Bobservations

This is less a Tale Of Carlos being funny than it is a Tale of What A Fabulous Human Being Carlos is …

The other night I came home from work in a mood; not a bad mood, but not a good mood. A bitchy mood that I couldn’t explain. And as we ate dinner I wasn’t very nice to him; I was naggy and sarcastic and just plain unfriendly to the most important person in my life for no reason whatsoever. And yet with every snide comment I made he didn’t get angry, he just answered me back.

After dinner I went back to the office by myself and did some work on the computer but I kept going back to my nasty mood. I was about to get up and go talk to him when he came into the office to ask a question, and I said:

“Let me say something first.”

“Okay.”

“You know I love you, right?”

“Of course I do.

“Well, I have been nasty since I got home and there’s no excuse—”

“You have a lot of things on your plate.”

“It’s no excuse. I shouldn’t have said what I said and acted like I did.”

“I know, and I know you didn’t mean it, and I know you’d realize it, and that I love you.”

That’s why he’s the most important person in my life; he takes that kind of mood and understands it and doesn’t get mad but lets me work through it.

That’s the Tale of Carlos I love most of all.

This Tuxedo Memory is creatively entitled ‘#TuxedoInABox,’ and is from November 2017

‘Recently we returned from a CostCo run and set one of the boxes on the living room floor.

Tuxedo loves to sleep in them, but something about this box got him all kerfuffled and he was rolling around it in like a mad man.

Huh. Does CostCo sell catnip in bulk?’

Lynn Conway has died at age 86. She is credited with developing a simpler method for designing microchips that are now used in cell phones  in the 1970s but it’s what happened a few years earlier that’s important.

In 1964, Lynn Conway joined IBM Research, where she made major innovations in computer design; recently married and with two young daughters, she lived a seemingly perfect life but she had a secret: she had been born a boy.

Having struggled with her gender identity since childhood, Conway had made a failed attempt at transition in the late 1950s but in 1967, she learned of the pioneering gender-transition work of Dr. Harry Benjamin and sought out his help, She began the life-changing, and perhaps lifesaving, transition from male to female but  when IBM’s Corporate Medical Director learned of her transition plans in 1968, he alerted CEO Thomas J. Watson, Jr., who fired Conway to avoid the public embarrassment of employing a transwoman.

Not just a transwoman, but a brilliant transwoman.

In 2020, fifty years later, IBM apologized to Lynn Conway and awarded her a lifetime achievement award for her work. Conway has had five U.S. patents, a career at Xerox, the National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, part of the U.S. Defense Department. She also had honorary degrees from many universities, including Princeton University. But most of all she was trans and she made it easier for y’all, even the anti-trans haters, to use their phone.

Say her name; and Thank her.

The person—and he will never be named on this blog—who murdered five people and maimed nineteen others during a mass shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQ+ bar in Colorado, has been sentenced to 55 concurrent life sentences plus an additional 190 years in prison.

Good.

This past week Romans came out for Pride dressed like Pope Frankie, wearing papal hats and T-shirts that read:

“There is never too much frociaggine.”

That’s a reference to the offensive anti-gay slur that Frankie has been accused of uttering … twice … complaining that there was too much “gayness” in the church. Martina Lorina, an Italian actress, called the phrase “the slogan of the 2024 Pride”, using a longtime tactic to turn insults into words of pride.

Homophobic bigot who says one thing about us, and behind closed doors uses slurs against us.

A lady picked up several items at a discount store. When she finally got to the checkout she learned that one of the items had no price tag or bar code so the checkout girl got on the public address system and asked:

"Price check for Tampax super-size."

Sadly, someone at the rear of the store  mistook the word 'Tampax' for 'thumbtacks' and called back over the PA system:

“Do you want the kind that you push in with your thumb or the kind that you belt in with a hammer?"

Ouch.

Four years ago Christian Cooper, an avid birdwatcher and out Black gay man, was in the Ramble in Central Park, birdwatching he noticed a dog running off-leash, violating park rules designed to protect his beloved birds, so he approached the dog’s owner, Amy Cooper, requesting that she leash her dog.

Instead, Amy, er, #CentralParkKaren, Top of Form

Bottom of Form

threatened to call the police and make a false claim that “an African-American man” was threatening her life. Christian captured the incident on video, which quickly went viral and Amy Cooper was rightly vilified in the press and also lost her job.

