Served...With A Side Of Pride
Celebrating Through the Chaos of the Chump Regime
Oh, 2025. Somehow, we’re still here. Still queer. Still making history, dear.
Despite the flaming dumpster fire that is the Chump Regime, LGBTQ folks are still serving hope, joy, love, and truth. It’s Pride Month. Whether mfers like it or not.
It’s nearly impossible to keep up with the daily disasters. The dick-tator toddler—diaper full, grip on reality empty—is surrounded by sycophants in suits so high on grievance and so low on governance, they’ve turned cruelty into a brand and empathy into a punchline. What they’ve built isn’t a movement—it’s a cult. One wrapped in flag pins and dripping in bullshit.
CONservatives—emphasis on the con—aren’t just gutting programs that support marginalized communities. They’re hurting their own base, too. When the fuck will people realize the con is on…and it’s led by CONold Chump? It’s not like he is trying to hide his blatant disregard for everyone…even of his enablers, patrons, and supporters.
All of the regimes cons are being called a “big, beautiful bill.” Yet none of us (unless you’re a billionaire) can afford. And yet too many continue cheering like real life is a fucking pay-per-view fight. Has anyone read a history book? Guess not.
While MAGA morons scream about “deep state” PDFs and “woke” boogeymen, they’re being robbed blind. Just like the rest of us.
Schools are being defunded, hospitals closed, and jobs automated and outsourced. And still, far too many are too proud—or too indoctrinated—to admit they are being shat upon by a reality tv swamp monster and fucktards like Steven Miller.
And yet, I continue to choose to celebrate. Not in ignorance—but in defiance.
Every glitter-drenched march, every rooftop rainbow flag, every drag brunch, every chosen family BBQ is a radical act of joy in the face of despair.
We dance in the ashes. We fight. We mourn. We rage. We vote. Rinse and repeat.
So let MAGA cosplay as revolutionaries while goose-stepping behind the Pied Pooper straight into the gas chamber of their own making. Stockholm Syndrome much? Let the extremists howl about “wokeness” while sleepwalking through their demise.
Let’s do our best to laugh, live, and love. As loudly and proudly as possible. Because Pride isn’t just about parades or pronouns. It’s about refusing to let bigots and bullies define our story.
Keep calm and keep keeping ON!
Clint 🌈✌️
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Unsurprisingly, Dick Tator Chump and his Chumpettes think shitty military parades are worth more than LGBTQ+ lives. So fuck them all very much.
What about all the "But the children!” bullshit? CONservatives are always conning. They don’t give a fuck about anyone but themselves or anything but their nyet worth.
I’m channelling my inner Miss Celie (from The Color Purple) and hoping Lady Justice and Lady Karma open a can of Whoop Ass on these greedy asshats and mfers. Soon.
NOTE: Big thanks to the delovely and delightful for bringing this story to my attention. So many “headlines.” So much noise. Can we please have a “No Chump” Day? Pretty please…with sugar on it?!
ON THIS DAY = JUNE 19
BIRTHDAYS
1566 = James VI + I = King of Scotland, England, and Ireland 🌈
1623 = Blaise Pascal = French mathematician and physicist
1856 = Elisabeth Marbury = American agent and producer 🌈
1861 = José Rizal = Filipino journalist, author, and poet
1897 = Moe Howard = American comedian
1902 = Guy Lombardo = Canadian-American violinist and bandleader
1903 = Lou Gehrig = American baseball player
1913 = Allen Irvin Bernstein = American veteran and writer 🌈
1914 = Lester Flatt = American bluegrass singer-songwriter
1915 = Julius Schwartz = American publisher and agent
1919 = Pauline Kael = American film critic
1921 = Louis Jourdan = French-American actor and singer
1930 = Gena Rowlands = American actor
1945 = Tobias Wolff = American writer
1948 = Phylicia Rashad = American actor
1950 = Ann Wilson = American singer-songwriter
1954 = Kathleen Turner = American actor
1962 = Paula Abdul = American singer-songwriter
1968 = Kimberly Anne "Kim" Walker = American actor
1975 = Hugh Dancy = English actor and model
1978 = Zoe Saldana = American actor
1983 = Aidan Turner = Irish actor
1983 = Macklemore = American singer-songwriter
1984 = Paul Dano, American actor
1989 = Giacomo Gianniotti = Italian–Canadian actor
EVENTS
1846 = The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules on Hoboken, New Jersey's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23–1. Cartwright umpired.
1865 = Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are officially informed of their freedom. The anniversary was officially celebrated in Texas and other states as Juneteenth. On June 17, 2021, Juneteenth officially became a federal holiday in the United States.
1934 = The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
1964 = The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the US Senate.
1975 = The American Medical Association (AMA) passes a resolution urging all states to repeal laws criminalizing homosexual acts between consenting adults.
1978 – Garfield's first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication.
1992 = Batman Returns is released in theaters.
HOLIDAYS + OBSERVANCES
PORTRAITS + QUOTES OF THE DAY
“I love to win; but I love to lose almost as much.
I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.”
Lou Gehrig
“There is no room in baseball for discrimination.
It is our national pastime and a game for all.”
Lou Gehrig
Thank you for the shoutout. We're in this together ✊🏼
https://youtu.be/KofQKoG37Cc?si=hoZEn6idAiNjtWIv
Clint I'm sure you'll appreciate this bit of nonsense 😲 Cheers DougT 🇫🇴🇬🇧