I Didn't Say It ... But First, An Issue ...

I seem to be unable to reply to comments left on my blog, so rest assured I am reading them but for some reason cannot comment.

I will try to see how to resolve this kerfuffle ASAP.

Thanks

Bob

Zohran Mamdani, Democrat mayor of New York City, on ICE:

“I am in support of abolishing ICE and I’ll tell you why. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We’re seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law but instead what it’s doing is terrorizing people — no matter their immigration status, no matter the facts of the law, no matter the facts of the case. And I’m tired of waking up every day and seeing a new image of someone being dragged out of a car, dragged out of their home, dragged out of their life. There is a way to care about immigration in this city and in this country with a sense of humanity. What we’re seeing from ICE is not it, and we have not seen that from them in a long, long time.”

ICE  was supposed to removed undocumented immigrant criminals; not children, not citizens, not murder women in the streets.

ICE must go and by voting Blue it can be dismantled from the Kristi Noem ICEstapo.

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Billie Eilish, singer, denouncing ICE and the Cankles Regime in a recent speech accepting the 2026 MLK Jr. Beloved Community Environmental Justice Award:

“It’s very strange to be celebrated for working towards environmental justice at a time where it feels less achievable than ever, given the state of our country and the world right now. We're seeing our neighbors being kidnapped, peaceful protesters being assaulted and murdered, our civil rights being stripped, resources to fight the climate crisis being cut for fossil fuels and animal agriculture destroying our planet, and people's access to food and healthcare becoming a privilege for the wealthy instead of a new basic human right for all Americans. It is very clear that protecting our planet and our communities is not a priority for this administration and it's really hard to celebrate that when we no longer feel safe in our homes or in our streets."

It’s not just Venezuela or Minneapolis or Greenland, it’s all of it; the lies, the cheating, the crimes, the pure evil greed.

Let’s start cleaning House and Senate in November.

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Ruben Gallego, Democrat Senator from Arizona, on Cankles and Greenland:

“The idea that we’re going to ruin our long-standing alliances and waste billions of dollars to buy Greenland while our own people can’t afford health care or groceries is maybe the dumbest thing a president has done in the history of this country.”

It’s one of the many dumbest things this president has ever done.

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Bernice King, MLK’s daughter, on Cankles’ presidency:

“The recent claim by [Cankles] that the 1964 Civil Rights Act harmed white Americans is just wrong and it's dangerous. It rewrites history in a way that fuels fear and resentment. My fathers and so many leaders of the movement, Fred Shuttlesworth, Diane Nass, John Lewis—I can call the role but I won't do it today—did not risk their lives to divide this nation. They did so because America was denying millions basic rights, the right to work, the right to vote, to live where they please, to move through society with dignity. The Civil Rights Act did not give Black people special treatment. It made discrimination illegal. The same discrimination you're trying to turn around. It required the law to protect everyone equally. That is democracy. Sadly, under [Cankles’] America, the law only protects rich white men. We’ve been forced to watch in horror as he rolls back all the progress we’ve made as a nation, stoking the flames of racial hatred and dragging us to the dark ages again.”

This is not America where our elected officials are blatantly KKK racists; they don’t even bother with the hoods any longer.

This cannot stand; this is not the America I learned about—though we know America is not now and never was perfect—and not the America Dr. King dreamed about.

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Don Lemon, on has been MAGAt rapper Nicki Minaj after she called him a homophobic slur over his reports on ICE protests in Minneapolis:

“This is clearly out of her depth. She doesn’t understand politics. She doesn’t understand journalism. And I’m not surprised that she is weighing in on something that is beyond her capacity. I think she put the Chucky doll in [her post]. A better symbol that should have been represented in that picture is a ‘Pick Me’ doll because Nicki Minaj is a pick me. She will do anything that is expedient for her politically. And again, she’s ignorant. She doesn’t know what she’s talking about. She’s always weighing in on things that she doesn’t know about. Nicki Minaj should just sit the fuck down.”

Minaj is out for anyone that can solve her husband’s criminality issues which is why she aligned with Erika Grieving Widow Kirk and praise Cankles. She bought into the cult of stupidity and will never find her way out.

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I Didn't Say It ...

