Know The Facts and ...

Here's some more information, more facts, of what's happening in this country and what  we want, what we’re getting, and how do we make our needs heard …

Start small … Every Democrat who votes for Jeffries as Speaker deserves a primary in 2028!

Nearly 35 years since measles was eradicated in America Pennsylvania has confirmed two measles-associated deaths; of note is that neither person had received the measles vaccine. One of the deceased was a newborn who contracted the virus before birth; state health officials classified it as a measles-associated death due to positive postmortem test results.

Pennsylvania has reported more than 420 confirmed measles cases across 30 counties this year. Two doses of the MMR [measles, mumps, and rubella] vaccine offer about 97% protection against the virus so people don’t have to start dying from measles again.

Vote Blue to end this anti-vaxxer bull shit and keep people from dying.

A Minneapolis rally organized by Jake Lang—a former GOP candidate for Senate in Florida and January 6 thug who Cankles pardoned—descended into chaos on August 23 when a counter-protester dressed as Spider-Man appeared to punch Lang in the face.

Lang was holding a sign containing an anti-Black racial slur during the rally outside Minneapolis City Hall which was organized in response to the conviction of Shiloh Hendrix, a white woman who was found guilty of disorderly conduct after directing the same slur at an autistic eight-year-old Black boy at a playground in nearby Rochester.

Racists do stick together. So, Lang and his supporters were at City Hall for only a few minutes before the demonstration devolved into violence and they fled the area but video from the event clearly showed a man dressed as Spider-Man, later identified as William Nicholas Love, striking Lang in the face.

Love was among 11 people arrested and has been charged with assault, while Lang was also arrested and charged with inciting a riot.

Lang, who is filled with hatred for nearly everyone, had previously staged anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim protests in Minneapolis, and tried to burn a Pride flag during an anti-LGBTQ+ demonstration and has long been the subject of violent confrontations with counter-protesters.

So there’s that, but there’s this, too:

The Spider-Man footage has since gone viral online and a GoFundMe  for William Nicholas Love’s legal defense has raised almost $90,000 and counting …

Listen up MAGAts …

No matter what he says it’s still the Gulf of Mexico and always will be.

No matter what he says it’s still the John F Kennedy Memorial Center and always will be.

No matter what he says it’s still Lake Ontario and always will be.

No matter what he says it’s still the Department of Defense and always will be.

And lastly, no matter what he says he is still an adjudicated rapist and convicted felon who is in the Epstein Files.

 

In Texas Hood County Constable John Shirley took action last week when he disabled and covered up all three county-owned Flock Safety automated license plate readers. The defiant move came after a unanimous decision by the Hood County Commissioners Court to terminate its contract with the tech company amidst rising citizen pushback and contract performance issues.

In a public statement on social media, Constable Shirley shared photos of the covered devices, telling the surveillance company to ‘come get your garbage out of my county’ and asserting that the protection of everyday privacy must come before indiscriminate data collection.

While law enforcement agencies advocate for Flock Cameras as indispensable tools for locating stolen vehicles, missing persons, and suspects, civil liberties advocates argue they facilitate continuous, warrantless government surveillance.

Big Brother is watching … but not in Hood County thanks to Constable John Shirley.

Pay attention…

You cannot hack a mail-in ballot.

You cannot keep a mail-in ballot in line all day.

You cannot tell a mail-in ballot that the machines aren’t working.

That’s why Cankles’ and the Regime are so desperate to stop mail-in voting.

 

Democrat Alexander Vindman blindsided the GOP after losing his Senate primary to Democratic Socialist Angie Nixon by announcing that he's transferring $250,000 from his war chest to key Democratic races:

“Voters across the country, especially here in Florida, know that nothing is more important than flipping the U.S. Senate. The only way to cut costs for working families, root out corruption in D.C., and finally hold [the Regime] accountable is to deliver a Democratic majority this November. I am proud to invest in Florida and across the country to make sure Democrats win big on Election Day up and down the ballot.”

The money will flow into the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to boost the campaigns of Senate nominees Charles Booker, Sherrod Brown, Roy Cooper, Abdul El-Sayed, Troy Jackson, Chris Pappas, Mary Peltola, Josh Turek as well as Dan Osborn, who has no formal party affiliation, in Nebraska.

On top of that, Vindman’s defeated campaign has donated an additional $400,000 to the Florida Democratic Party to help win elections across the state, including Angie Nixon's, whom he promised to support.

This is what true patriotism and resistance looks like.

Thank you Alexander Vindman!

 

Nearly 2 out of every 3 hired farm workers in this country were born in Mexico but if they’re taking “our” jobs where are all the American farm workers? Where are all the MAGAts who complained they were losing jobs to Mexican immigrants?

