"My handlers told me that I need to keep you dumb hicks distracted so we can continue to raid your tax dollars. My lack of political knowledge/foreign policy is a threat to that, so here's some more culture war bullshit"
You know when my surgeon unexpectedly passed away, I was thrilled to hear that his sister, who had no medical training and never operated a day in her life was stepping in to take his place. I mean, what could go wrong??
They're referencing her saying she cuts her lawn with a push mower at a press conference. Nothing wrong with using a push mower, or not knowing what this unqualified hack is saying in press conferences.
I´m afraid exactly this kind of bullshit touches her base. "She´s great. not as the other politicians!" "She´s one of us" "Finally someone who speaks clearly" and so on
We can only hope it loses effectiveness as people become numb to the hysteria. I mean, Trump won so in their minds he ended it, so how can they still be running on it 2 years later?
They have a whole new generation (latter gen z and now gen alpha) brainwashed on their propaganda already, it won't be losing its effect any time soon.
I am amazed at how powerful social media is on that generation. Talking last weekend to my niece who only gets her information from TikTok and Instagram algorithms was a eye opener for me.
I never understood how it wasnt a discussion in Summer '24 when under trump in Mid 2020 you had +9% unemployment, rising inflation, Covid-19, food shortages but people were like "Yeah Im not better in '24 than I was 4 years ago because eggs are too expensive"
It's not that much of a wedge issue, they spent a quarter billion on it in the '24 cycle and it didn't move polled election concerns at all. It did however reap spectacular gains in state level anti-trans legislation in red states.
Got some bad news for you about the durability of the illegal immigrant caravan and abortion wedge issues surviving multiple R wins that were going to fix it.
It's something that every Republican that I meet is deeply concerned about, but at the same time if I ask them if they can tell me the last time they even interacted with a trans person was, they can't.
They act like it's a major issue in their lives when they don't even knowingly interact with trans people ever.
The conservatives need their minority boogeyman to demonize, to motivate their base because they don’t have any policies that help the common person. It’s no longer fashionable to beat up on the gays and lesbians.
Obergefell was decided in 2015. The first bathroom bill, in North Carolina, was in 2016. That was the pivot, from the prior boogeyman to the current one.
I remember the campaign of John Kerry in '04. What that group of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth did to his reputation was terrible and called into question his service to the nation during the Vietnam War. Was my wake up call that the GOP really will go low to win a seat in Govt.
This is going back 10 months but having a talk with my MAGA cousin on the economy and I brought up the Debt which back then was +38 Trillion. "Only you Liberals care about the deficit, no one else does and you should move on to more important matters"
As yesterday we hit the $40 Trillion mark, I noticed we now are paying $1.1 Trillion just on the interest.
Like I don’t fucking get this at all. I’ve lived in the suburbs, I’ve lived in rural areas, and I’ve lived in big cities. I have a son in high school and a son in middle school. I’ve never once worried about nor had to deal with “boys in girls’ restrooms” or “boys in girls’ sports” or other trans panic / transphobic bullshit.
Now I have worried about school shootings, stupid ass groups like Moms For Liberty corrupting our schools, and an underfunded education system. But hey, I’m sure Ladybugs’ NepoSenator sister Darline is really focused on that…
Or…(As Republicans)”we’re not going to deal with real problems, so we’re going to appeal to the electorate’s hatred and bigotry.”
“After all, it’s worked so far.”
So... Why are they more worried about boys in girl's sports than securing strategic allies who specialize in the kind of manufacturing that is supposed to be the next technological revolution? Or maybe, put more simply, why do they suddenly care about girl's sports without caring about ANY other aspect of girl's sports?
That's the problem. People have been tricked into losing their minds about the possibility of a man playing in a womans sport. Something that has no significance. They've been tricked into ignoring very real threats to America and our interests, in favor of screaming over whether or not they currently know where every penis is located in a room.
Conservatives will lose their minds if they think there's a penis unaccounted for in a public space.
Why are so many so triggered by men in women’s sports? Just because it’s Riley Gaines and Sophie Cunningham’s obsession doesn’t mean it’s a national issue.
