How Boring LGBTQ People Made America Great

I want to thank Ali for the link to this story.  I will try to post the comment she left pointing me to it.  I do not mind a link here or there in the comments if it leads me to new good article on issues.  Ali has offered me many links in the comments and all of them so far have been worth reading, and yes many I end up posting like this one.  Thank you Ali.   Hugs Scottie   Below is Ali’s comment.

All is well. So many things tend to work out for the very best.

Here’s a new link. I’ve been reading Oliver Willis for years, and I really like his work. You’ve probably seen his work around. I now subscribe (for free) to his work on Substack, and here is the one he posted today. Bonus on each post is a photo of his doggy Kal-El, who looks like our Chrissy back when she was that age (she crossed the bridge in 2020 at age 21.) Anyway, back to the link: https://www.oliverexplains.com/p/how-boring-lgbtq-people-made-america . Enjoy when you get to it!

Boring = Good

Drag queen story time reading in Philadelphia sets Guinness World Record for attendance

Over the last few days I have been busy trying to read news and set up new browsers. Here are some links to Joe My God stories that stood out for their pushing Christian hate on everyone. Plus some other hates from the tRump cult.

Little claims he’s been targeted for harassment and retaliation over his lawsuit. He’s being represented by the anti-LGBTQ hate group, the Thomas More Society, who claims that Little has a First Amendment right not to have the flag within his sight.

Per reports, Little’s salary is more than $200,000. In 2021, a Long Beach lifeguard tower decked out for Pride was destroyed in arson, much to the delight of commenters on the YouTube clip below.
Last year the group’s founder claimed to The Federalist that his foie gras business was boycotted by local restaurants after he posted an anti-LGBTQ screed on Instagram, putting his family in a “dire financial situation.” In the clip below, he talks about that supposed betrayal and rants about “sexual degeneracy.”

Cultists are also raging in the comments of Walmart’s Instagram post. Sample reply: “Walmart and Pride whatever it is, I hate all this because you glorify everything in this world except what God has created to be from the beginning, which is a family, man married to a woman and their children!! Why don’t you give a true family unit a special month??? This evil agenda to shove all that’s unnatural down our throat will be your downfall one day!! God will not be mocked!! Yes, everyone has a right to choose how you live but why does it have to be glorified for a month??? Just wrong!!!”


If the goal was to make “Pride” toxic for brands, as conservative Matt Walsh urged, then mission accomplished. Now, thanks to Bud Light and so many other casualties of excessive Pride, Americans have started to realize how much power they have to change the corporate landscape.








And now for the tRump cult out cries about that guilty verdict. 

I love how every accusation they make about Biden and the democrats / left turns out to be a confession by the republicans.  For example they claim that Biden has weaponized the Department Of Justice and is controlling the AG Merrick Garland.  But the republicans and trump have been calling for the locking up of his pollical opponent since his first run in 2016.  He and his supporters have long called for locking up Biden.  These people don’t want to run a country, they want to rule the country and everyone in it.  They want to raid the treasury and hammer anyone who tries to stop them.  Simply put they wrongly claim no one has ever been charged with this same crime, but it has been charged over 9,000 times.  But they are now a cult and if the dear leader says it it must be so, reality be damned.   Hugs.  Scottie

JMG: Regarding Kelly’s lie about E. Jean Carroll, New York’s 2022 Adult Survivors Act was certainly not passed with her in mind and in fact resulted in lawsuits against former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, NYC Mayor Eric Adams, and rapper Sean Combs. In total, nearly 3000 suits were filed before the law expired in 2023.
believe that the woman in the back shouting “fuck the king and the queen” is the same one seen below bouncing her enormous bare tits earlier today.

The Washington Post has a fact check:

Trump called it ridiculous, unconstitutional and un-American “that the highly Conflicted, Radical Left Judge is not requiring a unanimous decision on the fake charges against me.” At first glance, it might appear that the former president doesn’t understand one of the basic tenets of the legal system: that guilty verdicts in criminal cases have to be unanimous.

The jury must be unanimous when it comes to determining whether Trump is guilty or not guilty of each specific falsifying business records count, and whether he did so in an effort to unlawfully impact an election, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said.

He added, however, that the panel did not have to be unanimous about which of those three types of crimes could serve as the underlying violation that brings the state election charge into play. In Trump’s case, prosecutors have offered three types of crimes that would make the state election-meddling charge come into play: federal election law crimes, tax crimes or false business records.

 
Leavitt went on to claim that President Joe Biden has targeted “innocent” Americans such as the Jan. 6 rioters charged for their roles in the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol. “They’ve thrown [them] in the gulag in Washington, D.C.,” said Leavitt, who added that Trump said he’d pardon the rioters on “day one” of a second term.

