Trump's Fragile Masculinity

 Fragile Masculinity and Hypermasculine Defenses. How men use hypermasculine defenses to protect a fragile sense of masculinity.

Masculinity is something men may feel they have to earn and then constantly defend. Some men develop hypermasculine defenses to avoid being perceived as feminine, i.e. not masculine. Hypermasculine defenses reflect insecurity about masculinity. (Psychology Today)

 From saying, "when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. ... Grab 'em by the pussy." From “piggy” to “ugly” to “obnoxious,” the president has lobbed insults at women questioning him. One might rightly conjecture that he is quite insecure about his masculinity.

Now we have a UFC battle on the White House lawn, a sport where the goal to become champion is to beat up your opponent, demonstrating who IS the real alpha male. Kind of like the Caesars of Rome, who had to convince their citizens that having Gladiators surrounding them made them stronger male leaders! And as if grabbing women and insulting their looks or personality is not enough of a demonstration by the very insecure Trump, we have his comments on how hot some male physiques are:

“Look at this guy over here. I don’t know who the hell he is, but he is one hell of a specimen. This guy, this is one hell of a physical specimen,” Trump quipped, sitting next to the former NFL player.  (Donald Trump) “I thought I was big until I met you, Joe, you know,” he told Thomas. “Fantastic, that’s what I like.” (Donald Trump) "I forgot to touch his leg. I didn't want to do that. But I can tell you one thing: His leg is like a rock," Trump said. "Two gold medals, wow." (Donald Trump regarding Olympian speed skater Jordan Stolz)

I do not believe Trump is a homosexual; I believe, however, that Trump is not certain himself just how much of a red-blooded heterosexual male he is. He fears strong females; he loves being in the company of hot, strong men, which I believe just proves how inadequate a male he finds himself.

Oh yeah, can you imagine how BIZZURK the MAGAS and the Republican Man-O-Sphere would become if any Democrat male politician made the same adoring comments regarding the same sex!

 

 

 

 

GOP look over there part 2

 It is June, and it is a month when many LGBTQ Americans are able to find some space within their community to stop, for at least a few hours, perhaps step out of not only a self-imposed closet, but a very imposed prison by many in power within their community, and actually discover that, in fact, they are not alone. For the Republican Party and their faux religious zealots, it is also perfect timing to identify yet one more minority demographic to confuse their cult of bigots and racists, and claim that when Jesus founded America, he definitely did not include the Gays!

Is he really a man? That’s the question the GOP has been focusing on in this race, with GOP state Attorney General Ken Paxton mocking Talarico for supporting LGBTQ+ rights, being vegan (he’s not), and calling him a “freak.” (LGBTQ NATION)

Several red states and their governors approved declarations calling June things like “Nuclear Family Month” or “Fidelity Month,” pointedly saying that LGBTQ+ families are not “God’s design.” (LGBTQ NATION)

The Republicans are always at their very best creating lists for their followers to “LOOK OVER THERE,” a way to keep any wrongdoing, criminal action, blatant transgressions against the Constitution from capturing the attention of the MAGA lemmings. Immigrants are anti-Christian, the Pope, and any Catholic American following the Pope are anti-Christ. Women who dare to vote, or work and not have a dozen babies are heretics, people of Color should just go back to Africa, or as Trump loves to say, “any shithole nation they came from, and of course it is time to scapegoat the LGBTQ community.

All this hate against others, yet not a peep, not a hue or cry from these same Republicans regarding the practice of pedophilia by heterosexual men, or the heterosexual women who helped these heterosexual men with their perversion.  I write this, and I sigh, knowing that as long as the Trump Reich is committing crimes and felonies, the supporters and sycophants will always find someone else to blame for whatever is wrong in their lives!

 

 

 

 

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Princess Ivanka's Fairytale

 The Fairy Tale: Once upon a time, a Princess named Ivanka, the daughter of a King named Donald, the King who once bragged, “I’ve said that if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her,” and her husband, Duke Jared, happened to be sailing on a private boat…Opps, I mean million-dollar yacht. And by the luck of the Gods in Fairy Tale Land they spied an abandoned and mysterious island. They swam and swam and then walked barefoot the 1400 hectares falling madly in love with this island, and wham bam no thank you ma’am they imagined, right there in the midst of nothingness, that they could save the world by building a $1.4 billion luxury hotel complex. They gave no shit about the flora and fauna that have survived living in isolation on this island, because the Princess said she wanted to return to her ‘real-estate roots.’ “You know, it’s not even a business for me, despite the scale of it,” she added. “For me, this is — it feels more like a challenge than anything else.”

