TWATWaffles for the Week Ending 6/19/22

 

Yet another comment,,, two weeks in a row! How kewl is that!!

Stop trying to legitimize your sexual preferences. It's a choice and a preference and you seem to make it front and center. WTF....our veterans have one day to celebrate their service. You want a month to celebrate your sexual preference. No one gives a sh#t

My reply:

1] While there is no definitive evidence for a “gay gene,” trust me when I say I did not “choose” to be a lesbian. I know of no one, who made a similar life “decision.” I have known since I was 5 that I was different. While I am a wee bit behind in my reading (due to health), I am fairly certain in saying biological factors drive homosexuality.

2] You seem to be conflating sexual orientation with gender identity.

Sexual orientation is a continuum.

However, sexual orientation is usually discussed in terms of three categories: heterosexual (having emotional, romantic or sexual attractions to members of the other sex), gay/lesbian (having emotional, romantic or sexual attractions to members of one's own sex) and bisexual (having emotional, romantic or sexual attractions to both men and women).

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Sexual orientation is distinct from other components of sex and gender, including biological sex (the anatomical, physiological and genetic characteristics associated with being male or female), gender identity (the psychological sense of being male or female)* and social gender role (the cultural norms that define feminine and masculine behavior). https://www.apa.org/topics/lgbtq/orientation

Gender identity, OTOH.

,,, refers to a person’s internal sense of being male, female or something else. https://www.apa.org/topics/lgbtq/transgender

3] Have you ever lost a job or job promotion due to your want of fucking your g/f?

I have, so STFU!

4] As I noted in a written response, our veterans and current service members have numerous days to celebrate their service.

For shits-n-giggles, Telltale hits some salient points:: Pastor Tom Brown Has CRAZY Ideas About the LGBT Community https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=merNY7y29J4

 https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1536462724175171584

Instead of allowing facts - inflation and rising production costs – lead one's rant, I'ma gonna lie 'bout it. The people that count (at the polls) won't know, they're too fucking stupid. MTG on the cause of the current tampon shortage.

Now when I first heard/read this headline, I thought it was a joke. That some political hack was trolling MTG. I soon found out it was fer realz. What's worse, MTG reaction,,, give a listen.

As one comment notes, and I believe this person may have a valid point, “She is doing this for attention. She doesn't believe what she's saying, but she enjoys that people talk about her. She is not embarrassed that people think she's crazy. As long as she's the center of attention, she is happy.” 

IOWs, trans men have been using feminine products for like,,, forever; it's not a recent phenomenon. (I'm going to let her verbal faux pas slide.)

All that aside for the moment. https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-claims-tampon-shortage-fueled-transgender-people-1715468

Cotton and plastic, two materials used in the production of tampons, have become more expensive due to the demand of making COVID-19 safety gear such as masks, according to a CNN report. The issue has been further exacerbated by the Russia-Ukraine war, as both countries are key fertilizer exporters.

Inflation has also hiked the price of menstrual products. As of May 28, prices rose 9.8 percent for tampons and 8.3 percent for a package of menstrual pads, Bloomberg reported, citing NielsenIQ data.

And yes, some companies are stocking men's restrooms as a convenience.

On a serious note,,,

I hope y'all are paying attention, not just to MTG and the garbage she spews; but to Bobo, Gaetz, Cawthorne, etc.. This is all going into a very dangerous direction; hating, or in some instances, gas-lighting minorities. Y'all remember who was real good at that technique?

Hmmm,,,

And just as an FYI, MTGs Twitter convulsion concerning the tampon shortage, she is now blaming immigrants.

 

 https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1536539035774210051 

Two stories about Ethan Schmidt. First an update on last month concerning “hunting” of LGBT and supporters. https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1536820864708186113

 

Schmidt appeared at the March for Our Lives protest in Phoenix. He was seen with armed militia members, who appeared to be attending a counter-protest to the rally in downtown Phoenix. https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1536343140923322368 

 

Make that 3 stories about Schmidt. Unrelated to either of previous two. https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/mesa-breaking/2022/06/13/ethan-schmidt-crockett-anti-lgbtq-activist-arrested/7617150001/

The Mesa Police Department issued a warrant for Schmidt-Crockett’s arrest after he failed to appear for a scheduled court date on June 6, according to Mesa Municipal Court records. According to a court official, the June 6 hearing was regarding a charge against Schmidt-Crockett for "failure to comply with the law."

https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1536343140923322368

Remember, this dude has made videos with Kari Lake, Wendy Rogers, and Paul Gosar. 

Comic relief if Kerr wasn't so influential.

https://twitter.com/hemantmehta/status/1536800470643232769

See also Telltale Unfiltered playlist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE-ndYoOuNk&list=PL_mLtsFUAf-JcfJsb73GjdPQrB10NY7XP 

 

This is a story I missed from late last week; https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/6/14/pro-trump-sc-candidate-mark-burns-calls-executing-allies-lgbtq-kids (updated due to his loss in the SC-primaries.)

