I Didn't Say It ...

Jim Obergefell, American civil rights activist and lead plaintiff in the 2015 US Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage throughout the country, on the SCOTUS decision:

“The Court did the right thing in denying cert, and people across our nation can breathe a little easier today but threats to marriage equality will likely continue, so we must not assume marriage, or any rights enjoyed by or due to any marginalized community, is safe. Kim Davis should have lived up to her oath and duties as a public servant by serving everyone in Rowan County, Kentucky; instead, she chose to use her faith to persecute others. It is past time for others in our nation to understand that a person’s faith is not harmed by others who are different. Someone exercising a civil right does not prevent a believer from continuing to practice their faith at home or in their house of worship. As the Sixth Circuit said when denying Kim Davis’s appeal, the Bill of Rights ‘would serve little purpose if it could be so freely ignored whenever an official’s conscience so dictates,.  I hope the Supreme Court halts further attempts by public officials to use their personal faith to deny others their civil and human rights.”

This is not the end of our fight, but it is a great step forward.

My being gay has zero affect on anyone’s faith; you can be whatever faith you choose without having to worry about me. And if you think it affects you, then you might want to rethink your faith.

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Thomas Massie, GOP Congressman from Knetucky, taking his own party to task:

“This vote is gonna be on your record for longer than [Cankles] is gonna be president. And what are you going to do in 2028 and 2030 when you’re in a debate … and they ask, ‘How can we trust you? You covered up for a pedophile back in 2025.’”

Massie is deeply MAGAt so he gets no props for that, BUT he gets props for stepping up, stepping out, and stepping on his own party of pedophile protectors.

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Adelita Grijalva, newly sworn in Democrat member of the House, in her first floor speech where she wastes no time:

“Basic freedoms are under attack. Health care premiums are skyrocketing. Babies are being ripped away from their parents by ICE agents. We can and must do better.  What is most concerning is not what this administration has done, but what the majority of this body has failed to do—hold Trump accountable. It has been 50 days since the people of Arizona’s 7th Congressional District elected me to represent them. Fifty days that over 800,000 Arizonans have been left without access to the basic services that every constituency deserves. This is an abuse of power. One individual should not be able to unilaterally obstruct the swearing in of a duly elected member of Congress.”

Immediately after her speech, Grijalva became the decisive signature on a discharge petition that would force floor action on a bipartisan bill urging for the release of more files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s Democrat governor,  taking on the CouchF*cker over releasing SNAP benefits:

“As for JD Vance … America has a president [and] a vice president that don’t give a damn about all Americans. They have made that crystal clear. And I mean, at least with [Cankles], he’s transparent about that. JD Vance is a total phony. And let me explain why: JD Vance rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia where there’s a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars on the backs of telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people who he likes to write about and claim as his own. Here’s another thing JD Vance claims. He claims to be a person of faith. I know my Bible. And my Bible teaches us that we are to love thy neighbor and we are too feed the hungry. Deuteronomy says, ‘if you see a person who is in need, you don’t give them a clenched fist, you open up your hand.’ So for JD Vance now to turn around after claiming all these things his whole life and literally go to court to stop hungry people from eating, that is not only phony, it is shameful. And this is who is leading America today. And folks gotta wake up and realize the people who are leading in America quite literally wanna keep people hungry. And you’ll excuse me for getting emotional about it, but when I see hungry people in my state who are hungry because of JD Vance’s bullsh*t politics, that makes me angry. And that’s why I went to court. And that is why we’re funding Share. And that is why we are putting dollars back on people’s SNAP cards, because that’s what. The people of Pennsylvania deserve, and America deserves better than JD Vance.”

JD Vance is the guy who said one thing back in the day … like comparing Cankles to Hitler … like portraying himself as an impoverished waif … and another thing today when he claims Cankles is the greatest president ever and rallying about the ‘Let Children Starve’ party.