“We all want to hide away on some abandoned Mediterranean island that we discovered after jumping off a friend’s boat and swimming to shore. And now, Ivanka is working to “build something that’s a tangible manifestation of that” by constructing a $1.4 billion luxury hotel complex on an Albanian island. Ivanka said she and Kushner first came across Sazan during a boating trip with friends. (New York Magazine)

“We were on a friend’s boat, and we stopped for a swim, effectively, that’s how we found it,” she said. “We swam to the island. We went on a hike, barefoot all the way up to the top, and we were just captivated.” (Ivanka Kushner).

In yet another Trump family, “let them eat cake,” corruption action, we watch as Princess Ivanka and Duke Jared pretend that the real world of poverty, less and less affordability, strife, and turmoil at the hands of Kind Donald do not exist. Just when we thought that Dumb and Dumber, the Trump sons, could not be stopped using their family name to rob the poor and get paid by the rich, we witness Princess Ivanka walk the same grifting walk and talk the same grifting talk. 

Manliness...Republican style

 TEXAS REPUBLICANS ARE DESPERATE TO SOUND MANLY. Attacks on James Talarico show the GOP’s narrow, anxious definition of masculinity.

“Tying together Talarico’s politics and personality, and deeming both to be weak and unmanly, is part of an attempt to turn all of Ken Paxton’s alleged vices into proof of his virility: Real men eat barbecue, pocket unattended stationery, and cheat on their wife. This ideal of masculinity is not a patriarch but a perpetual adolescent, endlessly irresponsible and endlessly indulged. (The archetype is also present on the left.) (The Atlantic)

There is oh so much madness, buffoonery, bull shit, criminality, corruption, hypocrisy, and lies making headlines in the NEWS of each and every day, mostly and mainly spewing from the Republican Party/The MAGA/The Trump Administration, that even a wildfire of decency, normality, and honesty would be diminished in a mere few seconds. 

Masculinity has made a resurgence, once again within those who support Trump, and those who understand that to keep their own powerful positions, they MUST support all of the absolute insanity and inane garbage that falls out of Trump’s deranged, dangerous, and demented mind. Once again, the go-to “look over there” piece of propaganda is how to define masculinity, decide who is masculine, and, of course, identify who is not masculine.

It seems that the Republican/MAGA in Texas, knowing full well that their chosen Senatorial candidate Ken Paxton is a loser, has been a loser, lives the life of a loser, actually may be in a bit of jeopardy. Offering very little positivity towards Paxton, because he lacks many or any kind of virtues, values, or morals, the dudes in Texas must somehow pretend that his opponent, James Talirico, ain’t MASCULINE ENOUGH. And in Texas, that ain’t a good thing. 

Cheating on your spouse, permitting pedophiles to get out of jail, committing fraud, participating in corruption of public funds, NOW, those, it seems with Texas Republicans and the MAGA, are as manly as you can get. How sad it is that the men in the Texas Republican Party have such low self-esteem and self-loathing with their own masculinity!

 

 

another insecure male

 June IS considered Gay Pride Month. I am Gay, and I am proud, and I am both gay and proud 12 months a year. But sadly, at the age of 76, I had only been proud of one of the genetics of my birth, homosexuality, for only 28 of those years. I did not come out officially until I was 48. I was afraid, I felt insecure, I was unsure; some of those sensations reflected how I viewed society, and, worst of all, some of those emotions reflected how I saw myself. But then, thank goodness, was then, and here I am now. 

As the lyrics to the song “I Am What I Am” were written by Jerry Herman, “…I don’t need praise, I don’t need pity…” 

But all along the long way out of the closet, I will not and never again be told that who I am is less than, by some hateful, insecure people who seem to feel intimidated by anyone who chooses to be free and who decides to no longer be victimized.

