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VIRAL VIDEO: Moms For Liberty Leader Has Screaming Meltdown Over Group Of Drag Queens In Hawaii Hotel

VIRAL VIDEO: Moms For Liberty Leader Has Screaming Meltdown Over Group Of Drag Queens In Hawaii Hotel

Talk of self entitled importance.Β  By my dogs that love gravy you have to watch the videos.Β  This woman is so over the top that if she was doing this to any other group it would have been thought an SNL skit.Β  If she had been acting like this to black people, Hindus, or Muslims, no one would have accepted it.Β  Sh was screaming in peoples faces and demanding their names.Β  Β She is a total stranger acting as if she has some type of authority over other paying guests.Β  If she had done that to me she sure wouldn’t have liked my reaction. Scottie wouldn’t have been so nice as the drag queens.Β  The drag queens were guests of the hotel filming there and they got treated horribly by this woman.Β  Yet she claims to be the victim.Β  She went after them, she got in their faces not once but several times filming them, insulting them, accusing them of wanting to chop her son’s penis off.Β  The hotel staff did try to stop her but acted like they were afraid of her or to get too forceful with her and she just went around them or ignored them.Β  Β Then she continued her lecture and screed to the police when they were escorting her off the hotel grounds.Β  She continued her triad and even accused one of the police officers of being a trans woman, she called the woman a man.Β  She was an attention seeker and did not care who she hurt to get her fix of attention.Β  Β And her X posts are full of lies and myths about trans people, including something she claimed at the hotel.Β  She said that after sexual reassignment and I think she meant transitioning also, that suicides go way up.Β  Β In fact studies have proven they decrease greatly after transitioning or having gender affirming medical care.Β  But again facts mean nothing to these haters.Β  Hugs.Β  Scottie

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June 25, 2024Β Hate Groups,Β Viral Video

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TheΒ Sacramento BeeΒ reports:

UC Davis published a statement Tuesday about β€œoffensive comments” made by employee Beth Bourne while she was on a family vacation in Hawaii.

Bourne, the local chapter president for parents rights group Moms for Liberty, posted a video of herself confronting a group of drag queens who were filming a video at the hotel Bourne was staying in, the Alohilani Resort in Waikiki, on Sunday.

β€œWe reject all manifestations of discrimination, including those based on gender and gender expression,” the university’s statement said. The video shows Bourne verbally accosting the people dressed in drag, including drag queen Marina Del Rey.

NewsweekΒ reports:

In the video, Bourne took aim at the drag queens as she accused the hotel of failing to provide a safe environment for her son.

β€œI’m sorry, but this isβ€”I paid to be a customer at a hotel where I thought you believed that women were real. That because you put on makeup, because you’re wearing high heels, because you have a Barbie outfit on, that you don’t think this is degrading? This is misogyny,” Bourne said addressing the drag queens.

She added, addressing a hotel representative: β€œIf you give me back my money right now, I will leave the hotel, but I’m not going to have my children come down from the 30th floor and see what’s happening here.” According to Bourne’s X bio, she claims without evidence that β€œ1/22 kids is trans” at UC Davis, adding that her views are β€œmine, not my employer.”

Yahoo NewsΒ reports:

β€œThis type of behavior is unacceptable,” Hawaii Democratic Governor Josh Green said in a statement Monday. β€œIt is not aloha and we will not tolerate it from anyone.”

As the videos continued to garner views, social media users began tagging UC Davis, Bourne’s employer, demanding she be fired. Bourne works at the university’s Institute for Transportation Studies.

β€œI’m used to my colleagues thinking I’m a terrible person,” Bourne toldΒ The BeeΒ in an April story about Bourne andΒ her estranged trans child. The university said that Bourne’s comments β€œare protected by the First Amendment,” but that the school condemns them nonetheless.

Videos of the incident together have nearly ten million views at this writing. I encourage you to watch both of activist Tizzy Ent’s clips in full.

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JoeMyGodΒ Mod15 hours ago

You have to hear the clips to get the full shrieking effect.

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BensNewLoginΒ 15 hours ago

“β€œI’m used to my colleagues thinking I’m a terrible person,” Bourne told The Bee in an April story about Bourne and her estranged trans child.”

says it all, doesn’t it?

I am easily twice her age, and no one in my entire life has ever called me a terrible person. But she is used to it.

TK-FlaΒ Β BensNewLogin15 hours ago

Just belonging to Moms for Liberty says a lot.