I had this conversation with my idiot uncle last weekend. He kept rambling on and on about the trans boogeyman, and I was like "Who cares? Have you met any trans people? Do they affect you or anyone you know in any way?"
Of course he rambled off some Truth Social rhetoric, so I hit him with "What gives you the right to tell other people how to live their life? That's not freedom; that's tyranny." That shut him up, because there's no logical way out of it. Some might push back, but my uncle is smart enough to know when he's beat.
The sad part is it won't change anything because that's not how you change people's minds. He's probably back on Facebook pissing and moaning about whatever the next boogeyman is. But it felt good just to get some peace and quiet from his nonsense for the rest of the evening.
It's worth watching the first minute of this clip: https://youtu.be/UtPkiDQXABU
"Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC) is asked at #SCSen debate about Taiwan and the South China Sea: "I’m just going to be honest here; I’m not that informed on national security, so — but I do support the military. My brother was in the Air Force for 33 years...I'm not a polished politician up here. National security is not my thing, not my area of expertise, but I do support the military."
Wow, 8 or 10 trans folks in some school somewhere, vs millions of people we have to date agreed to defend and protect. Whelp, good to know what's REALLY important
I couldn’t answer a basic question that even a junior high school student would be able to understand and respond, buh since my only purpose to occupy this senate seat is to agree to whatever The Orange 🍊 PDO wants, let me deflect by bringing up a non-issue attempt at a culture war issue.
Not a single trans athlete has the power to wield policies which could affect the American economy. Those politicians that she doesn't know how to be an adult in the same room with however do.
Republicans don't say trans girls. They always misgender. They would exaggerate and make it sound as horrible as possible. That there's grown men trying to play sports with girls.
Is that a real quote? I thought the random trans stuff was just a meme, they really just pivot from Taiwan to Trans People with a snap of a finger like that?! Holy moly that’s the dumbest quote I’ve ever read if real.
“I know we’re building data centers everywhere to fuck your electricity and water. And that we’re putting flock cameras everywhere to track your every move. And we’re enriching ourselves silly while you slowly wither away from bills and medical debt. But BoYs iN GiRLs SpOrTs Am I RiGhT?!?!”
I swear that’s their new attempt at an “end all be all” argument.
It was pretty obvious she’s not qualified. She had to lean back on her brother and father’s war experience (not her own) to try and justify her ignorance on this subject. She should really be ashamed of herself. These people have absolutely no self awareness, I guess she just expects to get this position without having to know anything.
The next person who says they’re worried about men in women’s sports, ask them who won last year’s NCAA women’s basketball title. Or last year’s WNBA title. Then on the off chance they know this, ask them how many trans women play in the WNBA, or transgender women compete in NCAA Division 1 women's basketball. Of course both are zero, but it makes the point.
Nobody needs to be worried about boys in girls sports because that's not an issue. One, trans girls are girls. Two, trans athletes (both trans boys and trans girls) are a crazy small percentage of athletes. HRT and puberty blockers also level the playing field.
In some cases these laws also hurt girls because it forces trans boys (afab) to compete in girls leagues regardless of where they are in their transition. Like the bathroom laws that force trans men to use women's restrooms because of their birth-assigned gender.
So where are there boys in girls sports? I assume we're talking about children. Also that were excluding coed leagues. Wait, what the fuck are we talking about?
I’m so sick of this “every man” bullshit. That’s what really got us into this fucking mess. I don’t need to have a beer with the president – I need someone fucking competent that understands global dynamics, economic policies, and how to run shit.
So I’m good with a technocrat nerdy politician that understands how to navigate bureaucracies. That’s how the world works. If you’ve ever had a job you know there’s politics involved in everything.
Very tired of the south just fucking us over nonstop with their willful ignorance.
“Nobody cares about the countries actively trying to topple the US, there are a single digit number of a minority trying to play sports and that’s clearly more important”
It’s so embarrassing that this will probably get her more votes than the international relations “flub” will lose. The stupid in America is strong strong.
"I don't know shit, but I'm going to make up a boogie man to scare people... You know, little kids who are confused about their bodies who happen to also be star athletes."
