I Didn't Say It ...

Ben Shapiro, a conservative political commentator, media proprietor, and attorney, calling The Felon a liar:

“So here’s [The Felon] saying some stuff about Ukraine. [Plays clip.] I have some moral objections to the stuff that he is saying about Ukraine here because I don’t think that it is true. So for example, at one point during this press conference, he made the signally false statement that Ukraine started the war. This is not true. Ukraine absolutely did not start the war. You can argue with Ukrainian policy toward both Europe and Russia over the period 2013 to 2022. But Russia invaded a sovereign country and tried to take Kyiv and has killed tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people. [And] here’s  [The Felon] suggesting sort of the opposite that somehow Ukraine is the problem here.” 

He's a liar; he’s Putin’s Puppet; he’s a traitor to America and a disgrace to the world.

And a conservative is leading the charge.

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Alexis Ohanian, Serena Williams’ husband, responding to ESPN's Stephen A. Smith who said if his wife—he’s single, never been married—danced on a halftime show like Serena Williams he'd divorce her:

“I get it—you’re 57, and life didn’t turn out the way you imagined. That kind of disappointment must be exhausting. You’re the embodiment of peaked in high school, spending decades chasing validation from strangers through Likes and Digital Hugs, only to find that no amount of external approval fills the void. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone. Criticism only fuels your victim complex, reinforcing the comforting delusion that there's some grand conspiracy against you and your "brave ideas"—when in reality, you've just got terrible takes. It’s a cycle: outrage, backlash, self-pity, repeat. This is a lonely road. There’s still time to rewrite the ending — start by working on yourself first. You'll find that if you wake up every morning trying to be a little better, a little more curious, you won't have time for irrational hating — you'll be too busy winning.”

I love when unmarried confirmed bachelors want to tell men how their women should act. Smith ought to get a wife, treat her like his property, and then see how that works out before he opens his yap.

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Jessica Tarlov, one of a few sane minds at Fox News, taking on The Felon’s grandstanding:

“If Joe Biden showed up to the Daytona 500 while Kentucky faced devastating storms. He would have been crucified. In times like these Presidents shouldn’t be driving around a race car track while people are living under emergency declarations.”

Well, it is Mitch McConnell’s state and Mitch is now standing against The Felon so, or course, The Felon would go to Kentucky … being so butt hurt.

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Pamela Anderson, on her “breakout” roll in The Last Showgirl after over thirty years in the business:

“The ending is obscure for a beautiful reason. It lingers with you, like a song whose lyrics aren’t spelled out or explained. Everyone, whether it’s the audience, the writer, the director, me, or the other actors, will have their own interpretation. That’s the genius of [Gia Coppola]’s depiction. Our own experiences color the ending, and that’s what makes it so powerful. I just hope people can see past the nonsense and recognize what Gia Coppola saw in me, and that is a woman bursting at the seams, eager to express herself artistically,” she said. “I needed a project like this, something raw and authentic, something that wasn’t about trickery but about truth. All my co-stars on this film quickly became family. We will forever share an intimate bond. We truly impacted each other and made each other better. I fell in love with Jamie [Lee Curtis], Kiernan [Shipka], Brenda [Song], Billie [Lourd], and Dave [Bautista]. They will always hold a tender place in my heart. There’s no violence, no exploitation, just a story about a woman, and that’s enough. Every woman is a movie all on her own. And I’m thrilled that people are returning to the romantic theater experience. In a world that can be so harsh, we need simple, human stories told with a pure heart and a shared collective soul. I hope this is just the beginning of my career. I’m like a sponge, absorbing everything I can. My pockets are full, and I want to see what I’m made of.”

It's funny that scrubbing off her makeup has made people take notice of her more than they had when she was just a body.

Good on her for finding herself.

