It’s an old story but young gay conservatives are discovering it anew.
Jussie Smollett: Truth vs. Narrative
Two law enforcement sources say Chicago Police believe actor Jussie Smollett paid two men to orchestrate an assault on him that he reported last month. A spokesman for Chicago Police says they are waiting to hear back from Smollett, @Ryanyoungnews reports. https://t.co/FaKHkITXbd pic.twitter.com/RmYkJuB7Kj
— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) February 17, 2019
I’m sure there’s some nasty stuff out there. But wasn’t there also some downright giddiness in the reactions to the initial report from progressives who thought it validated their “MAGA hats = white hoods/Nazi armbands” assumptions? and wasn’t that also pretty gross? https://t.co/2ZIfM42Nwc
— Cathy Young (@CathyYoung63) February 17, 2019
I don’t share this “real hate crimes won’t be believed now” concern
— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) February 17, 2019
Real hate crimes are just that- real. They sound that way. They’re plausible. The facts add up. And they’re heinous.
But this was -always- obviously fake. It has no effect on what’s real. It changes nothing.
Cruisin’ Cory Booker is going with the “factually incorrect but morally right” defense of Jussie Smollett’s hoax. https://t.co/rhXiU1uZp6
— Chadwick Moore (@Chadwick_Moore) February 17, 2019
The Washington Blade seems to be doing the same.
“This is MAGA country” is something that someone who is terrified of Trump voters- but doesn’t know any Trump voters- would think that Trump voters would say
— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) February 17, 2019
“This is MAGA Country,” said no one ever in downtown Chicago.
— Jeff Giesea? (@jeffgiesea) February 15, 2019
The #JussieSmollett thing has been an obvious scam from the start, and the media & Democrats bought it hook, line, and sinker. The sick thing is, they wanted it to be true. Embarrassing.
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Another Extremist
Openly gay South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg was supposed to be “a moderate” alternative. Not quite, it seems:
Mr. Buttigieg argued the deal would actually boost the economy, including the industrial Midwest. For instance, his county recently increased the number of union jobs in the auto industry through electric-car manufacturing.
“I think a Green New Deal would support that,” he said.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/10/pete-buttigieg-endorses-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-s/
Democrats struggled Sunday to defend the Green New Deal after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s botched roll-out threatened to turn the sweeping climate plan into a national punchline.
Pete Buttigieg, a Democrat running for the 2020 presidential nomination, called it “the right beginning” and “right direction”…
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/10/democrats-stumble-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-green-n/
More. If he ever was a moderate, he isn’t one now. From the Washington Post:
“His message for 2020 will be centered on a clean, sharp break with the Lite Republicanism that Democrats embraced in the 1990s. While older voters still tell pollsters they favor keeping taxes low and ambitions modest, millennials overwhelmingly support Medicare-for-all, free college, heavy spending to tackle poverty and climate change, and major infrastructure investments — social democracy, in a nutshell.”
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Progressive Moral Superiority?
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The Cory Booker Spectacle
Chaser:
President Trump’s DC Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Neomi Rao:
— Gregory T. Angelo (@gregorytangelo) February 5, 2019
“I take people as they come — irrespective of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation; I treat people as individuals.” pic.twitter.com/bkANhgPo8C
Meanwhile, Democrats torpedoed the nomination of Patrick Bumatay, an openly gay man, for the 9th Circuit.
Is Kamala Harris sabotaging the nomination of Patrick Bumatay, a gay Filipino-American, to the 9th circuit because she fears his minority status? @WSJOpinion asks some good questions. https://t.co/Hb9ZdsDLaY
— Avik Roy (@Avik) January 30, 2019
“The California Democrats are demanding in particular that Mr. Trump dump Patrick Bumatay . . . an assistant U.S. Attorney who . . . happens to be a 40-year old gay Filipino-American who believes in the original meaning of the Constitution.” https://t.co/kQ2zJlB3BN
— Gregory T. Angelo (@gregorytangelo) January 30, 2019
Via @chadfelixg: Senate Democrats are blocking the judicial nomination of qualified gay minority Patrick Bumatay to the #9thCircuit https://t.co/vqavAxP9DJ
— Gregory T. Angelo (@gregorytangelo) January 25, 2019
.@SenFeinstein & @SenKamalaHarris voted against qualified gay nominee @RichardGrenell for Ambassador to Germany.
