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A Republican candidate for Congress offered up his analysis of human sexuality and gender on Tuesday, in a group interview with South Florida’s Sun-Sentinel editorial board, alongside two other Republicans running to represent House District 20 in Broward County.

“You never see a giraffe, a male giraffe, that mate(s) with a giraffe,” Rod Joseph said. “Myself right now saying, ‘I am a giraffe,’ that doesn’t mean it’s true.”

Everyone is “born straight,” he offered.

The unusual assertion was made in answer to a question about U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) declaration at the beginning of Pride Month, “Homosexuality has no place in America.”

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[-] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 77 points 6 days ago

Well, yes, I personally have never seen a male giraffe mate with another male giraffe. I've never seen a male and a female giraffe mate, either. In fact I've never seen a giraffe in the wild at all.

So I'm gonna take this one step further and say giraffes don't exist in the wild. Every giraffe that exists lives in zoos because that's the only place I, personally, have ever seen them. Any evidence to the contrary is fake news.

Am I Republicaning correctly?

[-] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 16 points 6 days ago

Close. You have to make a bold claim that combines those 2 unrelated topics. Something like....."The fact that I have only seen gay giraffes exist while in captivity proves that being gay is unnatural. I'm 100% positive every giraffe outside of Zoos are banging the Lord's way."

[-] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I have never personally witnessed two Floridians having sex. Therefore we can conclude that Floridians don't procreate and thus Florida can only sustain its population by illegally importing hordes of immigrants. The American federal government should arrest the entire Floridian government to put an end to this.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 38 points 6 days ago

I wish I knew how to get people to care about things that actually matter even 10% as much as they care about things that will never, ever affect their lives in any material way... and are also NONE OF THEIR GODDAMNED FUCKING BUSINESS.

Why do you care if someone likes dick?

[-] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago

Because he likes dick, I guarantee it.

"You aren't born liking dick. You choose to like dick, just like I'm choosing not to like dick. I don't like dick, I don't like dick, I don't like dick, I don't, I don't, I don't"

[-] OryxAndCake@slrpnk.net 12 points 6 days ago

“You aren’t born liking dick. You choose to like dick, just like I’m choosing not to like dick. I don’t like dick, I don’t like dick, I don’t like dick, I don’t, I don’t, I don’t”

He says to himself while gargling balls in a public restroom.

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

I mean if he stays away from the dick and just gargles the balls, maybe he really doesn't like dick

(He's still lying to himself and self-loathing, but what if?)

[-] MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

I do like balls, I don't like dick, I do like balls, I don't like dick, I do like grglgrglgrgl..vote for me!

[-] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Why do you care if someone likes dick?

Because they do too but were told it's bad.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

I wish I knew how to get people to care

So much of the anti-LGBTQ hysteria comes from people who are in immediate proximity to friends and loved ones coming out of the closet. And while the natural response to this occurrence is to show love and support, we have a deluge of misinformation that's designed to poison people into believing the most insane bullshit.

Which is to say, people do care. But they tend to get their heads scrambled with reactionary media. And the end result is that, after hearing for decades "if you're gay then you've become the victims of sexual assault and you're going to do drugs and you'll get horrible diseases that will kill you", they respond with abject horror at the slightest hint of queerness. Same if you see a sibling or a child or (god fucking forbid) a parent or spouse show signs of it.

The end result of this firehose of induced anxiety, combined with the economic pressures of poverty and the social pressures of fascist religious institutions, is incoherent panic.

Why do you care if someone likes dick?

Because then they'll make you like dick and liking dick will kill you and damn your soul in a lake of fire for eternity.

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[-] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 10 points 5 days ago

Bet that dude jumps when someone else's Grindr notification goes off out in public.

[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

I had a new prank idea just now, I need to get the notification sound and play it in public.

[-] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 29 points 6 days ago

Aren't giraffes known for being the most gay out of almost all animal species? Or am I thinking of another animal?

[-] mPony@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

They are, yes.

This is like saying Liberace proves gay people are all actually straight.

[-] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 7 points 6 days ago

https://slrpnk.net/post/40047735/23228566

There we go someone beat me to it lmao

[-] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Dolphins too.

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[-] stoly@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago

Sir, how many giraffes did you survey to come to this conclusion?

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

survey

Computer, zoom in, decode, and enhance.

have sex with

[-] Malyca@lemmy.zip 18 points 6 days ago

Plenty of queer animals throughout the animal Kingdom.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

Republicans will claim that giraffes aren't gay and then shoot them anyway.

Tell that to Proximo, dude.

Those giraffes you sold him, they won't mate. They just walk around, eating, and not mating. You sold him... queer giraffes. He wants his money back.

[-] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 9 points 6 days ago

That dude definitely wants to fuck a giraffe.

[-] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2 points 6 days ago

You mean get fucked by a giraffe. It's always the people who are religiously sexually repressed and in reality really, really crave the largest cock their assholes can take.

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[-] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago

South Florida

Yeah.

[-] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 6 days ago

Of course this is in my backyard. God i hate this ass backwards state. I cant wait to escape Floriduh but the system just keeps keeping me down.

[-] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 6 days ago

The white sand beaches are pretty nice, IMHO.

https://www.visitflorida.com/travel-ideas/articles/florida-white-orange-dark-sand-beaches/

Much of the sand on Florida beaches is made up of quartz crystals, produced by the weathering of continental land masses like the Appalachian mountains. The quartz is washed down America's great rivers into the Atlantic and the Gulf where it's carried onto the beaches by water currents and waves.

1000009402

If you wind up leaving, enjoy its strengths now.

[-] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

The nature here is the only reason i didn't leave years ago. The beaches are great, the everglades are amazing. Hell, i even really enjoy our scrub forests. Id miss it for sure but its getting bad here.

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

I wish I could just start a country and allow politicians to rule it but whenever one of them says anything about sexuality or immigrants it's just straight to the guillotine.

Well maybe we can just start doing that regardless of whether or not we start a new country first.

[-] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2 points 6 days ago

I'd approve of that. Everyone who wants to mess with personal relationships or push fear of new arrivals deserves as much.

[-] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

I was going to say, who knew giraffe scientists were this far into mapping the human genome, but then I read he was a Republican, so it’s obviously some tall tale

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