Tuesday Thought #3

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Tuesday Thought #3

 

A Rant: I'm Done

I’m done with his deflections and the lies; I’m over his idiotic, change the narrative Tweets.

With over 100,000 Americans dead—though 35,000 or more who could have been saved had he acted earlier—he Tweets about the fake Obamagate.

With 44 million Americans unemployed, he Tweets some debunked theory about Joe Scarborough murdering someone.

With George Floyd, another black man murdered by a police officer, following Ahmaud Arbery’s murder, following Breonna Taylor’s murder, following Chris Cooper being racially profiled in Central Park, he holds a press briefing and talks about China.

He deflects while Americans die; he deflects while millions are unemployed; he deflects while racism continues to erupt in this country and more black Americans are murdered.

When thousands upon thousands of Americans protest police brutality, he shuts off the White House lights, and hides in a bunker; and then like some chickenshit groundhog, he reappears to declare that he is “YOUR” president, and then fires tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd so he can walk through a park to a church where he was not invited to have a photo op with a Bible.

Here’s the truth about him, no deflections: he has changed policy in ways that affect the lives of millions of Americans, and this should be our focus, not his side show antics. I’m going to remember how he has ruined this country and not some inane three in the morning stuffing Big Macs into his mouth childish Tweet rant. This is what he’s done; this is who he is:

White-collar criminal prosecutions have hit a 33-year low under _____; the rich get away with crime.

His DOJ defends state laws that could kick thousands of people off the voting rolls; it’s called election tampering.

Tens of thousands of people have lost health insurance by his administrative order, and millions are in the process of losing their nutritional assistance; but big pharma keeps making coins.

He’s installing conservative judges at twice Obama’s pace, and has established a conservative majority on the Supreme Court that may endure for decades. Be prepared for changes in a woman’s right to choose; look for changes in LGBTQ equality; in immigration; in healthcare; look for the cessation of any kind of meaningful progress for anyone other than a rich white man.

He gave a permanent tax cut to the richest Americans with his Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 [TCJA]. He said the tax cuts would pay for themselves through faster economic growth, but that hasn’t happened—and thanks to his ineptitude with COVID-19, it’s only gotten worse; the rich get richer, and everyone else loses.

When he ran for office he supported the idea of bringing back Glass-Steagall regulations that would have required the breakup of large financial services companies; in office, he has done the opposite; the rich get richer, and a banking system that was made safer after the 2008 crisis—thanks to Obama—is getting riskier again.

He rolled back environmental regulation; he doesn’t believe in climate change, even though he vowed “to promote clean air and water.”  He has given big boosts to fossil fuel production which comes with a deterioration in air quality … 9,700 more Americans died due to air pollution in 2018 than in 2016, in part due to regulatory changes he put forth; add that to the number of people he’s killed.

He tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act [ACA] but failed in Congress.

He wants to allow states to impose work requirements on their Medicaid programs. He wants to limit federal spending on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program [SNAP]. His tougher work requirements could cost 755,000 people their benefits and new rule changes now make over 3 million beneficiaries of a different anti-poverty program ineligible for SNAP.

But worse than all that; worse than being the president of the one percent and for the one percent, is that he stokes the fires of racism in this country; since 2016, every single racial incident in this country can be traced back to him. He is a racist, plain and simple. Now, that’s not just an opinion, that’s what he says, and does, time and again.

On day one, running for office, he called Mexicans ‘rapists’ and ‘drug dealers’.

He’s locked up immigrants seeking asylum; he’s made that a crime.

He put children in cages after taking them from their families.

He has cut refugee resettlements by over 80%; he’s made it more difficult to get H-1B visas for skilled technology workers and is in the process of stripping their spouses of work permits.

He ended the DACA program, which protected an estimated 800,000 young undocumented immigrants, including 36,000 LGBTQ DREAMers, from detention and deportation. 

Of note, these are aimed only at people of color trying to enter this country; white Europeans who don’t come from “shit hole countries” are welcome.

In 1973 he was accused to racial bias in renting his properties to people of color; he paid a fine and promised to change, but he didn’t. Elyse Goldweber, a Justice Department lawyer who brought the first federal suit against his management company says he told her at one point:

“You know, you don’t want to live with them either.”

