"Why should that bother me?" Is always the one phrase that sets my MAGA father off when he goes on one of his rants. It's easy. It's effective. It's gold.
I have a few friends in the MAGA boat and while I still think they’re just good people who are misguided, I got tired of hearing Fox News talking points so I just started saying “so what?” or “okay and?” after hearing a bunch of nonsense and that’s met either with either them getting veins in their necks or realizing they’re the only one spun up about this garbage
That's something I've noticed with a lot of the MAGA crowd. They'll go on and on about all the "bad" things that they claim "the radical left" want for hours on end, but if you ask them WHY those things are bad, they'll either get real quiet or start spewing bigoted nonsense.
A person trying to recruit me to the red team actually said "As an African-American, you can relate to Dt more now since he's a convicted criminal." For the record, I don't have a record of any kind. Which I told him and he said "Really?". I said "No". He asked. How many times have you ben arrested?" and I replied "never". He then replied "ever?". To which I said "No, never.." He Then went on to ask me about gangs and all kinds of other crazy stuff. Wow! What they think is really wild!
> "As an African-American, you can relate to Dt more now since he's a convicted criminal." I'm sorry, but I got to chose to disbelief your internet story, because I can't possibly accept that a human being exists, that does have the necessary minimum intelligence to be able of articulating words, yet at the same time is dumb enough to think THAT is a good statement in any kind of context. Like, not even Trumpists can be that stupid. Right? ... Please let me right about that o.o
I was raised by those types. They legit tried to get me to think that all non-white people are 'naturally violent-leaning' and how 'most of them are arrested at least once by adulthood'. And i just stood there trying very hard not to roll my eyes as i thought of all the nice kids and adults at school who have clearly never touched a violence in their lives, while resisting the urge to roll my eyes across the floor.
Oh thank you! I grew up in a very republican home and I’ve been listening to the calls for “small government” for decades! I’ve been asking what happened to that part of the platform and no one can answer me! We don’t like the answer, but the *only* answer is that it’s about their freedoms and no one else’s. I can’t abide that double standard.
@@kirstenlandon3043the reason you don't hear about it anymore is because it's an antiquated dog whistling technique. They were supposed to express their racism with platitudes like "border control" and "being tough on crime", or "small government" when they mean to talk about authoritarianism. Nowadays you have Trump on live TV openly calling Mexicans rapists and talking about how he wants to be king for a day. Double talk is suddenly not needed anymore.
@@kirstenlandon3043They like small government that can’t prevent corporations from pillaging our communities but they like big government when it comes to forcing us to follow their belief system
a similar situation happened to my dad, a Republican canvasser came to our house and my dad told them the candidate “didn’t align with our Christian values”
100%. Calling progressives “progressives” actually takes away from everyday people who have working mental capacity to understand the world we live in with logic and kindness.
@@gymnastchannel7372 Failing to call everyday people who have the mental capacity to even attempt to understand the world we live in and to respond to situations with logic and to other people with kindness 'progressives' leads to severely underestimating the number of progressives.
That is funny, but there was notable discrimination against people of Irish ancestry here in the past, too. The only point is finding an other to be superior over while simultaneously somehow being threatened by it. The target will move wherever is convenient. If gay people hadn't gained such a strong foothold in society by now, the Republican party would be persecuting them instead of trans people. And if they manage to intimidate and litigate trans people into feeling so unsafe that they don't show their faces, gay people will be the next target.
@IstasPumaNevada gay people, Muslims, atheists and pagans. The Dominionist ideology that almost all Republicans in either state or federal office subscribe to, doesn't allow any other religions, or anybody their religion deems "untermenschen".
@@IstasPumaNevadawait, Irish people were once persecuted? …I gotta get a handle on how racism works, cause a lot of my ancestors are Irish. I wanna see how THAT worked.😆
@@felwalkr_94 Oh definitely an interesting time in history! The whole “No Irish need apply” discrimination that was very commonly found in job advertisements. Forced to flee from famine and political chaos, the Irish endured bigotry before gaining acceptance into the American “mainstream class.” Refugees seeking opportunity and safety in America were often poor and disease-ridden. I recommend these resources/books that provide insight on Irish immigration: “How the Irish Became White” - Noel Ignatiev “Journey of Hope: The Story of Irish Immigration to America” - Kerby A. Miller and Patricia Mulholland Miller “When America Despised the Irish: The 19th Century's Refugee Crisis”
The "why should that bother me" argument ended a friendship of like 10 years when said (former) friend went on a rant about vegan school lunch options, even though he didn't have kids, and this took place in a city he neither lived nor worked in. Trump told him to be mad about it, so he was.
It's gone past absurd to the point where, I think if Trump said that he was going to have half of America randomly cast into the sea and destroy every house, apartment building and all dwellings so that _________(pick any crazy reason. He says things crazier than this anyway) his followers would be thrilled, "yay! He gave us a new a new beginning and the opportunity to start from scratch! We're so fortunate to be on the same planet with him! No one else would think of doing this for us!"
It's gone past absurd to the point where, I think if Trump said that he was going to have half of America randomly cast into the sea and destroy every house, apartment building and all dwellings so that _________(pick any crazy reason. He says things crazier than this anyway) his followers would be thrilled, "yay! He gave us a new a new beginning and the opportunity to start from scratch! We're so fortunate to be on the same planet with him! No one else would think of doing this for us!"
I had a R. canvasser come by recently. I told him I hadn't voted for a Republican since they propagandized heavily against the Equal Rights Amendment--and that apparently I can hold a grudge for 50 years.
I actually know the daughter of the state senator who has never let the ERA go. He is still fighting for it now, pushing and pushing to get that amendment added to the Constitution. He said that any time he ever thought about letting it go, the idea that his little girl didn't have constitutionally protected equal rights pushed him on. Pretty amazing family. (I work in politics.)
The Republican _would_ realize and accept that his unhinged beliefs are getting zero traction. The unrealistic part was trying past 2-3 attempts, still hoping his mark actually _was_ born yesterday.
The most unrealistic part of this was the Republican allowing anything resembling a respectful discord without constantly talking over the other person.
@@davidstorrs The Republican has never been moved by the truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste. Preferring to deify error if error seduce them.
@@HonoredMule We had one of these show up last week. Said which candidate he was campaigning for and I started laughing and said "god no" and walked away so my roommate had to deal with him. Like, dude, you came to the wrong house as we were about to play DnD and 3 of our group are queer women.
My wife and I love when we get calls from conservatives here in TX, and it plays out almost exactly like this. "Did you know Collin Alred supports educating Texas kids about transgender issues in public schools?" "Actually no I didn't, but that's pretty cool."
And by voting for us we can easily grift them for "campaign" contributions and exploiting funding and position to live a life of comfort, indulge and power.
A few years back the GOP House candidate for our district (and his wife) came to our front door and started talking about how US healthcare was top notch. I'm a healthcare researcher who's worked in 57 countries, so I said (as kindly as I could) "Any country that spends 17% of the largest GDP in the world in healthcare but gets less access and worse clinical outcomes than all other OECD countries is not 'top notch' in any way." My plan was to leave it at that, wish him good luck and go back to my book, but he (a defense contractor with zero background on healthcare or statistics) started arguing that my analysis was flawed. My wife came to the front door and said "If you really want to have this discussion, I need a few minutes to make popcorn and watch my husband wipe the floor with you." They smiled sheepishly and went to the house next door after that. He got creamed in the election too.
Amazing how other countries with ‘Firearms Control’ legislation aren’t bleating like lost lambs, or having many mass shootings, or wearing AR 15 lapel pins to political rallies .
I never really got a convincing answer to what I like to say (especially as a foreigner), my version of "Why should that bother me?" which is "The culture war is not my war."
I always get, "oh... that doesn't bother you...? Which leads them into delivering the types of dystopian retcon fantasy diatribes that make Fox News proud.
Republicans have never been moved by the truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste. Preferring to deify error if error seduced them.
@@samwill7259 The Republican have never been moved by the truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste. Preferring to deify error if error seduced them.
At this point I'm okay with and have accepted giving up my AR if it means keeping the GOP out of power. I was, at one point, a near-single-issue gun rights voter. My entire family is voting blue for the first time. The GOP have no idea how much they've hollowed out their own base - the only good news for my family and I is that how insane they've become woke us up to how blinded and misguided we were.
the democrats probably won't get enough power to ban ARs anyway. Clinton got that passed because of the era of gang violence, when it was practically a bipartisan issue. Nothing scares Republicans like black people with high powered weapons.
Keep it secured, be sure to practice at a suitable gun range or practice field, and make sure it's registered and you have the appropriate permits to own it and everything is fine. Democrats, in general, don't want to take away everyone's guns. They just want to ensure that there are some common-sense gun regulations to prevent people from winning Darwin Awards or becoming mass shooters with too much ease. There are actually quite a few democrats who own their own guns and know how to use them. The only difference is that they understand that it shouldn't be trivially easy to acquire such an efficient murder weapon.
@@howardwylie1620 Bingo. There's nothing wrong with wanting to own firearms. But they're inherently murder weapons of particularly high efficiency, so they really shouldn't be so trivially easy to obtain. I'd like for them to be at least as inconvenient as car ownership.
I've been a lifetime NRA member since I was 16, so I often get calls from them, and this is always how it goes. Once they called me up to rant about some gun control bill that Obama was pushing, and my response was, "Wow. That bill sounds like a good idea. I'll be sure to let my members of Congress know I support it. Thanks for the heads up."
This is a bit of a head-scratcher. On the one hand you know they're ranters, you must be aware that they continue to push for extreme positions, that they dgaf how many kids are killed in schools - and you continue to be a member? WHY?
I always see all these documentaries about how the NRA used to be about promoting common sense gun control, and how it made a hard right turn around 1977. I would love to see them turn back towards trying to keep people safe and promoting proper hunting weapons and the like...just doesn't seem likely anytime soon.
There was a massive uptick in the number of gun sales the day after Obama was elected. Iirc it was the second highest day for gun sales after 9/12/2001. My idiot brother with the Confederate flag sticker on his truck (we were born and grew up in CA) called me the day after Obama was elected the first time to ask if it was true Obama was taking everyone's guns away.
I live in the Midwest, and for the last year or so it's been Omaha, Nebraska. I've actually had conversations like this one, and I am always surprised that when presented with facts and statistics, most conservatives just say, "But it's not right." I often wonder if they are talking about the situation being unfair or their political ideology.
Im an OTR/regional driver and Navy veteran, trust me I KNOW that scenario. They wax hard about how "it ain't right" but I stare blankly at them and chock it up to another lost in the FAUX sauce. It's gotta be deeply in their egos to the point they can't tear themselves free of being wrong.
Actual dialogue: Progressive who makes one reasonable point: "Why should I be mad about it?" / Republican: "Oh, excuse me, I didn't know this was a MARXIST household. Good day."
Reminds me of those ads that try to make democrat candidates sound bad by telling me they support things that I agree with. Not even saying there's something wrong with it, just "This candidate says they'll do X if elected" and I'm like "That sounds like a good idea, we should be doing that."
I wonder when society will finally figure out twice-exceptional people exist. It’s not looking good for it to be in my lifetime. “Hold on, you’re smart… AND disabled?!?” “Yes.” “I don’t believe you.” 🙄
I second that. Though our conditions and adversities faced may be different. Disabled people, LGBTQ+, (and non-binary), and ethnic minorities of all kinds are still small proportions of the population who should be standing in solidarity with each other to achieve a better tomorrow rather than be pitted against each other to serve fascistic aims.
