Showing posts with label Tom Nichols. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tom Nichols. Show all posts

Friday, November 21, 2025

I Didn't Say It ...

Gilles Rocca, Italian actor and reality show star, on developing his feminine side based on the strong women that reared him:

“The alpha male? I almost feel more like a woman than a man. I have a predominantly feminine side. Yes, my aesthetic is very masculine, but inside it’s different. Perhaps having had a very strong upbringing from my mother, I learned a lot. My mother’s upbringing made me understand how important it is to bring out my feminine side. I was very male up to a certain point in my life, where I didn’t show my weaknesses, where I wanted to show that I was the muscular one, the strong one, but in reality I was hiding so many weaknesses that over the years I’ve managed to bring out, not fight them, but embrace them. If I were to be attracted to a man, there wouldn’t be any problems,” Rocca shared. “Would I give myself to a man? Well, if I liked a man, yes, absolutely, I’d accept his advances; I wouldn’t have any problems. I like women. But I’m absolutely open; in fact, I don’t even think it’s a question of openness, but rather that it’s a natural thing; that is, respecting your instincts, what you like, what you feel. I saw even more closely a world of passion, talent, suffering, and love … In such a horrible world we live in, we still need to assert our rights, and if we take these rights away from someone else, we don’t complain when they take them away from us. Love has no gender or race… love is just love.”

Those last four words just say it all: love is just love.

And wherever you find it, in whomever you find it, it’s not wrong.

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Tim Walz, former candidate for Vice President, responding to KKKarolying Leavitt saying Democrats are “Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens and violent criminals”:

“Most Republicans are good people. Most Democrats are good people. The White House says outrageous things to make you hate your neighbor. Your neighbor isn’t the problem. The White house is.”

Cankles, Pee Wee German, KKKarolying Leavitt, Pammy Jo Bondi and Kristi the Dog Killer, and all the other sycophants and enablers, liars and cheats,  are the problem.

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Jack Schlossberg, Democrat candidate for New York's 12th congressional district in the 2026, on Cankles fixation with the Kennedy name:

“{He] is so  obsessed with the Kennedys and the Kennedy name that he caged one and put it in his cabinet—a rabid dog in his cabinet. Put a collar on my cousin RFK Jr. and has him there barking, spreading lies and misinformation.”

Rabid dog is right, frothing at the mouth as he spews his ignorance but Cankles looks the other way because he hears Kennedy.

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Tom Nichols, professor emeritus of national security affairs at the US Naval War College, speaking truth about Cankles:

“One of the things that genuinely mystifies me: [He] is one of the least masculine, least adult people in public life. Needy, whiny, defensive, pleading, scared of women, terrified of more powerful men. I am at a loss as to why his bases sees him as manly or strong.”

And yet he’s really just a Piggy.

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Beto O’Rourke, outspoken Democrat who may be running for Senate in Texas, on the idea of being ‘nice’:

“While you’re twiddling your thumbs and playing nice and trying to be bipartisan they are killing your fucking country and taking away our Democracy. We are either going to fight or we are going to surrender, and I plan on fighting.”

Fight, Beto, but do it. Stand up and speak up and fight, rather than just talking. Don’t plan on fighting, start fighting.

Walk the walk. Resist!

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Josh Stein, North Carolina Democrat Attorney General, on the ICEstapo arresting immigrants in Charlotte:

“We’ve seen masked, heavily armed agents in paramilitary garb driving unmarked cars, targeting American citizens based on their skin color, racially profiling, and picking up random people in parking lots and off of our sidewalks. This is not making us safer. It’s stoking fear and dividing our community.”

The Department of Homeland Security has said it’s focusing on North Carolina because of so-called sanctuary policies to protect immigrants from the terrorists in the ICEstapo.

One of the first things we need to do when the regime is gone, is put Kristi Noem on trial for the atrocities she let happen, she encouraged, she condoned..

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Laura Dern, actor, on being a gay icon:

"There's nothing more incredible! I am honored to have incredible support. My origin story of really knowing the connection I was privileged to be a part of was Ellen's 'Puppy Episode.' It's so crazy that it wasn't that long ago and far more open of a time to explore story in so many ways. My connection came through letters! What that episode meant to so many people. In fact, a letter from a grandmother who was thanking Ellen and I for helping her get closer to and understand her grandson was one of my favorite letters that I ever received. We can work together to open up a sense of compassion and empathy that sadly is not there from those who live in fear. To be welcomed into community, for me, has been the greatest gift ever! That means the world."

Even in 1997, which wasn’t all that long ago, it was quite daring, quite a stance, for Laura Dern to play a lesbian on television in one of the biggest TV episodes ever. And she did it, and her career didn’t tank. In fact, she gained an entirely new fan base who welcome her and accepted her.

