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Pete Buttigieg, on Bill Maher’s show, on JD Vance’s idiocy and hypocrisy:

“It’s not that complicated. I know there are a lot of folks who say, what’s going on with some of these Silicon Valley folks [Peter Thiel] veering into [The Felon] world with JD Vance … what are they thinking? Silicon Valley, they’re supposed to care about climate. They’re supposed to be … pro-science and rational and libertarian. So normally libertarians don’t like authoritarians. What’s up with that? I think it’s actually we’ve made it way too complicated. It’s super simple. These are very rich men who have decided to back the Republican Party that tends to do good things for very rich men. That’s kind of what you’re getting with JD. When I got to Harvard, I found a lot of people like him who would say whatever they needed to get ahead. And five years ago, that seemed like being the anti-[The Felon] Republican. So that’s what he was talking about. How [The Felon] was unfit, how he was cynical, called him an opioid, which is kind of a weird thing to say about a person … [and] behind the scenes … calling him Hitler, right? … I actually watched this exact same process with somebody else I got to know in my days in the Midwest, which was, my former governor, Mike Pence, who I watched start out as an evangelical Christian who cared about rectitude and family values and then get on board with a guy who was mixed up with a porn star, make excuses for him so that he could have power. He got four glorious years, I guess, as Vice president of the United States. And it ended on the west front of the Capitol with [The Felon] supporters proposing that he be hanged for using the one shred of integrity he still had to stand up to an attempt to overthrow the government. So I guess, maybe not as a politician, but as a human being, what I’ll say is that I hope things work out a little bit better for JD Vance than it did for him.”

The good news is that JD Vance won’t get into the White House, except maybe as a visitor with a very limited pass.

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Matt Walsh, self-avowed Christian nationalist and Daily Wire host, proving again that Christian Nationalists are just racists:

“We all know what would happen if Olympic athletes celebrated and gloated over an all-white podium. “We know the reaction if the silver and bronze medal were won by white people and they bowed to the gold medalist in part to celebrate the fact that he was also white. Like, we all know how that would go. If we would say that Olympians were racist for cheering an all-white podium, we must say the same about Olympians cheering an all-Black podium. Those are the rules, which means I’m afraid that Simone Biles is a horrendous bigot. She is a racist, and she owes America an apology. Those are the rules, and she should be expected to follow them the same way that she’d be expected to follow them if she was white.”

Hey, Racist? How many podiums at the Olympics, throughout the years have been all-white? Yeah, so an all-Black podium is a new thing, a different thing, and maybe a chance for young girls and boys of color to think they could do that, too.

God is watching you Matt, and She thinks you’re a racist and a moron, and should stop pretending to be one of Her followers.

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Sean Hannity, Fox News hack, on Tim Walz’s wife Gwen:

“Walz’s wife, the first lady of Minnesota, was basking in the violence, you know—opened all the windows to their home so she could smell burning tires and rejoice in the resistance and get this, according to the Senate Committee report, around the same time the National Guard was finally being mobilized and starting to arrive in Minneapolis, well, according to this report, the governor’s daughter was given access to confidential information that she then disseminated to the general public and rioters. Might want to check that out.”

Just remember that Fox “News” paid out nearly a billion dollars in a lawsuit in which they admitted they were not a news organization, but an entertainment channel.

So Sean can go fuck himself.

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Harris Faulkner, another so called “:news” host on  Fox, on Taylor Swift having an opinion:

“Two things about this: the tickets are extremely expensive to go see her. I know, because you know my Bella’s 16th birthday, that’s what she wanted. She is a huge Taylor Swift fan. And if we are going to pay that much money as consumers, you don’t need to serve up politics for that. It’s divided us as a nation, why can’t you go to a concert without that? She can vote any kind of way she wants, she can talk about it offstage, but when people pay to see you, just perform.”

So now Harris Fuckner thinks she can tell anyone what they can say, when they can say it, and where they can say it?

Bitch, please, sit down, your stupid is stunning.

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DonOld, speaking at a Fifth-Grade level to his merry band of fifth graders, on Fox Entertainment:

“Google, nobody called from Google. One of the things like doing a show like yours, your show, you know, you see it on Fox, but when you really see it is all over the place, they take clips of your show that you’re doing right now with me and if I do a good job, they’re gonna vote for me, they’re gonna vote for me because it’s not just on Fox, it’s on Fox is a smaller part of it. You’re on all over this, those little beautiful cell phones you’re on, you’re all over the place. You have a product, you have a great product. You have a great brand. So you have to get out, you have to do things like your show and other shows and Google has been very bad. They’ve been irresponsible and I have a feeling that Google is gone be close to shut down.”

