Democrats Walk Out Over Common Sense—Again
Some things never change. The sun rises in the east, Atlanta traffic is still terrible, and Georgia House Democrats can’t handle even the mildest dose of reality. Their latest dramatic exit came over Senate Bill 185, which—brace yourself—says taxpayers shouldn’t foot the bill for gender-transition surgeries for convicted felons.
That’s it. That’s the whole bill. It doesn’t ban health care, it doesn’t erase anyone’s identity, and it certainly doesn’t qualify as the return of Jim Crow, no matter how many press releases the other side fires off. It just says if you’re in prison for a felony, you don’t get elective surgeries on the taxpayers’ dime.
Sounds like common sense, right? Apparently not to Georgia Democrats, who walked out en masse to avoid voting on a bill that would not allow the use of taxpayer dollars to fund transition surgery.
Let’s be clear: if you rob a gas station, you don’t get a taxpayer-funded nose job. You don’t get Botox, LASIK, or liposuction. Why should gender-transition surgery be the exception? It’s not medically necessary—it’s elective. You don’t get luxury benefits while serving time for breaking the law.
But instead of staying to debate it, House Democrats grabbed their purses, flounced out of the chamber, and probably sprinted to the nearest Starbucks to blog about “fascism” while sipping something with oat milk.
This is exactly the kind of moment that ad last year nailed: “Kamala is for they/them. Trump is for you.” That line hit because it’s true. The modern left is obsessed with symbolism, pronouns, and performative outrage. Meanwhile, normal people are just trying to pay their mortgage, raise their kids, and not get stuck paying for gender surgeries for violent criminals.
And look—this is why Donald Trump won.
People didn’t vote for Trump because they love tariffs or because they’re eager for a stronger executive branch. They voted for Trump because Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party looked at bills like SB 185 not just with indifference, but with enthusiasm for the opposite. They don’t just tolerate this kind of nonsense, no, they want to foist it on the rest of us. And Americans are sick of it.
Democrats don’t pull walkouts often. It’s not a common move in Georgia politics—and for good reason. It’s dramatic, it’s performative, and it usually signals that a party wants headlines more than solutions. So when they finally decided to do it, you’d think it would be over something they constantly tell us is a moral emergency—health care access, housing, education, maybe even criminal justice reform. But no.
They staged their big, righteous protest over whether taxpayers should be forced to pay for gender-transition surgeries for convicted felons. That’s the hill they chose to make a scene on. Not feeding kids. Not keeping communities safe. Not improving schools. Taxpayer-funded elective surgery for violent criminals. That tells you everything you need to know about where their priorities really are. When the performative left decides to show up with smoke bombs and sirens, it’s always to defend the most absurd corners of their ideology.
And Georgia voters are noticing.
