If the GOP really wanted to get intel out to the insurrectionists, they should have hired cats, because the cats could go anywhere unnoticed. Not Tuxedo, though, he votes Blue.
Some wise words for Trump and his Trumpers.
Trump Ridicules “Human Conveyor Belt” Mike Pence
June 17, 2022 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
“Mike Pence had a chance to be great. He had a chance to be frankly historic.
“But just like Bill Barr and the rest of these weak people, Mike, and I say it sadly ‘cause I like him, but Mike did not have the courage to act.
“The election was perfect. And the Democrats are sitting back, saying ‘No way,we’re going to impeach this guy.’ But Mike was afraid of whatever he was afraid of.
“But, as you heard a year and a half ago, Mike Pence had absolutely no choice but to be a human conveyor belt – he was a human conveyor belt – even if the votes were fraudulent.
“They said he had to send the votes – couldn’t do anything.” – The world’s most famous liar, this afternoon at the Faith & Freedom convention in Nashville.
I saw this in the NYT this morning, call it a little treatise on election denying Republicans. This group will never believe the truth. Ever. They are becoming modern day Confederates who will never believe the war is over, that Lee actually surrendered, or that Trump is a malignant force out to destroy Democracy. I do not doubt for a second that they are decedents of that group of Americans who stayed loyal to the crown during the Revolutionary War. These are people who need an authoritarian leader, that one thing Democracy will never provide. Their souls vibrated with the need to say "Shut up! We're in charge." The sad truth is that when they do manage to get themselves in power, they cater only to their own wishes, leaving everybody else to just rot. They are a very selfish group of people. The reality we need to face is that when they lose, they need to be punished, which creates a problem. After the Civil War, Confederate leaders were just allowed to go home. No punishment was levied against them. That was a big mistake. They didn't learn. Ford pardoned Nixon because... well, maybe he thought it was the civilized thing to do, or maybe he thought it would keep the country unified. Big Mistake. He should have served jail time. That pardon sent a message: you can pretty much get away with anything if you're president. And not only presidents. Oliver North, a Republican, was found guilty of going through Iran, our enemy, to weaponize the Contra rebels in Central America, and when George H. Bush, a Republican, was elected president he pardoned North. Holy Shit Bangs! We have been sending the wrong messages for decades, which is why we have to deal with the Trump Shit Show. How do we stop this? End it forever? Simply lock that asshole up. Lock up Scott Perry, and Eastman, and Navarro. The punishment needs to begin now, otherwise they will continue to do it over, and over, and over again.
Saturday, 18 June 2
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Saturday, 18 June 2022
Last edited by lakeside; 06-18-2022 at 09:06 AM.
I saw that Dan Crenshaw, a Republican from Texas who nearly physically attacked extremist MAGAs. They called him names, one of them shouting he 'needed to be hung.' This is the base the GOP is so desperate to hold on to. How desperate? Adam Kintzinger has pointed out that so far Kevin McCarthy has said nothing. Don't expect him to, at least until maybe later this afternoon or tomorrow, if he says anything at all. Maybe he'll just run away from the reporters, like he's done before. This party is so terrified of alienating one MAGA hate monger, they will tolerate any evil.
In another example, Shannon Boon, from Fox News, asked Mike Lee if the GOP might be out of step with the constitution regarding gun legislation. Of course, fearful of alienating even a single one of those MAGA gun owners, he obfuscated. You could say he did a little Texas Two Step in his response, saying there wasn't really a bill and that you can't ascertain anything without a bill. You know what I'm talking about. He spit out the same horse shit Republicans always spit out because they're terrified of alienating even one vote of their gun loving base. The idea that they might gain more voters than they lose by voting for gun control isn't even something they can see in their rear-view mirror.
Oh Herschel, It's best You Don't Speak
Texas Takes A Giant Step Backwards
For today's edition of the Jan. 6 hearings: It was quite interesting, mostly focused on the Department of Justice and how 45 tried to bend it to his will in order to steal the election. What I want to know is what these men who were being bombarded by POTUS's internet-searched theories on how exactly the election was stolen, were saying in the privacy of their own conversations with each other? When exactly did they begin calling him insane? Far before the theory where an Italian satellite had changed Trump votes to Biden votes, I would imagine. I would give a lot of money to have been a fly on the wall in some of those rooms. I'm willing to bet that there were cusses that even I could not have imagined. And now did they prevent themselves from laughing out loud at some of the conspiracy theories he truly, honestly wanted them to investigate?
