I’ve long operated on the principle that anyone Kardashian-adjacent – Kanye, Caitlyn, whoever – needs to be avoided like the plague. Of course, Caitlyn provides some comic relief because so far she hasn’t been able to open her mouth without making a gaffe. But besides her entitlement, as far as trans rights go she’s a classic case of someone who climbed the ladder, then pulled it up after herself.
Bitch is crazy. She’ll fit right in as a Republican.
Sure, she gets credit for that. But really, so what? Last I heard she planned to take the Bar exam so she could enter politics. We do not need another celebrity billionaire politician. My ban on all things Kardashian stands, LOL.
Kim Kardashian evidently did sex at least once in a way people were willing to pay to see. It's a tragedy of Puritanism that she could not proudly continuing to do so rather than be known as someone famed for being a celebrity who did nothing particularly worthwhile…but that last is my judgement, which though absolutely correct is also autistic, and so will likely not be in conformance with This World.
Black Senators who have been racially profiled for driving 18 times denying America’s racism, a trans woman denying trans girls the opportunity to play sports, physician Senator who denies that masks suppress viral spread - there’s room in the Republican Party for everyone happily harboring contradictory beliefs. Up next: Republican astronaut who denies gravity is a “law,” and a Republican flat earther who seeks corporate support for her entry in the around the world sailing race.
Jenner running as and endorsing Republicans is just bizarre. Affiliating with the Party that not only doesn't support you, but would happily sentence you to die because you're trans. But I guess tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy are more important than life itself.
It is absolutely not bizarre. See "Log Cabin Republicans." See Andrew Sullivan. See Candace Owens. See Ice Cube. Economics & anti-blackness usually trumps all other concerns.
As an example, I was doing a Google search for "Chicano" for a Cinco de Mayo video -- the preferred term for Mexican-American pride & resistance from the 1980s. I found a shocking number of images announcing "Chicano Pride" embedded with fascist imagery. White & str8 adjacency is a powerful intoxicant...
The Log Cabin Republicans is a pretty good filter to use to look at Caitlyn Jenner. Some of the most conservative people I've ever met (and I'm from Michigan) have been gay bankers and lawyers in San Francisco. They both have a strong desire for association and approval from people who share some of their values, That might have been possible in the before time, but now? People who sincerely believe they are fighting Ultimate Evil are not going to make allowances.
Rich and white, and then gay -- and for the reasons you list. They'd gladly burn every non-conforming queer in existence & then cry oppression. Fucking fuckers. I've been to exactly one Pride in my gay life -- & I'm already unsettled by its displays of relative privilege & pointed exclusions
Some GOP voters do it in the hope of financial benefits and have the finances to, you know, benefit. Then there are those who believe the bullshit. And I'd say that the Venn diagram overlap is not huge.
"If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things."
I hold that Republican-supporting Jews are allying with the sort of people who do bad things to Jews, and even though that's not their priority they'll get to it. Liking the State of Israel, especially in its worst aspects, doesn't change that.
The one cool thing is that Jenner's so unappealing as a candidate -- fully unfit, unqualified and running on a 1% Bro platform -- that the trans matter is completely irrelevant.
And I guess this is going to be the first big election in which we get a clue whether the significant truly independent voters on which elections ride have had their fill with patently unfit and unqualified celebrities.
Besides, I don't know if Jenner's actually Trumpy enough for the GOP voters although I could see Donnie's endorsement: If she was a real woman, she'd be a 10. (Don't hate me, I'm just channeling.) Too, Donnie has a fetish for woman with extensive cosmetic surgery.
Nixon was considered a liberal Republican (remember that most Democrats were Red-baiters, too, back then) and was the Eisenhower Administrations' point-man on civil rights. (Maybe a _little_ of his later expressions of anti-black hatred was of the 'I did so much for Those People!' variety, though less heinous than Gul Dukat's equivalent….)
Tricky Dick was one of the big OG red-baiters. That's why he was chosen for veep. He was also a huge Wall Street puppet, a tool. He only appeared liberal because real politick and a Democratic Congress pushed him. Given his druthers...
Too, given the direction in which the GOP was going in the ten-plus years before his run in 68, the Southern strategy was something he'd happy adopt. And did.
All true; also true: at the start of 1950s the right wing of the Republican Party was embodied in Robert Taft, who favoured withdrawing from the U.N., N.A.T.O., and the O.A.S., the complete destruction of every New Deal scheme, leaving the South's peculiar institutions alone, and that Dwight Eisenhower was far too liberal. That was what defined Left and Right in the G.O.P. back then. Their Left was more liberal than Southern Democrats, their Right was in territory that would soon be claimed by Buckley's crowd, shading into Bircher territory.
If you think she's something, wait til you hear about the guy campaigning with a live bear with the slogan (and I swear I am not making this up) Defeat Beauty (Gavin) Elect the Beast (Cox) . And we're just getting started. You thought the Davis recall was weird...
I’ve long operated on the principle that anyone Kardashian-adjacent – Kanye, Caitlyn, whoever – needs to be avoided like the plague. Of course, Caitlyn provides some comic relief because so far she hasn’t been able to open her mouth without making a gaffe. But besides her entitlement, as far as trans rights go she’s a classic case of someone who climbed the ladder, then pulled it up after herself.
Bitch is crazy. She’ll fit right in as a Republican.
Kim denounced the Armenian genocide though. I give her a partial break for that. The others, no.
Sure, she gets credit for that. But really, so what? Last I heard she planned to take the Bar exam so she could enter politics. We do not need another celebrity billionaire politician. My ban on all things Kardashian stands, LOL.
Aren't the Kardashians part Armenian?
