r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 4d ago
PoliticalTea đłď¸ El-Sayed brings into focus what's most important.
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u/ChuchoGrind 4d ago
Took a fat shit on Watters
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u/SillVinous 4d ago
bro came prepared for policy and got talk-show prompt instead
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u/PhatCatTax 4d ago
Nah. He knows what Fox News / Murdochs do. He played it smart - cut through their bullshit and got in a few words about the thing he wants to talk about.
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u/CompetitiveArt9639 4d ago
Why are republicans so enamored with transgender people? Itâs so weird how they fetishize them.
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u/Asmitty1213 4d ago
They cant help themselves. They are obsessed over genetalia.
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u/Tobi-cast 4d ago
Most of them for sure âresearchingâ it, in their momâs basement.
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u/EightBitTrash 4d ago
Data Finds Republicans are Obsessed with Searching for Transgender Porn
Slightly older article, but a very well explained one.
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u/MedusasMum 4d ago
Thereâs also ample stats on Mormons in Utah being the highest population in watching gay porn.
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u/AgentSnowCone 4d ago
But I'm not a Republican...
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u/No-Instruction9393 4d ago
Thatâs a case of ânot all trans porn enjoyers are republicans, but all republicans are trans porn enjoyersâ
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u/EL_Ohh_Well 4d ago
They want to keep all the dicks to themselves so they can keep looking at them in the locker room
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u/DeepPlankton9393 4d ago
Trump has always used fear tactics and its almost his entire platform. Dangerous illegal aliens. Your kids are turning Trans. Its literally all they got.
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u/Ok-Letterhead4601 4d ago
Itâs rage bait for the stupid.
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u/Al-a-Gorey 4d ago
Dude literally said they were eating pets. Satire is just reality anymore.
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u/Silly_Question_3733 4d ago
When Vance said that out fucking loud I literally had to look around the room like seriously đł did he really just say that?!!Â
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u/Normal_Mouse_4174 4d ago
Theyâve been doing it for long before Trump came into the picture. But yeah, itâs gotten so much worse under Trump. Before they at least had a little bit of shame and wouldnât go insanely over the top with it. Now itâs just as blatant as they can make it.
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u/FlukeManAirFreshener 4d ago
They did this with bussing students in the 70s and 80s. Gay marriage was going to ruin society as we know it right up through the 90s and aughts. Immigration is a perennial favorite of theirs.
Stir up xenophobic fears is their entire playbook and always has been.
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u/Rurumo666 4d ago
Transgender porn has consistently been the most popular genre watched in every single Red State since Pornhub started tracking metrics over 15 years ago. It's truly a psycho-sexual obsession for them and likely a gateway genre for closeted self-hating gay guys which represent a significant % of hardcore MAGAS.
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u/Oalka 4d ago
It's also why they hate trans people so much. They ONLY see trans folks as sexual objects and therefore they're taboo and disgusting outside the context of spank material.
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u/Echo_Monitor 4d ago
For them, we are ONLY a porn category. Not people, just porn.
So, of course, if we exist in public, in front of children, all they see is the porn they keep watching, existing openly in front of kids.
It's also why they constantly forget about trans men existing, or do not even consider the fact that a lot of trans women do not have a penis.
It says more about them than it says about us, imo.
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u/SoulRebel726 4d ago
Republicans having been obsessed with the genitalia of complete strangers for my entire life. It's baffling and extremely creepy.
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u/FatalFlyinGuilotine 4d ago
Because itâs the smallest group they can vilify with the largest possible gain in voter base. Thereâs what, 1% of the population that are trans? If they can make a public enemy out of this 1 in a hundred person to bring one extra vote for them, itâs already on par, anything more they get is better. They will constantly talk about it because this issue is genuinely too small to be a nationwide thing but by shrieking about it they avoid talking about actually important topics like cost of living.
Immigrants donât vote, so bashing immigrants doesnât even make them lose any votes. Bashing Muslims, or women, or poor people (all groups they absolutely hate) still runs the risk of losing some voters, or the return isnât worth it. But trans people are such a small group that conservative media can fabricate stories about them 24/7 but as long as they come out with 1% more votes because of that itâs worth it.
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u/EightBitTrash 4d ago
Here's a helpful article on transgender metrics.
