Trump flipped the script on "weird."
Strange to think that the direction of American democracy rested on the reaction of Americans in battleground states to male-to-female gender transition.
Watch: 30 Seconds:
Here is the script.
Charlemagne Tha God: "Kamala supports taxpayer funded sex changes for prisoners."Cutaway to Harris, speaking: "Surgery."
Interview host: "For prisoners?"
Kamala Harris, speaking: "Every transgender inmate in the prison system would have access."
Charlemagne Tha God: "Hell no, I don't want my taxpayer dollars going to that."
Black Guest on Charlemagne's show: "Kamala supports transgender sex changes in jail where I don't want it."
Voiceover: "Kamala even supports letting biological men compete against our girls in their sports. Kamala is for they, them. President Trump is for you."
The closing visuals in the ad were predominately people of color along with text asserting that Trump tax cuts benefitted middle- income, working-class people.
There was a second ad stating that even the liberal media was "shocked" at Harris' position. The ad showed Harris twice saying, "Every transgender inmate in the prison system would have access." YouTube
Under liberal border czar Kamala Harris, illegal aliens are pouring into our country, including murderers, rapists, and even terrorists. Instead of paying for their crimes and receiving justice, Kamala will give criminal illegal aliens to taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries.
Democratic-oriented commentary finished the campaign condemning Trump having said he would protect women, "whether they wanted it or not." The premise of the commentary was that this was disrespectful to women. It was patriarchal and overbearing. The commentary presumed women would hate it and link it to the abortion issue, with men taking control of women's bodies. No doubt some saw it that way.
But given the inundation of the transgender ads in battleground states, perhaps Trump's comment played differently with another, larger group of women. Trump might be seen as protecting women from Kamala Harris. She, not Trump, was the heavy-handed one exercising power over women's bodies. She would be the one who wouldn't "like it" if women were protected from inmates, border-crossing criminals, and oversized trans females. Trump is the no-nonsense candidate. Harris is the extreme one.
There are subtleties and nuances relating to the government's responsibility for the health and safety of people it incarcerates. Most would agree the government must supply insulin to a diabetic prisoner. It would set broken bones and do cancer surgery. It cannot lock people up and then kill them by medical neglect. But gender transition is new. A great many voters consider it some combination of weird, unnatural, and unnecessary. Maybe a majority of Americans have a live-and-let-live attitude toward gender transition, but paying for transition surgery for inmates goes too far.
Extreme cases make good wedge issues. The ten-year-old rape victim who was banned from getting an abortion in Ohio was a good wedge issue for Democrats. Transgender surgery was Trump's issue. Harris did what Dukakis did with the death penalty attack and Kerry did with the Swift Boat attacks. She didn't contradict the ads. The trans issue is complicated for Democrats. The ad message stuck.
The 2024 election is a profound fork in the road for America. Strange to think whether or not the U.S. president is subject to the rule of law, whether millions of people will be deported, whether Ukraine survives, who gets lifetime appointments to the federal bench, and whether Trump's effort to overthrow the 2020 election is validated as a crime against our democracy or validated as acceptable, depended on how Americans at the margin in battleground states felt about male-to-female trans people. That was Trump's closing argument and strongest case.
Trump made Harris look extreme and weird.
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Trump made Harris look extreme and weird.
No, Harris made Harris look extreme and weird.
Remember during the Olympics when a trans former guy boxer beat the crap out of an actual female champion boxer to the point where she felt like she had to quit to avoid permanent injury? She said she had never been hit so hard in her whole life.
Here’s a quote about the election from Caitlyn Jenner that’s been going around on the Internet:
“I haven't seen a man beat a woman this bad
since the Olympics...”
When it comes to biological males competing in women’s sports, the issue is only “complicated” for the woke far left. Everyone else with a lick of common sense knows that it’s just plain wrong.
Kamala made the decision to line up with the woke far left, and the Democrats followed right along.
“Get woke, go broke,” they say. Just look at what happened to Bud Light. It works that way in elections too.
As you said before, Trump is the better communicator. It’s just that what he communicates are mainly boldfaced lies, or “alternative facts” as his spinmeisters like to call them. Not that it matters, because to his followers the venom he spews is crème brûlée. When he claimed immigrants are eating our pets, that wasn’t weird to them. In fact, it was grounds for making bomb threats to schools. That’s why they’re called Trump’s Chumps.
All too often our emotional response (especially disgust) guides our actions more than our logic and reason. Democrats should have put out endless loops of Trump saying "Grab 'em by the p***" and of him mocking the reporter with the muscular disability.
