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I’m always asked how I can be a gay republican. A lot of gay republicans get this question and respond with wanting a strong economy, low taxes, or secure border. But that’s entirely missing the point of their question. They do not care about our policy positions. When people ask how we can be gay and republican, they’re asking how we can be gay and support a party that still has in its coalition people that openly do not want us and do not think we deserve rights. My response: that’s exactly why you should want me to be a gay republican! If you truly believed every election determined if our rights were on the line, that there was a 50/50 chance in any given election that you would be free or not free (newsflash they aren’t, but that’s a different conversation), you are simply not going to solve that by hoping Democrats win every time. America is an evenly split country. The parties will alternate power. There will never be a universe where Democrats or Republicans are in power forever. You should WANT the GOP to change its views. That only happens if gay people start making their presence known INSIDE the party. And you know what? We are! 60% of republicans support gay marriage and gay adoption. The GOP removed anti-gay language from its platform. The first gay cabinet member was a republican. The Supreme Court decision protecting you from getting fired for being gay was written by a republican-appointed Justice. That didn’t just happen out of nowhere. There are thousands of gay republicans working in government, the party, media, and social media doing hard work changing the GOP with little recognition and being berated as traitors the entire time. So if it’s so confusing how I can be gay and republican, it’s not because you’re concerned for gay rights, its because you’re a democrat. And that’s TOTALLY FINE. You’re allowed to be a democrat if you have liberal views. But you do not get to say you’re the only one cares about gay rights.

@alleria_eh This would be a great argument if it weren’t for the fact that anti-Americanism has been a major component of Canadian patriotism because many of them are self-consciously resentful of how similar they are to us.

Canada doesn't boo the US flag and anthem because we hate america. We boo it because we hate trump and all that he represents. We hate being attacked and threatened. Never the 51 state

@bonchieredstate They’re not mad because they think the White House as sacrosanct as the flag or the national anthem, which they hate, they just think UFC and people who like it are déclassé

Again, you may not like the UFC thing at the White House, but the moment you hung a giant pride flag from the columns and had half-naked “trans” activists exposing themselves on the lawn, you lost all right to complain about desecration.

Trying to be polite, but also wanting to ask everyone in a Germany kit if they’re @FreddyLA7

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I'm not even a fan of Elon Musk, but it's pretty astonishing to me that essentially nobody on the Left can see the plain and simple truth that he crossed the four-comma line by building things many, many, many people benefit from, including lots of jobs and some incredible stuff.

History's first trillionaire is a guy who catches rockets out of the sky with chopsticks and beams internet to every dead zone on the planet. Same guy ships cars that drive themselves, humanoid robots for the factory floor, brain chips that let paralyzed people move a cursor with pure thought, and an AI running on a supercomputer his team stood up in months instead of years. And the people crashing out about his net worth are doing it on the app he owns. The same app governments spent years trying to censor. You cannot legislate a rocket into orbit.

@TrollFootball Yeah, so soccer is a British term too and you didn’t fully stop using soccer interchangeably with football until like the 80s

For our American fans

@defneorsomethin Okay so the original tweet and the quote tweet were both perfect

i was born in the right generation i love women fully suited up and men with their entire thighs out in tiny little skirts

My friends and I are trying to make a genuine worthy English soccer chant about the War of the Triple Alliance set to the tune of I Gotta Feeling…we are not succeeding. We are instead just chanting “70%”

Lowkey, the US wavy striped jerseys are super cute

Paraguay? More like pair-a-gays.

So crazy the first trillionaire is an African American

Wow, it’s so crazy that Elon Musk is a trillionaire now, so he can afford to give $100 billion to every person on earth, but he won’t smdh

The unacceptable amount of wealth is whoever has $1 more than I have

The most envious, Marxist, redistributive person in the world isn't the guy busting his hump to frame a house, or the guy grinding out DoorDash...it's the smug guy worth 7 or 8 figures staring at a trillionaire he considers socially beneath him.

@Zempshir I recall they were both let off with a slap on the wrist

@ConGayBot I remember this, shit was swept under the rug so quick.

A few years ago, two 14 year-old girls tried to carjack a man in DC. In the commotion, someone hit the gas, the car sped off and crashed, the driver of the car is ejected and killed instantly. All caught on video. The girls were crying because they were worried the crash broke their phones.

@RichOToole My one memory from the On the Border in College Station was trying to seeing it was the only place without a line, my roommate saying no way it’s disgusting, me rationalizing that it was probably just one bad time, then getting food poisoning 😂

Dang. So many memories from College Station. RIP 🙏🏽

@BerniceKing The way you’re using selective language to distort reality and insinuate something happened that didn’t, all while using your father’s name to give yourself undue credibility

Karmelo Anthony, a Black teenager, has been sentenced to 35 years in prison after being convicted by a jury with no Black jurors. Whatever one believes about the verdict itself, we cannot ignore the larger truth that many Americans are wrestling with: justice is still being administered through a system with a long history of racial disparity in sentencing and punishment. This requires more than reaction. It requires moral honesty about who is deemed dangerous, whose pain is centered, and how differently accountability has often been applied in America. If we want justice worthy of its name, it cannot be shaped by race. #KarmeloAnthony