😂 Mine too. I would point out though since Log Cabin Republicans were brought up, they are one of the “right wing” groups Beau was complaining about yesterday who are sanctioning the severing of the the TQ+ from the LGB. 😳
We have been saying it wrong for a quite a while of generations... I pledge allegiance to the CONSTITUTION of the United States of America and to the republic which it DEFINES, one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. (based on the 1950 version). And this where we get politicians trashing the constitution while venerating (humping) the flag and their followers lapping it up like honey.
@@lubetime-autorepair7078 You are so right... I guess we just give them the election and rip up the constitution ahead of time so they don't have to even pretend they try to follow it. I mean 'they are going to do it anyway.'
The kicker of it is that the person who sent the message wanted you to talk about American things, as if people in the LGBTQ+ community weren't Americans. That says a lot about their "tolerance" of them.
Tbf... He only said that he tolerated Beau's choice of topics (for a while, at least), not any community outside his own! That's more consistency than most of them show...
OMG! Free speech that you abuse daily??? Thank you, Beau, for pointing out that WE have been here forever and helped create this country. 🌈 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈. As did the black slaves who literally helped build the White House and created the wealth the ruling class enjoyed. We really need to bring the actual history of this country back into the classroom. Happy 4th.🎉🎉🎉
Quite a few so called 'patriots' need to be reminded that freedom and equality have never been accomplishments, they are assignments. Assignments that are still incomplete, at that. Those Founding Fathers they claim to be so proud of would be disappointed it is taking us so long to get a passing grade.
Well, not forever. But as long as there have been humans, there has been wonderful variety. Can you imagine how boring humans would be if their views were true?
@@cariwaldick4898 You do have to be age appropriate. Some things should not be taught until College in their purest versions. Of course what is considered age appropriate varies over time. Teaching that our founding fathers/mothers were LGBTQ should be appropriate to teach early though.
On that same note, the hardcore right GOP males would be less angry/paranoid if prostitution were legalized. Guaranteed that most of the hate rhetoric they spew would decrease substantially if they got some.
"everyone has the desire to feel pretty, every once in a while..."? If I remember correctly, from the Monte Python show... TBF, I watched all the British comedy humor PBS had on in my day (talk about 'woke'😂🤣😂)...so it may be from a different BBC program... In fairness, it's been a few years/decades/eons 😂🤣😂👍 Edit- Benny Hill, the more I think about it...?
von Steuben was kicked out of Prussia because he was strongly suspected to be gay. He first went to France, where he was recruited by the colonies. He trained the continental army, taking a loosely organized band of rabble and turning them into a formidable fighting force (as he was trained to do, in the Prussian tradition). If it weren't for him, the continental army might've been completely pasted by the British. So the US has a (probably) gay man to thank for its existence. True, he might not have been driven out of Prussia if it weren't for homophobia, but that's all the more reason to preach tolerance. Prussia's loss was the US's gain, and probably allowed the nascent nation to survive.
@@johnhunt2390 Actually, multiple. Beau also mentioned the father of the US Navy, and he was also said to have been gay. Without either of those men, there likely never would've been a US. The better trained and more experienced British troops and their ships would've mopped the floor with the cobbled together militias we had at the time. Instead, we had viable combat teams on land and in the sea that helped make it possible.
Because they've been told all their lives that people telling them they're wrong (or even suggesting they COULD be wrong) in their prejudices is an attack on, well, them _personally_ but also 'everything-that-is-good' (using some symbolic attachment like "American Values" or "Capitalism" or whatever). They bought it so heavily that they immediately consider anyone who makes them question things "not a Real American" and in fact is viewed as an outside attacker. Unfortunately, I don't think most of them can be saved any more. They can only be... mitigated and removed. _Survived_ , I suppose.
Because if you ever say anything THEY agree with... well you obviously hate and are insulting the very land they were born in. - A couple of year ago I would have called this a strawman, but I am starting to think I was wrong.
B/c speech is only free, to them, if you say what they want to hear (both sides are guilty of this, alas, but supposed conservatives far more, it seems)
Von Steuben was DEFINITELY gay. He also responsible for turning a bunch of farmers and shop keepers into an actual Army that won the revolution. Like he literally WROTE THE BOOK, "Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States" which forms the backbone of how the military works to this day. Happy 4th!
Was he the one who was almost kicked out of France for being a bit too flamboyant, or am I mixing up folks? Want to say it was half invitation to come help and half leaving before hot water became boiling, but it's been too many years since school
@@bellablue5285 I know he was more or less chased out of Prussia for being too openly gay...despite the Prussian king at the time _also_ being all-but openly gay
I am a museum technician at Valley Forge and I've had the distinct privilege of holding his actual notebook that would become the blue book. It's hard for me to explain how badass I felt to hold history in my hands.
So Grateful to you Beau, Woke up so down, alone, family all died and children all moved away far, plus country, the environment (live in rural Michigan Canadian wild fires been toxic ) It is so hard as I am also not comfortable attending church do to their hateful stances and pushing for Trump. Disillusioned, grateful to you and your intelligence, you have no idea how much I need your posts, you are a true Patriot and you give this old 64 year old lady hope. Thank You
Best wishes, Lori. Any Civil War or Rev War ancestors you can think about? Or just spend some time reading up on the people you most admire in US history. From the ladies, there's always Abigail Adams. 😊
Hugs to you, I know what it's like, many of us have been there or are there. Sometimes it's just hard emotionally and psychically, especially in these times, and especially when you're isolated. Beau's videos do help, and we definitely appreciate him for being so sane. Hang in there, and maybe little by little you can help your life move in another direction. Best wishes for good energy to you. 🥰🌄
@robertgerrity878 my dad ww2 , unfortunately though always patriotic died ultra conservative Christian, basicly brain washed, hurt my heart but as a young dad yes he kept me updated on news and we watched fire works together on roof. Maybe I'll try that tonight thank you
Can you sell/downsize and move closer to one of your kids? That sounds like a terrible environment! I would move my mom, but she won't leave her stuff, yet 😔
Benjamin Banneker, an African-American mathematician and astronomer, had been engaged by Ellicott to help survey the federal territory during the time Ellicott was working closely with L'Enfant. Banneker was able to reproduce the complete layout - streets, parks, major buildings.
You have to save that information for Juneteenth or black history month. It's unimportant the rest of the year. People might start having ideas about the actual history of this country.
I love when I hear some people complain how is so much more prevalent today than in the past, ignoring that they were always there, they just didn’t feel safe in letting you know! I’m an Atheist; I really don’t think I’d have said that publicly not all that long ago. That doesn’t mean we weren’t here all along…
Not only that, but always have been here. Imagine a lgbtq cave man. It’s a thing I’m sure. I would also wager that caveman’s group were more excepting than today’s conservatives.
As a British ex-pat living in the States, I enjoy wearing a shirt that says "Happy Treason Day. Ungrateful Colonists." It's fun to give impromptu history lessons to Americans. Have a great 4th!!
I knew where this was going after Von Steuban and I love it. LGBTQ+ folks have always been here and been part of America; it's just the last 50ish years where they could be open about who they are (in some parts of the country, anyway). Happy Independence Day for all Americans. Maybe try freeing yourself of some preconceived notions in the spirit of the day.
LGBTQ+ folk have been here since humans have been humans and likely even before that. Really the ONLY thing that should be repressed in humans is their violent tendencies.
