I Didn't Say It

Hillary Clinton, on removing _____ from office:

“Removing _____ from office is essential, and I believe he should be impeached [And] members of Congress who joined him in subverting our democracy should resign, and those who conspired with the domestic terrorists should be expelled immediately. But that alone won’t remove white supremacy and extremism from America.”

Keep in mind this woman was investigated for years over some emails and the GOP wants to ‘move on from  a president who incites insurrection.

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Jake Tapper,  host of CNN’s ‘State of the Union’, on _____’s apparent ‘love’ for the Capitol terrorists:

“The state of our union is utterly devastated after one of the darkest days in our nation’s history: a coup attempt, no longer bloodless, instigated by the president of the United States. The flags at the U.S. Capitol are at half-staff this morning for the police officer, Brian Sicknick, who was murdered this week, but they are not at half-staff at the White House, perhaps because officer Sicknick was the enemy of the terrorist mob, and the mob loves _____. The mob, by trying to intimidate, threaten, or even kill the vice president and members of Congress, who were counting the electoral votes—that mob was, in turn, loved back by _____. According to [Nebraska Republican Senator] Ben Sasse, White House aides told him the president was quote ‘delighted’ watching the insurrection. In _____’s view, they were fighting for him. _____ put out a statement, ‘we love you,’ he said, after the attack, ‘you are very special.' It might be difficult to hear these words, it’s difficult to say them because it’s so ugly, but it’s true. The flag isn’t down at the White House because the president is not mourning Sicknick. He hasn’t personally decried the terrorists in any way because the president loves the terrorists and he reportedly has not even spoken to his own vice president, whose life was at risk since Wednesday. The images of this attack are so shocking that many of _____’s enablers are finally, with just a few days left in his presidency, beginning to get the goddamn point that his continuous lies and humoring of racists and winks and nods to violent extremists are dangerous.”

Can you imagine a president, any other president, watching terrorists break into the Capitol, bust windows and doors, shit on the floors, terrorize on members of Congress, and be happy about it?

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Bill Belichick, New England Patriots coach, refusing _____’s offer to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom:

“Recently I was offered the chance to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Which I was flattered by out of respect for what the honor represents and admiration for prior recipients. Subsequently, the tragic events of last week occurred and the decision has been made not to move forward with the award.”

Belichick has been a _____ supporter for years, but only now takes s stance against him? I guess Mexicans are rapists was okay, and kids in cages was all right, and Nazis are good people doesn’t bother him, but this was just too much?

You’re late to the party, Bill.

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Kevin McCarthy, House Minority Leader, snapping at _____, for possibly the first time ever, after IMPOTUS said “Antifa people” were to blame for the Capitol insurrection:

“It’s not Antifa, it’s MAGA. I know. I was there. Stop it. It’s over. The election is over.”

McCarthy also told House ReTHUGlicans that _____ bears some blame for the terror attack and has accepted some responsibility, according to four Republican sources on a private call, but did not vote to impeach.

I guess inciting an insurrection trying to take over the government isn’t impeachable to THUGS..

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Bill De Blasio, New York City mayor, saying the city will terminate all its contracts with the _____ Organization:

“Inciting an insurrection against the U.S. government clearly constitutes criminal activity. Our legal team has done the assessment. The contracts make very clear that if a company, the leadership of that company is engaged in criminal activity, we have the right to sever the contract. So, the City of New York will no longer have anything to do with the Trump organization. They have profited from these contracts. They will profit no longer.”

And while calling him a loser annoys the rap outta him, hitting him in the wallet will really drive him crazy. But he won’t be a crazy president, he’ll just be a crazy loon.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, former California governor, comparing the Capitol insurrection to the 1938 “Kristallnacht” attack by Nazis against Jewish property and businesses:

“I grew up in Austria. I’m very aware of Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass. It was a night of rampage against the Jews carried out in 1938 by the Nazi equivalent of the Proud Boys. … The broken glass was in the windows of the United States Capitol. But the mob did not just shatter the windows of the Capitol, they shattered the ideas we took for granted. They didn’t just break down the doors of the building that housed American democracy, they trampled the very principles on which our country was founded.”

