Most of those reading this, and I wouldn’t be surprised it is actually all of those reading this, are familiar with Marie Antoinette and cakes.

While Paris was suffering from a lack of bread, peasants approached the gates of the palace while the queen was holding a lavish banquet inside. When she was told about the peasants, Marie mocked them, saying, “Let them eat cake.”

Then, the deluge.

That’s the poplar story.

Not being French, but Austrian, Marie was not popular with the French people, and, needing a bad guy as a target, no matter what she did, some way out of touch with reality things and the things that she advocated for which, had she gotten support, might have made the impending revolution unnecessary, this story was an effective one for her enemies to spread around.

The other version of the story is that during the banquet, when told about the peasants, she naively thought this lack of bread was a one off shortage, and as an act of kindness had the aristocrats stop eating and commanded the servants to gather all the remaining food to bring to the gates, reminding them not to forget the desserts, one of which was brioche, a rich bread made with eggs and butter, somewhat like, but not cake.

Both stories were useful depending on whether you condemned or commended her.

But in those days there was no photographic record of events against which to judge stories and gossip, and who would have brought pen and paper to a banquet to keep a running commentary

How apocryphal either of these stories are, can be assessed by the details.

First, she would not have referred to cake as we know it, but to bread. The peasants wanted bread, so she would obviously mentioned it.

There were similar tales in other places and times with which people could have been familiar.

People critical, and rightly so, of the excesses of the French nobility, spread stories, real and fictitious to make their point.

In a 16th-century Germany version, a noblewoman wonders why the hungry poor don’t simply eat sweet bread.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in Book VI of his Confessions, tells the story of “a great princess” who uttered the cake line. The book was written in 1767 when Marie-Antoinette was still a child, so it, obviously, was not her.

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The story of Marie and the cake first appeared in an 1843 issue of the journal Les Guêpes by the French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr who said he found the now famous quote in a book published in1760, decades before the alleged event, which would mean, just as with Rousseau’s story, the person in the story could not have been Marie as she was born on November2, 1755.

But like the story of George Washington not lying as a 10 year old after chopping down a cherry tree, which, somehow knowing he would grow to be important, some contemporary wrote down, it is a legend intended to teach a lesson, Marie and the cake is a story invented after a time for a specific purpose.

Had there been still pictures or video recordings, official or on cell phones, the story would be clearly supported or easily denied.

Life as a public figure has not easy for Melania Trump. As with Marie Antoinette, her marriage is difficult and, as she has very few official duties, she spends most of her time socializing and indulging her extravagant tastes.

Unlike with Marie, though, now there is the possibility for pictures and videos.

She has already upset that people judged her based on pictures of her wearing a jacket with “I don’t care. Do you?” written on the back as she headed to the Southern border where kids are held in cages, some of whom had died.

Now she is upset with the peasants, who are dealing with a pandemic and aren’t getting consistent information from her husband’s administration, because they aren’t happy that she posted pictures of herself wearing a hard hat while reviewing blueprints for the construction of a tennis pavilion on the southern grounds of the White House which a press release had stated when the pavilion was suddenly and without any mention prior to the groundbreaking announced it was  “fueled by Mrs. Trump’s … passion to provide a functional recreational area for all first families to enjoy.”

Besides seemingly out of touch with people’s concerns about the virus, she also came across as a bit Antoinette-like as the pictures were posted just days after 29 people were killed by a tornado in Tennessee.

Her tweeted response to the negative reaction was just as out of touch, dismissive and insulting.

 “I encourage everyone who chooses to be negative & question my work at the White House to take time and contribute something good & productive in their own communities. Be Best”.

History has judged Marie Antoinette to be tone-deaf, out of touch, and self-interested based on an unverified story, while with Melania we have the pictures and a tweet.

In 2018 there was a Blue Wave.

In 2020, it s time for the deluge.

Maybe the Evangelicals are right about Trump being sent by God and even being the second coming. He’s darn near omniscient.

Prior to the corona virus, he let us know that he knows more about most things than the experts with training and experience know about those things.

“I understand the tax laws better than almost anyone, which is why I’m the one who can truly fix the.,”

“I understand social media. I understand the power of Twitter. I understand the power of Facebook maybe better than almost anybody, based on my results, right?”

