My LGBT guest, white suburban woman, is outraged by transgender rights. Told me trans people don’t exist and then went off on how men are dressing up as women in prisons so they can rape female prisoners.
No amount of data could make a difference. You’re damn right that ad was effective. She also said Dems will never win if they support trans rights. There is a lot of push back even from the gay community.
While I don’t buy your conclusion, Kamala was wrong not to have addressed the issue, along with Joe’s genocide. Please don’t backhandedly attempt to remake Fox as anything but the cesspool it has always been.
Anyone having a problem with long replies (not new comments) unable to click the reply button, you can work around it, at least in Chrome and Edge, should be similar on Firefox, not sure about phone browsers like Safari.
Right click on the textarea box, select Inspect if you don't see it there might be a little arrow at the bottom of the menu hold the mouse over the little arrow and the menu should scroll down and Inspect should be at the bottom.
Should open a debug window or maybe another tab with a number of panes, one with the html, another with diagnostic options (styles, computed, layout, event listeners) across the top, select styles if not already selected
??? = some number probably between 118 and 178, mouse over that and a checkbox will show up. Uncheck the checkbox and the textarea will revert back to its normal size with a vertical scrollbar and the reply button will be clickable
Actually it's easier than this. Just enter the first part of the reply and then edit the reply (click the ... to the far right of your name and select Edit). For whatever reason the box still expands but the Save button is still clickable because it doesn't overlay the elements below the way the Reply button does.
:-\ Thanks but for the moment I think I'll stick to tight editing and breaking it into parts. But I will keep a copy of this just in case I get sufficiently irritated. Thanks again!
I recall some decades ago replying to a relative who said she wasn't worried about media concentration because "I think what I think, not what I''m told to think" by saying "It's true that the media can't control what you think. But they do have a lot of influence over what you think about."
I've posted this before, but what VP Harris should have said in her interview was not this:
"JACKSON: …do you believe that transgender Americans should have access to gender-affirming care in this country?
HARRIS: I think we should follow the law."
This exchange was infuriating for a couple of reasons. First, VP Kamala Harris is not this stupid. Second, her handlers (looking at you, David Plough, you fucking asshole), who insisted she give a non-response/shove-under-the-bus-response should go to work for RepubliKKKan candidates.
Harris should have responded by saying this:
I believe all Americans, and all people in custody in US prisons, should have access to high quality, evidence-based health care from qualified, board certified specialists who are following the standards of care established by their specialty organizations. We have seen the increased mortality and morbidity suffered by women who live in reproductive slavery states, where their providers are restricted by state laws from providing the normal standard of care. I don't want to see any other group, regardless of their immigration status, denied health care by bigoted lawmakers who don't know anything about healthcare. Next question."
Kamala like many progressives did say some stupid things. Defund The Police is unquestionably stupid unless we as a society want each individual to take responsibility for their own security. I don't know enough about gender surgery or for that matter transgender in general to know when or if surgery becomes medically necessary, which is the criteria for providing it to prisoners at taxpayer expense. And it was such duing the Insane Clown administration as well. So yeah she needed to give a thoughtful response along those lines. People will respect you if you take a stand and defend it, even if they disagree with it. Bernie was smart enough when he ran not to embrace defund the police. He did get some heat on prisoners having the right to vote, he didn't back off and was and sttill is respected for it. Kamala stood for nothing and fought for nothing. Even on fracking she preferred looking like an idiot than to speak the unspeakable forbidden words Climate Crisis. Is Plouffe the one who decided a joyous pom pom waving Barbie Doll is the optimal strategy to oppose an Insane Clown madman? Plouffe can go Plouffe himself.
As for Harris, what she said was, in essence, "It's legal. I'll follow the law." Which is a pretty lame response. Better would've been something like "When you're in federal custody, the federal government is responsible for your welfare. Deny this care? What other care that had been determined to be medically necessary would you deny to prisoners?"
"Defund the police" was *supposed* to mean something like "redistribute some funding to relevant social services so police don't deal with situations for which they are not properly trained and are more likely to respond with unnecessary, even lethal, violence."
