cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/54506028
cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/politics/p/1270828/iowa-dem-josh-turek-releases-anti-trans-ad-calling-for-a-federal-funding-ban-on-trans-care
On Saturday, Oct. 24, Josh Turek, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Iowa, released a new ad targeting transgender people—perhaps the worst anti-transgender ad of the entire election cycle to come from a Democrat. The ad begins with Turek talking about his disability and the importance of not discriminating, before immediately turning to adopt discriminatory policies toward transgender people. One such policy is a sports ban, a position sadly becoming increasingly common among high-profile Democrats in competitive races, and one that alone would have made this yet another newsworthy anti-trans ad. But Turek then goes further, advocating for a new policy: a proposal to ban federally funded gender-affirming care in the United States, one that would impact a substantial number of transgender people and make their care difficult to impossible to receive.
Keep this treasonous weasel out of office at any cost.
There should be a federal funding ban on trans care.
There should be a federal funding ban on everything.
Over the next 50-100 years, our ultimate governmental goal should be the reduction, with the ultimate intent of abolishment, of all government systems.
Something, something how Democratic centrists aren’t Republican-lite.
Fucking be better you shitty Democrats and stop making excuses for complete moral failings on being “the best we can do” in a asshole red state and abandoning your core voters for some Iowa Republican or “Independent” vote that, let’s be honest, never going to vote for a Democrat in any way to begin with.
One of their campaign ads is look how much I vote with Republicans
https://turek4iowa.com/news/new-josh-turek-for-iowa-releases-new-ad-prove-it/
“In the Senate, Josh will work with anyone to clean up corruption and secure the border, including President Trump,” the narrator says in the ad. “And he’s got 700 votes to prove it.”
So they’re running as what dems want to be and blue maga keep trying to say they aren’t
Then how is he any different from his opponent? Wow, it’s such a mystery why the Dems keep losing elections…. 🙄
100% he feels weird about his chub when watching peg porn - now he wants us to feel bad too. I am convinced this is always the issue with anyone who is on this side of history.
Peg leg porn, what will they think of next? Eye patch por… oh… oh wait never mind.
Fucking plant.
What a wildly stupid idea.
Hypothetically, would this DOJ even bother investigating the assassination of a Democrat? Asking for a hypothetical friend.
I know this is Iowa. I know it’s always a stretch to court poorly educated people because appealing to ethnocentric bias and anger is always easier.
One can hope this is a bait-and-switch thing that we often see happen in the reverse way with dipshits like Sinema or Fetterman but I seriously doubt it.
This is honestly such an easy issue to navigate if you frame it around individual freedom and redirect the conversation to war, gas prices, cost of living etc.
Will this one get removed like the previous times?
Imagine trans rights being the thing you chose to chicken out of in an attempt to get undecided voters.
It unfortunately says a lot about the voters 😕
Well it says a lot about his opinion of voters anyway.
Do you think there’s a bunch of people who won’t vote republican, but will vote dem if they’re just transphobic enough?
They see the fight for trans rights as “Not worth fighting”, and I worry they’re right, especially with polls showing public support for trans rights is dropping and women’s rights groups view trans women with suspicion.
Calling for a ban on federal funding for trans care isn’t “not fighting”.
This is the same shit we saw in 2023 when democrats campaigned on military spending and migrant caravans. You can choose to ignore random shit the republicans are running with, you can tell voters why its fucking stupid, but if you try to triangulate your position to be closer to the republican one, you make it look like the republicans were right all along.
This dipshit is literally campaigning for republicans at this point.
What a piece of shit
The primaries are over.
I voted for someone other than Turek but Turek won anyway.
So what happens now?
Turek is horrible in this regard, but I have to vote for him anyway because he wants to TRY to ban transgender care, emphasis on TRY while the other party wants to do worse.
Everyone needs to get this through their heads.
Go talk to american muslims who couldn’t vote for Kamala because she supported Israel.
Not voting perpetuates more harm than voting for the bad guy who is less bad.
Voting third party at this point in the election cycle perpetuates more harm than voting for the bad guy who is less bad.
THE FACTS ARE SIMPLE:
One of two people will win this race. There is no other outcome at this point.
This primary was decided by votes, not anti-bernie-level dnc trickery.
You have to vote for the one who will hurt you less or it will get worse than even this.
I hate everything about it, but this is very simple: at this point anything other than a vote for turek is a vote for escalating harm to trans people to levels even higher than what turek wants.
That is all there is to it.
Go vote.
Do not let this rhetoric stop you from turning out to vote.
That is what the people behind the machine want.
This should be a learned lesson at this point but people like Erin are somehow still getting spun up by propaganda and failing to see the simple, shitty, crushing truth here, which is that an anti-trans democrat who only wants to ban things because his donors tell him to is still more pro-trans than any other option we have at this point in this one race.
I hope that the trans and LGBTQ community comes together and does an Abandon Harris protest movement.
Sitting alone and not voting won’t do anything but have Democrats keep dismissing you as a shitty voter.
Banding together and telling the Democratic party to nut the fuck up and stop voting for morally bankrupt candidates publicly and in one voice will make a difference.
Plus this whole bullshit about vote Blue no matter who when it’s never reciprocated is not a good excuse to vote for someone, even if they call themselves a Democrat, who wants to ensure you’re a second class citizen.
Be fucking better you shitty Democrats.
