PetSmart manager stands up to Kari Lake supporter Ethan Schmidt, kicks him out of the store for harassing employees over a pride flag. pic.twitter.com/YGvFMG4cU9
— PatriotTakes šŗšø (@patriottakes) July 22, 2022
Big, hulking, apparently quite physically healthy Ethan Schmidt is trying to make a career out of harassing retail clerks instead of doing honest work. And he can’t even be arsed to do a half-decent job on his self-promotional videos, because as long as he blarts out the worship words often enough, he figures his marks philosophical fellows will throw money at him.
Of course, he’s just following the template of his Republican betters…
a thing that genuinely enrages me and i cannot seem to ever let go of is how absolutely fucking useless at and disinterested in their actual goddamn jobs the average republican house rep is. https://t.co/nQ6eSINAzK
— GONELIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachi) July 19, 2022
NotMax
“What, me
worrywork?”//
Baud
It’s always projection.
Albatrossity
Frankly, it’s probably a good thing that they are lazy SOBs
Dan B
So, I have questions.Ā Why does this guy think “sex” Immediately when he sees a Pride Flag?Ā Has he ever looked in the mirror and asked himself why?Ā Has he ever asked friends why he thinks of sex, and children?
Baud
Heh. The asshole said Petco instead of PetSmart.
Old Dan and Little Ann
I wish anyone of those workers just said, “Go fuck off and die under your bridge, troll.”Ā What a douche.
lgerard
At least Lee Zeldin is tackling the tough issues
Baud
That PetSmart was very empty.
JaneE
He objects to the pride flag but he goes out in public looking like Snidely Whiplash?Ā Enticing kids by looking like a cartoon character maybe?
It is really too bad that the employees have to be polite to the customer even when he is a jerk.Ā And he doesn’t even know where he is.Ā On something or just that stupid?
He should know that all the BS he was spouting is just that – BS.
Baud
@lgerard:
So he’s the so-called reasonable republican the media keeps talking about.
CaseyL
Madison Cawthorne made it clear when he was being oriented along with the rest of the freshman class that he wasn’t interested in policy, just “coms.”Ā He said the secret part out loud (like he did about cocaine and orgies amongst the GOP): not a single GOP politician is the slightest bit interested in policy.Ā They’re only there to pass laws favoring their donors, and otherwise grift.
Alison Rose šš»š
@Dan B: Because they’re the sick perverts, not us. They are the ones who think consenting adults in a relationship is no different than pedophilia, bestiality, and whatever else. They come up with that shit in their heads, yet they call us sick.
As a queer person, that video makes me angry, but also just makes me want to cry. And that dude ought to get pummeled just for that fucking mustache.
bbleh
Pure performativeness is more like it. Ā They can’t run on their policies — those are wildly unpopular, if not outright ghoulish — and they can’t state their feelings openly — overt racism is still frowned upon — so all they have left is code-words and acting out.
They’re like children trying to assert themselves by deliberately misbehaving. Ā It’s sort of sad, and it might be comical at times, except for those assault weapons and stuff …
Ken
@lgerard: I assume “round” is a code word. Sane people assume he means “sphere”, but those in the know understand it to mean “plate shaped”.
Dorothy A. Winsor
The J6 Committee is startling partly because they’ve obviously done the work and are concentrating on the task at hand
HumboldtBlue
Video of Bannon being carted off to jail.
Baud
@HumboldtBlue:
Heh. Poor baby.
SpaceUnit
Ha. Ā That PetSmart manager wasn’t having none.
That’s the way you do it.
Alison Rose šš»š
The Petsmart troll and my comment above reminded me of something. Now, obviously Marilyn Manson has turned out to be a massive pig and a horrid person, and he can fuck off every day and twice on Sundays, but I recall an interview he did when the band was in its heyday. There were always these wild crazy rumors about shit he would do during concerts. Just the most bizarre claims. I saw them in concert twice and the worst thing I ever saw him do was grab a disposable camera (this was obviously many years ago) out of someone’s hand who was in the pit up front, use it to take a picture under his kilt, then toss the camera back into the crowd.
