Jasmine Crockett calls out Nancy Mace as a clout-chaser who needs money

 

My guess is that Rep Nancy Mace thought she was doing something special when she tried to orchestrate a media incident against another House representative, Jasmine Crockett. It's safe to say that perhaps the incident made her look ridiculous.

 A little recap - during a House committee meeting on Tuesday, Mace challenged Crockett to "step outside" when Crockett challenged her for high jacking the meeting to rail against trans women. Over the past couple of months, Mace has made it her mission to smear trans women and falsely accuse them of being predators, especially Rep Sarah McBride, the first trans women ever elected to Congress.

 Crockett didn't lower herself to take Mace up on the challenge to "step outside," but she did appear on MSNBC's Reidout with Joy Reid, to call out Mace for what she called "clout chasing."

 A few things Crockett spilled the tea on: 

 Mace is of course using her sudden anti-trans advocacy to grab attention and raise money, 

 Her attack on Crockett could have been an attempt to copy a media firestorm from last year between Marjorie Taylor Greene and Crockett,

The hearing in question had nothing to do with the trans community until Mace brought it up. And then Mace did the same thing with another hearing having nothing to do with the trans community.

 Lastly, here is something I picked up on. Starting at 3:51 of the above video, Reid played a video from a pinned tweet of Mace going on some ridiculous and very obscene tangent about trans women and restrooms. 

Mace's "performance" is incredibly orchestrated even down to the gigantic cross earrings she's wearing. Note how her hair on that side is pulled back while her head is cocked, no doubt making sure that the cross earring is prominently displayed on camera. I guess the objective is to position Mace's obsession with attacking trans women as sort of a Christian defense of womanhood. 

Mace clearly fails in this attempt. Instead, she comes across as desperately obvious to the point of being downright tacky.

While again attacking the trans community, Nancy Mace wants people to see that huge cross earring she's wearing.

'Nancy Mace challenges Jasmine Crockett to a fight after disagreement over anti-trans bill' & other Tue/Wed news briefs

What Nancy Mace would have looked like afterwards if Jasmine Crockett had taken her up on her offer to "step aside." Editor's note - it's a joke, folks. These days, you have to clarify.

Rep Nancy Mace has been picking on Rep Sarah McBride so much that she's getting ahead of herself. No doubt she will exploit the incident below on social media and on Fox News, but if Rep Jasmine Crockett had taken up her challenge, Mace would have no doubt gotten dogwalked.

Crockett: Somebody’s campaign coffers are struggling right now so she’s going to keep saying trans trans trans.. Child listen

Mace: I am no child! Do not call me a child. I am a grown woman. If you want to take it outside pic.twitter.com/o2EBHzcwoT

— Acyn (@Acyn) January 14, 2025

In other news:

GOP-led House votes to ban transgender athletes from women’s sports - The bill in question which nearly caused Mace to get her edges snatched. Now it goes to the Senate where it needs only seven Democrats to reach 60 votes for them to even begin debating. It looks tight, but it may not reach the 60 needed. Also please note that I don't think the bill addresses male trans athletes. House speaker Mike Johnson is clearly exploiting anti-trans animus to waste time in order to keep his job safe from those in his own party who want to see him gone. 

Marjorie Taylor Greene rages at Sarah McBride for reading to kids: “Child predator”! - And speaking of Nancy Mace, she and Marjorie Taylor Greene continues in their pitiful attempts to bully trans Rep Sarah McBride. This time it's about McBride simply reading to children (with their parents' permission) with about trans kids. 

Some LGBTQ people race to claim rights, fearing rollbacks under Trump - Wise choice. Don't stand cowering about what you think is coming. Get your stuff in order first, then come out fighting. 

Turkey’s president attacks ‘perverse’ LGBTQ+ community as he launches ‘Year of the Family - The struggle is real and it is worldwide.

Anita Bryant Dead. The LGBTQ community outlives another one.

Anita Bryant 

The LGBTQ community has outlasted another one who sought to strip us of our rights to safety, health, and self-determination. 

And this is a big one. 

From Variety:

Anita Bryant, a former beauty queen and pop singer of the 1960s whose career led her to become a spokesperson for Florida oranges in the early ’70s and an evangelical crusader against gay rights later in that decade, died Dec. 16 at age 84, her family announced Thursday. The family’s obituary for Anita Bryant Day, as she was known outside the public sphere, was published in her hometown newspaper, the Oklahoman, and said the singer-activist died at home last month in Edmond, Oklahoma, surrounded by family and friends. 