Then Christian Cooper’s story caught the attention of National Geographic, leading to the creation of his show, “Extraordinary Birder,” which premiered in 2023. The show has since garnered critical acclaim, culminating in Christian Cooper winning the Daytime Emmy Award this week for Outstanding Daytime Personality.

Winning.

Money raised by The Felon’s 2024 campaign is being sent right back into the con artist’s pockets in various forms, according to a The ALLEGED billionaire criminal has not donated any money to his 2024 presidential campaign, $4.6 million worth of donations has been transferred to his business empire. And MAGAts keep sending checks.

Tell me how this isn’t a cult.

Matty Carrington, a UK based model who once worked as a roofer and rugby player before walking in shows for Astrid Anderson, Givenchy, Sibling and Bobby Abley is this week’s Would You Hit It?

Bobservations

The other day Carlos calls me into the kitchen, and I find him standing at the refrigerator, door open, staring inside.

“What’s in that container?”

“That Tupperware container?”

“Yes. What’s in it?”

I reach around him and take it out and point to the opaque container.

“It looks like black beans, but guess what?”

“What?”

I open the container.

“Look at that! You take the lid off and you can actually see what’s inside.”

“I don’t like you.”

I then began pointing at other things in the refrigerator.

“This is milk. That’s wine. There’s some pineapple … “

Thus ended the Daily ‘What’s This’ class at Casa Bob y Carlos.

Leave it to The Great Tuxedo—Carlos hates that I call him that—to put things into a Gay Perspective ….

No one in Texas saw this coming because, well, Texas, but as the state reopened, they experienced 58 new COVID-19-related deaths—the highest single-day count since the onset of the pandemic. There aren’t enough tests … people aren’t wearing masks … they aren’t following social distancing guidelines … and the governor still reopened and now this.

Like I said, no one saw this coming.

Dr Moncef Slaoui, a former pharma executive tapped by _____ as Chief Scientist for his “Operation Warp Speed,” which aims to develop a working vaccine as fast as possible, apparently has some  155,438 stock options—worth about $10 million—in Moderna, a biotech company developing an early-stage human trial for a coronavirus vaccine.

Huh. On the upside, maybe Dr. Slaoui has a conscience because he said he will divest all his shares in Moderna.

I’ll play the wait and see game.

GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch Bitch McConnell announced that GOP Senator Marco Rubio will serve as the acting chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee while a federal investigation into GOP Senator Richard Burr is ongoing.

Marco Rubio. Intelligence. Yeah, this Will crash and burn.

Barack and Michelle Obama's presidential and first lady portraits will not be unveiled and hung in the White House until _____  is out of office.

The long-held tradition of current presidents attending the unveiling ceremony of the portraits of their predecessors and their wives during their first term will be skipped during this presidency due to the fact that _____ is a racist hate-filled fuck who cannot stand that a black men was, is, and always will be seen as a far better president than said racist hate-filled fuck.

For his part, Obama is said to not really want to be at the White House for the ceremony if the racist hate-filled fuck is around. Do you blame him?

PS _____ has already had a sitting for his presidential portrait … which should hang in his jail cell one day.

Pastor Franklin Ndifor, a popular Cameroonian pastor who laid hands on hundreds of his supporters and “cured” them of COVID-19 has died of … COVID-19.

That’s all.

A pickup truck belonging to an anti-COVID-19-lockdown protester bore a message thought to be aimed at Colorado Governor Jared Polis, who is openly gay:

“OPEN OUR GYMS FAGGOT.”

And, as happens on social media, when the pictures surfaced it took all of a nanosecond to learn that the truck is owned by MichaelDrewer of Loveland, Colorado. Drewer was identified by a Colorado Springs Antifa group, which noted that Drewer is also fond of Confederate flag clothing, and then added:

“Not much else to say about Michael. He’s a boring and bigoted man living a sad life, whose only joy seems to come from skipping leg day, calling gay people slurs, and spreading viruses.”

Oh snap.

Maybe there is something to this Obamagate nonsense, and maybe there isn’t ... I kid, there isn't.

One thing I know for certain, is that Barack Obama didn’t sit by and do nothing while 91000+ Americans died.

