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Pete Buttigieg, Transportation Secretary, telling Seth
Meyers on Late Night about proposing to his husband Chasten
in O’Hare Airport at Gate B5: “I found this app that I could check on when it was going to
be quiet at that gate based on when planes were coming and going. I kind of
guided him into that spot, I was like, ‘why don’t you show me that spot where
you first were when we started chatting with each other?’ I invited him to look
out the window there and then got on one knee. I told him it would be a lot
like being in the airport. Life with me would be probably hard to steal private
moments but also full of adventure. And, uh, luckily for me he said ‘yes.'” When Pete and Chasten first communicated on the Hinge app,
Chasten mentioned he was at gate B5 at O’Hare, so when Pete was ready to
propose, he waited until the two of them were going on a vacation, and asked
Chasten to show him the spot where they first “talked.” Damn. Hot. Smart. Romantic. Chasten is one lucky guy, though
I think Pete got lucky, too. |
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Meghan McCain, John McCain’s daughter, dammit, and co-host
of The View, wants President Biden to fire Dr. Anthony Fauci
because he hasn’t said when she can get the vaccine. “The fact I, Meghan McCain, co-host of The View,
don’t know when or how I will be able to get a vaccine because the rollout for
my age range and my health is so nebulous, I have no idea when and how I can
get it. If you call me at 3:00 in the morning, I will go any place at any time
to get it. I want to be responsible and obviously, wait my turn, but this
rollout has been a disaster, and I understand President Trump can take much of
the blame,” McCain continued “Now we’re in the Biden administration, and I
would look for something to look forward to, and to hope for because if getting
the vaccine means that just nothing changes and we have to wait another few
years till everyone gets it, there’s already a lot of people not getting it.
We’re already having a messaging problem getting people to take this vaccine.
So, I’m over Dr. Fauci. I think we need to have more people giving more
opinions and honestly, quite frankly, I think the Biden administration should
remove him and put someone else in place that maybe does understand science, or
can talk to other countries about how we can be more like these places who are
doing this successfully.” Poor Meghan. No special treatment. And also, no words about
the giant fuckup by her party and its leaders in this pandemic, and no
acknowledgement of the strides made in the first four weeks of the Biden
Administration. Take a seat, Karen. |
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Nikki Fried, Florida Agriculture Commissioner,
directing her department not to lower its flags in honor of Rush Limbaugh, who
died last week: “I will not lower the flags at my Department’s state offices
for Rush Limbaugh. Lowering our flag should reflect unity, not division—and raising
our standards, not lowering them. Lowering to half-staff the flag of the United
States of America is a sacred honor that pays respect to fallen heroes and
patriots. It is not a partisan political tool. Therefore, I will notify all
state offices under my direction to disregard the Governor’s forthcoming order
to lower flags for Mr. Limbaugh—because we will not celebrate hate speech,
bigotry, and division. Lowering the flag should always reflect unity, not
division, and raising our standards, not lowering them. Our flags will remain
flying high to celebrate the American values of diversity, inclusion, and
respect for all.” In Florida, y’all. A politician with a backbone and
conviction. |
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Jesse Watters, Fox News host, showing why he’s a Fox News host: “Biden’s never going to be the one to
throw on the bomber jacket and the khakis and go off to Air Force One and show
that his heart is with Texas. Like any other president, Bush, Clinton, Obama,
Trump, they would have already been there, throwing out paper towels or
whatever presidents do to make it look like, for the cameras, that they care. I
mean, politicians have to do that. It is effective because you want to make
sure the country can rally around the recovery. He barely campaigned, I think
he’s barely going to govern.” Perhaps Biden didn’t go because the situation was such a mess and his presence there wouldn’t help? Perhaps he didn’t go because he has better things to do? COVID? Heard of it? Perhaps the idea that you think he should go just for the photo op shows how sad your ‘news’ operation is. Fuck all the way off, hack. |
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President Joe Biden, urging passage of the Equality
Act: “I urge Congress to swiftly pass this historic
legislation. … Full equality has been denied to LGBTQ+ Americans and their
families for far too long. Despite the extraordinary progress the LGBTQ+
community has made to secure their basic civil rights, discrimination is still
rampant in many areas of our society. The Equality Act provides long overdue
federal civil rights protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender
identity, locking in critical safeguards in our housing, education, public
services, and lending systems—and codifying the courage and resilience of the
LGBTQ+ movement into enduring law.” It's equality;
it’s not special treatment. Equality; and
if you think that’s a bad thing there is no helping you. |
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Malcolm Kenyatta, Pennsylvania state Representative,
and Democrat, announced that he’s running for U.S. Senate being vacated by Pat
Toomey: “America is really at a crossroads right now. I think that
was made even more clear by what happened on January 6. And the reality is
there nothing’s written on a tablet somewhere that says America has to succeed.
You know, America succeeds because every generation steps up to protect and
expand the promise of America, a promise that has excluded for too long so many
working families whose lives were tough prior to COVID, and this deadly pandemic
has made those cracks even worse. And so, I know that we have an opportunity
right now to expand that promise, to make sure we that we have a country that
doesn’t just talk about justice and fairness for all but that actually makes it
real, and it’s with faith in that mission and joy in my heart that I’m
announcing here tonight that I’ll be a candidate for the United States Senate
to represent the great commonwealth of Pennsylvania.” Kenyatta, who was Pennsylvania’s first openly LGBTQ
person of color elected to the state’s General Assembly in 2018, would also be
the first openly gay black man elected to the U.S. Senate if elected. Let’s do this! |
