Well, well, well. It looks like 2016 is already off to an interesting start.
After his epic implosion almost a year ago, former totally-not-gay Republican congressman Aaron Schock of Illinois pretty much fell off the radar amid allegations that he had misused taxpayer money and campaign donations to fund his lavish, jetsetting lifestyle. He quit tweeting, he blocked new followers on Instagram, and he stopped taking off his shirt for the covers of men’s health magazines.
Related: Aaron Schock Bids Adieu To Congress, Fails Attempt At Humility By Comparing Himself To Lincoln
Until Monday, that is.
This week, the disgraced ex-lawmaker, who is still under federal investigation for his loose spending habits, posted the following tweet about his former offices, which he had famously decorated to resemble the set of Downton Abbey using taxpayer money, being repainted by incoming Rep. Darin LaHood:
More press not doing hmwrk:office painted before election,LaHood hired 2 Schock staff.Sorry facts don’t=story #truth https://t.co/Cf9OaR9L3n
— Aaron Schock (@aaronschock) January 4, 2016
It’s clearly very important to Mr. Schock that people know the #truth about when exactly his former playroom was converted back to a boring old government office. So just so we’re all on the same page here, according to the Chicago-Tribune, the walls were actually returned to their original color (beige) in September, before the special election to replace Schock. We’re so gad that’s settled. Related: Aaron Schock Doesn’t Want Anyone To Know About His Expensive Male “Companion” But the story doesn’t stop there. Because within seconds of posting the tweet, Twitter trolls already started coming for Schock:
@aaronschock Yes, this is absolutely the most important detail surrounding your office redecorating scandal – when it got repainted after. — Josh Fesmire (@JoshtheFez) January 4, 2016
@Goatyeah I want to know what happened to the turquoise belt. Should be in the Smithsonian. @aaronschock @scottkleinberg
— ThirtyBirdy (@ThirtyBirdy) January 4, 2016
@aaronschock Grammar homework: remember to leave spaces after punctuation marks. #truth
— Cesar Paredes (@quietbooklion) January 4, 2016
@aaronschock oh those republican gays just have no sense of humor bitter party of one your table Is ready — paul houck (@paul1190) January 6, 2016
@aaronschock HAY gurl HAY! — Corbin (@CorbinKhan) January 6, 2016
Aaron, honey, if you’re reading, it’s so good to have you back.
John Malin
Aaron WHO????
Philip Epstein
He’s a Mary but not a Crawley
Rogelio Lopez
Miss Mary!
Jason Shirley
TOTAL QUEEN!
Bryguyf69
“Aaron, honey, if you’re reading, it’s so good to have you back.”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae0Hg6VLPc0
David Becker
No shock Miss Schock thinks her limelight is still on.
Bryguyf69
Aaron, honey, if you’re reading, it’s so good to have you back.”
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Or perhaps this… I can see Schock’s home resembling Norma Desmond’s mansion. And these lyrics seem to reflect Schock’s ego, especially a possible return to Congress.
https://youtu.be/f0fJhH-otAc?t=1m12s
AJAnders
I don’t understand how he hasn’t been arrested yet. Isn’t using tax payer money to take lavish trips with your totally (not gay) male companion illegal? What am I missing here?
Sweetie Pie
He´s kinda hawt
Justin L Llanas
tdh1980
He may not be reading, but the Twitter trolls surely are, as in him for filth.
Pete
Schock’s dealing with some pretty heavy religious baggage.
His background is Disciples of Christ, a very austere German sect that first settled in central Illinois in the 1830s and is still pretty much centered in greater Peoria. A friend of mine from that area describes them as Mennonites who embrace certain aspects of contemporary life, but otherwise still try to isolate themselves. They’re a lot like ultra-orthodox Jews in that regard. You’ll never find a Disciple wearing jeans, for example. Always clean-cut and modestly attired.
Bryguyf69
@AJAnders: By quitting Congress, he avoided a Congressional investigation, which buys him a lot of time. It’s unclear whether misusing taxpayer money (which may include paying for his photographer boyfriend’s travels) is a crime if there is no proven fraud. Such cases are normally investigated by an Ethics Committee, and the guilty is censured by his/her peers but law enforcement is almost never involved.
