Wednesday, March 08, 2023

What a Drag!!

Jackie Gleason and Bob Hope, Central Park, 1975

 
Tom Hanks
I don't know why this would be so, but it seems that in every generation - going all the way back to the beginning of the twentieth century - America's extreme and paranoid right wing has always needed a boogie man to get bent out of shape about. At the beginning of the century it was the suffragettes; then it was the Bolsheviks; later it was the Jews; then it was the Communists (which was merely an extension of Bolshevism); then it was the Blacks (Ah, hell, just admit it: it's always the Blacks!); then it was the Hippies; then it was the 
Muslims. Today, the newest threat to come into the crossfire of the guardians of Idiot Nation? ARE YOU READY FOR THIS, KIDDIES?

Syd Chaplin
DRAG QUEENS.

I kid you not, campers. Fucking drag queens.

The two governors of Florida and Tennessee have really thought long and hard about this apparently. They are both of the belief that the very sight of men donning ladies' clothing will be enough to severely traumatize generations of innocent children. They have made it their silly mission to prevent this national obscenity from continuing for another minute. They want to make it illegal for drag shows to take place in any venue where children might be present. The fact that this sort of entertainment usually takes place in nightclubs where liquor is served and that children are never present failed to occur to these two knuckleheads. 
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Isn't life strange?

Uncle Miltie
I would imagine that their next move would be to ban all seventy-plus-year-old kinescopes of The Milton Berle Show. Uncle Miltie (as he was known) was television's first mega-star. Although I was always of the opinion that the man was hideously overrated, audiences of the late forties and early fifties
adored the guy. One of the gimmicks of the Berle program was that he had a tendency of coming out on the stage dressed completely in women's attire. Although it is my belief that the joke would get boring really fast, men and women (and their kids) never got tired of it. Week after week they kept coming back for more. They ate it up! Go figure.

Jack Benny
To those of you who are in the psychiatric profession and might have spent years - many decades even - pouring over psychiatric periodicals: can any one of you come up with a case where some poor little boy or girl were driven mad from watching the Milton Berle Show? Get back to me.

I've got an idea: the most progressive cities in the states of Tennessee and Florida should organize two mass drag parades to occur simultaneously. Make them both an international affair and invite every drag queen on the entire planet to attend the festivities. That would show the bastards a thing or two!

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY

SUGGESTED VIEWING:

In 1941, legendary comedian Jack Benny made a film called Charley's Aunt in which he appeared in much of the film in drag. It's a fun film that should be seen by all lovers of classic American comedy. Show it to the kids; they won't be traumatized by it, I promise.


Jack Benny (1894-1974) was a giant of radio, television and film comedy. The man was as good as they get.

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Shameful left wing propaganda. Shame on all of you for even reading this stuff.



37 Comments:

At 6:32 PM, Blogger Dave Dubya said...

Yes. I also recall Trump's drippy lawyer from "Four Seasons" dressed in drag too.

 
At 2:27 AM, Blogger JustMusing said...

My personal favorite is "Some Like It Hot!"

 
At 8:37 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Revenge of the Patriarchy: White House Gives Women’s Day Award to a Dude in a Dress.

There’s nothing like sending the message on International Women’s Day that men can be better women than women themselves. Which is exactly what the Biden White House did on March 8 when it gave a biological man one of the 2023 International Women of Courage Awards.

Jill Biden presents an "International Women Of Courage Award" to a biological male on #InternationalWomensDay at the White House pic.twitter.com/5fudW9wICM

 
At 1:13 PM, Blogger Dave Dubya said...

Triggering the Right, Argentinian Alba Rueda was introduced at the ceremony as a "transgender woman who was kicked out of classrooms, barred for sitting for exams, refused job opportunities, subjected to violence, and rejected by her family. But in the face of these challenges, she worked to end violence and discrimination against the LGBTQ plus community in Argentina."

"Transgender woman", not "woman", is the term. Conservatives don't seem to know the difference.

Don't they know white male conservatives are the "real victims" of oppression?

 
At 11:44 AM, Blogger rustcoal said...

I wonder what percentage of the looney right actually believe their convictions. Tuckhead Carltoons apparently doesn't.

 
At 2:01 PM, Blogger Dave Dubya said...

It's simple.
If the lie pays off or even FEELS good, they roll with it.

