Senator Josh Hawley appears to be moving on from his agenda of safeguarding toxic masculinity in America to instead focus on leftist bloggers who are allegedly being paid by the government to write nasty things about conservatives online.
The conspiracy theory-loving, gay-hating senator just introduced a new bill to fight “liberal propaganda” that he says the Department of Homeland Security is spreading all across the internet at the direction of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and President Biden.
The senator from Missouri kept questioning Baker about trans athletes changing in locker rooms.
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Here’s what Hawley says the barely two-page bill, titled the Ending DHS Funding for Liberal Propaganda Act, aims to do:
Stop DHS grant funding from being shipped to entities that will use the funds for viewpoint discrimination, particularly against conservatives.
Ensure that taxpayer dollars do not flow to programs that engage in partisan political advocacy or discriminate on the basis of political affiliation.
Bar DHS from distributing grants to entities that will use the funds to counter political narratives or views on issues such as COVID-19, immigration, and crime.
This all comes one week after Hawley sent a bitchy note to Mayorkas, accusing him of “weaponizing” the DHS by funding leftist content on blogs hardly anyone reads.
In his letter, Hawley cited an article published, ironically, by the far-right, anti-LGBTQ+ propaganda site The Daily Wire that accuses the agency of using a grant intended to counter terrorism to pay bloggers to publish posts criticizing Donald Trump and other insurrectionists conservatives.
“This is an outrageous use of federal funds and abuse of power,” Hawley wrote. “All these funds should be clawed back by the federal government immediately, and anyone involved in making this grant should be fired.”
New polls out of Missouri show Hawley only leading Democratic challenger Lucas Kunce by less than 5 points.
This week, the quick-footed senator upped the ante by drafting the Ending DHS Funding for Liberal Propaganda Act, which he says “bars Secretary Mayorkas from funneling taxpayer dollars to programs dedicated to targeting [The Biden Administration’s] political opponents.”
The whole thing reeks of a fragile, thin-skinned, middle-aged man who can’t handle when anyone disagrees with him.
Hawley is no doubt feeling a tad sensitive right now, especially around the media and things that are being written about him online.
Earlier this month, a leading paper from his home state of Missouri ran a scathing opinion piece about him on the anniversary of January 6.
The editorial board of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published an op-ed looking back on the attack and highlighting Hawley’s disgraceful role.
“Trump’s gaseous lies might have merely dissipated into the atmosphere had it not been for Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, who was the first senator to object to ballot results,” the piece reads.
“That damnable, self-serving stunt is what made it necessary for Congress that day to debate the undebatable legitimacy of Joe Biden‘s victory — thus providing a time-and-place target for the MAGA madness of Jan. 6.”
Hawley is up for reelection in November and will likely face off against 13-year Marine veteran Lucas Kunce, who is leading in the Democratic primary field.
A November poll showed him barely winning against Kunce 46 to 42, which was within the 4.9% margin of error. Kunce has also been raking in significantly more fundraising dollars than Hawley, and, we should note, has much nicer thighs.
You can read Hawley’s full, two-page “liberal propaganda” bill here. Or don’t since Democrats control the Senate and there’s no way they’re gonna take it up.
Better luck next time, Josh.
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It’s no secret that, because you’re a POS, you have family and neighbours and co-workers who have donated money to a campaign to make abortions retroactive.
There are funding applications from various groups that you can Google and find.
Just one:
In its funding application, the University of Rhode Island’s Media Education Lab declared that “propaganda and misinformation concerning topics including immigration [and] racial justice” had become “disruptive.” It asked DHS for funding to run “community-created counter-propaganda.”
It no secret that Republicans are incapable of telling the truth and are devoid of intelligence, integrity, decency, kindness and honor. It’s no secret that conservatives are driven by nothing but hate and greed. It’s no secret that conservatives fully and unquestioningly support a serial sexual-abusing,racist con man for president. It’s no secret that the vast majority of conservatives support the actions of the 1/6 insurrectionists.
Go back to your troll hole.
