The Real timschochet

I fundamentally disagree with you on two points here. First I believe there is tremendous value to having drag queens read books to young children. Please scroll up and read my response to @Nomad99 regarding this question. Second, I don’t believe that drag queens, and gay people in general, should be regarded as “abnormal” by society. Indeed my goal is to have them be treated as normal.

Let’s grant your point for the sake of discussion. I don’t hear conservatives calling for banning Boy Scout meetings or making the Catholic Church illegal. Yet they seem hellbent on preventing all possible contact between drag queens and young children. So why the focus on this one group, if pedophilia is your main concern? The only logical conclusion I can come up with is fear and bigotry of homosexuality. But you’re welcome to come up with an alternative explanation for the focus on one but not the others.

You’re right, totally disgraceful. Im sure you’ll be able to come up with plenty of examples of defendants in felony trials who are allowed to publicly criticize the judge, witnesses, and family members.

Trump says this too: the exact same wording in fact. What has this judge done that is disgraceful?

was Jane Fonda a traitor? We’re not at war with Russia. Even if we we were, people would still be allowed to disagree with that. Being a traitor, or committing treason, is a big deal. The Rosenbergs were traitors. Tokyo Rose committed treason. You need to do something pretty awful.

Good morning. I’m not going to concede your point. I have heard medical experts say the opposite. Many believe that there is a “gay gene” though this has yet to be proven. I certainly don’t believe that one can purposely convince another person to be gay, no matter how young. So no I don’t agree. If that prevents further discussion so be it. But that would be your decision not mine. I’m happy to continue. As I wrote the ADL article pretty succinctly represents my viewpoint. You’re welcome to comment on the content of its message. I don’t really care about what adjectives it uses.

I would have conditioned it more.

Don’t you? Have you been paying attention to this trial?

Cohen will be fine. When his past crimes are pointed out, all he needs to do is point out that they were all committed in Trump’s behalf. Cohen is like the mob guy testifying against the Don.

Yes. They are. That’s why this whole situation is unnerving. I don’t trust Netanyahu and the Iranians are evil. We’re dealing with two bad actors here who threaten the world’s stability. But so far Biden has done a pretty good job trying to manage it, IMO.

Not really. They held back. They didn’t do anything that would truly escalate. That’s the point.

What makes it treasonous?

No, I really disagree with this. The word “traitor” gets thrown around way too much, often by the right, this time by liberals. Being an isolationist on this issue, or even being pro- Russia, is a poor choice IMO. But it’s not traitorous and these folks don’t hate America.

Fascists show up at latest Trump rally: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/20/trump-rally-proud-boys-north-carolina/

Halftime. No I disagree with you. The ADL represents my beliefs on this matter: https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/what-grooming-truth-behind-dangerous-bigoted-lie-targeting-lgbtq-community

Maybe later. Time for the Lakers.

Yes. Because unfortunately we still live in a society where young people who discover they are gay or trans can be shunned by peers, family, friends, told they are sick and abnormal. We still live in a society where young people who discover they are gay or trans commit suicide at high levels, because they cannot live with themselves. Drag queens are the most flamboyant homosexuals there are, the ones who are the most “out”. They are reading to children to send a message: “we are good people, we are normal people, just like everyone else, even though we dress differently and choose to be this way. We want you as children to grow up thinking- it’s OK for some people to be gay or trans. It’s OK for YOU to be gay or trans if that’s who you are.” That’s an important message for the children of our society. It’s a good thing. No grooming involved.

I don’t believe you can “groom” someone to be homosexual. We’ve had this discussion before. A young child can be attracted to the elements of drag you mentioned: the makeup, costumes, colors, etc, without becoming gay. The gay part is not a thing you can transfer. Some people are gay, some people are trans, nobody can talk them into it or out of it. That is my understanding anyhow. But let’s suppose I am wrong about this and children actually could be talked into becoming gay or trans: How do we deal with this in a generally libertarian society? Not in the way conservatives appear to be proposing: restrictive laws prohibiting social encounters, and what we can read, and private decisions with a doctor, etc. Even if you were right I would still be opposed to all such restrictions, and still tell you that these are decisions better left to families and individuals to decide.

Where did this come from? Of course I condemn it. But it’s important to distinguish between anti-semitism and anti-Israel.

I’ll offer some: if a 5 year old likes the colors and bright lights and wants to be drag, what’s the issue? Why is that wrong?

We lost the Ukraine argument, and Trump is in trouble…let’s talk about gays and trans again!! That’s a sure winner.

Mike Johnson: “This was done in a timely manner.” Well that part isn’t true. They could have, and should have done this months ago. Johnson is to blame for dithering and hopefully it’s not too late. But that’s cool, more power to him for finally doing it. Lend-lease 2.0!

Personally I think Biden reminiscing about his family’s involvement in World War II is interesting. I don’t choose to make fun of it. My dad and his parents were Holocaust survivors. My grandfather on my mom’s side had a prominent job at Lockheed. But I am perhaps most proud of his cousin, my great uncle, who survived the Bataan Death March. Unfortunately I never met the man; he died when I was a baby. But I am honored by my family’s World War II heritage, and obviously President Biden feels the same way about his family. Contrast all this with Trump, to whom soldiers who died defending our freedom are all “suckers and losers”.

The true sickness is this anti-gay and anti-trans hysteria. It’s gotten so ugly.

I used to really like him. And he’s still funny at times. But I strongly disagree with him about this and other woke issues.