Melania’s power move, Ron “Don’t Say Gay” DeSantis’ dirty little secret, & Hillary Clinton unleashes
By Johnny Lopez · 11 comments· Updated on October 9, 2023
While the steamy new Fellow Travelers trailer and Madonna’s latest transformation took over everyone’s social media feeds this week, the political power players were busy doing all sorts of things while you weren’t looking. Here’s just a few of the stories that you really need to know about it.
MAKE ALIMONY GREAT AGAIN: Melania Trump is trying to do all she can to protect what is owed to her should her marriage to the one term, twice impeached, four-time indicted ex-president come to a sudden end. [Read all about it on Queerty]
QUEEN OF THE HILL: Laphonza Butler was sworn in as US Senator from California, becoming the first out LGBTQ+ person of color to serve as a senator. [Read all about it on LGBTQ Nation]
PAYING RESPECT: The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus honored the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s years of advocacy for the LGBTQ+ community with a touching performance of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus sang the "The Star-Spangled Banner" in a final tribute to the late Senator Dianne Feinstein who is lying in state at city hall. Here's how to watch Thursday's memorial on ABC7: https://t.co/mYWqyun3Pzpic.twitter.com/7jYuolQRDI
THEY ARE ON A BREAK: Sen. John Fetterman flexed his Gen X meme game by trashing GOP nutbag Marjorie Taylor Green in an epic fashion & proved they are not friends. [See and read all about it on Queerty]
WORKING STIFF: MAGA lapdog Matt Gaetz is getting called out by fellow Republicans for allegedly engaging in all-night romps with young girls while amped up on erectile dysfunction meds. [Read all about it on LGBTQ Nation]
PETTY CRIME: Lara Trump released a cover of Tom Petty’s 1989 hit “I Won’t Back Down” and attempted to “sing” it live. Thoughts and prayers!
Lara Trump sang her “original” version of Tom Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down” and it went as horribly as you’d expect. pic.twitter.com/xkTyVAWspr
DON’T SAY BOOTYLICIOUS: Ron “Don’t Say Gay” DeSantis has been exposed for being a smaller man than even previously imagined. [Read all about it on Queerty]
SORRY HOMOPHOBES: Delaware became the 17th US state to ban the “gay and trans panic” legal defense with bipartisan support. [Read all about it on LGBTQ Nation]
DEPLORABLES 2.0: Hillary Clinton doesn’t mince words when asked about Jim Jordan and MAGA extremists.
Hillary Clinton reacts to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) running for House Speaker:
“I don’t know him well. I watched him and stared at him for 11 hours while he made stuff up about me … He is one of the principal ringleaders of the circus that’s been created in the Republican Party.” pic.twitter.com/mBoZLX6aoF
It’s Day 5 of Trump’s fraud trial and, so far, everything is going terribly for the ex-president.
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I’m so glad the GOPTROLLS have something to chew on for a while. Jim Jordon. Now they have some other homophobe to worship and adore. He’s so macho.
“I don’t know him well. I watched him and stared at him for 11 hours while he made stuff up about me … He is one of the principal ringleaders of the circus that’s been created in the Republican Party.”
We all need to wake up! “We came, we saw, he died. Ha Ha ha” – actual video of Hillary bragging that as Sect. of State she engaged a regime change leading to the largest refugee movement in history (greater than the Holocuast)! The result? Europe was flooded with refugees and their populations turned to the right politicallt embracing and electing far-right leadership. Was this result by choice or by stupidity?
When forced to choose between a rock and a hard place, (tRump, Clinton) everyone lost. It’s time to look for a party that pushes “peace” instead of war. Aiming and arming up for WWIII TODAY isn’t a solution; perhaps we should respect actual treaties when WE sign them. NATO pushing up to the Russian front was specifically banned … unless you are a warmonger like Victoria Newland or a Hillary Clinton.
If the situation in Libya in 2011 was black and white, then sure it would be Hillary the Tyrant cackling as chaos reigned. But the truth was complicated, just as all foreign policy is complicated. Libya was in the midst of the Arab Spring uprising and Qaddafi was using military force to annihilate any protests. He was doing it with such brutality that even Russia and China did nothing to oppose a UN Security Council measure to impose a cease fire to protect both the rebels and the civilians about to be caught in the crossfire.