We have NO Choice but to Vote for Him! Vote BLUE no Matter WHO!
-Democrats who are Voting for Republican Mike Rogers INSTEAD of Democrat Abdul El-Sayed!
Voting is not enough. Voting for transphobes puts transphobes in power. Call his campaign office and tell him you disagree with his stance. Go to a townhall event and call him to the carpet in front of everyone. Tell him he needs to earn your vote, and his behavior isn’t fucking cutting it.
You can vote for him anyway, but he doesn’t need to know that. He needs to be told out loud that he’s doing the wrong thing, often and by many people.
Well said. The number of people who seem to think that there’s some magical other option for another, more progressive candidate to pop up on the ballot is frustrating.
“It’s not about supporting only your ideal candidate, it’s about picking the direction you want the country to go”
Fucking both of these roads lead to ruin I’d like to turn around but that’s not a fucking option.
One is less bad. That’s the facts.
The Republican winning is literally the less bad option, because if the Dems see this guy win they’ll realize that people who claim to support trans rights will vote for them even when they sell trans people down the river, and at that point the strategically correct move will be to abandon support for trans rights everywhere. And then there will be zero resistance whatsoever to the trans genocide. It’s better that they lose one seat than that the entire party gets a message that this is acceptable.
Not that you should vote based on the absurd ideology of “lesser evilism” in the first place.
Fuck off tankie.
Trans rights are human rights. The people, united, must never be divided. We must hang together, or we will each hang separately.
Anyone who’s tired of watching these liberals betray and sell out marginalized people, anyone who believes in solidarity, and realizes that this won’t stop until we make them stop, remember: It’s us “tankies” who actually believe in those values.
Liberals will sell you down the river in a heartbeat, the moment it’s politically convenient. You can watch it happening here in real time, it’s as plain as day.
One wants to take your rights away, the other one wants to take your rights away.
That’s not one less bad for the people who’s human rights are being taken away.
I’m one of those people. One is less bad.
You do you, I mean if you’re okay with it and think it’s one less bad, that’s cool by me, no skin off my back.
If you’re in a car, and you have a fork ahead of you. The right path takes you directly off a cliff, and the left path circles around a tree before taking you off the same cliff, are you really going to stay in the car?
Is it a fast car and how close is the other side?
Like what if instead if dying in a fiery crash I just landed a sick jump?
Are you leaving the country? Because that’s the only way to get out of the car. Everything else leads to one of two possibilities, regardless of your feelings about it. And one is less bad. That’s the facts
No. One is bad now, the other is just as bad but delayed by a cycle.
And no, leaving the country is not the only option. It’s the only option they want you to consider, but it’s not the only option.
Oh go fuck yourself accelerationist. Go back to ml ya fuckin cartoon.
Bro I just want to turn the car around. You’re the one arguing for the cliff.
The depressing thing i fear is that polling on trans rights must be bad enough that some dems feel this is a position that benefits them. Newsom seems to think it benefits him, slimy amoral scumbag that he is.
The dems don’t want to accept any responsiblity for the perception that they’re not meaningfully different from fascists, but they also want to throw trans people to the wolves when they’re already one of the most murdered groups in society.
I don’t know what the polls say on this issue, but if the Democrats throw trans people to the wolves, it’s because their “donors” said to; polling is only relevant if Amazon agrees.
For example, polls show support for term limits is 83%; it doesn’t matter, because Meta doesn’t want term limits. I could list ten issues with over 80% support from all Americans; they’ve wanted these very basic no-brainer things for DECADES.
Just like labor discovered long ago, Democrats (or Rs, bOtH sIdEs, etc) will abandon any issue for enough “donations”.
I think meta has less to do with term limits than no one being willing to vote themselves out of a steady job.
Paraphrasing from elsewhere…
Here are some thoughtful questions I’d like to see the US Senate-hopeful from Iowa, Josh Turek, receive during this campaign season:
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Would he shake the hand of a person who is HIV-positive? Would he use the same toilet after them?
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What does he think about gay couples adopting children?
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What does he think about public schools employing homosexual men as teachers?
These are all bad faith questions, loyalty tests, that were once lobbed at politicians. Their effectiveness relied on the inaccurate and undeniably cruel presumptions that gay people are inherently unclean or unfit to care for children.
For a while this worked. Fearful of abandonment by a prejudiced constituency, would-be leaders hemmed and hawed and furrowed their brows at these kinds of questions. At best, they would find strategic ways to dodge them. At worst, they would give in to laziness, play along with those cruel presumptions and pander to a popular false narrative.
Eventually all of those narrative were found to be false, cynically constructed to prey upon fears against those who can not help but look and act different than the majority. It took the bravery of millions of people, risking their livelihoods and relationships, sharing their inner lives and living their truths to shatter those falsehoods. It took a lot more than a single child’s insight to prove that emperor was wearing no clothes.
And here we go again. Another time, another false narrative: segregating transgender girls is fair and right.
This may feel like it makes sense, just as it may feel risky to use the same toilet seat as a person with a life-impacting sexually transmitted infection. But in both cases, two important facts cut them down to size: a) they’re both completely false, and b) the scenarios presented aren’t happening often enough for any of it to matter in the first place. They’re veiled attempts to codify prejudice into law, plain and simple.
Please instruct Senate-hopeful Turek that his party is not the one that does that.
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