I Didn't Say It ...

Elena Kagan, US Supreme Court Justice on the ruling regarding the Voting Rights Act:

“The Voting Rights Act … was born of the literal blood of Union soldiers and civil rights marchers. In ushered in awe-inspiring change, bringing this Nation closer to fulfilling the ideals of democracy and racial equality. And it has been repeatedly, and overwhelmingly, reauthorized by the people’s representatives in Congress … I dissent, then, from this latest chapter in the majority’s now completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act.”

How simple is this: make voting easier and fair for all Americans regardless of color or gender or age or sexual orientation.

Voting by anyone eligible to vote should be the easiest fucking thing to do.

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Rick Wilson, political strategist, pundit and author, on Cankles’ newest push for the ballroom:

“As America’s economy teeters on the brink due to [his] insane tariffs, calamitous war with Iran, and his deeply incompetent Administration, I think I speak for the majority of Americans when I say FUCK YOUR BALLROOM.”

Seriously,  this is akin to Marie Antoinette and her “let them eat cake” remark. Americans can’t afford food or gas or healthcare or energy bills and this regime wants to build a $300 million ballroom because a diaper-wearing, racist, rapist, predator, con artist has a fragile ego?

Fuck that.

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Don Lemon, journalist best known for being a host on CNN, on the right pushing the idea that dangerous political rhetoric is coming from the left:

“I cannot say with a straight face that Democrats saying [Cankles] is terrible for this country is the same thing as [Cankles] standing in front of a crowd on January 6th and telling them to march to the capitol and fight like hell. I cannot say those things are equivalent because they are not. I am so sick of false equivalence. It drives me fucking crazy because that is bullshit. Because these things are not equivalent.”

No one on the left has celebrated the death of other politicians or celebrities; no one on the left has mocked the disabled in front of a crowd; no one on the left has called for destroying an entire civilization.

All we are saying is, ahem, FUCK TRUMP.:

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Jimmy Kimmel, responding to Melanie and Cankles ‘ calling for him to  be fired … again:

“It was five days ago. It was a pretend roast. I said, ‘Our First Lady, [Melanie’s] here. Look at her, so beautiful. [Melanie] you have a glow like an expectant widow’—which was obviously a joke about their age difference and the look of joy we see on her face every time they’re together. It was a very light roast joke about that fact that he’s almost 80 and she’s younger than I am [Melanie is 56]. It was not, by any stretch of the definition, a call to assassination. And they know that.”

Melanie is still riding the wave of bad reviews from her “documentary” and bad reviews from her incredibly awkward White House press conference on Epstein and now her idiotic tone-deaf reaction to a joke from BEFORE Correspondent’s Dinner.

Take a seat Melanie; why not put your architecture degree … hold for laughter … to good use and design and build a changing station for Cankles’ “accidents; that’s needed more than any ballroom.

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Melanie Stansbury, Democrat Representative for New Mexico, on the irony of King Charles reminding us of democracy:

“Imagine getting in a time machine and going back to 1776 and telling the Founding Fathers that the King would be one day reminding America about the importance of democracy and our checks and balances. That is the timeline we’re living in.”

The King has to remind a US president what America was founded on and stands for because the president is a drug addled narcissist.

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I Didn't Say It ...

Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW anchor, blasting Cankles for his attacks on female reporters and calling out the media for refusing to stand up to him:

“He called ABC's Rachel Scott today, quote, obnoxious and terrible. December 6th, he called Caitlin Collins, quote, stupid and nasty. On November 27th, he said, are you stupid? to CBS journalist Nancy Cordes. On November 26th, he called The New York Times Katie Rogers, quote, ugly. On November 18th, he called ABC's Mary Bruce terrible and insubordinate. November 14th, he told a Bloomberg reporter, quote, quiet piggy. This is sick shit. This is sick. And anyone in the room is in the room to do a job for their viewers or their readers. But they should go home tonight and think about whether their sisters or their daughters or their moms or their sons or their husbands or their fathers think that there's something else they should do the next time he calls a female journalist obnoxious, terrible, stupid, nasty, stupid, ugly, terrible, insubordinate or piggy. Because maybe if [Cankles] can't live without being on TV and maybe if they said, you know what, we're going to have some solidarity like they did with him wanting to change the names of oceans. I mean, we're either going to normalize this and then you're going to hear all sorts of prominent people calling women all sorts of names. I'm sure by the time I get off TV, I'll have a few of those myself. But we're either going to normalize this and usher in an era of unprecedented misogyny or that press corps is going to act as one and say no more.”

