So, GOP cocaine-fueled orgies?

[gounion]

So says Republican nutjob Madison Cawthorn:

Rep. Madison Cawthorn says his fellow lawmakers have invited him to take part in orgies in Washington and snorted lines of cocaine right in front of him.

Cawthorn, a 26-year-old Republican from North Carolina, was asked in an interview last Thursday about whether the former Netflix series “House of Cards,” which chronicles a corrupt representative from South Carolina in DC played by Kevin Spacey, was fiction or more like a documentary.

“The only thing that’s not accurate in that show is that you could never get a piece of legislation about education passed that quickly,” Cawthorn said on the Warrior Poet Society podcast on YouTube.

Then he explained.

“The sexual perversion that goes on in Washington. I mean, being kind of a young guy in Washington, where the average age is probably 60 or 70 – [you] look at all these people, a lot of them that I’ve looked up to through my life, I’ve always paid attention to politics,” Cawthorn, who was elected in 2020, said.

“Then all of a sudden you get invited: ‘We’re going to have a sexual get-together at one of our homes, you should come. What did you just ask me to come to? And then you realize they’re asking you to come to an orgy,” he said.

He also claimed to have seen people he described as leading national anti-addiction efforts snort coke.

“And then you watch them do a bump of cocaine right in front of you. And it’s like, this is wild,” Cawthorn said.

I suppose that he'll try to say it's the Dems doing this. But that doesn't make sense that they'd admit to anything like that to Cawthorn.

Now, some folks might believe anything bad about the GOP. But this guy is just making shit up out of thin air. A growing number of GOP lawmakers are simply delusional. But you righties keep voting for them!

[ProfX]

He says it was lawmakers he knew inviting him to these orgies. Well, aren't most of the lawmakers he knows GOP?

I didn't need Cawthorn to tell me the place is full of hypocrites. But, it's weird, it always seems to be the guys yelling the most about how the world is turning to Sodom and Gomorrah (it's a whole misreading of the Bible, anyway) who get caught with rent boys. And for those who say they are militant drug warriors, I wonder how many of them would pass a drug test. But still. C'mon, the 70 year olds are hosting orgy parties?

Whatever. I think this is just a lot of Qcumber Qrap as usual.

[gounion]

An Op/Ed via WaPo:

Cawthorn is one of a new breed of Republican representatives who operate in the most fetid gutters of the new political pathways carved by Donald Trump. This class includes worthies like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), Lauren Boebert (Colo.) and Matt Gaetz (Fla.): They’re basically professional media provocateurs who also happen to have gotten elected to Congress.

These lawmakers marinate in various far-right conspiracy theories and other assorted crackpottery, even if they claim to not be adherents. Central to those theories is that the political enemy is not just wrong about policy or ideology, but has created a secret, horrifying world of decadence and perversion.

At the far end, QAnon believers think Democratic leaders run a transnational pedophile ring. While “respectable” Republicans won’t say that, they will badger a Supreme Court nominee for hours about child pornography, in apparent awareness of how deep QAnon sentiments run within the GOP base.

ut Cawthorn went too far when he responded to a question about whether the over-the-top melodrama “House of Cards” accurately depicted Washington:

The sexual perversion that goes on in Washington, I mean being kind of a young guy in Washington, where the average is probably 60 or 70. You look at all these people, a lot of them that I’ve looked up to through my life, I’ve always paid attention to politics … Then all of a sudden you get invited to, “Well hey, we’re going to have kind of a sexual get-together at one of our homes, you should come.” What did you just ask me to come to? And then you realize they’re asking you to come to an orgy. Or the fact that some of the people leading on the movement to try and remove addiction in our country, and then you watch them do a key bump of cocaine right in front of you.

While we can’t prove Cawthorn made this up, let’s just say the idea that he’s being invited to orgies by lawmakers in their 60s and 70s strains credulity. And Cawthorn’s long history of making up stories is precisely what turned him into a right-wing superstar.

True or not, Politico reports that at a meeting of GOP representatives, many were angered with Cawthorn for portraying his own colleagues as “bacchanalian and sexual deviants.” One complained that he’s fielding questions about orgies from constituents.

Which highlights the danger in indulging the conspiracy theorist’s view that the surface world always hides something grotesque and disturbing beneath it. It’s one thing to say that about Democrats, these Republicans believe — that’s all well and good. But if you say that about all of Washington, they’re implicated, too.

[Drak]

I’m thinking someone who says “bump of cocaine “ is probably doing more than just watching.

[gounion]

I’m thinking someone who says “bump of cocaine “ is probably doing more than just watching.

Maybe if it was Matt Gaetz he was talking about...

But no, I think this is just as made up as the pedophile pizza place. It's starting to bite them in the butt.

[Number6]

I think Cawthorn is expressing his sexual fantasies of McConnell in leather with a whip.

[marindem01]

My first thought is what woman in her right mind attend such an event?