And now for a few just off the wall … weird world.  Hugs.  Scottie

He heads the firm’s Washington, D.C., office, which opened after Justice Barrett joined the high court.
Rumors of Trump using the N-word during production of The Apprentice have swirled for years. Executive producer Mark Burnett has long refused to release any outtakes from the show. In 2018, Trump tweeted that the N-word “does not exist in my vocabulary and never has” and that Burnett backs him on this “fake news.”

Read the full article. Per Reuters, Yullo acted in response to the Parkland mass shooting. Yullo also fined insurers $13 million for providing the NRA’s “Carry Guard” coverage for members accused of wrongful death shootings.

Some Joe My God posts I wanted to share but was busy for two days changing my computer browsers.

So what started out to be a simple fix of a malware problem on the blogging computer I used to completely change all my old Chrome tabs into Firefox tabs.  I don’t like the new agreements on Chrome about information gathering no matter who you make your settings to prevent.  Basically everything you do is recorded and sent to Google.  It is frustrating.  Firefox has less work ability and on Chrome I could always recover old tabs if I did not delete them in entire windows, even on other devices.  So far Firefox doesn’t seem to have the same ability.  If I start to lose to many pages or comments, then I will have to switch back.  While privacy is important I need function much more.  I need to be able to switch open tabs from one computer to the other to clean them.   I will try this but it may not last.

Here are the open Joe  My God posts I wanted to share before this all happened.   Enjoy. 

Read the full article. Earlier this week and this morning it was reported that Florida educators are receiving state training on teaching Christian nationalism and teaching that genocides such as the one committed by Joseph Stalin are examples of cancel culture.

Florida Teacher Training Calls Joseph Stalin’s Execution Of 750,000 Dissidents “The Original Cancel Culture”

Read the full article. There more. Photo: Florida education chief Manny Diaz.

And is the republican party dead and reborn as the tRump cult … here is this.

Read the full platform [PDF]. The 2024 platform echoes many of the anti-LGBTQ items seen in the 2022 platform. The platform also contains the many attacks on trans youth now codified into law in nearly two dozen states. Photo: Newly elected Texas GOP chairman Abraham George.

And it total partisan Christian Nationalist news ….

 

And in bigotry thuggish maga right wing behavior wins news … But think about this.  We have normalized and now accept that people going into a store and destroying the merchandise and attacking the staff is OK as long as it fits our religious or political beliefs.  Is this what a civilized society is or has become?

Cultists are also raging in the comments of Walmart’s Instagram post. Sample reply: “Walmart and Pride whatever it is, I hate all this because you glorify everything in this world except what God has created to be from the beginning, which is a family, man married to a woman and their children!! Why don’t you give a true family unit a special month??? This evil agenda to shove all that’s unnatural down our throat will be your downfall one day!! God will not be mocked!! Yes, everyone has a right to choose how you live but why does it have to be glorified for a month??? Just wrong!!!”

Lastly in the SCOTUS corruption news.  

BREAKING: Israel Strikes Sheltering Palestinians In Open Defiance Of Recent ICJ Order

The horror of the illegal Israeli strike in refuge camp Rafah, where Israel kept insisting all Palestinians MUST go to be SAFE, Israel has now been attacking.  After Joe Biden, Mr lets play nice and get the Israeli’s to not do it, and the rest of the world body said stop the illegal action now, Israel has committed another war crime.  

These people are trapped in a burning tent caused by the strikes, the injured / death toll is still coming but it is catastrophic because … Israel told these people to go there and they would be safe.  Israel is shooting fish in a barrow, but these fish are humans, Palestinians, and Israel does not count them as human!  Understand what Israel is doing and realize what the end goal always was.  They want the eradication of Palestinian people and the land they are on.  They have killed tens of thousands of them, and they want to kill the rest.  Israel wants Gaza land for itself as even Jared Kushner tRump’s Middle East envoy said the land would make beautiful sea side resorts.   In recent reports we learned Israel military were told to target aid workers and that they deliberately targeted medical people in any role.  The goal was according to the military to stop, prevent, and keep others from helping Palestinians!  When they tell you who they are, believe them the first time.   Hugs.  Scottie

In just two days following the International Court of Justice’s order for Israel to end its offensive in Rafah, the Netanyahu government is openly defying it in extreme fashion.

3 really great short videos from Rev. Ed Trevors.

I like all of these because the message in them is so wonderful.  In the first video he talks about a fundamentalist hate preacher and how he is wrong.   Rev Trevors says it is not the job of Christians to burn books, to demonize others, to cause harm.  He talks about what the job of a Christian really is.  Again it is a message I as an atheist can enjoy and agree with.  

In the second video he talks about religious men who blame women for their own sexual feelings and lust, so tell those women they must be completely covered and show no skin so men won’t be sexually excited by seeing them.  The Rev. again shows how this is wrong.  The sexual sin is the man’s, not the woman’s to deal with.  Women shouldn’t have to cover up and show no skin to protect men, men need to take responsibility for themselves and their feelings.   

