By now, we are all familiar with the notorious tale of the Senate twink.
For some unknown reason, a Democratic aide decided to get plowed in a Senate hearing room recently and then post video of his sexual shenanigans on Instagram.
Unsurprisingly, this led to an entire weekend of reaction. There have been jokes, puns and appropriately, condemnations. Having sex in the Senate, and then filming it, is not a good idea–especially if you want to keep your job!
How about we take this to the next level?
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The staffer, who worked for Senator Ben Cardin, was relieved of his duties. But that hasn’t stopped right-wingers from using the aid’s ill-advised acts as a way to demonize LGBTQ+ people and Democrats.
Oh, let the bad faith arguments and false equivalencies roll in!
As part of their never-ending efforts to defend the January 6 insurrectionists, MAGA heads are claiming one twink’s Senate sodomy is worse than desecrating the Capitol in an effort to overthrow the election.
With anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric soaring, right-wing trolls have ratcheted up their attempts to paint queer Democratic political appointees as sexual deviants.
Few have experienced more harassment than Tyler Cherry, the comms director for the Interior Department who homophobes can’t stand.
Earlier this fall, The Blaze targeted Cherry with homophobic abuse. The outlet tweeted out a picture of them slaying in a striped blazer, black turtleneck, and gold hoop earrings. The implications were gross and obvious.
The attack was grotesque for a number of reasons, beginning with the fact that Cherry is very well-accomplished. Before joining the Department of Interior, they served as Director of Rapid Response for the Biden-Harris team’s Arizona campaign and Director of Public Affairs at political consulting firm SKDK.
In 2023, they appeared on Forbes‘ 30 Under 30 – Media list.
Other out LGBTQ+ officials in the Biden Administration, including assistant health secretary Rachel Levine, have also been slandered and misgendered.
Biden employs numerous high-ranking out officials, such as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and White House comms director Ben LaBolt.
Few things agitate right-wingers more than successful LGBTQ+ folx, especially those in important positions. They will not rest until we are torn down.
With that in mind, they’ve used the infamous Senate twink as a way to paint gay people as perverted and unfit to serve.
They are also, of course, trying to use him as a way to take down Joe Biden.
Few Republican politicians have been more shameless than Rep. Mike Collins, whose post about the matter violated Twitter X’s rules, which is very hard to accomplish these days.
Obviously, no Democratic official condones the Senate twink’s behavior, and let’s be honest: he’s almost certainly not the first person to commit devious sexual acts in a government building.
But Republicans are going to make it seem like that, despite the litany of sexual criminals and perverts who have worked under the GOP masthead.
They will never allow reality to get in the way of a good smear job.
CatholicXXX
First the guy that went topless in front of the white house and now this.
Conservatives don’t even have to try to change the narrative.
Keep it zipped. It’s not that difficult.
dbmcvey
And it’s much easier for them to scream about this than address the way they’re taking away women’s rights to control their bodies and endangering them to dangerous and possibly deadly forced labor.
ZzBomb
Conservatives have no place to speak on anything or anyone’s sexual nature or encounters.
If you’d like a list of names, I can easily produce it of all the conservatives caught pants down, literally, in far more precarious situations involving children no less. A consenting, adult, non-elected twink hardly qualifies as scandal.
DarkZephyr
Which guy went topless, CatholicXXX? What are you talking about?
Baron Wiseman
@DarkZephyr
Trans influencer, Rose Montoya, pulled down her dress and grabbed her fake breasts, according to a video that was widely circulated on social media. The White House was forced to condemn the act and ban Montoya from visiting the White House again.
dbmcvey
@DarkZephyr
He’s being transphobic.
Diplomat
db,
“than address the way they’re taking away women’s rights to control their bodies” and then there’s the tranzies invading women’s sports locker rooms and showers also violating women’s bodies just like the Rs. Tranzies are just str8 Rs in dems clothing. We can’t make laws against Rs but we can make them against tranzies as is happening nation wide. They make Rs look like mother Teresa.
Diplomat
db,
There is no such thing as transphobic bc there is no such thing as trans except in your deluded mind. Going from male to female is impossible. Dream on.
dbmcvey
Diplo, there is absolutely transphobia as both your posts show.
dbmcvey
Also, dips, you’re aware that the Ben Shapiro people had to make their movie into a comedy rather than a documentary because when they actually went out they found men playing in girls sports wasn’t really happening.
But, you don’t really care about girls sports unless you can use them to bash trans people.
Diplomat
Riley Gaines of the professional swimmer (male) Lia Thomas’ dick in women’s locker rooms ad nauseam stolen awards story has reported she receives communication from high school and college girls from all over the country about men/ fake women in their locker rooms and showers, hence laws are made to stop you people from sexualy abusing women.
Also, what is the name of this Ben Shapiro movie you are referring to?
Diplomat
You’re cornered, You have no defense. May the laws against your heinous acts blossom.
dbmcvey
Of course this is all a lot of outrage over ridiculousness, but that aide is a major idiot.
