They died when he died, GG57; there's a reason why he was assassinated, just like there were reasons why the Kennedy brothers and Malcolm X wer e assassinated; all of those men "threatened" the way it's supposed to be and proposed a way it could be and a way that would really make America great... until people who didn't like this made it a point to fuck everything up. Here again, you see the flaw of us not having learned from history and causing it to be repeated and relived and with pretty much the same lack of social progress that took place the last time we failed to learn from history. You wanna know what was great about the 1950s? We learned to be better than the way we were back then. We took back the power that the rich and Moral Majority had taken from us and abused for so very long and to their own benefit. We're going to learn, and in a very painful way, that you cannot turn back the hands of time; trying to Make America White Again failed once before and in dramatic fashion... so why try to do it again? What's the definition of insanity?
KD23: Recall the March On Washington in 1963; thousands of good folks, black and white, came together in the name of equality and brotherhood.....no rioting, no rowdy behavior, just GOOD, HONEST PEOPLE, both BLACK and WHITE, who WANTED to see EQUALITY for ALL. As I worked in New York for nearly 25 years, I saw far too much prejudice.......racial, religious, orientation, color, you name it. I still, to this day, bless my late mother for raising me to be color blind. How much you wanna bet that those today who loathe Malcom X and his memory NEVER even bothered to read a short article or story on him? His later years, especially, not long before he was cowardly gunned down, might just surprise white readers who THOUGHT they KNEW him. Dr. King......JFK.....RFK.......look at what they wanted to do to ensure a better America for us ALL......and look how it ended for all three of these now-legendary men. The 1963 March On Washington, indeed, was a glorious example of just what PEACE could accomplish, by those who strove for a better tomorrow. Straight, gay, bi, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, black, brown, white, yellow, red.....what does ANY of it REALLY matter? We are ALL in this TOGETHER, and the SOONER more REALIZE this, the better off we will all be............
And MAGA wants to undo all that we've learned... and I don't have the patience or tolerance for such stupidity but, then again, some MAGAs know this as history - I lived it as it happened so how you gonna tell me that rolling back the hands of time is a good thing for America when it wasn't a good thing for American back then? Bitch, please... Once more, it's not that we don't realize that which make us better off because we do know, and we do realize but we live in a society where some people... do not like change and they truly believe that the way things used to be was the best way when, clearly, it wasn't because if it had been, we never would have moved away from it... but we did and the haters are still hating across the successive generations because... it's all they know. Yes, there are some aspects of the good old days that I'd love to still have around but... it doesn't work like that and you move on and do the best you can with what you have to work with. It occurred to me that MAGA is not a society but they are a social bump in the road and one we're all too familiar with and it failed before, and it will fail again... and now would be a great time.
",,,,,,,a social bump in the road"........indeed! Or, at present, a VERY annoying hemmoroid that refuses to shrink and disappear despite repeated applications of Extra-Strength Preparation H! When ANY branch or sector of the "government" seeks to erase certain great people from our history, simply because they do not "conform" to their own narrow-minded standards, it's indeed a VERY sorry commentary on our nation. This inane bullshit, also, is all as totally off-the-wall insane as attempting to change the name (how asinine!) of "The Gulf of Mexico" to "The Gulf of America"; (well, hell, Mexico was around for CENTURIES before the first European settlers arrived on the shores of what would be the 13 original colonies!) And what of the Native Americans, themselves and their rich and diverse cultures and traditions, now almost extinct? And, regarding the increasingly hostile political/social climate towards the gay/bi community, I truly do not see any light at the end of the long dark tunnel, not for a long while, anyway. Virtually EVERYTHING that both Obama and Biden worked so hard to bring about, in the name of equality, is now being ruthlessly destroyed. As for myself, I know only to not dwell over what I cannot change, but, by the same token, NEVER feeling less than a man because of all the bigoted MAGA bullshit spreading across our country. NOW is indeed the time for all DECENT Americans (the ones with compassion and intelligence) regardless of race, color, creed, or orientation, to stand TALL and NEVER relinquish their dignity, nor their self-respect.......
Well, this is what we get when we elected not only a convicted felon but a mentally challenged megalomaniac to the office. Right about now, a lot of MAGAs are realizing that they fucked up by backing the wrong fucking horse and a horse that's talking about taking us back to the stone age and treating the Constitution as if it's just a minor inconvenience that doesn't apply to him. My biggest problem? What I'm having for dinner tonight. Waiting to see my oncologist to find out if I'm now healthy enough to have sex - and mothers should lock up their sons and daughters if I get cleared. You know, every day kind of stuff...
I hear you, friend! Once you get your doc to give you "clearance for takeoff", dang, let's just say that the control tower ain't gonna see you coming in for a landing, anytime soon! My biggest problem? Just trying to decide what hobby projects I will be working on, or what books I want to read, or what DVD do I want to view. I focus on what I find POSITIVE and ENJOYABLE, and screw the rest.............just wish we were currently not so fucked up..........