 
At 2:39 PM, Blogger JustMusing said...

There are bright spots:

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3890450-michigan-passes-bill-giving-civil-rights-protections-to-lgbtq-people/

And dark spots:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-man-sues-women-who-helped-his-ex-wife-obtain-abortion-pills/ar-AA18u4tL

Let's keep fighting for bright ones.

 
At 10:32 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

While the radical left loves to claim that LGBTQ individuals face horrible oppression and discrimination, the reality is that almost every institution in this country (and others) celebrates LGBTQ ideology and calls those who identify with it “heroes.” The true victims of discrimination and harsh backlash are the “detransitioners” — transgenders who decide to return to living as their biological sex. These brave individuals not only have the courage to admit they were terribly wrong (some with permanent bodily damage such as double mastectomies), but they must face leftist targeting that paints them as traitors and villains.

A recent example of the insane leftist hatred against detransitioners occurred Friday in Sacramento, Calif., when a mob of Antifa protestors paraded around, screaming their hatred for detransitioners to the skies during a Detransition Awareness Day rally. Oh, and the Antifa protesters also brutally assaulted three bystanders. Because, you know, love is love and leftists want to stop hate.

 
At 1:17 PM, Blogger Dave Dubya said...

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At 1:18 PM, Blogger Dave Dubya said...

Vern's bigotry has no bottom. "Antifa did it" is their go-to lie, like on 1/6/21. Nope. Those violent thugs were 100% MAGAts.

Vern won't mention this fact: Several signs read “DEMOCRATS FOR DETRANSITION.”

"Insane leftist hatred" is once again Vern projecting HIS hatred.

He wants to accuse every democrat of being pro-transition for minors. Not even close to the truth.

About 40 people who oppose gender-confirming health care gathered on Friday at the state Capitol, while a larger group of counter-protesters marched toward the event. The marchers, who held pride flags and signs supporting trans youth, gathered in Southside Park and stopped short of the Capitol where the permitted Detransition Awareness Day rally took place. There were three reports of assault and theft, according to a tweet from the Sacramento Police Department. One person was arrested on suspicion of assault. A police spokesperson would not say whether these incidents were related to people of either protesting group.

Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article273005655.html#storylink=cpy

And bigotry from people like him is what trans people face:

https://www.eagletribune.com/region/de-transitioner-rally-against-gender-affirming-care-being-held-friday-in-sacramento/article_ff040a21-9812-5446-bf48-5fc3dab8132d.html

According to the Transgender Journalists Association style guide, “there’s no good data” on people who regret their gender-affirming medical treatment, but what exists points to it being incredibly rare.

A 2014 Swedish study found a 2.2% regret rate among those who had received such treatment.

The 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey, by the National Center for Transgender Equality, which surveyed nearly 28,000 transgender people across the nation, found just 8% of respondents having de-transitioned at some point.

Of those who did, double-digits reported quitting due to pressure from family, spouses, employers or friends. A third said they stopped because transitioning was too hard for them, while 31% said they stopped due to harassment or discrimination, and 29% said they quit because they had trouble getting a job.

Just 5% said they quit because transitioning was not for them
, and just 2% said they stopped for medical reasons.

 
At 1:59 PM, Blogger Dave Dubya said...

When will Vern thank me for providing him with Just the Facts?
Cue more hate and lies.

 
At 3:01 PM, Blogger JustMusing said...

For Vern, victimhood is intrinsic to a fascistic global view. It's his armor and forms the bedrock of his playbook.

https://hartmannreport.com/p/what-will-happen-to-everyone-who

"Being gay, lesbian, or trans was widely tolerated in Germany, at least in the big cities, when Hitler came to power on January 30, 1933, and the German queer community was his first explicit target. Within weeks, the Nazis began a campaign to demonize queer people — with especially vitriolic attacks on trans people — across German media.

German states put into law bans on gender-affirming care, drag shows, and any sort of “public display of deviance,” enforcing a long-moribund German law, Paragraph 175, first put into the nation’s penal code in 1871, that outlawed homosexuality. Books and magazines telling stories of gay men and lesbians were removed from schools and libraries.

Thus, a mere five months after Hitler came to power, on May 6, 1933, Nazis showed up at the Institute and hauled over 20,000 books and manuscripts about gender and sexuality out in the street to burn, creating a massive bonfire.

