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Following Caitlyn Jenner’s announcement that she plans to challenge Gavin Newsom for the Calfornia Governor’s office, Emmy-winning actor and talent dynamo Billy Porter shared his thoughts on the matter. In short, he’s not a fan of Ms. Jenner.
Posting to Instagram, Porter shared a gif of himself at the Grammy’s wearing a now-infamous mechanical hat. The headwear featured motorized fringe that acted as a curtain around Porter’s face, which he could draw or part at will.
Related: Is Caitlin Jenner eyeing a run for California Governor?
“Caitlyn Jenner: ‘I’m running for Governor,'” the heading reads. The footage of Porter’s hat is meant to be California’s response to her announcement.
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“The shade of it all,” Porter captioned the video, which was created by user @SaintHoax.
We admit: we share his sentiment.
Following Jenner’s announcement on April 23 that she would seek the Governor’s office in a potential recall of Newsom, reaction from the queer community–including by transgender activists–has been overwhelmingly negative.
Girl … no. https://t.co/CqiN8496hc
— Jen Richards (@SmartAssJen) April 23, 2021
“Girl, no,” actress/activist Jen Richards tweeted in response.
Caitlyn Jenner doesn't seem to be doing this for any reason other than ego and money.
I see zero policy positions or platform.
Governing is a thing. It's about service and experience. It takes more than being rich, having a social media account, and a reality TV gig. https://t.co/G6JIqY5eOD— David Badash (@davidbadash) April 23, 2021
“Caitlyn Jenner doesn’t seem to be doing this for any reason other than ego and money,” said queer journalist David Badash. “I see zero policy positions or platform. Governing is a thing. It’s about service and experience. It takes more than being rich, having a social media account, and a reality TV gig.”
It remains unclear if the California recall election will move forward this fall. If it does, and if Jenner qualifies for the ballot, she will likely face a series of probing questions about her own political views. In the past, she advocated Donald Trump as an LGBTQ rights advocate despite his administration having a number of anti-queer rights stances, including policies harshly discriminatory against transgender people. Jenner will also likely face questions about her role in a car accident in 2015 which killed one woman, Kim Howe, and injured five others.
Mr. Stadnick
She goose stepped right behind the racist trump backing his regime of hate and racism. Therefore she to is a hate filled racist. Why would anyone vote for a totally unqualified racist, sexist homophobic attention seeking sad woman?
Mack
The one “agenda” that I heard from both Caitlyn and Randy Quaid was “reigning in” the District Attorneys throughout the state. Unfortunately neither are smart enough to know that the District Attorneys are elected officials and do not answer to the Governor of the state. Even Randy Quaid has a warrant out for his arrest and if he step foot in the State, he can be arrested.
Doug
Why do so many Republicans in the entertainment industry (which hardly even describes Jenner) think they can govern a state or a country with absolutely no previous political experience? This is the same kind of narcissistic thinking that brought us Trump.
Ronbo
Because Ronald Reagan and tRump did such umm…’memorable’ jobs. Republicans love actors, Democrats reject them… even when they are amazing.
ryanss
Caitlyn is a trumpist who didn’t care a bit about all the horrors in his administration. She’s just another toxic celebrity as all her family is. What does she have to add to the public debate?
zealot
My guess is that Caitlin has an ulterior motive that most likely involves use of campaign money for what must be a voracious appetite to live above one’s means. (Side eye), and little of nothing to do with actually running California.
jcool
i smell a reality show. girl must need a check
Kangol2
Narcissistic Caitlyn probably thinks she is qualified for this because she saw Reagan get elected at the state (California) and national level and then Schwarzenegger was elected after the ouster of a competent Democrat, and when Arnie left office, he was at 23% approval, one percent higher than Caitlin Jenner, he was plagued by ethical and personal scandals, California was experiencing both a deficit and exodus of people, and the state was in bad shape. But reality hasn’t stopped Republicans in recent years.
Don’t forget, each of the last three Democratic US presidents (Clinton, Obama and now Biden) have taken office having to clean up the gross domestic and international messes of their predecessors. Yet the GOP, especially the right and far right in that party, is shameless. They screw up, create complete havoc, and then expect Democrats (or more moderate Republicans, the few that are left) to clean up the disasters they create. Caitlyn Jenner is totally in this mold, only she is less competent and qualified than either Reagan (far, far less) or Schwarzenegger (who did sign some good environmental legislation), and that’s saying something.
randeman
You nailed it, honey. Tell it on the mountain!
cuteguy
She may win, God help us all. After all, there are a lot of stupid ppl in this country. Look at the current state of the GQP and MAGA. Following a con man just bc he was on a reality show
ProudBLK Gay
We Californians are admittedly very far-ranging in our political and cultural beliefs.
That is only a small part of the beauty of living in this great state.