But there would be these fundie Christians claiming he would throw bags of drugs into the audience, or drag girls onstage and make them strip, or throw a puppy into the pit and say the show wouldn’t start till it was dead. Just the height of insanity. And in an interview, he noted that 1) he never did anything like any of that and never would (though the thing about harming women…yeah, you would do that, and you did, you asshole); and 2) it was these supposed good righteous Christians who were coming up with these sick, disgusting acts. So, he said, which one of us is actually the sick one? It’s their minds creating these scenarios, so it’s their minds where the sickness is coming from.
Same shit different style with these Q monsters and their LGBTQ IS SATANIC CHILD MOLESTATION!!!!!! bullshit. You’re making all these wild claims about me and my people, yet the sole source for the repulsiveness is your own depraved mind.
lgerard
Science weighs in
Josh Hawley ran 7.2 in the 40 at the January 6 combine
I wonder who won the Cheeseberder Toss
RedDirtGirl
@CaseyL: I was just wondering about him today. Heās been awfully quiet.
Major Major Major Major
@Dan B: oh this is their new thing. Any mention of the QUILTBAG community is about sex. Thatās why itās important to pass laws outlawing having a picture of your same-sex spouse on your desk if youāre a teacher. For the children you see
Same as their old thing really although Iāve noticed I hear less about shoving things down their throats than I used to.
RedDirtGirl
@HumboldtBlue: that could just as easily be video of Bannon being taken to get bathed!
SpaceUnit
@Alison Rose šš»š:
Best thing Marilyn Manson ever did was help Jessicka Addams get Jack Off JillĀ up and going. Ā That band was fire.
Jeffro
I was gonna say the same thing!
Are we sure we want these clowns to display even a hint of a work ethic?
bbleh
@Major Major Major Major: after a while they relax and it’s not a problem
Jeffro
THIS.
Mallory McMorrow up in MI called them out on it too, about using culture war “issues” to fundraise while doing nothing to actually improve their constituents’ lives. Ā Nota bene, Dems.
ColoradoGuy
We need a name for “Internet-amplified mass psychosis”, because that’s this is. It’s what the Republican party (and their info apparatus) has become.
Baud
@ColoradoGuy:
Rotating tag material.
John Cole
Ethan Schmidt has a long history of this. Is currently on probation and was just arrested again for violation of probation and trying to buy a gun via some gofundme for wingnuts. He was banned from all Target stores and cops are on him for making death threats. He’ll be in jail or dead from suicide after a mass shooting within a year or two.
Sister Golden Bear
@NotMax: Work is for theĀ
little peoplenāclangs, doncha know.Wvng
They work very hard at performative assholery.
Wvng
@Dorothy A. Winsor: The J6 committee could only be effective by refusing to seat disruptors. If Jordan or another of his ilk was there it would be a zoo.
Another Scott
Speaking of people with too much time on their hands doing disturbing things with video… PetaPixel:
Impressive, but I’m having trouble thinking of a good use for this while coming up with all kinds of bad uses…
Cheers,
Scott.
Sister Golden Bear
@Major Major Major Major: Theyāre now laying back and thinking ofĀ
EnglandJebus?Major Major Major Major
@John Cole: hereās hoping itās the former!
Dan B
@Sister Golden Bear: Better than thinking of Maggie Thatcher or Ayn Rand.
HinTN
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Congress used to behave like that.
HinTN
@ColoradoGuy: IAMP works fine for me.
HinTN
@John Cole: Like your robin’s egg blue, Cole. Welcome back.
E.
One of the most frightening parts of Handmaid’s Tale for me was the flashback to the women getting harassed in the store for their clothing, just before everything changed. The Petco thing brings shivers down my spine. “That’s offensive we can’t have that. Take it down.”
Jay
When I worked retail, we had to deal with morons during Pride and other occasions.
I dealt with the homophobes by interrupting them, pointing out that homophobia was a mental illness, left untreated destroys the brain and the heart, that there were a wide array of treatments ranging from talk therapy to chemical castration, and that they should seek professional help before it was to late.
Betsy
In a country founded in slavery, obviously no one wants to work.
This is what labor abuse does to people – work is hell, so what idiot would work?
