The Louse DBA Ron DeSantis is getting some serious blowback for this hateful campaign commercial:
To wrap up “Pride Month,” let’s hear from the politician who did more than any other Republican to celebrate it…
— DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) June 30, 2023
The most amusing attack on that ad came from the makers of one of my favorite teevee shows, Peaky Blinders. It chronicles the rise of a British crime family in OG Birmingham after the Great War. Team Louse used an image of Cillian Murphy as gang leader Tommy Shelby without permission to make its homophobic point.
Why Murphy? He’s a looker:
The other unauthorized images used in the ad were of Brad Pitt in Troy and Christian Bale in American Psycho. They have one thing in common with Cillian Murphy: they’re all lookers.
A good analogy to trot out at this point is Fight Club. You do not talk about Fight Club and you:
DeSantis seems not to have learned his lesson. He’s doubling down on that disgusting and despicable ad because he’s Trump’s mini-me. And the Indicted Impeached Insult Comedian never backs down or apologizes. But Trump never fucked with the Peaky Fucking Blinders. They may be fictional but they’re tough:
— Peaky Blinders (@ThePeakyBlinder) July 5, 2023
Repeat after me: Do not talk about Fight Club and don’t fuck with the Peaky Fucking Blinders.
The last word goes to Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds with the Peaky Blinders theme song:
Weird. So the Peaky Blinders folks issued a cease-and-desist statement after someone they don’t approve of used their image and likeness in a campaign ad. Just to make sure nobody got the idea that they support Ron DeSantis.
Yet the Supreme Court went to all the trouble of finding in favor of Lorie Smith, who doesn’t design wedding websites from having to design a website for a same sex wedding which she does NOT support. So, IF Smith decided to start designing wedding websites, and IF a same sex couple asks her to make one for them, and IF she considers that to be her personal endorsement of same sex marriage (which is a perfectly legal activity in this country) and IF someone who maybe doesn’t know the couple or Lorie Smith were to see this website that Lorie will not design and IF they think that Lorie endorses same sex weddings (even if nobody asked or even thought to ask), Lorie would be irrevocably harmed. Somehow.
I also liked the too brief appearance of Randy Rainbow. I had no idea that DiSastrous was a fan.
Every time I decide D. Trump is the worst person in the world, Ron DeSanctimonious goes and outdoes him, overtaking Mr. Trump as my most hated individual in the world.