While Riverdale’s bonkers series finale and a 65-year-old muscle daddy 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.
CACKLING HAG: By the sounds of Ron “Don’t Say Gay” DeSantis’ robotic response to stimuli, his dying presidential campaign is not the only thing that has to be rebooted. [Read all about it on Queerty]
FAMILY BUSINESS: Donald Trump‘s niece asked aloud what everyone was wondering about the “215-pound” ex-president after seeing his historic mug shot. [Read all about it on Queerty]
FOXHOLE: Gay-hating Fox News pundit Laura Ingraham may want to re-think her ways of “owning the libs.”
Republicans insist on making the Democrats sound cooler than the Democrats make the Democrats sound https://t.co/uEmHszMMTj
SEARCH PARTY: Melania Trump was nowhere to be found as her husband suffered one of his most humiliating weeks surrendering to authorities, and she’s completely had it. [Read all about it on Queerty]
GREENE WITH ENVY: Georgia Republican loon Marjorie Taylor Greene was so upset about not being indicted for overturning the 2020 election that she made her own MAGA mug shot to show solidarity with her dear leader. [See and read all about it on LGBTQNation]
GIRL ON FIRE: Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar courted the ever-important thirst trap vote by posing with a crew of shirtless firemen at the Minnesota State Fair.
DARLING NIKKI: GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley, 51, went on an ageist rant on GMA insulting not only Joe Biden, but red & blue state Americans alike. [Read all about it on Queerty]
GOP REVOLT: Faced with becoming completely unelectable in the Golden State, the California Republican party is considering removing the national party’s relentless opposition to gay marriage and abortion from the state’s political platform. [Read all about it on LGBTQNation]
RAISE YOUR GLASS: An AI-generated viral video that seemingly showed a crowded bar reacting in raucous glee to the sight of Trump’s mug shot was actually doctored footage of patrons watching a 2016 European soccer match. Regardless, cheers!
Casey Desantis sat down for another softball interview with Fox News, and quickly turned the conversation towards trans athletes.
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And this GOPer is off to a grand start……another loser.
NYT
Fact-Checking Vivek Ramaswamy on the Campaign Trail
The upstart Republican candidate has made inaccurate claims about climate change as well as the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, while mischaracterizing his own positions and past comments.
Ramaswamy, the Millennial Candidate, Has a Lot to Say About His Generation
The 38-year-old entrepreneur says he has a plan to fix what ails Americans his age and younger, but many of his positions are out of step with those voters.
Pox News-
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Saturday reiterated his pledge to send US Special Forces into Jacksonville to confront drug cartels in dollar stores if he is elected president, saying, “We are going to act.”
Months after what critics have decried as a conservative takeover at New College of Florida, students and professors say a sense of confusion and anxiety looms over the start of fall semester in Sarasota, Florida.
Amy Reid, a member of the school’s Board of Trustees, said course options have dwindled after nearly 40% of faculty members have resigned.
Reid said the situation is quickly becoming “untenable.”
Catch the Smug Mug on That Thug! (excerpt)
-Maureen Dowd
WASHINGTON — If there were any justice in the world, Donald Trump would have taken the Mug Shot of Dorian Gray.
As with Oscar Wilde’s charismatic and amoral narcissist, the Picture of Donald Trump should have been a “foul parody,” a reflection of what the chancer has done with his life. It should have shown Trump’s corroding soul rather than his truculent face.
It should have revealed a man so cynical and depraved that he is willing to smash our nation’s soul — our democracy — and destroy faith in our institutions. All this simply to avoid being called a loser.
“Through some strange quickening of inner life the leprosies of sin were slowly eating the thing away,” Wilde wrote of Dorian’s portrait. “The rotting of a corpse in a watery grave was not so fearful.
Trump has long felt that squinting or scowling is a good look for him. Timothy O’Brien, a Trump biographer, recalled that Trump once told him that Clint Eastwood was the greatest movie star ever, and O’Brien believed that Donald and Melania modeled their squints on Eastwood’s. Maggie Haberman noted in The Times that when Trump posed for his official White House portrait, he scowled into the camera and told aides he thought he looked “like Churchill.”
Too good not to highlight………..for the Log Cabin Queers. Getting hard?
”Perplexing as it is, Trump devotees continue to adore him. President Biden sarcastically called Trump a “handsome guy,” but many on the right thrilled to his jailhouse portrait. “I say this with an unblemished record of heterosexuality,” Jesse Watters swooned on “The Five” on Fox News. “He looks good, and he looks hard.”
