A Black and gay Republican influencer shared a video showing what he described as “White Supremacists” shouting slurs at him.
Rob Smith, a Turning Point USA contributor and an Army veteran, shared the video on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday. Smith said the incident occurred in Phoenix, where he and other conservatives gathered for Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest, a four-day event that runs through Tuesday.
Black, gay republican decided being a member of a party that hates him was a good idea.
“Gee Golly, I sure do hope these leopards don’t eat my face off!…”, followed by “shocked pikichu face” of surprised horror.
Is he staying in the club or is he waking up?
Honestly I don’t feel any sympathy for him. Its what he signed up for and its the party his beliefs apparently align with. Look at ‘your’ people they hate you and you will be in prison if they have their way but sure help them do that.
So wait he got his face eaten by leopards at the event for the “leopards eat my face party” and is upset? Weird. Talk about lack of self awareness
Republicans using racial slurs against black people?
“This doesn’t represent the America First vision” says one of the people quoted.
Come into my parlor, said the spider to the fly.
“As long as I’m getting my tax cut I’m fine with this”
May seem callous, but I have no sympathy whatsoever. I didn’t join the anti-lgbt club as an LGBT person… why would you join a racist club as a POC???
That’s what he gets for being a Republican. /s
Anti woke guy sees what the anti woke movement is all about.
>Some in the video appear to be chanting “gay sex” after Smith says “Look at that, I’ve got some fans.”
They really are too stupid to even come up with interesting insults.
/r/leopardsatemyface
What a confused individual.
His cognitive dissonance must be almost as bad as Clearance Thomas’s.
“In a surprise to absolutely no one, a….”
Jesus…
Well, a black gay Republican is an idiot for going to a MAGA event. Too many people are pretending that MAGA is not an authoritarian, fundamentalist, repressive, racist, and hateful group of people. They are ALL reprehensible human beings. Trump has shown who he is and what he’s about. There really are no excuses left for MAGA people. They have become a basketful of deplorables even if they weren’t always that.
I. Am. Shocked.
What did he expect?
**” …This is the unfortunate reality of a fractured party without leadership.”**
No, it is the reality of a Party which has taken full advantage of the messages of hate. Hate sells, it is a strong motivator and the party has made the haters comfortable in their own skin. They are so numerous they think they own the party, and maybe they now do.
Best line from this article is how he claims coming out as conservative is harder than coming out as gay.
What an idiot
I watched an episode of Intervention the other day about this guy who was raised by a foster father because his parents were horribly abusive. This foster father was a conservative Republican but he was the first and only adult to ever show this kid any love or affection.
He decided he wanted to work in Politics and started working on campaigns and quickly climbed the ranks of the Republican party, until he was working on Trump’s 2016 campaign as like a 23 year old.
Then he thought he could come out. Was immediately fired (I mean how could he not see that coming??) lost his entire career and his foster father said he didn’t support him. He moved to Vegas, didn’t fit in with any of the gays because he’s a Republican. Couldn’t make any conservative friends because he’s gay. So he started drinking himself to death.
And even in that situation, with all that context and a deep, sympathetic look into his background, I still grit my teeth watching this episode. It’s just so naive. You can’t be gay and a Republican! They hate you!
At the end he went to rehab and got help and I hope he’s doing better. He still didn’t deserve a life like that. But he shouod have expected it.
>”They shouted ‘n*****’ and ‘f*****’ at me to make their point. However, I served in Iraq. I never back down. Ever.”
Nor do you accept the reality that you are *choosing* to align yourself with people of negligible character and honor. You disgrace yourself, and refuse to admit it.
We’ve heard this story before. The Log Cabin Republicans, being surprised every time they are ignored/slighted/etc. Women that are shocked when they lose access to medical services. People originally born in other nations when they find themselves on a deportation list. The story again and again reoccurs – someone in a minority groups votes Republican, and gets treated exactly as Republicans claim they will be treated. Leopards eating faces, etc.
And they are surprised.
I’ve been thinking about that for awhile. About how that sort of mindset can come into existence. It seems obvious – don’t vote for people that promise to hurt you. And yet, here we are, again.
Something that has been sitting with me for awhile is “our values are their tools”. This is the group that screams for Freedom of Speech, then goes about banning books and limiting speech they don’t like. They are pro-gun, unless it is minorities being armed. Respect the Office of the President, unless it’s the other guy. So on and so forth, I could heap examples of apparent hypocrisy into this comment.
