At this weekend's GOP convention in Texas.
One group found that they were not gonna be allowed to set up a booth that is
the Log Cabin Republican.
There they put out a statement saying, inclusion wins,
which makes the Texas Republican Party's leadership decision to exclude
the Texas Log Cabin Republicans from their convention not just narrow minded,
but politically shortsighted.
Now, if you're not familiar with the Log Cabin Republicans, it is an advocacy group
for conservatives within the Republican Party who identify as gay.
And that's been obviously a difficult position for a long time considering how
much virtually every conservative absolutely despises them.
Particularly in the past few years, where basically every gay person in the country
has been pitched by the right as not only someone who is making some sort of
fundamental sin, who deserves neither quarter nor respect, but
now they're also all trying to have sex with your kids simultaneously.
So that's rough.
Honestly, if you are a gay conservative.
And so now they're being banned from this convention.
And I get it, they're conservatives.
They're gonna advocate for their position that is their right.
But when they say like inclusion wins, they're being narrow-minded.
But do you not get, it isn't just that they're not including you,
they're not doing that inclusion, which again,
would be to their benefit because it's more votes for them.
They despised the very concept of inclusion.
They think that inclusion is surrender to people that they don't respect,
including you, like it's tough and you gotta keep trying because I guess you're
a group that wants tax cuts or whatever.
So you're gonna try to get the right to win.
But I don't know, can you really be that shocked Francesca when the group
that has been demonizing you and people like you in a variety of ways every
single day trying to dispatch violent mobs to hunt you down,
that they're not going to let you set up a booth at their party.
It's disgusting, but it's predictable.
>> Totally, I mean, it's the same way I feel about women in the Republican Party.
I'm just like, good luck with that.
Have fun.
No, no, no, that's your fight, not my fight.
But it is very indicative.
And especially because not so long ago you had right wing stars who were openly gay,
mind you sis and male and white, who were part of the early MAGA movement.
I'm thinking Milo Yiannopoulos, a guy named Lucien Winter Rich or
whatever the hell his stupid name is,
like there were multiple little stars who were rising and they were openly gay and
it sort of felt like, damn, there's a new page being turned here.
Not to say that those people were violently racist and
horribly exclusionary in their own right, but it felt like, okay, but
if you're a gay, a white gay man with some money and
you hate other groups that's sort of the angle here and you're welcome.
Well, not anymore, because of course,
we're now grasping at whatever kind of culture war straws you can
grasp at because things are in such a fever pitch in terms of the economy,
in terms of inequality, in terms of health care, in terms of literally
everything that now we're going back to dressing in drag is pedophilia.
>> Yeah. >> What?
Like that's anything.
Being gay is pedophilia.
>> Yeah, that's the only to believe, they just everything is everything.
Like if you're in drag your trends, well you're not, but
they're just saying that you are.
Also you're a pedophile literally every person.
Is it not a little bit?
I can't help but think, obviously there are pedophiles in this country.
It's terrible and disgusting.
But if you think like everyone's a pedophile,
is it possible that you're saying more about yourself and about society?
I personally think that pedophilia is horrifying and disgusting.
So horrifying.
So disgusting.
That by its very nature, almost no one would be one.
But you think it's actually very reasonable, lots of people would do that.
That's a weird position to hold.
Anyway.
Whatever, I've lost that battle.
Okay, everybody's a pedophile I guess.
Okay now, speaking about the banning of the group, the State Republican Party
chair for the Republicans of Texas Matt Rinaldi says, I think they made the right
decision based on our rule on booth approval and get a load of this.
I think it's inappropriate given the state of our nation right now for
us to play sexual identity politics.
But do you get what he's saying there,
simply letting them have a booth would be playing sexual identity politics.
They're conservatives.
It's a group of conservatives that want business deregulation and
they want more climate change, all the good stuff for conservative.
No, simply having it is identity politics in the same way that as Disney
start the show, MS marvel, you're playing identity politics.
Does the show have politics?
No, but it just has someone who isn't white and
that is playing politics somehow.
For some reason though,
launching a show with a white person that is not playing politics.
I'll never understand it.
It's a weird party, but again,
I'm not trying to be a part of that party the Log Cabin Republicans are, and so
I don't understand why they're so surprised by this.
