Well, I guess we can see how this plays out, but I’m not counting on it changing any hearts and minds to the cause of neutering Trump. It will probably only alienate more people and we need the voters to come to the light.
I don’t care about pissing off Trump. Who else gets pissed off in the interim? If it’s only the folks that we could never count on to vote Dem, then no harm, no foul. I can’t, no one can, guarantee that’ll be the only outcome.
If one is turned off by ANY PDA (public display of affection), then it’s not even fore-handed homophobia. What does this have to do with running for public office?
At the very least it’s cathartic trolling
At the very least.
No way in heck I’m clicking a .info at work, but I surmise this is a word I should avoid. Lesson learned.
Word choice was not intentionally loaded. I don’t like taking something nice and turning it into something you hope will piss somebody off. It has nothing to do with the merits or characteristics of that nice thing. I’d also think it beneath us if it was a black man kissing a white woman.
I don’t think I could kiss my SO specifically in order to make somebody else mad, even if that is somebody who deserves to be mad. I think it would feel like I was corrupting it.
What he’s relying on is the buzz. Every single old wingnut is going to be talking about this terrible ad, and maybe some of their younger relatives will notice and approve.
For some I suspect will be getting their first chubby in three years… 
Point taken, and there may indeed be better ways, but I would argue that these ads most certainly excite his base. How many Dems are aching to see somebody punch back at the bully?
He’s claiming the position of being a homosexual so that limits the ability of his opposition to use it as an issue against him. They can’t chase you if you won’t run. It’s expediency masked as an attack… really, I think it’s kinda clever.
While I’m totally fine with this as a tactic, I don’t honestly get the impression Trump cares one way or another about the LGBT community existing. Pence, and the GOP, that’s a whole other story.
How about aggravating him by doing the job and ignoring his presence. It seems to me that we do not need to stir the pot just to stir the pot. Let’s add some vegetables, spices, perhaps meat and create a great stew!
Well, you know, here’s the thing about that… I’ve listened for years and years and years to all those far-right “Christians” rail against homosexuality as a sin. But, the thing about sin, you know, is that it should be attractive. For example: no one argues that putting your hand on a hot stove is a sin - it hurts, no one in their right mind does that intentionally more than once, right? But stealing? Adultery? Lying? Sure, those might be attractive. So… when some guy tells me having sex with another guy is a sin, I just figure he’s told me more about his sexuality than I have any business knowing.
(For me, homosexual behavior seems more like a punishment than a temptation… I’m not all that embarrassed to admit, I find women more attractive than men.)
Agreed. I don’t think Rump cares much about LGBT people; it’s the feral trumpers who stroke out and the thought of them.
Darn right!!
O/T: per an article today in The Hill, Mika told Stephaine Ruhle that the Pervert in Chief’s main complaint about living in the WH is that he can’t watch porn. Ewwwwwww.
If he can get trump to tweet even one derogatory thing about him, that’s fundraising gold. Seems pretty helpful to his campaign; whether it benefits any other dems would just be gravy.
Wait… why not? It’s impossible for me to imagine he’s the first president who wanted to. Who’s to stop them?
In 2003, Massachusetts legalized gay marriage to the great dismay of the right-wing idiots who knew, just KNEW, it foretold the end of the world and would result in “cats and dogs living together” (h/t Bill Murray in Ghostbusters). Call your congressman and Senators and ask them to explain how it is that life has gone on just fine in MA and the world is still turning. Maybe place a call to the Family Research Council and ask the same question.
Besides, look what the evangelicals are spanking it to anyway:
What does THAT tell us about their true feelings on the subject of homosexuality in general?
And WTF, Alaska?
Because it’ll get his name and advertisement free national press coverage?