I have no idea.
Beg pardon?!??
Jerrod Carmichael, out comedian, on Dave Chappelle’s nonstop attacks on the transgender community as “jokes”:
“Look, I get it. Everybody’s got to create a bogeyman to sell tickets. But it’s not true. Who’s getting canceled for what they’ve said? What does that mean, that people are mad on Twitter? Everybody’s fine. These grown men are fine. I think, a lot of times, people who offer nothing truthful or meaningful about themselves then complain about society at large and create this boogeyman. It’s like, listen, that’s the most urgent thing in your life? God bless you. I’m tired of hearing it. Chappelle, do you know what comes up when you Google your name, bro? That’s the legacy? Your legacy is a bunch of opinions on trans shit? It’s an odd hill to die on. And it’s like, hey, bro. Who the fuck are you? Who do you fuck? What do you like to do? Childish jokes aside, who the fuck are you? It’s just kind of played. But he’s choosing to die on the hill. So, all right, let him.”Chappelle has drawn controversy for his anti-transgender comments and continues to make anti-trans jokes. During a Netflix is a Joke event Chappelle was tackled onstage by a young man who said he was “triggered” by Chappelle’s routine. After being attacked, Chappelle declared that the assailant was a trans man.
That was a lie. Chappelle has made a career of bashing our trans brothers and sisters and complains about being cancelled and yet he’s made millions with his “humor.”
I’ll stand with Jerrod.
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Ken Paxton, Texas Attorney General, speaking for all Republicans about mass shootings:
“If I lost one of my children I’d be pretty devastated, especially in a way that is so senseless and seemingly has no purpose. I would just have to say, if I had the opportunity to talk to the people I’d have to say, look, there’s always a plan. I believe God always has a plan. Life is short no matter what it is. And certainly, we’re not going to make sense of, you know, a young child being shot and killed way before their life expectancy.”So, God wanted your kid’s body obliterated with bullets while at school because “there’s a plan”? Howsabout God’s plan—and yes, I am being facetious about “god”—to make you asshats wake up and do something about guns in this country before more innocent children are slaughtered.
Maybe your God is trying to get your attention but you’re making too much money from the NRA to take Her call.
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Amy Kremer, chair of Women for America First and organizer of Thing 45’s Insurrection, has changed her mind:
“[Thing 45] is disconnected from the base. It’s time for those of us in the movement to get back to basics, back to our first principles. We were here long before [Thing 45] came along, and we’re going to be here long afterward.”Nice, Amy, but you goose-stepped along with the traitor before during and after January 6, so excuse me if I don’t find you traitor adjacent.
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Fuck them all
Fuck Clarence Thomas.
Fuck Samuel Alito.
Fuck Neal Gorsuch.
Fuck Brett Kavanaugh.
And finally, fuck Amy Comey Barrett.
May they all live long lives - long enough to see the damage that they did to this country undone. Long enough to be held up as the worst justices to ever sit on SCOTUS. And long enough to know that they're there to fully experience that legacy.
We must not give up the fight to elect candidates to the Presidency, Congress, and state legislatures who will remedy this. We must insist that SCOTUS Nominees understand the law and will not push us back in time.
Packing the court will not help. Just as a pendulum swings in one direction, it swings in the opposite direction. Nine jurists who understand that they must detach themselves and make rulings based on a number of things, just not their Catholic view of the world.
Don't give in to anger. Anger never solves anything. And anger will not undo this mess created today that will reverberate for years to come. Complacency got us here. Throw that cloak off your shoulders.
Work hard so that this November, and every November afterward this doesn't happen again.
My Two Cents: SCOTUS' Attack On Women
After the leak, no one should have thought there those conservative judges were going to change their mind. This decision further divides the country. Remember, conservatives desperately need to say "shut up! we're in charge!" no matter how small their minority. This is their way of saying "fuck you, America."