If we don’t learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it.

Stop this now.

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Tuesday Thought #1

I Didn't Say It ....

Laverne Cox, transgender actress and star of Orange is the New Black, speaking at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's 'Creating Change' conference:

"This feels so amazing, all this love that you're giving me tonight. I have to say that a black, transgender woman from a working class background raised by a single mother — that's me — getting all this love tonight. This feels like the change I need to see more of in this country."

Cox is further proof that coming out and speaking out and speaking up only results in positive response.

Hiding does no one any good. She is the change we need to see more of in this country.

Michael Patrick Leahy, Breitbart columnist, on that Coke commercial:

"Executives at Coca Cola thought it was a good idea to run a 60 second Super Bowl ad featuring children singing America The Beautiful – a deeply Christian patriotic anthem whose theme is unity – in several foreign languages. The ad also prominently features a gay couple. Conservatives instantly lit up social media with objections, with many vowing to boycott the soda company's products. The lyrics of the song, written in 1893 by Wellesley College Professor Katherine Lee Bates, ask God to grant America 'brotherhood / From sea to shining sea.' As far as the executives at Coca Cola are concerned, however, the United States of America is no longer a nation ruled by the Constitution and American traditions in which English is the language of government. It is not a nation governed in the Anglo-American tradition of liberty. It is instead a nation governed by some all inclusive multi-cultural synthesis of the various forms of government in the world, as expressed by the multiple languages used in the Super Bowl ad to sing a uniquely American hymn that celebrates our heritage."

I love how he misses the irony in complaining that a song about unity being sung by children in all different languages and featuring a gay couple, is a bad thing.

Unity, Leahy; that’s what the song was about, and that was what the ad was about too, but your racism and homophobia wouldn’t let you see that.

Stephen Colbert, on that Coke commercial:

"For pete's sake, since when are gays allowed to gay up 'America the Beautiful'? I mean, if the woman who wrote the song, Katharine Lee Bates, saw this ad she would be disgusted and so would her life partner Katharine Coman who lived with her for 25 years in what was then referred to as a Boston marriage."

Snap. Let's throw stones at an ad featuring a gay couple included with America The Beautiful and then gloss over the fact that the song was written by a gay woman.

Svetlana Zhurova, former Olympic champion and mayor of Sochi's mountain Olympic village, calling for no protests at the upcoming Games:

"I have never seen (this) at any Olympic Games and I would call on the people who are going to protest, that it doesn't make sense...For the spectators, it is more important who wins than whether he or her is homosexual or not...We are all participants of the Games and we are going to applaud the straight people and the homosexuals just like the previous Olympic Games."

As long as the homosexual people stay quiet and silent and, well, not so gay.

Bill De Blasio, New York City mayor, on his boycott of the St. Patrick's Day parade because of its "exclusion of some individuals [The Gays] in the city":

“No I am not planning on marching in the parade, I haven’t in the past in my capacity as a public official. I will be participating in a number of other events to honor the Irish heritage of this city … But I simply disagree with the organizer of that parade in their exclusion of some individuals in the city.”

Inclusion is inclusion and when you exclude people expect others to exclude themselves.

Bravo Mister Mayor.

Tony Perkins, Family Research Council leader, on the Disney channel’s featuring of a same-sex couple:

“After a year of planning, Disney finally made good on its promise, using the show "Good Luck Charlie" to give Taylor two moms. A spokesman says the show "was developed under the [advice] of child development experts..." But if Disney thinks that'll fly with parents, they've spent too much time in Fantasyland. OneMillionMoms is flooding the channel with complaints. Like us, they know what the research says: which is that kids who are deprived of a mom or dad grow up with significantly more emotional and academic problems. So it's a little ironic that the show's called, "Good luck, Charlie." Without a dad, he'll need it. “

First off, OneMillionMoms is a lie, Tony; try about 40K Moms. And then toss in the fact that every time they protest a TV show, it scored huge ratings. So they help more than hurt.

And then, Tony, you moron, let’s talk about how with one line — 'Without a dad, he’ll need it' — you denigrate all the single mothers out there.

Children don’t need a mother and father; they need loving and nurturing parents or parent.

