LGBTQ news and entertainment
Whatever you think about politics, Paul Begala is on point here.
No one ever questioned when Bob Dole’s wife ran the Red Cross while he was running for president.
The Clinton Foundation keeps millions of people alive with HIV medications. And the Clintons don’t take a dollar from the charity.
If you are the least bit fuzzy on the issue, please take 3 minutes and watch. Paul merely runs down the facts here.
In a calm, sober voice former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke today about the dangers of Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s close ties to the so-called “alt-right” movement.
Throughout the speech, she calmly explains what the “alt-right” is – a loosely defined term for white nationalist and anti-immigrant sentiment – and how Trump is intimately connected to the extreme-right movement.
Via Vox:
Speaking at a community college in Reno, Nevada, Clinton said Trump had brought a racist fringe into the “mainstream” in a way that no other major party nominee had in American history.
“Of course, there’s always been a paranoid fringe in our politics, steeped in racial resentment,” Clinton said, according to remarks released by the campaign before the speech. “But it’s never had the nominee of a major party stoking it, encouraging it, and giving it a national megaphone. Until now.”
Clinton also called out the fringe “alt-right” group by name as she produced examples of how Trump had amplified the voices of racist and misogynists:
Clinton’s speech also highlighted Trump’s support for the “Birther” conspiracy theories about Barack Obama, his attacks on Mexican-American Judge Gonzalo Curiel, and his initial refusal to disavow KKK leader David Duke.
I really encourage you to watch the speech in full. When you consider the Trumpster’s ranting and rave voice on the campaign trail versus the sure, steady focus of Clinton, it’s hard to imagine folks not voting Clinton.
Full speech below.
Could Sean Hannity’s head be any farther up Donald Trump’s ass? How does he breathe?
It reminds me of the song from the Streisand film “Yentl:”
“Look at how he looks her, will someone ever look at me that way?” in longing, forlorn voice.
Sean Hannity is a HUGE Donald Trump fan: https://t.co/9vDiJT0yHA pic.twitter.com/rROb7Ey3a1— Media Matters (@mmfa) August 25, 2016
Some news stories you may have missed:
• Meet the men of LOGO’s new gay version of “The Bachelor.”
• The hospitals treating the victims of the Pulse Nightclub massacre have decided to waive all out of pocket medical costs the patients may incur.
• A $3 bet on a penny slot machine in Las Vegas paid a guest visiting from Hawaii big time with a $10.7 million jackpot. My husband calls me “The Cooler” when he gambles.
• A new study shows two-thirds of same-sex couples divide household responsibilities by who is the more masculine/feminine.
• Hillary Clinton makes the clearest apology yet regarding her email server.
• The Democratic National Committee released the video below featuring actual, controversial headlines from Breitbart News, the news outlet run by Donald Trump’s campaign CEO, Steve Bannon.
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A Georgia man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for his vicious attack pouring boiling water on two gay men as they slept.
From ABC News:
Jurors deliberated for about 90 minutes before finding Martin Blackwell, 48, guilty of eight counts of aggravated battery and two counts of aggravated assault in the February attack on Anthony Gooden and Marquez Tolbert.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Henry Newkirk said the evidence was overwhelming and that Blackwell had behaved in a soulless and malicious way. He noted that it “takes a long time” for a pot of water to boil.
“You had so many outs where the voice of reason could have taken over,” the judge told Blackwell, who had faced up to 80 years in prison.
Prosecutors said it was a vicious, premeditated attack. Tolbert testified that after pouring hot water on them, Blackwell grabbed him as he jumped and screamed in pain and told him: “Get out of my house with all that gay.”
Blackwell’s attorney, Monique Walker, attempted to downplay the outright homophobia telling the jury, “It’s not about hate. It’s about old-school culture, old-school thinking.”
As the prosecutor pointed out, it took time to find the biggest pot in the house, fill it, and boil that water. That was a lot of time to think hard about what you were about to do, Mr. Blackwell.
The victims spent weeks in the hospital due to severe burns, undergoing many surgeries and skin grafts.
Left unable to perform many daily tasks, a GoFundMe campaign has raised over $70,000 to help with medical bills and recovery.
I previously wrote about the attack in March of this year when it happened. More details here.
Bless Katrina Pierson’s little heart. I can only hope she gets paid a LOT of money for embarrassing herself like this.
Via The Hill:
Donald Trump’s spokeswoman on Thursday defended the GOP nominee over criticism about his immigration policies. “He hasn’t changed his position on immigration. He’s changed the words that he is saying,” Katrina Pierson said on CNN.
“What he has always said from the beginning is that he does not want to allow people to stay in this country illegally. He does want to build a wall.” When pressed, Pierson continued to say Trump is not giving a different message, but is just “using different words to give that message.”
“Everyone on the news is saying that he’s a bigot and that he’s a racist because of the words that he uses,” Pierson said. “Now, he’s simply saying, yeah, we are going to follow the law. We are going to enforce the law.”
Bolding is mine.
Former college football player, out Pennsylvania state legislator and all-around woofy Brian Sims shares via his Facebook a little car karaoke from The Little Mermaid.
Nice way to break up the day. The view is nice, isn’t it?
Admit it – you watched the whole thing. And you sang along, too 🙂
Check the new video from PFLAG Australia applying pressure to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull over his idea to hold a plebiscite (that’s “referendum” in U.S. speak) on same-sex marriage.
Said plebiscite will cost Australia over $160 million plus isn’t even legally binding.
On top of which, it’s really icky to VOTE on folks equal rights.
Since the www.makeitlaw.com.au was unveiled ten days ago, over 52,000 emails against a plebiscite have been sent to Australian politicians.
The latest Quinnipiac polls shows Democrat Hillary Clinton breaking the 50% barrier as she now leads Republican Donald Trump 51% to 41%.
While Trump is winning with men by 6 points (48%/42%), Clinton beats Trump with women by a whopping 24 points (60%/36%). As we all know, more women vote than men.
A similar scenario is found when comparing white versus non-white voters. Trump leads among white voters by 11 points (52%/41%), but Clinton gets a much bigger share of non-white voters. She currently leads Trump with non-white voters by 62 points (77%/15%).
From the polling results:
“We are starting to hear the faint rumblings of a Hillary Clinton landslide as her 10-point lead is further proof that Donald Trump is in a downward spiral as the clock ticks,” said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.
“Trump’s missteps, stumbles and gaffes seem to outweigh Clinton’s shaky trust status and perceived shady dealings. Wow, is there any light at the end of this dark and depressing chapter in American politics?”
More results from the survey:
• 90% say they’ve made up their minds regarding which candidate they will be voting for.
•A big majority of Trump supporters – 64% – say they are voting for Trump as an anti-Hillary vote. Only 25% say they are voting pro-Trump.
• 66% of voters say Clinton is qualified to be president, while 58% say Donald Trump is not qualified to be president.
• 87% of voters say Clinton is intelligent, where only 67% of voters say Trump is.
• 51% say Clinton cares about average Americans, where only 41% say the same about Trump.
• Trump’s tax returns are giving him a problem: 74% of likely voters say Donald Trump should release his tax returns, including 62% of Republicans.
This was not a small poll. From August 18 – 24, Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,498 likely voters nationwide with a margin of error of +/- 2.5 percentage points. Live interviewers call land lines and cell phones.