Just a thought............ There's an old saying: "Ignorance is bliss". If this is indeed the case, then MAGA cannot get any more "blissful" that it is at present. The new round of these asinine tariffs (turning allies into enemies) hit the stock markets worlwide like a financial tidal wave, with the Dow off by over 1500 points, the worst since the beginning of Covid. It all sucks, no matter how you slice it...........
Ignorance isn't bliss; it's inexcusable in this day and age. The question I'm asking is: Who's getting rich or richer with all this tariff bullshit... because someone is. Congress has already invalidated some of his tariffs and they're going to have to work hard to invalidate the rest of them - and then get him to stop usurping their Constitutional power and then seriously take steps to stop his plan to be above the law.
KD23: TOTALLY AGREE. This maniac is hell-bent on destroying our well-bieng, our economy, our health coverage, our educational systems, our rights to be WHO we are without fear of backlash from bigots......so much that is so very vital to all of us, that, sadly, we all take TOO MUCH for granted. Like a runaway train, this %$##@^! is heading for one helluva wreck (in which WE the PEOPLE will be the CASUALTIES), IF he is NOT stopped. Years ago, Mom always feared that, one day, a revolution would rock this country; nowadays, NOTHING is safe, sane, OR predictable............
.......and, after the global-wide meltdown that rocked the markets earlier today, "the main man" decided to jet down to Florida for a weekend of golf, with nary a care in the world. Even I cannot comment further on this.........
Once him and his idiot cronies break us down to the point of total destruction, he'll then "save us all" and insure that we'd be willing to let him snub his nose at the Constitution, which does not allow him to serve a third term as president... while rich, white America gets even richer and on the backs of the poor and middle class... and just like they were doing in the 1950s and even before then. The utter devastation to our society will take an untold number of years to recover from what he's doing now. Is that going to fuck with our sexuality? Yes... but probably not in the way you'd think. One of the things I learned about the decade I was born into was that while the Moral Majority and RWA - Rich White America - were enjoying their great privilege and at the expense of folks like my parents, there was a lot of social strife in the form of Vietnam and when President Eisenhower dragged us into a conflict because the French wrote a check their ass couldn't cash over in what we once called Indochina. That resulted in a lot of social backlash - college protests, draft dodgers and... the infamous Summer of Love that signaled the beginning of a sexual revolution and we embraced "Make love, not war!" by having sex and in every conceivable way possible... and with whoever wanted to relieve the stressors of living in a pretty fucked up social environment and more so if you were middle class or below. Did you know that the USA, officially, doesn't have a class system? Anyway, it explained - at least to me - the high degree of sex that was hopping off and the great diversity of sexual partners. When you're down and out, have sex and with anyone - and in any way - you could get away with and that included this "new" thing called wife swapping and something that was rumored to have started in the military but found a home in many a suburban area across the land. Good sex, as it turned out, was wherever you could find it and, in particular, males from 8 to 80 were sucking cock, being sucked and rectums were getting invaded by hard pricks and filled to overflowing with lots of warm cum but homosexual sex among males didn't just reside in the inner city or out there in America's farmlands: RWA was heavier into this kind of sex than us poor people were because their money gave them privilege and the right to do whatever they wanted to do, with whomever they wanted to, and any laws involving sex crimes did not apply to them. And make no mistake: Us poor folks were reveling in sex because it was all we had - that and very heavy alcohol and drug use - to help us make it through to the next day while toiling away for about $1.25 an hour. You see, when I wanted to know why I was bisexual, sex wasn't the only thing I learned about. I had, over time, learned who, what, where, when, and how... but I hadn't quite gotten a grip on why and that took me to both the social aspect of things as well as the nature of the beast stuff that we were trying to act like didn't apply to us and only the "lower" animals. So, when I'm curled up on a sofa and sucking on the cock of, let's say, someone who's cock I shouldn't have been sucking, it all made sense to me but not so much in a way that I could really explain it since, fuck, this was a fuck-ton-load of information by brain was trying to process. He's blasting hot ropes of cum into my mouth, I'm moaning happily and swallowing every drop of it and I understood that... this was just something that men could, did, and would do and while sexuality did play a huge role in these things, sex was driving the bus and usually under the auspices of "no harm, no foul." Except not everyone was down with this and the ancient angst against homosexuality ramped up again and, well, those of us who lived through those dire times can remember what it was really like, and it wasn't even close to being pretty. But nothing the Moral Majority and RWA could do about men having sex with each other did a damned thing to stop it from happening and the worse the sociopolitical situation was, the more homosexual sex would flourish and it was becoming quite clear to me that homosexual men... didn't really own this all that much. Before the end of the 1970s, I had a better understanding of why. Now, decades later, we have yet another Republican president leading a brain-dead "moral majority" with RWAs trying to fuck shit up because it benefits them and fucks everyone else over and just like any other time in our checkered history as a species, we have, yet again, failed to learn from history by electing a president who, in his last term, fucked America up and fucked us over and... we put him back in office so he can finish what he started. And while there will be those who will lose their shit over the sociopolitical fallout, I'm going to be sucking cock, eating pussy and enjoying the time I have left on this earth because I have better thing to do... like sucking cock and eating pussy and busting nuts. What are you gonna be doing?
