Republicans are so stupid. Isn't it true women's bathrooms don't have urinals? Isn't it all stalls which are private? So how would a woman ever seen another woman using the toilet?
Pete is correct. But I also think Democrats need to do a better job countering the misinformation being spread on Faux News and other misinformation platforms.
How about Dems take back control of the narrative? Why back a christo-fascist pathological liar into a corner and ask them to lie to you again about why they're doing anything they do? The GOP are leading the media/Dems around by the nostrils with this trans bathroom issue.
I can't help but think Buttigieg overestimates how many people pay attention to what goes on in Congress, much less care about it, or worse, would agree with it if they knew....
It is quite amazing that it is 2024 and our news media continue to validate racism and discrimination by allowing this type of garbage to be tolerated as political speech
The GOP doesn't actually give two craps who uses what bathroom. They are distracting from Trump picking all these pedos, con artists, and rapists to be his Cabinet. They are acting out in order to get all the people who regret voting for the Orange Idol to come back to them again. It's stupid.
They have to manufacture a crisis because they expected her to show up and do a full drag show, and she's just... a woman trying to do her job.
It's hard to demonize people who aren't being demonstrably evil, so they make up drama to be worried about so they can claim to be keeping women safe. 🙄
Pete is very impressive. As to his question the real answer (that will not get spoken) is it's a particularly nasty one two punch that the Repubs have been doing a lot. First they attack a minority then when the Dems rush to defend they say to everyone else, SEE they only care about THEM not you!!
I was really looking forward to see what he was capable of under the Harris administration. He is so brilliant and compassionate. This country needs him desperately.
what's wrong with maintaining some sense of distinction between a biological male and female. Women's bathrooms are for "women" not a male dressed like one or believes he is one
Every single GOP goofball who utters a word of support for Nancy's performative waste of taxpayer $$ really really really should get the followup question:
Offices are assigned by lottery and some end up on another floor or even in another building. Depending on which office a congressperson gets, using their own bathroom can be logistically undoable in the middle of a work day.
This is something the Democrats are terrible at. The Biden administration should have been holding daily fireside chats lambasting lawmakers when the child tax credit was suspended.
Democrats are so feckless and unwilling to wield power that a party as horrible as the GOP is still mainstream.
That's the MSM narrative. Democrats do a great job of messaging. The problem is the MSM doesn't promote and amplify that message. For a recent example of how this works see Greg Sargent's piece on overtime pay. https://newrepublic.com/article/188663/trump-judge-overtime-pay-media
If your message isn’t getting out, your communication is highly flawed. It doesn’t matter what the MSM does when you’re atop the largest wealth generating apparatus in the world.
To say they don’t have a problem with messaging is just wrong, respectfully.
Absolutely not. Democrats don’t know how to wield office effectively. I don’t support either party with any level of fanaticism. I am a pro labor leftist.
Republicans and Democrats are both terrible, corporate grifters that have crushed the working class. Democrats are just less worse. That’s all.
They let so many chances to blow their own trumpet go by. The infrastructure bill has sent millions to states and #GOP are taking credit. The CHIPS act is working. Manufacturing jobs are up. Child poverty i down. Beat the GOP mercilessly. Not just Trump. The whole crappy lily livered lot of them.
Democrats are not in a cult and spend time on broadening knowledge and skills. They spend time and effort to resolve an issue instead of getting ideas from old religious books.
I know exactly what you mean. A lot of us Dems were competitive debaters in high school and college. We study an issue, assemble a body of literature, before jumping to unwarranted conclusions. A lot of us have college degrees and learned critical thinking and writing.
It never will stop shocking and saddening me how dark and low so many people actively choose to me. Luckily, kindness and love will always outnumber hatred.
But stay quiet about Trump’s past behavior of walking into dressing rooms during pageants, groping women, rape conviction & his best friend Epstein who was a pedophile! He’s the guy that should be in jail yet they follow blindly.
Pete impresses me more & more every time he speaks.
He just has a way of framing thoughts & ideas in a way that there is no rebuttal for them.
