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Pride month
Avert your eyes and hide your children – it’s that time of the year again: an entire month that we have inexplicably devoted to the mandatory public celebration of sexual degeneracy. For the last 25+ years June has been designated Pride month (originally “Gay and Lesbian Pride Month”), ironically but unintentionally named after the deadliest of sins.
Americans have one day set aside to honor George Washington, the Father of Our Country. We have one day set aside to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. So it speaks volumes about our cultural priorities that we somehow allowed the Alphabet Lobby to impose on the calendar a full thirty days to commemorate sexual kinks. Rainbow versions of corporate logos abound, and the streets of Democrat-run major cities teem with exhibitionists sporting everything from leather-and-dog-collars to “furry” costumes. I suppose we should consider ourselves lucky that it’s only a month and not the entire year.
But there are hopeful signs that the momentum of the LGBTQetc. movement has slowed and may even be in reverse. One indication is that the Target chain, which went full-groomer in recent years by packing its stores with gender ideology-promoting children’s clothing, has muted its in-your-face participation in Pride month this year.
Another sign is that recently installed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered that the Navy warship USS Harvey Milk, named after a celebrated San Francisco pedophile, be renamed. The new name has not yet been announced, but a defense official said the decision’s timing was intentional, according to ABC News. Good – warships should all be named after wartime heroes, not social justice activists and/or sexual deviants.
Glenn Greenwald
Speaking of deviants, independent journalist Glenn Greenwald was trending on X over the weekend after someone (it remains unclear who) reportedly leaked video of Greenwald engaging in some sort of BDSM humiliation ritual with a male prostitute (I have not seen it and would rather stick white-hot pokers into my eyes than watch).
Strangely, major conservative influencers leaped to Greenwald’s defense. Megyn Kelly posted, “Love & respect @ggreenwald. Can’t wait to have him on again soon and ignore this attempt to embarrass him as the irrelevant BS it is.” Charlie Kirk wrote, “I am a massive fan of Glenn’s work even though we don’t agree on everything, all the time. He’s a free speech warrior, one of the most consistent journalists anywhere, and he’s earned my respect.” Matt Taibi, who is hardly a hardcore conservative but not a Lefty propagandist either, gushed to his 2 million followers, “Glenn is neither immoral nor degenerate, I’m proud to be his friend, have seen him display unusual courage and integrity countless times, and couldn’t admire him more.”
Sorry, but hiring a prostitute to satisfy your self-abasing fetishes is both immoral and degenerate. We should all agree that the violation of one’s privacy (if indeed that is what happened) – whether it’s doxxing or blackmailing or a smear campaign – is wrong and contemptible. But just because Greenwald’s privacy was violated doesn’t mean media personalities have to leap to defend his perversions.
Too many conservatives believe they are taking a brave and righteous stand when they defend immorality and degeneracy by claiming that one’s private and public lives have nothing to do with each other. In fact, they do. There is no way that the private sexual peccadilloes of, say, a politician do not bleed over into his or her public political actions (see Clinton, Bill and Monica Lewinsky). There is no way that Glenn Greenwald’s sexual perversions – which, in the aforementioned video, included wearing a Palestinian flag as he licked the prostitute’s spittle off the floor – are completely separate from his relentless anti-Israel “journalism.” Don’t even get me started on Greenwald posturing as a model dad to the two boys he and his late lover adopted.
Yes, Greenwald is a fierce defender of free speech, which in itself is admirable (although his agenda behind that defense is suspect), but he is also a propagandist obsessed with demonizing Israel over the ugly, demonstrable lie that it is waging genocide against the so-called Palestinians. He is also a committed Marxist and defender of Islamic terror groups in addition to previously running a gay escort service in Brazil and partnering with a pornographer. Exactly what is it that Kirk, Kelly, Taibi et al love and respect about this? That he’s consistent in his anti-American and anti-Israel propagandizing?
The compulsion among major media figures on the Right to prop Greenwald up as some kind of admirable hero is extremely odd and disturbing, an indication that today’s media elites – internet superstars like Megyn Kelly, Russell Brand, Tucker Carlson and many others – are not necessarily any more moral or trustworthy or even conservative than the Progressive mainstream media.
