Doug Jones was sworn in on Wednesday as US Senator from Alabama, filling the seat left vacant by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, but the Twitter-sphere was looking at someone else. Jones’s openly gay son, Carson, was giving Vice President Mike Pence (who has a particularly fraught relationship with the LGBT community) the side-eye.
#dougjones #swearingin #washingtondc #capitol #wemadeit #nocaptionneeded
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Pence has been vocal about is opposition to the LGBT community in the past. The former Indiana Governor signed a religious freedom law, allowing businesses to discriminate against gays and lesbians. After faced with criticism, Pence signed an amendment.
But that wasn’t Pence’s only brush with the LGBT community. He supported in 2006 a constitutional amendment that would have defined marriage as between a man and a woman, calling gay couples a “societal collapse.” And he was opposed to the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
Carson, 22, and his side-eye quickly gained the attention of Twitter users.
When it’s your aesthetic.
My 2018 aesthetic will be Carson Jones sideeyeing homophobe Mike Pence while his father, Doug Jones, is sworn into the US Senate. ? ?️? pic.twitter.com/l21UJ37Q8p
— DCHomos (@DCHomos) January 3, 2018
Because let’s be honest, that side eye could kill.
Homophobe Mike Pence swearing in Democratic Senator Doug Jones from Alabama with his gay son serving him looks like daggers. Doesn’t get much better than this. https://t.co/eI0UOUNoZS
— Peachy ??❤ (@gapeachy7) January 3, 2018
This is definitely a memorable photo.
Photo of the decade: Doug Jones being sworn in, while his openly gay son QUIETLY DISINTEGRATES THE SOUL OF MIKE PENCE. pic.twitter.com/wTKHAZSrOx
— Derek Milman (@DerekMilman) January 4, 2018
Don’t you wish you were him?
I hope to one day give as memorable of side-eye as fellow gay Carson Jones does to Mike Pence. pic.twitter.com/Fnih7ngwgn
— Nick, Chief of Compliance (@nicknprince) January 4, 2018
Doug Jones even seems to like it.
We are ALL Carson Jones.
We are ALL also Doug Jones, bringing our gay sons to stare down Mike Pence with the world’s best smirk https://t.co/US5B3UqAY1
— drunk haught (@drunkhaught) January 4, 2018
Because this is all of us.
Doug Jones openly gay son Carson glaring at openly homophobic VP Mike Pence is ALLLLLLLLLL of us. #SHADE pic.twitter.com/ZPZpfXvz4J
— mktoon (@mktoon) January 4, 2018
He’s now an icon.
Reining Gay Icon is Carson Jones’s side eye. pic.twitter.com/hXqNBWCEa9
— Santiago (@Santiblogo) January 4, 2018
And we should all hang the photo everywhere.
I love this photo. I want to have it framed and put it on my desk at work. I know I’ve looked a few people that way for the exact same reason. https://t.co/HXk8kYzQlS
— Peter “I am a banned word now” Delacroix (@DocPeteyJ) January 4, 2018
Because just same.
Mood today: Carson Jones’ expression. https://t.co/S4x0cbzJyj
— Quinn Cummings (@quinncy) January 4, 2018
His side-eye is worth a thousand words.
If ever someone has been “called out” without even one word spoken, it happened when Carson Jones gave hypocritical homophobe VP Pence the hairy eyeball as his father was sworn in. Well done Carson! Well done.
— Kix (@pattymelt107) January 4, 2018
And maybe Pence will remember it.
May Carson Jones’ stare be forever burned into Mike Pence’s memory. We are watching you, Pence, and we are having a grand old laugh.
— Richard (@heart3626) January 4, 2018
Carson Jones for President?
This picture gives me such hope for the future. The future is not Pence. The future is Carson Jones. https://t.co/qB30rULQA7
— Melinda (@MelindaThinker) January 4, 2018
Congrats to Senator Jones, of course, but Carson has certainly elevated the art of shade in this display.