Could some interviewer please ask Matt Gaetz what the definition of groomer is.

The GOP have basically decided to make the word their campaign platform for the mid-terms.

James Lindsay's twitter feed uses the word non-stop now.

But from what I understand, this is essentially accusing people who either teach sex education or admit to their students they are LGBT+ that they are "grooming" them for their own sexual pleasure.

This sounds like complete slander to me, which is surely not protected by the first amendment.

I think she may mean "propositioning". I doubt she would know how to use the original word as a verb, nor its meaning. See: "gazpacho police". Multi-syllable words are clearly not her strong point.

Can she libel other people freely because she's a congress person?

Hans

Is that the ultimate goal of the more inbred parts of Tennessee?


ETA: context:

No, I'm pretty sure she meant transitioning. Right wingers believe there's some vast conspiracy to manipulate children into being transgender.

Thinking back to my early teen years and the impact of an attractive woman wearing fitted clothes, I can’t imagine the effort that would have been required to convince me that I wasn’t a heterosexual male.

We’re republicans more on the fence during those years? Is being heterosexual really so fragile?

They seem to live in a world recreational abortionist and teens who are not at all interested in heterosexual sex. I’ve never been to that town, but I doubt it is in MAGA country.

Well, when so many of your female peers in high school have been spoken for because they're dating middle-aged Republican politicians, you might need to explore other options.

Actually, if you were being groomed for transitioning, you could have been convinced that you were a homosexual female ;)

This it seems to me is the big issue with all of this. I can also remember back to an age well before I was a teenager, and for all my liberal and relaxed attitude toward just about anything, I knew I was male, knew I liked it, and long before I knew what to do about it knew I was hetero even when I was young and so horny I'd have done just about anything with just about anybody. I've always been unconcerned about homosexuality, but I've also always known I'm not one, and it's hard to imagine what an even greater hardship it would be to feel stuck in the wrong gender.

I don't think anyone who is not either a lying political hypocrite or a person facing their own identity crisis would ever consider these characteristics so malleable.

Truth.

With these goat leggings, he doth consecrate!

Yup

Budweiser is only a beer if it comes from Budejovice...

Redefine?

Hans

Thank you both for explaining the joke within the biting political commentary.

This belief that so many have that anyone can 'choose' their sexuality/ gender identify has always baffled me. As you say, you've always know you are a heterosexual male. I've always known I'm a heterosexual female. It's not something I ever had to think about any more than I had to think about not liking liver.

I suspect that accepting the idea that one cannot 'choose' their sexuality/gender identity scares a lot of people because then they'd have to admit that it cannot be controlled or 'fixed'. It removes any power/control they think have over it plus would remove the stigma that it's 'immoral' or a 'sin' because it's not a choice. Again, it boils down to fear that is a basic component of the conservative mindset.

A couple jobs ago I worked directly with a tech who was gay. We became pretty good friends. As she once said to me, "I didn't choose gay, gay chose me." As she also said, with all the hassles that come with being gay, who would choose it?

Reality has nothing to do with the blathering of Marjorie Taylor Greene and her cohorts. She's a demagogue. Below is a quote from an article in The Conversation, an academic website, written six years ago by Richard Ashby Wilson, a Professor of Anthropology and Law at the University of Connecticut.
Sound familiar?

Exactly. Another example of a demagogue:

http://www.internationalskeptics.com...08e3b457ce.jpg

Actual quote from the TV series:

"All we want are the facts, ma'am"

Seems it permutated over the years in people's minds.

A great line from another Jack Webb series (Adam12, was, as well as I can remember, "a crooked cop puts a hat on all of us, and we have to swallow it".

US gallon.

I read her use of "transitioning" to refer to the process of undergoing the process of sex reassignment. Transitioning from male to female, and vice versa.

Jack Posobiek
“Groomers and communism go hand in hand everyone knows it”

His philosophy seems to be: Facts and logic are for losers. I’ll just say “everyone knows it” and my claim will be accepted as irrefutably true.

