It's an anthropological term that describes the culture of food within a group. It's a valid term, but the way it is used in this piece is pretentious.
Rod, respectfully, take a deep breath, because I think you're missing the air of desperation about this, and the sense to which "there's a Pride Month angle to everything!" is already becoming a laughingstock, just eight days in.
We know how this conversation went:
"Administration says we need to provide something for Pride Month."
"But we're...Dining Services."
"Yes, so come up with some LGBT content for the daily newsletter."
"Like what?"
"I don't know. Gay food stuff?"
"Like carrots and cucumbers?"
"That's not funny."
"Will people get mad that we have no trans-fats in the cafeteria?"
"That's really not funny."
"Then what the hell do you want? A profile of Paolo back there thawing pizzas in the kitchen? He's gay."
"That's it! LGBT chefs! Google says James Beard was gay."
"Was that seriously his real name?"
In the past 24 hours, the CIA put out its obligatory Pride Month social media post, which has been greeted with 100% mockery.
Have hope, Rod. This stuff is already stumbling under the weight of its own preposterousness.
Yes, my apprehension is that they're making their grand push this year, all or nothing, very much comparable with an invading army. I'd like to believe this is top heavy with its own absurdity, but it may not be. All the rest of us can do is write and speak.
I've vehemently disagreed with Jon here, and I've been vocal about my concerns about this transgender nonsense in legislatures, public schools, and corporations. Not getting worked up over some dining services administrator ticking off a "Pride Month" box is not the same as saying "don't worry, no problem," wording that's a complete mischaracterization of what I've said here and elsewhere. I really do think we're finally seeing cracks in the fragile Tranny-über-Alles facade.
For the record, I'm not a "no problems" guy either-- let alone a Polyanna. Rather my line is "Your real problems are deeper and bigger than you know. You're missing the Tyrannosaurus on your trail while complaining about the horseflies."
If I could highlight one objection I have to much of Rod's alarmist writing and out it in 72pt cold, red font it would be the inability of so many people here to ever see any good news. Some of the folks here make Eyeore seem like Polyanna.
You remind me of the days long ago when my best friend and I belabored the air between us with puns so bad that it darkened. The parakeet in the cage hid its head under its wing from sheer embarassment.
You really think we are rapidly moving to a time when homosexuality will once again be viewed as aberrant, pronouns will not be discussed in public schools except in grammar classes, and the very idea of changing genders will be considered "preposterous "? From your lips to God's ears.
It will get worse before it gets better. Perhaps defeat in war or a nuclear exchange might change what is going on. That would be serious. Or an economic collapse. That would be serious. But we are an unserious people today with plenty of wealth and plenty of free time. So absurdity after absurdity is the measure of our days.
No, I don't think homosexuality will once again be viewed as aberrant, but I do think some of the trans-mania can be muted or rolled back. That in itself would be a major victory for reason, reality, and normality.
The more I think about this the more I wonder if it might not be the better approach: laugh at this crap (polite word used) rather than hang black banners and chant "We're all doomed" like some old geezer in a 50s horror movie. I recall a fantasy story I really liked in my youth in which the Evil Dude is defeated when the ghosts of his victims laugh at him.
So it’s creeping totalitarianism when people who fit under the LGBTQ umbrella propose to celebrate the accomplishments of their own in one industry — food — but normal and culturally healthy when conservatives push to purge school curricula of books, history texts, and/or teaching materials that don’t reflect the experiences, history, religious and cultural values of Americans who fit under the umbrella marked conservative, white and Christian?
Nope. It’s totalitarian when you must accept the tenets, sacraments, saints, and religious rites of the new religion, or else.
I could care less whether James Beard was gay, or fat, or liked opera. His achievements in the food world had nothing to do with those things. And celebrating him because of those things is to miss the greatness of what he did accomplish in order to score petty little grievance points and generate social credit for a movement that’s disregarding his actual achievements in favor of whatever else he did that’s now seen as “virtuous.”
This isn’t “celebrating the accomplishments of their own in one industry” It’s celebrating them for their lifestyle choices. That’s quite a different thing.
