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This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban in Afghanistan thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
Credit to: Jim Keller
#endorsement : @gayislandguide is proud to endorse @adrianktam for Hawaii House of Representatives for District 24 (Waikiki). Early voting numbers are LOW and now more than ever the LGBTQ vote is of the utmost importance! Be sure to return your Hawaii ballot by next Tuesday, November 3rd 7pm to a drop box located throughout the state! DO NOT MAIL ballots at this point as ballots not received by 7pm Election Day are not counted!
#gayislandguide #hawaii #election #lgbt – at Honolulu, HI
#endorsement : @gayislandguide is proud to endorse @DariusKila for Hawaii House of Representatives for District 44 (Honokai Hale, Nanakuli, Maili). Early voting numbers are LOW and now more than ever the LGBTQ vote is of the utmost importance! Be sure to return your Hawaii ballot by next Tuesday, November 3rd 7pm to a drop box located throughout the state! DO NOT MAIL it at this point as ballots not received by 7pm Election Day is not valid and with Trump and MAGA attacks on elections via mail we must ensure your vote is counted!
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Words can’t express the disbelief that you’re gone @bgmomo . Thank you for always making us feel like family while in Chicago. I’ll miss your supersized hugs and kisses, the nights of talking and sharing our island cultures and the feeling of your protection and love while at @luckyhorseshoelounge ! Im so happy we had this one last photo of us together celebrating our birthdays! The BBQ’s and good times in your backyard and being able to surprise you with food at the bar will all be memories I shall cherish. We send our deepest condolences and aloha to all our friends and family who knew Mo and was blessed to know him as we did. He will truly be missed.
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BREAKING: In an amazing and rare political moment, Bill Clinton in one fell swoop, just humiliated Donald Trump for turning the White House Rose Garden into what looks like Liberace's bathroom and hammering Congressional Republicans for allowing it. This is amazing.
United Airlines Flight 1157 from Honolulu that departed Wednesday afternoon for Los Angeles experienced unexpected turbulence as it approached LAX for landing. During the encounter, a pilot told the tower, ““It only lasted a couple of seconds, it felt like wake turbulence, but we’re smooth now”. The turbulence caused four flight attendants to be injured, including one that was taken to the hospital upon arrival. Witnesses say that they seen at least one of the attendants with blood on their head and legs.
The United flight aboard a 777 aircraft landed safely Wednesday night and had 190 passengers and 10 crew members. No injuries to passengers were reported.
#gayislandguide #news #hawaii #losangeles #united – at Los Angeles, CA
From your Ohana at @gayislandguide , Happy @honolulupride ! While enjoying the festivities, please celebrate safe and check on one another! Be Out. Be Loud, Be You!
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It’s @honolulupride 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Weekend! If you want to stay out late tonight or Saturday night, @hulaswaikiki is open till 4am Friday & Saturday and @tapaswaikiki open til 4am Saturday! You MUST be inside before 2am! No exceptions! Also, from 2am there is no entry or re-entry meaning once you exit, you cannot go back in. Liquor sales stop by 3am and everyone must vacate by 4am! As you exit, KEEP THE NOISE Down as if there are too many complaints the bars may not be granted the exception for future occasions or events like New Years Eve!
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It’s @honolulupride Weekend! If you plan to get out and about, be sure to get out and spend LGBTQ dollars at LOCAL and LGBTQ Owned Businesses! All these bars and clubs have also sponsored or contributed to various local nonprofits or events over the years - so support those who put their dollars towards our community!
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Let’s begin the takeover! After a few dinners, drinks and talks with friends, family and community members - the process of starting @gayislandguide was born in 2016! And here we are to celebrate today!
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On December 31, 2015 Odyssey Magazine in Hawaii ceased operations. It was Hawaii’s original gay magazine that could be picked up at most LGBT bars. Four months later eXpressions! Magazine closed its doors on April 30, 2016 leaving no LGBTQ magazines or media companies in Hawaii. This opened the door of opportunity and further brewing of thoughts began for @gayislandguide to be born!