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Pete Buttigieg, former Secretary of Transportation and future President of the United States, took on Cankles for his fact-challenged criticism lies about the air traffic control system:

“The President wouldn’'t last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they’ve been through—and the way this administration has treated them from Day One—he has no business shitting on them now. Other than mostly pronouncing my name right, everything he said was wrong. He told a story about air traffic control that was both false and confusing. He just made a bunch of shit up about air traffic control. This is a system that was in pretty rough shape by the time he lost in 2020 and we took it over. So we improved it, including launching a long-term communications fix that is still under way that he is now passing off as his idea. And thanks to our work, this year he became the first president in decades to inherit an air traffic control workforce that was actually growing instead of shrinking. The most important part of the whole system is the air traffic controllers themselves, which is why it is disgraceful that the president went on social media earlier today and attacked controllers after everything that they’ve been through and at a moment when America has a serious air traffic control shortage. So why would the president be picking a fight with air traffic controllers today of all days? Probably it’s to change the subject from how he and Republicans are increasing your health insurance premiums on purpose right now and how he has totally failed on his promise to make everyday life more affordable. Right now the president is losing on the economy because people can see how he’s failing and people feel it every time they open up an insurance bill, every time they go grocery shopping. So for everyone who wants to see change, let’s stay focused. Let’s keep the pressure on. Let’s take the same energy that saw Democrats dominating Election Day last week and carry it into next year and beyond.”

Cankles and his Transportation Minion, Sean Duffy, are clueless as to what they are talking about. And should check their own records before jumping on any hate ride.

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Jasmine Crockett, Democrat Representative from Texas, on MTG’s phony new persona:

“I will tell you that while there is a new Marjorie, as some people have said, I do want to give people an opportunity to do their research. And the reality is that the big ugly bill, it only passed with one vote. And if one more Republican would have defected—we had maybe two Republicans that defected. If we would have just had one more, then we would not be talking about higher insurance premiums. Marjorie Taylor Greene voted for this. Point blank period. Her constituents were the ones that were on the receiving end of this…So you tell me if I am feeling so sad for Marjorie or buying into this because I don't understand why she didn't do the right thing when she had a chance!”

MTG is trying to position her as a more moderate Republican as she faces reelection and a possible run at the White House. She forgets all the crazy things she’ said and done over the years that will stop her in her tracks.

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I Didn't Say It ...

Barack Obama, former President of the United States, and calming force in the nation speaking plain common sense in the way of the Kirk shooting:

“What happened to Charlie Kirk was a tragedy … [but] we can also, at the same time, say that I disagree with the idea that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a mistake. That’s not me politicizing the issue. It’s making an observation about who we are as a country. We have to recognize that on both sides, undoubtedly, there are people who are extremists and who say things that are contrary to what I believe are America’s core values. But I will say that those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the United States government behind extremist views. And when we have the weight of the governemtn behind extremist views we have a problem.”

And the problem is Cankles and his Regime of boot-licking goose-stepping Nationalist Christians, AKA Nat-C’s, Nazis, bigots, homophobes, transphobes, pedophile rapists and racists.

Vote them out at every single level of government.

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Hannah Einbinder, on the backlash after she shouted ‘Free Palestine’ during her Emmys acceptance speech:

“It is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture is such an important and long-standing institution that is really separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state.”

The Jews aren’t trying to demolish Gaza and the Palestinians; it’s Israel and Netanyahu who are the war criminals.

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Eric Swalwell, Democratic Representative from California, suggesting FCC Chair Brendan Carr “get a lawyer” for when Democrats take the majority in Congress:

“I want to make it clear, there’s going to be a Democratic majority in just over a year and to the FCC chairperson and anyone involved in these dirty deals, get a lawyer and save your records because you’re going to be in this room and you’re going to be answering questions about the deals that you struck and who benefited and what the cost was to the American people because that happened.”

I am already investing in a popcorn machine so I have something to nibble on when Democrats destroy the fascists.

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Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania Democrat Governor, speaking at the Eradicate Hate Global Summit:

“During moments like this, I believe we have a responsibility to be clear and unequivocal in calling out all forms of political violence and making clear it is all wrong. That shouldn’t be hard to do. Unfortunately, some from the dark corners of the internet all the way to the Oval Office want to cherry-pick which instances of political violence they want to condemn. Listen: Doing that only further divides us and it makes it harder to heal. There are some who will hear that selective condemnation and take it as a permission slip to commit more violence, so long as it suits their narrative or only targets the other side. He [Trump] claimed, in the wake of the killing of Charlie Kirk, that he wanted to heal this nation. You don’t heal this nation by attacking your fellow Americans, by calling some of your fellow Americans ‘scum’—his word choice, not mine. The president is using this as a pretext to go and undermine people’s constitutional rights. That is dangerous, it is wrong, and it needs to stop.”