To all those folks whom today's Selected Fascist apparently hates, Happy Independence Day! I spent half of my adult life in service to the premise that rights belong to everyone, not just that guy.
@@ryanweible9090 It reminds me of watching Critical Role, a group of people playing D&D and other role playing games online. Whenever one of the players asks Matt Mercer (the DM/guy running the game) if their character can do something... less than smart shall we say, his go to response is always "You can certainly try..." Things either turn out hilariously amazing or completely not what they meant to happen. This is a case of both happening simultaneously!
I swear half the emails he gets seem to come from people who've never watched a video before. Like, did you really think that was going to work out the way you were hoping?
@@RevShifty I think it's a bit of the Dunning-Kruger effect at work. They almost certainly all think they have some sort of "Gotcha!" argument or whatever, while never having really thought that argument through. Or in this case, never done any real research about "The Land of the Free" and its history.
@@Reyn_Roadstorm Oh, a lot of them absolutely think they have a gotcha. It's always absurd, but Beau's commitment to always being polite and thorough makes those some of his best videos IMO. I suspect you're right about Dunning-Kruger, as well. There are just some things I can't wrap my head around personally, and feeling like I know it all is one if those things.
Someone I know recently said something about "gender confused" not being welcome in the US. I said "Since when? The founders all wore wigs, make-up, leggings and heels!" with pics to back it up. They haven't said anything about it in months now.
there is a great line in "Too won foo" after the town rallies around the tree drag queen chars and protects them from the bigoted police officer. the cop runs into what looks like a sterotypical good ol cowboy and starts ranting about "Its not right, thats not what the founders of this great country stood for" the cow boy just looked at him and said "funny thing about the founding fathers... they wore some fabulous wigs" Tipped his hat and kept walking into town
As an American historian and a member of the LGBTQ community myself, I wholeheartedly endorse this message. As an aside, maybe you should do a video on the gay man and drag queen who ran the DC social scene for decades before the word gay was even coined. You know, just to give them something else to choke on!
@@warriorwaitress7690I second this. As someone who's not American and can only say that I've lived there for short periods of time, I have even less of an idea of who the people might be.
Pretty good chance you have all worked with a LGBTQ+ person and didn't know it. I worked in the oilfield for 17 years as an H2S safety consultant, my boss was gay. I knew he was gay, but kept his secret. He was a top hand, and when shit hit the fan he was the guy I wanted backing me up! Back 84 on a blowout, Amoco Brazue in Western Canada two American blowout specialists got gas trying to land a set of BOP on 22% sour gas well flowing at 50 million CFM. My gay boss rescued them both.
I was in and still work with the U.S. Navy. We all knew there were gay folks. Kinda knew who was who. When the whole "don't ask, don't tell" thing ended, within a year or two we had our first retirement/gay wedding. It was a cool first to see the retirement flag for the best admin guy I've ever met get handed to another dude as their spouse.
Most people don't care if your gay. Just live your life and don't push it in people's faces. Most people really don't give a shit and would treat you no differently if it wasn't in our faces constantly. We don't have a heterosexual male month.
Same here, about midway through it was like I might've seen the thread tying this all together. Someone got a fourth of July burn and it wasn't from the fireworks. 😂
First thing I heard this morning. Pre-coffee. From a recently widowed dad raising a gay child, thank you. We need more love and tolerance, education and violence of THIS kind in the world. Happy Independence Day, sir.
I'm so sorry for your loss. But it sounds like your child is in excellent hands, and their burden and life scars will be less intense because of you. I hope that helps you relax a little, at least occasionally.
I hate you experienced such a loss. Please re-think advocating for tolerance. No one ever "tolerates" anyone compassionately, it just sets the bar for respect too low.
That "tolerate it" comment pops up a lot. If ya find yourself "tolerating" someone else's civil liberties, just know that society as a whole is and has been "tolerating" you in hopes you'll get better. Enjoy the snakes and sparklers and have a safe one internet people!
I think of that first amendment right not only as a license to freely voice your opinion, but as the ability to make yourself look as stupid as you possibly can. The letter writer achieved his/her goal quite admirably.
The better the channel the worse the trolls get. And I notice Beau gets a LOT of them! Happy Independence Day to the real patriots of this nation 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
For those who haven't looked up what log cabin republicans are: The term “log cabin republicans” refers to a political organization of Republicans who support LGBT+ equality and civil rights. The name is inspired by Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president, who was born in a log cabin and who championed the emancipation of slaves and the preservation of the union. The organization was founded in 1977 in California as a response to the Briggs Initiative, which attempted to ban homosexuals from teaching in public schools. The group received support from Ronald Reagan, who opposed the initiative and later became president. How far the republican party has fallen.
@@TheVincentKyle there’s a chunk of deflected self hate and pick-me-ism in the base operating code of most conservative minorities that manifests in variations of “I’m one of the good ones, so you don’t have to hate me”. It is lickspittle cronyism at its most pathetic, and I am in equal measure saddened and disgusted by it.
The Log Cabin Republicans, in the 2000s, started endorsing anti-gay presidential candidates (Romney and GW Bush). They also stuck with their 2016 endorsement of Trump after he immediately started endorsing anti-gay initiatives. The group's wavering on Liberty for LGBTQ people began during Obama's presidency. There were critical conservative principles to uphold, namely the preservation of wealth and privilege among Christian white people, and that directly conflicted with pro-gay liberal stance.
Considering that Reagan is the president that succeeded in poisoning your Republic, they've not fallen so far as you think because they've been on their merry way to hell since 1948, when Truman won instead of Dewey. "Tailgunner Joe" was the first salvo in the republican war on sanity, education, and tolerance, and to be honest, even Ike is complicit seeing as how he built the industrial military complex he warned of, a "hey, thanks for the heads up, Dr. Frankenstein" moment if ever there was one. That monster has been incestuously entwined with republican polities ever since.
"You don't have to be straight to shoot straight." -- Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-AZ), when asked about gay men in the military. Funny how, at one time, some Republicans actually didn't have a problem with this. Of course, Goldwater was also a combat veteran and a "mind your own business" libertarian. As for Reagan, he may have supported the Log Cabin Republicans, but he also bowed to political pressure from the Religious Right not to recognize the AIDS crisis because, after all, that disease is God's punishment on the gays. Only when Dr. C. Everett Koop recognized the threat to public health (outweighing Koop's own personal Christian conservatism) did the Reagan Administration take the disease seriously.
The message for me is that mindless propaganda victims don’t realize that LGBTQ+ people have existed SINCE THERE HAVE BEEN HUMANS. Was that the message you got?
Yep. As soon as I heard von Steuben, I knew exactly where he was going. I wonder how all those anti LGBTQ+ folks square their performative patriotism with the father of the US Army being gay.
You must have lots of viewers who watch because they hate your message, but they keep watching and commenting. That in itself is an interesting aspect of your show.
There have ALWAYS been gay and lesbian people involved in the positive history of this nation. It is only our desire to be exclusionary that wipes their contributions from history...
Well, that and our absurdly puritanical background. It often directly leads to that desire to be exclusionary, but it's such a nasty and pervasive issue with American culture that it always feels like it needs it own mention to me.
