"It is a complicated issue. It is truly a complicated issue, with a wide range of views, truly a wide range of views," Jean-Pierre said. "There is no 'yes or no' answer to this, it is complicated. There is a rule that the Department of Education [DOE] has put forward, and we're going to let that process move forward, and again, we want to make sure that while we establish guardrails with this rule, we also prevent discrimination, as well, against transgender kids. But again, a complicated issue with a wide range of views, and we respect that."
"Absolutely no reason for the Biden admin to do this," New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wrote. "It is indefensible and embarrassing. The admin can still walk this back, and they should. It's a disgrace."
"Honestly, this move by Biden to push a rule on trans kids in sports is not only a backwards betrayal, it [forces] us to have to spend our time dealing with god d*** sports instead of criminal bans on our healthcare," Alejandra Caraballo, a civil rights attorney and LGBTQ+ advocate, wrote. "He could have just done nothing. This is legitimizing transphobia."
The mOsT PrOgReSsIvE Administration in History™ 
"A complicated issue with a wide range of views, and we respect that" Fuck off out of here with that "centrist" nonsense. There's nothing complicated about it, and it's not an issue unless you want to turn it into one and want to appeal to people's emotions like Republicans are doing. It was only a matter of time before they'd start throwing trans people under the bus. I guess with the coming elections it's as good a time as ever.
If you are the most pro-lgbt person, but don't do anything that defends them, you're not an ally, you're a fucking patsy
Ok. You stay home on election day or vote for a Republican. See where that gets you.
It would be the same place as if I had voted democrat
And you seem to think us party cadres believe in electoralism
you are mistaken
They are not the same and you know it.
The differences are so negligible. Democrats will continue the ukraine war, republicans will start shit with mexico and china. that is the only real material difference. I don't care about promises or lip service, I care about reality, which neither party tries to improve. They're basically the same party. Always have been. We in hawaii will still be subjected to the exploitation of the monopolies, landlords, and tourist industry while the natives are continually ethnically cleansed. They will plunder us regardless. This is from a democrat stronghold.
I'm from a different democrat stronghold and the view is the same. Half of the democrats are just the people who would otherwise be republicans, but are savvy to put "fiscally conservative" next to their bio about how intersectional they are.
They're so terrified of looking "soft on crime" that they go along with whatever cops want when it comes to policing homeless people. Rather than just saying that they have no intention of making housing for everyone they insist on doing a whole song and dance about how giving the right handouts to developers will totally fix the problem this time.
When it comes to war they're the same party, the baseline jingoism surrounding foreign policy allows the mask to slip.
Two months into the pandemic democrats were doing covid denial when it came to poll workers just to keep anyone to the left of Reagan out of power within the party. They deliberately killed people to keep power.
there's a democrat in the white house right now. this is what voting dem got us.
You do know what Congress does, right? The WH is not almighty. Most new laws require congressional approval with 60 votes in the Senate and a majority in the House. Republicans are blocking both.
Strange how all that voting in 2020 did nothing but give Dems a majority that they pissed away. They had opportunity after opportunity to push shit through but somehow got thwarted at every turn. Oh no it's the Parliamentarian coming in with a steel chair! Oh dear God it's Sinema and Manchin coming from behind! They could've ended the filibuster but never did. Biden could've packed the courts but never did. Like at this point what can they do? They're hobbled by their own masturbatory fantasies of West Wing politicking. In reality it's a sham. The US was not built to be a democracy, the "Founding Fathers" intentionally tried to obfuscate the voting process to keep it away from the masses. This nation was built on enslavement and genocide and under no circumstances did voting ameliorate their plight. How many wars were waged by indigenous people fighting for their survival as the US continued to break treaties and encroach on their homelands? For some reason the name is not coming to me right now but there was this large civil war fought in the US over slavery that a lot of people like to insist were over states rights. For workers rights the working class paid for it dearly in unmarked graves and terrified screams as workers were locked inside of a burning building. Voting didn't change any of this, we had to fight for every inch we've ever gotten.
Wild how only the Republican Party gets executive orders
Executive orders are futile. Rarely last.
THEN WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT
IF EXECUTIVE ORDERS DON'T MATTER WHY DOES IT MATTER IF YOUR GUY IS IN OFFICE??
It matters because they can sign bills into law or veto bills. Executive orders rarely last.
You’ve argued elsewhere that when the Supreme Court acted unilaterally on Roe v Wade, there was no need for congressional dems to codify their decision to make it last, but when the president acts unilaterally, we should just wait because the decision will inevitably never last?
Interesting how, according to you and nearly every other lib I've talked to, the Democrats are simultaneously the only hope against Republican rule but also powerless to stop Republicans whenever they're in power. Meanwhile Republicans advance their genocidal policies regardless of which party is in charge, but they're also so weak that the only thing necessary to stop them in their tracks forever is to vote in a Democrat at the next election.
The observant among us would see that these are contradictory statements. By analyzing those contradictions and finding which one aligns with reality, you could come to a more coherent viewpoint.
There have been multiple instances of Dems controlling both congress and the WH over the last 50 years. Where are our abortion rights? Livable wages? Universal healthcare? Why don't the Dems actually do shit when they have the opportunity to?
Democrats have not had a 60-vote supermajority in the Senate to write those things into law. Abortion rights were stable until Trump appointed three justices. Not the Dems fault.
Abortion rights only existed because of a Supreme Court ruling in 1973, which could have been (and was) overturned by another Supreme Court in the future. Rights decided by SC rulings and not codified into law are not, in fact, stable. The Dems have had multiple opportunities since 1973 to codify abortion rights into law and have failed to do so. Yes, the Dem's fault.
And let's not pretend like the Dems would do anything if they actually had a 60-vote supermajority. They'd find some Manchin or Sinema scapegoat to shoot it down and pin all the blame on.
Let's be real here. It's the Republicans' fault if anything.
Also, it was different times when Dems had opportunities decades ago. Many Dems were not pro-choice and there has never been a majority within the Democratic Party to pass legislation until recently. It certainly wasn't a priority since Roe was in place. Now they face a Senate filibuster without 60 votes.
Right, just ignore every argument presented to you, cover your ears, and pretend as though no one disagrees with you.
The Carter administration is recent?
Dems had the opportunity to get rid of the filibuster, but they didn't do that, either. How convenient.
The Dems would've definitely passed abortion protections into law, but you see the parliamanterian gave them 3 Pinocchio's so that's a bust
the filibuster is a fake obstacle. dems can get rid of the filibuster at any time. remember the whole “parliamentarian” debacle? yeah that was manufactured too. they could just fire the parliamentarian and find a new one