The fish rots from the head and that fetid orange gelatinous gasbag  in the White House is spreading its stink all over America.

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Jon Green, chair of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors in Iowa, defying an order from GOP Governor Kim Reynolds that flags on public buildings be flown at half-staff in honor of Charlie Kirk:

“On my personal authority as Chairman of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors, I have determined to defy [Governor Reynolds’] order that our colors be at half-staff through Sunday on behalf of Charlie Kirk. I condemn Kirk’s killing, regardless of who pulled the trigger or why. But I will not grant Johnson County honors to a man who made it his life’s mission to denigrate so many of the constituents I have sworn to protect, and who did so much harm not only to the marginalized, but also to degrade the fabric of our body politic. Johnson County flags will fly as usual. I will accept any consequence, whether legal or electoral, for my decision. It is mine alone.”

Green said he came to the decision in part because a similar order was not given for other victims of political violence, specifically Minnesota Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman, who with her husband was killed in June.

This is the Resistance

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Starex Smith, AKA The Hungry Black Man, food critic and citizen with zero fucks to give, on the death and subsequent canonization of Charlie Kirk by the right:

"America lost Charlie Kirk a couple hours ago, violently, tragically, and in a moment that was recorded, and is circulating social. I will not post it because it’s absolutely horrific. Charlie was not a figure of grace or empathy; history will not remember him as a voice of unity or a champion of justice. He will be remembered for the words he chose, words that often wounded and divided. As he lay bleeding out onstage, those words, once weapons, became dust. When he was shot, he was speaking about one of America’s deepest wounds: mass shootings. When asked about school shootings, his response was not measured compassion but deflection. 'Counting or not counting gang violence?' he said, as if the grief of families who send their children to school only to bury them could be minimized by a technicality. And then, almost instantly, a shot rang out. He fell, his voice instantly silenced. This is not eulogy-flattery, this is memory. We remember the things he said about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: 'MLK was awful. He’s not a good person.' We remember his calculation on gun violence: 'I think it’s worth … some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.' These are not the words of healing, not the words of unity. And yet they, too, are part of the ledger he leaves behind. So what do we do with a legacy like this? First, we tell the truth. We acknowledge what he said, how he said it, and the hurt it caused. Second, we resist the temptation to let violence beget violence. For if this act tells us anything, it is that political violence has become a siren call to the unhinged, a spark they would gladly use to ignite the tinderbox of racial and class resentment. Today it was a conservative voice silenced. Tomorrow, it could just as easily be a progressive one. We must not let this become the currency of politics. We should also understand the warning buried in this moment; what we say matters. How we live matters. The words we choose, the causes we defend, the way we treat one another, these become the bricks of our legacy. Kirk’s words were often sharp, sometimes cruel, but they are now etched into his memory as surely as his death. Let the rest of us take note: legacies should be rooted in love, in justice, in equality, not in division or deflection. Rest, if you can, Mr. Kirk. May your final act teach us something lasting: that even in grief, we are called to choose better."

Kirk's assassination is a dark time in America when you have one political party trying to glorify and sanctify and celebrate hate and it’s a direct result of allowing the United States of Guns to push guns over children, citizens, politicians, and rightwing podcasters.

If we want to create a safer, more peaceful America we need to see the things that Kirk said and spread as hate speech, albeit Free Speech.

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Ain't That America III

Well, what a week or so it's been in America; another shooting by another MAGAt; Karoline Leavitt proves she’s no Christian; RFK Jr shows us he still doesn’t have a clue; the new regime lies to fired employees and ends their healthcare; ICE arrested another citizen; Nancy Mace once again shows her true hate-filled, lying, victim colors; but the resistance shows up in Cory Booker, Massachusetts representatives, Harvard resists, the Wall Street Journal of all places stands against The Felon, a trio of Democrat governors, along with another protest against fascism.

In case you’re keeping score the Florida State University shooter has been identified and is …

—Not a Drag Queen

—Not Transgender

—Not an Immigrant

—Not Woke

—Not DEI

But just a white, homegrown MAGAt cult member and Felon supporter.

