RIP Jonathan Joss

[matt_zimmer]

Just heard from Classic Swim. Victim of a hate crime. I'm disgusted and furious. He was amazing and killed for being gay. I remember him fondly from King Of The Hill, Parks And Recreation, and Justice League Unlimited.

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[jasonderoga86]

My friends just texted me about the news. Yes, it was a hate crime, yes, it happened in Texas, and yes, he was shot and killed because he was gay. All because in America, somehow gays are out there blowing buildings up or poisoning children with Satanic indoctrination. That's the GOP narrative.

These three points are only made more obvious as we are in Pride Month 2025, and the GOP is terrorizing not only the LGBTQIA+ community, but also breathing down the backs of multiple retail outlets to roll back on all Pride representation or face grave consequences.

LGBTQIA+ Americans continue to be targeted for harassment, abuse, and violence by a government that refuses to investigate or call out the REAL threats that are killing people left and right. Terrorism is on the rise, and our current FBI is full of brain dead MAGA loyalists and led by a right-wing terrorist who HIMSELF declared the whole FBI as an arm of the so-called "Deep State" now repurposed into an anti-immigrant hit squad instead of a counterterrorism task force.

But no, the GOP wants people to focus on the "woke mind virus" and "transgender insanity" rather than to admit to America that by reshaping the FBI they've emboldened terrorists nationwide through their ignorance and blind fealty to a stochastic terrorist leader posing as a president. These people make me physically sick, and I hope the remaining free minded American citizens continue to denigrate them. Apathetic assholes, the lot of them.

[matt_zimmer]

I am so pissed.

[neoultramike]

" I remember him fondly from King Of The Hill"

Which we are still going to hear him in the revival season... man it is messed up the TWO John Redcorn actors both died before one of their runs of King of the Hill went through.

And man hearing more about John Joss died makes it feel even more horrid. I really hate how it is freaking 2025 and there are STILL people who have such a problem with someone's sexuality they would resort to doing that like super messed up that sort of thing shouldn't ever be encouraged ever.

[matt_zimmer]

It pisses me off.

[neoultramike]

Honestly this should piss EVERYONE off who hears it. Like some people even the official King of the Hill youtube have pointed out this is a good reminder of why we HAVE Pride Month still and how much things do still need to progress but it's also just a showcase for how there are still horrible dickheads out there who are fueled by hates for all the WRONG reasons.

[matt_zimmer]

And Trump has emboldened them.

[jasonderoga86]

Agreed. What Pete Hegseth did yesterday is proof of that -- and a Pentagon representative confirmed the move was intentional.

But Trump is doing this out of hate as well as toxic jealousy: of all the historical trailblazers he's railed against in favor of Confederate monuments, I think he has a real hatred of the fact that he's nothing compared to these historical agents of progress he so fixated on erasing. Because Trump is the only person who became president with absolutely ZERO record of public service in his entire life.

Joe Biden has a half-century of public service experience. Trump has experience in being a con man, racist, and adjudicated serial rapist. That's not favorable in the court of public opinion or in historical archives, and he will never be able to change that. So he spends his life destroying people to validate himself. But it's not enough for him. It'll never be enough. And that hatred will, in my honest opinion, end up ultimately destroying him.

[matt_zimmer]

It makes me sick to my stomach.