These Bitches

Republicans are pigs; true, some Democrats are pigs, but for the most part it seems like a GOP trait.

For example …

Last week California Democrat Senator Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from a news conference and handcuffed by federal agents after he tried to ask Border Nazi Kristi Noem a question.

This week, in the very same building, Couchfucker JD Vance disparaged Mr. Padilla for engaging in “political theater” and purposely called him by the wrong name:

“Well, I was hoping Jose Padilla would be here to ask a question, but unfortunately, I guess he decided not to show up because there wasn’t the theater. I think everybody realizes that’s what this is. It’s pure political theater.”

Says the Queen of Political Theater. And his use of ‘Jose’ when he must know Padilla’s real name unless he’s pathetically stupid and ill-informed, has a tinge of racism to it; Jose sounds more Latino than Alex.

And this from a  guy who was born James Donald Bowman  then became James David Hamel and finally J.D. Vance, though he subsequently changed that by leaving out the periods and going by JD Vance.

Maybe his issue with not remembering people’s names is that he’s had so many during his lifetime of reinventing himself.

Family Values Republican South Carolina State Representative, Christian, husband and father Robert John May III has been arrested for distributing over 200 child porn files using the pseudonym ‘joebidennnn69.’

He will remain in custody until his trial.

Odd, isn’t it, that the GOP spreads all kinds of rumors about Democrats and child porn, Democrats and homosexuality, Democrats and rape, when the truth is it’s almost always Republicans.

Faux Christian, or as I like to think of him, Nationalist Christian, AKA Nat-C, Mike Johnson is grateful that The Fascist Felon thanked “God” for the bombing of Iran and killing many innocent people.

Makes me wonder what kind of God  is happy to see people bombed into oblivion from just one side and not the other; and what kind of God is happy that we are bombing Iran in retaliation for Iran being bombed first by The Fascist Felon’s BFF—Best Fascist Friend—Bibi Netanyahu.

Oh, and it makes me wonder how God feels about Little Mike Johnson lying to America about Iran refusing to commit to a nuclear disarmament agreement. The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA], AKA the Iran nuclear deal, was negotiated during the Obama administration as an agreement between Iran and several world powers aimed at limiting Iran's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief. In 2018, The Fascist Felon regime withdrew the US from the JCPOA and reimposed sanctions on Iran. 

So, we had a deal that The Felon ended and is now bombing Iran because they won’t make a deal?

Have I got that fascist?

We’ll end with the nastiest motherfucker of them all, if that’s possible these days: Mike Lee.

In the wake of the attempted assassination of Minnesota Democratic State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, and the assassination of Democratic House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, a week ago, Mike Lee because he’s a soulless party over country asshat of epic proportions went online to share his reaction to the shootings in posts to X that he tried to remove but will live on forever to remind us what a callous fuck Mike Lee is:

“This is what happens when Marxists don’t get their way.”

Accompanying this vile comment was a photo of the shooter Vance Boelter, wearing what appears to be a latex face mask.

And Mike Lee wasn’t done; he posted another picture of Boelter under the caption:

“Nightmare on Waltz Street.”

That is a reference to Minnesota governor and former Democratic nominee for vice-president, Tim Walz, who Mike Lee blamed for the shooting.

Mike Lee is the worst kind of politician and the people of Utah deserve to have better representation and if you reelect then you are saying you agree with his vile comment.

So, I guess that makes y’all Bitches.

The Funny Papers

Robert Unell, Marty Two Bulls, Max Espinoza, Pedro X Molina, Pat Byrnes, Chris Britt, Daniel Boris,  Graeme Mackay, Matt Wuerker, John Deering, Michael de Adder, Nick Anderson, Dave Whamond, Gary Huck,

Why Is It ...

… that, based on the amount of laundry I do every week, I starting to think there are people living here that I haven’t met yet.

… that we all have that one friend that  you need to tell “be nice” before introducing them to anyone new; and, yeah, I’m that friend who needs to be told.

… that if we’re only talking about looks I think I’m a good 7, but if you factor in sense of humor, personality and values I’m a decent 2.

… that when someone says to me, “I never see you around” I respond with, “I know, I make sure of it.”

