I’m always asked how I can be a gay republican. A lot of gay republicans get this question and respond with wanting a strong economy, low taxes, or secure border. But that’s entirely missing the point of their question. They do not care about our policy positions. When people ask how we can be gay and republican, they’re asking how we can be gay and support a party that still has in its coalition people that openly do not want us and do not think we deserve rights. My response: that’s exactly why you should want me to be a gay republican! If you truly believed every election determined if our rights were on the line, that there was a 50/50 chance in any given election that you would be free or not free (newsflash they aren’t, but that’s a different conversation), you are simply not going to solve that by hoping Democrats win every time. America is an evenly split country. The parties will alternate power. There will never be a universe where Democrats or Republicans are in power forever. You should WANT the GOP to change its views. That only happens if gay people start making their presence known INSIDE the party. And you know what? We are! 60% of republicans support gay marriage and gay adoption. The GOP removed anti-gay language from its platform. The first gay cabinet member was a republican. The Supreme Court decision protecting you from getting fired for being gay was written by a republican-appointed Justice. That didn’t just happen out of nowhere. There are thousands of gay republicans working in government, the party, media, and social media doing hard work changing the GOP with little recognition and being berated as traitors the entire time. So if it’s so confusing how I can be gay and republican, it’s not because you’re concerned for gay rights, its because you’re a democrat. And that’s TOTALLY FINE. You’re allowed to be a democrat if you have liberal views. But you do not get to say you’re the only one cares about gay rights.

Random thought. Andromeda was a good game, people just refused to look past its glitchy rollout. Yes, the faces were still janky even after the patches. The combat was awesome. It had a great finale fight. The world’s were gorgeous. It deserved a redemption.

I’m going to be sick

Not to be grotesque but like…aren’t half of them dead???

Women-in-men’s-fields

They do always say candidate quality is which would you rather have a beer with

It’s easy to call politicians stupid, but do you have the courage to call primary voters stupid too

Do these people hear themselves? “I quite explicitly am saying I don’t want any Indians in America and brown people can’t be republicans.” Indian Republican guy: “Okay, I’m not gonna vote republican anymore.” “Wow, just proving your disloyalty.”

For Halloween this year, I’m going as a Republican-who’s-voting-Democrat-this-year-but-also-has-voted-Democrat-the-last-ten-years

Tangent: I think an under-discussed reason why Jan. 6 is still brought up is because it really is the only major instance of rioting coming from the Right. For conservatives, it negated a talking point against the Left, and for liberals, it’s the only thing they can point to.

Endorsements may still not mean anything, but I do think this is a big deal. What a lot of national observers fail to understand about Texas is that although we are a red state, we have never been a particularly MAGA state. A very large portion of the state is still classical Chamber of Commerce conservatives. They could’ve very easily defected this cycle. That they’re not should say something.

That’s just Paris any given Tuesday

Love that someone defaced a Greg Abbott campaign sign with “Elect A Idiot.” Bodied. They sure got us.

What an incredible two weeks of cfb hate watching