The Trump-endorsed Republican candidate in South Carolina’s 4th Congressional District called for the arrest and execution of those who advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and the protection of trans children.

During an appearance on The Stew Peters Show, Pastor Mark Burns was asked by host Jane Ruby to commit to voting for transphobic laws that target LGBTQ+ children and their parents and ending what she called “this war on children.” Burns went much further than committing to voting for legislation.

As to his primary loss. https://www.newsweek.com/pastor-mark-burns-who-said-gop-needs-demon-killing-machines-loses-primary-1715842

The South Carolina pastor who said the GOP needs "demon-killing machines" lost his primary on Tuesday.

Republican candidate Mark Burns was defeated by incumbent Representative William Timmons in the GOP primary for the state's 4th Congressional District, receiving less than 24 percent of the vote at the time the race was called. Timmons won more than 50 percent of the GOP vote, staving off a runoff election and advancing to the general against Democrat Ken Hill.

Despite being a longtime supporter of Trump, Burns did not earn a coveted endorsement from the former president. Trump instead backed Timmons, who voted against certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.

 

In other primary news. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/06/anti-lgbtq-nevada-extremists-adam-laxalt-michele-fiore-win-primaries/

Las Vegas City Council member Fiore will now face incumbent Zach Conine (D) in her race to become Nevada’s state treasurer. Fiore has expressed support for the LGBTQ community, and her own mother is an out lesbian. But recently, she has repeated transphobic misinformation about the Uvalde school shooting at campaign events.

Not a happy camper!! Granted we still have the November election, but the reality of these numb-nuts making the national ticket, as a candidate, gives me chills.

 

I find it funny (not in a haha way either) that fucktards like Tanner Furrh are diligent enough to put the phrase, “by the government,” into their hate-preaching. It's almost as if he was reading a script. Considering Awes and Shelley also grift at the same church, he most likely is. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/06/christian-preacher-calls-death-lesbians-putting-bullet-head-nice/

 

So to bring this installment to a close, I present “miss Georgiahas become communist.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysUXyDNWQlY

"This is the end to freedom as we know it."

As this comment notes, https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1571588573236469

Well, it's then end of freedom as SHE knows it.

The GOP definition of freedom, is freedom to tell others what to do and freedom from anyone telling them what to do.

What is so annoying, people like Taylor have no clue what communism is. Hell, I have to look it up pretty much every time to make sure I am not mis-speaking. What I do know, just because I disagree, doesn't mean communism.

TWATs25 For Week Ending 6/12/22

 

So I received this comment::

It’s hard to tell, but it sure does sound like you may be making excuses for the mentally-deranged’s active debasement and predation on kids in our Schools. If so, you are despicable. ....and FYI the actual words *”...separation of Church and State” -DO NOT EVEN EXIST IN THE CONSTITUTION, and —we ARE a CHRISTIAN NATION. Maybe there is a Country for you somewhere that worships Lucifer.

For those that think I am “ making excuses for the mentally-deranged’s active debasement and predation on kids in our Schools.” [sic] Congratulations, you have successfully weaponized the word “grooming” to create a new boogeyman to demonize and stigmatize queer and trans identity.

Being LGBTQ+ IS NOT a mental illness; there is no link between sexual predation and LGBTQ+ people.

The comment is correct “separation of Church and State” does not appear in the Constitution. But,,, the idea has a long history beginning in 1635 with Roger Williams. In 1802 it continued with Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptist Association. And finalized (so to speak) in the 1947 case Everson v. Board of Education, the Court cited a direct link between Jefferson’s “wall of separation” concept and the First Amendment’s establishment clause.

Bear in mind, the only reference to religion in the Constitution is in Article VI: “No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” IOWs, political power in the United States may never be limited to people of one faith – a necessary condition for a “Christian nation” – but must be open to people of all faiths or none.

While this is a Reader Digest version, I strong suggest you study American history related to said topic(s) BEFORE you accuse me of being despicable.

First an update concerning Texas. https://www.yahoo.com/news/court-rules-against-texas-gov-200101887.html

A court in Texas granted a temporary restraining order Friday, which blocks the state’s child protective services from investigating PFLAG families that allow their trans children to receive gender-affirming health care.

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The Travis County District Court’s ruling will stop the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) from investigating the parents involved in the suit, according to a news release from the organizations. For those families, if they are contacted by the agency, they will only need to provide information on their PFLAG membership.