ZzBomb
yeah that was a dumb thing to do, but it’s not like he was showing off someone else’s sex pics which he distributed without the person’s consent from a stolen laptop that’s not theirs while children watched.
Yeah know, republican “family values” stuff!?
dbmcvey
Yeah, he’s still better than Marge Greene.
Baron Wiseman
The Democratic legislative aide (let’s not use his name) to Sen. Ben Cardin (D. Md.) was the same staffer who screamed “Free Palestine” to Rep. Max Miller when he confronted the congressman in the Cannon House Office Building. Miller previously told the media that the staffer came up to him “visibly shaking” as he was talking to NBC News’s Ali Vitali.
“We’re just having a casual conversation, and out of nowhere, this guy beelines up to me visibly shaking—he’s very upset in my presence because he’s a snowflake,” Miller said Wednesday. “And he just comes right back up to me and was like, ‘Free Palestine.’ And I was like, ‘Okay.’ … I’m not going to give him a reaction because that’s what he wants.”
This Democratic staffer supporting the destruction of Israel and the Israelis as they are literally fighting for their lives against evil Islamic Nazis. Disgraceful.
GlobeTrotter
How does saying “Free Palestine” equate to “the destruction of Israel”? Please enlighten me!
ZzBomb
Look everyone, Baron Whataboutism, is unintelligibly ranting about something… again.
dbmcvey
Baron just always makes stupid apples and oranges comments.
Baron Wiseman
@GlobeTrotter
It is a call for the elimination of Israel in its entirety. Israel is home to nearly half of the world’s Jewish population. The only way you can eliminate Israel and turn that whole area into Palestine is by killing millions of Jews.
There is simply no way of getting around the fact that anybody who utters the phrase “Free Palestine from the river to the sea” is advocating genocide.
“Free Palestine” really means “Eliminate Israel”; it means genocide against the Jews. For Democrats (not all Democrats) ignoring this ugly truth has shown a major anti-Semantic problem in their own party.
ZzBomb
LOL
Baron Whataboutism thinks wanting the Palestinian people to not live in fear and be self determinate is the same as calling for genocide against jews!?
And honey, if anyone has a problem w/ antisemitism in their party: Trump holds rallies decorated w/ swatsika flags and I shouldn’t have to repeat what he said over the weekend rally where he literally parroted Hitler.
LOL The whataboutism is hilarious
Baron Wiseman
@ZzBomb
There has never been a better friend to Israel and the Israelis than President Trump. Never.
Read a book – please!
dbmcvey
Baron,
And?
So?
GlobeTrotter
@Baron Wiseman: “‘Free Palestine’ really means ‘Eliminate Israel’
No, it does NOT! And only an individual with highly partisan and questionable morality could jump to such an asinine conclusion! No one individual group, people or nationality has a monopoly on freedom. If freedom is good enough for the Jews of Israel, then it’s just as good for the Arabs of Gaza. And I find it really rich of you to equate the phrase “free Palestine” with the genocide of the Jews, when in fact it is the Jews that are committing the world’s first televised genocide, LIVE before our very eyes!
I can just about now hear the tired cries of ANTISEMITISM, but lest anyone forget, it was the the Israeli army, according to documented evidence from both the UN and Amnesty International who:
-executed 4 Palestinian men who had surrendered with their arms in the air
-shut off water to the entire Gaza population (in contravention of UN humanitarian law)
-forced the displacement of an entire civilian population (in contravention of UN humanitarian law)
-abused and sexually humiliated Palestinian detainees (in contravention of UN humanitarian law)
-surgically executed every single journalist reporting from Gaza
-indiscriminately dropped bombs on civilian targets (according to the US President himself)
-IDF soldiers assaulting Palestinian civilians & destroying Palestinian property (video documentation)
-IDF ground troops chanting for the genocide and elimination of all Palestinians (video documentation)
-Israeli government officials calling for the expulsion of Palestinians and annexation of Gaza
-Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera…
And you have the NERVE to try to guilt people into believing that the phrase “free Palestine” is some murderous plot to eliminate the Jews? With what?? Israel is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, armed to the teeth with American weapons and nuclear bombs, not to mention the might of the United States military standing firmly by. There is no power on earth able or willing to eliminate Israel, the puny sticks and stones of its Arab neighbors notwithstanding. So spare me the fear mongering! Criticism of Israel does NOT equate to antisemitism and calling for freedom for Palestinians does NOT equate to the genocide of the Jews.
We already went through all this with South Africa, how often does history need to repeat itself before we finally learn its lessons?
Baron Wiseman
@GlobeTrottter
Quite a lengthy post, but you forgot something…you never answered the question what ‘Free Palestine’ means. You told me what it doesn’t mean.
So why would a Senate staffer go up to a Jewish congressman and say, ‘Free Palestine’? What does it mean and why say it to a Jew?
I find in interesting, but typical, that you site alleged, supposed examples of “in contravention of UN humanitarian law.” What about the continuous war crimes by Palestinians/Hamas? I don’t see you condemning the numerous war crimes committed on October 7th. Why is that? The gang rape of women and girls until their pelvis breaks, the burning of entire families, the rape of men soldiers, the beheading of babies, the taking of hostages, etc. Why is it you don’t condemn these war crimes?