Jonathan Vilma, New Orleans Saints linebacker, on openly gay football players:

"I think he would not be accepted as much as we think he would be accepted. I don't want people to just naturally assume, oh, we're all homophobic. That's really not the case. Imagine if he's the guy next to me, and you know, I get dressed, naked, taking a shower, the whole nine, and it just so happens he looks at me, how am I supposed to respond?"

Oh, no, I would never think you’re homophobic. I’d just think you’re a moron who thinks that all gay players ever think about is how to seduce a straight guy and not how to play football.

And I would wonder why you spend so much time thinking about a gay player looking at your naked body.

Just sayin’.

Richard Cohen Says The GOP Isn't Racist And Then Proves It Is

The other day I stopped in at Viktor’s place — Maybe it’s JustMe — as I usually do, and he’d posted this quote from The Mama Grizzly Bore™ about the US debt to China:

"This free stuff, so seductive. Why do you think marketers use free stuff to bring people in? Free stuff is such a strong marketing ploy. But didn't you all learn too in Econ 101 there ain't no such thing as a free lunch? Our free stuff today is being paid for by taking money from our children and borrowing from China. When that note comes due -- and this isn't racist.. but it's going to be like slavery when that note is due. We are going to be beholden to a foreign master. Because there is no plan coming out of Washington, D.C. to stop the incurrence of debt."

Now, I’m not here to talk about debt, or even MGB™, because the part of the quote that got me is the part where she says “this isn't racist.. but it's going to be like slavery when that note is due.” I made a comment that when someone says they are about to say something that isn’t racist, then it’s usually racist. The qualifier does nothing but draw attention to your racism.

But that’s the GOP, in a lot of ways, though, to be fair, not all of the GOP. But, as we’ve seen these last five years, with the way the GOP has gone against anything and everything that our first Black President has put forward — without coming up with their own ideas, mind you, as proof that they are better in politics — the GOP is racist.

Even Richard Cohen, a Washington Post columnist,  is racist and thinks the GOP is racist, and we know this because he s trying to tell us that the GOP isn’t racist, by, um, well, writing about it. And, again to be clear, this is the same not racist Richard Cohen who, earlier this year, claimed victory in the George Zimmerman trial after Zimmerman was acquitted of murdering Trayvon Martin; Cohan had compared the image of Trayvon Martin in a hoodie had the same affect on a white man as a man Ku Klux Klan robes does to a black man.

Yes, he did. And now he’s gone off again, proving he’s not racist by being a racist, in talking about newly elected New York City mayor, Bill de Blasio and his family:

“Today’s GOP is not racist, as Harry Belafonte alleged about the tea party, but it is deeply troubled — about the expansion of government, about immigration, about secularism, about the mainstreaming of what used to be avant-garde. People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering mayor-elect of New York—a white man married to a black woman with two biracial children. {Should I mention that Bill de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, used to be a lesbian?} This family represents the cultural changes that have enveloped parts — but not all — of America. To cultural conservatives, this doesn’t look like their America at all.”

Oh, where to begin … ?

I guess I was first appalled about his verbiage ‘mainstreaming of what used to be avant-garde.’ I take it, he means The Gays and by mainstreaming he means equality, which apparently he doesn’t consider worthy of all for all people.

But it’s his blatant racism, his implication that a white man married to a black woman, and with children no less, is somehow appalling to conservatives because it doesn’t look like ‘their America.’

I’ve got news for you Mr. Cohen, you are a racist, and this isn’t just your America. Last I checked it belonged to all of us equally, regardless of gender, orientation or race. The great thing about America, to me, and I guess this is just another in a long list of reasons why I’ll never be called a conservative, is that we are all Americans, no matter our skin color, accent, ethnicity, religion, lack of religion, gender, age, sexual orientation. And we can all — or at least some of us — marry whomever we choose to marry, be they different races or religions or, in at least 15 states and the District of Columbia, the same gender.

That’s America, Mr., Cohen, not your lily white one-way view, and that’s why the GOP is floundering, because while the rest of  America and the world, change and adapt and grow and learn, learn, and understand, the GOP is stuck in the mud up to their necks.

Racist, indeed.

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