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I saw Governor Abbott of Texas has chosen to cancel his speech at the NRA convention in Houston. Instead of spending some quality time with his donors, he's going to put on his phony Debbie Downer face and visit the grieving town of Uvalde because voters are unhappy. Beto made him look like dog shit.
Ted Cruz will still put in an appearance. He knows which minority group butters his campaign bread.
So will the Spawn of Satan, Donald Trump. No guns will be permitted on the premises while he's there. He spoke at their last convention and the same rules applied. I'm wondering if this year, besides outlawing guns, they also outlaw fruit. I understand he now has a fear of pineapples.
My Newsweek feed sent me an opinion this morning on Herschel Walker's campaign. The writer believes he has a good chance of winning. I mused about that for a few moments. This is a man who only speaks in coherent sentences when he's reading a teleprompter. He will never debate. And you can bet he will only take questions from his friends at Fox News. Rather than respond personally to issues, Walker will let someone from his campaign speak for him. Warnock is going to play hardball, and that's the wrong sport for an aging Walker.
This country has lost it's mind!
The American teacher:
Driving around this last weekend, as we are apt to do every weekend, we came across church after church, synagogue after synagogue with 19 student chairs, and 2 adult chairs out on each of their respective lawns or parking lots.
I stopped only twice of the 7-8 we ended up seeing, to take these images.
I am assuming through their own social media streams, many of these houses of worship got together to do this. It would have been too coincidental otherwise.
But this got me thinking too. FFS, the GOP and "the church" are forever in a perpetual 69. Religion has such a sway in whatever the GOP wants to do, or that religion wants the GOP to do, that why the fuck are they not pushing some gun control? ANY gun control.
But then I realized that it is really the GOP and the Evangelicals. They are "the church" of which we speak. Yes, they support Catholics when they want to deny Pappy Joe communion, but that's about where it ends. Jews? Only if they want to support Israeli forces - but actual Jew stuff? Noooooooooo.
And the Evangelicals already open carry in their churches, so there is no one taking up this cause. The ecumenical and unitarian factions - the liberal wing of religion, if you will - are the ones putting up these displays [[and some reform Jews), but they hold no chance of change with the GOP.........or the Democrats for that matter.
BTW - FUCK Chuck Schumer. He has stated there are ZERO plans to put forth legislation for any sort of gun control. "Your vote for change matters this November" - or some such bullshit.
Dude - you're already losing the mid-terms in the House. The writing is on the wall. DO SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE you fucking piece of shit!
As much as I hate McConnell, he at least had his people in check. Schumer is a 'leader' in name only. It says 'majority' [[for now), but he has no majority..........he barely has the minority.
Last week, before Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Basketball Finals the Miami Heat began with a moment of silence in honor of the victims of the Robb Elementary School mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas that ended with this message:
"The Heat urges you to contact your state senator by calling 202-224-3121 to leave a message demanding their support for common sense gun laws. You can also make change at the ballot box. Visit Heat.com/vote to register and let your voice be heard this fall."Gun control is once again a major issue after last week’s shooting, especially in Florida, where the state's GOP leadership is pushing for a change in state law to allow residents to carry concealed guns without permits.
CAST A GODDAMNED VOTE!
And for those who missed it, Peter Navarro was taken into custody yesterday, not because he was fomenting the insurrection, this had to do with his ignoring the January 6 committee subpoena asking him to spend some quality time with them. Being the old, white supremacist he is, Petey boy flipped out. I watched about 20 seconds of his whiny performance. That's all it took for me to realize he was cut from the same material as the orange douchebag America fired in 2020.
Is it me, or has anyone else noticed how self-destructive conservatives have become? Because they are anti-mask, and anti-vaccine more conservatives die from Covid than any other group [[it used to be black men, I believe). Because they are so vehemently pro-gun, they are responsible for more gun deaths among children than any other group. Anytime someone mentions the word regulation they go into conniptions shrieking "it's my right to make that decision," however, they sure do like to make the rules. WE must not let them get into power ever again.
Here's a bit of humorous, speculative political news. Trump has left Florida for New Jersey. Florida gets stinky, winky hot in the summer and who knows what that humidity would to do his fake tan. I also find it interesting that a number of polls have come out recently noting that DeSantis is... well, to put it bluntly, more popular with a growing number of ex-MAGA cult members. There are whispers Republicans lean towards Ronnie because he doesn't have the boorishness and buffoonery that comes with Trump. That must really burn Trumps ass. That, coupled with several articles about his announcing his candidacy for 2024 leads one to wonder if he's trying to get a jump on Ronnie. Let's face it, the candidates Trump has been endorsing are not hitting homeruns in this primary season. While there are still Republicans in line to kiss his ass, that line appears to be growing shorter by the day.
