Here we are again, with a wee taste of the lunacy, racism, criminality, and bigotry and hate inside the GOP and it’s going around the country …
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And that’s just a small taste of GOP lunacy ... anti-women’s rights, voter fraud, anti-transgender hate, traitors, anti-abortion rights, anti-LGBTQ+ and more. So what do we do if we want more Good News? We ... |
Here we are again, with a wee taste of the lunacy, racism, criminality, and bigotry and hate inside the GOP … and let’s start with the Dog Killer: Y’all know that dog killing liar Kristi Noem, has a book coming out but now her office is saying she will go back and correct some errors … like when she claimed to have met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un: “I remember when I met with the North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. I’m sure he underestimated me, having no clue about my experience staring down little tyrants—I’d been a children’s pastor after all.”
And that’s just a small taste of GOP lunacy ... dog killing liars, fearmongering liars, those in favor of child marriage so teens cannot get an abortion, book banning librarian jailers, those who are already saying the 2024 election is rigged, arming teachers, GOP hypocrisy, more liars about their military service … but there is some spots of Good News. pardoning traitors for political points; gibberish speakers; anti-military criminals; lunatics and Big Liars; Christian Nationalist Nazi sympathizers; party over country fools; unfit for political office; liars and flip-floppers; and Arizona. So what do we do if we want more Good News? We ... |
By now you’ve all heard the tale of Colorado GOP Representative Lauren Little Miss Family Values … whose mother got knocked up with Little Lauren while she was in high school and who grew up to get knocked up with her son while she was in high school who grew up to knock up his girlfriend while he was in high school …. was kicked out of a “Beetlejuice” musical play in Denver over the weekend for acting like a self-entitled escort. A theater spokesperson, while not naming Boebert, said that the video—which showed Boebert and her “date” being escorted out of the venue—was of guests who were kicked out after audience members accused them of vaping, singing, using phones and causing a disturbance. Boebert’s campaign manager confirms the Congressperson was kicked out but that Boebert denies she was vaping. Boebert and the other guest left, but not before she flipped off the ushers and asked the staff: “Do you know who I am?” Boebert, in her second term in Congress and running for reelection, has built a national profile with a combative media-whoring style that’s grabbed media headlines, was just vaping, and singing and using her phone … That same video that shows all of that going on and shows Boebert responding to a woman sitting behind her, also shows the conservative family values not-yet-divorced woman’s date fondling he breasts during the performance while she shoved her hand between his legs and fondled him. Boebert, while not admitting to the mutual grope fest, has blamed the entire thing on, wait for it, her ongoing divorce. Best of all, is that Boebert, who is anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-drag, and once famously Tweeted out … “Don’t take your kids to a drag show, take them to church.” … was fondling and being fondled by Quinn Gallagher, a Democrat :::gasp::: and bar owner who often holds :::gasp::: drag shows at his venue. So, while we now know Boebert had no morals, we have also been given proof she has no principles. And now to rightwingnut MAGAt and Mr-Former-Fake-One-Term-Twice-Impeached-Currently-Four-Time-Criminally-Indicted-Not-My-President-Gurl [h/t to Randy Rainbow] South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem who is angling to become the Vice President should Inmate # P01135809 run for and win the presidency in 2024. Noem, who like Boebert, is an anti-LGBTQ+, anti-women’s rights, anti-history teaching, book banning, climate denying gun toting Republican, is also, again perhaps like Boebert, an adulterer, as it has been revealed that she and former Inmate # P01135809 advisor Corey Lewandowski have been having “a years-long clandestine affair.” Noem, another Family Values politician, has been married to her spouse Byron Noem for more than 30 years, while Lewandowski has been married to his wife Alison for more than 15 years. At an NRA forum earlier this year, Noem touted her relationship with her husband and her family values during a speech stating: “Here today with me is my husband Bryon, who has been with me every step of the way. Thank you for our amazing family and all the support. Speaking of family… can you believe I’m a grandma? Not just once either, but twice. For those of you with grandchildren you know, they are why we get up each day and continue to fight for our values.” No word on if Lewandowski was there to service her after that lovely little lie of a speech. Of note is that neither Noem nor Lewandowski denied the affair when questioned by the media, though Noem’s people questioned the timing of the story—you know, cuz it came out as she was dropping to her knees before Inmate # P01135809 to secure the Veep spot—and Lewandowski isn’t talking. Good old Republican family values; do as we say not as we do. |
Alabama was one of the hardest hit states during the first
go-round of the pandemic, and even harder hit during this latest outbreak, so
what does GOP Governor Kay Ivey do with
the COVID-19 relief funds her state received from the federal government? She signed a new law using those coronavirus virus funds to
build new prisons in the state. No, not for more room in hospitals, which are overflowing with
COVID patients as well as others; not for relief for people who may lose their
home due to unemployment during the pandemic; not for vaccines, vaccine education,
equipment for those on the front lines. Prisons; because prisons make money for Alabama Kay Ivey cares more about for-profit prisons that people in
