jesse's applying that model to himself—the political equivalent of 'she was asking for it' but he's also getting uneasy: you wait till you get home before you hit your wife/kids, in public you keep a clam face on

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so they invent this mythical figure of the trans activist—very radical, very powerful, utterly illiberal—sepeperate from 'ordinary' trans people they're the ones who went too far, who provoked all of this, left sensible centrists like them no choice but to speak out

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every now & then someone on the anti-trans side will get cold feet about how openly ugly it's all getting—they want to keep the image of a nice, sensible centrist but it's never enough for them to get off the train

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legally speaking this is absolutely correct, and between this and the pathetic lawsuits you're looking at a situation where they're going to have to basically conduct an armed coup if they want to do this and, look, these guys are desperate, maybe it all goes real bad but that's a much bigger lift

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I agree that the danger point is the seating of the new congress, but if this is the caliber of legal argument we're going to be seeing to support their efforts to overturn the midterms, they are going to have to do it without court backing - yes, even SCOTUS imo

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