While Diplo’s sweaty night at a gay circuit party and voting in the 2024 Queerties took over everyone’s social media feeds this week, the political power players 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 SAY DISASTER: After his failed run for president in 2024, Ron “Don’t Say Gay” DeSantis is already blowing up his chances for 2028. [Read all about it on Queerty]
RIGHT-WING LOON: MAGA candidate burns LGBTQ+ books with a flamethrower in an unhinged campaign video. [Read all about it on LGBTQ Nation]
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SASHAY AWAY: Georgia nutbag Marjorie Taylor Greene stormed out of a House Oversight Committee hearing after gay CA Rep. Robert Garcia called out her past support of insurrectionists.
Wow! MTG storms out of hearing after @RepRobertGarcia calls her out on her blatant hypocrisy.
Yep, the same MTG who called Hunter Biden a coward for leaving during her bleating. pic.twitter.com/rAXbzpNLRC
MAGA MONEY: Melania is still missing from her disgraced husband’s reelection campaign but her personal fashion stylist is making out like a bandit as he continues to get over $100K donor-funded salary for so-called “strategy consulting,” new FEC filings reveal. [Read all about it on Queerty]
DARLING NIKKI: GOP presidential hopeful Nikki Haley’s latest public humiliation is starting to make some think that she likes losing a little too much. [Read all about it on LGBTQ Nation]
LEGEND: The GOP’s stunning failure in impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was due to Democratic Rep. Al Green unexpectedly showing up in a wheelchair, barefoot and in hospital scrubs after undergoing surgery to cast his vote against impeachment.
Houstonians have already KNOWN Al Green was about it! ?? @RepAlGreen showed up fresh out of surgery to vote against the sham impeachment inquiry into Secretary of HS Mayorkas.
HORRIBLE HOMOS: Lying expelled GOP Rep. George Santos’ next act has him collaborating with a gay twinky MAGA OnlyFans star. [Read all about it on Queerty]
MAKE DONALD RICH AGAIN: The one-term, twice-impeached, four-time indicted disgraced ex-president is begging his MAGA fans for money to fight “tyranny” after a federal court denied his claim to presidential immunity. [Read all about it on LGBTQ Nation]
NEVER TRUMP: A GOP voter in Pennsylvania spoke for all sane Americans when he revealed who he’s voting for president. Election Day is November 5th.
Pennsylvania Republican voter:
“I love American democracy so much…If it’s a Biden and Trump race, I would vote for Biden even if he was dead.” pic.twitter.com/b1fXoXHkBd
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“”He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (‘if it was 2013 — when did I stop being Vice President?’), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (‘in 2009, am I still Vice President?’),” the report said. “He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.””
That’s our President. And running for re election. Scary.
“difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”
Feeble old man can’t be charged because of his age, but can run for President?
Sadly, Dementia Joe couldn’t even be a Walmart greeter. The greeter needs to know where the departments are in the store. Well, he could use a notecard like the ones his staff currently gives him.
Hey Baron Wiseass, even some Republicans are saying Hur’s report was a hatchet job. And Biden’s memory loss is no more than Trump’s who ass you kiss every day. EWWWWWWWWWWWWW
I’m much younger than the president and I can’t remember years for anything. Whereas Don lies and says he does not remember because admitting things for him are crimes.
Joe’s old. No getting around it, but this isn’t looks like a hatchet job. Whereas Don now admits he wants Russia to invade Europe and he would do nothing except applaud. That’s a real problem.
Butt-hurt people can only attack. Does Queerty ever focus on issues and policy under their label “politics”?
Where are the stories that 86% of the public thinks that one or both candidates are out of touch with reality? They are both elderly old men who don’t represent very many of us. They represent our oligarchs – not actual voters.
The solution is not never-ending wars that profit the few. When is Queerty going to commit journalism – not half-truth propaganda. Instead of gathering pitchforks, we should address the oligarchs’ top-down policy that is destroying our nation.