“Republican Rep. Andy Ogles deleted a shocking social media post—only after members of his party condemned it. Ogles, the Tennessee lawmaker who introduced legislation that would allow Donald Trump to serve a third term, on Tuesday went well beyond the more politically tolerable—yet still outdated—stance that the legalization of gay marriage should be overturned. “Homosexuality has no place in America,” he wrote on X at 10:32 a.m. (The Daily Beast).

Republican Rep. Andy Ogles has zero issues with Pedophiles, with Sexual Harassers, with Rapists, with Fascists. He adores Trump the Felon, the Fraudster. So, it seems to me that if this man is playing his Christian morality card, he sucks at the game. Fuck off, Andy Ogles, and more than that fuck off all of you who voted for this man, because you too are nothing but insecure fuckwad, hateful, hurtful, and full of shit!

 

 

 

 

 

Security...umm...no

 Vladimir Putin has plans…for America. Vladimir Putin has his favorite Domestic Enemy in power, and as Vladimir Putin, he is spending money on trying to dismantle Ukraine with weapons of war. Vladimir Putin is only using blackmail tapes of Trump, most likely saying and doing the most vile and incriminating acts.

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte would become acting director of national intelligence. Pulte is stepping in to replace Tulsi Gabbard, who resigned from her post last month. Though Trump claimed his appointee “has deep experience managing the most sensitive matters in America,” he’ll take the position with literally zero relevant experience for coordinating 17 American intelligence agencies’ work. But Pulte’s appointment makes slightly more sense when you consider his place in Trump’s orbit. The 38-year-old heir to his family’s massive home construction company shares the president’s love of social media bullying, golf and abusing power for personal gain. (MS NOW)

This nepotism dude, living off of his father’s successes and billions of dollars, is the inexperienced go-to guy to oversee 17, count ‘em 17, intelligence agencies of the US.

But then, to add insult to a great injury, and perhaps as Bro kinda gift to Putin, Trump sanctioned this act of domestic terrorism towards America.

A convicted Jan. 6 rioter who later said that he regretted his participation in the U.S. Capitol attack has been hired by the Trump administration to work inside a Pentagon office that manages highly classified military operations, according to four people familiar with the matter. The appointment of Elias Irizarry, who was 19 at the time of the riot in 2021, to a post in the Defense Department’s Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict office has raised alarm internally among staff who question how anyone convicted in the assault on American democracy could be trusted for such a sensitive role in the U.S. government, these people said. (MS NOW)

Feelin’ safe yet? Feelin’ confident that our nation’s security is actually secure? Feelin’ as if Trump only gives a shit about you if you help his grift of collecting millions from you or if you are willing to fuck the Constitution, so Trump can do whatever the fuck he so desires?

But then, if you actually think about things regarding Trump and Security of the United States, just go back to the days when Trump had a private meeting with the Kremlin’s Top KGB buds in the Oval Office, or the time Trump stole classified documents and stored them in his bathroom. We ain’t safe, we are inch by inch, step by step being sold out to the guy who owns and operates Trump, Vlad )The Impaler, Putin

 

 

 

Another dud!

 President Donald Trump has tapped Bill Pulte, head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, to be the acting director of national intelligence — putting a real estate scion and fierce Trump loyalist in a key national security post as the U.S. remains at war with Iran. (AP News)

Holy shit, as in HOLY SHIT, what could possibly go even more wrong and rotten with the Trump-Iran War, when the newest clown without any relevant job experience is placed as director of national intelligence.

We are losing lives, taxpayer dollars, and our reputation as a moral and decent nation, as Trump lies about his war, and becomes bored with his war, and now adding insult to injury, we have a dude, who has zero qualifications in the area of national intelligence, who also had zero qualifications when he became the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. But the one thing Bill Pulte does have is a loyalty, to Donald Trump…and for Trump and his malignant narcissism, screw the needs of America as long as the needs of Trump come first!

For me, this is not a trivial concern. We are at war in Iran, there is a war in Ukraine, and China is slowly but surely gaining ground in Taiwan. If you look closely at the people Trump has selected to lead the way for the US, all you see are inept sycophants, whose only qualifications are to adore Trump, ignore the facts, and help continue in keeping Trump in power as King.

As long as Trump remains in power, all we can look forward to is going lower than the lowest common denominator!