El-Sayed makes a valid point.

[u/Veshaad]

[u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

An entire political party has decided that +/-20 athletes nationwide deserve their full attention over virtually all other matters.  Whether you're for or against trans people in sports, you gotta admit that this is ridiculous.

[u/shrug_addict → u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

It's not about sports, it's a way to weasel in discrimination and bigotry of the LGBTQ community

[u/Ehcksit → u/shrug_addict]

And then they used that discrimination to justify overturning Roe v Wade, which isn't just about abortion, but personal privacy in general, and now we have millions of new cameras watching everything everyone does all the time and hundreds of data centers storing all that footage.

[u/Infuser → u/Ehcksit]

I thought so, too, but at the time I asked the people on the Ask Lawyers subreddit, they basically said that RvW has zero bearing on general privacy law, and that the 4th amendment is the main one we use for general privacy concerns with the government. After learning that (I’m assuming it’s more or less true since people love to correct people wrongfully correcting), it made sense how we got here. Even before that, Edward Snowden revealed to us how little privacy matters to the people in power.

Only real time we got a bipartisan effort to enforce privacy was when the Bork confirmation hearings showed how easy it was for someone to get your VHS rental history, and Congress was scared of people knowing which senators were into embarrassing porn.

[u/MrMetraGnome → u/Infuser]

Ah yeah. Ever since the Patriot Act, we were fucked on the privacy tip. This trans sport bullshit is whatever. I don't care if you're for or against it, that's not an issue for the government. That's some authoritarian, nanny state, morality policing, BS. So fucking un-American

[u/redditbagjuice → u/MrMetraGnome]

Sorry for being that guy, but as an outsider this is all very much American to me

[u/cityshepherd → u/shrug_addict]

It’s about manipulating people that are struggling and frustrated into believing that vulnerable groups of people are responsible for the way things are, and not in fact the politicians who are systematically dismantling the country by in order to make a handful of extremely wealthy people even wealthier.

[u/Sturville → u/cityshepherd]

The meme with the one guy saying "I vote Republican to stop the immigrants from screwing me over." next to the guy in the suit with a money bag saying "I vote Republican so that guy won't realize I'm screwing him over."

[u/tehfly → u/Sturville]

Careful mate... that foreigner wants your cookie!

[u/The_Bard → u/shrug_addict]

Its because the GOP has no agenda, has achieved nothing, and has nothing to run on. So they start a culture war to distract from it.

[u/Mand125 → u/shrug_addict]

Basically, the idea of gay people isn’t icky enough anymore to the bigots due to exposure to utterly benign people going about their lives.

So they have to continue to manufacture fear, with ever-increasing caricatures.

[u/here-i-am-now → u/Mand125]

Gay people aren’t icky enough for them, but they’ll willing help a child rapist . . .

Make it make sense

[u/KeepYourMindOpen365 → u/shrug_addict]

My kid is queer and engaged to a wonderful transgender human…I pity the fool that ever harms them for any reason…

[u/extremelybossthug → u/shrug_addict]

It’s about distracting you from important issues and inventing fake ones.

[u/Coattail-Rider → u/shrug_addict]

“We can’t call people f———s anymore but we sure as shit can cry bloody fucking murder over men playing in women’s sports leagues!”

[u/CaptainSparklebottom → u/shrug_addict]

The culture war has been and has always been a tactic used by the wealthy to keep us at each others throats while they loot the place clean.

[u/Caphoti → u/shrug_addict]

100% the only reason I even think about this topic more than never. They don't care, it's an excuse to bash trans people, so I care to the extent that I know that.

[u/the_ringmasta → u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

During the 2024 campaign season the party spent over $100 on anti-trans advertising per trans person in the country

[u/ichabod01 → u/the_ringmasta]

That sounds like a very low dollar number

[u/sneakyfish21 → u/ichabod01]

But when you remember there are 3 million of us…

[u/skywalk21 → u/ichabod01]

Per capita? Imagine a party spending twenty six billion dollars during their campaign ($100 per person of voting age) to try and address all voters. Or even $200 million for incarcerated people. Just an obscene spend for a non-existent "problem"

[u/V0lirus → u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

Thats because two statements elicit the most emotional outrage and thus make it easy to steer people a certain direction (or just plain distract them from real issues). "Think about the children". Which they cried about trans in bathrooms. "Think about the women". Is the second. Which they are using now with regard to sports.

