Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Make up your mind?

So everyone has probably heard about Adam Rippon. You know, the very first gay figure skater (ahem) to ever compete in the Olympics.

Anyways, Rippon wanted to make sure everyone understood he was gay, decided to attack Vice President Mike Pence on Twitter, made sure everyone knew he would be boycotting any Olympic trip to the White House, and basically brought a whole bunch of politics to the situation by his own choice...

Adam Rippon: First gay figure skater in history!

But now that he has won a medal in the 2018 games (kudos to him), Adam Rippon is upset that people are focusing on his sexual preference and his associate to Mike Pence... rather than his performance. Go figure.

36 comments:

commie said...

attack Vice President Mike Pence on Twitter


Deservedly so...he practices extreme catholic views and believes gays can be fixed, just like Bachman....an idiot like pence was called out. Seems to me CH believes free speech and speaking out should be limited. Funny even for you....

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2016/01/04/what-we-know-gov-mike-pences-position-gay-rights/78257192/

caliphate4vr said...

This strains credulity

Ruth Bader Ginsburg shares #MeToo moment about Cornell instructor

commie said...

Pence is a pig....and would lead this country back to the stone age if given the opportunity....

Pence was a staunch opponent of gay rights during his 12 years in Congress. In case after case, he cited worries about gay rights impeding on the religious freedoms of the faithful.

In 2000, his campaign website declared he wouldn't support federal funding to care for people living with HIV/AIDS unless money was cut to programs "that celebrate and encourage the types of behaviors that facilitate the spreading of the HIV virus." He advocated instead for programs that would seek to change "sexual behavior."

In 2007, Pence worried that a bill to protect gays and lesbians from workplace discrimination could be used to discriminate against Christians. "If an employee keeps a Bible in his or her cubicle, if an employee displays a Bible verse on their desk, that employee could be claimed by a homosexual colleague to be creating a hostile work environment," he said on the floor of the U.S. House.

In 2009, he opposed efforts to expand the definition of a hate crime to include the victim's sexual orientation, fearing that a pastor's sermon condemning gay sex could be considered hate speech. "This will have a chilling effect on religious expression, from the pulpits, in our temples, in our mosques and in our churches," he said. "And it must be undone."

Anonymous said...


didn't want it to be about pence, yet started it all by making it about pence.

okey dokey -


"I don't want my Olympic experience being about Mike Pence," he said, according to CNN.

[...]

Last month, Rippon said he disagreed with the Trump administration's values. He added that Pence — who has long been seen as a top adversary to LGBTQ rights — "doesn't really stand for anything I believe in," asserting that the vice president supporter "gay conversion therapy."


http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/373549-rippon-i-dont-want-my-olympic-experience-being-about-mike-pence

commie said...

Gee...a moderate R trying to make sense out of all the old white farts that dominate her party.....

The moderate Republican woman was speaking last week at the Texas Disposal Systems Exotic Game Ranch, just south of Austin. The first order of business was to confront that one “nasty little rumor going around” about herself.

This was Jenifer Sarver, a 40-year-old former staffer for Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), and she was facing off in a forum with 12 other GOP candidates vying for U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith’s (R-Texas) seat in Congress.

Sarver was here to talk about policy and pragmatism. Surrounded by Trump supporters and taxidermied animals, she was not in her element, and she leaned into it with her confession. “It’s true,” she admitted. She voted for Hillary Clinton.

“I couldn’t support candidate Trump,” she said. “As a woman, I couldn’t do it.”

“Just then,” wrote one Austin-American Statesman columnist who was in the room, “some of the dead animal heads on the walls turned toward Sarver with looks of shocked disbelief.“

Sarver didn’t stop there. She took aim at the “aging, white” GOP and said Republicans need to learn how to work with the other side.

“We have a tone that is shutting people out,” she said. “Young people are not interested in joining our party. Women are leaving our party in droves. And if you look out over this audience, it’s a very white crowd here tonight. And it’s a pretty white group of people that are running as well.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/eyeing-midterms-republican-women-taking-163225021.html

Anonymous said...

Anonymous caliphate4vr said...

This strains credulity



hey, i'm sure she was quite the looker back in the 19th century.

and we're talking ithaca ny here - 10 square miles surrounded by reality.

C.H. Truth said...

Opie...

Did you really want to make this thread about Mike Pence? I really wanted everyone to focus on the "performance" of Mr Rippon!

C.H. Truth said...

If I had seen the performance... I am sure I would have found it to be wonderful. I am sure he is a very talented world class athlete.

It's sort of a shame I am not much interested in the Olympics this year.

Anonymous said...



If I had seen the performance... I am sure I would have found it to be wonderful.

i hear he absolutely nailed the triple fudgepack.


Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://youtu.be/D2krmfOs9IQ

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

The link has nothing but his unbelievable performance .

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

It runs for about 4 minutes. He fell on his first spin, but he was incredible. If you ever tried figure skating, you would know how talented he is.

Anonymous said...

He fell on his first spin

did he impale himself on his partner?


C.H. Truth said...

did he impale himself on his partner?

Cmon now... that's a totally inappropriate comment.

It was singles, he didn't have a partner!

C.H. Truth said...

So Rog...

Do you have the link to where the Korean skater loses her top? That would be worth watching.


But hey seriously... Figure skating is very hard (I watched "the cutting edge" so I know). Anyone who medals in the Olympics deserves some kudos.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I missed the wardrobe malfunction. But I will find it .

Your kids play hockey and you probably have been ice skating. I used to do a lot of ice skating into my late teens. I used figure skates. It's to put it mildly, it ain't easy. We also played ice hockey into my twenties. We would smoke a bowl and hit the ice. I was the goalie because I sucked on the ice. My size and quickness made it hard for the guys to score on me.

We also went ice fishing for trout in Pactola lake in the Black Hills.

caliphate4vr said...

Did you skate to work like Katie Couric think the Dutch do?

And anyone that ice fishes must hate their spouse

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

https://youtu.be/MUeqfISsZM8

Anonymous said...

My size and quickness made it hard for the guys to score on me.


let me guess -

you remain the most prolific amateur hockey player the northern US has ever seen.

LOL.

geezus alky, you can't make a comment on ANY topic without somehow bragging about yourself.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I don't understand your nonsense Paul.

I was never a good skater .

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I was the goalie because I sucked on the ice. rrb, go shoot Beaners at the border. Quit bragging about how tough you are. The "cripple" could kick your fat ass.

caliphate5vr said...

geezus alky, you can't make a comment on ANY topic without somehow bragging about yourself.

In the past he’s mentioned he had little eye hand coordination how that helps at goalie is a mystery. But being from Atlanta, playing hockey wasn’t something we did back then

Anonymous said...

Quit bragging about how tough you are.


i never once have bragged about how tough i am...


or about my IQ, or my public speaking and presentation skills, or how good of a shot i am, or how i'm admired by others, or how i'm viewed by others as a natural leader, or as a hockey goalie, or as a construction flunkie, or as someone who can read a blueprint, or as an organ transplant recipient, or as a medical miracle, or where i was when JFK was shot, or...


Anonymous said...

The "cripple" could kick your fat ass.

i'm sure you swing a mean walker.

alky, i could leak you in the dust in a brisk walk.

Anonymous said...

Good news alky admits to using yet another drug.

Anonymous said...

HB ,caught in the Rat Trap.

Anonymous said...

So he smokes sausage. And attacks Trump/Pence. Gets a gold social warrior badge.

Anonymous said...

Alky vs alky, both losers.

Complain about the very thing you do.

"Quit bragging about how tough you are. The "cripple" could kick your fat ass."

Loretta said...

No

One

Cares

Anonymous said...

Overheard At the Olympics:

Normal American: Hey Adam, congrats on the Olympic medal.

Adam Rippon: DID YOU KNOW THAT I WAS GAY?

NA: Yeah, I guess, but I don't really care. Kudos on the medal.

AR: BUT I SAID I WAS GAY AND I WON'T TALK TO THE VP.

NA: No one cares who you sleep with.

AR: PENCE WANTS TO ELECTROCUTE ME

NA: Uh, I think you'd better take your meds and lie down for a while.


(h/t Physics Geek) via AoS

commie said...

CH pondered.....
Did you really want to make this thread about Mike Pence?


Yep...because pence is more dangerous than a gay figure skater, doncha think????? Rippon exercised his constitutional rights which you seem to have a problem with...very quaint defending bakers who hate gays and VP's that think gays have no rights....Looks to me you are a homophobe though you say you aren't


Another mass shooting that will become a political food fight with nothing getting done..So what, it was only HS kids....

commie said...

Rat hole postulated....

i never once have bragged about how tough i am

Because you are a big pussy.....LOLOLOL

Commonsense said...

The usual suspects are politicizing the tragedy by spouting that same tired, useless gun control rhetoric.

Including Florida's Bill Nelson, his grandstanding during Irma was merely annoying, his grandstanding now is offensive.

Commonsense said...

In happier news. Team USA women pulled an upset victory over Team Great Britain in curling.

Great Britain along with Canada are the favorites to win gold in curling.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Dumbshit. The drug list is getting shorter every visit to the non olinsky country, aka Kaiser Permanente Sunset.

Due to a successful procedure to address back pain I don't take Norco.

Anonymous said...

The USSC said gay relations were legal, they never said NORMAL.....