[gounion]

So Cawthorn got called on the carpet this morning with GOP leadership. Isn’t it interesting this gets a Republican chewed out, but speaking before white nationalists doesn’t?

[ProfX]

"Madison! If that photo of Leader McConnell in leather with his bullwhip hits social media, your committee assignments are TOAST! How dare you tattle on him!"

[Libertas]

"Madison! If that photo of Leader McConnell in leather with his bullwhip hits social media, your committee assignments are TOAST! How dare you tattle on him!"

[marindem01]

"Madison! If that photo of Leader McConnell in leather with his bullwhip hits social media, your committee assignments are TOAST! How dare you tattle on him!"

Thank you for an image that will forever be indelibley etched into my psyche.

[Drak]

Not saying this is the point of Cawthorn’s comments, but this Twitter account does bring up an interesting idea behind these comments, if he’s referring to other republicans, and I can see why he mentions it, since Roger Stone, Trump’s key dirty tricks operative, is confirming what Cawthorn said, and so is Alex Jones. There are Republicans trying to pull away from Trump, or non MAGA candidates, and Trump’s MO has always been about blackmail. So who knows.

Tom Joseph
@TomJChicago
Madison Cawthorn is not retracting his cocaine orgy comments. With Roger Stone involved saying “no retraction” & Cawthorn a special guest at Trump’s next rally, this is obviously a blackmail op against Rs Trump hates. Classic Stone brainchild & consequence of Trump walking free.

https://twitter.com/TomJChicago/status/ ... 5919281158

[Libertas]

Not saying this is the point of Cawthorn’s comments, but this Twitter account does bring up an interesting idea behind these comments, if he’s referring to other republicans, and I can see why he mentions it, since Roger Stone, Trump’s key dirty tricks operative, is confirming what Cawthorn said, and so is Alex Jones. There are Republicans trying to pull away from Trump, or non MAGA candidates, and Trump’s MO has always been about blackmail. So who knows.

Tom Joseph
@TomJChicago
Madison Cawthorn is not retracting his cocaine orgy comments. With Roger Stone involved saying “no retraction” & Cawthorn a special guest at Trump’s next rally, this is obviously a blackmail op against Rs Trump hates. Classic Stone brainchild & consequence of Trump walking free.

https://twitter.com/TomJChicago/status/ ... 5919281158

As to the cocaine, as long as you are NOT a lawmaker who makes sure OTHERS go to jail for using cocaine, then I wont pass judgment on YOU using it. But what do you want to bet the legal position those in the GOP using it is...

[Drak]

I dunno. Republicans always preach about their hard RW Christian values but then they’re often exposed as hypocrites about what they preach.



https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/2 ... s-00027286

Photographs obtained by POLITICO appear to show Madison Cawthorn, the embattled Republican congressman from North Carolina who recently accused his GOP colleagues of inviting him to orgies, wearing lingerie in what appears to be a party setting.

Cawthorn, 26, was raised in a conservative Baptist community in Henderson County, North Carolina, and has staked his political persona on arch-traditional Christian principles and the insistence of the importance of a kind of hypermasculinity. His comments about “the sexual perversion” in Washington made on a podcast, which he later admitted were exaggerated, drew the public disapproval and disavowal of Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy as well as other Republican leaders including those in his North Carolina congressional caucus.

Edit:This probably should have gone into its own thread. It’s the last topic I remembered about Madison Cawthorn.

[gounion]

You just can't make this shit up.

[carmenjonze]

I dunno. Republicans always preach about their hard RW Christian values but then they’re often exposed as hypocrites about what they preach.



https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/2 ... s-00027286







Edit:This probably should have gone into its own thread. It’s the last topic I remembered about Madison Cawthorn.

I really hope these are fake and photoshopped. I don't want this goosestepping, authoritarian masculinist conservative pervert associated with having LGBTQ cognitive dissonance.

[gounion]

I really hope these are fake and photoshopped. I don't want this goosestepping, authoritarian masculinist conservative pervert associated with having LGBTQ cognitive dissonance.

Yeah, but you know they aren't. They're real.

[carmenjonze]

I dunno. Republicans always preach about their hard RW Christian values but then they’re often exposed as hypocrites about what they preach.

A lot of these rightwing people need to feel like they're doing something naughty in order to function as a sexual human being.

I just hope these images are real and not photoshopped. It's clear to me from watching this person for the past few years, he has massive issues with proving his masculinity. Conservative men with something to prove end up being the most lethal of all, both to themselves and their communities.

[carmenjonze]

Yeah, but you know they aren't. They're real.

Another conservative white male on the Ernst Röhm/J. Edgar track.

Too many conservative perverts.

Lawmakers like this guy make it infinitely harder to secure the rights of sexual and gender nonconformists.

[gounion]

Another conservative white male on the Ernst Röhm/J. Edgar track. Too many conservative perverts.

Lawmakers like this guy make it infinitely harder to secure the rights of sexual and gender nonconformists.