While the anger is directed towards every one of the judges who side with the majority, Clarence Thomas stands above the rest in his demonstration of hatred. He provided a laundry list of opinions he wanted overturned: LGBQT and contraceptive rights. Robert Reich, among many others, noted Thomas did not mention Virginia vs Loving, another ruling that set a precedent: interracial marriage. Being married to a white woman, this exemplifies how 74-year-old is on a personal vendetta. He is going to make the Centrists and Liberals who objected to his nomination pay dearly. This man epitomizes Conservative hatred.
As more proof, Thomas believes the court should reexamine Griswold vs Connecticut, the ruling which permitted married couples access to birth control. After 2 marriages, the first to a black woman, he only has one child, so either his little swimmers are weak, or he hasn't been having intercourse, however there is also a very good possibility his spouse has been using birth control. This has nothing to do with his believing in the sanctity of the sacred sperm impregnating the holy egg. Remember how he was conveniently hospitalized when his wife's intimate involvement in the Trump coup was going to be released? He was terrified of being questioned, so he ran away and hid. This man is a gutless sack of shit pushing his bitter anger onto America.
Yesterday, while the Republican party was dancing in the street, there were those who were not cheering. Even the Orange Anus, Donald Trump, was voice reservations about the decision, rather it was the closeness to the mid-terms he was muttering about. Because Republicans are so bound up in their own selfish wants and desires, they never take a second to consider other opinions, how women might vote this November. While there may be many women who are stridently anti-abortion, there are many, many more who were glad that option was available. There are also many, many women who see this decision as taking away their rights to equality, suddenly they are now more inferior and no longer have the right to decide on how to handle a pregnancy. They are being forced into a role of submission. This is not going to sit well with them.
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And yes, I saw that today they busted out the first bricks of the edifice of the division of church and state by saying that some shithead Christian high school coach can pray on the football field after a game and invite others to join him. While he's on coach time. While he's being paid.
Anyone who believes that their god gives a flying fuck about whether or not their football team wins or loses is, in my opinion, an ignorant, superstitious ass [[to say the least) but that has no bearing on this supreme court who should have thrown the case out to begin with. And let's not even mention the fact that Jesus himself told people not to pray in public. But these people haven't actually read a Bible, have they?
Really Herschel Walker? Really?
Tuesday, June 28, 2022
Meme Dump
Leo Herrera, Mexican writer and LGBTQ+ activist, on ‘Don’t say Gay’:
“’Don’t Say Gay’ gives me church giggles. They’re still trying to get rid of us? When will they understand our Queerness floats to the top like cream and explodes when it’s buried? They can draft their bills, ban our books and social media, wipe the cream pie off Anita Bryant’s face, clear their priest's Grindr history but it’s too late. Queerness can’t be contained because it is the container. The hinges on Pandora’s box and the rub marks on Aladdin’s lamp. The sea glass their child already picked up, while they shielded their eyes from our sun and turned their back on our ocean. Volatile, elemental, sacred, everywhere, sacred. Always.”
Chatter on the intertubes has me up in arms - on all sides I might add. Mind you, I don't know a lot of pro-lifers, or they have the common decency not to say anything to, or around, me. I stopped self-inflicing wounds by really not looking much at things like Faeebook.
But butthole politicians are having the nerve to use my phone number to text me: Nancy Fucking Pelosi texting me for $$$ to fight this.
Sorry you stupid twat, that fight is O-V-E-R. And guess what, it's over for my life time. It took 50 years to overturn Roe v Wade. Do the math on these asshole judges sitting on that bench and anything that comes before them in their lifetime term. Oh - and 2024? Welcome to another republican president who will appoint more republican judges.
Seriously Nancy - what the fuck are you going to do with the $20 you're asking from me? Building a time machine, are we?
This was my response to "her":
I knew it was a bot, and I knew no one was actually reading it. But for a nanosecond, it made me feel better.