He told an architect of one of his buildings to remove the Braille numbering inside his elevators because:

“No blind people are living in my building.”

He took out newspapers ads in every major New York City paper saying that the so-called Central Park Five, a group of black and Latino teens who were accused of raping a white woman in Central Park on April 19, 1989 “should be forced to suffer” and “be executed.” And when those same men were exonerated through DNA evidence and the confession by another individual to the crime, in 2002, he again took out newspaper ads calling the settlement “a disgrace.” In 2016, during his presidential campaign, he once again insisted the men were all guilty and should have been executed.

For a crime they did not commit.

In the early 1990s, he  tried blocking the construction of new Native American casinos in Connecticut and New York that could cut into his casino operations in Atlantic City—of note, every single one of his casinos went into bankruptcy. He again took out ads claiming there would be illegal drug use at those casinos.

He also claimed before the House Subcommittee on Native American Affairs of the Committee on Natural Resources that there was a lot of corruption and organized crime around Native American casinos, but when asked to prove his claim, he said the FBI had the evidence—the same FBI he would call corrupt in 2016; he did not produce a single shred of evidence.

He also asked that the hearing examine some Native American tribes’ application as Indian tribes because, saying:

“They don’t look like Indians to me.”

In the summer of 2005, he pitched an idea for an upcoming season of The Apprentice: a black versus white season; seriously; the concept never made it to air, but his treatment of black contestants on his show generated controversy.

He criticized one such contestant, Kevin Allen, a graduate of Emory University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Chicago, for being too educated as a black man, and said that Allen was an intimidating figure to the women on the show.

In 2005, he asked Randal Pinkett, a black man who won that season, to share his title with the white runner-up, Rebecca Jarvis. Pinkett refused.

In February 2011, this statement made at the Conservative Political Action Conference, marked his inching toward a presidential campaign, when a speaker said of Barack Obama:

“Our current president came out of nowhere, came out of nowhere … The people who went to school with him—they never saw him; they don’t know who he is.”

Birtherism had been festering for several years until _____ embraced it; in March, on The View, he called on Obama to show his birth certificate, while in April, he said that he had sent a team of investigators to search for Obama’s birth records.

His embrace of birtherism appears to have started when a Manhattan developer proposed an Islamic cultural center on a site in Lower Manhattan; the so-called Ground Zero mosque. In 2010, on the Late Show, he told David Letterman:

“I think it’s very insensitive to build it there. I think it’s not appropriate.”

When Letterman pushed back, saying that blocking an Islamic facility would be akin to declaring “war with Muslims,” he replied:

“Somebody’s blowing up buildings, and somebody’s doing lots of bad stuff.”

Muslims are terrorists.

He again stoked Muslim sentiment while appearing on Fox News’ The Laura Ingraham Show when he said of Obama:

“He doesn’t have a birth certificate, or if he does, there’s something on that certificate that is very bad for him. Now, somebody told me—and I have no idea whether this is bad for him or not, but perhaps it would be—that where it says ‘religion,’ it might have ‘Muslim.’” 

This all came after he lied about seeing Muslims in New Jersey cheer as the towers fell on 9/11.

On April 27, 2011, Obama released his long-form birth certificate, and a few days later, at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Obama and comedian Seth Meyers mocked _____’s birther claims, leaving him red-faced and seething as the crowd laughed at him.

And so, he bashed back; in May 2012, he told the CNN host Wolf Blitzer that “a lot of people do not think it was an authentic certificate.” In August, he called the birth certificate “a fraud.” Finally, in September 2016, under political pressure during his presidential campaign, he finally acknowledged that Obama had in fact been born in the United States, but in private he was still swearing that Obama’s birth certificate was fraudulent.

Minutes after being was sworn into office, any mention of the LGBTQ community was erased from White House, Department of State, and Department of Labor websites; we were invisible.

After previously committing to protecting LGBTQ Americans from discrimination, _____ drafted a "License to Discriminate" executive order which would usher in across-the-board discrimination against the LGBTQ community. 

He rescinded Title IX protections for transgender students in our nation's schools. 

Under his proposed budget, he offered to cut HIV and AIDS research funding under the National Institutes of Health [NIH].

He has consistently declined to issue a presidential proclamation designating June as LGBTQ Pride Month, breaking with an eight-year precedent set by President Barack Obama to honor and support LGBTQ Americans during Pride Month; he says The Gays love him.