Seriously, if anyone reading this can make sense of it, please tell us what he’s saying. Or call Sarah Palin because she’s an expert at Word Salads.

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Kayleigh McEnany, on Fox Not News, blathering about Tim Walz:

“This is a stunning choice. I imagine there’s a lot of cheering at Mar-A-Lago at the moment. Look, Tim Walz, he’s no one to scoff at. He unseated a six-term Republican in Congress. He won a conservative district. He began as a moderate. And then he had a radical transformation as soon as he got a trifecta in Minnesota; I think it is fair to call him a progressive in sheep’s clothing. When you look at his record over the last few years, what you see are transgender surgeries for minors. Carbon electrical grid by 2040, drivers’ licenses for illegal immigrants. In function, his abortion policy allows abortion until birth. These are policies that are far to the left of America. And as John McCormick at The Wall Street Journal pointed out, Kamala Harris has to do the exact opposite of what Tim Walz did. Tim Walz became more progressive. Kamala Harris is trying to become more moderate.”

And Kayleigh Mac-A-Ninny is still a lying POS.

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Tim Walz, on who he is as a human being and what he believes:

“I’m Tim Walz, a former geography teacher, and a retired Sergeant Major in the National Guard. I was a Congressman for twelve years and now Minnesota Governor. Here’s what I believe: who you want to marry is your choice. Women can be trusted to make their own health care decisions. Climate change is real and it’s in our best interest to move in that direction. And labor unions are at the core of what built the Middle Class.”

Simple, common sense and respect for all people; how is that a bad thing?

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I Didn't Say It

Matt Bomer, actor and longtime Husband-In-My-Head, accepting HRC’s Impact Award with a message on not shying away in the face of oppression:

“The other day I went to a home store with a Pride flag hanging outside. The two men who owned the place told me their store had been vandalized, their Pride flag torn down a few times and hate-filled people drove by on more than one occasion screaming expletives at them. With the brutal murder of shop owner Lauri Carleton not far away in Lake Arrowhead still very much in their mind they told me they were closing their store and moving their business online. And in that moment I felt that child in me that denied my true self for so long creep back into my head. I know that urge to run. When I left their shop I thought of that line from ‘The Normal Heart,’ “New oppressions are always forming from the ashes of the old.” The fight for justice, for a better world, for civil rights or access to medicine is a never-ending fight. When we compartmentalize, hide or separate it only emboldens the haters of the world. We change hearts and minds by continually being who we are. This coming election year, more than ever, our community has got to show up, for my kids, for yours, for shop owners that want to hang a rainbow flag outside their store without the fear of it being torn down, and for anyone who yearns to hold their partner’s hand in public and know the glorious feeling of being whole.”

He's right; silence gets us nowhere, especially when the Right is gunning for us. Speak up, act up, come out, live out. and vote.

All day, every day.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene, wingnut ReTHUGlican, crying about her own party:

“Republican voters across the country are sick and tired of Republicans because they never do anything to hold this government accountable. Republicans go out on the campaign trail and go on TV and do their five-minute hearing videos, and posts up on social media, and say all this garbage about how they’re going to fight it and stop it. I feel like many of the American people that think that Republicans in Congress completely failed them. I feel the same way, and I’m a Republican member of Congress.”

Maybe try working for The People, Marge, and not for your own  GOP interests. The problem with your party is you and The Groper and The Predator and The Pedophile Enabler and The Christian Nationalist at the podium.

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Brad Pitt, on the idea of beauty:

“When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It’s just a first impression. Then there’s someone who doesn’t catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them, and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren’t what you would call beautiful sex symbols. I’ll tell you who my favorite actress is Dianne Wiest. And you wouldn’t call her a sex symbol [but] Dianne Wiest is, to me, the most beautiful woman on the screen.”

He's right about Wiest; she’s a brilliant actor. I first saw her in a film called Independence Day—not to be convinced with that Will Smith monstrosity—and she takes over the screen every time she’s on it.

PS In the interests of transparency, I will also say that Brad Pitt is a Husband-In-My-Head, too, which, yes, I know, makes me a Mental Bigamist. Sue me.

