I Didn't Say It

Clare O’Neil, Australia’s home affairs minister, after Junior’s tour of the country was postponed and he blamed “cancel culture”:

“Geez, [Junior] is a bit of a sore loser. His dad lost an election fair and square—but he says it was stolen. Now he’s trying to blame the Australian government for his poor ticket sales and cancelled tour. [Junior] has been given a visa to come to Australia. He didn’t get cancelled. He’s just a big baby, who isn’t very popular.”

Junior was scheduled to speak in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne but the events were cancelled due to poor ticket sales.

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Richard Grenell, former Acting Director of National Intelligence for Thing 45, lying about LGBTQ+ support for Thing 45:

“Rank and file gays and lesbians, regular gays and lesbians across this country, they’ve had it. There’s at least four out of ten, or I would almost argue five out of ten are supporting Republicans and [Thing 45]. They’ve just have had it with this left who are not able to sit and listen. They’ve lost their mission.”

In 2020, a poll of LGBTQ+ voters commissioned by GLAAD found that 14% voted for Thing 45 but Grenell thinks that number has tripled?

Grenell, a self-loathing homosexual, is wrong.

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Stephanie Grisham, former White House press secretary, says she saw Thing 45 show classified documents to Mar-a-Lago guests:

“I watched him show documents to people at Mar a Lago on the dining room patio. So he has no respect for classified information. Never did. You know, listening to that exchange every time, it just makes me so angry. He talks specifically that he should have declassified it, but he didn’t. So there, I think, is proof. I believe also there’s a portion of that audio where he says, you know, this is off the record. And I know [Thing 45] knows the rules of reporters and he knows if it needs to be off the record that they can’t talk about it. So I think he was covering himself in that regard.”

While I can appreciate Grisham sharing this story and perhaps even testifying, why she said nothing at the time, in the days following her seeing Thing 45 break the law, pisses me off.

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Ted Lieu, California Democrat Congressman, on Large Marge’s call for expunging Thing 45 impeachment trials:

“There is no such thing known as an expungement of an impeachment in the United States Constitution. This is totally a made-up process. It is nothing more than a glorified press release with a fake vote. And by the way, with the second impeachment, there was bipartisan support in the House and the Senate. Fifty-seven US Senators on a bipartisan basis voted to convict, the highest in US history. But you can’t just erase that. It was televised. Otherwise, people saw it. And this is more stupid stuff from a radical Republican caucus.”

And now comes word that the Freedom Caucus, the caucus of the craziest MAGAts in Congress, have voted to expel Marjorie Taylor Greene for not being crazy enough.

Both sides find her a waste of breath.

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Pete Buttigieg, Transportation Secretary, on Ron DeSantis’ campaign ad that spliced DeSantis between pictures of shirtless men while trying to paint Thing 45 as LGBTQ-friendly:

"You know, I'm going to choose my words carefully, partly because I'm appearing as secretary, so I can't talk about campaigns, and I'm going to leave aside the strangeness of trying to prove your manhood by putting up a video that splices images of you in between oiled-up shirtless bodybuilders, and get to the bigger issue that is on my mind whenever I see this stuff in the policy space, which is, again, who are you trying to help? You know, we're focused as an administration on how to get things done to make people better off."

And DeSaster is focused on discrimination and hate and racist policies and bigger government coming into people’s homes to checks their kids and the books they read.

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I Didn't Say It

Leo Herrera, Mexican writer and LGBTQ+ activist, on ‘Don’t say Gay’:

“’Don’t Say Gay’ gives me church giggles. They’re still trying to get rid of us? When will they understand our Queerness floats to the top like cream and explodes when it’s buried? They can draft their bills, and ban our books and social media, wipe the cream pie off Anita Bryant’s face, clear their priests Grindr history but it’s too late. Queerness can’t be contained because it is the container. The hinges on Pandora’s box and the rub marks on Aladdin’s lamp. The sea glass their child already picked up, while they shielded their eyes from our sun and turned their back on our ocean. Volatile, elemental, sacred, everywhere, sacred. Always.”

