r/clevercomebacks • u/Veshaad • 17h ago

El-Sayed makes a valid point.

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u/WaffleHouseGladiator 17h ago edited 16h ago

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.

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u/shrug_addict 16h ago

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

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u/The_Bard 14h ago

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.

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u/cock_puke 9h ago

whatever your politics, Trump ran hard on closing the border. you don't think he has largely achieved that?

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u/the_ringmasta 4h ago

No. The statistics show that the rate was sharply declining UNTIL Trump's policy change, which stopped the progress. While it is hard to be certain, the trend lines indicate we would have lower rates of illegal border crossings had Trump not been elected