this is why it's dipshit cowardice (in addition to morally grotesque) to try to triangulate on trans rights as Hakeem Jeffries and others have suggested. it's an opportunity to attack! nobody likes a lying bully - ThreadSky

ryanlcooper.com • 109 days ago

this is why it's dipshit cowardice (in addition to morally grotesque) to try to triangulate on trans rights as Hakeem Jeffries and others have suggested. it's an opportunity to attack! nobody likes a lying bully

Reposted from Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈

sorry but I’m fucking furious that they’re going after Sarah McBride and implying she’s a sexual predator while electing DONALD TRUMP and appointing MATT GAETZ

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alula.bsky.social•109 days ago

Also I suspect they’re doing this bc they smell blood in the water with all the public handwringing some Dems have been doing on this issue

jrz.bsky.social•109 days ago

I don't know if people remember this, but the sequence of events in 2019 that culminated in Trump leading a rally of "Send her back!" chants against Ilhan Omar began with a tweet from an account controlled by Jeffries, attacking AOC's chief of staff at the time

michigankathy.bsky.social•109 days ago

This

tom-paine1737.bsky.social•108 days ago

Heh. Yeah, it's another opportunity to point out that M.G. is a pedophile and rapist.

petergratton.bsky.social•109 days ago

Even electorally, people already think you’re trans allies. You won’t win pretending otherwise. So project strength—and just be good people—being clear.

cassini221.bsky.social•108 days ago

If the Democrats abandon transgender people they lost me and a good chunk of their base. What type of party is this that is unable or unwilling to defend a vulnerable minority. What happened? Did you lose your spine?

ryanlcooper.com•109 days ago

people get mixed up about trans women in sports because that isn't a very intuitive question. but doing genital inspections at restrooms, that is horrendously unpopular and has been for a decade

ceezworld12.bsky.social•109 days ago

Someone should be pretty loudly calling them genital inspectors every day on TV.

johnkaprielian.bsky.social•108 days ago

The Genital Observation Party...

speedmariachi.bsky.social•109 days ago

Somebody once posted about how a strong boston accent shouting “hey look it’s the genital inspectahs!” While JD Vance is on camera could change the world.

tomkanemn.bsky.social•108 days ago

There are a lot of interesting job titles in the Capitol. “Sargent at Arms”, “Architect of the Capitol”, “Senate Parliamentarian”… Mace wants to create the “Crotch Warden of the House.”

holyramenempire.bsky.social•109 days ago

many of the trans sports bills also include a provision allowing genital inspection of minor students.

holyramenempire.bsky.social•109 days ago

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ohio-lawmakers-advance-trans-sports-ban-with-genital-check-2022-06-03/

This is mandatory pedophilia that mandates victims submit to it; these laws should repulse every human being.

ryanlcooper.com•109 days ago

yes, but few realize this because the attacks are always on the level of highly inflammatory hypotheticals

ryanlcooper.com•109 days ago

this too. I think Trump gets a lot of respect because he Calls It Like He Sees It (he doesn't, but pretends to). lot of people don't have strong views and can be swayed by a confident personality https://bsky.app/profile/petergratton.bsky.social/post/3lbgcqekgxs22

petergratton.bsky.social•109 days ago

“I can respect that” is a phrase you’ll hear from far-rightists if you just give them your full view—not handle it like you’re one question shy of taking the fifth.

ryanlcooper.com•109 days ago

that’s what I’m talking about https://bsky.app/profile/erininthemorning.bsky.social/post/3lbggz3d3mk2r

robink.bsky.social•109 days ago

Indeed, don’t waste an opportunity to attack

whortana.bsky.social•109 days ago

slaying as usual

dembymarc.bsky.social•109 days ago

AOC in 2028

cvbell.bsky.social•109 days ago

Strength and clarity are enormously attractive to voters, especially in uncertain and anxious times. 💙

theedingus.bsky.social•109 days ago

i can't remember the last time i heard a dem speak with urgency

iancwhitney.bsky.social•109 days ago

This at a gut level feels like a much more compelling argument than endless pointing out of hypocrisy, as if that worked at any point in the last 8 years.