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These really are the easiest posts to compile because there are dumb people everywhere and it seems they are all trying to out-dumb one another with fear and loathing, but there are some bright spots, and given this is Pride Month, it’s especially nice there most are LGBTQ+ … so here goes:
MASSACHUSETTS
Rayla Campbell, the GOP nominee for Secretary of State, said this at the state Republican convention:MISSOURI
“You can’t just sit and say, ‘Oh, that’s terrible. Maybe somebody else will take care it. Oh, that’s not so nice.’ Well, I don’t think it’s so nice when [teachers are] telling your five-year-old that he can go suck another five-year-old’s dick, do you? This is what they’re doing!”And uttered without a shred of proof.
GOP Representative Billy Long, a candidate for Senate, has a bizarre new plan to get Thing 45 reinstated to office.LOUISIANA
He says that he will get Vice President Kamala Harris to resign, and then he have President Biden appoint Thing 45 as vice president, and then have Biden himself resign, putting Thing 45 first in line to ascend to the presidency.
Seriously, he thinks this might work.
The Louisiana House approved two anti-abortion bills that restricts access to abortions.OHIO
One makes it a crime to sell abortion pills through the mail, while the second closes every abortion clinic in the state, criminalizes most pregnancy termination actions, and sends physicians who perform the procedures to prison.
I really want the mistress of just one GOP politician to come forward and talk about the abortion she had at the behest of her anti-abortion lover.
House Republicans passed a bill to ban all transgender students from playing high school and college sports and requires a genital exam in any disputes.TENNESSEE
These pigs voted on this bill on the first day of Pride Month.
Hate.
Stewart Parks is a GOP candidate for Congress and wants y’all to know that if he’s elected Pride celebrations are done.GOOD
“If you elect me, this month will be the last National Gay Pride month ever celebrated. We need to elect people into US congress that will stand up and say Homosexuality and Transgenderism are evil. I will push to have the 2015 Obergefell vs Hodges ruling overturned which legalized same sex marriage … We have to ban it asap and safeguard our children against it. We have to get Transgenderism out of our schools. When I win this election everyone will know their gender again.”Stew seems a little too enthralled with being gay or trans. I think he has a secret …
AMERICA
The Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from Boozy and Clod, AKA Mark and Patricia McCloskey, that St. Louis couple who waved guns at a Black Lives Matter protest outside their home in 2020. They are both facing an indefinite suspension of their law licenses.NEW JERSEY
Sorry, not sorry.
Students and faculty at Passaic Preparatory Academy rallied to show their LGBTQ+ pride after a school board policy prevented them from hoisting a rainbow Pride flag on the flagpole in front of the school.UTAH
After students at Passaic Preparatory Academy raised the flag last June for Pride Month, the Board of Education, realizing there was no policy covering which flags could be flown, worked to change that policy into one that allows only an American flag, a New Jersey state flag, or a school flag to be flown.
So, what did the students do? Well, since the law says you cannot fly a Pride flag on the flagpole, the students opted instead to hang Pride flags in every single window, and on every wall in the school.
This is how you do it.
The state’s GOP Governor Spencer Cox issued a proclamation marking June as LGBTQ+ Pride Month and calling on Utahns to be more welcoming and accepting of the community:CALIFORNIA
“This should not be controversial. There should be nothing controversial about supporting a group of people in our state who have historically felt marginalized.”Cox may be the only Republican governor in the entire country to issue such a proclamation; last year, he issued a similar proclamation, becoming the first Utah governor to officially acknowledge Pride Month.
Good on this Governor.
Years back the Los Angeles Dodgers mistreated Glenn Burke, the first out gay player in Major League Baseball history; this week the team will be honoring Burke’s legacy and his family at its 9th annual Pride Night.Remember, We The People have to make the Good News happen by speaking up and standing up and shouting out and voting to remove those people from office who are out to harm women, People of Color, and the LGBTQ+ community in their quest to take this country backwards.