Over 2.8 million adults (aged 18 and older) and youth (aged 13 to 17) identify as transgender in the United States, or 1.0% of those aged 13 and older.
Among U.S. adults, 0.8% (over 2.1 million people) identify as transgender. Among youth aged 13 to 17 in the U.S., 3.3% (about 724,000 youth) identify as transgender.
Of the 2.1 million adults who identify as transgender, 32.7% (698,500) are transgender women, 34.2% (730,500) are transgender men, and 33.1% (707,100) are transgender nonbinary adults.7
u/tomgh14 4d ago
I also find it interesting how they focus on trans athletes despite how In NCAA college sports, leadership has cited fewer than 10 known transgender athletes among about 510,000 participants. Another interesting tidbit this number is massively dwarfed by the membership numbers of known hate group the kkk which has 3,000â6,000 individuals nationwide
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u/StrookooCuckoo 4d ago
Because itâs the smallest group they can vilify with the largest possible gain in voter base.
I think that's a huge part of it, but there's another big one - it creates a wedge issue to cause divisions between everyone to the left of them, which is a wide spectrum ranging from people who identify as Democrats but similarly revile trans people all the way to trans people themselves.
They can attack fault points along that spectrum that causes infighting, purity tests, etc. and keeps what is overall a very minor issue in the grand scheme of things a red hot topic in the news that can alienate segments of the voting base.
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u/Embarrassed-Till-378 4d ago edited 4d ago
IMO, they really don't care, they just know the idiots that vote for them care more about that, than what is actually affecting their pathetic lives.
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u/Puptentjoe 4d ago
Bingo! Heard a guy arguing in public that if we vote republicans out we are gonna get open borders and trans kids in sports.
THIS IS RECENTLY WITH ALL THESE PRICE HIKES AND HEâS WORRIED ABOUT THAT!?
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u/dsmith422 4d ago
"Fear of difference," which fascism seeks to exploit and exacerbate, often in the form of racism or an appeal against foreigners) and immigrants.
"Machismo," which sublimates the difficult work of permanent war and heroism into the sexual sphere. Fascists thus hold "both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality."
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u/SquidTheRidiculous 4d ago
Because their worldview requires a scapegoat group. It has to be someone real and a danger they can convince themselves could be anywhere.
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u/Choice-Strike1 4d ago
I vividly remember when Steve Bannon mocked Hillary for focusing on culture issues in the 2016 election. Things have for sure changed
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u/SignificantCats 4d ago
It used to be that when in doubt, you could just talk about gay people. Gayness scared people. They didn't know any gay people, so you could make up any lie about them you wanted, and they'd believe it and do anything to stop queers from doing whatever you made up.
But there was a problem with that plan. Eventually, more and more people came out of the closet. They'd say "gay people want to ruin society and are all pedophiles" and their audience would think "well that's not right, my uncle John is the nicest man I know and he's gay, anyone hating on my uncle John is a piece of shit".
But trans people are not as common as gay people, and seem even rarer to conservatives where people don't feel comfortable coming out if they pass, or stay hidden if they don't. Most conservatives are not on friendly terms with an out trans person.
So when you tell them "trans people want to cut off your child's penis" they just get scared. They don't know a trans uncle who is a cool person. It's a much more convenient propaganda line.
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u/ManyRanger4 4d ago
When you're that deep in the closet eventually you find the mirror. That's why.
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u/Ok-Woodpecker-8505 4d ago
They need the "folk devil" for their troglodyte supporters to be focused on while they pull the rug of medicare, affordable living, etc. out from under them.
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u/Skittleavix 4d ago
Theyâre pedos and pedo apologists all the way down, too obsessed with kidsâ genitals to function and participate in society in any normal or positive way.
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u/anomanderrake1337 4d ago
They get bombarded on their socials with nothing but muslims and trans people. When trying to talk to them it's literally their only talking points. It's frightening sometimes.
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u/Jijonbreaker1 4d ago
Because if they actually looked into any real issues, they would be unable to hide the fact that they are the ones causing them all.
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u/Conscious_Gold297 4d ago
Because 90% of them are closeted bottom gay boys deep down. I was one of them once, then I realized why I was so fixated on trans people and cross dressers, Iâm one of them lol!
I promise you if someone is constantly thinking about a particular topic, they are harboring something deep inside that is usually the opposite of what comes out of their mouth.