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Kayleigh McEnany, on Hannity, about that vote in Ohio on Tuesday:

“On the issue of abortion in Ohio tonight, we continue the losing streak in the pro-life movement. Every ballot initiative has been lost post-Dobbs for the pro-life movement. As a party, we must, we must not just be a pro-baby party. That’s a great thing. We must be a pro-mother party. We need a national strategy to help vulnerable women because the results of next year’s election could be determined by that.”

First off, Bullshit Barbie, you are not the pro-baby party if you force women to give birth and then allow those children to grow up to be slaughtered in schools. And a pro-mother party would be the one that allows women to make their own healthcare choices.

Be honest, your party is about controlling women and forcing them to follow the rules of your invisible friend.

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Kelly Johnson, Christian Nationalist Mike Johnson’s wife, on her wonderful man:

“I know it goes along with the territory here, but I will say it makes me very sad, it breaks my heart. Because I just wish that they knew this guy that I know. He is one of the most loving, kind, genuine people I know. He loves all people and would give you the shirt off his back. I used to be a schoolteacher and I loved that, but I just felt burdened for so many people and I felt the calling to go back to school to become a Christian counselor. And it’s because I love people and want to help them through the times when they’re struggling and suffering. I love what I do.”

The Gays don’t want your help, and The Gays didn’t ask for your help, and no matter how much you talk like a little girl—and if that’s what Mike is into, time for a rethink—you can’t hide what you’ve tried to do to the LGBTQ+ community with your conversion therapy ideas.

We are only struggling to have people like you faux Christians simply let us be.

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Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Transportation, speaking to Stephen Colbert about Mike Johnson’s claim that gay marriage brings “dark chaos”:

“Maybe we’ll just have him over. If he could see what it’s like when I come home from work, and Chas is bringing the kids home from daycare or vice versa, and one of us is getting the mac and cheese ready and the other’s microwaving those freezer meatballs—which are a great cheat code if you’ve got a toddler and you need to feed them quickly—and one won’t take their shoes off and one needs a diaper change. Everything about that is chaos, but nothing about this is dark. The love of God is in that household.”

Mike Johnson is a hate-filled man who believes the invisible man in the history book is his ruler, but then he uses the so-called word of god—yes, little g—to make himself feel superior to others and to keep others … women, people of color, LGHBTQ+ people … down.

If you believe in god you cannot believe that god is hate. That’s your own choice.

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Bobservations

Carlos is still under the weather—we have been on the lookout for Oregano oil as suggested by Treader—but the other day he whipped out the humidifier and some essential oils to clear out his throat. I walked into the guest bathroom and he was hunched over the thing and I asked if he wanted a towel to put over his head and he said No thanks.

I then asked if he wanted a chair from the kitchen table so he wouldn't have to stoop over and he asked why I was being so nice; I replied:

“I’m always nice, motherfucker.”

I think humor is the best medicine.

This Tuxedo Memory is from October 2011 when I was trying to monetize the cats to help with their expenses …

"Caturday: Head Shots

I'm thinking of pitching a new idea to Bravo, The Real HouseCats Of Camden, so I have been taking headshots of the players for my proposal.

Here they are: 

Tuxedo would be that cat. The one everybody loves and wonders why he is on such a trashy show.

Consuelo Roca Jones would be the cat that flips the table.

Tallulah Belle is the crazy one, with the wonky eyes, that you never know when she'll attack.

MaxGoldberg will be the one who cries. On cue.

And for a little diversity, we'll toss Ozzo in the mix. He'll be the outsider who's always crashing the HouseCat parties and eating their food."

It breaks my heart realizing that with the exception of Consuelo all these lovelies are gone now.

News from Blue Tuesday … 

In Pennsylvania, Moms for Liberty [MfL], the right-wing “parental rights” hate group advocating an anti-woke agenda in America’s schools, had a rough night in the elections where all five of the Republican candidates in Central Bucks were included in the MfL guide and yet all five seats were won by Democrats. And then in Pennridge, another school district in Bucks County, all five of those school board’s open seats went to Democrats. And lastly, Pennsylvania Democrats expanded their majority on the state Supreme Court, a potential sign of strength heading into the 2024 election and another win for a campaign centered on abortion rights.

In Iowa, the highly contested Linn-Mar school board race had eight candidates vying for four open spots and all candidates supported by MfL failed to get in the top four.

