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Dr. Anthony Fauci, talking to CNN about the GOP and MTG coming for him:

“It’s a pattern, Kaitlan, that whenever somebody gets up—whether it’s a news media, you know Fox News, does it a lot, or it’s somebody in the Congress who gets up and makes a public statement that’s responsible for the deaths of X number of people because of policies or some crazy idea that I created—immediately, it’s like clockwork. The death threats go way up. So, that’s the reason why I’m still getting death threats, when you have performances like that unusual performance by Marjorie Taylor Greene in today’s hearing, those are the kind of things that drive up the death threats because there is a segment of the population out there that believe that kind of nonsense.”

As I saw on Facebook yesterday, please remember that Fauci graduated from Cornell and Large Marge can boil corn.

That’s all.

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Jamie Raskin, Maryland Democrat, speaking to Fauci at this latest hearing:

“[The GOP] is treating you, Dr. Fauci, like a convicted felon. Actually, you probably wish they were treating you like a convicted felon. They treat them with love and admiration. Some blindly worship them.”

Snap.

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Ken Buck, retiring GOP Representative, speaking to Jon Stewart:’

“I think the problem right now is everybody gets their news sources in silos and they just keep getting reinforced with certain ideas. I went to a neighbor’s house the day after the 2020 election, their flag was upside down. There’s a lot of life out there besides arguing about nothing and telling lies, and so I made a choice to go enjoy what I’ve got left. I left because I couldn’t tell the lie. The 2020 election wasn’t stolen. The January 6 defendants aren’t political prisoners. I think there is a leader out there that will unify and help unify America, and it’s somebody who has great morals, somebody who has great leadership skills. A John F. Kennedy. You know, I probably wouldn’t have said this 20 years ago, that he was a great hero, but you look at what John F. Kennedy did in terms of bringing the country together during the Cold War and moving us forward. There is somebody there that will help America heal and move forward. I know it’s not Ken Buck and I know that it’s not one of the two candidates leading the country in the polls right now.”

I think it’s Pete Buttigieg and if we can keep Hair Furor out of power, we can get a President Pete in 2028.

So Vote Blue for the future.

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Stormy Daniels, asking Melanie to leave her crooked husband—not because he f*cked a porn star but because he’s a convicted felon:

“I don’t know what their agreement may or may not be, but Melania needs to leave him. Not because of what he did with me or other women but because he is a convicted felon. It’s been proven he is abusive; he was found liable for sexual assault and tax fraud and is now a criminal. He’s neither Teflon Don nor Teflon Con anymore.”

Yeah, I imagine Melanie has had a team of lawyers rewriting her prenup every other day to make sure she gets more and more coins the longer he stays with Hair Furor.

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Kevin Maxen, the Jacksonville Jaguars strength coach, celebrating his first Pride since coming out last summer:

“Today I get to celebrate the start of my first Pride Month, as open and true to myself as I possibly could be. With all the fear and concern regarding LGBTQ inclusion in sports, I was very worried about how I would be welcomed and viewed by my peers, but after publicly coming out before the start of training camp this past summer, the Jaguars proved to me that no matter what, who, or how you identify, you are supported, loved and valued.”

The Jaguars were one of the first pro sports teams to share a pro-LGBTQ Pride Month message on June 1; even team owner Shad Khan said:

“Kevin is a Jacksonville Jaguar through and through, and a key member of our football team and community. I look forward to seeing Kevin next week at training camp and hope that he comes to work each day during camp and through the season feeling confident, free and at peace.”

It’s doubtful the Jaguars would have been this on-top of Pride Month without an out coach.

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Adam Schiff, California Democrat Representative, on Hair Furor’s daughter-in-law minion, Lara and her whines about the trial:

“Well, first, in terms of Lara _____’s interview, and her complaining about the case being tried in New York before New York jury, if you don’t want to be tried in front of a New York jury, then maybe don’t commit so many crimes in New York City. It’s pretty simple. And that jury was selected in part by [Hair Furor] and his attorneys. They vetted each of the jurors. He had every right that every other criminal defendant has in that courtroom. And they found—this ordinary jury of peers found him guilty on every single count. So if you don’t want to be tried in New York, don’t commit crimes in New York. But he got the same due process as any other person and that’s exactly the way it should be.”

Facts are facts, Lara.

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Hair Furor, on Fox & Friends Weekends, lying cuz it’s all he does:

“I beat her. It’s easier when you win. And they always said lock her up, and I felt—and I could have done it, but I felt it would have been a terrible thing. And then this happened to me. Hillary Clinton—I didn’t say lock her up, but the people said lock her up, lock her up. Okay. Then, we won. And I say—and I said pretty openly, I said, all right, come on, just relax, let’s go, we’ve got to make our country great. And it would have been—think of it, you lock up the wife of a president of the United States.”

Seriously, how many hundreds of times did he effing say it in front of his cult, in front of a goddamned microphone, in front of a f*cking camera, and now he says he never said it.