@@literallyap0tat0-q7q they love trying to prevent funding for this program or that project because there are homeless veterans. The, much like the 9/11 Frist Responders, they proceed to do nothing to help. If not try to also cut their funding.
Especially since they don't want to help people with disabilities either. If they bring up the possibility of funding disability instead of some other group, it should immediately shoved in their faces that they don't want to do that either.
This. I think outright bans on guns is going too far and legitimately a violation of the 2nd amendment. However I'm entirely for regulations on manufacturing, selling, obtaining, owning, and use of firearms to keep them out of reach of dangerous individuals.
@@DaDunge I don't just mean bans in general. Banning specific guns or specific type of guns (like the popular AR-15 bans or assault rifle bans) seems unconsitutional due to 2A. But enforcing background checks, closing the private sale loophole, and requiring safety and knowledge training for a license would go far in cutting down gun violence.
1:45 The biggest accommodation my high school made for trans kids was installing single-stall bathrooms. Because of this, every floor of every building in my district has a wheelchair accessible single-stall bathroom. Before those bathrooms existed, there was maybe one wheelchair accessible bathroom in every building. We have elevators, but they are hard to get access to and they break frequently. I had a friend who could physically only use those single-stalled bathrooms, and they would have needed to switch schools had they not existed.
Why should I be angry or afraid? Ask them why they are and they will deny it vehemently and then drown you in smug self satisfaction disguised as confidence.
Except that neoliberals and New Democrats have decided that fear should also be the motivating factor and are making the situation even worse. Thank the gods that the progressives are slowly gaining ground.
As a trans person, there is absolutely no money being spent on us, and the only effort teachers have to put in aside from the bare minimum of calling me the right things is to be willing to let me take a bit longer to go to the restroom because the only place I can legally go is the nurse's office on the far end of the school
I hope that teachers also ensure that your classmates use your correct name and pronouns as well. (Though ideally they wouldn't have to DO anything for that to happen!)
Could solve that problem by just getting rid of the stupid bathroom laws. Bathrooms being separated by biological sex never stopped high schoolers from f*cking in the bathrooms anyway, or from smoking and doing drugs in them. At least from the experiences of me and friends of mine. Love your username btw lol
@@kenirainseeker539 ehhhhh... i can see some validation in the mid-school years when young girls are getting their first periods etc... it's bad enough getting harassed by older girls, throw boys into that mix and you'd really have a bad time. but there could be mixed gender bathrooms as well as separated gender bathrooms.
I honestly can ever think of a reason in typically day to day discussions where you need to use specifically "he/him" or "she/her". If talking about a person in the third person, I use their name or they/them. It applies to everyone equally and I don't have to guess when meeting a new person at work. My main point being... it's *really* easy imo and I was raised in Florida. I'm also a Xillenial(sub-generation of Gen X & Y). 😅🤷♂
In a sense, yes. If you're knowledgeable, you recognize that improving the status quo (aka progressing as a society) is going to... well, improve the status quo. Improvement is good. It's a logical concept that one shouldn't even need to be knowledgeable for to comprehend.
Yeah, it's kind of glaring that most of the *very insignificant* voter fraud was Republicans voting twice or submitting absentee ballots for dead folks.
Also, also RepugniKKKlans - "Gerrymandering?? Jerry Who? :: clutching pearls :: Why, I have no idea what you mean. NO, we didn't have to cheat to win elections everywhere... /:: mutttering :: But we chose to and it definitely cheated the elections./"
Well yeah, Obama election: "The NEW BLACK PANTHERS, a thing that definitely exists, are standing outside polling places in 3000 American cities intimidating good Christian voters!" Biden election: "WE DEMAND TO BE ABLE TO GO INTO YOUR BOOTHS AS VOLUNTEER ELECTION AUDITORS BECAUSE WE ARE AMERICA PATRIOT DEMOCRACY FREEDOM!"
Aggressive voter suppression too! Don't forget aggressive voter suppression! Both micro (stopping people from giving out water bottles on hot days, shutting down ballot boxes, and forcing long commutes to in-person ballots during work days) and macro (gerrymandering).
Single occupant bathrooms and a general acceptance that it's OK for people to be different also help special needs students, not to mention a bunch of students who are neither trans nor special needs but just want peace and quiet when they pee.
I appreciate the false dichotomy of Republicans advocating for public school funding going to programs for special needs students instead of trans kids when everybody knows Republicans have spent decades trying to eliminate funding for special needs programs, too.
Do people actually understand what they mean by banning CRT?? Kids won’t even be allowed to learn about people like Martin Luther King or Thurgood Marshall because it makes their parents and grandparents uncomfortable.
It's an evil GOP strategy. Make people believe in a boogeyman who doesn't exist (CRT isn't a thing outside graduate school), then lump anything to do with racial discussions under CRT, even the likes of the Civil War, slavery, civil rights, etc. It's worked well for the dummies in America.
It's more properly termed Critical Theory: Race. Critical Theory can be applied to a number of subjects. Banning Critical Race Theory doesn't mean banning teaching about Martin Luther King or Thurgood Marshal, or even the Tulsa Race Massacre. CRT is just being used as a scapegoat.
@@letsRegulateSociopaths This. They're lying about the very thing they're trying to make people scared about. They do this quite a lot (because facts and logic and reason don't tend to be on the side of fascism all that often.)
I was visiting my parents in Florida and a canvasser for a local Republican candidate knocked on our door. My parents weren't home and I realized what a great chance I had to mess with them. I let them give their little spiel and then I started asking questions. I apparently asked the "wrong" questions because they lost all interest in talking to me. Before they left I told them that "this house is no longer interested in Republican candidates and that we would be voting blue." That was a fun 3 minutes.
As a teacher, I really want to know what, specifically, they imagine is happening in the classroom when they say "gender ideology is being pushed." Like, at the top of the lesson plan would be written as the lesson objective: "Students will learn how to: be trans." Because lesson plans objectives are about what students will be able to do by the end. Will learn how to identify and hate cis people? What would the worksheets even look like?
When they say 'trans ideology is being pushed' they mean 'the existence of trans people, including students, is being acknowledged, and that upsets me because I was born in 1899 when we could just murder people for not conforming'.
I teach in NYC. The biggest change in our operation is being notified of name changes and pronoun preferences. I just always use a student's last name. Gender fluid and transitioning students are aware that I don't use pronouns in class, and I have good relationships with most of my students. It's not common and not a big deal.
Fo sure...take the leaflet and cost them a few cents. I just wish I could something similar with all the GQP ads showing up in YT to cost them something for polluting my feed.
@@gabrielmaroto18 Yes, I will take a leaflet. Also, how many do you have? Uh-huh, okay. I have this many friends and family I would like to take these to. *tosses all the canvasser's leaflets in the trash*
“How do you feel about your tax dollars being spent to make trans students feel safe in school?” “Shouldn’t all student be allowed to feel safe in school? How would making trans students feel safe ad costs?”
Yup. Kindness and decency are free, but so important. Ironic that the so-called party of family and Christian values is missing that idea so spectacularly. I'm not saying that the left or the Democratic party always get things right or focus their energy on the right topics, but starting with the goal of kindness and inclusion is rarely wrong.
I'm fine with all students feeling safe at school. I'm not fine with trans-identifying boys in the girl's locker room (and vice versa). Feelings don't change biological reality. Students who are not trans have the right to single-sex privacy.
@isoldam Ignoring for the moment the independent problems with what you said about the topic you tried to change the conversation to, what does who goes in which locker room have to do with what name and pronoun is used for a student, or for protecting students from bullying and harassment including harassment permitted to become so extreme that the student was either murdered or induced to off themselves? Because what I'm talking about is what's actually happening, and I can cite cases to back that claim up. Protecting trans kids is not permitting sexual harassment in locker rooms (Try to cite a SINGLE case of that actually happening if you want to disagree) it's providing them the proper, reccomended by the overwhelming majority of medical associations worldwide including the World Health Organization, care they need. Don't let your hypothedical make you ignore the reality of what is actually and actively occuring.
@@isoldam I'm curious what you think happens in a girls restroom at school that a trans-girl could cause any form of chaos or emotional turmoil to a straight girl. As a guy, I don't want a woman in the men's room because of what I may do in there that would ruin any possible romantic relationship with them. That's all. I can't think of any other reason why it would be a problem for me, or any other guy, to have a trans-woman in the mens room. Also, what is "single-sex privacy" other than what I just described above? Sounds like you're focusing on mental sociological boundaries, which are in continual change over time, rather than biological reality. And you did say "feelings don't change biological reality." The reality is, the biology of two people of opposite biological sex in a restroom is always private. They never come in contact. In a mens room, a trans-male would use a stall, not the urinals, which is the only place the male biology is remotely visible. In the womans room, everyone uses a stall. Beyond the visible, which we just saw wouldn't occur, any aural and olfactory sensory information passed along by the functions employed in a restroom is biologically identical between sexes. The issue you're having is actually with feelings, not with biology.
I want someone to argue with pro-life anti-immigration people on the fact that they're more interested in protecting "people" who have not yet gained citizenship because they weren't born in the US (because they're still in the womb), but they also *don't* want to support the people who have not yet gained citizenship because they weren't born in the US (because they migrated here).
I had a great interaction like this once. We had a state rep who was a truly moderate Republican who had great ideas before Trump and back then I voted for her even though I am a bleeding heart liberal. She was out of office for awhile and recently was trying to get reelected but had become full MAGA. I had a canvasser for her stop by one day and asked if I would support her and I said yes, if she went back 8 years. She had supported a lot of ideas for women's rights like more time off for childbirth. Plans to implement a job training programs for women who escape spousal violence and had reasonable ideas for fiscal responsibility. I asked him what her current platform was...............CRT in schools, election integrity, stop and frisk types of laws. I asked him that in all honesty, if you took away the name and showed these 2 candidates side by side. Who would YOU vote for? He said he had no idea she was once for those kinds of things. I said " yes, that is what a cult does to people. If you think it has not happened to you, think about your beliefs before Trump. If they are this stark, you are in the cult too." I hope I got him to quit.
I voted for a moderate Republican for City Council in 2008. He was actually going door-to-door during the campaign and talking to people to find common ground and understand important issues. When he was elected I got to know him very well because I was in charge of IT at City Hall, so I was the one who set him up in the City's systems and helped him when he had problems. I voted for him during both of his terms. Imagine my dismay to learn that he is now all-in on Trump. This was a guy who FEROCIOUSLY support the use of good government to provide goods and services to the citizens of the City, and now he's saying that there is no such thing as good government and waging culture wars against the most vulnerable individuals in our community. Trump is poison. He is the rot at the core of our nation.
@@Josh-99 Just keep in mind that Trump is not the cause of this, he's a symptom and a catalyst. Trump could never have happened if the Republican party and far-right media hadn't been preparing the way. Someone like Trump was inevitable, it just happened to be him, and getting rid of him will not get rid of the problem; note how quickly how many Republican politicians immediately jumped on the fascism bandwagon rather than standing up against it.
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Canvassar : Are you concerned about your tax dollars being used to educate your children on dei and wokeism? Voter : im concerned with various republicans wanting to scrap the dept of education and get rid of public schools forcing families to attempt to educate their children on severely reduced income if one parent has to give up their job to do so, and that if the average private school, which is free to exclude children from participating in them, costs about $12000+ dollars per year, per child, which the average family in this country cannot afford either,. And thats the cost while the public option is available. Without that they could set it much higher I should be mad at that
Don't forget that some of those private schools are going to be Christian or some other religion. When ignorant isn't enough, indoctrinate them into believing without evidence.