If Ms. Caitlyn Jenner thinks she can casually waltz into the Governor’s Manson with virtually NO experience, and run a state that is the 5th largest economy in the world, all I can say is “Good luck with that fantasy! It ain’t gonna happen!
winemaker
I still can’t stop laughing at this quagmire. caitlyn jenner is about as qualified as a doorknob to run the state That being said we need a seriously qualified candidate to run against and oust gavvy ‘giveaway the store for free and just about everything else’ newsom. His solution, jack up the taxes to pay for his failures. He’s done little nothing for the middle class here in California, His handling of the pandemic has been a dismal failure and disgrace. He hasn’t addressed or done anything but fart around and give lip service about the problems we face: unaffordable housing and cost of living, exploding homelessness and crime along with income inequality forcing many to say ‘screw this BS’, I’m leaving and thousands already have pulled up stakes and left. And the reality is, who can blame them. Take a look at San Francisco, Los Angeles and just about any other major city in California and see and smell the demise: homeless camps everywhere, streets reeking like toilets with piss, feces, garbage and used needles, unaffordable housing and crime going through the roof. And the disaster keeps going on and on like the Energizer Bunny. This all is the result of newsom’s failure to improve California for it’s residents.
Max
homeless folks and their camps are difficult to rid of due to a court case won on in another state that said, in essence, if there’s nowhere for them to go, you cannot make them leave. homeless advocates make sure their clients aren’t harassed over where they decide to squat.
it’s not the fault of CA governor or that state’s police. it seems like it would be, but they’re following the ruling in order to avoid legal issues.
Heywood Jablowme
@winemaker: Do tell us, what perfect place are you moving to? Idaho?
Cam
Right wing trolls keep desperately trying to lie about California because they have to. States that enacted Republican economic policies like Kansas and Oklahoma literally went broke and had to rescind them.
Meanwhile, under Republicans California ran massive deficits, but since Democrats completely took over it’s been running multi-billion dollar surpluses, is now doing better than any other state, and contributes money to the federal government that Red states mooch off of to live on.
Oh, and sweetie, the people leaving California uniformly say the same thing. Housing is expensive. See, that’s what happens when people want to live there, prices go up. The same reason prices are cheap in broke red states. People don’t want to live there.
Paulie P
Two very uninteresting people. Look at me Jenner and I am in the room notice me, Porter.
Jenner thinks the people will vote for her but her own sons are like, nope.
Porter, though the gif above is witty, is like Jenner as in really, enough.
Jim
Porter and Jenner are legends in their own minds!
jcool
billy porter has won an emmy, a grammy, and a tony award. only an oscar away from egot status, which is pretty legendary.
ScottOnEarth
Billy Porter is a legend in a lot of people’s minds. He’s very talented, very courageous and very fabulous…and I love him.
Cam
Caitlin lived the majority of her life bathing in not just normal privilege based on her race and how she presented her gender, but also the privilege of being wealthy and famous.
There is literally no way she could have arranged to have been more out of touch with reality. She’ll parrot all of the republican bigotry, then when they don’t vote for her, she’ll act shocked and do some interview where she’ll say “Gee, MAYBE Republicans are not as good on LGBTQ issues as I thought”. And then a week later, she’ll have forgotten and be back to parroting Republican hate.
Mister Dawson
I met the troll back when he was an aide for an insurance company that sponsor him so he could compete in the Olympic’s. This was a time when Russia sponsored all their athletes and the U S Olympic committee had corporation likewise sponsored U S athletes that they felt could win Gold Metals.
He came to our house to collect the monthly insurance premium. He was a jerk and a rude kid back then. Offering opinions that weren’t appropriate that had nothing to do with insurance. To this day he is on my list of the rudest jerks I have ever met. What a troll. No morals or manners.
I don’t think he is capable of any decency especially to our community. Seriously a horrible horrible person. Unfortunately, like Trump he appears incapable of seeing it. Maybe one day he will just go away.
The one thing I would love for him to explain is how he made amends to the person’s family who died in the car accident. Also is he saying that schools should have remained open when we weren’t sure how Covic was being spear therefore putting children and families at risk? Did he have a plan or was he just like Trump?
Terrycloth
Caitlyn was a guest on the ellen show years back and stated she believed marriage should be between a man and a women..ellen tried to get her to see how that remark hurts lgbtq and transgendered people as well..Caitlyn stood her ground..she hasn’t been invited back siince
Sister Bertha Bedderthanyu
Wait a minute. Let me get this strait. Already a millionaire many times over before the planned coming out party was announced and even after a tv reality show deal, a clothing line (that no doubt went no where thanks to that ugly sagging butt in that swimsuit but I have no proof of that) and not even staying here in America to have the surgery done (she went to Thailand is what I heard where she no doubt got it done cheaper but couldn’t lower herself enough to stop off and say hello to any of the local trans girls of Thailand) she now uses the gay media to clandestinely beg for money to support a cause not even she knows what it is or stands for? Ok, ok. Its me and Billy Porter, not ya’ll. Please, by all means, give till it hurts and don’t think for a minute those Jimmy Choo’s can’t be pawned and used for money for her campaign.