I Didn't Say It

Matt Bomer, actor and longtime Husband-In-My-Head, accepting HRC’s Impact Award with a message on not shying away in the face of oppression:

“The other day I went to a home store with a Pride flag hanging outside. The two men who owned the place told me their store had been vandalized, their Pride flag torn down a few times and hate-filled people drove by on more than one occasion screaming expletives at them. With the brutal murder of shop owner Lauri Carleton not far away in Lake Arrowhead still very much in their mind they told me they were closing their store and moving their business online. And in that moment I felt that child in me that denied my true self for so long creep back into my head. I know that urge to run. When I left their shop I thought of that line from ‘The Normal Heart,’ “New oppressions are always forming from the ashes of the old.” The fight for justice, for a better world, for civil rights or access to medicine is a never-ending fight. When we compartmentalize, hide or separate it only emboldens the haters of the world. We change hearts and minds by continually being who we are. This coming election year, more than ever, our community has got to show up, for my kids, for yours, for shop owners that want to hang a rainbow flag outside their store without the fear of it being torn down, and for anyone who yearns to hold their partner’s hand in public and know the glorious feeling of being whole.”

He's right; silence gets us nowhere, especially when the Right is gunning for us. Speak up, act up, come out, live out. and vote.

All day, every day.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene, wingnut ReTHUGlican, crying about her own party:

“Republican voters across the country are sick and tired of Republicans because they never do anything to hold this government accountable. Republicans go out on the campaign trail and go on TV and do their five-minute hearing videos, and posts up on social media, and say all this garbage about how they’re going to fight it and stop it. I feel like many of the American people that think that Republicans in Congress completely failed them. I feel the same way, and I’m a Republican member of Congress.”

Maybe try working for The People, Marge, and not for your own  GOP interests. The problem with your party is you and The Groper and The Predator and The Pedophile Enabler and The Christian Nationalist at the podium.

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Brad Pitt, on the idea of beauty:

“When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It’s just a first impression. Then there’s someone who doesn’t catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them, and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren’t what you would call beautiful sex symbols. I’ll tell you who my favorite actress is Dianne Wiest. And you wouldn’t call her a sex symbol [but] Dianne Wiest is, to me, the most beautiful woman on the screen.”

He's right about Wiest; she’s a brilliant actor. I first saw her in a film called Independence Day—not to be convinced with that Will Smith monstrosity—and she takes over the screen every time she’s on it.

PS In the interests of transparency, I will also say that Brad Pitt is a Husband-In-My-Head, too, which, yes, I know, makes me a Mental Bigamist. Sue me.

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Kayleigh McEnany, on Hannity, about that vote in Ohio on Tuesday:

“On the issue of abortion in Ohio tonight, we continue the losing streak in the pro-life movement. Every ballot initiative has been lost post-Dobbs for the pro-life movement. As a party, we must, we must not just be a pro-baby party. That’s a great thing. We must be a pro-mother party. We need a national strategy to help vulnerable women because the results of next year’s election could be determined by that.”

First off, Bullshit Barbie, you are not the pro-baby party if you force women to give birth and then allow those children to grow up to be slaughtered in schools. And a pro-mother party would be the one that allows women to make their own healthcare choices.

Be honest, your party is about controlling women and forcing them to follow the rules of your invisible friend.

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Kelly Johnson, Christian Nationalist Mike Johnson’s wife, on her wonderful man:

“I know it goes along with the territory here, but I will say it makes me very sad, it breaks my heart. Because I just wish that they knew this guy that I know. He is one of the most loving, kind, genuine people I know. He loves all people and would give you the shirt off his back. I used to be a schoolteacher and I loved that, but I just felt burdened for so many people and I felt the calling to go back to school to become a Christian counselor. And it’s because I love people and want to help them through the times when they’re struggling and suffering. I love what I do.”

The Gays don’t want your help, and The Gays didn’t ask for your help, and no matter how much you talk like a little girl—and if that’s what Mike is into, time for a rethink—you can’t hide what you’ve tried to do to the LGBTQ+ community with your conversion therapy ideas.

We are only struggling to have people like you faux Christians simply let us be.

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Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Transportation, speaking to Stephen Colbert about Mike Johnson’s claim that gay marriage brings “dark chaos”:

“Maybe we’ll just have him over. If he could see what it’s like when I come home from work, and Chas is bringing the kids home from daycare or vice versa, and one of us is getting the mac and cheese ready and the other’s microwaving those freezer meatballs—which are a great cheat code if you’ve got a toddler and you need to feed them quickly—and one won’t take their shoes off and one needs a diaper change. Everything about that is chaos, but nothing about this is dark. The love of God is in that household.”

Mike Johnson is a hate-filled man who believes the invisible man in the history book is his ruler, but then he uses the so-called word of god—yes, little g—to make himself feel superior to others and to keep others … women, people of color, LGHBTQ+ people … down.

If you believe in god you cannot believe that god is hate. That’s your own choice.

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