According to Erin Reed (whose work you really should support), one of the reasons why the GOP came up embarrassingly short after last week's elections was their dependence on transphobia to get their people to the polls.
This is evident in the wacky commercial below sent out by anti-trans group the Americans Principles Project. The commercial claims that the government will be taking kids away in order to make them trans. APP reportedly spent over $2 million on ads like this to defeat the re-election campaign of Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear.
The ads failed. And it wasn't even close.
Oh my God, y'all. American Principles Project scammed their donors into thinking that donating $2,000,000 to THIS video was a good idea.
— Erin Reed (@ErinInTheMorn) November 10, 2023
It's so patently absurd.
Suburban families aren't terrified the FBI is going to take their kid for having a discussion about being trans. pic.twitter.com/aKd00OZo8c
By now you know the outcome of Tuesday night's election i.e. the incredible success of the Democratic Party, the repudiation of books bans and anti-trans tropes, and the historical ascension of LGBTQ candidates to public office.
I'm spotlighting a particularly delicious outcome from Tuesday night. Reactionary hate group Moms for Liberty got destroyed. I mean that to say their endorsed candidates lost a vast majority of schoolboard elections.
And that has been the talk all day. Here is just a small bit of the buzz about the group's huge losses.
Moms for Liberty crows about its success in helping its chosen candidates win their elections; of the 500 right-wing candidates the group endorsed for school board last year, three-quarters of whom had never before run, 275 won their races.
But this year, Moms for Liberty’s luck appears to be running out—last night, many of the group’s favored candidates lost.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of results, as of Wednesday morning, in a few places where there were candidates endorsed or recommended by Moms for Liberty:
In Pennsylvania, the group recommended (but didn’t officially endorse) candidates in five districts. In Central Bucks, five parents’ rights candidates lost their seats to Democrats, as did another five in the Pennridge
In Iowa, the group endorsed 13 candidates. Just one won.
In Virginia’s Loudoun County, so far, it appeared that three Moms for Liberty-backed candidates had lost their races.
In North Carolina’s Mooresville Graded School District Board of Education, a Moms for Liberty-backed candidate lost to a Democrat.
In Minnesota’s Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan School District all four of the Moms for Liberty candidates were defeated.
Far-right groups like Moms for Liberty say they speak for parents, a proposition that’s always been dubious. As they push for book bans, whitewash American history, and try to drive LGBTQ+ teachers and students back into the closet, they’ve made plenty of enemies. Parents, especially mothers, have gone head to head with Moms for Liberty and the candidates it backs, stunting the far right’s march through local school boards. That trend was particularly apparent on Tuesday evening when anti-diversity candidates lost a number of pivotal school-board races across the nation.
When Moms for Liberty assaults protections for LGBTQ+ children in public schools, and threatens to out trans children to families that may not be welcoming, they do so with specious arguments about “parental rights.” Nobody wants to co-parent with the government, they argue, and parents have a right to know what their children are doing in school. Members have backed policies that would prevent teachers from covering LGBTQ+ topics in the classroom, ban trans girls from playing school sports, and notify parents if a child requests a name change at school. Those policies place LGBTQ+ students — and educators — at risk. Tuesday’s school-board races tested the nation’s priorities: Did voters want culture war or did they want candidates focused more on the work of education? The answer is a blow for Moms for Liberty and their larger platform.
Moms for Liberty was founded in 2021 to push back against Covid-19 restrictions in schools. It has since expanded to opposing classes on diversity, curbing the rights of LGBTQ students, and banning books. But on Tuesday, voters across the country pushed back on the Moms for Liberty agenda. The organization endorsed more than 130 candidates across the country, and the vast majority of them lost—with some failing to get more than single-digit support.
Each loss the group experienced resulted in a victory for LGBTQ+ and students of color. It also meant a loss for hatred, bigotry, racism, transphobia, and homophobia. This hate group is desperately trying to infiltrate and poison the public education system, which is why it’s so important that voters stand up and refuse to let MFL gain a foothold. It’s also very pleasant to think of MFL’s reaction to the whole country illustrating so plainly that it wants nothing to do with these hateful extremists.
Sticks and stones may break our bones, but you’ll still never be a woman. 🤷♀️ https://t.co/PrxXYtbUuq
— Tiffany Justice (@4TiffanyJustice) November 8, 2023
Tiffany dear, your bitterness flavors our tea.
Chaya Raichik's goons are upset at me. Apparently, they didn't appreciate my blog post from last night. And they really didn't appreciate the excerpt I posted.
In response, a lot of them either peppered me with insults or repeated her lying narratives. Of course. Some of the funniest responses I've received are the following:Chaya Raichik is also self-destructive. She takes too much happiness in upending people's lives. She oozes a joy akin to that of a sadist when he's torturing a puppy or a kitten. . . an overfed hog always disgusts everyone around it sooner or later. - https://t.co/DAM2DL1qJN
— Holy Bullies (@holybullies) November 7, 2023
Well, isn't this charming?
After complaining extensively last week that the USA Today article detailing her exploits of hate would cause her to get harassed and death threats, Libs of TikTok's Chaya Raichik recently posted the following on Twitter.
And then she's changed her profile banner to the following as an attempt to mock how she has been connected to bomb threats against schools and hospitals.
Let's be clear about what she's doing. Chaya is making fun of the fact that her deceptive Twitter posts have been connected with several incidents of harassment and bomb threats to children's hospitals, schools, and individuals. I guess Chaya thinks she's being funny (and her supporters are no doubt loving it) but it only underscores just how much of a sad little girl she is. A sad little girl who, by the pictures, has a head shaped like a bowling ball pin.
Okay that was mean. I will be serious.
When it comes to people like Chaya, it is difficult to take the high road. They thrive on the chaos they cause, particularly when it creates tangible harm. They live for instigating evil and then watching with glee when their actions create problems for others, especially those who they dislike because of their own prejudices. Chaya claims that her actions are to protect kids from LGBTQ grooming but it's obvious that her explanation is merely an excuse for her to satisfy her own sadistic tendencies.
In the old days, we called people like her sociopaths. But I guess they should be referred to - in Chaya's case - as social media influencers.
I almost feel sorry for Raichik because it's obvious that all of the hatred she spews and the harm she causes is coming from a pitch-black place inside of her. Maybe she had awful parents. Maybe she was constantly teased as a child. Maybe she suffered a painfully traumatic incident which shaped her adult outlook. Maybe she was unfairly criticized for being too overweight, too skinny, too plain. or having a grating voice (because her voice is annoying as hell). And maybe all of this created a desire in her to harm others.
Or maybe none of that happened. Maybe she had a good upbringing with loving parents and popularity but still ended up being this twisted, heartless ghoul in a woman's skin because that's simply how things work out.
It really doesn't matter one way or another because in the long run, Chaya is also self-destructive. She takes too much happiness in upending people's lives. She oozes a joy akin to that of a sadist when he's torturing a puppy or a kitten.
And that type always becomes too much for even their supporters. They simply can't help themselves because they live for the misery they cause like rutting hogs to the trough. And an overfed hog always disgusts everyone around it sooner or later.
Oh, and she comes across as racist, too (surprise, surprise)
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