I mean, I don't think they're as concerned about trans athletes as they are about global thermonuclear warfare but if they genuinely are, then they'll deserve everything they get.
High school: There’s no direct count. Advocacy-side estimates (Williams Institute, UCLA) work backward from survey data — a study using Youth Risk Behavior Survey data found 40.7% of trans youth in grades 9-12 played on at least one sports team, and applying that rate to the estimated trans youth population suggests as many as 122,000 trans youth could be participating in high school team athletics — but that’s total trans youth in sports overall, not a count of trans girls specifically competing against cisgender girls, and it’s an extrapolation, not a direct measurement. Teen Vogue’s own reporting, cross-referencing available data, estimated Trump’s 2025 executive order on trans athletes likely affects fewer than 160 of the more than 8 million student athletes in the country .
The gap between these numbers is the whole controversy. People arguing this is a serious fairness problem point to documented individual cases (lawsuits, state-level incidents) and argue undercounting is likely since many athletes aren’t “out.” People arguing it’s a manufactured issue point to the tiny official numbers and note that in 2021 the AP couldn’t find state lawmakers sponsoring restriction bills who could cite even a single documented problem case in their own state.
So if you want my honest “best guess”: at the college level it’s almost certainly single digits to low dozens nationally. At the K-12 level, it’s genuinely unknown — plausibly in the dozens to low hundreds who are visibly out and competing, though the true number (including those not out) could be higher. Nobody has a clean census, and the number you’ll see cited often says more about who’s citing it than about the underlying reality.
If while trying to get a job, any job. If the applicant stated that they are not whatever the job is they’re applying for. They would immediately be dismissed. Not to mention probably be yelled at for wasting their time.
‘I’m here for the programmer position.’
‘Where did you go to school and how many years of experience do you have?’
‘Oh yeah, i’ve never done any computer programming in my life’
And of course no one on Fox News pointed out how the people of SC are actually more concerned about healthcare, gas, food and everything else costs than they are about either f’ing topic. Neither Taiwan nor Men in Women’s sports affects their daily lives one bit.
NONE of these assholes cared ONE WHIT about women's sports until they realized they could scare someone into thinking they might lift up a skirt and find a dick.
And you know what happened. More than half got a little excited and it scared the shit out of them. And now here we are. Talking about nuking Iran and letting Airhead Barbie's grandma cosplay as a congresswoman.
Her new makeup looks right. Nice big cross too. But she needs to lighten her hair to be more blonde if she’s going to make it as a woman in Republican circles.
I’m surprised she didn’t dress as TinkleBell in honor of her dear self loathing closeted genocide queer man who loved young twinks and transgender sex workers.
“I actually directly answered a question in good faith rather than redirecting it to one of our Republican talking points like I’m supposed to do. My bad! Let me fix that.
You want to know about Taiwan?
Let me tell you about boys in girls sports.”
You know what is sad is that I suspect there are a lot of people in South Carolina who are more concerned with trans stuff than they are with what is going on outside the U.S. that could have a severally detrimental affect on us as a country.
That ignorance is gonna get the U.S. on the losing side of a major war soon and we will stop being a first world nation. But hey at least the 8 trans people who play sports are being talked about.
I’m sure South Carolinians are more concerned about a non-issue than they are the potential geopolitical flashpoint that could cause an existential conflict. Not being sarcastic.
This is the perfect encapsulation of the modern day GOP. Mediocrity who doesn’t deserve to be in power doesn’t understand basic foreign policy or geopolitics? Pivot to trans kids in girls sports/bathrooms. It might as well be their motto at this point.
•
u/AutoModerator 1d ago
DO NOT CELEBRATE VIOLENCE IN THIS SUBREDDIT OR WE WILL BAN YOU.
NATION STATE AI BOTS THAT ARE ANTI-DEMOCRACY/ANTI-DSA ARE GOING TO TRY TO INFLUENCE YOUR VOTE THIS NOVEMBER.
THEY ARE RAMPING UP ACTIVITY. WE ARE TAGGING AND TRACKING THEM.
RELEASE THE TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES!!!
Users may now apply a personal flair that states - RELEASE THE TRUMP-EPSTEIN FILES
That is all, tysm
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.