While the season 7 trailer of Netflix hit Élite and Josh Hutcherson’s viral photo took over everyone’s social media feeds this week, the political power players in Washington, D.C. were busy doing all sorts of things while nobody was looking. Here’s just a few of the stories that you really need to know about it…
DON’T DROP THE SOAP: The former Florida Republican legislator behind the “Don’t Say Gay” bill received a Christian blessing in the form of a prison sentence after pleading guilty to a slew of charges. [Read all about it on LGBTQ Nation]
PENTHOUSE PRINCESS: Ivanka Trump‘s deluxe apartment in the sky is costing way more than she bargained for as her disgraced father’s fraud trial continues to drag her kicking & screaming into its depths. [Read all about it on Queerty]
HOUSE ON FIRE: As the chaotic search for Speaker of the House careens off the rails heading into its third week with Jim Jordan‘s epic collapse, Republicans are turning on themselves as they try to make sense of their own mess.
DON’T SAY DRAG BRUNCH: Ron “Don’t Say Gay” DeSantis can’t stop his streak of fabulous losses as as federal appeals court yet again blocked his draconian drag ban law from taking effect. [Read all about it on Queerty]
WERK THE POLE: Meet Łukasz Litewka, the smoking hot new member of Poland’s parliament representing the country’s left-wing alliance that helped oust the anti-LGBTQ+ right-wing government of the last 8 years.
BUT HIS EMAILS: As if plunging the GOP into total anarchy for leading the charge to dethrone Kevin McCarthy wasn’t amazing enough, anti-gay Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz stepped into even more sh*t with his greedy hypocrisy & then had to eat it all back up. [Read all about it on Queerty]
ONE AND DONE: After being appointed to Dianne Feinstein’s seat and making history for being the first out Black lesbian senator, Democrat CA Senator Laphonza Butler announced she will not run for a full term next year. [Read all about it on LGBTQ Nation]
THE GOSPEL OF NANCY: Congress Grande Dame Nancy Pelosi did not mince words celebrating GOP insurrectionist Jim “Gym” Jordan’s humiliating defeat in trying to be elected Speaker of the House.
“It was a triumph for democracy in our country that an insurrectionist was rejected,” former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told reporters Wednesday after Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) fell short of winning the speaker’s gavel in a second round of voting on the House floor. “We’ve always wished the winning party well as they choose their leader,” she said. “But today and yesterday, that was an assault on our democracy, as Jim Jordan assaulted our democracy on Jan. 6.” #nancypelosi#pelosi#jimjordan#speakerofthehouse#houseofrepresentatives#cspan
Sanders signed a law this week that bans more gender-neutral language from state documents.
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Just putting this out there: Has anyone suggested Nancy Pelosi as the bipartisan compromise candidate? If not, let me be the first. She’d be terrific.
With vacancies, etc. I’m not sure of the exact number of Republicans who would have to vote for her, but I don’t think it would be more than 6 or 7.
What a great way to emerge from the current chaos, and she has the integrity to respect the Republican (non-insurrectionist) views. It would actually wind up helping the Republicans regain some of the reputational loss they’ve incurred with this messy Speaker battle.
Never happen.
She’s the Republican’s favorite bogeyman – or bogeywoman or bogey-vagina-owner, if you prefer. Remember the guy who attacked her husband wanting to kill her?
As inbama said, it will never happen. Many, many Republicans revile her. Remember, she was a very successful speaker and the first woman to hold that post. That’s a combo a sizable portion of the GQP caucus cannot and will not abide.
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Fahd
Just putting this out there: Has anyone suggested Nancy Pelosi as the bipartisan compromise candidate? If not, let me be the first. She’d be terrific.
With vacancies, etc. I’m not sure of the exact number of Republicans who would have to vote for her, but I don’t think it would be more than 6 or 7.
What a great way to emerge from the current chaos, and she has the integrity to respect the Republican (non-insurrectionist) views. It would actually wind up helping the Republicans regain some of the reputational loss they’ve incurred with this messy Speaker battle.
inbama
Never happen.
She’s the Republican’s favorite bogeyman – or bogeywoman or bogey-vagina-owner, if you prefer. Remember the guy who attacked her husband wanting to kill her?
Kangol2
As inbama said, it will never happen. Many, many Republicans revile her. Remember, she was a very successful speaker and the first woman to hold that post. That’s a combo a sizable portion of the GQP caucus cannot and will not abide.
SELA Rising
Nope, Never.
Nancy Pelosi is a slur amongst republicans, especially in the south.
They seriously hate her.