I Didn't Say It

Roy Wood Jr., comic host of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, mocking Clarence Thomas being accused of decades-long corruption through his close relationship with right-wing activist billionaire Harlan Crow:

“Anti-CRT policies are an attack on Black history and an attempt to erase the contributions of Black people. You are trying to erase Black people, and a lot of Black people wouldn’t mind some of that erasure as long as that Black person is Clarence Thomas. A billionaire named Harlan Crow is flying Clarence Thomas all over the world on unreported trips like a Instagram model taking Clarence to the Maldives and the beaches and all—paid for his momma’s house—a billionaire paid for Clarence Thomas momma’s house. I gotta give it up to billionaires, billionaires, boy, y’all, y’all. Y’all always come up with something new to buy. Like just when you think of everything you could buy on Earth, a billionaire will come up with a new thing. Y’all buy space rockets, you bought Twitter. This man bought a Supreme Court justice. Do you understand how rich you have to be to buy a Supreme—a Black one on top of that. There’s only two in stock, and Harlan Crow owns half the inventory. We can all see Clarence Thomas, but he belongs to billionaire Harlan Crow. And that’s what an NFT is.”

Wood ain’t wrong. And now we have learned that Harlan crow, Clarence’s “dear friend,” also paid for the tuition of Thomas’ grandnephew.

The court is corrupt when a justice’s wife aids in an insurrection and when that same justice is bought and paid for by a billionaire.

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Samuel Alito, conservative Supreme Court Justice, saying he has a “pretty good idea” who leaked the Roe draft:

“I personally have a pretty good idea who is responsible, but that’s different from the level of proof that is needed to name somebody. It was a part of an effort to prevent the Dobbs draft … from becoming the decision of the court. And that’s how it was used for those six weeks by people on the outside—as part of the campaign to try to intimidate the court.”

He knows but has no proof? That’s how a Supreme Court Justice acts? Well, when it’s an activist justice rewriting the Constitution to fit his own personal conservative world view, yeah. Funny, though, that he gave the interview as the stories about Thomas and Gorsuch and Roberts making money off people with business before the court and not reporting it.

We see you, Sammy Alito, and we know you’re as corrupt as the other conservative justices.

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José Andrés, world renowned chef and activist, blasting Texas GOP Governor Gregg Abbott for dehumanizing five Texas mass shooting victims by calling them “illegal immigrants”:

“Nobody is illegal in heaven ‘dear’ governor! Nobody! And in life at the most are just undocumented! You speak with hate about immigrants, and that rhetoric is what may have created this situation in the first place. Show some empathy … that’s what good leaders do.”

It’s as if Abbott suggest that the murder of these alleged undocumented immigrants is somehow okay because of their status … akin to saying it would be okay if they were LGBTQ+ or people of color.

This is the GOP where if you’re killing the people they hate, then there’s no need for concern.

It would be like suggesting that someone push Abbott and his wheelchair down a flight of stairs because he’s a racist POS.

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Kristi Noem, South Dakota’s wingnut GOP governor, proving to the world who is really grooming children:

“Little Miss Addie, who is almost two, and Branch who’s just a few months old, they have brought us so much joy. They’ve brought us purpose. Now Addie, who you know—soon will need them, I wanna reassure you, she already has a shotgun and she already has a rifle and she’s got a little pony named Sparkles too. So the girl is set up.”

The child is two years old and needs a gun? That’s what I call grooming and it's sickening.

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Lizzo, on bringing out the drag queens at her recent Tennessee concert in protest of the state’s anti-drag bill:

“In light of recent and tragic events and current events, I was told by people on the internet, ‘cancel your shows in Tennessee,’ ‘don’t go to Tennessee.’ Their reason was valid, but why would I not come to the people who need to hear this message the most? Why would I not create a safe space in Tennessee where we can celebrate drag entertainers and celebrate our differences? I don’t have any intersections in my mind about the people who have been marginalized, who deserve to be celebrated and uplifted, so I feel very parallel to the queer community, because I’m fighting for the same freedoms that they’re fighting for. We can march together and make this a party. That’s why I’ve always been so connected to the Queer community. Drag Queens were the first people who put my music on, and saw my music, and identified heavily with it in the beginning. I would be so excited to do Pride this year for a few reasons. I can’t talk about it right now, but when the music comes out, I think people are going to be very happy.”

Be like Lizzo; stand up; speak up; sing out.

Spread the word that this anti-drag hate is a smokescreen to get people to forget the GOP supports slaughtering children in schools, banning books, ignoring Black and Indigenous histories, and trampling on the rights of our trans brothers and sisters.

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