- Joined
- Aug 2, 2021
TBF if I was a born Jew (not just a spiritual Jew trapped in the body of a Protestant), deep in progressive politics, and Oct 7th 2023 happened, and suddenly all my political fellow travelers were deep in the tank for PALESTINE and getting all emotional and sad for the Gazans, and the college undergrads were all protesting on behalf of the Palestinians who just killed a bunch of holocaust survivor grandmas on a Sabbath, I would ploish out too, and not quietly. (It still pisses me off and I don't even have skin in the game.)Has anyone noticed how normal lefties are just done with the tranny shit? Quick personal. I know two people close to me who don't give a fuck anymore to hear about the tranny shit and the pushing the tranny shit on kids. Both are dems, one peaked after Oct 7th (they're jewish) and have completely disregarded all social progressive crap (they use to be super progressive) and the other is a soon retired professional/mother from where I work. She hates Trump with a passion but told me during lunch that "I don't care what people do with their free time but the transgender stuff (which I don't understand) is pushed too much and I'm against the transgender kids stuff." I think the silent majority has peeked. what do you think?
And yeah, I think the majority of people peaked on this a long time ago. They were trying to be nice about it. Trans BS may not be the thing that pushed them out, like your Jewish friend, but it's offputting to many Dems (for many reasons) and they barely tolerate the bullshit for tolerances' sake IMO.
I’m musing over the USAID closures today. On the face of it I thought that would be a bad idea because like most people I associated USAID with humanitarian food aid of grains, MREs, essential survival supplies etc. But now it’s coming out that USAID spent like 48,000 on a troon opera in Colombia? Another 32,000 to fund a troon comic book in Peru? 2 million for sex changes in Guatemala?
I asked my husband about it and he said "what you need to understand is that despite the name, USAID isn't about humanitarian aid or development. It's about toppling foreign regimes and projecting US power abroad."
Which just made me wonder more why the Biden admin wanted to export troonery to Latin America. Did they think that if these nations have more transgender people in them, they'd... not be combat ready? That TRAs can topple Hugo Chavez style strongmen? That such leaders would be More willing to follow the US' lead? One wonders. And I know these are tiny budget items, relatively speaking, but I wish they'd stuck to handing out grain. If USAID spent its entire budget eye on buying grain and shipping it to shithole countries they would have solved world hunger twice over