It was the first major Nazi book-burning and was celebrated with newsreels played in theaters across the nation."

And from there, a descent into utter madness.

 
At 3:31 PM, Blogger JustMusing said...

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At 3:34 PM, Blogger JustMusing said...

My Dad (a Marine) who fought at Saipan, nearly paying the ultimate price, survived to bring up four children who were informed about the horrors of war, the consequences of "warped ideologies", and the critical need for eternal vigilance to protect all democracies.

(https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2015/02/19/23679137/)

"President Barack Obama urges delegates from 65 countries attending a three-day White House summit on combating violent extremism, to "confront the warped ideology" espoused by terror groups, particularly efforts to use Islam to justify violence."

The latest Terror groups have fully manifested as

https://www.businessinsider.com/republican-party-trump-pence-embraced-history-american-fascism-2020-10?op=1

No matter what Vern says or does, I will not let the sacrifices my father and that of all the others who fought the Axis of Evils to be undone.

As a wartime veteran myself, that's an ironclad promise.

 
At 5:29 PM, Blogger Dave Dubya said...

JustMusing,

"We are in an epic struggle to rescue our country from the people who hated it, and want to absolutely destroy it." - Trump or Hitler? What's the difference?

Tennessee Republicans just advanced a bill to allow county clerks to deny marriage licenses to same-sex, interfaith, or interracial couples.

https://www.alternet.org/house-oversight-republicans-white-supremacy/
All 26 House Oversight Republicans refuse to sign statement denouncing white supremacy

Neo-Nazis like Trump, Vern, and their ilk are proof that the struggle against white supremacy and fascism never ends.

As Jefferson said, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

 
At 7:01 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

‘We Were Wrong’: Pioneer In Child Gender Dysphoria Treatment Says Trans Medical Industry Is Harming Kids...Dr. Susan Bradley, a Canadian psychiatrist and pioneer in child gender dysphoria treatment, came out against the popular model of affirming children’s transgender identities and putting them on puberty blockers — a practice she was once involved in — in an interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Bradley started a pediatric gender clinic in 1975 aimed at treating children with gender dysphoria — a deep sense of discomfort with one’s body and biological sex — in which she offered a therapy-focused approach; most patients outgrew their feelings of being transgender over time, she told the DCNF. Around 2005, the clinic began prescribing puberty blockers to gender-dysphoric children as a way to alleviate their distress, a model which has since become widely adopted by medical establishments around the world, including in the U.S.

Bradley, who is now in her early eighties, expressed regret that the clinic had participated in the administration of puberty blockers for gender dysphoria, which she now believes can cement a child’s sense of confusion out of which they would likely otherwise grow. She also expressed concern about the drugs’ side effects.

“WE WERE WRONG,” she said. “They’re not as irreversible as we always thought, and they have longer term effects on kids’ growth and development, including making them sterile and quite a number of things affecting their bone growth.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/03/11/pioneer-in-child-gender-dysphoria-treatment-says-trans-medical-industry-is-harming-kids/

 
At 7:09 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

JUST IN: Censored video re-emerges of Jacob Chansley reading Trump’s tweet, telling protestors to GO HOME and remain peaceful..

WON’T SEE THIS ON CNN…
pic.twitter.com/L8bLXMGUAs

 
At 7:33 PM, Blogger JustMusing said...


Another swing and a miss:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-caller/

"Overall, we rate the Daily Caller as strongly right-biased based on story selection that almost always favors the right and Mixed for factual reporting due to numerous failed fact checks. The Daily Caller is a source that needs to be fact-checked on a per-article basis.
Detailed Report

Bias Rating: RIGHT
Factual Reporting: MIXED
Country: USA
Press Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: Website
Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: MEDIUM CREDIBILITY

History

Founded in 2010, the Daily Caller is an American news and opinion website based in Washington, D.C. It was founded by Tucker Carlson 👎, a paleoconservative political pundit, and Neil Patel, a former adviser to former Vice President Dick Cheney. The current editor-in-chief is Geoff Ingersol."



 
At 7:40 PM, Blogger JustMusing said...

The rest of the Chansley info that Anon conveniently left out:

'No it wasn't. It was included in his case and he plead guilty."

