The 30-second spot, entitled “Republicans In Your Bathroom,” targets the GOP over its fixation on restricting trans people’s access to restrooms and locker rooms. The ad, which The Hill reports is part of a larger buy worth over $1 million per The Hill, begins with a young girl entering a bathroom and to her horror, encountering an older white-haired man sitting in the stall waiting for her. He greets her with a short hello. Immediately, the girl presses the man for answers, “What are you doing? Who are you?”
“I’m your Republican congressman. Now that we’re in charge, I’m checking to make sure that there’s no trans people in the wrong bathroom,” he says.
Her response: “Bathrooms are private. Don’t you have anything better to do?”
“I won the last election, and this is my priority,” he says, “Now let’s make sure you’re really a girl,” ending with an ominous smirk.
“But but but! If GOP can’t distract you with sexuality and religion, how will they keep critics away from unchecked O&G drilling?”
Ohh don’t worry, the Dems will allow drilling too. Is the non-corporate issues they’ll roll back to reasonable non-religious values.
Well Dems promote renewables much more than GOP.
More that renewable donors promote Democrats, and Democrats are receptive to these donors in a way Republicans are not
But pop down to Texas, the national leader in Solar and Wind power. Even that doesn’t hold up against close inspection
Entirely too much money in renewable and battery tech for either party to ignore
as long as they don’t get conflicted with a corporate sponsor. yes.
Dems will allow drilling too
Hey, not if it’s on land required for virtual data center infrastructure
That’s it, all we need to do is go past that paper thin veneer that paints the gop as good and decent people and display them for the ghoulish monsters that they really are.
I wouldn’t even say this is exaggerated in the slightest. They’re vile.
That was astoundingly creepy, well done.
Gotta give that actor some recognition. He really nailed “Republican” with that performance.
Actor?? This is AI through and through.
Nope
Yes? It’s very clearly AI
… because it’s based in reality.
tf is actually wrong with Republicans? Obsessed with the weirdest stuff, into hurting others and suffering, it’s basically the worst possible people you could elect to run a government.
It’s not always because they believe the bible, but it is often because they believe the bible. It describes a rapey abuser who can and will torture you to death if you don’t blindly obey him, and they call that “love”. They do completely backwards, wrong, harmful things while genuinely believing they are in the right.
You know that vague “mandate” they keep talking about? Spoilers, it’s from god. That divine being which we have no actual evidence for, no reason to believe its existence, no way of contacting it to verify what it wants. It gives them a blank check to do whatever they want regardless of how many people they hurt.
It’s possible to read the entire history of western colonialism and rise of capitalism as parallel to the spread and growth of Christianity around the globe. The two have been inextricably entangled for centuries
The colonizers and the religious leaders had difgerent but overlapping interests and used each other to help push their own agenda.
But it’s not that they believe in the bible either. It’s claiming to adhere to a religion mostly based on the New Testament but remembering that one creepy passage from the Old Testament.
You can’t just copy-paste a few regressive thoughts from the entire compendium and say the “the bible says ….”. That’s kind of missing the point
But we can’t ignore them, either. That would be cherry-picking, which is a necessary aspect of “believing” the bible because it contradicts itself.
God never once condemns slavery, even when he’s incarnated as Jesus. The new testament has a handful of pretty lines that fall apart when you remember the abusive foundation of “obey me or die.”
This is what Democrats SHOULD be doing, not turning their backs on us.
Thank fuck someone with money finally figured out the right messaging.
In South Carolina the Democrats are doing the opposite messaging and talking about bipartisan politics, “protecting girls sports,” and “securing the border.”
I was confused for a second, because I thought this ad already existed years ago, but that one was “Keep Republicans Out Of Your Bedroom”
This is just perfect framing.
Especially the “don’t you have anything better to do”?
I was watching donnie supporters (on the Good Liars) claiming that trans is a major concern. They get asked how many trans athletes do they think there are (in NCAA), out of 500K+ athletes.
The answer is less than 10. We are supposed to pretend this is a major concern? Something we need to have all of our policies revolve around? Something that should decide the makeup of Congress? We have to endorse an entire other nexus of fascist bullshit because < 10 trans in something like NCAA??
I know a lot of conservatives seem to struggle with things like literacy and numeracy, but less than 10 divided by greater than 500000 is a vanishingly small percentage.
You don’t understand the mind of conservatives. To a rational person, this might read as a non-issue, but to a conservative it’s just confirmation bias.
You might view 10 out of 500K as “0.002%”
A conservative views it as “1000% of ‘too many’”
Don’t try to reason with them, it’s a snakepit full of hydras. Just stomp them down at the first available opportunity. Back to tartarus, or wherever fascists hide while they wait for the world to forget
Also, how many people really cared about women’s sports in this country before this became an issue?
It literally used to be a joke among men. ‘Oh, why are you watching women’s sports, is nothing else on’ or ‘haha boobies’ (volleyball and swimming were the worst by far for this). Outside of friends and family of the competitors, former players, and a lot of lesbians there was virtually no interest in it.
