The House GOP yesterday succeeded in passing an amendment to cut Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s salary to $1. The amendment to the 2024 Transpiration and Housing and Urban Development spending bill was introduced by Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
In an impassioned speech, Greene blasted Buttigieg’s performance as Transportation Secretary.
“Pothole Pete staged fake bike rides to the White House and used private planes funded by taxpayers to receive awards for the way certain people have sex.”
🚨 BREAKING: I’m proud to announce my amendment to FIRE Pete Buttigieg just PASSED the House.
Pothole Pete staged fake bike rides to the White House and used private planes funded by taxpayers to receive awards for the way certain people have sex.
Greene claims Buttigieg took a taxpayer-funded plane journey to an LGBTQ Awards show.
In February, the Transportation Department watchdog announced it would audit Buttigieg’s use of FAA private jets. It’s believed he used 18 such flights since taking over as Transportation Secretary. The DoT said the flights cost taxpayers around $42,000.
By comparison, it was previously revealed former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao took seven flights on FAA-owned planes in 2017. This included a trip to and around Europe for her and five staffers costing $68,892 alone.
Buttigieg welcomed the planned audit, saying at the time, “Glad this will be reviewed independently so misleading narratives can be put to rest. Bottom line: I mostly fly on commercial flights, in economy class. And when I do use our agency’s aircraft, it’s usually a situation where doing so saves taxpayer money.”
“He doesn’t deserve a single penny”
Greene wrote yesterday on X (formerly Twitter), “Pete Buttigieg doesn’t do his job. It’s all about fake photo ops and taxpayer-funded private jet trip to accept LGBTQ awards for him. I’m happy my amendment passed, but he doesn’t deserve a single penny.”
Although the amendment passed on a voice vote, the overall bill needs to be approved by the full House. It’s unlikely to be approved by the Democrat-controlled Senate.
During his time as Transportation Secretary, Buttigieg has faced consistent criticism from right-wing figures. Given that the Transportation Secretary is not usually a high-profile role in any administration, it’s hard to escape the thought that Buttigieg’s sexuality might be an underlying factor in some of the attention he receives.
Buttigieg has not responded to Greene’s amendment. It was revealed earlier he’s gone on a visit to Ukraine to discuss infrastructure in the war-torn country.
However, Pete’s husband, Chasten, did appear to respond. Last night he re-shared a tweet mocking Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Last month, Greene posted a tweet stating, “The Earth spins at roughly 1,000 miles per hour. We have no idea we are even moving. Don’t ever let anyone tell you God’s not real.”
The tweet was reshared by an account called Run For Something. It represents an organization that supports young Democrats running for office. It used Greene’s tweet to suggest that… well, even educationally-challenged people can gain elected roles, saying, “Don’t let anyone tell you you’re not qualified to run for office ❤️”
Chasten reshared the Run For Something tweet to his own account.
MTG’s recent antics are causing her to lose friends in Congress, according to multiple Republicans.
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So, with everything that’s going on the GOP is passing stupid, petty bills that have no chance of approval in the Senate or White House to appeal to their terrible base. This, and worse, are what we can look forward to if Trump wins.
It is the pettiness of it that is infuriating. This is what she thinks is important?
Your point that this is exactly what Donny will also do, is 100% correct. He will focus 100% of his time on vengeance, finding enemies where they don’t even exist. It will be scorched earth.
Focusing on how we beat him is imperative. This means not giving him issues to run on by championing every fringe left brain fart.
You, Lumpy, along with a few others here, are a one dimensional person….
”A one-dimensional mind is one that is so deeply stuck in a single topic, that it simply can’t think outside of the dimensions of that one thing. A mind that is so focused on that single thing, that everything that is unrelated to that thing is seen as a pointless distraction.”
Me? One-dimensional? I am far more nuanced than you could ever even imagine to be. You are the poster boy for a knee-jerk liberal. Sadly, I know you are 100% confident you are correct and are helping. You aren’t.
I know I’m not always correct, which is why I actually read the articles and read comments. You just flame throw, as if you believe it makes a positive difference. It doesn’t. It just makes people hate fringe lefties even more.
I think the reality would be that it would make Worse look good. All these people know how to do is throw grenades. They never do anything that is substantive. They won’t because it isn’t red enough meat to throw out to The Faithful.
She’s a political whore. She will say and do anything that is appealing to her racist and homophobic followers — even if she doesn’t believe it to be true because it will put $ in her wallet. Yes, I said wallet, not purse because you know damn well she has one of those wallets with a chain attached like all the classy bikers have.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said she pulled her resolution to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) on Tuesday night after the House advanced a separate resolution to censure Tlaib.
The House eventually approved the other measure censuring Tlaib in a 234-188 vote; 22 Democrats voted to censure their colleague, and four Republicans voted against it.
Greene told reporters she pulled her resolution because she did not want to compete with another resolution.
“I’m not a part of leadership. I’m not the Speaker, I’m not the majority leader, I’m not the whip and I’m not going to be part of a competing censure resolution because leadership failed to organize it,” Greene said. “So, for me, I decided to pull it.”