How many boosters have you gotten since? They paid Rachel Maddow to tell her viewers that if they get the vaccine they will NOT get sick and they can NOT pass it on. Which is patently false information that they knew back then. They purposely lied to you, kept millions of people locked in their homes for years, knowing it would eventually just turn into another flu.
I’ve gotten all my boosters and haven’t ever had Covid. I have friends who did test positive but didn’t get sick or who survived it like it was a cold because they had boosters.
Too bad all those people in Florida who died because they listened to dumbass DeSantis.
dbmcvey, You know i’m not lying because you can still find those Rachel Maddow videos on you tube. That’s exactly what she tells her audience. Good for you for not getting it but you can’t say “I got jabbed and didn’t get sick, therefore everyone who got jabbed didn’t get sick” I’m not anti vax, but people need to know it’s limits. The mask policy was straight up lunacy and everyone knew it did absolutely nothing as far as catching covid.
Well gee whiz you should really go tell OR surgeons, they wear masks all the time to protect their patient from communicable diseases, bacteria etc. They need to know!? (eye rolll)
Zzbomb, Originally it was thought they could stop the transfer of bacteria but that has long since been disproven with the fact that a more successful way to keep the patient or medical persons bacteria free is to sterilize everything. However, they continue to wear masks in the OR to reduce pathogens spread by blood or other bodily fluids, and dust from high speed devices. You can look that up too.
I wonder where Shaves has been getting his information. I have 3 guesses. I just watched those videos and that’s not what she says, but also, there’s no evidence that she was paid by anyone other than MSNBC.
And yeah, children, no more name calling you big, fat POS republican QUEER who has troubles with secrets. Being a right winger is exhausting, right ShaverC.
You have to be a liar to be under the large GOP tent. That much is clear.
Shaver, the Daily Wire is not a good source of news, especially news about the Daily Wire. Those grants you and TDW are mad about would empower people to understand TDW is a bad source. THAT’S why TDW is mad. It effs with their money. What stake do you have in it?
I wish I were getting paid for what I write here.
It’s kind of believable that some of the trolls here are getting paid.
Sharon Wideman, Ho and Dee Trans have to be in it for the money.
And you’re a tired old douche bag, right wing nag hanging out (way too much) on a left wing blog. Party crashing, lurking like a slime ball and defending the largest rascist organinzation in the world, the Republicans.
Sharon——this is you. A masochist. (WISEMAN) is a queer troll (non-gay) who obtains pleasure from receiving punishment.
The patient, Baron, is a troll who is gratified by pain, degradation, etc., that is self-imposed.
Mrs Sharon Wiseman. The matronly hausfrau with her stack of red pencils craving to show the world how pedantic she is as she trots thru her days. You spell pretty well, but your content needs improvement. At least you’re on your toes.
Can you imagine if Donald Trump was funneling taxpayer dollars to programs dedicated to targeting his Administration’s political opponents? Trump funneling taxpayer dollars to take down Biden! There would be a third impeachment. Why is it okay if President Biden engages in this behavior?
As one example, the Department of Homeland Security awarded $700,000 in anti-terrorism grant money to the University of Rhode Island’s Media Education Lab (the “Rhode Island Lab”) to promote censorship and leftist propaganda in America’s classrooms. Yes, anti-terrorism funds being used to promote censorship and leftist propaganda in classrooms. This is a prime example of why home schooling is the fastest growing form of education in our country.
If Biden wants to pay TikToker’s to reach young voters with his own campaign funds that is his choice, but not taxpayer money.
None of that is true. And Donald Trump funneled donations and tax payer dollars directly into his own pocket by having his secret service agents stay at his hotels.
You don’t know what you are talking about. Facts are very inconvenient to you. Look it up!
Why is it such a a stretch? Millions of taxpayer dollars fund PBS every year – why? Why should taxpayers be paying for liberal, one-sided news? Name three conservatives on PBS. There aren’t any and it should be disbanded or be completely donor sponsored. If you’re going to pay the left for hundreds of hours of free coverage, do the same for the opposing side or shut it down.