GlobeTrotter
@Baron Wiseman
The crimes committed by Hamas on October 7 have been condemned so many times and by so many people (myself included) and on so many occasions, that it doesn’t bear repeating here. I think what bothers you actually is that Israel has lost the world’s goodwill for what happened on October 7, but they have done so by the disproportionately brutal and according to President Biden, “indiscriminate” manner in which they’ve prosecuted their war against Hamas. Two wrongs do NOT a right make – Hamas killing 1,200 Israelis does NOT entitle Israel to kill 18,000+ Palestinians in return.
And I believe I’ve given sufficient commentary on my meaning and usage of the phrase “free Palestine”.
Baron Wiseman
@GlobeTrotter
Actually, you haven’t.
So why would a Senate staffer go up to a Jewish congressman and say, ‘Free Palestine’? What does it mean and why say it to a Jew?
When Hamas hides among Palestinians in hospitals and schools (committing even more war crimes) the death toll is going to be higher. That is taking into consideration the lengths Israel goes to not to kill Palestinians by making various announcements prior invasion. Something that Hamas would never do. You are extremely naive and another useful idiot apologist for evil. Unfortunately, you are not alone.
Be prepared for even more deaths, as to Israel’s credit they have sworn to destroy Hamas once and for all. The Palestinians aren’t even being welcomed into other Muslim/Arab countries. Golly, I wonder why that is.
ZzBomb
The appropriate response to any and ALL conservative reactions surrounding this non-issue is:
And?
So?
bachy
SMH. No shortage of gays in the Washington Moron Parade!
ShaverC
Of course this site is trying to normalize this stuff. This is wrong.
ZzBomb
I think running for office of the president and spouting phrases literally lifted from Mein Kompf is worse but hey, I’m sure that’ll be of a great comfort for you when the jackboots come to your door!?
Baron Wiseman
@ZzBomb
Like they did in 2000 and 2004 with President George W. Bush?
And like 2016 with President Trump?
Same ol’ lies, over and over.
decrans
And Ronald Reagan and Pat Buchanan. Bob Dole. It’s almost as if Democrats don’t have anything of substance to offer the American people beyond trite Nazi analogies every four years peppered alongside their unobtainable pipe dreams sprinkled with glitter. Right on cue.
dbmcvey
No one normalized anything. You’re just a reactionary snowflake.
decrans
Oh, please. A lot of gay culture hinges upon screwing in public. Gay parades feature public nudity in front of kids. (This is why acceptance of gay marriage decreased from 72 percent to 64.) Hi. I’m one of the people who shifted my views. You’re seeing it in real-time, Daveyboy.
still_onthemark
How is Queerty trying to “normalize this stuff”? They don’t say anything positive or even dismissive about it. You’d have an argument if Queerty had told us how “hot” the video was or how cute the intern, etc., but they restrained themselves. 🙂
dbmcvey
A lot of heterosexual culture hinges on screwing in public. They’re called “exhibitionists.”
And really descraps, so much of your culture is based on lying in public.
ZzBomb
@Baron Whataboutism,
None of those prior Republican politicians quoted HItler verbatim.
GlobeTrotter
Dave: “Let’s go with relationships for 400.”
Alex Trebek: “Limits and constraints we set to safeguard our emotional, physical, and mental well-being.”
Dave: “What are boundaries?”
Alex Trebek: “Correct!”
Openminded
This isn’t a partisan issue. It’s an issue with how a small number of gays seem determined to undermine all the progress the LGB community has worked so hard on. I’m confident that there has been plenty of hetero fornication in the White House/Capital building, but that still doesn’t excuse this gay staffer’s behavior. It’s one thing to have sex in the state house, it’s another to film it and distribute it. Stupid with a capital “S”.
dbmcvey
And now we have a conspiracy theory.
Conservatives are nuts.
Openminded
No, what’s nuts is people who can’t comprehend what they read.
dbmcvey
This idiot may be the first person to film himself having sex in a hearing room and post it, but I guarantee he’s not the first person to have sex in a hearing room.
Openminded
I think you heard that from a Conservative you just called nuts. Reading comprehension is important.
Fahd
What about George Santos?
FreddieW
Well it’s good to know that liberals argue in terms of whataboutism as much as conservatives do.
dbmcvey
No. Conservatives do it much more. At least on this site.
JOJO
Why is it important to remember we are a minority in this world you ask? Because we as a minority must always appeal to the mainstream to gain their acceptance and rally around us. This idiot destroyed all that in about 10 minutes. If you don’t want the other side to lob shots at you, stop giving them ammo.
This was unbelievably stupid on so many levels especially being so close to an election year. So incredibly stupid! See yourself in other’s eyes. That is what we must start to do as a community.
In the early 2000’s we worked so hard to convince the country by telling them, “We’re just like you.” We need to get back to that. They hold our gate I. Their hands.