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Judith Butler, a leading scholar of gender and identifying as nonbinary, on The Felon’s hate-filled executive orders:

“Amassing authoritarian power depends in part on a willingness of the people to believe in the power exercised. In some cases, [The Felon]’s declarations are meant to test the waters, but in other cases, the outrageous claim is its own accomplishment. He defies shame and legal constraints in order to show his capacity to do so, which displays to the world a shameless sadism. Many of [his attacks] express fascist passions. Denying rights to healthcare, legal recognition and rights of expressive freedoms for trans, intersex and non-binary people attacks the very foundations of their lives. Even the conservative supreme court found that discrimination against trans and gender non-conforming people constitutes discrimination on the basis of sex. While there is every reason to be outraged, we cannot let that outrage flood us and stop our minds. The desire for a freedom equally shared; for an equality that makes good on democratic promises; to repair and regenerate the earth’s living processes; to accept and affirm the complexity of our embodied lives; to imagine a world in which government supports health and education for all, where we all live without fear, knowing that our interconnected lives are equally valuable.”

We can be outraged, and

angry and sad, but we need to harness those emotions to fight this tiny little man swinging his tiny little dick like it’s a redwood.

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Dan Savage, on fighting and resisting and dancing:

“During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night. The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for. It didn’t look like we were going to win then and we did. It doesn’t feel like we’re going to win now but we could. Keep fighting, keep dancing.”

It’s still the dance we’re fighting for, even if it is a different fight, for our lives, our loves, our right to exist.

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Charles Pierce, American sportswriter, political blogger, liberal pundit and author, taking on The Felon:

"In my life, I have watched John Kennedy talk on television about missiles in Cuba. I saw Lyndon Johnson look Richard Russell squarely in the eye and say, ‘And we shall overcome.’ I saw Richard Nixon resign and Gerald Ford tell the Congress that our long national nightmare was over. I saw Jimmy Carter talk about malaise and Ronald Reagan talk about a shining city on a hill. I saw George H.W. Bush deliver the eulogy for the Soviet bloc, and Bill Clinton comfort the survivors of Timothy McVeigh's madness in Oklahoma City. I saw George W. Bush struggle to make sense of it all on September 11, 2001, and I saw Barack Obama sing 'Amazing Grace' in the wounded sanctuary of Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina. These were the presidents of my lifetime. These were not perfect men. They were not perfect presidents, god knows. Not one of them was that. But they approached the job, and they took to the podium, with all the gravitas they could muster as appropriate to the job. They tried, at least, to reach for something in the presidency that was beyond their grasp as ordinary human beings. They were not all ennobled by the attempt, but they tried, nonetheless. And comes now this hopeless, vicious buffoon, and the audience of equally hopeless and vicious buffoons who laughed and cheered when he made sport of a woman whose lasting memory of the trauma she suffered is the laughter of the perpetrators. Now he comes, a man swathed in scandal, with no interest beyond what he can put in his pocket and what he can put over on a universe of suckers, and he does something like this while occupying an office that we gave him, and while endowed with a public trust that he dishonors every day he wakes up in the White House. The scion of a multigenerational criminal enterprise, the parameters of which we are only now beginning to comprehend. A vessel for all the worst elements of the American condition. And a cheap, soulless bully besides. We never have had such a cheap counterfeit of a president as currently occupies the office. We never have had a president so completely deserving of scorn and yet so small in the office that it almost seems a waste of time and energy to summon up the requisite contempt. Watch how a republic dies in the empty eyes of an empty man who feels nothing but his own imaginary greatness, and who cannot find in himself the decency simply to shut up even when it is in his best interest to do so. Presidents don't have to be heroes to be good presidents. They just have to realize that their humanity is our common humanity, and that their political commonwealth is our political commonwealth, too. Watch him behind the seal of the President of the United States. Isn't he a funny man? Isn't what happened to that lady hilarious? Watch the assembled morons cheer. This is the only story now."

This is what criminals and grifters do, especially in a position of power, that We The People gave them.

Resist.

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