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Beside creating a welcome and safe space for the most vicious right wing homophobes our community is usually lucky to ignore, we can also encounter, from time to time, loving souvenirs that point out just how insane the crazy cabal that claims to run that site is. My very own pearl of wisdom from the dotards-in-charge is attached. Gotta love them.

Seems as though a discussion thread of how to improve the daddy forum got "shut down"... what the fuck is going on over there???? asian american defamation group looking into it asian american legal defense making inquiries and daddy and his right wing running dogs just clueless. serves them right.

Guy "Shoot Himself in the Foot" Fawkes seems to have gotten himself into a bit of a jam. An Asian-American poster (who the crazies over there insist is actually me posting in disguise -- were it only true that I am a sexy young Asia stud), was the victim of some amazingly vicious ethnic attacks. When he protested, Daddy & Co. did what they know best - they banned the victim for having complained. But, techno genius Daddy does not know about the power of screen shots. And now, several Asian-American civil rights and activist organizations have taken an interest in the goings-on over there. Better start contributing to Daddy'e legal defense fund.

more purges at the hands of the right wing militia that has comfortably installed itself at the "daddy" site i am told. it's nice that crazed right wingers have a warm and welcoming place in our very own midst.

Kinda not too sure where to put this query/posting, so if it belong elsewhere please feel free to move it... and if it does not belong here at all, well, please be kind. So there have been several situations in which I have taken a gentleman along with me for some fun based upon his cute face, his lovely body, sweet personality, you get the picture... but when the big moment comes, there is clearly something BIZARRE going on "down there". I have not known what to call it until I came across a recent posting on shameless blog where the issue was, umhhh... likewise encountered. Two questions: WTF is it??? Is it supposed to be sexy? Erotic? Attractive? Is it just me, or do others find it a bit repulsive? Second: given that it is a reality that cannot be undone, what is the most polite/respectful way to get the "situation" over with? Should I pay full fare? I do not want to let on that I am repulsed...or... should I? Thanks, guys

Of course all of this begs the question: Why do gay men in 2019 America patronize an internet forum that hosts and encourages rabid right wingers while taking the voice away from any progressive person who challenges their maniacal positions in a substantive way? I think Mr. Fawkes & Co. take themselves way too seriously, have a grossly inflated sense of their importance, and need to be put in their place. And that is not out of bitterness - it is a reasoned response to a crazy anti-gay parasite who claims to be doing our community a service.

the countdown clock is a great analogy - the amazing thing about Guy Fawkes & Co. is that they embrace the very people who would bring about their doom. correct me if i am wrong, but there is a certain lunatic self-disgust/hatred thing going on. but finally someone did not cower in fear and told that old fart to, indeed, shut the fuck up (and, i believe, also kiss his asian ass!) encouraging him to come over to this site as well.... he is on a 30 day timeout but has no intention on ever going back.

There is no question that it has become the home to a cabal of crazed right wingers, desperate for a platform and desperate attention. Qute honestly, I did not even know that such people existed and never expected to find a gay forum where they had such a huge presence. Gotta believe that they are loved and encouraged by the leadership of the forum which makes the whole thing even more sketchy. I'd say the clock is ticking on that site.

As you may know, I was long ago banned from that other site for daring to speak the truth. All for the better I would say as much of it has been overrun by a clique of crazy right (white) wing conspiracy believing loonies/ There was a colorful character there (personally known to me) LeonTrotsky/aka "SexyAsianStud" who finally told Ms.Fawkes himself to STFU and kiss his ass. All I can say is -- FINALLY!!

ahhh, ok.... i am so needy of an occasional compliment that i was just happy to take it on face value and run with it. but i do see your point here and appreciate your explanation... for those of you who do not remember me from the other forum, i am an urban public high school teacher now -- so i am keeping close to my heart any words of praise that come my way. i love my "kids" and they love me - but teenagers are not generous with showing their appreciation. but that is a rabbit hole i think we should ventrue down right here, right now. (and still have a bit of egg on my face from failing to adequately cite the source of something i posted on another thread...)

not sure that i understand...

Thank you for this... A hurried school-time posting on a mobile phone is not a sound way to share information with people. Apologies to the forum members and to Ms. Abramsky -- but a worthwhile read, nonetheless.

Thank you, and well said. I do not carry a grudge against the person who single-handedly disrupted another forum... I carry a principled opposition to someone who uses a forum, under the guise of illness and naivete, to put forward a racist and reactionary agenda. Let's do our very best (I know I will try) to leave it at that.