Zohran Mamdani, the newly elected Democrat mayor of New York City, in his acceptance speech:

“Here we believe in standing up for those we love, whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that [Cankles] has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall. No more will New York be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election. So, if there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This is not only how we stop [Cankles], it’s how we stop the next one. So, [Cankles] since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you: turn the volume up. New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant. So hear me [Cankles] when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.”

He has his work cut out for him but he ran a fantastic campaign and got younger people out to vote and riled the party into action.

In a world of Schiff’s and Shumer’s et al, be a Mamdani!

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Michael Che,  actor, writer, and stand-up comic from SNL’s Weekend Update, speaking out against the GOP attacks on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program [SNAP]:

“This SNAP freeze is really fucked up. And I keep seeing a lotta racist videos celebrating [mostly Black] families not being able to buy groceries … there’s this weird idea that since some people have taken advantage of welfare benefits in the hood, nobody should receive help, at all? This country is built on greedy motherfuckers taking shortcuts and gaming the system to their benefits, but for some reason, when poor people find a way to turn a nickel into a dime, they’re judges more severey, especially Blacks. I know the whole hustle is to hate each other here so we can fight in the comments and up our engagements … but let’s draw thew line at feeding the poor.. I grew up on free cheese and powdered milk and waiting for your friends to leave the store so they [wouldn’t] see me pay with stamps … that shit ain’t as glamorous as it sounds. I promise.”

Bam! The GOP wants y’all to believe that folks on welfare and using SNAP benefits are buying lobster and champagne—though, so what if they are—because the right wants to control and keep down those less fortuante, those in need of assistance, those of color.

Welfare isn’t glamorous but it’s necessary even if some folks abuse the system like, oh I don’t know, those Congressman still collecting a paycheck when they haven’t worked in weeks and weeks … talk about welfare, the House is vacationing on our dime.

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JB Pritzker, Democrat governor of Illinois, speaking at the Illinois Federation of Teachers’ convention:

“[Cankles] and his bootlickers have torn down the US Department of Education from the inside. Books are being banned. History is being erased. Republicans want to take billions away from public schools and pump it into private institutions. They want to punish teachers for telling the truth. I’m sorry to be vulgar, but [Cankles] and his cronies can fuck all the way off.”

I truly believe the GOP would like to keep the rich getting rich, and everyone else, poor and uneducated. I mean, how else can they guarantee themselves a win unless they create an electorate that believes their lies?

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Ruben Gallego, Arizona Democratic Senator, floating the idea to name the new White House ballroom after former President Barack Obama once Cankles is dead, gone, or in prison:

"I think to really mess with him, just name it the Barack Obama Ballroom, and that will take care of half the problem. This is a distraction. First of all, he should not have done that. This is the People's House. Two, where is the president? He's focusing on the ballroom, he's focusing on everything [else], but he's not focused on what's happening right now: inflation's still high, people can't buy what they need to buy, energy's still high ... This is a Marie Antoinette talking about 'Let them eat cake' while Americans are struggling right now. What I would like him to do is focus on this to make sure we can actually get costs down, people can actually make a good standard of living right now and pay what they need to survive instead of focusing on all these little projects."

I think we should keep calling it The Jeffrey Epstein Ballroom while Cankles is in office, but as soon as we take that house back, perhaps the Barack and Michelle Obama Ballroom for The People?

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Billie Eilish, singer, calling out billionaires at the  WSJ Magazine Innovator Awards directly to their faces:

“We're in a time right now where the world is really, really bad and really dark and people need empathy and help more than kind of ever, especially in our country. And I'd say if you have money, it would be great to use it for good things and maybe give it to some people that need it. Love you all, but there's a few people in here that have a lot more money than me and if you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but yeah, give your money away, shorties.”

Eilish—who has an estimated net worth of $50 million—put her money where her mouth is by donating$11.5 million, or 23% of her wealth, of the proceeds from her Hit Me Hard and Soft tour to support organizations fighting for food equity, climate justice, reducing carbon pollution, and combatting the climate crisis.

On the flip side, in 2015, Mark and Priscilla Zuckerberg pledged to give away 99% of their shares in Meta to philanthropy over their lifetimes, and they've given away more than $7B to date; the Zuckerberg’s net worth is $232.1 billion, so they have given away ).03% of their wealth.

