Showing posts with label Brian Kemp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brian Kemp. Show all posts
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Friday, August 18, 2023
I Didn't Say It
Annette Bening, on the GOP and the conservatives’ efforts to stoke
anti-transgender bigotry for political gain: “They are trying to stir up all this fear in people about trans kids and parents, and they are trying to legislate that. This should not be scary to anybody else. This is a private, legitimate, complex, deep, spiritual, physical, psychological experience that has to be respected and honored. At the bottom line, life is about love. For me, the real transition has happened as the right wing in the country has become more and more mobilized on misinforming people about the LGBTQ community. They have been vilifying our community and creating problems that do not exist and creating and sowing hate and fear as a way of rallying their base. That’s obviously not new, and it’s happened in the campaigns of the past, especially against gay people. But now it’s transphobia, and it’s just rampant. They’re doing it at a time when there are more and more trans people who are living openly and who are our teachers, our writers, and our doctors … what I would wish is for every person to have someone who is trans in their family because once somebody you love is trans, then you get it. I am incredibly proud of [my son], and he has carved his own way. He’s someone I do admire, and I’ve learned a lot from when he first came out. I was very ignorant about what that meant to be a trans kid. I, like every other parent, want to protect my kids and make sure they’re OK, and I had a lot of learning to do. I didn’t always know what to do, and I didn’t always make the right choices because of my own ignorance, but we got through it [and] we all have a responsibility to protect and defend the rights of trans folks in our world. They’re precious parts of our community.” The attacks on trans people are personal for Bening, whose
son, writer Stephen Ira, is trans. The four-time Academy Award nominee and
recently appointed chair of the board of the Entertainment Community Fund
admitted to a certain hesitation in talking about her son publicly. She also vowed to continue to use here platform to advocate
for trans people. Knowledge is power; love is love; the conservative right is
wrong. |
Hillary Clinton, after the latest Thing 45 indictment: “I don’t feel any satisfaction. I feel great profound sadness that we have a former president that has been indicted for so many charges that went right to the heart of whether or not our democracy would survive. I don’t know that anybody should be satisfied. This is a terrible moment for our country, to have a former president accused of these terribly important crimes. The only satisfaction is that the system is working. That all of the efforts by [Thing 45] and his allies and enablers to try and silence the truth and undermine democracy have been brought into the light. And justice is being pursued.” She tried to warn us in 2016 and a lot of us didn’t listen. I’m still with her. |
Lara, speaking on Newsmax, whining about her
Daddy-In-Law and playing another round of Whataboutism: “What they accused our campaign and my father-in-law of doing in 2016, conspiring somehow with Russia to win an election. Hillary Clinton herself and the DNC actually did these things. And I think beyond that, this is what is frustrating to people, to see them throwing everything at the wall, to see anything that might stick for [Thing 45] because they don’t care in actuality how it is they prevent him from becoming president of the United States again. That is their angle. And they will try everything as evidenced now by this fourth ridiculous indictment. But to see Hillary Clinton out there talking about it, laughing about it, cackling about it, to know that the Biden family is basically getting away with selling out the United States of America, as far as all of us have seen with our own eyes, it is insane to see.” He gets indicted and the GOP and the wingnut
news people, and the family members on the payroll, or those looking to secure
a spot in the will, start squawking,
Hillary!!! Hunter!!! Joe!!! In the words of her criminal Daddy-in-Law, 'It's sad.' |
Brian Kemp, Georgia’s GOP Governor, on Thing 45’s claim that
he will be “irrefutably exonerated” in a report to be released next week: “The 2020 election in Georgia was not stolen. For nearly three years now, anyone with evidence of fraud has failed to come forward—under oath—and prove anything in a court of law. Our elections in Georgia are secure, accessible, and fair and will continue to be as long as I am governor. The future of our country is at stake in 2024 and that must be our focus.” Good on Kemp for standing up against a traitor but, to be
clear, Kemp is not all about fair elections. Just ask people of color in his state. |
Eminem, on Thing 45 and his base … the MAGAts … the basket
of deplorables: “I just get flustered and frustrating watching him play to his base that thinks that he cares about them and it’s actually the people that he cares about the f**king least. If you’re talking about his core being, ya know, a majority white middle class, what I don’t understand is how in the f**k do you feel like you relate to a billionaire who has never known struggle his entire f**king life? I will say this, he talks a good one. And if you’re in his base, let’s say you’re going to the rallies or whatever, you watch him on TV, you hear him talking this s**t, there’s part of me that understands, like, Alright, he’s somehow still got them because he’s brainwashing them into thinking something great is going to happen. Nothing’s happening.” For
those MAGAts shrieking about Thing 45’s Freedom of Speech being used against
him, that is exactly what you’re doing to Eminem because he dares speak out
about the con artist who has his hands in your wallet. |
Trixie Mattel, drag queen, on the right’s fear of