Whether or not Vladimir Putin and Trump colluded, and whether or not the Russian government blackmailed candidate Trump, since taking office the president has, time and again, made it clear that he admires strong-men leaders and their ability to silence dissent, to break the free press, and to politicize the judiciary to go after opponents. Trump has shown admiration for (and even aspirations to imitate) the world’s most dictatorial leaders: from Putin to Xi Jinping, from Mohammed bin Salman to Kim Jong Un to Rodrigo Duterte. Even as he has taken a more confrontational approach to China as a geopolitical rival, he has made it clear that he approves of many of Xi’s methods – including his being essentially made leader for life by a recent Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. He likes leaders who are worshipped and who render dissent treasonous. He likes despots who are unafraid to play violent, dirty games, to preserve and expand their personal power. He is clearly working to be such a leader himself. Trump has used his platform, the vast reach of his Twitter feed and the huge audiences that his presidential speeches command, to demonize immigrants, including refugees, asylum seekers, unaccompanied minors fleeing drug gangs, and those so poor they walk hundreds of miles, with nothing but the clothes on their backs, to find succor in the United States. He has instituted a travel ban against residents from five majority-Muslim countries, as a result of which no Syrian or Yemeni refugees are being allowed into the country, effectively condemning huge numbers to death in the most violent war zones on earth, and in Syria in particular, he has made it clear that the U.S. doesn’t care how much life is sacrificed. Under Trump, the language of human rights is entirely off the table. Last year only 11 Syrian refugees were admitted into the United States. Not a single one was admitted from Yemen. This horrifying reality alone ought to be enough to shame any internationalist GOP politicians who, for opportunistic reasons, continue to hold their noses and go along with this administration’s nativism. Trump’s bureaucracy has put the U.S. government in the business of kidnapping thousands of children from their immigrant parents. It has turned the border lands into a vast military encampment laced with concertina barbed wire. It has fetishized the creation of prison camps to lock up tens of thousands of migrants while their asylum claims are held; and it has, against both U.S. and international law, bottled up tens of thousands of additional asylum seekers in camps in Mexico. Domestically, the administration is doing everything it can to undermine health care access for poor people – including its decision this Monday to argue before an appeals court that the entire Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional. It is attempting to shred the food stamps safety net. It is making it all but impossible for immigrants and their U.S. citizen children to access any public benefits, even emergency nutritional and health assistance. And in its attacks on organized labor, its hostility to an increased minimum wage, its weakening of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and its embrace of exploitative payday lending companies, it has gone out of its way to hurt the working poor.Trump has defended the Saudi leadership for its assassination of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi; and has cooperated with that same leadership in pursuing an utterly vicious war in Yemen, a war that has resulted in tens of millions of people facing starvation and epidemic diseases such as cholera. Elsewhere in the ongoing global war on terror, he has made the already awful usage of drones that he inherited from the Obama administration far worse, and has loosened the already feeble restraints on when bombs can be dropped on targets where civilian casualties are likely. In going after Planned Parenthood and other organizations that perform abortions, Donald Trump is seeking to deprive women, especially lower-income women, of basic health care services. In attacking the LGBT+ community, through his transgender ban in the military and other actions, he is stoking hate-based violence and prejudice. Trump has race-baited Black people when talking about crime and has repeatedly used language dismissive of Native Americans, in addition to adopting policies that have disproportionately harmed Black and Native people. The Trump administration is wildly destroying public health and environmental regulations that took a half-century or more to build up. It is making it exponentially easier for corporations to do grab-and-runs, extracting resources from the ground as fast as possible and leaving others to clean up the pollution of air, land and water that accompanies that plunder. As for climate change — almost certainly the most urgent challenge facing humanity over the coming years — not only has Trump’s team turned the EPA and other agencies into agitprop centers for the fossil fuel industry, but it has, at every opportunity, tried to undermine efforts, from the local to the international, to mitigate the scale of global warming and its impact. In the long run, this malicious policy, while delivering high profits to the oil industry, will massively, perhaps permanently, undermine communities around the world. In the name of untrammeled profit, it locks into place untold misery for untold numbers of people globally. Trump has shredded the Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty; has humiliated traditional allies such as Canada, the U.K., France and Germany through attacking their democratically elected leaders and mocking their stances on everything from trade to security; and has violated a raft of UN resolutions in moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, and in recognizing Israel’s permanent sovereignty over the Golan Heights. Time and again, Trump has shown himself unwilling to condemn white nationalism and land-soil-and-blood racial purity movements. This goes from his calling some of the Nazi marchers in Charlottesville in 2017 “very fine people,” to his struggling to disavow ex-KKK grand wizard David Duke’s repeated utterances of support for him, to refusing to label white nationalism a growing threat in the wake of the massacre of 50 Muslims in New Zealand earlier this month. Trump’s legacy won’t be defined by the technical legal conclusions of the Mueller report, and certainly not by Barr’s scandalously opaque memo to Congress last weekend. Rather, his legacy will be defined by historians for the moral, cultural and physical violence his presidency has inflicted. He will be remembered for images of toddlers in diapers being paraded, unaccompanied by parents, before immigration judges. He will be remembered for the sadistic attacks on DACA recipients, the breaking up of families with Temporary Protected Status, the illegal appropriation of billions of dollars to build a wall that Congress repeatedly refused to fund. Trump has been running the country as he ran his real estate and hotel business: He threatens and he intimidates, he takes pleasure in hurting the poor and the vulnerable, and in humiliating those courtiers whose presence he has grown bored of. He cuts constitutional corners whenever it is convenient to do so, and he bludgeons rather than compromises, because, temperamentally, while he fashions himself a master negotiator, in actual fact it’s always been his way or the highway. If one lesson has been learned from Trump’s methods, it is that in this damaged political environment it pays dividends to always stay on the offense. If those who loathe what he represents start softening their critique of Trump in the wake of the Mueller report “exoneration,” they will give the autocrat an opening that he will ruthlessly take advantage of. Now is not the time to backpedal on criticisms of Trump. Now is the time to step them up, to laser-focus on the moral ugliness and cruelty of this horrific man and the enablers now charged with implementing his vision. The damage he is already doing is immense; the damage he will do if his presidency is suddenly deemed respectable will be even more horrific.

