When he complained, rightwingers sent him homophobic taunts online.
Black gay Republican podcaster Rob Smith has claimed that “white supremacist” members of his political party called him “fa**ot” and the n-word during his Sunday night attendance of Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest event in Phoenix, Arizona. Though Smith posted a video of his brief interaction with the aggressors, commenters on X (formerly Twitter) noted that the video didn’t feature the n-word and mocked Smith his membership in an anti-gay political party.
“Last night in Phoenix, I was confronted and surrounded by some White Supremacists that don’t like gays or blacks in the Republican Party,” Smith wrote in a December 18 post on X. “They shouted ‘nr’ and ‘ft’ at me to make their point. However, I served in Iraq. I never back down. Ever.”
#leopardsatemyface
No no don’t you know it’s antifa that orchestrated this to make republicans look bad?! /s
The true bigots are the left /s
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Leopards paid me off.
black man attends KKK meeting, shocked to find they were rather rude to him
Clayton Bigsby?
This was a Dave Chapelle skit.
I mean Daryl Davis…
he did not try to participate, he made friends and was mostly observing.
and in the process managed to change some of these people’s minds.
Maybe having served in Iraq, he should have learned how a mistake is sometimes just a mistake and to know how to change your course of action once it turns out to be a mistake.
“mistake”
Oops, we just killed a million Iraqis. Silly empire
Maybe he has an ideological reason and considers such events less important than that.
Say, he’s a supporter of right-wing populist state capitalism. Satan knows why, Satan knows how, but he is.
Is there an alternative political affiliation for him, so that he wouldn’t be a Trump supporter?
Why does he feel that it’s relevant here? I don’t really follow that part.
BCOS the military and its vets are the R’s version of ‘think of the babies’, right until the point they ask for bothersome thugs like rights and support.
He went to what was essentially a white supremacist rally and was shocked to meet white supremacists.
Exactly. This is on him to a certain degree.
I guess 100% is a certain degree…
“They shouted ‘nr’ and ‘ft’ at me to make their point. However, I served in Iraq. I never back down. Ever.”
I don’t understand this take. Because he served in the military, he won’t stop being allies with people even when they attack him and call him hateful slurs?
I don’t think I’ve ever heard the “I served in Iraq, so I’m a doormat” argument before…
This guy is in this video https://youtu.be/42X_eAOU4DU?feature=shared
I think it’s chilling that this anti-fascism video from 70 years ago is still just as relevant today. For anyone interested, here is the full version.
Shit, is there a Leopards Eating Faces community yet? If not, this would be a prime contender for the first post.
Hermain Caine has sealed GOAT leopard-face-eating status for all time, or at least as long as he continues posthumously tweeting.
Holy fuck. The ghouls who worked for him are still using his Twitter account? Lmao.
Color me shocked.
If you throw an exclamation mark in front of it people can use it as a link with most of the apps.
Aah I have such fond memories of that place
Me as well. Every day dealing with my mask at work hoping that I wouldn’t be the small fraction of the population that still gets messed even vaxxed, then sitting down and scrolling through the long timeline of a goatee hat and sun glasses or religious-karen going from tough to vent.
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Hot take: If leopards are only eating faces on one side of the political spectrum, maybe you need to consider that only one side is consistently voting for leopards eating faces.
I only know one guy in the hundreds of millions of dollars club (CEO and near sole owner of the corp I work for) and he is fairly leftwing. So I am going to nominate him. However, to be fair, even under some insane situation where the DNC had full power for several election cycles it isn’t like there won’t be rich people, there will be, they will just pay higher taxes. He isn’t going to be on food stamps any time soon.
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You keep saying that but don’t post proof.
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I call bullshit - Let’s see a few examples of liberals/democrats getting their faces eaten by policies they support.
“Oh noes, this free college is hurting me” “Oh noes, all this free healthcare, my wallet is too fat”
Just to be obvious here, show me what laws liberals have actually been able to pass just how they championed for, and show me the face eating. I’m waiting.
Inb4 something about an immigrantl/minority/female committing a crime (cause liberals are so pro crime)
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So the fuck what. It’s almost as though humans shouldn’t be predisposed to shit lives by arbitrary borders in places that western nations like America fueled their instability in the first place.
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Perhaps not, but it would be nice if the wealthy shared their privilege with the less-fortunate, right? Last I checked Norway IS a Christian nation, after all… Would be awfully Jesus-like if they broke bread with their less-fortunate neighbors, now, wouldn’t it? Of course I’m not saying the burden rests solely on Norway; rather it is a shared burden of the collective.
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lmao you gettin raged on by all the muritards sorry m8
they can’t even read lol
And another one for the block list.
lmao you gettin raged on by all the muritards sorry m8
Says the Euro trash.
Generally speaking, European arrogance like this is based on looking at US conservatives – which is why this is so confusing, because you and OP are ideologically the same as US conservatives.
Or… Hear me out… One side just does it more frequently.
Why in the hell would a gay black man be a Republican?
Attention? Self-loathing? Money? There are options. No good ones, but they’re there.
Maybe he’s racist against immigrants? Alternatively, maybe he’s hoping that they’ll care more about him being a fellow rich person (if he is in fact rich) than about his gay blackness (they don’t).
Maybe he bought the lie that the ideology that belies Conservative platform isn’t racist (or is an acceptable parameter of racist) or homophobic… Or maybe he just feels like he’s been accepted into the club when he gets cheered on by his Conservative buddies for slaging on trans folk and other POCs because they lift him up as an exception. " Here’s what a “good” gay black guy looks like. See we’re not racist and our platform has merit we got one of them on our side! Buy him a drink! "… This holds up until you get into company that doesn’t have to lie to themselves that they aren’t trying to oppress you and want you to just not be an uncomfortable problem anymore.