No Rambo…Q never focuses on that sorta stuff..which shows you really don’t read what they put forth on a daily basis. Stop whining. Go do something for the Homeland.
I would boycott; but, I can’t leave my people to wallow in failed establishment oligarchy nonsense. You’d allow them to divide and conquer us. We can’t ignore that the battle is actually between the Billionaires (who own the establishment media) and everyone else.
Don’t forget that President Obama promised a public option, and all we got was the 1993 Heritage Foundation / Republican alternative to affordable single payer healthcare. No matter the party, we get mostly the same policy.
Who are “your people” Ronno? No one here can do anything about the Presidential candidates but whether we’re happy with them or not there is one who is clearly better than the other when it comes to LGBT issues. One of the candidates put judges in the Supreme Court who have said they want to overturn our rights and it’s not Biden.
So you’re fine with the Republican healthcare plan from the 1990s? Just come out and say it, Dickvaney. You’re a Republican. Hell, I almost did. They’re touting a Detransitioner Bill of Rights. They almost have me convinced.
Every single day The Orange Stain says things that are far more unhinged. Your love for that clown is absolutely disgusting. The four-times-indicted former president polarized with this line: “All I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets.” Trump: “I did not endorse Sen. Lankford. I didn’t do it. He ran, and I did not endorse him.”
Trump made this claim in a radio interview Monday with conservative host Dan Bongino. Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., has drawn the ire of Republicans for negotiating a border deal that his party, at the urging of Trump, quickly rejected. On Sept. 27, 2022, Trump issued a statement giving Lankford his “Complete and Total Endorsement!” Trump: “Nikki Haley was in charge of security. We offered her 10,000 people, soldiers, National Guards, whatever they want. They turned it down. They don’t want to talk about that.”
Trump made this claim at a Jan. 19 campaign event in New Hampshire. He was discussing security at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the day a mob of his supporters stormed the building. Trump appeared to confuse Haley, his competitor in the Republican primary, with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whom he has repeatedly — and falsely — blamed for not adequately securing the Capitol.
I could go on and on and on, but you’ve got your nose so far up his behind I’m sure you’re entire face is orange.
Cottontop, dbmcvy, Hi and abfab have resorted to 1950 memes and thinking; it seems to be what the establishment media desires. Education is more than name calling and insults. It embarrassing to need a third-grade proctor to keep the kids from fighting.
Ronbo is such a hypocrite. As though he is above all this rancor when he’s actually feeding it.
What a sad, lying little fool Ronbo is. Complaining on and on for no reason. He can’t change anyone’s mind and he’ll just keep whining because that’s what he does. He has no solutions, no ideas that would help anything, he just has the very name calling he claims to be against.
Damn, Dickvaney. That description sounds like
you and simping for establishment corporate Democrats year after year. Another case of self protection. Yall need therapy real bad.
“My gut reaction is that they [homosexuals] are security risks,” he told gay activist Robert Vane, according to The Morning News.
After this it seems LGBT+ rights were barely a blip on his radar until the 90s, when Biden’s voting record begins to look decidedly homophobic.
In 1992 he voted to block an amendment that would implement a system for cohabiting same-sex partners, extending rights and benefits that were traditionally reserved for matrimony.
The following year he voted to block the immigration of HIV positive people into the United States. Around this time he also voted for “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”, which deemed homosexuality “incompatible” with military life.
This devastating policy kicked 14,500 LGBT+ service members of out of the military because of their sexuality. Years later as vice president Biden supported its repeal, but at the time he was firmly in favour of the motion.
In 1994 he voted for an amendment to cut off federal funding for schools that taught “acceptance of homosexuality as a lifestyle”.
And in 1996 he was among the many Democrats who voted for the Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defined marriage as between a man and a woman – a considerable setback for LGBT+ equality.
Only 15 years ago:
And he still refused to back marriage equality in his vice-presidential campaign. Asked at a July 2007 campaign event if he saw same-sex marriage happening in the next five years, Biden replied simply: “I don’t.”
