{"id":52586,"date":"2023-03-03T18:16:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T01:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=52586"},"modified":"2023-03-03T18:16:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T01:16:57","slug":"neither-here-nor-there-on-this-culture-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2023\/03\/03\/neither-here-nor-there-on-this-culture-war\/","title":{"rendered":"neither here nor there on this culture war"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several weeks ago, a n allegation erupted that George Santos had once been a drag performer of some kind or other.  It made sense in terms of what I understand of the man&#8217;s biography &#8212; upper or upper middle class and homosexual and of appropriate places for such things.  The fact that he denied it suggested it may just be false &#8212; why deny y something so innocuous and trivial when bigger stuff are frying your political career?  As it turned out, some photos came out and he accepted the past and I guess move on to the real stuff that, at the very least, marks him as a one term congressman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I see new allegations springing up, and I guess they will do so from here on out, that some conservative Republican politicians voting for some such legislation curbing and regulating drag performances in age appropriate manners dressed in drag.  The photos appear to be fraternity or school pep assembly material.  And this makes sense as well, if I follow some biographical assumptions of from whence conservative Republican legislators sprung: the type that dabbled in high school pep assembly crap and the type who did stunts with frats.  I do not know where the hypocrisy claim comes in &#8212; the regulations of drag performances and in attempting to disallow minors from seeing essentially strip acts may go too far and leave minors from not being allowed to see essentially clown shows, but the intent remains pretty clear and has nothing in common with a Power Puff Football contest or that one yahoo dude who stuck two basketballs under his shirt and play fondled them as he awaited for whatever that pep assembly show was my Freshman year &#8212; one of a few things I remember of high school pep assemblies as I did not go to very many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I guess we will be getting more Republican drag regulators with photos of basketballs stuffed under their shirt.  I am assured it means something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several weeks ago, a n allegation erupted that George Santos had once been a drag performer of some kind or other. It made sense in terms of what I understand of the man&#8217;s biography &#8212; upper or upper middle class and homosexual and of appropriate places for such things. The fact that he denied it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52587,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52586\/revisions\/52587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}