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‘I Am a Gay Man’ Reveals Economist Who Says His Call for a Tax on Gay Sex Was ‘Satirical’

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An economist and professor at San Diego State University says his blog posts, including one that called for a tax on gay sex and another that called women “whores” were satirical, and says he himself is gay.

“I am a gay man in a long-term, committed relationship and these charges of homophobia deeply hurt both me and my family,” Joseph Sabia says in an official statement released through the university.

Sabia’s appearance, at the invitation of Republicans before a House committee hearing against a $15 minimum wage, was canceled when his blog posts, written between 2001 and 2003 and since deleted, surfaced.

“I regret the hurtful and disrespectful language I used as a satirical college opinion writer 20 years ago,” Sabia now says, adding that his current work is “a more accurate representation of my more than 14-year career as an applied microeconomist.”

But the fact remains that even if his posts were satirical (as NCRM reported Wednesday), his conclusions were anything but funny.

For example, in his post “satirically” calling for a tax on gay sex, Sabia wrote – apparently not satirically – that people with HIV or heart disease bear sole responsibility for their plight, and “should not look to the public dole” for help.

Calling for a tax on gay sex was not the only troubling post Sabia wrote.

In “College Girls: Unpaid Whores,” Sabia “satirically” wrote: “The chant of Gen. Y college babes might as well be ‘We’re here, we’re whores, get used to it!'”

That 2002 post concluded – and apparently also not satirically – that “sexual activity has historically been more frequent among gay men than among heterosexuals.”

As a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at Cornell at the time, Sabia did not cite any research to prove his claim.

But he continued, again with no supporting data:

This is because there is no civilizing female force in the gay community. Whenever men want to have sex, they just go ahead and do it. Neither of the partners has much of an incentive to refrain from sex since monogamous relationships and traditional familes are generally not the final goals of these partnerships. Recently, the behavior of young heterosexuals has begun to resemble that of gay men because young women are imitating men in their sexual promiscuity.

The result of young women’s abdication of responsibility has been significant moral decay on America’s college campuses. Can the moral high ground ever be reclaimed? Perhaps…one church pew at a time.

Sabia also wrote that “several verses in the Scriptures refer to the important role that women have in the moral uplift of men.”

His bio on his now-deleted blog includes this statement: “Joe first became interested in politics during the 1992 presidential campaign when his grandmother urged him to listen to Rush Limbaugh. From that moment, he became a proud right-winger.”

KPBS adds, “According to SDSU, Sabia had planned at the committee hearing to cite his research showing that minimum wage hikes do not lead to higher poverty rates but would lead to higher prices and ‘substantial’ job losses.”

This study appears to refute that claim.

 

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Anti-LGBTQ Former Gov. Pat McCrory Launches US Senate Run in Trumpish ‘America First’ Video Targeting Kamala Harris

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Former North Carolina Republican governor Pat McCrory has just launched a run for the U.S. Senate. As the first Republican to have partisan control of North Carolina’s House and Senate since 1870, McCrory spent much of his four years as governor attacking the LGBTQ and minority communities, and signing conservative legislation so divisive the national news often focused on the Tar Heel State.

Now, after losing re-election in 2016, making him a one-term governor, McCrory has posted a video announcing his campaign that’s filled with falsehoods, has echoes of Trumpism, and targets Vice President Kamala Harris.

“50-50,” McCrory says in his first senatorial campaign ad. “The United States Senate is split right down the middle. 50 Republicans, 50 Democrats, and that puts Vice President Kamala Harris in charge, giving the left everything they want to radically change America for generations to come,” McCrory fear-mongers, despite the fact that President Joe Biden has a staggeringly high approval rating and the legislation he has signed into law, and is currently advocating for, like the infrastructure and jobs bill, is supported by seven out of 10 Americans.

“Harris and Biden are opening our borders before they even open up our schools,” he says, which is a lie on both counts, especially since opening or closing schools is a state and local decision.

