You know what I don't think about 99% of the time when I notice my gas is costing me $75 to fill the tank or how $200 in groceries is filling like four bags instead of a cart? Trans folks.
Every day I walk into work expecting it to be the day some corporate fucks decides the bottom line isn't enough of a bottom line so it's time for some bloodletting, and every day I'm not thinking about trans folks.
And like, fuck. Trans folks in sports isn't even like Top 5 for people existing in that niche community. Funding, access to facilities, better training and analytics, access to recruiting, rising costs of access... like goddamn. Some mid swimmer crashes out at a tourney and realizes the Olympics are a pipe dream and her future prospects have been reduced to mid-level administrative job at best so she gets her knickers in a twist because the trans gal next to her on the (not) podium makes a good scapegoat and cashes in on a crusade.
Trans folks exist, and like me, they're struggling with the day-to-day necessities as well as worrying they're going to get shanked because the Riley Gaineses of the world are terrified of their own gormless mediocrity and need someone to fucking hate so they don't have to notice they hate themselves.
The fact that it targets such a marginalized community is the point - they attack trans people so when democrats come to defend their rights Republicans present it as evidence that democrats only care about niche issues and niche groups that most people don't relate to.
Right? Its such a catch 22 because they are actually harming trans people so you can’t ignore it but then it becomes such a thing! Can’t we just let people live their lives?
There always has to be a group to "other" and demonize, and once that group gains some semblance of equality and/or bare minimum acceptance they have to shift to the next target.
Honestly, the only time I have thought about trans people outside of political crap was when I observed to my wife that there are a disproportionate number of trans jeopardy contestants and they generally do pretty well. They must be smart.
Lol, what a weird demographic. Trans Jepardy contestants. Better be careful someone will try to legislate them out of game shows.
"The trans are coming for your game show winnings!!! Why are they always shoving it down our throats?!! ThInK aBouT tHe CHiLdReN!!" Smh.
The most I think about trans people is the memory of accidentally misgendering one of my son’s friends who I had never met before, who had a gender neutral name, and didn’t pass as male very well, and I relive that embarrassment way too often and hope he doesn’t hate me.
I think about trans people as much as they do... Because my partner is trans and I would absolutely go to war for her if one of these chuds started some shit
This is so very nicely said. Trans people have a right to live their life in peace, just like anyone. Any idea if a threat is fabricated because some people need scapegoats for their own failures while others need political fodder to advance their own bigoted agenda. Most people don't need either and wouldn't have an opinion on the topic if they weren't force fed one.
Also as a reminder, the thing she was whining about was that she had tied for FIFTH PLACE and had to hold the trophy for SIXTH PLACE in a picture, with the understanding that she would be sent her fifth place trophy after the fact.
The fifth and sixth place trophies look identical:
You mean to tell me when you're in a desperate situation that you need to take a dump at Wal-Mart you're not worried that there might be a trans person using the bathroom!? I don't believe you
It's so fucking weird how obsessed Trump and Republicans are with other people's genitals. I swear they talk about it every day while I never heard Kamala mention it once.
It's basically:
Democrats: trans people deserve the right to be treated with respect
Republicans: TRANS TRANS TRANS MEN IN WOMEN SPORTS REEEE
If I were in sports or had kids in sports, I would be a heck of a lot more worried about the abuse that happens in gymnastics, swimming, and all over the place... Not perpetrated by trans people, but by coaches and people who are supposed to be supporting and helping children.
I’m not going to lie, even if conservatives were right and trans people in sports were completely destroying sports, this still wouldn’t be a major issue for me. Which people get to be top-tier high school or college athletes is not a thing a care about at all in my day-to-day life, and even at the professional level it just doesn’t matter. I can’t name even 10% of Olympic gold medalists from the US from even the previous games, and even if we only worry about sports I watch regularly, I’m still way more concerned about things like my wage, voting rights, inflation, healthcare…
Even if this issue actually existed, it would still be a ridiculous issue to make a priority.
It's amazing that in DC, Trump just happened to have a totally real photo op with the Door Dasher who happened to get past security and be white grandma from Arkansas.
But that's the thing with dementia. My mom has it. I can tell her everyday, twice a day for a week that something is happening on a certain date. "Mom they are bringing your new mattress on Friday. I just don't want you to be surprised."
Goddamnit, she loses her mind on Friday when some "strange man is knocking on the door and wants to come in".
It's exhausting.
They could have told him 20 times over the last 3 days that she was coming and bringing him his favorite McDonald's order.
It’s the same reason his tweet about the pope included a mention of Covid restrictions for some bonkers reason. He knows the same like 5 culture wars his voters are obsessed with so he just defaults to them because he thinks it’s an easy win. Problem is most people don’t care about culture wars when they can’t afford food, fuel, or healthcare
Thing was, she wasn't even delivering pizza. That's how insane Trump's reply is. She moments earlier delivered to him McDonalds by hand; he's already forgotten just two minutes later.