Thanks, Trump.

Who let Posobiek out of the mental institution?

His groomers, but they probably have a different word for it.

Which is why Putin, who is an active lifelong communist, has actively tried to stamp out LGBTQI+ in Russia.

...wait a sec. That's the opposite of Posobiek's claim...

I don't think cognitive dissonance exists in extremist minds. Likely because logic and rational thought elude them.

Vernon Jones, a Trump supported U.S. House candidate, did that very thing today.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump...72bfe93217/amp

Jones has been a political DA (not district attorney but the pejorative acronym) forever in Dekalb County where I lived and worked for over 30 years.

Jones was a Democrat forever until last year when he decided to jump on the Trump train and declared his candidacy for governor as a Republican but Trump nixed that by supporting Perdue instead so Jones dropped into the 10th congressional district race since Jody Hice, another Trump sycophant, is running for state office and letting the U.S. office go.

Jones, who is a black man, is now a brand new Republican, running against white opponents in a district that was last described as 65% white and 25% black.

And now he has pissed off the LGBTQ Community.

It will be interesting to see how Trump’s candidate fares in this climate.

From your link:

“Civil rights for Blacks, and gay rights for gays are two different things,” Jones declared to former Trump adviser Steve Bannon on his “War Room” podcast.

“I don’t know what you are unless you tell me what you are if you’re gay. When I walk into that room, you can tell that I’m Black. I’m Black from cradle to grave,” Jones said. “Let’s not get that confused.”

He added: “They can actually change. You know you can go from being straight to being gay to being transgender and all these other genders. When you’re Black, I don’t have a choice. ... When did gays come over here on [slave] ships?”

Jones sounds like an idiot.

I though Michael Jackson "proved" that not not be true? :confused:

You know who weren't groomers?

Nazis, that's who. We should all learn something from them.

Not just Michael. I taught his sister, Janet, when she was in 10th grade (14 yrs. old) and let's just say that she's had a lot of work done.

Nazis, communists, socialists, fascists, Democrats....all the same thing to stupid right wingers.

I'm going to say on the first ship and on every ship that came over after until slave importing was outlawed.

Maybe they didn't look gay. :rolleyes:

They clearly have no idea what these words mean. They are just a bunch of four-dollar swear words, as far as they are concerned. That's why when asked to explain the meanings and contradictions when they use them, they cannot see those contradictions at all. And they simply don't care. It's the use of the words as insults that fires their ego. This is where EmptyG sits. She is as dumb as a one of her own barbells.

As with all insults, they only work if the insultee takes offense. So the worst thing to do when they unload these labels at people is to react or argue or try to reason with them about the "true meanings of words". They want a reaction; they get one; job done. So entertaining any public response to EmptyG is playing into her game. Perhaps the best approach would be to turn her mic off but keep the video on CSPAN.

Trouble is that's been tried, "Do not feed the troll" has been Internet culture for a while.

As much as provoking their opponents feeds them, so does gathering like-minded people unchallenged. In some ways "provoking the libs" isn't the goal, it's the rallying flag and exhaustion technique.

And the solution is simple: give them what they ask for - a closed off country full of people just like them. I've mentioned previously that giving them an uninhabited Aleutian island all their own would be fine. They can run their own government the way they like with their own laws. Guns and walls too if they like. Drop them off, isolate the island, and leave them to carry on.

I think it was transitioning as in recognizing the gender of transgender children.

It's similar to how heterosexual marriage is so fragile that allowing same sex marriage would destroy the entire institution.




L. Ron Hubbard's "Mission Earth" series included a businessman who had introduced the concept of "psychological birth control" in the companies he owned. It amounted to using torture and brainwashing to turn straight people gay. If conversion therapy can turn gay people straight (Narrator: "It can't."), then obviously there are techniques that can do the opposite.

"Because a lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight, and when they come out, they're gay," he explained. "So, did something happen while they were in there? Ask yourself that question." Ben Carson M.D., Brain Surgeon.