Gary Indiana has been without power for 2 weeks now.

Gary Indiana’s population of 68,000 is 775 Black.

Gary Indiana has eight data centers draining its power grid.

The president has not uttered one word about Gary Indiana.

Pay attention and vote accordingly.

 

There is something deeply funny about billionaires convincing a man making $52K a year that the greatest threat to his freedom is another worker who speaks Spanish and makes $14 an hour.

That immigrant didn’t outsource your job.

That immigrant didn’t buy your hospital.

That immigrant didn’t raise your rent.

That immigrant didn’t eliminate your pension.

You are being pickpocketed while somebody points dramatically at the guy standing next to you.

 

On March 19, 2026, Chinese customs rejected a 22-ton beef shipment from an ArreBeef plant in Argentina after finding it contained Chloramphenicol, a dangerous chemical banned in livestock production since 1995.

And that’s the beef Cankles’ wants Americans eat because he says it will save us money.

 

And if you don’t think your vote matters, think about this:

Your landlord will vote for the party who will help him raise rents.

Your boss will vote so more money goes into his pocket and not yours.

Anti-abortionists who want to take away a woman’s right to choose will vote.

Evangelical Christians who want to use their faith to govern you will vote.

Your racist uncle, brother, neighbor, co-worker will vote.

So CAST A GODDAMNED VOTE!!!

And on a personal note to the people of South Carolina …

If you’re ever feeling like you don’t believe in yourself or can’t achieve your dreams, remember that Darline Graham became a sitting member of Congress while knowing literally zero about anything, and admitting to that, and thinking that one-seventh of the entire population of the US lives in South Carolina.

We can do better than stupid so do the thing in November.

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Carlos is headed to an HIV conference in Columbia this week and will stay in Columbia from Thursday until Saturday. As he is the one who makes the Café con Leche for breakfast I suggested before he leaves on Thursday that he makes two Café con Leche for my breakfast on Friday and Saturday; and then he asked me:.

“Are you helpless?”

“The question is are you helpful?”

I need to go so I can practice the espresso machine …

This Tale of Tuxedo, with a special appearance by Consuelo, is from March 2011 and is entitled Tuxedo Caturday:

I LOVE that face!

We were worried about Tuxedo getting on with Miss Consuelo Jones when she came to live with us.

He was leery of MaxGoldberg when Max first came along--though they are best buddies now.  He was also leery of Tallulah when she first moved in and is still leery of her now because she's one crazy bitch. 

So, when Consuelo arrived, ee watched him, but then he started playing with her and chasing her and letting her chase him; it's like he's her big brother.

Just adorable.

Dolly Parton passed away Tuesday at the age of eighty; a good long life, I’d say.

Years ago, living in California, some friends and I were at South Lake Tahoe doing a wee bit of gambling at Harrah’s. Dolly Parton was performing there and by chance we checked on tickets and were able to see her, She was sweet and funny and bawdy and sassy and just all the things you thought Dolly Parton would be.

Sidenote: when I was living in California several friends and I went up to Lake Tahoe to gamble and drink and party. While in the casino we learned that Dolly Paron was performing that night and we scored some tickets. I had never seen her before, wasn’t what I considered a big fan, but she was fabulous and all of the things you realize that she has always been. It turned out to be one of the great shows.

RIP, Dolly, and Thank you.

The fact that Hakeem Jeffries legitimized Jared Kushner, who has earned upwards of $2 billion from Saudi Arabia, through a secret meeting to find 'common ground' should mean he has no future in politics.

He is untrustworthy if he does anything other than hold that family and every single con artist in that mob, accountable for their crimes.

There was a lady in one of those red hats behind me in line at the grocery store, talking obnoxiously loudly on her phone:

“I just got into Game of Thrones. I just started Season 4.”

I paid for my groceries, looked back at her and said:

“Jon Snow kills Daenerys and Anya kills the Night King. Have a good day.”

It’s the small victories, you know.

PS Anyone who knows me knows this isn't true as I have never seen Game of Thrones. I just stole this from Facebook!

I’ve been saying it for a long time and now I need y’all to step up: It’s time to eat the rich because everything else has salmonella. 

Country singer Kacey Musgraves used the opening night of her “Middle of Nowhere” tour in Chicago to raise awareness for children affected by immigration enforcement by asking fans to support the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights. She described the effort as a humanitarian issue rather than a political message.

Of course, the MAGAts came for her because she used her platform to try and do something good for children whose family members have been disappeared.

But good on Kacey for taking this stand … Dolly would be pleased.

Manuel Zares, full name Manuel Cañizares, is an up-and-coming Spanish fashion model. He has green eyes and brown hair and is roughly 6’1” tall but may be a young one in his early twenties … still, Would You Hit It?

