Early in May, Caitlyn Jenner caused an uproar by saying -- in a prime-time interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News, for crying out loud, not in an inadvertantly-overheard private conversation, as any Republican might be expected to have done -- that California had a homelessness problem, which was epitomized by a friend of hers, who used to keep his private jet in the hangar right across from Caitlyn's hangar in Malibu, from which she was speaking to Sean.
Caitlyn saw her friend packing up his hangar. She told Sean that he said, "I’m moving to Sedona, Arizona. I can’t take it anymore. I can’t walk down the streets and see the homeless."
Her initial comment about homeless people made it clear that she was concerned about the way that rich people sometimes have their whole day spoiled by having to look at homeless people, and that she didn't care at all about the suffering of those who live and die on the street. Now she's trying hard to pivot to make it seem like she actually cares about homeless people, but besides being a tone-deaf, unfeeling moron, she's also in the wrong party for that.
For example, she claims that her proposal to de-regulate construction in California will help the homeless. Does she imagine that the newly-unfettered construction contractors will immediately turn to the homeless for the additional labor they need, thus allowing the homeless to bootstrap themselves into roofs over their heads?
Or maybe she thinks that the contractors will build an abundance of homeless shelters, first thing, just as soon as they're no longer required to install those pesky solar panels?
Shoulda stuck to sports, Caitlyn! Oh, wait, you screwed that up too, didn't you? You see, Caitlyn, who became world-famous by winning the 1976 Olympic men's decathlon as Bruce Jenner, supports Republican efforts to ban transgender girls from participating in girls' sports. Now of course, there's nothing surprising about some Republican politicians supporting such bans. It's consistent with their overall policy of making life as difficult as possible for LGBTQ people.
But when a transgender Republican woman running for Governor of California says the quiet part loud here, like she did with the homeless, it's not just bad for her. Caitlyn is making the general Republican attitude of ****-you-this-is-about-me a little bit more clear and plain to see than is good for Republicans who are trying to get elected.
Overall, I would guess, Democrats have to be much happier about Caitlyn's campaign than Republicans.
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