We're lucky to have him.
I’ve never lived in a home without a gender neutral bathroom. Whose creepy idea was it to give us half doors with 1” gaps in a public toilet anyway? That person was a perv.
Sorry to say if they arent going to elect a woman or allow a transgender congressperson to use the bathroom. I think they will dump on a gay candidate too
Walz was fine and picked as "the old white guy" to balance the ticket. Though, a younger ticket may have made the failing old man narrative much easier to aim at Trump.
Walz is the same age as Kamala. His ideas and policies were more progressive than hers. Trump's the old white guy who's taking us back to the 1950's mentality.
They matter to some people. That's why they were all duped by the MAGA show into thinking that Trump's traveling circus would bring a legitimate capable government.
If appearances mattered that waking human version of a hemorrhoid wouldn't be relevant. And only the shallow believe that...MAGAt is the epitome of shallow
Pete has a stronger messaging ability and Walz is the guy next door. When they're in office, there won't be much need for messaging, but Walz persona would make other leaders feel more at ease with negotiating. Pete's a badass and would LOVE to see him as AG.
It is not about the bathroom. It is about the wedge through America that will let Trump and his minions to do what they want. United we Stand, Divided we Fall, is a strategy that is not being used for good.
Yeah but that's not it. It's not a rational fear.
The issue is that people who are transphobic need counselling so that their fear doesn't rule their life and hurt other people who are just living theirs.
But the GOP has made millions transphobic by saying they are coming to take your kids away. I think you have to push back at their level and ask what are they doing in the bathroom and BTW she is a she not a he!
You are right we should push back, but it's not very fruitful.
A lie can run around the world before the truth has got its boots on. I have tried online and in person. It reaches the fence sitters but not the transphobes. Don't expect to change minds, do it for those who haven't made them up yet.
If we don't all get sent to the camps, and there's another election that isn't a predetermined Russian-style one, Mayor Pete would be an excellent candidate.
There's got to be single use bathrooms she can use so we can put this to rest for now. The media, being useless hacks, is of course obsessing over this while Trump nominates his band of criminals and fascists.
As usual the right wing needs a "woke" issue to distract from the real issues of inequality in society. You don't need policies. It keeps people thinking the issue is they, them. The real issue is the society's gargantuan wealth inequity and the media control by these wealth hoarders.
The problem with that theory, though it’s 100% correct, is that the people who might hold him accountable, the voters, agree with him. The bigotry is why they vote republican in the first place.
Twiddling their thumbs while Rome burns. Tickling the ears of their cult and dividing us into US v THEM. Holding themselves up as paragons of virtue and goodness, while shitting on the constitution and giving all of us the middle finger.
Next time instead of being morally outraged by the insane stupidity, all that needs to be said is "you guys are talking about trans issues again because you don't like talking about your shitty policies"
Shoulda been the nominee four years ago. Shoulda been the nominee this year. Though I understand the mechanics that forced it to be Harris so late in the game. He is just so damn good. Nominate him already.
I wish the population of America could put aside its prejudice. Pete would make a hell of a president in a few years. Not that we in Canada are much better these days. Half our population seems to think one of our political leaders should be deported despite have been born in Canada. #jagmeetsingh
Congresswomen need a flashlight to check out the wanna be whore Nancy Mace, Marge 3 toes and the GED grad Boebert...make them pull their pants down, check out the plastic they have, and lock the bathroom doors because they are not normal...
Pete is so right. I’ll bet he’s suffered equally humiliating situations. This gramma of a lovely trans woman is exhausted by the cruelty and disinformation by the ignorant. I’m simply gutted.
I'm not from the US so I was wondering who are the upcoming Democrat politicians? Harris is unlikely to run again I think, so who could be in the next competition to get the Democrat nomination? I know about Pete Buttigeig but not sure who else might go for it? What happened to Beto O'Rourke?