“She’s getting censured. That’s what I set out to do, and so that’s what’s happening,” Greene continued. “But I think the bigger problem is, we need leadership to be organized and not force Republicans to compete with each other.”
And you rape 12yo children without fully developed minds and a host of comorbidity mental illness (read: autism) under the guise of politically correct gender ideology. So sit the fu-k down. A confused 12yo cannot orgasm for a lifetime because you want to be politically correct. You are exactly the SAME, idiot.
Tell that to Prisha Mosley and the other 10 de-transitioners suing Kaiser who were underage with misdiagnoses right now. Such compassionate liberalism. Get ’em young and grab ’em by the pu$$y, CK!
No one is happy with abortion, but it is sometimes the best alternative. No one is happy with children living in poverty either. You’d have more credibility if republicans were focused on children’s welfare, which they are not when it comes to policies. You’d still be wrong on abortion, but we wouldn’t assess you as being hypocritical.
I can never tell the dif between MTG’s delusions and the half-naked nutjob ranting behind a dumpster outside the local strip club at 4am. They sound the same.
Buttigieg’s sexuality is the reason Empty Greene is attacking him. Leave Pete Alone!
She was much better suited to her role in the last Congress where she sat on no committees. And shame on the wayward majority in her District that reelected her; a disgrace to the State of Georgia.
I hope every time something like this happens to him, he questions his decision to drop out of the 2020 race and become a gay token for an 80-something, straight white establishment President.
I was hoping he would correct that in 2024, since I wasted an early primary vote on him in 2020 and believe he would make an awesome President. But I really don’t care about his cabinet position, and it’s obvious he’s not out there fighting to save the nation from competing, abysmal futures.
Those unwashed majority Blacks of Memphis, Abcrabs? God, you should put on a raccoon cap and just storm the Capitol already, you deranged racist little fuc-.
Oh! And I thought sexual orientation was a choice. Isn’t that what your ideology tells us now? Everything exists on a spectrum. Get your talking points straight today, ZZ.
Detrans, please keep Black people’s names out of your mouth. You’ve shown more than once that you support an outright racist homophobe/transphobe like Pumped Arches DeFascist so really, don’t even fake like you give a damn about Black people, in Memphis or anywhere else!
Uh-huh. I have receipts. Here we have an article from Queerty’s sister site, LGBTQ Nation from just this month: “Why is it that LGBTQ+ people believe sexuality and gender identity are fluid yet also say a gay person cannot “turn” straight? Well, first of all, some LGBTQ+ people, even some who identify as gay, are in fact fluid and do sometimes engage in relationships with people of the opposite sex.”
And what do you know? That article was cranked out by a trans woman who succumbs to an ideological worldview that says everything exists on a spectrum, which is antithetical to the gay gene propaganda your very community has spewed forth since the 1990s. A new sea change! For most logical people, it gives them whiplash. On the surface, it reads just as much as a choice as religion.
Memphis is majority Black and Abcrabs calls them unwashed repeatedly in multiple posts. By all means, we know your faux liberal racial posturing is just that. Something you use like a cudgel to drum up votes. When push comes to shove, white libs are just as racist as the slack-jawed yokels they disdain. Abcrabs proves it. Now, you can say something to Abcrabs. But it’s easier to come after me. We see you.
@ZZ, Detrans thought they were critiquing gender theory, which they confused with biology and sexology or something.
At any rate, all of the anti-trans hysteria fell flat all over the US. Neither Virginia nor Kentucky is a liberal state. VA GQP Gov. Glenn Youngkin poured tons of money into trying to defeat a trans Democratic candidate for the VA State Senate, and she still won! A PAC spent $2 million trying to demonize Glenn Beshear for vetoing a horrible anti-trans slate of legislation earlier this year, and as we all witnessed last night, he won soundly, defeating an anti-trans Don the Con endorsee.
Not seeing these “receipts” you’re talking about. Maybe you need to take a break from the internet b/c you’re trolling and political ideology are failing hard right now.
I brought this up earlier. If the anti-trans campaign really failed, SURELY the Kentuckians would have routed out Republicans across the board. Funny that. They only held up the governor by a rather slim margin. The fact is we still have a supreme court and house speaker that sides with the poor health care outcomes detransitioners face like me. Kangol likes to repeat memes. Have you secured post-election exit polling, Kangol? No, you haven’t. Most of the evidence says it’s a result of abortion. Until you can present ACTUAL EVIDENCE, we can see the vapidity of your argument for what it really is. Try again, honeybunny.
The receipts are a gender ideology that says everything exists on a spectrum. Hey genius, that confuses the flyover country rubes you so badly want to win over. Until (let’s see) five mintues ago, y’all were saying ‘born this way this, and born this way that.” THAT IS WHY THE PUSHBACK IS OCCURING, geniuses. THAT IS WHY HALF THE STATES ARE PUSHING BACK ON THIS TRANS NONSENSE. The LGBTQ is chasing its illogical tail like a dog right now. Most regular people find it hysterical.