Meanwhile in Virginia, state Delegate, Democrat Danica Roem won her race for the state Senate, while state Senator, Democrat Adam Ebbin defeated his GOP opponent while state Delegate, Democrat Mark Sickles won re-election in House District 17. Roem is transgender; Ebbin and Sickles are both gay. Even better, Virginia Democrats maintained control of the state Senate and flipped the state House, providing Democrats with a stronger hand pushing against the policy priorities of Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin.

In Ohio, most men and women voted yes on Issue 1, establishing a right to abortion in the state’s constitution.

It was a gloriously blue day in much of the country.

Kayleigh McEnany, AKA Bullshit Barbie, is pissed off by the Thing 45 fraud trial but not for the reasons you might think. Nope, this dope took issue with an unflattering courtroom sketch of Inmate # P01135809 shortly after he finished testifying and offered this piece of advice:

“I would advise them to ask for a better sketch artist because that does not look like my former boss there. This is a travesty of justice. And that sketch is a travesty too. It looks nothing like Trump.”

Seriously, he’s facing the possibility of losing tons of coins, and most of his business dealings in New York but Little Kayleigh is mad because the sketch of him looks bad.

The Ron DeSantis presidential campaign … hold for laughter … formally rolled out a new endorsement from Iowa’s Governor, QAnon Goose-stepper, or whatever her name is.

See, for just $25, or more, small dollar donors will be able to watch Governor Kim Reynolds formally confer her nod of approval on Governor High Heels.

Seriously, Ronnie? This is  a money-making thing for your campaign?

PS Kimmie’s endorsing DeFascist because he probably promised her the VP slot.

This past weekend, Carlos was feeling a little better so we went off to do our CostCo pilgrimage. We were also looking for some things we’ll need for Thanksgiving dinner as we’re having friends in and are doing the cooking ourselves.

I was looking for a turkey, but I found none, and thought maybe they won’t come in this far off from the Big Day but as we strolled the aisles I saw a CostCo employee and stopped to ask:

“Do you know if they have any turkeys yet?”

“Oh, I don’t know, I just work in clothes and socks … “

“Well, are there any turkeys wearing clothes and socks?”

She looked at me as if I were nuts. She wasn’t far off.

Sebastiano Pigazzi is an Italian actor and model whose most famous TV role was his crotch in And Just Like That, the Sex and The City reboot  thirst grab. But this isn’t all about that … Would You hit It?

I Didn't Say It ... The All Asshat Edition

Candace Owens, a conservative wingnut with too much time on her hands and too many microphones in front of her piehole, used former NBA superstar Dwyane Wade used 13-year-old trans daughter as an opportunity to lash out at his parenting:

“His son now says that he is a woman and Dwyane Wade is…’this is who he’s always been.’ No it’s not! You’re not going to tell me that your child is wearing long nine-inch nails and a belly shirt because that’s just how they came out. Did he learn if from Instagram? Did he learn it in school? Did he learn it in a music video? Your child learned this behavior because there was an absence of masculinity in that child’s life and that makes sense for a basketball player.”

I wonder how ignorant Owens ‘children are, or will be, having this hate-filled, transphobic feckless c*nt as a parent.

No child, NO CHILD, will come out as trans because they saw a video on Instagram or because he, or she, heard about it in school. They come out as trans because it is their truth and they are trans.

Just like Candace Owens is a bigoted asshat.

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Ron DeSantis, Florida’s dumb as dirt governor, blasting President Joe Biden for failing to “end COVID,” and taking credit for his state’s “great success”:

“You know, he said he was going to end COVID. He hasn’t done that. We are the first state to start the treatment centers for monoclonal antibodies. We’re having great success with that. That should have been a bigger plan, a bigger part of this whole response throughout the country from the beginning. At the end of the day, he is trying to find a way to distract from the failures of his presidency.”

Great success … coffins are being stacked up in mortuaries because of a backlog in burying the dead.

Yesterday Florida reported 21,765 more COVID-19 cases and 901 deaths. Yes, they’re back to dying by the 1,000s in Florida thanks to Ron DeSantis, who is a lying piece of …

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Kayleigh McEnany, Bullshit Barbie for the last administration, doing what she does best … lying:

“Look, when [Thing #45] was president, you didn’t see crisis after crisis. You just didn’t see it. I shudder to think about what COVID would have been like under Joe Biden. We’ve seen Afghanistan blow up. Crime in the streets. You named it all. What would COVID have been like? Because I was in the White House when it was pretty scary times. We weren’t sure if we’d have enough ventilators. But we were able to produce it with the private sector. I watched [Thing #45] oversee a vaccine in record time, produce four working therapeutics. Do you think Joe Biden could have done any of that? The answer is absolutely not.”