In TX, Greg Abbott wants to straight-up only give funding to private and Christian schools, where kids can get a "safe education." I don't even have kids and this really P***ES me off. He also blames Kamala for the border... in Texas... so... you know.
Why would you be mad about that? Red states are winding down or discarding child labour laws, so hey, your child won't need school, he or she can just move straight into the infinitely disposable workforce on zero hour contracts, dieing early due to the conveniently downgraded OH&S laws.
I bet the son pulls down twice minimum wage but still can't afford to move out. I bet he pays an entirely fair rent and does his share of the household chores unprompted. This seems like a very healthy family.
I also bet the son got sprayed by a skunk for being a dipsh:t while out dirt biking because while leftisim makes you more kind and responsible, it doesn't make one fully immune from being a dummy.
That's how we did it as my sons finished high school. One stayed long enough to start up his own business. We waived rent for the first rocky year. He's doing well now.
I'm 55. 9 years ago, when dad turned 75, he requested that my hubby and I consider selling our house and getting a house with him. We did that, and since then we've had my husband's disabled brother move in, my sister's daughter and her man move in, and then my sister moved in. Six people living under dad's roof (except he's not, he lives closer to medical care nowadays). The availability of housing for any of us who live here is pretty untenable. Even the most ridiculously crappy house in our rural town costs a quarter of a million dollars. Postage stamp yard, 700 sq feet inside the house, and one of the highest murder rates in the state.
Mum 'n I have kinda always lived together, we're basically roommates. We both work and bring income and we both pay house expenses and do work around the house. I get groceries every now and then, pay bills sometimes, etc. etc. Either of us living alone and paying all our own rent and expenses is basically infeasible, at best we'd *never* be able to afford to have any time off and I'd have mentally broken down long ago with that. Shit, we're lucky to have a house, actually paying rent for shelter would cripple us.
Had a guy like this show up at my door one day and say his opener. My response? "Im a trans-lesbian with no kids who is too poor to afford weed." After they looked at me stunned for a bit, they walked away thanking me for my time. It was hilarious.
I've never had a political canvasser come to my door, but I had two old religious ladies show up to try and convert me. I told them I was too busy fcuking my girlfriend and shut the door. They are not worth engaging with and it's best to just let them know up front you're not their demo lol
Since I moved to the US from the UK 10 years ago, I do find it astounding that for a country that goes on and on about "Freedom !!!", half of the country sure spends a LOT of time telling people what they can & can't do (and I'm not talking about common sense, which shouldn't need laws...).
We forget that the first bunch of Europeans to settle over here came to escape persecution over the ability to practice their beliefs freely...which, for them, meant being able to tell everyone else how to behave and what to do. It had nothing to do with being oppressed, but with not being allowed to be the oppressors.
the question, "why should I be mad about it?" Is a nice way to think about their talking points. We've seen the MAGA movement really embrace anger and grievance into their politics, much more than the previous version of the republican party. Using that question to deflate their effort to tap into our anger is a great place to start in destroying their arguments. We know they don't actually (most of the time) care about the issues they are trying to get us angry about, they just use it to get people to vote for them. Thanks for the good sketch!
I got turned away by more people who thought political party canvassing = government investigation when I did that. They’re not the same, but I’m sure you’ve had that experience too.
@CAP198462 Absolutely had that happen. But, at least in my area, was more likely to get people who wanted to have a full political debate on their front doorstep. Like they finally have an excuse to argue with a leftist IRL. But I had gotten really good at making progressive arguments using a conservative rhetorical style. So half the time they ended up agreeing with most of what I was saying.
@@titan4257 you take what they say, like "helping Ukraine is a waste" and you spin it in a way for them to look at favorably "You hate Russia and communism right? it would be great to cripple them for a long time right? If we help Ukraine then that hurts communism". I watched a video of some kid going around interviewing MAGAs and he used this example on someone who didnt like us helping ukraine, really got the guy thinking.
Yep. Every time a guy at my condo pool ranted about "socialism" I'd ask him to explain to me precisely WHY Soshulizm Wuz Bad. He'd sputter and rage... and come up with nothing.
Agreed. The problem is that the canvasser in this skit stuck to their script without breaking down into a screeching, incoherent mess and calling the voter a groomer pedophile.
@@Tawleyn Except, the canvassers for Republicans are paid, not volunteers. So unlike volunteers, they could not care less. Sticking to the script means saying "thank you" and leaving after the first question, because they know they are losing. It is only worth your time if you are going to net a vote, volunteer, or donation.
Yes, if it's a canvasser or a dedicated rank or file. If it's a rando voter trying to talk you into their beliefs, you're better off taking apart the easy ones and then moving on to how we *should* be doing things. People like direction, whether or not we like to admit it. JUST breaking down their ideology isn't enough, we have to provide workable alternatives, and be able to explain them in relatable ways.
This is basically how my conversation with my local MLA (Member of Legislative Assembly, provincial government - I'm Canadian) went. He mentioned trans kids in schools, and said something about life-changing decisions. I replied, 'What is life-changing about nonmedical transition? If they are just changing their names and pronouns, then they are just playing with language. I don't see how that's life-changing.' And he went, 'Huh. Ok. I guess you're right.' He said it was a teacher's responsibility to keep parents informed on their kids' education. I agreed and told him I don't think the kids' names or pronouns were a part of their education. That it was the kid's responsibility to tell their parents when they were comfortable doing so. Teachers should stick to making sure kids can read, do math, know enough history to recognize when it's repeating itself or rhyming. And he then made excuses and quickly got the heck away from my door. Like when I started talking, he took a full step back. I made him super uncomfortable. I let him say his piece, and then I said mine in a neutral tone, but he just didn't know what to do with someone so calmly disagreeing with him. I don't think he'll be back any time soon, but he lives just around the corner, so maybe I'll bring him a coffee and try to chat some more. Maybe I'll learn why he's in the Sask Party. Maybe I'll see what it is he truly wants to do in politics. Maybe I'll get him thinking about what he really believes. Probably not, but it'll be good conversation either way.
Just saw another video by Steve Boots ("What The Hell, Canada? Heat Waves, Condo Crashes, Strikes, and More!") that claimed that the Sask Party is having trouble recruiting!
@@matthewrobinson2172 I mean, yeah, fuck those people - but, let's also be honest with ourselves: how many people are _actually_ doing that? Trans people existing is already a slim margin - that's why they're a minority - so, the number of parents transitioning their kids has to be a _point_ of a percent, even within that margin. Granted, one is too many, but you're out here trying to make it seem worse than it actually is. There's a word for that: it's called "sensationalism", or, more plainly, _"exaggeration."_
@@apastasauce5905 we'd have to actually do that first to be able to say this, lbvs. My family of teachers would love to know where you think this windfall of education money has been happening, and the stats to prove that in this fictional place the education quality has gone down or maintained stagnant.
@@apastasauce5905 We have tried spending less that hasn't worked ether. I hope you get involved and bring something viable to the table. we need good ideas. Thanks
Concentrating on excluding trans, NB, etc. people consumes far more resources than accommodating their factually small numbers. ... Also, take that leaflet. Take a whole box. They spend money needlessly, and you have something to light your barbecue with.
I completely agree. For instance, I'm not trans, but the persecution of trans people by the Republican party and right-wing media is a SERIOUS problem. 100 percent because I support human rights, and another 100 percent because I know it will not stop there.
I've done this with pollsters before. Youngkin negotiated a sweetheart deal to build a new arena for the Caps in my backyard (and guess who was supposed to be paying for it?), and a pollster for one of Alexandria's mayoral candidates called me up. 1. No, I don't want this being built in my city 2. No, it's not for worries it'll attract "undesirables" to my neighborhood 3. Property values have *already* made this area unaffordable-why would I want them higher? 4. How does your candidate feel about the Caps' owner getting massive tax breaks when our city schools' special ed programs are underfunded? I was then asked a series of BS "how much do you agree with this statement?" questions. All in all, I'm confident I wasted the pollster's time to the maximum of my ability. Hopefully she was being paid by the hour and not by the call.
@@jefferyschic Pretty sure he is transitioning to being DementiaDonny's Official Diaper Changer. He seems to like kissing that particular anatomical area.
@@jefferyschicI also live there and I’m kind of skeptical of his career ending anytime soon. My guess is an 11th hour amendment to the state constitution to allow his continued gubernatorial career or his grooming a successor to be even more hateful and ignorant than he is. Florida has long since stopped giving me any kind of hope, politically speaking.
I had an interaction like this minus the humor (unfortunately). A canvassing volunteer for a “Gay Republican Senate Candidate” in Indiana came to my door last year, and i essentially spent 5 solid minutes explaining “look, I’m not going to vote red anyways, but do you really think your party wants him in it? He’s a part of a party that hates him. Does he hate himself? You’re fighting a losing battle, man.” Yada yada yada. The poor kid just.. lost his spark on that overcast day lol
I love when political poll people suggest that I should be outraged about a topic, only to discover I have actual experience with it and know more than they do.
Yeah. My response would have been to close the door and walk away. Before the last presidential election, a candidate was canvassing our neighborhood and came up to my wife and I as we were outside. I asked him one question: "Do you support Trump?" He said "Reluctantly". I said, "You can leave now."
If you find you’re not face to face with someone who’s immediately acting unreasonably, it’s worth it to have a calm, intelligent talk with them. Not everyone is MAGA-some just don’t have much exposure to reality. Republicans truly surround themselves with nothing but like-minded people. There are some out there like I was. We just needed to see and hear the facts. Some of us don’t like finding out we were lied to.
The more patient and civility you show them, the longer they stay at the door, and the less the time they have to talk to somebody else who might be more receptive to their message. I mean, it's a waste of your time too, so it's a trade-off, and you don't want to tax your own mental health, but it's something to consider.
Should consider talking to them. Not because they are going to change your mind, but while they are talking to you they aren't talking to someone else. Good waste of their time for zero return. Assuming you have some time to waste yourself.
Relatively new viewer here. I'm impressed with the emotional range in your videos. The angry disdain of the Republican in the Project 2025 video, the no holds barred sincere call-out in the videos telling the left we need to show up and vote even for imperfect candidates, the "why would I be mad about that, I really need to go hose off my son" calm of this one, and even the emotion aimed at me (someone who hates the violence in Gaza but doesn't refer to it as genocide) in that video with your exasperated weariness saying "fine, call it a massacre instead, ANYWAY as I was saying", all of those examples display overlapping messages but with a range of tones keeping them fresh and intersting. Thanks for the content.
This GenX says "Mind your damn business"" "Stay out of my bedroom, bathroom stall, marriage and doctors office and we'll be just fine" "why is what someone does in their home, in their family or at their doctors offices any of my business?" "Mind yours, I'll mind mine and we'll all be just fine" "Oh, and don't be a criminal or a sociopath" Simple...
This reminds me of when I canvassed for a campaign to keep open lands out of the hands of developers. One door I knocked on tried to offend me away, saying that he was a hunter. Well, I was prepared for that big fat hole in his argument. The open lands the campaign covered included hunting grounds, and I informed him as such. He had to stutter a 'no support'. Felt like a win for me. I woke up cranky today, so thank you for a brighter morning.
I had a canvasser come to my door the other day, and they immediately shut up and left when I told them "don't bother. We vote Democrat in this house."
coming from someone outside of the US bubble, its always refreshing to see someone who actually sees how messed up the US is. Good luck to you sir, over the next 6-12 months - its going to be rough.
