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(11-05-2026 04:15 PM)Motown Bronco Wrote:  Even if we consider there are reasonable arguments on "both sides" here, there are fewer than 10 transgender athletes participate among the half-million NCAA athletes. Less than 0.002%.

Yet it's firmly among the Top 3 most important focal points among the MAGA-sphere. What should be a localized discussion within the NCAA is a near daily national talking point among the Right. People actually lose sleep over this.

Reality is, those "deviant" transgenders provide an easy punching bag to get the usual voting bloc riled up.

And their national spokesperson in this effort got there because she tied for FIFTH PLACE with a trans woman. Didn't get beat, didn't lose a medal or anything. Tied for fifth. Behind four other cisgender women.

(11-05-2026 04:15 PM)Motown Bronco Wrote:  Even if we consider there are reasonable arguments on "both sides" here, there are fewer than 10 transgender athletes participate among the half-million NCAA athletes. Less than 0.002%.

Yet it's firmly among the Top 3 most important focal points among the MAGA-sphere. What should be a localized discussion within the NCAA is a near daily national talking point among the Right. People actually lose sleep over this.

Reality is, those "deviant" transgenders provide an easy punching bag to get the usual voting bloc riled up.

There is a very reasonable argument to be made that transgender women should not compete in college athletics with cisgender women. It's unfair. I agree with that.

But, you see how it quickly transitions into a conversation about women's bathrooms and implying transgender people are sexual deviants & some sort of threat to women.

Maybe, focus on all the men who do all kinds of bad things to women if you want to act like you're an advocate for women's rights. It's a much bigger problem.

Yeah, I'm similar, Minor. Not fully on board with transgender women in women's sports. Maybe a compromise can be made where they have to be within a certain BMI? I dunno.

I do think some Democrats are a bit loathe to admit that too, as the further left would come down hard on them (as they did with Gavin Newsom).

And yes, the parlay into the bathroom thing is ridiculous. Transgendered women are not prowling women's bathrooms to steal peeks of naughty bits or cop a feel (most are physically attracted to men anyhow). It's fear mongering by the Nancy Mace types to score points among the base.

@sarah_in_ny

Schumer is in trouble

Explicit Call to Replace:
El-Sayed, Flanagan, Hamilton, Jackson, Stratton

Signaled Need for Change:
Andrews, Markey, Pappas, Slotkin, Talerico, Van Hollen, Welch

Declined to Commit Vote to Schumer:
Booker, Brown, Murphy, Warren, Sanders, Turek

Marjorie Taylor Greene continues to say very logical things. It's amazing what happens when you break away from the cult.

https://x.com/mtgreenee/status/2118451289650778337

So Michael Cohen crawled back to Trump, and Haley Stevens sucked up to Mike Rogers for... this.

Trump has promoted Herr Stephen Miller as new White House Chief of Staff following Susie Wiles' departure.

Doubling down.

(11-06-2026 02:22 PM)Motown Bronco Wrote:  Trump has promoted Herr Stephen Miller as new White House Chief of Staff following Susie Wiles' departure.

Doubling down.

Surely Herr Identity Politics is there for his extensive views on tax policy.

(11-06-2026 02:22 PM)Motown Bronco Wrote:  Trump has promoted Herr Stephen Miller as new White House Chief of Staff following Susie Wiles' departure.

Doubling down.

So, I guess Trump didn't learn anything from the mid-terms. Not a big surprise there.

2 more years of peak awful MAGA led by Stephen Miller will just push away more decent Americans & their vote.

It'll be interesting to see if the likes of DeSantis & Rubio see the writing on the wall and start actively trying to distance themselves from MAGA. It's too late for poor JD Vance.

(11-06-2026 02:54 PM)BroncoMinor Wrote:  

(11-06-2026 02:22 PM)Motown Bronco Wrote:  Trump has promoted Herr Stephen Miller as new White House Chief of Staff following Susie Wiles' departure.

Doubling down.

So, I guess Trump didn't learn anything from the mid-terms. Not a big surprise there.

2 more years of peak awful MAGA led by Stephen Miller will just push away more decent Americans & their vote.

It'll be interesting to see if the likes of DeSantis & Rubio see the writing on the wall and start actively trying to distance to themselves from MAGA. It's too late for poor JD Vance.

I think it's too late for all of them.

This just in: Susan Collins is still "concerned".

After a historic bloodbath in the midterm elections, the White House has finally gotten the hint and pivoted to addressing things that really matter and affect Americans, e.g., economy, health care, education, war, etc.

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2118754078423486585

(Just kidding, still culture war stuff)

(11-06-2026 03:27 PM)NIU007 Wrote:  

(11-06-2026 02:54 PM)BroncoMinor Wrote:  

(11-06-2026 02:22 PM)Motown Bronco Wrote:  Trump has promoted Herr Stephen Miller as new White House Chief of Staff following Susie Wiles' departure.

Doubling down.

So, I guess Trump didn't learn anything from the mid-terms. Not a big surprise there.

2 more years of peak awful MAGA led by Stephen Miller will just push away more decent Americans & their vote.

It'll be interesting to see if the likes of DeSantis & Rubio see the writing on the wall and start actively trying to distance to themselves from MAGA. It's too late for poor JD Vance.

I think it's too late for all of them.

This just in: Susan Collins is still "concerned".

Rubio is awful. But if he runs for POTUS, I can see him trying to create a persona blending his current MAGA self and his pre-2016 reasonable (relatively speaking) self. If he somehow succeeds in drawing from across the conservative and indie spectrum, he could be tough to beat, if I'm being honest. The trick for him now is to ensure he's a loyal Trump guy to Trump while not appearing too cozy.

I think there's too much stink on DeSantis and certainly Vance.

(11-06-2026 03:33 PM)Motown Bronco Wrote:  After a historic bloodbath in the midterm elections, the White House has finally gotten the hint and pivoted to addressing things that really matter and affect Americans, e.g., economy, health care, education, war, etc.

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2118754078423486585

(Just kidding, still culture war stuff)

You notice how Twitter posts aren't flooded with MAGA bots as much?

Zelenskyy bombing Russian data centers was a pretty underrated move.

Apparently, this is the MAGA frontrunner to replace Marsha Blackburn in the Senate.

(11-06-2026 02:22 PM)Motown Bronco Wrote:  Trump has promoted Herr Stephen Miller as new White House Chief of Staff following Susie Wiles' departure.

Doubling down.

I think this is flying under the radar, but it is a major shift.

Susie Wiles, despite her own issues, was the cool professional in Trump's orbit. She kept the crazy train on the tracks for the most part. But with historic losses in the midterms, Trump is feeling backed into a corner and he put a far right firebrand between himself and the public. You thought things were crazy before? Now Stephen Miller of all people is the one controlling access to the president, and communications between the White House and Congress.

Trump and whatever minions are still loyal to him are shifting into war mode. Preparing to defend against a siege from a Dem-controlled Congress.

Todd Blanche is out here saying he'll defend members of the administration from congressional investigations, which is both illegal and not his job at all.

Down goes Boebert.

(11-09-2026 03:51 PM)BroncoMinor Wrote:  Down goes Boebert.

(06-26-2026 12:58 PM)BroncoMinor Wrote:  Thomas Massie makes too much sense & is too logical. You cam see the MAGA Republicans ran him out of the party.

https://x.com/atrupar/status/2070501499646476357?s=46

My favorite Republican.

https://x.com/atrupar/status/2119895236201922861

(11-09-2026 03:51 PM)BroncoMinor Wrote:  Down goes Boebert.

I will miss her...if you know what I mean.