Still no receipts? Got it and the Gov of Kentucky won by a 5 point margin. LOL That’s not “slim” for what is considered a deeply red state.
Dems took over the Virginia legislature.
Dems expanded their NJ legislature majorities.
I presented a receipt. An LGBT Nation article on sexual fluidity and changing definitions in this community. It’s the sister site of this very blog you are reading. THE VERY BLOG YOU ARE READING. Here is that denial mirror. Self-reflection is a wonderful thing.
Y’all didn’t answer my question. If Kentuckians were truly upset about the evil anti-trans bullies, why the fu– didn’t they vote Republicans out of office in every other race down the ballot? Just that one. They could have easily taken cae of that question once and for all. They didn’t. And y’all can’t answer that question. It’s easier to deflect.
Here’s the truth. Kentucky’s governorship has ping ponged back and forth between Democrat and Republican since the 2000s. You want to pretend it’s a new thing. It’s not. Same with Virginia. Most of the polling data we have so far talks moreso about abortion and not trans rights. That exists in your heads until some actual evidence is presented. Y’all again deflect and don’t present the evidence. It’s noted in the comment section.
@decrans
Full disclosure:
I was raised in Memphis and lived there 40 years of my life, but I live in an adjacent suburb now. The suburbs are majority white.
Full disclosure: I moved back from Gavin Newsom’s hell state California to Tennessee recently. I realize the makeup of suburbs. Abcrabs said Memphis…majority Black. He doesn’t ask for nuance. Why? He’s not especially bright as evidenced by his rambling about peaches and song lyrics.
@ZzBomb
Religion is a choice? Yeah, when you reach an age where you can question what you were taught by your family and your school and church. I didn’t partially drop my religion until I came out, and I didn’t fully drop it until some number of years after that.
The LGBTQ community expects the same conformity as Baptists do. It’s obvious every day in the comments here.
And openly disparaging historically Black cities with racial tropes…why should a thinking person believe anything he says about how his neoliberal party wants to help the downtrodden minorities? It’s on par with the GQP raccoon hat. Abcrabs needs to find a raccoon carcass, put it on his head, and storm the Capitol already. His racial tropes carry the stench of a Don’t Tread on Me flag. And I will say it.
Pretty much. It’s the same social engineering with children. It exists with conservative Christians and LGBTQ+ families. And if a child isn’t really trans and has underlying mental health issues, what is the framework for fully addressing that? That’s the $50,000 that none of these imbeciles can answer. Kids are sometimes a mold of their parents’ ideological makeup.
@dbmcvey
Repeating lies until people believe them. Maybe even until you believe them yourself. Sure you aren’t a Trumper? You’ve definitely adopted his tactics.
It’s not a lie. You and the other right wing trolls here are all propping up people who want to take away our lives. The current House Speaker has said homosexuality should be illegal.
Yup. I’m one of the thousands of working-class and middle-class residents rapidly exiting your state. Those two demographics your party allegedly cares about. Go lick the egg off Daddy Gavin’s face.
I mean, decrans isn’t even gay (so no one knows why he keeps showing up) and is just a homophobe, but you, Fred, claim to be gay and you’re working against your own rights. That’s just stupid.
I’m here to educate liberals like yourself. You know, for the increasing number of misdiagnoses with autistic teens and the rising lawsuits, how do you propose that WPATH updates measuring self-reporting gender identity cases especially those with a comorbidity of mental illnesses? That’s the question y’all can’t answer. I’m here to shower you all with cold water daily. Hey, Dickvaey. What’s good, bi*ch?
@dbmcvey
Liar.
I made some comments about his religion, which I am quite familiar with, having been raised Southern Baptist and educated Southern Baptist, and even having attended a Southern Baptist seminary briefly, decades ago.
I do not support him, nor his beliefs, and I never even heard of him until a week or so ago.
I do not treat evangelicals as my enemies, though. I have evangelical relatives and evangelical friends and evangelical neighbors. If I have to be their enemy and an obnoxious twit like you to prove I’m gay, forget it. Not going to do it.
Fred, really, just stop working with people who want to take away our, and (allegedly) your rights. It’s really just pathetic. You’re there with Roy Cohn, who, if there is a Hell, is definitely roasting on a pike. Don’t’ go down that path.
Of course, that’s assuming you’re really a gay person.
@dbmcvey
There isn’t a hell, so I don’t regret telling you to go there. And take abfab with you. I will be pretending the two of you are vacationing for eternity there, from this day forward.
There is a Hell Fred, it’s right here, right now, and you’re helping the people who are perpetuating it. You’re helping the people who are hurting us, and you seem to be okay with that.
Lol. Robot bones. All these trans teens are beginning to show osteoporosis and your dumb a$$ read a Wikipedia entry one year on science. Good to see you, Robot Bones. Be sure to tell us how the American healthcare industry really is from another country. Such insight!
I sort of thought it was spot on in highlighting how vapid she is between the ears. It’s a bit of a joke for the more educated who understand nuance, I wouldn’t expect you to understand.