Stoned and loving itΒ Β TK-Fla14 hours ago

the high school mean girls clique for adults. what do you call a female with Peter Pan syndrome?

ArchipelagosΒ Β BensNewLogin5 hours ago

I think I’ll call it the JK syndrome: If people call you out on awful behaviour towards others, don’t reflect, double-down and make it your entire personality.

Bert_BauerΒ 15 hours ago

Unhinged. Imagine being so entitled that you expect a hotel to coddle your hate and police to arrest people for existing in as hotel lobby.

StarGmomΒ 15 hours ago

She conflates drag with being transgender. She is one confused, frightened, sad individual. I pity her children.

J.Martindale15 hours ago

I am so tired of bigots.

Fire CrownΒ Β JoeMyGod15 hours ago

She was engaged in full-on, me me me, selfish Karening.

The world is full of people who are different from each other. It really says something about this women that she basically threw a tantrum because some drag queens were busy just existing in the same space.

April in OKΒ 15 hours agoΒ edited

Would her employer fire her if she flung the N-Word at POC or would they fall back to “free speech” excuses?

Anyway, it seems LGBTQ folks are fair game to harass plus you get to keep your job.

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San Antonio U.S. Rep. Chip Roy says he wants to ‘ethnic cleanse’ white progressives

https://www.sacurrent.com/news/san-antonio-us-rep-chip-roy-says-he-wants-to-ethnic-cleanse-white-progressives-34866152

In a tweet defending Donald Trump’s plan to deport 20 million migrants, Roy said he wants to deport “white progressive Democrats – with a special bonus for rich ones with an Ivy League degree.”

ByΒ on Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 4:54 pm

Congressman Chip Roy speaks during a House Judiciary Committee field hearing. - Shutterstock / lev radin

Shutterstock / lev radin
Congressman Chip Roy speaks during a House Judiciary Committee field hearing.
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U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, a Republican whose district includes a swath of North San Antonio, called for the “cleansing” of progressives in a rant posted Friday on social media platform X.

The GOP congressman, who’s made inflammatory comments part of his political brand, fired off the tweet in a defense of Trump’s plans to deport some 20 million migrants if elected president. Some on social media have said Trump’s plan amounts to ethnic cleansing.

“Tell you what – I do want to ‘ethnic cleanse’ by deporting white progressive Democrats – with a special bonus for rich ones with an Ivy League degree,” Roy tweeted. “I really do not like ‘those people.'”

For what it’s worth, Roy earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and a law degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Not exactly Ivy League, but pretty prestigious schools just the same.

Roy’s comment came in response to a tweet by Will Stancil, an attorney and research fellow at the Institute of Metropolitan Opportunity in Minneapolis. In his tweet, Stancil railed against Trump’s deportation plan.

“Deporting 20 million people is absoluletly ethnic cleansing,” Stancil wrote. “That’s litteraly the population of New York State, or half the Midwest. It’s 6% of the whole population! Someone from every classroom, workplace, or street. It’s small children, working mothers, whole families.”

Although academics have debated the meaning ethnic cleansing, it generally refers to the forced removal of a specific ethnic group or minority. Perhaps surprisingly, it isn’t recognized as an independent crime under international law,Β according to the United Nations.

Ethnic cleaning isn’t the same as genocide, which refers to the extermination of a specific ethnic group and is aΒ violation of international law.

Either way, a call for “ethnic cleansing” by a sitting U.S. Congressman β€” even if made in jest β€” ignited angry responses on X.

“Disgusting racist! Shame on you!” user @DavidSmuts tweeted in response to Roy.

“Being this bitter all the time isn’t healthy, Congressman,” chimed in user @isaiahmartin.

Even so, some agreed with Roy’s remark.

“We’re with you brother,” user @ chrischownyk commented. “It’s time to take back our constitutional republic.”

It’s not the first time Roy β€” a firebrand who once served as U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s chief of staff β€” has made outrageous statements on social media or in front of a microphone.

Last month, during anΒ outburst on the House Floor, Roy warned that the Biden White House’s migration policies will lead to “Sharia Law” soon being “forced upon the American people.” And during Passover in 2020, RoyΒ compared COVID stay-at-home orders to “Nazi Germany”Β during anΒ appearance on a conservative talk show.

Roy’s up for reelection in November.