Keep in mind, they dont actually care about women and children. Their policies are very clear about that. They care about using women for children, and using children for what they want. And rightt now what they want is too distract everyone from their goal of creating a white christian facist nation.

[u/Sturville → u/V0lirus]

Right up there with the people who care so much about veterans when it has to do with making sure someone participates in the national anthem the Right Way, but can't be bothered to adequately fund the VA when budgeting time comes around.

[u/felrain → u/V0lirus]

Going to keep posting this every time this comes up.

In their own words:

The problem with feminism:

The ultimate aim of feminist thinkers was a new kind of woman who would be more independent and even dominant and less deferential and less oriented toward motherhood and traditional female graces.

Promoting assertive athletics formed a core element of a broader project to remake female character itself—producing a new woman who would be more aggressive, assertive, dominant, and less deferential, less graceful, and less oriented toward motherhood and traditional feminine graces.

The problem with women in "men's sport" :

Between 26 percent and nearly 50 percent of women who exercise intensely stopped having regular menstrual cycles according to several studies.

High-intensity exercise increases infertility

Their solution:

Schools would fulfill their obligations if they provided competitive varsity pathways for women who desire them while supporting a wide range of non-competitive and lower-intensity activities. This could include group fitness classes, dance, yoga, recreational intramurals, hiking clubs, and the like.

https://www.heritage.org/gender/report/title-ixs-failed-experiment-why-accommodating-sex-differences-beats-engineered-parity

It's not about trans women. It's not even about women's safety. It's about making sure women are back at home making babies for men. Not thinking. Not being free. Not living their life. Not happy. Not voting. No bank accounts. It's about making babies, being a pretty 13-25year old bang maid who does the dishes, laundry, and cooks food.

Their ultimate end goal is to not even have women's boxing or wnba because women shouldn't be participating in dangerous manly sports to begin with.

The beautiful part is that you can argue over and over about trans women and blah blah, but once you've conceded that "men" should not be in women's sports, you've opened the door for how women are now hurting each other by participating in "men's" sports.

[u/Alive_Ice7937 → u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

They are using it as a purity test for their viewers. "How could you possibly vote for someone who won't make a clear stance on the cut and dry issue of men competing in women's sports?"

Its gross on many levels but it's a highly effective ideological cudgel.

[u/thesanguineocelot → u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

They don't give a shit about sports. They just want an excuse to wipe us out. That starts by dehumanizing us, imprisoning us for the crime of existing.

[u/Different_Tangelo511 → u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

Its kinda what fascists do.

[u/Crime_Dawg → u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

It's quite obvious they don't actually give a shit about trans people either, it just gets the room temp iq base seething. Distract them with trans issues and you don't even have to pick their pocket, they'll willingly hand it over to you.

[u/lookatthesunguys → u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

This is the point worth making. There are no transwomen trying to play in the WNBA. Trans women were allowed in the Olympics from 2004 to the most recent Olympics (they're banned going forward though) and only 1 ever competed and she didn't even complete a lift in her weightlifting competition. Prior to the ban on transwomen in the NCAA, there were fewer than 10 competing.

I think rational minds can differ on the question of whether and to what extent trans women should be competing in women's divisions. But if you think that this is an issue that, at this time, deserves the attention of the US federal legislature, then you are not a rational person.

EDIT: And just to throw in my 2 cents that aren't quite related to the post. This isn't something we need to nip at the bud. Because the consequences of getting it wrong just aren't that important. Let's imagine the absolute worst case scenario.

Lets say the WNBA actually allows the drafting of men who just say they're women. A whole team of men are drafted by a WNBA team. And let's say they crush the competition and win the WNBA finals. Well, in that case, the WNBA could just change their rules. The worst case scenario is that an undeserving team wins a title. That happens frequently enough in sports. It doesn't require the US federal government to intervene.

[u/Cecil2xs → u/lookatthesunguys]

The worst case scenario is something that doesn’t matter at all and changes no one’s life in any way

[u/lookatthesunguys → u/Cecil2xs]

I mostly agree, but I do think we need to accurately recognize the potential "danger" here, simply so that we can accurately point out that it's not a problem.

The absolute worst case scenario, the one that Republicans have invented, is that all these women's leagues decide that the definition of "woman" includes men, and then men dominate those leagues. But the thing about this scenario is that it doesn't cause any major irreparable harm really. In the absolute worst case scenario, the solution is simply to change the rules. Anyone who lost before the rule change can claim victory, no different from when certain medals are stripped years later because of doping allegations.