Pete does more in a day than Marjorie has done in her entire political career. She omits facts and spreads lies to enrage the homophobes. Lets face it, because he is gay and her supporters are huge bigots – she only needs to mention his name and they will attack him online while sending her money. She claims to be Christian but I have never seen one Christian act from this woman. I don’t wish her ill will but I am a firm believer that karma does what karma does.
“it’s hard to escape the thought that Buttigieg’s sexuality might be an underlying factor in some of the attention he receives.” Pete makes his sexuality a big deal, and yes being gay was the only reason he got that position because he is fully unqualified for the job.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is mentally ill which is why she is a Trump supporter! She should be expelled from the house for mocking the good job Pete Buttigieg is doing.
The only reason we know his name is because he is gay and he made a name for himself by continually criticizing the previous vice-president. Otherwise, we would have never heard of this diversity hire. He was an unsuccessful mayor and a disastrous Transportation Secretary. He yet, some people want him to be president simply because of his sexual orientation.
I bet you can’t name a singular unpopular thing he did as mayor considering he won his mayoral elections twice.
Furthermore, I bet you can’t name a single policy failure he’s had as transportation secretary. (Hint: East Palestine train derailment wasn’t his doing considering the GQP reduced funding to train safety standards during the Trump administration.)
ZzBomb: There’s an article from CNBC April 22, 2019 that is basically slamming him as a mayor. They spoke to residents and some claimed he only did things for the more well off residents.
“Residents in the area say they see little of the mayor, and lament the flow of city dollars they see headed into neighborhoods they view as already well-off, as they are left to struggle amid rising gun violence and absent city services.”
Also it was proven that the GOP cutbacks had nothing to do with the train derailment, you can read up on that as well. The problem with Pete & that tragedy is that he hid from it and didn’t act quickly enough.
Why is Pete Buttigieg in Ukraine meeting with Zelensky today?
Besides what Biden thinks, Ukraine is not a state in the USA. I guess a photo op is more important, you know, since we haven’t had any train derailments in the last couple of years. Apparently, our infrastructure is perfect. Thanks Pete!
(At least, I hope Buttigieg doesn’t call their roads racist like he did ours.)
But Shavez, even YOU neglect Black hoods! Don’t deny it. You are as white bread as they come and it’s plain to see. You have no Black friends. You are a racist. Don’t lean on Pete to reduce your own guilt. It’s so see thru.
And Dickvaney has a hard-on for Mayo Pete, aka the politician who netted zero percent of the Black vote in 2020. Hell, Donald Trump netted more Black votes than Mayo Pete did. But let Queerty’s merry band of idiots tell you how McKinseyian Pete had the interests of South Bend minorities at heart. It’s a sweet little Christmas yarn.
Why is this troll who is not gay, not trans, not bi, not lesbian always on this gay site? Why are all these anti-gay conservative trolls always on this site. They post more than any of the rest of us, including me and abfab. It’s kind of freakish, every single one of them.
when you hear how stupid and trashy she is and that the only thing she brings to her job is scabbed knees from fighting children on the playground you can rest assured she is a good representation of what kind of christian she is and what kind of bible she reads. nice going georgia, her face flies on your state flag.
MTG, the extremist, helps push people to our side. I beg our extremists to remain balanced and truthful so that we don’t make voters choose between the extremes.
CNY1983 – Hate for Christians isn’t going to earn their votes; try to understand people before condemning them. If you think calling voters “baskets of deplorables” helped Hillary, you were NOT paying attention.
We snatch defeat from the jaws of victory when we go extremist and hateful.
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abfab
This woman is a trip.
Kangol2
Yep, not even her kookkky far-right caucus members want her around but Baronin defends her!
abfab
Does she do any work?
dbmcvey
So, with everything that’s going on the GOP is passing stupid, petty bills that have no chance of approval in the Senate or White House to appeal to their terrible base. This, and worse, are what we can look forward to if Trump wins.
abfab
Yep. Great people aren’t they. True patriots. America First.
LumpyPillows
It is the pettiness of it that is infuriating. This is what she thinks is important?
Your point that this is exactly what Donny will also do, is 100% correct. He will focus 100% of his time on vengeance, finding enemies where they don’t even exist. It will be scorched earth.
Focusing on how we beat him is imperative. This means not giving him issues to run on by championing every fringe left brain fart.
abfab
You, Lumpy, along with a few others here, are a one dimensional person….
”A one-dimensional mind is one that is so deeply stuck in a single topic, that it simply can’t think outside of the dimensions of that one thing. A mind that is so focused on that single thing, that everything that is unrelated to that thing is seen as a pointless distraction.”
LumpyPillows
Me? One-dimensional? I am far more nuanced than you could ever even imagine to be. You are the poster boy for a knee-jerk liberal. Sadly, I know you are 100% confident you are correct and are helping. You aren’t.
I know I’m not always correct, which is why I actually read the articles and read comments. You just flame throw, as if you believe it makes a positive difference. It doesn’t. It just makes people hate fringe lefties even more.
DeeAnnCA
I think the reality would be that it would make Worse look good. All these people know how to do is throw grenades. They never do anything that is substantive. They won’t because it isn’t red enough meat to throw out to The Faithful.
