I Didn't Say It

Arnold Schwarzenegger, former California governor, speaking to the Russian people and soldiers:

“Your lives, your limbs, and your futures are being sacrificed for a senseless war condemned by the entire world. So every bullet you shoot, you shoot a brother or a sister. Every bomb or every shell that falls is falling not on an enemy but on a school or hospital or a home.”

Stop. Speak up. End this.

Ans that goes for you America, too.

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Madison Cawthorn, Nazi youth poster boy, admitting he is a traitorous mother f%ker in a newly unearthed video of his call to Charlie Kirk’s podcast during the Capitol riot:

“I’m safe. As you know I believe in the Second Amendment as well as a lot of other members, so we are armed. We are in a safe location. I can’t disclose where. You know obviously having the wheelchair I am able to carry many, multiple weapons at one time. So you know, everyone around me is armed.”

So, he helped get weapons into a federal building during an insurrection?

Why isn’t this son of a bitch in cuffs?

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William Barr, former Attorney General, stood by the idiotic false comments he made before the 2020 election that mail voting was vulnerable to fraud:

“My view is that in such a closely divided country with so much at stake, we have to keep strong protections against fraud and protect the integrity of the election, and I think when they are diluted and reduced—which they were—then people are not going to have confidence in the election, whether or not fraud occurs.”

So, he denounced Thing 45’s assertions of voter fraud  but says there was voter fraud even though the only voter fraud uncovered has been on the GOP side with MAGAts casting votes for Barr’s old boss. Have I got that queer, Bill,  you lying POS?

PS Bill has a book to sell, so staying stupid shit is getting him all kinds of press.

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Bob Chapek, Walt Disney Co. CEO, apologizing to employees at the company for the company’s handling of Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ and said Disney would be pausing political donations in the state:

“Thank you to all who have reached out to me sharing your pain, frustration and sadness over the company’s response to the Florida ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill. Speaking to you, reading your messages, and meeting with you have helped me better understand how painful our silence was. It is clear that this is not just an issue about a bill in Florida, but instead yet another challenge to basic human rights. You needed me to be a stronger ally in the fight for equal rights and I let you down. I am sorry.”

Now, maybe to stand up for the LGBTQ+ Americans, rather than ‘pause’ donations, howsabout stopping all donations, to politicians and instead give to groups who can fight bigotry and hatred in this country.

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Herschel Walker, former football player, Thing 45 devotee, and GOP Senate candidate for Georgia, sounding the idiot alarm:

“At one time, science said man came from apes, did it not? If that is true, why are there still apes? Think about it.”

Okay, Herschel, let’s go back to the fifth grade when we learned that humans did not evolve from the apes that you see at the zoom, but that humans and apes have a common—and now extinct—ancestor that lived roughly 10 million years ago.

Georgia? Do you want another representative of your state as stupid as  Marge Greene?

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Tom Rice, GOP Congressman from South Carolina, slamming Thing 45 … yes, a South Carolina Republican slamming Thing 45:

“[Thing 45] is here because, like no one else I’ve ever met, he is consumed by spite. I took one vote he didn’t like and now he’s chosen to support a yes man candidate who has and will bow to anything he says, no matter what. If you want a Congressman who supports political violence in Ukraine or in the United States Capitol, who supports party over country, who supports a would-be tyrant over the Constitution, and who makes decisions based solely on re-election, then Russell Fry is your candidate.”

Huh … what was that one vote Thing 45 didn’t like? Was it when Rice crossed party lines and stood up for America by voting to impeach him following the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol?

Yes, it was.

Good for Tom Rice.

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Dolly Parton, country legend, turning down induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame:

“I really do not want votes to be split because of me, so I must respectfully bow out. I do hope that the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame will understand and be willing to consider me again—if I’m ever worthy. This has, however, inspired me to put out a hopefully great rock ‘n’ roll album at some point in the future, which I have always wanted to do! My husband is a total rock ‘n’ roll freak, and has always encouraged me to do one. I wish all of the nominees good luck and thank you again for the compliment. Rock on!”

Dolly should be given every single award and induction, no matter what it might be. But, when Dolly says ‘Count me out,’ count her out.

But … when the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame released their list of nominees, they said the “diverse list” reflected artists that had a “profound impact on the sound of youth culture” which explains the inclusion of Parton, and so the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame  will continue with voting and keep Dolly’s name on the list.

