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Well if you end up supporting Republicans it's gonna be "or else" good luck.

I predict you will spend 0% of your life trying to convince any politicians to change their mind on trans rights. You’re just trying to browbeat trans people into voting for transphobes.

They’re not gonna change if they’re doubling down on it. This argument sucks.

how do you idiots actually believe this

I feel like the question about the refund experience should come AFTER the refund has processed...

Jesus a healthcare coverage ban? That's insane. What a douche

Glad they are providing refunds, but wow. This is wow. This is scary.

I'm glad. If you're gonna make a maga red jackass campaign pledges your campaign budget should be red to match.

Ahh Blue Labour… The Consultant Class has a shitload of blame to shoulder. Plus Focus Groups and Triangulation.

Just to turn it around, you listed a bunch of things *you* need and are telling trans people that the gender-affirming care *they* need should be on the chopping block for the things you need. I already voted etc. so you can spare me that part of the outrage.

You are from Australia shut the fuck up

you must spend half your life just looking back on your embarrassments if you keep going on like this

He said in the ad he wants to cut off all federal funding to gender affirming care this would drastically increase the price on trans people even those who do not receive government assistance for such care.

Did you miss the OP?

Failure to meaningfully support, and even working against, a segment of your base could result in them abandoning you. That's the reality of building constituency. You need to get out of YOUR fucking silo and understand you can't abuse your base without consequences. YOU need to grow the fuck up.

Dean, as a cisgender Iowa woman, I would like to suggest that maybe a (presumably) cisgender man from a country with universal healthcare should shut the fuck up about how trans Iowans should be feeling about this. Shut ALL the fucking way up.

Easy to judge other people for not wanting their faces to keep getting eaten, when you've never even seen a leopard...

The thing he's proposing doing is a literal life or death issue, and instead of being a little shit about it maybe take the time to understand why trans Americans would be horrified at the prospect of their medical care being yanked from them by an unapologetic bigot.

You don't seem very invested in The Community if you're fine with some of its members being denied medical care.

Why do I have a responsibility to a community that has no equivalent responsibility to me? Solidarity is a two-way street. Trans rights or else.

You literally commented on a post about how Josh Turek is campaigning against our healthcare by telling us to vote Turek for healthcare.

My 🏳️‍⚧️ family could use the donation instead of this so-called politician. My partner is in remission for 3-years and we fell behind bc of his dental bills from going thru treatment Please NO HATE, I’m sensitive enough and an empath

I think about what really gets me is that it speaks to someone who actually DOESN'T know what they are talking about. 'Hi. I'm running on affordability. It's also why I support a ban on taxpayer money for diabetes coverage. I am someone who also suffered medical issues. Vote for me.'

This is the kind of petty I fully support. F Josh Turek!

Unless you're electing people to defeat Republicans you're not actually helping trans people.

As soon as you explain what happened to the people in every communist country that has ever existed, maybe I’ll look at your shitty website.

Communists are vilified because they are bad people, this isn’t hard.

It's an interesting choice to choose the bottom of the slope instead of fighting the slip.

Oh hohoho... I don't donate to politicians. That would be bad.

@erinbiba.bsky.social

No votes for fascists, no matter the colours they sport.

Does the color of the tie the fascists wear really matter when they come for people?

We either all live or all die together buddy

Maybe Dems should suck less if they want to win. Trans people will not be your human shield.

Why do they want to lose so badly?

Solution: run candidates that don't suck

To run a non-transphobic candidate in 2028? Or do you think there won't be other elections after the current cycle?

Attacks on trans people are the wedge point of a global movement to strip ALL women IN EVERY COUNTRY of their right to bodily autonomy. A fascist in blue is still a fascist.

Fuck yourself.

They need to lose this seat because transphobia is disgusting and shameful

Democrats should try being people instead of subhuman freaks who want a little apartheid as a treat.

Continue to remind them WHY they lost the seat.

I don't say this easily, but you may be too stupid to live.

just can’t resist wagging your finger can you! maybe just shut up if you have nothing to add. folks don’t want to give their money to a transphobe, this isn’t difficult.

Shut the fuck up, child. Don't come into this conversation unless you are capable of clacking your two brain cells together.

Need this for Fetterman…

Thankfully, I have no money. And I have not donated to anyone.

They're afraid too many candidates were leaning left are going to win and shift the party's direction and so they're getting their self-defense in first.

It's because these are DNC supported Schumer backed candidates with a high national profile who are all going transphobic at once right now as if they were getting marching orders. That is why people are upset.

I'm a saltwater angler so presumably my vote matters to you much more than a transgender person's would. I believe its wrong for ANY percent of the candidates to be transphobic

Start early. Show up to the town halls, the meet and greets, the events. Ask the question. When their door knockers ring your bell, ask the question. When you get campaign calls, ask the question. Keep asking. A non-answer is still an answer.

My only guess would be to reward pro-Trans Democrats who haven't thrown us under the bus? Like Ed Markey, Brad Lander, Abdul El-Sayed, etc.

As long as their not in either of the anti-trans mainstream parties

Theyre trying to pick up republican voters. They never cared about anyone left of themselves, just like republicans. They need the republican base to help them keep minorities down and they see this as a perfect time to make that play

You should all give me money instead of funding transphobic ghouls, I'd just get like a nice sandwich

It's possible to support neither candidate.

Love this. ❤️

Damn, wish I had so I can request a refund.

That’s the language they understand best.

I stopped donating $ to politics yrs ago bcs this kind of deception is all to common. They give lip service while holding a knife in one hand.

this is refund advice not election advice, numbskull. do you have nothing better to do than scold a trans person

I was wondering the same thing and glad you answered that. Wahls seemed like a really good candidate after I looked into y'all's primary, especially for LGBTQ rights. But I'm from CA and we aren't any better about choosing a good dem in our primaries, probably for much of the same reasons.

Democratic primary voters are basically frightened children who vote mostly on "electability." Until that changes we will continue to have this same problem.

lol y’all got duped again

Good point, at best would cancel each other out then

This affects a lot of people.

Amazing how we are simultaneously too few in number for policies that target us to be meaningful, and yet if we abstain from voting, we'd be the ones to blame for fascism winning. It's almost like you actually do need our vote and maybe don't be fucking fascists. Asshole.

I hear you, but Josh Turek isn’t going to send you to a camp. Even Centrist Dems aren’t going to invalidate laws that the Dems pass to protect marginalized communities, assuming enough Dems are elected to pass such laws. The idea that burning it all down is going to help the marginalized is fiction.

Oh wow. Should've been a better candidate if it's so essential

Roe was overturned because instead of passing legislation or pushing for a constitutional update, everyone sat around and left people's lives in the hands of the Court.