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.
Listen asshole I didn’t give a fuck. This is Iowa. You vote against the republican or you support the republican. It’s not my fault none of you fuckin people understand grade school civics. Our system sucks. Unless you want republicans to kill all the trans people, don’t let them win any office anywhere. But none of you fuckers can understand any of that much less the concept of harm reduction. But you’re not an ally if your principles give power to republicans. You can enjoy your principles while I’m being bussed to the camps. So go in motherfucker, explain how what you’re doing doesn’t let republicans win and then explain how that’s the better turnout. Fucking idiot MAGAt traitors. Fucking morons thinking the parties are the same. I hope you’re not too privileged to be insulated from the consequences you’re insisting the rest of us feel. Fucking idiot both sides lemmy fuckin losers. You die like right away in your stupid fantasy revolution you know that right? Accelerationism just kills us all. And here I go wasting time with another fucking lemmy both sides bot. I hope you live in a deep red area in a deep red state and get exactly what you’re asking for. Stupid fucking children.