One of the difficult things about when a historical figure "rumored" to be LGBTQ is that, due to stigma (even in Ancient Greece and Rome, believe it or not) it was a very easy way to smear a political rival or someone you had personal beef with. So sometimes it's accurate, and sometimes it isn't at all, and we are just propagating the historical equivalent of an eighth grade bully calling someone the F word. Sonetimes it is just a faulure to understand the culture of another time. One Revolutionary figure who seems almost certainly to have been pretty "openly gay" by the standards of the time at least, was von Steuben, the Prussian who came over, got the Army into shape to win the war, and spent the rest of his life here. Look him up if you dont know him, dear reader, and you will see what I mean. Prussians were elite military experts of the time, and his work was absolutely invaluable to the Revolution. Someone else who would be LGBTQ+ adjacent, at least, depending on how one defines the acronym (and also someone important to our national Independence whom we should absolutely know about) Is Casimir Pulaski, a polish nobleman who was trained for the military from childhood, was an expert in cavalry and horsemanship, took part in a failed attempt to establish political change in Poland and had to leave his home as a result. He went to Paris where he met Ben Franklin, who recruited him and sent him to the colonies. He worked with George Washington establishing our first US cavalry, And actually died fighting the war for Independence. He is buried here, and monuments and parks and streets are named for him. He never married, and the only romantic relationship I know of involved letters back and forth with a young polish noblelady, but she later went on to marry someone else. Casimir remained a bachelor for life. But here's the thing. When his grave was excavated a few years ago, the researchers discovered that Casinir was actually intersexed from birth, Meaning he had the XX chromosomes of a female, but had a biological and hormonal difference, most likely congenital adrenal hyperplasia, that caused him to develop like a hormonal male, in utero and for life. So....Casimir was somewhat slight, had some bone structure details that are female, but was very masculine otherwise, had no breast development, a mustache, male pattern balding, the whole shebang. He probably had reasonably male looking genitalia at birth, but they were likely noticeably "different".... and when he reached puberty, they were almost certainly not "functional" in the full sense of the word. His family and he himself likely thought of him as a male with a birth defect of the genitals, rather than as a female, And her certainly experienced male puberty and life in male hormonal terms. And this is presumably why, even if he wanted to marry the woman he exchanged letters with, he opted to remain single and focus fully on his career. ( I am using "He" out of respect for the fact that Casimir used it, lived as and probably thought of himself as male.)
Happy 4th, Beau, and ALL Americans. Beau, thank you for the unbelievable amount of work you do to keep people informed. It’s a beautiful, admirable service to your country and beyond. Pretty sure folks all over the world listen to you.
As we celebrate our Independence Day, remember that we broke free of the rule of King George, and Republican anti-patriots want to coronate a new tyrant in Trump, a man they see fit to be completely above all of the laws of our society that the rest of us must adhere to.
Good comment. Forgive me for being pedantic, but the word is not 'coronate'; it is 'crown'. A king is crowned at his coronation. That goes for queens as well. Sorry.
Happy Fourth of July. Flying my flag today as I #takebacktheflag to remind everyone that this country needs to keep progressing to freedom and equality for all and reject those MAGAt bigots.
Perfect comeback! And let's not forget the message Beau received was sent from a device that would just not exist the way we know it were it not for "the gays". *curtseys to Mr. Turing*
It stuns me that there are people so stupid that they assume LGBTQ is something that just popped up all of a sudden. It may have had a different term over different times, but its been around since the beginning of time... I was a medic in the Army in a time before "dont ask, dont tell" where some of the most talented soldiers i ever met lost their careers and were dishonorably discharged because of who they loved. One of my closest friends got caught off base kissing another guy by a horrible bigot in our unit. Rather than looking the other way he came back to base and screamed at everyone that would listen about how so and so was gay(not his word choice). Rather than go through the horror or article 15s and discharges and his family finding out, he went to the PX and bought as much Tylenol as he could get a hold of. He died a painful, miserable death. He was one of the most dedicated soldiers we had and he chose death over shame. It haunts me to this day. It needs to stop. This soldier would have given his life to save others...but was forced by shame and bigotry into taking his own life before he was old enough to buy a beer. Whoever wrote this question to Beau needs a good bitchslap.
@@quintrankid8045 And if they use it to spread cartoonishly stupid bigotry, they absolutely deserve to get the taste smacked straight out of their mouths. I'd rather see them choke on their own teeth, personally.
Reference: It may have had a different term over different times... Matthew 19:12 Jesus speaking: "For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others-and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it." Emphasis: Born That Way.
They absolutely need a bitchslap straight across the face. The kind that leaves their ears ringing for a while. I'm sorry about your friend. I was too young to know anyone serving before DADT, but over the years I've met plenty who had to hide who they were just to serve. In an all volunteer Service, at that. It wasn't ever right, though I'm glad that's one place where positive changes happened where they're not likely to slide backwards like they are outside of the Service. I hope the rat bastard who cost him his future suffered horribly somewhere along the line.
@@quintrankid8045 The two are not mutually exclusive. The right to free speech is the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of governmental retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction. It does not mean that you have the right to say any hateful thing and be immune from the consequences of that speech delivered from fellow citizens. If you doubt that, run around shouting the N-word everywhere you go. You will get kicked out of businesses, lose your job, and perhaps even be bitchslapped by someone who takes personal offense to you spouting those slurs. The First Amendment doesn't protect you from any of this.
They weren't technically atheists, they were Deists. They believed in a god, they just didn't believe said god interfered in the world and the lives of humans. Perhaps a distinction without much of a difference, but technically, not atheists. But they did have very low opinions of organized religion and believed firmly in the separation of church and state.
Another one to add to the list - Casimir Pulaski. He was a Revolutionary War general and known as the "Father of the American cavalry". He was also possibly either trans-masc or intersex.
What we need is our elementary and high schools to teach us history, instead of mythology. I didn’t actually learn American history until college-and most of that was debunking the years of mythology. Some people don’t get that far. At least one person corrected a few historical details in an essay that I knew damn well were accurate, because they knew the mythology, not the history. And I didn’t grow up in an area where the “lost cause” narrative was taught-I can at least say in Elementary School, we learned that the Civil War was over slavery.
Also, too many people never leave their homes, i.e., rarely, if ever, go beyond the city limits of where they live, let alone venture out of their home state nor go to another country. I remember living in Valencia, Spain for my junior year in college and one day, while in a bar with friends, a tour bus of American tourists pulls up and this tall cowboy with the proverbial 10-gallon hat stomps into the bar and yells "How come nobody speaks English in this g**d*** town?!?" And I jumped to my feet and yelled back at him, "Because you're in SPAIN and nobody owes you a g**d*** thing!" That shut him up real fast -- he glared at me and stomped back out onto the bus. The owner of the bar came over to me, handed me a glass of sangria and thanked me in Spanish.....made my day!
Most of us Americans are nowhere near as wantonly ignorant as those in the party of bigoted idealism. Indeed their entire party base at their most numerous ever in 2020 was less than 30% (74 million out of 255 million). That 30% does not represent the whole. So please do not lump the overwhelming 70%+ majority of Americans in with our bigots. No one that is not themselves a bigot deserves that. That said, I'm sure you meant well and likely didn't mean to imply that all Americans are not educated in history. But it's the party of bigoted idealism that began destroying our public school system in 1981. It used to be #1 in the world before the 80's. Yes there is an alarmingly real problem, but one cannot correctly blame the students or the teachers for that destruction. Instead ask the question of the individual: _is it wanton ignorance, or simply ignorance?_ Not mad at you at all, just tired of people failing to use simple qualifiers, like _some, many, a large amount,_ etc. 🙂
@@DubhghlasMacDubhghlas, I suppose if you think MNMs without their heels and rainbows turn people gay, then you might think this video could too! Are you gay yet?