“They’re raising your taxes, and even the price of gas,” again, false, unless you make $400,000 a year.

“I took on the tough fights, and the Liberals attack me for it,”: McCrory brags. Except it wasn’t only liberals who attacked him.

Dozens of corporations attacked his policies. The U.S. Dept. of Justice sued him. And there were national boycotts of North Carolina over McCrory’s anti-LGBTQ HB2 law that targeting transgender people through the use of restrooms and voided every local nondiscrimination ordinances, even for veterans.

Because of McCrory North Carolina lost millions in revenue.

“It’s time we joined together and take back the Senate from Kamala Harris,” McCrory says.

“So I’m in,” he declares. “Let’s put America first and bring conservative, North Carolina, common sense to Washington.”

Notice the “America first” dog whistle to pro-Trump voters.

After McCrory lost his race for re-election he became a radio show host and railed against “the African American vote,” and the number of Black people entering public office in his home town.

“We’ve become a very segregated political system in Charlotte-Mecklenburg (county),” McCrory lamented, complaining about the “tremendous change in dynamics” of the political system, and warning that “Democrats” control the city, “unlike the diversity that we had in the political system ten years ago.”

“The Black Political Caucus has total control over the Democratic Party,” in Charlotte, McCrory claimed. “Because in the primaries the demographics is that the African American vote dominates the Democratic primary. So therefore if all elections in Charlotte-Mecklenburg are determined by the Democratic primary, all primaries are then determined by the Black Political Caucus.”

Watch McCrory’s new ad for his U.S. Senate campaign:

 

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Watch: Michele Bachmann Tells Prayer Network Pals 2020 Election Was a ‘Coup’

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Former congresswoman Michele Bachmann participated in a World Prayer Network prayer call Sunday night during which she declared that Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 presidential election was “coup” and warned that passage of the For The People Act election reform legislation (H. R. 1) will “forever cement that illegal takeover into place.”

On election night, Bachmann boldly asserted that God had “sealed this election” in Heaven on behalf of Donald Trump and she has steadfastly refused to accept that her declaration had been premature and ultimately wrong.

“I want everyone to realize what we’re living through and what we’re witnessing is a coup,” Bachmann said. “This is called a coup, and a coup is a political term, and what it means is an unlawful, unauthorized takeover of a legitimate government. America had a legitimate government, but this is an unauthorized, illegal takeover through voter fraud in last November’s election, and now H.R. 1 [will] forever cement that illegal takeover into place.”

“Make no mistake about it—what we’re watching is a coup,” she continued. “You see this in third-world countries. It’s happening in the greatest country in the world, the United States, but it is a coup.”

This article was originally published by Right Wing Watch and is republished here by permission.

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‘This Is Illegal’: Former WH Official Slams Trump Advisor Caught Carrying Away Art ‘Belonging to the American People’

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It’s moving day for some Trump administration White House staffers, as President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration day quickly approaches. There are multiple reports of White House aides appearing to take for the personal use items that belong to the federal government, including in one case a bust of President Abraham Lincoln that was on loan from a museum.

Top Trump advisor Peter Navarro, who earlier Thursday was chastised for spreading election lies and continuing to incite insurrection, this time on Fox News, is now being accused of “illegal” activity.

“People need to know that the items inside the White House are not giveaways, they’re not souvenirs you can take home. This is not an estate sale or Antiques Roadshow,” CNN’s Jim Acosta said on-air.

A Yahoo Finance editor posted a photo of Navarro –who is vehemently anti-China – outside the White House, carrying artwork, a large framed photo of President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and other dignitaries.

Former associate director of the White House Office of Management and Budget under President Barack Obama, Kenneth Baer, says removing the framed image for personal use is “illegal.”

“These photos belong to the American people, and go to the National Archives,” says Baer, who clearly would know.

The original photo of Navarro was taken by Eric Scott for Reuters and posted to Twitter by a Reuters editor:

It is possible Navarro paid the government for the photo and frame, which Baer noted.

CNN’s John Harwood weighed in:

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