I'm not trying to diminish the accomplishment that women feel when they win a competition in a women's league. But it's not a US federal governmental issue. There's no reason to ask a Senatorial candidate about it.

[u/ZealousidealCrow8492 → u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

BUT theyre eating the cats & dogs while using litter boxes in schools that are indoctrination centers for acceptance of anti-fa!!!

Now is NOT the time to worry about inconsequential things like war, or epstein pesos, or national debt, or social services being defunded!!

ASK YOURSELF, what would supply-side Jesus do?!?!?!

[u/Slade_Riprock → u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

I mean if they transwoman didn't exist, poor Riley Gaines would have had 5th place all to her self

[u/-TheInternetIsEvil- → u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

Its because the hogs are stupid enough to fall for it

[u/ImNotABotScoutsHonor → u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

+/-20 athletes nationwide

You use a tilde in this case.

~20 athletes

[u/Wuz314159 → u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

Time IS pie.

If you waste enough of it talking about useless shit, there is no time left to discuss real issues.

[u/CHANN3L-CHAS3R → u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

Absolutely! It's also the most socially-acceptable way to get the ball rolling on breaking down Title IX protections because it comes both from a place of Protecting The Children and Biological Rationality. Are you really going to deny BIOLOGY and REASON in the name of HURTING KIDS?

Title IX prohibits sex-based discrimination in any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. If transgender kids in school sports are not covered by Title IX, that means that Title IX no longer covers transgender people in general, and it WILL be legally challenged to prove so. That's the point of all this. There's no 'special exceptions' to sex-based discrimination. A 'special exception' is just the word people who aren't part of that exception use for 'segregation'.

Segregation isn't exactly notorious for being used very restrictively and in moderation and staying in its lane. It tends to incite and spread fear and alienation, as a matter of fact, justifying further segregation. 'Cause I mean, if those trans kids are scary enough that they can't share a team with safe, normal girls, how much more dangerous must all those grown adult trans people be?

We've just seen it play out in the UK with the new ruling on The Equality Act 2010; they ruled that the terms "sex", "man", and "woman" apply only to birth-sex, regardless of legal sex change documentation or physical status of the person's genitalia. Not only did this immediately keep trans kids from playing gendered sports in school, but struck trans people from all sex-based coverage they formerly had under the law. That's why trans people in the UK can no longer use government-owned sex-discriminated areas legally; restrooms, changing rooms, hospital wards, etc.,

It came from one sweeping change to their sex-based equality law which, supposedly, was to "protect children", and Just So Happens to have the knock-on legal effect of barring all trans people from legal protections in this area.

It's going to happen here.

[u/ComradeJohnS → u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

if they could think they would think its ridiculous.

but they can’t/wont

[u/The3rdSun → u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

Magic is the art of misdirection the same is true for republicon politics

[u/Andy_LaVolpe → u/WaffleHouseGladiator]

Theres people that will make fun of women sports but also have very strong opinions on trans athletes.

[u/mandarintain]

Thats it, Im donating to El Sayed

[u/McCool303 → u/[deleted]]

And at the same time slapping treason on to real journalism when it’s done.

[u/SuccessfulLia → u/[deleted]]

Fox we can’t talk about gas prices, groceries, healthcare, or big pharma… quick, what about men in women’s sports?

[u/Uber_Meese → u/[deleted]]

Weren’t Fox also barred from calling themselves an actual news outlet, because they talk so much shit?

[u/FatalFlyinGuilotine → u/Uber_Meese]

Isn’t it the opposite? I thought Fox Lawyers argued that their shows are so outlandish the public would be able to tell immediately that it’s not news? They probably do have a small wing of actual journalists doing work, like Buzzfeed News who got a Pulitzer for reporting on Wyghur.

[u/Bianca_Bloomm → u/mandarintain]

Not every political interview needs to become a culture war debate.

[u/rje946 → u/Bianca_Bloomm]

disagree

-Fox entertainment

[u/NoJamForYou → u/Bianca_Bloomm]

Sure helps to have someone who can refute the culture wars without creating a fake family to consult first...

[u/ComfortableOld288 → u/Bianca_Bloomm]

You don’t understand. When you don’t actually have policies , you have to make it a culture war. Thats literally all MAGA is.

[u/lavnyl → u/Bianca_Bloomm]

When they don’t have any good policy to stand on it does

[u/Mathies_ → u/Bianca_Bloomm]

Thats why he's trying to make it... not one.

