ChiGoose

What in the world does being trans have to do with drag shows? One of the fun things about Google is that you can actually scroll down and see results beyond just the first it.

Here ya go And remember, the hill you're dying on is seeing a guy in a dress makes you think about sex.

I wonder how adding $1 billion in debt servicing costs is going to impact a company that averaged $3.5 billion in gross revenue over the last five years...

Boy, you're going to be really embarrassed when you look this one up.

I'd say both factor into Biden's approval rating. Inflation is a global issue, but we tend to blame whoever is in charge. There's not much he could have done to prevent it, but the buck stops at his desk. Same with gas prices. There are things you can do to effect them in the long term but very little to move the needle in the short term. He also doesn't have the charisma or force to drive the narrative, so the Dems seem to always be on defense than on offense. They've done a lot of good things (IRA, capping prices of some medicines, etc), but American's won't feel the benefits of those until after the election. The GOP is strongly favored to take the House. A big part of the problem is that polling is getting worse and worse. Polling response rates are terrible, so the error bars are significant. We could see a bloodbath GOP landslide to slight Dem gains and anything in between.

Fundamentals are very much against the Dems this cycle. Midterms tend to go against the party of the President Biden's approval is low Inflation is high Gas prices are... fluctuating? Seem to go up and then down and then back up again. Still higher than normal though The Dems should be expected to lose dozens of seats in the House and several in the Senate. That it's even close is a testament to how terrible many of the GOP candidates are, but I'm skeptical it'll make the difference. The GOP will almost assuredly take the House and have better than even odds to win the Senate as well.

A guy in a dress entertaining kids is just as sexual as Bozo the clown entertaining kids. If you don't understand that, then maybe ask yourself why your mind immediately goes to sex when you think about a guy in a dress?

Why else are women dressing up to masquerade as Peter Pan, a male character, unless they want to emulate or be seen as a male in that particular situation? What I don't understand is why a guy can dress up as Mickey Mouse, or the Beast, or Charles Entertainment Cheese, or a clown, or a magician, or a purple dinosaur, or HR Puff n' Stuff or Teletubbies... and all of that is fine. But if they put on a dress, it's suddenly sexual.

First in line would be the Vice President, then the Speaker.

Ahhh. Got it. You're an idiot. Thanks for clearing that up.

You don't think the attempted assault and kidnapping of the Speaker of the House, second in line for the presidency, is a big story?

There are theories that there is a uniparty government that controls everything. Or it's (((Soros))) or the (((Rothschilds))) or illuminati or other nefarious group. Theories like that help make sense of a chaotic world and explain why bad things happen. It's not that life is chaotic and people acting in their own self-interest might overlap with other people doing the same, it's that there's a cabal running everything.

In an era where threats against politicians are increasing at alarming rates, a crazy person breaking into a politician's home in the hopes of harming them seems like something we should not be surprised about and not odd at all.

Holy hell. You're deep into the brainwashing, aren't you? 1. You seriously think that Disney is trying to groom kids for pedophiles? 2. As I stated above, drag shows *can* be sexual. They also can just be a guy in a costume leading sing-a-longs. 3. What motive is there for a woman to dress up as a princess and want to hang out with children and shouldn't that motive be questioned. You must think it's fine because it's just a "costume" but strippers wear "costumes" you want one of them to put on a show for kids too?

I literally said I didn't particularly care for it in the post you quoted. As I keep saying, it's not for everyone. But it's not sexual either. It's people in costumes doing sing-a-longs and balloons and stuff. It's as sexual as a woman dressed as Belle and someone in a Beast costume. The Right sexualizing it is dangerous. It's why we are now seeing attacks and fire-bombings of places that hose drag brunches.

I think that the corporations are in it for the reasons that corporations do anything: money. It's why nobody should ever watch TV news, especially cable news. It's infotainment at best and misinformation at worst. It's designed to invoke emotional reactions in the viewers (anger, fear, etc.) so they keep their eyeballs on it through the ad breaks.

So do you think this is sexualizing kids: When a person in a Mickey Mouse costume entertains kids during brunch, is that sexual? It's fine not to like drag queens. It's not for everyone. I don't particularly enjoy them. But to argue that it's sexual to have someone in a costume leading sing-a-longs is just flat out wrong. If seeing a guy in a dress triggers sexual thoughts in you, that's on you, not them.

You clearly have no idea what’s going on or how things work. Maybe log off for a bit.

The media sucks and the problem is that reality and facts tend to support the left, so we end up with bothsides-ism and outlets designed to cater to a specific audience. But if the mainstream media really was a subsidiary of the Democratic Party, it would act VERY differently than it does today.

I was asked a specific question about a specific story I hadn’t seen. If you are going to extrapolate from that, then that’s on you. Just get on your jump to conclusions map and hop to the square that says “I’m right and everybody else is wrong” instead of understanding what’s actually being said.

If I were to guess, I’d say something like 60% of the conversations on this board are actually about media criticism. And I will plant my stake on the fact that the media sucks and has failed this country. From what I can tell, Abrams is behind. I have not seen the CBS story so I do not know if they were saying as CBS that she was pulling ahead or reporting on the results of a particular poll.

Uh huh. And since crime stories hurt Dems, we don’t ever see stories about crime, right?

If the media was under the control of the Democrats, it wouldn't report on them at all. Nor would it run story after story about crime. Both of those issues are bad for the Dems politically.

You don't have to take your kid to a drag brunch if you don't want to. But they are about as sexual as seeing the mascots on Disney World's main street. People who view it as sexual are saying more about themselves than about the drag queens.

Have you seen a Drag Brunch or all ages drag show? Or are you assuming it's the same as what you'd find late at night at a gay bar? I accidently went to a drag brunch (grabbing an early lunch at a bar before a movie and didn't realize there would be one there) and it was mostly just sing-a-longs and balloons. Basically what you'd expect from a birthday entertainer. There wasn't anything sexual about it. I did attend a late night drag show when I went to a gay friend's birthday party at a popular gay bar in Chicago. It was very much different than what I had seen at the brunch. If that is what was happening at events aimed at kids, I'd agree it was a problem. Unless you are intentionally sexualizing the performers, there's nothing sexual about a drag brunch. And if you are, maybe that's something you should think about.