This These Bitches

Remember This Bitch? GOP Senate candidate Tim Sheehy who claimed he’d been wounded in battle and still had the bullet in his arm to prove it? Except he told a park ranger he’d shot himself when he dropped his pistol;? And a doctor who saw the X-ray of the bullet said it was from a handgun and not a military type of weapon? Remember that Bitch?

Well, he got all kinds of pissy when people suggested  he made the whole thing up, but now comes a National Park Service report that includes a detailed written statement from Sheehy to a law enforcement officer regarding Sheehy having accidentally shot himself on October 18, 2015; Sheehy apologized and asked for leniency in 2015.

Sheehy now says that story, the one he apologized for and asked for leniency about was a lie. He has told voters he has a bullet in his arm from his time serving in Afghanistan because that sounds better than shooting yourself in the arm.

Liar.

The Diocese of Brooklyn, led by Bishop Robert J. Brennan, has entered into an agreement with the Office of New York State Attorney General Letitia James regarding the diocese’s two-decade child protection policy. Both organizations have issued a press release on this matter.

But according to Hate Group, AKA The Catholic League, spokesperson, Bill Donohue, the Office of the Attorney General’s [OAG] account misrepresents the terms of the agreement reached with the Diocese of Brooklyn [DB]. Donohue says the OAG contends that “the agreement requires the Diocese to take significant action to prevent and address allegations of clergy sexual abuse” and make reforms such as “Installing an independent, secular monitor who will oversee the Diocese’s compliance with policies and procedures … ” but Donohue also claims it was the Diocese which proposed the appointment of an independent third party to monitor compliance, and then drops this whopper:

“As I recount in my book, The Truth about Clergy Sexual Abuse: Clarifying the Facts and the Causes, there is no institution in the nation that has a better record in combating the sexual abuse of minors today than the Catholic Church. This is not open to debate: the data are conclusive. And this has been true for decades.”

Wait, so the group that has paid out hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars to settle cases against pedophile priests—who were often shielded from prosecution by being moved to different parishes or even sent to the Vatican to avoid arrest and prosecution—has the best record in combating sexual abuse of minors?

Oh, Bill, you and your Catholic League and your Catholic Church and all your pedophile priests can fuck all the way off.

GOP Senator Josh Hawley—the guy who fist bumped the insurrectionists on January 6 but was then seen on video scurrying through the Capitol building as the rioters busted the windows and entered the building—went on Fox News to complain that American infrastructure is in disrepair; roads are failing, bridges are collapsing, and planes are falling apart in the sky.

Hawley, in case you forgot, because he clearly did, voted against that massive bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed in 2021; at the time, Hawley called it a “radical left woke politics bill.”

This is the problem with the GOP: the lies, the lies, the lies.