Very similar to a conversation I had with my parents a few years back about CRT. I have two kids that are in public school and they were so concerned about it. I told them they aren't teaching it in our district and if they were I wouldn't be upset about it. Also that we know a ton of parents and no one but old people who don't even have kids in school are concerned about it or even come remotely close to discussing it organically.
@@fred_derf Based on the many replies I'm reading here, I don't think quite a few of them do. Do they not notice the resemblance of canvasser to homeowner?
Not really, he's playing a progressive not a Democrat. Most democrats want the same policies as the GOP they just have better PR. It just so happens that, for now, progressives have to vote democrat because we're stuck with the least bad option.
This is more of a progressive leftist viewpoint. The democrats are actually a center right party with a few aesthetic progressive stances. The only reason it's thought of as a left or progressive party is because the gop is so far right and reactionary. Both parties push essentially the same neo-liberal policies that serve the owner class and exploit the working class. The Dems do some very tame social safety net spending and aesthetic equality policies to distinguish between them and the gop.
@@TheybyBaby For the time being, I'll gladly take the social safety net spending and aesthetic equality policies to distinguish between them and the gop. The GOP has been blocking progressive legislation so much and for so long some people just accept it as okay.
@@TheybyBabyyawn. No. But keep saying that both-sides bs. Because that's totally useful for helping the GOP depress the vote into autocracy. Good job. 🤦
Not just GOP Canvasser versus Progressive Voter but *INFORMED* Progressive Voter. And per usual, the canvasser ain't so well informed. Big surprise, eh?
I've met a lot of canvassers, and I have yet to meet one that wasn't working from a script or could actually articulate the "beliefs" that they're supporting
@@TheMagicWorkerMostly because they're just minimum wage workers. I used to work with a guy who canvassed for Green Peace-it was literally just a job.
@@GSBarlev That's really interesting - I used to volunteer as a member of the NDP (New Democratic Party; Canada's 3rd largest political party, who are Social Democratic, far to the left of anything that would fly in the States), and we did it for free every election year, precisely because we knew and cared about the issues at stake. I can't do the physical work anymore due to health issues, but for some people, it's actually a labour of love.
"We are tough on crime, but we want to oppose common sense gun laws" If you oppose common sense gun laws, you are supporting criminals. Pick one, you can't be both.
"common sense gun laws" is begging the question. If the proponents can't tell the difference between a 'common sense gun law" and "any gun law at all", i don't see why they expect anyone else to try.
When I was canvassing for Bernie, I ran into a republican because voter rolls aren't the most accurate things. He basically refused to even talk because "he was a republican and that's that."...
Republicans are closed-minded people. Silly things like "damning evidence" "scientific fact" and "concise, well articulated arguments dismantling them and their talking points like an autistic child with a screwdriver unleashed in a warehouse of old disused machinery" can't sway their rigid, unmoving views. Other worldviews are scary and challenge their ironclad delusions of how the world works and thus wrong and must be outlawed
Well, I'm not going to support any Republican candidate if there's a Democrat running against them. Because I believe in the philosohpy of the Democratic Party, and unless the Republican is going to be truer to them than the Democrat, it's just a waste of my time. I gather this is not a "cool" attitude these days.
gang mentality. thats why theyre willing to support a convicted felon as their leader even tho that felon has spent more years as a democrat than a republican.
They're breaking the Seven Tenets of The Satanic Temple. That is also a huge concern. Seriously, check them out. Much better, compassionate, and more comprehensive rules to live by.
ok LOL - and time for us to pretend we are french and pull together!! vote vote vote vote Kamala all the way - thanks Steve for your excellent, and often hysterical and moving work
I recognize this situation! The son got sprayed by a skunk while doing some sort of outdoor activity like hiking! They gotta rinse him outside because of the stink! And its also why he'd be very impatient, and why both parents would be involved in seting things up for him. He cant go inside or touch much of anything right now without spreading the smell around.
Actually, come to think of it it also demonstrates the complete lack of curiosity and compassion on the part of the canvasser. That there was a simple, logical answer _right there_ and all they had to do was take a moment out of their fearmongering to ask about another human being.
This is so spot on, I have also gotten to sending solicitors away telling them how much money their company is giving to a traitorous felon, who should be on a sex offender registry, and wants to end democracy in the US.
The part that always blows my mind is how they'll say that they support the right to bear arms and support the police, often in the same breath, yet somehow manage to completely fail to consider the fact that the police regularly guns down people for merely being suspected of carrying a gun...
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"Why should that bother me?" Is always the one phrase that sets my MAGA father off when he goes on one of his rants. It's easy. It's effective. It's gold.
I'm definitely going to start using it!
I have a few friends in the MAGA boat and while I still think they’re just good people who are misguided, I got tired of hearing Fox News talking points so I just started saying “so what?” or “okay and?” after hearing a bunch of nonsense and that’s met either with either them getting veins in their necks or realizing they’re the only one spun up about this garbage
That's something I've noticed with a lot of the MAGA crowd. They'll go on and on about all the "bad" things that they claim "the radical left" want for hours on end, but if you ask them WHY those things are bad, they'll either get real quiet or start spewing bigoted nonsense.
Better, “Its weird that you feel threatened”
My variant was always "And what does that have to do with me?"
The greatest injustice here is that the son had to wait for his hosedown.
#hosedown justice
Fun fact: Hosedown was the original title of Aaron Copeland's symphonic piece, Hoedown. His wife talked him into changing the title.
I expect that he got something all over him that wasn't something that could be rinsed off in the house. Perhaps he got sprayed by a skunk?
poor little guy...24 year olds can be impatient.
"Disconcerting Enigma" is my Coheed cover band, lol
A person trying to recruit me to the red team actually said "As an African-American, you can relate to Dt more now since he's a convicted criminal." For the record, I don't have a record of any kind. Which I told him and he said "Really?". I said "No". He asked. How many times have you ben arrested?" and I replied "never". He then replied "ever?". To which I said "No, never.." He Then went on to ask me about gangs and all kinds of other crazy stuff. Wow! What they think is really wild!
That is the most brazenly racist shit I have ever heard in my life.
Really? No arrests? That's mighty white of you
> "As an African-American, you can relate to Dt more now since he's a convicted criminal."
I'm sorry, but I got to chose to disbelief your internet story, because I can't possibly accept that a human being exists, that does have the necessary minimum intelligence to be able of articulating words, yet at the same time is dumb enough to think THAT is a good statement in any kind of context. Like, not even Trumpists can be that stupid.
Right?
...
Please let me right about that o.o
I was raised by those types. They legit tried to get me to think that all non-white people are 'naturally violent-leaning' and how 'most of them are arrested at least once by adulthood'.
And i just stood there trying very hard not to roll my eyes as i thought of all the nice kids and adults at school who have clearly never touched a violence in their lives, while resisting the urge to roll my eyes across the floor.
You’d think they would at least try to hide it a little better
The party of 'Small Government' sure seems to have trouble minding their own business.
And staying out of people's bedrooms.
Oh thank you! I grew up in a very republican home and I’ve been listening to the calls for “small government” for decades! I’ve been asking what happened to that part of the platform and no one can answer me! We don’t like the answer, but the *only* answer is that it’s about their freedoms and no one else’s. I can’t abide that double standard.
oh they've never said privacy and smaller government in the same breath like ever. they want condensed power not an actual smaller government.
@@kirstenlandon3043the reason you don't hear about it anymore is because it's an antiquated dog whistling technique. They were supposed to express their racism with platitudes like "border control" and "being tough on crime", or "small government" when they mean to talk about authoritarianism. Nowadays you have Trump on live TV openly calling Mexicans rapists and talking about how he wants to be king for a day.
Double talk is suddenly not needed anymore.
@@kirstenlandon3043They like small government that can’t prevent corporations from pillaging our communities but they like big government when it comes to forcing us to follow their belief system
a similar situation happened to my dad, a Republican canvasser came to our house and my dad told them the candidate “didn’t align with our Christian values”
okay that's a great response, especially now lol
I’m totally taking that!!! That’s going to be my one liner to shut all discussion down!
Then you are more likely to be true Christians
ur dads a badass for that one
Give your dad a hug for me ❤
This isn't even a progressive. It's a rational person.
Exactly.
The terms are synonymous.
100%. Calling progressives “progressives” actually takes away from everyday people who have working mental capacity to understand the world we live in with logic and kindness.
Til that rationality is progressive in the USA.
Honestly, since 2016, i can't really fault this logic.
@@gymnastchannel7372 Failing to call everyday people who have the mental capacity to even attempt to understand the world we live in and to respond to situations with logic and to other people with kindness 'progressives' leads to severely underestimating the number of progressives.
"If immigration's happening now, why should I be mad about it?"
"Because you see, this time they're brown."
That is funny, but there was notable discrimination against people of Irish ancestry here in the past, too. The only point is finding an other to be superior over while simultaneously somehow being threatened by it. The target will move wherever is convenient.
If gay people hadn't gained such a strong foothold in society by now, the Republican party would be persecuting them instead of trans people. And if they manage to intimidate and litigate trans people into feeling so unsafe that they don't show their faces, gay people will be the next target.
@IstasPumaNevada gay people, Muslims, atheists and pagans. The Dominionist ideology that almost all Republicans in either state or federal office subscribe to, doesn't allow any other religions, or anybody their religion deems "untermenschen".
The ones who founded and built the country were mostly not white either. They just didn't immigrate voluntarily.
@@IstasPumaNevadawait, Irish people were once persecuted?
…I gotta get a handle on how racism works, cause a lot of my ancestors are Irish. I wanna see how THAT worked.😆
@@felwalkr_94 Oh definitely an interesting time in history! The whole “No Irish need apply” discrimination that was very commonly found in job advertisements. Forced to flee from famine and political chaos, the Irish endured bigotry before gaining acceptance into the American “mainstream class.” Refugees seeking opportunity and safety in America were often poor and disease-ridden.
I recommend these resources/books that provide insight on Irish immigration:
“How the Irish Became White” - Noel Ignatiev
“Journey of Hope: The Story of Irish Immigration to America” - Kerby A. Miller and Patricia Mulholland Miller
“When America Despised the Irish: The 19th Century's Refugee Crisis”
The "why should that bother me" argument ended a friendship of like 10 years when said (former) friend went on a rant about vegan school lunch options, even though he didn't have kids, and this took place in a city he neither lived nor worked in. Trump told him to be mad about it, so he was.
He was so anti vegan that he got mad? 😂😂 bro ….what a meatball
So he's upset that other people can have more fibre in their diet? Grief.
Political zealotry is way too common these days
It's gone past absurd to the point where, I think if Trump said that he was going to have half of America randomly cast into the sea and destroy every house, apartment building and all dwellings so that _________(pick any crazy reason. He says things crazier than this anyway) his followers would be thrilled, "yay! He gave us a new a new beginning and the opportunity to start from scratch! We're so fortunate to be on the same planet with him! No one else would think of doing this for us!"
It's gone past absurd to the point where, I think if Trump said that he was going to have half of America randomly cast into the sea and destroy every house, apartment building and all dwellings so that _________(pick any crazy reason. He says things crazier than this anyway) his followers would be thrilled, "yay! He gave us a new a new beginning and the opportunity to start from scratch! We're so fortunate to be on the same planet with him! No one else would think of doing this for us!"
I love how this is far-left in America but reasonable center-left in the rest of the world
Well, far left in the age of Trump. If this had been talked about 20 or 30 years ago, it would’ve been common sense.
Sometimes even center-right.
Reasonably centered.