But many people took it as you did - which is why I think that it may have been the worst political slogan of all time, one that not only didn't express what was meant but absolutely invited people to misunderstand it.
Yeah but these are politicians who should know better. What they needed to say is that we support the police who almost without exception are dedicated public servants. What we do not support is the criminal element that inevitably will be attracted to the perception of being above the law because they are the law. That criminal element although minuscule does enormous damage when it shows up and we must remain ever vigilant in weeding it out.
My comment was really intended just to note my opinion of "defund the police," but yeah, I agree they should do/have done better.
As for the rest, I resist the adjective "minuscule" - the number is clearly higher - but agree that most cops are what we'd call good cops, i.e., want to do right by the law and the community. But I'll have mental quotes around the word "good" until we can rely on that clear majority of "good" cops to stop shielding the bad ones.
great points! I've always liked Bernie but as long as he calls himself a SOCIALIST he will be rejected by the people who see that word as poison. Our education/indoctrination makes socialism a evil even though we love the programs we use....
Bernie doesn't go around calling himself a socialist. Unfortunately he doesn't call himself a Democrat either which is why Kamala gets full support from Democrats even though she said a lot more stupid things than Bernie. If they put him on the spot he will say he is a Democratic Socialist but really Bernie never talks about Bernie.
(continued because you can't click the reply button if the comment gets too long)
We'll never know but I do know that Insane Clown's own pollster Fabrizio says that Bernie would have beaten Insane Clown in 2016. Recall that Insane Clown challenged Bernie to debate and wasted no time punking out.
'Fraid not true: I use Firefox. I'm moved to think the problem is Substack's software as this doesn't appear to affect comments, only replies to comments.
Yeah it's only replies. The box gets bigger up to a point and then the vertical scrollbar shows up. But when it gets bigger it overlays the ... (edit, delete, etc). The same thing happens on new comments but in that case there's no ... to overlay. I never noticed it before. Maybe because I never posted long replies, or maybe it's a windows 11 problem I recently upgraded from windows 10.
No smiley faces, no stupid platitudes, no sports metaphors, Bernie just gives it to you straight, the issue and the solution. Bernie would have kicked Insane Clown's ass in 2016, 2020, 2024 if he got the support that Kamala got from Democrats. Unfortunately the Democrat establishment would rather have Insane Clown than Bernie. But even if it isn't Bernie or even a progressive just take a stand and stand by it.
The right discovered wedge issues could distract people from economic issues a long time ago. I don’t expect them to change that anytime soon. And the press has known for a long time that controversial issues sell papers and that hasn’t changed at all in the digital age. That’s why I’ve tried to get news from a variety of sources. But it seems like all the legacy media do is report the same stuff. It’s all clickbait now. The way the transgender story went viral is a perfect example of this.
That button has 'www.' in the link, which shouldn't be there.
If you delete that part of the address from the security notification page, it would take you to the main page of this substack, where you can subscribe as a paying member.
Didn’t republicans several years ago run organized, very focused, “training camps” for political operatives, talking heads and canvassers? They gave out specific strategies to deal with topics and keep media and the public’s perceptions biased toward their set talking points. The left needs the same type of trainings starting now and constantly, not just before elections. Maybe we need to make true the accusation thrown at Obama, read and teach from Saul Alinski’s book Rules for Radicals.
the Republicans are in a minority so they got organized and speak as one .... Republicans are like dogs and Democrats are like cats "you can't herd them". I propose they change the name to Democats ... everyone loves cats?
The MSM became a disingenuous source of news a very long time ago by pretending that opinion pieces and yelling matches were news. Their producers and billionaire owners did not want facts to get in the way of their propaganda
While we tie ourselves in knots over the transgender question and a thousand other excuses I've heard for Kamala Harris' loss, Donald Trump is never held to account for anything he has ever said. Ever. He has never articulated a solid position on any fucking thing. He speaks in ambiguities and and offers up "Almost always" and "Maybe evers" and "Many people says" and we're losing our country over it. The result of marinating millions of American brains in the warm bath of Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, its NewsMax/OAN/Breitbart spawn, and Pod Bro grievance 24/7/365 for 35 years has had its intended effect.
