{"id":13092,"date":"2024-08-02T16:37:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T21:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=13092"},"modified":"2024-08-02T16:43:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T21:43:33","slug":"the-eternal-weirdness-of-the-closed-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/13092","title":{"rendered":"The Eternal Weirdness Of The Closed Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems Tucker Carlson and his guests know their gays&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/news\/tucker-carlson-pete-buttigieg-gay#toggle-gdpr\">Tucker Carlson accuses Pete Buttigieg of being \u2019not gay at all\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>In a recent episode of his online show Tucker Carlson Today, comedian Ari Shaffir and disgraced formerFox News host Tucker Carlson engaged in a candid conversation that veered into a provocative discussion about Transportation SecretaryPete Buttigieg\u2019s authenticity as a gay man.<\/p>\n<p>During the program, Carlson and Shaffir questioned the legitimacy of Buttigieg\u2019s sexual orientation. Carlson recounted a conversation with one of his producers, suggesting that Buttigieg\u2019s identity might be a political fabrication.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you remember Pete Buttigieg ran for president? He\u2019s supposedly gay, and now he\u2019s transportation secretary. And I had one of my producers who\u2019s gay, and he goes, \u2018He\u2019s not gay,\u2019\u201d Carlson said. He continued, \u201cI was like, are you serious? He goes, \u2018No, that\u2019s complete bullshit. All gays keep very close track of that stuff.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I am So behind on this. I get daily updates on <em>All That Stuff<\/em> from Gay Mafia Central. But I tend to just let them accumulate in my mail folder until there&#8217;s so many I have to mass delete it all.<\/p>\n<p>And Buttigieg is a policy wonk. This why those of us in the geek-not-fabulous-peacock stage-crew-not-stage tribe need to wear our pride items loudly every June because otherwise we might be mistaken for just your average everyday dorks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13096\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/gaynerd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/gaynerd.jpg 480w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/gaynerd-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>The Mighty Ethan on Flickr<\/em><\/p>\n<p>All kidding aside&#8230;Carlson and the rest of them really can&#8217;t deal with the world as it is because it does not validate their bar stool conceits. There are as many different kinds of gay male as there are left-handed ones. But the insular mind cannot handle that. If you don&#8217;t fit the pigeon hole they put you into they just try harder to squeeze you into it and failing that, declare you&#8217;re a fake. But it&#8217;s their reality that&#8217;s the fake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems Tucker Carlson and his guests know their gays&#8230; Tucker Carlson accuses Pete Buttigieg of being \u2019not gay at all\u2019 In a recent episode of his online show Tucker Carlson Today, comedian Ari Shaffir and disgraced formerFox News host Tucker Carlson engaged in a candid conversation that veered into a provocative discussion about Transportation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19,6],"class_list":["post-13092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-the-jackass-chronicles","tag-the-right-wing-mindset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13092"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13098,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13092\/revisions\/13098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}