I believe so. Not worth checking, tho'.
Yeah, you can tell by the name
Kim Kardashian evidently did sex at least once in a way people were willing to pay to see. It's a tragedy of Puritanism that she could not proudly continuing to do so rather than be known as someone famed for being a celebrity who did nothing particularly worthwhile…but that last is my judgement, which though absolutely correct is also autistic, and so will likely not be in conformance with This World.
Black Senators who have been racially profiled for driving 18 times denying America’s racism, a trans woman denying trans girls the opportunity to play sports, physician Senator who denies that masks suppress viral spread - there’s room in the Republican Party for everyone happily harboring contradictory beliefs. Up next: Republican astronaut who denies gravity is a “law,” and a Republican flat earther who seeks corporate support for her entry in the around the world sailing race.
Jenner running as and endorsing Republicans is just bizarre. Affiliating with the Party that not only doesn't support you, but would happily sentence you to die because you're trans. But I guess tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy are more important than life itself.
It is absolutely not bizarre. See "Log Cabin Republicans." See Andrew Sullivan. See Candace Owens. See Ice Cube. Economics & anti-blackness usually trumps all other concerns.
As an example, I was doing a Google search for "Chicano" for a Cinco de Mayo video -- the preferred term for Mexican-American pride & resistance from the 1980s. I found a shocking number of images announcing "Chicano Pride" embedded with fascist imagery. White & str8 adjacency is a powerful intoxicant...
The Log Cabin Republicans is a pretty good filter to use to look at Caitlyn Jenner. Some of the most conservative people I've ever met (and I'm from Michigan) have been gay bankers and lawyers in San Francisco. They both have a strong desire for association and approval from people who share some of their values, That might have been possible in the before time, but now? People who sincerely believe they are fighting Ultimate Evil are not going to make allowances.
Rich and white, and then gay -- and for the reasons you list. They'd gladly burn every non-conforming queer in existence & then cry oppression. Fucking fuckers. I've been to exactly one Pride in my gay life -- & I'm already unsettled by its displays of relative privilege & pointed exclusions
Some GOP voters do it in the hope of financial benefits and have the finances to, you know, benefit. Then there are those who believe the bullshit. And I'd say that the Venn diagram overlap is not huge.
Jenner "broke" decades ago.
"If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things."
Lewis Carroll
Don't forget 'Jews who support Republicans.'.
????
I hold that Republican-supporting Jews are allying with the sort of people who do bad things to Jews, and even though that's not their priority they'll get to it. Liking the State of Israel, especially in its worst aspects, doesn't change that.
A Reality TV star might make a great chief executive. What could go wrong?
Caitlyn has gone from a silly ex Olympian to a profoundly silly woman.
In retrospect, the inane disaster that “Can’t Stop the Music” and Jenner’s odd flatness of affect therein were some sort of warning…
The one cool thing is that Jenner's so unappealing as a candidate -- fully unfit, unqualified and running on a 1% Bro platform -- that the trans matter is completely irrelevant.
And I guess this is going to be the first big election in which we get a clue whether the significant truly independent voters on which elections ride have had their fill with patently unfit and unqualified celebrities.
Besides, I don't know if Jenner's actually Trumpy enough for the GOP voters although I could see Donnie's endorsement: If she was a real woman, she'd be a 10. (Don't hate me, I'm just channeling.) Too, Donnie has a fetish for woman with extensive cosmetic surgery.
I know it isn't news that a Republican candidate for office might be a hypocrite, but have to note that Caitlyn Jenner competed in the ANA Inspiration Pro-Am golf tournament in Rancho Mirage, California, in 2016 as a woman, driving from the women's tees (which are closer to the flag), and hasn't apologized yet. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/golf/caitlyn-jenner-doesnt-want-trans-girls-competing-in-girls-sports-but-played-in-womens-golf-tournament/ar-BB1gjqvn
Nixon came from California, too. And I don't think I'd use he-man examples, "Bruce".
Nixon was considered a liberal Republican (remember that most Democrats were Red-baiters, too, back then) and was the Eisenhower Administrations' point-man on civil rights. (Maybe a _little_ of his later expressions of anti-black hatred was of the 'I did so much for Those People!' variety, though less heinous than Gul Dukat's equivalent….)
Tricky Dick was one of the big OG red-baiters. That's why he was chosen for veep. He was also a huge Wall Street puppet, a tool. He only appeared liberal because real politick and a Democratic Congress pushed him. Given his druthers...
Too, given the direction in which the GOP was going in the ten-plus years before his run in 68, the Southern strategy was something he'd happy adopt. And did.
All true; also true: at the start of 1950s the right wing of the Republican Party was embodied in Robert Taft, who favoured withdrawing from the U.N., N.A.T.O., and the O.A.S., the complete destruction of every New Deal scheme, leaving the South's peculiar institutions alone, and that Dwight Eisenhower was far too liberal. That was what defined Left and Right in the G.O.P. back then. Their Left was more liberal than Southern Democrats, their Right was in territory that would soon be claimed by Buckley's crowd, shading into Bircher territory.
The dreadful parody with which South Park slaughtered B/C would have been warning enough for someone who wasn't nuts.
It's in a jar on the mantle, but still.
"I, Governor of California, And How I Got Licked (By My Own Monstrous Ego)", by Caitlyn Jenner
ENRON?
Gotta admit -- Arnold would have been lost without them!
Nice “deep cut”, Roy.
If you think she's something, wait til you hear about the guy campaigning with a live bear with the slogan (and I swear I am not making this up) Defeat Beauty (Gavin) Elect the Beast (Cox) . And we're just getting started. You thought the Davis recall was weird...