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Gio Benitez, ABC correspondent,  on coming out at 24 and healing his inner child:

“You think about all the worries you have growing up. You spend so much time in your head thinking about that. For me, I think it was obviously growing up gay and keeping that a secret. And that was something that I didn’t talk to anyone about really till I was 24 years old. And so I think that you worry, ‘Will that hold me back’? And at the time, the message from society kind of was, ‘yeah it would.’ And there was nobody, I thought, like me at the time on television, so I didn’t have an example to point to. And so this is something of a dream that I always had, but could being myself prevent me from having that dream? And that was a worry that I always had. And so that’s why today I would say chill out. It’s all going to be OK. That person is still inside all of us. We constantly have to talk to that little kid inside because they’re there. They are a part of us. They were there through the most monumental parts of our lives. And they’re still there.”

Talk to that little kid, yes, but talk to real people, too, coming out everywhere you can. It makes the march easier and paves the way for others to follow ….

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I Ain't One To Gossip But ... First ...

JP is back to blogging, as he says, tentatively. If you never read him before at his old blog, try stopping in at Still Me: the same just different. His take on the world and people and food, from his patch of earth in the UK, is lovely and wonderful and thought-provoking and beautifully written.

Stop in, read, and say Hello!

Damn, why couldn’t I have had a front row seat??

Idris Elba appeared at the Brit Awards this past week, looking rock-n-roll smooth in a bright pink Gucci bomber jacket and black jeans, but sharp-eyed viewers noticed that his zipper was open on his pants.

Sadly, when Adele came onstage to accept her award, Idris Elba held the cue cards in front of his groin in an attempt to cover his embarrassment, and Twitter went wild:

“Someone needs to tell Idris Elba to close the front door.”

“Why the hell are people complaining that Idris Elba’s fly was open at The Brits? They’re acting like that’s not the best possible outcome.”

Actually, again, the best possible outcome would be me sitting front row center and then bounding onstage to hold Idris’, um, cue cards.

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On the opposite end of that conversation, is the fact that Nelly was trending on social media this week because he, ahem “accidentally” posted a video of himself getting a blowjob to Instagram.

Well, we guess it was Nelly, because it was just his dick in the scene while the woman’s face was on full display. But, still, Nelly claimed his dick, which leads most folks to wonder, ‘How does one accidentally post a video to Instagram, unless the accidentally part is just a front because, really, who the fuck is Nelly and how thirsty is he?

Also, the post comes the same week that Nelly saw Madonna’s scantily clad Instagram photo from just last week and said: 

“Some things should be covered up!”

And other things don’t ever need to be seen.

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I’m beginning to think we change Kanye’s name to Karen.

While he’s spent recent weeks going after ex-wife Kim Kardastrophe and Kim’s “boyfriend of the moment” Pete Davidson, he’s taken some time off to go after … Billie Eilish.

Kanye Karen is demanding that Billie apologize to Travis Scott over some recent remarks she made disparaging the rapper. And if Billie doesn’t make the apology, then Kanye Karen will not perform at Coachella. :::foot stomp::: But the trouble with this is that Billie Eilish never said a thing about Travis Scott. See, the incident that has Kanye’s granny pants in a snit happened last weekend in Atlanta during her Happier Than Ever The World Tour. In the middle of the show, Billie stopped performing to check on a fan who seemed to be having issues. Billie asked to give the fan a little room and then told the audience:'

"Relax, relax, it’s OK. We’re taking care of our people.”

Well, clearly that was a dig at Travis Scott who recently let fans get trampled and die while he kept performing, right? At least it was in the mind of Kanye Karen who stepped into the middle of what was nothing and tried to make it something. Karen posted a picture of a headline claiming that Billie “dissed” Travis, and wrote his ultimatum in ALL CAPS because he’s serious:

COME ON BILLIE WE LOVE YOU PLEASE APOLOGIZE TO TRAV AND TO THE FAMILIES OF THE PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES NO ONE INTENDED THIS TO HAPPEN TRAV DIDN’T HAVE ANY IDEA OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING WHEN HE WAS ON STAGE AND WAS VERY HURT BY WHAT HAPPENED AND YES TRAV WILL BE WITH ME AT COACHELLA BUT NOW I NEED BILLIE TO APOLOGIZE BEFORE I PERFORM

All caps and not one single sign of punctuation. Stay in school, kids and stay on your meds. But, Billie, clearly the adult in this story, popped into Kanye’s comments and stated the obvious:

“Literally never said a thing about Travis. Was just helping a fan.”

