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I saw The Village People in California few years back. When YMCA came on, there wasn’t one person in the audience who didn’t get up and dance. Young and old were shimmying. Watching Trump dance puts a huge smile on my face.

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Just wait and watch what will happen in January, you will lost that smile !!!!!

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The first time I heard and saw YMCA was on American Bandstand, I was in 6th grade. We didn't know it was a gay Anthem. It had a good beat and you could dance to it.

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Yes, it's a very gay song, promoting the YMCA as a place young men can go for anal sex without mentioning the gay epidemic of anal warts or AIDS.

The Village People were about as gay as a band can possibly get. Maybe even gayer. The group's name refers to Manhattan's gay neighborhood of Greenwich Village.

"Founder Jacques Morali died of complications related to AIDS in Paris on November 15, 1991."

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Amen. Happiness, joy, laughter. All things darkness hates. It's good for you. Plus I have found that libbies hate you being happy. Wish them a great day with a big smile. 😄😄😄

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How do you cut an ocean in half? With a seesaw, of course!

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gay orgies? really Celia? I think you need a gay pal to raise your consciousness. it's embarrassing. but this is part of Reconstruction. the gays that went left because they wanted to get married must be welcomed into the Trump big tent. and the Trumpers have to get with it. let's get together and dance like we were gay men pre-AIDS. pre-Fauci. ultimately, this is the RIFT we are in the process of healing.

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"YMCA" was about 1980s gay-bath-house culture having spread to the dormitories of the Young Men's Christian Association, which caused the organization to eliminate this low-cost-lodging service.

"It's fun to stay at the Y-M-C-A..."

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YMCA is about disco. it's about NYC pre-AIDS. it's about the subculture running the culture. yeah, man, look around and see all the gays creating all the culture. get hip, daddy.

the actual Y was the place to stay when you landed in NYC — man, woman, gay straight — I even smuggled my cat in, haha. that was back when we were halfway civil to each other. let's bring back the joy.

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Nov 12·edited Nov 12

I work out at a great YMCA here in town. Been going to Ys for 50 years. The management at this one seems a bit over the top about promoting woke ideals, but I don’t care it’s still a super facility and nobody hassles anyone about mandating their loony leftist beliefs.

Dancing this morning- thanks Celia!

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Pre-description-of-AIDS ... It was there...

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those boys got carried away. and their self-indulgence was monetized and weaponized against them — as these things tend to be in this great land of ours.

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It's funny to me that YMCA is known to be tied to CIA: C.I.A. Officer Philip Agee claims the C.I.A. used YMCA locations to hire and train young agents with one being John Lennon's assassin Mark David Chapman who was found at a YMCA in Georgia then sent to Beirut Lebanon for assassin programming under the guise of a YMCA program. https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/12/08/what-three-letters-of-the-alphabet-link-john-lennons-murder-to-the-murders-of-john-f-kennedy-and-robert-kennedy/

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Wow, didn't know that! ... interesting upon interesting ...

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sirhan sirhan got his mkultra programming via the beirut ymca a cia front

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Most likely the Dakota doorman - an "ex"-CIA assassin - did the Lennon hit. Chapman was a patsy. Like so many others in CIA hits.

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So fun! And funny!! Laughed and laughed… always delicious medicine ❤️

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Hilarious. Dance is wonderful. Thank you.

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It's only funny to me if Trump never went to Epstein Island, does not implement pandemic 2.0 (along with all of the other depop great reset agendas; dubious at best since Ramaswamy and Vance are now there), and is not some type of anti-Christ figure. So, I guess I don't find it funny, even though I struggle inside with conflicting perspectives about Trump, and am also relieved that "Kamala" can now apparently go away forever. It's all very difficult.

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It's an adorable dance ... but, um, since you brought it up ... I don't know for sure, but I've heard that before, and, the words could imply, um, a place where, um, never mind ...

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well, YMCA is not about gay orgies, necessarily. Gay hook ups at the Y? sure. and the Village People in their stereotypical outfits/costumes were so camp and so fun. We used to at least be able to dance and sing dumb songs just for the hell of it. (1978) Glad to read poster below went and revived the experience. We all had that song in our brains at one time. iconic gay anthem beloved by all. it was a break thru moment in time (wasn't Harvey Milk in F politics around then? yep 1978)... gays were coming out and there was some acceptance and some culture shock,,, It's fun to stay at the Y M C A

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let's not forget the other big hit, in the navy

If you like adventure, don't you wait to enter

The recruiting office fast

Don't you hesitate, there is no need to wait

They're signing up new seamen fast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQdFUI0hRWY

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Commodification, exploitation and enculturation of sexual mistakes is bound to happen in the land of Institutionalized Misfortune but, I can't seem to smile at any of it..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmR3p3-LN94&t=221s

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Thanks Celia!!♥️

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I hope you like this one https://youtu.be/XTxprgMvTks

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