"Instinctively' true

 Speaker Mike Johnson says his election conspiracy theories feel ‘instinctively’ true. What we’re dealing with is a political leader who believes gut feelings are a legitimate substitute for knowledge. They are not. (MS NOW)

There is so much bull shit coming from the Republican Party (this is the true “Trickle Down” theory) that at times a person truly concerned about the future of our democracy, let alone our day-to-day existence, seems to be gasping to breathe. I know I am!

Mike Johnson is the Speaker of the House, a position our US Constitution declares is second in line to the Presidency, a position that, in normal times, every American should demand be held by an intelligent person who uses facts and truth as a basis for understanding. Now I know that we elected a Felon, a Fraud, a tax evader, a liar supreme, a man found guilty of sexual harassment, so the standard for choosing some of the most powerful people in the United States has certainly been demeaned, dropped, and deluded, so why should anyone be surprised that the Speaker of the House, MAGA Mike Johnson, be any different?

What I see is a foreshadowing of a very insidious and sinister plan to try and maintain Fascism as the form of government in America, and means by which, the Republican Party with the help of each and every Right-Wing Domestic Terrorist Media, hope to use this tool of deceit to brainwash, the already brain dead MAGA morons, to consider that the one person one vote method of our democracy is no longer good for America! 

Trump is still touting his conspiracy theories of the 2020 election, knowing that if he can keep that lie alive, just how much easier it will be to convince his cultists, who, like Mike Johnson, instinctively feel that if Republicans do not succeed at the ballot, then of course our system of Democracy is rigged.

The signs are no longer hidden, the intentions no longer covert. Even though it might look like the potential of a Blue Wave for the Midterms in November, the Trump Reich is presenting their war plans to keep Trump as King, and of course, out of jail. 

I seriously want to know: how can we stop this NOW from ever coming to fruition?

 

 

 

 

Be aware NOW

 The media has to up its game for an election that Trump desperately wants to undermine. (MS NOW)

Trump is making it very clear that he intends to do everything and anything within his power as President to disrupt the Midterm elections. He will also try some tricks which have no basis in law or under the adage of Executive powers, because the one reality Trump does embrace is that if the Democrats take the majority in Congress, ALL of the Trump crimes will be investigated.

Because of his narcissistic machinations, the one thing Trump relies on is projecting his intentions. He can hardly help but admit his next nefarious plans, because by doing so, he can brag aloud. Perhaps it soothes his fragile and disjointed ego and permits him to admit out loud just how evil his intentions truly are.

From Trump’s personal attorney, Todd Blanche, not ruling out the idea that ICE might be sent to polling places come November, to Trump’s continuous rants about the rigged 2020 election, to Trump’s newest crusade insisting that the California Governorship and LA mayoral races are Left Wing ANTIFA plots against anyone in Trump’s orbit, DonOLD is setting the stage for direct involvement in destroying whatever bit of democracy remains as the November 2026 Midterms arrive.

It is almost too late, even now, to stop the domestic terroristic attempts by Trump and his Republican Fascists from fueling a very bleak and frightening attempt to banish free and fair voting in America, but I believe there is time enough to try and put in place some fail-safe measures to stop Trump from stealing the elections.

We must not just whisper about Trump’s desire to remain in power and avoid jail, but we must be LOUD and demand that actions be taken to inform the voting public, that the only thing rigged regarding the Midterms, will be the action taken by Trump and his Reich!

 

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!