Friday, March 19, 2021

I Didn't Say It

Brandon Boulware, a Kansas City attorney and father of four, speaking out at the Missouri statehouse hearing on Resolution 53, a proposal to effectively ban transgender athletes in high school from participating in girls’ sports:

"One thing I often hear when transgender issues are being discussed is, 'I don't get it. I don't understand.’ And I would expect some of you to have said that and to feel the same way. I didn't get it, either. For years, I didn't get it. I forced my daughter to wear boy clothes, get short haircuts and play on boy sports teams. Why did I do this? To protect my child. ... and, truth be told, I did it to protect myself as well. I wanted to avoid those inevitable questions as to why my child did not look and act like a boy. [But] my child was miserable. No confidence, no friends, no laughter. I can honestly say this—I had a child who did not smile. [But one day, everything changed.] I got home from work, and my daughter and her brother were in the front lawn. She had sneaked on one of her older sister's play dresses, and they wanted to go across the street to play with the neighbors' kids. She asked me if she went inside and put on boy clothes, could she then go across the street and play. And it was then that it hit me. My daughter was equating being good with being someone else. I was teaching her to deny who she is. As a parent, the one thing we cannot do—the one thing—is silence our child's spirit. And so on that day, my wife and I stopped silencing our child's spirit. It was immediate, a total transformation . . . I now have a confident, smiling happy daughter. She plays on a girls' volleyball team. She has friendships. She's a kid. As a parent, the one thing we cannot do—the one thing—is silence our child's spirit. I need you to understand that this language, if it becomes law, will have real effects on real people," Boulware said. "It will affect my daughter. It will mean she cannot play on the girls' volleyball team or dance squad or tennis team. I ask you, please don't take that away from my daughter or the countless others like her who are out there. Let them have their childhoods. Let them be who they are."

This is how you parent.

Bravo, sir, bravo!

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Dr. Deborah Birx, former White House Coronavirus “expert,” explaining why she did nothing when Thing #45—thanks Todd—proposed injecting disinfectant to treat Covid-19.

“Frankly, I didn’t know how to handle that episode. I still think about it every day. You can see how extraordinarily uncomfortable I was. Those of you who have served in the military know that there are discussions you have in private with your commanding officers and there’s discussions you had in public.”

Nice try, Deb, but that dog just won’t hunt. As a doctor, where was your expertise, or even your humanity?

You need to tie a scarf over your mouth from now on.

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Elton John, on the Pope saying Catholic priests will never sanctify a same-sex marriage:

“How can the Vatican refuse to bless gay marriages because ‘they are sin’ yet happily make a profit from investing millions in Rocketman—a film which celebrates my finding happiness from my marriage to David??”

Simple answer: The Catholic Church worships coins and not people, not God.

It’s greed.

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Ron Johnson, [Q-WI], coming out as a racist fuck in a radio interview about the Capitol riots:

“I knew those were people who love this country, that truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break the law, so I wasn’t concerned. Now, had the tables been turned, and—this is going to get me in trouble—had the tables been turned and President Trump won the election and tens of thousands of Black Lives Matter and antifa, I might have been a little concerned.”

Yeah, those white people that truly respect law enforcement and yet beat police officers with flag poles holding the American flag, and who bludgeoned one police officer to death.

But, you know, Black people.

Why Ron Johnson hasn’t been censured or run out of office is beyond me, but I guess he’s the new White Hood of the GQP.

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Jen Psaki, White House Press Secretary, on why Thing #45—thanks Todd—wasn’t involved in the PSA by all former presidents on the importance of getting a vaccine:

“If [the twice-impeached, one-term loser] woke up tomorrow and wanted to be more vocal about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine, certainly we’d support that. Every other former living president—or most of them, not all of them—has participated in public campaigns. They did not need an engraved invitation to do so.”

Sadly, the last guy doesn’t want to do what may help Americans, but only what helps himself.

Luckily, there are other presidents who care about Americans.

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13 comments:

  1. Ron Johnson is playing to his constituents -- no surprise there. I think Birx really was trapped between a rock and a hard place, and I think she did a fairly good job at telegraphing her discomfort at the time. We all knew that she thought what Trump was saying was bollocks. Kudos to Boulware but I can imagine the right-wing responses to those remarks.

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  2. The orange ogre was never president... yes, a new conspiracy theory. Eat it. EAT IT. That said. The orange ogre will never do anything where he doesn't get pleasure or money. He amply demonstrated he cares zero F's about anybody other than himself.. he would throw anybody under a literal bus. I just can't wait to see the little whiney pants prinze behind bars.