Florida Approves Tough Discipline for College Staff Who Break Bathroom Law
The legislation states that employees who break the bathroom rule can be found in violation of professional standards and “are subject to discipline” — but it does not mandate that they should be fired after two violations.
A spokesman for the Board of Governors, which runs the university system, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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abfab
”Handsome guy. Wonderful guy”.
GayEGO
Ha ha ha! Trump looks angry and worried that he will lose again! Four indictments will smack him down!
abfab
And this GOPer is off to a grand start……another loser.
NYT
Fact-Checking Vivek Ramaswamy on the Campaign Trail
The upstart Republican candidate has made inaccurate claims about climate change as well as the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, while mischaracterizing his own positions and past comments.
Ramaswamy, the Millennial Candidate, Has a Lot to Say About His Generation
The 38-year-old entrepreneur says he has a plan to fix what ails Americans his age and younger, but many of his positions are out of step with those voters.
abfab
And now Mr. Tough Guy pivots from Mickey Mouse to the Mexican drug cartels.
Mack
I think Mickey Mouse will kick his ass before the cartels has a chance.
abfab
Yet he’s all good with the cartels in his state and mass shootings in Jxsonvile. Let’s see if he gives a little thoughts and prayers speech.
abfab
From Muhammad Ali to Chris Hemsworth: Celebrities with the same height and weight as Trump, per jail records.
independent co uk
GOPTROLLS take note. Your candidates are lying scumbags. And you know it, yet that’s all okay with you.
abfab
Pox News-
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Saturday reiterated his pledge to send US Special Forces into Jacksonville to confront drug cartels in dollar stores if he is elected president, saying, “We are going to act.”
abfab
And he’s not even president yet.
Months after what critics have decried as a conservative takeover at New College of Florida, students and professors say a sense of confusion and anxiety looms over the start of fall semester in Sarasota, Florida.
Amy Reid, a member of the school’s Board of Trustees, said course options have dwindled after nearly 40% of faculty members have resigned.
Reid said the situation is quickly becoming “untenable.”
more at cnn com
abfab
Catch the Smug Mug on That Thug! (excerpt)
-Maureen Dowd
WASHINGTON — If there were any justice in the world, Donald Trump would have taken the Mug Shot of Dorian Gray.
As with Oscar Wilde’s charismatic and amoral narcissist, the Picture of Donald Trump should have been a “foul parody,” a reflection of what the chancer has done with his life. It should have shown Trump’s corroding soul rather than his truculent face.
It should have revealed a man so cynical and depraved that he is willing to smash our nation’s soul — our democracy — and destroy faith in our institutions. All this simply to avoid being called a loser.
“Through some strange quickening of inner life the leprosies of sin were slowly eating the thing away,” Wilde wrote of Dorian’s portrait. “The rotting of a corpse in a watery grave was not so fearful.
abfab
Trump has long felt that squinting or scowling is a good look for him. Timothy O’Brien, a Trump biographer, recalled that Trump once told him that Clint Eastwood was the greatest movie star ever, and O’Brien believed that Donald and Melania modeled their squints on Eastwood’s. Maggie Haberman noted in The Times that when Trump posed for his official White House portrait, he scowled into the camera and told aides he thought he looked “like Churchill.”
-MD
NYT
abfab
Too good not to highlight………..for the Log Cabin Queers. Getting hard?
”Perplexing as it is, Trump devotees continue to adore him. President Biden sarcastically called Trump a “handsome guy,” but many on the right thrilled to his jailhouse portrait. “I say this with an unblemished record of heterosexuality,” Jesse Watters swooned on “The Five” on Fox News. “He looks good, and he looks hard.”
Diplomat
You are far too obsessed with this site. Get a life.
abfab
Dipo the GOPTROLL, you are a tired piece of trash.
abfab
Tough guy super hero………..pansy.
DeSantis leaves campaign trail and returns to Florida amid crises
By Steve Contorno, CNN
Updated 8:19 PM EDT, Sun August 27, 202
abfab
Tought guy. Tough laws. Listen up people.
Florida Approves Tough Discipline for College Staff Who Break Bathroom Law
The legislation states that employees who break the bathroom rule can be found in violation of professional standards and “are subject to discipline” — but it does not mandate that they should be fired after two violations.
A spokesman for the Board of Governors, which runs the university system, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
NYT
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Discipline! Can we meet this spokesMAN?