1EqualityUSA
Pete, compelling comment. Fiction writers couldn’t write this stuff.
Pete
@CWM85: The only reason why Queerty or other gay publications — even ones that presume to responsible journalism — care about him at all it that he’s hot. If it was Barney Frank, they’d completely ignore it.
Bryguyf69
@Pete wrote: “Narcissistic Personality Disorder, a ‘primitive’ personality construct, pretty much describes the antics on display in any given gay club”
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But are those “antics” paid for by taxpayer’s money? And are those antics meant for PUBLIC consumption? Think about it.
Pete
@Bryguyf69: All I’m saying is that his narcissism is strong evidence supporting his gayness (puts on flack jacket).
CWM85
I don’t think we care about this guy Queerty give it fucking rest.
Lance Mullholland
This poor baby is misunderstood, that’s all.
He’s now reaching for comparisons with log cabin Lincoln instead of a Blenheim Palace Churchill. Maybe the English gentry fantasies have diminished to a more Americanized level of internal hallucination.
Both men faced periods of rejection and “time in the wilderness”. One slept in the same bed as his friend, the other wandered around stark naked. and spent tons-o-time soaking (and smoking cigars) in his bath tub.
Politics seems to attract the most interesting folks and egos.
In the meantime, the people suffer the consequences. That’s the sad part. We elect them, too…
Pete
Dame Edna recently observed that the popularity of Doughty Abbey may be that’s it’s one show where viewers like Schock are guaranteed to see no People of Color.
markgtx11
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
If you have narcissistic personality disorder, you may come across as conceited, boastful or pretentious. You often monopolize conversations. You may belittle or look down on people you perceive as inferior. You may feel a sense of entitlement — and when you don’t receive special treatment, you may become impatient or angry. You may insist on having “the best” of everything — for instance, the best car, athletic club or medical care.
At the same time, you have trouble handling anything that may be perceived as criticism. You may have secret feelings of insecurity, shame, vulnerability and humiliation. To feel better, you may react with rage or contempt and try to belittle the other person to make yourself appear superior. Or you may feel depressed and moody because you fall short of perfection.
Pete
@markgtx11: Narcissistic Personality Disorder, a ‘primitive’ personality construct, pretty much describes the antics on display in any given gay club
stanhope
@Philip Epstein: he’s no mary…he’s Ms Spratt….yes ms. LOL
Lindoro Almaviva
No, that queen needs to go away, permanently. If we are going to have him back, it is best that it happens in a Colt video, with him and a power top doing a hot scene. Otherwise, he needs to stay GONE
Pete
@Lindoro Almaviva: I was thinking cum-dumpster in SketchySex myself
Juanjo
Poor Aaron, much like a certain other closet case homo who has a horrible record with it comes to gay issues, he got caught and has had to suffer. At least he wasn’t doing the airport bathroom stall two step.
Pete
@Juanjo: I’m sure he has at some point. I have, albeit at the Black Party
Bryguyf69
@Pete wrote: “The only reason why Queerty or other gay publications — even ones that presume to responsible journalism — care about him at all it that he’s hot. If it was Barney Frank, they’d completely ignore it.”
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OH REALLY? THINK this through… If Barney Frank:
1) voted AGAINST enforcing an anti-gay hate crime bill in 2009;
2) voted AGAINST repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell;
3) stated an OPPOSITION to same-sex marriage;
4) criticized Obama and the DOJ for not defending the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act…
…do you SERIOUSLY think the gay press would ignore it? I’m willing to bet that gays would excoriate Frank, even more so than they would a conservative like Ted Cruz. The issue is not Schock’s attractiveness but a sense of hypocrisy. Other attractive Republicans like Adam Kinzinger and Scott Brown don’t get the same wrath.