THEY ARE JUST A RAG TAG BUNCH OF LOSERS.
LeeG
I was hoping he would shade her about the $1 thing. Still waiting…
abfab
She’s a two-penny whore.
Fname Optional Lname
She’s a political whore. She will say and do anything that is appealing to her racist and homophobic followers — even if she doesn’t believe it to be true because it will put $ in her wallet. Yes, I said wallet, not purse because you know damn well she has one of those wallets with a chain attached like all the classy bikers have.
abfab
And you know she loves riding the hogs…..
abfab
Oh thank you so much, Your Madgesty!
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said she pulled her resolution to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) on Tuesday night after the House advanced a separate resolution to censure Tlaib.
The House eventually approved the other measure censuring Tlaib in a 234-188 vote; 22 Democrats voted to censure their colleague, and four Republicans voted against it.
Greene told reporters she pulled her resolution because she did not want to compete with another resolution.
“I’m not a part of leadership. I’m not the Speaker, I’m not the majority leader, I’m not the whip and I’m not going to be part of a competing censure resolution because leadership failed to organize it,” Greene said. “So, for me, I decided to pull it.”
“She’s getting censured. That’s what I set out to do, and so that’s what’s happening,” Greene continued. “But I think the bigger problem is, we need leadership to be organized and not force Republicans to compete with each other.”
The Hill
ZzBomb
Ghee, those Republicans have such laser light focus on the issues they ran on in the midterms:
Crime
Inflation
The Border
They have so far passed ZERO! Bills on any of those things.
Last night was a good night for American Democracy.
abfab
A great night for Women and their families, For freedom! A very good night.
Baron Wiseman
@abfab
Hardly a good night for “families” when you vote to kill them.
ZzBomb
@ Baron
You vote for people who defend guys who rape 12 y/o children and want to make them carry their pregnancies to term.
decrans
@ZZ
And you rape 12yo children without fully developed minds and a host of comorbidity mental illness (read: autism) under the guise of politically correct gender ideology. So sit the fu-k down. A confused 12yo cannot orgasm for a lifetime because you want to be politically correct. You are exactly the SAME, idiot.
CKNJ
@decrans… BS… here’s a short plank, take a long walk!
decrans
Tell that to Prisha Mosley and the other 10 de-transitioners suing Kaiser who were underage with misdiagnoses right now. Such compassionate liberalism. Get ’em young and grab ’em by the pu$$y, CK!
LumpyPillows
No one is happy with abortion, but it is sometimes the best alternative. No one is happy with children living in poverty either. You’d have more credibility if republicans were focused on children’s welfare, which they are not when it comes to policies. You’d still be wrong on abortion, but we wouldn’t assess you as being hypocritical.
bachy
I can never tell the dif between MTG’s delusions and the half-naked nutjob ranting behind a dumpster outside the local strip club at 4am. They sound the same.
abfab
Mardgy gets off at 5am so that might help.
Fahd
Buttigieg’s sexuality is the reason Empty Greene is attacking him. Leave Pete Alone!
She was much better suited to her role in the last Congress where she sat on no committees. And shame on the wayward majority in her District that reelected her; a disgrace to the State of Georgia.
abfab
She really is empty, that’s for sure.
abfab
She is TOXIC. I hope her rancidness does not infect the peach crop. Love me my peaches I do I do!
FreddieW
I hope every time something like this happens to him, he questions his decision to drop out of the 2020 race and become a gay token for an 80-something, straight white establishment President.
I was hoping he would correct that in 2024, since I wasted an early primary vote on him in 2020 and believe he would make an awesome President. But I really don’t care about his cabinet position, and it’s obvious he’s not out there fighting to save the nation from competing, abysmal futures.
abfab
You hope a lot.
FreddieW
Oh, and Pete,
If Dean Phillips calls, pick up the d a m n phone and get to work doing something constructive.
dbmcvey
Hey Fred, until you stop working with the people who are trying to take away our rights no one really cares what you hope or say.
abfab
Is spelling DAMN out forbidden in your religion?
You have NO idea what goes on at the Transportation Department on a daily basis. None.
FreddieW
@dbmcvey,
When I came out, I liberated myself from caring what the opposition thinks, even when the opposition is LGBTQ.
ZzBomb
Freddie, if you think your own community is the opposition, you have some serious, deep issues that need sorting.
FreddieW
@abfab
Nobody knows and nobody cares. He’s in a DNC closet.
FreddieW
@Zz
That’s what they said in the Baptist church, too. See my point? If not, I can’t help you.
abfab
Yeah, that is pretty twisted @ zzbomb, but that’s Fred. Surely Memphis has clinics, along with GRACELAND……The MECCA of the great unwashed.
ZzBomb
Hmmm well the difference being religion is a choice and not really a reliable community. So yeah, there’s a BIG DIFFERENCE.
decrans
Those unwashed majority Blacks of Memphis, Abcrabs? God, you should put on a raccoon cap and just storm the Capitol already, you deranged racist little fuc-.
decrans
Oh! And I thought sexual orientation was a choice. Isn’t that what your ideology tells us now? Everything exists on a spectrum. Get your talking points straight today, ZZ.
