Tuesday Thought #3

Random Musings

There was a conspiracy theory going around at the start of the presidential campaign that [t]Rump was bought and paid for by the Clinton’s to secure the GOP nomination and then tank the election so Hillary wins.

Now, while it looks like that’s what’s happening, as [t]Rump’s poll numbers are falling faster than his wife’s outfits at a photo shoot, I never believed that [t]Rump would consciously lose anything because then he’d be a loser and y’all know he hates losers.

But what about this? What if it was the GOP who got [t]Rump to run and then urged him to tank so at the last minute they could put in a real candidate who might win?

Of course, that would be assuming the GOP had a real candidate … and they didn’t and don’t … and it would also assume that, yet again, [t]Rump would be the loser.

Still, I do love a good conspiracy theory.

In the wake of the Orlando shooting, John McCain, the Grampa of the GOP, and failed presidential candidate, placed blame for the shooting in President Obama’s lap … only to backtrack hours later because he’s a loon.

On the Senate floor, McCain said "Barack Obama is directly responsible for" because when Obama "pulled everybody out of Iraq, al-Qaida went to Syria, became ISIS, and ISIS is what it is today thanks to Barack Obama's failures, utter failures, by pulling everybody out of Iraq."

Of course, again, McCain is full of The Shiz and as everyone jumped on him for his lunacy he tried to spin it saying he "misspoke":

"I did not mean to imply that the President was personally responsible. I was referring to President Obama’s national security decisions, not the President himself."

Except that he said three times, Obama was "directly responsible."

All that from John McCain who, and I am saying this clearly, is “directly responsible” for Sarah Palin, and is “directly responsible” for ISIS because he supported the war in Iraq.

Gramps needs to put on his Bermuda shorts, grab a  Pabst Blue Ribbon and sit on the porch and be quiet.

Carlos and I love Vicious, a BBC program that airs, or aired, here on PBS, about an elderly gay couple played by Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi.

It was bitchy and fun and kinda vicious, and it co-starred a young man, Iwan Rheon, who played Ash, who was kinda cute, in that height challenged pale Brit kind of way.

Well, last Sunday was the series finale, and Ash was leaving London to go to school in New York and another young man, Oliver, moved in upstairs. Oliver was played by Alistair Brammer and was all kinds of hot … and in just one small snippet of the show’s ending.

Still, he was hot while he lasted.

Donald [t]Rump met with what he hopes will be his evangelical council when he’s elected president and it’s a who’s who of who hates The Gays.

Former Wingnut, Crazy-eyed, failed Presidential candidate and Representative Michelle Bachmann, who co-owns an ex-gay torture clinic with her wife Marcussssss Bachmann, is the first name on the list.

Uh huh.  Others named to the board include Focus On The Family founder James Dobson, former Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed, and anti-gay preacher Harry Jackson.

Is it an evangelical council or a [t]Rump-endorsed Hate Squad?

Citing the Orlando shooting the statement — some fifty, mostly LGBT groups, led by the Arcus Foundation — says LGBT people remain vulnerable to bias-motivated violence, especially transgender people and LGBT people of color:

“Any solutions to the problem of hate violence, including anti-LGBTQ violence, must address the alarmingly easy access that bigots have to such deadly weapons. For example, under current law, people convicted of violent hate crimes can legally buy and possess guns. This is unacceptable.”

The statement calls on Congress to take two approaches to combat gun violence:

1) prevent known and suspected terrorists and those convicted of violent hate crimes from legally buying guns;

2) ensure criminal background checks are required on all gun sales, including online and at gun shows.

Among the signers of statement are national LGBT groups like HRC, GLAAD, OutServe-SLDN, the National Center for Transgender Equality and Pride at Work as well as local LGBT groups like Equality Alabama, Fair Wisconsin and Gay Men’s Health Crisis.

Maybe The Gays and our allies can get this done!

So … Apple told Republican leaders it will not provide any funding or any other support for the party’s 2016 presidential convention, as it has done in the past because … [t]Rump’s controversial comments about women, immigrants and minorities.

While Facebook, Google and Microsoft say they will provide some support to the GOP event in Cleveland, Apple said:

Oh hell no.

Apple’s political stand against Trump is a sign of the widening schism between Silicon Valley and the GOP’s asshat nominee.

Good on Apple, eh?

Last week I talked about the Baptist “pastor” in Sacramento who preached about how not enough gay people were killed in Orlando. And now it looks like hate might cost him his church.

Harsch Investment Properties, owner of the building in which Verity Baptist Church and its Pastor Roger Jimenez preside have decided not to renew the church’s lease, and have asked church officials to consider moving.

While Harsch cannot legally evict the church under the terms of the lease, representatives of the property management company say they cannot tolerate “tenants who advocate hatred and the taking of innocent lives.”

Officials communicated their views to church officials, and while their lease does not expire until March 31, 2017, the property managers have asked them to consider moving out of the business park.

I guess hate might have to find a new place to set up shop … might I suggest Hell?