Vice President Michael Elizabeth Pence advocated for removing healthcare benefits for transgender servicemembers. Days later, _____ used Twitter to announce a ban on transgender Americans from serving in "any capacity" in the U.S. military, and threatened to fire 15,000 currently serving troops.

In 2017 he left out the LGBTQ community and people of color in his World AIDS Day Proclamation.

He backed the position that businesses owners should be able to put up signs saying they won’t serve gays. 

He fires the entire White House Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS.

He rolled back protections for incarcerated transgender people that were intended to mitigate their exposure to sexual assault and abuse, allowing the Bureau of Prisons to “use biological sex as the initial determination for designation” when placing trans people for housing, screening, and programs and services.

In December 2018, his administration discharged two service members in the Air Force after disclosing their HIV-positive status to the Department of Defense. 

His administration announced plans implement a new policy to allow adoption agencies to deny LGBTQ couples the ability to adopt based on so-called "religious exemptions."

His administration announced a new policy stating transgender Americans would not be guaranteed health care protections under the ACA.

After using the Pulse shooting as a campaign move in 2016, he has continually failed to recognize the anniversaries of the shooting at Orlando's Pulse Nightclub, which killed 49 LGBTQ people. 

He enacted a Muslim ban.

He created a commission to investigate voter fraud—which is virtually nonexistent—claiming that he would have won the popular vote but for millions of ballots cast by illegal immigrants in this country.

He shut down the government for 35 days in an attempt to secure funding for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

He referred to African countries as “shithole” nations—asking why the U.S. can’t have more immigrants from Norway instead—and complained that, after seeing America, immigrants from Nigeria would never “go back to their huts.”

His administration favored victims of Hurricane Harvey, which hit Houston over those of Hurricane Maria, which hit Puerto Rico. He sent three times as many workers to Houston and approved 23 times as much money for individual assistance in Houston than in Puerto Rico.

August 11, 2017. Hundreds of neo-Nazis and white supremacists descended onto the University of Virginia’s campus in Charlottesville chanting “Jews will not replace us” and a Nazi slogan,  “Blood and soil” to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, called it a “turning point” for his own movement, which seeks to “fulfill the promises of Donald ____.”

August 12, 2017. DeAndre Harris, a black man, was beaten by at least four white supremacists, while later that same day, James Alex Fields Jr., a white supremacist from Ohio, drove his Dodge Challenger into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring 35 others.

So, you have a black man beaten by white supremacists, and a woman killed by a white supremacist, and what does _____ do? From a golf course, he denounced “this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides.” He paused, then repeated: “On many sides.” The next day he walked back his initial statement and specifically condemned “the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups.” A day after that, he walked back his walk-back, saying there were “very fine people on both sides.”

White-nationalist leaders welcomed his remarks. That speaks volumes.

And this past month, as white MAGA hat wearing asshats took assault weapons and stormed several state capitals because they were tired of the lockdown and wanted a hamburger and some new highlights, he called them “very good people.”

But when black Americans, sick of yet another police murder of an unarmed black man, took to the streets to protest racism in this country, he called them “thugs,” and then said, “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”

That’s a lot to digest, I know. But it just shows how much damage he’s done to this country, to people of color, to minorities, to the LGBTQ community, to the poor, the disenfranchised, while we’ve all been focusing on idiotic Tweets and publicity stunts.

I’m done with that. I will not discuss his stunts any longer. I will just keep saying, and saying loudly, until November 3, 2020, that he has fucked this country.

And it’s time to unfuck it.

Vote out a racist.

Vote out a thug.

Vote out a man who has done nothing for anyone other than rich white men and his own family.

Vote out a rapist.

Vote out a pussy grabber.

Vote him out.

Bobservations

Well well well…yesterday one of the nation’s largest sports retailers, Dick’s Sporting Goods, announced it was immediately ending sales of all assault-style rifles in its stores and that they would no longer sell guns to anyone under 21 years of age, regardless of local laws.

And then Walmart announced the minimum age to buy guns in their stores would be raised to 21.

And so it begins …

For eight years we endured gun nuts and the NRA telling Americans that Obama was coming for their guns and yet that never happened.

And now the NRA’s $30 million man, _____, has said he favors taking guns away from people who might commit violence before going through legal due process.

