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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