tds will be growing for some time to come and mr peters provides an intro here;

I have an old friend who happens to be gay. I italicize the word because it is incidental to me and to our friendship. He knows I don’t care. And he doesn’t bring it up. And that’s why I don’t care.

Because why would I?

Anyhow,  I got a text from him the morning after the Orange Man Bad won bigly. It read as follows:

If you don’t understand why your gay friend is scared right now then you don’t have a gay friend. You know a gay person.

Scared right now? Of what, exactly? I asked my gay friend – and he was unable to answer with any specifics. The fear seems to be – to crib a line from Franklin Roosevelt – fear, itself. Like the fear of “COVID.”

In other words, the fear of nothing at all.

Most of the people who voted for the Bad Orange Man did not vote for him because they want gay people hounded. They want the chaos ended. They want adult sexual provocateurs  – these are styled “drag queens” – kept out of schools and away from minor children. They voted to not be hounded by mentally ill people who think of themselves as plural – they/them – rather than he or she. Most do not give a damn whether a grown man wants to dress like a woman and pretend to be a woman. They voted to not be hectored to consider them actually women. They voted to get them out of women’s dressing and locker rooms; out of women’s sports.

Is any of that “scary”?............more.......