And yet I’m not hearing outcry. Why?

And we all know _____ wants to arm teachers, but maybe he needs to give that some thought … or any thought.

Jesse Randal Davidson, a teacher from Dalton High School in Georgia was arrested yesterday after firing a handgun inside his classroom and sending panicked students running for their lives.

Armed teachers.

Donald Trump’s closest adviser, former model …. Yes, I said “model” …  Hope Hicks is resigning one day after she testified for eight hours before the House Intelligence Committee, telling them she had to tell white lies for Trump.

She admitted she lies for the president. Again, where’s the GOP outrage?

I remember a few weeks back when people, including myself, poked fun at Michele Bachmann for saying she was waiting for a sign from God to tell her if she should run for Al Franken’s former Senate seat,

God told her no. This week, Oprah, still pushing that ‘Will she or won’t she’ bullshit, says she is also asking God to tell her if she should run:

“I went into prayer… ‘God, if you think I’m supposed to run, you gotta tell me, and it has to be so clear that not even I can miss it.’ And I haven’t gotten that.”

Um, yeah, Oprah, cuz God doesn’t want you to run, so why not close your cakehole, because I’m sure it’s filled with cake, and be quiet.

In What The Hell Was He Thinking News … last week Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner drank a glass of chocolate milk to demonstrate his belief in diversity:

“It’s really, really good. Diversity!”

It all happened because of Hyatt Hotels diversity and inclusion executive Tyronne Stoudemire, who appeared with Rauner at Chicago’s Thompson Center to discuss workplace diversity at a Black History Month event. Stoudemire, who is black, poured a glass of milk to represent the white men who lead most organizations:

“This chocolate syrup represents diversity.”

Stoudemire squirted chocolate syrup into the glass and it instantly sank to the bottom.

“When you look at most organizations, diversity sits at the bottom of the organization. You don’t get inclusion until you actually stir it up.”

Rauner then stirred the syrup into the milk, turning it brown, and he took a sip and pronounced it good.

Seriously.

I like Dianne Feinstein, one of the nation’s best-known and longest-serving politicians, but let’s face it, even she needs to go sometime. She is 84-years-old and has been serving as the senator from California since 1992.

This week at their state convention, did not endorse Feinstein for reelection. Fifty-four% of delegates endorsed Feinstein’s opponent, state senator Kevin de León, a Democrat from Los Angeles, while just 37% supported Feinstein.

Feinstein has done a wonderful job, but if she wins reelection she’ll be 91 at the end of the next term. Don’t we need some new blood in the Senate?

So, Delta decided to no longer offer discounts to NRA members and the Georgia GOP—the same GOP that begs folks not to politicize gun deaths—has blocked a lucrative tax break bill that would benefit Delta Air Lines because Delta chose to say No to the NRA.

Georgia Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle says he will not support tax legislation that help the airline “unless the company changes its position and fully reinstates its relationship with the NRA.”

Huh, extortion much?

Delta, which has been based in Atlanta for nearly 80 years, is the state’s largest private employer, with 33,000 workers statewide and $300 million in state and local tax revenue annually.

And, if Democrats elsewhere have it their way, that could all end …. see, after the Georgia GOP threatened Delta, Democrats in other states responded by publicly wooing Delta.

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam Tweeted: 

“Virginia is for lovers and airline hubs.”

Kathy Hochul, the lieutenant governor of New York also Tweeted: 

“You’re welcome here any time. Move HQ to where you’re appreciated?”

Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin Tweeted at Delta:

“Let’s Chat.”

Careful who you threaten Georgia.

Sorry, not sorry, but former drug company executive and asshat Martin Shkreli will be held responsible for $10.4 million in financial losses when he is sentenced for defrauding investors.

U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto rejected his argument that he did not cause any losses because his investors eventually came out ahead. The ruling could mean more prison time for Shkreli, since the amount of financial loss plays a major role in federal sentencing guidelines.

Again, sorry, not sorry.

In Hypocrisy news … Kentucky Kounty Clerk Kim Davis has written a book—and I didn’t think she could even read—called Under God’s Authority: The Kim Davis Story in which Kimmy details her personal experience from the moment Kentucky’s governor ordered the state’s county clerks to issue same-sex marriage licenses, throughout her arrest and release from jail.