“…the Department of Homeland Security awarded $700,000 in anti-terrorism grant money to the University of Rhode Island’s Media Education Lab (the “Rhode Island Lab”) to promote censorship and leftist propaganda in America’s classrooms.”
From the University of Rhode Island website, uri(dot)edu:
“PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Feb. 27, 2023 — The Media Education Lab at the University of Rhode Island will launch on Feb. 28 an exciting new media literacy initiative, Courageous RI. Funded by a $700,000 grant from the Department of Homeland Security, the effort includes three distinct phases that will foster community conversation, provide training and education, and engage youth, helping participants to ask the right questions and empowering them to be more informed.”
Maybe do a better job at convincing these parents of your arguments. This is an alleged democracy in free market capitalism. The best ideas rise to the top. And thus far, you want people to believe in gnostic gendered souls without any substantial scientific evidence. That’s a few shakes away from mandated evangelical praying at the flagpole. Sadly, that’s a you problem.
THIS WHY HOMESCHOOLING AND CHARTER SCHOOLS ARE GROWING. To good liberals like you, “How DARE you censor children’s books!!!” These are the types of books Ron DeSantis and other governors are going after. This is why public education enrollment is on the dive.
By most metrics, Florida has ranked among the top education systems in the country. Shorter, Dickvaney: “I can’t propagandize to kids. Florida must be a low education ranking! It must be!” Data suggests otherwise.
Unlike Baron, I’ve actually read “Gender Queer.” It’s perfectly appropriate for mature teenagers. I would even say mature 13 year olds. No one is reading this book to get turned on. If you read the book it’s really not at all sexy. The lead character comes to the conclusion they’re asexual.
If it’s appropriate, I assume you have the same tenacity with making sure that kids can access gangbang porn on public library computers. And if not, why is that? They need to learn eventually, right?
Sharon and crannytranz are reading this book to get turned on. And so defensively they rant and rave about sex and youth and the showers they got cought up in (a favorite memory).
This display of ”knowledge” is the communtiy service they agreed to do after the posters went up in thier hoods and on the sex offenders registry.
decrans, it’s interesting how abfab attacks anyone who’s not into the alphabet mafia, but then calls you “crannytranz” as an insult. abfab, to clarify, it’s like you saying you love gay people but when you disagree with a straight person you call them a “f@ggot” as an insult.
Guys, give abfab a break. He/she only trots out the anti-gay and anti-trans comments because they have no education, intuition or ability. Instead of hating on them, start a go-fund-me for them at Phoenix on-line. Let them work on solving that problem.
My apologies. I expect more from others and myself in the gay community. I will try harder to suppress my contempt for ignorance and arrogance.
Both sides here seem to foot the bill for the theory that the more ignorant you are the more compelled you are to be outspoken. Although not well educated, at least abfab’s heart is in the right place. Lead with your heart.
abfab, give us something to work with. Just making nasty comments and insults isn’t helping anyone. Do you prize fame for fame’s sake? Stop posting volume, and add to the conversations.
Public Schools brainwash our kids that the earth is a sphere, and is not a flat earth.
The globalists have achieved placing globes and global maps in every school across America.
Only by keeping our children out of public school will the flat earth truth be revealed to all.
I do. But guess what? Based on what I went through, a child’s mind cannot consent to the healthcare industrial complex and all its failings. Both things can be true. Surprise!
It’s like the liberal argument that college students should not be responsible for their loans because their mind couldn’t comprehend and understand it, but a 15 year who wants to cut off her breasts is told how brave she is by making such a mature decision.
And secondly, patients need extensive medical information not steeped in propaganda funded by Jennifer Pritzker and WPATH. (On that last one, WPATH is rooting out transgender activists without medical training from their panels.) I have detrans friends with seizures thanks to hormones, bladder problems, back pops and the whole gamut. Now, are you telling the kids of ALL the possibilities for their undeveloped brain? And that’s where I stand.
Yup, Baron Wiseman. Forgive the loans, but pump them chock-full of child molester castration drugs, no questions asked. Most non-Queerty Americans realize the glaring hypocrisy. These idiots are steeped in the gender woo, though. It’s literally broken their brains.
