I Didn't Say It

President Biden, on the passing of Queen Elizabeth II:

“In a world of constant change, she was a steadying presence and a source of comfort and pride for generations of Britons, including many who have never known their country without her. An enduring admiration for Queen Elizabeth II united people across the Commonwealth. Queen Elizabeth II was a stateswoman of unmatched dignity and constancy who deepened the bedrock Alliance between the United Kingdom and the United States. She helped make our relationship special. She helped Americans commemorate both the anniversary of the founding of Jamestown and the bicentennial of our independence. And she stood in solidarity with the United States during our darkest days after 9/11, when she poignantly reminded us that ‘Grief is the price we pay for love’. Her legacy will loom large in the pages of British history, and in the story of our world. She was the first British monarch to whom people all around the world could feel a personal and immediate connection—whether they heard her on the radio as a young princess speaking to the children of the United Kingdom, or gathered around their televisions for her coronation, or watched her final Christmas speech or her Platinum Jubilee on their phones, and she, in turn, dedicated her whole life to their service.”

We certainly won’t ever see another monarch reign for so long. Was she perfect? No; she made some mistakes and missteps. But while that might have been infuriating,  it’s also what made her human.

RIP

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Jamie Raskin, Democrat Congressman, agreeing that President Biden is right about Thing 45 and the MAGAts:

“Two of the hallmarks of a fascist political party are, one, they don’t accept the results of elections that don’t go their way. And two, they embrace political violence. And I think that’s why President Biden was right to sound the alarm … about these continuing attacks on our constitutional order from the outside by [Thing 45] and his movement.”

And, since most in the GOP and MAGA movement hear only what they want to hear, neither Raskin nor Biden is condemning the entire Republican party, but rather those who stormed the capitol and those who supported them.

Those are the fascists in the GOP.

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Harry Styles, singer and now actor, kind of proving he shouldn’t talk off the cuff about his new film Don’t Worry Darling:

“I think, you know, my favorite thing about the movie is that it feels like a… movie. You know, it feels like a real, like, go-to-the-theater-film movie. You know, the reason why you would go to watch something on the big screen.”

To be utterly transparent, I find Harry kinda sexy, for a wee lad, but this statement reminds me of a Beverly Leslie line from Will & Grace: “It's not so pretty when it speaks.”

Just sayin’.

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Dennis Prager, conservative radio talk show host, pulling a Thing 45 and saying some slaveowners were nice:

“One of the confusing things about life is how many nice people help destroy societies. This is not meant at all facetiously. It is meant literally. We think that people who do bad things, either think they’re doing bad and so they’re truly evil or they will be obviously bad in interpersonal relations, but it doesn’t work that way. Nice people can support vicious things. The human being is a macro and a micro being among the many, many differences within each of us. There were undoubtedly many nice slaveholders in the South. This is not meant facetiously again, it’s meant literally. If you had been invited to one of their homes, you would have been treated beautifully, but they supported a vicious system. The left is a vicious system. It’s not slavery. Although the end result of all leftism is the enslavement of populations, not as in transatlantic slave trade or chattel slavery, but in the diminution of human rights and liberties, which is a form of enslavement.”

I thought we learned several years ago that racists and Nazis and Klan members and white supremacists are not nice, never nice; this totally smacks of Thing 45’s epic failure after the Charlottesville riots.

Let me make this queer: anyone who bought a human being and forced them into manual labor for their entire lives, including subjugating their wives and children., who kept human beings in chains and enslaved, sleeping on the floors of ramshackle slave houses, raping them, beating them, murdering them, is not a nice person.

Never a nice person.

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Bill Barr, former Thing 45 Attorney General, on his former boss’ request for a Special Master:

“As more information comes out, the actions of the department look more understandable. It seems to me they were driven by concern about highly sensitive information being strewn all over a country club, and it was taking them almost two years to get it back. It appears that there’s been a lot of jerking around of the government. I’m not sure the department could have gotten it back without taking action. I think it’s a crock of shit. I don’t think a special master is called for.”

Yeah, I know, Billy Barr is trying to save his image. He never will in my book, but I love the fact that every time he speaks Thing 45 tries to act like he never liked Barr or really worked with him, or possibly never even knew him.

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