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August 26, 2018 07:45 AM UTC
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The Gay Mafia at least sound fun! I mean compared to the Russian Mafia or the Italian Mob, which sound so dire and frumpy!
We'll make you an offer on Ralph Loren wear you can't refuse.
Isn't the Gay Mafia the one where you have to keep your friends close but Barbara Streisand closer?
Madonna….but otherwise you got it right.
Bonniwell delved way back into the 1950s and the McCarthy Era for that term. The fear of an "international homosexual conspiracy" motivated manly men as diverse as Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, who fretted about "pederasts" corrupting their worker's revolution, to the Klan, the Birchers, and of course, Joe McCarthy himself on the right.
Coloradans have "evolved" on LGBT rights, first passing local laws prohibiting anti-gay discrimination, then passing Amendment 2 which would have invalidated those ordinances, then successfully suing to prevent Amendment 2 from being implemented. Then, in 2014, Colorado courts struck down Colorado's anti-gay marriage ordinances, and clerks began marrying same-sex couples all over Colorado.
Closeted men literally pontificating about the evils of homosexuality may have led to the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. The Vatican group in question was dubbed the "Lavender Mafia" by Rod Dreher in the American Conservative in 2013.
So Bonniwell has ignored all that Colorado history to go straight and narrow back to Joe McCarthy for his bigotry. Someone needs to tell him that Republicans can't afford to alienate conservative gay people, which definitely exist.
Meanwhile, the gay community has embraced the term and made it their own. Perhaps there is something Mr. Bonniwell needs to fully embrace as well?
Voters did NOT strike down Colorado's antigay marriage law, the Courts, including Scotus, did.
-corrected comment.
Another classic of explanation. Somehow, we've fallen through the looking glass and people really ARE talking like the book:
Mafia = "works hard"
The term "mafia" is definitely coming back into style. The new book; "House of Trump. House of Putin;" chronicles Trump's alleged dealings with the Russian mafia.
And Trump lives up to the name by reacting as a Don would last week, during the "worst ever week" of his presidency (Manafort convictions; Cohen convictions and "flipping.).
Man. Bonniwell is batting 1000 now.
Why does Bonniwell have such a thing for Jared's sexual orientation?
Right? Perhaps Chuck is frustrated because Staplegun can’t get half-as-much-work out of the closeted gay mafia?
They probably take too many bathroom breaks.
…while listening to Alex Jones potcasts?
Bonniwell is a dickhead.
He's not smart, he's often mean-spirited, and… he's a dickhead.
So, is it the Gay Jewish Mafia or the Jewish Gay Mafia?
We need precision here, people.
Would this be considered a slur too?
I hear they work hard.
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Even the right's own scariest scenerios can't hold a candle to a FSB-elected POTUS who willingly to allow Russia to hack and interfere in our elections and knowing at least six congressional Republicans visited Moscow on July 4 of this year, presumably to BEG them to do so this time around.