I knew exactly what you were talking about when you mentioned Friedrich Von Steuben. For those of you who don’t know, he was an experienced German officer who was dismissed from the Prussian military for being openly gay. Without him Washington’s army would have fallen apart at Valley Forge.
Independence Day is not the day we became free citizens of the world. It's the day we gained freedom from England and our citizens largely remained without the same freedoms they were without before the Revolutionary War...
The colonies did not gain freedom from England on the 4th. That was just the day they declared it. The freedom came in 1783 when the Treaty of Paris was signed ending the war.
The gig was up when Beau said Stuben for me. Didn't know the others might have been LGBT but Stuben BALLED. Man was over the top with all the bells on. One of my faves from that war for how extra he was.
That grin, I love the videos when Beau gets to do that grin! PS: In the UK it is technically disability pride month, not that you would know it, not many big corps putting up stands, and changing their social media profile pictures. So, as ever, disabled folx get to do it all by themselves - so here's to my disabled fam all around the globe, we may not be as visible as our siblings-in-solidarity (a community with which we often overlap), but we are just as much a community in our own way, and I send love, good wishes, and solidarity to all.
This once again shows that Beau has a very diverse following. Even those that disagree with him listen to him. The seeds of enlightenment are sown. If a few sprout and grow, good has been done.
Steuben was such a bad ass. He was like; Prussian royalty too gay for the army and went to united states on a sled with a huge greyhound and turned Washington's militia into an army.
Happy Independence Day all you beautiful souls that follow Beau and his teaching, understanding, and yes, tolerance. Beau is someone that has kept me calm and anchored over these last several years. We love you brother.✌️💯🌈🇺🇲
I woke up early before everybody else, there was no coffee, and this was the first message I read. Yes, I woke up and chose violence.
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That’s why you need coffee first thing.
Sounds like fun times. Sometimes violence is the right choice.
If you fail to plan coffee you plan to violence in the morning.
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your favorite form of compliance: Malicious Compliance.
😂 Mine too. I would point out though since Log Cabin Republicans were brought up, they are one of the “right wing” groups Beau was complaining about yesterday who are sanctioning the severing of the the TQ+ from the LGB. 😳
Oh tea he, nailed it.
That is the best kind, after all.
And oh boy howdy is he good at it!
The best type of compliance
Why do I get the feeling you really, really enjoyed doing EXACTLY what that writer asked for?
Because we enjoyed hearing it.
:D Maybe it was that little *twinkle* in Beau's eye...
"Malicious compliance", beautifully demonstrated!😍
@@JustMe-vk4fn I think it was more the impish grin he started the video with. But there definitely was a twinkle.
@@JustMe-vk4fn We all love seeing that twinkle in his eye telling us it's a good one. Even better that the upside down patch days.
16 months until the general election folks. ORGANIZE AND VOTE LIKE THE CONSTITUTION IS ON THE LINE because it is.
We have been saying it wrong for a quite a while of generations...
I pledge allegiance to the CONSTITUTION of the United States of America and to the republic which it DEFINES, one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. (based on the 1950 version).
And this where we get politicians trashing the constitution while venerating (humping) the flag and their followers lapping it up like honey.
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Either way they do something to stop it so why bother. This time they may go further then Jan 6.
@@lubetime-autorepair7078 You are so right... I guess we just give them the election and rip up the constitution ahead of time so they don't have to even pretend they try to follow it. I mean 'they are going to do it anyway.'
4 months in Virginia for state legislative elections!
I love how someone who decides to spew hate goes around accusing others of "abusing" their freedom of speech.
@bot1a543 that sound like tRump 😅
@@bot1a543damn. Insightful bot
The kicker of it is that the person who sent the message wanted you to talk about American things, as if people in the LGBTQ+ community weren't Americans. That says a lot about their "tolerance" of them.
They only like their America a certain way. White, male and straight.
“Tolerance” implies that you have the right to disapprove of something. Nope. Either live with it or don’t.
It reminds me of that "take back America" slogan. Take it back from whom? Other Americans?
Tbf... He only said that he tolerated Beau's choice of topics (for a while, at least), not any community outside his own! That's more consistency than most of them show...
Ignorance and religion are the root of polarization and intolerance in our country. Unfortunately I don’t think either can be changed.
OMG! Free speech that you abuse daily??? Thank you, Beau, for pointing out that WE have been here forever and helped create this country. 🌈 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈. As did the black slaves who literally helped build the White House and created the wealth the ruling class enjoyed. We really need to bring the actual history of this country back into the classroom. Happy 4th.🎉🎉🎉
Bring history "back" into the classroom? Real history wasn't really taught--unless you could read between the lines.
As a good friend says all the time "Teach ALL the history."
Quite a few so called 'patriots' need to be reminded that freedom and equality have never been accomplishments, they are assignments. Assignments that are still incomplete, at that. Those Founding Fathers they claim to be so proud of would be disappointed it is taking us so long to get a passing grade.
Well, not forever. But as long as there have been humans, there has been wonderful variety. Can you imagine how boring humans would be if their views were true?
@@cariwaldick4898 You do have to be age appropriate. Some things should not be taught until College in their purest versions. Of course what is considered age appropriate varies over time. Teaching that our founding fathers/mothers were LGBTQ should be appropriate to teach early though.
I contend that J. Edgar would have been much less paranoid and hateful if he'd been allowed to wear his dresses full time.
Funny, I thought of him too
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I thought of Lincoln and his personal valet.
On that same note, the hardcore right GOP males would be less angry/paranoid if prostitution were legalized. Guaranteed that most of the hate rhetoric they spew would decrease substantially if they got some.
"everyone has the desire to feel pretty, every once in a while..."? If I remember correctly, from the Monte Python show... TBF, I watched all the British comedy humor PBS had on in my day (talk about 'woke'😂🤣😂)...so it may be from a different BBC program... In fairness, it's been a few years/decades/eons 😂🤣😂👍
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Benny Hill, the more I think about it...?
von Steuben was kicked out of Prussia because he was strongly suspected to be gay. He first went to France, where he was recruited by the colonies. He trained the continental army, taking a loosely organized band of rabble and turning them into a formidable fighting force (as he was trained to do, in the Prussian tradition). If it weren't for him, the continental army might've been completely pasted by the British.
So the US has a (probably) gay man to thank for its existence. True, he might not have been driven out of Prussia if it weren't for homophobia, but that's all the more reason to preach tolerance. Prussia's loss was the US's gain, and probably allowed the nascent nation to survive.
"The US has a ... gay man to thank for its existence." Putting that line in my back pocket for future use. Thanks!
@@johnhunt2390 Actually, multiple. Beau also mentioned the father of the US Navy, and he was also said to have been gay. Without either of those men, there likely never would've been a US. The better trained and more experienced British troops and their ships would've mopped the floor with the cobbled together militias we had at the time. Instead, we had viable combat teams on land and in the sea that helped make it possible.
Curiously enough, the King of Prussia around that tie, Friedrich the Great, was most likely gay. I guess acceptance just didn't trickle down too well.
I'll never understand how a conservative can claim to love American values and get so angry over Americans "abusing freedom of speech daily"
Because they've been told all their lives that people telling them they're wrong (or even suggesting they COULD be wrong) in their prejudices is an attack on, well, them _personally_ but also 'everything-that-is-good' (using some symbolic attachment like "American Values" or "Capitalism" or whatever). They bought it so heavily that they immediately consider anyone who makes them question things "not a Real American" and in fact is viewed as an outside attacker.
