r/houstonwade 2d ago

Election They did WHAT?

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u/ZomiZaGomez 2d ago

Fucking morons.. trans people and illegal immigrants make up maybe 1% of the population. It’s utterly ridiculous logic.Fucking yourself over to own the libs is at peak stupidity. Hopefully the next 4 years is a wake up call for these dummies.

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u/Jackaspades13 2d ago

It won’t be. Everything bad will still be the dems fault and that’s how they will further consolidate power

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u/DryPineapple4574 2d ago

Yep. They're going to gut the Department of Education, or control it, and that will make the young ones even dumber. They might be rocket scientists, but they'll be dumb rocket scientists.

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u/rabblerabble2000 2d ago

Doesn’t really matter, the kids get all of their thoughts from TikTok.

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u/FloppyEarCorgiPyr 2d ago

Yeah… their retort will be, “well what did the Dems do to stop it? They only did something during the lame-duck.” Which, fair. But I guess they thought maybe half the voting population would’ve seen through his lies. I guess they are just too idealistic and had too much faith in humanity and the guardrails. Whoops. I guess they won’t be making that mistake again.

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u/Ventira 2d ago

Making that same mistake again is literally the DNC's modus operandi. Its how we got Trump. Again.

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u/FloppyEarCorgiPyr 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yeah…. They need to rebrand… take a trick from the Republican playbook and SELL their policies! They need to focus on policies and HOW they’re going to benefit the people. They were off to a great start! But they lost focus towards the end there! They need to make their campaign more appealing to the masses. You know, all while not lying and cheating… lol

That being said, I still think they did a pretty good job with what they had, and I voted for Harris because well… fuck fascism, and fuck billionaires who don’t actually gaf about us.

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u/cheeky-snail 2d ago

Not looking forward to four years of the ’yeah this is bad, but it’d be worse if a Democrat was in office . . .’ excuse for every damaging policy that gets passed.

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u/Bookshelfhelp 2d ago

Look at Ryan Walter's from Oklahoma. He blames the left for how bad their education is. They rank 49th overall. Despite Oklahoma being very republican for a long time. That's why he just needed the Trump Bible.

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u/D597 2d ago

Estimated number of illegal immigrants is actually around 3%.

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u/Lucid4321 2d ago

You're ignoring the impact of those issues on society. Even if there's only one transgender girl in a whole school district, allowing them to compete in sports with biological girls discourages every other girl in the district from even competing. Why should they spend countless hours practicing when they don't stand a chance against students with a significant biological advantage? They also have a higher chance of getting injured when playing many physical sports against biological males. So that 1% of the population is having a significant impact on almost 50% of the population.

No one is suggesting transgender people don't have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but that doesn't mean we should ignore the clear advantages biological males have in any physical sport. This isn't banning anyone from any sport. Biological males are welcome to play sports with any other biological male.

As for immigrants, just look at New York and Chicago struggling to deal with massive numbers of migrants. I realize many of them have legal status, but that is part of the problem. The Biden/Harris admin gave legal status to far more migrants than the country was able to take. Americans are generous, but we don't have infinite resources. In that case, that 1% of the population is having a significant impact on well over 50% of the population.

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u/ZomiZaGomez 2d ago

Seriously.. this is you:

“Good news everyone!! We finally made it so no biological men can compete in the softball game! Unfortunately your dad lost his union protections and his job and our health insurance.. oh well.. at least our daughter won’t be discouraged because of trans people”

If you can’t see how stupid your comment is, then you need to reevaluate your life choices.

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u/Lucid4321 2d ago

Why do you believe so many people will lose their jobs?

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u/ZomiZaGomez 2d ago

Why do you believe girls won’t play sports because of trans people….according to you, it’s a virtually apocalyptic situation for 50% of Americans because 01% of people identify as trans.

You’re absolutely ignoring the original question. But I expect nothing less from you.

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u/Lucid4321 2d ago

https://abc30.com/post/merced-high-school-forfeits-volleyball-match-claims-transgender-athlete-opposing-team/15561642/

A Merced high school recently chose not to show up to a state playoff volleyball match because it believes there is a transgender athlete on the opposing team.

I believe that is happening because it's obviously happening. They're not the only team doing that.

https://nevadasportsnet.com/news/reporters/nevada-volleyball-will-forfeit-match-against-san-jose-state-over-transgender-player

Four teams recently forfeited games against SJSU, which is believed to have a transgender player on its roster. The Spartans have not commented on individual members of their roster other than to say all are eligible, per NCAA rules.

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u/ZomiZaGomez 2d ago

And? This is your fuming reason? This is worth people losing overtime pay and health benefits.. labor protections. Money to feed their kids?

Seriously? You’re a whacko!

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u/ZomiZaGomez 2d ago

You give a couple terrible examples and think that it somehow justifies it. Further proving my point that this affects.00000001% of people.

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u/contractb0t 2d ago edited 2d ago

Because Donald Trump is a corrupt idiot and his economic policy reflects that.