And conversely, if you work for a living, then you must be an idiot or a dupe ā and obviously one of godās non-chosen people.
Want to stop the grift and the grifters? Support labor.
Make work pay. Ā Make it a choice rational people want to make, instead of right-wing grifting, quackery, etc.
Betsy
@Sister Golden Bear: Ā Exactly /s
HumboldtBlue
@RedDirtGirl:
Hah!
different-church-lady
At some point weāre going to have to address the aspects of our electoral system that reward sociopathic narcissists with increasing frequency.
Alison Rose šš»š
@E.: Yeah. But also, I love how they’re all going all in on the “the rainbow is from God and gays corrupted it and we have to take it back” thing. I’m like…sorry bitches, God gave it to us, it’s ours now. You can make one out of Earth tones.
different-church-lady
@Albatrossity: This is probably the very reason Liz Cheney wants to put Trump away: she knows that true power takes work, and Trump keeps fucking up the machine.
different-church-lady
@Alison Rose šš»š: Holy Christ, nobody is saying straights canāt have rainbows. These people have brain worms.
Ksmiami
@Alison Rose šš»š: Somehow, sometimes – someone out there is having a good time and it absolutely enrages Republicans. Trash party of trash people. Democrats will leave you the fuck alone unless you bring a gun to a paradeā¦
Alison Rose šš»š
@different-church-lady: It’s not that they think they can’t–it’s that we gays have made it all icky by getting our gayness all over it. They think we’ve perverted it by making it our symbol.
Plus TBH I don’t love when straight people wear stuff with rainbows on it. It’s hard enough as a useless lesbian figuring out if a chick is into you. Like literally a girl could stick her tongue down your throat and you’re like…………….I don’t know if she likes me like that, though.
trollhattan
Mood. Digby posted this video of sea lions clearing the beach of jerk hoomans. Tell me that’s not how you feel right about now. Call a sea lion!
Ksmiami
@different-church-lady: the prion disease Charles Pierce coined has fully taken over the GOP. Once you stop looking at government as a way to make peopleās lives better thru civil society, Ā the whole thing becomes about performative grifting, or worse, a power trip to hurt the ppl you hate.
Urza
I think this was their personal fantasy about Obama, seemed to mainly be used then and tapered off quite a bit as soon as he wasn’t the main boogeyman.
cliosfanboy
I’ve never heard of this clown before. Good on the managers for tossing him out.
Doc Sardonic
@Alison Rose šš»š: Not a lesbian, just an old dude that has been around the roller rink a few times, but if a girl wants to play tonsil hockey donāt ask questions just go where the tilt-o-whirl takes you.
Kropacetic
Why won’t you accept these claims I’m making aboutĀ a whole group of people at face value? I don’t have an obvious agenda or anything…
different-church-lady
@Alison Rose šš»š: Iām learning so much here!
Jay
@Alison Rose šš»š:
different-church-lady
Iān going to look at the weather report for the weekend. Please pray for me.
Subsole
@Major Major Major Major:
I have never heard that expression for LGBTQ before. Kinda neat. Is it cool for the straights to use it?
@bbleh: Ohhh, my…!
different-church-lady
@ColoradoGuy:
I kinda like the name Ā āInternet-amplified mass psychosisā as it is.
Jay
@Subsole:
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/QUILTBAG
Subsole
@Wvng: Is it really work if it’s second natute?
different-church-lady
@Alison Rose šš»š: Naw, straights will make one out of white and off-whites.
Subsole
@HinTN:
Media Exacerbated Mass Delusion.
“Oh shit, Uncle Steev’s all Meem’d again. Who left Tucker on?”
James E Powell
@Baud:
He was a happy, well-adjusted person until he read an article about pronouns & micro-aggressions.
different-church-lady
@Another Scott:
Youāll be rich in Silicone Valley in no time!
Subsole
@Alison Rose šš»š: Huh. The things I learn here.
Do you mean like, it’s hard to tell if they’re just using you for sex, or like, they’re just exploring their identity and you happened to ge there, or what? Not trying to pry, just genuinely confused.
Alison Rose šš»š
@different-church-lady: LOL! “White, off-white, eggshell, cream, ivory, vanilla, snow – a veritable rainbow of paleness!”
