Yale Kid Asks Ted Cruz The Wrong Question About Blowing Guys To End World Hunger
LEARN ABOUT POLITICS, YALE KID.
A lot of folks are making something out of a question an oh-so-clever kid at Yale asked Ted Cruz this week. Cruz was there to do a live recording of his podcast, which he hosts with some idiot named Michael Knowles. And some whippersnapper named "Evan" got up to ask a question:
“Assuming it would end global hunger, would you fellate another man?” a student named Evan asked Cruz.
Evan. Can we call you "Evan," since it's our personal name, which means there's more than a 20 percent chance we won't forget your name by the end of this post?
Evan. Dear, sweet Evan. This is an inappropriate and incorrect question. Not for whatever reasons Ted Cruz didn't like the question, or that Michael Knowles didn't like the question. Knowles responded, "Like a typical leftwing undergraduate, you are engaging in consequentialist ethics." LOL, shut up you fuckin' dildo made out of human hair.
There were many laughs in the live studio audience, as Knowles said just a few too many words about how blowing guys is "flagrantly immoral." That was weird.
But it was still the wrong question.
Yale student: "Assuming it would end global hunger, would you fellate another man?"\n\nConservative commentator Michael Knowles says "absolutely not." Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) declines to answer.pic.twitter.com/Qeg7XJLfHF— The Recount (@The Recount) 1649788138
This question is inappropriate because of the suppositions it makes, namely that Ted Cruz cares if global hunger ends. A lawyer for opposing counsel would object and say "assumes facts not in evidence." To construct a question like this, you've got to make the carrot at the end of the tunnel something a reasonable observer would at least think Ted Cruz might really want, for the price of blowing some guys.
Therefore a better construction would be:
"Assuming Donald Trump would punch you in the face and spend the night with your wife afterward, would you blow a bunch of guys?"
We don't care why "Evan" constructed his question the way he did. We don't care if, as Knowles suggested, it was some reference to American Psycho. Our way is better.
And as if to prove that our way is better, Ted Cruz thought he was saying a gotcha afterward when he asked Evan, "If it would solve world hunger, would you vote for Donald Trump?"
So fuckin' sad, dude. And he doesn't even realize why it's sad, which is even sadder.
Another good construction for the question would be "assuming you got to vote for Donald Trump afterward, would you blow a bunch of guys?"
The end.
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OAN Idiot Chanel Rion Says Biden Is 'Groomer-In-Chief,' Lots Of Other Idiot Words Too
Yes, she still exists!
It seems almost cruel to make fun of One America News at this point on a national website. Hell, they've been kicked off so many platforms, kinda feels like breaking into an old folks home and knocking Nana off her chair while she's doing a puppet show for her friends.
But shit, George Soros doesn't pay Wonkette to be nice. Or for anything. He ought to start paying us.
Anyway, Chanel Rion, y'all remember her jackass? We used to make fun of her on the regular back when Donald Trump was in the White House and they let any old OAN mouthbreather into the press room. She's the one who used to get a serious journalist look on her face and ask Trump if the term "Chinese food" was racist.
Her internet bio says she "has been frequently described as one of Hillary Clinton's 'worst nightmares'." No really it says that.
Her website says she is the author of a popular mystery book series for girls that is totally different from other mystery books for girls, which are full of "manophobia, hatred, gender-confusion and blame." Wonkette investigated these books, and ... well, we couldn't find them.
She was homeschooled. :(
But about all that manophobia, hatred, gender confusion and blame! Rion went on her OAN show, which exists, and had some real fightin' words for Joe Biden, AKA the "groomer-in-chief," and also a bunch more fightin' words for transgender people and trans kids and a whole bunch of other stuff. It was exactly the kind of stream-of-consciousness babbling you'd expect from a journalist as esteemed as Rion.
CHANEL RION: The reality is, trans activists pushing gender mutilation on children are aiding and abetting in crimes against humanity.
Wow, if somebody was doing that, it sure would be bad!
RION: And if the trans movement is about normalizing child mutilation, the trans movement belongs in the eternal flames of hell!
Good thing there's no "normalize child mutilation" movement out there.
RION: Why would the president of the United States support such a radical agenda? It's easy to say, like all the other big issues of the day, he's just following orders, he's the whipping boy of Obama and AOC.
Is that what people say?
RION: But in this case, it's even more simple. Before Biden became the masterpiece in senility he is today, he was a bona fide creep, a class A pervert. Watching this week's clips of the ignored dementia patient wandering around in the shadow of a shadow government King Hussein Obama,
"Wandering around in the shadow of a shadow government King Hussein Obama." Just want to emphasize that a human said that with their mouth. She's also trying to make the hashtag #ShadowGovKing happen on Twitter.
RION: it's tempting to feel sorry for old Joe. Don't. Your sympathy is grounded in your remnant memories of sweet old grandpa. Joe Biden isn't your sweet old grandpa. Everyone gets old, even perverts.
Even perverts.
RION: Spare him your ounce of sympathy, if only in honor of his victims!