It must be a nightmare to suddenly be a forced political issue and it result in everything being worse for everyone.
Don’t you see, republican congressmen need to care about women’s sports now, because how else will they manufacture outrage about Jack Smith watching a game?
Senile old senator: “You know, I really like women’s basketball! I couldn’t tell you when or where a single game happened if you held my feet to the fire, but it’s a big interest of mine! It’s just my job to ask questions, you know.”
Of the population now clutching their pearls over it, I’d guess it’s maybe dozens.
The show that keeps on giving. It was just this year that I learned that there was a fan theory that Tobias was actually black.
The genius of this show is appreciated by many, but not nearly enough. I try to spread the gospel of AD far and wide…
I’ve made a huge mistake
I love all the memes that have went even beyond the show. The cost of a banana, for example. The one that makes me LOL every time is:
https://tenor.com/view/arrested-development-donald-trump-gif-24255260
I love that so much. Thank you for sharing!
Although… I’d prefer the president have dealings with Saddam decoys instead of the real Putin/Xi/Kim/Netanyahu.
That’s generous
I actually really enjoy women’s curling in the winter Olympics, although it wouldn’t matter to me if a trans woman was one of them. It was just the first curling I ever saw. I don’t even know why they divide sports that way anyway. It should all be divided by weight classes, like boxing, and sex/gender shouldn’t play a role.
They just need someone to blame and one part of voters need someone to hate. It’s much easier to pin everything wrong in the world on preferably a small minority, then promise to get rid of that minority. It’s better than have people really looking at the policies they bring and who actually benefits from those.
You’d think that with how big of a deal they’re making and all their campaign ads revolving around it that half of athletes on women’s sports are trans and kids are being dragged out of classes and having sex change surgeries forced on them.
That’s the point. They blow things out of proportion to scare their bigoted idiots
Which bathroom was Lindsey Graham allowed to use?
There are probably republicans watching this ad and thinking it’s pro-republican
Those people are already so far gone that they’re not worth trying to sway. As long as the ad makes independents grossed out by the Redpublicans its done its job
The independents and the unmotivated non-voters.
There are as many non-voters as there were people who intentionally voted for Trump’s shitshow.
Yeah, the old idea that the Dems have to attract MAGA to their side is stupid, because MAGA is stupid. Nobody needs them on their side. Just focus on the Independents, they can read, have critical thinking skills (that’s why they’re independent), and they decide EVERY election. Independents are the target.
“How do I get that job?”
Well done.
Republicans on toilet paper would be better.
I feel like tp with Trump’s face on it would also have splinters.
Nah, it would come pre shat.
It’s time for America to grow from anti-trans to anti-conservative.
Conservatives are the single greatest threat to all life on earth. If not for conservatives, the normal people would be permitted to address climate change, wealth inequality, healthcare, housing, food scarcity and other existential crises caused by conservatives.
MAGA is a Domestic Terrorist Organization, and a genuine enthusiastic, ongoing National Security Threat. As such, it should be prohibited from existing. We wouldn’t allow Al-Qaeda or ISIS to hold office, and MAGA is no different.
Potty Cops
Coming to a urinal near you
Mullahs. These are just Christian Mullahs.
I wish they were Mullahs. They’d have a better attitude towards transgender folks.
Unfortunately a lot of democrats are giving in and joining this bigotry.
Josh Turek is the latest to join the list, platforming on banning trans people in sports and ending federal funding for trans healthcare nationwide.
Because he’s running as a center republican not a dem against a maga republican.
The Dem party is infested with a breed of conservative called neoliberals.
Do not vote for neoliberals unless you want neoliberals to continue running the party. Make sure the person who earns your vote is a progressive.
Do not vote for neoliberals unless you want neoliberals to continue running the party. Make sure the person who earns your vote is a progressive.
Sadly doesn’t work when that’s the only option
There is no peaceful solution to an infestation of conservatism. But, step one is proving that we tried the peaceful option first.
It is immoral to vote for a conservative. It is not immoral to overthrow conservatives by force or to remove them from functional society. They are a threat to the safety and welfare of everyone around them. Fixing this kind of mess has historically involved a lot of blood, sweat and tears. Mostly blood.
I’m pointing out that in a lot of races it’s conservative vs conservative with a lot of propagandized people who will blame those on the left no matter what happens as the dems do everything they can to kill any movement leftwards/towards progress
Voting only works if people get involved long before election day. In many places, your vote literally doesn’t matter
But even if you’re just chipping away at a mountain, getting involved will only increase the influence you have over the process
It’s fucking shameful
We will primary them next time, we can’t do it all at once
No peoples health and safety isn’t something you can sacrifice
Maybe we can do your rights next.
They are my rights
Fair enough, but it’s not reasonable to expect other trans people to vote for someone campaigning on curtailing their own rights.
Our women must be protected. Quick! Clitcams and Labiadrones!