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“That families will be protected from invasive, unnecessary, and unnerving investigations by DFPS simply for helping their transgender children thrive and be themselves is a very good thing,” Brian K. Bond, executive director of PFLAG National, said in the release. “However, let’s be clear: These investigations into loving and affirming families shouldn’t be happening in the first place. PFLAG National and our chapters throughout Texas remain committed to ensuring every transgender Texan is safe, empowered, and can thrive.”

As noted, “weaponizing the child-welfare system against loving families causes irreparable harm.”

What I find fascinating with assholes such as Awes, the need for the most graphic of executions. “They should be lined up against the wall and shot in the back of the head! That’s what God teaches. That’s what the Bible says.”

Uhm,,, Where exactly does the Bible state such? It sure ain't Romans 1:23-28.

As Hemant notes, https://onlysky.media/hemant-mehta/christian-hate-preacher-calls-for-the-execution-of-every-single-homosexual/

Needless to say, there’s literally no evidence for any of the claims he’s making about gay people. He doesn’t provide them because they don’t exist. And even though none exist, it doesn’t matter, because he’s not interested in facts. Awes just wants to rile up his congregation with unfiltered hate speech because what are his other options? Preaching about the love of Christ? No thank you.

New Independent Fundamentalist Baptist preachers like these always insist they’re not encouraging vigilantism. They insist they’re not asking anyone to pull a trigger themselves. They get mad when people say they’re calling for the murder of gay people. That’s not true, they claim. They’re just saying that, in a righteous world, the government would do their faith-based dirty work for them.

And as a reminder, this is the same church of Jonathan Shelley who appeared at an Arlington City Council meeting to push back at recognizing Pride Month; now 3 weeks ago https://interestinghmm.blogspot.com/2022/06/last-few-stories-for-week-ending-52922.html

 

It started with Paul Gosar and then traversed the depths of the GQP reaching the lips of Michele Fiore. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/06/gop-politician-says-uvalde-shooter-transgendering-theres-no-reason-ban-ar-15s/ As Alex Bollinger states, “A Republican elected official in Nevada is joining the chorus of GOP politicians who are trying to deflect blame for mass shootings from guns to transgender people.”

 

A bit of comic relief but,,, this is why FOXNews can not be taken seriously. https://www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth-speaks-american/

If you remember, Rachel Hamm is the woman that claimed that Jesus appeared in her closet and told her to run for secretary of state in California as a Republican. Thankfully she lost, badly. (As of Thursday, she has 389,583 votes, trailing both fellow Republican Rob Bernosky (660,229) and Democratic incumbent Shirley N. Weber (1.98 million votes).)

But in true GQP fashion, a la Kandiss Taylor, https://twitter.com/RachelHammSOS/status/1535049441752715264

The blatant hypocrisy is mind-blowing although I should not be surprised. Greene's decision to employ Yiannopoulos is a stunt that fits her strategy to attract media attention and troll her colleagues. She is all about headlines, fuck everything else. Milo best be careful he doesnt outshine his boss or he will find himself unemployed again. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/06/marjorie-taylor-greene-just-hired-ex-gay-rightwing-troll-milo-yiannopoulos/

And finally,,,

There is hitting the bottom of the barrel, when Gaetz said that he would rather give Nancy Pelosi a sponge bath than eat dinner with Adam Schiff.

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1534346935913652224

And then there is becoming the scum dredged out of the septic system. Implying some personal psychological imbalance due to the suicide of Jaime Raskin’s son.

https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1534660228775661569

In the end, AOC sums it up well.

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1534999896033529856

Derpity, derpity

Go ahead and gloat Todd,,,

Tennessee Pisses Off Right-Wingers By Recognizing… Divorce Equality? (VIDEO)

According to WBIR, everything about the change was fine until Memphis attorney Kendra Armstrong did an interview with Starnes on his Fox News radio show. Armstrong told Starnes,

Why are heterosexual parents having their rights violated? So now it’s improper and inappropriate in a court of law to refer to a parent as a mother and a father?

Only in the mind of someone like Armstrong does including same-sex couples in a document’s wording violate the rights of those in a male-female marriage. But wait, it gets better. She also told Starnes,

It’s absolutely ludicrous to make the term mother and father obsolete. Quite frankly, the terms ‘Parent 1′ and ‘Parent 2′ seem more offensive than mother and father. It’s implying that one parent is the first parent and the other parent is secondary.

First of all, changing the language of one court form is highly unlikely to make “mother and father” obsolete. Especially considering that mothers and fathers would never see the form unless they are getting a divorce. Then there’s the matter of one parent being “secondary.” No, it’s not subordinating one parent, it’s merely a way of identifying one parent from the other.
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But thanks to Starnes, and Armstrong, Tennessee has reversed the change, and has gone back to the old forms. Starnes suggests that the credit is all his. “A few hours after my column was published the Tennessee Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) announced they were reversing the policy,” he wrote on the Fox News website.