If you still need any proof that this White House is a viper’s nest of faux-christian hate and nastiness just read what Spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, AKA BullShit Barbie 2.0 said about Kilmar Abrego Garcia:

“Nothing will change the fact that Garcia will never be a Maryland father… The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the p[resident of the United States and secretary of state cannot be compelled to forcibly retrieve this citizen of El Salvador.” 

Here's a fact for this lying POS: The United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling ordering The Felon’s Regime to facilitate the return of Garci and they are refusing to comply.

As Felon’s and the Goose-steppers who support are apt to do.

Health Secretary and heroin addict Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s purge of tens of thousands of federal workers has halted efforts to collect data on everything from cancer rates in firefighters to mother-to-baby transmission of HIV and syphilis to outbreaks of drug-resistant gonorrhea to cases of carbon monoxide poisoning putting efforts to solve those problems in jeopardy.

But, hey, is it’s just poor people who can’t afford health care dying, then it’s okay with The Felon’s Regime.

Probationary workers who were re-fired this month from the Commerce Department say their health insurance is being terminated earlier than they expected.

The workers were told their health insurance would run into May but received notices this week that the department is backdating their termination to an earlier date, meaning the health insurance ran out last week.

At a time when The Felon is bragging about how investors have made millions, even billions, off recent swings in the stock market, this regime is showing its cruelty and inhumanity to fired NOAA employees.

And if it can happen to them …

In Arizona 19-year-old Jose Hermosillo, who was visiting Tucson from Albuquerque, says he was lost and walking near the Border Patrol headquarters on April 8 when an agent arrested him for illegally entering the country.

Hermosillo was not carrying identification and court documents say a Border Patrol agent arrested Hermosillo “at or near Nogales, Arizona, without proper immigration documents” and that Hermosillo admitted to illegally entering the U.S. Hermosillo says he has never been to Nogales.

Friends and family members made numerous calls looking for him before they found out he was being detained in the Florence Correctional Center, which ICE uses to detain people. Another family member drove to the detention center, about 70 miles northwest of Tucson, but said officials wouldn’t provide any information or release him.

A magistrate judge in Tucson dismissed Hermosillo’s case late last week.

If it can happen to him …

The GOP’s lying Representative from South Carolina, Nancy Mace posted a video on social media blasting the “evil” voters who call her office to complain; I believe these are actually called constituents, AKA the people who elected her to office and those she ALLEGEDLY represents. Hundreds of people have called Mace after she ditched a town hall meeting last month organized by the Lowcountry Accountability Alliance in South Carolina because she said it was unsafe for her to attend.

And then Nancy Mace, who lives for social media clicks, posted a video yesterday by Mace where she repeatedly tells a constituent whom she decides is gay to “fuck off” and “go fuck yourself” because he asked why she isn’t holding any town halls.

At one point she tells him, “by the way, I voted for gay marriage twice.” But you’ll note that in her post she also mocks him for wearing what she calls “daisy dukes.”

This is the GOP; if you ask them a question they tell you to fuck off.

Cory Booker, Democrat Senator from New Jersey, wants Congress to hold hearings and defended Democratic lawmakers’ calls for investigations into any possibility of insider trading after The Felon encouraged people to buy stocks before reversing his tariff policy last week.

Democrats began questioning whether anyone traded improperly after The Felon said on social media that “this is a great time to buy” when stocks were slumping after his idiotic tariff rollout and then, just hours later, announced that most of the steep tariffs would be temporarily reduced, sending the stock market shooting up.

His rich friends and his fellow GOP criminals are getting rich with the rest of the country suffers.

A new legislative push led by Elizabeth Warren and Melanie Stansbury, Massachusetts Democrat Senator and Representative, is seeking to bar Felon advisor Leon Skum from communicating with government agencies that interface with their companies and would require federal employees like Skum to meet new ethics requirements; hell, meet any ethics requirements.

The bill, titled the SGE Ethics Enforcement & Reform Act of 2025, would create what the lawmakers are calling a “bright-line rule” that makes new provisions explicitly applicable to owners of a “large company,” which the bill defines as any for-profit company making over $1 billion.

Harvard University has rejected policy changes requested by The Felon Regime that would have placed “unprecedented” demands on the institution.

The Felon had demanded that Harvard reduce the power of students and faculty members over the university’s affairs; report foreign students who commit conduct violations immediately to federal authorities; and bring in an outside party to ensure that each academic department is “viewpoint diverse,” among other steps. Alan Garber, Harvard’s president, responded:

“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”

This is the Resistance.