“Nobody knows more about debt. I’m like the king. I love debt.”

“I think nobody knows more about taxes than I do, maybe in the history of the world. Nobody knows more about taxes.”

“Nobody knows more about taxes than I do — and income than I do.”

“Nobody knows banking better than I do”

“I understand money better than anybody. I understand it far better than Hillary, and I’m way up on the economy when it comes to questions on the economy.”

“I think nobody knows the [The U.S. system of government] better than I do.”

“I am a person that used to be establishment when I’d give them hundreds of thousands of dollars. But when I decided to run, I became very anti-establishment, because I understand the system than anybody else.”

“Nobody knows the system better than I do.”

“I know more about contributions than anybody.”

“Nobody knows politicians better than Donald Trump.”

“Nobody knows more about trade than me.”

“Nobody in the history of this country has ever known so much about infrastructure as Donald Trump.”

“There’s nobody bigger or better at the military than I am.”

“I know more about ISIS [the Islamic State militant group] than the generals do. Believe me.”

“ I know more about offense and defense than [military leaders] will ever understand, believe me. Believe me. Than they will ever understand. Than they will ever understand.”

“There is nobody who understands the horror of nuclear more than me.”

“Because nobody knows the system better than me. I know the H1B. I know the H2B. Nobody knows it better than me.”

“I know more about people who get [TV] ratings than anyone.”

“I understand social media. I understand the power of Twitter. I understand the power of Facebook maybe better than almost anybody, based on my results, right?”

“I know more about courts than any human being on Earth.”

“Who knows more about lawsuits than I do? I’m the king.”

“I know more about renewables than any human being on Earth.”

“I understand money better than anybody.”

“As a builder, nobody in the history of this country has ever known so much about infrastructure as Donald Trump.”

“I know more about Cory than he knows about himself.”

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“Technology — nobody knows more about technology than me.”  

“I know more about drones than anybody. I know about every form of safety that you can have.”  

“Having a drone fly overhead — and I think nobody knows much more about technology, this type of technology certainly, than I do.”

So with the corona virus, we may have doctors, scientists, and researchers, but to get through this, we only need Trump.

When he went to the CDC in Atlanta, Trump credited his uncle, Dr. John Trump, who taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and whom he credits for making him an expert on all things nuclear, for being instrumental in making him an expert epidemiologist. It is that expertise that, according to Trump, amazes the medical experts who are trying to get a handle on the present outbreak, while, as he explains it,

“Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president,”

because

“I like this stuff. I really get it… every one of these doctors said, ‘how do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability.”

Meanwhile, while the medical experts, who are struggling, say such things as that said by Dr. Nancy Messonnier, the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,

“It’s not so much of a question of if this will happen in this country anymore but a question of when this will happen. We are asking the American public to prepare for the expectation that this might be bad,”

Trump, because besides his being a natural, he is a fully informed epidemiologist, is able to assure us that,

“China is working very, very hard. I have spoken to President Xi, and they are working very hard. If you know anything about him, I think he will be in pretty good shape. They have had a rough patch, but now it looks like they are getting it more and more under control. I think that is a problem that is going to go away,”

and lets us know that,

 “I think that whole situation will start working out. We’re very close to a vaccine.”

The problem he told us in a tweet is that

“Low Ratings Fake News MSDNC (Comcast) and CNN are doing everything possible to make the Caronavirus look as bad as possible, including panicking markets, if possible. Likewise their incompetent Do Nothing Democrat comrades are all talk, no action. USA in great shape!”

The fact the disease is spreading to countries outside its place of origin can apparently be ignored because this is just one more hoax to make him look bad.

The World Health Organization may have identified more than 80,000 cases of COVID-19 across 30 countries and more than 2,700 deaths worldwide, but that’s only proof that it has bought into the hoax.

We, apparently, should just ignore the caveat of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who said,

“When you start to see sustained transmission in other countries throughout the world, it’s inevitable that it will come to the United States.”

He must be a “never Trumper”.

In spite of the recognized shortage of testing kits, Trump assured the people of the United States,

“Anybody that wants a test can get a test. And the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect and the transcript.”

