 Far-right grifter Milo Yiannopoulos has decided that he is done with nobody paying attention to him. He's fed up He's had it. It's time somebody gives him attention Once again that he so desperately craves So what he is doing now in what is I think really obviously a publicity stunt is he is coming out of the closet a straight Okay Milo Yiannopoulos is claiming that he is an ex-gay He's renouncing his homosexuality after he literally married a man and is now saying look guys I'll pretend to be straight if that's gonna get me attention from the religious right Okay So as Bill Browning of LGBTQ nation writes right wing gadfly and troll Milo Yiannopoulos quickly fell out of the public eye After flaming out in a dramatic manner following comments that appeared to condone pedophilia while he denied the allegations The fallout was quick. He lost a book deal, financial backers and speaking engagements as his former supporters in Trumpland quickly canceled him His social media accounts were shut down over his non-stop offensive trolling and the conservative provocateur was left with no one to provoke But like the GOP nationwide Yiannopoulos is turning to the religious right for personal salvation or is he simply trolling them too? Now he's then an interview with the religious right site life site news and while the outlet seems to take him at face value The gadfly's typical exaggeration outright lies and over the top asides insinuate that he's trolling them too He's now claiming that he's ex-gay when I used to kid that I only became gated torment my mother I wasn't entirely joking Yiannopoulos says of course I was never holy at home in the gay lifestyle who is who could be and only leaned heavily into it in public because it Drove liberals crazy to see a handsome charismatic intelligent gay man riotously celebrating conservative principles. That's not to say I didn't throw myself enthusiastically into the degeneracy of all kinds in my private life I suppose I felt that's all I deserved I'd love to say it was all an act and I've been straight this whole time But even I don't have that kind of commitment to performance art Yiannopoulos describes himself as an action hero and claims his husband has been demoted to housemaid and While he may have been complaining about his finances online previously in the interview He's suddenly fabulously wealthy again or trolling them It helps that I can still just about afford to keep him in Givenchy and a new Porsche every year could be worse for him I guess they say if you let one sin in others will follow and now I truly know what that means as I've begun to resist Sinful sexual urges. I found myself drinking less smoking less you name it I confess my weakness for designer shoes and handbags is yet to dissipate Yiannopoulos added Yiannopoulos has tried to make his life performance art But is the religious right gullible enough to give him a second act and the answer to that question is Yes, do we think that folks who subscribe to a religious book? Which pretends that talking snakes are a real thing wouldn't think that he's being serious here like You have to be inherently gullible to subscribe to religion in the first place So I think it's pretty obvious that they're going to run with this And if they can if he like actually tries to prolong this grift this ex gay act that he's on They're gonna try to like prop him up as an example that they can use as evidence that homosexuality is a choice If they're still like going on about that But I think that like that ship has sailed they've lost the culture where the culture war with regard to that issue And I think now they've kind of just moved on to attacking trans people But whether or not I believe that Milo Yiannopoulos is serious about being ex gay I have two responses to that the first is Shorjan and the second is a quote from another far-right grifter Candace Owens I don't believe this like at all just so you know so needless to say He's very clearly full of shit Like the things that he says here No, no like serious person would say so like he he got married and he's demoted his husband to housemaid But he is still living with you and you're trying to keep him happy by buying him cars and and things like that Doesn't make sense if you were truly committed to the ex gay lifestyle Wouldn't you divorce your husband because being married to someone of the same sex is Inherently sinful. I mean wouldn't you fully commit like it's such a lazy grift at this point That I don't even know how committed he is to it I think it'll depend like how much attention he receives from this that will determine How much like he really like dives in and goes all in on this thing But honestly, I thought that Dave Rubin would be the one that would do this first like do this ex gay Grift first, but of course it's Milo Guinopoulos because I think that he's even more craven than Dave Rubin In terms of like gay conservatives who really want attention but you know for him to say look since I've stopped sinning and Presumably like being intimate with my husband. I've stopped smoking and drinking but yet, of course, you know I still have a weakness for designer shoes and handbags Okay, totally straight. So like he very clearly is homosexual You know, he's embraced his inner fabulousness to an extent that you know, it was great as like a little Shtick. I'm the gay MAGA guy. Haha. Look at me But that kind of is boring It's tired now like the MAGA crowd has moved on you're no longer amusing to them They've disregarded you they've cancelled you So now he's trying to find some way to get back in their good graces and now he is He's resorting to this Again, I don't know like if he's really going to commit to this new grift But if he is it could be lucrative. It could be lucrative But I don't I something tells me like he's just like talking shit like he's not actually committed either way It doesn't matter, but I think that this really It's important because it speaks to just how desperate right-wingers are like he was a very visible Trump supporter and What was he known for? Was he known for like any particular policy? Nothing he was known for being like that really loud and obnoxious dude and he didn't like talk about policies He didn't try to promote any sort of political ideas He just like tried to be overly offensive and get as much attention as possible But Madelineapolis isn't that different than other conservatives like if you look to even Ben Shapiro Who's supposed to be the cool kids philosopher who's supposed to actually be like a conservative intellectual? When does he actually ever talk about policies? When does he actually talk about the things that he advocates for like most of the time? It's outraged because of some pop culture issue Cardi B made a song called wop That was offensive to him or like Cartoon Network is showing anti-racist cartoons to children like this is all surface level culture war bullshit Like they have nothing these are vapid individuals. They have no substance whatsoever tune in to Dave Rubin for like 10 minutes And you will lose so many brain cells. They don't care about anything. It's all about self-aggrandizement So like this is just some insight like maybe not as a brazen like the others aren't as brazen as Milo Yonopoulos But it's it's very clear that right-wing political commentators. They don't actually stand for anything. They don't care For anything unless it's lazy surface level culture war issues and that's it But really what they crave is attention. They don't have really strong beliefs about politics like to them They just want to make money and they will say and do whatever gets them to that goal of making more money Whereas on the left we actually care about political issues. We actually talk about things like a living wage Medicare for all tackling climate change. We talk about science as it relates to COVID-19 like we actually have substance But you see if you're substantive, that's a little bit boring But if you're a grifter if you're outrageous if you make ridiculous comments and say idiotic things that gets you not only attention but if you are like desperate enough You could be propped up by the right who will fund you who? likes you being a gay person who they will use to Drive hatred against other gay people and as a gay person let you attack trans people or if you're a black person They'll make you attack black people and say bad things about black lives matter Like this is what conservatives have been doing and unfortunately There's enough useful idiots like Milo Yonopoulos and Dave Rubin to where this grift is incredibly lucrative and Folks like Milo Yonopoulos like he kind of like takes the mask off of this entire right-wing grift So I find this absolutely hilarious. I don't think this is gonna last long because Being ex gay is not a thing like you can't just like choose to change your sexuality like that not possible So we'll just see like how far he goes down this rabbit hole How much he's willing to commit again? I think it's gonna entirely hinge on like how lucrative this grift is But if it does make him a lot of money and give him a lot of attention then he'll go all in But if not, he'll abandon this like the minute he finds something else that might actually get him more money and more attention