Addressing the leak, Greenwald posted on X, “As for the content of the videos: I have no embarrassment or regret about them. The videos depict consenting adults engaged in intimate actions in their private lives. They all display fully consensual behavior, harming nobody.”
To paraphrase philosopher Aldo Leopold, morality is what you do when no one is looking. Greenwald is spouting the age-old lie that consent is an ethics-free zone (can there even be true consent between a prostitute and his john? Does prostitution truly “harm nobody”?). He and his defenders want to pretend that there is a sacred wall of separation between your character and your sex life. There is not, and the conservatives supporting this falsehood need to check their own morality.
Pete Hegseth
Speaking of Hegseth, the UK’s Daily Mail posted an hilarious, fear-mongering hit piece titled, “The controversial visual cues Pete Hegseth uses to broadcast his beliefs that have landed him in the hot seat AGAIN.” Tragically, the article is behind a paywall; I would love to dissect the whole conspiratorial lunacy line-by-line, but in any case, the opening reads thusly:
Pete Hegseth, well known for using his body as a billboard for beliefs, is drawing ire again for his choice of political symbolism.
Critics both in and out of the defense department are railing against the defense secretary for wearing a Betsy Ross flag in the breast pocket of his suit – first on Memorial Day and then again for the Shangri-La Dialogue Summit in Singapore. The image is seen by many as a dog whistle for white supremacy and other forms of extremism.
Here is an image accompanying the piece:
Yes, it’s truly shocking that a United States Secretary of Defense would “broadcast” his beliefs with patriotic symbols like an American flag.
The “controversial visual cues” that previously landed him in “the hot seat” were Hegseth’s Jerusalem Cross and “Deus Vult” (“God wills it”) tattoos, which mark him as – gasp – a Christian, something the tolerant Left cannot tolerate.
The notion that “critics” are “railing” against Hegseth for wearing a Betsy Ross flag is absolutely absurd. If he were a Democrat sporting a keffiyeh, LGBT rainbow flag, or African kente stole, the Progressive media would be ecstatic. But because Hegseth is a proud patriot – and a Christian white male – they brand him a “white supremacist” and “extremist.”
These people are shameless – but also impotent, because their character assassinations have no power anymore.
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Don’t attend their Parades and Celebrations and keep them fay away from the Kids as Possible
Redirect those filthy/pornographic parades down the street of large islamic communities – making sure video cams are rolling.
The erupting tumult would be hilarious to watch. (I’d pay $50 for the DVD marketed afterwards 👍)
Had no idea about any of Greenwald’s peccadilloes. I knew he was gay but thought he kept it private. His stands on Israel and the terrorists occupying the Gaza Strip is another. Those defending his videos and lifestyle, saying nothing would have been better. I miss Rush Limbaugh even more.
Great takes. I’ve noticed a lot of Jew-hating and Putin loving “conservatives” seem as degenerate as GG.
Could they all be compromised?
Coming from a leftist that’s funny
Thank you, Mr. Tapson for exposing the light on the popular lie about sexual perversion not being relevant. It is and always has been.
Shame on Kelly, Kirk, Carlson, et al. But especially on Greenwald.
I was lucky I had never heard of Glenn Greenwald until today. I like what Pete Hegseth is doing, but he may be a Five Point T.U.L.I.P., hyper-Calvinists. If God controls ever molecule, as John Piper has said, then Joshua’s statement ‘As for me and my house we will follow the Lord’ is meaningless. Joshua had no free will according to the Calvinist.
Just what I needed to see with my morning coffee. Some clownish pathetic gay freak with a rainbow umbrella, with that weak a$$ chest sprawling out for all to see.
I have hated June for several years now but it appears that the whole pride thing is beginning to go down the drain. For some stores, like Walmart though, they intend to go down with the ship. Oh will, I don’t shop there anyway.
Who knew Intrepid was actually Glen Greenwald? Makes sense now
Sebastian out
Nobody. Makes sense only to you. Who’s Glenn Greenwald?
Sebastian out…. of his one track mind.
Thanks for this article. Nauseating accompanying picture, but that was point. Shame on those praising a probably mentally ill hung up liar and Jew-hater paying for S&M, with horrid racist themes (that no one wants to mention) in a gay sex act. I didn’t see it. I won’t. see it. I will not respect those praising him. Maybe he wanted his sex life shared for a thrill.
