> He may be jewish by birth but seems popular and competent.

I want to give you the benefit of the doubt here, but what in the hell man.

The point was that he's not Christian, which is a much more marketable religious affiliation in America.

I get what you're seeing but it's very clearly not what that poster intended to communicate.

Not:

> Even though he's Jewish, meaning you would expect him to be despised and incompetent, he seems to be popular and competent

Instead:

> He may be jewish by birth, violating the condition for a Christian, but since he seems popular and competent that shouldn't matter so much.

Yeah.

As one of my friends says, Democrats were running around yelling

1."Women have the right to abortion." and

2."Everyone has the right to alter their own gender!"

and, while I support the above [well, not exactly: I prefer that one should, when possible, pay for their own voluntary medical procedures].

But, in any case, the above rights have no particular appeal at all to people who are neither pregnant nor gender-uncertain, which is by far the majority of the voting population.

In contrast, Republicans focused on the economy and the border, two things affecting everyone.

I think they really overestimated how many people were single issue pro-choice voters. Looking back it was the biggest part of their platform but it probably didn't move the needle much. I could tell you much more about Trump's economic plans than Harris's.

I also really wish they could just stop talking about trans rights. I support them too but its a tiny part of the population and anyone who supports them is voting blue anyway. A lot of people don't get it, don't like it, and are going to vote against them given the chance.

I'll also reluctantly agree with the right and say I don't see the need for trans women to compete in sports against cis women. Playing sports is not a constitutional right and I think sometimes its ok to say "I'm sorry but no."

> Playing sports is not a constitutional right and I think sometimes its ok to say "I'm sorry but no."

The problem is that the left has really painted themselves into a corner with the whole “trans women are women” thing. To say that they ARE women but CAN’T compete in women’s sports would be to admit that trans women are not, in fact, the same as biological women.

Trans women are women, but not female. The right are the only ones talking about trans people and have been for 6 years, regardless

That is a very sexist perspective. They're not women at all really, just men objectifying women and applying their fantasy of womanhood onto themselves.

Well the Republicans also spent a good amount of time yelling that the Democrats were yelling about those things, which is perhaps part of the reason your friend thinks the Dems only care about those issues.

> the above rights have no particular appeal at all to people who are neither pregnant

This doesn't sound right to me. You don't have to be pregnant to be interested in keeping abortion legally accessible. You don't even have to be a woman. Keeping a fetus in your body for 9 months when you don't want it is a horror movie scenario for me, and I'm guessing most other women feel the same way. And there are surely many men who want that option available for their partners, as well.

FWIW I also support (2) for those who want it.

This is a reasonable take. Question, how is everybody affected by the border? What are signs in our lives that we're being affected by a mis-managed border?

Are voters really that shortsighted that abortion rights are only relevant to anyone currently pregnant? I would think at least every woman under 50 would be interested in that.

I think Shapiro would have good _except_ for what's currently going on in Palestine. Palestine was always divisive among the left and now more than ever.

Josh Shapiro has also stated in writing that he volunteered with the IDF, which under traditional norms is completely disqualifying for the Presidency or Vice Presidency as it's service to a foreign military.

> And towards a DEI set up where Kamala is hired because she ticks the colored and woman boxes rather than because of competence.

Biden said as much ~4 years ago and this election was probably doomed from that point on. I don't know how they are so tone-deaf.

Because Biden won that election?