His dementia must of have him perplexed on where he stands and his view towards LGBT. His track record proves that, until he chose to pander to a particular voting base.
Anyone care to share Donald Trump’s negative quotes on LGBTQ? There are none. Ever.
Donald Trump did an interview with The Advocate magazine back in 2000 when he was first considering a presidential run. It is a very good interview and I’m rather surprised The Advocate hasn’t taken it offline.
“In all truth, I don’t care whether or not a person is gay. I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit. Being in the entertainment business — that is, owning casinos and … several large beauty pageants — I’ve worked with many gay people. I have met some tough, talented, capable, terrific people. Their lifestyle is of no interest to me.”
Pre-teen beauty pageants. The same ones you either attend or still watch on betamax tapes. I bet you even know waht happend to Jon Benet Ramsey. Confess Barron Wiseman.
Yup. And these are the same people dredging up The Central Park Five. The same people who nod their bobbleheads whenever Joe Biden launches into a meandering tale about Cornpop and two men kissing in the 1960s. They just wallpapered over the 1990s. And they like to say y’all Trump supporters would eat some doo-doo off Fifth Avenue. Little Trumpy McAbs (see above) would ravenously chomp a Biden turd on Pennsylvania Avenue and tear it in two with his yellowed, jack-jawed teeth. All while singing the theme song to ‘The Flying Nun’ with a psychotic grin on his face.
Yes, I thought it sounded good at the Republican convention in 2016 that Trump voiced support for gays. But he is utterly crazy. That overrides anything good you could say about him.
The LGBTQ establishment doesn’t always weigh people fairly on their support for gay rights. Consider the case of Bernie Sanders vs Hillary Clinton. Bernie had a 100% rating at HRC, but they still endorsed Hillary Clinton before any primary votes were cast.
Yup. Politics on both sides? It comes down to money. Not for the good of the people. I’ve been saying “Both parties are the same” since 2016. Since the only difference is culture war issues, I’m halfway siding with the Republicans who seem halfway sympathetic to detransitioners. Like most people, I vote on issues that correlate with my life. I don’t see Queerty commenters getting off their asses. As I always say, to quote Michelle Obama, “It is what it is.” (Shrugs)
@decrans: “Since the only difference [between the parties] is culture war issues…”
Really? The ONLY difference?
Personally, I agree with you more and more about detransitioners and the inability of minors to legally consent to puberty blockers, etc. I’m utterly mystified at how we’re all expected to blast JK Rowling as a horrible transphobe when she’s never actually said or written anything transphobic, and Queerty never questions this b.s. or even looks into it. I’m even more mystified at how a bunch of green-haired young white women suddenly decide they’re “nonbinary” and therefore Q and therefore they get to barge into the “LGBTQ+ community” and order us around, and Queerty tells us this is somehow progress. Fk that.
But even among the “culture war issues” there’s one that dwarfs all of the above: abortion rights. If anyone expects me to vote for the party that’s already throwing women in jail for “suspicious” miscarriages, they’ll be disappointed. And they want to outlaw contraception too! Yeah, yeah, I realize Trump doesn’t give a sh!t at a personal level about abortion (or gay rights) but he created the situation with the three appointments he brags about to his worshippers.
There are many economic and foreign policy issues that are much important than the culture war stuff, and Republicans are usually worse on all of them. In November I’ll be voting to keep the US in NATO and prevent Russia from taking over half of Europe AGAIN.
I’m sure Trump is also pro-abortion but he still appointed the judges who overturned Roe. Whatever Trump says it doesn’t matter. He’ll do what his disgusting base expects him to.
Kudos to Queerty for joining scumbag Trump in perpetual criticism of Nikki Haley. He questioned the whereabouts of her husband today, who is deployed in Africa.
The press has taken Trump’s comments out of context. He is not always the best at a clear message; sometimes this may be done on purpose. If he read off a teleprompter, there would be less confusion; but then Trump wouldn’t be Trump.