I Didn't Say It ...

Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat Representative from New York and House Minority Leader, on what can, and will, happen in 100 days:

“In just 100 days, you can vote for an America where we p[ass the John Robert Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act so we can end the era of voter suppression in this country once and for all … We have 100 days to change America.”

End the rich getting richer while the middle and lowers classes cannot afford food or gas or housing or healthcare or college.

End these never-ending wars for profit.

End ICE.

One hundred days and then CAST AGODDAMNED VOTE!

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Jon Ossoff, Democrat Senator from Georgia, on Cankles grift while more and more Americans suffer:

“While the people pay more for everything and millions lose health coverage, while he rakes in billions and builds himself a ballroom and prepares again to attack our elections … he reanimates his 2020 obsession while he spirals in fear of the rebuke to come this fall and the accountability that will follow it. Because accountability is coming.”

Stay diligent, stay vigilant, and know your rights when it comes to voting.

If we stand together and stand up this regime can come tumbling down and accountability will follow.

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Rosie O’Donnell, comedian and actor, on who is responsible for the disaster that is Cankles:

“I really do blame Mark Burnett and the producers of The Apprentice for selling a lie to the American people, for selling that show as fact when it was fiction, and pretending this mediocre man was somehow a leading businessman in the country. It is the biggest load of crap. I find it very unbelievable that people can’t see him for what he is … even with 34 felonies [and] convictions.”

As many folks say, “There’s a sucker born every minute,” and Cankles was able to sell them a lie masked as a dream, and hate as power, and racism as a new America.

Burnett used Cankles to reach those idiot masses.

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Hunter Biden, son of former President Joe Biden and proud pot-stirrer, on the recent White House Correspondents reboot:

“I watched [his] speech at the Correspondents’ Dinner last night. It’s hard to articulate how sad it made me. Sad and embarrassed and exhausted. Here is the thing about a man who is a joke. He can’t tell one. People think humor is a talent. It isn’t. It’s a capacity. To make someone laugh you have to be able to laugh at yourself, and to laugh at yourself you have to step outside of yourself and see what everyone else sees. For one second you have to be just another person in the room. Most people can do this by the time they are nine years old. He has never once managed it. Not in fifty years of cameras. Not for a second. That is not a quirk. It is a symptom. The muscle that lets you tell a joke is the same one that lets you feel what another person feels. A man who cannot survive being laughed at cannot imagine being anyone but himself. He will only ever be generous when it is photographed. He will only ever be kind when it is filmed. There is a name for it. So he stood up there and did what he always does. He hit down. He made jokes about people’s weight. He made jokes about their intelligence. He made jokes about how women look. He read out the names of people he doesn’t like, and mocked them. Always mocking. And when no one laughed he blamed his speech writers. The cruelty dressed as humor has worn so thin. And for the 30% of you still in the cult who will inevitably call me a crackhead and blame it all on my Dad, all I can say is please, for the love of God, open your eyes. Wake the fuck up. Have some dignity. Have some pride. Joe Biden wasn’t standing at that podium last night. Donald Trump was. And at the end of it he put on a red hat that said Trump 2028 and told the room he was running again. No one laughed because everyone knows he has no intention of leaving. Just another joke at our expense.”

And sadly a joke that we allowed to reach the White House twice and we’ll have to treat him like a squatter to get him out.

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James Talarico, Democrat candidate for Senator from Texas, on the priorities of the current regime:

“We are closing schools and hospitals in this country, so we can bomb schools and hospitals in other countries. There is never enough money for education and healthcare, but there’s always enough money for war. This morning, we learned that one of our own, Pvt. Isabella Gonzales, was killed by an Iranian airstrike in Jordan. Isabella grew up in Carrollton, not too far from here. she was just 19 years old. she just graduated from Hebron High School. Isabella was sent to serve in a reckless war that no one asked for. we pay for it with our tax dollars. Isabella paid for it with her life.”

I thought Cankles big goal was America first but it’s not; it’s the rich first and then fuck everyone else.

Fuck the poor, fuck the children, fuck the ill, fuck the military, as long as those checks clear.

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Jasmine Crockett, Democrat Representative from Texas, on GOP attempt to whitewash the National Museum of American History:

“Welcome to the Republicans' white pride rally disguised as a congressional hearing. It might be uncomfortable for some people on this committee to hear about the true history of America, and I hate that for them. But facts are facts. It's a fact that there is a violent, exclusionary, discriminatory, sexist, and racist part of American history, where our indigenous populations were forcibly displaced from their land, where thousands of Black people were unjustly lynched, where Black people were denied the right to vote, and they still trying to do it today. Women needed their husbands' permission to open a bank account, where people with disabilities were routinely excluded from schools, workplaces, and public life, where four little Black girls were murdered by the KKK at the 16th Street Baptist Church, and a lot of this wasn't that long ago. In fact, three of those girls would be 77 and one would be 74. More than 40 members of Congress serving right now would be older than them. Ruby Bridges, who was the first Black child to desegregate an all-white school, is only 71 years old. More than 100 members of Congress serving right now are older than her. So, attacks on the Smithsonian or any other institution that's willing to tell the true history of America is not only an attempt to rewrite history; it's an attempt to erase history."