And this hypocrisy is brought on by Schock’s own narcissistic flamboyant public behavior, much of which he knows is stereotypically gay — except that most gays do it privately. No one forced him to wear showy pink gingham shirt, white jeans and a teal belt. No one forced him to advise Paul Ryan on dressing to accentuate his body. No one forced him to sashay through a gay neighborhood during the GOP convention in Florida. No one forced him to decorate his office a la Downton Abbey. No one forced him flaunt his body on magazines and social media. Finally, NO ONE FORCED HIM TO VOTE ANTI-GAY.
Again, do you SERIOUSLY think that the gay press won’t attack Barney Frank if he votes the way Schock did?
The fact that YOU focused on Schock’s body without acknowledging his anti-gay record and support for an anti-gay party says more about you than the gay press. So stop projecting, THINK about it.
Bryguyf69
@Bryguyf69 wrote:
“The fact that YOU focused on Schock’s body without acknowledging his anti-gay record and support for an anti-gay party says more about you than the gay press. So stop projecting, THINK about it.”
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That said, I do agree with @Pete that articles about Barney Frank probably wouldn’t include as many photos. And yes, I’m as guilty as anyone else in wanting to see Schock’s suggestive photos (even though I’m straight, believe it or not). But gay coverage of that weasel Schock goes way beyond beefcake. Regardless, a few skin photos never hurt readership…. 🙂
Pete
@Bryguyf69: The sad truth is that us gays are only interested (obsessed might be a better word) with a man’s sexual orientation if he’s ‘hot’. Take the case of another Aaron who plays professional football. Do you honestly think that Olivia Munn would put up with being a beard?
domen8r
Pete, she might if she herself were Lesbyterian. That is the time honored tradition in Hollywood, after all.
Sansacro
@Pete: Bro, first of all. “Hot” is relative. Obviously, MOST people–gay, straight, whatever– are interested in people’s sexual orientations when they are attracted to them. “Obsessed”? Highly relative, profoundly dubious. I am NOT obsessed with anyone’s sexual orientation. Curious, if I”m attracted to the person, but otherwise, I could NOT give a sh*t.
Clark
Are you as interested in the Federal Investigation of the hag Hillary – you know, the one about compromising national security and getting Americans killed because of her incompetence? You know, the only presidential candidate under Federal Investigation … That never seems to be mentioned by the press.
Misusing taxpayer funds is an offense, yes. But play fair boys.
Pete
@Clark: I will never understand why gays are so unconditional in their support of that opportunistic Wellesley LUG
https://youtu.be/6I1-r1YgK9I
Lance Mullholland
@Pete: Disciples of Christ – a strict sect ? Hardly.
Nowadays, I think they’re more like Baptists who can read (and wear Geneva robes at their services). At least in Texas. It’s usually called “1st Christian Church – Disciples of Christ” in most towns.
They won the casserole count when my mother died, and showed more support than our own church did as a group. We have no ties to them, and they treated us as if we were active members of their congregation. I will never forget their outpouring of love (and food) at a really devastating time in my life. No strings afterwards, just calls of concern.
Giancarlo85
@Pete: Yet people like you are willing to support Republicans. You gay republicans never cease to amaze me with your bullshit. How about support that groundbreaking speech she made to the UN in 2011? That puts her ahead of the game.
Clark
@Giancarlo85: Wow! You ARE as stupid as I thought. Try something….Google FBI ( that’s FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION for you morons) criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton. I’d do it for you, but you might learn something in the process. Geez if you pulled your head out of your ass once in a while you might actually know something. To think that you actually vote…scary!
Pete
@Lance Mullholland:
Actually I think I was mistaken about the Disciples of Christ, who are a Southern branch of Congregationalists. I think TCU is a Disciples school. They seem like decent folks. I don’t know if they’re hanging Rainbow Flags during June like many Northeastern Congregationalist churches do.
Just checked: Schock’s background is Apostolic Christian. They’re pretty much limited to the Upper Mississippi region. Everything I falsely attributed to the Disciples applies to them. Apparently they don’t even let their kids play ‘sinful’ sports.
Giancarlo85
@Clark: You are an ignoramus. There is no investigation into her. More crackpot wishful thinking because people like you want her out of the picture. You have nothing as expected. What you should be more worried about is the investigation into Sheldon Adelson and the dirty money going into the republican party. Hypocrite.
