Showing posts with label Jen Psaki. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jen Psaki. Show all posts

Friday, January 05, 2024

I Didn't Say It

Nikki Haley, continuing to step in it even as she’s trying to step out of it:

“I should have said slavery right off the bat, but if you grow up in South Carolina, literally in second and third grade you learn about slavery. You grow up and you have—you know, I had Black friends growing up. It is a very talked about thing. We have a big history in South Carolina when it comes to, you know, slavery, when it comes to all the things that happened with the Civil War, all that. I was over—I was thinking past slavery and talking about the lesson that we would learn going forward. I shouldn’t have done that. I should have said slavery. But in my mind, that’s a given, that everybody associates the Civil War with slavery. We were the only Indian family in a small, rural southern town. We weren’t White enough to be White, we weren’t Black enough to be Black. They didn’t know who we were, what we were, or why we were there. It was not just slavery that was talked about, it was more about racism that was talked about. It was more about, you know, we had friends, we had Black friends, we had White friends, but it was always a topic of conversation, even among our friends, and in the south, we’re very comfortable talking about it because we know that’s what it is.”

Dear God, this woman just digs deeper into the feces every time she speaks …

“You grow up and you have—you know, I had Black friends growing up.”

Yes, I am not racist and I don’t say ignorant things because I had Black friends growing up.

“I was over—I was thinking past slavery and talking about the lesson that we would learn going forward.”

Oh, Nikki, so good that you can get past thinking about slavery while millions of people of color are reminded of that every single fucking day with the way they are treated in this country still.

“We had Black friends, we had White friends, but it was always a topic of conversation, even among our friends, and in the south, we’re very comfortable talking about it because we know that’s what it is.”

If you’re so comfortable why are you still trying to fix your mistake? And if you know what ‘it’ is—and by the way it’s racism and bigotry and ignorance—you could say it.

Fucking moron. You are so transparent.

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Mike Johnson, self-professed God’s favorite Christian Nationalist Speaker of the House, on President Biden’s proposed $14 billion package to fund border security:

 “That won’t help. That won’t do a darn thing. It’s about changing the policy. The White House seems not to understand that.”

Huh. No money to try and solve the problem, but Mike will bitch and moan and kvetch about the border and then take a group of Republicans to the border on the taxpayer dime for a publicity stunt.

It almost sounds like faux-Christian Mike Johnson doesn’t care about border security unless he can use it as a weapon to attack the president.

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Michael Knowles, Daily Wire host, saying … oh who knows WTF he is saying:

“Mickey Mouse has to become a Nazi … because Disney is a very, very evil corporation that wants to trans your kids and fill their heads with all sorts of crazy ideas, and Disney’s gotta go … You heard all the Disney executives talking about their not-so-secret LGBTLMNOP agenda. You’ve seen what Disney has done in recent years, so much so that the governor of Florida had to take political action against them to stop Disney from trying to interfere in the democratic process in Florida to stop the libs from transing your kids. OK? Remember what they did to that cartoon frog? There was this cartoon frog that a regular cartoonist had made … and then these guys on 4chan turned the frog into a Nazi … And we can do the same with Mickey Mouse. It’s not just enough to make Mickey Mouse a serial killer as you’re seeing in these movies. Mickey Mouse has to become the most odious kind of symbol in the entire world.”

Sorry, asshat, the most odious symbol in the entire world is the loons of the GOP and the MAGAt cult and people who think you can “trans” children..

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Adam Kinzinger, former GOP Representative, on the Cult and their Leader:

“The whining, weak, brittle, fragile, delicate. Feeble, puny victim mentality of the MAGA movement is one of the most transparently sad, snowflakey and pitiful movements really in American history. The incessant whining followed by the usual deflection of some harsh attack that reasonable adults would eschew has really reached a boiling point in my tolerance of typical and normal political dialogue. The MAGA movement has become an infectious disease of helplessness and victimhood unlike any I can remember. [Thing 45] himself is a master victim, suing everyone, yelling loudly about how he is a poor victim of the ‘deep state.’ Rinos, DOJ, FBI. China, Germany, Mars, the Sun and any other possible force of nature. But his victim mentality has spread to the GOP at large, and it’s the most annoying and destructive force in the nation. Seriously, ihis infection has destroyed the GOP.”

