In his now-trademark alternate reality doom/gloom fashion, President Trump swore in racist and homophobic Jeff Sessions as our nation’s 84th Attorney General, referencing a dark version of the U.S., with Sessions as its savior of justice.
And judging by the looks Sessions was giving the President and the audience present at the event, we’re going to go out on a limb and say that if you’d asked him five years ago if he’d ever be the U.S. Attorney General, he’d say no.
As LGBTQ Nation reports:
His record on civil rights prompted Cory Booker (D, NJ) to become the first sitting Senator in history to testify against a fellow Senator in a nomination hearing.
Sessions also has a record of strong opposition to LGBT rights, earning him a “0” rating from HRC. He opposed the Matthew Shepard Act while in the Senate, arguing that he doesn’t believe that LGBT people “face that kind of discrimination.”
And yet, here he is — all sworn in and everything.
How about we take this to the next level?
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“Mr. President, thank you for this great honor. It’s something I never thought would happen in my life,” Sessions said as he took the mic.
Here are eight moments from the ceremony in which we totally believe him on that one. But while he may be a bit frightened about his new post, we’re the ones who are truly terrified:
Mo Bro
The “love trumps hate” movement certainly involves a lot of character assassination over petty shit.
Xzamilloh
“Character assassination over petty shit” is Trump’s life mantra.
BitterOldQueen
when an administration includes nothing but vile characters and petty shit, what can you expect?
Mo Bro
@Xzamilloh:
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not defending Trump’s sometimes-reckless behavior, but you have to admit it’s somewhat ironic when people carrying signs that read “love trumps hate” are simultaneously blocking traffic, setting fires, and blogging about how anyone affiliated with Trump is a hideous ogre. Seems the “love” they have is apparently all self-directed.
James Hart
It’s because, in their hearts, the Left wing is filled with nothing but hate except for their own. They’re HYPOCRITES.
1EqualityUSA
Echidna and Typhon couldn’t compete, after rolling these three men into one.
Captain proton
given his age, he’s probably trying to hold in some gas
GayEGO
Excellent! I am waiting to for his big fart to be heard around the world! :>)
ErikO
he’s a huge, benign distraction.
the media loves it.
meanwhile, we are being poisoned beyond repair by encroaching radiation that is never, ever going away and will only get worse.
starkraver
Hope we all enjoyed same–sex marriage while it lasted. It won’t be long now before it’s overturned. And don’t act surprised when same-sex sex is outlawed throughout the land.
Mo Bro
So now we’re all going to have to get same-sex divorced under Trump?
Liberals certainly enjoy scaring one another, don’t you?
GayEGO
People from the RED states were surprised that Marriage Equality became the law of the land only because they let their religions brainwash them. It is unlikely that Marriage Equality will be overturned because of the huge cost of money it would create, something politicians do not like to lose, even Mike Pence caved when lawsuits and business boycotts threatened Indiana to lose a lot of money so he reversed the anti-LGBT discrimination bill.
I do understand your concern, however, and if there is any change e.g. make Marriage Equality a state decision, it will cost the states that change a lot of money to maintain both the Federal law and their different state law against us with the tax forms and property, family, medical, and many other conflicts.
dwes09
“So now we’re all going to have to get same-sex divorced under Trump?
Liberals certainly enjoy scaring one another, don’t you?”
More indication of your dullness. Just as in California when same sex marriage was temporarily stopped, existing contracts will either be declared null (no divorce necessary, let the godless perverts deal with the mess) or grudgingly tolerated till the folks involved die out.
Only a regressive would consider consideration of the logical scenario to be “scaring oneself”. Let’s not forget that actual neurological research shows it is the regressives that are fear driven, not the progressives.
mhoffman953
@dwes09 You mention that study about “regressives” being fear driven, can you actually cite the source of that study? I Googled it and all I can find is a study done on a UK talk show where they studied only 90 people.
I could cite various studies too, such as this one that says Liberals are more likely to commit crime: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309845639_Political_ideology_predicts_involvement_in_crime
He BGB
Sessions was trumps first and only supporter in the beginning if I remember back then. So now he is being rewarded. Republicans don’t care that he is racist or homophobic. They get to win all the marbles and have their supreme court majority and that is all that matters. So we are going to live like it’s 1955, so what?
DMRX
Good grief, Dan Tracer is a horrible writer. You could go by “looks Sessions was giving the President and the audience” or you could just go by his quote, which you also cite.
Come on, Queerty. Why do you allow this drivel?