Lastly, we have the delicious Brazilian model Henrique Hansmann,  He looks hot coming out of the cool water and looks dreamy in a suit …even without a shirt.

But he looks best in a tiny bathing suit strolling any beach in the world. And, as all people do, he has one flaw … he’s straight.

Still, he looks good briefly.

Oh well, a ‘mo can dream.

Rant Mode: Kevin Hart, DL Hughley and Homophobia

Just some thoughts on that whole Kevin Hart booted off the Oscars for an old homophobic Tweet about how he’d beat his son for being gay if he found him playing with dolls. But there was more from Hart; he wondered about a man’s profile picture on Twitter:

“Why does @DamienDW profile pic look like a gay bill board for AIDS……….Booom, I’m on fire tonight.”

Or howsabout this one:

“Why does @wayne215 have so many pictures of me in his phone!!! What ru some type of FAT F** that takes pic of small black men all day?”

And this:

“@dwadeofficial U should ask the question like this, how many “gay” men sweat when they wear dress shirts, because real men don’t lmao p.s. f**.”

Hilarious. And you can say, all you want, that he Tweeted those things years ago, but violence against a child isn’t funny; portraying gay men to be “less than” and not “real” men isn’t funny; it feeds hate. But hey, a few people laughed, right?

And some people took Hart’s side, and came for others, like Amy Schumer, who also had a year’s old Tweet:

“Enjoy skyfall f**s. I’m bout to get knee deep in Helen Hunt #thesessions.”

Now, do I like that she used the word ‘fag’? No, I don’t; I don’t like when straight people say ‘f**’ as much as I don’t like it when white people say ‘n****r’. I find it offensive, but … Amy’s tweet didn’t threaten violence or physical abuse on a child who might be gay or just might like playing with dolls and playing make believe.

And some are comparing Hart’s “joke” to Oklahoma University quarterback Kyler Murray who, after winning the Heisman, apologized for using the words “queer” and “queers” in old Tweets from 2011 and 2012. The difference between Murray and Hart’s offensive Tweets are two-fold: one is an adult threatening violence to a child and the other was a 14-year-old boy acting the fool; other differences are that as soon as Murray’s Tweets resurfaced, he instantly apologized:

"I apologize for the tweets that have come to light tonight from when I was 14 and 15. I used a poor choice of word that doesn’t reflect who I am or what I believe. I did not intend to single out any individual or group.”

Hart, at first, refused to apologize though, yes, I know, he apologized once already, but again, it’s the violent nature of his Tweets toward his own child that are troubling.

See, there is a difference those Tweets, Kevin Hart, and Nick Cannon, who stepped in to defend Hart, and if you don’t see the difference, then you never will. 

Now, we come to Asshat and ALLEGED comedian DL Hughley who also defended Hart on Twitter and then went after trans female, and Pose actress, Indya Moore when she questioned his rationale. Hughley said:

“A Comedian says something that offends people and refuses to apologize? What do I say?.....Fuck em if they can’t take a joke! Well done “

I wonder how Hughley might feel if the joke was about a black child being beaten or being called the n-word; I mean, surely some people might find that funny.

Moore responded to that:

“I know you don't care! That's what the issue is. You complacent to how you jokes impact the quality peoples lives. You insensitive. I make people laugh all the time without making fun of other people. People around me listen & you give them permission to treat me how they want”

And Hughley stood firm:

“I could give less than a damn what you think if u don’t dig it don’t listen! But I’d never apologize for a joke”

So, DL, if we don’t like what someone is saying, some joke they are making, we should just not listen? And let hate simply stand? Let homophobia be the last word? Let child abuse be laughed at?

Added Moore:  

“There are consequences for the things you say no matter who it makes laugh. So since you don’t give a damn don’t act surprised & defensive when people who do give a damn oppose you- cus what’s a matter of jokes for you is a matter of safety for others…you ain’t gonna sit around and collect money at the expensive of oppressing people and negatively influencing the quality of their life through by how you use they platform. So start buying up stocks buddy cus my generation ain’t having it…your jokes divide people and that’s why you fail as a comedian. By all means don’t apologize, you can be all the clown you want but you will never lead with bullshit.”

Replied Hughley: 

“Fail!! Lol!!!! I make a living doing what love, put kids through college, paid for my homes, and travel the world, and still don’t give a shit what a pussy like u thinks”

Apparently, as long as a joke puts his kids through school, he’ll say whatever he wants and never apologize, but, again, I wonder, as a black man, would he have the same response to a joke about beating a black child? Using the n-word?