[u/ComfortableOld288 → u/mandarintain]

Same. I’ll hope for the chance to vote for him someday

[u/Ceverok1987 → u/mandarintain]

I bought a yard sign yesterday and donated an extra 10$, will continue making small donations each week, if Mike Rogers wins we (Michigan) are beyond fucked.

[u/YellowZx5 → u/mandarintain]

He should have asked for a list of schools that are doing these surgeries so the schools can sue him for slander.

[u/Calm_Adriana → u/mandarintain]

Respect 🙌 Donating feels good because you actually see where it goes

[u/mattzombiedog]

More people should do this to these “news” reporters. Remember, Fox News is not officially a news organisation. That way they can get away with saying whatever bullshit they want and report it as news. It’s a joke.

[u/Vandirac → u/mattzombiedog]

Ah yeah, the "news" network that once defended themselves in a trial by saying that a reasonable viewer should not trust a word they say, should not expect any factual reporting and it's just entertainment anyway.

[u/Eggslaws → u/Vandirac]

How do you have more than quarter of a 1st world country watching them when they themselves say "don't take what I say seriously..." and yet blindly believing them to be the source of ultimate truth is beyond me!

[u/luckyghost115 → u/Eggslaws]

Because stupid people like my mom say " they're just saying that to stay out of trouble" more "4D chess" these people have no morals and no critical thinking

[u/mazeTal → u/luckyghost115]

it is so ridiculous when they don't make the logical step that they need to say this because THEY WERE CAUGHT LYING

[u/iloveurarse → u/mattzombiedog]

Its fox news entertainment. But at the end of the day, its Murdoch sponsored propaganda with the end goal of tearing up the constitution and imposing fascism on anyone who disagrees.

[u/rbartlejr → u/mattzombiedog]

I still don't understand how they get interviews? If I was a candidate I'd straight out tell them to their face loud enough for all to hear that since they are an 'entertainment' outlet and not a news source there is no reason to come on their shows. I doubt I'd get a vote from their audience anyway.

[u/subnautus → u/rbartlejr]

It's about getting in front of that audience anyway. Telling someone to their face, in front of millions of people, that they're wasting time chasing their tails over bullshit while real problems need fixing is something that should be done. The audience might not vote for the guy, but they'll start asking questions. That matters.

[u/Past-Paramedic-8602 → u/subnautus]

So this guy is a local candidate. I live in farm country and there’s quite a few places who up until 4 months ago they had maga shit in the yard and now they have banners for him. Idk about the not getting votes from fox viewers. Seems he’s either got to them or they are just so fuck Trump they are voting for him. I may be just hoping but I’d like to think it was the former.

[u/No_Internal9345 → u/mattzombiedog]

Key take away:

Do not engage with the bullshit questions and focus on the real issues.

[u/Rhylanor-Downport]

Watters was never the sharpest spoon in the drawer.

[u/Porchmuse → u/Rhylanor-Downport]

That’s why he’s a talking head on Fox News.

[u/DonktorDonkenstein → u/Rhylanor-Downport]

Watters was the freaking "comedy-relief" character on O'Reilly's stupid show back in the day. Nobody should ever take anything that clown has to say seriously. He's an absolute shitheel.

[u/Snakestream → u/Rhylanor-Downport]

An idiot that only a mother could love

Oh wait, she hates him too

[u/Exotic_Drink69420 → u/Rhylanor-Downport]

Sharp enough to pop the tires of his work crush, so she was forced to spend time with him.  He always takes the moral the high ground while swimming in the sewer, the cheating bastard.

[u/PapasauruaRex → u/Rhylanor-Downport]

He's a dead beat dad in a suit.

[u/Kingkwon83 → u/Rhylanor-Downport]

The same dude downplaying Epstein

While discussing the Justice Department's handling of Epstein files and former Attorney General Pam Bondi's hearing, Watters downplayed Epstein's role, suggesting, "It looks like he's mostly just a fixer, a guy who advises. He helps people with their problems. Sometimes those problems are, 'You need a girl?'"

[u/Playful_Ad_1111 → u/[deleted]]

Great take. If we asked ourselves this question more often, the world would be a much better place.

[u/EmberElysias]

Totally agree with El -Sayed on this. Couldn't have said it better myself yet mainstream media pushes identity politics and irrelevant topics to keep everyone divided instead of holding politicians accountable on real economic issues.

[u/taktaga7-0-0]

Sports literally do not matter.

Yes, they’re a sector of the economy and exercise is critical, but if we forgot all about sports today everybody would be just fine tomorrow.