Except that it isn’t hypocrisy exactly, because those things they espouse are not their values. They don’t value free speech, they use it. It’s a tool. *We* value it. They use it. Pick it up to do the job, and when it is the wrong tool for the job, set it down and pick up another. Demand free speech when they want to say horrible things, demand censorship when it is something they don’t like. It’s a tool, not a value.
What do they value then? Power. Control. Domination. Feeling superior. Or in summary: To be above everyone else. That’s their only observable core value. Everything else serves that function.
So to circle back around, if you are part of this group, you either consciously or subconsciously accept that the things that are said are not what are meant. You can go to the rally that screams for 2nd amendment rights, understanding that they don’t mean it – if we start a national “Guns for Minorities” free giveaway, they would *lose their minds*. So much for that 2A rally, right? They know that none of these things are serious. That there is no shouted stance that has any meaning… from their perspective.
So they scream for anti-abortion laws, knowing that it won’t happen, it’s just a tool. And racism, and homophobia, and and and. Because they know it’s just about crushing the other team, not about the words.
Except – and here’s where the leopards lick their chops – it is about those issues too. You’ve got one voter that doesn’t care about the racism or the homophobia or any of that and just really loves his guns. So from his perspective, the racism, et al, is the tool while the guns are the value. A different voter couldn’t give a fig about the guns and is all-in for the homophobia. That voter knows the gun-bit isn’t serious because of all the things they’ve seen. The homophobia is where it is at.
These two voters watch the same media sources and hear the same speeches and are equally excited – but have completely different stances. They’ve been conditioned to think all the bits they don’t like or don’t agree with are just tools – and can be ignored. They are there just to “trigger the libs”, as it were.
​
Where you have problems then is when these different sub-groups with their contrary values interact directly. General rallies, for example. The rally for anti-abortion is curated – far less overlap. But the “Republican Social” is a free-for-all. The overlapping groups that thought they were one-team, get to meet.
And now you have a surprised black, gay Republican.
​
Just my thought on it. It’s really quite a complicated idea, one that has sat badly with me for some time. Why would someone vote against their own interests? This is what I’ve got so far… it might be completely wrong, but damn it, it’s the only thing that’s really making sense to me for the moment.
Sometimes you see a headline and you think… *yup this makes sense.*
This is one of those times.
There were Nazi supporting jews who stood by as the Nazi’s literally talked about how they needed to be purged. The whole time it was “Well surely not me, it’s the *bad* jews he’s talking about.”
There will always be people willing to be traitors to their humanity because they believe that somehow, someway, they will be exempt… that the squads won’t come for them in the middle of the night… that the neo fascists will just leave them alone if they play nice.
Every time you sacrifice your humanity for status, eventually the bill comes due.
>This is completely unacceptable & doesn’t represent the America First vision.
But it 1000% does. This didn’t happen at a Bernie rally or at one of….check notes….the 0 cult conventions Democrats put together every other weekend
they agree with me that abortion and taxes are bad and trump is cool but they dont think i deserve to live because im gay and black
what a difficult choice this is for me at the ballot box
Yeah. That’s what those events are about.
This is the future Republicans want
Leopard ate my face…
It’s like the guy walked into a leopards eating faces convention with a sign on his face that said “leopard food”
The GOP is practically a hate group at this point. Wth you doing guy?
That’s just like saying ‘black gay person gets treated poorly at a Klan rally’. What in the hell did they expect???
The existence of “Black, gay Republicans” is something I will never understand.
The U.S. is never going to realize the the economy actually does better when Democrats are in office.
“DeMoCrAtS ar TeH reAL RaCiSTs”
How dumb do they think we all are?
R/leapardsatemyface
To the shock of exactly one person.
anyone black gay disabled or a woman whos a republican: ur being tricked and used for a vote
Am I meant to be sorry for a sheep that knowingly walked in to a lions den?
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By Khaleda Rahman
A Black and gay Republican influencer shared a video showing what he described as “White Supremacists” shouting slurs at him.
Rob Smith, a Turning Point USA contributor and an Army veteran, shared the video on X, formerly Twitter, on Monday. Smith said the incident occurred in Phoenix, where he and other conservatives gathered for Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest, a four-day event that runs through Tuesday.