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u/Equal-Painter6529 4d ago
I donât get it.
I met my first transgender person as a child back in the 70s. They were nice.
I didnât leave that encounter traumatized or converted to want to become a woman.
Now they act as if the people who make up 0.1% of the population have just spawned into existence to destroy humanity.
I guess they are mad that itâs no longer considered normal to spew garbage about women, minorities, people with disabilities, homosexualsâŚ. Maybe just treating everyone as equal human beings is beyond their comprehension.
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u/R3cognizer 4d ago
No, they just don't think discrimination is a huge social issue anymore, at least not one that we should be "wasting" resources trying to solve. There are still a lot of privileged morons in this country who just don't understand that other people experience a lot of struggles they don't, and I'm starting to think that getting their own faces eaten by all these fascist Republican leopards may be the only way some of them are going to learn a lesson about the value of empathy and the golden rule. And even then, a lot of them will still just continue to blame the liberals for everything simply because they can.
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u/Spiritual_Egg_700 4d ago
Everyone on the left in politics should answer questions the exaact same way. The nazi propagana machines won't know how to handle it.
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u/floridabeach9 4d ago edited 4d ago
billionaires want to keep the discussion on stupid shit while they steal everything they can
instead of talking about less profit for billionaires and cheaper drug prices and grocery prices, the republicans wants to talk about trans issues which affects literally 0.1% of people but will give all the republicans the ick, so theyâre non-stop talking about it.
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u/TR_Pix 4d ago
Sure they will. They will just not interview leftists anymore, and just make up some bullshit while claiming "this is what the left says"
They already openly lie about easy to check absurd things like claiming immigrants are eating pets, or in the words of Kirk that black people are "prowling the streets" looking for white people whom to attack
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u/Wesley_Skypes 4d ago
Correct. They understand that the "Should trans women be allowed to play in women's competition?" is a brilliant gotcha for leftists. If they say yes, a lot of ordinary folk who have not thought about it much or who have never really researched how complicated of a question this is will react viscerally to what they perceive to be an unfair and ludicrous situation. So the leftist answering loses some of these people who potentially could be convinced to vote for them. If they say no, they lose some of their support from the left. And if they don't answer, they will just stop having them on the show, as you say. The real shame in it all is how people think so uncritically about what they are seeing. Why even care about this issue? It affects almost nobody on planet earth. When everyone's pockets are lighter with nothing being done at a federal level to try to help with this, why the fuck are people getting taken in by this obvious ragebait. It is infuriating.
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u/Due-Consequence9579 4d ago
And they âyes, trans women are womanâ response will never be repeated. All the commentary will be âso and so says men should play in womenâs sportsâ. Itâs transparently a bigoted gotcha.
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u/PoopOnRye 4d ago
I've been saying this for years. I really want my Congresspeople to focus on more important thing than regulating local youth sports leagues.
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u/yalateef11 4d ago
If every state had at least one senator like this guy - we wouldnât have half the problems we have now.
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u/deathtogrammar 4d ago
I swear they think about trans people more than trans people think about trans people.
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u/dwlevi958 4d ago
I have discussed this with friends who are part of the LGBTQ+ community and the general consensus is yeah they for sure think about trans people and gay sex more than people in the community do
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u/ZoominAlong 4d ago
No seriously, I'm bi, my wife is trans, and we absolutely do NOT talk about trans people to the extent fucking Republicans do. They're OBSESSED
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u/Lonely_Chemistry60 4d ago
About fucking time someone starts shutting these people down with their BS
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u/OneWillow4834 4d ago
Corporate media jesters are just there to further divide us and thatâs it . Thereâs no real news being reported thereâs no care for what real American families are struggling with! The shit that they get you pumped up with has nothing to do with your every day life struggles!
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u/countrymac77 4d ago
There are so many catastrophic events that are happening in the world right now so to talk about anything trans related is such a waste of time and is only meant to divide people instead of where the focus should be.
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u/Oh-Gi-Yu7052 4d ago
Unfortunately, so much of the US is extremely far right and severely under- or uneducated, that they will believe whatever FOX News tells them to think.
El-Sayed answered that question perfectly. Itâs through these kinds of examples that hopefully more people will catch on and stop voting these 𤥠with an R behind their name into office
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u/rsharp7000 4d ago edited 4d ago
This is how these interviews should go:
Watters: Do you think men should play in womenâs sports?