I so wish I knew how to nail this jello re-Pres-elect to the wall to answer for himself.
My brother (a non-reader) never used to watch the news he told me - he said, until he found Tucker Carlson. I think he was then able to join the club - he needed that. The 'club' is 'in on' (because of guessing) the 'nefariousness of the Democrats'. This is much worse than general indifference: 'Guessing' not only suffices as 'truth' when it comes to 'the other side', it actually provides a 'high' for these cultists. .....and the darker the better (the more potent the drug).
Defending the rights of powerless minorities is the essence of Democracy. And it falls to Democrats to do that no matter if they are 5%, 0.05%, or 0.000000005% of the population.
Unfortunately Kamala did open the can of worms as to inmates transitioning and the Nazi Party has latched onto that and the other edge issues you mention as a distraction from their real agenda which is to make all gender transition illegal just as it is to make all abortion illegal.
Well, I do know what to tell you. Phrases like "irreversible harm" (when actual harm, seen in rates of psychological stress and suicide, is already occurring and regret rates are extremely low) and "biological males" (when the strict requirements trans athletes have to meet in order to compete makes chromosomes irrelevant) ->cont.
<-combined with imagining that adults aren't affect by any of this (when the restrictive laws increasingly aim at all ages) together show that you are deeply ignorant both of the science involved and the realities trans folks face. ->
My LGBT guest, white suburban woman, is outraged by transgender rights. Told me trans people don’t exist and then went off on how men are dressing up as women in prisons so they can rape female prisoners.
No amount of data could make a difference. You’re damn right that ad was effective. She also said Dems will never win if they support trans rights. There is a lot of push back even from the gay community.
While I don’t buy your conclusion, Kamala was wrong not to have addressed the issue, along with Joe’s genocide. Please don’t backhandedly attempt to remake Fox as anything but the cesspool it has always been.
Liars continue to lie and not be held to account. If this is the new normal it fucking sucks.
Anyone having a problem with long replies (not new comments) unable to click the reply button, you can work around it, at least in Chrome and Edge, should be similar on Firefox, not sure about phone browsers like Safari.
Right click on the textarea box, select Inspect if you don't see it there might be a little arrow at the bottom of the menu hold the mouse over the little arrow and the menu should scroll down and Inspect should be at the bottom.
Should open a debug window or maybe another tab with a number of panes, one with the html, another with diagnostic options (styles, computed, layout, event listeners) across the top, select styles if not already selected
look for
element.style {
height: ???px;
}
??? = some number probably between 118 and 178, mouse over that and a checkbox will show up. Uncheck the checkbox and the textarea will revert back to its normal size with a vertical scrollbar and the reply button will be clickable
Actually it's easier than this. Just enter the first part of the reply and then edit the reply (click the ... to the far right of your name and select Edit). For whatever reason the box still expands but the Save button is still clickable because it doesn't overlay the elements below the way the Reply button does.
:-\ Thanks but for the moment I think I'll stick to tight editing and breaking it into parts. But I will keep a copy of this just in case I get sufficiently irritated. Thanks again!
What is this “tight editing”?
It's one of those philosophical ideals we all strive for - always sought, never achieved.
Actually there's an even easier way see above.
I recall some decades ago replying to a relative who said she wasn't worried about media concentration because "I think what I think, not what I''m told to think" by saying "It's true that the media can't control what you think. But they do have a lot of influence over what you think about."
I've posted this before, but what VP Harris should have said in her interview was not this:
"JACKSON: …do you believe that transgender Americans should have access to gender-affirming care in this country?
HARRIS: I think we should follow the law."
This exchange was infuriating for a couple of reasons. First, VP Kamala Harris is not this stupid. Second, her handlers (looking at you, David Plough, you fucking asshole), who insisted she give a non-response/shove-under-the-bus-response should go to work for RepubliKKKan candidates.
