You can lie to gay people just like you can lie to straight people. Telling gay people that oppression is a leftist myth and that gays are not oppressed here is almost as absurd as people like Tim Scott telling black people that racism is a myth. That’s why people like Grenell and Scott are dangerously shameless. They aren’t friends of the people they claim to represent. They simply snort Trump’s dried dingleberries for that sweet sweet conservative token minority cash.
Prolly been noted already, but just *try* and find a photo of her with Shitler where she looks anywhere near as happy as she does in that one with Grenell.
That necklace is a joke, like everything else connected with anyone with Trump in their name.
She bought some gold-plated shamrocks in bulk, probably with the engraving already done, and wants to sell it for $245 after someone else attached a chain to it?
Why didn't you buy one for $5, photograph it, and sell the NFTs?
So, they got Ailes' widow. But given this was a celebration of all things Trump, should they have gotten all the women that Ailes' attcked so Melania could ignore them too?
Richard Grenell grew up in a time where he didn't get punched in the face or stuffed in a locker and peed on regularly, like the GAY SEEMING boys did at my high school in the early 70's, so he thinks that it's just that "flaming queers" are the problem and not that any deviation from the binary of hetero male/female identity is the thing his fellow travelers in the GQP would like dead and buried.
I lived through that sociological hellscape that was life before the Gay Liberation movement and have zero desire to go back, but if I could I'd invent a time machine to send Grenell's ass back to the '50s so he could experience the constant fear that if he were outed he would lose his job, his housing and maybe his life just for existing.
Gently pushing back on this. I went to Jr. & Sr. High School on Long Island, NY in the 90s and it was no picnic being gay at all. I was spat on, mocked, and punched until the day I lost it and gave one of my bullies a fat lip. I don't say this to try and compete in the oppression Olympics, but only to point out that while my experience was far better than anyone in the 50s experienced I still spent my school years in fight, flight, or freeze mode. It probably has to do with where Grenell grew up, and the level of social insulation he had.
I am beyond grateful that I grew up when I did (I was born in 1986). Sure, we had some proudly out gay and lesbian kids when I was in junior high and high school, but even in south Louisiana they weren't really bullied. I wish I had figured myself out more in high school, but I didn't come out as gay--the extent of my personal journey at the time--in 2006 while in my sophomore year in college. And nobody batted an eye about it. Well, except my mother; she didn't react well at all. (Thankfully she softened considerably on the issue.)
I'm not trying to compare levels of oppression - there are still places where it is dangerous to be out, but in general it has gotten better and the fact that churches are splitting up over gay acceptance and women's rights means that some of the previously enthusiastic cheerleaders for the status quo have thought about it and realized just how terrible that attitude is. My kids went through school with openly gay friends and classmates, which wouldn't have happened before.
I grew up in Texass, and started school when I was 5, as I was already reading and writing. As such I was always the youngest and smallest in any of my classes, and being smart was icing on the cake - I too was bullied throughout high school until I got a growth spurt towards the end. I'm not gay, but was witness to the horrible cruelty inflicted on anyone at the bottom of the pecking order. This is the cost of living in a patriarchy - male dominance must be enforced above all else. People like Grenell are part of the reason that it still has the power that it does, they somehow believe that they aren't seen as "other" because they espouse the party line and dress to fit in.
I had much the same experience because I skipped third grade and then became the smallest kid in the class. I was born in 1958 and school was bully hell. Right up until I quit at age 15 which was the legal age to quit on your own at the time.
"[I]n general it has gotten better . . . ." Operative phrase being "in general." Please forgive me if I sound defensive but when I read your initial comment it felt as though you were hand-waving away my personal, lived experience. I was a smart kid who, while athletic, was not super into sports. I was also a "gentle giant" type and therefore an auspicious target for the abuse described above. Being spat on particularly stands out to me. For my trouble I got an anxiety/panic disorder, generalized depression, and a substance abuse disorder that I'm still working through. I like to think I got an elevated level of empathy for others, however. As I acknowledge, things have gotten better in general, but it was not a level of acceptance that you hypothesize Grenell experienced.
I appreciate the good thoughts. I'm just glad I made it through as one of the lucky ones, and I'm happy that people born as few as six years later had a much better experience than I did.
I'm sorry to hear that you had that experience, having been through a similar stretch myself I know how that feels. I lucked out in the genetic lottery with height, which changed the physical dynamic between me and my tormentors and gave me some peace on that front. I struggled with depression for several years too, so that aspect resonates as well.
So weird to see her smiling!
Telling gay people that they are ostracized and discriminated against is right on brand for the Right, which tells Christians the same thing.
Melania should be forced to carry this marriage to term.
Really nice outfit, though.
It is better to LOOK good, than to FEEL good-- Fernando Lamas via Billy Crystal.
"His id,
an exploded toilet filled with
massive dumps"
You can lie to gay people just like you can lie to straight people. Telling gay people that oppression is a leftist myth and that gays are not oppressed here is almost as absurd as people like Tim Scott telling black people that racism is a myth. That’s why people like Grenell and Scott are dangerously shameless. They aren’t friends of the people they claim to represent. They simply snort Trump’s dried dingleberries for that sweet sweet conservative token minority cash.
