Yeah, I read through about half of that thread and skipped the rest once it got really snippy. I think you gotta just let that one roll off​ your back. There’s a real conversation to be had on the topic, but I think that we’re all still not ready to have it yet.

She is a national treasure.

Our Lt. Gov who’s running the primary for Gov now, just had an ad on tv yesterday (I can’t find it online) that was all the usual stuff until the end. He ended it by saying “I’m Ralph Northam, and I think Donald Trump is a narcissistic maniac.”

Um, no - it’s because it would be interpreted as being demeaning to Trump and Putin. They’re both homophobic adherents of toxic masculinity, so it offends them to be depicted as homosexuals. As a gay man, it doesn’t offend me to see them depicted that way, and it doesn’t make me feel that my homosexuality is being…

I think people were looking for you to acknowledge that part, which you didn’t know about when you first commented, but you kind of doubled down at the beginning.

And you can add to the sting of this most likely being the worst day of his life—nothing quite like him learning he’ll do time, have to register as a sex offender, annnnnd then getting the final stomp in the balls, that Yep! The day she’ll celebrate her freedom every year is the day he officially lost his😈

Mark *Sanford*, and he’s no longer governor; he’s serving as a US Representative after a couple years’ hiatus from politics. Still a scumbag but he maintained his reputation of being a maverick, a good ole boy, and most importantly a Republican, which was good enough for South Carolina

I think he is a serial sexual predator with no concept of boundaries.

This line of trolling is so dumb. It’s simply the illustration of being “in bed” with a special interest. That is often how political cartoons illustrate the idea that a politician is colluding or giving special privileges to someone or something. Proof:

Ummm, you’re the only one who said that gay men aren’t macho here, so I feel like this says more about you than anyone making the memes.

I mean, sure, if there was some level of talk or possibility that Obama and Trudeau were “in bed with each other.” You do realize that’s where this all comes from? The mountain of evidence that Putin and Trump are colluding in illegal activities, thus the turn of phrase, which leads to illustration of that. It happens…

I would call them romantic, but, to each his own.

Ok, in that case, you are confused and sexualizing a non-sexual situation.

How is this homophobic? If you’re reading that into this, the homophobia is yours, not the memes’.

I’m afraid I cannot parse your reply. It has been long week....

You do realize that if Putin was a murderous scheming fascist female dictator, this would be just as funny and meme-worthy, right?

There’s nothing quite like false equivalence. The picture is disgusting not because it is two men together, but because it is THOSE two men together.

How is it homophobic? No one is saying their consensual relationship is bad because they’re both men, it’s because they’re both corrupt.

Why do people assume that jokes making fun of Trump and Putin are making fun of homosexuality? The joke isn’t that two men being in love is laughable, it’s that Trump and Putin are “in bed together”- that they are so closely and privately aligned, they might as well be intimate. If we had Kellyanne Conway instead of…

Hush.