Pete
@Giancarlo85:
When did I say I was supporting Republicans?
BERNIE!!!!!
Giancarlo85
No. Not under federal investigation. Lying log cabin fools. You are afraid of Hillary because she is crushing your candidates. She has been cleared and committed no wrong doing.
Wait until Adelson gets arrested… Some of your favorite candidates will fall under investigation.
Giancarlo85
@Pete: Bernie has collapsed. Again that is a fake front. You talk like a republican and you act like one too. You support a guy who has no chance in the general election so a republican can get elected. Bravo.
Pete
@Giancarlo85: Paraphrasing Mary McCarthy: “Everything she says is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘but’!”
You see I’m a REAL Democrat, not a Larry Summers DINO like Billary
Giancarlo85
@Pete: What you are is a major bullshit artist. You are no democrat. If it looks like a Republican and sounds like a Republican, it most likely is a… Republican. Hillary is very much a democrat. Deal with it.
Pete
@Giancarlo85: She’s an opportunistic hypocrite and I won’t allow myself to hold-my-nose-and-vote anymore. Paraphrasing now what Bob Dole recently said regarding Ted Cruz, if she’s out candidate I might just sleep in on election day!
Giancarlo85
Bernie is incredibly weak on foreign policy and his ability to confront opponents is even more suspect. He is a weak candidate. Perhaps he should consider going for VP instead.
Giancarlo85
@Pete: You are the real hypocrite and your beliefs are such a big pile of stinking manure. What you are proposing is giving the Republicans the election because of your idiotic hatred of her. I dealt with you in the past. you have no clue what you are talking about. You are incredibly self destructive. Sanders won’t win the nomination.
Pete
@Giancarlo85:
My poor opinion of Hillary isn’t idiotic. It’s extremely well-documented, going back to her dissing Tammy Wynette on 60-Minutes back in ’92, and then ‘standing by’ Bill throughout l’affair Lewinsky. And then blaming his bad behavior on his late mother!?!?! The quick Chappaqua address (nothing but the best!) and the Carpetbag move to New York? The $300,000 speaking fees (lukewarm water with lemon, please!) She’s just a shameless opportunist.
You seem to be one of those people with whom it is impossible to have a conversation of substance. You through ‘stinking manure’ (like Luther did at the Devil) at anyone with the temerity to hold a contrary view.
LP - Hired Stud
I still wouldn’t mind seeing him without his shirt. Of course, I wouldn’t mind seeing him with his legs in the air, in a sling at a Circuit Party Orgy either.
Giancarlo85
@Pete: You are so up your own rear. You just repeat what you heard on Fox News. You are nothing more than a Republican wolf in sheep’s clothing.
You are shameless and disgusting. I am glad the vast majority of democrats will vote for her. But you want to hand the republicans the election because of your illogical and unsupported hatred. You are a big ignoramus. Come out please… Come out as a republican paid operative.
Pete
@Giancarlo85: You’re just one of those pathetic trolls who log onto these threads to hurl insults. You seem incapable of saying anything of substance. You know nothing about me. You’d have spewn precisely the same vitriol back in 2008, when I volunteered for Obama (another crypto-Republican)
Pete
@LP – Hired Stud: Now that’s quite a visual! Like the guy I saw getting fisted on Sunday morning at the Black Party as I was working the coffee and donuts area.
It wouldn’t surprise me if he had a little dungeon behind the Doughty Abbey office. I’ll bet he can bloom quite a rosebud!
Giancarlo85
@Pete: You never volunteered for Obama. Quit your lying. By the way, it is way too late for Sanders. He doesn’t have half the charisma Obama did. And his grasp of foreign policy is embarrassing. He doesn’t even know about certain issues. Oh and he still can explain that certain vote he made on deregulation.
You are an embarrassment willing to hand republicans a win because you are too fucking selfish.
Giancarlo85
@Giancarlo85: *cannot explain that vote.
Bernie would be a decent VP candidate. That is it. Maybe he should consider a run with Hillary? Of course, Hillary is winning the nomination for President.
