I won’t lie and say that I would pick a proactive fight on trans sports with Trump as a Dem elected, I wouldn’t and I wouldn’t advise an elected to do so if that was my job, but that’s separate from ‘capitulate’, there are other options, man. Disappointing from Gavin. - ThreadSky

opinionhaver.bsky.social • 7 days ago

I won’t lie and say that I would pick a proactive fight on trans sports with Trump as a Dem elected, I wouldn’t and I wouldn’t advise an elected to do so if that was my job, but that’s separate from ‘capitulate’, there are other options, man. Disappointing from Gavin.

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timovee.bsky.social•7 days ago

Agreed. We need to fight the culture war on economic turf. Argue that it is immoral, even equivalent to violent, that billionaires to take actions that harm us just to increase their net worth. And hammer it home that the Republican Party is their weapon of choice.

mpbx3003.bsky.social•7 days ago

"The Republicans want to spend your tax dollars to stop little kids having fun in sports and inspect their private parts instead of making sure they have lunch."

timovee.bsky.social•7 days ago

While 100% true, it’s just not a winning message. We gotta win.

mpbx3003.bsky.social•7 days ago

Preemptively capitulating, no less.

Like, there was nothing specific prompting it, right?

opinionhaver.bsky.social•7 days ago

No Trump posted about it like a day ago

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mpbx3003.bsky.social•7 days ago

Ah. There's so many of those I miss because I can't spend fifteen hours a day tracking all of the insane things and rely on secondary posting.

publicuniversal.bsky.social•7 days ago

Why are you letting him do the one thing he’s good at (Governance by Postijg)

williameasley.bsky.social•7 days ago

So far it doesn’t seem like anyone has done so proactively. In large part trans people have been able to participate in school sports and now we have the feds trying to crack down on it and then they lose in court. Seems like it is pretty safe ground to fight on

aaronsofaer.bsky.social•7 days ago

Maine picked the fight and kicked Trump's ass about it, so I don't see why anyone *wouldn't* other than the fact that Newsom is a transphobic asshole.

hdthoreauaway.bsky.social•7 days ago

I was told that I shouldn’t throw him under the bus because Newsom has signed into law a bunch of protections for trans people. Which is great that he did that, but makes the heel turn worse if he’s trying to now throw trans people under the bus. Like, make it make sense.

franceslarina.bsky.social•7 days ago

He was good. Now he's not.

aaronsofaer.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yeah he's making a heel turn for whatever reasons.

hdthoreauaway.bsky.social•6 days ago

And it’s completely unnecessary.
Total bullshit.

koubitz.bsky.social•7 days ago

Honestly trans sports is such a weaker argument to defend from than letting adults have access to hormones/dress the way they want. Dems need to push the offense to fight on issues that are optical Ws. Aggressively push Reps into a corner to have to defend stupid shit that nobody likes.

quantian.bsky.social•7 days ago

The core issue here is "completely destroy the economy of California because of one (1) trans athlete" is not something even a deranged transphobe would think is an appropriate response, but it *is* something "someone who wants to destroy the economy of California and needs an excuse" would think.

cleanwindows.bsky.social•7 days ago

its both. also deranged transphobes would absolutely think that is appropriate.

quantian.bsky.social•7 days ago

Sorry for sounding like a broken record on this but "listen to what your enemies are repeatedly saying in public their plan is and calibrate your reaction accordingly" should not be some kind of esoteric skill only available to the gigabrained.

thisisbenphelps.bsky.social•7 days ago

Newsom is not the leader California needs but he’s the leader we deserve

how-are-u.bsky.social•6 days ago

Disgusting, Newsome can't get away with this.

thisisbenphelps.bsky.social•7 days ago

He’s a weak piece of shit and his posturing conveys that message

bradleyewing.bsky.social•7 days ago

*7th place Iowa finish intensifies*

nanzhounoodles.bsky.social•7 days ago

I probably would advise that for someone who governs California, though.

overrrrrrr.bsky.social•7 days ago

i particularly feel like newsom walked into this one. he made the statement against trans women in sports, now trump can hold his feet to the fire and test if he really means it. how did this man even get this far with such horrendous political instincts

opinionhaver.bsky.social•7 days ago

Does and doesn’t matter: The policy stakes are small because it’s fucking high school sports, an asinine thing to be a national political issue in the first place, but rolling over for Trump and showing your belly for Trump as the governor of California isn’t.

369enthusiast.bsky.social•7 days ago

i feel like adams deciding to pin NYC's problems on immigrants was an important turning point in the vibe shifting for the worse

snoozebuttonben.bsky.social•7 days ago

The correct response here is to say get a fucking life dude.

jroberts548.bsky.social•7 days ago

I think the right sees it as a lever they can use against qtrans people, lgbtq people, and everyone who benefits from the fourteenth amendment.

Caving raises the salience by conceding there’s a problem; standing your ground may also
raise the salience but at least you don’t look like a chicken.

jroberts548.bsky.social•7 days ago

For the girl at issue, she’s likely to finish 3 feet behind the winner in triple jump. So when newsom
says it’s not fair to girls to compete with trans athletes, he’s just making that up.

yungdreyfusard.bsky.social•7 days ago

its fascinating to me that his instincts here are almost exactly wrong. the most reliable trend over the past decade to decade and a half is that power and zeitgeist point in opposite directions

chowdster.bsky.social•7 days ago

The Steve Bannon guest choice demonstrates this clearly. Gavin's busy exploring "why did Trump rise to power?", when Trump's momentum is deaccelerating. And he's on the wrong team regardless!

yungdreyfusard.bsky.social•7 days ago

as the middle reacts in violent disappointment to its choices made manifest, the victor loses steam and sinks into dejected depression at the difficulties facing its project, and the loser moves into agitated takeover of cultural spaces to compensate for its loss of power

rumdood.com•7 days ago

The peak of his popularity was when he was pushing back against the bully, and then he didn't get to run for President and just seems to have decided it wasn't worth it.

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