I Didn't Say It ....

James Mattis, the now-former Secretary of Defense, in a message to his department as he exited the White House:

“Our Department’s leadership, civilian and military, remains in the best possible hands. I am confident that each of you remains undistracted from our sworn mission to support and defend the Constitution while protecting our way of life. Our Department is proven to be at its best when the times are most difficult. So keep the faith in our country and hold fast, alongside our allies, aligned against our foes. It has been my high honor to serve at your side. May God hold you safe in the air, on land, and at sea.”

Defend the Constitution …against enemies both foreign and domestic.

His message is clear.

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Calum Scott, British singer, on his LGBTQ anthem “No Matter What” and how he wrote such a personal song:

“‘It just made me feel liberated and a lot more at peace with myself when things I was holding back and suppressing were out on paper. Before I released the album I wasn’t satisfied with where I was at with my sexuality. I wasn’t necessarily happy or proud of my sexuality … No Matter What kind of went in my catalog. I released the album and afterwards I kind of regretted not including it on my debut album. So I spoke to the label and said, ‘you know this is a really personal song but I want to release it. I want it to have its moment.’ So the label said ‘ you know, test it out live.’ I performed it on the Human Tour and in America to thousands of thousands of people and night after night there would be rows and rows and rows of people crying, stirred with their parents, and that really moved me. I cried almost every time that I sang it … As personal as it is, it is probably a song that I’m most proud of.”

And probably the best way to connect with people, and to stand up out loud and proud.

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John Kelly, the outgoing White House Chief of Staff, blaming former Attorney General Jeff Sessions for a policy that led to the separations of migrant families at the border:

“What happened was Jeff Sessions, he was the one that instituted the zero-tolerance process on the border that resulted in both people being detained and the family separation. He surprised us.”

Bull shit. Even if it was Session’s idea, he couldn’t implement it without the approval of _____,and that means Kelly knew about it beforehand, too.

Kelly’s just trying to save his own ass and not be seen as some kind of goose-stepping co-conspirator.

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Louis CK, unfunny asshat and sexual predator, mocking nonbinary people and the Parkland shooting survivors in a “comedy bit” last week:

“[Gender-fluid people act] like royalty. They tell you what to call them … [in lisping voice] … ‘You should address me, as ‘they them’ Because I identify as gender neutral.’ Okay, you should address me as ‘there’ because I identify as a location, and that location is your mother’s cunt. It doesn’t have to be that nasty, but it can be. [And those Parkland students] You’re not interesting because you went to a high school where kids got shot. Why does that mean I have to listen to you? How does that make you interesting? You didn’t get shot. You pushed some fat kid in the way. Now I gotta listen to you talking? Everybody gets upset when there’s a shooting at a high school, I don’t see why it’s worse than anybody else dying, I don’t.”

Seriously, I think someone is purposely trying to ruin his career.

Good.

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Mitt Romney, flip-flopping, again, on _____:

“It is well known that Donald _____ was not my choice for the Republican presidential nomination. After he became the nominee, I hoped his campaign would refrain from resentment and name-calling. It did not. When he won the election, I hoped he would rise to the occasion. His early appointments of Rex Tillerson, Jeff Sessions, Nikki Haley, Gary Cohn, H.R. McMaster, Kelly and Mattis were encouraging. But, on balance, his conduct over the past two years, particularly his actions this month, is evidence that the president has not risen to the mantle of the office.”

So, wait, he wasn’t your choice, but you auditioned for a job in his administration, and when you didn’t get it, you don’t like him again.

Someone is angling to run against _____ in 2020.

Mittsy Flip Flop who once said of _____: “I appreciated the chance to speak with the president-elect and look forward to the coming administration.”

Piss off.

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I Didn't Say It ...

Ivanka “Complicit” _____, whining about that nickname:

"“If being complicit is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact, then I’m complicit. I don’t know that the critics who may say that of me, if they found themselves in this very unique and unprecedented situation that I am now in, would do any differently than I am doing. So I hope to make a positive impact. I don’t know what it means to be complicit, but you know, I hope time will prove that I have done a good job and much more importantly that my father’s administration is the success that I know it will be.”

Um, a force for good? Fuck off, Princess Complicit; your father is destroying the environment, Trans rights, women’s rights, the EPA and our standing in the world.

So, please, Complicit, if you read this, or if you have it read to you, give me one fucking example of the good your father has done.

Just one.

Failing that, go back, sit down, and please, for the love of all that is good in this world, STFU.

