That’s a graham platner quote tho.
Are you ready to back up that statement with a source, gentleman?
https://www.localnewslive.com/2026/06/11/graham-platner-wins-democratic-nomination-us-senate-maine/ He said this on June 11th, 2026 after he won the Maine state Democratic primary.
then why is he continually texting my broke ass for money?
He’s taking more of a timeshare-style approach to buying a senator.
More of a co-op.
And I just realized soon they’ll rebrand campaign finance limits as “bringing socialism to political campaigns” to make it sound scary.
Disappointing that he doesn’t also want to be a senator for trans people
So disappointing considering Paxton has a strong track record as a trans ally
Thanks for the unneeded comparison.
Yes totally irrelevant to compare him against the other candidate in his race
Thanks for telling me, a trans person, how I should feel.
Would you rather have Paxton?
Am I not allowed to be disappointed in a candidate? Is the only option unrestrained enthusiasm for a candidate that isn’t interested in protecting my rights?
You can be what ever you want, but trump might not be in office right now if the same thing wasn’t going on with people condemning Harris for not being anti Israel, loudly, when there were only two options left.
So we just have to keep ceding human rights to fascists until the marginally less fascist party wins?
As far as electoral progress goes? Yes. Tough titties – that’s how our “democracy” works.
We should be mainly focusing on building power in other ways. Strong unions. Solidarity. Parallel power. Mutual aid. Mutual defense. General strike. Outright revolution. But when it comes to elections – yes, you absolutely should keep voting for the marginally less fascist party.
In the american system, yes. Do that and pray it works out, since the only other option you have is get one of those bajillion guns and do a revolution thingy.
If that’s how you interpret my comment that’s on you. I feel Talarico will do more for marginalized communities than anyone TX had on the ballot in 50+ years.
Oh, sorry that I don’t have the appropriate enthusiasm for being thrown under the bus.
You’ve misinterpreted 2/2 of their comments and misinterpreted Talarico’s beliefs about trans people.
Editing your comment to add twice the content as well as chants we both agree with in massive font does absolutely nothing to contribute to this discussion and distracts from what you said.
He won the primary by being an unapologetic ally, and then decided it was a losing strategy.
It’s the same shit CEOs and bad management throw QA, IT, low level programmers, nurses, teachers, or any other frontline workers under the fucking bus. I see right through it, and object to it.
Trans Rights Are Worker’s Rights
Trans Rights Are Indigenous Rights
Trans Rights Are Minority’s Rights
Trans Rights Are Women’s Rights
Trans Rights Are Human Rights
Most Democrats in contested areas are actively disconnecting from engaging in Culture War talking points.
One can quietly support and vote for trans rights while not openly engaging in arguments about trans people which scare off moderates/fence-sitters/“I’d vote for that Democrat because Trump is terrible, but I’m afraid of trans people” types.
FYI to the user who replied to me below, I blocked you a while back when you were doing a bunch of bad faith arguments. I can’t recall if you were one of the people straw-manning western liberals or one of the ones that tagged in to start the name-calling sideshow.
It’s true. A Texas born and raised liberal Christian doesn’t 100% match the dream liberal candidate.
pikacu face
Don’t need a perfect candidate, just someone willing to defend human rights.
So what bad policy could Talarico have where you’d still support him?
All he would have needed to do was object to the fox news question by asking them to define what they meant by biological men. Because there are XX male and XY female phenotypes. There are people with born with both sets of genitals, and operated on to “normalize”. There are Y chromosome polysomies, affecting their secondary sex chararistics.
They wanna talk about biology, then they better fucking talk about whole god damn thing.
Nice try at deflection, not what I asked at all. Since you’re already going for such underhanded tactics I’m not going to entertain this discussion anymore. I asked what bad policy he could have because I question your statement about not wanting a perfect candidate, just one that defends human rights. Because I think you’re going to have a hard time coming up with a bad policy that also isn’t infringing on human rights. Which means you actually do want him to be a perfect candidate.
Personally I don’t see a big deal with him not publicly supporting trans people considering the state he’s running in. Being openly pro-trans in a deeply anti-trans state means you’re not going to have any shot at doing anything good. Just look at how much he got attacked for saying God is non-binary, something that Catholic church (in a different wording) agrees with. And from what I’ve gathered he’s not anti-trans, he’s simply publicly not pro trans because that would be a political suicide in Texas. And if your issue with him is that he’s not publicly pro trans then you actually do expect him to be a perfect candidate.