CWM85
@Pete: “Hotness” is in the eyes of the beholder and in my opinion he is not hot. He is an asshole who should be in jail! I don’t care about his sexuality or closet he’s in. But I know what you’re saying some superficial guys and girls will find this little off… I think he’s despicable.
Evji108
@John Malin: Saying “Who?” after people’s names doesn’t show their obscurity, only your own ignorance. Why do we keep seeing this silly trick in almost every posting?
Pete
@Clark: DON’T FEED THE TROLL!
Let’s get back to a fan-fiction discussion of this hot, tortured closet-case who we all want to breed!
Giancarlo85
@Clark: You have never your brain, peanut. Hillary is in the clear. The only sites that would bring up is stupid right wing crap like Moonoe Times. Your favorite rag. Learn something? If you would learn anything you stupid moron, you would realize how your party is tied to organized crime. Google Donald Trump and Paul Castellano… Or Trump and Scarfo. Trump was nearly indicted for racketeering in 1981. Friends in high places hindered the investigation. You shouldn’t vote at all… Self hating ignorant clown.
Giancarlo85
Hillary didn’t break any rule or law. Try again. You right wing idiots have never used your peanut sized brains. Look up Sheldon Adelson and Chinese triads. Then look up who Adelson supports. Hillary did nothing wrong, yet a stupid voter like you votes for the party heavily linked to racketeering in Macau and a candidate who had extensive ties to the Italian mafia. So spare me the ignorance. Hillary didn’t put anyone’s life at risk either… But your party did by cutting state department security funding, a-hole.
Giancarlo85
@Pete: You’re the troll.
And it’s great your gushing over a mediocre looking straight guy. Bravo.
I love it when people like you fail so miserably at everything you do.
seaguy
@Clark: Someone’s been watching too much Fox News Channel cause you’re just spreading the same tired pathetic lies that the GOP and their friends at Fox tell.
seaguy
@Pete: So her views have evolved and changed for the better on gay marriage. She is certainly not the only politician to have done that. Meanwhile many of the GOP candidates still are against gay marriage and would seek to overturn the Supreme court decision legalizing gay marriage if they are elected. I guess you see that as being better than Hillary? If so then you’re in the same alternate reality as Trump!
Masc Pride
@Lindoro Almaviva: I’d rather see him go versatile…in his Downton Abbey office, of course. I’m pretty sure he’d be better suited for one of the gay-for-pay studios though. I bet all the bitter queens that complain about Schock would still love to see him in action. He’s very easy on the eyes.
Pete
@seaguy: But if, on the off-chance, the wind shift again against marriage equality, so too will she. She’s all ambition and no conviction.
The Republicans are simply pandering to their contemporary (aging) redneck base to win this election. The real PTB in the party, the Kochs and Adelsons (who apparently can’t stand each other — old man Koch was a founding member of the antisemitic John Birch Society) could give a rat’s ass about gay marriage and reproductive choice (which they probably tacitly support given that the procedure is disproportionately performed on women of color). Their agenda is the traditional Republican one of low taxes, pro-business/anti-regulation, anti-labor (which is also the Billary-Summers crypto-agenda). Given the overwhelming support for marriage equality among younger voters, they’ll sell out the Duck Dynasty set in a heartbeat.
Unlike Hillary, Aaron is a model of consistency, a bitch-slave who wants to go to jail, who cums just thinking about all those low-hung brothers in the shower “don’t rape me! Please don’t rape me!”
Pete
@Masc Pride: nah he’s not vers in the least. I see him in one of those kink.com scenes, getting interrogated by ‘Officer Maguire’. With a night-stick! Connor could even use the notorious line “It’s Rudy’s time!”
Masc Pride
@Pete: He does kind of look like a flaming power bottom at times:
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s–U0vIRgna–/vtugwc2xjq8clhmsqi9x.jpg
Looks like he raided Todd Chrisley’s closet. lol
Pete
@Masc Pride: I love that picture. My thought is ‘if Liberace prepped at Groton’
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Jerry12
@AJAnders: Exactly what did he do that is not in keeping with MOST other poloticians ?