 Republicans have long maintained that their decades-long crusade against LGBTQ plus people isn't actually driven by hate Contrary to popular belief rather they're fueled by their compassion for homosexuals and their desire to see them stop sinning also, they want to protect children and protect women sports and women and Traditional marriage they just want to protect a lot of people not gay people, but a lot of people, right? They never just really come out and say what they're really thinking that they hate us But one lawmaker in Florida did just that because as LGBTQ nation explains state Representative Jeff Holcomb was speaking on Monday on the floor of the Florida House of Representatives about a bill to urge Congress to get Rid of the woke social engineering and experimentation practices in the US military Yes, you want to think about the military my number one complaint is usually that they should stop Droning brown people in other countries that didn't attack us, but for this individual this egghead right here I mean Jesus Christ he He thinks that you know the vocation of the military is is bad And he's gonna try to make the case for that in this video that we're about to watch But as you watch it pay very close attention to the blonde lady in the background and listen very carefully because you are Going to hear audible gasps as he admits What he does here as he says the quiet part loud labeled as racist and discrimination Without an ant without a response Isis the Taliban and al-Qaeda those are the folks who discriminate We bombed a building in 2017 Like we never usually do we bombed it because they threw homosexuals off that building our terrorist enemies Hate homosexuals more than we do They're the ones who discriminate our job in the military our Navy creed I'm committed to excellence and fair treatment of all that's what we learn in boot camp That's what we drill into ourselves each and every day while we're in boot camp. Please vote up on this bill Thank you time having expired representative Gregory you're recognized to close on your memorial Yeah, so needless to say he made a little bit of an oopsie You're not supposed to just outright admit that you hate gay people you're supposed to hide the ball and Cloak your true feelings by concern trolling about tangential issues that aren't actually related to gay rights or trans rights So it's just it's hilarious to see him say this because as he said it you can kind of tell that he's like Oh, I'm not supposed to give away the game here But he just kept going because once you say it, you know, you can't really put the cad back in the bag But I mean nobody who's watching this is surprised that Republicans hate gay people But like the disingenuity has been like the hallmark of their hate crusade against gay people. So for him to just say Yeah, we hate gay people, but you know Terrorist groups they hate gay people more because you know, they threw them off buildings. So at least we're not killing gay people aren't we merciful Yeah, very merciful, thank you. Thank you so much now for additional context LGBTQ nation explains Halcombe was speaking about Florida SM one three eight two Which would have the state of Florida send copies of a text to President Joe Biden and other federal officials Demanding that the military stop engaging in quote woke social engineering and experimentation practices This is so fucking stupid The bill cites the military's opposition to racism in the workplace and the facts that openly gay and bisexual men and women Have been allowed to serve in the military and quote the ban on transgender individuals serving in the military was lifted as examples of woke military Policies, I'm sorry, but aren't you the folks who argue that combat readiness was really important and distractions Should be something that are minimized. I mean isn't racism a bit of a distraction. Isn't that going to kind of? Destroy relationships in the military when we need them to be cohesive I mean, this is what you all argue, right? But no, it's bad now to say hey gays can serve openly now. We're not kicking them out for being gay We're no longer doing trans witch hunts and Because of that their woke Now more about Florida his speech comes after years of attacks on LGBTQ plus people's rights from the Florida state legislature Including the state's infamous don't say gay bill It's ban on transgender students participating in school sports and it's most recent bill to allow doctors to refuse care for LGBTQ plus people so states like Florida they propose and pass so many anti LGBTQ plus laws that it's hard to keep up with them So only a fool would think that they don't hate LGBTQ plus people But it's just so interesting to me that they're just saying the quiet part loud Even if it was a Freudian slip for them to say it to hear them say that they hate gay people that is Very entertaining and I like that they're doing that because I think that that helps us because they're just kind of exposing themselves We want them to not hide the ball I want them to be more explicit because that turns off the normies But even when they don't explicitly say what that dipshit said It's clear that they hate us and it's getting increasingly hard for them to hide that fact Not just in Florida by the way because last week Alex Bollinger of LGBTQ nation reported about Kansas quote Kansas Republicans enacted one of the most regressive bathroom bills in the nation after the state legislature Overrode Governor Laura Kelley's veto leading Kansas House of Representative Speaker Dan Hawkins to proclaim himself quote Just giddy quote getting that women's bill of rights was truly the icing on the cake Hawkins said after the body voted 84 to 41 mostly along party lines to override Kelley's veto the state Senate voted 28 to 12 to override her veto so the cruelty is the point for those unaware and their disingenuity is just crystal clear because this same party who is Stripping away women's rights women's reproductive health care They're passing bills under the pretense of protecting women It's just it's comical at this point and if you're a trans person or LGBTQ plus person is watching this I know that it's easy to feel bogged down by all of these stories because it just feels like everybody hates you and It's easy to feel that way when the bigots are much louder than ever before You know and there's a lot of bigots with power passing law after law restricting your rights by the way, we're up to 471 anti LGBTQ plus bills introduced in 2023 alone With more to come for sure, but I mean overall Understand that despite all of this noise society is Changing even if it doesn't feel like it because remember just because the biggest bigots also happen to be the loudest people That doesn't actually mean that they represent the majority Let me tell you what I mean a new morning console poll finds that after weeks and weeks of right-wing hysteria over Bud Light's partnership with a trans woman a majority I repeat a majority of beer drinkers Actually feel very or somewhat favorable about companies that hire trans spokespeople with 19% of Americans not really knowing or caring about the situation and just 28% of people are mad about it and a plurality of Americans by the way also support trans inclusion with regard to other industries that Includes 50% in beauty marketing 51% in entertainment That's a majority 49% in pharmaceutical commercials and 46% in auto and all of these numbers are only going to improve for LGBTQ plus people Since younger generations are substantially more supportive of inclusion than older generations and younger people are the future My point is that as much as we all fixate on anti LGBTQ plus hate myself included and as depressed as that may make us feel I mean it gets me bogged down as well. I cover this shit all the time on the show One day make no mistake about it all of us are gonna look back at this very moment and We're gonna tell our grandchildren or younger people that we know how bad it was and They're not gonna believe us and the reason why they're not gonna believe us is because society by that point Will change and this level of hate will be unfathomable to them because there will be so much change ushered in By younger generations and that's not just wishful thinking because you all know I'm no fucking optimist But that future is one that we can expect Because of demographic changes and more importantly Data so as bad as it seems now and as loud and hateful as these bigots are Make no mistake about it. This is all temporary That's not to say that racism is gonna end and homophobia and transphobia will go away. This is going to be a battle for The entirety of humanity's existence, but it is gonna get better and that's one thing that we can all look forward to