And yes, I’d say that is in fact “normally and culturally healthy” for parents to be involved in the education of their own children, yes. What’s abnormal is the whole not giving a damn about it that we’ve done for the past fifty years or so.
Shocking that in a representative republic we would want our values reflected by the folks we’ve elected to... well, reflect our values, among other things. It’s our money. We have a sayso in how it’s spent. And if you don’t think so, then you are the totalitarian.
I don’t think the US Constitution guarantees any citizen’s right to see their specifically religious values reflected in their political representatives. In fact, our republic’s founders didn’t much like the idea of mixing religion and politics, especially if you put it that way. Even (or especially) back then, that sort of thing meant never-ending conflict. And in case we’re actually lost in the metaphors (that LGBTQ activists are demanding universal compliance with their own “religious” tenets, sacraments, saints, rites, etc.), I guess it needs to be noted that what’s really going on here has nothing to do with religion or pseudo-religion per se, but instead reflects the LGBTQ community’s newly protected civil rights and newfound social status that another group in American society (conservative Christians, and mostly white conservative Protestant Christians) would deny them. They find that as threatening as conservative Christians find them. And some younger LGBTQ citizens and their supporters can sound as entitled as the country’s original white conservative Christians did, and do. Maybe because so many grew up in that community. The rest of us just live here.
I hope you understand the question. Using phrases like “stench in the nostrils” applied to LGBTQ, which is merely shorthand for the people’s sexual orientations (not necessarily behavior per se; after all, even a conservative Catholic such as Eve Tushnet, who is celibate, identifies with the community) has to feel like a personal put down.
A person has the right to be gay and free from persecution like anybody. But they dont have a right to weaponize that choice and demand that all of society distort every principle to simulate normalcy. Its not of for the gay agenda to permeate the schools and churches. Lifestyle is between you and God. Keep it to yourself. The only thing that drives the conflict is that queers are so thin-skinned that they cannot live in peace unless everybody agrees that God intended the species to go that route. When you mess with children and christian doctrine, you are going to get a war.
I don’t know if it’s just because I’ve lived awhile and seen other formerly repressed people respond to winning their rights with seemingly nonstop celebrating of this or that about their history, culture, etc., but I simply do not see anything especially threatening or “weaponized” in this particular celebration of “queer food.” I mean, nobody’s even being hit up for a donation, much less bullied by two-spirited “totalitarians.” Does anybody feel shamed into purchasing “queer beer,” or a James Beard cookbook, or what? A chef’s hat for a gay graduate of a culinary academy?
As for “messing with children,” that’s hardly the issue here. Of course, if it were, you still should remember they’d say it’s rightwing Christians, not them, who are doing that by trying to make it illegal for doctors to treat trans kids. But that’s a whole other thing. Not this.
The idea of the human person “created equal” is a specifically Christian idea, as is human dignity, etc. Did you not read Rod’s other pieces?
I don’t think it’s a zero sum game, as you seem to be arguing. The emergence of new rights or new classes of people to exercise them doesn’t take rights from those who have them.
But it is the right of the citizen to say, for example, that child abuse is wrong. The devil is, as always, in the details.
I can also say that newly discovered rights or classes of protected people have literally no basis in the history and traditions of the West.
You know the old saying: the Constitution is not a suicide pact. The citizens are entitled to decide what they’ll permit and what they won’t allow.
One reason we aren’t a direct democracy is that the founders feared rule by mob. That way lies tyranny, too. But there is a such thing as tyranny of the minority.
And we don’t have to put up with it. What’s the social benefit?
Re: The citizens are entitled to decide what they’ll permit and what they won’t allow.
Within some broad limits yes. But there are things that are beyond the pale. The citizens may not ban the practice of Islam or racially mixed marriages. There are guardrails to everything. We The People can only go far.
Agreed. That was going to be part of my point. The problem with writing comments is that other things interfere. And one needs time to sit with a piece of writing—even a short one. Thanks for pointing out my oversight.
“We the People” is a dead meme now. The elites don’t care about your rights, they want you dead unless you can serve them in a way they wish.
Prove me wrong in this. We are all slaves now. Do which sort of slave am I?