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Louis CK, comedian, kind of apologizing for saying, last year, that _____ is Hitler:

“I guess he’s not as profound as I thought he was. I thought he was some new kind of evil, but he’s just a lying sack of s**t …. There’s liars…and then there’s somebody who lies once in awhile….then you have a liar, it’s like a problem. Then you have just a lying sack of s**t. And they like it. He likes it….It’s just gross. He’s just a gross, crook, dirty, rotten, lying sack of s**t.”

Um, yeah, that’s all.

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Roger Stone, a _____ ally, has publicly accused _____’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, of being the leak in the White House:

“Sources tell me the president’s son-in-law enjoys a very lively text exchange with Joe Scarborough, and that Scarborough’s repeated attacks on Steve Bannon, not to mention some of these attacks on the president, clearly are being manipulated by Jared Kushner.”

Yikes, even the allies are turning.

Impeachment will be fun.

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Orrin Hatch, Republican Senator from Utah, rejecting a comparison of the GOP refusal to consider Merrick Garland as SCOTUS nominee, and Democratic opposition to _____’s nominee, Neil Gorsuch:

“[The Democrats are] politicizing this whole process. This is a guy who is a mainstream conservative, which they hate, they don’t like that. And of course, they are still upset about my other friend, Merrick Garland. But the Republicans had every right to delay that within a presidential [election] year.”

Isn’t it funny how Hatch can say Merrick Garland would be a great SCOTUS judge but deny him the opportunity because he was an Obama appointee?

The Republicans can’t even see their own two faces.

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Tina Fey, on educated white women who voted for _____:

“The thing that I kind of keep focusing on is the idea that we sort of need to hold the edges, that it’s sort of like a lot of this election was turned by kinda white college-educated women who would now maybe like to forget about this election and go back to watching [home shopping network] and I would want to urge them, ‘You can’t look away.’ Because it doesn’t affect you this minute but it’s going to affect you eventually. Gains that we’ve made over the past 100 years are under attack. Luckily [vice president] Mike Pence isn’t allowed to go down and shut up Planned Parenthood unless his wife goes with him. So you know, if we can just keep Karen busy scrapbooking — we can all still get Pap smears. Earlier tonight in what is surely an April Fools’ joke, the President proclaimed that next month will be national sexual assault and awareness prevention month … so now we know what he gave up for Lent, that’s good.”

These educated women, and even some with less education looked the other way at the pussy grabbing misogynist and now they’re wondering whom to blame.

It’s you, dear. It’s you.

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John McCain, the GOP’s use of the “nuclear option” in Gorsuch nomination:

“I think it’s a dark day in the history of the United States Senate.”

Good on McCain, until you learn that he’s gonna goose-step along with the GOP.

Fuck off, Grampa.

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I Didn't Say It........

Joe Solmonese, HRC head, on the recent news that the vast majority of NOM's millions come from a handful of wealthy anonymous donors:
"This is extremely unusual--that practically the entire budget of a $9 million national organization is funded by five mysterious individuals or entities. We can only conclude that NOM’s claim to being a grassroots organization representing thousands is phony. Tax returns don’t lie. NOM speaks for a few wealthy anti-LGBT donors and does not speak for the majority of Americans who support marriage equality."


It is rather funny, when NOM lays claims to their millions of supporters, and boasts about how they represent middle America, when, in fact, they represent a handful of people with large wallets.


George Takei, on the 'Twilight' films:
"Gone is any sense of heroism, camaraderie, or epic battle. In its place we have vampires that sparkle, moan and go to high school. Now, I'm not above mixing in a little sex appeal to spice up the fantasy, but sci-fi fans be warned, there are no great stories, characters or profound life lessons to be found in 'Twilight'... In 'Twilight,' the only message that rings through loud and clear is: 'Does my boyfriend like me?'"


I'm with George.
I like my vampires sexy and brooding and dangerous.
Not pouty and sparkly.
Not morose and hangdog.
Teen angst does not make for a good vampire story.

Rick Perry, on Solynda, which is, um, not a country, but a recently bankrupt solar power company:
"I'm for pulling all of those tax credits, or subsidies or however you refer to them out of the energy industry. No greater example of it than this administration sending millions of dollars into the solar industry, and we lost that money. I want to say it was over $500 million that went to the country Solynda."


Oops.
He can't debate. He can't remember three things. He bashes and bullies LGBT people. He doesn't know the names of Supreme Court Justices--though rumor has it he can name all of The Supremes--and he can't tell the difference between a country and a business.
Oops. 

Louis C.K., on Tracey Morgan's homophobic comedy routine:
“I think the opportunity that was lost was for the gay community to ask Tracy, ‘why did you say that’ and ‘what was your dad like’ and ‘what is being a man mean to you,’ you know what I mean? It could have been a starting point of a conversation that might have actually made a difference in how people feel about homophobia.”


