I Didn't Say It

Brandon Boulware, a Kansas City attorney and father of four, speaking out at the Missouri statehouse hearing on Resolution 53, a proposal to effectively ban transgender athletes in high school from participating in girls’ sports:

"One thing I often hear when transgender issues are being discussed is, 'I don't get it. I don't understand.’ And I would expect some of you to have said that and to feel the same way. I didn't get it, either. For years, I didn't get it. I forced my daughter to wear boy clothes, get short haircuts and play on boy sports teams. Why did I do this? To protect my child. ... and, truth be told, I did it to protect myself as well. I wanted to avoid those inevitable questions as to why my child did not look and act like a boy. [But] my child was miserable. No confidence, no friends, no laughter. I can honestly say this—I had a child who did not smile. [But one day, everything changed.] I got home from work, and my daughter and her brother were in the front lawn. She had sneaked on one of her older sister's play dresses, and they wanted to go across the street to play with the neighbors' kids. She asked me if she went inside and put on boy clothes, could she then go across the street and play. And it was then that it hit me. My daughter was equating being good with being someone else. I was teaching her to deny who she is. As a parent, the one thing we cannot do—the one thing—is silence our child's spirit. And so on that day, my wife and I stopped silencing our child's spirit. It was immediate, a total transformation . . . I now have a confident, smiling happy daughter. She plays on a girls' volleyball team. She has friendships. She's a kid. As a parent, the one thing we cannot do—the one thing—is silence our child's spirit. I need you to understand that this language, if it becomes law, will have real effects on real people," Boulware said. "It will affect my daughter. It will mean she cannot play on the girls' volleyball team or dance squad or tennis team. I ask you, please don't take that away from my daughter or the countless others like her who are out there. Let them have their childhoods. Let them be who they are."

This is how you parent.

Bravo, sir, bravo!

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Dr. Deborah Birx, former White House Coronavirus “expert,” explaining why she did nothing when Thing #45—thanks Todd—proposed injecting disinfectant to treat Covid-19.

“Frankly, I didn’t know how to handle that episode. I still think about it every day. You can see how extraordinarily uncomfortable I was. Those of you who have served in the military know that there are discussions you have in private with your commanding officers and there’s discussions you had in public.”

Nice try, Deb, but that dog just won’t hunt. As a doctor, where was your expertise, or even your humanity?

You need to tie a scarf over your mouth from now on.

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Elton John, on the Pope saying Catholic priests will never sanctify a same-sex marriage:

“How can the Vatican refuse to bless gay marriages because ‘they are sin’ yet happily make a profit from investing millions in Rocketman—a film which celebrates my finding happiness from my marriage to David??”

Simple answer: The Catholic Church worships coins and not people, not God.

It’s greed.

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Ron Johnson, [Q-WI], coming out as a racist fuck in a radio interview about the Capitol riots:

“I knew those were people who love this country, that truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break the law, so I wasn’t concerned. Now, had the tables been turned, and—this is going to get me in trouble—had the tables been turned and President Trump won the election and tens of thousands of Black Lives Matter and antifa, I might have been a little concerned.”

Yeah, those white people that truly respect law enforcement and yet beat police officers with flag poles holding the American flag, and who bludgeoned one police officer to death.

But, you know, Black people.

Why Ron Johnson hasn’t been censured or run out of office is beyond me, but I guess he’s the new White Hood of the GQP.

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Jen Psaki, White House Press Secretary, on why Thing #45—thanks Todd—wasn’t involved in the PSA by all former presidents on the importance of getting a vaccine:

“If [the twice-impeached, one-term loser] woke up tomorrow and wanted to be more vocal about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine, certainly we’d support that. Every other former living president—or most of them, not all of them—has participated in public campaigns. They did not need an engraved invitation to do so.”

Sadly, the last guy doesn’t want to do what may help Americans, but only what helps himself.

Luckily, there are other presidents who care about Americans.

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