In 1978, the Dodgers traded Burke to the Oakland Athletics because the Dodgers’ general manager, Al Campanis, disapproved of his homosexuality. Campanis ALLEGEDLY tried to hide Burke’s sexuality from the public by offering him $75,000 to get married, to which Burke incredulously replied, “To a woman?!??”
It was particularly insulting to Burke as he had a solid rookie season and helped the team advance to the 1977 World Series. During his time with the Dodgers, Burke was also credited with inventing the high-five as a congratulatory gesture with teammates.
Burke’s stint with the Oakland A’s didn’t go much better after the team’s manager Claudell Washington introduced him to the team with:
“Oh, by the way, this is Glenn Burke. And he’s a faggot.”Some teammates avoided showering with Burke, and he was released from his contract and sent to a minor league team in Ogden, Utah. After Burke left the sport entirely he moved to San Francisco and played on gay teams, but later fought addiction and died of complications related to HIV in 1995.
Over 40 of Burke’s family and friends are expected to attend the event. During the event, the Dodgers will take a moment to officially honor Burke and the players will wear custom rainbow ballcaps.
Think of how different this all might have been if professional sports wasn’t such a hotbed of homophobia.
Congratulations, Glenn, I’m giving you a high-five right now.
Not to mention the NRA lapdogs and asshats.
CAST A GODDAMNED VOTE!
For those who didn't hear, and this news shouldn't be surprising at all, Fox News is not going to be airing the January 6 prime time hearings. I do believe I might have mentioned earlier that they were never going to participate directly; that would be like waving their shitty underwear in public. I didn't see if OneNews is going to carry the hearings or not. For those who haven't heard, MAGAs are switching to OneNews because... well, their lord and savior, Donald Trump, no longer likes Fox. Many Americans now realize that Fox News has turned into the National Enquirer of cable news networks. This should have been expected. Rupert Murdoch and his spawn will always fall back on that open thing that made them rich: tabloid news.
Pope Francis added fuel to rumors about his future as Pope by announcing he would visit L’Aquila for a feast initiated by Pope Celestine V, one of the few pontiffs who resigned before Pope Benedict XVI stepped down in 2013. Italian and Catholic media have been speculating that Frankie might be retiring, given his increased mobility problems that have forced him to use a wheelchair recently.
Now, work with me here because I have a theory. You see, Queen Elizabeth just had her Platinum Jubilee, and there are rumors that she might step down, given that she is in her last nineties. And she is newly widowed so … maybe it’s true that Betty Windsor and Frankie Pope are a “thing”? I mean, c’mon, they both love fancy robes and jewel-encrusted headwear and pomp and circumstance; Grindr couldn’t make a better match..
And what’s their celebrity name? Peen? Quope? Fretty? Bankie?
The other day Debra had a post on She Who Seeks about companies that profess their support of the LGBTQ+ community only during Pride month, but what about the ones who think their showing Pride when they’re just showing ridiuclousness? Amirite Burger King?
To be fair, amirite Burger King Austria? This week the fast-food company unveiled its new Pride Whopper, which features “same-sex” buns and asks that age old question: are you a top or are you a bottom?
“We stand for the equal rights of all identities and sexual orientations. A little twist to put a smile on your face and remind us to treat each other respectfully and peacefully. No matter who you are and who you love.”Is it really “respectful” to make your Pride burger something that could be interpreted as being a sexual joke about “tops” and “bottoms”? And then think about those conservative wingnut parents trying to explain to their kids why mommy’s a top and daddy’s a bottom.
This is the most ridiculous attempt at pretending to have LGBTQ+ Pride as I have ever seen.
Trump Throws Ivanka Under the Bus: She Was ‘Checked Out’ and ‘Not Involved’ in Studying Election Results
Former President Donald Trump took a shot at his own daughter Ivanka Trump over video testimony that aired during Thursday night’s House Select Committee hearing on the January 6th attack.
The former First Daughter played a unique role in her father’s administration as she worked in the West Wing as a Senior Advisor, alongside her husband, Jared Kushner. During the prime time hearing, a video of Ivanka aired in which interviewers asked what she thought of former Attorney General Bill Barr’s assessment that the election wasn’t stolen, as then-President Trump has and is still baselessly claiming.
“It affected my perspective. I respect Attorney General Barr so I accepted what he said,” Ms. Trump testified, which represented another, quite personal and familial, nail in the coffin of Trump’s baseless claims.
