing the Liz Cheney I’m a republican but not a trump republican routine
I would just as soon let the Republican win because that’s a short term loss and having Democrats turn against trans people dooms us forever.
I don’t even know what to do about news like this but doom. I am very early in transition. I need shit. I don’t know what I will do if I can’t get it and if dems swing this way on this there really just might be no hope of being happy, even at peace in my corpse. Fuck all of this. I don’t know what the fuck to do.
Being in my body is a nightmare and I need help getting out. What the fuck to do if dems follow labour.
honestly, i’d recommend going the DIY HRT route, at least that’s what i’ve been doing as my country gets more transphobic by the day. plus, it ends up being pretty affordable in the long run
i can send you some links if you wanna know how to get started
I am diying already. I just don’t think its enough to save me. Thank you for the offer though, very nice of you.
ah, my bad. yeah, things aren’t looking too good in my country either…
stay strong, comrade ❤️🩹
The Democrats will happily and willingly engage with the worst positions to win except actually moving left, because ultimately they serve imperial interests and only imperial interests. Obama pretended to be left leaning and won everything, an absolute nightmare for the Dems. Their unflinching support for the Zionazi genocide is the clearest example of this. I can’t think of a more clear cut example of controlled opposition.
For the midterms it seems like they should win the Senate but I think the Republicans will still find a way to cuck them like they did with Bush.
Obama is their playbook now. Do anything to gain support from the left without actually doing anything for them.
They seem to do better when they do the Obama playbook but they don’t always do it. Like Kamala began with progressive pandering and when the polls were good they did a hard right shift.
There’s democrat, and then there’s demonrat, this is a demonrat
Pretty sure we should be capitalizing this all. I’m a democratic democrat demonrat, just not a Democrat Demonrat.
There has to be a better electoral strategy than diet fascist.
there is, but if they use it people will expect them to do something while in office
Why do so many conservatives have resting pedo face? And why are so many of them running as Democrats?
The Democratic party is a far-right political organization
Could you please add a content warning for transphobia to the start of the post title.
Fixed. Sorry about that.
Thank you
This is the liberal position in Iowa and what it takes to get elected there. Once elected, he will be allowed to pander to his transphobic constituents by toeing the Democratic party line and claiming he didn’t want to support trans rights but he had to when they were packaged together with things that his bigots actually wanted.
Do you actually believe the shit you’re saying or are you intentionally trying to manipulate people? No, what will happen is the same that happened with Keir Starmer in the UK. As soon as he gets to power he will ramp up the hatred more and more to distract from his incompetence and falling popularity.
The real solution is: If the liberal position is indistinguishable from the fascist one, then maybe this disgusting ideology should be exterminated
Obama was against gay marriage on the campaign trail. By the time he left office, it was legal.
First, the proper equivalent would be if Obama advocated to ban AIDS meds. This piece of shit wants to take away rights that trans people already had for decades, if you didn’t get that.
Second, it wasn’t Obama who did that, it was the Supreme Court that did that, and if I remember correctly, it was Obama who handed it over to Trump to abuse as much as he wants now. Liberals straight-up paved the way for fascism just like the soc-dems did in the Weimar republic.
Third, Obama not giving a single shit about queer people and refusing to install any protections for them made it possible for republicans to immediately go after trans people after Obergefell v. Hodges. You liberals let Trump shit on trans people for over 11 years now without any resistance, and now that this whole moral panic has grown to absurd dimensions, you’re pressuring us to just accept our fate as subhuman garbage.
Your weakness and selfishness is killing us
So Biden banned abortion?
This is why I refuse to vote dems. That, and the fact that I’m not American. But primarily the first
Obama was against gay marriage on the campaign trail. By the time he left office, it was legal.
because of the courts not anything he did
The supreme court did it so no Dem ever had to show morals or leadership. The Dems “suddenly seeing the light” and mainstream Dems suddenly being pro gay rights wasn’t after the polling said it was “viable” but being anti-gay rights would lose them votes even again Republicans because they would alienate their own base.
hmmmm
Don’t mind me just got a big order of these things for some reason
you should get a job soothing animals in a slaughterhouse. you won’t be good at it but it would suit you
You should vote for Republicans and get the future you deserve.
telling trans women they deserve transphobia genius
Libs handwring about Stalins purges and all the related deaths, but I read something like this and I’m reminded that sometimes there’s only one way to deal with filth.
Libs keep on proving why purges are needed at all. The ones most deserving of it are also the ones who handwring over it the most.
Hell yeah. If you don’t actively support someone who hates you for being alive you deserve someone who hates you even more!
If you want to make a harm reduction argument, in a thread where a Democratic candidate is throwing trans people under the bus, is not the best place to make it.
“At least with the Democrats, the cattle car we’re going to stuff you in on the way to the concentration camp will have adequate ventilation, and will have been built with Union labor” does not inspire people to vote for your preferred candidate. Being told that the jackboot being pressed on your throat was made with vegan leather is small comfort for the person struggling to breathe.
You should vote for Republicans and get the future you want
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i thought about saying You belong in the 9.11 memorial
They have a very abstract concept of themselves suffering personally, but to be a republican? the thought even for a moment is devastating
Call me a social fascist all you want, but don’t ever call me a Republican!
You’re not even trying to convince trans people to vote for your party at this point, you’re just being cruel to people who fear for their lives.
So you’re telling on yourself that you don’t actually care about what happens to trans people then? You’re just here to libsplain to the uppity transes that they should support candidates openly spouting transphobia, thereby helping to further normalize transphobia in US politics. Apparently that’s the future they deserve as well. 🤡
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the most powerful humiliation fetish in the world couldn’t make me support a right-winger
which is why democrats won’t ever get my vote, for all the nothing it’s worth anyway
Why are you here.
