The event earned media attention as Melania Trump this year spent even less time campaigning for her husband’s presidential campaign than in past cycles.
  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    110·
    3 months ago

    I literally cannot understand log cabin republicans.

    Like.

    Seriously. I can only assume they hate themselves; and I wish somebody in their lives would tell them that they don’t have to.

    • Bob Robertson IX@lemmy.world
      34·
      3 months ago

      Are they really a real group? Or is it just like rich 150 people who give a shitload of money to make it look like it is coming from many more people?

      Has anyone actually met one before ?

      • frickineh@lemmy.world
        56·
        3 months ago

        I’ve definitely met gay men who hate other gay men that they think “act gay,” and they’re pretty much always racist and incredibly misogynistic, too. I can see them thinking they’re different and special enough that the leopards won’t eat their faces. And then they usually cry about it when no one wants to sleep with them.

        To be clear, I haven’t met that many, but as a queer woman, the LGBTQ+ community is sadly not immune to being as shitty as any other. I had to specify no fucking TERFs on my last dating profile.

        • Tiefling IRL@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          11·
          3 months ago

          Ah yes I believe they usually say “I don’t mind other gay people but I wish they wouldn’t make it their identity. You don’t see me flaunting my sexuality”

        • madcaesar@lemmy.world
          4·
          3 months ago

          The best thing about the queer community is that they are just like us and any other community and every community has their shit bags.

          I’m just always extra sad when I see Republican women / queer folk, because they are actively hurting their own community. Being a woman and voting to have a rapist have a say over your body is just mind boggling to me.

          • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 months ago

            I think it’s best to not think of them as hurting their own community but rather as intentionally spurning community with those with whom they share experiences. There are queer republicans who are just the idiots, but for these types it really feels like they’re angry about being different and have decided to take it out on those who have built community around those traits.

            I’m reminded of Roy Cohn who insisted he wasn’t a homosexual because homosexuals are weak and pitiable, it didn’t matter that he exclusively had sex with men, he saw no issue in purging the queer people from the government

    • pastabatman@lemmy.world
      12·
      3 months ago

      They’ve been around awhile. During the pre-MAGA, “friends across the aisle” times I could see the value of creating a group that generally aligns with the Republican platform (low taxes, small government, etc.) but supports gay rights and pushes for progress on that issue from within the party.

      Today though, anti-LGBT sentiment is so strong within the party that it’s hard to understand why the Log Cabin Republicans continue to exist, especially when they are openly shunned by the party.

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 months ago

          More than that they resent the fact that as queer people they’re expected to be democrats. And rather than getting mad at the republicans for being the reason for that they get mad at the democrats over it. They’re contrarian assholes

    • Got_Bent@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 months ago

      Have you ever met a gay dude who makes a ton of money?

      I know several, and let me tell you that money changes people regardless of which tab they prefer to insert into which slot. They become everything that any other rich person becomes except that they like to fuck their own kind.

      At that level of wealth, so far, the money supersedes the sexual preference because, you know, money. The sex stuff is, so far, just seen as eccentric.

    • mriguy@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 months ago

      Rich people know that laws don’t apply to them. Log Cabin Republicans probably figure that Republican policies will benefit them financially, and their wealth will insulate them from any practical inconvenience from the anti-LGBT policies. Sure, it will make life unbearable for millions of people, but those people aren’t them, so who cares? I don’t think it’s any more complicated than that.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    43·
    3 months ago

    Gay repubs are gonna find themselves on the wrong side of a line one day and they’ll be completely surprised that it happened to them. This is why we must prevent fascism.

    • finestnothing@lemmy.world
      20·
      3 months ago

      At the gop convention this year, the log cabin Republicans were called groomers. The leopards are already eating faces

    • mmcintyre@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 months ago

      I’m all for stomping out fascism, but I gotta say… saving people who want others fed to the leopards isn’t even on my list of reasons why.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    It doesnt even say in the article what she spoke about. I can only imagine money events like this absolutely warp your perception of reality. Six figures? To say what? Something that wasn’t even worth reporting over the money that was going around? All I saw was financial figures in the article and how Melania’s absence is extremely abnormal for a campaigning nominee. Everything is fucking outlandish in GOP land.