It wasn’t the joke, it was Hart’s decision to say he’d beat a child if he thought the child was gay. And anyone who finds that funny, or thinks it compares to other comedians using the f-word, doesn’t get it. Gay people, trans people especially, are being beaten and murdered in this country every single day and it’s not funny.

And it’s no joke. And the way to stop it is at the source; the way to stop it is to stop laughing at it.

Bobservations

July 27, 2016, _____, campaigning for the presidency:

"Russia, if you're listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing."

That same day, Russian operatives targeted Clinton campaign emails "for the first time."

That’s all.

Now for some funny _____ … have you heard about the Fuck You _____ Brooch Play by Queen Elizabeth? I mean, we all know she barely gave him a minute, but she also showed, and shared her disdain for the man in her jewelry choices.

We know that the Queen cares about the details, and how symbolism is in the details. But maybe, maybe, the Queen was also being a little shady …. See, on the day _____ arrived in the UK, QEII wore a beautiful vintage green flower brooch—which just so happened to be a gift to her from former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle.

Then, on _____’s last day in the UK, the Queen donned the Sapphire Jubilee Brooch— iven to her just last year as a special gift from Canada in what some see as a show of support for Canada and Justin Trudeau, who has suffered constant criticism from _____.

And there’s more …. royal-level state dinners are at invitation of the head of state, and normally Queen Elizabeth offers the invitation, but this time she did not. In addition, the dinner was held at Blenheim, the only actual palace in England not owned by the Anglican Church or the Royal Family.

Basically, Queen Elizabeth wouldn’t allow Don and Melanie in her house.

Shade.

Fans of Downton Abbey—and, yeah, that’s me—can rejoice: a feature film of the hugely successful TV series has been confirmed after much speculation and the original cast, all of them … at least the ones who didn’t die during the series … will return.

The Dowager Countess on the big screen? I’m in.

Vice President Mike “I’m Not Gay” Pence grew up in Columbus, Indiana, where his father built an empire of some 200 gas stations under the Kiel Bros. Oil Co. banner.

In 2004, that company collapsed and now Pence’s beloved Indiana—and Kentucky and Illinois—are on the hook for millions of dollars to clean up more than 85 contaminated sites in those states, including underground tanks that leaked toxic chemicals into soil, streams and wells.

If Pence can do that to Indiana and just walk away, what would he do to America if he ever took charge?

Impeach _____, then impeach Pence.

Ryan Murphy’s NYC ball scene series Pose has been renewed for Season 2; the show made history by assembling the largest transgender cast and crew of any show ever.

If you haven’t seen it, it’s pretty good, both at the balls and the look back at the early days of AIDS in this country, as well as the coming out experience, and the need for many in our community to create their own families.

Oh Deplorables, looks like your man is gonna cost you more coins for those hideous hats.

Those tariffs _____ imposed on products could double the price of the MAGA hats. And that wouldn’t have happened if the hats were Made in America. 

And please, Deplorables, note the irony of a Make America Great Again hat made in China.

I mean, if Deplorables could read …

In Racism Valet News… Camilla Hudson wanted to use a manufacturer’s coupon at CVS in Chicago last weekend, but the manager, who said he’d never seen such a coupon before, called the police on her.

Yes. He did. The manager, identified as Morry Matson, a Republican running for 48th Ward alderman.

Yes. He is. Now add that to the list of things black people in America cannot do in the Age of _____: redeem a coupon.

PS Matson is a gay man, so, you know, I’d like the Toaster Oven and copy of the Gay Agenda returned to HOMO HQ.

PPS He’s been fired!

My Husband In My Head, Armie Hammer was on The Late Show to chat with Stephen Colbert about his new Broadway play, Straight White Men, and the chat turned, as it should, to Call Me By Your Name. And Armie told Colbert that fans keep giving him peaches because, in the film, Armie, um, pleasures himself with a peach.

Lucky fruit.

Anyway, Hammer says nearly every night as he leaves the theater he gets handed at least one peach to autograph. He says most people don’t intend to eat the peaches, or use them the way they do in the film, but he says the fans say they’re going to “put that peach on a shelf…and in ten days it’s going to putrefy and their entire place it’s going to be full of fruit flies.”