Oddly enough, yesterday the New York Times got his remarks and the meaning correct in an article titled, ‘Trump Insinuates Haley’s Husband Deployed to Escape Her.’
“Former President Donald J. Trump continued his aggressive attacks on Nikki Haley Saturday, insinuating at a rally in South Carolina that her husband, a National Guardsmen, left for a deployment in order to escape her.
“What happened to her husband? Where is he?” Mr. Trump said to a crowd in Conway, S.C. “He’s gone.”
He then paused, before adding suggestively: “He knew. He knew.”
Ronbo shrieked at me on this site for saying that gay men support Don the Con, but Baronin proves again and again that he is utterly besotted with that racist, rapist ogre psychopathic traitor Don the Con, and is defending him yet again, so there you go.
At any rate, FreddieW, I agree with you here; Don the Con’s attack on Nikki Haley’s husband and his insinuation were beyond the pale, including his insinuation about her. He is the self-admitted sex assaulter, not her. He is the convicted sex assaulter, not her. He is the one whose first wife said he raped her, whose second wife he effectively abandoned, and whose third wife he whored around on with porn actors and sex workers, lying about it and committing campaign finance fraud to cover it up. He’s the one accused of repeatedly attacking and raping women, including allegedly a 13-year-old, in the company of Jeffrey Epstein, no less. Donnie Demento, not Nikki Haley.
He should NEVER open his mouth about anyone else’s spouse. His current own one acts like he’s a walking Chernobyl (which, to be fair, he is.)
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Hi
“”He did not remember when he was vice president, forgetting on the first day of the interview when his term ended (‘if it was 2013 — when did I stop being Vice President?’), and forgetting on the second day of the interview when his term began (‘in 2009, am I still Vice President?’),” the report said. “He did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died.””
That’s our President. And running for re election. Scary.
“difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”
Feeble old man can’t be charged because of his age, but can run for President?
Warmonger Joe.
abfab
Failure, again. Another sad republican whoring himself out for Donald Trump. Have a nice day. Bye Hi.
Baron Wiseman
@Hi
Sadly, Dementia Joe couldn’t even be a Walmart greeter. The greeter needs to know where the departments are in the store. Well, he could use a notecard like the ones his staff currently gives him.
abfab
Walmart WIseman. Say hello to Casey and Ron.
Mack
Hey Baron Wiseass, even some Republicans are saying Hur’s report was a hatchet job. And Biden’s memory loss is no more than Trump’s who ass you kiss every day. EWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Baron Wiseman
@Mack
Which Republicans? Let’s have names, please.
abfab
Google it. You’re very good with that.
decrans
Ana Navarro doesn’t count. To my recollection, she said only one traditionally Republican viewpoint during her decade tenure on ‘The View.’
waynef1
Any veteran that votes for this draft dodging idiot that called fallen soldiers “losers’ , only brings shame to his fallen comrades
Hi
waynef1.
Biden did indeed dodge the draft. 5 different times. He cited asthma, but so show managed to play football and lifeguard?
We all know he’s a bumbling idiot. Or as the NYT says, crotchety old man.
prehbine
And so you’re going to vote for Donald and why again???
dbmcvey
If the other option is Trump (or Haley for that matter) I will vote for Biden no matter what.
LumpyPillows
I’m much younger than the president and I can’t remember years for anything. Whereas Don lies and says he does not remember because admitting things for him are crimes.
Joe’s old. No getting around it, but this isn’t looks like a hatchet job. Whereas Don now admits he wants Russia to invade Europe and he would do nothing except applaud. That’s a real problem.
Ronbo
Butt-hurt people can only attack. Does Queerty ever focus on issues and policy under their label “politics”?
Where are the stories that 86% of the public thinks that one or both candidates are out of touch with reality? They are both elderly old men who don’t represent very many of us. They represent our oligarchs – not actual voters.
