Still thinking about Newsom. For a Democratic leader to consent to a framework that portrays trans people as a group that is trying to take something away from other people is flatly unforgivable. It is what the right does. And a Democrat who will do it to one group will do it to any group.
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But as realist I would consider a swap of rights for to complete in sports for equal rights in employment ( military government)and equality under law
For now ?
Compromise and smaller steeps maybe ?
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjsports/early/2024/04/10/bjsports-2023-108029.full.pdf
Reminds me of how people will grab hold of a wheelchair and start to move it to a place they deem more appropriate, notwithstanding that there is a person in it who was exactly where they needed to be.
To the mover, the person and their chair, together was a “thing”. An inconvenient one.
Testimony from Mom’s of Liberty: “when you’ve lost Gavin Newsom you’ve lost.”
Unfortunately, his telegenic looks and straight white maleness would likely propel him to front runner status immediately.
Like Rufo and the NYT, he picked out of the crowd of potential guests a propagandist. Kirk's aims are pollution and noise, not solving problems.
Assume that treating trans people as things is bad, but common, so this sucks, but doesn't distinguish him from 80% of the public.
You still have to answer the question, "What gives Newsom ownership of the 'things' in question?"
We're not things AND not Newsom's.
What he wants more than anything is to be President of the United States.
He doesn't understand, though, that he's perceived as slimy, elitist, and lacking a moral center.
Worse, he wouldn't see those as character faults, but assets.
He’s the enemy.
Even if you didn't know anything else about Newsom, that should be enough to tell you he's betrayed everything Democrats claim to stand for.
the "lesser of two evils" is completely unacceptable when it comes to human life. either we all get the same rights or no one does.
we say all, you people say the latter.
you take some rights away from certain people for no real reason, no actual justification for it, and suddenly everyones rights are on the chopping block except those who can pay their way out of the system.
its fucked up.
you open a door you are not going to be able to close again easily.
this capitulation about it somehow being okay when its done to trans people has removed the door stop keeping it from swinging back open.
there was no actual reason for this to happen.
Do you truly believe that abandoning the Dem party base and alienating 30 million potential voters all to pander to social conservatives who will NEVER vote for you (because you can’t out-MAGA Trump) is a winning strategy?
If you’re not for equality for all, then what you’re FOR is INEQUALITY.
https://bsky.app/profile/flame89.bsky.social/post/3ljqwvkufds2z
I’ll say it again.
Dems are leaderless.
Either too old (Schumer Pelosi Clyburn Waters Bernie)
too feckless (Newsome)
too pro-Hamas (the Jihad Squad)
or just outright wimps (Jeffries and the 10 who defected)
Where the absolute fuck are Harris?? Buttigieg?? Shapiro??
If someone from the future arrived today and said that Newsom had completely sold out and gone full MAGA by 2028, I would not wear my “shocked face.”
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjsports/early/2024/04/10/bjsports-2023-108029.full.pdf
THAT would have been better than kicking them to the cub while jerking off Charlie Kirk. THAT move made him look instantly MAGA!
Dems should hire Rick Wilson to help them learn to message. I KNOW he would be eager to train them.
2. Wilson is as Anti Trump as the best of us. He KNOWS how to message and how to play the DC games and knows the people, mechanics and methods to get it done. (See Lincoln Project)
3. See point #1
https://bsky.app/profile/tricornking.bsky.social/post/3ljveau2dns2c
Is it just trans folks you'll sell down the river, or any minority group?
We're just a price you're willing to pay, huh?
https://bsky.app/profile/igd.bsky.social/post/3ljq54knqts2n
I have no issue with people who aren’t fighting my fight. I take issue with people opposing my fight. My fight is for civil rights.
Civil rights is non negotiable.
Newsom is not on our side. No one who opposes civil rights is on our side. Stop defending fascism.
And they are turning right.
a cancer, doing what it needs to do. Adapting until it survives, no matter the cost, even if it kills the host.
Like from a PURELY LOGICAL compassion free angle you are still expecting to run A Romney against Trump and win OVER ex Walz he couldn't land a hit on? REALLY?
Don’t be so naive to think MAGA WOULDN’T - after ginning up fictionalized stories about the wildfires to anger their own base - use this opportunity to turn DEMS against their biggest threat to the 2028 presidency!
This is a classic RUSSIAN tactic!
the argument you’re making and I get it.
he explicitly applauds Kirk for demanding the criminalizing of healthcare for trans youth and trans people in prison
if you listen to the final 15 minutes, it's inarguable that he is endorsing it for trans children
https://bsky.app/profile/igd.bsky.social/post/3ljq54knqts2n
You gave her the money, yes?🙂
They’re both Republicans wearing Democrat skinsuits…like that alien cockroach from Men in Black.
I'm done with him.
Those who are about their constituents tend to be sternly lectured, even censured.
you were right about one thing: you are definitely a Democrat.
Forget concentration camps. We will use a less dramatic violation. Desegregation had 70% disapproval (ironically a similar disapproval rate to trans rights in sport). Interracial marriage had a DISMAL approval rating of only 4% when it was legalized
That's how we should treat it. Like the fiction it is and emphasize to voters all the REAL issues we're focusing on.
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjsports/early/2024/04/10/bjsports-2023-108029.full.pdf
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjsports/early/2024/04/10/bjsports-2023-108029.full.pdf
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjsports/early/2024/04/10/bjsports-2023-108029.full.pdf
Also that isn't why Trump won. Even republicans think their politicians talk about us too much.
Glad to know your politics is entirely "what makes me feel good," though, you pathetic loser
See what happens when civility and niceness take precedence over protecting oppressed people.
Why do you want to fuck up this site too, Anne?
Fuck you, too.
Anyone who says "it's only a couple of people who cares" to a right-wing hate campaign can go fuck themselves right off the edge of a cliff.
Fuck you and your defense of this fucking shit.
That's being smart moving forward.