Anyone who looks at America in 2025 and thinks, "maybe we can fix this by throwing trans people under the bus" 1) doesn't have the brains to understand what's going on or how we got here 2) doesn't have the stomach for any of the fights ahead and 3) is vice signaling to their MAGA friends.
That would be the same ghoul whose rise to riches came from pimping W’s wars for Kay Graham’s insane children?
Save America from Pod Save America!
Don’t be stupid, be a smarty…. The distinction between Nazis by conviction and merely opportunistic ones is a distinction without practical difference, like between the zealous, thrusting sieg heil and the lackadaisical Wehrmacht-style one.
I'm done with the Pod bros. I used to listen regularly, but have gradually fallen off for two reasons: (A) they offer nothing useful and are just a snarky left-ish news show, and (B) they are too wrapped up in Twitter shit, and it's warped their brains. This move hits both of those points.
One of the biggest problems we have is there's a huge percentage of liberals who still have Nazi friends/family and see nothing wrong with that. You can't protect marginalized communities and defeat fascism if you're still inviting fascists over to watch the local sport team.
Sure you can. So long as the snacks you serve while watching the game are poisoned.
Matt Yglesias and the Pod Bros only care about their next paycheck
There is no such thing as scapegoating strategically. There is only fascist enabling when it's practiced. By the same people serving the concentrated capital currently funding it.
Ooh, "vice signaling" is so real. It's what all the "you spit, we hit" rhetoric is.
If they’re not setting up @matty for a fall (preferably on the scale of the steep side of Half Dome), I will be seriously up in their reviews. Me being a smol bean, I hope others will join. As TheRickWilson likes to say, “we are all prisoners of The Algorithm”—let’s show the bros how it works.
As Max “vice signals” to all his trans activist friends
Who else's rights are up for debate?
Can we talk about how it's open knowledge that MattY and David Shor, the two largest whisperers in democratif party ears, both happily hang out in Marc Andreessen's right wing chat channels and are coordinating against the trans community with people like Jesse "piss-vape" Singal?
This Yglesias dude is a staunch Trump supporter though so he looks at America 2025 and loves what he sees
#3 is probably the big one. "See we can still get along I find them squicky too"
Let's throw Nazis under the bus instead.
Sure. Once we’ve thrown them under a train.
I think we’ve found the answer to the trolley problem.
Their former-gop is showing.
So, so much of this today
They're too lazy to even sea lion anymore. They're just posting unsourced 'evidence' and 'nuh uh'-ing.
“Vice signaling.” I like that.
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There should be no 'trans debate' and AFAIC, there isn't. We're not redoing the early 2000s marriage equality fiasco b/c some low-level political has-beens are scared. Show up without your earrings or find the exit.
Vice signaling is a phrase I need to start using more
Yea. POD is losing the plot
They also don't have any clue about history. Abandoning more vulnerable minority groups in the hopes that the bigots will be satisfied by them never works. They will just come for the next category of "unacceptable" people. Like, that's the *whole point* of the famous Niemöller poem!
When did Crooked Media become the enemy? Should I stop following the women from Hysteria and Strict Scrutiny because Jon Lovett is apparently not queer enough? Can we wait until this alleged “trans rights debate” is in the world before we crucify it?
also, which “MAGA friend” suggested Matt Yglesias? bsky.app/profile/jael...
And also, trans people are part of the wee that needs to be fixing this and enjoying the fixing of it.
Agree. In my community - no brains and no guts.
Pod Save Bros… man they are nothing but trash.
“Vice signaling” needs to become part of the progressive messaging glossary
Abigale Thorne knows her way around a debate..
Newsom is tossing around a ton of money trying to get his transphobia normalized even though the base hates it. Doesn't surprise me that he roped in the Pod Save shitheads and Matty.
Why is this up for debate? @podsaveamerica.crooked.com
The reality is that trans sports and rights will not decide literally any national election one way or the other. There is zero reason to “compromise”. The only stance should be “I support equal rights for *everyone*, including trans people, full stop” It never has to go any further
idk, I think compromising on it will decide elections by having the dems lose them but I get what you mean. at this point, we all stand or hang together. I'm not taking compromises anymore.
People who dress up their views as compromise either don’t understand politics or have bought into the right wing narrative, or both
I think the most revealing moments on any of their shows is shortly in the podsave era when they are discussing ICE under Obama and how the regularly just ignored presidential directives. And they treated it like it wasn't a problem and just a thing that happened.
Max, if you understand that a few capitalists are currently ruling in the US, and that you guys need to redistribute their power among the residents, please join a party that wants to control capital, a communist party, any one. FYI: CPUSA is growing.
None of us are free, until all of us are free. None of us are safe, until all of us are safe. Why is this so fucking hard for everybody to the left of... Chomsky?... to understand? Damn, humans are stupid sometimes.
Hanging onto to their power and access to power instead of standing up for their vulnerable neighbors. Shame!
Those weasels wants so badly to emulate the UK and mainstream the ridiculous anti-trans prejudice over here.
Matt Iglesias can eat a dick all day for how much I care about what he thinks
Say what you like about the Chapo crew. They were 100% right about Pod Save America.
I'm guessing Pod Save America is anti-trans?
I honestly couldn't have said this better myself. It's astonishing that they can say the utterly ghoulish things they've said to trans people and their allies/loved ones, and still think that they're the "good guys".
