Meme Dump

Tuesday Thought #4

Random Musings

Melania _____ plagiarized gave a speech at a UN luncheon this week where she spoke about motherhood being the “most important and joyous role I’ve ever had.” And then she talked about the need to stop cyberbyullying.

Um, Melania, stopping bullying starts at your home. And if you’re serious about being a great mother you’d stop your husband’s bullying before your son picks up that habit.

Just sayin’.

PS How terrified does she look?

Once again a Republican has shown themselves to be ...

A] Stupid,

2] Insensitive

C] A racist, bigoted white supremacist asshat.

D] Or, in the case of South Dakota Republican Representative Lynne DiSanto, all of the above.

DiSanto posted this meme to her Facebook page:

Along with the caption:

“I think this is a movement we can all support.”

And, while most of the comments were supportive—it’s South Dakota, after all—as the post went viral the comments became more condemning of Di Santo, and she took it down.

Too late, honey, we all saw that, barely a month after Heather Heyer was run down in Charlottesville, that you think it’s “okay” or “funny” to kill protestors.

Asshat.

Sophia Vergara is a mainstay at any awards show, and I always look for her, not because she’s got her boobs up and her ass out in some tight mermaid gown, but because she’s married to Joe Manganiello, and I’d like to climb him.

But at last week’s Emmy’s she was escorted by what looked like a Disney cartoon prince come to life: her son, Manolo Gonzalez-Ripoll Vergara.

He’s got mama’s steaminess.

And from the land Down Under ...

Australian rugby legend Andrew Johns, above, has come out in support of same-sex marriage by posting a photo of him kissing fellow Newcastle Knights player Billy Peden:

“Two boys from Cessnock will be voting yes.”

The post has been liked more than 5,000 times, with many thanking Johns for his support.

But, on the other side of that coin, another Aussie rugby player, Israel Folau, right, took to Twitter to explain why he’s voting ‘No’ on marriage equality:

“I love and respect all people for who they are and their opinions. but personally, I will not support gay marriage.”

I love and support you but I will vote against you having the right to marry the person you love. Doesn’t get more hypocritical than that.

PS Um, Andrew? If you’d like to do more men kissing men photos in support of same-sex marriage, I’m available?

I didn’t get a chance to talk Emmy fashion this week, so I narrowed it down to my Best and Worst:

MY BFF Nicki Kidman really brought it. Simple and elegant and regal. And, sadly, Tracee Ellis Ross looks like she’s auditioning for a new Christmas movie, dressed as a glittering snow elf.

Tracee should take a page from her mama, Diana Ross, when it comes to fashion.

Carlos has come up with a new habit that is either designed to gaslight me into madness or to simply bug the crap out of me.

He times commercials. I know. But, watching TV one night, as the commercials aired, he’d watch and then say, “14,” or “29,” or “a minute thirty.” I asked politely:

“What in the holy hell are you doing?”

He said:

“I noticed most commercials are 14 seconds long, with a few at 29 seconds and the phone and drug ads are a minute thirty seconds long.”

I got up and he asked:

“Where are you going?”

I replied:

“Is the town gun shop still open?”

Luckily, I am afraid of guns ... and the shop was closed. Better still, I got out my cartoon mallet.

Hot Emmy’s Men? Why, you don’t even have to ask, and, again, as I missed recapping the snow, I’ll narrow it down to two—Manolo Gonzalez-Ripoll Vergara excepted:

Alexander Skarsgård. I even like his slim 1960s mustache; and Donald Glover in royal purple.

Now, back to fashion ... I am not really a fashion whore; I mean, I like nice things and I like to look good, but I don’t follow trends or go way off in the Crazy Trend Zone like this ...

This “sweater”, designed by Raf Simons, looks like nylons and knee socks got together, did something nasty, and demon spawned this hideous piece of fashion made all the more hideous because it retails for $1650!

Now, if you aren’t a member of Free The Nipple, or you’re just shy about, you can get a more prudish version at Barneys for $1,150.

Be warned: if I see anyone wearing this on the streets—though in Smallville that is highly unlikely—I’m’a be throwing paint on you.

Well, even though he first testified in private, it now appears that Little Donny will give public testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee this fall, to discuss that meeting with a Russian lawyer who promised him damaging information on Hillary Clinton.

I hope he ties himself up in knots and is dragged out of the hearing in chains and sent to prison. Treasonous little prick.

Now, onto Daddy ... _____, free from those pesky hurricanes that took up his golf time, jetted away for another weekend in New Jersey, while a group of Deplorables gathered in DC to demand protection for "traditional American culture” ... you know, “white” culture.

Racists Supporters came from around the country for the ... ahem ... "Mother of All Rallies" that organizers billed as the “Woodstock of American Rallies”. They hoped to rally one million people to DC in support of their cause but, um, yeah, the crowd was slightly less than a thousand lunatics in stupid red hats.

Even his inauguration had a wee bit bigger crowd. Sad.