A doulas, a slave to Christ? Or a chattel slave for the global elites? Not much middle in there. What is your greatest comfort now in life and death? No, I am not trying to be cute or say something offensive to anyone. This is a real question for any human being.
The only one who cares about Christians are King Jesus, and His people who love and serve Him.
Re: In fact, our republic’s founders didn’t much like the idea of mixing religion and politics
It's more correct to say that the Founders did not like the idea of mixing Church and State. As a practical matter there no way to nix voters voting their beliefs, nor should we try.
I don’t disagree. People normally vote in line with their beliefs, obviously. And that would include the religiously based moral values of, say, conservative Baptists as well as what’s being mislabeled here as the “religious” values of LGBTQ citizens and their supporters. The US Constitution definitely opposes establishing a state church. But keeping the peace in a nation in which citizens are committed to a plurality of creeds and churches — not to mention no particular religious creed at all — requires certain rules and practical wisdom. Some of those have been incorporated in the First amendment. Other amendments, as well as civil rights bills and state and federal statutes extending protections to groups of citizens such as women, African Americans and sexual minorities who weren’t covered in the original document have had to be added. And yet our strongly held values have always clashed. Witness that “lock and load” campaign to maintain a certain disputed tradition in the mid-19th century. And yet the founders’ general vision has prevailed. Hopefully, rules and practical wisdom will continue to see us through.
This is exactly what i am saying. Thin-skinned and hysterical servants of anti christ.
The government is your daddy top.
Law-abiding citizens have a right to defend themselves. Those Christians slaughtered by the tranny would have been on solid ground to be prepared for what you people are planning.
They are not armed??? Did you see what that demoniac tranny did to that christian school recently? If the authorities had the guts to release the manifesto it would be very clear what you servants of anti christ are planning.
I assume you’re talking about that girl shooter in Nashville, a former student at the Christian school she shot up, a young woman whose parents had thought was getting mental health treatment because she’d sounded violent, not “tranny.” In any case, the nature of her particular problem matters less than the fact that she had one, and it led to disaster. If she was transgender, it was hardly a long-standing claim. She’d used a male pronoun one time, and then only after the death of a female friend she’d apparently obsessed over, as she had over a couple random people from her past whom she somehow remembered fondly even though they barely remembered her. Those are signs of some sort of problem, clearly, but of what we don’t have any way to know. I mean, the young woman wore bow barrettes in her hair and drew whimsical, childlike illustrations for a living, hardly the signature of a female identifying as male. The fact that some conservative Christians decided this one school shooter somehow represented transgender people and some allegedly violent agenda “trannies” have for Christians is just another despicable facet of a truly horrendous event.
My real mother was really into home decorating. Unfortunately she was bit by the 70s bug and we ended up with with heirloom gold shag carpet, bawdy house red in the family room, and, yes, an avocado green refrigerator. Then she died and my father and eventual step-mother kept it the way it was well into the 80s-- maybe they feared my mom would come back and haunt them if they changed it. I suspect they got less for the house than they could have when they sold it in 1985.
Except that what you claim is happening is not happening. Those schools in Florida are still full of books about black history. The Florida state school curriculum mandates the teaching of slavery and a whole range of experiences and cultures beyond those of white, conservative Christians. Actual statements from schools are available online, as is the text of state law. You're being lied to.
This is all so very much like the Soviet version of chess and checkers.
"[There are] hidden tendencies, hidden wishes, hidden goals of a certain segment of our chess/checkers organizations: enough politics, we don't need politics, just let us 'quietly' play chess.
"We said: anyone who stated that political questions should be separated from the questions of general cultural work, from the life of our organizations, was deliberately opposing our political position and, therefore, was our class enemy."
"Our goal is to imbue the chess/checkers work with political content."
-- Nikolai Krylenko. "The Main Goals of the Chess/Checkers Movement" (1931)
No. The only queer Chinese is Madame Butterfly. No, the likely culprit is a five-day old raw piece of chicken set out too long. I had the same happen to me in Lexington, KY in the mid-80s. I still live.
These queer cultists have too much time and money on their hands. First they play with our genitals and now they play with our food. “Would you care for some aged, crumbly crotch cheese on your artisanal GMO-free arugula & dick compote “toss your salad” special?”