Colbert remarked that it might be like an art installation, to which Hammer replied:

“Yeah. Watch it wither like Donald Trump’s presidency.”

Hot. Tall. Hot. And he hates _____? I couldn’t be more turned on by him.

Just sayin’.

Plus, any chance to show a photo of Armie ...especially with his shirt off.

Yum,

Cal Poly has rescinded the wrestling scholarship of Bronson Harmon, according to a school Athletic Director Don Oberhelman. Oberhelman did not comment on the reason Harmon’s scholarship was revoked, but the move came just three days after video surfaced of Harmon yelling a “Fuck you faggot” and offering an obscene gesture at a participant of the Families Belong Together March in Modesto.

Harmon can be seen in one video walking with his father Todd Harmon and a friend carrying a sign that reads “Donald Trump 2020”. Earlier in the video, Todd Harmon can be heard yelling “Send them back!” as he walks down the street.

Harmon now says:

“Saying what I said is definitely not the right thing. I am supposed to be there to help the community, be the best person I can be and represent the college the best way I can, but I still feel like my freedom of speech was taken away and I don’t think my scholarship should have been revoked over something like that.”

Honey, you have the right to Free Speech and the school has the right to end your scholarship because your speech is offensive, homophobic, hate-filled and stupid. But then you racist Daddy taught you well.

Good luck at community college, dick.

I was struck by several hot men of late … first up, top left, is Ramon Rodrigues who plays Allison’s new love interest, Ben Cruz in Showtime’s The Affair; hot Latino? You know it. 

Then there’s Ross Lynch, top right, who played Jeffrey Dahmer, in My Friend Dahmer; I don’t usually find serial killers hot, but this guy, well, he didn’t really kill anyone.

Bottom right is Taron Egerton, from the Kingsman movies; he plays a young lad, but he’s older and hotter with a rockin’ bod; plus, British and stuff. 

Lastly, whilst perusing HGTV, I came across Brett Phillips, bottom left, who has a show called Home to Last with his wife; I was able to ignore her and concentrate on this hot pocket man.

You know how I am.

Random Musings

Scott Pruitt, the environmentally unsound the head of the EPA, is having a secure soundproof booth installed in his office for some $25,000.00 so he can communicate without being monitored.

Paranoid much? Or, perhaps he’s hiding something. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

In the wake of Hurricane Maria, nearly all of Puerto Rico is without power and water and food, and because it’s an island most of the supplies will arrive by boat; and therein lies the rub.

Puerto Rico has to wait until American boats can reach its shores with supplies because of an obscure, World War I-era shipping law, the Jones Act, that the ______ administration is refusing to waive. The Jones Act requires goods shipped between American ports to be carried out exclusively by US-built ships, and to have US owners and crews.

But _____’s decision to keep the Jones Act in place shows his complete lack of interest in helping Puerto Ricans—AKA US citizens—living on a devastated island because his administration quickly lifted the Jones Act to help Texas and Florida after hurricanes Harvey and Irma.

But, you know, it’s Puerto Rico, and most folks are brown-skinned Hispanics so ... the Bigot-In-Chief is loathe to help.

If you remember last Sunday’s football games where many players and owners took a knee in protest of racism in this country and racism by the current president, that there was one player who took the field to stand, hand over heart, during the anthem: Alejandro Villanueva. But, Villanueva says he never intended to stand alone during the anthem and has apologized to his team for what he called “a very embarrassing” botching of the team’s pregame plan:

"Every single time I see that picture of me standing by myself, I feel embarrassed. We butchered our plan.”

Villanueva, an Army Ranger who served in Afghanistan, had asked quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and other team leaders to amend their original idea, which was to stand in the locker room during the anthem in an attempted show of unity, and instead stand at the front of the tunnel during the anthem and not take the field until after. That didn’t work out due to what Roethlisberger called pregame “chaos” and so Villanueva was left to stand alone with his teammates about 20 feet behind him. It was widely perceived by the rightwing media that he’d gone rogue.

Not so; Villanueva says he takes no offense to players who kneel during the anthem in protest of “injustices and racial divide,” including former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who knelt for the anthem in protest of police brutality and racial injustice last season:

“I take no offense. I don’t think veterans at the end of the day take any offense. They actually signed up and fought so that somebody could take a knee and protest peacefully whatever it is that their hearts desire.”