… that friends need to know that if I don’t text back it’s because they didn’t say anything interesting.

… that I have only just realized that one aspect of adulthood is the rage I feel when they rearrange my grocery store.

… that some people will text me at 2AM asking what I’m doing , and I respond “I’m outside negotiating a peace treaty with a racoon.”

I Didn't Say It ...

Alex Padilla, California Democrat Senator, speaking in the Senate about being taken out of that Border Barbie press conference:

"I was physically and aggressively forced out of the room, even as I repeatedly announced I was a United States senator and I had a question for the secretary. And even as the National Guardsman and the FBI agent who served as my escorts and brought me into that press briefing room stood by silently, knowing full well who I was. You've seen the video. I was pushed and pulled, struggled to maintain my balance. I was forced to the ground. First, on my knees. And then, flat on my chest. And as I was handcuffed and marched down the hallway repeatedly asking, 'Why am I being detained?' Not once did they tell me why. I pray you never have a moment like this, but I will tell you in that moment a lot of questions came to my mind. First of all, where are they taking me? Because I know I'm not just being escorted out of the building. Am I being arrested here? And, ‘What will a city already on edge from being militarized think when they see their United States senator handcuffed just for trying to ask a question?’"

Padilla witnessed the people of California get brutalized by this regime, with families being torn apart, people being denied due process, and millions living in fear. And when he wants to question the DogKiller in charge he was physically assaulted and removed.

I can’t help but wonder how he would have been treated if he were a white man and then we learned, aft er the incident from journalist Michael Wolff, that The Felon smeared Padilla, saying that he "looks like an illegal."

These racists are destroying our country and it falls to all of us to make sure that the MAGA movement never wins another election as long as it exists.

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Sara Jacobs, Democrat California Representative, calling out Pete Hegseth, DUI Hire, for implementing the ban on trans people serving in the US military:

“You are actually kicking out these three highly qualified [female] service members solely because of their identity. You are using the very same arguments that are desegregating the military or allowing women to serve or allowing gay people to serve. In all those cases, those arguments were wrong. I think it’s clear that this is not about standards, or, and I’m quoting you again, ‘an equal, unwavering, gender-neutral, merit-based system,’ because if it were, you would be keeping these women in. Instead, you are the one injecting culture wars into the military, and it’s at the detriment of our military readiness and national security.”

Pete is a scared little drunk boy, afraid to admit that women, especially trans women, can do the same job he’s done, and probably better.

Lay off the sauce, Petey.

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Simone Biles, Olympic Gold medalist, taking on transphobic athlete Riley Gaines:

“Riley Gaines you’re truly sick because you lost a race. Straight up sore loser. You should be uplifting the trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive or creating a new avenue where trans feel safe in sports. Maybe a transgender category in all sports!! But instead … you bully them … one thing for sure, no one in sports is safe with you around.”

Fact: Riley Gaines didn’t lose First Place to a trans athlete; she came in fifth and if you remove the trans athlete she came in fourth.

She’s just an angry bigoted loser.

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Barack Obama, former President, on The Felon’s fascist ICE crackdowns and racist rhetoric:

“Thirteen years ago, my administration acted to protect young people who were American in every single way but one: on paper. DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals] was an example of how we can be a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws. And it’s an example worth remembering today, when families with similar backgrounds who just want to live, work, and support their communities, are being demonized and treated as enemies. We can fix our broken immigration system while still recognizing our common humanity and treating each other with dignity and respect. In fact, it’s the only way we ever will.”

Republicans have been foaming at the mouth for years to destroy DACA which allows individuals who arrived undocumented in the United Stated as children to receive a renewable window of deferred action from deportation.

And if it’s a smack down to President Obama, why they will love it all the more. There are roughly 530,000 active DACA recipients currently.

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Tammy Duckworth, Democrat Illinois Senator, ripping Pete Hegseth a new one in a Congressional hearing:

“You are blowing through money like my fellow cadets and I did in our first liberty after basic camp. Luckily, I didn’t end up with a questionable tattoo. Your failures since taking office have been staggering. You sent classified operational information over Signal to chest thump to your wife, who has no security clearance, risking service member lives. You blew the $! Billion fight with the Houthis, who has no Navy and yet you lost all those aircraft. You have the unjustified and un-American use of the military in American cities, pulling resources and attention away from core missions to the detriment of warfighters and the warfighting you claim to love. You’re just an unquailed Yes man who can’t tell the President how to keep Americans safe.”

