Virginia Stew

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Virginia has never elected a woman governor. That changes on Tuesday.

Democrat Abigail Spanberger is facing off against Republican Winsome Earle-Sears for the Old Dominion State's top job. Spanberger is white, Earle-Sears is Black. Spanberger is a former CIA officer, Earle-Sears a former Marine, so both are made of steel and apple pie.

And in the case of Earle-Sears, bile. As the Marines famously planted the flag on Iwo Jima, she's infamously planting hers in a toilet.

She stands outside school board meetings to fuss over which bathrooms transgender students use. Her campaign ads, like Donald Trump's last year, characterize her opponent as "being for they/them." Earle-Sears and the Virginia Republicans have pounded on this "issue," obviously mistaking trans kids for the Viet Cong.

Spanberger leads in the polls, but we know how potent the culture wars can be. On the other hand, how many transphobic Trump fans will be willing to vote for a Black woman? This Virginia race is quite a study in the impacts of transphobia, racism, and sexism.

It's hard to keep track of who should be hating whom. I bet even the bigots are getting confused.

Make Up Your Mind!

 

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Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott got very nervous after Pete Hegseth banned "troops with beards", until someone explained that Hegseth was referring to facial hair.

Paul Rudnick

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The Fall Guys and Gals

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Thanks to the government shutdown, the 42 million Americans who rely on SNAP will be SOL come Nov. 1. That, folks, is this Saturday.

The USDA, which oversees the food program, posted on its website yesterday that "the well has run dry." But in a service to every American, the USDA also informed us who's to blame: transgender people and immigrants.

Of course. Who else could it possibly be?

"We are approaching an inflection point for Senate Democrats," opines the USDA site. "They can continue to hold out for healthcare for illegal aliens and gender mutilation procedures or reopen the government so mothers, babies, and the most vulnerable among us can receive critical nutrition assistance."

I'm old enough to remember a time—a year ago—when the government worked for all Americans. Now it's a nauseating study in partisanship.

According to Trump's USDA, Democrats are literally taking food from the mouths of babes in order to provide healthcare for transgender lunatics and villainous foreigners.

It's the cost of health-care premiums that concern the Democrats, but why let an opportunity to scapegoat trans folk and the undocumented go to waste? It's as if the American government is channeling Claude Rains:  "Round up the usual suspects."

Genius

 

It's a Full Day

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It took some doing, but I laid my hands on one of Donald Trump's recent daily schedules:

9:00 am     Pardon a criminal. Collect his soul.

9:30 am     Take a turn at the East Wing wrecking ball.

10:00 am   Place calls to leaders of shithole countries demanding they nominate me for next year's Nobel Peace Prize.

11:00 am    Crank call Nobel committee.

11:30 am    Revive plan to get my face added to Mt. Rushmore.

12:00 pm    Lunch. Send underlings to KFC and McDonald's. They pay.

1:00 pm      Nap

3:00 pm      Order Hegseth to bomb possible drug boats on Walden Pond.

3:30 pm      Order JD to push peanut around Resolute desk with his nose.

4:00 pm      Remind Bondi to fork over $230 million, or I'll sue.

4:30 pm      Swap hair secrets with president of Argentina.

5:00 pm      Blame everything on Crooked Hillary, Sleepy Joe, and Barack Hussein Obama. Consider adding Michelle—"Obama Lama Ding Dong?" 

5:15 pm      Order Bondi to prosecute that girl at Penn who wouldn't sleep with me. Float death penalty.

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No American president has ever had so many people protest against him, because no American president has ever been so deserving.

Dan Rather

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Them's the Rules

 

A Memorable Meetup

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I had one of those community experiences on Sunday that left me kafoozled.

That's a synonym I just created for dazed, confused, and aggravated.

I attended a Seattle Meetup for lesbians over 55, and since I've gone several times, I thought I knew what to expect. But this one turned out differently.

I found myself sitting next to a new participant, a 70-year-old transgender woman. I'm well aware some lesbians argue that trans women aren't women, so they can't be lesbians, but I don't hold that view.

A few others and I chatted with R for a bit. When she asked why people were protesting at the "No Kings" rallies the day before, and noted that she thought Trump's tariffs were a good idea, I sensed the woman across from me shift and face the other way, not to mention build a brick wall and rig up an alarm system.

I don't know if transphobia was involved, but she clearly was in no mood to listen to a potentially conservative queer wax ignorant, so I knew I was on my own.

I have an old habit, good or bad depending on your point of view, of being obliging to the socially awkward. So I listened for an hour as R told me that she's lived all over the country, worked at 27 jobs in the defense industry, and been in an unconsummated marriage for over 30 years.