Unfortunately, I don't think most of them can be saved any more. They can only be... mitigated and removed. _Survived_ , I suppose.
Because if you ever say anything THEY agree with... well you obviously hate and are insulting the very land they were born in. - A couple of year ago I would have called this a strawman, but I am starting to think I was wrong.
B/c speech is only free, to them, if you say what they want to hear (both sides are guilty of this, alas, but supposed conservatives far more, it seems)
For them, it's a classic case of "Free speech for me but not for thee."
@@SuperRetroTheater speak !!!
"The best part of waking up, is Beau makin' jerks shut up!"
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Happy 4th to everyone who didn't plead the 5th for the 6th !!!
Every Army Vet knows about Von Steuben !!!
Von Steuben was DEFINITELY gay. He also responsible for turning a bunch of farmers and shop keepers into an actual Army that won the revolution. Like he literally WROTE THE BOOK, "Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States" which forms the backbone of how the military works to this day. Happy 4th!
Was he the one who was almost kicked out of France for being a bit too flamboyant, or am I mixing up folks? Want to say it was half invitation to come help and half leaving before hot water became boiling, but it's been too many years since school
@@bellablue5285 I know he was more or less chased out of Prussia for being too openly gay...despite the Prussian king at the time _also_ being all-but openly gay
@cam4636 ah okay, correct on the very vague details but quite a bit off on the particulars. Appreciate the correction
Yes, out of all of these, he was DEFINITELY - not just "rumored" - to be Gay!!
I am a museum technician at Valley Forge and I've had the distinct privilege of holding his actual notebook that would become the blue book. It's hard for me to explain how badass I felt to hold history in my hands.
They just never learn that Beau is smarter than them😂
So Grateful to you Beau, Woke up so down, alone, family all died and children all moved away far, plus country, the environment (live in rural Michigan Canadian wild fires been toxic ) It is so hard as I am also not comfortable attending church do to their hateful stances and pushing for Trump. Disillusioned, grateful to you and your intelligence, you have no idea how much I need your posts, you are a true Patriot and you give this old 64 year old lady hope. Thank You
Best wishes, Lori. Any Civil War or Rev War ancestors you can think about? Or just spend some time reading up on the people you most admire in US history. From the ladies, there's always Abigail Adams. 😊
Hugs to you, I know what it's like, many of us have been there or are there. Sometimes it's just hard emotionally and psychically, especially in these times, and especially when you're isolated. Beau's videos do help, and we definitely appreciate him for being so sane. Hang in there, and maybe little by little you can help your life move in another direction. Best wishes for good energy to you. 🥰🌄
@robertgerrity878 my dad ww2 , unfortunately though always patriotic died ultra conservative Christian, basicly brain washed, hurt my heart but as a young dad yes he kept me updated on news and we watched fire works together on roof. Maybe I'll try that tonight thank you
Can you sell/downsize and move closer to one of your kids? That sounds like a terrible environment! I would move my mom, but she won't leave her stuff, yet 😔
❤
*_Hashtag: Careful what you wish for!_* 😂
Benjamin Banneker, an African-American mathematician and astronomer, had been engaged by Ellicott to help survey the federal territory during the time Ellicott was working closely with L'Enfant. Banneker was able to reproduce the complete layout - streets, parks, major buildings.
You have to save that information for Juneteenth or black history month. It's unimportant the rest of the year. People might start having ideas about the actual history of this country.
@@kimberlywilliams1166 iswydt
Sit n' spin, bigots. Sit n' spin. Beau was like, ok, I'mma load both barrels with glitter today. lol
They have been showered in a baptism of stupid! 🎇
🤣 That's hilarious.
@@wirelesmike73 : I'm like; _No they didn't just tell republicans to 'sit and spin'.. lols.. they _*_did!"_*
Like ya ' comment, not only hilarious but nostalgic took me back to 4 years old...
big wheel, green machine & the sit n spin...
@aylbdrmadison1051 Beau's smile practically screamed, "Crow's on the menu. Eat it, haters."
They cannot erase us, we will always be here 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
I love when I hear some people complain how is so much more prevalent today than in the past, ignoring that they were always there, they just didn’t feel safe in letting you know! I’m an Atheist; I really don’t think I’d have said that publicly not all that long ago. That doesn’t mean we weren’t here all along…
@@jeffschwartz3743 Exactly! Thank you friend 😊
Holla!🌈💖✨
Not only that, but always have been here.
Imagine a lgbtq cave man. It’s a thing I’m sure. I would also wager that caveman’s group were more excepting than today’s conservatives.
Yes, we have always been here and there's proof throughout the history of the world and this country. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇲
As a British ex-pat living in the States, I enjoy wearing a shirt that says "Happy Treason Day. Ungrateful Colonists." It's fun to give impromptu history lessons to Americans.
Have a great 4th!!
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And then finish with "And you'll be back."
Now THAT'S funny!
I would of gone with “Happy American Brexit day!”
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I knew where this was going after Von Steuban and I love it. LGBTQ+ folks have always been here and been part of America; it's just the last 50ish years where they could be open about who they are (in some parts of the country, anyway). Happy Independence Day for all Americans. Maybe try freeing yourself of some preconceived notions in the spirit of the day.
LGBTQ+ folk have been here since humans have been humans and likely even before that. Really the ONLY thing that should be repressed in humans is their violent tendencies.
They've been everywhere on the globe since the beginning of humankind.
LGBTQ + has been all over the world since forever... yet people act like it is brand new.
@@Toni_Snark That's what I said. 😁
I'm a little slow on the uptake so it took me until Buchanan to know where it was going.
To all those folks whom today's Selected Fascist apparently hates, Happy Independence Day! I spent half of my adult life in service to the premise that rights belong to everyone, not just that guy.
Asking Beau to sooth your bigotry? That's an... idea?
It did seem like a "what did you expect to happen?" Sort of post.
@@ryanweible9090 It reminds me of watching Critical Role, a group of people playing D&D and other role playing games online. Whenever one of the players asks Matt Mercer (the DM/guy running the game) if their character can do something... less than smart shall we say, his go to response is always "You can certainly try..."
Things either turn out hilariously amazing or completely not what they meant to happen. This is a case of both happening simultaneously!
I swear half the emails he gets seem to come from people who've never watched a video before. Like, did you really think that was going to work out the way you were hoping?
@@RevShifty I think it's a bit of the Dunning-Kruger effect at work. They almost certainly all think they have some sort of "Gotcha!" argument or whatever, while never having really thought that argument through. Or in this case, never done any real research about "The Land of the Free" and its history.
@@Reyn_Roadstorm Oh, a lot of them absolutely think they have a gotcha. It's always absurd, but Beau's commitment to always being polite and thorough makes those some of his best videos IMO. I suspect you're right about Dunning-Kruger, as well. There are just some things I can't wrap my head around personally, and feeling like I know it all is one if those things.
Someone I know recently said something about "gender confused" not being welcome in the US. I said "Since when? The founders all wore wigs, make-up, leggings and heels!" with pics to back it up.