And the thing is, the response to that statement is almost worse.
The president of the Log Cabin Republicans of Fort Worth is Jason Baldwin.
He said he was annoyed about being lumped in with people who support
allowing children access to puberty blockers or taking the drag shows.
He said it isn't identity politics to go against his party and
support of gay marriage.
Again, he wasn't even saying that one of your positions was identity politics.
He was saying you being there is identity politics and
you've just been banned from the convention and you feel like, what?
No, I'm not one of the bad ones, the trans group they're the bad ones.
All those people who, like drag queens are the bad ones.
No, don't hate me, hate them, don't kill me, kill them.
Do you see how much of a losing position that is?
[CROSSTALK] That's the game they're playing.
>> And fascism requires this of minority groups.
I mean, you see it in religious groups constantly,
people pitting one another against each other.
Like, no, no, I'm not muslim, I'm hindu you know what I mean,
that kind of degree and and it's all wrong, it's all awful.
And look, I say it's their fight, that they're barking up the wrong tree, but
that being said if and when they want to join the actual struggle against fascism,
if they want to join the right side, open arms baby, Like, I mean,
I think it's I think it's so interesting when you have conservative gay
conservatives and honestly, women in the conservative in the Republican Party,
it's like they love the martyrdom of being unique, right?
And they somehow think, well, if I go the other way, if I'm a liberal,
if I accept everybody, I'm just another feminist, right?
And it's like, yeah, no, you're still special and
we still need you you can still join the fight.
So I would just say it's any gay conservative or any woman who
is in the Republican Party now, who might be somehow stumbling upon this show.
We welcome you, you have a role to play.
No one is going to deny you your booth or deny you your particular.
We can talk about the other stuff we can talk about.
You know, the the the political stuff.
We can create strategic alliances on this, but
hate and bigotry that doesn't fly.
Yeah, the only way they're gonna deny you on the democratic side of booth is if
you're progressive now, that's T Y T.
Was allowed at the 2016 conventions.
But the digital convention of 2020 we were denied credentials for why,
I don't know, just to spit in the face of progressives, I don't know.
But anyway, they had like more boots available.
It's artificial scarcity.
But no, as you said, there's the martyrdom thing, but
then there's also the cold hard financial calculation that when you are a part of
a group that they absolutely despise and want to at least push out of society,
if not actually wholesale annihilate, you can make a little bit of money and
get a little bit of notoriety along the way towards
your group's destruction by telling that group that they're right to hate you.
And that works for a lot of different groups on the right.
There are women who are who do that.
There are gay republicans who do that there.
Look, honestly, they're leftists who do that.
They go on there to say that the right is correct.
So they get a little bit of money, a little bit of notoriety.
Their movements doomed.
They're helping to dig the grave for their movement or their social group.
But they got them clicks.
They got the clicks Anyway, super fast, final move.
Because I'm getting a animal memes in my dock now.
So let's see.
They're also, there they want the the convention,
they're talking about banning gender modification, sexualizing kids.
Like you guys are the only ones
who are constantly thinking about the sexualization of kids.
Honestly, let's see calling homosexuality an abnormal lifestyle choice.
It's 2022.
They've moved on, literally not at all in 20 years.
They want to force kids to learn that life begins at fertilization.
That's not a scientific fact.
That is literally just your interpretation of it.
Make them listen to ultrasounds.
That's what they want kids to do.
They're also by the way against propaganda for kids.
They want to repeal the 16th 16th Amendment,
which was what created the federal income tax.
Also, they approved a resolution declaring that President biden was not
legitimately elected.
They want to get rid of the 1965 voting rights act.
They oppose efforts to classify carbon dioxide as a pollutant because climate
change is awesome.
It's gonna be totally great for texas, by the way,
climate change is going to be awesome for texas anyway.
They support prayers, returning to schools.
They are, after all the only defense against A.
R. Fifteens.
And since those are definitely gonna be in texas schools,
why shouldn't prayer be too?
That's what they're doing in texas.
That's your Republican party that C.
02 has more rights than women.
That's all I gotta say.
The future urban greater than women.
Okay. Thank you.
Yeah.