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David Sedaris, humorist and author, on the choices for president in 2024:

“I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. ‘Can I interest you in the chicken?’ she asks. ‘Or would you prefer the platter of shit with broken glass in it?’ To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.”

I don’t need the shit and shards of glass, do you?

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John Cena, actor, wrestler, hot man, on supporting his gay brother Steve Cena:

“My brother was like a true nerd, and this is at the height of the 1980s, like Revenge of the Nerds. [But] our town wasn’t yet at the Revenge of the Nerds sort of state. Life was tough for my brother in high school. Not only was he an introvert and interested in computers. He’s also gay. And being gay in the 1980s in a small town in Massachusetts … man, that’s an uphill climb. He just had a lot of character traits that weren’t in the ‘cool kid’ group, and he’s also holding this secret that he can’t tell or talk to anybody about. I really feel for what it must have been like for him growing up. But I also inherited that chapter of his social constructs. And, man, it got me to learn how to lose a few fights [laughs]. That sort of behavior [of feeling protective of my older brother] started like at 10 years old for me. I don’t think I understood what was going on. Kids are harsh. They form cliques real fast. And we always just hung out with each other. There was enough of us to have a basketball team, which means we could do whatever we want. We want to play football or baseball, there’s enough of us. So we didn’t feel [that] we needed anybody else … If we could make it through school and get back to the house, all is fine. [I] took on the role of, ‘Hey, if you say something to [my] brothers, I will do my best to throw myself in harm’s way. It’s going to stop here.’”

Without missing a beat, Cena shut down all of those problematic questions about his older brother being gay. This would’ve already been a great display of allyship in 2024 but twenty-plus years ago it was an even bigger deal.

Hot. Smart. LGBTQ+ Ally; what’s not to love?

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Ken Buck, recently retired GOP Congressman from Colorado, taking Large Marge to CNN:

“My experience with Marjorie [Taylor Greene] is, people have talked to her about not filing articles of impeachment on President Biden before he was sworn into office, on not filing articles of impeachment that were groundless made on other individuals in the Biden administration. And she was never moved by that. She was always focused on her social media account. And Moscow Marjorie is focused now on this Ukraine issue and getting her talking points from the Kremlin and making sure that she is popular and she is getting a lot of coverage.”

Marjorie wants attention so give her attention by voting her overwhelmingly out of office.

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Jesse Watters, Fox “News” host, saying there is no difference between being gay and being transgender:

“We adopted a young child, and at age five, he was playing with dolls, and everybody knew he was gay, or was going to be gay. And it’s not like all of a sudden we took him to the doctor and chopped him off. No one would ever do that … A lot of these people are just gay—or lesbian,” and what they’re doing is they’re intervening in a regular gay or lesbian life, and that’s a new experience, and it never used to be like that.”

Yes, parents of boys who play with dolls take their boys to doctors and have them castrated.

This has got to be the biggest idiot on Fox News, and consider their stable of morons that’s saying something.

Oh, and Jesse doesn’t have an adopted son; he has four biological children, two each from his two wives, and I hope none of them appear gender fluid lest Jesse start castrating them if they’re boys, or forcing his daughters to have phalloplasty if they’re Tomboys.

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Oliver Stark, actor on 9-1-1, clapping back at online trolls upset over his character Buck’s queer storyline:

“Humbled and overwhelmed by the positive reaction to Buck’s storyline. I’ve read so many of your messages, and I couldn’t be prouder. [But] if you are one of the smaller group of people commenting on my posts about how this has ruined the show. I would like you to know that I truly don’t care. This is a show about love and inclusion. It’s featured queer relationships from the very beginning, including a beautiful Black lesbian marriage played out by two of the best actresses I’ve ever watched. If one other character finds a new facet to his sexuality and realizing his bisexuality is your deal breaker—I fear you’ve missed the entire point of the show. [This] new arc is a really nice gift: the opportunity to delve into this storyline, to be involved in telling it. I feel very proud of the work and just to be a part of it.”

Love is love is love. And if you don’t get that, turn off the TV, get back into your cave, and STFU.

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Dan Crenshaw, GOP Congressman from Texas, dismantling Tucker Carlson:

“This is who Tucker is: a click-chaser. Tucker’s MO is simple: defend America’s enemies and attack America’s allies. There isn’t an objective bone left in that washed up news host’s body. Mindless contrarianism is his guiding principle, buttressed by his childish tactic to ‘juSt aSK quEsTiOns!’ But any educated adult, especially one with such a long career in journalism, should occasionally try answering some of those questions objectively. But he never does. Instead, he uses his platform to sow doubt and paranoia and false narratives. He does this for one simple reason: clicks and engagement, which of course translate to monetary benefit. He wants you to believe he is the last place you can go to for truth, that he’s the ONLY one brave enough to reveal the elitist lies being told. This nonsense about Christian mistreatment in Israel is just the latest example. Tucker will eventually fade into nothingness, because his veneer of faux intellectualism is quickly falling apart and revealing who he truly is: a cowardly, know-nothing elitist who is full of shit.”