The conservative Wall Street Journal stunned MAGAts with a scathing editorial of their Dear Leader in defense of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell—who The Felon wants to "terminate" for disobedience:

"The problem for [The Felon] is that Mr. Powell spoke the truth. The main lesson from [The Felon] vs. Powell is that the central bank can’t make up for the economic policy errors of politicians."

The Felon’s meltdown was prompted by Powell stating that the "level of the tariff increases announced so far is significantly larger than anticipated." The Fed is tasked with promoting full employment while managing inflation but these tariffs are raising inflation because the import duties are passed on to consumers and companies are laying off workers to make up for lost profits.

The Felon is inept and ill-equipped to run a business much less a country.

In Wisconsin, Democrat Governor Tony Evers has successfully increased school funding in the state for the next four hundred years by crossing out a few numbers on the bill to change it from “2024-2025” to “2425.”

And the state Supreme Court upheld his right to do so.

In Pennsylvania, Democrat Governor Josh Shapiro  is taking legal action against The Felon Regime which had revoked $185 million that was owed to PA schools.

In New Mexico, Democrat Governor Lujan Grisham signed into law new funding to help the state combat the climate crisis, something The Felon Regime and the GOP do not comprehend.

This past weekend, from Wyoming to Washington and Mississippi to Manhattan, protesters at hundreds of rallies in small towns and big cities gathered to The Felon’s sweeping policy moves, the second day of mass action this month as opposition to the administration continued to coalesce.

The more than 700 planned events were part of the “50501” movement, a decentralized campaign that got its name from a Feb. 5 push for “50 protests in 50 states on 1 day.”

That effort led to anti-Trump protests at state capitol buildings across the nation. Hunter Dunn, a spokesperson for 50501, described the group as a “pro-democracy, pro-Constitution, anti-executive-overreach, nonviolent grassroots movement.”

Saturday’s demonstrations — on the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolutionary War — came two weeks after the April 5 “Hands Off” rallies, which drew millions across the country in the largest single-day protest of Trump’s second term.

And for this 93-year-old woman it was her first protest … 

I Didn't Say It ...

Dolly Parton, while being mostly apolitical, spoke about how these new anti-LGBTQ laws affect people she loves:

“I have some of everybody in my own immediate family and in my circle of employees. I’ve got transgender people. I’ve got gays. I’ve got lesbians. I’ve got drunks. I’ve got drug addicts—all within my own family. I know and love them all, and I do not judge. And I just see how broken-hearted they get over certain things and I know how real they are. I know how important this is to them. That’s who they are. They cannot help that any more than I can help being Dolly Parton, you know, the way people know me. If there’s something to be judged, that is God’s business. But we are all God’s children and how we are is who we are.”

And this simple statement has gotten the MAGAts and the wingnuts all riled up at Parton’s wokeness, when it’s just Dolly’s Christian beliefs.

In a world of Christians be like Dolly.

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Byron Donalds, in a world of hurt after suggesting Black families were stronger under Jim Crow segregation:

“You see, during Jim Crow, the Black family was together. During Jim Crow, more Black people were not just conservative—Black people have always been conservative-minded—but more Black people voted conservatively. And then H.E.W.[Department of Health Education and welfare], Lyndon Johnson—you go down that road, and now we are where we are.”

Of note, President Lyndon Johnson introduced legislation on the heels of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which overturned the Jim Crow-era caste system that kept African Americans as  second-class citizens after slavery was abolished.

Donalds doubled down a bit saying:

“Let’s agree on something: I am, you know, obviously, one of the better communicators in the Republican Party.”

Except your foot is in your mouth.

For the record, The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws introduced in the Southern United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries that enforced racial segregation and for a man of color to paint that as a positive time is disgusting.

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Martha-Ann Alito, traitorous insurrectionist wife of traitorous insurrectionist Justice Samuel Alito, has surprisingly come out against Pride flags:

“You know what I want? I want a Sacred Heart of Jesus flag, because I have to look across the lagoon at the Pride flag for the next month. [But my husband’s] like, ‘Oh, please don’t put up a flag.’ I said, ‘I won’t do it because I am deferring to you. But when you are free of this nonsense, I’m putting it up and I’m gonna send them a message every day, maybe every week, I’ll be changing the flags.’ They’ll be all kinds. I made a flag in my head. This is how I satisfy myself. I made a flag. It’s white and has yellow and orange flames around it. And in the middle is the word ‘vergogna.’ ‘Vergogna’ in Italian means shame.”

