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Evil Harry's avatar

Pride month is a pain in the arse.

They keep on ramming it down our throats.

It's the sort of thing that just leaves a bad taste.

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Rob D's avatar

A very bad taste. Ahem. Thanks for stopping by Evil Harry!

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Elizabeth's avatar

I've noticed a certain rise in particular contagions.

'Certainty' and 'Separation & Division'. And the idea that if you don't use the same words as I do to describe your faith, connection and moral values, then you have none.

These are narrow frames for an existence that is so much more.

Maybe this contagion is called 'Othering'. I believe it is a variant of 'Separation & Division'. Although it could quite likely be a variant of 'Certainty' as well.

Some might even argue the original disease is called 'Fear'.

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Rob Dubya's avatar

Of course, the people pushing this know exactly the division it causes. The brainwashed homosexuals who think that all this shoving is a good idea are just gullible dupes that will find themselve first in the firing line when all this this flips violently to the right (not something that I want at all but something I fear more than what we have already).

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Rob D's avatar

Yep. This group is being used, along with race, political ideology, and any other divisive issue people allow themselves to be caught up in. It amazes me at just how easily people are convinced to take "sides." Thanks Rob Dubya!

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Rob Dubya's avatar

It's always a pleasure to stop by 😁

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Elizabeth's avatar

That would be my concern as well.

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The Word Herder's avatar

Perceived "liberation" can cause a rash of giddiness. ^_^ I can't say I blame them for feeling it. Most people are too shy for some kinds of "showing off," but look at the spectrum of human feelings and behavior!

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David O'Brien's avatar

I for one Rob D do not condone this Pride

.Month BS, and in the Bible even says that God does not condone Homosexuality. I'm a

Christian Man and to Me this homosexuality stuff is GROSE, INSANELY DISGUSTING,

and INHUMANE. Rob D I'm not trying to judge them at all for God is their judge and I don't hate them at all, I just don't condone their actions. What's even more disgusting and it wants to make Me PUKE is they are making

These rainbow U.S. Flags now that's a SLAP

in the face to Old Glory and a SLAP in the face to our ForeFathers as well.

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The Word Herder's avatar

We don't have to condone, but we don't have to disparage, either.

Nothing is a SLAP if you don't take it as a slap.

I think we all need more dancing... Lighten up, have FUN, we need to MAKE the fun, remember going to watch kids play softball? Remember people playing chess in the park and flying kites, and all those things we used to DO? Now everyone sits around staring at their fucking phones... Arrrrrrrgh.

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Rosemary B's avatar

it is sad for young children.

Think about the kids that are raised by parents that do not believe in God.

Then those kids encounter others that are firm believers, and live each day with purpose

and abide by those teachings of being a pure person.

The kiddos that do not know of a life with God have bigger questions.

The Christ believers are pretty sure early on that it is not normal or okay, and not even worth

questioning.

They stole the rainbow. Leftists and democrats in general turn everything they touch to shit

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The Word Herder's avatar

Sorry, not to pick on you, but I think you're being just a little bit prejudiced. I don't believe in a "God," I have a different perception about it. So that statement might kind of offend me, because I'm very spiritually-oriented, just not a deist. You do not help anybody by making assumptions about people based on your own prejudices. Disparaging someone for not believing the way YOU think they should is a way of putting yourself HIGHER on the ladder than they are... In other words, it's hubris. I'm not saying you're --wrong-- necessarily, I'm saying what you're doing is JUDGING others, by the standard YOU set, when the God you refer to actually advised against doing that, if I'm not mistaken. I was raised Christian, but I've changed some of my ideas about things as an adult. I have that right, and still feel I am accepted and loved by my Creator.

The word "Christ" is not someone's NAME, it's a title. Anyone can be a "Christ." Jesus was a good man, but he wasn't a god. I would call him a christ, because he was very, very cool, and a brilliant teacher. He was a special person, a healer, a teacher who taught by example as well as with stories. But remember when he was questioned by the "authorities" who were hoping to catch him in some sort of blasphemy by asking him what is the Most Important Law? And he said there are TWO laws that are most important: The first is love your God (I am not against other people saying "God" or believing that way! ^_^) with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second law is like the first: Love your neighbors as you love yourself." Now, direct quotes are questionable in books that old, but it feels like a good quote.

So there's your lesson. Treat others and you would have them treat YOU. And put God (or the Creator, the Great Spirit, the Divine...) FIRST. Keep that in your immediate thinking, and you'll be on the right path. Yes? I love Jesus, too. Everyone finds their way to their own hearts, given time and opportunity... No one is left behind. That's my religion. The Human Heart is where ALL GOOD THINGS are kept. And we all have one. ^_^

NOW, how's that for a sermon!?!?!!! lol Hope I'm not blathering.

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Rosemary B's avatar

please do not take it personally.