What happened next was again complicated; a mix of admirable diplomacy, good intentions, bad intentions, hubris, pragmatism, and aggression. The coalition went through proper channels and did nothing unilaterally, and enforced a cease fire which cost the lives of no coalition troops, and no soldiers stepped foot in Libya as part of an invasion. The US provided equipment and expertise but “led from behind” on this one. The coalition also exceeded its mandate – instead of just protecting the status quo which staved off a Qaddafi bombardment of Benghazi, it pushed his forces back and gave aid to the new rebellion, allowing them to eventually seize the country and violently end Qaddafi’s rule and life. The rebels were part of a temporary alliance and once Qaddafi was gone, stability broke down into civil war, which was inevitable. The US naively expected European allies to step in to help prevent that, but every single puppet master war in the Middle East should have taught them this is always inevitable. The conflict reached Benghazi, US diplomats were killed, and Hillary endured blame and praise for her response during the investigation, which accidentally led to the circus about her email server. If it weren’t for Libya, she may well have become president, so I’m sure she’s clued into the consequences too.
If the US had stayed out of Libya then we’d have avoided destabilizing yet another Middle Eastern country. We’d also have allowed a ruthless despot to massacre thousands of his own people. I get the inclination to stop interfering and leave these countries to fight their own battles, but I doubt the citizens of Bosnia, Rwanda, Taiwan or South Korea have the same view. It’s complicated, and Hillary Clinton understood that well enough. She is an hawk, yes, but she also understands how to stand up to someone like Putin or Xi who will always take advantage whenever he senses weakness. Putin sensed weakness in Syria and Ukraine with Obama and Trump, and he’ll take full advantage if any naive leaders who extol the value of peace without pragmatism manage to take power.
Finally, someone who’s influential (in this case, Hillary) is stating that which has been obvious to so many of us for so long: The current crop of GOP politicians really doesn’t understand the meaning of politics in a democracy: the art of “meeting in the middle.” They’re only interested in getting enough power in order to quash any and all opposing views. Their way only works in authoritarian societies, which appears to be something which they support.
JFK on Russia 1963
“So let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal.”
Read the entire speech if you think that WWIII might not be the best choice. The two war parties agree on very few items – this should scare everyone.
Both parties supported $46,,000,000,000 increases in DoD spending from Fiscal Year 2021 to 2022. This was driven by a large contract to Lockheed Martin in Texas, increases in contracts to General Dynamics and Raytheon in Connecticut.
Seems corporations profit from war – so they must be plentiful with shock and awe. Healthy citizens? Not as important as profiteering. Single payer is quite difficult to engage; only 22 of the 23 top nations have been able to make it work.
Jocobin 2023
“To put such a figure in perspective, the $75 billion in Pentagon contracts awarded to Lockheed Martin that year was significantly more than one-and-a-half times the entire 2020 budget for the State Department and the Agency for International Development, which together totaled $44 billion.”
“Make war, not peace” is the neoliberal motto. Imperialism from BOTH Russia and the USA makes us competitors for Ukraine. What did JFK say that threatened the MIC? See above.
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abfab
I’m so glad the GOPTROLLS have something to chew on for a while. Jim Jordon. Now they have some other homophobe to worship and adore. He’s so macho.
“I don’t know him well. I watched him and stared at him for 11 hours while he made stuff up about me … He is one of the principal ringleaders of the circus that’s been created in the Republican Party.”
cuteguy
Hilary was right about Roe V Wade and she’s right about the GQP aka Nazi Party being a cult to Trump Hitler.
And everyone already knew that pudding fingers Duh-Santis was a small man, figuratively, and now literally. Florida needs to wake up
Ronbo
We all need to wake up! “We came, we saw, he died. Ha Ha ha” – actual video of Hillary bragging that as Sect. of State she engaged a regime change leading to the largest refugee movement in history (greater than the Holocuast)! The result? Europe was flooded with refugees and their populations turned to the right politicallt embracing and electing far-right leadership. Was this result by choice or by stupidity?
