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These Bitches

Another week and another selection of Bitches, homophobes, liars and serial abusers ....

Jeffrey Little, an Evangelical Christian lifeguard—is he able to walk on water during a rescue—is suing the LA County Fire Department claiming religious discrimination after he says he was punished for refusing to fly an LGBT pride flag at his beachside lifeguard facility last summer.

Little requested the exemption because he “adheres to traditional Christian beliefs regarding the moral illicitness of same-sex activity.” He is asking for damages based on “severe emotional distress” and a “standing exemption” from raising the flag.

Little claims he’s being discriminated against because he’s not allowed to discriminate against the LGBTQ+ community. He’s being represented by the anti-LGBTQ hate group, the Thomas More Society, who claims that Little has a First Amendment right not to have the flag within his sight.

I want to sue because I don’t want his bigoted hate within my sight.

Back in July 2022, during an Idaho Pride event, drag queen Eric Posey, AKA Mona Liza Million was performing. There were several members of the Hate Group Patriot Front who were arrested for disturbing the performance.

A blogger—I guess some of us are vile humans—named Summer Bushnell posted a video of herself discussing the mass arrest:

“Why did no one arrest the man in a dress who flashed his genitalia to minors and people in the crowd? No one said anything about it and there’s video. I’m going to put up a blurred video to prove it.”

The next day, Bushnell published an edited video she had received from local videographer Jeremy Lokken. Bushnell told others that the blur concealed “fully exposed genitals” and urged people to contact police.

Trouble was, that was a lie and local police refused to file charges because the unedited video showed no exposure.

This week a jury sided with eric Posey and order Summer Bushnell to pay him $1.1 million in damages.

Bitch better have his money!

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. addressed the Libertarian National Convention on Friday and told an anecdote about his views on masking during the Covid pandemic:

“They asked me why I wasn’t wearing a mask, which, nobody was, except for the NBC film crew. They said, ‘Wasn’t I scared of dying of Covid?’ And I said to them, ‘There’s a lot worse things than dying.’ And they said to me, ‘Like what?’ And I said, ‘Like living like a slave.’”

Yes, being sold into slavery, kidnapped and stolen from your land and your family, and raped and beaten and tortured and murdered at the hands of a maniac is akin to wearing a mask.

Robert F. Bitch is more like it.

Sean “Diddy” Combs believes the video of him beating then-girlfriend Cassie “doesn’t tell the full story about what happened,” a member of his inner circle says:

“He’s incensed. Especially about the video. He insists it doesn’t tell the full story about what happened. Not that he’s excusing it, but he says that it’s a selected video. It’s his position that there was an agenda in releasing the video when it was released,” the insider continues.

In the video, released by CNN on May 19, Diddy is seen attacking Cassie after chasing her through the hallway of the now-closed InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles. As Cassie attempted to get on an elevator to leave, Diddy grabbed her by the back of the neck and threw her to the floor. As she lay motionless on the floor, Diddy kicked her and dragged her through the hallway by her sweatshirt.

The agenda is to prove that Diddy beat his girlfriend after saying she was a liar, but who’s the lyin’ Bitch now?

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The Funny Papers

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Fox News: To Avoid Getting Beaten In An Elevator, "Take The Stairs"

I’m going to shock you … I.Don’t.Watch.Fox.News. … There; I said it. Whoosh. Now, y’all can calm down for a minute; no need to gather the pitchforks and the angry townspeople and come after me. It’s just that, well, we all know that Fox News wouldn’t know the truth if it was tattooed on Megyn Kelly’s breasts or painted onto the Mama Grizzly Bore’s™ five-head, but this week, even Fox News has gone too far.

The hosts of Fox & Friends — Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade and Anna Kooiman — aired the video of fired professional football player Ray Rice beating his then-girlfriend, now wife, Janay Palmer, into unconsciousness in an elevator and, well, they appeared to find it all quite amusing.

In the video, which I’m sure most people have seen once, because seeing it more than once is sickening, Rice punches Janay, and her head hits the elevator wall before she falls to the floor unconscious. Rice then stands over her, seemingly admiring his handiwork, and then casually drags her body off the elevator. This is funny, y’all, to Fox News; and not a big deal, at all.