Truly oppressed people tend to work hard not to get noticed. Because getting noticed will get them shot. When every major media outlet praises your lifestyle and your flag is flown from the embassies of the world's superpower, you're not oppressed.
"Yes, I'd like that with milk and sugar and if you don't mind, could you please sprinkle a little HIV on it too?"
how did the first purpose of every single human endeavor become "challenging stigma"? it's like some weird kind of emotional taxation: everyone must chip in to make the emotionally brittle feel better about themselves. we live locked inside a totalitarian kindergarten.
hey i will always fight these ghouls but i will never be as miserable as they are...that's how they win. besides, mockery can often be a highly effective weapon. cheers!
I agree! And we have to start being shamefully funny at their expense. Ridicule can be deadly, but if it's isolated to a single person, it just looks mean. It's as though the laughing days are gone. We're in the Cultural Revolution.
And just think… any of them could repent and receive all the benefits of a loving God Almighty, instead of reprobation. God is good, all the time. He loves His children.
HIV is very minimally contagious. I lived with an HIV+ guy for years. We were not doing you-know-what or anything remotely in that category (and no, I don't do drugs either). I no more let that bother me than I would've have worried that he might catch asthma from me.
Tunnel of Fudge. The closing event of Jack’s BakeOff.
🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Bruh 😭
There's always a "just the tip", isn't there
"foodways" wtf
It's an anthropological term that describes the culture of food within a group. It's a valid term, but the way it is used in this piece is pretentious.
Yep. The woke must wokify ALL THE THINGS! That's how totalitarians roll.
Look for the Yankees to wear rainbow pinstripes this month to prove solidarity with the "gay" community.
Rod, respectfully, take a deep breath, because I think you're missing the air of desperation about this, and the sense to which "there's a Pride Month angle to everything!" is already becoming a laughingstock, just eight days in.
We know how this conversation went:
"Administration says we need to provide something for Pride Month."
"But we're...Dining Services."
"Yes, so come up with some LGBT content for the daily newsletter."
"Like what?"
"I don't know. Gay food stuff?"
"Like carrots and cucumbers?"
"That's not funny."
"Will people get mad that we have no trans-fats in the cafeteria?"
"That's really not funny."
"Then what the hell do you want? A profile of Paolo back there thawing pizzas in the kitchen? He's gay."
"That's it! LGBT chefs! Google says James Beard was gay."
"Was that seriously his real name?"
In the past 24 hours, the CIA put out its obligatory Pride Month social media post, which has been greeted with 100% mockery.
Have hope, Rod. This stuff is already stumbling under the weight of its own preposterousness.
trans-fat - now that's comedy gold!
OMG.
Great name for a morbidly obese drag queen.
Thanks (and to Jonah too). Needed some good jokes today.
Happy to oblige!
oh that is too funny! Ken, you're going on my Christmas list!
Excellent!!!
You need to copyright this. There’s $ to be made!
How does one copyright a silky name? How does it make money?
This whole dialogue is comedy gold. Thank you for the belly laugh! (You know what they say: real humor always contains a seed of truth ;-)
"Don't worry, no problem. Can't you see, it's collapsing under its own weight"
Are you Jon's alter ego?
Yes, my apprehension is that they're making their grand push this year, all or nothing, very much comparable with an invading army. I'd like to believe this is top heavy with its own absurdity, but it may not be. All the rest of us can do is write and speak.
I've vehemently disagreed with Jon here, and I've been vocal about my concerns about this transgender nonsense in legislatures, public schools, and corporations. Not getting worked up over some dining services administrator ticking off a "Pride Month" box is not the same as saying "don't worry, no problem," wording that's a complete mischaracterization of what I've said here and elsewhere. I really do think we're finally seeing cracks in the fragile Tranny-über-Alles facade.
For the record, I'm not a "no problems" guy either-- let alone a Polyanna. Rather my line is "Your real problems are deeper and bigger than you know. You're missing the Tyrannosaurus on your trail while complaining about the horseflies."
I am not an optimist about this century.
What do you think the Tyrannosaurus on our trail is?