ZzBomb
@decrans
“And I thought sexual orientation was a choice.”
That’s never been a talking point in our community b/c sexuality isn’t a choice, religion is. Did you think you looked smart here?
Kangol2
Detrans, please keep Black people’s names out of your mouth. You’ve shown more than once that you support an outright racist homophobe/transphobe like Pumped Arches DeFascist so really, don’t even fake like you give a damn about Black people, in Memphis or anywhere else!
decrans
Uh-huh. I have receipts. Here we have an article from Queerty’s sister site, LGBTQ Nation from just this month: “Why is it that LGBTQ+ people believe sexuality and gender identity are fluid yet also say a gay person cannot “turn” straight? Well, first of all, some LGBTQ+ people, even some who identify as gay, are in fact fluid and do sometimes engage in relationships with people of the opposite sex.”
And what do you know? That article was cranked out by a trans woman who succumbs to an ideological worldview that says everything exists on a spectrum, which is antithetical to the gay gene propaganda your very community has spewed forth since the 1990s. A new sea change! For most logical people, it gives them whiplash. On the surface, it reads just as much as a choice as religion.
decrans
Memphis is majority Black and Abcrabs calls them unwashed repeatedly in multiple posts. By all means, we know your faux liberal racial posturing is just that. Something you use like a cudgel to drum up votes. When push comes to shove, white libs are just as racist as the slack-jawed yokels they disdain. Abcrabs proves it. Now, you can say something to Abcrabs. But it’s easier to come after me. We see you.
Kangol2
@ZZ, Detrans thought they were critiquing gender theory, which they confused with biology and sexology or something.
At any rate, all of the anti-trans hysteria fell flat all over the US. Neither Virginia nor Kentucky is a liberal state. VA GQP Gov. Glenn Youngkin poured tons of money into trying to defeat a trans Democratic candidate for the VA State Senate, and she still won! A PAC spent $2 million trying to demonize Glenn Beshear for vetoing a horrible anti-trans slate of legislation earlier this year, and as we all witnessed last night, he won soundly, defeating an anti-trans Don the Con endorsee.
ZzBomb
@ drecans
Not seeing these “receipts” you’re talking about. Maybe you need to take a break from the internet b/c you’re trolling and political ideology are failing hard right now.
decrans
I brought this up earlier. If the anti-trans campaign really failed, SURELY the Kentuckians would have routed out Republicans across the board. Funny that. They only held up the governor by a rather slim margin. The fact is we still have a supreme court and house speaker that sides with the poor health care outcomes detransitioners face like me. Kangol likes to repeat memes. Have you secured post-election exit polling, Kangol? No, you haven’t. Most of the evidence says it’s a result of abortion. Until you can present ACTUAL EVIDENCE, we can see the vapidity of your argument for what it really is. Try again, honeybunny.
decrans
The receipts are a gender ideology that says everything exists on a spectrum. Hey genius, that confuses the flyover country rubes you so badly want to win over. Until (let’s see) five mintues ago, y’all were saying ‘born this way this, and born this way that.” THAT IS WHY THE PUSHBACK IS OCCURING, geniuses. THAT IS WHY HALF THE STATES ARE PUSHING BACK ON THIS TRANS NONSENSE. The LGBTQ is chasing its illogical tail like a dog right now. Most regular people find it hysterical.
ZzBomb
@decrans
Still no receipts? Got it and the Gov of Kentucky won by a 5 point margin. LOL That’s not “slim” for what is considered a deeply red state.
Dems took over the Virginia legislature.
Dems expanded their NJ legislature majorities.
Denial is not some river in Egypt.
decrans
I presented a receipt. An LGBT Nation article on sexual fluidity and changing definitions in this community. It’s the sister site of this very blog you are reading. THE VERY BLOG YOU ARE READING. Here is that denial mirror. Self-reflection is a wonderful thing.
decrans
Y’all didn’t answer my question. If Kentuckians were truly upset about the evil anti-trans bullies, why the fu– didn’t they vote Republicans out of office in every other race down the ballot? Just that one. They could have easily taken cae of that question once and for all. They didn’t. And y’all can’t answer that question. It’s easier to deflect.
Here’s the truth. Kentucky’s governorship has ping ponged back and forth between Democrat and Republican since the 2000s. You want to pretend it’s a new thing. It’s not. Same with Virginia. Most of the polling data we have so far talks moreso about abortion and not trans rights. That exists in your heads until some actual evidence is presented. Y’all again deflect and don’t present the evidence. It’s noted in the comment section.
FreddieW
@decrans
Full disclosure:
I was raised in Memphis and lived there 40 years of my life, but I live in an adjacent suburb now. The suburbs are majority white.
decrans
Full disclosure: I moved back from Gavin Newsom’s hell state California to Tennessee recently. I realize the makeup of suburbs. Abcrabs said Memphis…majority Black. He doesn’t ask for nuance. Why? He’s not especially bright as evidenced by his rambling about peaches and song lyrics.
