While Harrison Butker’s verbal nonsense and Omar Ayuso’s backside 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…
STRANGE TEXT-FELLOWS: Rosie O’Donnell’s unlikely friendship with the disgraced president’s former fixer Michael Cohen is one of the wildest developments exposed in TFG’s hush money trial. [Read all about it on Queerty]
GURL PLEASE: Far-right Republican candidate for Missouri Secretary of State Valentina Gomez went viral and then got royally mocked for her absurdly homophobic campaign video. [Read all about it on LGBTQ Nation]
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BLONDE SUBMISSION: MAGA loon Marjorie Taylor Greene tried to come for Texas Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett by mocking her “fake eyelashes” and got destroyed with an epic ad-lib alliteration retort.
Jasmine Crockett on Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “bleach blonde, bad built, butch body” during a House committee oversight hearing.
— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) May 17, 2024
This started after MTG said her ‘fake eyelashes were messing up her reading’pic.twitter.com/kuPKMFAjFu
MAGA MALL MADNESS: Far-right extremist House Speaker Mike Johnson went on an anti-gay rant raging at Target for selling “this LGBTQ+ Pride stuff.” [Read all about it on LGBTQ Nation]
THE CLOWN SHOW: Some bizarro Trump cosplay happened at his hush money trial as the race to be his #2 heated up with a slew of his complicit MAGA cronies racing to the bottom to try and outdo each other in similar getups. [Read all about it on Queerty]
ALPHA MALE BONDING: Anti-gay Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley posted a pic with misogynistic NFL kicker Harrison Butker to flaunt his masculinity… but the internet thinks something else might be going on. [Read all about it on Queerty]
This is what every gay couple in Seattle looks like https://t.co/4U9I9ye9Ky
— Nikolaj🍦🇺🇦 (@nikicaga) May 16, 2024
SURE JAN: Anti-LGBTQ+ Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert gushed over “pretty” Donald Trump and unleashed a word salad trying to convince absolutely no one that the disgraced ex-president is not sleeping during his trial, but actually praying! [Read all about it on LGBTQ Nation]
MAGA FAMILY VALUES: Donald Trump’s lesbian niece explained exactly why Ivanka and the rest of the disgraced ex-president’s offspring aren’t coming to his trial to support him. [Read all about it on LGBTQ Nation]
FOUR MORE YEARS: President Joe Biden issued a proclamation in honor of International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia & Biphobia. Election Day is November 5th.
On the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, our Administration stands in solidarity with LGBTQI+ people around the world as they seek to live full lives. We will continue to work to advance rights of LGBTQI+ people, as we have since Day One. pic.twitter.com/j2d9bAn2xH
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 17, 2024
still_onthemark
I’ve tried 8 times to make a joke about M T G but I guess that’s not allowed anymore!
abfab
a horse
with out
eye
lashes is not a pretty
sight
eclecticstarz
Would it not be better just to ban the extreme posters and let the rest of as have conversations?
abfab
Don’t expect an answer to that.
still_onthemark
But they are keeping us “safe”… from… something…
abfab
the LOGS, one hopes
inbama
@eclecticstarz
Blogs are about the free exchange of ideas.
Banning is extreme.
still_onthemark
@inbama: They did ban Baron & Shaver, for continually off topic comments thus violating the Policy, or at least that should have been the rationale (imo). But that’s a different issue. This moderation seems to be A I that’s directed by young folx’ fantasies of a “safe” online environment.
abfab
off-topic much?
still_onthemark
@ab: M T G is on topic but I can’t even type M T G. That’s a bit extreme, don’t you think?
abfab
Take a breath
abfab
change her name to
mary tyler moore
abfab
nice to see shaverz comments
removed…that was some
bad
company
bachy
They want “comments” to appear to be a popular site, but they don’t want anyone who will post anything other than praise and agreement. Actual discourse is forbidden now.
abfab
”they”
a new gay horror film
inbama
And then there were one.
abfab
useless negativity
abfab
happy
80th
rudi
Kangol2
Crockett capped the G00n.
Kangol2
@Bachy, exactly.
abfab
notice the way bobert crossed herself
abfab
get creative
discourse is
not forbidden now