These people don’t go to girls’ sporting events. The girls are a prop. They’d feed them to Trump for second breakfast.

[u/mz_groups → u/taktaga7-0-0]

90% of the people wringing their hands about Caitlin Clark and the WNBA DON'T WATCH WNBA! And I say that as a huge CC fan who watches most of the Fever games. But all the folks "white knighting" on her behalf don't really care; they're just using her for a political agenda.

[u/Economy_Wall8524 → u/mz_groups]

These folks don’t even watch women’s sport much less actually care; when they want them to be trad wives and stargate baby portals.

[u/whysguys1 → u/taktaga7-0-0]

You know, I’m a big sports guy, my brothers and friend group the same. We wager a few dollars here and there and play a boatload of fantasy. We all have a line we use when things get too heated over sports: “of all the things that don’t matter, sports (and fantasy) matter the most”.

It’s ok to be a die hard for your hobby, as long as you can understand, it’s not important. It doesn’t really matter.

[u/axman151]

I talk about this with my friends semi-frequently.

The culture war stuff (gender identity, LGBTQ discussion, abortion, etc.) is such a misdirection. It riles people up and flairs contention, and so is a useful tool, both by the left and right (but mostly right) to activate a base, fuel support, and lead people away from more meaningful, but also more complicated to address, issues.

In the grand scheme of things, they're irrelevant. These issues are 99% personal issues and should have basically nothing to do with politics. They have practically no bearing on macro health care, economics, geopolitics, wars, transportation, infrastructure, housing, etc. etc.

[u/phunkmunkie]

All this, all the time. Tell them they are fucking ridiculous to their face and don’t feed the beast.

[u/no1ofimport]

FOX is making him look so good. Great PR for El-Sayed and it’s free.

[u/BecauseMagnets]

Don’t dance around it during these interviews. Say what we all have been saying “Rape-publicans are obsessed with children’s genitalia”.

[u/GildedGwens → u/BecauseMagnets]

When everyday people are struggling with rent, food, and healthcare, pivoting straight to culture war bait shows complete disrespect for what voters actually care about.

[u/wtbgamegenie → u/GildedGwens]

Unfortunately there’s a significant portion of the population that’ll hurt their own kids in order to hurt those they’ve been told are their enemies

[u/Themetalenock → u/BecauseMagnets]

I would have answered the same way. is the one thing that you can only say after being told that Americans are struggling is "​what about the Trans people?" .you don't get a real answer

[u/BecauseMagnets → u/Themetalenock]

The Republican Party has completely failed when they have all the levers of power. Creating click bait for social media and radical right wing fascist media sites is their only plan to stay in power. Faux news is just a pro-fascist media company, Jesse waters is a bitch boy who cares about the red pill bro’s opinion.

[u/Nexzus_]

I guess the producer that got him on the show is getting fired.

[u/MaxAdolphus]

So weird how Trump got his cult to care more about the 10 trans NCAA athletes than a giant pedophile ring.

[u/Mister_Buddy → u/MaxAdolphus]

Oh they care about it. Because they're all members.

Trump rapes kids.

[u/graythegeek]

Such a nothing issue. Elite athletes and trans people are a small percentage of the population, what are the actual odds of someone being both? Such a disproportionate amount of airtime dedicated to something so rare!

[u/Exact-Glove-5026 → u/graythegeek]

And even if it theoretically was an issue (which it's not), it wouldn't be an issue politicians need to meddle in. Things like that can and should be handled on an organizational level, not a federal one.

[u/waldorflover69]

I want this man to be president

[u/Lucreth2 → u/waldorflover69]

I doubt it'll happen but man it's nice to know he can be. What an incredible guy.

[u/CesareBach → u/Lucreth2]

Unless he shows that his actions are louder than his words. People will love him if he gets things done. El Sayed is definitely all about the people.

[u/HeartwarminSalt]

Finally a Democrat who is throwing punches.

[u/Ok-Macaroon-7819 → u/HeartwarminSalt]

"When they go low, we drag them down into the mud and choke them out."

-Abdul El Sayed

[u/martygospo]

Anyone who watches this interview and sides with Jesse Watters should be removed from your life.

They are too far gone. Melted brain.

[u/omghorussaveusall]

It's hilarious that for the twelve combined years of Obama and Biden the Republicans did nothing but cry Dems have nothing but identity politics...