Yeah, but mocking stupidity when it deserves to be mocked is still important. And even Rod got a couple of jokes in!
If I could highlight one objection I have to much of Rod's alarmist writing and out it in 72pt cold, red font it would be the inability of so many people here to ever see any good news. Some of the folks here make Eyeore seem like Polyanna.
“...the inability of so many people here to ever see any good news. “
There is plenty of good news: the end is nigh!!!
Made me think of "Little Debbie Snack Cakes" in a whole new light . . .
And dont forget the delectable little french Pedofors. 🤡
(groan)
You remind me of the days long ago when my best friend and I belabored the air between us with puns so bad that it darkened. The parakeet in the cage hid its head under its wing from sheer embarassment.
👍
You really think we are rapidly moving to a time when homosexuality will once again be viewed as aberrant, pronouns will not be discussed in public schools except in grammar classes, and the very idea of changing genders will be considered "preposterous "? From your lips to God's ears.
It will get worse before it gets better. Perhaps defeat in war or a nuclear exchange might change what is going on. That would be serious. Or an economic collapse. That would be serious. But we are an unserious people today with plenty of wealth and plenty of free time. So absurdity after absurdity is the measure of our days.
Amen, brother.
Um, we've had some defeats, going back to Vietnam in fact. See also: Iraq, Afghanistan.
A nuclear exchange. Ugh. No. A billion time no. Some demons must never be summoned.
Scripture talks about a third of the earth population will die. That should lighten the load a bit.
No, I don't think homosexuality will once again be viewed as aberrant, but I do think some of the trans-mania can be muted or rolled back. That in itself would be a major victory for reason, reality, and normality.
No. The dildo is out of the bag.
Some how I have this scary vision of a drag Queen sitting naked on a bean bag chair, eating Cheetos ....
The more I think about this the more I wonder if it might not be the better approach: laugh at this crap (polite word used) rather than hang black banners and chant "We're all doomed" like some old geezer in a 50s horror movie. I recall a fantasy story I really liked in my youth in which the Evil Dude is defeated when the ghosts of his victims laugh at him.
So it’s creeping totalitarianism when people who fit under the LGBTQ umbrella propose to celebrate the accomplishments of their own in one industry — food — but normal and culturally healthy when conservatives push to purge school curricula of books, history texts, and/or teaching materials that don’t reflect the experiences, history, religious and cultural values of Americans who fit under the umbrella marked conservative, white and Christian?
How did you guess?
What's your point?
I see you've met Anne.
Charmed.
Nope. It’s totalitarian when you must accept the tenets, sacraments, saints, and religious rites of the new religion, or else.
I could care less whether James Beard was gay, or fat, or liked opera. His achievements in the food world had nothing to do with those things. And celebrating him because of those things is to miss the greatness of what he did accomplish in order to score petty little grievance points and generate social credit for a movement that’s disregarding his actual achievements in favor of whatever else he did that’s now seen as “virtuous.”
This isn’t “celebrating the accomplishments of their own in one industry” It’s celebrating them for their lifestyle choices. That’s quite a different thing.
And yes, I’d say that is in fact “normally and culturally healthy” for parents to be involved in the education of their own children, yes. What’s abnormal is the whole not giving a damn about it that we’ve done for the past fifty years or so.
Shocking that in a representative republic we would want our values reflected by the folks we’ve elected to... well, reflect our values, among other things. It’s our money. We have a sayso in how it’s spent. And if you don’t think so, then you are the totalitarian.
I don’t think the US Constitution guarantees any citizen’s right to see their specifically religious values reflected in their political representatives. In fact, our republic’s founders didn’t much like the idea of mixing religion and politics, especially if you put it that way. Even (or especially) back then, that sort of thing meant never-ending conflict. And in case we’re actually lost in the metaphors (that LGBTQ activists are demanding universal compliance with their own “religious” tenets, sacraments, saints, rites, etc.), I guess it needs to be noted that what’s really going on here has nothing to do with religion or pseudo-religion per se, but instead reflects the LGBTQ community’s newly protected civil rights and newfound social status that another group in American society (conservative Christians, and mostly white conservative Protestant Christians) would deny them. They find that as threatening as conservative Christians find them. And some younger LGBTQ citizens and their supporters can sound as entitled as the country’s original white conservative Christians did, and do. Maybe because so many grew up in that community. The rest of us just live here.