The solution is not never-ending wars that profit the few. When is Queerty going to commit journalism – not half-truth propaganda. Instead of gathering pitchforks, we should address the oligarchs’ top-down policy that is destroying our nation.
abfab
No Rambo…Q never focuses on that sorta stuff..which shows you really don’t read what they put forth on a daily basis. Stop whining. Go do something for the Homeland.
dbmcvey
I agree Ronbo, you should boycott Queerty!
Ronbo
I would boycott; but, I can’t leave my people to wallow in failed establishment oligarchy nonsense. You’d allow them to divide and conquer us. We can’t ignore that the battle is actually between the Billionaires (who own the establishment media) and everyone else.
Don’t forget that President Obama promised a public option, and all we got was the 1993 Heritage Foundation / Republican alternative to affordable single payer healthcare. No matter the party, we get mostly the same policy.
dbmcvey
Who are “your people” Ronno? No one here can do anything about the Presidential candidates but whether we’re happy with them or not there is one who is clearly better than the other when it comes to LGBT issues. One of the candidates put judges in the Supreme Court who have said they want to overturn our rights and it’s not Biden.
decrans
Say it louder for Zzbomb in the back, Ronbo.
dbmcvey
Ronbo and Decraps, the gaslight twins.
decrans
So you’re fine with the Republican healthcare plan from the 1990s? Just come out and say it, Dickvaney. You’re a Republican. Hell, I almost did. They’re touting a Detransitioner Bill of Rights. They almost have me convinced.
COTTONTOP
Every single day The Orange Stain says things that are far more unhinged. Your love for that clown is absolutely disgusting. The four-times-indicted former president polarized with this line: “All I know about magnets is this, give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets, that’s the end of the magnets.” Trump: “I did not endorse Sen. Lankford. I didn’t do it. He ran, and I did not endorse him.”
Trump made this claim in a radio interview Monday with conservative host Dan Bongino. Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., has drawn the ire of Republicans for negotiating a border deal that his party, at the urging of Trump, quickly rejected. On Sept. 27, 2022, Trump issued a statement giving Lankford his “Complete and Total Endorsement!” Trump: “Nikki Haley was in charge of security. We offered her 10,000 people, soldiers, National Guards, whatever they want. They turned it down. They don’t want to talk about that.”
Trump made this claim at a Jan. 19 campaign event in New Hampshire. He was discussing security at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the day a mob of his supporters stormed the building. Trump appeared to confuse Haley, his competitor in the Republican primary, with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whom he has repeatedly — and falsely — blamed for not adequately securing the Capitol.
I could go on and on and on, but you’ve got your nose so far up his behind I’m sure you’re entire face is orange.
Hi
Cottontop:
Go back to China.
abfab
That would make you so happy if COTTONTOP went back to China. Hi, you are common and boring, just as you were before you changed your name to Hi.
Hi
abfab.
Well racist Nancy Pelosi is the one who recently scolded, ‘Go Back to China’ to Pro Palestine protesters.
You make it too easy to fall for the bait.
abfab
I really do.
dbmcvey
Hi, go back to Russia.
Ronbo
Cottontop, dbmcvy, Hi and abfab have resorted to 1950 memes and thinking; it seems to be what the establishment media desires. Education is more than name calling and insults. It embarrassing to need a third-grade proctor to keep the kids from fighting.
dbmcvey
Ronbo is such a hypocrite. As though he is above all this rancor when he’s actually feeding it.
What a sad, lying little fool Ronbo is. Complaining on and on for no reason. He can’t change anyone’s mind and he’ll just keep whining because that’s what he does. He has no solutions, no ideas that would help anything, he just has the very name calling he claims to be against.
decrans
Damn, Dickvaney. That description sounds like
you and simping for establishment corporate Democrats year after year. Another case of self protection. Yall need therapy real bad.
decrans
* projection
dbmcvey
decraps
*gaslight
decrans
Aw. There goes Dickvaney using his three token phrases again after being backed into a corner. It’s a recurring theme.