I can’t wait to see Decrans, Shaver, and Baron all deplatformed from here. It’s going to be nice when we can finally have a conversation again without know nothing right wing lying blowhards.
And also: Not likely. Capitalism thrives on arguments. Take it up with your neoliberal overlords at Queerty, babe. They’re too busy counting those unique page views to care.
“I can’t wait to see Decrans, Shaver, and Baron all deplatformed from here.”
It’s always censorship with you leftists. Just like Biden and his administration paying all of social media to censor dissenting voices. “Well, we can’t have differing opinions,” said Joe “Orwell” Biden.
But Republicans don’t want diversity of opinion and thought. They, including Baron and decrans, are totally behind the book banning going on in blue states (they go so far as to claim it’s not “banning” when that’s exactly what it is. Them acting like they’re free speech champions when they excuse book banning and trying to prosecute drag queens and trans people is just posturing.
If they really wanted a diversity of opinion and thought they would be fighting to include “Gender Queer” in school libraries.
When these concerned neoliberal social justice warriors start advocating for gangbang porn on public school computers, that’s when I will begin to take them seriously.
A site can do anything they want, but why don’t you want to hear a different opinion? If someone has a different opinion from me I like to discuss it, you would rather get rid of that person?
Lucas Kunce is a non-neoliberal Democrat running against Hawley. He has a non-binary child and seems to be the real deal – a true FDR Democrat with compassion, conviction and capability. However, he is not a neoliberal so the DNC is not supportive of his candidacy.
The RNC/DNC twins reject all candidates who don’t support establishment economic thinking of the trickle-down oligarchy nonsense. Money buys what money can buy. Ask the emperors at Davos and their dingle-berry politicians.
By the way, the top NH write-in candidate was “cease fire”. More popular than even “Joe Biden”.
The RNC and DNC are horrible organizations that are really driven by how much money flows through them. They would support any candidate that rings the registers. They don’t even care if the candidate wins as long as the money flows. Much like Spice flowing in Dune. The Spice must flow!
The ceasefire loons may be the gift to Trump that gives us a tyrant. It is the fringe left doing what it does best, screwing up everything by refusing to accept facts and history.
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ShaverC
It’s no secret that Democrats pay tiktok “influencers” to pitch for Biden.
abfab
Shaver C Wiseman knows all the ins and outs of Washington. He even knows all the secrets. The jig is up people! The Dems pay tiktok.
ShaverC
It’s not a secret, TIME wrote about it in 2022.
whereshouldistart
It’s no secret that, because you’re a POS, you have family and neighbours and co-workers who have donated money to a campaign to make abortions retroactive.
dbmcvey
That wasn’t the DHS you addle brained moron.
The DCC is about getting their candidates elected and don’t use tax dollars.
ZzBomb
Even if it is true, and the DNC does pay out to influencers, and??? So???
This is more of a YOU and policy issue than it is anything else. LOL
ShaverC
There are funding applications from various groups that you can Google and find.
Just one:
In its funding application, the University of Rhode Island’s Media Education Lab declared that “propaganda and misinformation concerning topics including immigration [and] racial justice” had become “disruptive.” It asked DHS for funding to run “community-created counter-propaganda.”
RoyM
It no secret that Republicans are incapable of telling the truth and are devoid of intelligence, integrity, decency, kindness and honor. It’s no secret that conservatives are driven by nothing but hate and greed. It’s no secret that conservatives fully and unquestioningly support a serial sexual-abusing,racist con man for president. It’s no secret that the vast majority of conservatives support the actions of the 1/6 insurrectionists.
Go back to your troll hole.
ShaverC
Very eloquent. You know what they say about someone who can’t argue the facts and has to resort to name calling?
dbmcvey
Getting Olivia Rodrigo to promote Covid vaccines wasn’t “pitching for Biden” it was about a major health crisis. It was a public service.
ShaverC
How many boosters have you gotten since? They paid Rachel Maddow to tell her viewers that if they get the vaccine they will NOT get sick and they can NOT pass it on. Which is patently false information that they knew back then. They purposely lied to you, kept millions of people locked in their homes for years, knowing it would eventually just turn into another flu.
dbmcvey
First, that’s all bullshit.