Unfortunately for your side, LGBTQ+ is perverted, and a stench in the nostrils of him who created us.
The human beings or the acronym?
The concept. He loves the people. His Son died for them.
Well said.
I hope you understand the question. Using phrases like “stench in the nostrils” applied to LGBTQ, which is merely shorthand for the people’s sexual orientations (not necessarily behavior per se; after all, even a conservative Catholic such as Eve Tushnet, who is celibate, identifies with the community) has to feel like a personal put down.
A person has the right to be gay and free from persecution like anybody. But they dont have a right to weaponize that choice and demand that all of society distort every principle to simulate normalcy. Its not of for the gay agenda to permeate the schools and churches. Lifestyle is between you and God. Keep it to yourself. The only thing that drives the conflict is that queers are so thin-skinned that they cannot live in peace unless everybody agrees that God intended the species to go that route. When you mess with children and christian doctrine, you are going to get a war.
I don’t know if it’s just because I’ve lived awhile and seen other formerly repressed people respond to winning their rights with seemingly nonstop celebrating of this or that about their history, culture, etc., but I simply do not see anything especially threatening or “weaponized” in this particular celebration of “queer food.” I mean, nobody’s even being hit up for a donation, much less bullied by two-spirited “totalitarians.” Does anybody feel shamed into purchasing “queer beer,” or a James Beard cookbook, or what? A chef’s hat for a gay graduate of a culinary academy?
As for “messing with children,” that’s hardly the issue here. Of course, if it were, you still should remember they’d say it’s rightwing Christians, not them, who are doing that by trying to make it illegal for doctors to treat trans kids. But that’s a whole other thing. Not this.
The idea of the human person “created equal” is a specifically Christian idea, as is human dignity, etc. Did you not read Rod’s other pieces?
I don’t think it’s a zero sum game, as you seem to be arguing. The emergence of new rights or new classes of people to exercise them doesn’t take rights from those who have them.
But it is the right of the citizen to say, for example, that child abuse is wrong. The devil is, as always, in the details.
I can also say that newly discovered rights or classes of protected people have literally no basis in the history and traditions of the West.
You know the old saying: the Constitution is not a suicide pact. The citizens are entitled to decide what they’ll permit and what they won’t allow.
One reason we aren’t a direct democracy is that the founders feared rule by mob. That way lies tyranny, too. But there is a such thing as tyranny of the minority.
And we don’t have to put up with it. What’s the social benefit?
Re: The citizens are entitled to decide what they’ll permit and what they won’t allow.
Within some broad limits yes. But there are things that are beyond the pale. The citizens may not ban the practice of Islam or racially mixed marriages. There are guardrails to everything. We The People can only go far.
Agreed. That was going to be part of my point. The problem with writing comments is that other things interfere. And one needs time to sit with a piece of writing—even a short one. Thanks for pointing out my oversight.
I try to catch myself, making overly broad points, but I don't always manage to either.
“We the People” is a dead meme now. The elites don’t care about your rights, they want you dead unless you can serve them in a way they wish.
Prove me wrong in this. We are all slaves now. Do which sort of slave am I?
A doulas, a slave to Christ? Or a chattel slave for the global elites? Not much middle in there. What is your greatest comfort now in life and death? No, I am not trying to be cute or say something offensive to anyone. This is a real question for any human being.
The only one who cares about Christians are King Jesus, and His people who love and serve Him.
Re: In fact, our republic’s founders didn’t much like the idea of mixing religion and politics
It's more correct to say that the Founders did not like the idea of mixing Church and State. As a practical matter there no way to nix voters voting their beliefs, nor should we try.