Read more: [https://www.newsweek.com/black-gay-republican-heckled-slurs-maga-event-1853595](https://www.newsweek.com/black-gay-republican-heckled-slurs-maga-event-1853595)
Black, gay republican decided being a member of a party that hates him was a good idea.
“Gee Golly, I sure do hope these leopards don’t eat my face off!…”, followed by “shocked pikichu face” of surprised horror.
Is he staying in the club or is he waking up?
Honestly I don’t feel any sympathy for him. Its what he signed up for and its the party his beliefs apparently align with. Look at ‘your’ people they hate you and you will be in prison if they have their way but sure help them do that.
So wait he got his face eaten by leopards at the event for the “leopards eat my face party” and is upset? Weird. Talk about lack of self awareness
Republicans using racial slurs against black people?
It’s what they do though.
He will convert himself.
Was his name Clayton Bigsby?
[Relevant video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2nTbqbtGug&t=101s&ab_channel=derrickcomedy)
“This doesn’t represent the America First vision” says one of the people quoted.
Come into my parlor, said the spider to the fly.
“As long as I’m getting my tax cut I’m fine with this”
May seem callous, but I have no sympathy whatsoever. I didn’t join the anti-lgbt club as an LGBT person… why would you join a racist club as a POC???
That’s what he gets for being a Republican. /s
Anti woke guy sees what the anti woke movement is all about.
>Some in the video appear to be chanting “gay sex” after Smith says “Look at that, I’ve got some fans.”
They really are too stupid to even come up with interesting insults.
/r/leopardsatemyface
What a confused individual.
His cognitive dissonance must be almost as bad as Clearance Thomas’s.
“In a surprise to absolutely no one, a….”
Jesus…
Well, a black gay Republican is an idiot for going to a MAGA event. Too many people are pretending that MAGA is not an authoritarian, fundamentalist, repressive, racist, and hateful group of people. They are ALL reprehensible human beings. Trump has shown who he is and what he’s about. There really are no excuses left for MAGA people. They have become a basketful of deplorables even if they weren’t always that.
I. Am. Shocked.
What did he expect?
**” …This is the unfortunate reality of a fractured party without leadership.”**
No, it is the reality of a Party which has taken full advantage of the messages of hate. Hate sells, it is a strong motivator and the party has made the haters comfortable in their own skin. They are so numerous they think they own the party, and maybe they now do.
Best line from this article is how he claims coming out as conservative is harder than coming out as gay.
What an idiot
I watched an episode of Intervention the other day about this guy who was raised by a foster father because his parents were horribly abusive. This foster father was a conservative Republican but he was the first and only adult to ever show this kid any love or affection.
He decided he wanted to work in Politics and started working on campaigns and quickly climbed the ranks of the Republican party, until he was working on Trump’s 2016 campaign as like a 23 year old.
Then he thought he could come out. Was immediately fired (I mean how could he not see that coming??) lost his entire career and his foster father said he didn’t support him. He moved to Vegas, didn’t fit in with any of the gays because he’s a Republican. Couldn’t make any conservative friends because he’s gay. So he started drinking himself to death.
And even in that situation, with all that context and a deep, sympathetic look into his background, I still grit my teeth watching this episode. It’s just so naive. You can’t be gay and a Republican! They hate you!
At the end he went to rehab and got help and I hope he’s doing better. He still didn’t deserve a life like that. But he shouod have expected it.
The “log cabin” is infested with termites.
Voluntary Judas Goats deserve to be called out.
Something something face, something something leopards…
>”They shouted ‘n*****’ and ‘f*****’ at me to make their point. However, I served in Iraq. I never back down. Ever.”
Nor do you accept the reality that you are *choosing* to align yourself with people of negligible character and honor. You disgrace yourself, and refuse to admit it.
We’ve heard this story before. The Log Cabin Republicans, being surprised every time they are ignored/slighted/etc. Women that are shocked when they lose access to medical services. People originally born in other nations when they find themselves on a deportation list. The story again and again reoccurs – someone in a minority groups votes Republican, and gets treated exactly as Republicans claim they will be treated. Leopards eating faces, etc.
And they are surprised.