Harris should have responded by saying this:
I believe all Americans, and all people in custody in US prisons, should have access to high quality, evidence-based health care from qualified, board certified specialists who are following the standards of care established by their specialty organizations. We have seen the increased mortality and morbidity suffered by women who live in reproductive slavery states, where their providers are restricted by state laws from providing the normal standard of care. I don't want to see any other group, regardless of their immigration status, denied health care by bigoted lawmakers who don't know anything about healthcare. Next question."
Kamala like many progressives did say some stupid things. Defund The Police is unquestionably stupid unless we as a society want each individual to take responsibility for their own security. I don't know enough about gender surgery or for that matter transgender in general to know when or if surgery becomes medically necessary, which is the criteria for providing it to prisoners at taxpayer expense. And it was such duing the Insane Clown administration as well. So yeah she needed to give a thoughtful response along those lines. People will respect you if you take a stand and defend it, even if they disagree with it. Bernie was smart enough when he ran not to embrace defund the police. He did get some heat on prisoners having the right to vote, he didn't back off and was and sttill is respected for it. Kamala stood for nothing and fought for nothing. Even on fracking she preferred looking like an idiot than to speak the unspeakable forbidden words Climate Crisis. Is Plouffe the one who decided a joyous pom pom waving Barbie Doll is the optimal strategy to oppose an Insane Clown madman? Plouffe can go Plouffe himself.
As for Harris, what she said was, in essence, "It's legal. I'll follow the law." Which is a pretty lame response. Better would've been something like "When you're in federal custody, the federal government is responsible for your welfare. Deny this care? What other care that had been determined to be medically necessary would you deny to prisoners?"
"Defund the police" was *supposed* to mean something like "redistribute some funding to relevant social services so police don't deal with situations for which they are not properly trained and are more likely to respond with unnecessary, even lethal, violence."
But many people took it as you did - which is why I think that it may have been the worst political slogan of all time, one that not only didn't express what was meant but absolutely invited people to misunderstand it.
Yeah but these are politicians who should know better. What they needed to say is that we support the police who almost without exception are dedicated public servants. What we do not support is the criminal element that inevitably will be attracted to the perception of being above the law because they are the law. That criminal element although minuscule does enormous damage when it shows up and we must remain ever vigilant in weeding it out.
My comment was really intended just to note my opinion of "defund the police," but yeah, I agree they should do/have done better.
As for the rest, I resist the adjective "minuscule" - the number is clearly higher - but agree that most cops are what we'd call good cops, i.e., want to do right by the law and the community. But I'll have mental quotes around the word "good" until we can rely on that clear majority of "good" cops to stop shielding the bad ones.
great points! I've always liked Bernie but as long as he calls himself a SOCIALIST he will be rejected by the people who see that word as poison. Our education/indoctrination makes socialism a evil even though we love the programs we use....
Bernie doesn't go around calling himself a socialist. Unfortunately he doesn't call himself a Democrat either which is why Kamala gets full support from Democrats even though she said a lot more stupid things than Bernie. If they put him on the spot he will say he is a Democratic Socialist but really Bernie never talks about Bernie.
(continued because you can't click the reply button if the comment gets too long)
It's what other people call him and how he's registered to the public that makes a difference imho
We'll never know but I do know that Insane Clown's own pollster Fabrizio says that Bernie would have beaten Insane Clown in 2016. Recall that Insane Clown challenged Bernie to debate and wasted no time punking out.
Yeah, I have the same issue with replies. Go more than ~a half dozen lines and it doesn't work.
Someone said no problem on Firefox. Chrome and Edge on Windows and Safari on iphone all have the problem.
Someone was wrong, because apparently my perception of "long reply" is not long enough to generate the this phenomenon.
As you showed, it's a platform issue no browser can correct for.
'Fraid not true: I use Firefox. I'm moved to think the problem is Substack's software as this doesn't appear to affect comments, only replies to comments.
You can work around it at least in Chrome and Edge, Firefox probably same as well, see above.
Yeah it's only replies. The box gets bigger up to a point and then the vertical scrollbar shows up. But when it gets bigger it overlays the ... (edit, delete, etc). The same thing happens on new comments but in that case there's no ... to overlay. I never noticed it before. Maybe because I never posted long replies, or maybe it's a windows 11 problem I recently upgraded from windows 10.
