Latest Breaking News
In reply to the discussion: Gavin Newsom breaks with Democrats on trans athletes in sports [View all]So whatever batshit crazy ads the right wing runs, we have to take it seriously? God help us.
Haitian immigrants are not eating their neighbors pets.
If Trump convinces 51% of the public to believe that to be true, does that mean we need to say "well, OK, I guess they are eating the pets?"
The issue is not "transgender," the issue is Republican bigotry, fear mongering and lying. Another issue is the Democrats who are triangulating, compromising, running scared, and pandering for the sake of advancing their careers. That is vastly more common than trans athletes being any sort of issue. Less than 10 out of 500,000 NCAA athletes are transgender. That is 0.00002% - it might as well be zero.
Fill Michigan stadium in Ann Arbor 5 times over, and in that massive horde just try to find 10 people. Needle in a haystack. One needle in 10 haystacks, maybe?
Wouldn't it be great if only 0.00002% of Democratic party politicians felt the need to pander to the right wing and play bipartisan footsie?
It is not true that "anything involving transgender issues seems toxic to most of the voters." It just is not true. It is true that right wing demagoguery - largely unchallenged by the Democrats - had some effect. The answer to that is to fight back, not to cave in.
There is no issue with transgender athletes, there are no Haitians eating pets, there were no WMDs in Iraq, the 2020 election was not stolen, babies are not being killed after birth, that Obama was not born in Kenya, grade school children are not coming home a different gender, and on and on and on.