I’ve gotten all my boosters and haven’t ever had Covid. I have friends who did test positive but didn’t get sick or who survived it like it was a cold because they had boosters.
Too bad all those people in Florida who died because they listened to dumbass DeSantis.
ShaverC
dbmcvey, You know i’m not lying because you can still find those Rachel Maddow videos on you tube. That’s exactly what she tells her audience. Good for you for not getting it but you can’t say “I got jabbed and didn’t get sick, therefore everyone who got jabbed didn’t get sick” I’m not anti vax, but people need to know it’s limits. The mask policy was straight up lunacy and everyone knew it did absolutely nothing as far as catching covid.
wikidBSTN
Nothing wrong with that. A purely private transaction – no tax dollars involved.
ZzBomb
“The mask policy was straight up lunacy”
Well gee whiz you should really go tell OR surgeons, they wear masks all the time to protect their patient from communicable diseases, bacteria etc. They need to know!? (eye rolll)
ShaverC
Zzbomb, Originally it was thought they could stop the transfer of bacteria but that has long since been disproven with the fact that a more successful way to keep the patient or medical persons bacteria free is to sterilize everything. However, they continue to wear masks in the OR to reduce pathogens spread by blood or other bodily fluids, and dust from high speed devices. You can look that up too.
dbmcvey
I wonder where Shaves has been getting his information. I have 3 guesses. I just watched those videos and that’s not what she says, but also, there’s no evidence that she was paid by anyone other than MSNBC.
abfab
And yeah, children, no more name calling you big, fat POS republican QUEER who has troubles with secrets. Being a right winger is exhausting, right ShaverC.
You have to be a liar to be under the large GOP tent. That much is clear.
ShaverC
db, She absolutely said exactly that. If you don’t want to look at it, or choose to ignore it, then that’s on you.
LumpyPillows
I find it funny that you think the republicans are not paying people on TikTok also. If they aren’t, they should ignore my suggestion.
quantum
Shaver, the Daily Wire is not a good source of news, especially news about the Daily Wire. Those grants you and TDW are mad about would empower people to understand TDW is a bad source. THAT’S why TDW is mad. It effs with their money. What stake do you have in it?
Mister P
I wish I were getting paid for what I write here.
It’s kind of believable that some of the trolls here are getting paid.
Sharon Wideman, Ho and Dee Trans have to be in it for the money.
abfab
The barter system serves them well….they take it out in trade.
Baron Wiseman
@Mister P
Aww… aren’t you sweet. Bless your heart.
abfab
And you’re a tired old douche bag, right wing nag hanging out (way too much) on a left wing blog. Party crashing, lurking like a slime ball and defending the largest rascist organinzation in the world, the Republicans.
Sharon——this is you. A masochist. (WISEMAN) is a queer troll (non-gay) who obtains pleasure from receiving punishment.
The patient, Baron, is a troll who is gratified by pain, degradation, etc., that is self-imposed.
Baron Wiseman
@abfab
The day you can type a post without misspellings and grammatical errors is the day I will pay attention to you.
There you go again, denigrating women.
abfab
And there it is……. you’re a woman and yes I am denigrating.you. Why anyone gives you the time of day….
Grade a few papers.
SoPluckyWhat
If you don’t have a reply, become a spelling notze!
abfab
Mrs Sharon Wiseman. The matronly hausfrau with her stack of red pencils craving to show the world how pedantic she is as she trots thru her days. You spell pretty well, but your content needs improvement. At least you’re on your toes.
abfab
Does anyone have smart excerpts or wise quotes from his book on men?
Ronbo
We have yet to receive that from abfab. He posts hundreds of times a day, yet adding nothing to the conversation. Name calling is not wisdom.
ZzBomb
Def donating to his campaign!
And Vindemen’s
And Galego
And Biden
Baron Wiseman
Can you imagine if Donald Trump was funneling taxpayer dollars to programs dedicated to targeting his Administration’s political opponents? Trump funneling taxpayer dollars to take down Biden! There would be a third impeachment. Why is it okay if President Biden engages in this behavior?