We're pretending Joe Biden has "victims" now, everybody spare Joe Biden your ounce of sympathy!
At this point Rion goes on a tirade about Tara Reade and far-right conspiracy theories about things that allegedly appear in Ashley Biden's stolen diary, and "Biden's uncomfortable fascination with the hair and necks of women and children." All this is somehow supposed to be worse than the fact that the previous president has been accused of rape, sexual assault or harassment by too many people to count on your fingers and toes.
Which brings her to call Joe Biden a name she wouldn't have called him a year ago because a year ago wingnuts hadn't made up this "groomer" smear yet:
RION: Biden is the groomer-in-chief. He's open to the language of fellow groomers, but sympathy for groomers only enable them further. Look at their newly nominated Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, America's queen of child porn apologists.
Oh now she's the "queen." Chanel Rion has studied sentencing practices and determined based on her Do Your Own Research that Ketanji Brown Jackson is the "queen of child porn apologists."
We mentioned Rion was homeschooled, yeah?
Rion word salads a while longer about her argument, which we think is that Biden and the trans activists want to do female genital mutilation to children, it's beyond parody, and then comes to her big conclusion:
RION: Don't be fooled by their wordplay. Their true motive isn't about protecting the gender identities of children. This is about satisfying their own warped perversions.
What?
RION: And if you want to take it a layer deeper, it's about canceling reproduction.
What?
RION: This is population control. Sterilize your children, abort your babies, discourage nuclear families, and encourage non-reproducing unions.
What?
RION: Don't let them get away with this. Don't let them get away with terms like gender-affirming health care for children. Call it what it is: gender mutilation and child abuse illegal under current US law.
What?
RION: Don't give them an inch in the language wars. As this issue illustrates, lose the language war, lose our children. And that's my opening argument.
Madam, the Arby's is down the street if you need to talk to somebody.
So, class, what have we learned today? We are not entirely sure. But we listened to Chanel Rion's free speech and that is a thing that happened, the end.
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Republicans All In On Openly Gross Gay-Hatin', For Freedom
It's not a winning strategy, it's just nihilism.
Last August, Politico ran an article claiming that Republicans had waved the "white flag in the same-sex marriage wars.” The party had reportedly “conceded defeat" on marriage equality. They’d moved on from overt homophobia to aggressive transphobia. Unfortunately, reports of an anti-gay GOP’s demise were greatly exaggerated.
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According to Politico, there was "widespread acceptance” among Republicans operatives and conservative leaders that "debate over marriage equality is settled. There is no serious discussion about trying to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark Supreme Court case that ruled states are required by law to recognize the marriage of same-sex couples.”
However, just last week during Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearings, Senator John Cornyn foamed at the mouth about how awful the marriage equality ruling was and the undue burden it imposed on bigots. He whined:
"Do you share my concern,” he asked Jackson, “that when the court … creates a new right, declaring that anything conflicting with that is unconstitutional, that it creates a circumstance where those who may hold traditional beliefs on something as important as marriage, that they will be vilified as unwilling to assent to this new orthodoxy?”
Jackson, whose marriage would have been illegal in 16 states until 1967, probably doesn’t share Cornyn’s concern, but she avoided his less-than-subtle culture war landmines. Senators John Kennedy and Ben Sasse also lectured Jackson about substantive due process and courts “creating” new rights. If the Constitution, as written, doesn’t acknowledge the rights of queer Americans, then Elie Mystal is right: It’s trash.
Cornyn and other Republicans are also flat-out lying when they suggest Obergefell is somehow out of step with traditional views on marriage. Recent polling shows that 70 percent of Americans support marriage equality, which is why establishment Republicans had considered a tactical retreat on the issue. However, the remaining 30 percent is vocal, angry, and a significant segment of the GOP electorate.
Stephen L. Miller, contributing editor for the Spectator, recently tweeted a grossly homophobic comment about a gay couple who’d selected an egg donor for their child. Miller said: “Why aren’t one of them having the baby?” This open contempt for queer families was rarely expressed in polite circles, but it’s made an unwelcome return, sort of like jelly sandals. Slate writer Mark Joseph Stern observed: “We're seeing the party's media figures attempt to resuscitate the kind of casual homophobia that seemed to be waning."
Last week I wrote about the GOP ending its tactical retreat on same-sex marriage and turbocharging its anti-gay agenda. There's a cultural element to this, too\u2014we're seeing the party's media figures attempt to resuscitate the kind of casual homophobia that seemed to be waning.pic.twitter.com/pFYwUAvZBd— Mark Joseph Stern (@Mark Joseph Stern) 1648654559
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US House Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert have both made homophobic comments about Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. There’s been little backlash or pressure upon the party as a whole to disavow their remarks. We’ve focused on the MAGA takeover of the Republican Party, but the QAnon wing is also ascendent. Florida’s repulsive anti-LGTBQ bill and the associated “sexual groomer” rhetoric reek with the stench of Anita Bryant.
