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"Tubby" (Original Post)
brooklynite
Apr 18
OP
Yep. They think "gay" is an insult. It's a way to call him gay without saying gay.
Scrivener7
Apr 18
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Stuckinthebush
(10,847 posts)1. Tubby?
There are so many better names to call him. Tubby doesn't track as well as, say, Crazy Jesus Freak.
It is so fun watching them blow up.
Conjuay
(1,396 posts)2. there is a reason you shouldn't let amateurs
enter a shit hurling contest.
oasis
(49,400 posts)3. Tinky Winky?
Perhaps VanOrden was slyly referring to the TeleTubby character, Tinky Winky, who, the late Rev.Jerry Falwell insisted was a stealth indoctrination and acceptance of "homosexuals" into society.
Scrivener7
(50,992 posts)6. Yep. They think "gay" is an insult. It's a way to call him gay without saying gay.
Earth-shine
(4,044 posts)8. I thought that too. It seems more likely than calling him "fat."
beaglelover
(3,488 posts)4. Speaker Johnson does not look fat in pictures. Is he?
TexasBushwhacker
(20,209 posts)5. He looks fine to me
Especially compared to TFG.
Midnight Writer
(21,786 posts)7. Van Orden claims he called Gaetz "tubby" instead of Johnson, but since he is a drunken lunatic, who knows?
He's as kooky as any of them, and he can't control his temper.
He is the legislator who screamed at some Senate pages in the Capitol rotunda, calling them jackasses and pieces of shit and to get the fuck out.