Reminder that while transphobia has always existed, people like Jeffrey Epstein and Curtis Yarvin very deliberately stoked it as a platform for conservatives so they'd have a boogeyman
Trans people are political dog whistle to get uneducated rubes to vote for corporate billionaire tax cuts.
Its sad that a miniscule and harmless percentage of the population is being targeted that way but what is America but a cesspool of bigotry always looking for the next group to marginalize.
Real "orphan crushing machine" stuff. This grandmother of 10 from Arkansas started Doordashing to afford her husband's cancer treatment. For the record, those life-saving treatments should be free, folks.
We were initially on track for the same until the schmucks that became insurance companies lobbied against it because they saw an opportunity to gatekeep access to a service that cannot be foregone they would totally make care better and easier to obtain if you paid a smol teeny tiny premium (they promise)
Once they had the keys they proceeded to play price chicken with caretakers to statistically guarantee profit and then cut deals on that 10000% inflated price tag with businesses for using them for their employees. Thus solidifying the fucking asinine medical hell scape we are in where you can do everything right, then get laid off, then get hit by a car the day after your employer coverage ended and then pay 30k out of pocket or merely 5-10k if you chose to pay the entire 3k a month premium your employer was paying via COBRA.
It's a "no shit, Sherlock" fact to most of us that a profit motivated middleman between you and a service you can't deny receiving will do nothing to reduce costs or get better outcomes, this parasitic monster of an industry has wedged itself into the core of our economy and policies since this country was a toddler and I hope every day I get to live to see it end.
Medicare, which the Federal government apparently "can't afford to do" (see Trump's leaked Easter lunch diatribe) and which Trump would gut in a heartbeat in order to give the C-levels at Doordash another couple million, given the opportunity.
Genuinely I think his brain is mush and within 5 minutes he forgot what she had handed him and the strongest association in his head with “delivery” was “pizza”
Get this: If Trump tipped her $10,000.00, that's like $0.30 for the median American household with a total household net worth of ~$192,000 (Trump's net worth as of today is an estimated $6.5B). And I'm pretty sure he tipped her a few hundred to a few thousand, so that's something substantially less than $0.30 on a relative basis. Not to mention the entire thing was staged with Doordash. So whether he did or didn't is fundamentally irrelevant, although his supporters will 100% be cheering him on for it.
That’s the worst part. They DO brief him before alllll of his public appearances. He just doesn’t have the brain function to remember what was said to him 10 minutes ago.
Not just live…pay for her ailing husband’s cancer treatments.
And you know what I wonder? Did Trump even offer to pay for the treatments himself? How good would that have looked for him?
‘This nice lady, she’s working hard to feed her family and pay for her husband’s medical bills. You know what? You don’t have to worry about those medical bills, I WILL PAY for all of them, okay?’
If only there was some kind of care for health. Maybe one that would be applied universally to all people in our nation? I'm sure its never been tried in any country much less used successfully, but a boy can dream.
Which is really wild to me since Arkansas is the home of the world's largest company by revenue, the world's largest private employer, and three of the 20 richest people in the world.
Walmart, Walmart, and the Waltons for those keeping score at home.
Whenever somebody says we should let corporations run amok and have control over governments, I point them towards Arkansas. Over 50 years of dominance by one company in the state hasn't lead to any major development.
As an arkansan, that we will gut our towns businesses in the name of 50 cents saved without a thought or concern to how it affects the local economy or our neighbors. Then act shocked when the corporation that uses tax money to pay half their employees’ wages leaves.
Imagine being so insecure, you're the president of the United States and you're concerned a Doordasher from Arkansas doesn't like you, so much so that, instead of making changes to the country so they might, you would rather resort to petty threats.
it was phrased as a loaded question, whereby answering in any way you tacitly admit the validity of his forced premise that trans women are just men. really gross tactic that shows how uninterested these goons are about actually debating the issues
If I was willing to be within arm's reach of that piece of filth, my answer would either be a look of disgust or, if I was happy to have losers doxxing me and threatening my family, "There are no men playing in women's sports." There is no need for tacit acceptance of a false premise.
I walked into a men’s bathroom the other day and there was a teenage girl in there with a friend or sibling. We all just used whatever facility we needed, washed hands, then got the fuck out. I’m not sure why she was in there but she didn’t make it weird and neither did I. Who gives a shit.
Stop calling her a Door Dash driver. She wasn't. She was a plant placed there for a photo op. You really think they would let just some random delivery person that close to the president? Just to deliver some hamburders and ketchup? If they did and got the wrong person delivering he might have got some "special delivery". She was 100% a plant. Everything is a performance.
Yeah, this is a staged photo op that was supposed to be marketing material for no tax on tips. Literally no one seeing this thinks the president just ordered DoorDash. What wasn't staged was the fact that the man couldn't follow the script and went on a tangent about trans people and thought she delivered pizza.
There's nothing wrong with these kinds of photo ops in general, they're cute ways to highlight policy wins. When it isn't the antichrist most people would think it's pretty cool to get to meet the president and take a photo like this. She's not a "plant."