No, centre in most of the world. Not centre-left, just normal, boring centre.
anybody not for tRump specificly is far left in magat world
I had a R. canvasser come by recently. I told him I hadn't voted for a Republican since they propagandized heavily against the Equal Rights Amendment--and that apparently I can hold a grudge for 50 years.
that's badass
I actually know the daughter of the state senator who has never let the ERA go. He is still fighting for it now, pushing and pushing to get that amendment added to the Constitution.
He said that any time he ever thought about letting it go, the idea that his little girl didn't have constitutionally protected equal rights pushed him on. Pretty amazing family.
(I work in politics.)
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I mean, if they can, you can too!
😆 Awesome...
The only unrealistic part of this was that the Republican actually accepted facts.
The Republican _would_ realize and accept that his unhinged beliefs are getting zero traction. The unrealistic part was trying past 2-3 attempts, still hoping his mark actually _was_ born yesterday.
Agreed, I count between 85 and 88 chance for a bububut Biden or bububut Hillary that he didn't take. Totally unrealistic
The most unrealistic part of this was the Republican allowing anything resembling a respectful discord without constantly talking over the other person.
@@davidstorrs The Republican has never been moved by the truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste. Preferring to deify error if error seduce them.
@@HonoredMule We had one of these show up last week. Said which candidate he was campaigning for and I started laughing and said "god no" and walked away so my roommate had to deal with him.
Like, dude, you came to the wrong house as we were about to play DnD and 3 of our group are queer women.
My wife and I love when we get calls from conservatives here in TX, and it plays out almost exactly like this. "Did you know Collin Alred supports educating Texas kids about transgender issues in public schools?" "Actually no I didn't, but that's pretty cool."
“Why should I be mad about that?”
“Because making people mad and hateful is the only way we can get then to vote for us.”
Right ? I find joy in watching the QOP squirm , they are so done .
Vote Blue !
And by voting for us we can easily grift them for "campaign" contributions and exploiting funding and position to live a life of comfort, indulge and power.
🎯🎯🎯
"We're the leopards party, and we swear we won't eat your face after you voted for us"
This.
A few years back the GOP House candidate for our district (and his wife) came to our front door and started talking about how US healthcare was top notch. I'm a healthcare researcher who's worked in 57 countries, so I said (as kindly as I could) "Any country that spends 17% of the largest GDP in the world in healthcare but gets less access and worse clinical outcomes than all other OECD countries is not 'top notch' in any way."
My plan was to leave it at that, wish him good luck and go back to my book, but he (a defense contractor with zero background on healthcare or statistics) started arguing that my analysis was flawed. My wife came to the front door and said "If you really want to have this discussion, I need a few minutes to make popcorn and watch my husband wipe the floor with you."
They smiled sheepishly and went to the house next door after that.
He got creamed in the election too.
I could swim in this story. Thank you
This story goes wonderfully with my morning coffee. It's even better than donuts!
It wasn’t even my moment and it’s the most epic thing that’s happened to me this year.
Not sure what that says about my life 😂
Go wife! 😆
Too bad your wife warned them, she could've just made popcorn and egged them on - just for fun. Maybe you guys had other plans.
Republican: "voting integrity"
Progressive voter: "So dismantle the electoral college and gerrymandering retroactivly?"
Would voting integrity include making the winner of a popular vote (eg 2016, one H. Clinton if I recall) the winner of the election?
Trans kids parents also pay school taxes.
Yes! And also trans parents who experienced first hand what school is like for far too many trans kids.
Yes we do. And because of the stakes we tend to be more involved in the schools in than most.
Transgender adults, including parents and non-parents, also pay taxes to fund schools.
@@Coffeeologyheck yeah :)))🎉❤
@@ShinmaWa1 Yes... They're very transparent about it.
_(I'm sorry for doing this in a serious conversation, but I simply couldn't resist...)_
It's even funnier when you tell them you're a liberal AND a gun owner. They don't really know how to respond to that.
Oh they HATE us lefty gun owners. We scare the crap out if them
Amazing how other countries with ‘Firearms Control’ legislation aren’t bleating like lost lambs, or having many mass shootings, or wearing AR 15 lapel pins to political rallies .
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Haha. They've gotten so far from the plot they've bought into their own fac fic of the pansy liberal.
Try telling them that you would never have or advocate for abortion but you respect a woman's right to make her own decision about her life and body
My maga mom is going to be so pissed when I send her this.
Hey its been a day. How'd it go, random stranger?
it's been a month, how'd it go?
It's been two months. I think their mom committed filicide.
i hope you're still okay
@@thomasderosso5625what does fillicide mean?
Republicans do not respond well to "Why should that bother me?"
I never really got a convincing answer to what I like to say (especially as a foreigner), my version of "Why should that bother me?" which is "The culture war is not my war."
I always get, "oh... that doesn't bother you...? Which leads them into delivering the types of dystopian retcon fantasy diatribes that make Fox News proud.
Republicans have never been moved by the truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste. Preferring to deify error if error seduced them.
"You aren't a paranoid, gullible coward?"
No
"Oh, well uh.... Good day."
@@samwill7259 The Republican have never been moved by the truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste. Preferring to deify error if error seduced them.
If you hadn't said the son was 24, I'd have thought the plot twist would be the son is a dog.
It could be a really old dog
could be 24 in dog years
That explains the vasectomy!
I honestly think the son is a really old dog.
My theory is the son got sprayed by a skunk and they gotta de-stink him.
At this point I'm okay with and have accepted giving up my AR if it means keeping the GOP out of power. I was, at one point, a near-single-issue gun rights voter.
My entire family is voting blue for the first time. The GOP have no idea how much they've hollowed out their own base - the only good news for my family and I is that how insane they've become woke us up to how blinded and misguided we were.
the democrats probably won't get enough power to ban ARs anyway. Clinton got that passed because of the era of gang violence, when it was practically a bipartisan issue. Nothing scares Republicans like black people with high powered weapons.
Thanks for joining the force Jedi. Responsible firearm ownership is a great for all of us.
Great to hear! I sure hope 🙏 there are a LOT just like you! 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙
Keep it secured, be sure to practice at a suitable gun range or practice field, and make sure it's registered and you have the appropriate permits to own it and everything is fine.
Democrats, in general, don't want to take away everyone's guns. They just want to ensure that there are some common-sense gun regulations to prevent people from winning Darwin Awards or becoming mass shooters with too much ease. There are actually quite a few democrats who own their own guns and know how to use them. The only difference is that they understand that it shouldn't be trivially easy to acquire such an efficient murder weapon.
@@howardwylie1620 Bingo. There's nothing wrong with wanting to own firearms. But they're inherently murder weapons of particularly high efficiency, so they really shouldn't be so trivially easy to obtain. I'd like for them to be at least as inconvenient as car ownership.
I've been a lifetime NRA member since I was 16, so I often get calls from them, and this is always how it goes. Once they called me up to rant about some gun control bill that Obama was pushing, and my response was, "Wow. That bill sounds like a good idea. I'll be sure to let my members of Congress know I support it. Thanks for the heads up."
😂😂The NRA hates Obama he’s still a talking point they use on voters
This is a bit of a head-scratcher. On the one hand you know they're ranters, you must be aware that they continue to push for extreme positions, that they dgaf how many kids are killed in schools - and you continue to be a member? WHY?
I always see all these documentaries about how the NRA used to be about promoting common sense gun control, and how it made a hard right turn around 1977. I would love to see them turn back towards trying to keep people safe and promoting proper hunting weapons and the like...just doesn't seem likely anytime soon.
There was a massive uptick in the number of gun sales the day after Obama was elected. Iirc it was the second highest day for gun sales after 9/12/2001.
My idiot brother with the Confederate flag sticker on his truck (we were born and grew up in CA) called me the day after Obama was elected the first time to ask if it was true Obama was taking everyone's guns away.
@@ResseDfa Yes. Note how he "took all their guns away." That's why we have so few guns in the country now....
I live in the Midwest, and for the last year or so it's been Omaha, Nebraska. I've actually had conversations like this one, and I am always surprised that when presented with facts and statistics, most conservatives just say, "But it's not right." I often wonder if they are talking about the situation being unfair or their political ideology.
They don't have to have a reason. A belief is enough for them.
Im an OTR/regional driver and Navy veteran, trust me I KNOW that scenario.
They wax hard about how "it ain't right" but I stare blankly at them and chock it up to another lost in the FAUX sauce.
It's gotta be deeply in their egos to the point they can't tear themselves free of being wrong.
They have a warped sense of fairness where rich people getting huge tax cuts and subsidies is fair but poor people on food stamps is unfair.
I have family in Omaha. I'm sorry, their beliefs make this canvasser look sane.
@@GenerationX1984But who will help those poor billonaires and the needy corporations to become trillionaires they need less taxes and regulations?
Actual dialogue: Progressive who makes one reasonable point: "Why should I be mad about it?" / Republican: "Oh, excuse me, I didn't know this was a MARXIST household. Good day."
Thats not even a progressive voter. Thats what the moderate voter used to be.
Do moderates exist anymore?
I remember when I was one of those!
Still is
Only because this “voter” is significantly more civil than the average leftist
🙋♀️@@americanbookdragon
unrealistic, the republican let you finish your thoughts
😂
💯💥💥💫💥
LOL, no they don't. Trump doesn't let anyone finish their thoughts and Nazi-Republican followers do the same thing.
True
😂😂🤣🤣
Reminds me of those ads that try to make democrat candidates sound bad by telling me they support things that I agree with. Not even saying there's something wrong with it, just "This candidate says they'll do X if elected" and I'm like "That sounds like a good idea, we should be doing that."
As someone with a disability F the canvasser for trying to use people like me as props & pretending to care.
It is truly revolting how they pretend to care about a cause for all of five seconds to support whatever disingenuous argument they want to make.
I wonder when society will finally figure out twice-exceptional people exist. It’s not looking good for it to be in my lifetime. “Hold on, you’re smart… AND disabled?!?” “Yes.” “I don’t believe you.” 🙄
I second that. Though our conditions and adversities faced may be different. Disabled people, LGBTQ+, (and non-binary), and ethnic minorities of all kinds are still small proportions of the population who should be standing in solidarity with each other to achieve a better tomorrow rather than be pitted against each other to serve fascistic aims.
@@literallyap0tat0-q7q they love trying to prevent funding for this program or that project because there are homeless veterans. The, much like the 9/11 Frist Responders, they proceed to do nothing to help. If not try to also cut their funding.
Especially since they don't want to help people with disabilities either. If they bring up the possibility of funding disability instead of some other group, it should immediately shoved in their faces that they don't want to do that either.
"what are you going to do?"
"i didn't say I was against the 2nd amendment entirely"
This. I think outright bans on guns is going too far and legitimately a violation of the 2nd amendment. However I'm entirely for regulations on manufacturing, selling, obtaining, owning, and use of firearms to keep them out of reach of dangerous individuals.
Yeah I expected, I believe in background checks and the banning of semiautimatics, I didnt say I don't own a gun.
@@CouchSpud91 I mean almost no countries ban guns entirely.
Right?! American liberals have guns too my dude, we just don't fetishize them because we're not insane cultist weirdos
@@DaDunge I don't just mean bans in general. Banning specific guns or specific type of guns (like the popular AR-15 bans or assault rifle bans) seems unconsitutional due to 2A. But enforcing background checks, closing the private sale loophole, and requiring safety and knowledge training for a license would go far in cutting down gun violence.
1:45 The biggest accommodation my high school made for trans kids was installing single-stall bathrooms. Because of this, every floor of every building in my district has a wheelchair accessible single-stall bathroom. Before those bathrooms existed, there was maybe one wheelchair accessible bathroom in every building. We have elevators, but they are hard to get access to and they break frequently. I had a friend who could physically only use those single-stalled bathrooms, and they would have needed to switch schools had they not existed.
lol
This was fantastic.