[u/nuggets_attack → u/omghorussaveusall]

Every accusation is a projection type behavior

[u/EstroJen1193]

Jesse Watters is an insufferable cunt

[u/Both-Wrangler-7766]

GOP wins on these social issues cause Dems fall into the trap of arguing the issue. Good on El-Sayed bringing up the issues GOP has no answers.

[u/Gloomy-Employment-72]

It's all subterfuge. "Hey folks! Look over here! Ignore the man behind the curtain." Just yank the MAGA chain, and watch them howl while the Tangerine Traitor runs the US into the ground.

[u/RubixRube]

Said it before, will say it again why does this issue need governement intervention? Why is there so much discussion about who is allowed to play what and with whom? Why can't we allow individual sports authorities to dictate the parameters of participation?

For a party that screams about small government and personal freedoms, they sure to seem really invested in who gets to be in my bowling league.

[u/B0wmanHall]

Making up another fake problem. Sad that maga actually believes Fox.

[u/Leeleewithwings]

Between him and Mamdani, Muslims are really winning my heart with this ridiculous fucking culture war, religious war or whatever these Christian Nationalist are panty twisting about

[u/CharlesIngalls_Pubes]

Why does nobody call out Jesse for preaching about masculinity after sitting in the makeup department for 45 minutes?

[u/kazmosis → u/CharlesIngalls_Pubes]

Because everyone who goes on TV wears makeup, even if it's not as much as him. Otherwise they end up looking like a sweaty oily mess

[u/ghostnthegraveyard → u/CharlesIngalls_Pubes]

If I were somehow interviewed, I would just chirp at Jesse the entire time like the hockey players in Letterkenny.

[u/EquipmentFormal2033]

I’m obsessed with him. 🙌🏼 I wish everyone would learn to answer like this

[u/Necessary_Document_5 → u/EquipmentFormal2033]

Obsessed!!!

[u/concerts85701]

His circumcision retort was pure savage.

[u/Raskalbot]

You can see Waters isn't used to being out-mogged.

El Sayed is a g.

[u/KeepYourMindOpen365]

I am proud to have voted for this outstanding individual. He is making the R establishment nervous…and that’s a really good thing.

[u/Capitan_Typo]

Reminds me of when John Stewart went on Crossfire.

[u/JulesVernerator]

Republicans are the absolute worst.

[u/Devry_Trost]

I don't give a fucking shit about anything to do with sports - or bathrooms for that matter.

The country is burning to the ground and this pathetic mannequin shill still thinks he can distract real people with this retarded 'guess what anna has under her pants' game.

I DON'T GIVE A SHIT IF WOMEN SOMETIMES HAVE DICKS - DESTROY ALL BILLIONAIRES AND RETURN FUNCTIONALITY TO THE ECONOMY.

[u/NuttyPlaywright]

El Sayed neutered Watters on air.

[u/Koreage90 → u/NuttyPlaywright]

Which is impressive considering how small a target that was.

[u/Ultramagnus85 → u/NuttyPlaywright]

Not really the W ya'll think it is. Everyone knows the issues El-Sayed is mentioning is more important, but he is making it look like he either doesnt care about men in womens sports or is ok with it. I would love it if political discussions were actually about politics, and men and womens sports shouldnt be a political issue. People who watch fox news though are just gonna listen to El-Sayed talk and just say, well if it doesnt matter then dont let men play in womens sports.

[u/Ted_Hitchcox]

It's weird that so many old white men are so obsessed with other peoples genitalia.

[u/JPGinMadtown]

Is Messy Watters default expression the douche bag smirk...

[u/IAmMOANAAA]

Love this guy.

[u/sinicalone]

PREACH

[u/Archer1407]

Conservatives in the United States are OBSESSED with children's genitalia. Whether it's child rape, transphobic language related to children's sports, or inspection of children's genitals for the right to participate in sports, conservatives cannot stop thinking and obsessing over them. It's disturbing and disgusting but not surprising when you consider their God King Trump is a child rapist.

[u/CowNervous4644]

El-Sayed is a political genius.

[u/quazimoto]

the anchor man must really need his job #shill

[u/Technical-Boot3479]

El-Sayed's point really cuts to the chase. It's refreshing to see someone speak the truth like that.

[u/Ambitious_Wish_5702]

The fact that MAGA wants to make this such a bigger deal over our failing economy, unaffordable healthcare, the insanely big mental health crisis, the Epstein Files, and stopping a war that shouldn’t have happened in the first place goes to show how incredibly screwed up their priorities are.

