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And it all goes back to how they were raised, and how they internalized the messages from their family and their churches about homosexuality. I don't know this guy, but I know people like him. In some ways I can see a little of myself in him. One of two things have happened here from what I know of this guy. #1 - He was a rebellious teenager and was being extra gay because he was trying to get a rise out of his parents, but then he matured a little bit, realized how much him being gay was hurting his parents feelings, or their perceived reputation around town, and he decided that for his family he would pretend not to be gay anymore. This would give him better access to the love of his family that he craves. In order to prove that he's truly not gay anymore, he must, I repeat must, be extra straight. In Deer Park that means he needs to drive a truck and wear a cowboy hat and be a good republican and go to church. And in Deer Park if you are going to church it means that you are probably getting to hear about how terrible homos are on the regular. So he just gets inundated over and over with this message about how broken he is, which causes him to act out even more to prove how he's straight and therefore not broken, and it's a cycle that just never ends. In this scenario he's likely fucking his wife just often enough not to arouse suspicion, but his browser history is full of gay porn. #2 - He was happy being gay but his family threatened to cut him off from their will, and so he's overcompensating to prove just how straight he is now so that he can stay in the will. In this scenario he will drop all of this as soon as the money from the estate is deposited in his account. In this one he's finding excuses to leave the state and he's fucking every piece of strange he can whenever he's not home. Also, his browser history is full of gay porn. I could be wrong, but I suspect that he's sitting in one of those two scenarios. Had I made a couple of choices a little differently, I could absolutely have been #1 myself. I'm so fucking glad I picked correctly, because It seems like a really really miserable existence.

Yep. They will not stop until women are barefoot and pregnant, making sandwiches for men after a blowie. And gays are in jail/dead where they belong. And the darkies are back on their side of town with their own schools that are separate and "equal" and where if that side of town gets too nice, they can go burn it down with no repercussions. That's the world they want us all to live in. Don't be surprised when they start shutting down whole sections of HEB on Sundays due to the new blue laws. If HEB is even open.

Can I ask what the security risk is?e

Every time I see this guy it just makes me sad.

Something is seriously wrong when the two major candidates for governor of Texas have already raised ~$50 million. There should not be that much value in that job.

100% agreed. I love that it's happening, but I'm pissed that it has to happen.

That's pretty fucking stark.

Hopefully a 5 year sentence for something would be as good as = to life in prison.

Because Republicans have figured out that the less information you have, the easier you are to control.

First time I remember the race of a justice being explicitly called out before the nomination happened was Clarence Thomas. Senior Bush needed a black man to replace the black man that died. And of course, before Marshall, they didn't have to call out the race or sex of the person they were going to nominate because it was just understood it would be a white man who would be nominated. What you are complaining about is not some new grievance. What's new and different is that for the first time you are seeing evidence of this thing that has been happening all along, you just aren't in the favored group in this instance. If you step back and try to look at issues from other people's shoes, which I know you are capable of, I think some of your grievances will go away, because the grievance isn't "Some new terrible thing is happening," it's actually more like "Oh, the group I'm a part of isn't the preferred in group every single time anymore, and that's a little scary." It shouldn't be scary that we're just trying to get closer to the meritocracy that was supposedly set up at our founding.

Many at the time were hopeful that Cohen going down for things he was doing on Trump's behalf would lead to Trump also getting into trouble over those things. Cohen was found guilty and served his jail sentence without Trump ever entering a court room. That's what he was talking about.

Scrolling through highlights on CNN. Why is that fuck Jason Miller wearing a mask? We already know he doesn't have a chin. We already know that MAGA thinks that masks are buillshit. Does he think wearing a mask in some way makes it harder for us to tell he's lying since we can't see his lips moving?

Damn, I could only watch for the first 30 minutes and missed Sydney Powell. Did her audio make it clear that she is completely disconnected from reality?

Been saying this for awhile. If they made Trump into the Tiger King and showed off his ridiculousness and delusions, everyone in the country would be watching. It wouldn't even be a big stretch to do it that way.

Maybe it's been a long week, or maybe I'm just dumb. Can you translate that to layman's terms, @Anastasis?

That was actually a really good interview. For example: I'm not in the habit of giving money to Republicans, but the way he lays out his own responsibility in the place we are as a body politic makes me interested in how he figured it out and got out of it.

Treat me like I’m 5 and tell me what WNB means. Sometimes you people make me feel incredibly sheltered.

Is he spitting it down the barrel rather than swallowing after sucking a liberal dick? What is he trying to say?

Yep. My mom is with the Republicans on all the topics that she gets in her inbox from FWD FWD FWD, which is a mixture of fearporn and bullshit, but otherwise she is on the side of the Dems. Yet, she has voted reliably Republican her whole life except for the time that she couldn't vote for Clayton Williams and voted for Richards instead. It doesn't matter though, because those FWD FWD FWD's and Rush Limbaugh conditioned her to believe that the Dems are child molesting devil worshippers, and she didn't have the critical thinking skills to see past the bullshit. And when I try to talk to her about it, she'd rather die than have the conversation. She doesn't want to have her mind changed. She believes what she believes and she doesn't want anyone coming in and making her believe any differently.

When you consider that the goal isn't to win the argument, but just to delay it so consequences can be avoided, I don't know why we are talking about the fact he's going to lose. Yeah, of course he is, so what?

