![]() TV: How do you feel about the two-party system? Would you identify as a Democrat? How would you describe your political beliefs? But I did get the opportunity to speak on behalf of an actual member of the United States Congress, which was really cool and a really unique experience. So I got to write letters to constituents I got to answer a whole lot of constituent phone calls, which I’m sure you can imagine are interesting at times. For one of the members of Congress I did a lot of social media work, and for the other I did a lot of policy-based work. TV: And you got to do some work on that during your internships? JR: So for me, my big issues are foreign policy, defense policy, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. TV: What sort of issues were you working on? Eventually that worked its way into becoming an intern on Capitol Hill, which I just finished up four months in D.C. Then came just general political activism - working on the campaigns I worked on, the Beto O’Rourke campaign, Ben McAdams, Harley Rouda, Katie Hill, Katie Porter. So that was when the idea for “News in a Rush,” my weekly news show, started. After what we all know happened in 2016 happened, I realized that I needed to actually get involved and make my voice on it heard. So it became a passing interest for quite a while, and then after the 2016 election and in the run-up to the 2016 election I got even more involved. ![]() I had never really taken an interest in voting and politics and what not - that’s adult stuff, you know? And in that moment I realized, no, this is something really cool that I really like and am really interested by. It was two in the morning the race had already been called, and it was me, Wolf Blitzer, a pint of ice cream, and my laptop open showing the election results. It was election night of 2012, and I watched the election coverage on CNN. ![]() Online fandom of any kind can be obnoxious but Josh better enjoy whatever he can get while it lasts because the minor fame of a teen actor on a disney cable show fades fast and the adult lives of many former teens is a mess.Josh Rush: There’s been a couple, but I remember the first one incredibly vividly. Some of the tweets reminded me of how dogmatic scifi nerds can be over canon and the endless pedantic debates over retcons, etc. There is actually lots of really homophobic online fanfic couched as progressive but always involve gay men suddenly discovering the love of pussy- some of it seems to be written by gay men trolling while the rest is from bitter bisexuals. Not sure what prompted his tweet but some mention was made in the thread to fanfic so maybe his bi announcement generated some new bi slash fic where his gay character suddenly falls in love with a girl. R58 OMG that thead is hilarious with the raging debate over bi vs pan - Josh maybe shouldn't be so smug about his so called bisexuality and his love of "other genders" because the pansexuals are peeved (as they always seem to be) citing links to convince him he is wrong about his sexuality - but that conflicts with the apparently universal rule held by many that sexuality is completely self-defined even if that leads to logical contradictions! One tweet was half bitching about pansexual erasure while still insisting that he was truly bisexual because he said he was :) ![]()
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