As one example, the Department of Homeland Security awarded $700,000 in anti-terrorism grant money to the University of Rhode Island’s Media Education Lab (the “Rhode Island Lab”) to promote censorship and leftist propaganda in America’s classrooms. Yes, anti-terrorism funds being used to promote censorship and leftist propaganda in classrooms. This is a prime example of why home schooling is the fastest growing form of education in our country.
If Biden wants to pay TikToker’s to reach young voters with his own campaign funds that is his choice, but not taxpayer money.
Good for Josh Hawley!
dbmcvey
None of that is true. And Donald Trump funneled donations and tax payer dollars directly into his own pocket by having his secret service agents stay at his hotels.
Baron Wiseman
@dbmcvey
You don’t know what you are talking about. Facts are very inconvenient to you. Look it up!
Why is it such a a stretch? Millions of taxpayer dollars fund PBS every year – why? Why should taxpayers be paying for liberal, one-sided news? Name three conservatives on PBS. There aren’t any and it should be disbanded or be completely donor sponsored. If you’re going to pay the left for hundreds of hours of free coverage, do the same for the opposing side or shut it down.
wikidBSTN
Biden isn’t using tax payer money. You made some simple assertions – now how about backing them up with simple citations or other proof.
ZzBomb
Truly astounding how you literally know nothing about which you speak.
Baron Wiseman
@wikidBSTN
I did. Are you illiterate?
“…the Department of Homeland Security awarded $700,000 in anti-terrorism grant money to the University of Rhode Island’s Media Education Lab (the “Rhode Island Lab”) to promote censorship and leftist propaganda in America’s classrooms.”
Look it up.
dbmcvey
I did look it up, that was all reported. Of course, you probably never saw it because they didn’t report it on Fox, OAN or InfoWars.
Baron Wiseman
@dbmcvey
From the University of Rhode Island website, uri(dot)edu:
“PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Feb. 27, 2023 — The Media Education Lab at the University of Rhode Island will launch on Feb. 28 an exciting new media literacy initiative, Courageous RI. Funded by a $700,000 grant from the Department of Homeland Security, the effort includes three distinct phases that will foster community conversation, provide training and education, and engage youth, helping participants to ask the right questions and empowering them to be more informed.”
LumpyPillows
I just read what you quoted, and I don’t have a problem with any of it.
SoPluckyWhat
Your first “quote” was totally different than your last “quote”. Soooo, are they both true, one is true and the other isn’t or no truth at all?
Mister P
Home schooling is growing because so many uninformed parents don’t want their kids learning science and other truths.
decrans
Maybe do a better job at convincing these parents of your arguments. This is an alleged democracy in free market capitalism. The best ideas rise to the top. And thus far, you want people to believe in gnostic gendered souls without any substantial scientific evidence. That’s a few shakes away from mandated evangelical praying at the flagpole. Sadly, that’s a you problem.
dbmcvey
As education in Florida and Texas goes even further down the tubes I don’t think these parents want to be convinced.
Baron Wiseman
@Mister P
“We are Democrats and we believe in science! Well, except that chromosome thing, we don’t believe in that one.”
Uninformed parents, huh? I suppose good, informed liberal parents agree with the books they are pushing on little kids?
from “Gender Queer” –
“I got a new strap-on harness today I can’t wait to put it on you. It will fit my favorite dildo perfectly. You’re going to look so hot. I can’t wait to have your co©k in my mouth – I’m going to give you the bl0wj0b of your life. Then I want you inside of me.” On the facing page, color sketches depict the scene.
THIS WHY HOMESCHOOLING AND CHARTER SCHOOLS ARE GROWING. To good liberals like you, “How DARE you censor children’s books!!!” These are the types of books Ron DeSantis and other governors are going after. This is why public education enrollment is on the dive.
decrans
By most metrics, Florida has ranked among the top education systems in the country. Shorter, Dickvaney: “I can’t propagandize to kids. Florida must be a low education ranking! It must be!” Data suggests otherwise.
dbmcvey
Unlike Baron, I’ve actually read “Gender Queer.” It’s perfectly appropriate for mature teenagers. I would even say mature 13 year olds. No one is reading this book to get turned on. If you read the book it’s really not at all sexy. The lead character comes to the conclusion they’re asexual.
decrans
If it’s appropriate, I assume you have the same tenacity with making sure that kids can access gangbang porn on public library computers. And if not, why is that? They need to learn eventually, right?