Wow, when the GOP starts coming for one of their staunchest allies, the party seems likely to crumble. Still, I’ll sit with my popcorn and watch this car wreck.

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Jamie Raskin, Democrat Congressman from Maryland, shutting down a GOP colleague who claimed the Founding Fathers never anticipated this level of undocumented immigrants at the border:

“There was no immigration  law when the Constitution was adopted. In fact, the only illegals in the country, at least according to the Native [American] population, were the people writing the Constitution.”

The GOP likes to pretend that white people were here first but we were, and are, immigrants and the descendants of immigrants in this country.

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Asa Hutchinson, Arkansas GOP governor,, saying Thing #45 is bad for the party:

“Whenever we do not have the president in power from our party, you have divided leadership—you have many different voices. And [the twice-impeached, one-term loser] is dividing our party, and so it’s important that we not unite with someone who is dividing our party. I believe that we need to concentrate on more things that bring us together than to separate us, and going down and seeing former [the twice-impeached, one-term loser], to me, causes more division than anything else.”

How nice to see a Republican stand up against the GQP of today until you realize that Hutchinson is being term-limited out of office, so he’s no Liz Cheney, he just has nothing to lose so he’s pretending to have a spine.

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Tim Walz, Minnesota’s Democrat governor, daring MAGAts to get the vaccine:

“My message to folks is there’s a lot of good reasons to get vaccinated, but for some of them, you know, if you need another one, go get vaccinated so you’re alive to vote against me in the next election. I don’t care. I just want to get it done. It’s not assuming these people are hesitant, they’re ideologically opposed. It’s trying to understand where they’re at, what are the differences.”

I wonder how many MAGAts will do this. Oh hell, probably none, because they only follow the advice of the twice-impeached, one-term loser.

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Joni Ernst, Iowa Republican Senator, and the only woman in Senate Republicans’ elected leadership team, on the GQP efforts to oust Liz Cheney:

“I feel it’s OK to go ahead and express what you feel is right to express and, you know, cancel culture is cancel culture no matter how you look at it. Unfortunately, I think there are those that are trying to silence others in the party.”

Those? It’s practically the entire party, Joni, and you’re one of the ones who always sided with Thing #45, so don’t straddle the fence, dear. Stay on the wrong side where you’ve been all along.

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Paul Boyer, Arizona state GOP Senator, on his party’s continued audit of the 2020election:

“Looking back, I didn’t think it would be this ridiculous. It’s embarrassing to be a state senator at this point. It makes us look stupid.”

What was his breaking point? The search for bamboo ballots or the use of UV lights to find Thing #45’s secret watermarks?

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Adam Kinzinger, Illinois GOP Congressman,  comparing the Republican Party to the Titanic over the push to oust Liz Cheney from her leadership position:

“Right now, it's basically the Titanic. We're like, you know, in the middle of this slow sink. We have a band playing on the deck telling everybody it's fine. And meanwhile, as I've said, you know, [the twice-impeached, one-term loser’s] running around trying to find women's clothing and get on the first lifeboat. And I think there's a few of us that are just saying, ‘Guys, this is not good,’ not just for the future of the party, but this is not good for the future of this country. Liz Cheney is saying exactly what Kevin McCarthy said the day of the insurrection. She's just consistently been saying it. And a few weeks later, Kevin McCarthy changed to attacking other people.”

He added that the Republican Party needs to have “an internal look and a full accounting as to what led to Jan. 6.”

But they won’t do that because their Fearless Leader told them not to … from the golf course.

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Ken Buck, Republican Congressman from Colorado, saying Liz Cheney was  “cancelled” for expressing her opinions of Thing #45:

“Liz Cheney was cancelled today for speaking her mind and disagreeing with the narrative that [the twice-impeached, one-term loser] was putting forward.”

Buck’s support of Cheney is notable due to the fact that Buck is generally viewed as an ally to the former president.

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Liz Cheney, after being ousted from her Congressional leadership role for her refusal to believe the Big Lie:

“I will do everything I can to ensure that the former president never again gets anywhere near the Oval Office. The nation needs a party that is based upon fundamental principles of conservatism, and I am committed and dedicated to ensuring that that’s how this party goes forward, and I plan to lead the fight to do that.”

This is gonna get good.

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Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, on GQPers trying to downplay the Capitol attack as normal:

“Really? Well, I don’t know a normal day around here where people are threatening to hang the vice president of the United States, or shoot the speaker, or disrupt and injure so many police officers. I don’t consider that normal. It was beyond denial, it fell into the range of sick.”

They’re so terrified of Thing #45 that they’ll lie without batting an eye.

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Michael Fanone, Washington DC police officer who was clubbed with a flagpole, repeatedly tased, and suffered a brain injury at the hands of insurrectionists:

“I’m not a politician. I’m not an elected official. I don’t expect anybody to give two shits about my opinions. But I will say this. Those are lies, and peddling that bullshit is an assault on every officer that fought to defend the Capitol. It’s disgraceful.”

It’s The Big Lie, Part II.

The election was stolen and nothing happened on January 6, 2021.

That’s the GOP as of today.

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