Working class non-college educated voters outnumber elite college educated voters by about two to one. Those working class voters went overwhelmingly for Trump.
Spewing insults at them from atop a moral high horse is a losing electoral strategy.
I think I and many of my friends are edging toward the acceptance phase. It’s going to be whatever it’s going to be and I don’t have control over it so I might as well just accept it. There is a peace of mind that comes with this acceptance. I may not like how it turned out, but I have had to accept other things I didn’t like and it’s okay. Be happy.
MT, the woman boxer at the Olympics was not transgender, but your comment proves what Peter, Mike Steely and others are saying. People believe what they want to believe regardless of the facts.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/false-accusations-surrounding-olympic-boxer-highlight-debate-around-gender-and-sports
You are apparently correct. She was not “officially” trans. But she had undescended testicles and male levels of testosterone.
She might as well have been trans.
People who have gone through male puberty, for whatever reason, should not be competing in female athletics. That’s the underlying common sense truth that’s much more important than the details of precise definitions.
MT, spewing insults was a winning strategy for the Trump campaign. Their insults were crude and disgusting beyond belief, which their supporters seemed to like. I look forward to a day when this is not the case, but I may not live long enough to see it.
MT, Imane Khelif is suing over all the misinformation regarding her gender. It may or may not be true that she went through male puberty, but I doubt it. Your opinion is that she should not be allowed to compete. Do you also believe that men whose genetic make-up cause them to be 7 feet tall should not be allowed to compete in basketball?
It was a winning strategy for Trump because he was offending minorities. You can do that and still win elections. It didn’t hurt that some issues pushed by those minorities were incredibly annoying to the majority, like pronouns.
Insulting and offending a majority is a whole different thing, and not functional if you want to win elections.
Trump apologists don’t appreciate being contradicted with facts. If the facts don’t support their preconceptions, they’d rather make up their own. They’re quick to accuse those who point out the obvious of “spewing insults” when, in fact, it’s their cult leader that’s been doing it for years.
Where'd you learn about her testicles?
The Olympic boxer in question has a vagina. She has no penis. Not surprisingly, she was identified as a female at birth. Her gender was plain as day. She was raised as a girl. What else? She perceives herself as female, quite naturally. Female is on her birth certificate, of course. Most anti trans people insist that gender is obvious, determined at birth, not changeable, and that for athletic purposes, the birth certificate is the determining factor. Later, in teen age, it became apparent that she is an example of androgen insensitivity. She is XY, but male expressing structures did not develop, so she grew the default body, which is female. Since anti-trans people make a big push that external genitalia at birth, recorded on a birth certificate is determative, she did exactly what they require, and competed as female, the gender she has always known herself to be.
MT, you must have missed the insults toward veterans, veteran's families, disabled people, members of the republican party who don't agree with them, particularly disgusting insults toward women (who are NOT a minority in the general population, only in posititions of leadership)....in general, Trump and his minions have been exceptionally crass and beligerant against just about everyone. Misinformation and disrespect won over truthfulness and honor.
Peter told me. I trust him.
I also found this article:
https://www.marca.com/en/boxing/2024/11/05/6729fa57268e3e3d0e8b459a.html
There’s a difference between normal variation within a gender and abnormal variation. There’s a reason why it’s against athletic rules to do various kinds of hormone doping.
Do you remember those female East German athletes from before the wall fell? The ones that had to be led into the arena with a rope through a nose ring, snorting and pawing the ground?
It’s very bizarre how the far-white used gender issues to try and make Harris seem weird when they are so obviously the ones obsessing over it. Maybe they can get jobs checking girls’ locker rooms for undescended testicles.
Assigned as female at birth? These days, that’s treated per the prevailing social science as merely a point of departure, if anything in the wrong direction.
From what I’ve gleaned, anyway, Khelif’s purported vagina is as likely to be a micropenis, per the rare “intersex” category. Should hormones and puberty govern?
If anything, Khelif is an example of biological complexity, or ambiguity. The UPenn swimmer, on the other hand, with many others, stands for “I Announce Today”.
Khelif has sued the people who leaked her medical records, which may or may not be accurate. At some point she may choose to talk about her unique physical abilities, but this is not relevant to this discussion. The people in charge of the events decide whether or not she is eligible to participate, not us. The acceptance of each individual's genetic make-up has endured a huge setback due to its use as a political weapon, unfortunately.
MT, the article you referenced was about doping, not genetic differences.
The transgender population in the U.S. is estimated to be about 0.6%, but it takes up about ten times that amount of the Republican brain. Weird.
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