I mean, what should anyone have expected when the person put up for the job was a Fox News pundit, alcoholic sexual predator and liar??

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Eric Sorensen, gay Democrat Representative from Illinois, confronted Navy Secretary John Phelan last week on the military’s “everything old is new again” anti-LGBTQ+ stance:

 “I disagree with your leadership and [Hegseth’s] because I believe that every veteran deserves our thanks. We all walk in the footsteps of the leaders before us. And you may not find the value in the fact that many of those people are women, with different skin colors, different backgrounds, different talents, immigrants, gay, straight, transgender, disabled. You may want to change it, but you can’t. Because the America you and I both serve is a place where everyone has the ability or should have the ability to grow up and be the hero that your grandpa was. I wanted to do that when I was a kid. We’re going back to that time [of exclusion]. Gay kids like me, they don’t want to go into the Army, they don’t want to go into the Navy, because you don’t care for them. It’s happening all over our country. My grandpa taught me never to judge the value of a veteran’s service, and I hope that you can learn to do the same in your capacity, and you can find it in your heart to make that part of your process.”

Sadly, the GOP doesn’t do decent and honorable; they do fearmongering and divisiveness.

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Cory Booker, Democrat Senator from New Jersey, slamming the Supreme Court for upholding a Tennessee state law banning gender-affirming care for trans youth:

“Today the Supreme Court chose to abandon trans children in America. Upholding the Tennessee ban on medical care for trans kids is heartless. This is a sad day but know I will never stop fighting to protect trans children everywhere. I know trans children. I hear the fear; I hear the worry that they’re not safe. The number one killer of children in America is gun violence. Do [Republicans] talk about that, the threat there? No. Singling out less than 1% of our population, which has the highest rates of bullying, threats of violence—heck, about 30% of LGBTQ kids, period, report missing school because of fear—and they made them the center of their political campaign. My faith teaches me to love everyone. What that means is you lead with courageous empathy for the struggles of trans children in America.”

The GOP wants you to fear 1% of the population.

Not the lunatics with guns; or the anti-Semites who set Jews on fire; or those Gestapo forces chasing immigrants through the streets of LA.

But fear the trans child.

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Bobservations

Prepare yourselves … last week Carlos had some stomach stuff and the diarrhea was happening. It got so bad he even called his doctor about it, but she suggested white rice and mashed potatoes and lots of fluids. Which he did but … once the diarrhea—god that word makes me wanna hurl—was done and gone, the constipation set in and now he was having the opposite problem made worse by the fact that he would describe his bathroom deposits to me. ME? The one who hurls at the sound of a word??

“I’m just waiting for that one Titanic poop and then I’ll be fine.”

“Titanic?”

“Yes, one giant poop.”

“Is it gonna float in the toilet until it hits an iceberg and then sink?”

Yesterday, he almost had a poop but is still hoping for ‘his poop to go on and on …

From November 2025 … It’s not that he’s egotistical, it’s just that no story is as good as a Great Tuxedo story …or so he tells me.

After Minnesota Democratic State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were shot and killed at their home, and after Minnesota Democrat State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were both shot at their home but managed to survive, The Felon said he would not call Minnesota Democrat Governor Tim Walz because:

“I’m not calling him. The guy doesn’t have a clue. He’s a mess. So, you know, I could be nice and call him, but why waste time?”

Four Americans shot, two of them killed, and picking up a phone would be a waste of time. Thanks, America. We could have had decency but you voted for a fucking pig.

Nothing says it’s Summer like temperatures in the 90s and some hot beefy manly tan cakes, eh?

On the upside, while The Felon doesn’t want drag queens on stage at the Kennedy Center he couldn’t stop them from being in the audience and being cheered by the crowd.

When The Felon and his Slovenian Hooker attended a performance of Les Misérables at the Kennedy Center last week drag artists Tara Hoot, Ricky Rosé, Vagenesis, and Mari Con Carne also attended the show in full drag. And when the queens entered the theater, the crowd greeted them with cheers and applause while The Felon and Couch Fucker were loudly booed upon arrival.