Baron Wiseman
@dbmcvey
Good for you! Then you can read all about sex acts to your children. Many parents don’t want this type of material in their school libraries.
Why is that so hard to understand?
abfab
Sharon and crannytranz are reading this book to get turned on. And so defensively they rant and rave about sex and youth and the showers they got cought up in (a favorite memory).
This display of ”knowledge” is the communtiy service they agreed to do after the posters went up in thier hoods and on the sex offenders registry.
Nice act.
decrans
Garble, garble, garble. You desperately need a talk to text application so people can understand what the fu?k you’re saying, Abby.
ShaverC
decrans, it’s interesting how abfab attacks anyone who’s not into the alphabet mafia, but then calls you “crannytranz” as an insult. abfab, to clarify, it’s like you saying you love gay people but when you disagree with a straight person you call them a “f@ggot” as an insult.
abfab
I like certain Gay people. Not all Gay people. That would be ridculous, but you’re an idiot and so it’s more of the same from you.
You are a maggot, and yes sorry but you’re a washed up old fag, too. There is nothing Queer or Gay about you. You reek.
ShaverC
abfab, LOL you didn’t understand what I said did you? Do you skip every second word when reading?
decrans
He’s halfway illiterate. Probably so.
decrans
“In one commonly cited panel, a 14-year-old Kobabe fantasizes about a scene in which an older man touches the penis of a youth.”
Weren’t y’all the same people horrified with your mouths agape about the Republican lawmaker who wanted to codify incest just last week?
Ronbo
Guys, give abfab a break. He/she only trots out the anti-gay and anti-trans comments because they have no education, intuition or ability. Instead of hating on them, start a go-fund-me for them at Phoenix on-line. Let them work on solving that problem.
Ronbo
My apologies. I expect more from others and myself in the gay community. I will try harder to suppress my contempt for ignorance and arrogance.
Both sides here seem to foot the bill for the theory that the more ignorant you are the more compelled you are to be outspoken. Although not well educated, at least abfab’s heart is in the right place. Lead with your heart.
abfab
Ronbo. We hear you. We should all be like Ronbo. Save it.
Ronbo
abfab, give us something to work with. Just making nasty comments and insults isn’t helping anyone. Do you prize fame for fame’s sake? Stop posting volume, and add to the conversations.
Herman75
Public Schools brainwash our kids that the earth is a sphere, and is not a flat earth.
The globalists have achieved placing globes and global maps in every school across America.
Only by keeping our children out of public school will the flat earth truth be revealed to all.
Google it folks. 😉
Mister P
Get your facts straight Shaves. That is not true even if you believe it.
Mister P
Dee Trans it is time for you to do the republican thing and take responsibility for your mistakes and quit blaming others.
decrans
I do. But guess what? Based on what I went through, a child’s mind cannot consent to the healthcare industrial complex and all its failings. Both things can be true. Surprise!
Baron Wiseman
@decrans
It’s like the liberal argument that college students should not be responsible for their loans because their mind couldn’t comprehend and understand it, but a 15 year who wants to cut off her breasts is told how brave she is by making such a mature decision.
decrans
And secondly, patients need extensive medical information not steeped in propaganda funded by Jennifer Pritzker and WPATH. (On that last one, WPATH is rooting out transgender activists without medical training from their panels.) I have detrans friends with seizures thanks to hormones, bladder problems, back pops and the whole gamut. Now, are you telling the kids of ALL the possibilities for their undeveloped brain? And that’s where I stand.
decrans
Yup, Baron Wiseman. Forgive the loans, but pump them chock-full of child molester castration drugs, no questions asked. Most non-Queerty Americans realize the glaring hypocrisy. These idiots are steeped in the gender woo, though. It’s literally broken their brains.
