Happy Bisexual Awareness Week for those who celebrate.
Photos taken just a few minutes apart in the Boise airport, July 5, 2025, show the full spectrum of current American religious faith:
I’m still awed by folks who, rather than drive or Zoom it in, voluntarily enter a 100% jammed commercial airliner while relying on a Fauci-style cloth mask to keep themselves safe from an aerosol virus.
What about converting legacy Christian buildings to one of the new religions? Here’s an example from Cleveland, Ohio in June 2025:
The eagerness of churches to convert supports my theory that Rainbow Flagism is the most attractive religion to Americans because adherents are never asked to donate money or even do anything than posit the existence of anti-2SLGBTQQIA+ haters.
The Boise City Hall flies just one religious flag (July 2, 2025):
> https://seattlepride.org/news/2025-lgbtqia-holidays-remembrances
Bookmarked, thx. I wasn’t aware “aromantic spectrum”, I’ve had ladies say they were repulsed when I asked them out–I thought it was me. There is also the more well known “aromatic spectrum” depending on how many days one goes between baths and the attraction thereto. Some of the r/OFChavs on Reddit brag that they only bathe weekly. How can you tell if they are lying? My wife told me one of things that attracted her to me was that I smelled like I used soap and water.
Why did masks get so politicized? I’m personally on the “apolitical spectrum”, I had a bunch of N-95 masks printed up with “Scientist: Virus Free, Phil!” on the front and wear them around the house. Unlike Phil, I don’t even get a sniffle during cold and flu season. I don’t know who Fauci is and I don’t care.
Of course, the N-95 masks also come in handy when one encounters a far-left member of the “aromatic spectrum”. [snare, hi-hat]
Are they separate religions?
The group with advance knowledge of Charlie Kirk’s assassination is Armed Queers of Salt Lake City.
They are run by a Middle Eastern transgender immigrant who advocates for queer liberation, armed Marxist resistance, and gun control.
Thread: https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1967758989791465856
> They are run by a Middle Eastern transgender immigrant who advocates for queer liberation, armed Marxist resistance, and gun control.
My claim is that when we can’t distinguish satire from the hard truth, we have reached the Classic Godwin point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law (I love her shirt.)
> the rule “should function less as a conversation ender and more as a conversation starter.”
— Godwin
Nah, you were right the first time, G.
Since Micron hit paydirt & houses quadrupled, Boise has become quite the gang of sunday liberal voters in a republican ocean. Don’t tell them to actually move to a liberal state though.
Research topic for you (or at least a survey of your remaining Facebook friends): What are the views of the supporters of “gender affirming care” about amputation for Body Integrity Dysphoria?
Mitch, such a great (and timely) question. I can’t get inside the heads of Phil’s Facebook friends, but I can reassure you that we on the Left are experts on Body Integrity Disorder and diagnosing it, most often relative to those we disagree with. In terms of the anatomy, we typically focus on the head and neck.
Regarding Boise airport exhibit, maybe it is just a painting that symbolizes good things? My parents still had one of my very old childhood paintings, it featured a rainbow (and a pirate with a parrotunder a palm tree a very detailed painting for an 8 year-old. Honestly, I had no idea back than that rainbow were a political symbol for back.than illegal things.
You were ahead of your time! (If you’re in your 70s or 80s.) Gemini says the 1960s were when states began legalizing bathhouse activity.
Philip, I am a Gen X-er. OMG – just realized that my generation’s name sounds suspicious 🙂 . I grew up in the Evil Empire, definitely not as enlightened place as SF.
@bewildered 1
The latest A.I. model available to me said that Apple did not change it’s rainbow logo to avoid being associated with the pride movement, and this article agrees by omission:
https://www.cultofmac.com/apple-history/apple-computer-logo
I had the rainbow Apple sticker on my car in ’94 when I was 26, and this guy didn’t follow me down the street, waving to get my attention:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gilbert_Baker_during_SF_Pride_2012_(hi-res).jpg
Girls did call me a nerd for having a computer sticker on my NSX. I really wish people would know more about history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_flag_(LGBTQ)
Then they would know that the rainbow flag has its roots in ancient Egypt, as documented in an article “Gilbert Baker: Street queen at the ball” (don’t click the wikipedia link for this, trust me). I was taught when I was eight that the rainbow was God’s promise to never flood the world again with water, it’s also an amazing natural phenomenon–maybe you were misled too–so don’t be too hard on yourself about your drawing. God didn’t promise the world wouldn’t be flooded with rainbow flags. Hope this helps.
@Trust skeptic. I am well aware what rainbow means in the Bible. According to a commentary, rainbow was a new phenomena back than because pre-flood rain clouds cover was too thick and rainbow did not shine when it rained; and it was a symbol of inverted bow with working part pointing into the skies (a bow held inversely, an ancient sign for seeking ceasefire) to seal the covenant with Noah and his descendants to assure Noah and his children that it was safe to have children and, as God commanded, to multiply and fill the Earth, because God was not going to wipe humankind out with new flood even if humans go back to sin. But maybe that’s one of the reasons why it was select by the pride movement, so there is a possible connection. I really don’t care if some groups appropriate rainbow for their ideologies I do not share, I like rainbows.
@perplexed
We are in complete agreement, they can’t have my rainbow. 😐 (They can’t have Dorothy or Toto, either–“Somewhere over the Rainbow” was about hope not pride.) Now if no one minds, I’m going to give Gaysper a hug:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaysper
We see the Rainbow flag displayed widely: in homes, shops, streets, private and public buildings and offices, and even on the White House ground. But when will we see it in courthouses, or better yet, at the Supreme Court?
> But when will we see it…at the Supreme Court
Given the 6-3 conservative majority, maybe quite a while from now? But even then, who knows?
It was interesting to read from pride flag history that some states (Utah, Idaho, Montana) had fairly new laws against displaying it at public buildings and schools. Separation of church and state.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/communities-fight-back-against-states-banning-pride-flags-on-government-buildings
I personally don’t even care, the whole thing is just silly.