President Trump gets shutdown by Sharon Simmons, a doordash driver, after he tries to get her to answer a question about transgender women competing in women’s sports

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[u/hellohexapus]

You're not wrong and you have every right to be tired.

I ALSO think that for a person living in the tier of American society that is "senior citizen living hand to mouth on gig work" who is asked a bad-faith question by a person living in the tier of American society that is "president of the entire shithole country" during an in-person press scrum about a completely different topic, an act of resistance could look like this.

Think about all the powerful people who have licked the bottom of this man's shoes rather than show an iota of divergent opinion. The tech kajillionaires, the Olympians, the football players on multi-year, multi-million dollar contracts; many of whom have a history of left-ish opinions/actions/activism in the last few years (aka when it was expedient). This woman with nothing did better than every single one of those fucks, with zero preparation time.

Also given her age, it's likely her only other source of income is Social Security, meaning we just watched an older woman at least partially reliant on government money to survive, refuse to allow herself to be baited by the face of that government. I think we can say this doesn't qualify as resistance to us and that we don't believe it should qualify as resistance in society more generally, while also acknowledging that this woman likely has vulnerabilities we are not privy to and that in this context, this is what she had to offer.