Son of a liberal democrat congressman comes out.

He comes out as a gay, conservative Trump supporter. Now he's an outcast among his open-minded friends.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...p-supporter-n2432011


Here we have an interesting 'coming out' tale from a young man whose liberal family was "overjoyed" when he told them he is gay. The real trouble began, you see, when he started having impure thoughts. Political thoughts. Adam Levine is the son of a former Democratic Congressman from southern California. And now he's telling the world about how he came to realize that he's a conservative, and how his vote for Donald Trump has made him a pariah within the "open minded" circles in which he's operated for most of his life. Before I start quoting his piece, allow me to disclose that a mutual friend put us in touch, and I helped connect him with the editors of The Federalist, where this essay appears. And it begins rather provocatively:

I am not a sex offender. But a number of my friends no longer have time to see me. Lifelong acquaintances now regard me with fear and distrust. I have been unfriended en masse on social media and excoriated by friends who deign to remain. And I have been singly excluded from social gatherings when the rest of my family was invited. No, I am not a sex offender. I am something even worse than that. I am a Donald Trump supporter.
He goes on to describe his exquisitely liberal upbringing, which inculcated him with strong and harsh views of the types of people who are Republicans:

It was always a given that Republicans are bad people, representative of that shameful sliver of our flawed society that values money above the planet and think the world would be better off if everyone were a straight, white male. At a minimum they are racist, misogynistic and homophobic. Left to their own devices, they would exclude ethnic minorities from everything, kick sinful gay offspring onto the streets, and pave our parks over with oil derricks. Of course, there are the less malicious Republicans, the ones who have fallen victim to their gun-toting, Bible-thumping families and sadly do not know any better than what they have been told. This type is not entirely to blame for their ignorance; they just deserve our pity.
But at some point, he began to recognize some strange...feelings and desires boiling inside of him that were scary and unnatural -- a growing realization that dared not speak its name:

These were not pie-in-the-sky views I was advocating in order to provoke. The Affordable Care Act has made medical treatment of my bipolar disorder more expensive than ever. Under the nuclear agreement, Iran flagrantly continues to enrich uranium and fund terrorist activities. As a small business owner, I am regularly assaulted with financially crushing, nonsensical red tape and bureaucracy, much implemented as lip service to environmental protection. With few exceptions, every one of my good friends feels more economically hopeless after the “recovery” than before, and abject homelessness on the streets of my beloved city has swelled to egregious levels. In desperation, like a closeted teenager sneaking into a porn theater, I surreptitiously began to explore the forbidden territories of Fox News and other conservative outlets. Incredibly, I found myself agreeing more often than not...I did everything in my power to avoid that one last unspeakable, fatal option: turning Republican.
Alas, denial can only last so long. Sooner or later, unsupressable instinct comes bursting forth. And so it did for Levine, who soon found himself under siege and bombarded with opporbrium from some of his closest friends and family members. He writes about being upbraided for opposing his father's position on the Iranian nuclear deal, and being cut off by lifelong friends. One called him a "white supremacist" (an odd one, given the context, but not unprecedented); others stopped returning his calls. But the decision to speak and live His Truth had been made:

I reached my threshold where no amount of hypothetical Republican bigotry or greed could approach the magnitude of hypocrisy, corruption, or criminality I saw rotting the Democrats to the core. I jumped ship...I found out almost immediately that the Republican Party is not only not evil, but populated with nice, intelligent, humble people...It took 36 years for me to see through the Democratic mystique of what the Republican Party is. Having done so has enabled me to affirm a deep part of who I am, which runs deeper than religion or sexual orientation, because it is part of what forms me. Sadly, it was a part that I should not ever have had to question in the first place. If the struggles of the LGBT and Jewish peoples have taught me one thing, it is that I count, I matter, no more or less than any other man—precisely not because of my sexual preferences, or the God I worship, but because I am a citizen of planet Earth. The knowledge there is a major political party that extends this creed to its members has restored a deep-seated hope inside of me for my country’s future.
Read the whole thing here. Levine's story resonates with me on several levels, even though our stories are not the same, nor our worldviews identical. One of the most exhausting things about being a right-leaning member of an minority identity community over which the Left thinks it wields intellectual ownership is frequently being challenged to justify one's own existence. Nevertheless, Levine has done so here, and done so well, in a very public forum. Surprise: It turns out he's allowed to prioritize his political concerns however he'd like, as any free-thinking citizen should. And, frankly, some of the barriers to entry to conservatism for many LGBT Americans may be collapsing. I'll leave you with this pearl of wisdom from End of Discussion, generously tweeted out by the Young Republicans this week:



Democrats ultimately failed to convince Adam Levine, and his choice to shut up about why has officially expired.