The third one I included not so much for the religious nature but as a reminder to all of us, myself included, to take down time, me time, just relax and enjoy life.   I hope if you watch them you will enjoy them.   Hugs. 

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Trump Dumps Pull-Ups

A lot of The Majority Clips. Most on Gaza, Israel, the protests, some on other stuff. If you see something you like, maybe you will want to watch the show

Some old Joe My God posts, and I do mean old, that I need to clear from my tabs

What these states are fighting for is the right to discriminate and target kids for abuse, which in their minds somehow pushes the fundamentalist Christian superior morals.  They really believe that these laws denying kids the right to live as their authentic self without being harassed and targeted makes their god happy.  I got news for them, I doubt it makes their god happy but I know it makes them happy.  Their god seems to hate those they hate and love the things they like.  Weird how that works.   These same states removed child labor protections and school food assistance programs.   Makes kids more willing to sacrifice school for work if they are hungry and harassed.  Hugs.  Scottie

Louisiana Vows to Defy New Pro-LGBTQ Title IX Rules

Aunt Lydia Orders State To Defy New LGBTQ Protections

Four More Red State AGs Join Moms For Threeways In Suing Biden Admin Over LGBTQ Student Protections

DeSantis: No Pride Month Rainbow Lights On Bridges

And for some good news on the LGBTQ+ front.   

Appeals Court Rules Maryland Parents Can’t Opt-Out Of Classroom Lessons That Involve LGBTQ-Themed Books

Read the full article. The parents were represented by the anti-LGBTQ Beckett Fund For Religious Liberty, which represented Hobby Lobby in its successful bid to deny birth control to employees. As you can see below, supporting the parents is homocon Andy Ngo.

 

This is what happens when you have hate preachers and right wing media constantly pushing a narrative of anti-LGBTQ+ propaganda and claiming that gay and trans people want to make everyone gay and trans.  Plus the US needs better mental health treatments and the US really need to screen police officers much better.  Hugs.  Scottie

Ex-GA Cop Claims Voices Told To Him To Kill Lyft Driver Because He Was Being Kidnapped Into “Gay Fraternity”

 

MO Sec Of State Candidate Says “Don’t Be Weak And Gay” As She Jogs In St. Louis’s LGBTQ Neighborhood

Read the full article. Of note, Lupe Fiasco recently called out fellow rappers for their homophobic lyrics. As you’ll see below, Gomez brandishes assault weapons in most of her videos. Her “weak and gay” video has over two million views as of today.

I found a strong gay man for you Ms. Gomez.
Seek him out for some strong advice. I dare ya.

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Corporal Andrew Charles Wilfhart is the first openly gay US soldier to die in combat since the repeal (DADT) policy in 2011. Wilfhart died in Operation Enduring Freedom. Major Alan Rogers, died in 2008 while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom as an Army intelligence officer.

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These asshole red state republicans refuse to honor Black History Month and Pride Month but they can celebrate traitors who attacked the US government so they could continue to discriminate against, abuse, and keep black humans as slaves.  Yet they call themselves Christians.  Hugs.  Scottie

Mississippi Gov Declares Confederate Heritage Month

This one is recent but it goes along with honoring the confederacy. Hugs.  Scottie

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Pardons “White Power” Killer

Remember when tRump cried that the Judge wouldn’t let him attend Barron’s graduation?  Hugs.  Scottie

Trump To Attend Fundraiser On Day Of Son’s Graduation

Some republican red states like Florida have passed laws making Christian Preachers / Priests / Pastors legally able to be school councilors.  Yes troubled kids asking for help will have to accept being preached to, told to pray more, and give their body’s to … god.   Yet some of these preachers don’t accept medical science, don’t believe gay LGBTQ+ kids have rights or are born the way they are, they will try to guilt trip them into changing into cis straight kids who go to that church.  Hugs.  Scottie

Megachurch Pastor: No Such Thing As Mental Illness

The fundamentalist got some more control over a woman’s body with the ending of Roe, now they are going for the entire control over the woman’s rights, their bodies, and their sex organs.  Hugs.  Scottie

Dr. Stabby Calls For Overturning No-Fault Divorce Laws

Dr. Stabby: Communists Have Taken Over Teachers Unions And Are Indoctrinating Students “Under Cover”

This is their way of forcing their god on the public, in a public school, regardless of the parents religion or lack of.  But no other religion gets to do this, just the Christians.  Hugs.  Scottie

Louisiana To Mandate Ten Commandments Classroom Posters In All Schools, Colleges That Get Public Money

And more of the ultra religious Christian set trying to install their religious leaders / icons in the secular public government

Mike Johnson Unveils Billy Graham Statue In US Capitol

And this is why they feel the need to do this.  They are losing more than the culture war and control of society.  They are losing money and possible influence because less and less people believe in their deity, far more ass are in pews putting moeny in collection plates.   