Every genocide has idiots who join the other side in a bid to be a pet for safety and sell out their own communities in hope they will be respectable and safe… It’s a gambit that only proves you’re scum before it gets you get killed.
Last job, the gay Hispanic receptionist was a Trump man. My Philippina wife was too. Past tense, once I showed her a few things. She had only seen Fox News in her 2-years in America.
This guy? Fuck is his excuse?!
The only way a gay black man is a republican is because republicans are easy to grift.
He’s stupid.
Or simply masochist…
“don’t call me a n----- or I’ll cum”
too much time downwind of a burn pit?
My guess as well
Must be fiscally conservative and worried about the debt. That’s what they’re focused on right? Right? /s
Maybe they’re one of Hillary’s other mentioned deplorables. Or maybe they’re like the other half that are just disconnected from reality and don’t feel like any of Trump’s shit will impact them (until it does). And to be fair, Democrats have worked hard to make sure people aren’t impacted by the things Trump did.
Money.
'cuz at least he’s not a woman
He’s probably just an idiot.
He doesn’t realize that there’s a quota of “one of the good ones” and it’s already been met
The usual answer of Log Cabin Republicans is “I like lower taxes”. Not much thought beyond that.
“Guys, I am so shocked and offended and hurt that I would be called racial and homophobic slurs while speaking at the racist, homophobic convention. I thought being a Republican would make me one of the good ones to them! why isnt it making me one of the good ones to them!”
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There’s a party for economically conservative non-bigots, and it’s called the Democratic Party.
Not possible.
To be a Republican you have to fundamentally hate America, and be extreme in thought.
its always been the case.
They used to just make effort to hide it from Cameras and public.
The only difference now is they dropped all pretense about it after Obama’s election and they lost their mind over losing to a black man.
You can no more turn the Republican party into a good, for the people party, than you can turn the KKK or Proud Boys into a civics organization that helps low income communities of color.
Take away their bigotry and they have nothing else in common.
Zero sympathy. You ride with fascists, this is what happens.
Why on earth would a gay man want to be a Republican? Just seems like a conflict of interest…
gullibility combined with personality traits like “i never back down because i was in a wrong and illegal war started by the party of criminals who want to kill me and everyone like me” could be one reason, I think.
maybe he just really hates poor people.
Maybe he believes it really is just about class and nothing else and thought, ka-ching! Time to get in with the class that’s exploiting everyone and only pretending to be white supremacist to stir up the plebs
Some people are richer than they are gay.
Based on the one I know, toxic upbringing, dumb as rocks, and completely unemphatic to anyone else. I was stuck in a car with one that’s a family friend for 25 hours. He’s managed to survive, so why can’t all the other lgbts just suck it up is probably the unspoken thought he has. When he was complaining that the Metrosexuals messed up his ability to find other gay people, I told him I haven’t heard anyone use that term in years. He was also convinced that his boyfriend is hiding that fact that he works as at a porn store and that’s going to get him fired from his job as an… Pianist/Organist for the Catholic Church. I try to avoid him.
ah lack of empathy is such a great indicator of conseravtism
The same reason why a poor white person with kids would?
I do agree that your example is much more extreme, but maybe it’s a question of degree not kind.
It’s all about the financial aspect. These people tend to be wealthier and very anti-tax. They hope to be one of the “good ones” that are tokenized in the party.
Grifting stupid people.
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We’ll probably see more gay Republicans now that same-sex marriage is legal everywhere and no one seems interested in challenging it.
They are absolutely still interested in challenging it. They’ve been talking about repealing it since the day that it was enacted. Why do you think they keep dialing up the anti LGBT rhetoric? Do you think that they just threw up their hands and said “oh well!” when that thing they railed against for decades happened? That which they raged against with all the hatred in their hearts. That they insisted was a sin against god and would lead to the collapse of Western civilization?
They didn’t stop being angry at us. They’re still pissed.
What kind of battle over cognitive dissonance must people like this face?..
Dude must have an Olympic gold metal for mental gymnastics…
Money. It’s the answer. Money.
Black and gay? I’m just confused. Didn’t you get the memo that these are the two things Republicans hate the most?
No, they hate black and gay women more.
Cognitive dissonance
But if he wouldn’t grift, he would be even worse off! can’t be black, gay AND poor, what would they think of him!
I’m sure he’s definitely grifting somehow, but being black and gay I’d imagine people on the left would throw money at him if he wasn’t a piece of shit. I don’t know if he is, just saying if he wasn’t then it would probably be easy and he’d have the benefit of not having to deal with actual racist nazis
Nobody parts with their money like the right. The left doesn’t just rally behind anything with the right keywords and will often provide emotional support before anything else.
The left has so many people who are abused for just being who they are that something like that is a Tuesday and not special enough to warrant sending $10 to a rando. There are bigger fish to fry and many would rather go after the instutions that allowed the pain to happen in the first place than pat themselves on the back for a weak bandaid solution.
There’s lots of gay black guys, why would the left throw money at him?
Maybe he hates transgender?
Maybe he’s a masochist.
Probs thought it cancels out.
Leopards and Faces come to mind here.
Breaking news: Face-eating leopard advocate gets face eaten by leopards
“I’m going to eat you.”
He just tells it like it is!
What did this dumb shit expect?
He hoped that he would be one of the “good ones” in their eyes. He’s in it for the economic policy more than anything.
For the leopards to not…uh… lynch him? It’s hard to see his position as being anything other than a grift, and I think he knew full well what would happen and this outrage/pointing-and-laughing is all part of the play.