They haven't said anything about it in months now.
there is a great line in "Too won foo" after the town rallies around the tree drag queen chars and protects them from the bigoted police officer. the cop runs into what looks like a sterotypical good ol cowboy and starts ranting about
"Its not right, thats not what the founders of this great country stood for"
the cow boy just looked at him and said "funny thing about the founding fathers... they wore some fabulous wigs" Tipped his hat and kept walking into town
Brilliant. LGBTQ people have been here since the beginning of time doing amazing things for mankind. 🌈🇺🇸🌎❤️
As an American historian and a member of the LGBTQ community myself, I wholeheartedly endorse this message. As an aside, maybe you should do a video on the gay man and drag queen who ran the DC social scene for decades before the word gay was even coined. You know, just to give them something else to choke on!
@honeyberrythegolden I never heard of this. That is very cool.
Ooh, awesome! Please reveal their names so I can research them. I'd love to show my queer teenaged daughter some more historical representation.
@@warriorwaitress7690I second this. As someone who's not American and can only say that I've lived there for short periods of time, I have even less of an idea of who the people might be.
It is likely not before gay was coined but rather before the word was strongly connected to the LGBTQ+ community.
Pretty good chance you have all worked with a LGBTQ+ person and didn't know it. I worked in the oilfield for 17 years as an H2S safety consultant, my boss was gay. I knew he was gay, but kept his secret. He was a top hand, and when shit hit the fan he was the guy I wanted backing me up!
Back 84 on a blowout, Amoco Brazue in Western Canada two American blowout specialists got gas trying to land a set of BOP on 22% sour gas well flowing at 50 million CFM. My gay boss rescued them both.
I was in and still work with the U.S. Navy. We all knew there were gay folks. Kinda knew who was who. When the whole "don't ask, don't tell" thing ended, within a year or two we had our first retirement/gay wedding. It was a cool first to see the retirement flag for the best admin guy I've ever met get handed to another dude as their spouse.
Most people don't care if your gay. Just live your life and don't push it in people's faces. Most people really don't give a shit and would treat you no differently if it wasn't in our faces constantly. We don't have a heterosexual male month.
It clicked about halfway through the list. Brilliant response. When it comes to slapping down a bigot, sometimes violence is the answer.
A good slap down is always good, these bigots just need more of it.
One he mentioned von Steuben I had an idea of what he was going for.
W/ a hand covered in glitter...bam, sock, blam, wham, spat, wop...💥💥💥🤹♂️
Same here, about midway through it was like I might've seen the thread tying this all together. Someone got a fourth of July burn and it wasn't from the fireworks. 😂
There's a grown man out there hoping beau would read him a baby's first forth of July picture book type story so that he can feel good about himself
Ewww gross 😝 😐 😑 says 56 yr old grandma! Read your own damn children's books!
First thing I heard this morning. Pre-coffee. From a recently widowed dad raising a gay child, thank you. We need more love and tolerance, education and violence of THIS kind in the world. Happy Independence Day, sir.
I'm so sorry for your loss. But it sounds like your child is in excellent hands, and their burden and life scars will be less intense because of you. I hope that helps you relax a little, at least occasionally.
@@RevShiftythank you for your words. I’m doing my best…and it will have to be enough.
I hate you experienced such a loss. Please re-think advocating for tolerance. No one ever "tolerates" anyone compassionately, it just sets the bar for respect too low.
@@misstunes1765agreed. Thank you.
Teach them to ignore the haters, this wave will pass! What isn't the world wrong about right now?
That "tolerate it" comment pops up a lot. If ya find yourself "tolerating" someone else's civil liberties, just know that society as a whole is and has been "tolerating" you in hopes you'll get better.
Enjoy the snakes and sparklers and have a safe one internet people!
Sending this to my daughter and Deb, her wife of 9 1/2 years. Thank you, and have a great Independence Day.
A little 4th of July 🌈 uprising… somehow fitting.
You know you are a history nerd when you see Beau trying to not to grin and know where he's headed.
I had no idea! We learned it over and over, but not that part, of course
I had no idea! We learned it over and over, but not that part, of course
I think of that first amendment right not only as a license to freely voice your opinion, but as the ability to make yourself look as stupid as you possibly can. The letter writer achieved his/her goal quite admirably.
The better the channel the worse the trolls get. And I notice Beau gets a LOT of them! Happy Independence Day to the real patriots of this nation 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
For those who haven't looked up what log cabin republicans are:
The term “log cabin republicans” refers to a political organization of Republicans who support LGBT+ equality and civil rights. The name is inspired by Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president, who was born in a log cabin and who championed the emancipation of slaves and the preservation of the union.
The organization was founded in 1977 in California as a response to the Briggs Initiative, which attempted to ban homosexuals from teaching in public schools. The group received support from Ronald Reagan, who opposed the initiative and later became president.
How far the republican party has fallen.
I don't know about "fallen" as much as "a small group of privileged gay men unable to read the room for their love of tax cuts".
@@TheVincentKyle there’s a chunk of deflected self hate and pick-me-ism in the base operating code of most conservative minorities that manifests in variations of “I’m one of the good ones, so you don’t have to hate me”. It is lickspittle cronyism at its most pathetic, and I am in equal measure saddened and disgusted by it.
The Log Cabin Republicans, in the 2000s, started endorsing anti-gay presidential candidates (Romney and GW Bush). They also stuck with their 2016 endorsement of Trump after he immediately started endorsing anti-gay initiatives.
The group's wavering on Liberty for LGBTQ people began during Obama's presidency. There were critical conservative principles to uphold, namely the preservation of wealth and privilege among Christian white people, and that directly conflicted with pro-gay liberal stance.
Considering that Reagan is the president that succeeded in poisoning your Republic, they've not fallen so far as you think because they've been on their merry way to hell since 1948, when Truman won instead of Dewey. "Tailgunner Joe" was the first salvo in the republican war on sanity, education, and tolerance, and to be honest, even Ike is complicit seeing as how he built the industrial military complex he warned of, a "hey, thanks for the heads up, Dr. Frankenstein" moment if ever there was one. That monster has been incestuously entwined with republican polities ever since.
"You don't have to be straight to shoot straight." -- Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-AZ), when asked about gay men in the military. Funny how, at one time, some Republicans actually didn't have a problem with this. Of course, Goldwater was also a combat veteran and a "mind your own business" libertarian.
As for Reagan, he may have supported the Log Cabin Republicans, but he also bowed to political pressure from the Religious Right not to recognize the AIDS crisis because, after all, that disease is God's punishment on the gays. Only when Dr. C. Everett Koop recognized the threat to public health (outweighing Koop's own personal Christian conservatism) did the Reagan Administration take the disease seriously.
Whenever I see that little twinkle in Beau's eye, I know it's gonna be a good burn!
Beau looks like the proverbial cat that ate the equally proverbial canary and I'm here for it. :D
"Granted". 🤭Beau Is such an awesonme American and true patriot!
Another Beau video that should be shown in schools. 😀
Did everyone else hear what Beau actually said? Cause I sure did.
The message for me is that mindless propaganda victims don’t realize that LGBTQ+ people have existed SINCE THERE HAVE BEEN HUMANS.
Was that the message you got?
I dunno, mostly he said [expletive] to those who want whitewashed history, a fairy tale instead of reality.
Yep. As soon as I heard von Steuben, I knew exactly where he was going. I wonder how all those anti LGBTQ+ folks square their performative patriotism with the father of the US Army being gay.
Ssshhhh, I'm listening to MAGA heads popping in the distance. Oh, such sweet music they make ...
@@thehellyousay
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You must have lots of viewers who watch because they hate your message, but they keep watching and commenting. That in itself is an interesting aspect of your show.
Beau has many smiles but that "gottem" smile at the end is by far my favorite.