Nobody here likes you, you are derided by everyone for making quite apparent your lack of intelligence and human decency, but you come regardless.
You speak as an apparatus of the DNC moreso than a decent human being, despite none of your own party liking those soulless vessels either.
Are you here because none of your own like you either?
You should be run over by a steam train.
i hope you feel an ounce of the pain you wish on the marginalized
You should get to go wakeboarding on a dry lakebed ;)
Thank you! Hopefully we’ll also get you to live that future :)))
if bro is elected with anti-trans line, and he wins because the republiklans are wildly unpopular, the consulting class take away will be “genocide trans people”.
what’s more likely is that this guy would become the next spoiler, always ruining good things because, gosh darn it, we just couldn’t whip the votes.
what it takes to get elected there
or you could actually run for good policies that actually matter. trans people aren’t your landlords, or your boss that forces you to do overtime. demonrats would never do this though.
Just Admit you want to murder trans people, just like you wanted to murder migrants because you supported biden
Liberals like you have never even had the thought that it should not in fact be a requirement to support fascism to get elected somewhere in the first place. You are happily embracing fascist policies rather than questioning your civic religion.
How many months until the Democratic party line is to arrest trans people as undesirables to appease the conservative’s feelings that are evidently more important than trans lives to them?
Absolutely unreal levels of self-delusion to think that you can be considered any less culpable for the violence that the conservatives are inflicting because you do the wrong thing for the “right reason”.
can you list some of those good things?
Can you point to the phrase “good things” in my original comment?
felt implied in the “packaged together with things that his bigots actually wanted” (bigots can want good things too i guess)
How about fuck Iowa and everyone who lives there. Death to America.
Go fuck yourself, fascist
That’s an Iowa Democrat. Not exactly representative of the median Democrat.
If you don’t think they’re all being told this is the new party line to chase the mythical moderate voter who would vote for them if they just talked more about how they also think trans people are disgusting, you haven’t really been paying attention. Democrats love ceding arguments to the right and then trying to argue they’re even more for it, convincing absolutely no one but ratcheting the Overton window to the right another notch.
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Gross.
Oh my god it’s you again, still obsessed with voting for blue Hitler and blaming everyone for your country’s horrible actions?
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Blue hitler, wtf is that?
Because BlueMAGA would vote for Hitler if he was a Democrat.
Quit stalking me.
??? My account is on this instance. I know this is REALLY alien to someone who has no object permanence, but I can remember names and actions after they have left the room.
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How should a trans person in Iowa vote? Sounds like they have no friends from Iowa Democrats.
Which is one reason any that have the option are running out of the state 😭
Honestly, they should still vote for that guy. He’s running for Senate, so he wouldn’t be in charge of state policy like a governor would be. But he might determine which party controls congress. Republicans actively pursue legislation that will make things worse for trans people. Some Democrats throw trans people under the bus in election ads, then don’t actually do anything one way or the other once elected. And other Democrats actively pursue legislation that will help trans people! One party is clearly worse than the other, so vote for Democratic control of congress, please.
Some Democrats throw trans people under the bus in election ads, then don’t actually do anything one way or the other once elected.
lol bullshit, how the fuck is anyone supposed to accept throwing trans people under the bus? You’re saying this from an extremely privileged position to make such garbage posts.
You’re asking them to accept what republicans want to do to them, instead. Monstrous. You must be in an extremely privileged position to do this.
You’re asking them to accept what republicans want to do to them, instead. Monstrous. You must be in an extremely privileged position to do this.
No, I think people should organize, form a vanguard party and help each other. Not vote for Red Hitler or Blue Hitler. You’re literally telling trans people to vote for someone who is dehumanizing them and targeting them.
you’re asking us to accept blue transphobia, are you not? that seems monstrous and privileged to me
“Accept the GAC ban and being excluded from society as a second class citizen or it will be worse for you” is a threat, you disgusting fascist. You talk like an abuser.
You’re still an idiotic shitlib
It’s a great idea to show democrats that it’s now acceptable to adopt the most anti trans stance yet.
Even if it means the “worse” person wins, this guy is horrible for trans people and will influence others in the party. You can’t reward this. If you consider yourself a trans ally in any capacity, please rethink your approach.
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We post it because it’s what you Blue MAGA nazi freaks deserve
Liberal bot needs to be restarted
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They should only vote for this guy if he starts advocating killing worthless pieces of shit like you instead of trans people.
One party is clearly worse than the other, so vote for Democratic control of congress, please.
I’ve watched both parties run defense for genocide in the past few years so color me skeptical that they won’t gleefully throw anyone they deem expendable into a meat grinder if it pleases their donors.
Republicans actively pursue legislation that will make things worse for trans people.
-person who is telling trans people to vote for a person who wants ban their lifesaving medication forever and further marginalize them from society
If trans people need proof that you do not see them as human, here is is.
You’re an idiotic shitlib
Except he’s not running as a dem, he’s just running on their ticket as an independent who will work with both sides to pass republican policy - literally ad they are running
Nah bro lmao get ready for a Republican Iowa lesgoooo
Wants to Ban GAC (federally!) and enforce bathroom bans
I and my party support trans people
There are evidentially MAGA who are honest and MAGA that are not
All my trans friends have guns and don’t vote democrat
Iowa is one of the best examples of why dems strategies of running right fail.
You are representative of the median democrat, you frothing fascist pig.
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