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Wednesday 21st of January 2026

By the numbers In the year leading up to Trump's election victory, the word “transgender” appeared  in the New York Times 1,169 times. The word “opioid” appeared just 284 times.  Edward Luce, Financial Times, January 13-14, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
By the numbers The word “gay” is 10% more likely to complete searches that begin “Is my husband …” than the word “cheating.” The Economist, September 9, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say Because a lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight– and when they come out, they're gay. So, did something happen while they were in there? Ask yourself that question. Ben Carson © 2015 Kwiple.com
Dead-in-the-heads say You people are so stupid that you've lost touch with reality. Somehow Donald Duck knows who Daisy Duck is. He doesn't mount Billy Duck or there would be no eggs and no ducks. Michael Savage © 2015 Kwiple.com
Employment Employers can already act on their prejudices to deny people a job. But facial recognition [software] could make such bias routine, enabling firms to filter all job applications for ethnicity and signs of intelligence and sexuality. The Economist, September 9, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Gays If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge? Pope Francis, referring to gay priests © 2015 Kwiple.com
Gays The sexual question comes after the question of color; it's simply one more aspect of the danger in which all black people live. I think white gay people feel cheated because they were born, in principle, into a society in which they were supposed to be safe. The anomaly of their sexuality puts them in danger, unexpectedly. James Baldwin © 2015 Kwiple.com
Liars say The transgender thing is incredible. Think of it. Your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation. The school decides what’s going to happen with your child. Donald Trump © 2024 Kwiple.com
Looks Researchers at Stanford University have demonstrated that, when shown a picture of one gay man, and one straight man, the [facial recognition] algorithm could attribute their sexuality correctly 81% of the time. Humans managed only 61%. In countries where homosexuality is a crime, software which promises to infer sexuality from a face is an alarming prospect. The Economist, September 9, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Making money the new-fashioned way Matching the gender of people entering a bathroom to the gender on their birth certificate © 2016 Kwiple.com
Reich wingers say They're the bullies, the Nazis of today are these bullies. Michael Savage, on gay rights advocates © 2015 Kwiple.com
Religious liberty We should not be persecuting people for their religious faith. Ted Cruz, justifying discrimination against gays on the basis of religious beliefs © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Banning transgender people from serving in the miiitary in any capacity is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Christians have rights others don't, like discriminating against gays and getting paid for not doing their job © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Gay guys just haven't met the right woman yet © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Gays? We don't need no gays! © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Homophobes are people too © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say It's not bigotry – it's religious liberty © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Pee where your birth certificate says you belong © 2016 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Taking money away from public schools to fund private schools that discriminate against LGBTQ and other students is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Thank God for Christians who only care about abortion and homosexuality © 2016 Kwiple.com
Same-sex marriage If you look at other nations that have gone down the road towards gay marriage, that's the next step of where it gets enforced. It gets enforced against Christian pastors who decline to perform gay marriages, who speak out and preach biblical truths that have been defined elsewhere as hate speech, as inconsistent with the enlightened view of government. I think the advocates that are driving this effort in the United States want to see us end up in that same place. Ted Cruz © 2016 Kwiple.com
Same-sex marriage My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a woman. It's a well-established, fundamental pillar of society and no group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality. It doesn't matter what they are. They don't get to change the definition. Ben Carson, comparing gays to people who engage in child sexual abuse and bestiality © 2015 Kwiple.com
Same-sex marriage [Some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe it's a lot easier to change the the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God. And that's what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view of how we treat each other and how we treat the family. Mike Huckabee, defending a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage © 2015 Kwiple.com
Same-sex marriage They can go right down the street and buy a cake, but no, let's bring a suit against this person because I want them to make my cake even though they don't believe in it. Which is really not all that smart because they might put poison in that cake. Ben Carson, suggesting anti-gay-rights bakers may poison wedding cakes made for gays © 2015 Kwiple.com