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee calls it “a great read!”

Bigoted Franklin Graham says, “in a culture that demeans people who obediently follow Jesus, Kim Davis drew on His strength as she experienced—and endured—persecution from the culture, the court, and the crowds, and survived to tell about it all in her compelling book Under God’s Authority.”

God says “The fuck you talkin’ bout Kim? How many sanctified marriages have you had and how many spouses did you cheat on? Siddown.”

So, my boss’ son also works with us, and, well, you know how I am … the other day at work he was showing a picture of his mother to a co-worker who remarked how young Mama looked.

Son said, “When I was in high school people thought she was my girlfriend.”

I said, “Well, that’s because you went to prom with your mom.”

Son said, “I didn’t go to prom with my mom!”

I said, “Oh yeah, that was Homecoming, you went to prom with your sister.”

And I’m still employed.

Republicans are worried that former state Senator Steve Montenegro will “pull a Roy Moore” and lose a reliably red Arizona congressional seat if he wins Tuesday’s special primary election. Montenegro is running for a seat vacated by GOP Congressman Trent Franks who announced he was resigning t after the House Ethics Committee began investigating accusations of sexual harassment against him; Franks offered a staffer $5 million to carry his baby.

But Montenegro, a married minister, admitted that he had exchanged in a sexting relationship with a junior state legislative staffer for months, including receiving nude photos from the woman. The woman says those exchanges followed conversations during which Montenegro “groomed” her for an affair.

Arizona? Say No Moore to Montenegro.

Okay … to be completely honest, while I am no fan of cheating GOP ministers, Montenegro is hot.

And a palate cleanser … staring with Marcc Rose, playing Tupac in Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G.. Then there’s the always adorable Chris Pine from Wonder Woman … yes, we just saw Wonder Woman. And lastly Lucien Laviscount, gosh, I love that name, it sounds like a vampire, who was the only good … shirtless … thing in a horror film called The Bye Bye Man.

Just sayin’.

Another GOP Groper Resigns

Oklahoma State Senator Bryce Marlatt, a Republican, because of course, has resigned his position after being accused of sexually assaulting a female Uber driver; Marlatt, a married father of four, is charged with felony sexual battery.

Marlatt was charged after an Uber driver claims he grabbed her by the head and kissed her neck after she picked him up from an Oklahoma City restaurant. She says Marlatt stumbled into her car, said, “Hey, you got nice t—,”and then, during the ride, he grabbed her and kissed her neck and shoulder. He told her that if she worked for him then he would ‘feel’ her up,” and then asked her back to his hotel to have a drink with him.

She declined, because she had a date with the police to report the pussy-groping Republican.

At first, Marlatt tried to deny the allegations but when he was asked by reporters if the story was true, he walked out of the room without saying a word.

Silence is deafening.

Sick, you know, but what about the pussy grabber in the White House who stands accused of sexual harassment by at least 16 women?

Where’s that outrage?

PS This isn't Marlatt's first time being the drunken fool. That mugshot was from when he was arrested after being discovered passed out drunk in his car in 2014.

And Oklahomans kept him in office.

Just sayin.

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Bobservations

So, I’m over, or getting over, my bad cold thingy, but I will say this: I am a horrible patient. I prefer to take care of myself because, well, who knows me better than me? So, I don’t take kindly to anyone, even Carlos, telling me what I should be doing. As I politely shrieked at him last week:

“I know we’ve been together seventeen years, but in all the years before I ever knew you I managed to keep myself alive, so I think I know what’s best for me!!!!!!”

Best to read that in high-pitched, sore throat, stuffy nose howler monkey realness to get the full effect.

Also, I slept in the guest room for a week, so Carlos wouldn’t get it sick, so I’m not all mean, right? And all of the cats, even Consuelo Roca-Jones, came into the guest room to sleep with me, and I told Carlos that I thought they were a trio of death cats watching and waiting for me to take my last breath.

Carlos, on the other hand, was miffed, saying he was hurt they moved out of the master bedroom to sleep with me and not him; he said the cats liked me more. I, in the throes of my howler monkey realness, said:

“They don’t like me more … they love me more.”

Even sick, I got it.

This week Mississippi state Representative Credell Calhoun … a Democrat fer f**ks sake … introduced a bill that would require Mississippi school teachers to read the Ten Commandments every day in the first hour of class.