Fischer: Natural Disasters, Military Defeats And Economic Catastrophes Are Always Warnings From God

"God uses military defeats, natural disasters, economic catastrophes," he said, "they are God's way of rousing a deaf nation. These things are megaphones that God uses to call a wandering and wicked nation back to himself in repentance and prayer."

"So the bottom line with these catastrophes," Fischer concluded, "whether they're military, whether they're natural, whether they're economic, this is God's way of calling a nation back to repentance. The only question is will we listen."

Far-Right Pastor: US Turning Into Gay Dystopia, Unlike Putin's Christian Russia

End Times preacher Carl Gallups spoke to WorldNetDaily yesterday about the Shemittah prophecy of something bad happening in September, citing an article from a Russian government-owned news agency, Sputnik, claiming that the U.S. is “gearing up for onrushing economic collapse.”

Despite the fact that the Russian media has been a mouthpiece for President Vladimir Putin’s government, which is attacking Protestants in Russia and occupied Ukraine, Gallups praised the “reliable” Russian media for covering the Shemittah prophecy (actually, the article doesn’t mention it at all) and the government’s “infusion of ‘Christian influence’ in Putin’s ‘new’ Russian culture.”
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In a separate interview with the far-right outlet, the preacher attacked a public school in San Francisco for organizing a gay history class, claiming that the classes won’t tell students about “the history of the major civilizations that ultimately met their demise concurrent with the rise of rampant sexual promiscuity and deviancy within those cultures, especially embracing and accepting homosexuality.”

Describing homosexuality as “one of the most dangerous sexual lifestyles on the planet,” he lamented that “this is just the beginning of the social rot that is to come.”

Far-Right Activists: Gay People Will Lead To The Downfall Of The Military, Civilization

Gaffney asked Lyons about Pentagon’s plan to work toward allowing transgender people to serve openly in the armed forces, saying, “One of the things that I just can’t get my head around is what do you when you have to have — as apparently the administration is going to insist — transgender individuals as well as females on these vessels. How does that work, practically speaking?”

Lyons called the plan “pure nonsense” and cited Paul McHugh to claim that “transgender is not a civil rights issue, it is a mental disorder,” saying that all transgender people need is to be “treated” and “returned to a normal lifestyle.”

Lyons then paraphrased the late conservative writer Stan Evans,  saying that “the gay, lesbian, transgender lifestyle is nothing but a return to a pagan ethic…which has led to the downfall of previous civilizations.”

Noebel: Teaching Gay Tolerance In Schools Is 'Child Molestation'

Gay marriage, Noebel warned, is going to “affect everything,” pointing out that even before the Supreme Court ruled on marriage equality, children in public schools were learning about the existence of gay people, which he said amounts to “child molestation.”

“They were already down in kindergarten, first, second and third grades teaching the younger innocents,” he said, “And you talk about child molestation. This, to me, was child molestation. When you start teaching first-, second- and third-graders about the glories and wonders of the homosexual lifestyle, you know you’ve got a problem.”
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“The game plan is to destroy Christianity,” he concluded, to Scott’s agreement. “That’s the game plan. Because they contend that Christianity has been very tough on the homosexuals for 2,000 years and now it’s time to get back at the whole thing and show them who’s really boss. So we’re in a very explosive cultural revolution.”

Klingenschmitt's Defense: Gays And Pedophiles Are Possessed By Different Demons

"There are clearly two different demons at play here," he said. "There is, of course, a demon of homosexuality in those who openly parade their sodomy in the streets. But then there's a different demon of child molesting that is inside some of these reported molesters ... I'm not saying that all of the homosexual are child molesters, I never claimed that. But I'll tell you in this case, all the child molesters in the Boy Scouts are homosexual. And how can I tell that? Very simple, it's logical, there were no girls in the tents. Those are men molesting boys and their attraction to other men, or even other boys, is a different demon and we're calling that out."

Former CIA Director Stops By Insane Conspiracy Theory End Times Show

While Wiles didn’t share with Woolsey his theories about demonic flies, the Illuminati’s role in the 9/11 attacks or how gay super-soldiers are taking over America, they did chat about nuclear threats, with the ex-CIA director saying that the U.S. shouldn’t even try negotiating with Iran because its regime can’t be trusted. He said any deal with Iran on its nuclear program would be “suicidal” and “sheer madness.”

 Nevada Rep. Michele Fiore Has Girl Parts On Her Nakedness Area, And So Should You!

“I was raised by my best friend in the whole wide world is my mom and she is a lesbian. But I will say with the bathroom issue is as a heterosexual female I want to be in the bathroom, I want to be in the shower with other girls and if you are transgender and you have a penis… I don’t feel like looking at your penis! Nor do I want you looking at my Va Jay Jay. So I don’t care if you want to have a Va Jay Jay, until you have a Va Jay Jay stay out of my nakedness area! That’s it.”