Same-sex marriage You've got understand, this is for me not about the right side or the wrong side of history, this is about the right side of the Bible and unless God rewrites it, edits it, sends it down with his signature on it, it's not my book to change. Folks, that's why I stand where I stand. Mike Huckabee © 2015 Kwiple.com
Schools No transgender, no operations, you know they take your kid. There are some places. Your boy leaves the school, comes back a girl, OK. Without parental consent. What is that all about? And they talk about a threat to democracy; they’re a threat. Donald Trump's response when asked what he would do to improve public schools in the Bronx © 2024 Kwiple.com
Selfie I have so many fabulous friends who happen to be gay, but I am a traditionalist. Donald Trump  [Presumably referring to Roy Cohn, his mentor] © 2023 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Jerry Falwell found out you could launder your hate through the cover of “God's will” — he didn't hate gays, God does.  Jerry Falwell portrayed by Bill Maher © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot You have set an example of moral leadership that has shamed the governments of Western Europe and North America and inspired the peoples of the world. Vladimir Putin portrayed by Scott Lively, leader of Abiding Truth Ministries, evangelcial anti-homosexual activists who promote “kill the gays” laws worldwide, after Russia passed anti-LGBT legislation he and his group advocated for during their fifty-city tour of the country © 2023 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest I'm sure I've gotten a blow job from a guy before. … I don't know if it's gay unless you make eye contact while there's a blow job happening. Diplo [Thomas Wesley Pentz], who defines himself as “not not gay” © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say [F]or the good of society … transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely. Michael J. Knowles © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Fuck Bud Light! Fuck Anheuser-Busch! Have a nice day. Kid Rock, in an ejaculatory burst of transphobic machismo rhetoric, after shooting off a high-capacity magazine's load of bullets at packs of Bud Light beer, made by the Anheuser-Busch company, in reponse to its advertisement in which the transgender woman, Dylan Mulvaney, is the spokesperson © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I don’t know how you could have a genocide of transgender people because genocide refers to genes, it refers to genetics, it refers to biology. And the whole point of transgenderism is that it has nothing to do with biology. Nobody's calling to exterminate anybody because the other problem with that statement is that transgender people is not a real ontological category. It’s not a legitimate category of being. Michael J. Knowles © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I'm looking at society today and it's like I'm watching an X-Men movie … It's like we have mutants living among us on planet Earth.  Some people don't like that but that's a fact. We have people that live among us today on Planet Earth that are happy to display themselves as if they were mutants from another planet. This is the planet Earth! Where God created men, male and women, female. I'm a proud Christian, conservative Republican. I'm not on the fence. Webster Barnaby, Florida state lawmaker, on transgender people, who he also called “demons”" and “imps”" © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say I mean, our race, the size of our feet, the color of our eyes, these are things we’re born with and we cannot change.  Homosexual behavior is something you do, it’s not something that you are. Mike Johnson © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say If you see someone with a beard and chest hair and a voice like Barry White, that's a dude. But we know that. Lia Thomas— I am sorry, Lia Thomas [the trans swimmer] looks like Michael Phelps. And people across the country, across the world, are, like, that don't make any sense. Ted Cruz, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas in August, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Let’s start rounding up people who participate in pride events. Kelly @kelly_neidert 2:54 PM – Jun 18, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say The only question is: Is God going to allow our nation to enter a time of judgment for our collective sins? Or is he going to give us one more chance to restore the foundations and return to Him? Mike Johnson peeved by the number of young people who “identify as something other than straight” © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Some credit the fall of Rome to not only the deprivation of the society and the loss of morals, but also to the rampant homosexual behavior that was condoned by the society. Mike Johnson © 2023 Kwiple.com
 
Trumpists say There are TWO genders: MALE & FEMALE. “Trust The Science.”   Sign denying the existence of transgender people Marjorie Taylor Greene hung outside her office  across the hall from the office of Marie Newman, who had hung a trans pride flag to honor her trans daughter and to commemorate the House passing the Equality Act, which Greene had tried to block © 2023 Kwiple.com