If you forget history, you are likely to repeat it … Hitler to Cankles.

American history is white and male and Christian, yes, but it’s also Black, Brown, Yellow, Red and female, LGBTQ+, young and old, Jewish and Catholic and Protectant and atheist and agnostic.

And don’t ever fucking forget that.

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I Didn't Say It ...

Ana Navarro, political commentator and View cohost, taking Slovenian hooker Melanie to task about the "performative hypocrisy" of the letter she wrote to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin:

"You all, this falls under the category of stuff that's so hypocritical you almost can't believe it. I don't know if you all heard this, but in the [Felon]-Putin meeting, [The Felon] delivered a letter to Putin written by his wife [Melanie] and I'm going to read some of it to you because I think we should think about this, okay? So she writes in this letter, part of it:

'As leaders, the responsibility to sustain our children extends beyond the comfort of a few. Undeniably, we must strive to paint a dignity filled world for all so that every soul may wake to peace and so that the future itself is perfectly guarded. A simple yet profound concept Mr. Putin as I am sure you agree, is that each generation's descendants begin their lives with a purity and innocence which stands above geography, government, and ideology.’

Ignoring the painfully inept prose of ]Melanie]'s letter and the clumsy fumbling for poetic sounding phrases, it has to be pointed out deeply naive this letter was. Putin is a brutal, murderous dictator who has been waging a bloody war of territorial expansion for years now. The idea that he might be swayed by a poorly written letter by a First Lady with no diplomatic experience and no meaningful accomplishments is laughable. This was clearly an attempt by [Melanie] to nab headlines and make herself feel important. [But] … let's think about those words: a right to innocence and purity that stands about government, geography and ideology. And think about what her husband, what [The Felon] is doing to the children of immigrants in America and to U.S. citizen children of immigrants. How many of those children are living with the fear of their parents being dragged through the streets of America, their car windows smashed in, their parents beaten by masked men, and disappeared? How about the children in the LA school system that have been grabbed by ICE? How about the boy, the Brazilian boy in Massachusetts who was going to soccer practice when he was grabbed by ICE? How about the little girl with cancer, U.S. citizen little girl with cancer, whose parents were deported and she had to leave, putting in jeopardy her cancer treatment? How about all of the children in America—forget the children of immigrants even though that in itself sticks in my craw—but the children in America who are being denied SNAP benefits? How about the children all over the world who are not receiving U.S. aid because her husband's government decided that we shouldn't be feeding starving children all over the world? How about all of those kids? So, yeah, it strikes me as ridiculously hypocritical that [Melanie] is telling Putin to preserve the innocence and purity of Ukrainian children. Yay for her! That's a good thing. But you know maybe she should turn around and say the exact same thing to her husband because there are children in America crying, suffering, going to bed in fear, returning to homes that are abandoned and empty, not knowing where their next meal is coming from because of what her husband is doing. I say to [Melanie], start a little closer to home girl."

Ana, as usual, nails the ignorance and hypocrisy of Melanie … though we all know she never wrote that letter; it was clearly AI, and not Slovenian Hooker angling for a bigger chunk of cash in the prenup.

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Gavin Newsom, on why The Felon isn’t sending the National Guard to real crime-infested cities:

“I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, and Speaker Johnson’s district that has 6X’s plus the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren’t you protecting the folks there? Eight of the top Ten murder states in this country are Red states What bullshit.”

Good Christian Mike Johnson, the porn watching pedophile protector doesn’t want y’all talking about his murderous district.

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Eric Swalwell, on the Putin Kiss Ass Summit with The Felon:

“If you’re a Republican in Congress you just saw a Kremlin Kiss Ass in the President of the United States. Somebody who squandered an opportunity to confront a ruthless dictator who is killing innocent children, and kidnapping innocent children, every single day. I don’t know what this meeting accomplished other than taking the Epstein files and inflation out of the news. It was embarrassing to watch. He even toasted Putin as if he was receiving a lifetime achievement award. A total … waste of time.”

Putin’s Bitch did as he was told.