Hi
“My gut reaction is that they [homosexuals] are security risks,” he told gay activist Robert Vane, according to The Morning News.
After this it seems LGBT+ rights were barely a blip on his radar until the 90s, when Biden’s voting record begins to look decidedly homophobic.
In 1992 he voted to block an amendment that would implement a system for cohabiting same-sex partners, extending rights and benefits that were traditionally reserved for matrimony.
The following year he voted to block the immigration of HIV positive people into the United States. Around this time he also voted for “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”, which deemed homosexuality “incompatible” with military life.
This devastating policy kicked 14,500 LGBT+ service members of out of the military because of their sexuality. Years later as vice president Biden supported its repeal, but at the time he was firmly in favour of the motion.
In 1994 he voted for an amendment to cut off federal funding for schools that taught “acceptance of homosexuality as a lifestyle”.
And in 1996 he was among the many Democrats who voted for the Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defined marriage as between a man and a woman – a considerable setback for LGBT+ equality.
Only 15 years ago:
And he still refused to back marriage equality in his vice-presidential campaign. Asked at a July 2007 campaign event if he saw same-sex marriage happening in the next five years, Biden replied simply: “I don’t.”
His dementia must of have him perplexed on where he stands and his view towards LGBT. His track record proves that, until he chose to pander to a particular voting base.
Anyone care to share Donald Trump’s negative quotes on LGBTQ? There are none. Ever.
Baron Wiseman
@Hi
Donald Trump did an interview with The Advocate magazine back in 2000 when he was first considering a presidential run. It is a very good interview and I’m rather surprised The Advocate hasn’t taken it offline.
“In all truth, I don’t care whether or not a person is gay. I judge people based on their capability, honesty, and merit. Being in the entertainment business — that is, owning casinos and … several large beauty pageants — I’ve worked with many gay people. I have met some tough, talented, capable, terrific people. Their lifestyle is of no interest to me.”
abfab
Pre-teen beauty pageants. The same ones you either attend or still watch on betamax tapes. I bet you even know waht happend to Jon Benet Ramsey. Confess Barron Wiseman.
decrans
Yup. And these are the same people dredging up The Central Park Five. The same people who nod their bobbleheads whenever Joe Biden launches into a meandering tale about Cornpop and two men kissing in the 1960s. They just wallpapered over the 1990s. And they like to say y’all Trump supporters would eat some doo-doo off Fifth Avenue. Little Trumpy McAbs (see above) would ravenously chomp a Biden turd on Pennsylvania Avenue and tear it in two with his yellowed, jack-jawed teeth. All while singing the theme song to ‘The Flying Nun’ with a psychotic grin on his face.
FreddieW
Yes, I thought it sounded good at the Republican convention in 2016 that Trump voiced support for gays. But he is utterly crazy. That overrides anything good you could say about him.
The LGBTQ establishment doesn’t always weigh people fairly on their support for gay rights. Consider the case of Bernie Sanders vs Hillary Clinton. Bernie had a 100% rating at HRC, but they still endorsed Hillary Clinton before any primary votes were cast.
decrans
Yup. Politics on both sides? It comes down to money. Not for the good of the people. I’ve been saying “Both parties are the same” since 2016. Since the only difference is culture war issues, I’m halfway siding with the Republicans who seem halfway sympathetic to detransitioners. Like most people, I vote on issues that correlate with my life. I don’t see Queerty commenters getting off their asses. As I always say, to quote Michelle Obama, “It is what it is.” (Shrugs)
still_onthemark
@decrans: “Since the only difference [between the parties] is culture war issues…”
Really? The ONLY difference?
Personally, I agree with you more and more about detransitioners and the inability of minors to legally consent to puberty blockers, etc. I’m utterly mystified at how we’re all expected to blast JK Rowling as a horrible transphobe when she’s never actually said or written anything transphobic, and Queerty never questions this b.s. or even looks into it. I’m even more mystified at how a bunch of green-haired young white women suddenly decide they’re “nonbinary” and therefore Q and therefore they get to barge into the “LGBTQ+ community” and order us around, and Queerty tells us this is somehow progress. Fk that.