From same credible source that Anon posted.

 
At 11:29 PM, Blogger Dave Dubya said...

https://sports.yahoo.com/neo-nazis-chanting-sieg-heil-113410499.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr

Neo-Nazis Chanting ‘Sieg Heil’ Target Drag Queen Story Event


Hundreds of armed far-right extremists, including “Sieg Heil” chanting neo-Nazis, joined by right-wing Christian groups, converged on a park in Ohio where parents and children had gathered to enjoy a drag queen story event Saturday. The extremists clashed with rainbow umbrella-wielding supporters who had shown up to protect the event.

At Wadsworth Memorial Park outside Akron, the Rock-n-Roll Humanist Drag Queen Story Hour ended in chaos as tensions raged between activists and protesters.
A number of far-right extremist and religious groups, including the Proud Boys, Patriot Front, III Percenters, “White Lives Matter of Ohio,” Blood Tribe (a neo-Nazi movement led by former Marine Chris Pohlhaus, who was armed), and unaffiliated conservatives, attended the event to disrupt it.

 
At 5:57 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Run and hide, it's those right-wing Christian groups, hundreds of "armed" far-right extremists and "neo-Nazis". "Hundreds of them", almost as many as Anifa gathering, and other far left armed extremists, throwing fire bombs and explosives chanting "Drag Queen shows for minors are ok with us". But still not as many as the largest racist organization in the USA, The Nation of Islam.

This from Yahoo Sports, a strongly left-biased organization based on their story selection that ALMOST always favors the left.

ad nauseam.

 
At 7:19 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

HEADLINES VERN MAY HAVE MISSED

Greasy Gruesome Newsom Praises Benedict Biden’s Silicon Valley Bank Bailout, Forgets to Mention He Was a Client

Red-Pilled Former Democrat Leo Terrell 2.0 Blasts Benghazi Liar Susan Rice After She Assaults Second Amendment Rights

Democrat Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz Blames Americans for Fentanyl Crisis, Claims “Xenophobia” Stops Border Reform

Benedict Biden Heads to California to Tout Executive Order That Attacks Second Amendment Rights

Treasury Department to Hand Over Hunter Biden’s Banking Records

Democrat-Run City of Newark Humiliated After Signing Trade Deal and Holding Sister City Ceremony With Hindu Nation That Doesn’t Exist Proof once agin you can't fix stupid.

 
At 8:13 PM, Blogger JustMusing said...

"Newsom Praises Biden’s Silicon Valley Bank Bailout, Forgets to Mention He Was a Client."

So what's your beef?

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/red-state/

"Founded in 2004, RedState is a conservative news and opinion website. Until 2015, conservative radio and TV commentator Erick Erickson was editor-in-chief. The website does not have an about page and does not list a current editor.

In 2019, three senior contributors for RedState resigned after they noticed that they did not promote articles critical of President Trump via social media. In an article for The Bulwark.com, titled Why We Are Quitting RedState, Kimberly Ross and Andrea Ruth stated that “it’s hard not to note the irony that Salem Media, a company that targets “audiences interested in Christian and family-themed content and conservative values,” threw its full support behind Donald Trump, a thrice-married lying philanderer who utilized bankruptcy laws and debt to con tenants and contractors out of their money. Salem now promotes anyone who is pro-Trump, even if those people gleefully flout Christian principles.”

I'd vet the rest, but that's justtoomuch sludge to slog through.

 
At 8:17 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Antifa Communist Revolutionaries Smash Windows, Clash With Police at UC Davis Charlie Kirk Event

 
At 12:34 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Media Bias/Fact Check is an American fact-checking website founded in 2015 by editor Dave M. Van Zandt. It uses a 0–10 scale to rate sites on two areas: bias and factual accuracy. It has been criticised for its methodology and accuracy.

According to Daniel Funke and Alexios Mantzarlis of the Poynter Institute, "Media Bias/Fact Check is a widely cited source for news stories and even studies about misinformation, despite the fact that its method is in no way scientific."

The Columbia Journalism Review described Media Bias/Fact Check as an amateur attempt at categorizing media bias and characterized their assessments as "subjective assessments [that] leave room for human biases, or even simple inconsistencies, to creep in"

 
At 6:06 PM, Blogger Dave Dubya said...