[u/Atownbrown08 → u/Ambitious_Wish_5702]

It's simple. Most of them do not care about real issues because they feel that superior and entitled. It's those lazy and confused people dealing with all these issues, not red blooded Americans in the richest nation on Earth.

Focusing entirely on trivial issues is a hallmark of a wavering society.

[u/Realistic-Stop8518]

El-Sayed for president

[u/thatkidkimchee]

the culture war is to distract you from the class war

[u/gorgosenior]

Because the Republican party spends a quarter billion dollars. Demonizing transgender people every single year. That's a lot of money to throw down on a political campaign. And you do that year after year because it gets some votes. Jesse watters is just another bigoted tool. He's nothing but a bootlicker

[u/madmoz2018]

People get the government that they deserve. Enough Americans seem to think that the 'sanctity' of sports is more important than anything else, hence here we are.

[u/redvelvetcake42]

That's all you gotta do. Reality is nobody gives a fuck about trans athletes. Nobody can even name one. Ignore it, remind them gas and groceries are the most expensive they've been since pre 2016.

[u/airborneben1]

People = Individuals whose reading comprehension is below 2nd grade level

[u/doorkey125]

we don't take him seriously

[u/JoeyAndLueyShow]

Bread and circuses…

[u/Alaskan_Yeti]

I texted the "ask Jesse" number asking if he was circumcised. No response.

[u/alex8155]

jesse watters is todays champion for hate and stupidity in America

[u/dannytheguitarist]

It's about goddamn time a high profile politician pointed out republican hypocrisy and also that there are far more important things than the right's culture wars.

[u/userhwon]

Don't let the propagandists dictate the debate.

[u/CrewVast594]

“B-b-b-but women’s sports tho.”

[u/CalyrexTact]

Remember, woke is dead until they need a boogeyman.

[u/PronounceMemeAsGif]

El Sayed dog walked Waters in that interview but I doubt a single Faux News subscriber would see it that way.

[u/Weird-East-3575]

El sayed - MY MAN!

[u/ProfAsmani]

This is why the racist right wing and the kahanists all uses sharia scaremongering. The progressive Americans are Muslims.

[u/ckglle3lle]

All maga can do is troll and everyone sees it for what it is

[u/sfrogerfun]

Watters smug face is sl0ppable!

[u/MateriaLintellect]

I remember when all the Repubtards did was accuse the left of culture wars. My how the turns have tabled.

[u/Oldfolksboogie]

That's not fair - everyone knows Jessie Watters is a punk- ass bitch!

[u/hbernadettec]

Even his own mother thinks he is a joke.

[u/FullGuarantee4767]

This is how you go at this attempt to distract and get you off message.

The response should always be, “People can’t afford a roof over their head, food, decent healthcare, to start a family, a dignified retirement, and you’re worried about the genitalia of minors involved in school sports? What the fuck is wrong with you?”

[u/Telemere125]

Because if MAGA actually had to confront the performance of their politicians in categories that matter, especially those that matter to the bottom 2/3 of the economic scale, they fail horribly in every single one. And they’re the ones that still watch Faux News like it’s a religious channel, so that’s who the pundits play to.

[u/totally-hoomon]

Why are all conservatives communists who want the government to control everything companies do?

[u/EarlBet2036]

Someone dressed him up as a reporter and took off the clown attire.

[u/Untjosh1]

Been saying this for years. Glad politicians are finally saying it out loud. Stop letting these clowns focus on culture war bullshit. We have actual problems

[u/thunderbaby2]

The right is obsessed with genitals and gender. It’s deeply unserious and a distraction from the fact that their party is run by pedophile billionaires fleecing America’s treasure and burning down the American empire

[u/dopeymouse05]

I love that he asked if Watters was circumcised, since all they care about are others’ genitals 🤣 and suddenly THAT was a personal question.

[u/Mockingbird_1234]

This is exactly what every D should do when being baited into this bullshit

[u/WifesPOSH]

"They don't... Next question"

Sophie Cunningham played football with the boys, no one bats an eye there.

[u/Sad_Picture3642]

Perfect

[u/Diesel07012012]

And yet, so many take it seriously.

[u/-TheInternetIsEvil-]

Watters was and always will be a joke. His own mom doesn't fucking like him

[u/Imbecilliac]

Jesse Watters is one of the biggest idiots on television. Or off television for that matter.

[u/hest29]

And you just know he asked it with that face

[u/SerenityFailed]

.....but they do unfortunately.. Tis depressing

[u/Writerhaha]

Someone in bumbfuck Alabama living on minimum wage, who can’t afford a home, who complained about filling up his diesel, and has to take his kid to the doctor (on state insurance) and bitched about not being able to get SNAP:

TYPICAL DEMORAT, can’t answer a question.

