I Didn't Say It

President Joe Biden, remembering Matthew Shepard on the 25th anniversary of his death:

“Twenty-five years ago today, Matthew Shepard lost his life to a brutal act of hate and violence that shocked our nation and the world. The week prior, Matthew had been viciously attacked in a horrific anti-gay hate crime and left to die – simply for being himself.

Matthew’s tragic and senseless murder shook the conscience of the American people. And his courageous parents, Judy and Dennis Shepard, turned Matthew’s memory into a movement, galvanizing millions of people to combat the scourge of anti-LGBTQI+ hate and violence in America.

As Vice President, I had the honor of helping to enact the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which extended federal hate crimes laws to cover sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability.

This legislation is a lasting tribute to Matthew, a testament to the relentless advocacy of Judy and Dennis, and an important step forward for our country.

I was proud to honor Judy and Dennis as Uniters – Americans who stand against hate and heal our divides – at the United We Stand Summit here at the White House last year. Our charge is to continue the fight against hate, against violence, and against bigotry in all its forms.

Today, as threats and violence targeting the LGBTQI+ community continue to rise, our work is far from finished.

No American should face hate or violence for who they are or who they love. I once again call on Congress to send the Equality Act to my desk so that we can ensure LGBTQI+ Americans have full civil rights protections under our laws – because every American is worthy of dignity, acceptance, and respect.

God bless Judy, Dennis, and all those who are grieving and remembering Matthew today.”

Of note: not one single Republican, as far as I searched, remembered Matthew Shepard yesterday and their silence is deafening.

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John Fetterman, on the salaries of CEOs at the Big Three Automakers as compared to factory workers’ salaries:

“The CEOs at these three auto companies make more than 281 times what the median worker at the company makes. Let me be clear: I know what CEOs do and I know what workers do, and an hour of CEOs time is certainly not worth 281 times more than an hour of a worker’s time actually building the cars and trucks on the factory floor.”

I know CEOs work hard to keep their factories open and their workers employed and their products on the market, but let’s just say a worker makes $100,000 a year working on the factory line; is the CEO deserving of making $28,100,000?

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Nancy Mace, South Carolina GOP Congressperson, saying she’ll support Jim Jordan as Speaker of the House over Steve Scalise because he appeared at a 2002 event organized by David Duke’s white supremacist group:

“I plan on voting for Jim Jordan on the floor. I’ve been very vocal about this for the last couple of days. I personally cannot, in good conscience vote for someone who attended a white supremacist conference and compared himself to David Duke. I would be doing an enormous disservice to the voters that I represent in South Carolina if I were to do that.”

And while Scalise has referred to himself as “David Duke without the baggage., let’s not ignore the fact that Jim Jordan, while an assistant OSU wrestling coach from 1986 to 1994, ignored rampant sexual abuse by Richard Strauss, a team doctor who died in 2005.

Several athletes have come forward suggesting Jordan knew of the abuse and did nothing.

Hmmm, so the GOP’s two best choices for Speaker are a white supremacist sympathizer and a pedophile enabler.

The Party of Family Values at work and Nancy Mace is standing with a sexual abuse enabler.

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Lindsey Graham, former Miss South Carolina 1948 and current GOP Senator, wants to literally blow Iran off the map for the current war between Israel and Hamas:

“For every Israeli or American hostage executed by Hamas, we should take down an Iranian oil refinery. The only way you’re going to keep this war from escalating is to hold Iran accountable. How much more death and destruction do we have to take from the Iranian regime? I am confident this was planned and funded by the Iranians. Hamas is a bunch of animals who deserve to be treated like animals. So if I was Israel, I would go in on the ground. There is no truce to be had here. I would dismantle Hamas. This is the best opportunity Israel has to destroy Hamas. Take it to the Iranians. If you harm one American in Syria by using your Iranian militia against us in Syria, if you escalate the war by urging Hezbollah to attack Israel in the north, if Hamas kills one American Israeli hostage, we’re going to blow up your oil refineries and put you out of business. It is now time to take the war to the Ayatollah’s backyard.”

I’d like LindseyBelle to volunteer to lead the charge and get away from  his cushy desk job and take his war on personally.

He’s always the first one to suggest slaughtering the so-called enemy while he sits on his fat ass or bends over for the amusement of the former traitorous president.

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Jessica Tarlov, a liberal Fox News co-host, blasted her colleagues on wingnut cable channel who were shocked, shocked I say, that Hillary Clinton wasn’t nice when talking about the MAGAts:

“I really need everyone to spare me the faux outrage and the pearl clutching about this. [Thing 45] and high-ranking Republicans call liberals on a daily basis: ‘anarchists,’ ‘anti-American,’ ‘deranged,’ ‘communist,’ ‘corrupt,’ ‘compromised,’ ‘groomers and perverts,’ ‘thugs,’ and ‘traitors’ [but] Clinton was explicit that she was talking about a subsection of the Republican Party, the same way that Joe Biden is when he talks about MAGA extremism. But you tell me, if the leader of the Democratic Party—so that that would be Joe Biden—was facing four indictments with 91 felony counts, he had been found liable of sexually assaulting a woman and defaming her—that’s E. Jean Carroll—guilty of fraud, sharing the nation’s secrets—not only in the Mar-a-Lago indictment but there was a report yesterday from ABC News that he had shared information about our nuclear submarine capacities with an Australian billionaire who’s a member of Mar-a-Lago, who had then gone on and shared that with dozens of other people and included specifics as to how many nuclear warheads they carry, and how close they can get to Russian subs without being detected. And then I told you, so all of that is happening, and he’s shooting up in the polls. And when you see those interviews of [his] supporters outside of the rallies, they’re like, ‘none of this is true. It’s the big lie, he won the election,’ etc. And you wouldn’t say to me, ‘you guys are in a cult?’”

To put it in perspective, what Hillary Clinton said what that “at some point maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of [his] cult members.”

And the cult went nuts.

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