Good, I say, good. When you align with traitors and criminals and thieves you get what you deserve.

I wait for the day when Thing 45 is just a blemish on America; s ass and those sycophants in the GOP try to redeem themselves.

Not happening, asshats.

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Jerry Carl, Alabama’s GOP Representative, on the move in several states to take Thing 45 off the ballot for inciting an insurrection:

“I’ve just come to the conclusion this is the new COVID for 2024. In 2020, they had us locked down. We couldn’t get out and vote. We could do all this absentee voting. Everything was built around fear. So now the new fear and what the Democrat Party is trying to do here is to tear Trump down and say he’s unqualified to run for this office. That is not their job to determine that—that’s we, the voters. No one has the right to be taken off a ballot because a secretary of state or someone in a position thinks they can do it. It just doesn’t work that way. So we’ve got to push back. We’ve got to be united, Republicans and Democrats, on this issue. If not, you’re going to start seeing Biden taken off tickets in Republican states. And where I’m from, two wrongs don’t make a right. So, I’m not proposing that we do that at all. If anything, let’s deal with what we’ve got right now.”

Um, Jerry? Asshat? Biden didn’t incite an insurrection or try to overturn a free and fair election so removing him from a ballot is just sour grapes from the GOP whiny bitches.

Of note, last week Carl claimed to have paid $5.72 for two apples at a Washington DC grocery store but never mentioned the store or showed a receipt.  Also, Carl was first elected in November 2020 and his first official act was to vote against certifying Biden’s win; in 2021 he signed a demand for Biden to take a cognitive test.

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Jen Psaki, MSNBC host, on Mike Johnson’s involvement with The Big Lie:

“I would love to know what passage in the Bible told Speaker Mike Johnson to become one of the most important architects behind [Thing 45’s] effort to overturn the 2020 election. Was it God whispering in his ear to ignore the Constitution?”

Well, clearly it was god—again, little g—because Mike believes god put him in power because Mike is, um, insane?

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Friday, September 10, 2021

I Didn't Say It

Greg Abbott, Texas “governor”—in quotes because he doesn’t know how to govern—responding to the question of what a woman who has been raped and gets pregnant as a result, should do since abortion is outlawed:

“Let’s be clear: rape is a crime. And Texas will work tirelessly to make sure that we eliminate all rapists from the streets of Texas by aggressively going out and arresting them and prosecuting them and getting them off the streets.”

Um, Greg, you fucking tool? A rapist is born every minute … at least … and your state has the highest number of rapes per capita in the entire country, and rape is the most underreported crime of all. If it were that easy to end rape, why have you never done it?

I mean, come on, the guy can’t even keep the heat on in the winter and he’s gonna catch all the rapists.

Smacks of OJ’s Hunt For The Real Killers Tour.

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 Jen Psaki, White House Press Secretary, mocking Texas GOP Governor Greg Abbott‘s promise to “eliminate all rapists” in a defense of his unconstitutional abortion ban:

“If Governor Abbott has a means of eliminating all rapists, or all rape, from the United States then there’ll be bipartisan support for that, but given there has never in the history of the country, in the world, been any leader who’s ever been able to eliminate rape, eliminate rapists from our streets, it’s even more imperative—it’s one of the many reasons I should say, not the only reason, why women in Texas should have access to health care.”

That idiot governor can’t keep the heat on, how in the hell will he catch all the rapists?

Typical GOP bull shit.

