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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTammy Duckworth gave two of her limbs in Service
and nearly a third.
I'm gay.
I do not want to hear another damn person condemn her. You couldn't stand in her shoes, because hers are made of titanium.
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)on top of it.
I'm fuming.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)Holy shit! I love Tammy Duckworth,she's one of my heroes.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)that "endorsed" a Republican opponent against her.
I don't appreciate the smear attempt to lump gay folks with stupid folks.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)Sad.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)if I wasn't absolutely infuriated.
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)which is why I asked.
I am thinking HRC is playing politics because maybe Kirk is agreeing to support Garland.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)the endorsement by an LGBT organization.
Kirk is a Republican.
This election is going to be the fucking death of me.
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)It makes me angry, but I think that is what is happening.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)I can't wait for November to get here, for better or for worse. I detest this mess.
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)out the ugliest and most hateful among us and this is all, including Trump, the accumulation of that.
We are an extremely racist country and we are proving it.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)standing behind a woman that not only talked about serving her country, but lost her legs in sacrifice.
I'm a Democrat. She's a Democrat. If supporting her makes me a bad Democrat when the Republican loses, then name me bad.
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)crazy, I was just referring to the general state of things outside of this specific.
I support her and I think HRC is playing politics.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)I guess being upset at having the gay community linked up with Mark Kirk (republican) as supporters, because I am certainly gay, and certainly no way, shape or form a supporter of Republicans, it stung.
Not your post, but the whole situation.
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)And no matter the reason they are doing it, it is wrong.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Jitter65
(3,089 posts)Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Oh brother.
There's certainly no reason to make up bad things about Hillary.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Am I getting you right?
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)But that is rather how I post.
I see this as urgent. Urgent to quit before we encounter the same roadblock in November.
TeddyR
(2,493 posts)When I saw HRC I thought you meant Hillary too.
Response to TeddyR (Reply #57)
Aerows This message was self-deleted by its author.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)I'm pissed about that.
Gay people should not be painted as traitors by association.
That said, I could have been more articulate because I went nube clear.
a la izquierda
(11,797 posts)I'm not a lesbian, but my mother is, and my uncle is gay.
I read the Mark Kirk story before and almost barfed.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Mark Kirk is endorsed over Tammy Duckworth.
Duckworth is a Democrat and has enough credentials to shatter a wall.
Kirk is a Republican that is doing everything under the sun to slime his candidate, and the gay community along with it.
I've been so pissed, I couldn't correctly articulate.
a la izquierda
(11,797 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)pissed that you are at a loss for words.
I'm standing right next to you in that regard.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)Or someone got started early today.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)how weird it has become, I could jump off of a bridge and emerge from the water in the best shape of my life (probably wouldn't be far from now, though )
What on earth?
I get more stunned every day.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)No matter. Duckworth wins in a landslide.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)So he and Lindsey Graham have a caucus?
Aerows
(39,961 posts)No, we are not monolithic.
But several of us get pissed off when we get an organization that *claims* to represent us, instead smears us.
Nutshell.
AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)Yes, Mark Kirk is gay. However, my snark aside, HRC should support candidates that support equality.
Personally, I find the closet abhorrent. But many of my friends are closeted to their parents, who for people my age are mostly in their 80s. Yelling at a semi-senile person about equality is cruel. So I get why some people stay in the closet to their folks.
I think HRC really pulled a mistake here.
xloadiex
(628 posts)that Mark Kirk is gay.
Response to xloadiex (Reply #40)
Aerows This message was self-deleted by its author.
xloadiex
(628 posts)It's more that it is known and he denies it. Relax.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)and a republican....so there's clearly the sound of clashing going on in his head. I don't understand gays joining organizations that hate them. Some gay republicans I know are very very rich.... but that's no excuse. Rich people are still rich when Dems are in charge. Most gay republicans I know are republicans as part of their "act" to seem straight to their families.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)is going to kill us all, isn't it?
JI7
(89,260 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)of one issue direction.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)and interjecting that into the conversation.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)So I guess we can weave the lei maile (the Hawaiian way of burying the hatchet ) over the Great Iced Tea Incident.
malokvale77
(4,879 posts)just as Bernie's record on LGBT rights is better than Hillary's. I'm beginning to get a very clear picture who and what they really care about.
DURHAM D
(32,611 posts)They have done this before and it always pisses us off. So we drop membership for awhile and then go back because we are adults.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)MerryBlooms
(11,770 posts)Anyone endorsing him and his filth lose all my respect and money. Cripes, WTF???
Aerows
(39,961 posts)MerryBlooms
(11,770 posts)Hang tough. Duckworth is going to kick Kirk's ass by a HUGE margin. It will be awesome when that piece of shit Kirk fades into nothingness.
jalan48
(13,879 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)stupidicus
(2,570 posts)eom
Aerows
(39,961 posts)I was so angry about this, that I couldn't put a sentence together.
I pretty much still can't.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)TeddyR
(2,493 posts)I don't know, shitfuck? Never forget that one and the lows that the Republicans will stoop too.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Max Cleland got drug through hell, only to come home and get dragged through it again.
My forgiveness will never extend to the sob's that sand-bagged a man of virtue.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Yes, this is not the first time. They have made a bunch of nasty endorsements and also betrayed the transgender part of the family and they are mostly popular with DU's straight Hillary supporters who proudly stand with them because they endorsed Hillary.
Here is a straight DUer straight splaining to us about how great the HRC is and using it to mock Bernie. I am fed the fuck up with these majority members who post about LGBT issues and groups as a weapon of partisan politics. Many of them promote themselves as super insightful and sensitive about minority issues and the judges of others. But they gay bait, with abandon. For Hillary....
Now even the Human Rights Campaign is part of the "establishment" according to Bernie.
I guess gay rights has come a long way -- when even the largest gay rights group in the country can be criticized for being part of the "establishment."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511054265
Aerows
(39,961 posts)That makes me so angry I *KNOW* I'll get banned.
Visualize the words "fuck" "asshole" "shithead" and season with a solid bit of "fuck you".
You might arrive at my pissed off casserole.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)and get busted.
LostOne4Ever
(9,290 posts)[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=#009999]From betraying the trans community time and time again, to endorsing republicans over democrats with better records.
Tammy Duckworth should get the endorsement of any LGBT+ advocacy group with even the slightest amount of integrity.
Something the HRC lacks.[/font]
Aerows
(39,961 posts)She most certainly should.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)I don't recognize this DU anymore...
Aerows
(39,961 posts)I was so deeply, and intensely angry about this that my judgment was clouded.
Thank you for choosing to overlook me getting absolutely hostile as hell over this.