Lastly, some more hot Men ... from The Sinner on USA, we have Eric Todd as murder victim Frankie Belmont—who is seen in flashbacks with a nice backside—and Jacob Pitts as drug dealing maniac JD.

Just sayin.

Joseph Pryor Bought Into [t]Rump]s Racism And Is Now Paying The Price

We’ve all seen videos of people being removed from _____ rallies for protesting his special brand of bigotry and hatred; I watched a video of a Latino man being spit on for no other reason than he’s Latino and so therefore clearly not American. 

And I read a story about two women who were ejected from a _____ event because they weren’t cheering; seriously. The crowd around them noticed that these women weren’t frothing at the mouth and repeating the Hate Speech that spews forth from _____ and so the crowd turned on them, chanting “Protestor” and “Get out” until security removed the women from the event … because they weren’t cheering.

This case is different and better if only because there is a hint of revenge, an iota of repercussion for being a bigot …

On March 1st, Joseph Pryor went to a _____ event because he’s an AWM™, an Angry White Male who blames all the ills in his life on people of color and he wanted the comfort of other AWMs™. At that same event in Louisville was student Kayisha Nwanguma, who was doing nothing, saying nothing, but was violently pushed around and harassed. Pryor, one of the men involved with pushing this woman around and calling her names was so proud of his special brand of bigotry and misogyny and stupidity that he posted a picture of it, along with a news story about it, on his Facebook page.

Unfortunately for Joseph Pryor, who was enlisted in the Marine Corps’ delayed entry program, Colonel John Bolt — his district’s commanding officer — saw the video and kicked Pryor out of the program:

“The Marine Corps takes situations like this seriously and does not tolerate individuals being associated with this kind of incident…The situation and Pryor’s lack of judgment are unfortunate, so in keeping with our ethos, this command decided to part ways with him. This command encourages equality across the board, and actions that deviate from our values will not be tolerated.”

Good on the Marines for standing up and saying they will not tolerate someone like Joseph Pryor in their ranks. If the military is there to protect Americans we don’t need the like of a Joseph Pryor in their ranks.

Sad on this country that Joseph Pryor is just one of many white racist men listening to a rich white racist bully running for president and get so swept up in the bile and the hatred that they attack, physically and verbally, innocent people just for the hell of it.

And [t]Rump just keeps rolling on without repercussions for his words and deeds. Let’s hope that, come election day, the majority of Americans will say ‘No’ to his Made In America brand of bigotry and send him packing, and then his businesses into a decline.

Karma; that’s what we need.

If You Only News

The Pike Company Needs To Learn What MANDATORY Means

You know, Mittsy Romney keeps telling us that he's the best man to fix the economy and that's why we should vote for him come November, but I know a group of coal miners who say Mittsy wasn't very good for their paychecks recently.

It seems that Mittsy was in Ohio earlier this month, visiting a coal mine to talk about boosting jobs in the coal industry, but while he was there the miners lost a day’s wages because attendance at the Romney rally was mandatory and unpaid.

The Pepper Pike Company owns the Century mine where the workers, according to Murray Energy Chief Financial Officer Rob Moore, were told they must attend the rally without pay. Moore says that mine managers "communicated to our workforce that the attendance at the Romney event was mandatory, but no one was forced to attend."

Attendance is mandatory but you don't have to attend? WTF kind of logic is that?

But then Moore goes on to say that the mine had to be shut down for "safety and security" reasons during Romney's visit, and that miners often lose a days pay when the mines are shut down due to weather or power outages. But aren't those things you can't really control? A Mittsy visit was planned for a work day; it could have, and should have, been held another day. 

Then Moore also explains that federal election law forbids paying employees to attend political events. Okay, yeah, I can see that, when the employee chooses to attend the event. But, again, the Pike Company shut down the mines and told the workers they had to attend. That's not good for the workers, or the economy, or, well, I guess it was good for Mittsy's ego because he got a crowd of miners to stand in front of him like they were happy to be there.

Moore didn't see anything negative in attending Romney's campaign appearance: "We are talking about an event that was in the best interest of anyone that's related to the coal industry in this area or the entire country."

But then you take away a day’s pay. How is that in the best interests of the workers if this economy is bad?

Siding with Rob Moore was Murray Energy spokesman Gary Broadbent: "Rob Moore made it abundantly clear that no employees were forced to attend the Romney event. All participation was, and always has been, completely voluntary."

Mandatory.Is.Not.Voluntary.

And many of the miners reported feeling intimidated into attending Romney's appearance, and they report being told they would lose that day’s pay unless they could make up their missed hours on overtime or weekends.

Their missed hours were forced on them. Does no one, the mine spokes-tools or the CFO, or even Mittsy Romney, for heaven's sake, see the idiocy in this situation? Or is that a ridiculous question when you consider it's Mittsy?

Sidenote: Murray Energy contributed over $900,000 to GOP candidates in the last two years.

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