In.Public.School.

Oh, and in addition to the Ten Commandments recitation, teachers would be required to display the Commandments prominently in every classroom, school auditorium, and cafeteria.

Separation of church and state? Not in Credell’s idiotic brain.

And don’t get me started on how bad many public-school systems in this country are doing, and this tool wants to take time out to read the Ten Commandments?

Tide Pods? Really? Eating Tide Pods is a thing? Eating detergent is a pastime? I mean, I get it if you’re, say, under four-years-old, but anyone over that age who thinks ingesting a cleanser is cool or fun or “the in thing” needs to be watched 24/7.

We’ve seen all kinds of GOP Congressmen and Senators refuse to hold Town Halls with their constituents out of fear that their constituents will arrive with metaphorical pitchforks, but GOP Asshat Extraordinaire Tom Cotton really takes the cake.

His office in Arkansas recently sent out cease-and-desist letters to constituents who contact his office with concerns. Cotton has also threatened citizens with legal action if they continue to express their opinion and reach out to his staff.

Someone needs to tell Senator Dumbfuck that he works for those constituents and if they wanna talk, he needs to pull his lips off _____’s fat flabby pasty cold, spanked with a Forbes magazine, and listen to them.

Or be removed from office.

Ryan Murphy’s new season of American Crime Story started last week, and this season is The Assassination of Gianni Versace. I didn’t think I’d be as interested as last year’s OJ story, but I was hooked after the first episode, mostly because former Glee boy, Darren Criss, is playing Versace killer Andrew Cunanan. I mean, he was a cute boy on Glee, but he’s chilling as a sociopath in this story.

Of course, the butt shot didn’t hurt anything, cuz, you know, I’m shallow like that.

Well, it is Texas so …

Judge Jack Robison, a Comal County judge, said God told him to intervene in jury deliberations to sway jurors to return a not guilty verdict in the trial of a Buda woman accused of trafficking a teen girl for sex. Robison defended his actions by telling them “when God tells me I gotta do something, I gotta do it.”

Luckily, the jurors were as inclined to listen to Robison as they were to his version of ‘God’ and went against his wishes and found Gloria Romero-Perez guilty of continuous trafficking of a person and sentenced her to 25 years in prison.

Like I said, it is Texas …

Poor Chris Christie. No sooner than he is out of office then he is treated like an ordinary person. No scooting to the front of the line at Krispy Kreme; no special made Sansi-Belt-Expand-O-Waist pants at wholesale prices; no more skipping the TSA checkpoint at the airport.

Christie tried to circumvent a TSA checkpoint at Newark Liberty International Airport last week, with his State Police detail, but a TSA officer said, “Oh hell no.”

He told Krispy Kreme he is no longer allowed to use that access and put him in line with the regular folks.

Oh, the hypocrisy …. Pennsylvania Republican Representative Patrick Meehan, who has taken a leading role in fighting sexual harassment in Congress, used thousands of dollars in taxpayer money to settle his own misconduct complaint after a former aide accused him of making unwanted romantic overtures to her.

Seriously. If they’re homophobes shouting anti-LGBT statement from the rooftops, they’re highly likely to be closeted homosexuals, and now, if they’re out there trying to protect women from sexual harassment, they’re the ones doing the harassing.

It’s like this: whatever a GOP politician says is the wrong thing to do, you can almost bet they’re doing it.

TMZ caught Suzanne Somers leaving an LA restaurant and asked her about the shutdown and _____:

“I’m happy about him. I’m happy that the economy is doing so much better…and now my career is over.”

Funny. I thought her career was over decades ago.

Lastly … The Mens.

Back in the 90s I rad a book … a book? That is so last century … called The Alienist … part murder mystery, serial killer thriller, and history lesson set in New York City at the turn of the previous century. Now, twenty years later it has come to television in a 10-part series and looks incredible.

Of course, it doesn’t hurt that one of the stars is tall, dark, handsome, and openly gay, Luke Evans, who gives me the tingles.

And it doesn’t hurt that it co-stars Falk Hentschel, as a sultry sexy brothel owner, and sexy Brian Geraghty as NY Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt.

Good story, gorgeous filmmaking and some hot guys.

Rings all my bells.