Top Project 2025 architect talks conservative blueprint for Trump second term

This is incredible the video.Β  I got it from Ten Bears who often posts grand stuff.Β  I wish I could add the link here but I will lose all I am typing so I will have to add it later.Β  Β But really does anyone who comes to my blog not know Ten Bears and his site?Β  Β Any way what I want to highlight is the admission the Heritage guy makes at about 4:58 where he openly admits the reason they want to destroy the civil servant part of the government and put all government employees under the whim of the president … presumably the republican president is because … 95% of the civil servants donate to political parties and 80% of them donate to democrats.Β  The guy panics when he realizes what he said on a not right wing show and tries to cover it up, but the truth is they want to destroy the civil working system that keeps the government running for the public is because the majority donate to democrats.Β  Β How openly dictatorship the republicans have become.Β  Hugs.Β  Scottie

Β  Ten Bears link below.Β  Β 

Out of the Horse’s Mouth …

Special counsel probed Trump Mar-a-Lago trip that aides ‘kept quiet’ weeks before FBI search: Sources

https://abcnews.go.com/US/special-counsel-probed-trump-mar-lago-trip-aides/story?id=111334156

One witness was told Trump was “checking on the boxes,” sources said.

ByKatherine Faulders
June 24, 2024, 5:15 AM
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A trip to Mar-a-Lago taken by former President Donald Trump that aides allegedly “kept quiet” just weeks before FBI agents searched the property for classified materials in his possession raised suspicions among special counsel Jack Smith’s team as a potential additional effort to obstruct the government’sΒ classified documents investigation, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.

The previously unreported visit, which allegedly took place July 10-12 in the summer of 2022, was raised in several interviews with witnesses, sources familiar with the matter said, as investigators sought to determine whether it was part of Trump’s broader alleged effort to withhold the documents afterΒ receiving a subpoenaΒ demanding their return.

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MORE: Special counsel questioned witnesses about 2 rooms FBI didn’t search inside Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence: Sources

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At least one witness who worked closely with the former president recalled being told at the time of the trip that Trump was there “checking on the boxes,” according to sources familiar with what the witness told investigators.

TrumpΒ pleaded not guiltyΒ last year to 40 criminal counts related to his handling of classified materials after leaving the White House, after prosecutors said he repeatedly refused to return hundreds of documents containing classified information and took steps to thwart the government’s efforts to get them back. His longtime aide, Walt Nauta, and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira pleaded not guilty to related charges.

Trump has denied all charges and denounced the probe as a political witch hunt.

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Gathering evidence

Several witnesses who spoke to investigators described the trip as highly unusual, given that Trump typically spends the summer months at his Bedminster club in New Jersey, and because Trump’s living quarters at his Mar-a-Lago property were under construction at the time of the visit, sources said.

Other witnesses who were questioned by Smith’s team said they were led to believe that Trump returned to check on the status of the renovations, said sources.

PHOTO: In this June 9, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump is shown at the White House in Washington, D.C.
In this June 9, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump is shown at the White House in Washington, D.C.
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Just weeks before the trip, as ABC News hasΒ previously reported, Trump allegedly had the lock on a closet in his residence changed while his attorney was in Mar-a-Lago’s basement searching for classified documents in a storage room that he was told contained all such documents. The FBI failed to check the locked closet in Trump’s residence when theyΒ searched the estateΒ in August 2022, which some investigators later came to believe should have been done.

The trip came as investigators were gathering evidence that Trump continued to possess classified documents, and followed a separate subpoena in late June 2022 seekingΒ surveillance footageΒ from Mar-a-Lago that showed aides to Trump moving boxes between a storage room in the resort and his residence.

The trip also followed a similar instance of unplanned travel to Mar-a-Lago by Nauta, where, according to aΒ superseding indictment, he is alleged to have conspired with Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira to attempt to delete security camera footage.

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Contacted by ABC News, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung, without providing evidence, accused prosecutors of lying and illegally leaking material.

“The entire documents case was a political sham from the very beginning and it should be thrown out entirely,” Cheung said in comments to ABC News.

A spokesperson for the special counsel’s office declined to comment to ABC News.

‘Keeping this one quiet’

At the time of Trump’s trip in July 2022, some staff expressed confusion as to where Trump would even stay on the property, sources said, given the renovations that his living quarters were undergoing.

“They were keeping this one quiet … nobody knew about this trip,” one witness with direct knowledge of the trip told investigators, according to sources familiar with the witness’ statements.