The queens received their tickets from season ticket holders who donated them through Qommittee—a national advocacy network of drag artists and allies led by survivors of high-profile hate crimes such as the Pulse and Club Q mass shootings, a firebombing at an Ohio church, and an attack on a power grid in North Carolina.

Werk, queens.

I didn’t write this but it’s perfection …

One thing no one has explained is why women’s rights should vary by state, while men keep the same rights across the entire country, no matter where they live.

Don’t Americans have equal protection under the 14^th Amendment? Misogyny as policy treats women as “less than.” There is no law that controls a man’s body.

Now do the same for women.

And so it begins … work is being done at Casa Bob y Carlos with the removal of the two skylights in the sunroom. Both were failing and since the room has four sliding glass doors in it, as you can see below, do we really need windows in the ceiling? No, I say, we don’t. 

Next up, a meeting with a cabinet maker to start the work on the new kitchen.

Lastly, or close to last, we attended the No Kings protest at the statehouse last Saturday and were surprised at the nice crowd in mostly Red South Carolina.

Great spirit from the crowd and very few MAGAts out in a counter-protest, and those that were stayed back from the No Kings group.

The crowd was enthusiastic and large, but I loved this picture I got from the newspaper showing just two people protesting.

I also loved this photo from the protests in San Francisco where their message was loud and clear on ocean Beach.

And this last one, of another event the same day, that was sparely attended …

Sean O'Pry is a thirty-six-year-old American who began modeling in 2006 and is now the nest paid male model, but still … Would You Hit It?

After some of the nastiness in politics this week, I thought I could use a little joy and then I found this …

Architecture Wednesday: Swyllmers Barn

Goddess I love a barn conversion, even one as large as this one, at over 4,600 square feet with five-bedrooms … I sense B&B.

Nestled in a peaceful pocket of the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, in The Lee Conservation Area, this large home is a series of spacious living spaces that have been thoughtfully carved out, with a glass atrium at its core.

Set just off a quiet country road, Swyllmers Barn is almost totally surrounded by mature broad-leaf trees and foliage. Topped with an clay-tiled roof, the house is formed of red brick and black weatherboarding; come spring, the wisteria that climbs across its front aspect erupts with white and lilac blossom.

Accessed from the porch, the entrance hallway is the central node from which each of the living spaces branches out. To the right is the glass-framed, double-height atrium currently used as a sitting room that sets the tone for the strong relationship between indoors and out; three sets of French doors open to the garden, making the room a wonderful space to sit and observe the changing seasons.

The primary reception has a nest of exposed timber rafters above, a wood-burning stove, and windows that run along two sides of the room. On the opposite side of the home is an open-plan kitchen and dining room with a large lounge space, where a wide picture window captures views of the grounds.

Tucked to one side of the room is a small conservatory while a spacious games room-gym, home study with a fireplace and extensive built-in bookshelves, utility room, pantry and powder room make up the rest of the ground floor.

In the main entrance hall, two staircases—both with storage underneath—ascend to the home's separate first-floor wings. A bedroom between the two wings connects both sides of the first floor while internal windows along the landings and in three of the bedrooms peek down into the atrium below, bringing more light upstairs.

The principal bedroom has a brilliant en suite with both a walk-in shower and a bathtub while the four other bedrooms are similarly spacious and with garden outlooks; one has an en suite bathroom, while the other has a dressing room. A family bathroom, with walk-in shower and a bathtub, serves the remaining rooms.

The gardens serve a range of functions: wide lawns are perfect for a summertime picnic or games and terraced spots are ripe for dining set-up or just lounging. A formal garden has been meticulously cultivated over several years with alliums, foxglove and fragrant lavender growing within a perimeter marked by neat box hedging.

Adding to the generous internal plan is an outbuilding currently used as a studio, home office and storage space. On its roof are several succulents that thrive in the sunlight. Above the main garage is another large storage room.

Despite its secluded feel, Swyllmers Barn is within easy reach of Great Missenden Station, which runs regular services to London Marylebone in under 40 minutes.

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