I guess like the Ukrainian phone call and the summary of it.

And, like Jesus whose concern was for people regardless who they were, Trump let us know, just as he did with Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, what’s more important than people is how the numbers make him look when, regarding the ship that is floating off shore with thousands of people on it he let us know,

“I like the numbers being where they are. I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn’t our fault.”

I am sure he just had a momentary lapse of thinking when he seemed to forget that the citizens of this country are still citizens regardless of whether they are on land or on a ship.

It is that Christ-like compassion, along with his God-like omniscience, that has the Evangelicals worshiping him like a golden cow at the foot of Mount Sinai.

I feel safe as long as I don’t listen to Trump, Pence, and the scientific experts, but just stick to one of them.

Obviously God’s existing without beginning or end is starting to wear on him. Just looking at pictures of Him, He seems older than both Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, and He is starting to slow down. It could also be that He has found that after doing things too quickly, like creating a universe in just 6 days, He has had too much time on his hands so he had to fill it up with a lot of smiting.  Perhaps, like all of us who are on the other side of our life’s peak, He hasn’t the energy or spirit to “Git’er done”, and just starts something and then just lets it unwind on its own.

In the old days He destroyed Sodom with one blow, taking out all the Homosexuals, and as we all know everyone in that city was a homosexual. It was over and done within an instant.

Then what?

He had to spend His time with floods, wars, earthquakes, toppling a tower and inventing all kinds of languages at the same time.

Jesus died to forgive us for all our sins, but, like with the creation mistake that left God with nothing to do about sinners, after Christ’s death wiped out our sins in Saecula Saeculorum, what was there to do.

That’s why in the 1980s, when He decided, once again, to kill off the Homosexuals, He chose a method that took time.

He invented the AIDS virus, but His age took over and, apparently lacking interest, like the old guy who has gotten tired of telling kids to get off his lawn and just puts up a sign and stays inside watching game shows and the Hallmark Channel, allowed it to start going after everyone willy-nilly.

You would think, however, He might have remembered what had happened, and if and when he decided to do it again, He would have a better plan.

Now, somewhat as before, to some who speak for Him, He has turned on the lawn sprinkler, gone back in the house, and has fallen asleep on the couch.

At least that’s how the religious right seems to see it.

Steven Andrew from USA Christian Church has named the month of March “Repent of LGBT Sin Month” as a way to protect the country the Coronavirus.”

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“God’s love shows it is urgent to repent because the Bible teaches homosexuals lose their souls and God destroys LGBT societies. Our safety is at stake since national disobedience of God’s laws brings danger and diseases, such as coronavirus, but obeying God brings covenant protection… God protects the USA from danger as the country repents of LGBT, false gods, abortion and other sins.”

He calls GLBT people getting our Constitutional rights the “Homovirus”, and those places and people that have recognized our rights are victims of it.

The 2013 Republican nominee for lieutenant governor of Virginia and 2012 and 2018 senate hopeful as well as a pastor, E.W. Jackson, has also told his radio audience,

“The last thing in the world the black community needs is more destruction of the family, more attacks on the family, and that’s all this whole homosexual movement amounts to. It is a virulent, violent attack. You know what? I’m going to get in trouble for this one, but this is right off the presses: It is the homovirus for the family.”

“Of course, I am speaking from a spiritual and a psychological perspective. I hope that no one misunderstands my little putting together of two things, because you know we’re talking about this coronavirus. I’m not talking about physical illness. I’m not talking about pronouncing any physical curses on people.”

Jim Bakker said his Silver Solution, which costs $115 on his website, cures corona virus in as little as 12 hours, while also admitting

“it hasn’t been tested on this strain of the coronavirus.”

He has been threatened with a lawsuit by the New York Attorney General’s office if he does not to stop making misleading claims, and, because of state law in California, he has to tell people there that his Silver Solution contains chemicals that “cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.”

Obviously an honest man, as can be seen by his having gone to jail for fraud, Bakker has been telling the viewers of his cable show that civil rights for GLBT people will bring about the slaughtering of  U.S. Christians in the streets, assuming, I guess, they have not already succumbed to the “Homovirus”.