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How @gayislandguide started 10 years ago? Our founder served as a consultant to Hula’s owner and assisted with bringing changes to the historical bar. That included managing Gogo dancers that he worked to ensure a diverse look of color, shape and size to eventually including girls and introducing drag to the gogo box in order to convince management that drag should be welcomed to the then popular LGBT bar. During that period, our founder started brewing the idea as there was still Two legacy print magazines (Odyssey and Expression).
#gayislandguide #gay #gayhawaii #gaytravel #gayfit – at Honolulu, HI
As Judy Shepard, mother of Matthew Shepard once said, "We aren't doing it for him. We can't help Matt anymore. But we all can and should help those who came after him”. 28 years later we remember that senseless hate-crime when two straight men posed as gay to gain Matthew’s trust and lured him from Fireside Lounge in Laramie, Wyoming on Oct. 6, 1998. They tied him to a fence and tortured him, then left him to die on the cold. He was found 18 hours later by a cyclist who initially thought he was a scarecrow. Matthew would die 6 days later at a hospital in Colorado from his severe head injuries. He became a pivotal symbol within the LGBTQ community and his death became a movement in shining the light on hate crimes. Today, we take pause to honor and remember Matthew Shepard, who was just 21 years old and a student.
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Mahalo to all our supporters from Hawaii and all around the world for making @gayislandguide Hawaii’s premiere LGBTQ+ media company with the best news, information, events, calendar, directory and more! For ten years we’ve been able to be the first to do many different things for our community and proud of it! Follow along as over the next few weeks we reflect back! And stay tuned as there’s more to come!
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It’s National Coming Out Day! Even in these times of endless attacks by MAGA extremism and elected Republicans who don’t hold Trump and the administration accountable or participates in the attacks themselves it is more important than ever to BE PROUD, BE OUT and BE YOU! This year, more than ever, it’s also crucial to GET REGISTERED and VOTE! Your LGBTQ vote is more critical than ever!
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Success! Saturday night’s Pilot program at Tapas Waikiki and Hula’s Bar & Lei Stand with the Honolulu Liquor Commission by all accounts was successful. The pilot was a test run into allowing a limited amount of licensed liquor establishments, at the commission’s discretion to remain open until 4am for special occasions.
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Tonight, two of Waikiki’s LGBTQ+ bars will be open until 4am under a pilot program in coordination with the Honolulu Liquor Commission. The idea stems from a similar program that was created by the Liquor authority on Hawaii Island during Kona Pride in September. Tapas Waikiki and Hula’s Bar & Lei Stand will be the two test venues on Saturday night, October 3rd and if successful the Honolulu Liquor Commission will consider approving special licenses in the future for special occasions like Pride or Halloween.
“As a commission, we are looking at ways to work with the community to be able to responsibly extend hours for special occasions, such as celebrating Pride,” said Jeff Hong, Chair of the Honolulu Liquor Commission and a member of the LGBTQ+ community. “In the end, we want licensees to be good neighbors and to mitigate complaints including about noise especially at closing times”. Hong is also leading the effort for these special licenses and got the idea while attending Kona Pride.
Under the special license for tonight at Tapas and Hula’s, NO ENTRY or RE-ENTRY will be allowed from 2am, which means patrons must already be in the venue and once you leave you will not be allowed to re-enter the establishment. Establishments will also not be allowed to serve alcohol from 3am and all patrons need to be out of the premises by 4am. The venues will also be monitored by Honolulu Liquor Commission investigators and Chair Hong stated that he and the new Commission Administrator will be attending to monitor and witness the program.
During the hearing on October 1st, when the Commission approved the pilot in a unanimous vote with two yes votes and three yes with reservations, Honolulu Police Department Major Garrett Okamoto of District 8 (Waikiki) testified that the department opposes the program as officers are already stretched thin with the current legacy cabaret venues in Waikiki, such as Kelly O’Neil’s and Play Bar.
In the end, the success of the program will be based upon community and guest cooperation, including controlling their noise upon exiting the venues.
Commissioners warned both LGBTQ licensees participating in the pilot program that should the commission receive complaints or find violations that they are likely to be unapproved for special licenses in the future.
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