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Friday, January 17, 2025

I Didn't Say It ...

Mrs. Betty Bowers, "America's Best Christian",  on Mexico sending firefighters to California:

“When Mexico sends its people, they’re sending they’re best. Their sending firefighters to help solve America’s problems. They’re bringing firefighting uniforms. They’re bringing firefighting equipment. They’re bringing kittens down from the trees. And all, I assume, are good people.”

Nice riff on The Felon’s 2016 racist rant.

The firefighters from Mexico, and elsewhere, are doing more to help LA and the thousands of displaced citizens than the so-called President-elect.

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Michelle Visage, singer, producer, actress and RuPaul’s Drag Race judge, on calling transgenderism a mental illness:

“Don’t call transgender mentally ill if you believe a man in the clouds loves you unconditionally, but [only] under certain conditions.”

Snap.

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Bernie Sanders, Vermont Democrat Senator, writing for Fox News, on America:

“It’s hard to miss. Our country is rapidly evolving into two Americas. One America consists of less than a thousand billionaires who have an unprecedented amount of wealth and power and have never ever had it so good. The other America, where the vast majority live, consists of tens of millions of families who are struggling to put food on the table, pay their bills and worry that their kids will have a lower standard of living than they do. We are in a pivotal and unprecedented moment in American history. Either we fight to create a government and an economy that works for all, or we continue to move rapidly down the path of oligarchy and the rule of the super-rich.”

Eat.The.Rich.

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Lawrence O’Donnell, liberal political commentator, and host of The Last Word, on what liberals have done for America:

“What did Liberals do that was so offensive to the Republican Party? I’ll tell you what they did. Liberals got women the right to vote. Liberals created Social Security and lifted millions of elderly people out of poverty. Liberals ended segregation. Liberals passed the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act. Liberals created Medicare. Liberals passed the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act. What did Conservatives do?  They opposed Liberals on every one of those things, every one. So when you try to hurl that label at my feet, as if it were something to be ashamed of, something dirty, something to run away from, it won’t work because I will pick that label up and wear it as a badge of honor.”

Yeah, call me a liberal and think you’re hurting me.

I’d rather be a liberal any day of the week than support a group of billionaire brats, rapists and racists and criminals.

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Colman Domingo, on his career, being gay in Hollywood, and playing mostly straight roles:

“I never limited myself to what I believed I could play, and I think that’s why the world has not limited me … I’m an actor, period, and I play everything. I just kept working, bringing my whole self into every role. The world shouldn’t have all of me. You have some of me, but not all of me. The offers that come in now are mostly straight roles. No one’s looking at me like, ‘He’s gay, he can’t do that.’ Because I said I can do anything. I try to live with grace and remember where I come from. I didn’t dream of fame—I dreamed of  doing meaningful work.”

I do not fall into that crowd of only gay actors can play gay, because then that would also mean that only straight actors can play straight, and that’s not true.

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Tom Nichols, writer for The Atlantic, on The Felon:

"Paradoxically, however, [The Felon]’s reckless venality is a reason for hope. { The Felon] has the soul of a fascist but the mind of a disordered child. He will likely be surrounded by terrible but incompetent people. All of them can be beaten: in court, in Congress, in statehouses around the nation, and in the public arena. America is a federal republic, and the states—at least those in the union that will still care about democracy—have ways to protect their citizens from a rogue president. Nothing is inevitable, and democracy will not fall overnight.”

There will be methods to contain The Felon, even though the GOP will goosestep for Hair Furor every chance they get.

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Gavin Newsom, California Democrat Governor, on The Felon withholding federal disaster aid to the fire-embattled state and his constant lies:

“He’s done it in Utah. He’s done it in Michigan, did it in Puerto Rico. He did it to California back before I was even governor, in 2018, until he found out folks in Orange County voted for him and he decided to give them money. So he’s been at this for years and years and years. It transcends the states, including, by the way, Georgia, he threatened similarly … that’s his style. And we take it seriously to the extent that in the past it’s taken a little bit more time [to get federal aid]. I’ve been pretty expressive about that in the context of someone threatening our first responders in terms of supporting the immediacy of their needs. I don’t know what he’s referring to when he talks about the Delta smelt in reservoirs. The reservoirs are completely full, the state reservoirs here in Southern California. Tragedies like this are why [he] never should have been elected. At a time when all Americans should be coming together to help California, he’s exploiting the tragedy for cheap political points.”

The Felon won’t help California because he says California didn’t vote for him so he’s clearly telling us AGAIN that he does not represent all of the people, just those who buy his cheap ass shoes and faux Bibles and the other bull shit he sells to pay his bills.

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