Um, honey, you brainless, illiterate lying tool … under your president we were to drink bleach or take hydroxychloroquine or shine a flashlight up our asses while more than half a million of us died and your boss told us it was no big deal and would end when the weather got warmer.

Take a seat, Karen.

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Maria Bartiromo, taking Thing #45 lapdog Kevin McCarthy to task for not perpetuating the Big Lie:

“I’ve got to tell you there are viewers of this program who have lost faith in the Republican Party leadership, lost faith in Mitch McConnell and in you because we do not know if you have your arms around free and fair elections. How come there’s no discussion about all of the states that are changing their voting laws right now? How come there’s no discussion about the audit going on in Arizona right now? What are you going to do? Can you prove to the American people that you are in control here and able to ensure that we will have free and fair elections in 2022 and 2024?”

Honey, it’s been proven over sixty-some-odd times that the election was free and fair. You need to take a seat.

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Rachel Campos-Duffy, Fox News hack blaming … wait for it … Jill Biden for the Afghanistan crisis:

“When you look at what’s hurting America, when you look at this lack of leadership, and you wonder who are the people responsible for putting someone this incompetent and frankly this, you know, mentally frail in this position? And yes, of course, the media and many people are saying Susan Rice and Obama and maybe Valerie Jarrett. I’m sorry, as a political spouse, I can’t help but look at Jill Biden. No one knew better his state of mind than Dr. Jill Biden. And if you ask me, the most patriotic thing Jill Biden could have done was tell her husband. To love her husband and not let him run in this mental state that he’s in. I think she failed the country as well.”

Campos–Duffy is married to Sean Duffy, a former Thing #45 lapdog, and a former reality show star so I think her thoughts on any wife of a politician is skewed and screwed.

Also, how pathetic to continue this 'Joe has dementia filth'. Where did this bitch get her medical degree and when did she ever examine Biden?

Lying feckless …

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Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee GQP asshat, spewing lunacy because …well, it’s what she does:

“When you talk about country music, and I know the left is all out now and trying to change country music and make it woke. When I’m talking to my friends who are musicians, I say, ‘If we have a socialistic government—if we have Marxism—you are going to be the first ones who will be cut off because the state would have to approve your music.’ Taylor Swift came after me in my 2018 campaign. But Taylor Swift would be the first victim of that because when you look at Marxist socialistic societies, they do not allow women to dress or sing or be on stage or to entertain or the type music she would have. They don’t allow protection of private intellectual property rights.”

Seriously. This is what this dim bulb is talking about? And Tennessee can’t do better than this?

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I Didn't Say It

Adam Kinzinger, GOP Congressman with a spine, on assuming there would always be a "career-ending" vote he would have to take because of his party’s fear of investigating the 1/6/2021 attack on the Capitol:

"I made the decision early in my career that I would be willing to take a potentially career-ending vote, but I thought that vote would be for something like a Social Security reform bill. I never thought it would be for defending democracy.  Kevin [McCarthy] gave a great speech the week after [the insurrection], and then he went to Mar-a-Lago and charged the paddles and brought [Thing 45]  back to life. That's the moment when I realized, Oh, man, this is a problem. You come to understand that when the party and party leaders talk about unity, and in the same breath, say that [Thing 45] is the leader of the Republican Party, what they're talking about isn't unity. They're talking about capitulation. When under the guise of unity, you act like Jan. 6 was just whatever you want to make of it, that is capitulating to a false narrative and to a dangerous attack on democracy. I will certainly talk to Kevin if he wants to. But I don't see how we're ever going to come eye-to-eye on this until there is a recognition that we can't be the party of insurrection. Part of me doesn't blame [McCarthy], because he's not going to be a senator, he's not going to be governor. Being speaker is a huge deal. I think in his mind, once he's speaker, he will be in a position to maybe lead the party differently. But the problem is that this is the moment where opinions of our base voters and our party are being baked in. This is the moment where history is being written as to whether something like Jan. 6 can happen again."

Kinzinger spells it out plainly: Kevin McCarthy is willing to stand for, and behind, a traitor to this country in the hoes that he can become Speaker of the House.