An excellent, in-depth, highly informative and educational response, for certain. Indeed, one of your VERY best! I'd PAY to see the looks on faces of Trump and Vance if they read the very words you just posted here(!!) Right on, my friend....keep on telling all here what it is REALLY all about; do whatever (or WHOever!) you want, as long as it's a situation where it involves consenting adults of legal age! Screw MAGA and its fucked-up "cheerleaders"!
It would also seem that, many same-sex couples are now wondering what the future holds for them, under MAGA. Indeed, it is NOT a laughing matter, one that is serious and, yes, frightening. What happens to these couples if they wake up one fine morning and discover their marriage is now NULL and VOID? Will gay rights have the clock turned back 50-odd years, and we will find that all of the tremendous gains made over the course of the past several decades, have vanished like a mist? All we can do is wait, hope, and, yes, pray.........................
Another old saying I've heard throughout my life: ".....you don't know how good you have it until you wake up and find out that what you had is no lost........." ANY marriage between two MATURE, LOVING adults who want nothing more than to enjoy a good, stable, lifelong relationship with their life partner is a SACRED BOND, and NO ONE has the right to revoke it........
If the current administration can get rid of gays having the right to marry, they'll do it, but they tried it the last time he was in office and... it failed. He can only do so much writing Executive Orders and Congress doesn't have to "go along" with them even though that's what they've been doing here lately. This one, though, if they let him repeal the law, the pushback on Congresspeople will be fierce and vicious and if there are elections on the horizon, Congressional heads are going to roll in the streets and their decapitated bodies put on display. He might not want to fuck with this one.
As far as the look on their faces goes, my words wouldn't mean shit to either of them and I'm sure that if there are any MAGAs reading this and lurking in the background, they're not liking me all that much, not that I give a flying fuck about it. Those cultists ranting and raving against homosexuality or, really, not being straight and sticking to traditional gender roles, don't understand that this argument of theirs is older than I am - way, way, way older so this is just history repeating itself and, clearly, we still haven't learned this very important lesson and that's a human failure, not a sociopolitical one. We are, technically, insane given how we try to do the same things over and over and expecting a different result and they have not yet learned that no matter what they try to do, their actions will change nothing other than to drive sexuality et al back into the deep underground where it will continue to flourish and just like it has done since like forever. I just happen to be someone who keeps pointing this out should anyone really be worried about the current government stripping them of their right to self-determination and outlawing sexuality that isn't heterosexuality and... oh, yeah, that's right - there are states where not being straight is still illegal but deemed to be unenforceable! Those who fail to learn from history have never lived something before it became history...
KD23: The world "cultist", indeed, hits the nail on the head. Think of a highly-demented cult, hell-bent on evil and wanton destruction, led by a equally highly-demonic warlock. And, oddly enough, Trump uses the worn-out term "witch hunt" with great frequency. I guess, in this instance it DOES "take one to know one"! And, again, the world markets are in the tank, a recession is nearing, but, our "glorious leader: is down in Florida for the weekend, playing golf........so much for looking after the people of the nation he is SUPPOSED to SERVE............
Him being back in office was never about serving the nation and its best interests. His constant use of "witch hunt" can have a double meaning; one way is to keep his cult riled up against anyone who sees through his bullshit and the other way is to let America know what he plans on doing that's going to better his interests and those of RWA. That's also why fucking with sexuality isn't a real threat to anyone except to keep his cult riled up with bigotry and homophobia because he's smart enough to know what I keep saying: Whatever he does isn't going to change a goddamned thing because everyone who isn't straight is going to keep right on not being straight.
KD23: Again, I totally agree. Just heard on the news that the Dow Jones plunged over 2,200 points today; world markets again tanked seriously; WORST day since the beginning of COVID in 2020, and the THIRD WORST day for the market in history. When asked about the global financial turmoil, Trump responded, that "It's all going great; this is the way it is supposed to go", or, something close that effect. WAKE UP, asshole! You've got the markets in turmoil, a serious recession is on the horizon, prices will be skyrocketing, thousands are now of of work.......and "things are going WELL"? WTF?!?!?! Talk about being HIGHLY delusional!!!!!!!!!!!! And, so far as gay/bi Americans, I also totally agree with you; those Americans NOT straight will continue NOT being STRAIGHT, and it would take MORE than an orange-headed, demented warlock to change WHO they ARE. Fasten your seat belts, folks, this is gonna be one ROUGH ride for us all...........
At this point, Congress needs to get off its fucking ass and save the ship before it sinks - and becomes unrecoverable. Rome is burning and Nero is in Florida playing golf. SCOTUS needs to stop telling him that it's okay to keep pissing in the face of the law and telling it that it's rain. Of course, they're going well; his plan - Project 2025 - was designed to tear this country down to nothing and rebuild it in his image so, sure - it's going well for him. And all of our elected officials are sitting with their thumbs up their asses and letting him do it to all of us.