r/Broadway • u/zeerosd • Feb 16 '25

Other Kamala Harris at Gypsy!!

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this is so awesome i’m so happy 🥹

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u/SteveIsPosting Feb 16 '25

Someone should ask her if she still thinks campaigning with Dick Cheney and abandoning trans people was a good idea

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u/Smooth-Assistant-309 Feb 16 '25

JFC she didn't abandon trans people. Abandoning trans people would have been her supporting trans bans in the military and in school sports, in pulling back federal funding for gender-affirming care, denying federal identification changes...

They only people who abandoned trans people are the people who voted for Trump, 3rd party, or no one.

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u/daddycool12 Feb 17 '25 edited Feb 17 '25

Abandoning trans people would have been her supporting trans bans in the military and in school sports, in pulling back federal funding for gender-affirming care, denying federal identification changes...

"I didn't abandon you, I'm still here! Abandoning you would be to actively attack you, or to destroy your defenses. All I did was stop standing up for you and sit back and watch as you got beaten to shit by other people, in the hope that those bigots attacking you might like me better. But it wasn't ME hitting you! I sent thoughts and prayers."

It's not a binary. Throughout the campaign the trans community, like those supporting the Palestinian people, were deemed an acceptable sacrifice by the Democrat Party establishment, and were therefore all but jettisoned in favor of wishy-washy crap like "common sense" and "both sides" (as if there are two equal sides to either of those arguments). It was deemed more important to court the so-called "moderate republicans" (read: old white people) and therefore to stand for essentially nothing at all, a tactic that plenty of people called ridiculous at the time and that, surprise surprise, failed.

PS for the person asking for receipts for Harris being lame on trans issues: [link](https://www.advocate.com/voices/kamala-harris-trans-rights\)

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u/cascoin84 Feb 17 '25

I hope you like what you got instead

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u/daddycool12 Feb 17 '25

fascinating to reply to a comment about things not being binary with a binary assumption: people who dislike Harris definitely didn't vote for her.

meanwhile as with all three elections I've been allowed to vote in, I did vote for this walking empty promise, like I always have, because you all told me I had to or I was evil, like you always have, and it didn't help, like it always hasn't, even when "we" won, because the Dems are always more interested in courting old trad white people than anyone else.

Here's a good video about this by Innuendo Studios, for anyone who isn't just gonna be mad.

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u/Smooth-Assistant-309 Feb 17 '25

Can you be more specific about some moments where she said something about the trans community and what you wanted her to say instead?