Nobody Cares the Leopards are Fat

[Jopsy Pendragon]

The leopards chomped on a famous one this time.

Caitlyn Jenner Appeals to Trump, Saying She Cannot Travel After Passport Gender Changed to 'Male'

Caitlyn Jenner's passport was reissued with a male marker, restricting travel and spotlighting tensions between her support for Trump and policies affecting transgender rights.

www.ibtimes.co.uk

Conservative's always be falling for the delusion that loyalty, support and solidarity on the right goes both ways.

Trump is a black hole, he absorbs it all, and those caught in his pull feel like part of the winning/receiving side, until they realize they're being spaghettified, and it's beyond too late to escape it.

Poor Jenner, couldn't read the writing on the wall, refused to listen when it was read out loud to her, and now the wall has fallen on top of her. It won't even be useful as an object lesson to others who are merrily selling out, believing the same can't/won't happen to them. Until it does.

Fucking lemmings.

 

[Free]

Yeah, gay people (women, Latino, black, Jews) can be morons, too!

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

The leopards chomped on a famous one this time.

Caitlyn Jenner Appeals to Trump, Saying She Cannot Travel After Passport Gender Changed to 'Male'

Caitlyn Jenner's passport was reissued with a male marker, restricting travel and spotlighting tensions between her support for Trump and policies affecting transgender rights.

www.ibtimes.co.uk

Oh goddess...Jenner. I was a member of a trans-forum that had entire threads about the clusterfuck that is Caitlyn Jenner and her show.

"The left kind of took my issue."

One of her problems was that she never realized that it was never "her" issue in the first place. She saw herself as a pioneer, because in her golf-playing conservative bubble.....she was. But she didn't know about those who came before her. And she never understood the problems of actual trans people, especially trans POC. She was like "employment discrimination? what's that. poor trans people just need to work on their resumes and go on interviews and stop complaining about discrimination"

Jenny Boylan, who was also a member of the trans-forum I was a member of, became VERY frustrated with her. We had suspicions that one of the members who was a lurker and who had mentioned being conservative was Jenner. We also thought that Jenner was homophobic and thought that since she was a woman she had to be into guys now....and couldn't admit her attraction to Candis Cayne.

Like, did she think trans rights were at all a GOP/Conservative/MAGA issue beyond blind hate? Or ever going to be? Was she going to try to make. MAGA pro trans people, but oh, those wiley commie lefties stole it with their endless empathy!!!! Curse them!!!!

I don't know, I think she saw conservatives as favoring "freedom" rather than being about all those "icky rules, taxes and regulations" and thought "of course they'd support the rights of trans people to live their lives without government interference and those icky taxes"

As an aside, I was NOT the only SL resident on said forum, and said forum would have appreciated the Товарищ thread. The owner of said forum once danced on Joe McCarthy's grave while wearing red.

 

[Noodles]

One of her problems was that she never realized that it was never "her" issue in the first place. She saw herself as a pioneer, because in her golf-playing conservative bubble.....she was. But she didn't know about those who came before her. And she never understood the problems of actual trans people, especially trans POC. She was like "employment discrimination? what's that. poor trans people just need to work on their resumes and go on interviews and stop complaining about discrimination"

Yeah, its basically the "Its one banana" thing but being trans. Like she never had any real worry or hardship because she started well connected and wealthy.

And you are probably right about the taxes and freedoms comments as well. The modern GOP is basically Libertarians in everything but name. Anti-tax stuff tends to just be another angle of "fell for the disteaction" thinking. The issue isn't the taxes, its the waste in use caused by corruption that isn't swiftly dealt with. Made worse because the most corrupt have convinced people that the problem is actually just the taxes themselves, so people keep voting these most corrupt people back into office.

Anyway, I will not tengent rant, I will not tangent rant.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Pal of Trump-Backed Star Facing Deportation After Coke Bust

A friend and political ally of Rep. Byron Donalds was detained by ICE at a probation hearing.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Elephants rather than leopards

Elephants Trample Millionaire in Big Game Hunt Gone Wrong

He had hunted elephants in the past.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[Casey Pelous]

Elephants rather than leopards

Elephants Trample Millionaire in Big Game Hunt Gone Wrong

He had hunted elephants in the past.

www.thedailybeast.com

Did anyone not think, "seems fair?"