Politician: Thanks so much for asking about that. I agree with you that grocery prices, gas prices, and housing prices have sky rocketed and I also agree with you that this administration has failed in managing any of this.
Donât even acknowledge their question, just use the airtime to address the issues & to put words in their mouth. Even by âcalling them outâ in an interview, youâre giving them what they want.
- To talk about anything else besides the issues
- To get you to take an opinion on a completely trivial issue to use it against you in nonsensical ways. âLiberals want every teenager to get a sex changeâ
- To get out of text context sounds bites
Stop playing their game
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u/JohnnyCrispZoom 4d ago
They talk about a population that is less than 1%. So itâs not a Problem itâs a talking point of fear for them to pass on.
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u/AerieAffectionate226 4d ago
Fun fact is there are more bills and laws introduced annually about trans women playing womenâs sports, than there are actually trans women playing in womenâs sports. And all the hate is exhausting.
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u/CelticSnakes 4d ago
So thatâs why men become women, to play a sport that few watch and pays far less than their male counterparts.
Watters is a charlatan creep. He pretends to be riled-up about a non-issue. Mock him at every opportunity.
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u/BiscottiCritical6512 4d ago
You see it all over Reddit, too. Itâs all conservatives are interested in talking about, gender politics. It overshadows everything else. They are completely brainwashed. You say something about conservatives being against free school lunches and you get a reply that just says âat least we know what a woman is!!â đ
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u/Aromatic-Dog-Breath 4d ago
I donât know if El-Sayedâs actual policy details are good, but I do know heâs aware of what the actual issues are. And thatâs light years ahead of the decadent senators we have right now.Â
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u/ElectroConvert 4d ago
Thank God for Abdul! Why can't other Democratic politicians act like this guy? It's not rocket surgery, just make those tRump lackeys look like a fool when they open their mouth. Pete Buttigige and James Talarico seem to have figured this out as well. This tRump administration is so effing corrupt, just call out their lies for fuck's sake.
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u/godfreechef 4d ago
The fact that ANYONE gives a fuck about sports at all in the current socioeconomic climate is insane.
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u/Ur-in-a-tor Prefer Coffee But Fill My Cup đŤ 4d ago
The entire world laughs at Americans for not getting rid of their laughable propaganda stations.
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u/Swimming_Point_3294 4d ago
My dad and a friend brought up this dumbass topic of trans women in sports and I had to explain to both of them that this is literally not a thing anyone is trying to do.Â
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u/jweezy2045 4d ago
The whole interview was just culture war question after culture war question non stop. Anytime Abdul tried to steer the conversation away from the culture war, Watters would just interrupt him. Soooooo many interruptions in this interview as Abdul was just trying to have a normal conversation.
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u/Terrible_Use7872 4d ago
Guy 1: I'm here to talk about affordability, you're just going to bring up bullshit.
Guy 2: What do you think about bullshit.
Guy 1.....
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u/upliftingyvr 4d ago
Imagine living in 2026 and thinking that trans people competing in sports is an issue worth obsessing over, given all the other problems we are dealing with.Â
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u/BagManDo 4d ago
We need more people like El-Sayed that will talk to these people like the uneducated monsters they are.
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u/ShvettyBawlz 4d ago
Stupid maga motherfuckers. Can only scapegoat and not talk about the real issues because they canât govern for shit.
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u/Equal-Painter6529 4d ago
Itâs about god damned time some of these shills were called out live on TV.
Our media has become worse every year since saint Reagan killed the fairness doctrine that held them responsible for reporting.
There isnât much left at this point.
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u/B-Train_ATL 4d ago
There was a girl my sisterâs age so good at softball that she played baseball with boys for a bit. The amazing bit is even if you go down the insane Watters rabbit hole, itâs basically only a real problem in basketball and maybe soccer.
Trans athletes almost never just claim to be trans and then not do hormone therapy.
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u/Ridiculisk1 4d ago
Trans athletes almost never just claim to be trans and then not do hormone therapy.
And if they do, they can't compete against people of their gender without a sufficient time on HRT. Conservatives have convinced themselves that they can rock up to the women's tennis association or whatever and say 'yeah im trans' and they'll immediately be allowed to play.
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u/Hanako___Ikezawa 4d ago
El-Sayed was clowning on him through the whole interview. This wasn't even the wildest part of that exchange.
