Month: April 2023

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Fabulously Subversive

Cruzella Deville – Serving homophobic realness, she struts her stuff in fur coats lined with family values and defends every fetus and every gun, every day, heeeennnyyyy. #rupublicans #tedcruz
Anita Filibust-Her McConnell
#rupublicans
Mother Pence
#VeepVixen #RuPublicans
Ms. GoldenGaetz Showers – Sashaying her way purse-first onto military bases across America, she?s protecting army brats from fun and fabulous drag queen story hour. Never mind the guns at your school, hunty. #RuPublicans #mattgaetz
Lady Graham Cracker – Riding in on her high horse always asking for money, honey. She's a powerful queen who loves to control the purse strings AND your lady parts. Don't she look good in a gown though? #rupublicans #lindseygraham
Miss Misinformation – Serving washed-up media mogul realness, Bombshell Bannon fires off conspiracy theories faster than Florida can criminalize where you poopoo kaka. Since Trump dropped her ass, she?s been roaming the streets of Washington looking for her next trick. DeSanty, text a gurl back! #rupublicans
Rhonda Santy – Category is: Book Banning Princess Eleganza. She's on a mission to turn that Magic Kingdom into a Tragic Kingdom and isn't afraid to give Mickey the finger(s). #rupublicans
Miss Hawl-About-Me – So thirsty for attention she wears knee pads to suck up the spotlight. She loves to dish out thoughts and prayers as she snatches your rights away with a sequin glove! Tucking hilarious! #rupublicans #joshhawley
Please welcome to the stage, the Supreme Court?s Empress of Embarrassment, Claretta Corrupta. How can a government employee afford such lewks? Easy, bish is bankrolled by a billionaire! Finally, the high court is serving high fashion, henny.#rupublicans #clarencethomas
Say hello to the GOP's downfall darling, Rudy Garland, serving cuckoo couture. She used to run the Big Apple, but now she's the juiciest peach on the streets, wandering the Upper East Side looking for her next gig (NOT the Four Seasons, honey). You thought the only thing she could leak was hair dye? Girl, watch her spill the tea!
#rupublicans #rudygiuliani
Tucked tight and coming for Tucker, Sister Slaypiro is podcaster by day and lip-sync assassin by night. Serving traditional family values in this traditional Elizabethan number, the only thing more twisted than her lipstick is her logic, henny. #benshapiro #rupublicans

From Insider:

The images are the work of an Instagram account called "RuPublicans," which uses AI to dress Republican lawmakers in drag — complete with frills, feathers, jewels, and wigs. The account's name is a play on Republicans and RuPaul, a famous drag queen and television personality.

The AI images feature DeSantis in a bejeweled blue gown that would put Cinderella to shame and Pence wearing nothing but a bright pink blazer and glittery boots, paired with a fluffy feather boa.

Also seen on the account was Sen. Ted Cruz in pink feathers and bold winged eyeliner and Sen. Josh Hawley decked out in a slinky golden dress, to name a few.

The captions are colorful, too.

Also featured in the AI art were other GOP figures like Sen. Lindsey Graham, pictured riding a fancy horse, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, in all-pink drag regalia.

The brains behind the account, married couple Craig, 37, and Stephen, 39, said the "GOP's anti-drag rhetoric and actions" inspired them to find a way to hit back.

"Drag artists have brought us joy and laughter, helped heal old wounds, and given us the permission to love ourselves," the couple told Insider in an email. Craig works in the education industry, while Stephen is a creative director in marketing and technology. They did not provide Insider with their last names for privacy reasons.

"For the past two weeks, we have been creating and posting AI-generated art and captions that are just as over the top and ridiculous as the false narratives around drag," they said.

The duo said they used the AI image generator Midjourney to create the images.

"We don't always get what we want, but sometimes the AI generator gives us something we couldn't have imagined that blows us away, and we run with it," the couple said.