Although not as wide spread as the religious stupidity of the 1980s that allowed for loss of life and something that had a chance to at least get some control over to spread, this foolishness might grow over time and reappear with a new application.

So we Gays are, once again, the targets of a lazy God who has really poor aim, and only His honest minions can save the world for a price,

Be aware.

We need scientific clarity in dealing with the corona virus so that people neither panic nor ignore what we should do to avoid contracting it.

And so, in spite of what might have been a somewhat confusing initial statement, Donald Trump, the stable genius who knows more than anybody about medical things, has offered reassurances.

When it comes to the mortality rate of the virus, he assures us,

“Well, I think the 3.4 percent is really a false number. Now, this is just my hunch, but based on a lot of conversations with a lot of people that do this, because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor. You never hear about those people.”

As of Wednesday night, there were 150 confirmed cases with 11 deaths in the United State, putting the mortality rate of those identified as having the virus in the U.S. at 7.3%.

But, rest assured, according to Trump,

“If, you know, we have thousands, or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by sitting around, or even going to work, some of them go to work, but they get better. And then when you do have a death … you know, all of a sudden it seems like 3 or 4 percent.”

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He has decided to ignore reports from the World Health Organization, Epidemiologists, and other health-care experts who recommend people who suspect they have the virus to get tested and avoid contact with other people.

“So I think that number is very high. Personally, I’d say the number is way under 1 percent.”

Along with Trump’s decisions that hampered an effective mobilization of federal resources to address the outbreak, and budget cuts and conspicuous staffing absences that are partially to blame for our current predicament, we are assured things have been blown out of proportion because the genius in chief prefers ignoring science in favor of his hunches.

“Now, and this is just my hunch, but…………..”

The World Health Organization has put the global death rate at 3.4%, but Trump’s hunch puts it at “way under 1%.”

“Well, I think the 3.4% is really a false number.”

So, while the president of the United States should be calming people’s nerves, reducing panic, and passing on medical facts, he prefers to let us know what he thinks.

Recently a local sports bar, which is part of a chain, ran an ad on social media for “Mexican Monday”.

A bar that advertises that its menu consists of “Traditional American” posted,

“Come join in on the fun tonight at Busters! Everyone is enjoying Mexican Monday!! Stop in tonight for great Mexican food, $6 Margaritas and festive vibes! Join us for Mexican Mondays…EVERY MONDAY….come join the FIESTA!!”

This was punctuated with emojis of a dancing Senorita, a margarita, and a taco.

They posted pictures in the ad with some employees and some children dressed up for the festive night, wearing cheap straw, souvenir style sombreros and thick, stick on mustaches, and a picture of a piñata with a haunting similarity to the pictures of the corona virus being used in news stories, although, I assume, it was just a total, but unfortunate coincidence. But if I noticed, others will.

All that was missing was a cactus and a donkey, but they just might not have published a picture with either in it.

The customer pictures were of cute little blond kids, hopefully not knowing they were promoting a stereotype, but being used to do so, and a group picture of a bunch of adults in the cheap sombreros.

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It seems that in a town in a county, with a sheriff who spreads anti-immigrant tropes and is, unfortunately, supported in this by a large swath of locals, within a country, with a president whose opinion of Mexicans has been made abundantly clear, while the actual Mexican people are dismissable, their stereotypes are beloved.

While they might not be acceptable as people, they certainly have value when it comes to selling beer and cheap rip off Taco Bell type menu items, except, perhaps, with real meat, when their stereotype can be used to make a buck.

Busters is a national chain. I went to the Facebook page connected to the local restaurant informing them that I am looking forward to “Stereotype Sunday”, and received the response,

” Hi Joe….I have Residence Documents and live in Mexico most of the time…this is all in fun…no stereotypes…no one loves Mexico and it’s people more than I do…so relax and enjoy…”

An anonymous claim from a corporate nameless employee with no way to verify any of it as anything other than just a dismissive response was posted.

While there is no way to deal with the truth or lack of it in the autobiographical claim, “I have Residence Documents and live in Mexico most of the time”, the proof of stereotypes are in the restaurant’s posted pictures.