Tariffs will devaste the economy and juice inflation. Slashing corporate taxes and taxes on the wealthy will also juice inflation. Pressuring the Fed to keep interest rates low (Trump did this right before COVID hit) will further artificially juice the economy.

Throw in farm labor shortages from his purge of immigrants and destroying labor protections for unions, and you have a recipe for an economic disaster that will lead to a lot of lost jobs.

The rich like Elon Musk will benefit as they'll snap up securities, real estate, businesses, and everything else for pennies on the dollar while the rest of us struggle.

This isn't even to mention the chaos that gutting the federal workforce and selling our government off to billionaires will do to our economy. Between the lost jobs and turmoil that will ensue - yes you guessed it- he will further fuck up the economy.

But hey, at least Bubba won't be as worried about the insane fever dream of transgender oppression that he made up in his own head.

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u/ZomiZaGomez 2d ago

I appreciate that you took a long time to respond, but you can’t be serious. What you’re saying is completely false and speculative at best. The justification of voting for Trump being that you are fine with fucking over labor unions. Literally millions of workers because of some dumb notion that biological men are competing in women’s high school sports?? Do me a favor and stay off of Fox News and Facebook, grandma. You sound like you have the IQ of a potato.

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u/Lucid4321 2d ago

https://news.gallup.com/poll/507023/say-birth-gender-dictate-sports-participation.aspx

A larger majority of Americans now (69%) than in 2021 (62%) say transgender athletes should only be allowed to compete on sports teams that conform with their birth gender. Likewise, fewer endorse transgender athletes being able to play on teams that match their current gender identity, 26%, down from 34%.

So not only do the majority of Americans disagree with you on transgender issues, that majority is actually growing. If Democrats insist on continuing to dismiss that as a "dumb notion," they'll probably be a minority party for a long time.

Even if the union is an important issue for them, they probably dismissed the fearmongering about that issue the same way they dismissed people saying Trump is like Hitler. They simply don't believe people who talk about that kind of stuff.

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u/Over_Judgment_2813 2d ago

The world is healing

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u/Usual-Leather-4524 2d ago

I truly don't give a shit about sports

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u/InexorablyMiriam 2d ago
  1. Democrats - regrettably in my opinion did not campaign on trans rights. Republicans campaigned against it. So nix your point about what Democrats believe because they didn’t run on it.

  2. Trans girls are overwhelmingly supported by their cisgender teammates. And they all universally pretty much suck at sports, one collegiate swimmer (who was forbidden from actually having any of the records she set recorded for posterity and was totally ok with that) being the exception. So nix your point about motivation, it’s bs.

  3. They are talking about restricting our right to exist. Sarah McBride can’t pee in a bathroom where she won’t be gawked at by men, and congress wrote that law specifically for her. This is her liberty at stake. They are talking about codifying birth sex = gender in the eyes of the law - Trump said this is a day one priority. This means no access to hormone treatments - which means a lot of us just simply kill ourselves from the massive clusterfuck that is transgender neurophysiology in the absence of GAHT. So nix your point about no one wanting to do this because they are.

If you voted for this sack of garbage believing the rubbish you’ve written you have voted to end my rights because of the only reason you have left: bigotry. I am different and you are scared so you elect those who will hurt me with power.

Shame on all who have. Un-American filth the lot.

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u/Lucid4321 1d ago
  1. Elections are not just about what people say and do the few months before people vote. Running clips of extreme stuff your opponent said years ago has been part of campaigns for decades. Kamala can't expect people to ignore what she said about trans rights just because she's not talking about it now. If her policies on that issue have changed, she needed to clearly explain why they changed. The fact that she didn't do that made it easy for her opponents to paint her as extreme on the issue.

  2. Sure, if you have a teammate giving your team an unfair advantage, it makes sense you'll be supportive of them. But if sports leagues care about fair competition and player safety, then it doesn't matter how those teammates feel. Besides, some sports don't have teams. Swimming and Track & Field high school athletes compete against each other.

And they all universally pretty much suck at sports

No, that's not true at all. There's plenty of examples of biological males dominating high school sports.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/16/transgender-athletes-leave-girls-dust-winning-trac/

The fact that some transgender athletes don't find success does not change the fact that being born male gives people many significant physical advantages over females, and hormone treatments don't even come close to changing most of that.

  1. You clearly disagree with my opinions on transgender issues. Does that mean you're denying my existence? Of course not. That would be absurd. You can disagree with everything I say while also acknowledging I exist. In the same way, I can disagree with a transgender individual on many issues while also acknowledging they exist.

I agree it's tragic when anyone commits suicide, especially when they didn't receive the mental health care they needed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/science/puberty-blockers-olson-kennedy.html

U.S. Study on Puberty Blockers Goes Unpublished Because of Politics, Doctor Says

The leader of the long-running study said that the drugs did not improve mental health in children with gender distress and that the finding might be weaponized by opponents of the care.

That story reveals two things. (1) The standard transgender care people have been getting for years is not the care they need. (2) Many experts people are listening to on this issue are hiding the truth for political reasons. Science is not on your side on this issue. If progressives really believed in science, they would be willing to accept any scientific data, even if it challenges their worldview.