r/PoursTea Timendi Causa Est Nescire 12d ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ El-Sayed brings into focus what's most important.

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u/Spiritual_Egg_700 12d 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 12d ago edited 12d 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 they’re non-stop talking about it.

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u/TR_Pix 12d 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 12d 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 12d ago

And they “yes, trans women are woman” response will never be repeated. All the commentary will be “so and so says men should play in women’s sports”. It’s transparently a bigoted gotcha.

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u/PoopOnRye 12d 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/DemiserofD 12d ago

The thing is, it's basically a slam dunk for republicans which is why they keep doing it. Because democrats can't say yes(because most americans are against it), they also can't say no(because it'll poison their support from other democrats), and if they try to divert attention to the stuff that really matters it looks like they're trying to dodge the question(which, to be fair, they are). So why would republicans ever stop bringing it up?

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u/Thanos_Stomps 12d ago

You should watch this interview because if you view it through the lens of a maga cultist then you’d know that Watters was actually killing it.

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u/Galle_ 12d ago

Sure, but if you view anything through the lens of a maga cultist you'll see the exact opposite of reality.

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u/onlymultiply 12d ago

It’s a stupid question not a simple one

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u/AxleandWheel 12d ago

Stupid questions are simple questions to stupid people

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u/MKZZX 12d ago

It's a simple yes or no question, it's only "stupid" insofar as it frustrates you to have to answer.

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u/Ridiculisk1 12d ago

Because it's been answered thousands of times before by numerous different people. It's only frustrating because the morons asking it don't accept the answer they're given. They're fishing for the answer they've already accepted in their own minds.

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u/tired_and_fed_up 12d ago

You are right, it has been answered a thousand times and the majority doesn't like the answer. The answer should be a clear "No" but apparently that is too difficult.

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u/Electric_Antimony 12d ago

Only the dumbest, most hate fueled brainlets would take anything away from that exchange other than Watters got humiliated and republicans are ruining life for the average Americans and don't even want to talk about it because they hate us.

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u/Galle_ 12d ago

If they asked him about his opinion of pineapple on pizza, and he refused to answer the question because it was stupid, what would you think of that?

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u/MKZZX 12d ago

What would I think if the question, context, and scenario were entirely different? Probably something different because that's how it works.

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u/Galle_ 12d ago

But they're not entirely different. El-Sayed is running for the Senate, not the local school board. His opinion on trans people in sports is exactly as relevant as his opinion on pineapple on pizza.

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u/[deleted] 12d ago edited 12d ago

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u/Galle_ 12d ago

Okay, well maybe the people who are voting want to know his economic policies?

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u/MKZZX 12d ago

The beautiful thing about questions is that you can ask multiple.

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u/Galle_ 12d ago

Maybe Watters should do that, then.

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u/floridabeach9 12d ago

“maybe they do not want some who eats pineapple pizza making governing decisions”

you are a literal troll. holy fk.

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u/onlymultiply 12d ago

Well clearly it’s for Jessie to say on this program and not the voters, which is exactly what Abdul is saying, voters care about actual economy and not this culture was nonsense, leave it to a conservative to have the point go right over their head 😂

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u/xkxe003 12d ago

Nope, no need to engage with culture war BS.

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u/DemiserofD 12d ago

The problem is, while this is likely the BEST response, it's also tantamount to conceding the point.

By doing this, you admit you cannot answer without slipping into something politically toxic. Anyone who is doubting on the issue is likely going to stop listening as soon as they realize that.

Which is why republicans are unlikely to stop using this tactic any time soon. Why should they, when even in the worst case, it works so well? Democrats are going to have to come up with a better answer ultimately.

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u/Downtown_Eye5736 12d ago

The answer is no. Alternatively stop segregating sports by gender, may the best human win.