    Ron Johnson is an embarrassment. WI better wise up. Of course, the ARE racist as F, so he is actually a good representation for those who do not live in Milwaukee or Madison. Seriously? Rural people in this country are no better than the south.

    F the Pope. (Are you sensing a theme?) OMG. When that old queen came out and had the balls to say that? Someone needs to take a wrecking ball to the Vatican. It's way past time. What a stupid institution. One step forward and seven steps back.

    Okay. Birx is a woman of a certain generation. I understand her answer... and so do you. I know you do because you are empathetic and highly intelligent. I get that you're mad at her... but you know they all had to walk a tight rope around that fat azz in order to just keep the ball in play. That they were effective at all is amazing. I mean, that azzhat had people taking medications that made no sense and were dangerous and injecting bleach! So... give her a break.

    Brandon Boulware... I want you to be my Dad. That was really beautiful. And fell on deaf ears, of course. But what a lovely story.

    Thanks for all the lovely stories. Kizzes, Bob. You rock.



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  3. that first guy - WOW! RIGHT ON! but the GQP and the religious freaks don't care.

    dr. scarf & johnson need to STFU NOW!

    thing #45 did his own PSA, but then said he "respected those who didn't want to get vaxxed". WRONG MESSAGE, ASSWIPE!

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  4. Brandon Boulware gave inspiring testimony that everyone should listen to and learn from!

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  5. Fuck Frankie and fuck the Catholic church. Yeah, I'm nice like that. Oh, and fuck every racist Repug, too, while we're at it. They preach to the choir because all they care about is 'optics'.
    Deborah should shut it. She lost all credibility when she stood by IMPOTUS2 and said nothing. Not even after he left. Spineless.
    And I watched Mr. Boulware's speech. Touching, heartfelt, true. Lucky parent of a lucky daughter.
    And I love Jen. I want her aplomb and quick reactions. After all the bimbos that Cheeto trotted out, it's great to have an intelligent, articulate person doing the press for the White House.

    XOXO

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  6. Jen Psaki rocks!!

    xoxo :-)

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  7. Does anyone really think that Trumpelstiltskin will do anything that doesn't make him coins....lots of them? And yes he probably needs an engraved invitation addressed to the current president of the US Donald Jesus (y'all knew it began with a J) Trumpelstiltskin

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  8. Brandon Boulware, Elton John, Jen Psaki. These are names worth repeating. The others can go... Well, you know what they can go do.

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  9. Hats off to Mr. Boulware. Your daughter is lucky to have a dad like you!

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  10. @Steve
    It’s so sickening in 2021 to see anyone, much less a politician using racism as away to keep his base, but then after the last four years …sigh.
    Luckily, I can go back to Brandon Boulware and see people changing and accepting our differences.

    @uptonking
    To hear what Johnson said, and then to hear him say he isn’t sorry, that’s what he means, is disgusting, and I would hope Wisconsin doesn’t wanna be see as a bunch of racist cheeseheads and will vote to remove him from office at first chance.
    I have long been proponent of Fuck the Pope and the Catholic Church. A more greedy corporation does not exist. A more corrupt regime does not exist. Amore hypocritical group of lying rapists does not exist.
    Birx? Nope, she gets no pass. I wonder how many people died because she sat on her hands and just gave us constipated face. I want people to have the balls to stand up to the tyrants and the bullies and the liars. Would that have cost her her position? Yes, but it would have been a cost worth paying.
    I wonder if Boulware’s story might change just one mind, because then maybe THAT mind could change another and so on.
    Have a lovely weekend. Xoxo

    @AM
    I hope people who are less filled with hare, and perhaps not in power, hear Brandon Boulware, and work toward getting more equal minded folks in office.
    I’m with you about the Racist and the Goose-stepper.

    @Debra
    I sat here and cried listening to him speak.

    @Siz
    Me, you, re the Catholic Church and Pope Frankie. Yes, kindly fuck all the way off.
    And we should all have the heart and the ability to change like Brandon Boulware and possess the common sense of a Jen Psaki.

    @TDM
    She takes no prisoners!

    @Helen
    Luckily, I think his time has passed, I think more people are understanding he is all ego and vendetta and that gets nothing done for the good of the country.

    @Mitchell
    PREACH!

    @Treaders
    That is how you parent. You learn, you grow, you do what’s best for your children.

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  11. Loser #45 will always want an invite.

    Why is anybody surprised Ron Johnson shit away half of his brain?

    Birx bites.

    Brandon Boulware is a good father. We need more like him.

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  12. Anonymous11:06 PM

    I 100% support anyone's choice including transgenders. But I think it is unfair that they are competing against born females in sport
    J

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  13. @J
    Being trans is not a choice, and trans women are women and trans men are men.

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