One host, Steve Doocy acted as though the whole episode is nothing to get worked up about because, after the beating, Janay Palmer became Janay Rice, marrying the man who beat her unconscious, so let’s not make a big deal about it. If a woman gets beaten that severely and then marries her abuser, well, it must be fine so let’s move along to more important issues. 

Say? Is that Obama playing golf?

But, fellow host Brian Kilmeade had to throw in his two-cents — proving he is highly overpaid because his commentary isn’t worth a penny— adding that the same thing happened after Chris Brown beat the crap out of Rihanna. Again, it must be okay, because Chris Brown did it, so, yeah, Ray Rice should be able to do it, too.

Neither one of these men apparently has a sister, mother, wife, girlfriend, because if they did, if they weren’t a couple of goose-stepping asshatted, batshit crazy, FoxNews wingnuts, maybe they’d take a moment and realize that they are making light of the physical beating or a woman by her professional athlete boyfriend.

Kilmeade then says, the lesson to be learned is to “take the stairs” while Doocy adds that the “message is, when you’re in an elevator, there’s a camera.”

Avoid the beat down. Take the stairs; and if you’re gonna beat your wife or girlfriend in an elevator, remember there’s a camera; learn to take the beating into your private room because then no one would see it and it would be okay. The actual message here, that that Doocy and Kilmeade, and fellow host Anna Kooiman — and I’ll get to that moron in a moment — fail to acknowledge is that domestic violence is wrong; always. And with their lighthearted reporting of the beating, they missed the opportunity to help other women who are in abusive, or potentially abusive, relationships, by turning this into some kind of a joke.

I cannot fathom how these so-called news people — and, yes, I know it’s Fox News so they’re not real new people — think that domestic violence, physical abuse, of any kind, is something to make light of; take the stairs? Really? Think about the camera filming you before you throw that first punch. Really?

When men — and I use the term loosely when referring to Doocy and Kilmeade — make light of domestic abuse, they’re basically siding with the abusers; they’re saying it’s not such a big deal. And when Doocy and Kilmeade, representing Fox News, and therefore representing the GOP and the conservative movement in this country, it’s not much of a stretch to say that others of their ilk feel the same way about abuse. Especially when you hear so little from the GOP and its kin demanding an apology from Doocy, Kilmeade and Kooiman

Take the stairs, honey.

And now let’s talk about co-host Anna Kooiman, who basically sat there while these men made light of the beating, and then had the nerve to say that this incident is “unfortunate for football [and] gives a black eye} to the sport. Where’s her compassion for the black eye and bruises given to Janay [Palmer] Rice? Better yet, where’s her compassion period?

After this little bit of ridiculousness went live and viral, a sliver of what they call compassion was shown by the powers that be at Fox News when they gave a thirteen-second disclaimer about how they don’t condone physical violence. Thirteen seconds; that’s all it’s worth.

Proving its okay to laugh at physical violence and keep your job at Fox News.

Abusers

Joe Jackson, once again denying he ever beat his son: "I never beat my son. The media keep hollerin' saying that I beat my son. That's not true. You know where this beating started? The beating started in the slavery days when they used to beat the slaves, and then used to torture them. That's where this 'beating' started. These slave masters. And that's where that come from. But hey, there's a lot of people in America, Larry. A lot of people in America spank their kids. If they say they don't, they're lying. Now Michael was never beaten by me, never beaten at all."

First off, Joe, blaming the beating of your children on slavery? You need to try a new approach, because, unless you were the slave master and Michael was the slave, you, as usual make no sense. Your own children have said you beat them, so they must be the liars. Your own son made certain that his children would be raised by his mother and not you.

That speaks volumes, Joe, and it makes sense. You do not.

Chris Brown apologizing for beating Rihanna: "Since February my attorney has advised me not to speak up even though ever since the incident I wanted to publicly express my deepest regret and accept full responsibility....I felt it was time you heard directly from me that I'm sorry."

Well, Chris. A real man does not beat women. And a real man takes responsibility for his actions from the moment they happen. He doesn't hide behind the advice of attorneys. he doesn't say nothing for months and then offer a written apology. I cannot help but think that if you'd been allowed to speak further you would have gone on to publicize an upcoming tour or that you have a new album dropping. It's too little, Chris, and it's too late.

Show the world that you're sorry through your actions, not some prerecorded videotaped apology.