FreddieW
@ZzBomb
Religion is a choice? Yeah, when you reach an age where you can question what you were taught by your family and your school and church. I didn’t partially drop my religion until I came out, and I didn’t fully drop it until some number of years after that.
The LGBTQ community expects the same conformity as Baptists do. It’s obvious every day in the comments here.
decrans
And openly disparaging historically Black cities with racial tropes…why should a thinking person believe anything he says about how his neoliberal party wants to help the downtrodden minorities? It’s on par with the GQP raccoon hat. Abcrabs needs to find a raccoon carcass, put it on his head, and storm the Capitol already. His racial tropes carry the stench of a Don’t Tread on Me flag. And I will say it.
dbmcvey
You came out and now you’re working for people who want to make you a criminal. Not too bright there, Fred.
decrans
Pretty much. It’s the same social engineering with children. It exists with conservative Christians and LGBTQ+ families. And if a child isn’t really trans and has underlying mental health issues, what is the framework for fully addressing that? That’s the $50,000 that none of these imbeciles can answer. Kids are sometimes a mold of their parents’ ideological makeup.
FreddieW
@dbmcvey
Repeating lies until people believe them. Maybe even until you believe them yourself. Sure you aren’t a Trumper? You’ve definitely adopted his tactics.
decrans
They do remind me of the Trumpers. Time and time again.
CKNJ
@decrans Thank GOD you moved out of California, now we have one less oxygen thief to have to give a sh*t about. Buh-bye!
dbmcvey
It’s not a lie. You and the other right wing trolls here are all propping up people who want to take away our lives. The current House Speaker has said homosexuality should be illegal.
decrans
Yup. I’m one of the thousands of working-class and middle-class residents rapidly exiting your state. Those two demographics your party allegedly cares about. Go lick the egg off Daddy Gavin’s face.
dbmcvey
I mean, decrans isn’t even gay (so no one knows why he keeps showing up) and is just a homophobe, but you, Fred, claim to be gay and you’re working against your own rights. That’s just stupid.
decrans
I’m here to educate liberals like yourself. You know, for the increasing number of misdiagnoses with autistic teens and the rising lawsuits, how do you propose that WPATH updates measuring self-reporting gender identity cases especially those with a comorbidity of mental illnesses? That’s the question y’all can’t answer. I’m here to shower you all with cold water daily. Hey, Dickvaey. What’s good, bi*ch?
FreddieW
@dbmcvey
Liar.
I made some comments about his religion, which I am quite familiar with, having been raised Southern Baptist and educated Southern Baptist, and even having attended a Southern Baptist seminary briefly, decades ago.
I do not support him, nor his beliefs, and I never even heard of him until a week or so ago.
I do not treat evangelicals as my enemies, though. I have evangelical relatives and evangelical friends and evangelical neighbors. If I have to be their enemy and an obnoxious twit like you to prove I’m gay, forget it. Not going to do it.
abfab
To prove you’re gay? You misconstrue what you read and so of course your responces are mostly convoluted, Fred.
Keep up the good fight.
dbmcvey
Fred, really, just stop working with people who want to take away our, and (allegedly) your rights. It’s really just pathetic. You’re there with Roy Cohn, who, if there is a Hell, is definitely roasting on a pike. Don’t’ go down that path.
Of course, that’s assuming you’re really a gay person.
FreddieW
@dbmcvey
There isn’t a hell, so I don’t regret telling you to go there. And take abfab with you. I will be pretending the two of you are vacationing for eternity there, from this day forward.
dbmcvey
There is a Hell Fred, it’s right here, right now, and you’re helping the people who are perpetuating it. You’re helping the people who are hurting us, and you seem to be okay with that.
Bosch
Lol decrans is back to show us he doesn’t understand the definition of “spectrum”.
Let me just remind everyone that decrans claims he’s “transitioning” to heterosexuality. He’s a bit confused about who thinks sexuality is a choice.
decrans
Lol. Robot bones. All these trans teens are beginning to show osteoporosis and your dumb a$$ read a Wikipedia entry one year on science. Good to see you, Robot Bones. Be sure to tell us how the American healthcare industry really is from another country. Such insight!
decrans
Maybe Robot Bones can crack the great $50,000 question. You know, since he read that GeoCities page one summer.
abfab
@ dbmcvey~~~~~~~~~~~~Just so you know, sweetie dahling, I would LOVE to go to hell with you! But what on earth should we wear? I have NOTHING in red!
dbmcvey
@abfab
SHOPPING TRIP!!!
Mr. Stadnick
MTG seems to be doing busy work. Congress should really make her in charge of photocopying post it purchasing.
abfab
She still sits on the Xerox machine for playzees.
Baron Wiseman
Wow. Chasten REALLY showed her. Ouch!
ZzBomb
I sort of thought it was spot on in highlighting how vapid she is between the ears. It’s a bit of a joke for the more educated who understand nuance, I wouldn’t expect you to understand.
LeBlevsez
Baron Wiseman is feeling chastened because bigots lost last night. Hence the weak one-handed clap-back.
