Trump and his allies spent over $215 million on anti-trans ads during the election! Of that $215 Trump spent $25 million against us in ads. Let that sink in for a moment and then ask your self why?
Some Democrats blame party’s position on transgender rights in part for Harris’ loss
Republicans spent millions attacking Democrats on transgender rights. Some say that’s one reason why Harris lost.
NBC News
By Matt Lavietes
November 6, 2024Desperate for answers on what went wrong on Election Day, finger-pointing among Democrats and media pundits has been swift. Many — in private — are holding President Joe Biden responsible. Others are blaming the operatives who have run the party’s last several campaigns. But some are pointing to an issue with far less power in American politics: transgender rights.
“The Democrats have to stop pandering to the far left,” Rep. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., told The New York Times on Wednesday. “I don’t want to discriminate against anybody, but I don’t think biological boys should be playing in girls’ sports.”
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Democrats were hammered with misleading attacks on transgender issues. The party is grappling with how to move forward
AP News
By BILL BARROW and MARC LEVY
November 14, 2024After losing the White House and both houses of Congress, Democrats are grappling with how to handle transgender politics and policy following a campaign that featured withering and often misleading GOP attacks on the issue.
There is plenty of second-guessing after President-elect Donald Trump anchored his victory over Vice President Kamala Harris with sweeping promises on the economy and immigration. But Democrats also will not soon forget the punchline in anti-transgender Trump ads that became ubiquitous by Election Day: “Kamala is for they/them; President Trump is for you.”
“Week by week when that ad hit and stuck and we didn’t respond, I think that was the beginning of the end,” former Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said of the 30-second spot that was part of $215 million in anti-transgender advertising by Trump and Republicans, according to tracking firm AdImpact.
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“There are just a number of issues where we’re out of touch,” Rep. Seth Moulton, a moderate Massachusetts Democrat said in an interview, days after he set off recriminations within his party for saying he didn’t want his daughters playing in sports against biological males. Critics said Moulton echoed Trump’s talking points about liberals allowing “men to compete in women’s sports.”
“I think that Republicans have a hateful position on trans issues,” Moulton told The Associated Press, but insisted that Democrats still lose voters because of the party’s “attitude.”
“Rather than talk down to you and tell you what to believe,” he argued, Democrats should “listen to hard-working Americans.”
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Devastated Democrats Play the Blame Game, and Stare at a Dark Future
In interviews, lawmakers and strategists tried to explain Kamala Harris’s defeat, pointing to misinformation, the Gaza war, a toxic Democratic brand and the party’s approach to transgender issues.
The New York Times
By Reid J. EpsteinLisa Lerer and Nicholas Nehamas
November 7, 2024They spoke about misinformation and the struggle to communicate the party’s vision in a diminished news environment inundated with right-wing propaganda. They conceded that Harris had paid a price for not breaking from Biden’s support of Israel in the war in the Gaza Strip, which angered Arab American voters in Michigan. Some felt their party had moved too far to the left on social issues like transgender rights. Others argued that as Democrats had shifted rightward on economic issues, they had left behind the interests of the working class.
They lamented a Democratic Party brand that has become toxic in many parts of the country. Several noted that the independent Senate candidate in Nebraska ran 14 percentage points ahead of Harris in the state.
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Trump learned the lessons of Putin, Nicolás Maduro Moros, Viktor Orbán, and Joseph Goebbels, tell lies often enough and they become the truth.
The cruel truth behind Trump’s new attacks on trans people
As they try to blame us, there is one thing that stands out, the exit polls. In the NBC article they also write…
Instead of pointing fingers at us… they need to concentrate on the factory workers and office employees. They need to education that it is the billionaires that are holding them back with low wages, that it was the Republicans that blocked the increase in the minimum wage, it was the Republicans who destroyed the unions, it was the Republicans that cut the taxes on the uber-rich. It is the Republican that want raise the retirement age,
We are the low hanging fruit so we are “IT” it is all our fault… we are the scapegoat.
The cruel truth behind Trump’s new attacks on trans people
They learned the lesson of Joseph Goebbels… lie, lie, and lie some more to cover the other lies.The Trump campaign’s anti-trans advertising is pure scapegoating — with a bigger, sinister purpose.
VOX
by Aja Romano
October 30, 2024With mere days left on the 2024 political campaign trail, you might have noticed the Trump camp has increasingly turned to scapegoating familiar targets, including immigrants, the press, and women. It has also increasingly doubled down on attacks on trans people.
A recent ABC News report found that nearly a third of recent campaign funds — or $21 million, according to the report — for television advertising has been spent on anti-trans messaging from the Trump campaign and various conservative political groups. The independent journalist collective the Bulwark pushed the total even higher — to $40 million poured into anti-trans advertising within the last five weeks.
The ads, paid for by the Trump campaign, use a litany of anti-trans coding, including photoshopping Kamala Harris to appear as though she’s posing beside a nonbinary person in a mustache and a dress, despite plenty of evidence that this strategy is a turn-off for voters. “Kamala even supports letting biological men compete against our girls in their sports,” one ad declares. All three ads attack Harris for supporting gender-affirmative care for incarcerated trans people, including surgery where medically necessary.
As they try to blame us, there is one thing that stands out, the exit polls. In the NBC article they also write…
The Harris campaign’s LGBTQ engagement director, Sam Alleman, urged voters not to blame trans people for Harris’ loss.
“Please do not blame trans issues or trans people for why we lost,” he wrote on X on Thursday. “No exit polling or data is showing this as a significant decision point for voters.”
The issue voters most often cited as their No. 1 concern was “the state of democracy,” followed closely by the economy, according to the NBC News exit polls.
Instead of pointing fingers at us… they need to concentrate on the factory workers and office employees. They need to education that it is the billionaires that are holding them back with low wages, that it was the Republicans that blocked the increase in the minimum wage, it was the Republicans who destroyed the unions, it was the Republicans that cut the taxes on the uber-rich. It is the Republican that want raise the retirement age,
Why didn’t the Democrats bring this up as a campaign issue?House Republican budget calls for raising the retirement age for Social Security
A budget by the Republican Study Committee, a group of more than 170 GOP lawmakers, highlights how many in the party would seek to govern if Republicans win in November.
NBC News
By Sahil Kapur
March 20, 2024A new budget by a large and influential group of House Republicans calls for raising the Social Security retirement age for future retirees and restructuring Medicare.
The proposals, which are unlikely to become law this year, reflect how many Republicans will seek to govern if they win the 2024 elections. And they play into a fight President Joe Biden is seeking to have with former President Donald Trump and the Republican Party as he runs for re-election.
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For Social Security, the budget endorses "modest adjustments to the retirement age for future retirees to account for increases in life expectancy." It calls for lowering benefits for the highest-earning beneficiaries. And it emphasizes that those ideas are not designed to take effect immediately: "The RSC Budget does not cut or delay retirement benefits for any senior in or near retirement."
We are the low hanging fruit so we are “IT” it is all our fault… we are the scapegoat.
There are plenty of people of retirement age still working because they enjoy their jobs or need the money. One has to factor into the equation that the body tends to wear out over time which translates to going on social security disability until the old age portion of social security kicks in. How do you change Medicare without negatively affecting a person's health and financial well being? Try qualifying for private health insurance at age 65.
ReplyDeleteThe Republicans think everyone works at a desk but most workers in the U.S. do manual work. Farming, construction, the trades, factory jobs they do back breaking work!
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