Yes, exactly. We win people over by reaching them at a personal level, one by one.
Well, has Ted actually come out in favor of LGBT rights, or is it just that he doesn’t think gay men should be executed? I’m not ready to give him a lot of credit yet.
Almost certainly the latter.
I didn’t say that he deserved a lot of credit.
That’s where I am. If it took something happening to his LGBT child to get him to move even slightly to the left, I’m okay with that. Especially considering the alternative.
And you have to be careful not to reflexively shit on someone for doing the right thing because you’re so used to shitting on them for doing the wrong thing.
Too Little Too Late is fine for soon-to-be ex friends or ex SOs or bosses or coworkers, but not political movements.
If, for example, this is the beginning of a genuine move away from being anti-lgbt, you don’t want him to be able to say ‘I tried, libs got mad at me for that too’.
Having said that, do we even know if his kid played any role in this at all, or were those dots connected arbitrarily?
From what I gather, most of those news reports are highly speculative. I also cannot locate the TikTok video in which she said she was bi, so it may have been deleted.
Cruz, of course, is getting plenty of criticism from the MAGA crowd. From the noted legal scholar Jenna Ellis:
“You can condemn a law that imposes the death penalty for homosexuality without being pro or #LGBTQ,” commented Ellis. “Like Bud Light, you should have just said nothing. Not this.”
She continued: “For the commenters – I stand with Uganda on this because the definition of “aggravated homosexuality” (subject to the death penalty) is raping children. Why would Cruz be against this anyway?? And what does this have to do with #LGBTQ? Absolutely stupid comment.”
Why do I think it’s the homosexuality and not the raping children that’s the reason for this law?
Is it because there’s no death penalty for heterosexual rape of children?
-Ted Cruz, 2016
I look at this way: if we kill off all the gays, that will be one less thing to piss and moan about and rail against – hate mongers need hate-fodder.
Cruz wears a weasel on his face because he identifies as a weasel.
Ted Cruz
Weasel-Canadian
I’m not shitting on him (for this). I’m just not ready to award him the Nobel Peace Prize…
… although it might be worth it just to see the look on trump’s face. 
The son of the man who shot JFK getting the Peace Prize? Madness!
If that’s a good idea then why not just kill off all the hate-mongers and save a step?
Besides, even if all the gays vanished/suddenly went straight, the hate-mongers would just shift to another marginalized target.
You have to admit the man is consistent-He was just as sincere back then as he is today.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply anyone here was doing that. I was just saying that we need to make sure we don’t automatically do it just because we’re so used to it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still waiting for him to release a ‘fuck you, I got mine’ statement to explain this, but who knows, maybe it’s genuine.
Ken Paxton claims he stopped 2 million Biden votes from being counted.
So, he was not only Attorney General, he was also Secretary of State?
So that brings us to 83+ million votes for Biden?
More importantly, isn’t that admitting election tampering?
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It’s OK If Ken Paxton Does It