Hey guys and gals. I know we are all miserably hurting and we are legit scared. This kind of energy from their side towards us with the constant screaming and yelling is why I left X. It’s poison. Vicious and spitefull. Can we take a pause for a while and just let their poison out? Then we trounce
Dems should be putting them on the defensive right now - suing to keep Trump from taking office. The Colorado Supreme Court says he is barred from holding office in the USA. He clearly violated the 14th amendment. If he lies his way through the oath again, the Constitution is null and void.
And what is he afraid of? The usual excuse is protecting children or protecting women — not a valid excuse, but an excuse.
In an adult restroom inside one of the most exclusive areas of one of America’s most fortified buildings, what’s the rationale, other than willful and gratuitous exclusion?
And they call us "snowflakes". They're just a bunch of PAB's! WTF is their problem? They must have many, many sleepless nights, thinking about (fantasizing) men enjoying each other's company. Especially the sex part, they think about that the most. They run it over and over in their shallow minds.
I'm reading Pete's book " Shortest Way Home" right now and I'm even more convinced of his status as a national treasure and the need for him to be in charge.
Totally agree! Pete's got the charm and brains to actually make things happen. Plus, he’s got that approachable vibe that makes people feel heard. What do you think are his chances against the others?
Much of the Republican’s political success can be attributed to their constant aggression—whether warranted or not. It would be nice to see Democrats and Independents turn that back on them for the next four years.
Dear Pete, you really don’t understand how an authoritarian fascist regime works do you? They won’t give a good goddamn about your or anyone else’s feelings or any norms. Get your head out. It’s a new day and it’s dark.
He's not always he's still an establishment dem, which are our issues at this point. But this take is correct democrats never dictate the narratives. When they did a little with walz, they hid him because he called them weird.
It could have been Buttigeignomics and a Sally Yates at DOJ taking it to Trump and elected Jan 6 Insurrection ringleaders but the DNC wanted kindly Pawpaw to run the show.
Ask why is the Speaker (who claims to be) a devout Christian suppressing a report of child molestation and predation, or sex trafficking, or supporting a convicted felon and rapist. His version of the Bible must have many missing pages. MANY!
Pete (I can't spell his last name) is unelectable--not because of his personal life, but his last name. Almost every president has had a very Anglo name. Harris is perfect, but no good because of Kamala. A perfect woman's name is Elizabeth Warren--spot on. Look at the list sometime...
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It's hard to demonize people who aren't being demonstrably evil, so they make up drama to be worried about so they can claim to be keeping women safe. 🙄
Exactly how will that be enforced?
Offices are assigned by lottery and some end up on another floor or even in another building. Depending on which office a congressperson gets, using their own bathroom can be logistically undoable in the middle of a work day.
Democrats are so feckless and unwilling to wield power that a party as horrible as the GOP is still mainstream.
https://newrepublic.com/article/188663/trump-judge-overtime-pay-media
To say they don’t have a problem with messaging is just wrong, respectfully.
Republicans and Democrats are both terrible, corporate grifters that have crushed the working class. Democrats are just less worse. That’s all.
He just has a way of framing thoughts & ideas in a way that there is no rebuttal for them.
We're lucky to have him.
See also racism, homophobia, sexism
They need to define out groups to deflect from the fact that they are the ones screwing them.
The smaller and more vulnerable the group the less push back and more vicious the attacks are.
The issue is that people who are transphobic need counselling so that their fear doesn't rule their life and hurt other people who are just living theirs.
A lie can run around the world before the truth has got its boots on. I have tried online and in person. It reaches the fence sitters but not the transphobes. Don't expect to change minds, do it for those who haven't made them up yet.
He's going to change the world one day.
Stop taking the bait.
Next time instead of being morally outraged by the insane stupidity, all that needs to be said is "you guys are talking about trans issues again because you don't like talking about your shitty policies"
I dream of an American where he is our president!
Will there be an election in 2028?!?
We need his sense of reason
In an adult restroom inside one of the most exclusive areas of one of America’s most fortified buildings, what’s the rationale, other than willful and gratuitous exclusion?
On the head! 👏👏👏👏
I'd have said: it's just Squirrel!
Trade it for something worthwhile
She has to have a portapotty but everyone gets universal healthcare