But even among the “culture war issues” there’s one that dwarfs all of the above: abortion rights. If anyone expects me to vote for the party that’s already throwing women in jail for “suspicious” miscarriages, they’ll be disappointed. And they want to outlaw contraception too! Yeah, yeah, I realize Trump doesn’t give a sh!t at a personal level about abortion (or gay rights) but he created the situation with the three appointments he brags about to his worshippers.
There are many economic and foreign policy issues that are much important than the culture war stuff, and Republicans are usually worse on all of them. In November I’ll be voting to keep the US in NATO and prevent Russia from taking over half of Europe AGAIN.
Baron Wiseman
@still_onthemark
If Biden is too senile to be charged, is he too senile to be president?
still_onthemark
A “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” vs. an unsympathetic, malevolent, elderly man with a poor memory… hmmm…
dbmcvey
I’m sure Trump is also pro-abortion but he still appointed the judges who overturned Roe. Whatever Trump says it doesn’t matter. He’ll do what his disgusting base expects him to.
FreddieW
Kudos to Queerty for joining scumbag Trump in perpetual criticism of Nikki Haley. He questioned the whereabouts of her husband today, who is deployed in Africa.
abfab
Not that I care, and you would know Frederika, where is Melania. Deployed?
Baron Wiseman
@FreddieW
The press has taken Trump’s comments out of context. He is not always the best at a clear message; sometimes this may be done on purpose. If he read off a teleprompter, there would be less confusion; but then Trump wouldn’t be Trump.
Oddly enough, yesterday the New York Times got his remarks and the meaning correct in an article titled, ‘Trump Insinuates Haley’s Husband Deployed to Escape Her.’
“Former President Donald J. Trump continued his aggressive attacks on Nikki Haley Saturday, insinuating at a rally in South Carolina that her husband, a National Guardsmen, left for a deployment in order to escape her.
“What happened to her husband? Where is he?” Mr. Trump said to a crowd in Conway, S.C. “He’s gone.”
He then paused, before adding suggestively: “He knew. He knew.”
FreddieW
@Baron Wiseman
I fail to see how that improves his remarks.
dbmcvey
They didn’t take his comments out of context. There is no context that would make what he said okay.
dbmcvey
“but then Trump wouldn’t be Trump.” As though that’s a bad thing.
Kangol2
Ronbo shrieked at me on this site for saying that gay men support Don the Con, but Baronin proves again and again that he is utterly besotted with that racist, rapist ogre psychopathic traitor Don the Con, and is defending him yet again, so there you go.
At any rate, FreddieW, I agree with you here; Don the Con’s attack on Nikki Haley’s husband and his insinuation were beyond the pale, including his insinuation about her. He is the self-admitted sex assaulter, not her. He is the convicted sex assaulter, not her. He is the one whose first wife said he raped her, whose second wife he effectively abandoned, and whose third wife he whored around on with porn actors and sex workers, lying about it and committing campaign finance fraud to cover it up. He’s the one accused of repeatedly attacking and raping women, including allegedly a 13-year-old, in the company of Jeffrey Epstein, no less. Donnie Demento, not Nikki Haley.
He should NEVER open his mouth about anyone else’s spouse. His current own one acts like he’s a walking Chernobyl (which, to be fair, he is.)
Ronbo
Keep infighting, the oligarchs demand that we attack each other while they choose the policy.
abfab
How simplistic.
Ronbo
The truth is often the most simple. Try it or at least stick to it; the name-calling is just childish.
abfab
Sure, Scott.
abfab
Donald Trump is fine with abortion.
Marla Maples: ”I’m pregnant.”
Donald Trump: ”Do somthing with it.”
(but out came TIffany and he was like, ”see you later bitch’. (my wording)