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Happy Tuesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Rayella kept her whereabouts a secret whenever she was overcome with the urge to create a new David Hasselhoff tribute tapestry.
I know that I said yesterday that I don’t like writing about the trans stuff very much, but that doesn’t mean it never happens. What I won’t do is write about specific trans (-gender or -vestite) types who are looking for 15 minutes of fame. I think we in conservative media give them platforms that they don’t deserve.
The larger problem with groomers and the transitioning of kids still remains, of course, and that needs to be dealt with. There are many on the right who insist that we dial it down with the social issues for 2024 and focus on things like the economy and, oh, maybe, being on the brink of World War III. The prevailing theory with these people is that it was a hyper-focus on the social and cultural stuff that led to the dismal performance of the Republicans in 2022.
Yeah… no.
A balance of the social, economic, and security can and should be addressed by the Republicans who are trying to get elected next year, and the Democrats’ huge overreach on the trans lunacy could be pressed for an advantage. (Again, here’s the part where the “Woe is me! None of this matters!” crowd can just skip ahead to the comments and begin lodging complaints.)
The Dems keep pushing their luck with the trans stuff, and we’re seeing a little more pushback. Matt wrote about the latest celebrity who has had enough:
We’ve seen an increasing number of celebrities speaking out on or questioning the dangerous transgender cult in recent months and years, including J.K. Rowling, Dave Chapelle, and Elon Musk. Now KISS co-founder and guitarist Paul Stanley has weighed in on Twitter, expressing his concern about the normalization and encouragement of allowing kids with gender identity disorder to transition, which he believes are potentially harmful.
Stanley accurately refers to what’s being done to children now as a “dangerous fad.” Yes, the leftists are using phony compassion to weaponize a predatory political parlor game that will ruin kids’ lives.
Matt listed some of the celebrities who’ve spoken up against the trans movement. Attempts to cancel them have been relentless, and all have failed. That’s not because they’re “cancel-proof,” because anyone can be canceled. True, they’re all close to occupying such rarefied air, but the real reason it hasn’t worked is that there are far more people who are not on board with the groomers than support them.
The radical leftists don’t have the numbers on any issue, they merely have volume. They’re louder on mainstream and social media, and they have an evil cabal running a pudding-brained puppet in the White House right now. They have some visibility at the moment.
Republican candidates can’t let that volume and visibility cow them into submission on any of the social and cultural issues. The hot takes about those issues creating electoral vulnerabilities are garbage. This is not the time for timidity.
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