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Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader, on hauling Border Barbie before Congress in 2026 :

“It’s my expectation that Kristi Noem will be one of the first people hauled up to Congress shortly after the gavels change hands to get a real understanding for the American people as to this conduct that has taken place: the lack of respect for due process, for the rule of law, the unleashing of masked agents on law-abiding immigrant communities, and the disappearing of people in some instances, to other countries without any real evidence that criminal behavior took place. All of this is going to require aggressive oversight activity.”

I would love seeing the adulterous dog killing border Nazi hauled before Congress and then sent to live in Kristi’s Koncentration Kamp with the alligators and the floods.

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Wes Moore, Democratic Maryland Governor, responding to The Felon’s dig at him for not sending the Maryland National Guard to DC for a Deflection Publicity Stunt:

“I don’t listen to criticism from chicken hawks, people who talk tough and try to utilize people in uniform but have never had the courage to wear the uniform themselves. Our National Guard, I know what they’re trained on. I know what it requires when you’re asking someone to put their life at risk. Unlike the president of the United States, I’ve actually worn the uniform of this country. Unlike the president of the United States, I actually deployed overseas and fought on behalf of the United States of America. And so I do not need and will not accept any type of lecture from someone who the only uniform they have worn is a Brooks Brothers suit.” 

It should disgust anyone who served in our military that a draft-dodging rapist is Commander In Chief when he should be in prison.

That said: I get kinda tingly looking at Wes. Just sayin’.

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I Didn't Say It ...

Pete Buttigieg, former Secretary of Transportation and hopefully a future President of the United States, on The Felon’s moronic response to a plane crash and loss of life:

 “Despicable. As families grieve, [he] should be leading, not lying. We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch. [The Felon] now oversees the military and the FAA. One of his first acts was to fire and suspend some of the key personnel who helped keep our skies safe. Time for the President to show actual leadership and explain what he will do to prevent this from happening again.”

Sadly, his sociopathy and narcissism won’t allow him to actually lead, or do the right thing, or worry about this happening again.

Resist.

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Doechii, at the Grammys winning Best Rap Album—and becoming only the third woman to do so—to the next generation:

"I know that there is some Black girl out there, so many Black women out there that are watching me right now and I wanna tell you, you can do it. Anything is possible. Don't allow anybody to project any stereotypes on you that tell you that you can't be here. You are exactly who you need to be, to be right where you are and I’m a testimony"

All it takes for history to move forward is for someone to take a step.

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Chris Murphy, Connecticut Democrat Senator, about the Leon Skum and the USAID crisis:

“We will use every power that we have at our disposal in the United States Senate. My colleagues will do the same thing in the House. This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let’s call it what it is! The people get to decide how we defend the United States of America. The people get to decide how their taxpayer money is spent. Elon Musk does not get to decide. We are weaker today than we were yesterday. China sees that. Russia sees that and they will take advantage. Elon Musk makes billions on his dealings with China and China is cheering at his actions today. Our job and your job together is to raise our voices, raise the alarm so that this crisis is emboldening of our enemies doesn’t last a second longer than it has to.”

The Democrats need to strap on their balls and fight this asshat Skum because nothing he does is for the good of America it’s for the good of his ego and bank account; he needs to be stopped.

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Alicia Keys, accepting the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award at the 2025 Grammys, calling out The Felon’s anti-DEI stance:

“This is not the time to shut down the diversity of voices. We’ve seen on this stage, talented, hardworking people from different backgrounds with different points of view, and it changes the game. DEI is not a threat—it’s a gift. The more voices, the more powerful the sound. When destructive forces try to burn us down, we rise from the ashes like a phoenix and as you see tonight, music is the unstoppable language that connects us all, it’s so beautiful. “It's so beautiful. Keep showing up with compassion, with empathy, what I call soul care. Keep opening the doors. The dreams that the world is ought to be, a dream that the world as is ought to be.”

Standing against DEI is standing for racism and sexism and ageism and homophobia; it’s that simple.

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Daniel Dale, CNN fact checker, on The Felon’s lies about DEI and Joe Biden and that crash in DC:

“[He] has made clear he has less than zero evidence that the FAA’s hiring of people with disabilities contributed to yesterday’s crash, so this whole conversation is a non-sequitur. But since he has started the conversation, some facts. The same FAA website language [The Felon] blasted today, about hiring people with intellectual and psychiatric disabilities and other significant ‘targeted’ disabilities, was on the FAA website throughout his first presidency. In addition, the FAA under [his watch] launched and repeatedly promoted a pilot program to hire (capable, qualified) people with targeted disabilities in air traffic control positions. The Department of Transportation has pushed at least since the W. Bush administration to hire more people with targeted disabilities … and the FAA repeatedly said during [his] first term that it’d continue to do so, emphasizing, as it did under Biden, that they’d have to meet the qualifications for the posts. The ‘January 14’ Fox News article [The Felon] cited today as evidence of a last-minute Biden FAA diversity hiring push right before [he] came back to office? It was actually published a year ago—January 14, 2024. Again, it was criticizing the same language that had been on the FAA website since at least 2013.”