In August 2021, Republican National Committee chair Ronna (Romney) McDaniel tweeted:
Happy #PrideMonth! @GOP is proud to have doubled our LGBTQ support over the last 4 years, and we will continue to grow our big tent by supporting measures that promote fairness and balance protections for LGBTQ Americans and those with deeply held religious beliefs.
Republicans have since abandoned any interest in “balancing” the competing interests of bigots and humans who simply wish to exist in peace. Last week, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton declared that Austin schools' annual Pride Week celebration broke state law.
"The Texas Legislature has made it clear that when it comes to sex education, parents—not school districts—are in charge," he wrote.
"By hosting 'Pride Week,' your district has, at best, undertaken a week-long instructional effort in human sexuality without parental consent. Or, worse, your district is cynically pushing a week-long indoctrination of your students that not only fails to obtain parental consent, but subtly cuts parents out of the loop," Paxton said. "Either way, you are breaking state law.”
Equating queer identity with the contents of a RedTube channel is a classic homophobic tactic. The Pride week themes included "knowing your rights, creative expression and Pride history.” Pride, ally stickers, and flags are handed out, not sex toys. There are no courses offered in applied tribbing. Austin is a progressive city but even one anti-gay parent’s complaint could theoretically confine all queer students to the closet.
Donald Trump endorsed Big Lie promoter Paxton for another term. The New York Times wrote a puff piece in April 2016 about how Trump’s “more accepting views on gay issues set him apart in GOP.” Almost six years later, Trump’s GOP is united in a full-out assault on LGBTQ existence.
We really should’ve listened to Hillary Clinton.
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Andrew Giuliani So Gross About Baby Daughter's Junk We Almost Didn't Even Post This Post
We'd say this should end his chances of becoming governor of New York but then you'd be like 'What chances?'
We just spent a solid week listening to Josh Hawley and other Republican senators we'd be equally unlikely to leave alone with our kids/pets/houseplants repeatedly berating the most qualified Supreme Court nominee in history for being somehow soft on child porn offenders. Besides how it was disgusting and untrue, it was a clear dogwhistle to QAnon freaks that "Psssst! Hey! Know how we're always talking about child sex trafficking rings? Psssssst! Pssssssst!"
Against that backdrop, with that fresh on our all minds, who wants to hear Andrew Giuliani, failson of disgraced loser Rudy Giuliani and who's still somehow running for governor of New York, talk about how he's looked up under his four-month-old baby daughter's "hood" and totally approves of what he saw there? Wait, where are you going? No, you don't understand! He was just attacking transgender people, with these comments about his baby daughter's vagina! How is that weird?
HOW IS THAT WEIRD?
Andrew Giuliani brought up his young daughter in a weekend rant about gender, stating that he had “looked under the hood” and that she was a woman and “she’s gonna stay a woman”.
Right, all of this is normal. He's just attacking transgender people, by talking about looking under his infant daughter's "hood." Just a day in the life of a regular Republican guy.
Giuliani’s comments, delivered at a Long Island rally by a far-right group, came amid remarks condemning options for transgender people. He spoke about his four-month-old daughter, saying he is “gonna be the last guy in a long time that looks under the hood right there.”
Is that supposed to be reassuring?
But listen, because Giuliani said he and his infant daughter had a talk, about her junk.
She “made a promise to me on the first day, right? My wife was sleeping, and I’m holding her [my daughter] in my arms. And I get emotional thinking about it, but she made a promise with me. She shook my hand and I said, ‘I’m the only boyfriend till you’re 25 years old, shake hands.’
Oh my God. Is this supposed to be cute? Girl dads, weigh in, if you're not busy calling the cops.
“Shook my hand. So I have changed the diapers. I have looked under the hood. She’s a woman. I’m gonna be the last guy in a long time that looks under the hood right there. But guess what? She was born a woman and she’s gonna stay a woman, it’s that simple.”
"It's that simple," he said about his plans for his child's genitals.
A spokesperson for Andrew Giuliani told The Daily Beast, “while Andrew does not claim to be a biologist, he can tell the difference between a male and a female.”
We can't believe "a spokesperson for Andrew Giuliani" was even willing to open their mouth to try to run interference on this one, much less do so by reminding us of how that fucking freak "can tell the difference."
So what is the creepiest part of all of this? Is it how he called his baby daughter a "woman" while describing how he is her boyfriend now and looking "under the hood"? That's right, the creepiest part of all of this is all of it.
Here's Giuliani's response to all of us thinking he sounds like a stranger danger creep, in case you want to know:
\u201cBoys have a penis and girls have a vagina.\u201d - Fictional Child from Kindergarten Cop\n\nHe must have become a Biologist\u2026or was he canceled?https://twitter.com/tasneemn/status/1508897619921506304\u00a0\u2026— Andrew H. Giuliani (@Andrew H. Giuliani) 1648593290
Whatever, buddy.
We'd say this should ruin Andrew's chances of becoming governor of New York, but then everybody would be like "what chances?" and they'd be correct, so fuck it.
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