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The Word Herder's avatar

I don’t. Why would I?

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John's avatar

Amen.

The forced acceptance is a ritual of subjugation, to make the normie masses, submit to their will, or face the othering. Me, I'm happy to leave their clown show tribal world and rainbow businesses. What is so troubling to me is the government leveraging its largesse to press companies, advertising, media and "influencers" to sing and dance to the organ grinder's (sick) music.

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Rob D's avatar

Absolutely. Well, if we can take solace in one thing... I think the gravy train (money) is going to end. We can all see it coming (and it's been coming for years). It's going to be very difficult when all of this fake "money" dries up, but it would be the best thing that could happen to America. When these spoiled generations of people have to focus on food, housing, and clothing, much of this divisiveness will go away (after some really rough times). People won't have time to march for their "rights." They will be way too busy surviving. Oh yes, it is going to be a mess and there will be violence, etc. But we have to pray that at the end, like a Phoenix rising from the ashes... liberty will once again reign... whether in this life, or the next.

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The Word Herder's avatar

Yet, nobody can "force" us to accept anything. They can forcibly shut us up, or kill us... but not force us to THINK something. But I do see your point, and I think there's a LOT of this going on right now, because there is a GRINDING going on right now, to grind down everything we know to be Good, and to promote the vile, the disrespectful, the cruel, the ugly, and to bring down our spirits... We can overcome that trash by simply LOVING everybody and avoiding that which we do not want to watch! ^_^ So maybe we can not let it bug us, but give back some actual BEAUTY, some GOOD STUFF to counter-act the nastiness being shoved in our faces... although I don't think THIS is anything all that horrible... look at GAZA, if you want to see a horror show...

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The Word Herder's avatar

Oh, my. My, my, my.

I would call this post at once honest, and at the same time, a fine example of how Divide and Conquer looks when people succumb to it.

I love you, Rob D, and I can certainly relate to your discomfort and sometimes irritation. And when things are carried FAR TOO FAR, such as teaching 2nd graders about drag queens and masturbation in school, I am disgusted and outraged. I am not a prude, I don't think! but I also object to public sex and having other people's PRIVATE lives or parts paraded around in places I wouldn't expect it...

THAT SAID--

Homosexuals and other LGBTXYZABRACADABRA have been, and amazingly enough, continue to be, ostracized, ridiculed, and sometimes violently attacked. They've also been INFILTRATED by the Nasties, just as other groups like Black Lives Matter have been infiltrated and perverted...

As someone who never really got a handle on sexuality-- it took me most of my life to realize I am A-sexual, in the sense that I just don't care about sex! (I know, weird, but I don't care about that, either, LOL) I spent a few years hanging out with the folks you describe, although mostly these people were relatively tame when it came to shoving their lifestyles in someone's face...

I found these folks to be pretty much like the rest of us in most ways... PLUS, plenty of trauma as children (I really can't agree with the idea that people "turn" homosexual), trouble being accepted in school, bullied, even as adults, hated, even, without doing anything at all...

I've known straight men who are soooo manly they're obnoxious and repellent, women who are soooo womanly I want to slap them... And everybody in-between has something about them that is annoying as hell...

WHY? Because we are raised in a culture of "Individualism," where we are trained to worship celebrities and rich people and those who are beautiful on the outside but egomaniacal and cruel on the inside, people who have enough money to not give one fuck about others and therefore feel it's okay to abuse others because there are no repercussions...

Well, you get my drift. This community has been INFILTRATED. Americans are squeamish about sex, and always have been. People who have been treated for years as "nasty" or "dirty" or somehow Not Okay grow up, find others like them, and go waaaaay over to the other side of that by prancing their new-found acceptance to anyone they can... Because EVERYBODY WANT TO BE ACCEPTED AND LOVED. Few people are really all that comfortable in their own skin and even fewer who are comfortable with those who are different from themselves in some obvious way.

I think there is a LOT of variety in the Human Behavior realm, and frankly, some of it is Pretty Fuckin' Irksome to have to watch... But most of the time, guess what?

WE DON'T HAVE TO WATCH. And if we must, we surely have a right to not give a shit! lol

LIghten up, maybe, my lovelies. Let it be. Let 'em do their thing once/year, and we'll stay home, watch the game at your house, play some dominoes, or take a walk somewhere far away from the parade...

They're just trying to figure out their own shit.

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John's avatar

I would love to "let them do their own thing", in their home, or even out on their dates, but that is never enough latitude. They INSIST that I, we, accept them and their vile proclivities from the tv, to the supermarket, to sports fields, to the business office, to the government Ministry of [whatever], and to the schools, the schools and libraries for the little kids who parents are too fuck--g weak, stupid or possessed to know they are damaging their offspring.

We as a society have given them way more than the opportunity to be a part of society. I am past bending to the hurricane of their foul stench. Enough is enough.

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