What a sad lonely, hate-filled pathetic woman with a flag-pole up her ass. 

And, you know, if she had a few gay friends there might be some better hair and makeup going on in that photo, not to mention the clothes that look a little Bewitched Endora hand-me-down-ish.

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Pete Buttigieg, Transportation Secretary, flag-waving loon Martha-Ann Alito’s condemnation of “shameful” Pride flags:

“I’m often reminded that the most important thing in my life—which is my marriage, and my family and the two beautiful children that my husband Chasten and I are raising—that that marriage only exists by the grace of the single vote on the United States Supreme Court. That expanded our rights and freedoms back in 2015 and made it possible for somebody like me to get married. And, you know, Supreme Court justices have an unbelievable amount of power and—by the nature in the structure, the Supreme Court—there’s no supervision over that power. They are entrusted with it literally for as long as they live. And part of that trust is we expect them to enter into those enormously consequential decisions that shape our everyday lives with a sense of fairness. I also hope that most Americans can understand the difference between a flag that symbolizes … love and acceptance and signals to people who have sometimes feared for their safety that they’re going to be okay—and insurrectionists symbology, I’ll just leave it at that.”

Funny that the gay man is open and honest and decent and the so-called Christian is the bitch trying to decide how people live.

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Kyle Lammott, a Wichita pastor, encouraging his flock of sheep to mark Pride Month by checking out mass amounts of LGBTQ+ books from their local library:

“One way you can love your neighbors and your community is to gather together some of the men in your church and go empty the local library of all their LGBTQ+ books.”

Carry on "pastor," you send the men to libraries to get The Gay books and you might change some of them to be big flaming queens. So, I have a better idea, have them check out the Bible and take note of all the times your so-called god spoke against gay people; have them understand that god is love, not hate, not ignorance, not cheap publicity stunts by a fame-whoring pastor.

And them, fuck off.

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Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania Democrat Governor, on The Felon:

“All they hear from [him] is a whole bunch of whining about this country. And I think [he’s] got to quit whining, got to quit trying to divide us. I mean, consider this … We’re producing more energy than anyone before in this nation. We have the strongest economy in the world and we are beating China for the first time in decades. More people went to work this morning in America than any other time in our nation’s history. So, I got a message to [The Felon] and all of his negativity and whining: stop shit-talking America! This is the greatest country on Earth and it’s time that we all start acting like it. The good people of Pennsylvania understand that this is a great country, understand that we got a whole lot going for us. And not it’s time for us to continue this path of progress that Joe Biden has laid out and not go back to a negative time, not listen to the whining of the former president, and instead, focus on a positive future for all of us.”

Simple as that, y’all.

CAST A GODDAMNED VOTE!

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President Biden, on the verdict in Hunter Biden’s trial:

“As I said last week, I am the President, but I am also a Dad. Jill and I love our son, and we are so proud of the man he is today. So many families who have had loved one’s battle addiction understand the feeling of pride seeing someone you love come out the other side and be so strong and resilient in recovery. As I also said last week, I will accept the outcome of this case and will continue to respect the judicial process as Hunter considers an appeal. Jill and I will always be there for Hunter and the rest of our family with our love and support. Nothing will ever change that.”

That’s how you parent; you don’t cast blame, call the trial rigged and the jurist’s liars and the judge corrupt.

You stand up like a grown-assed man and not some flabby orange child.

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Adam Schiff, California’s Democrat Representative, speaking at yesterday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on The Felon’s “political persecution.”

“I wanted to begin by quoting the jury in the Manhattan hush money trial. Guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty guilty. This was what the jury pronounced. Unanimously on every count. My Republican colleagues don’t really contest [his] guilt. This is the fascinating thing; their argument has been he should never have been prosecuted. Where they falsely claim it was a political prosecution. They falsely claim it should have been a misdemeanor, not a felony.”

Sheep goosestepping for a felon.