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That's different.

Spicoli speaks! Perhaps he should stick with things he's more skilled at, like tasty waves and a cool buzz.


Sean Penn: Donald Trump Is 'An Enemy of Mankind'


Actor Sean Penn blasted President Donald Trump in a Time Magazine op-ed late Friday, calling him an "enemy of mankind" and "enemy of the state."

Penn, known for his roles as Jeff Spicoli in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and as the titular character in "Milk," expressed outrage at Trump's reported admonishment of third world countries.

He criticized Trump for singling out Haiti, which was rocked by a massive earthquake in 2010.

Penn said he can still smell the "blood and death" that greeted him when he touched down in the island nation during relief efforts and said Trump's words about the nation were "disgraceful."

He said many Haitians who sought refuge in the United States did indeed come with lower educational attainment and wealth, but that those same people worked hard to excel in the fields they chose.

Penn said Trump is encouraging "an enslavement of America by a core minority of the electorate" and that the New Yorker has become an "enemy of Americans."

He said Americans should ignore Trump's rhetoric and instead try to unify with nations he has spoken about, like El Salvador, Haiti, Mexico and those in the Middle East.

The actor, who also made headlines for making several visits with late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, added that Trump is also "an enemy of mankind [and] indeed an enemy of the state."


http://insider.foxnews.com/201...-remarks-enemy-state

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The actor, who also made headlines for making several visits with late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, added that Trump is also "an enemy of mankind [and] indeed an enemy of the state."

In so far as the "State" means the "Deep State", I suspect that Sean Penn is correct.

Wow. I never though that I'd say that.

Venezuela is starving its citizens in socialist idiocy, violence, misery and despair.

Meanwhile,

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1. VENEZUELA
Proven oil reserves in 2013 (billion barrels): 297.6. Total oil supply in 2012 (thousand barrels per day): 2,489.2

Venezuela surpassed Saudi Arabia last year to become the holder of the largest oil reserves in the world. However, annual oil production of the OPEC supplier is considerably less than the Kingdom.

2. SAUDI ARABIA
Proven oil reserves (billion barrels): 267.91. Total oil supply in 2012 (thousand barrels per day): 11,545.7
Saudi Arabia has almost one-fifth of the world’s proven oil reserves and ranks as the largest producer and exporter of oil in the world.

3. CANADA
Proven oil reserves: 173.105. Total oil supply in 2012 (thousand barrels per day): 3,854.4
Canada’s oil sands are a significant contributor to the recent growth in the world’s liquid fuel supply and comprise the vast majority of the country’s proven oil reserves.

4. IRAN
Proven oil reserves: 154.58. Total oil supply in 2012 (thousand barrels per day): 3,538.4
International sanctions have drastically impacted Iran’s energy sector – the country’s oil production fell dramatically in 2012, from over 35 million barrels per day in 2011 to just over 3.5 million bpd in 2012.

5. IRAQ
Proven oil reserves: 141.35. Total oil supply in 2012 (thousand barrels per day): 2,986.6
Despite having large proven oil reserves, increases in oil production have fallen behind ambitious targets because of infrastructure constraints and political disputes, says EIA.

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The US is not in the top ten.

watching "Live PD".

Truck stopped, about 4 illegals, and backpacks full of weed.

Hundreds of pounds, figure it "pays" them forward.

If someone had poured a 100 gallons of gas on the truck, the driver, the occupants and the weed, I know a monkey that has no shits to give, and would spend the rest of the evening looking at Orguss avatars and Milliron cat pics, while drinking fine bourbon and jammin' to Clapton.

And saying another prayer for members who have lost pets, friends and family.

And may DJT continue to MAGA!

That is all...

The word “shithole” was projected onto President Trump’s D.C. hotel Saturday.

Video shows the word, along with the poop emoji, being projected onto the property.

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“Pay Trump bribes here,” “emoluments welcome” and “we are all responsible to stand up and end white supremacy” were also projected onto the building.
Trump has faced intense backlash for calling Haiti, El Salvador and African nations “shithole countries” during an Oval Office meeting on immigration this week.

“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Trump reportedly said, before suggesting that the U.S. bring in more immigrants from countries like Norway.

The White House initially did not deny that Trump made the remarks, but Trump later disputed the reports on Twitter.

