Following yesterday’s defeat in the Senate of the defense bill that would have lifted the ban on the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, Lady Gaga—who has been a vocal advocate for the end of DADT—expressed both her disappointment and will to fight on in a new statement posted on her website. Read it after the jump.
Gaga’s statement, as posted on her official site:
“Today was an enormous disappointment, for myself, and for many young American people. Not only because Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was not repealed by our Senators, but moreover because legislative procedure is being abused to stop public business, public debates, from happening while America is watching. There was a debate today, we just didn’t get to watch it. Instead, it has been customary now for antiquated procedures and partisan politics to take precedence over debate, America’s needs, and today, sadly, over the needs of US troops. I will keep fighting, I will not give up. I am passionate about the rights of the LGBT Community and SLDN and I will continue to activate as many young people as I can, and encourage them to get politically involved in their future.”
Yesterday Gaga attempted to directly engage Arizona Senator John McCain, one of the Republican lawmakers who have opposed the Democrats’ efforts to lift the ban on gays serving openly in the military, on Twitter.
“The language in defense bill says it will not enforce DADT repeal until pentagon review + president signs. Why block debate?” Gaga tweeted.
McCain, who is up for re-election in November, has yet to respond.
Good Morning Lady Gaga, I will debate you. If you must debate the revered former presidential candidate John McCain only about this topic, then I wish you well with your endeavor, but I will question your conviction. At this moment, I am stuck on your comment that public business has been stopped. As a matter of fact, I witnessed several police officers moving around town this morning, and none of them appeared to be upset at their lacking a job. Of course, you may not have commented, “…legislative procedure is being abused to stop public business… ” Unfortunately, I neither have video confirmation that this comment can be attributed to your likeness, nor do I have confirmation from you in person. So you can see my dilemma in this debate. I’m sure you would like me to bash your comments on gays in the military and cite former President Clinton when I do, but at this time I do not understand your argument, nor do I agree that the military is whole heartedly against jovial moods in all situations contained within the armed forces, and therefore, any argument that you may have against individuals being enthused about being killing machines must first address the definitions of gay, homosexual, and other variable terms that have been used by your camp in extremely loose manners without well defined parameters. Good day to you Miss Gaga, and good luck to you. However, I must warn you that I will crush you on this topic! Sincerely, Tornado Tom
Howdy again Miss Gaga, or perhaps I should refer to you as the lead senator for alqaida. The reason I say this mamn, is that communication over the internet is so dissected and spliced that without knowing who you are communicating with, you can never be sure that you are communicating with the person that you believe that you are attempting to communicate with. I, however, am not overly concerned about this, since I am addressing your image, your personality, your consistencies in space as they are attributed to the party I understand to be Lady Gaga. For this reason, I do not think that you can escape my critique of your argumentative position because even if you don’t know me, I’m sure that you will know my logical counter claims in your direction. You’re wasting your time, you really are. You happen to be a great musician, and this is not your bag of tea. Nor mine, for that matter. Typically, I do not respond to opinions online, and when I respond to an opinion it is usually to let the person infront of me know that I respect their right to have one. However, I like your music, I don’t want to watch you make a fool of yourself, this is a dead horse, and nothing at this moment right now would make me happier than you getting back to what you do best – which is make music! The next time you step into a political ring, why don’t you ask everyone if Thomas Jefferson really did write the Constitution of the United States? Why don’t you ask your followers if they really believe that men and women of the United States Armed forces are fighting a war in a collective agreement overseas with an actual enemy with well defined targets for destruction that do exist, or if they believe that they are simply on vacation to convince all of you that this country is really being protected? You want to fight for something you believe in? You might want to actually know what that thing is that you believe in before you become so passionate about it!
She was so bummed about it she decided to go out drinking at dive bars in NYC without any pants on.
I got an idea Miss Gaga, why don’t we start a military of our own that only includes homosexuals! And we won’t ask and we won’t tell the United States that we have brought them together. And then we will ship them overseas on our penny to die for the United States of America. Will that make you happy? If we get a bunch of homosexuals slaughtered and murdered in the name of democracy and capitalism, would you finaly su