We'll skip all of the stuff about her being a beauty pageant queen, singer, and spokesperson. Let's focus on the main reason why she's the subject of a post I wouldn't have missed writing for the world:

 Bryant’s notable public appearances in her less controversial years included singing at both the Democratic and Republican conventions in 1968, being a staple of Bob Hope’s holiday tours for overseas troops for seven straight years, singing “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” at the 1971 Super Bowl, and providing a musical eulogy for President Lyndon Johnson at his 1973 funeral. 

 In 1977, Bryant began fronting a “Save Our Children” campaign aimed at repealing an ordinance in Miami-Dade County that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The crusade was successful in getting the ordinance repealed that year by a popular vote. It was not restored until 1998. For the next three years, her activism against such regulations made her a poster girl for the religious right and the foremost public archenemy of the gay community and its allies. 

 Via her highly successful campaign, Bryant popularized the lie that gays are trying to sexually recruit children (sound familiar?): 

 According to a 1977 report in The New York Times, Bryant stated, “Behind the high-sounding appeal against discrimination in jobs and housing, which is not a problem to the ‘closet’ homosexual, they are really asking to be blessed in their abnormal life style… What these people really want, hidden behind obscure legal phrases, is the legal right to propose to our children that there is an acceptable alternate way of life — that being a homosexual or lesbian is not really wrong or illegal.” 

 Also, according to The Hollywood Reporter: 

 “I got involved only because they were asking for special privileges that violated the state law of Florida, not to mention God’s law,” Bryant told Playboy in a 1978 interview. “You know, when I was a child, you didn’t even mention the word homosexual, much less find out what the act was about. You knew it was very bad, but you couldn’t imagine what they tried to do, exactly, in terms of one taking a male role and the other taking a female role. I mean, it was too filthy to think about and you had other things to think about. So when I finally found out all the implications, it was a total revelation for me.” 

As word spread of her crusade, Bryant gathered support from North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms and Virginia pastor Jerry Falwell, and six months after its passage, the ordinance was repealed by a vote of more than 2 to 1. Bryant then expanded the fight to other cities and states, and with her help, Falwell in 1979 created the Moral Majority movement for religious conservatives that denounced the LGBTQ community, abortion rights supporters and others. 

More from The Hollywood Reporter: 

 Ultimately, Bryant would pay a price. Gay rights activists targeted her and launched a nationwide boycott of Florida orange juice. Bars stopped serving screwdrivers, replacing them with a mixture of vodka and apple juice called the Anita Bryant cocktail. Bryant told Playboy that she lost about a half-million dollars in concert bookings and a deal to host her own TV show as her public appearances became magnets for gay-rights protesters. She also became a punchline for comedians, and the Florida Citrus Commission dumped her in 1980. 

Bryant's career was ruined and she never bounced to the success she had before she became an anti-gay activist. However, Bryant leaves a twofold legacy. 

She demonstrated just how lucrative it was to target LGBTQ people as pedophiles and "groomers." That particular narrative has been in the center of just about every anti-LGBTQ campaign, ordinance, and law. Secondly, we can see the remnants of her smear via people like Chaya Raichik and Nancy Mace and sites like Libs of TikTok and Gays Against Groomers. Bryant may be gone but her stench of bigotry continues to linger. And it's not going away. 

In the coming days, there will be a lot of joy from the LGBTQ community, and folks need to understand where it's coming from. Bryant and her campaign made life hell for gays. It empowered lies, hate, and violence against us.  A lot of people were hurt by what she did but unlike her passing, those stories didn't make the front pages.  Anita Bryant is a textbook example of how Christianity can be weaponized to justify hatred and deception, not to mention the bearing of false witness; something Christians are not supposed to do.

She claimed to have meant well but ultimately Anita Bryant was an ignorant and self-righteous woman who used the Bible to beat people down instead of lifting them up. She was so busy trying to purge what she claimed was the evil in others that she failed to see that the greatest evil of all was coming from herself.

Still, it's also important to remember that she is gone. And we, the LGBTQ community are still here. In her day, she tried to stomp us down but failed. With her passing, Bryant joins Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Jesse Helms and so many others who felt it was their Chrisian duty to demonize and vilify us. We may be a bit worse for wear, some of us are weary and just downright exhausted but the important thing is that we are here, and we aren't going anywhere. 

 Definitely something for us to keep in mind for 2025.

Fox News gun rights supporting pundit bothered by LGBTQ+ people buying guns' & other Wed/Thur news briefs

Jesse Watters

Jesse Watters calls LGBTQ+ people 'nuts' for buying guns ahead of Trump's second term​ - Some folks have a fetish for collecting guns and that freaks me out. However, I do support people buying guns for protection and I completely understand why some in the LGBTQ community would do so being fearful of what could happen after Trump takes office again. He emboldens some of the ugliest behavior in people, particularly violence.  It goes without saying how much of a hypocrite Watters is seeing that he generally supports having guns for self-defense. I guess he expects us to take potential abuse without fighting back.