I do NOT get that Mother's Day necklace. 3 clovers and weird writing???
It took me a sec to figure out that "Kush" meant Jared Kushner and not delicious weed.
Ta, Marcie. That is a really ugly necklace; no surprise.
They do know that the shamrock is the gang sign of the Aryan Brotherhood.
Prolly been noted already, but just *try* and find a photo of her with Shitler where she looks anywhere near as happy as she does in that one with Grenell.
That necklace is a joke, like everything else connected with anyone with Trump in their name.
She bought some gold-plated shamrocks in bulk, probably with the engraving already done, and wants to sell it for $245 after someone else attached a chain to it?
Why didn't you buy one for $5, photograph it, and sell the NFTs?
It's hideous
"Roger Ailes’s widow Elizabeth."
So, they got Ailes' widow. But given this was a celebration of all things Trump, should they have gotten all the women that Ailes' attcked so Melania could ignore them too?
So, Melania's neckless? Is that supposed to represent Don Jr.'s, Eric's and Barron's scrotums?
Regarding: "Does she [Melanoma] ever leave the compound?"
Only when her husband shows up.
Richard Grenell grew up in a time where he didn't get punched in the face or stuffed in a locker and peed on regularly, like the GAY SEEMING boys did at my high school in the early 70's, so he thinks that it's just that "flaming queers" are the problem and not that any deviation from the binary of hetero male/female identity is the thing his fellow travelers in the GQP would like dead and buried.
I lived through that sociological hellscape that was life before the Gay Liberation movement and have zero desire to go back, but if I could I'd invent a time machine to send Grenell's ass back to the '50s so he could experience the constant fear that if he were outed he would lose his job, his housing and maybe his life just for existing.
Fuck that guy, and Fuck Ted Cruz.
And fuck Roy Cohn.
Gently pushing back on this. I went to Jr. & Sr. High School on Long Island, NY in the 90s and it was no picnic being gay at all. I was spat on, mocked, and punched until the day I lost it and gave one of my bullies a fat lip. I don't say this to try and compete in the oppression Olympics, but only to point out that while my experience was far better than anyone in the 50s experienced I still spent my school years in fight, flight, or freeze mode. It probably has to do with where Grenell grew up, and the level of social insulation he had.
I am beyond grateful that I grew up when I did (I was born in 1986). Sure, we had some proudly out gay and lesbian kids when I was in junior high and high school, but even in south Louisiana they weren't really bullied. I wish I had figured myself out more in high school, but I didn't come out as gay--the extent of my personal journey at the time--in 2006 while in my sophomore year in college. And nobody batted an eye about it. Well, except my mother; she didn't react well at all. (Thankfully she softened considerably on the issue.)
So sorry about your experience.
I'm not trying to compare levels of oppression - there are still places where it is dangerous to be out, but in general it has gotten better and the fact that churches are splitting up over gay acceptance and women's rights means that some of the previously enthusiastic cheerleaders for the status quo have thought about it and realized just how terrible that attitude is. My kids went through school with openly gay friends and classmates, which wouldn't have happened before.
I grew up in Texass, and started school when I was 5, as I was already reading and writing. As such I was always the youngest and smallest in any of my classes, and being smart was icing on the cake - I too was bullied throughout high school until I got a growth spurt towards the end. I'm not gay, but was witness to the horrible cruelty inflicted on anyone at the bottom of the pecking order. This is the cost of living in a patriarchy - male dominance must be enforced above all else. People like Grenell are part of the reason that it still has the power that it does, they somehow believe that they aren't seen as "other" because they espouse the party line and dress to fit in.
I had much the same experience because I skipped third grade and then became the smallest kid in the class. I was born in 1958 and school was bully hell. Right up until I quit at age 15 which was the legal age to quit on your own at the time.
"[I]n general it has gotten better . . . ." Operative phrase being "in general." Please forgive me if I sound defensive but when I read your initial comment it felt as though you were hand-waving away my personal, lived experience. I was a smart kid who, while athletic, was not super into sports. I was also a "gentle giant" type and therefore an auspicious target for the abuse described above. Being spat on particularly stands out to me. For my trouble I got an anxiety/panic disorder, generalized depression, and a substance abuse disorder that I'm still working through. I like to think I got an elevated level of empathy for others, however. As I acknowledge, things have gotten better in general, but it was not a level of acceptance that you hypothesize Grenell experienced.
I appreciate the good thoughts. I'm just glad I made it through as one of the lucky ones, and I'm happy that people born as few as six years later had a much better experience than I did.
I'm sorry to hear that you had that experience, having been through a similar stretch myself I know how that feels. I lucked out in the genetic lottery with height, which changed the physical dynamic between me and my tormentors and gave me some peace on that front. I struggled with depression for several years too, so that aspect resonates as well.