If a person is neither angry nor scared, Republicans have a hard time.
That must be why they spend so much energy trying to make everyone angry and scared.
If anger and fear are active, reason is inhibited. That is a well known neurological fact.
Why should I be angry or afraid? Ask them why they are and they will deny it vehemently and then drown you in smug self satisfaction disguised as confidence.
It is because It's something that they are not familiar with. They are always angry and scared, they know nothing els.
Except that neoliberals and New Democrats have decided that fear should also be the motivating factor and are making the situation even worse. Thank the gods that the progressives are slowly gaining ground.
As a trans person, there is absolutely no money being spent on us, and the only effort teachers have to put in aside from the bare minimum of calling me the right things is to be willing to let me take a bit longer to go to the restroom because the only place I can legally go is the nurse's office on the far end of the school
I hope that teachers also ensure that your classmates use your correct name and pronouns as well. (Though ideally they wouldn't have to DO anything for that to happen!)
Could solve that problem by just getting rid of the stupid bathroom laws. Bathrooms being separated by biological sex never stopped high schoolers from f*cking in the bathrooms anyway, or from smoking and doing drugs in them. At least from the experiences of me and friends of mine. Love your username btw lol
@@kenirainseeker539 ehhhhh... i can see some validation in the mid-school years when young girls are getting their first periods etc... it's bad enough getting harassed by older girls, throw boys into that mix and you'd really have a bad time. but there could be mixed gender bathrooms as well as separated gender bathrooms.
@DanaColeDares they don't do it for cis, so I don't know why they'd do it for trans
I honestly can ever think of a reason in typically day to day discussions where you need to use specifically "he/him" or "she/her". If talking about a person in the third person, I use their name or they/them. It applies to everyone equally and I don't have to guess when meeting a new person at work.
My main point being... it's *really* easy imo and I was raised in Florida. I'm also a Xillenial(sub-generation of Gen X & Y). 😅🤷♂
"Progressive" = "Knowledgeable". Got it.
Most of the time it really does boil down to that
Facts, logic, and reason are rarely on the side of fascism.
Sadly reality has a well known liberal bias.
In a sense, yes. If you're knowledgeable, you recognize that improving the status quo (aka progressing as a society) is going to... well, improve the status quo. Improvement is good. It's a logical concept that one shouldn't even need to be knowledgeable for to comprehend.
Republicans - "We care about election integrity!"
also Republicans - "Our insurrectionist attempts to overturn elections are fine, actually."
Yeah, it's kind of glaring that most of the *very insignificant* voter fraud was Republicans voting twice or submitting absentee ballots for dead folks.
Also, also RepugniKKKlans -
"Gerrymandering?? Jerry Who? :: clutching pearls ::
Why, I have no idea what you mean. NO, we didn't have to cheat to win elections everywhere... /:: mutttering :: But we chose to and it definitely cheated the elections./"
Well yeah,
Obama election: "The NEW BLACK PANTHERS, a thing that definitely exists, are standing outside polling places in 3000 American cities intimidating good Christian voters!"
Biden election: "WE DEMAND TO BE ABLE TO GO INTO YOUR BOOTHS AS VOLUNTEER ELECTION AUDITORS BECAUSE WE ARE AMERICA PATRIOT DEMOCRACY FREEDOM!"
Aggressive voter suppression too! Don't forget aggressive voter suppression! Both micro (stopping people from giving out water bottles on hot days, shutting down ballot boxes, and forcing long commutes to in-person ballots during work days) and macro (gerrymandering).
So true👉@@derekrocco4344
Also, love the false dichotomy implied about having support for trans students instead of support for special needs students 😂 both. We demand both ❤
Single occupant bathrooms and a general acceptance that it's OK for people to be different also help special needs students, not to mention a bunch of students who are neither trans nor special needs but just want peace and quiet when they pee.
@kray3883 That's so cool! I did not know that, thanks for sharing! 😊
I appreciate the false dichotomy of Republicans advocating for public school funding going to programs for special needs students instead of trans kids when everybody knows Republicans have spent decades trying to eliminate funding for special needs programs, too.
As the mom of a special needs kid…all this!
@@brianschwartz7937ive never understood if they did actually care they would defund congress and the sentat and start taxing billionars
Do people actually understand what they mean by banning CRT?? Kids won’t even be allowed to learn about people like Martin Luther King or Thurgood Marshall because it makes their parents and grandparents uncomfortable.
actually Critical Race Theory is a graduate level class taught IN LAW SCHOOL. So... kids ain't learning that....
It's an evil GOP strategy. Make people believe in a boogeyman who doesn't exist (CRT isn't a thing outside graduate school), then lump anything to do with racial discussions under CRT, even the likes of the Civil War, slavery, civil rights, etc. It's worked well for the dummies in America.
It's more properly termed Critical Theory: Race. Critical Theory can be applied to a number of subjects.
Banning Critical Race Theory doesn't mean banning teaching about Martin Luther King or Thurgood Marshal, or even the Tulsa Race Massacre. CRT is just being used as a scapegoat.
@@letsRegulateSociopaths This. They're lying about the very thing they're trying to make people scared about. They do this quite a lot (because facts and logic and reason don't tend to be on the side of fascism all that often.)
Wow, they aren’t even gonna just teach lies? They’re gonna just stop it entirely? That’s just lazy.
"But Afghanistan..."
"Trump set the withdrawal date. Stop wearing your betrayal like it's a medal."
Trump set the withdrawal date and then bragged about it publicly, giving the Taliban all the time to precisely plan their takeover.
And he negotiated that withdrawal with the Taliban. And released 5k of their militants from prison.
@@nathanh6439 And Trump betrayed the Kurdish allies in the process.
Man I still can't get over how they still think Biden is 100% at fault for that.
And he’ll do the same to Ukraine if given the chance.
"Why should I be mad about it?" is the slogan I've felt in my heart for years and never knew how to verbalize. Thank you.
I was visiting my parents in Florida and a canvasser for a local Republican candidate knocked on our door. My parents weren't home and I realized what a great chance I had to mess with them. I let them give their little spiel and then I started asking questions. I apparently asked the "wrong" questions because they lost all interest in talking to me. Before they left I told them that "this house is no longer interested in Republican candidates and that we would be voting blue." That was a fun 3 minutes.
As a teacher, I really want to know what, specifically, they imagine is happening in the classroom when they say "gender ideology is being pushed." Like, at the top of the lesson plan would be written as the lesson objective: "Students will learn how to: be trans." Because lesson plans objectives are about what students will be able to do by the end. Will learn how to identify and hate cis people? What would the worksheets even look like?
From what I've seen, most actual teachers seem to hate what repubs are doing to schools, would you say this is true?
When they say 'trans ideology is being pushed' they mean 'the existence of trans people, including students, is being acknowledged, and that upsets me because I was born in 1899 when we could just murder people for not conforming'.
Thanks for your sacrifice for our children, for our country, and for our future. Your profession is greatly under appreciated and usually under paid.
They imagine it would read "Students will be trans". Or maybe, "50% of students will be trans, the other 50% will be homosexual".
I teach in NYC. The biggest change in our operation is being notified of name changes and pronoun preferences. I just always use a student's last name. Gender fluid and transitioning students are aware that I don't use pronouns in class, and I have good relationships with most of my students. It's not common and not a big deal.
"Will you take a leaflet?" was the cherry on top of this delightful sketch.
Should have taken the leaflet, so it would be one les s. Leaflet to give out to someone else. And then of course throw it away.
@@stephencampbell8493 you should always take the leaflet and throw it away. One less person exposed to bad information.
@@gabrielmaroto18 Leaflets aren't an endangered species. They will print more.
Fo sure...take the leaflet and cost them a few cents. I just wish I could something similar with all the GQP ads showing up in YT to cost them something for polluting my feed.
@@gabrielmaroto18 Yes, I will take a leaflet. Also, how many do you have? Uh-huh, okay. I have this many friends and family I would like to take these to.
*tosses all the canvasser's leaflets in the trash*
The sad thing is this is considered satire when it's just spitting straight facts.
“How do you feel about your tax dollars being spent to make trans students feel safe in school?”
“Shouldn’t all student be allowed to feel safe in school? How would making trans students feel safe ad costs?”
Yup. Kindness and decency are free, but so important. Ironic that the so-called party of family and Christian values is missing that idea so spectacularly.
I'm not saying that the left or the Democratic party always get things right or focus their energy on the right topics, but starting with the goal of kindness and inclusion is rarely wrong.
I'm fine with all students feeling safe at school. I'm not fine with trans-identifying boys in the girl's locker room (and vice versa). Feelings don't change biological reality. Students who are not trans have the right to single-sex privacy.
@@isoldam are those free trans men identifying as women causing lots of problems in these locker rooms??
@isoldam Ignoring for the moment the independent problems with what you said about the topic you tried to change the conversation to, what does who goes in which locker room have to do with what name and pronoun is used for a student, or for protecting students from bullying and harassment including harassment permitted to become so extreme that the student was either murdered or induced to off themselves? Because what I'm talking about is what's actually happening, and I can cite cases to back that claim up. Protecting trans kids is not permitting sexual harassment in locker rooms (Try to cite a SINGLE case of that actually happening if you want to disagree) it's providing them the proper, reccomended by the overwhelming majority of medical associations worldwide including the World Health Organization, care they need. Don't let your hypothedical make you ignore the reality of what is actually and actively occuring.
@@isoldam I'm curious what you think happens in a girls restroom at school that a trans-girl could cause any form of chaos or emotional turmoil to a straight girl. As a guy, I don't want a woman in the men's room because of what I may do in there that would ruin any possible romantic relationship with them. That's all. I can't think of any other reason why it would be a problem for me, or any other guy, to have a trans-woman in the mens room. Also, what is "single-sex privacy" other than what I just described above? Sounds like you're focusing on mental sociological boundaries, which are in continual change over time, rather than biological reality.
And you did say "feelings don't change biological reality." The reality is, the biology of two people of opposite biological sex in a restroom is always private. They never come in contact. In a mens room, a trans-male would use a stall, not the urinals, which is the only place the male biology is remotely visible. In the womans room, everyone uses a stall. Beyond the visible, which we just saw wouldn't occur, any aural and olfactory sensory information passed along by the functions employed in a restroom is biologically identical between sexes. The issue you're having is actually with feelings, not with biology.
I want someone to argue with pro-life anti-immigration people on the fact that they're more interested in protecting "people" who have not yet gained citizenship because they weren't born in the US (because they're still in the womb), but they also *don't* want to support the people who have not yet gained citizenship because they weren't born in the US (because they migrated here).
I had a great interaction like this once. We had a state rep who was a truly moderate Republican who had great ideas before Trump and back then I voted for her even though I am a bleeding heart liberal. She was out of office for awhile and recently was trying to get reelected but had become full MAGA. I had a canvasser for her stop by one day and asked if I would support her and I said yes, if she went back 8 years. She had supported a lot of ideas for women's rights like more time off for childbirth. Plans to implement a job training programs for women who escape spousal violence and had reasonable ideas for fiscal responsibility. I asked him what her current platform was...............CRT in schools, election integrity, stop and frisk types of laws. I asked him that in all honesty, if you took away the name and showed these 2 candidates side by side. Who would YOU vote for? He said he had no idea she was once for those kinds of things. I said " yes, that is what a cult does to people. If you think it has not happened to you, think about your beliefs before Trump. If they are this stark, you are in the cult too." I hope I got him to quit.
