Wilkommen, bienvenu, welcome

 

This is Edward Hyde, third Earl of Clarendon, colonial governor of New York and New Jersey from 1701 to 1708.  He was a cousin of Queen Anne and liked to dress to emphasize their resemblance.  And possibly for other reasons, who knows?  I just want all the loons and fools at Fox News and environs to know that drag has a long history which predates the guys in powdered wigs and tight, shiny pants declaring independence.  

Way before this guy, too.  (I like this picture because it shows Rudy's escort's damaged scalp.)  The dress is tacky and the wig is terrible, but you can tell he really worked on the makeup.

Joe Biden, who is president because he got millions more votes than the hair weave victim, had a ceremony at the White House to sign the Respect for Marriage Act.  Since that might not trigger the haters sufficiently, he also ordered that the White House display the rainbow colors and invited actual DRAG QUEENS to witness the signing.  The fabulous ones have found themselves in the front lines in the battle for a sane and inclusive nation and Joe felt they deserved some recognition at the highest level.  And it worked!  The haters lost their minds.  Well done, Mr. President.

I love it when they show off their knowledge of history.  "This is an effort to degrade the country and make it into a joke.  These are people striding through hallways that once were the work area of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and FDR."  Not to mention Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Donald Trump.  Have you ever asked yourself why James Buchanan never married?  Many people have speculated.  But good for you, Tuckoo, you can name three presidents, two of them carved into a mountain in South Dakota.  Carlson talks about drag queens the way people like him used to talk about Black Americans, as if they were not fully human.  He can't quite get away with that anymore but he still needs someone to be the Other. 

"Here's a drag show!  Welcome to Weimar!"  Also Baby Tuckoo, who studied German history mostly by watching Cabaret and Hogan's Heroes.  I don't mind living in a Weimar republic, I only worry about what might come next.  Tucker of the tan testicles had a guest who posited that we're in "the late stages of pagan Rome" with nothing to look forward to but the persecution of Christians.  First Starbucks refuses to put Baby Jesus on its holiday cups and pretty soon evangelicals are fighting RuPaul in the Coliseum.  And then:  "SEXUAL MUTILATION OF CHILDREN!"  Don't you wish your mind worked like that, i.e., not at all?  First Biden dances to "Born This Way" and pretty soon he's limiting the right of "any serious person of faith" (Laura Ingraham) to be a bigoted jerk.  Why didn't Mark Meadows listen when those Republicans implored him to have Trump declare "marshall law"?  We're finished as a country.

 

Cyndi Lauper.  In the place where Pablo Casals played Bach.  I just can't.