I believe Kelly, Kirk, et al are attention seeking media entertainers who are likely funded by who knows who. Their statements and content vary with the funding. I guess some gay sex porno funding came in and they praised this guy, who hates Israel and Jews. Megan Kelly just denounced anti-Semitism, but I guess gay anti-Semites must be an exception. Go figure.
I’m not a fan of Greenwald’s lifestyle, but what he says about Israel it accurate. You referring to him as a Jew hater and homophobic remakes is inciting violence against Glen.
Lastly, at least Glen is a proud America. Unlike yourself who is ashamed to be an American. Your allegiance is to a foreign country over your own. Shame on you!
Sebastian out
Keep racking up those down votes, sh*t for brains.
The only think you appear to be loyal to is Gaza and Islam.
Maybe he wanted his sex life shared for a thrill? Excuse me, but the private video of Glen engaged in consensual acts was leaked without his knowledge or consent! It was done by someone in the deep state who doesn’t like Glen’s political opinions.
How horrible that you would spin this as if Glen wanted his private life exposed for “a thrill.”
Whatever you think of Glen nobody should dox or leak someone’s private affairs.
Yet, here you are reveling in it. That says more about you than Glen. Oh, and I’m Jewish. So, enough with calling everyone a Jew hater that doesn’t agree with you.
Will Pride goeth before a fall?
Funny, pithy and yes
I just worry that the fall might be western civilization itself.
Heh Seth has Aldo supposedly offended Muslim sensibilities by his Arabic “kaffir” tattoo.
“African kente stoles” or is it “stolen African kentes?” My understanding is that these garments were markers of Yoruba nobility many of whom sold other Africans into slavery. Illustrates the silliness of cultural appropriation by idiots ignorant of their full meaning.
Don’t really know what it was but now I feel I can say it – Charlie Kirk always struck me as creepy.
When he had that bizarre fellow with the absurdly long hair on his show repeatedly because he was signing up people as republicans in Pennsylvania; the fawning was cringe inducing.
The camaraderie bordered on the bizarre.
I remember thinking before the election: the thing that makes politics so disgusting is what you have to do to win. Anything goes – anything to win. Even if you have to throw your principles out of the window. DIMs can do this effortlessly but they have no principles based upon anything having to do with the real world and human nature. I know the above is obvious as hell but it became more obvious than I wanted it to.
I have no desire to harm weirdos but at the same time I do not want to take advice from them or align myself with them. I do not want the people I have voted for to run the country taking advice from them. They may be nice enough people 99% of the time but after all they are heavily damaged goods. All of us are damaged goods, of course, but the line must be drawn somewhere.
This is a very disturbing story but then I have learned to never be surprised at the antics of a Leftist. A gaygaygay Leftist who buys children shoudl be all of the warning one needs.
Bitingly sharp article. Thank you!
You are so right, it’s good to read your point of view. The case of Greenwald, who I don’t really know, is typical of showing publicly violent sexuality often linked to Jew hatred. He reminds me of Tarik Ramadan’s behavior, the spitting, who was and still is beloved and supported by a lot of people. I haven’t met any of the people who are doing orgies, SM, polyamour, cheating, which is consent sexualities, knowing how to keep their sexuality private, it always sticks somewhere in the chat.
This gay pride for a month is absurd, we’ve been educated since the 1980s in movies to understand what this world is, plus almost all French series since the 1980s have a gay female cop in their group. Then almost all the cultural alternative scene involved the gay community in the 1990s, so thirty years later pretending that we all hate them is craziness, the Muslims hate them, as well as most of the South American (apart Brazil) and African hate them, but why pretending that they are harassed in the United States or in Europe. A big lie, like Free Palestine or Agenda 21.
Him wearing a Palestinian flag was enough for me. All that other stuff I have to blank out all the time everywhere anyway.
I actually didn’t quite know all this about Glenn. There is stuff to blank out. Here I thought he was just another guy but no. I get that God loves each one but some of the stuff they (people) do is just yukky.
Why I like Front Page more and more! The Truth!
Keep shining that floodlight!