It didn't take an expert to see that R was on the autism scale. That can make a person lonely, so my ears soldiered on. I asked about the Israeli patches on her jacket, and I learned that in her time she's been everything from Episcopalian to Russian Orthodox to, now, Jewish.

It was all adding up to someone who's tried and failed a million times to belong. With some trepidation, I asked about her being transgender. R said she made the gender switch to increase her chances of employment in an industry that's overloaded with men.

I was aghast, but still polite. I reframed the question, hoping R would speak of a long yearning to be a woman. Nope. It was a career move. Like bringing Dunkin' Donuts to a meeting.

Fearful she could be Exhibit A for our transphobic overlords, I wondered if I should poison her coffee.

What do you do when you run into a person in the LGBTQ community who's a conservative Christian's nocturnal emission? A person who actually embodies some of the wildest things they say about us?

I didn't poison her coffee. But boy howdy, I wished I was drinking something other than hot chocolate.

King Bone Spurs Reacts to Protests

 

I'll Be Patient

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As the photo shows, I participated in yesterday's "No Kings" protests. Since I was one of some 7 million people who rallied across the country, I assume it's going to be a while before I receive my check from George Soros.

The "Kids" Got Caught

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You've probably heard by now about the exposed Young Republican group chat that revealed them all to be the love children of Adolph Hitler and Witchiepoo.

If you haven't heard, know that Politico obtained over seven months of Telegram messages among Young Republican leaders in New York, Kansas, Arizona, and Vermont. And while we're all aware that Donald Trump has degraded political discourse, the comments from these wannabe future leaders of the GOP lower the bar to below ground.

They called Black people monkeys and "the watermelon people." They disparaged Jews, and referred to rape as "epic." They tossed around epithets like "faggot," "retarded," and n-word variations.

One charmer, alluding to an upcoming vote on whether he should become chair of the Young Republican National Federation, declared, "Everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber."

Ah, the innocence of youth.

Amidst the fallout from the bombshell Politico report, JD Vance pooh-poohed the outrage. The racist and anti-Semitic and homophobic comments, the joshing about gas chambers and slavery and rape—it was all just "stupid" jokes made by "kids."

Actually, of the 11 chat participants, eight ranged in age from 24 to 35. Barely out of diapers.

These GOP activists were not just hateful, crude, and entitled, but also stupid to have created such a record. If this is the cream of the Republican crop, I don't even want to think about the dregs.

Seasonal Plea

 

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JD Vance's voter approval rating has dropped below that of explosive diarrhea and bread with maggots. He's tied with kissing Stephen Miller.

Paul Rudnick

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Commendation

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Credit where it's due. Donald Trump secured a Gaza ceasefire and a release of hostages.

Yes, the circumstances on the ground were more favorable for him than for Joe Biden. Yes, Trump's accomplishments came in no small part due to his bullying. Yes, he's motivated above all by his lust for a Nobel Peace Prize and not by any affection for human life.

But there's something resembling peace now, which all parties desperately need. So I'll give him credit. Which reminded me that I also agreed with his push—though, again, achieved through bullying—to get European nations to pay more toward their defense.

There, Trump's done two things I can get behind. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to lie down and recover from having written that sentence.

Died and Gone to Heaven

 

Oct. 11, 2025

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On this National Coming Out Day, I'm thinking about an administration that denies transgender people actually exist, and dismisses gay history as DEI garbage.

For closeted Americans, 2025 isn't an alluring year to come out. Which is why those of us who can tell the truth about ourselves must, so the pendulum swings back again in this country.

And going back into the closet is out of the question. I've gained weight. I'd never fit through that keyhole.

Update

 

Who Knew?

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According to USA Today, last week a Sun Country Airlines flight from Minneapolis to Newark had one of those passengers on board that everybody just loves.

The man shouted he was being chased by gay people. and "gay people were giving him cancer, cooking and radiating him."

The fella eventually said "the plane is going down," which prompted the flight to be diverted to Chicago.

His fellow passengers must've been furious. And I'm none too happy that only now am I discovering that I've had the power all along to give people cancer.

This Week's Quote

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Fox News host Jesse Watters has hit back at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over her mockery of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, suggesting the New York Democrat secretly wants to sleep with the immigration hardliner.

Joe Sommerlad

Source:  The Independent

Tools of the Trade

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I received an email from the online seller Temu that a "tool set kit is calling."

The stilted English isn't unusual for this Chinese company. The question here is how do they know I'm a lesbian?

Hirsuteness

 

Um, What?

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October is LGBTQ History Month, so I fully expect the Trump administration to issue a celebratory proclamation, followed by a White House reception for leading academics in the field of queer history.

Wow. Sorry. I seem to have taken someone else's meds this morning.

High Men on the Scrotum Pole

 

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Never follow anyone else’s path. Unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. Then by all means follow that path.

Ellen DeGeneres

Source:  Today