— Gregory T. Angelo (@gregorytangelo) October 17, 2018
Now they are already on-record opposing qualified gay nominee Patrick Bumatay for the #9thCircuit.
Even worse? Both are THEIR CONSTITUENTS. https://t.co/lYNh26PqJb
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“Rent:Live,” or Where Have All the Drag Queens Gone?
Last week’s live performance of the early ‘90s musical “Rent” on Fox TV made some changes to the original stage script by the late Jonathan Larson. Foremost among these, the character “Angel,” who Larson had written as a drag queen, was changed to a transwoman, which New York magazine’s Vulture site confirms.
In the original, Angel’s lover, Collins, referred to Angel as “he” in several pivotal scenes, including after Angel’s death, although in the original characters did use “she” when referring to Angel in drag.
As Vulture reports:
Again in an effort to fully establish Angel as a female-identifying character, Collins interrupted the bickering of “Goodbye Love” last night to express his sorrow: “I can’t believe she’s gone; I can’t believe you’re going,” he says, turning to Roger. In the original, he says of Angel, “I can’t believe he’s gone.”
There’s nothing wrong with having a transwoman as a character, but that’s not who Angel was. Collins, Angel’s lover, identifies himself a gay man who likes guys even if they like to cross dress.
A few years ago, a Fox TV version of “The Rocky Horror Show” cast a transwoman, Laverne Cox, as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, another character who was famously a drag queen transvestite and not, in fact, a transwoman. Which raises the issue of whether it is now too politically incorrect to allow presentations of gay men who are drag queens, even if that’s who they were originally meant to be.
As Andrew Sullivan wrote recently, “Contemporary transgender ideology is not a complement to gay rights; in some ways it is in active opposition to them.”
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Yes, This Is Happening
Related:
At the Vancouver symposium on queer theater and performance, I was accused of appropriating culture because as a drag queen, I lip-synced to music performed by non-white artists. But that wasn’t all.
— Quillette (@Quillette) February 1, 2019
Read Sky Gilbert’s essay:https://t.co/q71lAlAQ1r
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On the Taxpayers’ Dime
We are one of only seven nations in the world, along with North Korea and China, to allow abortion on demand after 20 weeks. Our existing law is extreme, and as a pro-life American, I cannot support anyone who supports it. 1/2
— Meghan McCain (@MeghanMcCain) January 29, 2019
And then there’s this. I believe future generations will look back on the defense—and celebration—of the indiscriminate killing of babies the way we look back on slavery (well done, Democrats, 2 for 2):
Progressive defense of late-term abortion on demand leads to a logical conclusion. https://t.co/sSE49spQAm
— IGF CultureWatch (@IndeGayForum) January 30, 2019
Va. Gov. Northam supports very late-term abortion. https://t.co/epMmCyFMNI
— IGF CultureWatch (@IndeGayForum) January 31, 2019
Guess who refutes Gov. Northam's claims about "tragic" circumstances of most/all late abortions? Pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute. pic.twitter.com/hj6DFa5sK7
— Ed Whelan (@EdWhelan123) January 30, 2019
More. “Planned Parenthood receives more than $500 million dollars in taxpayer funding every year. … They also receive many taxpayer dollars through the Title X family planning program. There is zero meaningful separation of staff, facilities, and operational costs at Planned Parenthood clinics between government-funded services and abortions.”
Washington Post from August 2017, “Planned Parenthood’s Virginia affiliate plans to spend $3 million to help elect Democrat Ralph Northam as the state’s next governor.”