I’ve been thinking about that for awhile. About how that sort of mindset can come into existence. It seems obvious – don’t vote for people that promise to hurt you. And yet, here we are, again.
Something that has been sitting with me for awhile is “our values are their tools”. This is the group that screams for Freedom of Speech, then goes about banning books and limiting speech they don’t like. They are pro-gun, unless it is minorities being armed. Respect the Office of the President, unless it’s the other guy. So on and so forth, I could heap examples of apparent hypocrisy into this comment.
Except that it isn’t hypocrisy exactly, because those things they espouse are not their values. They don’t value free speech, they use it. It’s a tool. *We* value it. They use it. Pick it up to do the job, and when it is the wrong tool for the job, set it down and pick up another. Demand free speech when they want to say horrible things, demand censorship when it is something they don’t like. It’s a tool, not a value.
What do they value then? Power. Control. Domination. Feeling superior. Or in summary: To be above everyone else. That’s their only observable core value. Everything else serves that function.
So to circle back around, if you are part of this group, you either consciously or subconsciously accept that the things that are said are not what are meant. You can go to the rally that screams for 2nd amendment rights, understanding that they don’t mean it – if we start a national “Guns for Minorities” free giveaway, they would *lose their minds*. So much for that 2A rally, right? They know that none of these things are serious. That there is no shouted stance that has any meaning… from their perspective.
So they scream for anti-abortion laws, knowing that it won’t happen, it’s just a tool. And racism, and homophobia, and and and. Because they know it’s just about crushing the other team, not about the words.
Except – and here’s where the leopards lick their chops – it is about those issues too. You’ve got one voter that doesn’t care about the racism or the homophobia or any of that and just really loves his guns. So from his perspective, the racism, et al, is the tool while the guns are the value. A different voter couldn’t give a fig about the guns and is all-in for the homophobia. That voter knows the gun-bit isn’t serious because of all the things they’ve seen. The homophobia is where it is at.
These two voters watch the same media sources and hear the same speeches and are equally excited – but have completely different stances. They’ve been conditioned to think all the bits they don’t like or don’t agree with are just tools – and can be ignored. They are there just to “trigger the libs”, as it were.
​
Where you have problems then is when these different sub-groups with their contrary values interact directly. General rallies, for example. The rally for anti-abortion is curated – far less overlap. But the “Republican Social” is a free-for-all. The overlapping groups that thought they were one-team, get to meet.
And now you have a surprised black, gay Republican.
​
Just my thought on it. It’s really quite a complicated idea, one that has sat badly with me for some time. Why would someone vote against their own interests? This is what I’ve got so far… it might be completely wrong, but damn it, it’s the only thing that’s really making sense to me for the moment.
Sometimes you see a headline and you think… *yup this makes sense.*
This is one of those times.
There were Nazi supporting jews who stood by as the Nazi’s literally talked about how they needed to be purged. The whole time it was “Well surely not me, it’s the *bad* jews he’s talking about.”
There will always be people willing to be traitors to their humanity because they believe that somehow, someway, they will be exempt… that the squads won’t come for them in the middle of the night… that the neo fascists will just leave them alone if they play nice.
Every time you sacrifice your humanity for status, eventually the bill comes due.
>This is completely unacceptable & doesn’t represent the America First vision.
But it 1000% does. This didn’t happen at a Bernie rally or at one of….check notes….the 0 cult conventions Democrats put together every other weekend
they agree with me that abortion and taxes are bad and trump is cool but they dont think i deserve to live because im gay and black
what a difficult choice this is for me at the ballot box
Yeah. That’s what those events are about.
This is the future Republicans want
Leopard ate my face…
It’s like the guy walked into a leopards eating faces convention with a sign on his face that said “leopard food”
The GOP is practically a hate group at this point. Wth you doing guy?
That’s just like saying ‘black gay person gets treated poorly at a Klan rally’. What in the hell did they expect???
The existence of “Black, gay Republicans” is something I will never understand.
The U.S. is never going to realize the the economy actually does better when Democrats are in office.
“DeMoCrAtS ar TeH reAL RaCiSTs”
How dumb do they think we all are?
R/leapardsatemyface
To the shock of exactly one person.
anyone black gay disabled or a woman whos a republican: ur being tricked and used for a vote
Am I meant to be sorry for a sheep that knowingly walked in to a lions den?