Of course it will. But face it - it's a never-ending struggle. It's truly our lot in life to keep fighting.

[carmenjonze]

Of course it will. But face it - it's a never-ending struggle. It's truly our lot in life to keep fighting.

Yes well some of us have a lot more struggles than others, on multiple fronts.

TBH I don't think this is anyone's lot in life. I think what we are seeing now is the result of hundreds of years of rigged calculted discrimination and top-down violence.

[gounion]

Yes well some of us have a lot more struggles than others, on multiple fronts.

TBH I don't think this is anyone's lot in life. I think what we are seeing now is the result of hundreds of years of rigged calculted discrimination and top-down violence.

Sure it is. No argument there at all. And it won't be overcome easily. I mean, we got marriage equality in a very surprisingly, astonishingly fast time frame. Now we have all the backlash. Heck, with the Supreme Court, they may drag that back too. But every step forward now will take one hell of a fight.

I fought most of my adult life in a rearguard action in the labor movement. Very few wins, mostly setbacks. But we keep fighting.

Same with LGBTQ rights. Steps forward, lots of attacks on the movement, and steps backwards.

I don't think we'll see complete victory in our lifetimes. But that's no reason to not keep fighting the bastards.

[carmenjonze]

Sure it is. No argument there at all. And it won't be overcome easily. I mean, we got marriage equality in a very surprisingly, astonishingly fast time frame. Now we have all the backlash. Heck, with the Supreme Court, they may drag that back too. But every step forward now will take one hell of a fight.

I fought most of my adult life in a rearguard action in the labor movement. Very few wins, mostly setbacks. But we keep fighting.

Same with LGBTQ rights. Steps forward, lots of attacks on the movement, and steps backwards.

Difference is, there are LGBTQ workers in the labor movement. It hasn't even been 2 years since LGBTQ workers got any SCOTUS rulings even approximating equal rights in the workplace.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bostock_v._Clayton_County

What this means is, we still cannot walk down the street holding hands without getting gaybashed, and that includes in basically every neighborhood/district in San Francisco except for two, whilst heteros in the labor movement have always been able to get married or serve in the military and move freely, all while everyone above deals with labor discrimination. Some much more than others.

I'm not saying thing you don't already know, but others might not: the central California Teamsters acted as vigilante thugs beating up and harassing Latino organizers and union members in the fields in the 70s-90s. Social conservatism + labor discrimination traditionally = curtains for nonwhite workers and non-hetero workers. White conservatism in the labor movement, especially in the old guild-model unions, has really set the movement back.

So you bring up a really good perspective when you say "very few wins, mostly setbacks."

I don't think we'll see complete victory in our lifetimes. But that's no reason to not keep fighting the bastards.

Heh, nobody I know is ever going to stop fighting these creeps. You're right.

Lol check this out from doubledeemuva - https://www.instagram.com/p/Ccq4YB2AHH3/

[carmenjonze]

That's a cute demi-cup bra he's wearing.

I want one.

[gounion]

Difference is, there are LGBTQ workers in the labor movement. It hasn't even been 2 years since LGBTQ workers got any SCOTUS rulings even approximating equal rights in the workplace.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bostock_v._Clayton_County

What this means is, we still cannot walk down the street holding hands without getting gaybashed, and that includes in basically every neighborhood/district in San Francisco except for two, whilst heteros in the labor movement have always been able to get married or serve in the military and move freely, all while everyone above deals with labor discrimination. Some much more than others.

I'm not saying thing you don't already know, but others might not: the central California Teamsters acted as vigilante thugs beating up and harassing Latino organizers and union members in the fields in the 70s-90s. Social conservatism + labor discrimination traditionally = curtains for nonwhite workers and non-hetero workers. White conservatism in the labor movement, especially in the old guild-model unions, has really set the movement back.

So you bring up a really good perspective when you say "very few wins, mostly setbacks."



Heh, nobody I know is ever going to stop fighting these creeps. You're right.

Lol check this out from doubledeemuva - https://www.instagram.com/p/Ccq4YB2AHH3/

I've met a lot of LGBTQ members of the labor movement. I attended the last Pride@Work conference, and it's hard to describe my feelings from it. I enjoyed myself as much as I had in any conference. I was proud to stand with those folks.

The only bad part of it was that Kyrsten Sinema also was there, as a candidate for the Senate. Boy, she lied and lied and lied, telling us how she was going to be on the side of labor and the side of the LGBTQ movement.

It's also hard to describe my anger at her.

But aside from her, I met a bunch of great leaders and great activists, and made a lot of friends. I'm also good friends with the head of Pride@Work. He sent me shirts and stickers for our last local Pride event.

I hope the organization is active in the Starbucks union drive. I'm sure they are.

As I see it, it was a long hard fight to get most people to see gays as human beings, but the right has lost that battle. But it's going to be another long, hard slog to get the same recognition for trans folks. And they're pushing that as hard as they can.

But even they know that in the long run, they WILL lose.