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    I mean, the homoerotica coming from this administration and some of their supporters is kind of overwhelming. Did you see the outfit Andrew Tate was wearing when he was arrested? Dude.

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    Sad, they’ll criticize everybody but the ones pulling the strings.

    if only closeted Rs would appoint him to the board for a fat salary with zero work, they could avoid this!

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    I’m pretty sure the biggest problem in the US is the full-steam-ahead rolling out of fascism. But what do I know…

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        The Heritage Foundation, billionaires / trillionaires and their white nationalist puppets - chief of which is the orange stain currently soiling the White House.

        If some of them are closeted gays is probably totally irrelevant.

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          If some of them are closeted gays is probably totally irrelevant.

          That’s a whole point though: it isn’t irrelevant at all. It’s their strongest motivator for being such hateful, hypocritical cunts.

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            C’mon. Fascist architects don’t give a fuck either way about the people they demonize. They don’t pick people because they have a personal issue with them, they pick them because they best fill the role a fascist needs of them.

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            I do not give a fuck about their repressed emotions. No one should. What matters is their actions. Their actions are killing queer people. It does not matter if those actions reflect self-hatred, because they aren’t the ones being killed.

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            I mean. I guess that makes sense. There is a bit of this: women make the babies, is a necessary evil.

            I guess the paedophilia would make sense too. If you have to deal with a women the smaller and less knowledgeable the better.

            This is distressing.

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          Except they hurt the rest of the community. See my reply below. I didn’t mean to say “it’s only the gays”

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        There’s a big undeground homosexual population. Des Moines, Iowa, For an example. Look at the soil around Des Moines, Stuart. You can’t build on it; you can’t grow anything in it. The government Says it’s due to poor farming. But I know what’s really going on, Stuart. I know it’s the queers. They’re in it with the aliens. They’re building landing strips for gay Martians, I swear to God

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      That’s what Hunter said. To be clear he’s blaming “closeted gays” not “gays”, he’s known to troll people on social media and nothing upsets the GOP more than the truth.

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        The fact that so many progressives can’t tell the difference between genuine ableism/bigotry and trolling conservatives is why America can’t have nice things.

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          There are differences anyone can see, but unfortunately there are also unavoidable similarities, including some of the consequences, and that is a lot harder to see.

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                  Yes yes a nuanced defense of being an asshole to the right people despite also hurting the wrong people as though the problem is not enough nuance

                  The problem is not that progressives cannot see the differences, it’s that bros refuse to see the similarities.

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    “The Closetocracy” he called it in a recent interview that had me laughing pretty hard. The idea being that these self hating gay Republicans hate themselves so much that they turn their hate and spite outwards towards everyone else.

    Of course, the idea is much more nuanced than that, and he does a great job of explaining it in the interview.

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    Roy Cohn has entered the chat.

    Roy was Sen. Joe McCarthy’s righthand man, a vindictive pit bull who had Ethel Rosenberg executed. Besides the more famous Red Scare, Cohn presided over the Lavender Scare, an attack on homosexuals in the State Department.

    Years later, Cohn would die of AIDS.

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        I was trying to focus on the whole ‘self hating gay’ thing.

        But yes, he did teach Trump all he knows, and Donnie threw him under the bus when Roy was diagnosed.

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    I get the appeal of this emotionally, but why does anyone listen to Hunter Biden? I see conservatives started glazing him in weird ways too and it’s just strange because I thought everyone hated both his dad and the idea of families in politics

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      Are people though?

      I don’t take what he says as gospel just entertainment.

      And it’s pretty fun watching him have fun trolling those bastards.

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      Why does it matter?

      He was given a platform by the GOP when they dragged him through the mud for checks notes struggling with addiction.

      It probably started as a therapeutic way for him to take back control of the narrative surrounding his own life and his sobriety journey when he broke his silence a few months ago. Addiction is a mother fucker, having gone through it myself, so I support him and am proud of him.

      Everything else is just putting into context how ridiculous U.S. politics is these days. The poor guy just wanted to actually speak for himself, after years and years of having his name dragged through the mud. He didn’t ask for Donald Dump to make his life an open book, but he’s having fun with it now, and I’m here for it.

      Plus, thanks to the GOP, it’s confirmed he’s packing a massive shlong. And I love that for him.

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        Probably because treating politics like wrestling is how we got in this shit show, especially because peeps tend to overlook these personality’s baggage just because they can deliver sick owns to the enemy.

        But you’re right. This shit is so far gone from reasonable reality that it probably doesn’t matter anymore

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      Republicans gave him a platform when they wouldn’t stop glazing his hog so he might as well use it.

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      I’m fine with it. Trump’s criminal whelps screamed about Hunter’s failed attempts at getting a lucrative gig, and now they’re stealing America blind. Hunters criticism stings much harder than anyone else’s.

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      Republicans can’t govern. They can only peddle scandal.

      Hunter is having fun turning this back on them.

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    This makes it sounds like it’s a big club and the only way you can be a part of it is sucking dick. You only see that in movies. (Hollywood, by movies I mean you only see that happening in Hollywood)

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      He wasn’t a great president, but I don’t think he was a shit president either. He did completely ruin any legacy he had by choosing to try to run for a second term though. That was a disastrous decision.

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        He ruined his legacy by allowing MAGA to rise again and take power, again. For that, he will be ranked in the Bottom 15 of American Presidents. On balance, a failed presidency.

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          By being old? It’s the DNC’S fault for dragging him out of retirement so they could be rid of their Bernie Boogieman.

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            No, age had nothing to do with it.

            He appointed the most feckless REPUBLICAN Attorney General to investigate and prosecute the most corrupt administration in history, and the guy dithered and slow walked the case, giving MAGA a two year head start in running out the clock. Biden never once put any pressure on to get it done because they didn’t want it to look political. How about just worrying about punishing them for their crimes? There’s nothing political about that.

            Then he let MAGA steal the 2024 election right in front of our faces, and did NOTHING about it. As they are all BRAGGING about how they’re going to steal the election, Biden didn’t order an investigation, have the FBI drag them in for questioning, or shine even a dim light on their obvious and open cheating.

            Biden would have been well within his legal and Constitutional rights to step off the podium after his Inauguration, and immediately called for all the MAGA criminals to be rounded up and sent to Guantanamo before nightfall, for extensive innterogation. They had just attempted to overthrow the government a couple of weeks before, and their treason and corruption was well-documented. We still didn’t even know about the stolen documents yet, or the False Elector’s scheme.

            Instead of keeping them in prison, where they could only confer with their defense lawyers, they let them run loose, where they conferred with the worst people in the world, and conspired to steal power back in the 2024 election.

            It was all out in the open, and they basically narrated the entire scheme, and BIDEN didn’t do a single thing about it. Didn’t even acknowledge it, and neither did the rest of the DNC.

            2020-2024 was a shameful, piss-poor performance for Biden and the DNC, and it’s absolutely SILLY to try and defend it.

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            I don’t think they dragged him out. But they did get the rest of the field to drop out so he would get the moderate votes. Before he dropped Bernie was winning because the moderates were fractured. Things seem to be changing and voters seem to be leaning progressive finally.