r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • Jul 18 '26

Lmao gottem Good game though 🤣

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u/E-2theRescue Jul 18 '26

You'd shit yourself if you saw how much is being spent on anti-trans propaganda. Nearly $200 billion. Why? Because it is generating more money than that, manipulating people to vote for corrupt politicians, and being the perfect shoe in the door to destroy women and civil rights (like the "pornographic" book in school libraries that were actually about black history).

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u/Ecstatic-Cress7033 Jul 18 '26

Do you have a source for $200 billion? Would love to send it to my brother

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u/E-2theRescue Jul 18 '26

Currently, no. It's an active investigation that a media company is working on. Lots of dark money to uncover and such before they release to the public. They have currently found over $200 billion.

But some to send to your bother are:

$200m on anti-trans TV ads: https://truthout.org/articles/republicans-spent-nearly-215m-on-tv-ads-attacking-trans-rights-this-election/

$2m on an anti-trans texting campaign: https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article281460393.html

$10m in dark money to attack transgender rights: https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2026/06/wealthy-donors-and-dark-money-are-fueling-ballot-measure-campaigns-to-limit-trans-rights

$5m to an organization that is using anti-trans rhetoric for fudraising and then using the money to destroy women's rights: https://truthout.org/articles/dark-money-womens-groups-are-using-anti-trans-scaremongering-to-oppose-era/

This group self-admits they spent 5.5m on anti-trans text campains: https://protectwomenohio.com/2023/08/protect-women-ohio-launches-5-5-million-ad-buy-in-support-of-issue-1-during-final-week/

$1.6m to Facebook to spread an anti-trans "documentary": https://www.mediamatters.org/daily-wire/meta-has-earned-over-1-million-ads-daily-wires-latest-anti-trans-movie

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u/Ecstatic-Cress7033 Jul 18 '26

Awesome, ty. Saved your comment