First, we find out:‘Grifter’ with ‘no experience’: Caitlyn Jenner’s run for governor slammed as ‘money-making gig’ https://t.co/pHyCTux0It
— Raw Story (@RawStory) April 23, 2021
Jenner is a reality TV personality, transgender activist, and Olympic gold medal winner who has no experience in governing or government. Amid reports that she had filed paperwork Friday after getting advice from former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, Jenner tweeted her entry into the race.
Small wonder Parscale was attracted to her as a client. And what has Parscale done for her?
The one-page [campaign web-]site offers a single paragraph saying "for the past decade, we have seen the glimmer of the Golden State reduced by one-party rule that places politics over progress and special interests over people."
There are no policy positions, as some noted, and no party affiliation. The only other offerings Jenner's site has for California voters are to give her their name and email address, and two links: "Shop," and "Donate," in that order.
Well, honestly, what else is a campaign for?
"They're moving the whole operation to New Jersey because they're going to start doing more fundraising," said one Trump advisor familiar with the discussions.
Seems Trump finds Florida uninhabitable after April, so he's returning north. And, of course, grifting.
Never forget: Trump was not in office to govern, but to accumulate power & $ for Trump Org. All disinformation paths were good to keep his followers hopeful=giving him $. Public welfare never a factor. https://t.co/cZwmWPdrjX
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat) April 23, 2021
When she transitioned in public I remember a lot of lefties were shocked that a trans person could be a Republican-fascist, my reaction was she had been a jock, it never shocks me when a jock turns out to be a Republican-fascist because jock culture cultivates selfishness and egocentrism, perhaps especially in the non-team sports.
ReplyDeleteIt's one of the earliest things I figured out about gay men that opposed to People of Color, oppressed religious minorities, etc. LGBTQ people come from what, I gather, the most up to date would call "cis hetero-sexuals" and won't necessisarily have any reason to not support the oppressive economic-political order, not unless they were brought up with the moral absolutes that require that. Even when the law was at its worst most of the gay men I knew figured as long as they could have sex without having it impinge on their wider life, they didn't care much about justice or civil rights. A lot of them around here were Republicans who voted - if they voted at all - for the worst of Republicans. I remember in the 1980s having to tell one of them that Ronald Reagan didn't love him, that if he and his fellow Republicans could, they'd lock him in prison for what he got up to of a weekend. He just wouldn't believe that Ronnie didn't love him.