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I Didn't Say It

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and fighter of apartheid, died on Sunday at the age of 90, and this is one of my favorite quotes of his:

“I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. ‘No,’ I would say. ‘Sorry, I mean, I would much rather go to the other place.' I would not worship a God who is homophobic and that is how deeply I feel about this. I cannot keep quiet when people are penalized for something about which they can do nothing. I am as passionate about this … as I ever was about apartheid. For me, it is at the same level.”

His stance in support of LGBTQ+ rights put him at opposition with many other Africans and Anglican church leaders, but he never backed down.

RIP.

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Sarah Palin, Alaska’s half-term quitter ex-governor and the woman who ruined John McCain, says she might run for office … hold for laughter … again:

“I would love to [run again]. I would never say never. I’m not so obsessively partisan that I’d let that get in the way of just doing what’s right for the people so I would love to.”

First off, this tool has so much baggage that running would be a hoot, but the idea that Sarah-Motherfucking-Palin thinks she is nonpartisan shows just how stupid she is, or how stupid she thinks we are; no Blue would vote for her because she is a partisan fuck, and no Re would vote for her because she’ says she’s partisan and the GOP don’t like partisan..

Goddess she is stupid, and funny … in a stupid way.

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Billie Lourd, actor, opens up on grief five years after her mother Carrie Fisher’s death:

“People always ask me what stage of grief I’m in. And my answer is never simple. I’m in a different stage of grief in each moment of every day. My grief is a multi-course meal with many complicated ingredients. An amuse bouche of bargaining followed by an anger appetizer with a side of depression, acceptance for the entree and of course a little denial for dessert. And that’s how grief should be—all things all at once—actually there is no ‘should’ in grief—grief just is whatever it is for you and that is how it ‘should be.’ I didn’t know who to be or what to do after my mom died. I was afraid of changing because I had built my life around her. Then she was gone. And I had to rebuild my life without her. And it wasn’t (and still isn’t) easy. But time has made me bolder. I never stop missing her but I have gotten stronger with each passing year.”

I know exactly what she means. It’s been 14 years since my mother passed away, and while it may get better it never gets easier.

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Joe Rogan, on his podcast, suggesting that Michelle Obama will run for president in 2024, with Kamala Harris as her Vice President, and who on the right can beat them:

“Michelle Obama and they’re going to bring in Harris, [who] comes back as the Vice President and Michelle Obama is the President. We get a double dose of diversity. [And the right will run Thing 45] and DeSantis together. They have to make a super team. That’s the only way they win.”

Rogan is using fear to spur on the right … the fear of women, and especially women of color, running this country. But what Joe Rogan doesn’t know is that, with one notable exception, this country has been run into the ground for over 200 years by white men and it’s well past time for women, and women of color, to lead.

Now, Michelle won’t run, she has no desire, but if she did, she would be unstoppable.

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Tom Rice, GOP Congressman from South Carolina, saying he wishes he had certified the electoral votes of several states that voted for Biden in 2020:

“In retrospect I should have voted to certify, because [Thing 45] was responsible for the attack on the Capitol. In the wee hours of that disgraceful night, while waiting for the Capitol of our great country to be secured, I knew I should vote to certify. But because I had made a public announcement of my intent to object, I did not want to go back on my word. So yeah, I regret my vote to object.”

Rice, who was among 10 House Republicans to vote to impeach Thing 45, calling the former president's behavior during the riot “inexcusable”, still thinks there were “real issues with the election.”

Pandering fuck.

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Ted Cruz, GOP asshat senator, on who should be president in 2024”

“You know, I ran in 2016. It was the most fun I’ve ever had in my life. We had a very crowded field with 17 candidates in the race. A very strong field, and I ended up placing second. And you know, there’s a reason historically that the runner-up is almost always the next nominee. And that’s been true going back to Nixon, Reagan, or McCain, or Romney. That has played out repeatedly. You come in with just an enormous base of support. In 2016, we raised over $92 million. That was the most money any Republican’s ever raised in the history of presidential primaries.”

The "most fun" he's ever had ... when Thing 45 said his father murdered Kennedy and then called Cruz' wife ugly? Fun?

Yes, Ted, maybe the runner-up in the last election could be the nominee in 2024, unless he’s Ted Cruz who went on vacation while the people in his state literally froze to death, and didn’t return until AOC went down to Texas to help.

You’re a schmuck, Mr. Cruz, and your own party hates you.

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