New Meta guidelines include carveout to allow anti-LGBTQ speech on Facebook, Instagram - In case you haven't heard, Facebook and Zuckerberg are trying to kiss up to Trump. This has been part of a long campaign which saw him dining with Trump and donating to his inauguration. This is probably why:

Meta is facing an antitrust trial in April. The company has lots of other business before the U.S. government. And Trump once threatened to send Zuckerberg to prison for "the rest of his life." That's just some of the background for today's big Meta announcements...

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 7, 2025

In other news:

Costco tells shareholders not to cave under right-wing pressure to ban DEI - Good for Costco. 

The number of companies committed to LGBTQ+ inclusion is growing - Don't believe the negative hype about DEI and companies dropping support of LGBT+ inclusion. Money is always still money. 

Nancy Mace furthers anti-trans push with speech in Sarah McBride's district - She continues to attack McBride. Nancy Mace is pathetically desperate for attention.

Social media mockingly reminds Donald Trump that it's Elon Musk who is in charge

Due to the fact that either Americans have short memories or are incredibly sadomasochistic, we are now again saddled with Donald Trump in the White House. Besides the absolute inanity of my fellow countrymen, and a vicious right-wing ecosystem, Trump's "comeback" is due the help of Elon Musk, the world's wealthiest man. 

That's right. Marvel universe has Tony Stark. DC universe had Bruce Wayne.  We in the real world, however, have a pale, bloated import from South Africa with delusions of grandeur so enormous that it would make a James Bond villain look like Joan of Arc. And unfortunately, the money to back them up and an enormous army of fanboys telling him how they enjoy inhaling whiffs of his flatulence.

We are so in for it for however long Trump remains in office. One small consolation is the fact that since Musk contributed to Trump's victory, he feels the need to butt in. Trump has indulged his nonsense by creating a presidential advisory committee, DOGE, especially for Musk to supposedly seek out and eliminate government waste.  I think it's rather stupid on Trump's part. Granted, he isn't exactly a symbol of basic intelligence in the first place, but every time I think about it all, I am reminded of the saying "if you let the devil ride, he's going to want to drive."

We'll see how long Musk and Trump can "work" in tandem before the adage becomes true. In the meantime, folks on social media have the right idea as to who may be actually in charge,

Save these memes. I have a feeling that they will be coming in handy.

Editor's note - Facebook removed my post because the below picture of Trump with a ball gag in his mouth was thought to be sexually obscene. I replaced with the above pic.

I thought this one below was deliciously brutal:

Who made this, lol? 🤣🤣#PresidentMusk
pic.twitter.com/mzyCx755tp

— Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) December 22, 2024

As was this one:

.@realDonaldTrump what!! pic.twitter.com/IbjmoKdt34

— Anonymous (@YourAnonCentral) December 23, 2024

The Daily Show gives 'No 1 book banner' wide room to make a fool of himself.

 

This took place earlier this month. I don't know how I missed it.

 

From Crooks and Liars:

The Daily Show's Michael Kosta . . .  interviewed the "No. 1 book banner" in Florida, the state where books are banned from public schools more than any other state in the U.S. Gee, thanks for that, Gov. DeSantis. He hit the Floridians' central issues, like banning Maya Angelou's 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.' Imagine banning Maya Angelou's book. Holy shit. 

 Kosta spoke with Bruce Friedman, a conservative activist who is responsible for that. He admitted that he has filed more than 900 objections to books so far. Kosta used expletives throughout the interview since Friedman is against profanity. 

The interview is hilarious and pathetic at the same time. "You're the Michael Jordan of book banning," Kosta said. "Well, in the last two years, I've challenged more than one book every calendar day," Friedman said.

'Pastor snuck anti-trans speech into school board meeting. Instantly got checked' & other Mon/Tues news briefs

Pastor snuck anti-trans speech into school board meeting. He was instantly shot down. - Nice try. Folks were not having it.

Ohio GOP Tries Again With “Forced Outing/Don’t Say Gay” Bill Requiring Teachers To Report LGBTQ Students - Here we go again. They don't stop and neither should we.

15 LGBTQ-Inclusive Winter Holiday Books for Kids - While cash is always good for me, these too are wonderful Christmas gifts. 

Democratic senators seek to ax transgender care ban from defense bill​ - Republicans in the House snuck anti-trans legislation in a must-pass defense bill. Democrats in the Senate are going to remove it. Hopefully. 

These iconic Disney stars came out as LGBTQ+ - Good article, BUT they omitted older stars like Dennis Day and Tommy Kirk.

Rep. Nancy Mace's position on LGBTQ community appears to have changed - You mean Nancy Mace is a lying fake? No kidding!