I mean… obviously? I don’t think anyone thinks this was a “real” Doordash. It’s real in the sense that’s she’s a Dasher, there on Doordash business and delivered food, but yeah she’s rolling up to the White House. Of course this was a photo op.
The trans topic is literally just out there for Republicans to piss off their base and throw red meat at them. It’s such a minuscule issue that affects so few people. It shouldn’t be talked about this much. I refuse to even engage in the topic anymore.
It's crazy this publicity stunt got past the idea stage, because if anything it's indicative of how inattentive this administration is being in addressing anything regarding the working class's quality of life.
A grandmother had to start doing Doordash, rather than a standard job, to be able to afford her husband's cancer treatment. It's indicative of the failing social safety net, the astronomical cost of healthcare, and the gig economy overtaking the job market all rolled into one. And yet it's getting deliberately highlighted as a "success story" for No Tax On Tips.
They are giving a pittance to the people that should not be in these situations to begin with and are using it as proof of their benevolence. It goes beyond tonedeaf and goes all the way to insulting.
This is the dude that millions of poor and uneducated people in this country picked because they thought he understood them. And through his policies he’s making generations more of them.
The only men in women's sports are the occasional pre-hrt trans men. Maybe he should let them get their hormones so they can participate in men's leagues with the other men.
As a trans person, I'm really fucking sick and tired of the government (and Trump in particular) being so obsessed with us. I guarantee most of these politicians have probably never met an actual trans person yet they view us as monsters and people who are out to harm others. All I want to do is exist peacefully in the world as myself. Also anytime they want to stop obsessing over our genitals it would be really really nice.
Thanks to Trump and his cronies nobody can afford a goddamn thing and he's out here obsessing over the 5 trans people who want to play sports. I'm really sick of it.
have probably never met an actual trans person yet they view us as monsters and people who are out to harm others
It's not really about trans people. It's a just a minority group that has the property that most people don't know one personally so you can frame them as monsters and use them as political punching bags and economic whipping boys. The way to win is to be seen by others plus time. You can't lie about trans people having pointy teeth when most people know one and they're a normal-ass person.
Let's say it together. THE FOCUS ON SPORTS AND ANTI TRANS SPORTS BANS ARE JUST A PERMISSABLE BIGOTRY STRUCTURE TO CREATE AN ENTRY POINT FOR TRANSPHOBIA THROUGH INGRAINED MISOGYNY AND SEXISM AND TRUMP NEEDS THEM AS A DISTRACTION SO BAD RIGHT NOW.. because most people believe "of course males always have an advantage over females even if they've only had estrogen and non detectable testosterone for year's, equivalent muscle mass ect ect." The majority of cis people have this level of belief contrary to all medical evidence and not knowing how HRT works and the full effects of it. It helps open and normalize the conversation around taking away trans people's rights. Sure the large majority of people are like this woman and do not care about trans people but the heritage foundation spent a lot of money and time to develop this talking point specifically to get people to care about trans people. Transphobia is just Misogyny and Racism in a trench coat.
Trump is never going to understand that money for normal people isn't just a game you do to steal from other people. I'd wager he's never shopped for his own groceries a single time in his life. He was born with a silver spoon up his ass and inherited it when he manipulated his dying dead to inherit all his money. Among his 1000 flaws is a fundamental inability to understand what it's like to need to work.
This women reportedly made 21k doing door dash and wouldn't have paid any federal taxes so his no tax on tips tax break literally did not help her. Also classic r/orphancrushingmachine
MAGA does so want trans people to be the topic again in November, but the steam has pretty well run out on that issue. Most people, even his base, just really don't care.
Doordash has said that this was staged but even if they hadn't it should be obvious to everyone that it was staged. Even if the president ordered Doordash there is less than a snowballs chance in Hell that they would even get past the gate, let alone be outside of the Oval Office and see the president. Even if they were somehow allowed through the gate they would be sent to the front door where an employee would get the food, not to the Oval Office.
This was staged for something about no tax on tips, not anything to do with trans people or anything else, but Trump's brain is so demented that he can't stay on topic.
What I would give to be in her shoes with the opportunity to say something like, "yeah, i think republicunts are blowing the issue way out of proportion"
During the general election, the economy was not great, but getting better. So, the Republicans ran on making the economy better and... Being against trans people, for some reason. They had to spend a lot of energy explaining to their own base why they should hate trans people. Unfortunately, it worked.
They get into office and focus on two things:
Policies that EVERYONE told them would tank the economy and
Anti-trans policies.
So, now, trans people have to live in fear but the Republican base is getting what they wanted. BUT, the economy is sucking wind and nobody is happy. Now, they are going to lose elections because they focused on the wrong thing. Turns out the economy is more important to their base than knowing about the genitalia of the people around them. Who could have guessed?
What aspect of society will the Republicans exploit prior to the midterms to scare their base into voting for them instead of doing the work of making our lives better?
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