Lawmakers, media figures and world leaders have all decried Trump’s comments. The African Union, representing all 55 African countries, demanded Saturday that Trump apologize for the remarks.

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The African Union, representing all 55 African countries, demanded Saturday that Trump apologize for the remarks.

Yeah, get back with us when you can demonstrably refute the alleged statement. Or just refuse all the charity Western nations send, since y'all clearly don't need it. Oh, wait...

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Originally posted by 41:

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Originally posted by flashguy:

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Trump likes fast food, too, along with well-done steaks, chocolate cake and double scoops of vanilla ice cream. He reportedly downs 12 Diet Cokes a day.

We have a lot in common, it seems, although I prefer chocolate ice cream and only drink 4 Diet Cokes a day....

WRATGAS what Maxine Waters thinks?

flashguy

Diet Cokes or any soft drink are bad news due to the sugar. I had a co-worker that drank three a day at work and died of cancer. Just say NO to soft drinks.

Diet Cokes have no sugar. What they hgave instead may not be good for one, but it isn't sugar.

And since caveman discovered fire we have been cooking meat. I want mine without any running blood.


flashguy

I'm hoping they'll boycott receiving U.S. aid & sending us illegals.

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Originally posted by Opus Dei:

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The African Union, representing all 55 African countries, demanded Saturday that Trump apologize for the remarks.

Yeah, get back with us when you can demonstrably refute the alleged statement. Or just refuse all the charity Western nations send, since y'all clearly don't need it. Oh, wait...

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Originally posted by JALLEN:
The African Union, representing all 55 African countries, demanded Saturday that Trump apologize for the remarks.

Maybe they'll refuse our aid payments until we apologize?

I’ve not seen the Trump property in DC, the reconditioned post office building, IIRC, but I have seen it on TV programs, and of all the rich variety of descriptive terms the English language has to offer, it looks to me like “shit hole” has to be the least appropriate.

Maybe some of you who have been there to see it in person can disabuse me of any error or overstatement as appropriate.

This is another display of the childishness so often seen in libtards.

Isn't the Inspector General due to release some DOJ/FBI investigation of some sort tomorrow?

Things only leak if it's bad for Trump and Republicans.
There haven't been any leaks, so...

I believe you are correct lbj. Like any day now.

IG Horowitz spent the last year checking out how the FBI + DOJ went about doing the hillary email investigation. Did they follow their own rules and protocols?

Clearing house post at the Conservative Tree House, lots of links in the most recent article.
Things do appear to be coalescing.


♦ Because the scale of the Fusion/FBI/DOJ collusion story is so large in its overall impact, the congressional and Trump administration White Hats are conducting a three-pronged attack on the conspiracy teams.

They are working in concert:
Bob Goodlatte, Chuck Grassley, Devin Nunes

•House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes is focused on the FISA abuse; and overall abuse from the larger intelligence community (FBI, CIA, ODNI and NSA). The FISA-702 angle is his leverage to reveal it.

•Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley is focused on the Dossier fraud; and the overall DOJ and FBI corruption. The Steele Dossier is his leverage to reveal it.

•House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte is focused on the FBI and DOJ corruption; and his leverage is the Office of Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, and the year-long IG investigation that just turned over 1.2 million pages of investigative documents.

https://theconservativetreehou...ficials/#more-144547

That's encouraging.

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Originally posted by soflaac:
Clearing house post at the Conservative Tree House, lots of links in the most recent article.
Things do appear to be coalescing.


♦ Because the scale of the Fusion/FBI/DOJ collusion story is so large in its overall impact, the congressional and Trump administration White Hats are conducting a three-pronged attack on the conspiracy teams.

They are working in concert:
Bob Goodlatte, Chuck Grassley, Devin Nunes

•House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes is focused on the FISA abuse; and overall abuse from the larger intelligence community (FBI, CIA, ODNI and NSA). The FISA-702 angle is his leverage to reveal it.

•Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley is focused on the Dossier fraud; and the overall DOJ and FBI corruption. The Steele Dossier is his leverage to reveal it.

•House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte is focused on the FBI and DOJ corruption; and his leverage is the Office of Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, and the year-long IG investigation that just turned over 1.2 million pages of investigative documents.

https://theconservativetreehou...ficials/#more-144547

I'm not sure there has been enough popcorn made in the history of mankind...

Call me a starry-eyed fool, but it sounds like they're coordinating a D-Day.

One can only hope. (Hope springs eternal in the human breast....)

flashguy