I Didn't Say It ...

Sandra Day O’Connor, former Supreme Court justice, saying President Obama should get to replace Scalia:

“I don’t agree [with Republicans] … We need somebody in there to do the job and just get on with it …. Well you just have to pick the best person you can under these circumstances, as the appointing authority must do. And it’s an important position and one we care about as a nation, as a people [and] I wish the president well as he makes choices and goes down that line — it’s hard.”

It’s only hard because of GOP obstructionism.

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Dan Savage, on gay voters whining about Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders’ past marriage positions:

“It’s f**king moronic — it’s political malpractice — to attack a politician for not coming around on your issues fast enough. There are lots of other issues the queer community is going to be pressing politicians on, from passing equal rights bills and trans rights bills to defeating anti-trans bathroom legislation and RFRAs. If pols who on currently on the wrong side of any of those issues see no benefit to changing their positions — if they see no political benefit — they’re going to be harder to persuade. Why should they come around on our issues, why should they switch sides or change their votes, if we’re going to go after them hammer and tongs for the position they used to hold?"

Again … Word.

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Pat McCrory, North Carolina's governor, vowing to block the recently passed anti-LGBT discrimination bill passed by the city of Charlotte:

“As I communicated and predicted prior to the vote, state legislative leaders have notified me about introducing legislation that would correct this misguided government regulation and ensure it will not happen in any town or city in North Carolina. I am disappointed and saddened Charlotte city government initiated overreaching regulations that change basic standards and expectations of privacy regarding restrooms and locker rooms.”

McCrory is playing that same old, tired, "we must protect the children" lie with his opposition to this bill.

It's hate-filled, and hateful.

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Bill James, of the blog BillJamesOnline, on Donald [t]Rump and his base:

"I don’t think that Trump can win, frankly, because I don’t think there are enough morons to elect him. A certain percentage of the American public is just morons; that’s the way it is. When you divide the public in two and then divide the voters in one of those halves among five candidates or more, a candidate can win by dominating the moron vote because it only takes about one-seventh of the total population to take the 'lead' under those circumstances. But when you’re talking about needing 51% of the WHOLE population, rather than needing 30% of half of the population, you run out of morons."

It’s kinda nice to know that there aren’t so many morons out there, and that the ones that are there are just like [t]Rump: they have loud, moronic voices.

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Joel Grey, on how his mother's reaction upon learning her sixteen-year-old son was gay, is why he didn't come out until he was eighty-two:

"When I told my mother [I was gay], I remember reaching out to her and she said, 'Don't ever touch me gain. You disgust me.' It was one of the worst moments of my life. Secrets became necessary."

And kept him closeted for the majority of his life.

Just think how much better it might have been had his mother simply said, “I love you. You’re my son.”

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