he always follows up something like this by attending something that he knows he will get praised at. so he’ll probably show up to Stanley Cup Game 6 or another UFC fight.
Correct. The vast majority of people think trans people should be treated like anyone else. However, the Dems have stupidly been caught up in the weeds on that arguing about bathrooms and women's sports when generally the average person isn't really interested in it. Conservative- "I don't want some dude in a dress going into the bathroom with my 6 year old daughter." implies that trans people solely want to go into the women's bathroom to assault girls/women Dem- rambles on how human rights and that doesn't happen Conservative brings up same random incident of a pedophile sneaking into a bathroom dressed up like a women to put camera's in (not even a trans person) Stupid person watching thinking- "Why are Democrats more concerned about making sure a guy in a dress can use the women's restroom instead of making sure my daughter is safe. It's ridiculous and absurd but Dems love walking right into that trap over and over and over.
It’s not about abandoning trans rights, it’s about framing it as part of people’s individual freedoms.
Several years ago my cousin's son went into a women's bathroom at a Target in Oregon somewhere and was discovered taking pictures over the stall walls. He fled and drove away, right into a ditch But somehow trans people are the problem
I think hiding the ball and spinning it as all human rights argument is soft and running from it. Just be confident and say "yeah I'm for trans rights. I'm not a transphobe"
What a massive piece of irredeemable shit This is an egregiously shameful tweet from a US senator— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-06-15T17:46:23.577Z
Butthead maybe you've known this, but I was pretty shocked to discover there's an ICE detention facility near the oldest Spaghetti Factory in Portland on the south water front. There's a bar I go to really close and we saw unmarked cars doing shit across the street Thursday. This being in Portland means there's been a lot of "non-lethal" shootings over the past few days and supposedly someone lost an eye yesterday.
The Democratic Party still fighting like the British in the Revolutionary War, side by side, row after row, fife and drum, and the Republicans have smeared themselves in hog shit hiding behind trees.
Trans rights is not a winning message unfortunately. Focus on winning messages then force through your entire agenda after winning the election. You can believe strongly in things and not make it a major focus of the campaign (and it’s ok to say these things without being cannibalized by the rest of the left). The amount of people who will be swayed to voting dem because of trans rights is minuscule in the grand scheme.
Before the Eagles-Patriots Super Bowl Mina did a bit on the Le Batard Show where she gave analysis on how to pressure Brady with only 4 while gliding on a zip line at Mall of America or whatever, her aggressive moaning and screaming left me positive she’s awesome in bed. Super toxic masculinity shit, right? Yeah. And I still think about it sometimes.
I don’t think anyone is suggesting that you make it the singular/central issue (although “Republicans will strip everyone’s rights away, maybe) but you absolutely cannot shy away from a challenge on it
I agree. When some conservative tries to bring up women's sports or bathrooms the response has to be "Why are you bringing up bathrooms? The average American is worried about whether they can retire after Trump and Republicans knowingly destroyed hard working American's 401ks. This administration is sending out plain clothed ICE agents telling them to not identify themselves and arresting and detaining US citizens because of the color of their skin. They're knowingly helping start another Middle East war with Trump saying he's not against sending your sons and daughters to die for some foreign county.....and you want to talk about what someone looks like peeing in the stall next to you? How about you go talk to real Americans about what they care about instead of trying to get everyone to hate the same people you hate."
Please do not miss this piece by Clint Bolick, an Arizona Supreme Court Justice, on how Republicans are trying to make it so that citizens cannot sue the government unless they can produce enormous sums of money in bonds first. Surreal stuff.— The UnPopulist (@theunpopulist.net) 2025-06-15T18:20:00.732Z
This is what Harris did and she still got tagged as more extreme. You have to join that battle and expose the opposite position as cruel and stupid
We may make the squeaking our ringtone— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) 2025-06-15T03:17:14.822Z I laughed so I’m sharing
It doesn't have to be a position of weakness. I feel like it becomes a position of weakness by liberals being scared of the conversation
The fact that Trump was able to win in a blow out with a vehemently anti trans platform should tell you all you need to know about that arena. Trying to counter that in this current climate is a losing game. We’re at the 1990 Eddie Murphy comedy special point of trans rights (where he drops homophobic slur after slur and nobody bats an eye). It will take gradual change - mostly by winning elections first and focusing on expanding inclusivity and rights after we have power
the problem with shitlibs like you is that you always want to acquiesce and concede ground to people that do not give a single fuck about your concessions. They are going to say what theyre going to say how about have a backbone and proudly stand behind what you believe. That is what actually inspires people to come out and vote for you. Not this timid well lets just frame things in a way that upsets the least amount of people and be wishy washy on what you actually believe.
All we need is another mismanaged global pandemic that kills a million (also during escalating racial tensions) for people to vote democrat
Lol bessent says our kids and grandkids will toil in factories their whole lives and chuds incinerate their retirements to self-sooth over trans panic
JB Pritzker: "And in the midst of this existential fight, this battle that seems to consume everything, well, let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am. We are. We will.
The gist of this post is excellent. Calling him a shitlib because of a well intended but misguided opinion is wholly unproductive. Everyone here is so eager to dunk on each other. Very few are bad actors. Theres no need to be this hostile and it doesnt help at all towards moving people who are close to the correct stance to your POV
Joe Biden won on trans inclusive Trump won with a transphobic campaign Several R senate candidates lost in swing states running on transphobia Logically it tells you that transphobia doesn't necessarily move the needle a lot. People should have definitely punished Trump for his transphobia but that's not at issue here. So just like uh support trans people because it's the right thing to do.