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I Didn't Say It

Magic Johnson, on his son EJ coming out as gay:

“In the beginning, I was like any other dad. ‘Oh, I’m gonna get him in sports,’ right? And so when we start, first soccer, and then football, he like [disagrees with a shake of his the head]. ... I saw early on, he’s playing with dolls, he likes to play dress-up, but then if I come in, he would hide all that. But I saw it ... So I think he was [trying to] keep it from me, and then finally, he felt strong enough that he could finally tell me. And so, he made me change. It wasn’t he who had to adjust, I had to adjust. And I finally told him. I said, ‘Let me tell you something, you’re my son. I love you. I don’t care, if you want to be a gay man, I’m supporting that. I’m supporting you.’ And when he finally announced it to the world, I saw all the letters that came in around the world, that he affected all these other young people who wanted to come out to their parents and gave them the strength to do it ... And I tell him all the time, ‘I’m so proud of you. Live your life just like I’m living my life. Love who you want to love. Dad is going to support you all the way.’ So it was really beautiful and he cried, he needed to hear that, because some of his friends didn’t get that support. We all gotta love our children no matter what … and support them because they need that. They need to know that you love them, that you support whatever decision they make, or whoever they decide to love or like, you gotta support that. And that’s what I’ve been able to do…”

Once again, this is how it’s done: it’s your child, love them.

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Pete Hegseth, Fox & Friends host, on drop boxes and mail-in ballots ruining the “Red Surge”:

“Voting should not be as simple as ordering an Amazon package because there’s a lot more at stake with what you should be considering when you cast your ballot. You want to see a ‘threat to democracy?’ It’s what we’re watching in Arizona right now. As we don’t know whether people are cheating or not. But all I know is there are 265,000 ballots that still haven’t been counted and it’s Sunday. Is it gonna cut for Kari Lake? Will it not? What’s the key? Hobbs is in charge of the elections there. Hopefully, it’s all aboveboard. Looks like the next few dumps of ballots will be good for Kari Lake. That will be the test.”

He doesn’t know “if people are cheating or not” but is playing that card any way. Voting should be the easiest thing to do, without restrictions on who what when where why and how. You wanna end early voting or mail-in voting, then demand that every election day be a federal holiday where everyone is off work and can vote.

But that won’t help the GOP so … Yeah.

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Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s Democrat Governor-elect, on his GOP opponent, Doug Mastriano, not conceding:

“I mean, who cares if he calls, right? He doesn’t get to pick the winner, the people pick the winner, and in a resounding way, they made clear that they wanted me to lead this Commonwealth forward.”

And snap!

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Rick Scott, Florida Republican Senator, on what happened to the Midterms:

“Here’s what happened to us: Election Day, our voters didn’t show up, we didn’t get enough voters. It was a complete disappointment. I think we’ve got to reflect now, what didn’t happen? I think we didn’t have enough of a positive message, we said everything about how bad the Biden agenda was—it’s bad, the Democrats are radical, but we have to have a plan of what we stand for.”

Uh, sheesh Captain Obvious, you didn’t get enough voters, that’s how it works. That and the fact that most Americans see that your party offers nothing but whining and complaining and support for traitors and insurrectionists.

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Mo Brooks, Alabama Republican Congressman, on Thing 45:

“It would be a bad mistake for the Republicans to have [Thing 45] as their nominee in 2024. [He] has proven himself to be dishonest, disloyal, incompetent, crude and a lot of other things that alienate so many independents and Republicans. Even a candidate who campaigns from his basement can beat him. No question, I am displeased with [him], but that does not change the truthfulness of what I say. I challenge anybody to make the argument that you can trust the word of [Thing 45].”

I love this from Mo Brooks, who has courted Thing 45 for support for years and is now suddenly on the other side?

We see you Mo, and know you’re a flip-flopping asshat.

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Josh Hawley, Missouri Republican Senator, on the GOP:

“What are Republicans actually going to do for working people? How about, to start: tougher tariffs on China, restore American jobs, open up American energy full throttle, 100k new cops on the street. Unrig the system. The old party is dead. Time to bury it. Build something new."

The party is dead because you do nothing; the party is dead because you ran to support election denialism; your party is dead because you all stood with Thing 45 even after the riots on January 6. I find it ironic that the day before the election Hawley never said a word about the GOP and after the losses he’s suddenly ready to take the party in a  new direction.

Oh, and don’t ever forget that Hawley is a strong backer of Thing 45 and raised a fist to the mob outside the capitol and then ran for cover like a little bitch when they entered the building.

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