Damn Democracy; damn justice; damn doing what’s right. Kevin McCarthy is only out for Kevin McCarthy.

As are most n the GOP, save Kinzinger and Cheney.

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Matthew McConaughey, who has suggested he might run for governor of Texas, posted this little oddball nugget on July Fourth:

“As we celebrate our independence today, as we celebrate our birth as a nation, the day that kick-started a revolution to gain our sovereignty, let’s admit that this last year, this trip around the sun, was also another head-scratcher. But let’s also remember that we’re babies as a country. We’re basically going through puberty in comparison to other countries’ timeline, and we’re going to go through growing pains. We are going through growing pains. This is not an excuse, this is just the reality, and this is good, because we got to keep learning, we got to keep maturing, we gotta keep striving, we gotta keep climbing, we gotta keep building. And we gotta make sure we maintain hope along the way, as we continue to evolve.”

McConaughey is apparently just a point behind GQP Texas Governor Greg Abbot in the polls, but these little Tweets are a bit dopey.

Even for McConaughey.

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Stephen Dorff, actor, ripping into the Marvel’s multibillion-dollar superhero franchise, and bashing both Scarlett Johansson and Black Widow:

“I still hunt out the good s–t because I don’t want to be in ‘Black Widow. [It] looks like garbage to me. It looks like a bad video game. I’m embarrassed for those people. I’m embarrassed for Scarlett. I’m sure she got paid five, seven million bucks, but I’m embarrassed for her. I don’t want to be in those movies. I really don’t. I’ll find that kid director that’s gonna be the next [Stanley] Kubrick and I’ll act for him instead.”

Okay, I am no fan of most of these superhero movies, but Dorff’s rant seems a little like sour grapes when you remember he starred in 1998’s “Blade,” which is a Marvel-owned film. He sounds petty and jealous. And I doubt the next Kubrick has Dorff’s name on any future casting sheets.

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Matt Gaetz, Flori-duh Congressman and ALLEGED sexual predator, says he will nominate Thing 45 to be the next Speaker of the House:

“After the next election cycle when we take back the House of Representatives, when we send Nancy Pelosi back to the filth of San Francisco, my commitment to you is that my vote for Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives will go to [Thing 45.]”

I guess Gaetz, who’s literally a moron, doesn’t realize that you must be a member of Congress to even be considered for Speaker, and not just voted in by a pedophile sycophant.

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Kayleigh McEnany, former liar for Thing 45 and current liar for Fox News, is at it again, saying the Founding Fathers were anti-slavery:

“The haters never take a day off from hating, that is clear. And they never take a day off from getting the facts wrong. We know most of our forefathers, all of our main Founding Fathers were against slavery, recognized the evils of it.”

Well, big surprise, that’s a bold-faced lie.

The majority of signers of the Declaration of Independence—forty-one of the fifty-six—actually owned slaves.

But, g’head Kayleigh, tell us another one.

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Adam Kinzinger, saying he believes there were some in the GOP who were aware of what was going to happen on January 6:

"I will say, if you just looked at Twitter—the whole reason I brought my gun and kept my staff home and told my wife to stay in the apartment was looking at Twitter. I saw the threats. When Lauren Boebert—I will call her out by name—tweeted 'Today is 1776,' I don't know what that meant other than this is the time for revolution. Maybe it was a dumb tweet that she didn't mean. Fine. I'll give her that credit for now. But if you have members of Congress who were involved in nurturing an insurrection, heck yeah, we need to know. [And Marjorie Taylor Greene]. That's not a serious legislator. She's not on committees. She's a freshman. No offense to freshmen, but I have no legislative need to have conversations with her. I also see what she's doing as dangerous to the country, and so I have no need to be her friend. I'm not going to go sit down in a corner and convince her of my side. And if I do, then about 10 minutes later she'll be taken over again by the desire to raise money. But I get along with the vast majority of the Republican conference. I think the vast majority agree with my position; they just aren't speaking out. I don't blame them all for that, but I wish more would."

Kinzinger also blames Democrats for making it worse by not accepting defecting Republicans into their tribe. The Democrats need to work with, stand beside, and fight for, those in the GOP who will speak out against the lunacy f their party today.

I have liked Kinzinger for what he says now, and have dogged him, for his GOP, and Thing 45, support in the past, but he is really taking a stand for this country and we need more like him.

On both sides of the aisle.

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