Antifa Communist Revolutionaries Smash Windows, Clash With Police at US Capitol.
No, those were "Christian Republicans"under orders from Trump to "Fight like hell" and overturn the election.
Then he PRAISED the thugs. "You're very special. We love you."

No conscience. No basic human decency. Vern's kind of people.

 
At 11:34 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Breaking news that Vern may have missed.

President Biden has nominated Jussie Smollett for ambassador to Kailsa.

News that Dave has misread, Antifa Communist Revolutionaries Smash Windows, Clash With Police at UC Davis Charlie Kirk Event

 
At 12:46 PM, Blogger JustMusing said...

Dave Dubya

Only the hack right "news" media is saying the protesters were Antifa, which means antifascist. So they're a communist group now?? That's just bald face stupid to think, but that's Vern's right to do so.

"UC Davis authorities claimed that in addition to throwing eggs and discharging pepper spray, the demonstrators smashed 10 glass window panels in doors, in an unsuccessful attempt to breach the venue.

Officials alleged that one police officer was hurt during the crowd's dramatic escalation of violence when protestors allegedly jumped on him from behind and pushed him to the ground."

Where's the Antifa? Only in Vern's fever dreams.


 
At 1:17 PM, Blogger JustMusing said...

Interestingly, https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/poynter-institute/

Bias Rating: LEAST BIASED
Factual Reporting: HIGH
Country: USA (45/180 Press Freedom)
Media Type: Organization/Foundation
Traffic/Popularity: Medium Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY

This Anon quote appears to be pulled from a Wikipedia page, but I cannot get a number of the reference links to load. So it may not hold water; it's squishy.

"According to Daniel Funke and Alexios Mantzarlis of the Poynter Institute, "Media Bias/Fact Check is a widely cited source for news stories and even studies about misinformation, despite the fact that its method is in no way scientific."

However the MediaBiasFactCheck page has the following background bit on Dave Zandt:

"The combination of being fascinated by politics, a keen eye to spot bias before he even knew what it was called, and an education/career in science gave Dave the tools required for understanding Media Bias and its implications. This led to a 20-year journey where Dave would read anything and everything he could find on media bias and linguistics. He also employed the scientific method to develop a methodology to support his assessments."

Another swing and a miss for Anon.

 
At 1:26 PM, Blogger JustMusing said...

Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each:

https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/fasci14chars.html

If the jackboot fits..........

 
At 3:15 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Janet Yellen Admits 24% Cut in Social Security Benefits When Program Goes Broke in 9 Years . . .https://rumble.com/v2dezi0-janet-yellen-admits-24-cut-in-social-security-benefits-when-program-goes-br.html
. . .She Admits Fed’s Rate Hikes Played Role in Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.

 
At 11:16 AM, Blogger rustcoal said...

The government doesn't control the Federal Reserve, the Federal Reserve controls the government. Money talks and the rest is just rhetoric. All the money manipulation the feds did in the past decades has come back to bite us in the ass. There is money to be made in a bear market because capitalism is nothing more than a gambling casino. Gotta know when to hold and when to sold.

The republicuns have just nine years to raid the SS trust fund before it is empty.

 
At 1:04 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

"capitalism is nothing more than a gambling casino

The republicuns have just nine years to raid the SS trust fund before it is empty."

LOL spoken like a true socialist.

 
At 6:14 PM, Blogger Dave Dubya said...

I think Vern should teach us all a lesson and define "woke" and CRT.

Will he do better than the babbling idiot Bethany Mandel, who wrote a book attacking "wokeness"?

“It is sort of the understanding that we need to totally re-imagine and redo society in order to create hierarchies of oppression.”

LOL! As Orwell's Big Brother said, "Ignorance is strength." And Vern's hero, "I love the poorly educated!"

 
At 11:32 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Rachel Levine Says That Medically Changing Children's Gender Will Soon Be Normalized

SWEET!!

 
At 1:28 PM, Blogger rustcoal said...

Make Amurica great again by going back to the fifties when the top tax rate was ninety percent.

 
At 1:39 PM, Blogger rustcoal said...

Wow I'm a socialist that really hurts. The U.S. military is the biggest social program on the planet, free healthcare, free room and board, free uniforms, free guns and ammo and a good pension. Being "woke" must mean getting your head out your ass and joining the human race.

 

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