The press corps’ refusal to stand up for their female colleagues is not only a despicable show of cowardice, it’s also enabling Cankles’ campaign to bully his way into state-sponsored media, where all he gets are softball questions and praise because everyone is too afraid to stand up to him.

But we’ve seen before that Cankles and his regime back down when someone stands up to them and so we need the White House press corps to grow some backbone and start standing up for women.

And America.

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Talbert Swan, bishop of the Vermont Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, on America’s ongoing ties to racism and white supremacy:

"If one white woman accused me of rape my career would be over. A white man accused of assault by twenty-two women being able to run for a second term as president with half the country still supporting him, is all you need to know about racism, white male patriarchy and white supremacy.”

This is where we need to face our shame, that we have allowed a white male convicted felon and sexual predator to be given power over this country.

It’s our collective shame, though half of us don’t even acknowledge it.

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Thomas Massie, GOP Representative :

“I am sorry if one of your billionaire donors is going to get embarrassed because he went to rape island … that is what they have coming. So, how will we know if this bill has been successful? We will know when there are men, rich men in handcuffs being perp-walked to the jail. Until then, there is still a cover-up.”

I will have the popcorn at the ready when these pedophiles are arrested … or, perhaps, because they are mostly rich and white, if they are arrested.

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Elena Kagan, Supreme Court Justice, tearing into the Conservative SCOTUS gang in a scathing dissent against their decision to let Texas go ahead with Cankles’ election-rigging scheme:

“We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision. That is why we are supposed to use a clear-error standard of review—why we are supposed to uphold the District Court’s decision that race-based line-drawing occurred (even if we would have ruled differently) so long as it is plausible. Without so much as a word about that standard, this Court today announces that Texas may run next year’s elections with a map the District Court found to have violated all our oft-repeated strictures about the use of race in districting. Today’s order disrespects the work of a District Court that did everything one could ask to carry out its charge—that put aside every consideration except getting the issue before it right. And today’s order disserves the millions of Texans whom the District Court found were assigned to their new districts based on their race. Because this Court’s precedents and our Constitution demand better, I respectfully dissent.”

Alito and company have no problem depriving millions of Americans of their political voice as long as it serves their extremist right-wing, Nationalist Chistian AKA Nat-C political agenda. The Constitution, like everything else, simply exists for them when it is convenient and is easily ignored when it is not.

Every one of the rightwing puppet masters should be impeached at the first opportunity and removed from the court, replaced with people who will actually uphold their oath to the Constitution.

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Holland Taylor, actor, speaking about her partner, Sarah Paulson, at the unveiling of Paulsen’s  star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame:

“Sarah, the actress, is first of all a wild creature in the animal kingdom. Warm-blooded, instinctive, mysterious. And Sarah is dangerous—trust me in this—not dangerous like a snake, more like a mongoose. You know, those darling furry, little creatures that kill snakes. Nothing interferes with her laser perception of her character’s traits, its habitat, vulnerabilities, its heroism, its ugliness, terrible truths, its comic pathos. She zeros into a story’s central struggle, where most of us aren’t even aware of our own. Her acting is as honest as our faith and as complicated as chemistry. She’s not deceiving us, she is practicing magic. Truth to tell, it is these relationships where Sarah is most complex, dedicated and giving. Sometimes it’s hard to believe she’s an actress. She breaks the mold, throws assumptions out the window, does it her way. She will always surprise us. Hollywood does well to honor her. And just in case she doesn’t know it, she has a permanent shining star on my street. I love you, darling.”

Paulson and Taylor began dating in 2015 and have had to repeatedly defend their 31-year age gap relationship causing Paulsen to explain:

“If anyone wants to spend any time thinking I’m strange for loving the most spectacular person on the planet, then that’s their problem.”

It’s love, y’all, and respect and trust and admiration, and then more love. I only hope that Carlos thinks of me as a ‘darling, dangerous little mongoose.’

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Today In Stoopid: Steve King Wants To Impeach The Supremes ... Well, Ginsburg and Kagen

Iowa GOP Congressman—and asshat—Steve King is very unhappy with the United States Supreme Court. Well, not the whole court, mainly Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan.