her own state getting sick and dying of COVID because she’s a Republican who
puts coins before people. Early in 2020, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem’s daughter,
Kassidy Peters, had applied with the state for an appraiser’s license and was
denied. In July 2020, Noem summoned to her office the state employee who ran
the agency, the woman’s direct supervisor and the state labor secretary. Oh, and for some inexplicable reason, Kassidy Peters was also
there. And four months later Kassidy Peters obtained her
certification. The following week, the labor secretary called the agency head,
Sherry Bren, who initially denied Kassidy Peter’s application, and demanded her
retirement, according to an age discrimination complaint Bren filed against the
department. No one knows what transpired at that July 2020 meeting in
the governor’s office. Kristi Noem has only said she was trying to make the
process more equitable, and added: “I never once asked for special treatment for Kassidy. She is my daughter and I’m proud of her. I raised her to accomplish things on her own.” Funny, though, that her desire for equality in that
department only happened after her daughter was denied a licenses. Also funny,
is that her daughter didn’t get the license until after mama stepped in and the
department head was pushed out. |
South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has pleaded
not guilty to three misdemeanors … misdemeanors … related to a deadly
car crash last Fall when Ravnsborg struck and killed Joseph Boever, but drove
away because, he claimed, he thought he’d hit a deer. Boever’s body was discovered the next day, and accidents
happen, and people get confused about it all, but … Investigators discovered that Ravnsborg, a RepubliQAnon, was
reading websites containing conspiracy theories about President Joe Biden on
his phone … while driving … right before the impact. When authorities made that information public, the judge in the case, John Brown, ordered state officials to remove it from state-controlled internet sites. That order ultimately gave South Dakota GQPs an excuse to stop Ravnsbotg's impeachment proceedings. Ravnsborg signed papers to indicate he understood his
statutory and constitutional rights. He is charged with (1) operating
a motor vehicle while using a mobile electronic device; (2) improper lane
driving; and (3) careless driving. Each charge is a Class 2 Misdemeanor
carrying a possible penalty of 30 days in a county jail and a fine of $500. Notice he is not charged with vehicular manslaughter because
I guess Joseph Boever’s life doesn’t matter to GQP’s in South Dakota, The facts: Ravnsborg was traveling approximately 70 miles
per hour and looking at his phone when he collided with Boever. He continued
driving, but then pulled over a distance away and reported the incident to the
local sheriff, who personally showed up to investigate. The sheriff issued
Ravnsborg a “deer tag” to account for damage to his vehicle and loaned the
attorney general a personal car to continue on his way. Ravnsborg said he
didn’t see Boever’s body until the next day when he was returning the car to
the sheriff. The sheriff apparently didn’t see Boever’s body, either, but …
Joseph Boever’s glasses were found inside Ravnsborg’s car because Joseph
Boever’s head came through the windshield. But again if you’re a RepubliQAnon in South Dakota you don’t
get charged with manslaughter. You get smacked for being on your phone and
driving carelessly and making an improper lane change. I hope to the goddess that Joseph Boever has family that
files a multi-million-dollar civil suit against Ravnsborg especially since
officials in South Dakota seem intent on protecting this killer. |
You know, with a Hater in the Oval Office, it’s much easier now for others who hate to pass laws enabling hatred.
Take South Dakota .... please.
The state’s Republican ... because, of course ... Governor, Dennis Daugaard, just signed a "religious freedom" adoption bill—SB 149—which allows taxpayer-funded adoption and foster care agencies to refuse services to LGBT people if it would violate their sincerely held religious beliefs because, you know, God and Jesus are all about Hate. And let’s be completely queer about this, this new law will also allow discrimination against single parents, interracial couples, non-Christians and others.
And, in signing this into law, Daugaard has made South Dakota the first state to enact anti-LGBT legislation in 2017.
Y’all should be so proud.
For his part, the Big Bigot in the statehouse, Dennis Daugaard said he was “concerned private child-placement agencies acting in the best interest of a child could be subject to a lawsuit when denying placement to someone in a "protected class," such as members of the LGBT community."
Yes, because it’s in the best interests of the child in foster care or in an adoption agency to limit the number of loving parents willing to take them in; that’s real love, y’all.
♫ ♪Jesus loves me, this I know ♪ ♫... unless I’m gay and want to adopt or foster a child.
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I’ve been posting a lot lately about the Georgia legislature passing their version of a Religious Freedom Restoration Act [RFRA] which allows anyone, anywhere, anytime, ever, to deny services to the LGBT community if they say they have a religious objection to The Gays. The Legislature even had no problem when told that their RFRA would protect the KKK because they prefer The Klan over The Gays, but …
After hearing from big business throughout the state, and their threats to pack up their companies and go, Georgia Governor, and, surprisingly, a Republican, Nathan Deal warned the lawmakers that he would reject the bill because he understands that these bills do more harm than good … to the state at least.
Deal called on the Legislature to change the proposal, which has passed the Georgia Senate, but also made it clear that he wouldn’t be if a changed bill failed to pass into law:
“It’s not on my agenda item. It’s not one of those issues that I have been pushing.”
