Andrew Gillum is still a King

King of which country?

Fuck off .

No, Andrew, you are not!

No kings ever lies naked unconscious on the floor in a hotel room.

Andrew was too liberal for Florida. He was accused of being a socialist. Socialism fear exploded. The Miami Herald and other Florida media reported on that immediately. Nominating Gillum was like nominating Sanders. Nominating Gwen Graham would have been like nominating Biden. All the difference in the world in terms of teflon, calm, and margin for error. Socialism would not have stuck. Florida Cubans are more right wing right now due to that idiotic nomination and the theme it enabled, of all Democrats as radical socialists. Graham led every pre-primary poll against DeSantis. Gillum trailed those polls. He got a bump of euphoria after the primary and everyone tried to pretend the ideology didn't matter. Then an astounding 46% of Floridians said Gillum was too liberal for the state.

That is a world record number. It should not be possible. It should not be possible even if Gillum's campaign theme was, "I am too liberal for this state."

Florida midterms are always much older, much whiter, and much more conservative than presidential years. The conservative liberal relationship shifted wildly from 36-25 in 2016 to 39-22 in 2018. That is all the difference between a swing state and a conservative state. But since our primary voters were totally clueless toward that type of shift in a Florida midterm, they brainstormed to nominate Andrew Gillum in a conservative landscape.

It doesn't matter if Gillum gave good speeches and was passionate. He was a poor ideological fit. For example, that 39-22 is almost exactly like an Ohio or Iowa ideological breakdown in a presidential year. Ohio 2016 was 39-20. Iowa 2016 was 40-23. Does anyone honestly believe we could get away with nominating Andrew Gillum in Ohio or Iowa? It was only the ineptitude of Ron DeSantis and the national slant of 2018 that made the race as close as it was. But now we're stuck with DeSantis and all these deaths and disaster due to bypassing Gwen Graham for an Andrew Gillum who obviously hadn't even been competently vetted within our own party.

I will never get over it. Obviously not as devastating as Hillary but I think about it every day.

More like the king of poppers and jocks.

He looks like he's aged.

🤜 🤜 🌺

So being bisexual means you can cheat on your wife and smoke meth? I thought bisexuals were attracted to both sexes, I didn't know it meant they HAD TO HAVE both sexes.

He made a mistake dude

He has a nice smile and cock. I’d be his queen.

Smh

R4

Florida is ridiculously awful. I don’t blame Andrew for that.

Florida Latinos are turning more rightwing

The escort that overdosed with him is now selling his porn on Twitter. And starting to do scenes with bigger names. He is also weirdly re-tweeting things from other people accusing him of setting up Andrew. It's all a very odd form of star fucking. He's actually proud of that night and is using it to advertise his porn.

That’s sad dude

Democrats need to stop being fucking prudes. The guy made a mistake. Get over it.

Find me a politician who doesn't have skeletons in their closets or is entwined in some sleazy shit. Aside from Obama and Warren perhaps?

Isn’t it the nurse prostitute’s fault he overdosed? I don’t get why people were blaming Gillum for that.

Yes, in the sordid squalor of a hotel room filled with dodgy doctors, soon to be whores, closet cases, drugs and vomit, you really would expect better of people when it comes to taking a position on the matter.

Andrew Gillum coming out as bisexual is the same as when Spacey came out as gay, after being accused of sexual harassment of minors - irrelevant.

Again, is cheating on your spouse or partner all right if you're bisexual? Is that what being bisexual means?

Coming out bisexual cleverly disarms attacks from both sides. If anything he may thrive as a politician because his wife stood by him and now every down low guy that lives in Florida will vote for him.

The problem is that it’s meth, we don’t know how long he’s taken it, and he didn’t address addiction directly.

But wasn’t it pretty much just a common PnP session for gay hookups?

Black is Queen 👑!

R22, I don’t care if he sleeps with the entire crew of Treasure Island! I like politicians that are easy on the eyes, but

I care if he’s in office doing METH.

This bisexual thing is only temporary for him. I'm sure he will be getting separated/divorced soon enough and that will be followed by falling in love with a man..."I found the love of my life". Just like McGreevey.

Nope

His collapse is now, he'll never be president.

Complete ^

He could shop his BBC to a porn label to make a signature dildo.

Do they really want him though? I guess maybe if you are one of those bisexual men who believes the heteronormative BS about "women for love and men for sex" and have convinced some poor woman to marry him by telling her he will never have sex with a man again but squelching those desires leads you to the inevitable meth fueled gay sex binge, which if you are a politician then becomes a media event with you then reaffirming this promise to your wife again publicly - but that only raises the bar for your next eventual "relapse" but we live in a bizarro world now where down is up and Trump is president so anything is possible so of course the internet horde have memed into a bisexual icon! (Given the state of gay - sorry LGBT politics - I won't be surprised if GLAAD and the HRC decide to replace Harvey Milk with him - twitter has decided that white gay men are the worst and gay history is being rewritten with more gusto than when Stalin was airbrushing Trotsky out of the existence ) But memes can only distort and distract for so long - as of yet they can't literally change reality so stan away and crown him King of whatever but I don't expect him to be wearing his royal regalia anytime soon - certainly not with pride cause thats too gay and he has assured us he isn't one of them (how dare you even imply something disgusting like that - nothing unusual about a happily married man going on a weekend gay sex meth binge - get your mind out of the gutter people.)

r20 I doubt he wins any votes from down low men - it is hard to form solidarity much less a coherent and reliable voting bloc around a hidden identity. Isn't the whole point of being down low that you maintain a straight public facade and only use the down low identity when you are trying to pick up men for sex. It is just a variation on the closet and there isn't much of a voting bloc for them either. Negative identities (or tainted identities in the sociological vernacular) rarely provide a basis for social movements.

Why would any heterosexual woman want to be with a bisexual man? Just from a practical perspective, the increased STI risk seems like a hard sell.

Not that I think Gillum is bisexual. I don't mind his conflict, I get that, but this is going to be the cliched journey from closet to bi to gay and we'll all be expected to applaud and embrace him and vote for him now. When all it is is a ploy to have his cock and eat it too... sex and political career.

What an asshole. It's 2020, man up, own it, blame the closet and society but don't snivel your way to where we all know you're going to wind up.

I had vaguely more respect for him when he was lying around naked in a pool of sick and drugs with a passed out whore somewhere in the room.

R31, there are countless women who knowingly partner with bisexual or nonstraight men. Deal with it

I didn't say there weren't, Einstein, I just said who'd want to? Nonstraight... LOL... thank you for your flexdeas. Align it with your own value paradigm.

He needs to get back in the saddle and ride.

BBC is always KING, Andrew not so much I am afraid. He has a long road ahead until he is fully embraced by the gays and Black Church crowd.

r35 well there is usually quite an overlap between those two groups - at least the men anyway so long as everyone plays along with the DL charade. In my experience, Black bisexual men usually have some baby mama in tow so looking for child support and who wants to deal with that mishegoss - barebacking wouldn't be much less hot if the pass around bottom tracked you down 9 months later with a support order.