What’s this? An actual person working for CNN who still has a spine and speaks up?

Bravo!

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Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader, trashing The Felon for his remarks following that deadly crash:

"It’s a very irresponsible statement that was made by the president. Bodies are still being pulled from the Potomac, children were killed, future ice-skating Olympians were killed, future leaders in Wichita, Kansas, and beyond were killed as a result of this tragedy. We don’t need misdirection and we don’t need misinformation coming from the highest office in the land. We need integrity, we need decency, we need leadership. There is not a scintilla of evidence that exists to suggest that women and people of color are to blame for the tragedy that took place. And it was shameful."

There is of course zero truth to The Felon's claims but these lies serve two purposes for him—

First, they excite his racist base who think that women and people of color are inherently inferior and unqualified for important jobs.

Second, they allow The Felon to distract us from the fact that at the time of the crash there was no Federal Aviation Administration leader since the previous holder of that position, Michael Whitaker, was forced out by Elon Musk—who paid $200M for The Felon’s election win—for daring to enforce regulations on SpaceX.

Again, We The People need to get loud, and our Democratic leaders need to get loud, and we need to remind our Democratic leaders that if they aren’t going to stand against this regime, then there will be no money from We The People coming into their campaign coffers.

Don’t ask for my money and then do nothing.

Resist.

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This Time I Did Say It ...

I was sad and discouraged on Wednesday; stunned, shocked, though I guess not surprised. I thought America had evolved from racist and misogynistic tropes and could elect a woman, and a woman of color, but men, who clearly vote with their dicks, couldn’t handle it; couldn’t handle the idea of a woman, with ideas, and plans, and hopes for the future being president.

So, they chose a rapist … I guess if he didn’t rape your wife or daughter he’s okay.

They chose a racist who has denied housing to Black Americans, who has called people like my husband drug dealers, murderers and rapist; who has called an entire country garbage by not standing up against the jackass who said it; who said Haitians eat dogs even after he was proven to be a liar; who says children are being forced to undergo gender reassignment surgeries in elementary school.

Liar.

They chose a traitor who praised Putin over his own country. They’re scared little men who chose a scared little man and I will not sit by and not speak up.

A “friend”—I put the word in quotes because I’m evaluating friendship in this case—and here’s a bit of what he said to me:

“If you want the country to be diverse, as it was intended, you have to understand diversity of people brings a diversity of beliefs and values. Agree to disagree and love each other. Also, just because you vote one way, doesn’t mean you support everything that party believes. I’m a gay marriage supporting, gun loving, marijuana legalizing, women’s choice (to a certain point), low tax and small government type of guy.”

He supports same-sex marriage but voted for a party that is intent on ending marriage equality, so um, yeah, Michael, you are not so gay-friendly.

But it’s not just same-sex marriage … annulling present marriages and prohibiting new ones. They will come for trans rights and deny healthcare to trans Americans;  and then it’s the drag queens. Eventually, they’ll get around to simply eliminating all equal rights for LGBTQ+ Americans in housing, employment, anywhere they choose. Now, of course, not everyone will abide by these ideals but the fact is this new regime will legitimize hate and discrimination.

He supports women’s choice “up to a point,” he says, and I wonder, and, as my Mom would say, excuse my French, “Who the fuck are you to decide which point?” You do not support a women’s right to choose and add a caveat to the statement; you either support women in every choice they make because it’s their body and their choice, or you do not support women at all.

Which brings me to low-tax and small government. How small  can government be when they are putting their hands all over a woman’s body, as a pussy-groper likes to do, and telling her what she can do with it? And when did The Felon say he was lowering taxes on anyone other than billionaires?

I want government to tell Michael that he has to have a vasectomy until he gets married and at that point he can have it reversed. That’s one way to prevent an unwanted pregnancy Mike … snip, snip. But that’s invasive on you, isn’t it?

I hope I am proven wrong, but please spare me your heterosexual “It’s not so bad” line. Everything is up for change unless you are a straight white Christian Nationalist male … and this will be felt for a very long time. I feel we are headed back to a very dark time in our history and when you think about how long it took us to even try digging out of it back then, think how hard it will be now. You don’t know just yet what you’ve done with your vote.

And Democrats; oh democrats. How many of you stayed home, again, because a woman was running? How many of you stayed home because of her laugh or the way she spoke, and figured other people would carry the party to victory. You clearly learned nothing from 2016 and so when times change and it gets dark in America and you come to me to complain  about this new regime. Forgive for saying:

“What the actual fuck did you do to change it?”