Phone Data Contradicts Church Attendance Surveys

 

Another pair of republican Christian jerks who try to force their religious doctrine on everyone while running on family values and hating on the LGBTQ+.  But they don’t follow the rules they demand you follow.  They were having an affair.  Hugs.  Scottie

GOP Rep To Divorce After Alleged Affair With GOP Rep

 

And this jerk wants to make wearing a mask to protest illegal … and yet the terrorist right wing gang thugs like Proud Boys, Patriot Front, Oath keepers, and other Nazi racist bigoted groups wear them all the time to prevent being fired from their jobs.  I doubt this bill will pass without some kind of exemption for them.  Hugs.  Scottie

NC Senate Approves Bill Criminalizing Wearing Masks

Screw the immuno-compromised, right? And don’t expect this law to be used against the Proud Boys or Patriot Front.

Sen. Buck Newton, not incidentally, first appeared here in 2016 when as state attorney general nominee, he spoke at a hate group rally, declaring, “Go home, tell your friends and family who had to work today what this is all about and how hard we must fight to keep our state straight.”

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I wonder if this would be illegal?
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And who do you think he works for when / if he holds office.   Hint it won’t be for you, the public.  Hugs.  Scottie

Study: Trump’s Offer To Big Oil Could Save Them $110B

This one is new but it shows how republicans simply lie and misinform now.  Reality means nothing to them.  They learned from tRump that voters on their side no longer care about the truth, care about what is real.  They simply make false claims and double down on it when called out.  They don’t even care.  They want their cake and eat it also.  Hugs.  Scottie

Scott Accuses Biden Of Enabling Fentanyl Smuggling After Voting Against Two Anti-Fentanyl Smuggling Bills

Latest Trump Lie: I Never Said That I’d Never Go Back To Minnesota If I Lost To Biden There, Which I Didn’t

Read the full article. In an interview today with a Minnesota station, Trump denied having said he’d never go back. And then he denied that Biden won Minnesota in 2020. Watch the LOL clip.

 

Yes. He was appropriately roped off by police/crime scene tape.

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I posted about this situation the other day.  We have an ideology driven supreme court who wants to make rules based on their religious convictions rather than law.  They have an extreme religious faith and demand the right to make the rest of the country that way.  

NYT: “Stop The Steal” Flag Seen At Justice Alito’s Home

 

Alito Says His Wife Flew “Stop The Steal” Flag Because She Was “Distraught” Over Being Called “The C-Word”

Durbin Calls On Alito To Recuse From Trump Cases

And the originator of the lie “sleepy Joe” for President Biden get cuaght being the really sleepy one.   

Dem Rep Catalogs All The Times Trump Slept In Court

Some more old things I need to clear out.

For those that don’t think this is important, I worked with some Catholic doctors that were so religious high rollers that they condemn and refused to treat those they felt broke god’s laws or their church rules.  Specifically the LGBTQ+.  I have repeated told of an ICU doctor who was assigned a very sick and dying openly gay man in a same sex relationship.  This was just before same sex marriage was legal country wide and before it was legal in Florida.  The patient’s lover / boyfriend had complete power of attorney over all the patient’s medical, financial, and other life decisions, something all of us gay people in same sex relationships did so our partners could make our hospital decisions when we couldn’t.   This doctor refused to listen or include the patient’s gay partner disregarding their relationship.  He went so far as to call the patient’s estranged family members to try to get them to overrule the wishes of the partner.  The patient’s partner got a lawyer and legal told the doctor he had to include the partner and treat him as the next of kin legally.  The doctor walked on the floor, took the chart and signed himself off the case.  Then loudly told all of us he was not the doctor of record for the patient and he wouldn’t treat him, so do not call him or his people for any reason for that patient.  That left us and the hospital scrambling.  The ICU intensives all worked for the same practice started by that doctor, so they had to find some doctor qualified to step in to be the patient’s doctor because the ICU requires a doctor to be qualified on respirators such as a pulmonologist.   Yes they can have other doctors treat them in the ICU but in our ICU’s because of the possibility the patients would have to be intubated in case of a code the ICU and all patients had to be managed by the intensivist / pulmonologist.  He was always a self righteous prick, he and his top doctors always bragging about their connections to the Catholic hierarchy locally and the time they spent at the Vatican.  This holy super Christian was willing to let a man die rather than acknowledge his male partner and same sex relationship.   Hugs.  Scottie

Biden Reverses Trump-Era Rule On LGBTQ Healthcare

Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention center

A CNN investigation has uncovered the horrors of a shadowy detention facility where Palestinian prisoners are blindfolded, handcuffed and forced to wear dirty diapers. Watch Matthew Chance’s full report.