And then he said that he objected to the measure because, wait for it, it’s pure gold, the Bible told him so; yes, the very Bible that conservatives use as a weapon of mass discrimination is the same Bible that Nathan Deal used as a reason why this RFRA should never pass:
“We do not have a belief in my way of looking at religion that says we have to discriminate against anybody. If you were to apply those standards to the teaching of Jesus, I don’t think they fit. [We] have a belief in forgiveness and that we do not have to discriminate unduly against anyone on the basis of our own religious beliefs. We are not jeopardized, in my opinion, by those who believe differently from us. We are not, in my opinion, put in jeopardy by virtue of those who might hold different beliefs or who may not even agree with what our Supreme Court said the law of the land is on the issue of same-sex marriage. I do not feel threatened by the fact that people who might choose same-sex marriages pursue that route.”
And then Nathan Deal said that he and his wife Sandra believe in “traditional marriage” between a man and a woman:
“But that does not mean that those who hold to that view should feel like they are threatened by those who have a different point of view. I hope that we can all just take a deep breath, recognize that the world is changing around us, and recognize that it is important that we protect fundamental religious beliefs,” he said. “But we don’t have to discriminate against other people in order to do that. And that’s the compromise that I’m looking for.”
Yup; he has a right to believe in “traditional” marriage but at least he understands that the law is the law, and that the Bible, and the Baby Jeebus, do not believe in discrimination … and neither should Georgia.
Now, onto South Dakota, where the legislature there was the first in the country to pass legislation that made it a crime for a transgender student to be in a bathroom or locker room that did not match with the gender listed on the trans person’s birth certificate.
But then South Dakota’s governor, surprisingly, another Republican, Dennis Daugaard, vetoed the bill and asked that the House not try to override him.
And last week, the South Dakota House of Representatives did in fact fail override Daugaard’s veto; supporters needed a two-thirds vote, but failed by a margin of 36-29.
Good on Governor Daugaard and good on South Dakota, for teetering on the verge of legislating intolerance, and then walking back from the precipice.
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South Dakota just made history, y’all, but not in a good way. This week, South Dakota lawmakers became the first in the nation to pass a bill outlawing transgender public school students from using restrooms and locker rooms consistent with their gender identities.
You know, because trans students don’t wanna just pee or anything.
The bill was approved by the state Senate on Tuesday and now awaits the signature of Republican Governor Dennis Daugaard who said, in his best hillbilly, ignorant voice, “This seems like a good idea.”
Yeah, discrimination based on sexual orientation is always good, especially when it’s done to kids!
The measure mandates that students must use the restrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their "physical condition of being male or female as determined by a person's chromosomes and anatomy as identified at birth," not the gender with which they identify.
Oh, but to be fair, this new piece of Hate Legislation does provide that, with written parental permission, the “affected” students may request a "reasonable accommodation ... that does not impose an undue hardship on a school district," such as use of a single-occupancy restroom.
God knows you don’t wanna inconvenience the school.
The Transgender Law Center lambasted the bill's passage and said it believes the legislation violates federal law:
"Every single child, including transgender youth, should have the opportunity to succeed and be treated fairly by our schools and elected officials. If the governor signs the measure, it will endanger students and open up South Dakota schools to legal chaos, liability, and the loss of millions in federal funds."
Democrats argued that passing the bill might trigger the federal government to pull money from public schools, and may result in a tourism boycott.
But, really, who cares about that? What about the continued emotional pain for trans youth, being told once again that they are not who they are, that they cannot be themselves, even when using a bathroom? This is just another form of segregation and haven’t we already seen how that works?
If this law goes forward and if the governor sign sit, I feel like those kids, who are already made to feel different, who may suffer bullying simply for being trans, will withdraw; they might drop out of school; they might feel hopeless; there might be suicides.
All over the right to pee. Is a life worth it?
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Donald Anthony Watson is a convicted felon living up there in South Dakota, and one day last month he showed up at a local hospital claiming that a ‘black man’ tried rob him as he took out his garbage, and that during the struggle the ‘black man’ shot him in the groin.
As happens in the case of gunshot wounds, local police were called and began an investigation of the crime outside Watson’s home. Trouble was, they found no evidence of said crime; no spent bullets casings, no overturned garbage cans, no bullet holes at all, save for the one in Donald Anthony Watson’s dick … and the holes in his story.
In addition, there were several ‘ear’ witnesses who claim to have heard Watson screaming in pain inside his home that night, and with the lack of physical evidence and the witness testimony, police turned their attention back at Donald Anthony Watson’s home, where they found an empty gun case and bullet fragments on the bed.
The jig was up. Watson caved and confessed that he’d purchased a gun from an unknown third party, and when he put the gun in his pocket he shot himself in the dick, and then, you know, because he was a felon and an idiot and, possibly, racist, he created the ‘black man’ story.
However, because Watson refused to tell police where he’d put the gun, or who sold it to him, he was arrested on charges of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of a firearm by a drug offender, false report of a crime to law enforcement and false report of information to law enforcement.
Donald Anthony Watson is looking at a long stretch behind bars. Plenty of time for his dick wound to heal.
But remember, guns don’t shoot people in the dick, people shoot people in the dick.
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