Posted on 03/11/2023 8:43:40 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I regret to inform you that Glenn Youngkin has finally made a mistake. The Republican golden boy has been riding high since his surprise elevation to the governorship in Virginia some years ago, and to that effect, he’s enjoyed broad approval across the different factions of the GOP. But there will always be bumps in the road, and Youngkin’s recent CNN-hosted town hall with Jake Tapper was a big one.
Before we get to Youngkin’s answers, many of which left much to be desired, I think it’s important to deal with the elephant in the room first.
Why in the world is a budding Republican star providing free content to CNN? Was Youngkin not sentient when Tapper ambushed Marco Rubio and Dana Loesch over the Parkland shooting, resulting in one of the most grotesque scenes to ever happen in modern politics? I believe he was, which makes his decision to repeat the same mistake all the more baffling.
Nothing that happened during his appearance was surprising. Tapper played his role as a “really serious journalist” who tees up ridiculously biased questions from planted audience members. In response, Youngkin didn’t seem very prepared, which brings me to the biggest viral moment of the night.
CNN had a 17-year-old trans dude ask Glenn Youngkin about school bathrooms and the kid's Dad shook his head when Yougnkin said boys shouldn't play girl's sports. pic.twitter.com/iAcWCJzdP9
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 10, 2023
In case you are understandably confused, CNN went out and found a 17-year-old girl who says she’s a boy to berate Youngkin. According to her, using a bathroom that matches her biological sex would make girls uncomfortable, therefore she should be able to use the boy’s restroom. You know, because a bowl-cut and some hormone treatments are all it takes to change genders these days. Still, this was an opportunity for the governor to lay his cards on the table and speak some hard but necessary truths.
He could have said, “look, I sympathize with your plight, but you are a girl, and you do not have a right to enter a bathroom meant for the opposite sex.” He didn’t do that. Instead, Youngkin said that the solution is gender-neutral bathrooms.
Why is that a problem? Because it concedes the entire argument over transgender ideology to the left. It is an acceptance that the right way to treat gender dysmorphia, specifically in children, is to create accommodations that affirm their mental illness. That’s exactly what many of us in the conservative movement have been fighting against, and Youngkin just gives up that ground in an instant. It’s inexplicable, especially given he’s been billed as a truth-teller on contentious cultural topics.
Unfortunately, that version of Youngkin was nowhere to be found in this town hall. Instead, you’d have been forgiven for thinking Mitt Romney was on stage.
For example, when pressed on gun violence by Tapper, Youngkin chose to brag about the “strict gun laws” in his state while praising the existence of red flag provisions. In another instance, Tapper challenged the governor with an explanation of supposed systemic racism pulled straight from The 1619 Project. Youngkin responded by saying it should be taught in schools.
CNN's Jake Tapper is now arguing with Glenn Youngkin over how to teach American history in schools. pic.twitter.com/0hoeYhJA3v
— Kevin Tober (@KevinTober94) March 10, 2023
Now, my assumption is that he was simply fumbling over his answer and didn’t realize what he said, but that’s kind of the point. Youngkin wasn’t ready for this, and the easiest way he could have rectified that is to not hand his enemies undeserved propaganda in the first place. This shouldn’t have to be continually said, but CNN is not your friend. They are not going to operate in good faith, and you are helping them mislead people by playing their game.
If Republicans take anything from Ron DeSantis, it should be that icing out a hostile press is the only way. There is nothing to be gained by taking a beating from Jake Tapper on a low-rated town hall, only being broadcast to liberal households and airports. If Youngkin has any further ambitions outside of Virginia (where the moderate schtick he displayed is actually of political value), he’d better learn that lesson. Because right now, he’s showing himself to not be ready for primetime.
Exactly what Republicans have done for 70+ years.... let the left take an inch and they take a mile. Accept their false premises and then offer a milquetoast “conservative” version of dealing with their false premise.
Trump is the only Republican in 70+ years that fought back and didn’t let them take an inch. And that’s why we need him back in 2024.
It’s called a “privy” for a reason. All bathrooms should be a place where you go alone. Alarms should attend to more than one person in the “privy” unless in a home, where all is, supposedly, free.
I never thought Youngkin was all thar. Just that he ran a good campaign to get himself elected. Now that’s done. What’s next? Obviously, he’s a RINO.
“You take a public forum like this and make it about where you relieve yourself. What the hell is wrong with you?”
Yung-kin sounds Chinese to me…
A gender-neutral bathroom is just a single occupancy bathroom that either sex can use. They have been around for years and are everywhere.
Trannies hate the idea of being forced to use a single-occupancy bathroom, they want to force themselves on those of the opposite sex. Good on Youngkin for saying he’d make them use a single occupancy bathroom so they wouldn’t be around others.
RE: A gender-neutral bathroom is just a single occupancy bathroom that either sex can use. They have been around for years and are everywhere.
The problem is most schools have restrooms with MULTIPLE toilets and stalls. Men’s restrooms have urinals for men that women’s restrooms do not have.
Are we going to tell all schools to redesign all their restrooms just because some transgender refuses to pee in a male bathroom?
RE: Yung-kin sounds Chinese to me…
Yep, and DeSantis sounds eye-talian.
I think him running for President is premature .I don’t do play him like so here do, but I honor his electoral accomplishment.
that said, you’re right. every single one is these “town halls” is an attempt to trap and humiliate a Republican. Every single one. So republicans leaders really not notice that?
Tapper was born in New York City and was raised in Queen Village, Philadelphia.[8] He is the son of Theodore S. “Ted” and Helen Anne (née Palmatier) Tapper. His mother, who is originally from Canada,[9] retired as a psychiatric nurse at the Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center.[citation needed] His father, from Chicago, graduated from Dartmouth College and Harvard Medical School[10] and went on to serve as the president of South Philadelphia Pediatrics and associate clinical professor of pediatrics at Jefferson Medical College.[11][12][13] His parents are Jewish; his mother, who was raised Presbyterian, converted to Judaism.[14] When Tapper was a kid he spent summers attending the Jewish summer camp Camp Ramah in the Poconos.[15]
I must be the only freeper who watched the whole sham from beginning trend. Posted on it the next day.
It isn’t the kissing of Tapper’s butt. It’s the kissing butt of the questioners before the non-answers. This guy is trying to win over the people who hate him. He’d be a good Susan Collins in the senate if that’s the best we can do but WH? Watch the town hall and he’s below Pence.
Youngkin has finally made a mistake
Indeed he derailed his future in the political arena should have stayed quiet.
‘Why is that a problem? Because it concedes the entire argument over transgender ideology to the left.’
what utter nonsense; gender neutral bathrooms (aka single occupancy rooms with locks) have existed for much, much longer than the current transsexual fiascos started happening...
according to our intrepid author, the main function of these rooms being constructed over the numerous past decades was merely to affirm and placate the deluded among us...
Could you kindly read Post #9 of this thread and respond to it?
lol...of course they notice that..... the mission of the RINO republicans is to always be the MINORITY “Loyal Opposition”...it serves 2 purposes ...They can always get elected in the minority...but should they ever become a big majority they would never get elected again if they had to do what they promised to do when they were in the minority... Its how you run a competent Banana Republic .../s
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