I kind of agree.
Whenever someone says something homophobic, we tend to snap, and demand firings and penalties and punishments.
Why not ask Why that was said.
Why not ask Why they think that way.
That's starts a dialogue which might end with enlightenment and education.

Meryl Streep, on what she hopes people learn from her role as Margaret Thatcher in 'The Iron Lady': 
"I would like to think that everybody that got on a subway and saw some old lady sitting across from them, that they would imagine that a whole huge life lay behind all those wrinkles, and that seemingly nondescript, forgettable [face]. I mean, there is almost nothing less interesting in our consumerist society than an old lady. Um ... dismissed. We don’t make movies for her. We don’t give a damn. You can’t sell her anything, she doesn’t buy anything. But just the idea that everything--the whole panoply of human experience, births, deaths, struggles, joy--everything’s in there. And just to imagine that. That’s what I would hope."


Far too often we forget our senior citizens.
And yet, without their struggles and their battles we might not be here today.
If we forget the past, and those who lived and breathed it, we'll never really learn anything, and we'll never really move forward.

Adele, on the success of 21 and her newfound fame:
"Everyone's has their heart broken, innit? And it hurts...And maybe I'm accessible. People always say to me, 'You remind me of my mum,' or 'You remind me of my sister,' as opposed to 'I wish I was you!'"


Oh, I wouldn't want to be Adele.
I simply want to sit back and listen to that Voice.
And hear those Words.

Hulk Hogan, on ex-wife Linda's claim that he has had a long-term homosexual affair with fellow boxer, Brutus Beefcake:
"After the four-year crazy divorce I thought I'd heard everything I could hear in the courtroom. Then, all of a sudden she says I abused her, that I was violent. She told everybody that I was a homosexual...If any of that was true, I would admit it, and (if) I was a homosexual I would embrace it. It's just so crazy to hear, so I have a real problem with it... If you're going to say I'm something that I'm not to try to ruin my career and my livelihood... I have to answer her back. It's so ridiculous. I don't mean to laugh about it, because it's not funny. But it's insane. It doesn't make any sense to me."


Methinks he doth protest too much.
Now, that doesn't mean that i think Hogan is gay--though, wrestling? Really? In bikini briefs? Sounds kinda stereotypically gay.
What bothers me is his rush to say he isn't gay while also saying if he was gay he'd embrace it. If he is so open and accepting of being gay, and being gay wouldn't be a problem for him why would the idea that a batty ex-wife called him gay bother him so?

Bob Garon, the gay veteran who asked GOP presidential candidate Mittsy Romney about marriage equality:
“I was undecided. But I’m totally convinced today that he’s not going to be my president, at least in my book. At least Obama will entertain the idea. This man is ‘no way, Jose.’ Well, take that ‘no way, Jose’ back to Massachusetts. Because I’m gay, alright? And I happen to love a man just like you probably love your wife. Alright? And I think that he or she or whatever are entitled to the same rights that I have....I fought for my country, I did my thing, and I think that my spouse should be entitled to the same entitlements as if I was married to a woman. What the hell is the difference? I was definitely offended. He doesn’t even open the door to a conversation. It’s just a boom! But I did ask him ‘yes or no,’ so I got what I asked for."


It is funny, that for a man who flip-flops so much, depending what he's running for, and where he's running for it, that Mittsy isn't the least bit open to change.
But, give him another four years and I imagine we'll see a whole new Mittsy trying to be president again.

David Axelrod, chief strategist for President Obama, on the increased scrutiny Newt Gingrich will face now that he's the frontrunner:
"I told my colleagues yesterday a bit of homespun wisdom that I got from an alderman in Chicago some years ago when one of his colleagues wanted to run for higher office and he was really dubious. He said, 'Just remember the higher a monkey climbs on a pole, the more you can see his butt.' So, you know, the Speaker is very high on the pole right now and we'll see how people like the view."


Oh dear.
Newt Gingrich's ass?
This will not be good.

Gene Robinson, gay Episcopal Bishop, on Rick Perry's homophobic ad:
"It is breathtaking (and not in a good way) when someone who aspires to be the Commander in Chief denigrates the soldiers he means to command. Just like all the other soldiers in our military, our gay and lesbian soldiers are dodging bullets and IED’s to preserve our rights as Americans. The right of all Americans to represent their country in our military is now the law of the land, a law that Gov. Perry apparently disagrees with and presumably would work to change if elected president.
The blood of gay and lesbian soldiers flows as readily and as readily as that of other young Americans fighting in Afghanistan, yet Gov. Perry feels free to use them as political cannon fodder for his campaign. In an attempt to garner conservative Christian votes, he would stigmatize these brave young men and women who are, as we speak, risking their lives on our behalf. If this is patriotism, count me out!"


Word.