Fname Optional Lname
Pete does more in a day than Marjorie has done in her entire political career. She omits facts and spreads lies to enrage the homophobes. Lets face it, because he is gay and her supporters are huge bigots – she only needs to mention his name and they will attack him online while sending her money. She claims to be Christian but I have never seen one Christian act from this woman. I don’t wish her ill will but I am a firm believer that karma does what karma does.
ShaverC
“it’s hard to escape the thought that Buttigieg’s sexuality might be an underlying factor in some of the attention he receives.” Pete makes his sexuality a big deal, and yes being gay was the only reason he got that position because he is fully unqualified for the job.
abfab
False.
LumpyPillows
WTF? You lost any credibility you had ShaverC. The only reason Pete isn’t president is because he is gay.
GayEGO
Marjorie Taylor Greene is mentally ill which is why she is a Trump supporter! She should be expelled from the house for mocking the good job Pete Buttigieg is doing.
abfab
She should be expelled just for being an ugly and mean bitch.
Baron Wiseman
The only reason we know his name is because he is gay and he made a name for himself by continually criticizing the previous vice-president. Otherwise, we would have never heard of this diversity hire. He was an unsuccessful mayor and a disastrous Transportation Secretary. He yet, some people want him to be president simply because of his sexual orientation.
ZzBomb
I bet you can’t name a singular unpopular thing he did as mayor considering he won his mayoral elections twice.
Furthermore, I bet you can’t name a single policy failure he’s had as transportation secretary. (Hint: East Palestine train derailment wasn’t his doing considering the GQP reduced funding to train safety standards during the Trump administration.)
So do you have anything substantive, child?
still_onthemark
As opposed to being a hereditary member of the lowest order of nobility like you are?
ShaverC
ZzBomb: There’s an article from CNBC April 22, 2019 that is basically slamming him as a mayor. They spoke to residents and some claimed he only did things for the more well off residents.
“Residents in the area say they see little of the mayor, and lament the flow of city dollars they see headed into neighborhoods they view as already well-off, as they are left to struggle amid rising gun violence and absent city services.”
Also it was proven that the GOP cutbacks had nothing to do with the train derailment, you can read up on that as well. The problem with Pete & that tragedy is that he hid from it and didn’t act quickly enough.
abfab
Pete wasn’t hiding.
dbmcvey
He’s done more in his life than any of the conservative trolls who keep showing up on this site like Candyman, though no one is calling their names.
Just.my.opinion
Why is one of the most ignorant women on earth even allowed to be in Congress?
abfab
Or out of her cage?
ShaverC
Just.my.opinion, Once they let Nancy Pelosi in then the bar dropped very low.
dbmcvey
The very stupid voters of the Georgia 14th district.
Baron Wiseman
Why is Pete Buttigieg in Ukraine meeting with Zelensky today?
Besides what Biden thinks, Ukraine is not a state in the USA. I guess a photo op is more important, you know, since we haven’t had any train derailments in the last couple of years. Apparently, our infrastructure is perfect. Thanks Pete!
(At least, I hope Buttigieg doesn’t call their roads racist like he did ours.)
ShaverC
That’s rich because he was slammed (CNBC April 22 2019) for neglecting roads in predominately black neighborhoods when he was mayor of South Bend.
dbmcvey
Why is Oxymoron so worried about being called racist?
Hmmm…
abfab
But Shavez, even YOU neglect Black hoods! Don’t deny it. You are as white bread as they come and it’s plain to see. You have no Black friends. You are a racist. Don’t lean on Pete to reduce your own guilt. It’s so see thru.
Don’t play that game with us.
decrans
Oh Abbey. Tell the Blacks from Memphis that they’re dumb hillbillies like the exemplary little liberal turd speckle you are, dearie.
decrans
And Dickvaney has a hard-on for Mayo Pete, aka the politician who netted zero percent of the Black vote in 2020. Hell, Donald Trump netted more Black votes than Mayo Pete did. But let Queerty’s merry band of idiots tell you how McKinseyian Pete had the interests of South Bend minorities at heart. It’s a sweet little Christmas yarn.
dbmcvey
Why is this troll who is not gay, not trans, not bi, not lesbian always on this gay site? Why are all these anti-gay conservative trolls always on this site. They post more than any of the rest of us, including me and abfab. It’s kind of freakish, every single one of them.
abfab
Mental illness.
CNY1983
when you hear how stupid and trashy she is and that the only thing she brings to her job is scabbed knees from fighting children on the playground you can rest assured she is a good representation of what kind of christian she is and what kind of bible she reads. nice going georgia, her face flies on your state flag.
abfab
What he said. ^
Ronbo
MTG, the extremist, helps push people to our side. I beg our extremists to remain balanced and truthful so that we don’t make voters choose between the extremes.
CNY1983 – Hate for Christians isn’t going to earn their votes; try to understand people before condemning them. If you think calling voters “baskets of deplorables” helped Hillary, you were NOT paying attention.
We snatch defeat from the jaws of victory when we go extremist and hateful.