I also got one from Ohio's wanna be a senator, pretty much asking for the same thing, but to defeat his wanna be rival. I feel forced to vote for Tim Ryan in the fall, but honestly, he I believe he will be Joe Manchin II. His current ads tout how often he agreed with BLOTUS. I get he's trying to sway fringe righters, but he's alienating me.................big time. One of his sayings is roughly, "I don't represent ANY party". Clearly. So - then why should I give you my money?
Of course, the second sting is from Clarence Fucking Thomas' written decision show way above. He's coming for contraception and same-sex marriage.
I am fighting making this post about the potential dissolution of my marriage. Don't get me started on a threat to a woman's right to contraception and the pro-life shit. I get they don't see the irony in it, but it is a fucking dangerous irony.
What they do get is that while saying no to abortion is not saying yes to the child.......after it's born. There will be no affordable housing for the working class [[or impoverished) who are forced to have children.No one in this congress is increasing funding for WIC or food or heat for the families of these kids. Schools will not be funded for sex education and contraception [[see C. Thomas reference two paragraphs above.
There will be no one picking these kids out for adoption or fostering - which are roughly 100,000 a year for adoption [[and that's just US kids, not foreign ones) and the 424,000-672,000 children in the foster care system - depending on the year.
The social services are not the GOP strong suit.
The church is loving this though. An endless supply of pre-teen hole for all the priests!
When I say it's too late for Roe v Wade - and it is - it doesn't mean people should stop fighting this. All of it. Each of these things will get peeled away. In theory this could really jack up the mid-terms, but those are months away and we have a strong history of short term memory issues.
But we are going to have to fight for gay marriage [[again), voting rights and no doubt civil rights. More than half the justices lied when they said "Roe is settled law". Maybe a few follow-up questions would have been prudent.
So there is no reason to believe other laws in the books are not about to targeted.
Welcome to the new reality.
Rudy Giuliani says the ALLEGED assault he suffered during a campaign appearance on behalf of his son at a Staten Island ShopRite should result in the ALLEGED assailant being prosecuted:
“This has to stop!”The former Mayor of New York insisted that he “could have been killed” by the slap on the back had he fallen, and says his shoulder is still hurt and that he had trouble sleeping Sunday night as a result.
Perhaps some alcohol, Rudy? You’re going to need it because that ShopRite worker, Daniel Gill, walked free from court after his charges were downgraded.
If you’ve seen the video you’ll understand why Rudy Karen Giuliani’s assault was seen as more of a slap on the back.
It was barely twenty years ago, after 9/11 that Giuliani was dubbed America’s Mayor and now he’s become Thing 45’s Whipping Boy and America’s Drunk Uncle.
Put a fork in Trump....he's done. Not as convinced as the article....but there's always hope.
Put a Fork in Donald Trump—the Ex-President Is Done [[msn.com)
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Another example of the New Normal is Darren Bailey, a Trump backed candidate for Governor in Illinois. In the first video message he released after the shoot, Bailey said that we need to pray for the victims, and the police, and then basically 'move on.' He's another one Conservative asshole who has yet to realize all of their prayers have remained unanswered. Nope, not a one. God has evidently turned a deaf ear towards those prayers. Anyway, someone must have told Bailey he sounded like a stupid sack of shit, so he released another video in which he said he didn't mean to sound like a crass, failed human being. You're too late, Darren. People already know you accept these shootings as the New Normal, and people just need to move on when they happen.
Tuesday, July 05, 2022
Meme Dump
Of course, I feel bad for Highland Park folks and their dead. But the guy is white and Republican. Kyle Rittenhouse killed folks - he's white and a BLOTUS supporter and he's walking free.
I mean, they took him alive, so you know he was white.
Allegedly, I hear [[since I don't really read the news anymore - in detail), the TERRORIST was dressed as a woman to avoid detection. So you just know there is going to be a bunch of transphobia and drag queen comments coming.
Fuck them all. Fuck every single Republican fuck face who votes party line for fear of being Liz Cheney.
Right and Wrong no longer apply. Those words mean nothing anymore. Absolutely nothing. Of course, that is all they were: words. The depths of depravity that politicians and lobbyists [[and voters) will go to is just inhumane.
I don't think there is a better word for it.
I’m not saying this happened because he was drunk, or because he was from Texas, but a drunk Texan? That’s a different story.
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