Do Not Come For the Divine Miss M

Last month, Bette Midler called out ALLEGED Democrat, Senator Joe Manchin in a tweet that also badmouthed West Virginia:

“What Joe Manchin, who represents a population smaller than Brooklyn, has done to the rest of America, who wants to move forward, not backward, like his state, is horrible. He sold us out. He wants us all to be just like his state, West Virginia. Poor, illiterate and strung out.”

Now, there was a backlash because, clearly, not everyone in West Virginia is a low-income addle-brained meth head and so Midler went back to Twitter to apologize, and also take on Manchin again:

“I apologize to the good people of [West Virginia] for my last outburst. I’m just seeing red;  Joe Manchin and his whole family are a criminal enterprise. Is he really the best WV has to offer its own citizens? Surely there’s someone there who has the state’s interests at heart, not his own!”

Well, this week, West Virginia Governor Jim Justice gave his State of the State speech and went after Midler himself. He held up his bulldog Babydog—seriously, this is what a grown man calls his dog—turned her rear end to the cameras and said:

“Babydog tells Bette Midler and all those out there, ‘kiss her hiney.’”

Oh snap … except Bette Midler has zero fucks to give either Manchin or Justice; she retweeted a picture of the stunt with the caption:

“Here we can see a dog’s asshole. Right next to it is the butt of Jim Justice’s dog.”

And then to prove her point, she Tweeted this:

“BTW, here are the state rankings of all the areas and agencies for which the so-called ‘Governor’ of [West Virginia], Jim Justice, is responsible. Judging from these rankings, I’d say his dog’s ass would make a better Governor than him!”

Do not come for Midler unless she sends for you.

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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Monday Chuckle: A Bigot Gets Owned

MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle is the kind of news channel host that I love and would like to see more of because she isn’t about to let fools just talk and not hold them accountable.

Case in point: West Virginia Governor, and Republican, because, of course, Jim Justice, who just signed a bill to ban transgender girls from school sports. Ruhle wanted him to explain his reasoning.

But he couldn’t answer, and so she kept at him, demanding to know why. With all that is going on in this country right now, passing an anti-transgender bill was so important. She had Justice—dear goddess if anyone is inappropriately named, it’s this guy--stumbling and mumbling, that, by the end of the segment, Justice was barely coherent, and could only mutter that there are only “12 kids maybe in our state that are transgender-type kids.”

“Can you name one example of a transgender child trying to gain an unfair competitive advantage at a school there in West Virginia?”

“Well… well Stephanie, I don’t have that experience exactly to myself right now, but I will tell you this—”

“Not yourself. Your state, sir. Can you give me one example of a transgender child trying to get an unfair advantage? Just one in your state.”

“No, I can’t really tell you one, but I can tell  you this Stephanie—”

“But, sir, you have no examples of this happening. Why would you take your time to do this?”

Then Ruhle dragged the state of West Virginia, pointing out that it’s ranked “45th in education, 47th in health care, 48th on the economy, and 50th in infrastructure.”

“If you cannot name one single example for me of a child doing this, why would you make this a priority? I just named four things that would seem to me like a much bigger priority.”

“Well Stephanie, I didn’t make it a priority.”

“You signed it!”

And then Justice brought up Title IX to defend his position when that’s the exact same law that President Biden cited to back up the administration’s position that discrimination against LGBTQ+ people in education—including school sports –is already illegal.

“I think we only have 12 kids maybe in our state that are transgender-type kids, for cryin’ out loud, Stephanie!”

“Please come back when … you can show me evidence that those young women are being disadvantaged in your state.”

“We all know what an absolute advantage boys would have playing against girls….”

Of course, the law isn’t about boys playing girls’ sports, it’s about banning some girls—who are transgender—from playing girls’ sports.  Justice tried to talk about why he, as a girls’ basketball coach, thinks it would be bad for boys to pretend to be trans in order to participate in girls’ sports.

Seriously, West Virginia. You live in one of the most disadvantaged states in this country but you elected a man who does this, and then cannot even back up his argument with facts …because there are no facts?

The ACLU has already said that it will sue West Virginia over the law, and if that happens, West Virginia should probably not have Justice testify.

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