 

[Isabeau]

Reached for comment, elephant #4, great-grand auntie to baby elephant said, using a somber tone: Ha ha

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Elephants decided the human species needed a culling.

I don't disagree.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The people leaving the West behind in search of the Russian dream

The BBC asks Westerners who moved to Russia if life there lives up to expectations.

www.bbc.co.uk

Evernote Link

 

[Rose Karuna]

It would be the best thing ever for America if all the far right wing religious, racists, homophobes, misogynists and general assholes moved to Russia. I encourage this migration wholeheartedly! I will put a link to information about the "Shared Values" Visa on every conservative web site I troll.

 

[Free]

Any chance I could persuade you to post this in Evernote? I really want to read this but it's paywalled.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn075j04pnyo

View article without paywall

removepaywalls.com

 

[detrius]

It would be the best thing ever for America if all the far right wing religious, racists, homophobes, misogynists and general assholes moved to Russia. I encourage this migration wholeheartedly! I will put a link to information about the "Shared Values" Visa on every conservative web site I troll.

Some of them will eventually end up in trenches.

At least for a short time.

 

[detrius]

The people leaving the West behind in search of the Russian dream

The BBC asks Westerners who moved to Russia if life there lives up to expectations.

www.bbc.co.uk

I suppose the relatively high number of German migrants is related to the Russia Germans who often still maintain close ties to Russia.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I suppose the relatively high number of German migrants is related to the Russia Germans who often still maintain close ties to Russia.

You would know better about this than do I, of course, but I'd have thought that the Germans emigrating to Germany would more likely by AFD supporters, who admire Putin's fascism, rather than descendents of the Russlanddeutsche, who I would have thought must have bad memories of their parents' and grandparents' experiences of the USSR under Stalin.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn075j04pnyo

View article without paywall

removepaywalls.com

I wasn't aware the BBC website is paywalled for US readers. If it is, I'll start copying it to Evernote.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I wasn't aware the BBC website is paywalled for US readers. If it is, I'll start copying it to Evernote.

Well, you see, just giving it to them would be Communism. Which is bad.

 

[detrius]

You would know better about this than do I, of course, but I'd have thought that the Germans emigrating to Germany [sic] would more likely by AFD supporters, who admire Putin's fascism, rather than descendents of the Russlanddeutsche, who I would have thought must have bad memories of their parents' and grandparents' experiences of the USSR under Stalin.

If that were how these things work out, then the AfD wouldn't be the strongest political party in the former East German states.

In reality, however, it's relatively easy to turn familarity into nostalgia. Imagine growing up on a farm in the Volga region and coming to Germany in search of a better life. What if things don't turn out as planned? You haven't gotten rich, don't live in a mansion, and your car is falling apart. You might start remembering things better than they were: sure, some people disappeared, but your family somehow always managed to survive. That's just a survivor bias, of course.

The Russia Germans are also particularly vulnerable to Russian propaganda because many of them still speak Russian and consume Russian media.

ETA: you can see the same phenomenon with the number of applications from Latvia, btw. Latvia is a tiny baltic state with a population of less than two million people - and yet it outpaces the USA because of the large number of ethnic Russians living there.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

You would know better about this than do I, of course, but I'd have thought that the Germans emigrating to Germany would more likely by AFD supporters, who admire Putin's fascism, rather than descendents of the Russlanddeutsche, who I would have thought must have bad memories of their parents' and grandparents' experiences of the USSR under Stalin.

So we are talking about the Volga Germans and others here. it depends. I've recently read the comment of an adult, 1st generation of Volga German descent being born in Germany.

Discussion was about why so mane of them have own homes now. Anyway he really didn't understand his parent generation, stating that though the went away from Russia and don't want to go back, many of this generation are glowing for Putin. Others do otherwise.

Beware though there are no polls, so we don't know the exact numbers.

 

[Noodles]

MAGA Rep. Slammed After Tearfully Blaming Democrats For Having Trouble Accessing Abortion She Helped Ban In Florida

Florida Republican Representative Kat Cammack was widely criticized after opening up to reporter Tara Palmeri about having trouble accessing abortion for an ectopic pregnancy in Florida after she helped pass a six-week abortion ban in the state.

Cammack told the Wall Street Journal that she faced delays in receiving treatment for a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy shortly after Florida's six-week abortion ban took effect in May 2025.