TO ANYONE WHO THINKS IT'S OVER, IT'S NOT. As the NYT notes, AG Barr has been doing some fancy footwork. EXPECT MORE TO COME. For my part, I've been of the opinion that Trump's major crimes have been largely outside the relatively narrow Mueller guidelines, and consists of the entire nature of his business for the past 30 years, largely serving as a money-laundering front for Russian oligarchs and gangsters. Whether that comes under scrutiny depends to some degree on what Democrats in Congress want to do with it, but to a greater degree if the prosecutors in the Southern District of New York are committed to pursuing it. Finally, as to whether the Putin government pursued social media cyberwarfare in favor of Trump, there seems to be agreement that they did, by both Mueller and everyone else inside the Beltway. They seem to be at a loss as to what to do about it. The Russians indicted are not likely to show up in court.

Oh.....

Without going too far down that rabbit hole, I just want to be very clear that I am neither a Democrat or a liberal. Leftist? Extremely. Pot-smoking? Well, I am a teacher so I will leave that one alone.

Was going to message your privately but chose the "public option" instead -- just to really thank for you the recognition and to give you props for better articulating than I could just why it is that I am still ready to go to the barricades over the fuck-ups at daddys. they do deserve to be held accountable for the way they treat people.

Trump isn’t content to use the executive office to enrich himself and his circle. He’s warping national policy to serve his own interests as well. Trump believes via Fox News that his presidency is doomed (and his second term nipped in the bud) if he doesn’t fulfil his signature promise of building a wall. The government shutdown is all about Trump and his self-serving impulses. To that end, Trump has threatened to extend the shutdown as long as it takes in order to squeeze funding out of Congress for his cherished wall. And why wouldn’t he? Shutting down government won’t lose any votes from furloughed federal workers (the vast majority of whom already despise him). Yes, the shutdown is unpopular, but the president’s base of support is delighted to see even a partial draining of the swamp. And shutdowns don’t seem to have long-term impact on public opinion. But the truly frightening part of this standoff between Trump and the rest of government is his threat to invoke a state of emergency so he can direct the U.S. military to build his wall. The president admires autocrats who can just get the job done. Rule by decree is the first stepping stone to transforming democracy into dictatorship. Declaring a state of emergency would be Trump’s desperate attempt to hold on to and ultimately expand the power that is slipping through his fingers in the aftermath of the midterm elections. Rule by decree has an undistinguished, undemocratic parentage. In the Weimar Republic of the 1920s and 1930s, the German constitution contained the controversial article 48, which granted the president the right to rule by decree in the case of a national emergency. German leaders invoked this right several times between 1930 and 1933. But the most momentous decree came in the wake of the Reichstag fire, six days before German elections in 1933. Hitler, already appointed chancellor at that point, persuaded German President Paul von Hindenburg to pass the Reichstag Fire Decree. No doubt inspired by Benito Mussolini and his use of emergency powers to establish fascism in Italy in the 1920s, the Nazis then took full advantage of the authority granted them by Hindenburg’s decree to remake Germany into a dictatorship. Trump has already shown a marked preference for this style of governance. During his first two years in office, he issued 91 executive orders — 55 in 2017 and 36 in 2018. By contrast, Obama issued an average of 35 per year, George W. Bush 36. Many of Trump’s executive orders — such as withdrawing from the Iran nuclear agreement, the Paris climate accord, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal — place Trump in opposition to international and national consensus. Trump has also used his executive privilege to take bold stands in foreign policy that diverge, in some cases sharply, from the consensus of the policymaking community. He defied the advice of his advisors to sit down one-on-one with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. Most recently, he announced U.S. military withdrawal from Syria, generating considerable pushback from the foreign policy mandarin class. Like a stopped clock, an erratic commander-in-chief can be right once in a while. These steps are authoritative but not authoritarian. Executive orders aren’t out-and-out decrees — the courts can say no, as they’ve done several times in the Trump era. Trump’s freewheeling foreign policy moves also face certain constraints. A deal with North Korea would require congressional consent. His decision to remove troops from Syria has already been modified by members of his own administration, with National Security Advisor John Bolton stipulating certain conditions that will delay or even nullify withdrawal. But Trump’s threat to declare a state of emergency at the border would up the ante considerably. True, presidents frequently declare states of emergency under the National Emergencies Act. Both George W. Bush and Barack Obama declared a dozen or so each (most of them still in effect). But these declarations pertained almost exclusively to war or terrorism. Trump’s attempt to circumvent the congressional standoff over his wall is a different matter altogether.

