everything the TV man says must be entertained. it is all well-founded and based on real things that are happening! we must listen and learn to both sides of the aisle
no one even pays for it, the healthcare workers will be paid regardless of whether a detained undocumented immigrant gets a bottom surgery. at best, it could be argued that it takes time away from surgeries for documented citizens. but the amount of detained undocumented immigrants seeking GRS would be negligible.
I did my best 30 seconds of googling and found that in 2018, about 84000 illegal immigrants were incarcerated in the US. If we assume about 2% of them are trans, looking for reassignment, which I believe was the last percentage of US people identifying as trans, we're looking at like 2000 surgeries.
My Gen X stepdad has been watching them religiously for the better part of a year. Every night I hear Cenk and Ana's voices booming from the TV for hours.
But also, this isn't a real thing happening on any scale greater than literally one person.
This is one of those things that weirdo trans-fixated dumbasses on Twitter probably found one instance of happening and because "immigrant bad! (But not me!) transgender bad! Government spending bad!" to right wingers, it's something to pump forever with no significant pushback from the democrats. Great country. Wow. (now all of that is firmly shared by both pro-capitalist right wing US parties. They used to pretend to care about the first, half-ass acknowledgement of the second, and, well, they've always been against government spending. Since Dipshit Carter anyway)
Also yes, even from a calculating center-right standpoint I want prisons to be as expensive and inefficient as possible so all arrests come with the strictest of scrutiny. Want to imprison someone? Prove in court that there is no other alternative.
if it is tongue and cheek, then it shouldn’t be like, last I checked, 91% No.
bit fell flat or Ana and Cenk being unhinged about crime and trans issues again. Always good to remember that Ana fell for the “non-surgery transmascs want you to refer to their genitalia as bonus hole” fearmongering (even if this was actually a phenomenon and not like one quip by a doctor or a transmasc person, like… oh no. the fucking horror. who cares dickhead) and got really mad about it on a podcast
TYT has always given me the ick. I remember when they first started and I tried watching them. Couldn't do it. Too much libshit pretending to be leftwing. I've been vindicated and if I ever see Cenk IRL I'll be the smuggest fucker in the room.