Subsole
@Jay: Thanks. The fact it says it was coined as a self-designation makes me think I’d best stick to ‘LGBTQ’ if I want to avoid giving offense. Correct?
Subsole
@Alison Rose šš»š:
“We got both kinds here – bleach andĀ chalk!”
Jay
@Subsole:
for now, probably. Itās not a ācommonā term outside of certain communities.
Subsole
@Jay: Cool. Thanks.
DMcK
@Alison Rose šš»š:
Ken Nordine: Beige
Lyrebird
@Alison Rose šš»š:Ā ā
I don’t see the “Straight but Not Narrow” bumper sticker anymore, I wanted it before I had a car. Guess it sounds kind of old school.
HumboldtBlue
tom
@Subsole: Iām a gay man and honestly this is the first time Iāve heard this expression.
Maybe I need to get out more.
BeautifulPlumage
If Dan B is still around – thank you for the lovely garden pics. I especially lived the irises bred for PNW. Both of them were gorgeous.
BeautifulPlumage
@Jay:Ā hahahahaha love it!
ColoradoGuy
OK, “Internet amplified mass psychosis” it is. Since I design vacuum-tube power amps as a hobby, I guess I missed the obvious acronym.
Anotherlurker
The video at Petsmart is infuriating. Ā These bible humpers are really low life.
BTW the jerk sports a handlebar mustache that would make him fit right in in a Bear Bar . Ā However, I hope he stays out of gay bars and leaves the customers alone.
On 2nd thought, he is probably a coward who likes to punch down on retail workers and would piss his pants if he got any serious push back on his hateful nonsense.
dnfree
@Ken: I have had that very conversation with a fundamentalist relative.Ā He says that the Bible (which is always correct) refers to the earth as “round”.Ā But the Bible actually uses the two-dimensional term for a circle, apparently, not a sphere.
Kropacetic
Same here. I like it, though. Pithy.
On 2nd thought, he is probably a coward who likes to punch down on retail workers and would piss his pants if he got any serious push back on his hateful nonsense.
If you need to get your feelings out, retail workers are cheaper than a therapist. Less likely to help provide insight. This man needs help worming through whatever emotions he is sublimating.
Major Major Major Major
@Subsole: sure? I picked it up on a writing forum. You got all those letters, might as well spell something nice.
Nobody will know what you mean if you say it out loud, but itās pretty clear spelled out cuz of the caps.
Xavier
@Jeffro: R’s want two things from government: protection of private property rights and preservation of the status quo of privilege. They regard any attempt at promoting the general welfare as a threat to those rights and privileges
Kropacetic
“QUILTBAG” definitely carries a pleasant queer vibe, too. YMMV.
@Kropacetic: I effed up my second blockquote here. Should include second paragraph.
JaySinWA
Some will think you are yelling at them, especially after they learn what it stands for.
Kropacetic
@JaySinWA: That may be a matter of context.
Jackie
@Alison Rose šš»š: My granddaughters love wearing rainbows and unicorns. With glitter. I think 75% of their wardrobes consist of a combination of these – plus pink and purple lol
I donāt think theyāll surrender these anytime soon!
Marmot
@Xavier: Heck, thatās just one thingāprotecting the traditional social order.
Tony G
@John Cole: I’d never heard of this particular asshole before today, so I used the Google-machine to look him up. Ā Twenty three years old, apparently, and this is apparently what he does all day instead of working for a living. Ā When I was 23 (in the Stone Age) I’d been working for 7 years, two years full time. Ā I wonder who’s paying this guy’s bills — buying food, mustache wax, etc. Ā Is he just freeloading off Mommy, or is some wealthy fascist supporting him? Ā What a worthless lump of protoplasm.
Tony G
@Dan B: To paraphrase “The Onion” — why are all those gay men making this guy horny?
Darkrose
@Alison Rose šš»š: The real question is when does the U-Haul get rented? That’s usually a pretty good hint. In my case, it was when she helped me pack and drove across country with me.
Jay
@Tony G:
douchebagās name?
