I Didn't Say It

Pete Buttigieg, Transportation Secretary, explaining his use of government planes to Fox’s Bret Baier:

“I led a presidential delegation to support American wounded warriors and injured service members—the Invictus Games as has been tradition for many years. I led the American delegation as one of the great honors of my time in this job. And the diplomatic protocol on a presidential delegation is that the principal is often accompanied by their spouse. It was a great trip. Incredible. Here’s what I want you to understand. Before me, it was the secretary of the Army under […] who took that trip with his wife. Before that, it was Mrs. […] as First Lady who went to the Invictus Games. Before that, Mrs. Obama did the same thing. And I guess the question on my mind is, if no one’s raising questions about why Secretary Esper and his wife led that delegation, as well they should have, then why is it any different when it’s me and my husband?”

It isn’t any different, except to those people who still cannot, and will not, grasp the fact that two married men are a couple, just as a married man and woman are a couple.

We’ve a long way to go before people, especially those on the right, understand that gay couples can be married and should be afforded the same rights and privileges as our heterosexual counterparts.

Sidenote: I love when Pete schools the Fox hacks.

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Matt Gaetz, GOP asshatted Representative, on Eva Braun, er, Laura Ingraham’s show.

“No, listen. I’m on the floor, Laura. These 212 Democrats are going to vote for Hakeem Jeffries every single time. He is a historic candidate for them. They are not going to cleave off under any circumstance. I assure you if Democrats join up to elect a moderate Republican, I will resign from the House of Representatives. That is how certain I am. I can assure your viewers that won’t happen.”

It didn’t happen because Matty did the one thing he said he would never do: vote for Kevin McCarthy. Proves that Gaetz is another hypocritical lying pandering Republican.

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Nancy Mace, South Carolina’s GOP Representative, speaking of Matt Gaetz on Face The Nation:

“Matt Gaetz is a fraud. Every time he voted against Kevin McCarthy last week, he sent out a fundraising email. What you saw last week was a constitutional process diminished by those kinds of political actions. I don’t support that kind of behavior. I am very concerned as someone who represents a lot of centrists, a lot of independents, I have as many centrists and independents in my district as Republicans. I have to represent everyone. I’m concerned common-sense legislation will not get through to get a vote on the floor.”

Then, Nancy, take a stand against those so-called Republicans who are lying and cheating and fundraising off their own hypocrisy.

Or just goose-step along …

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Hakeem Jeffries, House Democratic Minority Leader, before officially handing McCarthy the Speaker’s gavel, giving the speech of the week:

“We will never compromise our principles, House Democrats will always put American values over autocracy, benevolence over bigotry, the Constitution over the cult, democracy over demagogues, economic opportunity over extremism, freedom over fascism, governing over gaslighting, hopefulness over hatred, inclusion over isolation, justice over judicial overreach, knowledge over kangaroo courts, liberty over limitation, maturity over Mar-a-Lago, normalcy over negativity, opportunity over obstruction, people over politics, quality of life issues over QAnon, reason over racism, substance over slander, triumph over tyranny, understanding over ugliness, voting rights over voter suppression, working families over the well-connected, xenial over xenophobia, ‘Yes we can’ over ‘You can do it,’ and zealous representation over zero-sum confrontation. “We are a gorgeous mosaic of people from throughout the world,” he continued. “As John Lewis would sometimes remind us on this floor, ‘We may have come over on different ships, but we’re all in the same boat now.' We are white, we are black, we are Latino, we are Asian, we are Native American, we are Christian, we are Jewish, we are Muslim, we are Hindu, we are religious, we are secular. We are gay, we are straight, we are young, we are older, we are women, we are men, we are citizens, we are dreamers. Out of many, we are one. That’s what makes America a great country. And no matter what kind of haters are trying to divide us, we’re not going to let anyone take that away from us. Not now. Not ever.”

What a way to start his tenure as Minority Leader, with that kind of speech. Wouldn’t a Buttigieg/Jeffries, or a Jeffries/Buttigieg team be a great combo? Common sense, take no prisoners, truth to power?

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