Not satisfied, I responded that anyone can make any claim as a defense, and asking how I was to know this is true. In response, my post, the response, and my response to it were removed.

I suggest that as a way to show this is not just using stereotypes to make profit, they pledge a certain percentage of their Mexico Monday profits to a legal advocacy group that represents people seeking asylum at the southern border who need it, especially the kids in cages.

Otherwise, perhaps, claiming that “I have many Black Friends”, we can look forward to their having “Black Face Fridays”.

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When the idea of every citizen having affordable health care paid for by the taxpayers is broached, it is called socialism, and roundly condemned as anti-American.

When billions of taxpayer dollars are used to subsidized farmers suffering from the full effects of a poor trade policy that could have been avoided, it is considered making America great again, and a very American thing to do.

According to the religious right back in the 1980s, AIDS was a punishment from God, a convenient one at that because He was eliminating those pesky Americans who wanted their full rights and not some second class status at the mercy of the majority who just assumed their rights. So, as Gay people died, the federal government took its time to deal with what would turn out to be a crisis that did not distinguish who it affected.

At a press conference in 1982, Reagan’s Ronald Reagan’s press secretary, Larry Speakes, joked about the HIV/AIDS epidemic while it had already taken the lives of nearly 1,000 people, Americans.  

Two years later and after the death of more than 4,200, when asked  if, since 300,000 people had been exposed to AIDS, the president had  taken steps to protect armed forces, food, and medical services from AIDS patients or those who run the risk of spreading AIDS in the same manner that they led typhoid fever people from being involved in the health or food services, oddly ignoring those who were living and dying with HIV/AIDS and writing them off only worrying about who they might spread it to, the same press secretary responded,

“I don’t know”

When asked if the president was concerned about AIDS he responded,

“I haven’t heard him express concern.”

When asked at that same press conference if Reagan was doing anything about AIDS, the response was,

“I have not heard him express anything.”

Obviously,  Reagan and his administration didn’t take the epidemic very seriously.

What could have at least been contained was allowed to spread freely, although the Gay Community took steps on its own to deal with it, steps like hospice care, healthcare networks of doctors, nurses and open minded hospitals, and educating all people, Gay and Straight, on safe sex practices.

This, because a president was pandering to his base.

With the spread of Corona Virus and in light of the fear of many people, Trump, while not invoking God or claiming it was some form of smiting, referred to what was happening as a “hoax” saying at a rally where thousands of people were gathered in close quarters,

 “One of my people came up to me and said, ‘Mr. President, they tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia. That didn’t work out too well. They couldn’t do it.’”

He ended this statement with,

“They tried the impeachment hoax, and this is their new hoax.”

But he wasn’t finished politicizing a potential health crises by further ranting,

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A hoax can be ignored.

For the second time in my life a Republican president is misleading the gullible in the country to accept that a threat to all of us is not a real threat, and, we saw what happened the last time this was done.

Then it was God’s will; now it is the lying Democrats.

As he was misleading his audience there were four reported “community spread” cases identified in the U.S., and that means the point of exposure to the virus is unknown. This would mean the number of cases Trump cited is lower than reality, consistent with his actions with the deaths in Puerto Rico after it was hit by Hurricane Maria when a low death count was preferred to the reality because the lower number implied effectiveness.

In response to the Ebola threat the Obama administration appointed a single official to be in charge of coordinating the response across the government. Trump tweeted at the time that Obama was foolish appointing someone with little experience, so when his time came, to show how foolish such a move was, after being too slow to appoint someone to manage the US response to the virus, and having dismantled the existing response team, he appointed Mike Pence who prefers religion over science.

Despite the president’s claims otherwise, criticism of the administration’s Corona Virus response is not about a  partisan hoax, but a bipartisan effort to ensure the country is ready to face the new virus.

Both Congressional Democrats and Republicans have called the Trump administration’s $2.5 billion in response to the outbreak inadequate. As Republican Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama said at a hearing,

“So money should not be an object. We should try to contain and eradicate this as much as we can.”

Apparently a Republican has bought into the Democratic hoax?