You chose the price of eggs over democracy; you male Democrats chose your fragile ego over freedoms for all; you ignored the woman who laid out plans for the middle-class, for small businesses, for women’s rights, for a bloated gasbag who admitted, admitted, that he has no plans, just the concept of a plan. You fucked America so kindly step aside and keep your mouth shut.

And so did the media. Oh, not Fox News because they’ve admitted in court they are not a news organization, but a  low brow, low intellect, conspiracy spreading gossip machine. But don’t you nod CNN, because you aren’t much better.

You let The Felon get away with saying whatever he wanted on your network without so much as a fact-check; you call his stories disinformation or misinformation which are big words for lies; lies. You never called him out on a lie, you never questioned his behavior. But god forbid Joe Biden take a pause in a sentence and the demented line pops up; the too old to be president line.

Sure, Joe stumbled and mumbled, but when The Felon turns a rally into a 39-minute dance break, or when he performs fellatio on a microphone stand or talks about the penis size of a dead golfer or cannot open a door on a dump truck you say nothing about his mental capacity.

Was that because the man in charge at CNN was a Felon supporter or because he was news, not for intellect, not for any redeeming value, but for being a pompous blowhard and you saw your ratings go up so you never questioned him, never called him out, never reported that what he said was a lie.

You’ve lost whatever credibility you ever had over your reporting of Demented DonOLD. But let’s move on … let’s look forward ….

As Kamala Harris said on Wednesday:

“The fight for freedom, for opportunity, for fairness and the dignity of all people, a fight for the ideals at the heart of our nation, the ideals that reflect America at our best—that is a fight I will never give up.”

And I won’t either. I ask for new Democratic leaders who speak truth to power, who call out the blatant lies of a criminal, of the far right, of that news entertainment show; I ask Democrats to show us better and give us better.

I need more Democrats like Pete Buttigieg and Hakeem Jeffries to speak up louder and longer; I see hope in Sarah McBride, the newly elected, first openly transgender member of Congress after winning Delaware’s only House seat: I see hope in Maryland’s Angela Alsobrooks, that state’s first Black senator; hope in Lisa Blunt Rochester, the first Black and first female senator from Delaware; hope in Emily Randall, the first out LGBTQ+ person elected to Congress from Washington State; hope in Yassamin Ansari, the first Iranian American woman to represent Arizona in Congress:  hope in Julie Fedorchak, the first woman to represent North Dakota in the House of Representatives;  hope in Julie Johnson, the first out LGBTQ person elected to Congress from Texas; hope in Jeffrey Graham, a local politician in Camden who has been elected to the Senate of South Carolina as a Democrat running on a platform of women’s right to make their own healthcare decisions.

I see hope there; I see change there; I see Democrats who will fight for equality and diversity and women and the people of color and Indigenous peoples and the LGBTQW+ community, and children in schools, and immigrants who many on the right forget built this country.

I need us to fight.

I need us to win.

I need us together.

I Didn't Say It

Yusef Salaam, Korey Wise, Raymond Santana and Kevin Richardson, four of the Central Park Five— Antron McCray could not attend—speaking at the DNC of being falsely accused of rape in 1989 and having The Felon suggest they be put to death:

“[The Felon] wanted us killed. He wanted us dead. We spent a combined 47 years in prison. We were exonerated after the perpetrator confessed and DNA proved it. Yet today, [The Felon] still stands  by his original call for us to be executed. HE WILL NEVER CGANGE. Together, on November 5, we will usher Kamala Harris into the White House and Americas will finally say goodbye to that hateful man.”

The Felon never, NEVER, admits he’s wrong, even when faced with proof. Facts don’t matter; he is right, always. Even when proven wrong.

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Megyn Kelly, Fox Entertainment has-been, on her podcast, calling journalist Kaitlyn Collins disgusting and a bitch:

“The media of course has been disgusting, you know, no one’s surprised. But it is kind of fun when it gets called out. And yesterday—or last week there was a viral clip of Kaitlan Collins, who CNN is trying to make into a star—I’m sorry, but she’s only a star with leftists and the fact that she has some roots in Alabama does not make her a fair and balanced reporter. I will submit for the record: Her biggest sin is not that she is biased, though she is, it’s that she’s boring. She’s extremely boring with no personality. I have a pro tip for her: Smile, try smiling every once in a while. Try not to be, like in your delivery, such a cold-hearted bitch all the time, because it gives people nothing to bond to.”

It sure sounds like Kelly is a woman-hating, lying PPOS podcaster jealous of another woman sitting atop a cable news network like she used to do when she was, in her own mind, relevant.