I don’t disagree. People normally vote in line with their beliefs, obviously. And that would include the religiously based moral values of, say, conservative Baptists as well as what’s being mislabeled here as the “religious” values of LGBTQ citizens and their supporters. The US Constitution definitely opposes establishing a state church. But keeping the peace in a nation in which citizens are committed to a plurality of creeds and churches — not to mention no particular religious creed at all — requires certain rules and practical wisdom. Some of those have been incorporated in the First amendment. Other amendments, as well as civil rights bills and state and federal statutes extending protections to groups of citizens such as women, African Americans and sexual minorities who weren’t covered in the original document have had to be added. And yet our strongly held values have always clashed. Witness that “lock and load” campaign to maintain a certain disputed tradition in the mid-19th century. And yet the founders’ general vision has prevailed. Hopefully, rules and practical wisdom will continue to see us through.
Lock and load, folks. These religious fanatics want nothing less than war. So be it.
They aren’t armed. Why the militant rhetoric?
This is exactly what i am saying. Thin-skinned and hysterical servants of anti christ.
The government is your daddy top.
Law-abiding citizens have a right to defend themselves. Those Christians slaughtered by the tranny would have been on solid ground to be prepared for what you people are planning.
They are not armed??? Did you see what that demoniac tranny did to that christian school recently? If the authorities had the guts to release the manifesto it would be very clear what you servants of anti christ are planning.
I assume you’re talking about that girl shooter in Nashville, a former student at the Christian school she shot up, a young woman whose parents had thought was getting mental health treatment because she’d sounded violent, not “tranny.” In any case, the nature of her particular problem matters less than the fact that she had one, and it led to disaster. If she was transgender, it was hardly a long-standing claim. She’d used a male pronoun one time, and then only after the death of a female friend she’d apparently obsessed over, as she had over a couple random people from her past whom she somehow remembered fondly even though they barely remembered her. Those are signs of some sort of problem, clearly, but of what we don’t have any way to know. I mean, the young woman wore bow barrettes in her hair and drew whimsical, childlike illustrations for a living, hardly the signature of a female identifying as male. The fact that some conservative Christians decided this one school shooter somehow represented transgender people and some allegedly violent agenda “trannies” have for Christians is just another despicable facet of a truly horrendous event.
Yes. I'd prefer a return to the accepted values of the Age of Eisenhower but the Nixon years would do.
Break - ins, cover - ups, modified limited hangings out, twistings in the wind, G.Gordon Liddy's burned hand, and all.
As long as we don't have to go back to love beads or leisure suits, or the oozing eyesore that was 70s home decorating schemes.
You can add shag rugs, Ford Pintos and Disco music to the list. Barry Manilow, too.
My real mother was really into home decorating. Unfortunately she was bit by the 70s bug and we ended up with with heirloom gold shag carpet, bawdy house red in the family room, and, yes, an avocado green refrigerator. Then she died and my father and eventual step-mother kept it the way it was well into the 80s-- maybe they feared my mom would come back and haunt them if they changed it. I suspect they got less for the house than they could have when they sold it in 1985.
They don't want to celebrate food, they want to celebrate the fact that they like dudes.
Oh and by the way, they were chefs too. Or something
Something unappetizing about that.
Hint: Typoid Mary.
Wash those hands after pooping.
Except that what you claim is happening is not happening. Those schools in Florida are still full of books about black history. The Florida state school curriculum mandates the teaching of slavery and a whole range of experiences and cultures beyond those of white, conservative Christians. Actual statements from schools are available online, as is the text of state law. You're being lied to.
Really , Anne? It’s a lot deeper.
The food and the pedo grooming propaganda for kids is creepy and degenerate.
This is all so very much like the Soviet version of chess and checkers.
"[There are] hidden tendencies, hidden wishes, hidden goals of a certain segment of our chess/checkers organizations: enough politics, we don't need politics, just let us 'quietly' play chess.
"We said: anyone who stated that political questions should be separated from the questions of general cultural work, from the life of our organizations, was deliberately opposing our political position and, therefore, was our class enemy."
"Our goal is to imbue the chess/checkers work with political content."
-- Nikolai Krylenko. "The Main Goals of the Chess/Checkers Movement" (1931)
Cheese and crackers
Astute observation. I have had bad food, but not queer food.
I just had bad Chinese food in Winchester. The food was not up to my culinary values. But none of the chefs looked queer.
Two hours later and my youngest daughter is throwing up. Woops. I had Kung Pao Chicken, too.
