https://bsky.app/profile/erininthemorning.com/post/3mynwzsux7k2u

Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet.

Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well.

Horrific.

  • RedWizardOPMA
    12·
    3 days ago

    You want people to vote for the “lesser evil” instead of the transphobes at Republican Inc. And that lesser evil is… checks notes The transphobes at Democrats Inc. Seems like a false choice to me. Especially when the person were talking about is in support of a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care.

    You want them to vote for the same “Democrat” who is a former registered Republican and voted for George W. Bush. Who explicitly campaigns on his willingness to work with Republicans and even with President Trump. Who calls himself a “common-sense moderate” and “common-sense prairie populist”. · The same “Democrat” that has represented a Republican-leaning district in Iowa since 2022. Who is described as “one of Iowa’s most bipartisan” legislators. And in one of his campaign ads reportedly highlights that he has “700 votes” working with Republicans.

    Yeah, I guess I don’t fucking get it.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 days ago

      Just so you know, I’m not engaging with the pretense that we can protest vote our way anywhere. That’s clearly never worked before and there’s no indication it ever would.

      • RedWizardOPMA
        5·
        3 days ago

        And what you are advocating for has lead us to this exact slate of candidates. You assume I’m suggesting a protest vote. I’m simply pointing out a contradiction that you seem to not recognize.

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 days ago

          If that were true I think you would’ve pointed it out in the post and in your first response, and nothing would’ve been there to criticize. Instead you write novels about how I want Democrats to be worse. You know it’s a lie, but you kept it up. That tells us something.

          • RedWizardOPMA
            5·
            3 days ago

            So you’re saying that it is not true that voting for a lesser evil doesn’t result in the slate of candidates that we’re seeing in front of us?

            Why are some of these Democrats adopting this anti-transposition when previously they didn’t have to? When Josh Turek got his seat in 2022, he did not have to run on anti-trans issues in order to do so. In fact, he even voted against a bathroom bill in 2023 that would restricted trans people from using bathrooms of their identified gender.

            Now he wants to pull funding from the federal level for Gender-affirming care. It sure seems like our lesser evil is moving to the right, along with their opposition.

            But why would they do that? Couldn’t there be an economic argument to be made, Instead of having to rely on this capitulation to the invented issues of the right wing conservative party? And if so, why are the Democrats not adopting it?