It looks like Billie will not be doing an Apology Tour and that Kanye Karen will, still perform at Coachella because he’s just a drama queen looking to stay relevantly irrelevant.

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And speaking of thirsty celebrities, JLo and highly likely soon-to-be ex-fiancé Ben Affleck appeared on the red carpet at JLo’s new film, Marry Me, and the bitch was wearing a wedding dress from Giambattista Valli’s “Love” collection. She even dressed Ben up as a groom. I'm stunned she didn't have a minister out there to perform the ceremony.

Seriously, how thirsty is she?

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I Didn't Say It

Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Transportation, taking a moment from talking supply chain disruptions and infrastructure, to talk about the joy of being a new dad with his husband Chasten:

“It’s been wonderful. It’s everything people tell you to expect and more. I think the biggest thing that has surprised me is just how much joy there is even sometimes in the hard parts. It’s the most demanding thing I think I’ve ever done. I used to think of 5 a.m. as ‘early,’ now I think of it as ‘nap time,’ if I’m lucky. And yet I catch myself grinning half the time,. We’re just over the moon.”

Love.

Love Pete and Chasten, and Babies Buttigieg.

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Pope Francis, on the scale of child sexual abuse within the Catholic church in France:

“There is, unfortunately, a considerable number. I would like to express to the victims my sadness and pain for the trauma that they suffered. It is also my shame, our shame, my shame, for the incapacity of the church for too long to put them at the center of its concerns.”

Hey Frank? Shove your sadness and shame. I don’t think the more than 330,000 French children who were raped by Catholic priests and other church authority figures since 1950 want your shame and sadness.

They want their rapists punished and jailed, along with every member of your church who helped hide this sin.

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Lil Nas X, on how the success of Old Town Road gave him the push to come out:

“I don’t think I would have ever came out [but after Old Town Road hit] I honestly felt like it was kind of my duty. Especially if I wanted to move forward. And what I was doing, because authenticity is very real, and I feel like people can see right through that. And that’s a part of me. [But] I felt like [my insecurity with my sexuality] was my fear of people judging me for how I would act post-coming out. I used to ‘like’ comments where people were like, ‘Oh, I like him, because he’s not all in your face about it.’ And then I realized kind of what that was. It’s kind of like when people say, ‘Oh, I have a Black friend,’ and that kind of sits on everything that have to do with their Black history and culture, whatnot. I’m kind of like, I’m not that person, you know?”

This is gonna make me sound old, but that is one smart kid. He did a great service to young people of color by coming out.

We need more of that.

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Billie Eilish, trashing Texas lawmakers during a concert in Austin over the state’s new anti-choice law:

“My body, my fucking choice. When they made that shit a law, I almost didn’t want to do the show … because I wanted to punish this fucking place for allowing that to happen here. But then I remembered that it’s you guys that are the fucking victims, and you deserve everything in the world. And we need to tell them to shut the fuck up! Makes me sick how many men say nothing when it comes to women’s rights. If you and your ‘homies’ or bros’ aren’t talking about the abortion laws in Texas, chances are you’re part of a problem.”

Nice, I guess, but I wonder how much more effective her rant would be if she decided not to play in Texas and tell her fans it was because of the law and shew won’t play there until those who created it, and the law itself, are history.

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Lisa Boothe, Fox News host, on the news that Merck is seeking authorization for an oral COVID treatment.

“This is all such a scam. We could repurpose ivermectin for so cheap. None of this is about public health, it’s about cashing in or paying in favors for Big Pharma.”

Now, we all suspect these Fox “News” hosts are idiots and here we have actual proof, because Boothe is accusing Merck of trying to profit off COVID with their new drug and wants y’all to take the horse paste instead … which is made by Merck.

Do better, Lisa. I kid, cuz you can’t.

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