While Marlon Brando’s queer past and Heath Thorpe’s perfect 10 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…
FAKE NEWS: Anti-LGBTQ+ House Speaker Mike Johnson got tricked by a false right-wing article accusing President Joe Biden of declaring war on Easter. [Read all about it on LGBTQ Nation]
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LIKE A NINJA: Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg slammed Fox News over its crusade against electric vehicles without even blinking.
Pete Buttigieg on Fox News on EVs: "Sometimes when these debates happen, I feel like it's the early 2000s and I'm talking to people who think we can just have landline phones forever." pic.twitter.com/zrJHsaxjz4
VANISHING ACT: The disgraced ex-president dared TV crews to show the size of his rally crowd… and then one of them did. [Read all about it on Queerty]
KNOW WHO YOUR FRIENDS ARE: While the GOP continues to push anti-LGBTQ+ legislation at home, the Biden Administration condemned Uganda’s Constitutional Court for upholding “kill the gays” law. [Read all about it on LGBTQ Nation]
BIRDS OF A FEATHER: MAGA anti-drag queen Kari Lake’s unhinged Mar-a-Lago fundraiser’s secret weapon was a deranged rant by a disgraced, wine-toting Roseanne Barr. Sad.
At Kari Lake’s fundraising event at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, Roseanne Barr told young people to “drop out of college” while pushing QAnon conspiracies:
DESANTIS’ BEYATCHBOY: Former reality star-turned-Florida GOP Rep. Fabian “Don’t Say Gay” Basabe is demanding he be allowed to join the Miami Beach Pride parade despite no one not wanting him there. [Read all about it on Queerty]
X MARKS THE SPOT: US immigration adds “another” gender box to its forms and right-wingers are howling. [Read all about it on INTO]
MAKE AMERICA DYSTOPIAN AGAIN: TFG’s legacy is making sure as few as possible Americans have domain over their bodies and their medical decisions. Election Day is November 5th.
Voters should know that Trump ended abortion in the entire southern United States. If reelected, he’ll finish what he started and implement a nationwide abortion ban. https://t.co/bp9XpAJlyP
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) April 2, 2024
After he sent over “compromising” images, the lawmaker was asked to share info on other political figures.
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Donald Trump’s Insatiable Bloodlust
April 6, 2024, 7:00 a.m.
Maureen Dowd
By Maureen Dowd
Washington.
An earthquake. An eclipse. A bridge collapse. A freak blizzard. A biblical flood. Donald Trump leading in battleground states.
Apocalyptic vibes are stirred by Trump’s violent rhetoric and talk of blood baths.
If he’s not elected, he bellowed in Ohio, there will be a blood bath in the auto industry. At his Michigan rally on Tuesday, he said there would be a blood bath at the border, speaking from a podium with a banner reading, “Stop Biden’s border blood bath.” He has warned that, without him in the Oval, there will be an “Oppenheimer”-like doomsday; we will lose World War III and America will be devastated by “weapons, the likes of which nobody has ever seen before.”
“And the only thing standing between you and its obliteration is me,” Trump has said.
An unspoken Trump threat is that there will be a blood bath again in Washington, like Jan. 6, if he doesn’t win.
That is why he calls the criminals who stormed the Capitol “hostages” and “unbelievable patriots.” He starts some rallies with a dystopian remix of the national anthem, sung by the “J6 Prison Choir,” and his own reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance.
The bloody-minded Trump luxuriates in the language of tyrants.
The internet is having a blast with these photos of Melania Trump looking peeved at a fundraiser
Some commented that Melania looked like a hostage at Trump’s side, during an event in a billionaire investor’s home
Salon
( She always looked peeved—wouldn’t YOU if your husband was this ugly?)
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Oh…. and apologies to skunks. Sorry.
abfab
(Excerpt-NYT)
Donald Trump’s Insatiable Bloodlust
April 6, 2024, 7:00 a.m.
Maureen Dowd
By Maureen Dowd
Washington.
An earthquake. An eclipse. A bridge collapse. A freak blizzard. A biblical flood. Donald Trump leading in battleground states.
Apocalyptic vibes are stirred by Trump’s violent rhetoric and talk of blood baths.
If he’s not elected, he bellowed in Ohio, there will be a blood bath in the auto industry. At his Michigan rally on Tuesday, he said there would be a blood bath at the border, speaking from a podium with a banner reading, “Stop Biden’s border blood bath.” He has warned that, without him in the Oval, there will be an “Oppenheimer”-like doomsday; we will lose World War III and America will be devastated by “weapons, the likes of which nobody has ever seen before.”
“And the only thing standing between you and its obliteration is me,” Trump has said.
An unspoken Trump threat is that there will be a blood bath again in Washington, like Jan. 6, if he doesn’t win.
That is why he calls the criminals who stormed the Capitol “hostages” and “unbelievable patriots.” He starts some rallies with a dystopian remix of the national anthem, sung by the “J6 Prison Choir,” and his own reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance.
The bloody-minded Trump luxuriates in the language of tyrants.
abfab
The internet is having a blast with these photos of Melania Trump looking peeved at a fundraiser
Some commented that Melania looked like a hostage at Trump’s side, during an event in a billionaire investor’s home
Salon
( She always looked peeved—wouldn’t YOU if your husband was this ugly?)