Woke gobbledegook is losing Kamala Harris the election, Republicans believe, as they launch final push adverts attacking the Vice-President for her record on trans issues. The Telegraph has more.
Donald Trump’s campaign has poured millions of dollars into adverts attacking Kamala Harris’s policies for transgender Americans in the final stretch of the election.
The Republican nominee appears to be banking on America’s top culture war to get him elected on November 5th.
“Crazy liberal Kamala is for they/them, president Trump is for you,” declares one Harris-Walz attack ad airing in the battleground states. Another simply proclaims: “No men in girls’ sports.”
Even in liberal areas, Republicans have made transgender rights the focus of their campaign – protesting against a New York referendum that could add gender to a list of protected characteristics in state equality legislation.
Adverts by the campaigns, which include Trump’s and those of down ballot Republicans, feature images of drag queens and transgender women. In one, Ms. Harris appears beside a person with a moustache wearing a dress.
The late-stage campaign push on LGBTQ issues is an attempt by Republicans to “get out the vote” on Tuesday, and has cost the campaign more than $20 million.
Although polling shows that few voters consider the overreach of trans rights to be a major concern at this election, voters who are interested in the issue are more likely to be highly motivated by it.
Although he once said he preferred not to use the term “culture war”, Trump has leaned into the idea in the final months of his campaign and positioned himself against what Republicans view as an attempt to impose “gender ideology” on communities.
Trump has consistently positioned himself against those attempts, promising to “cut federal funding” for schools pushing “critical race theory, transgender insanity, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children” on “day one” of his second administration.
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2024 was a year without a summer. This will have a hugely deleterious effect on the health of an already diseased nation. People won’t go to work regardless of the rewards because they are too debilitated. When did you last hear a politician address this debilitation? You can replace exhauseted stock with overseas immigrants but everything suffers. You imagine an old granny in a care home and not one of the care workers speaks English as a first language. No understanding of cultural references. This is a barren wasteland.
Where there’s Labour strongholds there’s Pakistani rape gangs and cover-ups. Props to this guy in Oldham for being outspoken and calling a spade a spade here ( 10mins );
”Exclusive: Anti-grooming gang campaigner Raja Miah (@recusant_raja
) details how the Labour Party covered up the industrial rape of white working class British girls, in order to secure votes from Muslim communities.
“Labour are at the centre of the grooming gang cover up.”
https://x.com/TPointUK/status/1874765109446524980
Everyone gets their payment and everyone is on the disability but it aint worth diddly no more. Can you not see it is simple economics.
I am sure Labour would prefer grovelling for pension credit rather than heating allowance as of right.
I’m sorry but not giving away fuel “benefits” isn’t a raid.
The raid is the theft of money from ordinary people to redistribute the money to selected people chosen by the state.
I realise it probably sounds incredibly heartless to some, but people should take responsibility for heating their own homes.
Stewart, the WFA was originally introduced because Labour defaulted on a cost of living rise in the early naughties. This was a panic / vote retrieval measure.
In principle, I agree with you that it is the individuals responsibility. However, while the government pursues ruinous energy policies requiring us to spend multiples of other nations energy costs, the pensioners with modest fixed incomes are being squeezed harder than anyone. They were promised WFA, but it was withdrawn, not because it wasn’t needed, but because of some bullshit ‘blackhole’ in our finances. It is yet another poorly thought out piece of policy from the government who seem determined to work by ideology than practicality.
Your argument seems very reasonable and much more humane compared to mine.
Which is why we are completely lost with respect to shrinking the state in any meaningful way.
The vast majority of state expenditures are giveaways to maintain people who in a previous era, prior to the welfare state, would have been responsible for maintaining themselves.
It’s almost impossible now to take any of this away without appearing heartless. Even though it is in effect robbing Peter to pay Paul, whether we like to see it that way or not.
The real solution to this problem is to have cheap and abundant power that everyone could afford, this would also have a deflationary impact on pricing of everything (assuming everything involves using energy during its creation or distribution.), thereby bursting the so called ‘cost of living crisis’. All of these things are interdependent, but thinking doesn’t seem to stretch that far. There is no concept of ‘saving money, or ‘making things cheaper’ in government, only bigger budgets and bigger government. Even with the fictitious ‘black hole’, the first thought is ‘more taxes’ and not where can we make some economies. £20bn isn’t a big sum of money to save, by other standards. I bet if we sat down with a list of Government budgets we could save £100bn a year in half an hour.
If our so-called economist chancellor has “found” (created) a 20 billion pound black hole she would do well to ask Ed Millibrain about that. He’s got lots more black holes in his crazy plans!
Like the derisory 10 pound Christmas bonus the winter fuel allowance had been allowed to be outstripped by inflation. I think it would be around 1000 pounds had it kept pace, which poses the question to which we already know the answer – Where is that extra money being wasted .
Mad government policy has made our electricity the most expensive in the world and it is generally the most expensive way to heat your home. Our state pension is low compared to other countries so this payment offset some of the failure by governments. While it might seem sensible to means test the benefit until you realise that it would cost more to officiate than it would save. No doubt the same will be true as the number of submissions for pension credit soars so the time spent reviewing the forms of 300 odd questions rises along with the payments.