So, howsabout this Democratic sit-in? Cool stuff, especially watching Lyin' Paul Ryan try to maintain order to no avail.

The best part of all was Ryan's calling it nothing but a publicity stunt when 90% of Americans, including 90% of Republicans, and the Democrats, want some form of gun control, some kind of change to the gun laws, and the Republicans can't do anything but wipe the blood off their hands — hint, it won't come off — and cash those NRA checks.

Speaking of publicity stunts ...

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I was at my dentist’s office this morning and while getting a cleaning, I lay back in the chair and they have covered their overhead lights with pictures.

Waterfalls and forests to make me forget that this girl I have never met is millimeters from my face with her hands in my mouth.

Peaceful, eh?

Last weekend we saw ‘Pride,’ a British film based on a true story about how LGBT advocates in England worked to help out miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984.

It was a good film, but what I loved was a simple message early on about how, when you are a group of people being discriminated against, then it is your duty to help any other group suffering discrimination because if it isn’t ‘us’ feeling the pain, it’s someone else, and if it’s someone else, then you can guarantee that one day it’ll be ‘us’.

And it didn’t hurt that the film starred one Andrew Scott, left, and Ben Schnetzer, right.

Eye candy.

So, remember when the FBI was gonna sue Apple to unlock the terrorist’s phone, and Apple said they didn’t know how and I called BS?

Well, it might still be BS, but the FBI found a way to unlock the phone and now Apple says they want that technology.

I still call BS.

While we were watching the Bigots Of North Carolina, AKA the GOP, roll back anti-LGBT discrimination ordinances because, well, how dare anyone say The Gays and our Trans Brothers and Sisters need protection from discrimination, this happened in Delaware:

The state has quietly become the 15th in the nation to prohibit insurance companies from limiting health care coverage for transgender individuals; as a result, private insurers will no longer be allowed to deny, cancel, terminate or refuse to issue healthcare plans based on a person’s gender identity.

In addition, insurance companies will not be allowed to impose different premiums or rates based on a person’s identity and the policy in-hand applies to any person, even one undergoing gender reassignment surgery.

Delaware Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart issued a bulletin stating that a denial or cancellation will now be considered a violation under Delaware’s Unfair Trade Practices Act.

So, just a little reminder that not every state is North Carolina.

The march goes on …

The people that brought you Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal and How To Get Away With Murder have unleashed a new slick sexy private eye caper to your TV sets, and it’s called The Catch.

I’d like to “catch” Alimi Ballard, top, Jacky Ido, bottom left, and Jay Hayden, bottom right, if you know what I mean.

Sam Nunberg was an aide to Donald [t]Rump and his campaign but he was fired for referring to Al Sharpton’s daughter using the N-word and referring to Obama as a “Kenyan Muslim” and “Socialist Marxist Islamo Fascist Nazi Appeaser.”

Nunberg has resurfaced to endorse Texas Senator Ted Cruz because, he now says, [t]Rump refused to distance himself from racists. So, um, Sam, why the endorsement?

“The last straws were the KKK Tapper interview.”

That was the CNN interview in which Trump did not disavow the support of former KKK leader David Duke but, seriously, someone like Sam Nunberg, who blatantly spews racist remarks expects anyone to believe he left [t]Rump for Cruz because of racism?

Bitch.Please.

From our Get The &%$@ Off Social Media comes the story of Brit Ben Innes pausing to take a selfie with suspected terrorist-hijacker-jilted-ex-husband, Seif Eldin Mustafa.

Yes, he did. He stood right beside Mustafa, who hijacked an EgyptAir plane, while Mustafa was wearing what, at the time, was believed to be a suicide belt.

Seriously? Reminds me of the time I stopped by Sharon Tate’s house and asked the Manson Family to take a snapshot with me while they were in the middle of murdering a group of people.

Seriously. It’s enough you Social media whores.

Great news in the area of trans visibility … Ben Melzer, second from right, has become the first trans person to ever cover a men’s fitness magazine by appearing on the cover of the April issue of Men’s Health Europe.

Bravo, sir, bravo!

Meanwhile, on the Hate Side of trans, “Stand with McCrory” — as in North Carolina Bigot Governor Pat McCrory — a new disgusting fundraising site paid for by the North Carolina Republican Senatorial Committee, features an image of the Bigot Governor and a man—one of those nonexistent trans predators they’re trying to scare everyone about—entering a women’s bathroom.

Fear.Mongers. The site then says:

“Stand with Gov. McCrory and PROTECT OUR CHILDREN: The ACLU and other radical, left-wing special-interest groups are suing North Carolina to create an extreme national mandate forcing women and young girls to share locker rooms and bathrooms with grown men. Thank NC Governor Pat McCrory and Legislative Leaders for fighting to keep our children safe and passing a common-sense law to stop grown men from sharing locker rooms and bathrooms with young girls.”

I think McCrory needs to sit down, and hopefully, come November, the good people of North Carolina will send him packing and put a Democrat in his place.

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