While other countries have stepped up their response to the virus by, among other things implementing mandatory quarantines in some communities and banning gatherings of more than 5,000 people, our guy holds a rally, brags about its size, and then downplays the seriousness if a health crisis.

Reagan would be proud.

And while he assures us that things will get better with warm April weather and that a miracle is possible, Trump claims he has things under control as,

“We’ll just keep doing a good job. We’re ordering a lot of supplies, we’re ordering a lot of elements that frankly we wouldn’t be ordering if it wasn’t something like this.”

And at the same time he assures his supporters that he would be doing an even better job, if not the Democrats.

He ignored an actual doctor in his cabinet who might be able call on his contacts to assemble a strong response team in favor of his vice-president who has yet to do anything other than praise Trump at every opportunity and who tacitly accepts Trump’s opinion that the crisis is a hoax, and who prefers thoughts and prayers over science.

As in the 1980s, we are in good Republican hands

One of the difficulties that “trail blazers” have beyond the inherent difficulty in being one, are the expectations and requirements of the spectators who will benefit from the work of others, like the arm chair quarterbacks, who are quick with demands as if the trail blazer were somehow an employee with set obligations, instead of a person who, most likely, is trying to right wrongs they oppose as an unpaid volunteer.

Statistics show that most progress is made by individuals and not large national organizations who generally join in after the fact or just before progress is realized, or are formed after to safeguard it.

They constantly engage in what my mother called the “shoo-dos”, without bothering to get into the fray or helping. For those who don’t know what the “shoo-dos” are, they are those never ending strings of telling a person what they should do from a safe position while holding the person they are making demands of accountable to them.

Recently, Pete Buttigieg was scheduled to make an appearance in a Gay bar in Rhode Island. People were pumped for this. There was excitement that the first openly Gay candidate for president was going to appear locally. But, while people were all stoked, as events transpired, it became clear that there was a bit of a disconnect when it came to the reality of an openly Gay candidate from Mike Pence’s state of Indiana as compared to the situation of those living in a progressive New England state.

In the neighboring state of Massachusetts, from which many of the patrons of that bar come, the law “bestowing” equal rights on Gay people was passed in 1989. In the early 1990s, not only was a law passed that intended to eliminate, or at least reduce the incidents of bullying Gay kids in schools by requiring school systems to establish clear policies and procedures to that end and mandatory professional development for teachers on the subject, but an office was also established in the State House to monitor progress and supply information and guidance. In the next decade the state became the first to accept marriage equality.

The older generations who had fought perhaps for their whole adult lives saw what they worked for brought to fruition, while those who had just accepted the conditions as they had been, enjoyed any progress made, and those born in the 1980s inherited the benefits of their work without having experienced the conditions before these things were achieved.

A Gay person born in 1980 would have gotten their rights by the age of 9, before they would have been old enough to have experienced discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations. Before they hit middle school where most bullying begins, the state was already dealing with it so the chance of experiencing it was greatly reduced. By the average age most people are prepared to settle down and get married, Massachusetts became the first state to establish marriage equality allowing them the 300 or so civil benefits that come with it, things like uncontested inheritance, shared health insurance policies, hospital visitations, certain financial arrangements etc.

Conditions may not have become perfect, but they certainly became better by a long shot.

Much of what other places are still fighting to get, have been part of life here for any Gay person under 40.

Pete is a presidential candidate, and, although he is not running for that purpose, he is an involuntary representative of all Gay people subjected to society’s microscope with many looking through its lens just waiting for the mistake that will be applied to all Gay people and will be met with the pronouncement, “See? Typical”.

He is not running to be the Gay President, but the president who is Gay.

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The bar in which he was to appear and speak is a popular one with campy features like penis shaped door handles and poles for pole dancers, not, by the way, ”stripper poles”. It seems obvious how, regardless of anything else like a huge crowd, large financial contributions, or a fantastic speech, those with the desire to could ignore the greater reality and stress the poles and door handles and associate Mayor Pete with those.

Because of this, the pre-appearance team, scoping out the venue of the popular bar, cancelled his appearance.

The blow back was immediate as some claimed the cancellation played into the prejudicial attitudes of the anti-Gay crowd, while ignoring the objects that could be seen by anyone who wanted to check out the venue and then misuse to misrepresent.

