Always good to know who our REAL allies are... (Reply #31)

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Wed Dec 5, 2018, 01:17 AM

Behind the Aegis (50,195 posts)

31. Always good to know who our REAL allies are...

...or aren't.

Saturday Night Live's Homophobic Trump-Putin Jokes Need to Stop

Lame jokes about the presidents being “gay for each other” are so common you may not have noticed a problem with Saturday’s sketch. But that doesn’t mean they’re OK. Far from it.

Kevin Fallon
12.03.18 11:36 PM ET

It is approaching two years since Donald Trump was sworn into office, which means it’s been two years of Russia “collusion” talk and parsing of his relationship with Vladimir Putin. It’s been endless, and exhausting. That means we are also approaching two years of jokes about the two presidents fucking.

That, too, has been endless, and exhausting—and lazy, and ignorant, and offensive, and base-level, and baseless, and homophobic, and, well, not really a joke at all.

The most recent example happened during this weekend’s episode of Saturday Night Live, as part of a recurring bit that exists to test your eye-roll reflex: Alec Baldwin’s Trump and Beck Bennett’s always-shirtless Putin making light of their close ties by winking at a homosexual relationship.

The brief bit was part of the episode’s cold open, in which Trump is awake in the middle of the night, despondent about the Robert Mueller probe while at the G20 Summit in Argentina. He’s visited by a revolving door of his shady cronies, including, at one point, Putin.

“Honey, why you still up?” Bennett’s Putin says, emerging from a hotel room door bare-chested with a randy, horny smirk. He seductively pats the small of Baldwin’s Trump’s back. “Come back to bed, babe!”

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31 replies	Author	Time	Post
UPDATED Well, I did not know there were so many DUers with opinions on LGBTQ issues. [View all]	irisblue	Apr 2018	OP
Right?	Behind the Aegis	Apr 2018	#1
BtA	irisblue	Apr 2018	#2
RIght back atacha!	Behind the Aegis	Apr 2018	#3
Hello, been awhile!	MuseRider	Apr 2018	#4
Yes it has!!	Behind the Aegis	Apr 2018	#17
Oh absolutely just ask!	gay texan	Apr 2018	#5
I am impressed with the sheer number of DUers who recognize anti LGBTQ posts & tweets	irisblue	Apr 2018	#6
In the lifestyle?	gay texan	Apr 2018	#9
Oh, I see you weren't here in 2004 and 2008.	Maven	Apr 2018	#7
I was.	Susan Calvin	Apr 2018	#8
Check out all the Joy Reid posts on the greatest page. nt	Maven	Apr 2018	#10
I stumbled in 2010	irisblue	Apr 2018	#11
The stench of privilege is rank out there...	uriel1972	Apr 2018	#12
With LGBTQ close friends I have opinions though I haven't normally posted here	Fresh_Start	Apr 2018	#13
Excellent post. n/t	rzemanfl	Apr 2018	#19
+ a million. K & R your post.	Wwcd	May 2018	#26
In LBN, Don Viejo posted about a straight man killing a gay man b/c 'gay panic'	irisblue	Apr 2018	#14
Some will.	Behind the Aegis	Apr 2018	#18
Weird, aint it. All of a sudden, too.	Eliot Rosewater	Apr 2018	#15
Sure is. 🌈nt	irisblue	Apr 2018	#16
Over& over&over	irisblue	May 2018	#20
Or Kansas	Behind the Aegis	May 2018	#21
My only opinion is that life is too short to be boring, and do whatever you like!	Crowman2009	May 2018	#22
Well hahahaha...joke's on us.	Behind the Aegis	May 2018	#23
Lemme grab you a trash can	irisblue	May 2018	#24
I went & read the thread. Geez	irisblue	May 2018	#25
Bumping	FreeState	Dec 2018	#27
So would you explain that a bit more to me. I miss something?	irisblue	Dec 2018	#29
I was told to study simantics	FreeState	Dec 2018	#30
This message was self-deleted by its author	Odoreida	Dec 2018	#28
Always good to know who our REAL allies are...	Behind the Aegis	Dec 2018	#31

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