markshatraw.bsky.social•109 days ago

And issue polling is about as useful as coffee creamer at an LDS brunch so you may as well do the right thing

psheth.bsky.social•109 days ago

This was George W Bush's whole appeal! "You might not agree with him but he tells it to you straight," which was bullshit but very effective when compared to Gore and Kerry's wishy washy equivocation

nickwidzowski.bsky.social•109 days ago

There’s a lot of West Wing wisdom that aged pretty poorly but “American voters like guts and the Republicans have got ‘em” still rings true for many people

theedingus.bsky.social•109 days ago

i remember when the the north carolina legislature made *international* news on that in 2016. it was on the front page of BBC World

michaelt2300.bsky.social•109 days ago

To treat a person like this wrong and they should defend their colleague bc it’s the right thing. But in a raw political sense, it’s a chance to focus the “trans narrative” on personal dignity and humanity & not sports and immigrant prisoners and hypotheticals. And it’s a chance to show conviction

emo4emus.bsky.social•109 days ago

Exactly “my daughter’s soccer team” is a convenient red herring for people that have no other concern for women and girls

loffles.bsky.social•108 days ago

This guy can't be allowed to be the next Speaker of the House

tomeclarke.bsky.social•108 days ago

That is why you should try and think these issues through one by one.

Sex doesn't go away based on someone's gender identity, and it's very much not clear why it stops being a useful way to segregate sports. And why gender, as a category that doesn't indicate anything about a person's physicality.

tomeclarke.bsky.social•108 days ago

That's not triangulation. That's just being thoughtful.

pcollirigger.bsky.social•108 days ago

On the contrary, I think a slim plurality of US voters like a lying bully. They like him a lot. They LOVED his anti-trans commercials. That's what's driving all of this.

aaronsofaer.bsky.social•109 days ago

every single House Democrat of any leadership role has spoken out in support of McBride, the fact that she doesn't want to pick the fight with Johnson's (fundamentally toothless) policy statement seems to be her call, not coming from Jeffries.

magnificentskinbag.bsky.social•109 days ago

every single Democrat in the country should have issued a statement on McBride

we lost the white house 'cuz low-info voters perceive that we won't fight for them: it's time to fight them on everything, down to the brand of toilet roll is used in the johns

fight for people and they'll follow you!!

heidiotoo.bsky.social•109 days ago

Why is he being such a soft punk-ass-B. on this? What the hell?

ryanlcooper.com•109 days ago

New York Democrats in leadership positions are just atrocious. the major threat to their power is challenges from the left (eg AOC) and so that's all they are good at

emptyjetseatbribes.bsky.social•109 days ago

they are absolute cowards. they did terrible on 2022 midterms in NY and push this milquetoast bullshit elsewhere

coasterspaul.bsky.social•108 days ago

I still feel like NY Dems not helping lose the house and therefore letting Congress do *anything* the last couple of years could've probably helped at least a little in 24

heidiotoo.bsky.social•109 days ago

None of them can even be bothered to come out and make a solid argument for what we do next. None of them.

Cowards each and every one of them.

sinfall.bsky.social•109 days ago

Northeast dems are usually corrupt corporate whores. New Yorks are probably the worst of it. They do anything that is progressive while kicking and screaming, see congestive pricing for the recent example. And then do dumb populist shit like close a nuclear power plant for no good reason.

brienmcmullen.bsky.social•108 days ago

Everybody is saying we lost bc of "trans and woke".
We need to stop listening to those pundits who are advising us to be Republicans.

samuraigrog.bsky.social•109 days ago

This election has proven that most Americans like a lying bully.

voteblue4vr.bsky.social•108 days ago

Really disappointed that there are so few fighters in the Democratic party willing to stand up for doing the right thing.

clutch3-16.bsky.social•109 days ago

It’d be so fucking easy to put the gop on the back foot as a party full of deranged freaks on this issue

mbachand.bsky.social•109 days ago

Put them *back* on the back foot. Walz showed the way.

crs1.bsky.social•109 days ago

Feckless inverterbrates

nicksturzo.bsky.social•109 days ago

It’s also likely in 26 and 28 Dems will be running against all the horrible shit Trump is gonna do. We won’t be talking anything or defending thing from 20-24 era.

Dems lost, we need to move on and attack Trump/MAGA relentlessly, instead of apologizing for losing. It’s what the GOP would do.

lisaiannucci.bsky.social•109 days ago

What can we do to put more pressure on Jeffries aside from calling?

hazeleyes61.bsky.social•109 days ago

She has to fight it like she is ready to do. Maybe that's how she asked Jeffries to handle it... hoping it will all go away. But bullies don't go away unless you punch them back in the nose.