It was berated as a betrayal without considering the broader motivation for the cancellation.

As Mayor Pete is not from this progressive stronghold with its insular, provincial idea of what life is like for Gay people throughout the United States where there would have been no problem, his actions as a Gay man, both good and bad, would be and are applied universally to all Gay people, so besides the pressure of running for president and defending policy plans, there is the added pressure of not making life more negative for Gay people not living in a place with its insular, provincial idea of what life is like for Gay people throughout the United States.

As if it were a legitimate comparison, some people compared Mayor Pete in this instance to Bernie Sanders’s appearance at a Drag Brunch in June 2016 at Hamburger Mary’s in West Hollywood, apparently to show that Bernie is more in tune with the Gay Community than Pete is.

But Bernie is straight, and there is a certain privilege in that as he is able to go to most places, more than Gay people can in many locations can, and cannot be used as a weapon against a whole class of people. He may be open to criticism for his Democratic Socialist policy plans, but he does not face the two edge sword of his policies and sexual orientation. Where he can be attacked for ideas, those attacks, unlike with Mayor Pete, aren’t and cannot be wrongly and politically applied to a community that includes roughly 10% of the population by those looking for any excuse to oppress Gay people and deny them their humanity and Constitutional rights.

Even the article that praised Bernie’s appearance, along with the tweets it included from star struck patrons, contained one sentence that showed a certain bias and may have unwittingly passed on a misrepresentation of what a Drag Brunch is and who attends. Where Drag Queens entertain attendees of all races, both Gay and Straight, at such an event, the article said that Bernie was there “to watch some drag queens perform and eat brunch”.

It may have been a poorly constructed sentence, but whether Bernie ate, or only Drag Queens were there eating while Bernie watched, is left up to the reader to decide, and while some may see this one way, whether positive or neutral, there are those who will warp it to fit their agenda.

In their minds Sir David Attenborough might be heard narrating, ”and here we see gathered that elusive creature, the Drag Queen, as they gather to eat brunch.”

Face it. There would be a different and less communally negative interpretation to a straight man’s being at a place with dance poles and penis shaped door handles than would be afforded a Gay man whose actions are too routinely applied to a community of people.

To me, the offenses are not Pete’s seeing a larger picture. They are the instances of a rather internalized homophobia which has some Gay people, and some very vocal ones at that, looking for any slip up or peccadillo on his part to keep it all comfortably straight; assessments of whether or not he is Gay enough, something that depends on individual opinions passed off as more representative than they actually are; and this annoying practice of thinking, because someone might see the need for change and takes it upon himself to attempt to bring it about, he is an employee bound to meet our expectations and demands, or receive a bad employee evaluation and our opprobrium.

With the help of Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Trump has assembled lists of government officials that he plans to remove and replace with trusted pro-Trumpers.

 “I don’t think it’s a big problem. I don’t think it’s very many people.”

He wants “people who are good for the country, loyal to the country,” although as has been seen before he equates loyalty to country with loyalty to him.

Ever since the Republican senate followed through with their pledge to acquit him at his impeachment trial,he seems to have become obsessed withthe “Deep State”, those in his administration from Justice to State to Defense to Homeland Security that he thinks are “Never Trumpers”.

He wants them fired and replaced ASAP.

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He is convinced that people within his administration, some very close,are undermining him.

 Johnny McEntee, the 29-year-old who was fired in 2018 by then-Chief of Staff John Kelly because his gambling debts could make him a target for blackmail, but was recently rehired to a position as head the presidential personnel office, held a meeting of White House liaisons from cabinet agencies in which he askedthem to identify political appointees in their agencies who are “never Trumpers”. He told then that those identified as anti-Trump will no longer get promotions, and this would be accomplished by transferring them around agencies.

We have already seen this Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman who testified during the impeachment inquiry that Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was “improper”, the firing of U.S. ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland who also testified, while loyalists Hope Hicks and Johnny McEtee were rehired, and Ambassador to Germany Ric Grenell, got a major promotion to Acting Director of National Intelligence, a position in which he has no experience.

Obviously President Queeg’s paranoia has been increase after his senate aquital.