to be fair, Jefferson's contour was shit, Washington couldn't sew, and John Adams was a filler queen. They wouldn't be able to hang with the girls today.
one thing you can say for rufo and his pal hitler is they make sure every aspect of their ideology and policy priorities helps each other one, creating an overall inflated picture of the one man’s potency
People obsessed w/ Drag are most likely wanting to Be in it.
I dont give it much thought in my daily life.The existence of it doesnt/raise lower my mortgage payment, the price of the eggs, petrol costs, electrics/heat monthly bill, change my wafes, in short, it has zero effect on my life.
Also, there's always been some version of drag queens. Most of the Founders were well educated and would have at least been aware of such instances in Greek and Roman history.
Franklin was a member of a libertine secret society. He’d be tickled pink by drag queens doing story hour and probably invite them back to the hellfire club after party.
In the end the real "curse of liberty" was the idiotic neo-nazis trying to rewrite civilization to their own corrupted, poisonous ideology we met along the way.
"I consulted the ancient magic texts, and it says the things I like are the blessings of liberty and the things I don't like are the curses of liberty."
The Founders were a group of interestingly-minded dudes who were hot for a select brand of liberty, but we need to stop the silliness of treating them as all-knowing sages, because they'd be so horrified at Nikki Haley running for office that they'd demand a bloodletting to balance their humours.
Frankie was pointedly not arrested in 2020 after gunning down protesters in his blue nitrile gloves and today is utterly wrecked by long covid and republican brain
Historicity or why we should care aside, I find most annoying how blatantly circular the argument is. Drag queens are bad because Jefferson wouldn't like them and Jefferson wouldn't like them because they are bad. It's not a rational argument you can dispute because it's not meant to be.
I also like that they want to treat DQSH under the first amendment, the same way belt fed machine guns and bazookas are treated under the second amendment.
Like it is some threat to public safety.
These people on what increasingly is becoming the mainstream right are insane.
So, "founders didn't know anything about drag story hour" negates the first amendment, but the weapons of mass murder we have today is totally what they were talking about with the second amendment?
"There's a lot of drag performers who have got too much freedom / I wanna make it legal for policemen to beat 'em / 'Cause there's limits to our liberty / 'Least I hope and pray that there are, 'cause those liberal freaks go too far" https://youtu.be/vrb-vS6n3b4
You know what this reminds me of? So-called Christian preachers talking about women wearing pants as if pants versus dresses was actually a thing in Biblical times. Not even gonna mention the plethora of GOP sex scandals...
Which illustrates how social mores can change over centuries, and how maybe people who have been dead for over 100 years aren't the best guides for what should be acceptable today, even when we aren't putting words in their mouths.
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https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-macaroni-in-yankee-doodle-is-not-what-you-think
Raping black girls? Cool.
Drag Queen Story Hour? GTFO!
That said, maybe 'this slave owner would agree with me!' isn't the rhetorical coup Rufo and co. thinks it is
I dont give it much thought in my daily life.The existence of it doesnt/raise lower my mortgage payment, the price of the eggs, petrol costs, electrics/heat monthly bill, change my wafes, in short, it has zero effect on my life.
These bros need therapy
Like it is some threat to public safety.
These people on what increasingly is becoming the mainstream right are insane.
https://youtu.be/vrb-vS6n3b4