I Didn't Say It ...

Penelope Hegseth, on The Felon’s nomination of her son, Pete Hegseth, to be Secretary of Defense:

“On behalf of all the women [and I know it’s many] you have abused in some way, I say … ‘Get some help and take an honest look at yourself’ … I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man [and have been for years] and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth.”

Even your own mother, Pete?

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Caragh Donley, trans woman and senior producer of The Kelly Clarkson Show, on being open and accepted and how she chose to transition:

“I stayed closeted for decades partially out of the fear that people who knew me wouldn’t accept me post-transition … I was too afraid what people would think and not at all concerned about what I would feel by not transitioning. The first person I came out to was Kelly’s hairstylist, Robert Ramos, and he explained that he wasn’t surprised at all. People were just waiting on me to finally tell them. So my advice to anyone who is trans but is keeping it hidden, find that one person who knows you and cares for you. Tell them. They will be supportive. People are better than we give them credit for. And once you tell someone, the good feeling that brings will snowball … Kelly was so gracious when I told her, letting me know without missing a beat that what counts is who I am inside. Which was the nicest thing anyone has told me throughout all this. Meanwhile, [executive producer] Alex Duda and the staff here were instantly accepting to a degree that seems like a dream. Everyone instantly got my pronouns. They never hesitated in calling me Caragh. Life carried on exactly as it had before, and I couldn’t be happier than I am with Kelly and all my coworkers. I wish this for every trans person.”

Sadly, I don’t know if Caragh’s story will become the norm in the current climate of this country, but she and every other trans person, needs the rest of us to stand with them and for them.

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Leslie Marshall, Fox “News” host, coming for Pete Hegseth like she was his mama:

“With all due respect to my former colleague, we know that there were three cases of adultery for Pete Hegseth, and it is relevant. And the reason why it’s relevant is, Article 134 of the UCMJ considers adultery against the military, which the Department of Defense is part of. You can’t lead an entire organization and all these people if you can’t lead by example, one. Two, I am a rape victim, and I can tell you there’s a reason one in 10 rapes go unreported, and it’s very difficult for a woman to go in and have a rape kit done. It’s physically, mentally, and emotionally very difficult to go through that process, as I have. And I can tell you, that just very personal, in my deep core…Somebody doesn’t go into the hospital and subject herself to that. And I have to say, I, as a woman and as a victim, I believe the victims, and this is a problem for me. And then on top of that, although Pete has an incredible military career, he doesn’t have the leadership career in the military that I feel the Department of Defense requires as their head.”

She could have just stopped with his abuse of women; that alone should disqualify anyone from public office, unless you’re a Republican and then it seems to be a requirement.

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Pete Buttigieg, Transportation Secretary, telling young Democrats not to be “mesmerized” during The Felon’s upcoming presidential term:

“We cannot be mesmerized by the worst things that we see happening. We will be inclined to react with shock by some things which are done precisely with the intent of shocking us. We need to move very quickly through the shock. While it is not obvious how to do that, that is something that through human history until about 15 years ago, we all did, so we’re going to have ways to do that that might on some level be a return to form, but on other levels entail information environment work that is unfamiliar to people who have taken a free press in a democratic society for granted. Let the speaker of the House ... explain how, in a country that has crises ranging from the character of its democracy to the affordability of its housing, why he is spending one second of his time policing where one of his congressional colleagues gets to go to the bathroom.”

Watch The Felon as he will lie about what he’s doing, lie about not doing what he promised, and rake in millions off the backs of Americans.

Watch, and then demand that Pete Buttigieg run for President in 2028.

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Zooey Zephyr, Montana’s first, and only, transgender state Congressperson—who was recently reelected to office—on The Felon’s Little Johnson announcing a ban against transgender people using the bathrooms in Congress:

“One of the things that you don't have control over is the extent of the cruelty, the lengths to which someone will go—particularly those in positions of power—to try to hurt and exclude. For me, the work was to reveal that cruelty for what it was, and not allow it to take away the things that I did have control over: love for myself, love for my partner, and care for the well-being of my community. The joy that you are holding onto is worth fighting for, and if you are a trans youth right now, hold on to your joy and hold on to the folks that you are trying to make the world a better place for … Our job as a community is to make sure to know when individually we need to unplug and care for ourselves. We've seen only a handful of Dems who have stood up and allied themselves with anti-trans legislation, and almost without fail, those Dems are gone. You cannot throw a community under the bus and at the same time say that you stand for them … [and also] say, ‘Well, we will accept discrimination in certain areas. We will accept that we are lesser in these spaces.’ There is no asterisk on trans people that you can put on us that we will deem an acceptable form of discrimination. With the slew of anti-trans legislation coming, trans people are going to look to Congresswoman McBride [who won Delaware’s only House seat making her the first openly transgender person in the US Congress] and say, ‘Where is she drawing the lines of accepted discrimination? What is she willing to fight for?’ And I recognize the unfairness of that having faced an echo of that in Montana. I think she will have to contend with, as many firsts have to, not just the burden of trying to be an effective legislator, but of trying to be a beacon for a community who feels alone, scared, and on the precipice of being abandoned. It is resoundingly important that we plant the flag of joy, of our own personal joy, and that we do not let these efforts to erase and exclude stop us from making decisions that give our lives meaning. As trans people, we are no stranger to the way in which we come alive when we get to be ourselves. And in the same vein, we must chase the things that are full of love and that bring our hearts joy. And that's the work. And it feels weird to say that that is the work, but that is as radical as any piece of legislation we could bring.”

It's a bathroom and people like Little Mike Johnson and Nancy Mace spend too much time worried about what happens in bathrooms and yet don’t give a flying f**k about what goes on in schools with guns or children who go hungry or women who are assaulted by men their party put in power.

It’s not about bathrooms, it never was; it’s about fear and control.

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