Wait, they are honoring a baseball team for being a runner up?!?!?!?! classic aggy

The first sentence gets something wrong in a way I think the second sentence gets the same thing right. I don't think Dems should or even can eliminate all talk about gender. Hell they tried doing that this election. What did we learn? That the GOP can completely manufacture an issue out of essentially nothing. The average American is more likely to be struck by lightning than have their daughter compete against a trans girl in youth sports, but the Dems tried to run from the issue and focus on more salient issues and it didn't help (this is separate from whether I think the trans issue actually helped the GOP, I don't think it really did but I also don't think the Dems helped themselves with how they addressed it). But turning the discussion from gender to something else can be effective, and it's not even hard. The Dems don't have to throw trans people under the bus and can in fact defend equal rights for trans people if they stop running from it. Better messaging would both engage in the culture war to put Republicans on the defensive, while also highlighting how Republicans attempt to focus culture war issues to distract people while they pick their pockets. And that can be as easy as "why the fuck do you want to be able to look at a 12 year old's junk, Matt? Why is that more important to you than improving healthcare/increasing wages/improving education?"

Fuck stolen valor Fuck collies fuck weird cult shit fuck the color maroon fuck gomerism, in general

how did we fucking miss on this