I voted for a moderate Republican for City Council in 2008. He was actually going door-to-door during the campaign and talking to people to find common ground and understand important issues. When he was elected I got to know him very well because I was in charge of IT at City Hall, so I was the one who set him up in the City's systems and helped him when he had problems. I voted for him during both of his terms.
Imagine my dismay to learn that he is now all-in on Trump. This was a guy who FEROCIOUSLY support the use of good government to provide goods and services to the citizens of the City, and now he's saying that there is no such thing as good government and waging culture wars against the most vulnerable individuals in our community.
Trump is poison. He is the rot at the core of our nation.
@@Josh-99 Just keep in mind that Trump is not the cause of this, he's a symptom and a catalyst. Trump could never have happened if the Republican party and far-right media hadn't been preparing the way. Someone like Trump was inevitable, it just happened to be him, and getting rid of him will not get rid of the problem; note how quickly how many Republican politicians immediately jumped on the fascism bandwagon rather than standing up against it.
@@Josh-99 The rot in the heart of your nation has been there since the Nixon administration
I want a Creel Ferret yard sign to confuse my neighbors.
Except it sounds like Creel Ferret totally sucks.
Make up a Creel Ferret campaign sign and slap a big 🚫 symbol over it.
*Really* confuse people.
Creel ferret?
@@nicolasolton
The fictional candidate the guy was canvassing for in Steve’s video. “Vote Creel Ferret for Dogcatcher!” 😁
I thought I heard Creole Ferret…?
I couldn't simply LIKE the video. This was too phenomenal and desperately needed for that. I had to send a blessing so you know how much I appreciate you for making this video!!!!!
Canvassar : Are you concerned about your tax dollars being used to educate your children on dei and wokeism?
Voter : im concerned with various republicans wanting to scrap the dept of education and get rid of public schools forcing families to attempt to educate their children on severely reduced income if one parent has to give up their job to do so, and that if the average private school, which is free to exclude children from participating in them, costs about $12000+ dollars per year, per child, which the average family in this country cannot afford either,. And thats the cost while the public option is available. Without that they could set it much higher
I should be mad at that
Don't forget that some of those private schools are going to be Christian or some other religion. When ignorant isn't enough, indoctrinate them into believing without evidence.
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I’d more upset that millions of dollars are spent to harass trans people constantly than i’d ever be of woke or whatever
In TX, Greg Abbott wants to straight-up only give funding to private and Christian schools, where kids can get a "safe education." I don't even have kids and this really P***ES me off.
He also blames Kamala for the border... in Texas... so... you know.
Why would you be mad about that? Red states are winding down or discarding child labour laws, so hey, your child won't need school, he or she can just move straight into the infinitely disposable workforce on zero hour contracts, dieing early due to the conveniently downgraded OH&S laws.
I bet the son pulls down twice minimum wage but still can't afford to move out. I bet he pays an entirely fair rent and does his share of the household chores unprompted. This seems like a very healthy family.
I also bet the son got sprayed by a skunk for being a dipsh:t while out dirt biking because while leftisim makes you more kind and responsible, it doesn't make one fully immune from being a dummy.
That's how we did it as my sons finished high school. One stayed long enough to start up his own business. We waived rent for the first rocky year. He's doing well now.
Or the son is just home for a visit. It wasn't specified.
I'm 55. 9 years ago, when dad turned 75, he requested that my hubby and I consider selling our house and getting a house with him. We did that, and since then we've had my husband's disabled brother move in, my sister's daughter and her man move in, and then my sister moved in. Six people living under dad's roof (except he's not, he lives closer to medical care nowadays). The availability of housing for any of us who live here is pretty untenable. Even the most ridiculously crappy house in our rural town costs a quarter of a million dollars. Postage stamp yard, 700 sq feet inside the house, and one of the highest murder rates in the state.
Mum 'n I have kinda always lived together, we're basically roommates. We both work and bring income and we both pay house expenses and do work around the house. I get groceries every now and then, pay bills sometimes, etc. etc.
Either of us living alone and paying all our own rent and expenses is basically infeasible, at best we'd *never* be able to afford to have any time off and I'd have mentally broken down long ago with that. Shit, we're lucky to have a house, actually paying rent for shelter would cripple us.
Had a guy like this show up at my door one day and say his opener. My response? "Im a trans-lesbian with no kids who is too poor to afford weed." After they looked at me stunned for a bit, they walked away thanking me for my time. It was hilarious.
"And up in the sky, an Arabian rabbi
fed Quaker oats to a priest" -John Prine
I've never had a political canvasser come to my door, but I had two old religious ladies show up to try and convert me. I told them I was too busy fcuking my girlfriend and shut the door. They are not worth engaging with and it's best to just let them know up front you're not their demo lol
Since I moved to the US from the UK 10 years ago, I do find it astounding that for a country that goes on and on about "Freedom !!!", half of the country sure spends a LOT of time telling people what they can & can't do (and I'm not talking about common sense, which shouldn't need laws...).
We forget that the first bunch of Europeans to settle over here came to escape persecution over the ability to practice their beliefs freely...which, for them, meant being able to tell everyone else how to behave and what to do. It had nothing to do with being oppressed, but with not being allowed to be the oppressors.
This has actually happened to me. Made the little trumper youth yell, cry, and run away
Good for you!
Might be able to convince them if they're young.
And everyone clapped.
That is the extent of a Trumpie's "ability".
"Mommmmmy!"
"Get off my property, or I'll give you something to be mad about ..."
Love this. :)
the question, "why should I be mad about it?" Is a nice way to think about their talking points. We've seen the MAGA movement really embrace anger and grievance into their politics, much more than the previous version of the republican party. Using that question to deflate their effort to tap into our anger is a great place to start in destroying their arguments. We know they don't actually (most of the time) care about the issues they are trying to get us angry about, they just use it to get people to vote for them.
Thanks for the good sketch!
I gave found “I don’t give a shit.” works even better.
Having done canvassing myself, I would LOVE IT if more voters were this well-informed.
I got turned away by more people who thought political party canvassing = government investigation when I did that. They’re not the same, but I’m sure you’ve had that experience too.
@@CAP198462 All the time! "How do you know my name?!?" "Lists of voters are public information."
@CAP198462 Absolutely had that happen. But, at least in my area, was more likely to get people who wanted to have a full political debate on their front doorstep. Like they finally have an excuse to argue with a leftist IRL.
But I had gotten really good at making progressive arguments using a conservative rhetorical style. So half the time they ended up agreeing with most of what I was saying.
@@austin.lutherPlease elaborate on what you mean by conservative rhetorical style, I want to employ the same tactic.
@@titan4257 you take what they say, like "helping Ukraine is a waste" and you spin it in a way for them to look at favorably "You hate Russia and communism right? it would be great to cripple them for a long time right? If we help Ukraine then that hurts communism". I watched a video of some kid going around interviewing MAGAs and he used this example on someone who didnt like us helping ukraine, really got the guy thinking.
Yep. Every time a guy at my condo pool ranted about "socialism" I'd ask him to explain to me precisely WHY Soshulizm Wuz Bad. He'd sputter and rage... and come up with nothing.
This is the kind of attitude progressives should be uplifting. Educated and ready to counter every talking point
Agreed. The problem is that the canvasser in this skit stuck to their script without breaking down into a screeching, incoherent mess and calling the voter a groomer pedophile.
@@Tawleyn Except, the canvassers for Republicans are paid, not volunteers. So unlike volunteers, they could not care less. Sticking to the script means saying "thank you" and leaving after the first question, because they know they are losing. It is only worth your time if you are going to net a vote, volunteer, or donation.
Yes, if it's a canvasser or a dedicated rank or file. If it's a rando voter trying to talk you into their beliefs, you're better off taking apart the easy ones and then moving on to how we *should* be doing things. People like direction, whether or not we like to admit it. JUST breaking down their ideology isn't enough, we have to provide workable alternatives, and be able to explain them in relatable ways.
Yeah, I'm about to rehearse the actual lines from this video.
maybe a little less smug though
I'm voting for the guy who answered the door.
"Why should I be mad about it?" is my new response to any GOP debate shenanigans. Great video. Well done.
This is basically how my conversation with my local MLA (Member of Legislative Assembly, provincial government - I'm Canadian) went. He mentioned trans kids in schools, and said something about life-changing decisions. I replied, 'What is life-changing about nonmedical transition? If they are just changing their names and pronouns, then they are just playing with language. I don't see how that's life-changing.' And he went, 'Huh. Ok. I guess you're right.' He said it was a teacher's responsibility to keep parents informed on their kids' education. I agreed and told him I don't think the kids' names or pronouns were a part of their education. That it was the kid's responsibility to tell their parents when they were comfortable doing so. Teachers should stick to making sure kids can read, do math, know enough history to recognize when it's repeating itself or rhyming. And he then made excuses and quickly got the heck away from my door.
Like when I started talking, he took a full step back. I made him super uncomfortable. I let him say his piece, and then I said mine in a neutral tone, but he just didn't know what to do with someone so calmly disagreeing with him. I don't think he'll be back any time soon, but he lives just around the corner, so maybe I'll bring him a coffee and try to chat some more. Maybe I'll learn why he's in the Sask Party. Maybe I'll see what it is he truly wants to do in politics. Maybe I'll get him thinking about what he really believes. Probably not, but it'll be good conversation either way.
Just saw another video by Steve Boots ("What The Hell, Canada? Heat Waves, Condo Crashes, Strikes, and More!") that claimed that the Sask Party is having trouble recruiting!
Maybe you would find common ground with him on medical life changing decisions for minors.
British Columbia?
@@matthewrobinson2172 I mean, yeah, fuck those people - but, let's also be honest with ourselves: how many people are _actually_ doing that? Trans people existing is already a slim margin - that's why they're a minority - so, the number of parents transitioning their kids has to be a _point_ of a percent, even within that margin. Granted, one is too many, but you're out here trying to make it seem worse than it actually is. There's a word for that: it's called "sensationalism", or, more plainly, _"exaggeration."_
@@supernukey419 not likely the sask party is doing any door to door canvassing in BC...
Hiring more cops is not going to fix the quality of Education
Or public safety. It could be argued that it would make us less safe.
Spending more taxpayer money on education definitely isn’t improving its quality
@@apastasauce5905 we'd have to actually do that first to be able to say this, lbvs. My family of teachers would love to know where you think this windfall of education money has been happening, and the stats to prove that in this fictional place the education quality has gone down or maintained stagnant.
Or the quality of the cops?
@@apastasauce5905 We have tried spending less that hasn't worked ether. I hope you get involved and bring something viable to the table. we need good ideas. Thanks
Concentrating on excluding trans, NB, etc. people consumes far more resources than accommodating their factually small numbers.
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Also, take that leaflet. Take a whole box. They spend money needlessly, and you have something to light your barbecue with.
WOO! Free kindling!😂
It's very important to remember during this election that you do not need to have the problem to care about the problem!
I completely agree. For instance, I'm not trans, but the persecution of trans people by the Republican party and right-wing media is a SERIOUS problem. 100 percent because I support human rights, and another 100 percent because I know it will not stop there.
The response to ever conservative hate mongering talking point. "Why should I be mad about it?"
Pure gold. "Why should I be mad about it?"
I've done this with pollsters before. Youngkin negotiated a sweetheart deal to build a new arena for the Caps in my backyard (and guess who was supposed to be paying for it?), and a pollster for one of Alexandria's mayoral candidates called me up.