Considering that her father continues to claim he only lost the 2020 general election because of widespread electoral malfeasance, none of which has been proven in a court of law, this is remarkably damning. So much so that the former president took to his social media platform Truth Social, and did the previously unthinkable: he threw his daughter under the bus, saying:Ivanka Trump was not involved in looking at, or studying, Election results. She had long since checked out and was, in my opinion, only trying to be respectful to Bill Barr and his position as Attorney General [[he sucked!).Since the select committee hearing aired Thursday night, Trump has been on a rageaholic bender on Truth Social, spewing most of his bile on his former Attorney General. Not many predicted that he would also go after his own daughter, but here we are.
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And, of course, last night was the first Prime-Time hearing of the January 6 committee. I spent some time looking for any kind of ratings information, none was available. I did find a lot of commentary regarding Fox's continued attempt to foist The Big Lie on its viewers. Someone pointed out that Tucker Carlson did the first 60 minutes of his show without a commercial break, indicating Fox is so desperate they were willing to lose money.
As for the hearings, I watched them. I was impressed by so very much. America got to watch and hear Billy Barr say the election lies were "bullshit." I thought the juxtaposition of Trump's speech with the clips of the mob breaking into the capital buildings quite compelling. I was impressed with Liz Cheney; she no doubt made her dad proud last evening. Her comment to Republicans on how someday Trump will be gone, but their dishonor will always remain was stupendous. I got a real chortle when she mentioned that Scott Perry, a Republican from Pennsylvania, had, after January 6, requested a pardon from Trump. His spokesperson quickly called that comment ludicrous, however, she wouldn't have made it without proof. The testimony by the documentarian was fascinating, pointing out for the first time how The Proud Boys and The Oath Keepers were working in conjunction with each other. The police officer's testimony was riveting as she compared the insurrection to a warzone.
Last night's hearing is not going to change the minds of those who turned to Fox, it was never intended to. It was for the vast majority of Americans, Democrat, Centrist, Independent, and level-headed Republicans, many of whom are just beginning to realize that the party of Trump has morphed into something that is craven for power. Conservatives don't want to make America great,
they want to control your life.
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Of course, there was a lot of chatter on social media about Ivanka's cameo. Let's be honest here. She's looking out for her own ass. Nothing else counts to a Trump. You see, her daddy raised her to be just like him.
The edges around the Magaverse are fraying and beginning to shred. The evil is starting to float to the surface. 31 white supremacists, members of the group Patriot Front, were arrested up in Idaho yesterday. Their plan was to disrupt, possibly cause a riot at a Pride Festival. 29 of them were riding in the back of a U-Haul, along with their shields, clubs, and at least 1 smoke grenade. I know how big that U-Haul is, and they were packed in their tightly, up close and personal tightly, so it wouldn't surprise me if they were celebrating a little Patriot Fund Pride. Maybe that's why they wear those white balaclavas, so they don't know who's zoomin' who.
The January 6 committee was in fine form yesterday. The only issue I had was with Billy Barr. When he said that Trump did not have a grasp on reality, I wondered whether he was setting up some sort of insanity plea should the DOJ indict. Later, I saw I was not the only to take a long 'hmmm' moment to question what Billy was actually doing. The $250 million raised for an election fund raised the ominous specter of wire fraud. Jail time there, if he's still in this country by then.
A bit I saw in the NYT that I found interesting, helmet-haired Betsy DeVos, upon finding out how arduous the process would be to remove Trump using the 25th amendment resigned. That fit her selfish profile.
And finally, one of the funny things I saw on social media was this: every time the name Rudy Giuliani comes up in the hearings you need to take a drink, alcohol of course, since witness after witness has somehow managed to say, "you could tell he'd been drinking."
Billy 'I always look greasy and smelly' Barr ain't happy.
Bannon Threatens Barr: “We’re Coming For You, Bro”
June 14, 2022 Extremists, Trump cultists
“We’re not going to be blown off by somebody like Bill Barr. Bill Barr, we’re coming for you, bro! You’re sitting there lying about this.
“If you had any decency whatsoever you would have reached out to Dinesh D’Souza before you smeared him.
“We’re going to deconstruct this, and we’re going to rub your nose in it and then we’re going to come after you legally. We’re not just going to sit here anymore.
“The days of the deplorables and the days of MAGA just sitting there and out betters telling us what it is are over.” – Steve Bannon, on today’s podcast.
Barr’s guest is Catherine Engelbrecht of True The Vote, which was just exposed for a massive alleged scam.
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