It’s been a banner week for discussion about bathroom regulation by Republicans. From high profile presidential campaigns to talk radio shows to small town city council meetings, it seems conservatives just can’t get their minds out of the toilet. Literally.
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Ted Cruz officially makes pooping and peeing part of his presidential campaign platform
In a series of campaign speeches across Indiana this week, the most hated man in the GOP suggested he will take the fight over public restrooms all the way to the White House, should he be elected.
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“It doesn’t make any sense at all to let grown adult men–strangers–to be alone in bathrooms with little girls,” Cruz said at a campaign stop Monday. “And anyone saying differently is political correctness on steroids.”
He followed that up Tuesday by claiming, “If the law says that any man, if he chooses, can enter a women’s restroom, a little girls’ restroom, and stay there, and he cannot be removed because he simply says at that moment he feels like a woman, you’re opening the door for predators.”
He kicked his assholery up another notch later in the week with a transphobic and misogynistic joke with pedophilic implications:
“Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton both agree that grown men should be allowed to use the little girls’ restroom,” he remarked. “If Donald Trump dresses as Hillary Clinton, he still can’t use the little girls’ restroom. And I apologize for putting that image in your mind.”
Pastor Rick Wiles threatens to pee all over the floor at Target
Pastor Rick Wiles, host of the rightwing radio show TruNews, went on a rant this week about Target’s new bathroom policy, which allows people to use the restroom of their preferred gender, by accusing the bargain department store of “defecating” all over the United States of America and then threatening to pee all over the floor in an act of protest.
“How about I just urinate on your floor?!” Wiles cried. “How about that, Molly?! Because you’re defecating on this nation! It’s either shut down Target or their type is going to shut down this nation!”
Riiiiight. Because whipping out one’s penis and pissing in front of innocent shoppers in the home goods aisle is so much less creepy and offensive than a person doing their business in the privacy of a closed stall.
Alabama town passes law charging trans people $500 for answering nature’s call in public
In the ongoing contest to be as cruel as possible to trans people, one Alabama town passed a law this week imposing a six-month jail sentence and/or a $500 fine for anyone caught peeing in a bathroom that town officials don’t approve of.
City council members in the town of Oxford, AL (pop. 21,232) crafted (we use that word loosely given the number of spelling and grammar errors) a new ordinance the reads:
Citizens have a right to quite [sic] solicitude [sic] and to be secure from embarrassment and unwanted intrusion into their privacy… single sex public facilities are places of increased venerability [sic] and present the potential for crimes against individuals utilizing those facilities which may include, but [are] not limited to, voyeurism, exhibitionism, molestation, and assault and battery.
The bill passed unanimously.
Gov. Pat McCrory tells Megyn Kelly he doesn’t want to be seen as the “bathroom police”
In an interview with FOX News, Gov. Pat McCrory told Megyn Kelly on Thursday that he has “no desire” to be thought of as the bathroom police… then proceeded to talk about policing bathrooms for five straight minutes.
“I do not want government to be able to tell private businesses what their bathroom policies should be,” McCrory claimed, before adding in the same breath that there is “an expectation of privacy that individuals have” in regards to going to the bathroom. Therefore, the government should pass laws regulating public restrooms.
Confused? So was Kelly. She replied by explaining that, unlike men’s restrooms that are equipped with urinals, women’s restrooms only have stalls. “We don’t see each other,” she said. “So why are you concerned about young girls exposing themselves or seeing somebody else exposed in a woman’s bathroom?”
To which McCrory awkwardly responded, “I can’t believe we’re even talking about this.”
We can’t either.
Mack
MoveOn.org has a petition in support of Target transgender policy. Click on it and sign the petition.http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/support-target-in-its?source=s.fb&r_by=6222189
rbernard
I just signed the MoveOn Target petition.
The news media is now reporting this afternoon after an investigation, the AFA boycott numbers are not credible and significantly inflated.
My question is, “Why do the Republicans hate America so much?”
joeyty
I think it’s Queerty that can’t stop bringing up potty articles.
adrussell
This smarmy S.O.B. using the hateful scare tactic that grown men would be allowed to use a “little girl’s” restroom is beneath contempt, beneath the office he currently holds and certainly beneath the office he seeks. First, I’ve never seen a “little girl’s” restroom. And the one they use is generally accompanied by a parent of either sex. So to you, “Lying Ted,” take “Lying Carly” with you and do us all a favor and find a nice quiet cabin somewhere in the bowels of Texas and sit the rest of your life outside of modern civilization.
Bob LaBlah
I wouldn’t be shocked to learn Cruz is into scat.
midknightryder13
Rafael Cruz is being willfully ignorant. It doesn’t matter what you identify as, if you hang around, as he keeps intimating, in a public bathroom, past a reasonable time, you CAN be removed. The charge? LOITERING. Last time I checked that was still illegal.
leobaga
That is why Trump must win. He will be the most gay-friendly Republican nominee for president ever.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/23/us/politics/donald-trump-gay-rights.html?referer=
Daniel-Reader
Everyone should just wet themselves completely, covering the floor, whenever they are near politicians who pass these laws and just exclaim “I didn’t want him reaching into my pants to touch my junk before I went to the bathroom, so I just went before he could fondle me!”
Mack
@leobaga: That’s why he wants to appoint Judges to overturn Obergefell v Hodges. Guess that would be okay with you. Lets just go back to 50’s and make all the Republicans happy.
He BGB
All the naysayers always say that what if a man at the moment feels like a woman….that right there tells you 1) they are ignorant and 2) they are using this politically to scare people (and people are falling for it) when we know that doesn’t happen. That would really be a HETEROSEXUAL MAN going in the girl’s room. Trans women and gay men are not going to molest women in a bathroom.
GayEGO
@Bob LaBlah: @Bob LaBlah: Ah yes! A scatologist! :>)
DCguy
Look, it wasn’t about drinking fountains in the 1950’s and it’s not about bathrooms now.
Bigots will always desperately cling to whatever desperate distracting they think will give them the excuse to be bigots.
Meanwhile the former GOP Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert admits to raping boys and is now in jail. Funny, I don’t see Ted Cruz talking about keeping adults and kids in separate bathrooms. Or passing laws keeping kids safe from elected officials.
Cruz is no different than the bigots in the 1950’s trying to keep blacks out of neighborhoods and claiming it was because they shouldn’t be swimming in the same pool as whites.
Scribe38
@leobaga: That’s the lowest bar ever! I’m not interested in electing an orange to take away my right of marriage.
@joeyty: Sure you are okay with the GOP attacking the LGBT community. I would expect nothing different from a Log cabin nut.
GaybyGod
One cannot help to dwell on something, when one consumes and is full of it.