Which, again, would be *fine* if "JD" wasn't part of a group that's very focused on regulating people's sexuality. |
Indeed. |
More to the point, they spent a year or so suggesting that anyone in drag was by definition grooming children, that the existence of men dressing as women for any sort of entertainment was a crime against God. But they have no comments about JD? Or maybe they do and I just don’t lurk on the dark corners of the web where the GOP base lurks. |
Yeah, that's where I (and I suspect most) are at. People should be free to do their own thing. You do you. But it's the outright hypocrisy that's the issue. I have to think that this new picture is going to cost Trump some MAGA votes. |
| If you think this is just a harmless Halloween costume, and that it would be fine to wear as a joke around children, then why is it supposed to be so dangerous to be a drag queen, sitting at a library table, reading to children? That doesn't even involve any alcohol, but from the bleariness of JD's pose, this surely did. |
I think the bolded is part of why the "weird" thing has hit the Republicans so hard. Democrats embrace difference and can celebrate weirdness when it's bringing people joy. Republicans value conformity and grim enforcement of social norms. (Also, their brand of "weird" is so often of the joyless, creepy variety.) |
A healthy society relies on social norms to function. Otherwise, it devolves into disordered chaos—what we’re experiencing now. I have voted Dem my whole life. At best, the last few years have been a complete $hit show. It’s getting old. |
Nothing was more chaotic than a bunch of mouth breathers descending on the Capitol and beating police officers on January 6 2021, and they weren’t Democrats. |
Yes, that's exactly it! Our weird is - go be yourself, enjoy yourself, live your best life (and don't hurt other people while you do it). Theirs is just dark, mean, oppressive, joyless. It's rotted and brutal, overly surveilled and violent. |
| And it hates women. It really does. |
I agree it was terrible, though how many other violent protests have ensured since? And of those, how many were brought by the Dems/Progressives? Sorry to shake your narrative, but increasingly, it’s mostly Dems who are violent. The tables have turned. |
Except the attempted coup was actively encouraged by Donald Trump and disqualifies him from being in any position of power ever again. Thanks for playing! |
Or look at it another way. The Dems sacrificed women’s rights in exchange for niche causes. Had they been cared one bit, we wouldn’t be talking about winning back abortion. Decrepit Ginsburg would have been switched out with a capable replacement and the beat would have gone on. Instead, undisciplined Dems are getting the nation lots of things we never needed, in exchange for the things we did. Effing round of applause for the lost cause left! Dip$hit nation, here we come. |
That’s the thing. This isn’t a game and it doesn’t change the truth in my statement. |
It really depends on what "social norm" we're talking about. If it's "respecting the peaceful transfer of power after an election," then absolutely. If it's more like "women should be expected to stay home and do domestic labor" or "same sex marriages should be prohibited and shunned," then no. |