Sadly, our president, who dodged the draft five times, never learned how to be so enlightened, or even learned what the Constitution means.

Gosh, haven’t there been some awkward moments between Melania _____ and her husband since he took office last January?

Remember when he walked ahead of her, not holding a door for her, and basically ignored her?  Remember the video of Melania smacking _____’s tiny hand away as they walked down the tarmac after arriving in Tel Aviv? Remember when the married couple actually exchanged a stiff handshake after she introduced him at Andrews Air Force Base last week?

They’re at it again; during a visit to Fort Myers, Florida, last week to survey the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, _____ sent his regards on behalf of his absent wife:

"I just want to thank everybody, the first responders, on behalf of myself, our Vice President—Melania really wanted to be with us."

Oops. The Missus was standing right next to him, stone-faced and ignored. Free Melania!

Outlander is filled with hot men and last week’s episode was no except, with Aussie actor, David Berry, taking on the role of Major John William Grey, the warden at the prison where Jamie Fraser is being held.

He’s a gorgeous man, and his story line, where he talks of a special bond between he and another soldier, was quite the tearjerker.

I wanted to hold him and tell him it would be all right, but that’s just me.

Back to _____ and his special brand of “I’m not a racist” racism ... after making those controversial comments about the NFL and the sons of bitches who kneel, _____ moved on to the NBA, Tweeting that the Golden State Warriors—the 2017 NBA Champions—were no longer invited to the White House after Warrior guard Stephen Curry said:

“I don’t want to go ... my beliefs stay the same. By acting and not going, hopefully that will inspire some change when it comes to what we tolerate in this country, what is accepted and what we turn a blind eye toward.”

And so that left the Toddler-In-Chief to TwitRage:

“Going to the White House is considered a great honor for a championship team. Stephen Curry is hesitating, therefore invitation is withdrawn!”

Um, Don? Yeah, you can’t invite someone to your house and then when they decline act like you never invited them? Sad.

Also sad this week was when _____ deleted his Tweets of support for Luther Strange to become Alabama’s newest Senator. _____ had boasted that, because of his support, Strange was soaring in the polls ... until Election Day when he lost to Roy Moore. And then _____ apparently thought he could delete those Tweets and no one would remember that his guy was the loser.

Sad ... again.

And segueing again ... speaking of Roy Moore ... oh Alabama, this Republican you chose to fill Beauregard Sessions' seat—if he wins against the Democrat—is high-larious.

While campaigning, Moore often toured the state by that bus up there, with the website for his campaign proudly listed:

AlabamaDerservesMoore.com

Oh, yes, they totally derserve him.

Last week in snark we talked Jeffrey Mezger, the CEO of KB Home, one of the largest homebuilding companies in the country, being recorded on tape calling his neighbor, Kathy Griffin a “c**t” and a “bald faced d**e.”

Words cost, Jeff, because now KB Home has slashed Mezger’s bonus by up to 25% for his vicious vile attack.

Now maybe he’ll learn to choose his words more carefully.

Right before the GOP’s latest attempt to Repeal and Replace Obamacare—or, as I like to call it, Strip Millions of Healthcare—chaos erupted in the Senate chambers as pro-healthcare protesters from ADAPT—which stands for Americans Disabled Attendant Programs Today—made their presence heard:

“No cuts to Medicaid, save our liberty!”

And GOP Senators reacted angrily as police swooped in to remove the demonstrators, but look up there at Senator Bill Cassidy, who penned the bill with Lindsey Graham.

Yes, as protesters in wheelchairs are being dragged out of the Senate, he’s yawning. Maybe that’s another reason this latest attempt failed.

And now back to Steph Curry and that rescinded invite by _____ for the NBA championship team to visit the White House; the team is still going to DC because, well, the trip was already planned, but they are snubbing ______, and rubbing his nose in it, too, along with help from DC Mayor Muriel Bowser who invited them to visit her city in the first place:

That last line is a kicker!

And here’s the Warriors’ official statement on the matters:

“In lieu of a visit to the White House, we have decided that we’ll constructively use our trip to the nation’s capital in February to celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion – the values that we embrace as an organization.”

Values not embraced by the Bigot-In-Chief. Clearly.