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Howard Stern, on anti-vaxxers:

“When are we going to stop putting up with the idiots in this country and just say it’s mandatory to get vaccinated? As I remember when I went to school, you had to get a measles vaccine. You had to get a mumps vaccine. Fuck them. Fuck their freedom. I want my freedom to live. I want to get out of the house. I want to go next door and play chess. I want to go take some pictures. This is bullshit. The other thing I hate is that all these people with COVID who won’t get vaccinated are in the hospitals clogging it up. So like if you have a heart attack or any kind of problem, you can’t even get into the E.R. And I’m really of mind to say, ‘Look, if you didn’t get vaccinated and you got COVID, you don’t get into a hospital. Go fuck yourself. You had the cure and you wouldn’t take it.”

My sentiments exactly.

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Jim Justice, West Virginia’s GOP governor, growing frustrated with anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers:

For God’s sakes a livin’, how difficult is this to understand? Why in the world do we have to come up with these crazy ideas—and they’re crazy ideas—that the vaccine’s got something in it and its tracing people wherever they go? And the same very people that are saying that are carrying their cellphones around. I mean, come on. Come on. We’ve got to someway realize that we’ve got to get vaccinated for all — not just for you, but for everybody — we’ve got to do this.”

Nice to see a GOP governor pissed off at these anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers, but I’m pretty sure his annoyance will fall on deaf, ignorant ears.

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Carliss Chatman, law professor, on the new Texas anti-women, anti-choice law:

“If a fetus is a person at six weeks pregnant, is that when child support starts? Is that also when you can’t deport the mother because she’s carrying a US citizen? Can I insure a six-week fetus and collect if I miscarry? Just figuring if we’re going there we should go all in.”

All good questions that Texas did not think about because the answers affect and concern men and all Texas wants to do is punish and control women.

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Caitlyn Jenner, on that new Texas abortion law:

“I am for a woman’s right to choose. I am also for a state having the ability to make their own laws. So I support Texas in that decision, that’s their decision. But as far as being a woman’s right to choose, I don’t see any changes in our laws in California in the future. I think that they have the right in their state to do what they want to do. Now do I agree with the decision or not? No. To be honest with you I actually probably do not agree with the decision. But I agree that they do have the right to make their own decision.”

This bitch tosses a word salad that even Sarah Palin hears and whispers, ‘What the fuck?’

She says a woman has the right to choose but Texas has the right to take her choice away.

Seriously … STFU.

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Friday, April 16, 2021

I Didn't Say It ...

Barack Obama, my president, on the latest shooting of an unarmed Black man during a routine traffic stop:

“Our hearts are heavy over yet another shooting of a Black man, Daunte Wright, at the hands of police. It’s important to conduct a full and transparent investigation, but this is also a reminder of just how badly we need to reimagine policing and public safety in this country. The fact that this could happen even as the city of Minneapolis is going through the trial of Derek Chauvin and reliving the heart-wrenching murder of George Floyd indicates not just how important it is to conduct a full and transparent investigation, but also just how badly we need to reimagine policing and public safety in this country. Michelle and I grieve alongside the Wright family for their loss. We empathize with the pain that Black mothers, fathers, and children are feeling after yet another senseless tragedy. And we will continue to work with all fair-minded Americans to confront historical inequities and bring about nationwide changes that are so long overdue.”

I know people are using Defund the Police, meaning allocate some of the money spent on body armor and weaponry towards the community for programs that lift people up, but we really need police reform, and punishments for officers who so recklessly murder our brothers and sisters, in the human race, of color.

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Nicolle Wallace, MSNBC, saying GQPers are terrified of any kind of voting that they can’t rig:

“In Texas, lawmakers have advanced a bill that would impose … criminal penalties for errors during the election process such as making it a felony for an official to give a voter an absentee ballot application or solicit the submission of an application if the voter does not request it at first. Republicans are terrified of absentee voting, of early voting, of drive-thru voting, of same-day registration, any kind of voting that they can’t rig. It really is that simple. Republicans can talk about voter fraud and [the twice-impeached, one-term loser]‘s big lie, but what they are trying to do is rig future elections so that a result like 2020 can’t happen again. It is telling that the lesson that Republicans took away from 2020 wasn’t that they may need different candidates or policies, but that they had to stop people from voting.”