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Pete Buttigieg, on Fox News … well, Fox Entertainment, on The Felon’s presidency:

“He didn’t keep his promise of 6% economic growth. He broke his promise to pass an infrastructure bill. He even broke his promise to that J6 mob when he said, ‘I will be at your side when you march down to the Capitol.’ But he actually did keep two promises: He kept his promise to destroy the right to choose in this country, and he kept his promise on tax cuts to the rich. If you want to know what a second [Felon] term would look like, I would look at those rare promises that he actually managed to keep. He’s disavowed a lot of things. I don’t believe him. He lies all the time. Republicans who are in [his] personality cult look at [him] and say he’s perfectly fine even though he seemed unable to tell the difference between Haley and Pelosi, even though he’s rambling about electrocuting sharks and Hannibal Lecter. We don’t have that kind of warped reality on our side. Crime is down under Joe Biden and crime was up under [The Felon]. Now, I don’t know how often that gets reported on this network, so if you’re watching this at home, do yourself a favor and look up the data. Why would America want to go back to the higher crime that we experienced under [The Felon]?”

Listen to Pete; common sense and facts, not bull shiz and lies from The Felon and his ilk, er, ick.

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Ana Navarro, speaking of The Felon at the DNC:

“Let’s be serious. [The Felon] and his minions call Kamala a communist. I know communism. I fled communism from Nicaragua when I was 8 years old. I don’t take it lightly. And let me tell you what communist dictators do. And it’s never just for one day. They attack the free press. They call them the enemy of the people like Ortega does in Nicaragua. They put their unqualified relatives in cushy government jobs so they can get rich off their positions like the Castros do in Cuba and they refuse to accept legitimate elections when they lose and call for violence to stay in power like Maduro is doing right now in Venezuela. Now you tell me something. Do any of those things sound familiar? Is there anybody running for president who reminds you of that?”

Ana used to be a Republican, and a conservative journalist, but something happened in 2016 that caused her to change her mind.

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Tammy Duckworth, Democrat Senator from Illinois, who lost both legs in the Iraq War, on another of The Felon’s anti-military speeches:

“[He] is despicable. He doesn’t deserve to be commander in chief. And certainly those remarks are consistent with where he’s always been. He thinks that we’re suckers and losers. Do voters want a five-time draft dodger who denigrates military men and women and our veterans and calls us suckers and losers, who doesn’t want to have his picture taken with amputee veterans of various conflicts to be the next commander in chief or are you going to have Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, who care deeply about veterans? It’s despicable what Republicans are doing. The same party that thinks that [The Felon], who dodged a draft five times, who thinks veterans are suckers and losers, that’s who they think is better than someone who served 24 years in uniform.”

The party of the military, the party of veterans, supports a man who dodged the draft five times because his feet hurt; a man who claimed staying safe from STDs was his own personal Vietnam; a man who belittled John McCain for his service; a man who stayed away from a ceremony honoring Americans who died on D-day because it was raining; and a man who has called soldiers “losers and suckers.”

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Chris Sununu, GOP New Hampshire Governor trying to explain away The Felon’s vile comments on recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor:

“Yeah, they were asinine comments. There’s no doubt about that. Again, I don’t think they’re the first asinine comments former President Trump has ever made. I don’t think they’ll be a game changer in terms of the election. So to make these types of comparisons is so far afield, I don’t think it’s going to be a big politically, big politically in terms of moving votes. He said crazy things like this before. At the end of the day, he’s got to just focus on what Americans are feeling, which is the economy, the stresses, the border crisis, the migrant crisis.”

Ignore the military hating, racist, rapist, traitor, con artist behind the curtain?

No thank you.

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Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader, on this election:

“I’m confident that we’re going to do everything that we need to do over the next few months to make sure that House Democrats take back the majority so the American people do not have to encounter that question [on House Republicans refusing to certify the election]. It is a reality that far too many of my extreme MAGA Republican colleagues in the House have engaged in election denial, conspiracy theories, and have tried to undermine the very fabric of our democracy and the peaceful transfer of power. That’s what Project 2025 is all about.”

As if you needed another reason to vote blue, howsabout making sure the certification of the election goes off without a hitch.

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Jerushah Duford, Billy Graham’s granddaughter, coming out for Kamala Harris:

“In 2016, when a man bragged about assaulting women, various leaders of my faith then propped up this man as a poster boy for godly manhood and leadership. This broke my heart as I have watched—quite frankly, for the last eight years—people who were curious about Jesus and His teachings [have] done a 180 and walked in the other direction from my faith.”

To be a person of faith, so-called faith, and throw your support behind a con artist, sexual predator, pussy grabber, racist rapist, shows everyone, including Franklin Graham, your true colors.

And it must make true Christians lose their minds.

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