Link: https://www.advocate.com/politics/democrat-trans-attack-ad

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.

That was astoundingly creepy, well done.

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.

... 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.

Gotta give that actor some recognition. He really nailed "Republican" with that performance.

Government so small it can fit in a uterus.

Video is question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt_IZoM9KuQ

Also, how many people really cared about women's sports in this country before this became an issue?

Unfortunately a lot of democrats are giving in and joining this bigotry.

Of the population now clutching their pearls over it, I'd guess it's maybe dozens.

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 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.

That's generous

Josh Turek is the latest to join the list, platforming on banning trans people in sports and ending federal funding for trans healthcare nationwide.

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.

We will primary them next time, we can't do it all at once

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.

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

Because he's running as a center republican not a dem against a maga republican.

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

HELL YEAH! another one!

Creepy ad. I’m getting AI vibes though.

Thank fuck someone with money finally figured out the right messaging.

No peoples health and safety isn't something you can sacrifice

There are probably republicans watching this ad and thinking it's pro-republican

Maybe we can do your rights next.

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.

In South Carolina the Democrats are doing the opposite messaging and talking about bipartisan politics, "protecting girls sports," and "securing the border."

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AL2tkObnoro

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

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.

This is what Democrats SHOULD be doing, not turning their backs on us.

Could also do for some more with these ads in your bedroom and doctors office among other places

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 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

Does anyone watch ads? I haven't seen one in years. I don't get it.

It's fucking shameful

Yah make a series out of it. It's absurd that the blue ties don't do this as a national strategy/ad buy

Those on Lemmy skew toward tech savvy, so a sampling of people from here is like standing outside a trump rally and asking who the best president was.

Really well done

Well done.

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."

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

The Dems should be running ads like this constantly, outside of the campaign season. Make people see how perverse these MAGA weirdos are at ALL times.