Everywhere. Always. That’s Gay.

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Dan Ball, OAN host, saying Ukraine is bombing its own country:

“I know as a vet, our country’s guilty of it, other countries do it all the time. During war, there’s propaganda. Today we learn that a hospital was hit. Children were killed, dozens were injured, right? In Mariupol, in Ukraine. Russia immediately says, we didn’t hit that hospital. They’re saying Russia did. We know there’s special operatives and, if you will, undercover forces within the Ukrainian military that do Zelenskyy’s bidding. I’m not saying somebody staged this to make things look worse, but they haven’t denied other—hitting other stuff. They immediately denied hitting this hospital. And we know there’s been false stories out in the media already about this war.”

So, in not saying Ukraine is bombing itself, he tries to suggest Ukraine is bombing itself.

Ball is the same moron who claimed hundreds of thousands of—nameless and faceless—people have died from COVID vaccines. He says the things he says without a shred of proof and expects people to simply buy his lies.

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William Barr, Thing 45’s lying cheating henchman, on his former boss’ reaction to the 2020 election:

“It was certainly unsettling when I went in to talk to the president about the election and you know, he was livid and shaking and showed a lot of temper and yelling. That was a little unsettling. But the other thing that was actually unsettling was later when I went in to actually give him my letter of resignation, he started talking about how he had actually won the election and how the machines were rigged and that he was actually going to be there for another term. And he was very confident of that. And I just felt this showed a detachment from reality that was stunning to me. He was willing to accept anything, no matter how fanciful, as long as it didn’t make him a loser in the election. The truth is he lost the election. I understand a lot of these very sensational stories come out online and in social media but they’re simply not accurate.”

He saw firsthand the lunatic going off the deep end, and he believes Thing 45 incited the insurrection, and he writes a book detailing the horrors of the man, and yet he’ll vote for him in 2024 if he runs.

Oh, Billy, you traitorous lying complicit blob of flesh.

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Stephanie Grisham, former Thing 45 Press Secretary, on her job embarrassing her gay son:

“This one is personal to me. Because of my former boss. I have a 14-year-old son who is gay. Recently came out as gay. I have his permission to talk about this. He didn’t want to tell his friends where I worked. He was ashamed of where I worked, rightfully so, but also the fact that there’s this ‘Don’t Say Gay’—even slogan—out there, it’s making children feel different. It’s creating a problem where I don’t think there is one.”

How sad her fourteen-year-old son knew more about life and the homophobia of her boss before she did. It just proves gay folks are smarter than other folks.

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Christina Pushaw, Flori-duh Governor Ron DeSantis’ press secretary, about calls from Florida lawmakers for her firing or resignation for her comments on that Don’t Say Gay’ bill’—she says opponents of the bill are pedophiles:

 “I don’t regret raising concerns about child safeguarding. The only people who singled out the LGBT community are the opponents of the bill, who have been baselessly accusing us of homophobia—when the bill itself doesn’t single out the LGBT community or even mention the word “gay.”

The bill says:

“Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students.”

If you cannot mention LGBTQ+ people, you dumbass, you’re singling them out. Just like if Flori-duh had a Don’t Show Ugly bill, it’d single you out. Hon.

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Joni Madison, the Human Rights Campaign’s [HRC] interim president on Disney’s refusal to condemn ‘Don’t Say Gay,’ but offered a $5 million donation to the group:

“The Human Rights Campaign will not accept this money from Disney until we see them build on their public commitment and work with LGBTQ+ advocates to ensure that dangerous proposals, like Florida’s Don’t Say Gay or Trans bill, don’t become dangerous laws, and if they do, to work to get them off the books. Businesses have had and continue to have a major impact in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights, from marriage equality to the defeat of House Bill 2 in North Carolina and beyond. While Disney took a regrettable stance by choosing to stay silent amid political attacks against LGBTQ+ families in Florida—including hardworking families employed by Disney—today they took a step in the right direction. But it was merely the first step. HRC encourages Disney, and all employers, to continue to fight for their employees—many of whom bravely spoke out to say their CEO’s silence was unacceptable—and the LGBTQ+ community by working with us and state and local LGBTQ+ groups to ensure these dangerous anti-equality proposals that harm LGBTQ+ families and kids have no place in Florida. Every student deserves to be seen, and every student deserves an education that prepares them for health and success—regardless of who they are. This should be the beginning of Disney’s advocacy efforts rather than the end.”