1. No, I don't want this being built in my city
2. No, it's not for worries it'll attract "undesirables" to my neighborhood
3. Property values have *already* made this area unaffordable-why would I want them higher?
4. How does your candidate feel about the Caps' owner getting massive tax breaks when our city schools' special ed programs are underfunded?
I was then asked a series of BS "how much do you agree with this statement?" questions. All in all, I'm confident I wasted the pollster's time to the maximum of my ability. Hopefully she was being paid by the hour and not by the call.
I have never been so happy about the VA gubernatorial term limit as I am with Youngkin. Can't wait for that guy to be out.
@@GuttermaidenI'm the same in FL, DeSadness is on his last leg!😊
@@jefferyschic Pretty sure he is transitioning to being DementiaDonny's Official Diaper Changer. He seems to like kissing that particular anatomical area.
@@jefferyschicI also live there and I’m kind of skeptical of his career ending anytime soon. My guess is an 11th hour amendment to the state constitution to allow his continued gubernatorial career or his grooming a successor to be even more hateful and ignorant than he is. Florida has long since stopped giving me any kind of hope, politically speaking.
@@sedrosken831 it's going to be the latter. an 11th hour amendment would NEVER pass
“Disconcerting enigma of a son” had me rolling!
Not getting mad is one of the most useful strategies we have.
I had an interaction like this minus the humor (unfortunately). A canvassing volunteer for a “Gay Republican Senate Candidate” in Indiana came to my door last year, and i essentially spent 5 solid minutes explaining “look, I’m not going to vote red anyways, but do you really think your party wants him in it? He’s a part of a party that hates him. Does he hate himself? You’re fighting a losing battle, man.” Yada yada yada. The poor kid just.. lost his spark on that overcast day lol
I love when political poll people suggest that I should be outraged about a topic, only to discover I have actual experience with it and know more than they do.
I hope this video series continues with increasingly outlandish details about the protagonist's son.
This guy had way more patience and civility than I would for a GOP canvasser coming to my house.
Yeah. My response would have been to close the door and walk away. Before the last presidential election, a candidate was canvassing our neighborhood and came up to my wife and I as we were outside. I asked him one question: "Do you support Trump?" He said "Reluctantly". I said, "You can leave now."
@@TheRockinDonkey Perfect.
If you find you’re not face to face with someone who’s immediately acting unreasonably, it’s worth it to have a calm, intelligent talk with them. Not everyone is MAGA-some just don’t have much exposure to reality. Republicans truly surround themselves with nothing but like-minded people. There are some out there like I was. We just needed to see and hear the facts. Some of us don’t like finding out we were lied to.
The more patient and civility you show them, the longer they stay at the door, and the less the time they have to talk to somebody else who might be more receptive to their message. I mean, it's a waste of your time too, so it's a trade-off, and you don't want to tax your own mental health, but it's something to consider.
Should consider talking to them. Not because they are going to change your mind, but while they are talking to you they aren't talking to someone else. Good waste of their time for zero return.
Assuming you have some time to waste yourself.
Relatively new viewer here. I'm impressed with the emotional range in your videos. The angry disdain of the Republican in the Project 2025 video, the no holds barred sincere call-out in the videos telling the left we need to show up and vote even for imperfect candidates, the "why would I be mad about that, I really need to go hose off my son" calm of this one, and even the emotion aimed at me (someone who hates the violence in Gaza but doesn't refer to it as genocide) in that video with your exasperated weariness saying "fine, call it a massacre instead, ANYWAY as I was saying", all of those examples display overlapping messages but with a range of tones keeping them fresh and intersting. Thanks for the content.
This GenX says "Mind your damn business"" "Stay out of my bedroom, bathroom stall, marriage and doctors office and we'll be just fine" "why is what someone does in their home, in their family or at their doctors offices any of my business?" "Mind yours, I'll mind mine and we'll all be just fine" "Oh, and don't be a criminal or a sociopath" Simple...
This reminds me of when I canvassed for a campaign to keep open lands out of the hands of developers. One door I knocked on tried to offend me away, saying that he was a hunter. Well, I was prepared for that big fat hole in his argument. The open lands the campaign covered included hunting grounds, and I informed him as such. He had to stutter a 'no support'. Felt like a win for me.
I woke up cranky today, so thank you for a brighter morning.
Fear sells itself, to the ignorant,not the educated.
Great video.
What a fascinating collection of wigs you have.
A Trekkie has to be ready to cosplay, after all.
Redshirt was wearing the "Lieutenant Barkley" edition.
I had a canvasser come to my door the other day, and they immediately shut up and left when I told them "don't bother. We vote Democrat in this house."
Love it!
"Why should I be mad about it?" Gonna use it if you don't mind.
Let the JOY prevail!
coming from someone outside of the US bubble, its always refreshing to see someone who actually sees how messed up the US is. Good luck to you sir, over the next 6-12 months - its going to be rough.
Try the next ten to twenty years. The pandora's box of fascism doesn't close quickly.
Very similar to a conversation I had with my parents a few years back about CRT. I have two kids that are in public school and they were so concerned about it. I told them they aren't teaching it in our district and if they were I wouldn't be upset about it. Also that we know a ton of parents and no one but old people who don't even have kids in school are concerned about it or even come remotely close to discussing it organically.
Thumbs up from the UK !
We had similar issues, but recently voted them away for 5 years.
May you keep up the momentum.
Wow a republican that will listen and not speak over you ..... that's rare.
non-existent unless it's grandpa and his teeth fell out again
You do realise this video is a fictional, right?
@@fred_derf Based on the many replies I'm reading here, I don't think quite a few of them do. Do they not notice the resemblance of canvasser to homeowner?
You laid down the entire Democratic thought process in one whole argument that's awesome
Not really, he's playing a progressive not a Democrat. Most democrats want the same policies as the GOP they just have better PR.
It just so happens that, for now, progressives have to vote democrat because we're stuck with the least bad option.
This is more of a progressive leftist viewpoint. The democrats are actually a center right party with a few aesthetic progressive stances. The only reason it's thought of as a left or progressive party is because the gop is so far right and reactionary.
Both parties push essentially the same neo-liberal policies that serve the owner class and exploit the working class. The Dems do some very tame social safety net spending and aesthetic equality policies to distinguish between them and the gop.
@@TheybyBaby For the time being, I'll gladly take the social safety net spending and aesthetic equality policies to distinguish between them and the gop.
The GOP has been blocking progressive legislation so much and for so long some people just accept it as okay.
@@TheybyBabyyawn. No. But keep saying that both-sides bs. Because that's totally useful for helping the GOP depress the vote into autocracy. Good job. 🤦
@@TheybyBabysad but true
Thanks! I like your work my friend. Take care.
Always take the literature of the opposition. You can always destroy it, but it does cost them money 😂
Makes good kindling for the fireplace or the grill :)
@@itsOasus Careful burning ink or any plastic-y paper. If you burn a newspaper, it's toxic.
And if nothibg else, it means they have one less to hand out
Not just GOP Canvasser versus Progressive Voter but *INFORMED* Progressive Voter.
And per usual, the canvasser ain't so well informed. Big surprise, eh?
I've met a lot of canvassers, and I have yet to meet one that wasn't working from a script or could actually articulate the "beliefs" that they're supporting
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@@TheMagicWorkerMostly because they're just minimum wage workers. I used to work with a guy who canvassed for Green Peace-it was literally just a job.
@@GSBarlev That's really interesting - I used to volunteer as a member of the NDP (New Democratic Party; Canada's 3rd largest political party, who are Social Democratic, far to the left of anything that would fly in the States), and we did it for free every election year, precisely because we knew and cared about the issues at stake. I can't do the physical work anymore due to health issues, but for some people, it's actually a labour of love.
@@EnjoySackLunch Clown
"We are tough on crime, but we want to oppose common sense gun laws"
If you oppose common sense gun laws, you are supporting criminals. Pick one, you can't be both.
"common sense gun laws" is begging the question. If the proponents can't tell the difference between a 'common sense gun law" and "any gun law at all", i don't see why they expect anyone else to try.
That’s actually a good question, Can you tell the difference between a common sense gun law, and any gun law at all?
@@peterrose5373 Which makes the default answer no gun laws? Screw that.
@@SeohnAranys See my reply to peter.
Actually, they've chosen the secret third option of "just put everyone in jail because that makes us money"
When I was canvassing for Bernie, I ran into a republican because voter rolls aren't the most accurate things. He basically refused to even talk because "he was a republican and that's that."...
Republicans are closed-minded people. Silly things like "damning evidence" "scientific fact" and "concise, well articulated arguments dismantling them and their talking points like an autistic child with a screwdriver unleashed in a warehouse of old disused machinery" can't sway their rigid, unmoving views. Other worldviews are scary and challenge their ironclad delusions of how the world works and thus wrong and must be outlawed
Well, I'm not going to support any Republican candidate if there's a Democrat running against them. Because I believe in the philosohpy of the Democratic Party, and unless the Republican is going to be truer to them than the Democrat, it's just a waste of my time. I gather this is not a "cool" attitude these days.
@@gaileverett I'm not going to support any Republican candidate even if there's no Democrat running against them. I'll just undervote that line.
That’s how you raise a republican. Make their political identity the bottom line.
gang mentality. thats why theyre willing to support a convicted felon as their leader even tho that felon has spent more years as a democrat than a republican.
I'm concerned with people demanding Bibles in Public Schools ,yet they break the Ten Commandments daily.
Ask them which set of Ten Commandments, you'll confuse them and show how they have no idea what's actually in their bible.
They're breaking the Seven Tenets of The Satanic Temple. That is also a huge concern.
Seriously, check them out. Much better, compassionate, and more comprehensive rules to live by.
Thought you were wearing a toga and this was an entirely different republic
"Are you at all concerned about Consul Gaius Julius Caesar's ongoing efforts to exceed his authority with his land reforms?"
That would be a great sketch.
Let's hope the US Republic lasts another few centuries.
@@eldorados_lost_searcher I don't speak latin, roman
@@eldorados_lost_searcher Et tu?
Inaccurate, a republican would not understand any of these arguments, and would not let you speak for more than five seconds.
ok LOL - and time for us to pretend we are french and pull together!! vote vote vote vote Kamala all the way - thanks Steve for your excellent, and often hysterical and moving work
I recognize this situation! The son got sprayed by a skunk while doing some sort of outdoor activity like hiking! They gotta rinse him outside because of the stink! And its also why he'd be very impatient, and why both parents would be involved in seting things up for him. He cant go inside or touch much of anything right now without spreading the smell around.
....that is disappointingly likely. Darn it.
Well done, but thanks for ruining the joke. :D
Actually, come to think of it it also demonstrates the complete lack of curiosity and compassion on the part of the canvasser. That there was a simple, logical answer _right there_ and all they had to do was take a moment out of their fearmongering to ask about another human being.
Thank you for offering a completely reasonable explanation. We don't have skunks in my part of the world. 😂
A Republican's worst nightmare: someone who is educated and informed.
This is so spot on, I have also gotten to sending solicitors away telling them how much money their company is giving to a traitorous felon, who should be on a sex offender registry, and wants to end democracy in the US.
This sums up the entire situation perfectly. Live long and perspire , Steve!
The part that always blows my mind is how they'll say that they support the right to bear arms and support the police, often in the same breath, yet somehow manage to completely fail to consider the fact that the police regularly guns down people for merely being suspected of carrying a gun...
Listen, the important part is that guns were sold to as many people as possible. That's what matters.
This should be required viewing by all registered voters. Excellent work, Steve.
I've already shared!
Using reason instead of throwing tantrums; that's how political discourse should be. Thank you, Steve.