No Effing Way! ROFL I hear Republican heads 'sploding over the sound of fireworks everywhere!
And that is music to my ears!
Dear GOD I love you!!!!!!! So many people don’t know the truth.
There have ALWAYS been gay and lesbian people involved in the positive history of this nation. It is only our desire to be exclusionary that wipes their contributions from history...
Well, that and our absurdly puritanical background. It often directly leads to that desire to be exclusionary, but it's such a nasty and pervasive issue with American culture that it always feels like it needs it own mention to me.
Oh, we accept their contributions just fine, but their "proclivities" are swept under the rug.
One of the difficult things about when a historical figure "rumored" to be LGBTQ is that, due to stigma (even in Ancient Greece and Rome, believe it or not) it was a very easy way to smear a political rival or someone you had personal beef with.
So sometimes it's accurate, and sometimes it isn't at all,
and we are just propagating the historical equivalent of an eighth grade bully calling someone the F word.
Sonetimes it is just a faulure to understand the culture of another time.
One Revolutionary figure who seems almost certainly to have been pretty "openly gay" by the standards of the time at least,
was von Steuben, the Prussian who came over, got the Army into shape to win the war, and spent the rest of his life here.
Look him up if you dont know him, dear reader, and you will see what I mean.
Prussians were elite military experts of the time, and his work was absolutely invaluable to the Revolution.
Someone else who would be LGBTQ+ adjacent, at least, depending on how one defines the acronym
(and also someone important to our national Independence whom we should absolutely know about)
Is Casimir Pulaski,
a polish nobleman who was trained for the military from childhood, was an expert in cavalry and horsemanship, took part in a failed attempt to establish political change in Poland and had to leave his home as a result.
He went to Paris where he met Ben Franklin, who recruited him and sent him to the colonies.
He worked with George Washington establishing our first US cavalry,
And actually died fighting the war for Independence. He is buried here, and monuments and parks and streets are named for him.
He never married, and the only romantic relationship I know of involved letters back and forth with a young polish noblelady, but she later went on to marry someone else.
Casimir remained a bachelor for life.
But here's the thing. When his grave was excavated a few years ago, the researchers discovered that Casinir was actually intersexed from birth,
Meaning he had the XX chromosomes of a female, but had a biological and hormonal difference, most likely congenital adrenal hyperplasia, that caused him to develop like a hormonal male, in utero and for life.
So....Casimir was somewhat slight, had some bone structure details that are female, but was very masculine otherwise, had no breast development, a mustache, male pattern balding, the whole shebang.
He probably had reasonably male looking genitalia at birth, but they were likely noticeably "different".... and when he reached puberty, they were almost certainly not "functional" in the full sense of the word.
His family and he himself likely thought of him as a male with a birth defect of the genitals, rather than as a female,
And her certainly experienced male puberty and life in male hormonal terms.
And this is presumably why, even if he wanted to marry the woman he exchanged letters with, he opted to remain single and focus fully on his career.
( I am using "He" out of respect for the fact that Casimir used it, lived as and probably thought of himself as male.)
Great story, thanks. It illustrates that being "gay" or "LGBT", whatever those are, is rarely a choice.
@@brianniegemann4788 If it's ever a "choice", then you're bi.
I love the smell off malicious compliance in the morning.
Smells like... bitchslappery!
Hahahahahaaa!!! literally laughing out loud!!!!
This is now my favorite malicious compliance video ever.
Keep up the abuse Beau. We deserve it!
Happy 4th, Beau, and ALL Americans. Beau, thank you for the unbelievable amount of work you do to keep people informed. It’s a beautiful, admirable service to your country and beyond. Pretty sure folks all over the world listen to you.
An aspirational level of pettyness.
Y'know, I did hear something nice in that letter. He still watches every day :D
Proud of you Beau 🌈
As we celebrate our Independence Day, remember that we broke free of the rule of King George, and Republican anti-patriots want to coronate a new tyrant in Trump, a man they see fit to be completely above all of the laws of our society that the rest of us must adhere to.
King George wasn't a tyrant
Good comment. Forgive me for being pedantic, but the word is not 'coronate'; it is 'crown'. A king is crowned at his coronation. That goes for queens as well. Sorry.
@@perlman7376 I am sorry that you find facts divisive.
you are celebrating Indigenous genocide you racist
The man who did more damage in four years than all of the under the rock democracy haters in America's history.
Thanks for recognizing some of the important people who helped in forming this country and some super fun facts about them.
Happy Fourth of July.
Flying my flag today as I #takebacktheflag to remind everyone that this country needs to keep progressing to freedom and equality for all and reject those MAGAt bigots.
Perfect comeback!
And let's not forget the message Beau received was sent from a device that would just not exist the way we know it were it not for "the gays". *curtseys to Mr. Turing*
Alan Turing was a great man!
He was also treated very poorly by his own government at the time.
@@kentesdall308 You're 100% correct in both replies.
It stuns me that there are people so stupid that they assume LGBTQ is something that just popped up all of a sudden. It may have had a different term over different times, but its been around since the beginning of time...
I was a medic in the Army in a time before "dont ask, dont tell" where some of the most talented soldiers i ever met lost their careers and were dishonorably discharged because of who they loved. One of my closest friends got caught off base kissing another guy by a horrible bigot in our unit. Rather than looking the other way he came back to base and screamed at everyone that would listen about how so and so was gay(not his word choice). Rather than go through the horror or article 15s and discharges and his family finding out, he went to the PX and bought as much Tylenol as he could get a hold of.
He died a painful, miserable death. He was one of the most dedicated soldiers we had and he chose death over shame. It haunts me to this day. It needs to stop. This soldier would have given his life to save others...but was forced by shame and bigotry into taking his own life before he was old enough to buy a beer.
Whoever wrote this question to Beau needs a good bitchslap.
"Whoever wrote this question to Beau needs a good bitchslap." No. That person has a right to free speech too.
@@quintrankid8045 And if they use it to spread cartoonishly stupid bigotry, they absolutely deserve to get the taste smacked straight out of their mouths. I'd rather see them choke on their own teeth, personally.
Reference: It may have had a different term over different times...
Matthew 19:12
Jesus speaking:
"For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others-and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it."
Emphasis: Born That Way.
They absolutely need a bitchslap straight across the face. The kind that leaves their ears ringing for a while.
I'm sorry about your friend. I was too young to know anyone serving before DADT, but over the years I've met plenty who had to hide who they were just to serve. In an all volunteer Service, at that. It wasn't ever right, though I'm glad that's one place where positive changes happened where they're not likely to slide backwards like they are outside of the Service. I hope the rat bastard who cost him his future suffered horribly somewhere along the line.
@@quintrankid8045 The two are not mutually exclusive. The right to free speech is the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of governmental retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction. It does not mean that you have the right to say any hateful thing and be immune from the consequences of that speech delivered from fellow citizens. If you doubt that, run around shouting the N-word everywhere you go. You will get kicked out of businesses, lose your job, and perhaps even be bitchslapped by someone who takes personal offense to you spouting those slurs. The First Amendment doesn't protect you from any of this.
Would be kind of cool to follow this one up with one that points out the founders' rampant atheism. Happy 4th to all!
you are celebrating Indigenous genocide you racist
I’m in great company 😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉Athiest💙💕💜❤️🧡🌈🇺🇸🇺🇦😎🌊🗳️🌊🌊🌊
They weren't technically atheists, they were Deists. They believed in a god, they just didn't believe said god interfered in the world and the lives of humans.