When forced to choose between a rock and a hard place, (tRump, Clinton) everyone lost. It’s time to look for a party that pushes “peace” instead of war. Aiming and arming up for WWIII TODAY isn’t a solution; perhaps we should respect actual treaties when WE sign them. NATO pushing up to the Russian front was specifically banned … unless you are a warmonger like Victoria Newland or a Hillary Clinton.
Look at the actions, not the words.
smittoons
If the situation in Libya in 2011 was black and white, then sure it would be Hillary the Tyrant cackling as chaos reigned. But the truth was complicated, just as all foreign policy is complicated. Libya was in the midst of the Arab Spring uprising and Qaddafi was using military force to annihilate any protests. He was doing it with such brutality that even Russia and China did nothing to oppose a UN Security Council measure to impose a cease fire to protect both the rebels and the civilians about to be caught in the crossfire.
What happened next was again complicated; a mix of admirable diplomacy, good intentions, bad intentions, hubris, pragmatism, and aggression. The coalition went through proper channels and did nothing unilaterally, and enforced a cease fire which cost the lives of no coalition troops, and no soldiers stepped foot in Libya as part of an invasion. The US provided equipment and expertise but “led from behind” on this one. The coalition also exceeded its mandate – instead of just protecting the status quo which staved off a Qaddafi bombardment of Benghazi, it pushed his forces back and gave aid to the new rebellion, allowing them to eventually seize the country and violently end Qaddafi’s rule and life. The rebels were part of a temporary alliance and once Qaddafi was gone, stability broke down into civil war, which was inevitable. The US naively expected European allies to step in to help prevent that, but every single puppet master war in the Middle East should have taught them this is always inevitable. The conflict reached Benghazi, US diplomats were killed, and Hillary endured blame and praise for her response during the investigation, which accidentally led to the circus about her email server. If it weren’t for Libya, she may well have become president, so I’m sure she’s clued into the consequences too.
If the US had stayed out of Libya then we’d have avoided destabilizing yet another Middle Eastern country. We’d also have allowed a ruthless despot to massacre thousands of his own people. I get the inclination to stop interfering and leave these countries to fight their own battles, but I doubt the citizens of Bosnia, Rwanda, Taiwan or South Korea have the same view. It’s complicated, and Hillary Clinton understood that well enough. She is an hawk, yes, but she also understands how to stand up to someone like Putin or Xi who will always take advantage whenever he senses weakness. Putin sensed weakness in Syria and Ukraine with Obama and Trump, and he’ll take full advantage if any naive leaders who extol the value of peace without pragmatism manage to take power.
mateo
Finally, someone who’s influential (in this case, Hillary) is stating that which has been obvious to so many of us for so long: The current crop of GOP politicians really doesn’t understand the meaning of politics in a democracy: the art of “meeting in the middle.” They’re only interested in getting enough power in order to quash any and all opposing views. Their way only works in authoritarian societies, which appears to be something which they support.
Ronbo
JFK on Russia 1963
“So let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal.”
Read the entire speech if you think that WWIII might not be the best choice. The two war parties agree on very few items – this should scare everyone.
Ronbo
Both parties supported $46,,000,000,000 increases in DoD spending from Fiscal Year 2021 to 2022. This was driven by a large contract to Lockheed Martin in Texas, increases in contracts to General Dynamics and Raytheon in Connecticut.
Seems corporations profit from war – so they must be plentiful with shock and awe. Healthy citizens? Not as important as profiteering. Single payer is quite difficult to engage; only 22 of the 23 top nations have been able to make it work.
Ronbo
Jocobin 2023
“To put such a figure in perspective, the $75 billion in Pentagon contracts awarded to Lockheed Martin that year was significantly more than one-and-a-half times the entire 2020 budget for the State Department and the Agency for International Development, which together totaled $44 billion.”
“Make war, not peace” is the neoliberal motto. Imperialism from BOTH Russia and the USA makes us competitors for Ukraine. What did JFK say that threatened the MIC? See above.
Ronbo
A Billion $, a Trillion $; regardless, only corporations working with government will get it. Over the years, it adds up.
abfab
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Diplomat
That rendition of Star Spangled Banner by the SF Gay Chorus was in-fuking-credible.