ZzBomb
Shocking
An article that has nothing to do with transgenderism and what do these 2 asshats focus on? Derp derp derp
decrans
He brought up home schooling. Follow the bouncing ball if you can. You might need to focus really hard.
ZzBomb
I can’t wait to see Decrans, Shaver, and Baron all deplatformed from here. It’s going to be nice when we can finally have a conversation again without know nothing right wing lying blowhards.
decrans
Echo chambers must be nice.
Baron Wiseman
@ZzBomb
Yes, that is because you love diversity so much. As long as someone parrots the DNC talking points, you are a diversity lover. Right?
Just so you know, as no one has informed you, TRUE DIVERSITY IS DIVERSITY OF OPINION AND THOUGHT.
decrans
And also: Not likely. Capitalism thrives on arguments. Take it up with your neoliberal overlords at Queerty, babe. They’re too busy counting those unique page views to care.
Baron Wiseman
@ZzBomb
“I can’t wait to see Decrans, Shaver, and Baron all deplatformed from here.”
It’s always censorship with you leftists. Just like Biden and his administration paying all of social media to censor dissenting voices. “Well, we can’t have differing opinions,” said Joe “Orwell” Biden.
dbmcvey
But Republicans don’t want diversity of opinion and thought. They, including Baron and decrans, are totally behind the book banning going on in blue states (they go so far as to claim it’s not “banning” when that’s exactly what it is. Them acting like they’re free speech champions when they excuse book banning and trying to prosecute drag queens and trans people is just posturing.
If they really wanted a diversity of opinion and thought they would be fighting to include “Gender Queer” in school libraries.
decrans
Book banning occurs in blue states, too. See also: To Kill a Mockingbird and Huck Finn.
Baron Wiseman
@dbmcvey
Thank you for confirming you want children to have access to child p0rn0graphy in school libraries.
I appreciate your honesty.
decrans
When these concerned neoliberal social justice warriors start advocating for gangbang porn on public school computers, that’s when I will begin to take them seriously.
abfab
They don’t deplatform. They keep these right wing shmucks around becasue it drives business. If it bleeds, it leads.
Like the car wrecks and train derailments. That’s them.
abfab
”opinion and thought” LOL
decrans
Broken clocks….
ShaverC
A site can do anything they want, but why don’t you want to hear a different opinion? If someone has a different opinion from me I like to discuss it, you would rather get rid of that person?
abfab
Another rhetorical question, which naturally she-ver answers herself. It’s easier that way.
decrans
Meanwhile, these are the same people complaining about make-believe boxcars and stifling thought.
LumpyPillows
I actually don’t mind this. It may come back to haunt them should, goddess forbid, Trump ever get re-elected (I just vomited on the floor).
Would be nice if we could unseat Hawley. I’m not holding my breath, but a girl can hope for miracles.
Ronbo
Lucas Kunce is a non-neoliberal Democrat running against Hawley. He has a non-binary child and seems to be the real deal – a true FDR Democrat with compassion, conviction and capability. However, he is not a neoliberal so the DNC is not supportive of his candidacy.
The RNC/DNC twins reject all candidates who don’t support establishment economic thinking of the trickle-down oligarchy nonsense. Money buys what money can buy. Ask the emperors at Davos and their dingle-berry politicians.
By the way, the top NH write-in candidate was “cease fire”. More popular than even “Joe Biden”.
LumpyPillows
The RNC and DNC are horrible organizations that are really driven by how much money flows through them. They would support any candidate that rings the registers. They don’t even care if the candidate wins as long as the money flows. Much like Spice flowing in Dune. The Spice must flow!
The ceasefire loons may be the gift to Trump that gives us a tyrant. It is the fringe left doing what it does best, screwing up everything by refusing to accept facts and history.
abfab
Interesting how much more of a real man Baron has become since the release of Josh’s latest best seller.
Ronbo
More comments from abfab; yet, no new thoughts – only insults and derision. (Yawn) At least try a witty pun, if you can’t bring substance.