Given Melania’s great success in the “Be Best” campaign, I would urge all right thinking Republicans to donate as much as possible toward her new ideas.
And an impressive gait, when he’s in a hurry.
There were Jewish Nazis too.
For the first few years, anyway.
The Log Cabin Republicans are little more than a joke these days when it comes to any influence they may have among LGBTQ+ people. In my experience they have never been much more than gay people (mostly men) who hate paying taxes and worshipped Ronald Reagan back in the 80’s & 90’s.
This article from 2007 says they had 20,000 members nationwide. This article from 2023 claims membership around 10,000. I’m not surprised. As a gay man of a certain age I can say they are viewed by most in the LGBTQ+ community as little more than a group of self-hating anti-trans and anti-woman jerks.
I don’t see them having much influence in any segment of society.
And folks who are sure that the leopards won’t eat thier faces.
Yeah, I don’t understand gay republicans.
Don’t they get it? Republicans want them DEAD! Not marginalized, dead. They’re very clear about that,
Surely they’d make an exception for them. Right? They the good ones, after all.
Honestly though if you restrict yourself to Republicans, Trump is quite low on the homophobia spectrum. Yes, he probably sissy jokes about them to his friends, but he doesn’t seem to actively hate them like much of the Republican party do, so if one were a log Cabin Republican you might see Trump as an ally. Of course regardless of his personal feelings, Trump will gladly throw them under a bus for political expediency. So if he gets more cheers at his rallies by calling for their extermination then off to the gas chambers they go.
So, in that sense, gay Republicans are treated just like everyone else in the party.
Like Cthulu worshippers, the leopards will eat their faces last.
Cthulhu worshippers want him to eat them first so they don’t have to witness the death of the rest of humanity.
It’s apostates like @DesertDog that will be eaten last by Cthulhu.
Actually, Trump and most MAGAts are anti-trans in the extreme, so that makes them more homophobic than most Ds. And very anti-gay themed books in school or public libraries. And they are very worked up about gay people being “groomers” also.
MAGAt’s are definitely homophobic and anti-Trans in the extreme, but Trump early on showed more tendencies (gift link) towards acceptance of gays than the mainstream Republican party at the time. Since then Trump has hardened his views, but I think this is the the case of Trump following his base rather than leading them. Of course policy wise this is a distinction without a difference, but if one was deluded enough to think that the must be a place for them in a party that obviously hates them, then they would probably focus on him.
It is also my impression that when it comes to LGBT representation among the log cabin’s that its heavy on the G and maybe B, but very light on the L (2/19 of their leadership are women) and practically non-existant on the T (with the exception of Jenner), and are perfectly willing to sell them out.
Trump has friends?
Trump “nothings” them, like everyone else. He doesn’t care. If he could divorce Melania or disown his kids to get elected, he’d to it today. No individual or group matters to him. In some ways, that’s worse.
OK, sycophants.
He’s pretty much already admitted he’ll do that. He even called his supporters out at one of his rallies, when they cheered for some anti-trans stuff. He’ll talk about anti-trans BS because it gets him cheers, and that’s what matters most to him. So he’ll under-bus anyone, if it wins him cheers.
First time I ever heard that as a verb.
That’s the background of “build a wall” in 2016. it was a minor thing, but got him cheers. Suddenly he’s a wall builder (or at least a wall builder talker) He doesn’t personally care about abortion, border walls, or much of anything other than power and greed.