To be more reflective on the events of the previous year. It seems (to me) that the notion of New Year's resolutions has been co-opted by weight loss program and fitness clubs. So let us reclaim what is of value there and make it into something truly consequential and valuable again. A little bit of deep reflection can go a very long way.

understood.... just let it me known that i do not suffer fools gladly.

Word of wisdom from that lunatic Guy_Fawkes. Since he favors public execution, may I nominate him to be one of the first whose elimination could thus be put on display? (just a thought...) You have been banned for the following reason: Its time for you to move on..

Donald J. Trump does not read - except in small doses and when his own name appears prominently. Prior to the presidency, his only activities were work and golf. He does not mingle with intellectuals, cultural trend-setters or artists. It should come as no surprise - and it has not - that he is sorely lacking in sophistication, knowledge of the world, understanding of government and a rudimentary grasp of economics. Sitting atop arguably the great resource on the planet - the body of knowledge retained by American government experts on everything from economics to medicine to military history - he remains blissfully ignorant on a range of subjects.

To get at the heart of Trump’s 10-minute performance on prime time, we need to get clear on a long-standing feature from the dark side of American politics and culture, i.e., race-baiting. Or to be more precise with Trump’s closing rant, illegal immigrant-baiting. “He just turned immigrants all into ‘Willie Horton’” was the crisp and succinct way my partner put it. Those of you who were around for the infamous ad in the campaign by the elder Bush against Michael Dukakis back in 1988 will know exactly what she meant. For those of who weren’t, Lee Atwater, a GOP operative, took a case of an inmate on furlough in Massachusetts, one William Horton, who was arrested soon after and convicted for raping a woman and stabbing her friend, and turned an ugly mugshot of Horton into an ad blaming the crimes on Dukakis. What does a race baiter do? He picks a particularly vile example of an outrage, real or fiction, attached to a person of color, and use it to condemn an entire category of people, whipping up a generalized fear of ‘The Other’ in the minds of his designated popular base, to entice them into supporting repressive responses. The outrage is the ‘bait’ on the hook of social control and manipulation. Trump’s aim was for us to take the bait. He knows as well as anyone that the illegal immigrant population, as a whole, once living in the U.S., is more law-abiding than the American average. He knows that a majority of the undocumented in the U.S. enter the country legally, then overstayed their visas. He knows that most drugs entering the country from Mexico do so on trucks and cars at ports of entry, or planes at airports. He knows that his immigration policies are designed to curb all immigrants from ‘shit hole’ countries, legal or otherwise, while enticing the highly educated from 'Norway' instead. Trump wants you to see him as your savior against ‘them,’ those seeking safety and work. And to keep you fired up, he has to insist on including the irrational into any rational package of reforms making for decent treatment of immigrants at well-regulated and efficient border crossings. But what’s the larger purpose? My guess is that it serves as a distraction. It diverts our attention away from a more serious challenge to his presidency, his business and his family, the step-by-step relentless series of indictments and convictions coming from Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller, who is likely soon to reveal a Donald Trump that no one voted for. Then we'll be tested more seriously.

It doesn't have to make any sense or even exist. Once he declares one, our freedoms, such as they are, go down the tubes. An earlier Congress, assuming any POTUS would be rational, a big mistake, gave the Oval Office at least 100 new powers. And all bets are off if it happens. Politically all that's left is a veto-proof override of two thirds in each house to declare it null, and/or a successful impeachment of both Trump and Pence. But most likely prepare for lots of mass mobilizations, mass strikes, progressive organizing among vets and troops. Don't kid yourself. It can happen here. Hope for the best, work for it, but also prepare for the worst. 1939 GermanyAll over againHistory Repeats itself!