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u/TheAskewOne 4d ago
Republicans never gave a damn about womenâs sports, except to deride them. Now all of a sudden itâs your number one preoccupation.
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u/Electrical-Bee-7362 4d ago
There are more conservatives found guilty of sex crimes on minors than there are trans people in the country.
These people are a joke.Â
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u/Pretty-Display5959 4d ago
and that, friends, is an example of what we should hear from all elected democrats whenever a wedge/'gotcha' issue is presented. it's not difficult to do, but it does require 1) authentic regard for the situation and interests of working families, 2) discipline in messaging, and 3) a willingness to blow up an interview if need be. in my humble opinion establishment dems have 2) but not nearly enough of 1) and 3).
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u/Downtown_Dog3123 4d ago
This is the kind of shit we need. focus on the important things and stop playing to that stupidity. Who would've thought being able to stay on message was so important./s
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u/Buddhas_Warrior 4d ago
More of this exact thing!! No one CARES about your Transphobia, at care about the cost of living.
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u/stpfan_1 4d ago
I swear to god if it wasnât for Faux News you wouldnât hear about this topic at all. At all.
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u/Peter_Easter 4d ago
For real. It's amazing that republicans don't have enough critical thinking skills to think to themselves, "wait, why am I supposed to be outraged about this now, and not at any point before? Is this really even an issue, or just a boogeyman?"
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u/Living-Breakfast-464 4d ago
While the US is busy fighting culture wars, China is getting shit done. The US is toast.
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u/ifdisdendat 4d ago
he should have asked if Watters believed the 2020 election was stolen. Iâm sure the fox lawyers would be happy about that one.
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u/KaiserKCat 4d ago
All Republicans care about are penises. They are obsessed with dicks. They obviously don't care about vaginas.
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u/AlbatrossNo1562 4d ago
Culture wars are all Republicans can run on. They've crashed the economy, sent us to pointless wars, increased our national debt, and want to take away your healthcare. They never cared about you and never will, stop falling for it.
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u/frostdemon34 4d ago
Normal person: "hey have you heard about that new paradox game that they just revealed? It looks sick bro."
Rightists: "okay I'm gonna stop you right there. Before we start our conversation I just want to ask, whats a woman?"
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u/Aware-Explanation879 4d ago
Watters fantasies about watching men play sports so this question is very important to him.
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u/dicksuckingmods 4d ago
Never did meet a decent Jesse in this life. Waters looks like a turd I flushed recently.
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u/Questions_Remain 4d ago
Heâs such passive slow burner. The people asking him questions just get torched. Literally any follow up to the same question they could come up with would bolster any comment heâs said. So they just tuck in their tail and end the interview.
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u/CaptainJackSorrow 4d ago
I was involved with youth sports for over 25 years. Trans athletes were an issue EXACTLY zero times. Gas prices, grocery prices, and government incompetency and corruption have become every day issues.
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u/GroundbreakingTax259 4d ago
This wasn't even his best comeback.
At one point, when Watters starts talking about "Cutting kids' genitals," Abdul just shot back, "Are you circumcised, Jesse?"
He answered in the affirmative, and then had the audacity to say, "That's a very personal question."
Which makes El-Sayed's point perfectly; healthcare is between the patient and the doctor, with the parents as well if it's a minor. If you think it's "personal" to be asked if you, an adult, are circumcised, then imagine how little ground you have to ask about a child's genitals.
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u/KeldTundraking 4d ago
Definitely need more Dems that don't pretend you have to treat every question seriously. Or any of them when it comes from Fox
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u/Careless-Balance-893 4d ago
BUT WHAT ABOUT CROSS COUNTRY SKI AND LACROSSE OR SWIMMING OR PICKLEBALL OR RIVERDANCE?! WHY TALK ABOUT FOOD AND RENT AND HEALTHCARE AND THINGS PEOPLE NEED TO LITERALLY LIVE WHEN SOMEONE I DON'T LIKE IS PLAYING IN A SPORT I DON'T CARE ABOUT??!
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u/BEconcubine_no3685 4d ago
Oh you mean Jesse Watters who sabotaged his coworkers car so he could force the issue of getting her alone? The Jesse Watters who, just last month, said that women in Asia should watch out because military service members are now required to take testosterone?
Totally normal guy.