Listen to the words of the GQP and their leadership: the more people that vote, the more Republicans will lose. That is the only reason they’re doing this, to cheat and steal elections.

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Jen Psaki, White House Press Secretary, answering Fox News’s Peter Doocy’s question about the All-Star Game being moved to Colorado in the wake of Georgia’s voter suppression laws:

“Well, let me just refute the first point you made … on Colorado. Colorado allows you to register on election day. Colorado has voting by mail where they send to 100% of people in the state who are eligible. Applications to vote by mail. 94% of people in Colorado voted by mail in the 2020 election. And they also allow for a range of materials to provide even if they vote on election day with a limited number of people to vote on election day.”

Keep in mind, the Georgia legislation is built on The Big Lie.  There was no widespread fraud in the 2020 election as Georgia’s top GOP election officials have acknowledged repeatedly in interviews.

What there was, was record turnout which scares the GQP because, again, the more people who vote, the more Democrats are elected.

But you go ahead Fox and spread another lie.

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Kim Reynolds, Iowa GQP governor, declining a request by the Department of Health and Human Services to take in immigrant children being held at the U.S. border with Mexico:

“We will not do that. We do not have the facilities. We are not set up to do that. This is not our problem; this is the president’s problem. He’s the one who opened the borders. He needs to be responsible for this and he needs to stop it. So, at this point, no.”

Lovely member of the party of Family Values. But then the children are brown and don’t speak English so, you know, why offer any help.

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Colton Underwood, former NFL player who has appeared on several Bachelor series, coming out as gay to Robin Roberts on GMA:

"I learned in the Bible that gay is a sin. [And] I’ve hated myself for a long time … There was a moment in L.A. that I woke up and I didn't think I was gonna wake up. I didn't have the intentions of waking up. I would have rather died than say, 'I'm gay,' and I think that was sort of my wakeup call. Take back control. … I've ran from myself for a long time. I've hated myself for a long time, and I'm gay. And I came to terms with that earlier this year and I've been processing it. I think the next step in all of this is letting people know. I'm still nervous but, yeah, it's been a journey for sure. I'm emotional in such a good, happy, positive way. I'm the happiest and healthiest I've ever been in my life and that means the world to me. I got to a place in my personal life that was dark and bad and I can list a bunch of different things, but they'd all be excuses. I think overall the reason why now is because I got to a place where I didn't think I was ever going to share this. I remember praying to God the morning I found out I was the Bachelor and thanking him for making me straight. I remember that vividly, saying, 'Finally, you're letting me be straight. Finally, you’re giving me a wife, a fiancée, that I’m gonna have the kids, gonna have the house.' ‘But’ I do think I could have handled it better. I just wish I wouldn't have dragged people into my own mess of figuring out who I was. I genuinely mean that. But I also at the same time, I can sit here and say, 'I'm sorry' to all those women. I can also sit here and say, 'Thank you,' because without them and without The Bachelor franchise, I don't know that this would have ever came out. But if I had to go back and give anybody advice, I mean, you're gonna get through it is what I would tell myself. Keep fighting for you. Keep choosing you every morning. And when the time's ready or when the time's right and you're ready, do it on your own time. I'm still the same Colton everybody met on TV. I'm still the same Colton to my friends and my family, I just happen to be able to share with people now all of me. And I am proud of that, you know? I am proud to be gay.”

Church and sports. Two groups that do not welcome LGBTQ+ people; two groups that ridicule and demean LGBTQ+ people.

How many times do we have to hear that a gay man or woman, not to mention trans person, has contemplated suicide because of the Bible or a teammate?

It’s enough. This man went on TV to “win” a wife to prove to himself that he wasn’t gay and could be “all right,” when he should have known he was all right to begin with.

Welcome out, Colton.

PS Now I hear Colton is turning his coming out into a reality show for Netflix. I guess staying in the closet with no job prospects or coming out and getting back on TV for the coins may have helped in his decision to come out. Or that’s just the cynic in me.

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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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