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Trump left New Jersey on July 9, 2022, for a campaign rally in Anchorage, Alaska, and was scheduled to return to New Jersey following that event, according to aircraft manifests described by sources to ABC News. But the plans changed in the days immediately leading up to the trip and he decided to fly to Florida instead, updated aircraft manifests of the trip show.

According to sources, investigators involved in the case identified what they believe to be a series of unusual steps taken by Trump and members of his inner circle to ensure the trip stayed under the radar.

Nauta, who traveled with Trump on the trip, sent a number of text messages to close staff members indicating that the Florida visit was to be kept quiet, according to sources familiar with the contents of the messages.

“I’m pretty sure [Trump] wants minimal people around on Monday,” Nauta texted one longtime Trump employee just one day before Trump arrived in Florida, according to a message sources detailed to ABC News.

And on July 8, when one Trump Organization employee reached out to Nauta wanting to confirm rumors of a Trump visit so proper preparations could be made, Nauta made clear he wanted the trip to remain “discreet,” sources familiar with the communications said. The sources said Nauta sent a text message to the employee that included emojis with zippers over the mouth, which is often used to convey a secret.

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MORE: Trump’s attorneys seek to invalidate appointment of special prosecutor Jack Smith

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Nauta also wrote a message to De Oliveira on July 7 that said “Coming down to FL soon” with shushing emojis to indicate the visit be kept quiet, according to another text message described by sources.

De Oliveira initially told investigators that he had no knowledge of Trump’s trip to Florida — but the special counsel has evidence that supports the allegation De Oliveira was well aware of Trump’s travel plans, corroborated in part by security camera footage that shows Trump and De Oliveira together, according to sources familiar with De Oliveira’s meetings with investigators.

De Oliveira later told investigators he recalled seeing the former president very briefly during that trip, sources said.

Smith’s interest in the trip adds to the list of instances in which investigators appeared to suspect Trump was seeking to obstruct their probe.

Last month, a court filing from Smith’s teamΒ revealed additional stepsΒ prosecutors believed Trump and his associates had taken to obstruct their probe, alleging that after Trump was informed by his attorney of a government subpoena for video footage from Mar-a-Lago, Trump instructed aides to return several boxes they had previously removed from the storage room in the club’s basement — without being caught on camera.

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BIDEN vs TRUMP?? VOTE!!! | Christopher Titus | Armageddon Update

β€œDeath To LGBTQs” House Candidate: β€œSatanic Forces Are Taking Over Schools With Drag Queen Story Hours”

“Death To LGBTQs” House Candidate: “Satanic Forces Are Taking Over Schools With Drag Queen Story Hours”

This is another example of Christian love.Β  Seriously this is what the LGBTQ+ face in the attempt to turn the US into a Christian theocracy.Β  How is he different from the Taliban?Β  How does he differ from the Iranian moral vice police?Β  Is this really the world you want to live under?Β  Where your friends, maybe your child is being singled out for death because they were born gay and don’t fit the leader’s idea of what is good for god?Β  My god this is what passes for statesmanship, for leadership, for civil discourse in the republican party.Β  Β Think how far we have fallen to even think this rhetoric is acceptable in public.Β  I don’t like what you are doing so I think it is OK to kill you.Β  One last thought, why is a pride flag or rainbow sticker on the door or wall of a classroom indoctrination but the Christian religious symbols / ten commandments are not?Β  Β WTF.Β  Hugs.Β  Scottie

June 24, 2024Β Republicans,Β Trump cultists

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β€œOur nation is at a crossroads. Our enemies are operating in plain sight. Evil is on the march and they’re not even trying to hide it. Satanic forces are taking over our schools, preying on our children with transgender surgeries and Drag Queen Story Hours.

β€œSouth Carolina is being invaded by terrorists and drug cartels. Our enemies in China are waging economic warfare against every American, making it impossible to afford to live here, to buy groceries, gas, or even pay the light bill.

β€œAnd traitor Joe Biden’s far-left Department of Defense is working to destroy our military from within.

β€œD.C. is taking our tax dollars and using it to fund the takeover. Let me say that again: American taxpayers are paying for the destruction of their own nation.

β€œLook at Iran and Afghanistan. We must hold responsible those elected officials who take our hard-earned dollars to use them to do battle against us.

β€œIt is treason, plain and simple.” – South Carolina pastor Mark Burns, in a final ad before tomorrow’s GOP primary runoff, the winner of which will surely become a US House member.

In 2022, Burns, who has been endorsed by Trump, laid out his plan for executing LGBTQs for β€œgrooming” during an appearance on the show hosted by Holocaust denier Stew Peters.