I got Kung Pao'd at Epcot earlier this week, haha! Does that count as "queered up" cuisine? Hope your daughter feels better.
No. The only queer Chinese is Madame Butterfly. No, the likely culprit is a five-day old raw piece of chicken set out too long. I had the same happen to me in Lexington, KY in the mid-80s. I still live.
Kung poop chicken
CHILDREN OF OUR AGE
We are children of our age,
it’s a political age.
All day long, all through the night,
all affairs—yours, ours, theirs—
are political affairs.
Whether you like it or not,
your genes have a political past,
your skin, a political cast,
your eyes, a political slant.
Whatever you say reverberates,
whatever you don’t say speaks for itself.
So either way you’re talking politics.
Even when you take to the woods,
you’re taking political steps
on political grounds.
Apolitical poems are also political,
and above us shines a moon
no longer purely lunar.
To be or not to be, that is the question.
And though it troubles the digestion
it’s a question, as always, of politics.
To acquire a political meaning
you don’t even have to be human.
Raw material will do,
or protein feed, or crude oil,
or a conference table whose shape
was quarreled over for months;
Should we arbitrate life and death
at a round table or a square one?
Meanwhile, people perished,
animals died,
houses burned,
and the fields ran wild
just as in times immemorial
and less political.
-Wislawa Szymborska (1923 – 2012)
I love how you have poems for every occasion!
I do? That's a nice thought!
These queer cultists have too much time and money on their hands. First they play with our genitals and now they play with our food. “Would you care for some aged, crumbly crotch cheese on your artisanal GMO-free arugula & dick compote “toss your salad” special?”
......🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🖕
If LGTByadayada voices get any more amplified, we'll all need to wear earplugs to avoid damage to our hearing.
Truly oppressed people tend to work hard not to get noticed. Because getting noticed will get them shot. When every major media outlet praises your lifestyle and your flag is flown from the embassies of the world's superpower, you're not oppressed.
I wonder what the queer angle is for a pulled pork sandwich. Or sausage and gravy over a pancake, a popular food in Appalchia.
A pork sandwich is probably its own angle.
Haaaaa!!!
And what about the humble hotdog?
“Homo HotDoug” is in the menu!
I have a tendency to nightmares, Ken.
Also, dont forget about “Pulled Pork Manwich”.
Could be worse, you could eat at the HIV+ Cafe
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/08/canada-toronto-restaurant-hiv-aids-kitchen-staff-stigma
lolol
"Yes, I'd like that with milk and sugar and if you don't mind, could you please sprinkle a little HIV on it too?"
how did the first purpose of every single human endeavor become "challenging stigma"? it's like some weird kind of emotional taxation: everyone must chip in to make the emotionally brittle feel better about themselves. we live locked inside a totalitarian kindergarten.
CP, it's sociopathic if any "movement" is, and sociopathy is like extremely malignant two year olds' behavior.
sociopathy is the new normal!
destruction is the new creation!
fragility is the new strength!
"Identity" is the new personality!
welcome to the 21st century lol
It's like loling your way through the firebombing of our nation.
hey i will always fight these ghouls but i will never be as miserable as they are...that's how they win. besides, mockery can often be a highly effective weapon. cheers!
I agree! And we have to start being shamefully funny at their expense. Ridicule can be deadly, but if it's isolated to a single person, it just looks mean. It's as though the laughing days are gone. We're in the Cultural Revolution.
And just think… any of them could repent and receive all the benefits of a loving God Almighty, instead of reprobation. God is good, all the time. He loves His children.
HIV is very minimally contagious. I lived with an HIV+ guy for years. We were not doing you-know-what or anything remotely in that category (and no, I don't do drugs either). I no more let that bother me than I would've have worried that he might catch asthma from me.
Good lord. Don’t order anything rare!
One slip of the knife and it’s AIDS Soup!
Oh help us Jesus!
I’ll have an order of the lightly spanked arugula...please.
If there were an award for best comment, you'd win it for that, Leonore. I'm envious.
...and the experience of a transgender dishwasher.
It reminds me of something Woody Allen would have come up with when he was still funny.