@fattyflattie FYI, I'm going to use the word gay here because it's easier to type, but when I say gay I'm talking about the whole spectrum, Lesbians, Gays, Transgenders, etc. As requested: 1. Florida Legislature votes on a bill that would make it so that teachers can't talk about their spouses (if their spouse is of the same sex) to their students, nor have pictures of those spouses on their desk, nor can they be a safe space for their gay students, nor can they try to create a space in their classroom that is safe for gay students, nor can they talk about being gay. The Florida Leg and DeSantis claimed this was scare tactics and that it was just about formal instruction not being allowed to talk about gay people to elementary school children. But now it has passed, and school districts are trying to adhere to the law and these are exactly what the school districts are saying are no longer ok. And DeSantis' spokesperson called all people against this bill "groomers," claiming that all of us who rightly called this out for the bigoted nastiness it is as people who are trying to turn kids gay so we can molest them. https://www.eqfl.org/statement-equality-florida-condemns-anti-lgbtq-remarks-desantis-spokesperson 2. Here's Boebert calling "the left" groomers because a pre-school in North Carolina used rainbox colored flash cards 3. Boebert again, talking about the Equality Act, which would make it illegal to fire people because of their sexuality says, So not only is she against gays having equal rights, but won't even acknowledge that concept of transgenderism. 4. Marjorie Taylor Greene - I'm gonna be honest, too many options to pick from. Here's a syllabus from GLAAD: https://www.glaad.org/gap/marjorie-taylor-greene 5. Back to DeSantis — Vetoed all funding for LGBTQ programs from the $101 billion state budget, including $150,000 for mental health programming to support survivors of the Pulse Massacre and $750,000 to house homeless LGBTQ children, as well as funds for Orlando's LGBTQ Community Center. The veto came during LGBTQ Pride Month and just days before the fifth anniversary of the 2016 mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub, one of the worst in United States history which targeted Central Florida’s LGBTQ and LatinX Communities, claiming the lives of 49 people. 6. Sen. Tommie Tuberville - Lamented Chick-fil-A’s decision to stop giving money to anti-LGBTQ charities: “Isn’t it horrible when liberal activists ruin something good?” 7. VP Mike Pence - supports conversion therapy, believing that since we chose to be gay, we can be shocked/counseled out of being gay, I guess. Even Trump realized that Mike hates the gays. He told reporters that Pence wants to hang us all. 8. More Pence - Stated that LGBTQ-inclusive hate crime legislation would “silence” groups that promote so-called conversion therapy: “Finally, pro-homosexual activist groups such as the Human Rights Campaign have stated their belief that an ad campaign by pro-family groups showing that many former homosexual people had found happiness in a heterosexual lifestyle, contributed to the tragic 1998 murder of homosexual college student Matthew Shepard. There is no evidence that his killers even knew about the ads, and Shepard’s killers told ABC’s 20/20 that they were motivated by money and drugs. However, the danger here is that people use a hate crimes bill to silence the freedom of religious leaders to speak out against homosexuality.” 9. Lt. Gov Ken Paxton, Texas - An Austin school dared to talk about the fact gay people exist during pride month. This aggression will not stand, man! 10. Ken Paxton again - Also is looking for a test case so he can get sodomy laws enforced in Texas again, now that the Roe overturn decision has gotten rid of a right to privacy. 11. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas - In his opinion concurring with the majority, claimed that overturning Roe calls into question marriage equality and sodomy bans, signaling that he'd be in favor of overturning both of those if given the chance 12. Texas Governor Greg Abbott - Issued a recommendation to the Texas state Board of Social Work Examiners that they remove protections for sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability. Following that recommendation, and without an opportunity for public comment, the board voted to adopt the recommendation and consequently Texas social workers can now turn away LGBTQ clients and those with a disability. “There is always a real possibility that trans Texans specifically could be turned away or dissuaded from accessing the medical resources they need. At a time when many in our community require services to make it through an isolating pandemic, attempting to grant providers a license to discriminate is abhorrent,” said Emmett Schelling, Executive Director of the Transgender Education Network of Texas. I could add a lot more, but I'm going to stop here. There is a never ending stream of people in power not only saying things but acting on those things who are actively out to make the lives of LGBTQIA+ people worse than it is today. This is known. I'm taking you at your word that you just hadn't noticed it before. I'll fall on the sword here and say that I do not spend nearly as much time here advocating for gay rights as I used to, but I'm happy to start that up again. But if you are going to continue to support these people, I want you to understand the absolute cruelty against people who are different that you are supporting. Condemning those things in a message board means nothing if you continue to vote for them.

I'm not trying to get you to vote alongside me. I'm trying to figure out if there is a line across which you won't cross. I know there was a line for me. I used to vote Republican too. I know a whole lot of people here are in the same boat. I'm wondering where your line is. Is it a preponderance of distastefulness that hasn't been met yet, or are you just ride or die? If there is a line somewhere, I'll talk to you as much as you want to listen. I'll answer any questions you have. Always. If it's the latter, I'm not going to waste my time talking to you at all any further.

I'm still getting through back to back meetings. I'm not talking about whether you'll condemn it. I'm wondering if seeing evidence of the wrongness of the positions your team takes, will it make you rethink your allegiance to that team. If it won't, I'm not going to bother. I don't frankly care what you condemn here if you are going to keep voting for more of the same actions that draw your condemnation.

I'm saving this one to come back to when I have some time to actually pull the evidence. But would quotes from current congresspeople and lieutenant governors and governors be enough? If I go do the work to show this to you, will it make you rethink your stance even a little bit?