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WereΒ Where is the outrage One Million Moms with this sexualising at Walmart???

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GeoffΒ 15 hours ago

β€œD.C. is taking our tax dollars and using it to fund the takeover. ….”

Sure Jan.

South Carolina receives $4.51 back from the government for every $1 residents pay in federal tax, according to data from the Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Census Bureau,Β USAspending.govΒ and Bureau of Labor Statistics

https://www.fitsnews.com/20…

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Ron DeSantis Signs Bill Restricting Ethics Complaints

Ron DeSantis Signs Bill Restricting Ethics Complaints

June 23, 2024Β Politics,Β Republicans

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TheΒ Tallahassee DemocratΒ reports:

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Friday signed into law a measure prohibiting ethics investigations from being launched until they are prompted by a complaint from someone with personal knowledge of the alleged wrongdoing. The measure (SB 7014) was widely opposed by government watchdog organizations who warned it will undermine state ethics laws at both the state and local levels.

β€œLet’s be clear: This has never been about minimizing frivolous complaints; this is about making complaints almost impossible,” said Amy Keith, executive director of Common Cause Florida, after DeSantis’s action. β€œGovernor DeSantis says he believes that Floridians deserve protection from corruption, but his actions today speak otherwise,” she added. Those who backed the measure said complaints have been β€œweaponized” against candidates.

Florida PoliticsΒ reports:

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Born in the Senate Ethics Committee, the legislation purportedly seeks to limit time frames for investigating ethics complaints. It also requires public complaints be based entirely on a filer’s personal knowledge of wrongdoing, which sponsors said was to discourage β€œfrivolous” complaints.

But critics say the bill will gut ethics enforcement completely, eliminating the ability to file anonymous complaints or tips that lead to investigations and uncover legitimate wrongdoing.

Jose Arrojo, Executive Director of the Miami-Dade Ethics Commission, voiced concerns that the new law could limit means of even bringing ethics concerns to the attention of officials. β€œNo more anonymous whistleblowers. No more employees referring information to us,” Arrojo said.

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mikeinftlΒ a day ago

So much for operating in the “sunshine”

David L. CasterΒ Β mikeinftl18 hours ago

DeSantis Has been systematically undermining Florida sunshine laws during his entire tenure as governor. Of course he’s going to sign such a lawβ€”he, along with his Reputation legislature, is unethical.

S_E_Pa day ago

Corruption is a major trait of fascism

David L. CasterΒ Β S_E_P18 hours ago

And secrecy. Out of sight = out of mind for everyone else.

worstculteverΒ a day agoΒ edited

Just more cult-controlled states already implementing project 2025, per orders

S1AMERa day ago

In other words, his ethics are no ethics

K-CroΒ Β S1AMER20 hours ago

“If I do it (my party does it), it’s ethical, & don’t you dare question it”
Definitely “small government,” of “we the people” & not at all the controlling “deep state” they always blame on the other side…/s… “How dare you ask for my (a public servant) travel & meeting records…”

HalouΒ 20 hours ago

“Personal knowledge of the alleged wrongdoing” is a fancy name for giving themselves a license to commit ‘white collar crimes’, such as bribery, embezzlement, money laundering, wage theft, etc.

The sort of thing where the only person who knows of the offense itself is the person(s) committing it, but everyone else can certainly bear witness to the after effects of it.

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Let’s talk about Louisiana, commandments, and tenets….

Miami Herald: DeSantis To Restore Trump’s Right To Vote While β€œSlow-Walking” FL Law For Other Felons

Miami Herald: DeSantis To Restore Trump’s Right To Vote While “Slow-Walking” FL Law For Other Felons

June 15, 2024Β Republicans,Β Trump cultists

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From theΒ Miami HeraldΒ editorial board:

The national political soap opera continues as former President Donald Trump prepares for his July 11 sentencing in the hush money criminal case. As expected, Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to play the top supporting role by vowing to restore Trump’s voting rights as a felon so he can cast a ballot in Florida’s November elections. DeSantis plans to get the Florida Clemency Board to restore Trump’s right to vote in the Sunshine State, irrespective of any court rulings in other states.

In 2018, Florida voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment to restore voting rights for felons (not those convicted of violent crimes or sex offenses), but since DeSantis took office, he has been slow-walking any progress. DeSantis should apply the same rules he plans to use to help felonious Trump to all the people who qualify under the constitutional amendment that voters approved six long years ago. That would be equal justice.