drag queens and children: “We don’t think about your kids. We don’t hope they’re gay. We don’t hope they turn out trans. We don’t hope they become drag queens. What we hope is that, if they are trans or gay, they find a community faster than many of us did.” We just want to show those kids who may be LGBTQ+ that there
is a way to happiness and self-acceptance and if parents think that’s somehow
wrong, perhaps they shouldn't be parents. |
Friday, May 19, 2023
I Didn't Say It
Chasten Buttigieg, husband of Transportation
Secretary Pete Buttigieg, describing his struggles growing up gay in a small
town: “When I was growing up in conservative rural Michigan, I thought I was the only gay person in the world. I thought something was twisted and wrong with me. I thought something in my DNA was compromised, and I spent 18 years of my life hating this fact about me [but] when you embrace the qualities about yourself that make you weird or make you different or make you feel like you stand out from the crowd, you start to see what actually makes you truly powerful and unique and beautiful. [You see] you’re not defined by the opinions of other people.” You make yourself; other people don’t get to create you and
put you in a box of their making. You make yourself, and once you learn that,
and become all right with yourself and who you are, the rest of the world falls
away. |
Marjorie Taylor Greene, racist and traitor to
America, telling reporters that at a recent New York City protest rally against
Thing 45, Democrat Congressman Jamaal Bowman was “shouting at the top of his
lungs, cursing, calling me a horrible—calling me a white supremacist;” “That is like calling a person of color the N word which should never happen. Calling me a white supremacist is equal to that and that is wrong. I think there’s a lot of concern about Jamaal Bowman, so and I am concerned about, I feel threatened by him. He not only let a mob there, but his boisterous lies. I am very concerned about Jamaal Bowman, and he’s someone that people should watch.” Hey Marge, being called a white supremacist only bothers you because it’s true. And, just so you know, it is nothing like using the n-word. Nothing. You’re offended because it was a person of color who called you a white supremacist because he sees you, and hears your words, and knows what they mean. So it might be better if you simply STFU. |
Jamaal Bowman, New York Democrat Congressman, responding
to that attack from Large Marge, which many are calling racist: “Marjorie Taylor Greene at her press conference this morning said something incredibly dangerous and incredibly reckless about me, talking about my demeanor as being ‘aggressive’ and saying that she feels ‘intimidated’ by me. Unfortunately, this country has a history of characterizing Black men who are outspoken, who stand their ground, and who push back as being threatening or intimidating. This is the same reason why Mike Brown was killed. This is one of the reasons why Emmett Till was killed. And throughout history Black men have continued to be characterized as aggressive because … one because of our skin color, but two because we happen to be outspoken and passionate about certain issues. It’s reckless and dangerous what she said, Okay, characterizing me in my interaction with her yesterday. I never invaded her personal space. I was laughing and gregarious the entire time. How was that intimidating? What was intimidating about that? So she goes to a press conference today and says that she’s intimidated by me and my mannerisms are aggressive. Anyone who’s interacted with me, anyone knows me, even reported this, you know, I’m middle school principal energy, always loving and engaging and friendly, except when kids [are] killed in our streets. Everyone should be outraged about that. But she knows what she’s doing when she does that, and unfortunately white supremacists historically, this is what they do. They try to dehumanize Black people, black skin and black humanity so that they could be you know, more likely to be targeted for harm.” Snap. |
Brian Kemp, Georgia’s GOP governor, urging Republican
leaders to set aside Thing 45’s obsession with the Big Lie: “Not a single swing voter in a single swing state will vote for our nominee if they choose to talk about the 2020 election being stolen. To voters trying to pay their rent, make their car payment or put their kids through college, 2020 is ancient history, [and voters] couldn’t care less about anyone’s sour grapes.” Oh but you’re wrong, Bri … one person cares and he’s going
to continue to make it an issue unless the rest of the party shuts him down. And, sadly, the GOP has no balls so … |
Kellyanne Conway, Cryptkeeper for Thing 45, on
Fox, explaining why the GOP will lose election after election: “The Republican Party cannot wait for the young to get old and the single to get married to find new voters. We can’t be beaten on this, policy-wise. I think that we have already won the policy arguments on the economy, education, on several issues. I think we’ve got some work to do on the young people who think differently on abortion, perhaps, or guns or climate change. But even there, the Democrats’ messages are usually cynical. The thing I’m really concerned about on this is that the left becomes a turnout machine with young people. Influencers have this domino effect, the lemming-like effect of people just all wanting to be part of the same crowd. And if they succeed that way, we are not doing a good job competing for ballots; we’re just competing for votes…We need to compete for ballots, not just voters and not just minds.” She says what we all know: that young people ... whom she thinks are ignorant lemmings ... will vote against the GOP until they get married and get old. What poor
Kellyanne forgets is that there will always be young people voting, so maybe
rethink your policies and try collaborating with women and minorities and the
LGBTQ+ community and immigrants and such. Try doing something. |
Sunday, May 07, 2023
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