VOR
I think it was The Daily Show when Jon Stewart was the host, did a piece on Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), then a Representative and now a Senator. They showed clips of her on Fox talking about how she couldn’t wait to ask questions of someone, how she had a long list. The day of the hearing comes. She asked 1 question, yielded the rest of her time, then rushed out into the hallway to do an interview. All about the soundbite.
Burnspbesq
@Baud:
Big-box pet stores are, simply put, big boxes. Rarely crowded unless you go on Saturday afternoon.
mrmoshpotato
Middle of 9
Blue Jays came to Boston to play football.Ā 28-5 right now.
Also, Boston Beaneaters, 30 — vs. Detroit Wolverines (8) on June 9, 1883 hehe
prostratedragon
Young runner just crushed the WR in 400 hurdles at the World Championships.Ā Sydney McLaughlin.Ā Looks like Secretariat at Belmont.
Burnspbesq
@Alison Rose šš»š:
The word āincelā was invented to describe sick, bitter assholes like that guy.
Jay
@Jay:
never mind,
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2022/05/26/ethan-schmidt-lgbtq-hunt-pride-month-target-joann-fabrics/
caphilldcne
So Iām late to this conversation. Please donāt give this idiot any oxygen. Heās a complete anti-masker fool whoās been banned from the grounds of the Arizona state capital. Prior to this he was famously owned by some DARE kid – admittedly funny:
https://twitter.com/SamHaft/status/1441068604179374083?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1441068604179374083%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fgod.dailydot.com%2Fethan-schmidt-dare%2F
The kid lost his job then got it back – Iām pretty sure heās smart enough to stop repping DARE. Anyway, this guy is a grifter and he doesnāt need the publicity Ā unlike John, I donāt believe heāll shoot anyone up because heās a grifter Ā heāll just find another scam Ā will he get someone killed for being gay or trans Ā he wouldnāt think twice about it
Sent from my iPhone
HumboldtBlue
This is insane.
Elsewhere, Henry Hill’s grandson is putting in work.
rikyrah
@John Cole:
And my teeny tiny violin will be played for him.ššš
rikyrah
@prostratedragon:
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HumboldtBlue
All of a sudden, my bathroom door and its hinges have taken on the squeaking sound of a horror flick, and it’s disconcerting. Two days ago, unannounced and unwelcome, the hinges started squeaking, and I have no idea why.
Then I wonder why my knee is aching.
Jackie
@HumboldtBlue: An oil can may help both issuesš
Ken
@HumboldtBlue: I’d love to see some comedian or performance artist start showing up at Trump events, dressed in the classic white asylum uniform and holding a giant butterfly net.
But it would be incredibly dangerous for that person, given Trump’s fans are nearly as unhinged as he is.
JaySinWA
@HumboldtBlue: Changes in temp and humidity do things to doors, hinges follow. Lubricants may help.
Joints have similar issues.
HumboldtBlue
This is why we watch sports.
NotMax
@Alison Rose šš»š
The Rainbow
ConnectionConniption.Ruckus
@different-church-lady:
That is why I call TFG – SFB, Shit For Brains. He’s one of them. I don’t know what has so fucked their brains, other than right wing politics, money churches – those places that exist to pass the collection plate as often as possible. They have turned politics and religion into a combination of a mental ward and a kindergarten class of people that act like acid heads on a 4 week high.
Ruckus
@prostratedragon:
She looks a lot better than that!
Oh, you mean her running form……
OK I stand by my first statement. That was beyond a magnificent run and a new worlds record.
2liberal
@mrmoshpotato:
the last time sidney sweeney gets asked to throw out the first pitch for the red sox
prostratedragon
@Ruckus:Ā Heh-heh! That was the last time I could think of that a racer beat a world-class field that badly. Guy on tv compared to Bob Beamon’s long jump record, which is another good one; I saw that on the telly when it happened and it really did look like he was flying.
PIGL
@Wvng: And their behaviour exposes weaknesses, or rather fatal flaws, in our notions of and systems of justice. Performative assholery does far more harm than almost any actual crime that people are charged with. It should be treated as the serious matter it is, and subjected to dramatic extreme and public forms of punishment….just like the offense itself.
PIGL
@Dan B: the same thing, really. They were both disciples of Hayek.