Read theΒ full editorial.

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Joe in NMΒ 16 hours ago

To quote someone (I’ve forgotten who exactly): when you’re famous, they let you do it.

Joe in NMΒ 16 hours ago

So, only felons that vote Republican can get their voting rights?

OK, sounds like a good plan.

Dark Qiviut16 hours ago

DeSaster openly operating the GQP playbook.

African-Americans and the poor convicted of a felony? They’re forced to β€œwait their turn,” per usual.

TFG, OTOH? No need to wait. Voting tights restored immediately!

Our so-called β€œjustice” system is institutionally racist and classist.

Dark QiviutΒ Β Bland15 hours agoΒ edited

No, it’s not. DeSaster is giving Trump special treatment so he can vote.

No way will he do the same for Black, poor, or LGBTQ+ people.

Max-1 πŸ”«+cult(R)=☠️16 hours ago

TWO TIERED JUSTICE

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Buttigieg Defends Pride Flags: They Symbolize Love, Flag Flown By The Alitos Is β€œInsurrectionist Symbology”

What people don’t understand about these fundamentalist Christians is they don’t accept the rights and feelings of anyone else.Β  They are the maximum in selfishness.Β  They cry rivers about their feelings not being respected, such as Jordon Peterson claiming it hurt him to use a person’s preferred pronoun, but he couldn’t give a shit about the pain of the misgendered person he just insulted.Β  Β The Alito’s are the same, their feelings are very important and must be respected.Β  But not yours, not anyone who disagrees with them, those people are to be disregarded entirely.Β  Hugs.Β  ScottieΒ Β 

Buttigieg Defends Pride Flags: They Symbolize Love, Flag Flown By The Alitos Is “Insurrectionist Symbology”

June 12, 2024Β Democrats,Β LGBT News

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β€œI’m often reminded that the most important thing in my life – which is my marriage, and my family and the two beautiful children that my husband Chasten and I are raising – that that marriage only exists by the grace of the single vote on the United States Supreme Court. That expanded our rights and freedoms back in 2015 and made it possible for somebody like me to get married.

β€œAnd, you know, Supreme Court justices have an unbelievable amount of power and – by the nature in the structure, the Supreme Court – there’s no supervision over that power. They are entrusted with it literally for as long as they live. And part of that trust is we expect them to enter into those enormously consequential decisions that that shape our everyday lives with a sense of fairness.

β€œI also hope that most Americans can understand the difference between a flag that symbolizes you know, love and acceptance and signals to people who have sometimes feared for their safety that they’re going to be okay – and insurrectionists symbology, I’ll just leave it at that.” – Transportation Sec. Pete Buttigieg, on Martha-Ann Alito’s condemnation of β€œshameful” Pride flags.

The cult is raging.

Woke AFΒ 3 days ago

Our Pride flag hangs outside of our house 365 days per year and one day a non-binary teenager who was having a crisis knocked on our door and asked for safety. We hung out with them and chatted and kept them warm and comfortable until they felt ok to go back home.

THAT is what the Pride flag means. Love, safety, and a shoulder to cry on if you need it.

Christians can go fuck themselves.

April in OKΒ Β Woke AF3 days agoΒ edited

Wish I could do that but I’m staying in the rural, fire engine red part of the state. Unfortunately I need to keep my head down. πŸ™

rednekokieΒ Β Woke AF3 days ago

I wish I could do that. However in this neck of the Oklahoma outback, I would be taking my life and putting into their hands — and, at 88, I don’t feel that reckless. My pride flag sits in the drawer beside the door, where it has been for many years – just waiting for the time when it is safe. I know there will be criticism on this site for this, but down here, it is what it is. I am proud — just not stupid.

2patricius2Β Β rednekokie3 days ago

Sometimes one must be wary and act prudently. No need to jump over a fence into a lion’s den, or swim in a pool of piranhas.

ECarpenterΒ Β rednekokie3 days agoΒ edited

Those of us who’ve lived through decades of anti-gay violence understand completely.

When you’re in danger of attack from religious assholes for putting up a pride flag – keep safe, and see what other, less public, things you can do to help local LGBT people.

Anyone who criticizes you for this is young and living in a bubble in some big city, and can’t believe the awful things that have been done to many of us over the decades. I hope they’re never beaten up or burned out of their home for being gay. I wish that would end for everyone, but it hasn’t stopped yet in many parts of the country.Β