In fact, he wants them impeached for their pro-equality ruling, and because they each had the nerve, the nerve, to officiate same-sex wedding.

“That provision does exist, and let’s hear what the public has to say. If that were put up before me today, and I think I mentioned Ginsburg and Kagan as being two that had been conducting same-sex marriages on their spare time and did not recuse themselves, I would put up the vote to remove them from office. But I don’t know if the public is ready for that.”

King — like many of his GOP loons and cohorts in idiocy — called for “nationwide civil disobedience” and encouraged states to simply “abolish civil marriage.”

“By doing so we can avoid the litigation that’s coming at every one of our churches [because LGBT rights activists] will not stop until they can force a priest to conduct a same-sex marriage at the altar of a Catholic church.”

Um, Steve? Moron? Take the foil hat off and listen to me, m’kay? As a government employee and an elected official, though how that continues to happen I do not know, surely you have heard of a little thing called Separation of Church and State?

Yeah, that thing; that means the government cannot force a church or priest or pastor or rabbi or shaman or wiccan priest, who chooses not to do so, to perform a same-sex wedding ceremony.

And let’s get another thing queer: if you wanna do away with civil marriage, please do so by making it retroactive to cover every single married person in the country and then go home and explain to your wife and children how mommy and daddy will no longer be married because, um, Gay.

And then sit down.

The Monday Morning Asshat

Pat Buchanan is flapping his lips again. About Elena Kagan. I understand that she's the hot topic of the day.

Is she or isn't she?

Did she or didn't she?

Will she or won't she?

But Pat Buchanan doesn't like the fact that she's a :::::gasp::::: Jew!

Buchanan:

Indeed, of the last seven justices nominated by Democrats JFK, LBJ, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, one was black, Marshall; one was Puerto Rican, Sonia Sotomayor. The other five were Jews: Arthur Goldberg, Abe Fortas, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan.
If Kagan is confirmed, Jews, who represent less than 2 percent of the U.S. population, will have 33 percent of the Supreme Court seats.
Is this the Democrats' idea of diversity?
But while leaders in the black community may be upset, the folks who look more like the real targets of liberal bias are white Protestants and Catholics, who still constitute well over half of the U.S. population.

With nothing better to occupy his time Pat went down to the Supreme Court and counted up the justices and found there is not one Protestant on the whole team!

Say whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

I mean, were Pat to have his way, only rich, white, Protestant men could serve on the court, or in office, or as President. Lucky for us, Pat is just a blowhard with a microphone.

Quote Of The Day: Bryan Fischer

Bryan Fischer, one of the homophobes and haters at the American Family Association [AFA], on Elena Kagan maybe being a :::gasp::: lesbian:

"One qualification for public office is personal character, and nothing speaks to character more than the choices one makes when it comes to sexual conduct. Bill Clinton convinced an entire generation of America's youth that oral sex isn't really sex, and as a result we've seen an explosion among millenials in cancers of the throat and head caused by the HPV virus, which is spread through oral-genital contact. It's time we got over the myth that what a public servant does in his private life is of no consequence. We cannot afford to have another sexually abnormal individual in a position of important civic responsibility, especially when that individual could become one of nine votes in an out of control oligarchy that constantly usurps constitutional prerogatives to unethically and illegally legislate for 300 million Americans. The stakes are too high. Social conservatives must rise up as one and say no lesbian is qualified to sit on the Supreme Court. Will they?"

Hey Bryan? You moron. Why must you equate the "sexual conduct" of gay men and women as somethjing immoral? You don't liek having sex with men, then don't do it? It isn't sexual conduct, it's sex.


And, all I can say is Wow about Bill Vlinton and the power he wields. I mean, he says oral sex isn't sex and suddenly everyone's doin' it? I mean, no one ever had a blowjob before?> Or gave a blowjob before? Or, um, you know, went down....there? Seriously? People have been giving one another the pleasures of oral sex since, well, probably, Adam and Eve. And Adam and Steve. And Madam and Eve.


But it's that last line that gets me. "[N]o lesbian is qualified to sit on the Supreme Court"? So, no matter her education, experience, talents, the simple fact that she might be....MIGHT BE....gay automatically disqualifies her for the job?


And you say you aren't haters and homophobes?


If it quacks like a homophobic fucktard..........