No smiley faces, no stupid platitudes, no sports metaphors, Bernie just gives it to you straight, the issue and the solution. Bernie would have kicked Insane Clown's ass in 2016, 2020, 2024 if he got the support that Kamala got from Democrats. Unfortunately the Democrat establishment would rather have Insane Clown than Bernie. But even if it isn't Bernie or even a progressive just take a stand and stand by it.
Bernie is not in their tribe and they don't like the policies he would put in place what should reduce their fabulous wealth to enormous wealth
The right discovered wedge issues could distract people from economic issues a long time ago. I don’t expect them to change that anytime soon. And the press has known for a long time that controversial issues sell papers and that hasn’t changed at all in the digital age. That’s why I’ve tried to get news from a variety of sources. But it seems like all the legacy media do is report the same stuff. It’s all clickbait now. The way the transgender story went viral is a perfect example of this.
Clicking the 'support' button - I received message that site not secure.
That button has 'www.' in the link, which shouldn't be there.
If you delete that part of the address from the security notification page, it would take you to the main page of this substack, where you can subscribe as a paying member.
Didn’t republicans several years ago run organized, very focused, “training camps” for political operatives, talking heads and canvassers? They gave out specific strategies to deal with topics and keep media and the public’s perceptions biased toward their set talking points. The left needs the same type of trainings starting now and constantly, not just before elections. Maybe we need to make true the accusation thrown at Obama, read and teach from Saul Alinski’s book Rules for Radicals.
the Republicans are in a minority so they got organized and speak as one .... Republicans are like dogs and Democrats are like cats "you can't herd them". I propose they change the name to Democats ... everyone loves cats?
The MSM became a disingenuous source of news a very long time ago by pretending that opinion pieces and yelling matches were news. Their producers and billionaire owners did not want facts to get in the way of their propaganda
While we tie ourselves in knots over the transgender question and a thousand other excuses I've heard for Kamala Harris' loss, Donald Trump is never held to account for anything he has ever said. Ever. He has never articulated a solid position on any fucking thing. He speaks in ambiguities and and offers up "Almost always" and "Maybe evers" and "Many people says" and we're losing our country over it. The result of marinating millions of American brains in the warm bath of Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, its NewsMax/OAN/Breitbart spawn, and Pod Bro grievance 24/7/365 for 35 years has had its intended effect.
I so wish I knew how to nail this jello re-Pres-elect to the wall to answer for himself.
Warm bath? To me it looks like a boiling cauldron, but the effect is undeniable.
I suspect my own frustration is less his unpinnability than the general indifference to it, or understanding of why it matters. But yeah!
My brother (a non-reader) never used to watch the news he told me - he said, until he found Tucker Carlson. I think he was then able to join the club - he needed that. The 'club' is 'in on' (because of guessing) the 'nefariousness of the Democrats'. This is much worse than general indifference: 'Guessing' not only suffices as 'truth' when it comes to 'the other side', it actually provides a 'high' for these cultists. .....and the darker the better (the more potent the drug).
Thank you! Exactly correct
Defending the rights of powerless minorities is the essence of Democracy. And it falls to Democrats to do that no matter if they are 5%, 0.05%, or 0.000000005% of the population.
Unfortunately Kamala did open the can of worms as to inmates transitioning and the Nazi Party has latched onto that and the other edge issues you mention as a distraction from their real agenda which is to make all gender transition illegal just as it is to make all abortion illegal.
Well then. So you’ve decided what is and isn’t acceptable. Good to know what I’m supposed to fall into lockstep with.
Let’s jettison all this crap that isn’t important enough to care about. They’re just actual human beings, after all.
"I don’t know what to tell you."
Well, I do know what to tell you. Phrases like "irreversible harm" (when actual harm, seen in rates of psychological stress and suicide, is already occurring and regret rates are extremely low) and "biological males" (when the strict requirements trans athletes have to meet in order to compete makes chromosomes irrelevant) ->cont.
<-combined with imagining that adults aren't affect by any of this (when the restrictive laws increasingly aim at all ages) together show that you are deeply ignorant both of the science involved and the realities trans folks face. ->