Perhaps a distinction without much of a difference, but technically, not atheists.
But they did have very low opinions of organized religion and believed firmly in the separation of church and state.
@@Rawnblade13right. Unitarians don’t believe in the divinity of Christ, so they weren’t Christian.
@@Rawnblade13 Deists, atheists - I know words matter, but in this case the important takeaway is "not who the uninformed think they were".
Another one to add to the list - Casimir Pulaski. He was a Revolutionary War general and known as the "Father of the American cavalry". He was also possibly either trans-masc or intersex.
This easily has become one of my Top Ten Beau Messages. It's a saver and a sharer. I'm proud to be a Patrion support. Thanks Beau!
I already have a Best of Beau playlist but now I need a Best of Best of Beau playlist. Legendary.
One for the books for sure!!!❤
In addition to geography, Americans could use a more thorough grasp of their own history
'Sadly' for us its hard to rule people who understand their world
I'm so damned tired of the grade school mythology that passes as history education here.
What we need is our elementary and high schools to teach us history, instead of mythology.
I didn’t actually learn American history until college-and most of that was debunking the years of mythology. Some people don’t get that far. At least one person corrected a few historical details in an essay that I knew damn well were accurate, because they knew the mythology, not the history.
And I didn’t grow up in an area where the “lost cause” narrative was taught-I can at least say in Elementary School, we learned that the Civil War was over slavery.
Also, too many people never leave their homes, i.e., rarely, if ever, go beyond the city limits of where they live, let alone venture out of their home state nor go to another country. I remember living in Valencia, Spain for my junior year in college and one day, while in a bar with friends, a tour bus of American tourists pulls up and this tall cowboy with the proverbial 10-gallon hat stomps into the bar and yells "How come nobody speaks English in this g**d*** town?!?" And I jumped to my feet and yelled back at him, "Because you're in SPAIN and nobody owes you a g**d*** thing!" That shut him up real fast -- he glared at me and stomped back out onto the bus. The owner of the bar came over to me, handed me a glass of sangria and thanked me in Spanish.....made my day!
Most of us Americans are nowhere near as wantonly ignorant as those in the party of bigoted idealism.
Indeed their entire party base at their most numerous ever in 2020 was less than 30% (74 million out of 255 million). That 30% does not represent the whole. So please do not lump the overwhelming 70%+ majority of Americans in with our bigots. No one that is not themselves a bigot deserves that.
That said, I'm sure you meant well and likely didn't mean to imply that all Americans are not educated in history. But it's the party of bigoted idealism that began destroying our public school system in 1981. It used to be #1 in the world before the 80's. Yes there is an alarmingly real problem, but one cannot correctly blame the students or the teachers for that destruction. Instead ask the question of the individual: _is it wanton ignorance, or simply ignorance?_
Not mad at you at all, just tired of people failing to use simple qualifiers, like _some, many, a large amount,_ etc.
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Oh you Really did Choose violence today!😂😂🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
I wouldn't call it violence. I would call it setting them straight. Way to go Beau.
@@cindystimson3632 I would call it setting them gay.
I’d call it throwing some serious shade.
@@DubhghlasMacDubhghlas, I suppose if you think MNMs without their heels and rainbows turn people gay, then you might think this video could too! Are you gay yet?
@@cindystimson3632 I think it was a coffee joke really.
Best gotcha in a while. Laughed my Australian a'** off.
Ah, spite. Such a wonderful motivator.
One of the more interesting examples of giving them everything they asked for and nothing they wanted. Well played, sir. :P
LMAO, you enjoyed that. And we enjoyed the way you did it. Thanks Beau!
That look at the end. Perfect.
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben training was used for over 100 yrs. PS - love the comeuppance.
I knew exactly what you were talking about when you mentioned Friedrich Von Steuben. For those of you who don’t know, he was an experienced German officer who was dismissed from the Prussian military for being openly gay. Without him Washington’s army would have fallen apart at Valley Forge.
Happy Fourth of July, Beau! You are an actual national treasure.
you are celebrating Indigenous genocide you racist
That *ENDING, though!!!*
Daaaaaayum!!! Pfffft!! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Independence Day is not the day we became free citizens of the world. It's the day we gained freedom from England and our citizens largely remained without the same freedoms they were without before the Revolutionary War...
And certainly, all the people here that didn't even get counted as 'citizens'
The colonies did not gain freedom from England on the 4th. That was just the day they declared it. The freedom came in 1783 when the Treaty of Paris was signed ending the war.
The gig was up when Beau said Stuben for me. Didn't know the others might have been LGBT but Stuben BALLED. Man was over the top with all the bells on. One of my faves from that war for how extra he was.
Lol! Ones of Beau”s BEST answers to a moron”s question. 😂
Great job. I hope this video is everything that guy wanted.
Classic example of "Be careful what you ask for, you may get it!"
Major burn what a wonderful thing to wake up to this morning!!!!!!!!
@@lesliecurran1704Seriously. Malicious compliance with a bigot is almost as great a start to the day as that first cup of coffee.
Absolutely brilliant. Gotta love Beau! ❤
Guessing that wasn't the American pride they were looking for.
I love it when Beau starts with that little smile - brilliant response about those regular Americans!
You are great please don’t ever stop sharing your thoughts. ❤
That grin, I love the videos when Beau gets to do that grin! PS: In the UK it is technically disability pride month, not that you would know it, not many big corps putting up stands, and changing their social media profile pictures. So, as ever, disabled folx get to do it all by themselves - so here's to my disabled fam all around the globe, we may not be as visible as our siblings-in-solidarity (a community with which we often overlap), but we are just as much a community in our own way, and I send love, good wishes, and solidarity to all.
Grin? Smirk, really. And I love it!
The beatings will continue until morale improves, and they stop asking for it. Happy fourth of July. 🇺🇸
This once again shows that Beau has a very diverse following. Even those that disagree with him listen to him. The seeds of enlightenment are sown. If a few sprout and grow, good has been done.
Oh Beau, you do make me smile 🤣😂😂🤣
“Granted. Happy Fourth of July”
Perfect. 🇺🇸
We must protect this man at all costs!
Is there anything better than a Beau smirk when completely, intelligently owning someone?!!😊 #HappyForth
There may be something better, I can't think of what it is though.
The glee and sparkle in the eyes tops it off beautifully when he does an over the top troll 💜💜
Steuben was such a bad ass. He was like; Prussian royalty too gay for the army and went to united states on a sled with a huge greyhound and turned Washington's militia into an army.
In "CRAYONS" just like Beau!!! 😉
Great video, ignorance of history is sadly common these days. Thank you for spreading enlightenment.
You, sir, are an American hero.
I thought those founding fathers were just going to be WOKE for their time.
This is even better.
Slammest dunk I've ever seen. Bravo, Beau.
I’m cackling 😂🤣 happy 4th y’all, be safe!
I knew your tack when you said Von Stueben. All superb examples of real patriots :-D
Happy Independence Day all you beautiful souls that follow Beau and his teaching, understanding, and yes, tolerance. Beau is someone that has kept me calm and anchored over these last several years. We love you brother.✌️💯🌈🇺🇲
Happy 4th of July America from Canada👍 - 👍 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Oh I love how Beau grins when he has dunked the ball or dropped the 🎤! Made my day! Go Beau!!!
That's why I'm part of the "Reach up to turn the camera off" crew. Beau's expression's matter !