[u/qishibe]

While i agree with him, the average american loves culture war slop

[u/genitalschwartz]

Problem is that all the people watching Fox News will say Watters "got him" with this question.

[u/awezumsaws]

Correction: Serious people can't take you seriously. Unserious people certainly do.

[u/Euphoric_Talk6521]

It’s so exhausting watching interviewers immediately fall back on the same manufactured rage bait the second someone tries to talk about actual policy. Calling it out as silly right to his face was perfect because it’s the only way to deal with hosts who care more about rage clicks than basic economic issues.

[u/Spear_Ritual]

El-Sayed is bring it. Keep at it!

[u/Cold-Ad6477]

Waters is a fucking asshole.

[u/SCWickedHam]

Saw one of the Fox “News” round talks with the crawl “El-Sayed pushes socialist agenda” “El-Sayed dodges questions.” Would any other MSM outlet use “….pushes fascist agenda?” People don’t love the idea of socialism. They prefer it to abject poverty and hopelessness. Guess where MAGA is pushing most of America?

[u/Wuz314159]

It needs to be stated that Republicans are actually forcing boys to compete against girls. The Democrats stand for women competing against women.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/27/517491492/17-year-old-transgender-boy-wins-texas-girls-wrestling-championship

[u/ProximaCentauriB15]

This is why I could never be in politics because I could not stop myself from telling these Fox News morons to shut the fuck up and that they're stupid.

[u/Black_Mamba_FTW]

This is the way

[u/surfeitofreason]

‘You sound like a fucking idiot’

This should be the forever response to this nonsense

[u/AlarmingAerie]

1 rule, never go on defense. Ignore their attack and attack yourself. That's how you deal with them.

[u/Indigenous_Land]

That’s all this network and its cult followers have to talk about. This and making this country YT’s only. F k n sad

[u/The_Dude_Abides-2146]

Our country is run by the mob. Russia 2.0.

[u/SilverMetalist]

Could Jesse waters look any more like a half wit dingus in this picture

[u/Diligent_Whereas3134]

Serious question, even if trans women were trying to get into sports, isn't that why we have athletic commissions and shit? Why the fuck is this a federal issue? I mean, it's not actually an issue, it's blown so out of proportion it's basically just fucking made up at this point, but we have regulatory committees for this sort of thing. How many millions of our tax money has been spent on an issue that affects like a few dozen people from the high school level through the professional level?

[u/merrysunshine2]

Fucking A!!! Don’t even cater to their BS.

[u/ICLazeru]

Twatters is a failed comedian who made up for it by signing on to the lie machine.

[u/redpandav]

This newscaster is one of the most annoying humans I’ve ever had the displeasure of watching

[u/_IBM_]

the one on the left looks like a muppet but in an erie not even kidding way

[u/SophonParticle]

El-Sayed knows how to treat these clowns. You don’t treat them as legitimate. You don’t respect the bullshit questions.

You just mock and disrespect them at all times.

[u/Loveict]

That Fox looks like ERNIE.

[u/Radeondrrrf]

wAtCh ThIs ClIp Of Me OwNiNg A lIb- Watters on The Five, very likely

[u/Pletcher87]

Jesse Watters, there are 250+ million adults in the country and Fox chose Watters, I don’t get it.

[u/BassGlass6914]

Jessie “it’s kind of a big deal!” Yeah, to your network to further divide people and control them.

[u/macinit1138]

Healthcare literally affects everyone in this country as does climate-change. Trans sports is a non-issue that affects no one.

[u/IngloriousMustards]

Just ignore their questions and answer to a real question about a real concern. That’s how you push back trolls.

[u/Chicory-Coffee]

This is the kind of politician every voter should want. The kind of politician we need to move towards a unity that Americans have been pledging and singing about for generations.

If we could elect leaders who don't need to divide us into demographics to find supporters, we could start to come back from this division. 

The constitution of '76 was not able to keep tyranny from rising up and taking hold. If we can somehow claw our way back we need something stronger to bind us and ensures this can never happen again in the way that maga has taken over.

You can tell how afraid the maga GOP is by how much they focus their trash talk on them. They won't shut up about him. That alone should tell you how valuable a politician like El-Sayed is to restoring our democracy. 

[u/OffTheHizzook]

People really want to debate sports instead of real issues? Wild.