Disney has been in hot water ever since it was revealed that the company not only donated to the GOP sponsors of the bill and refused to take a public stance against it. But, after public and employee outcry, at the annual shareholders meeting this week, Disney CEO Bob Chapek declared for the first time that Disney does not support the bill.

Now, come out publicly and say it, Bob, and stop donating to homophobes and transphobes and bigots.

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Bobservations

This is one of those hard posts to write, you know, admitting a terrible truth because you simply cannot hold it in any longer, lest it continue to damage your psyche. So, um, yeah, here goes … Carlos has become Donald … dear god, I don’t know if I can say it … he’s Thing 45.

See, Carlos has joined a group promoting HIV testing and awareness for the Latino community in South Carolina. The group will be run within the guidelines of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control [DHEC] and Carlos is one of the group leaders. Of course, I was so proud of him and his desire to help and educate people, especially in an underserved community, but then he became … Thing 45.

The group was asked to create a logo  and they reached out to a local graphic artist who produced several ideas. I have a background in graphic arts and Carlos showed me some of the samples. I picked one and explained why I thought it best, but, after a group vote, another logo was chosen, and that was where Carlos turned to the Orange Side.

He did not like the outcome of that election, and so he began plotting a new election that might give him the results he wanted and said that some of the people who voted may not have seen all that they needed to see, and so their votes didn’t count.

Yes, my husband perpetuated a Big Lie. He’s Thing 45 … and, good goddess, does that mean  I’m Melanie????

On the upside, the logo chosen that he didn’t like, and neither did I, was nixed by DHEC as looking too political and so it was redone, and now Carlos likes it and has stopped demanding a recount.

In a nutshell, and Texas is all nutshell, guns are good, but being able to vote easily and fairly is bad.

Once more for the people in the back, raising the debt ceiling is not about preventing the government from spending more money, it’s about paying back money the government already spent, like the $7.8 trillion in debt that Thing 45 and the complicit GOP racked up in the last four years.

The GOP will fuck America rather than pay its bills.

The tide may be changing … in Kansas, Ian Camacho organized a protest on behalf of Look Ahead America to nonviolently express his views and meet people seeking justice for the January 6th insurrectionists.

Five people showed up.

Seriously.

US District Court Judge Robert Pitman has blocked enforcement of Texas' new abortion law, saying that from the moment it went into effect "women have been unlawfully prevented from exercising control over their lives in ways that are protected by the Constitution."

Smack.Down.

After news of yet another school shooting in Texas, Ted Cruz offered thoughts and prayers for about ten seconds, and then said, “We are here today because of the Biden border crisis."

The GOP stops caring about children once they’re out of the womb.

Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham on Monday said it was a mistake to work for the former President.

Not a mistake, however, was to write a book and try to make some money off a bad decision, eh Steph?

Piss off.

I found this kind of shocking, but this week, for the first time in history, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was guarded by an all-female team.

Better far too late than never.

Carlos has always wanted to live in Scotland and now so do I.

This week Scotland has made history by becoming the first country in the world to make teaching LGBTQ+ history in schools mandatory.

Good news!

In this week’s edition of Would You Hit It we have Aleksandar Rusić, a German fashion model who has worked for everyone from Giorgio Armani and Carlo Pignatelli to Calvin Klein and Dolce & Gabbana.

But that matters not: Would YOU hit it? 

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Michael de Adder, Darrin Bell, Clay Bennett, Ann Telnaes, Jim Morin, Nate Beeler, Bill Bramhall, Steve Sack, RJ Matson, Kevin Siers, Drew Sheneman, John Cole, Mike Luckovich

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