I Didn't Say It ...

Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW anchor, blasting Cankles for his attacks on female reporters and calling out the media for refusing to stand up to him:

“He called ABC's Rachel Scott today, quote, obnoxious and terrible. December 6th, he called Caitlin Collins, quote, stupid and nasty. On November 27th, he said, are you stupid? to CBS journalist Nancy Cordes. On November 26th, he called The New York Times Katie Rogers, quote, ugly. On November 18th, he called ABC's Mary Bruce terrible and insubordinate. November 14th, he told a Bloomberg reporter, quote, quiet piggy. This is sick shit. This is sick. And anyone in the room is in the room to do a job for their viewers or their readers. But they should go home tonight and think about whether their sisters or their daughters or their moms or their sons or their husbands or their fathers think that there's something else they should do the next time he calls a female journalist obnoxious, terrible, stupid, nasty, stupid, ugly, terrible, insubordinate or piggy. Because maybe if [Cankles] can't live without being on TV and maybe if they said, you know what, we're going to have some solidarity like they did with him wanting to change the names of oceans. I mean, we're either going to normalize this and then you're going to hear all sorts of prominent people calling women all sorts of names. I'm sure by the time I get off TV, I'll have a few of those myself. But we're either going to normalize this and usher in an era of unprecedented misogyny or that press corps is going to act as one and say no more.”

The press corps’ refusal to stand up for their female colleagues is not only a despicable show of cowardice, it’s also enabling Cankles’ campaign to bully his way into state-sponsored media, where all he gets are softball questions and praise because everyone is too afraid to stand up to him.

But we’ve seen before that Cankles and his regime back down when someone stands up to them and so we need the White House press corps to grow some backbone and start standing up for women.

And America.

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Talbert Swan, bishop of the Vermont Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, on America’s ongoing ties to racism and white supremacy:

"If one white woman accused me of rape my career would be over. A white man accused of assault by twenty-two women being able to run for a second term as president with half the country still supporting him, is all you need to know about racism, white male patriarchy and white supremacy.”

This is where we need to face our shame, that we have allowed a white male convicted felon and sexual predator to be given power over this country.

It’s our collective shame, though half of us don’t even acknowledge it.

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Thomas Massie, GOP Representative :

“I am sorry if one of your billionaire donors is going to get embarrassed because he went to rape island … that is what they have coming. So, how will we know if this bill has been successful? We will know when there are men, rich men in handcuffs being perp-walked to the jail. Until then, there is still a cover-up.”

I will have the popcorn at the ready when these pedophiles are arrested … or, perhaps, because they are mostly rich and white, if they are arrested.

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Elena Kagan, Supreme Court Justice, tearing into the Conservative SCOTUS gang in a scathing dissent against their decision to let Texas go ahead with Cankles’ election-rigging scheme:

“We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based decision. That is why we are supposed to use a clear-error standard of review—why we are supposed to uphold the District Court’s decision that race-based line-drawing occurred (even if we would have ruled differently) so long as it is plausible. Without so much as a word about that standard, this Court today announces that Texas may run next year’s elections with a map the District Court found to have violated all our oft-repeated strictures about the use of race in districting. Today’s order disrespects the work of a District Court that did everything one could ask to carry out its charge—that put aside every consideration except getting the issue before it right. And today’s order disserves the millions of Texans whom the District Court found were assigned to their new districts based on their race. Because this Court’s precedents and our Constitution demand better, I respectfully dissent.”

Alito and company have no problem depriving millions of Americans of their political voice as long as it serves their extremist right-wing, Nationalist Chistian AKA Nat-C political agenda. The Constitution, like everything else, simply exists for them when it is convenient and is easily ignored when it is not.

Every one of the rightwing puppet masters should be impeached at the first opportunity and removed from the court, replaced with people who will actually uphold their oath to the Constitution.

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Holland Taylor, actor, speaking about her partner, Sarah Paulson, at the unveiling of Paulsen’s  star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame:

“Sarah, the actress, is first of all a wild creature in the animal kingdom. Warm-blooded, instinctive, mysterious. And Sarah is dangerous—trust me in this—not dangerous like a snake, more like a mongoose. You know, those darling furry, little creatures that kill snakes. Nothing interferes with her laser perception of her character’s traits, its habitat, vulnerabilities, its heroism, its ugliness, terrible truths, its comic pathos. She zeros into a story’s central struggle, where most of us aren’t even aware of our own. Her acting is as honest as our faith and as complicated as chemistry. She’s not deceiving us, she is practicing magic. Truth to tell, it is these relationships where Sarah is most complex, dedicated and giving. Sometimes it’s hard to believe she’s an actress. She breaks the mold, throws assumptions out the window, does it her way. She will always surprise us. Hollywood does well to honor her. And just in case she doesn’t know it, she has a permanent shining star on my street. I love you, darling.”

Paulson and Taylor began dating in 2015 and have had to repeatedly defend their 31-year age gap relationship causing Paulsen to explain:

“If anyone wants to spend any time thinking I’m strange for loving the most spectacular person on the planet, then that’s their problem.”

It’s love, y’all, and respect and trust and admiration, and then more love. I only hope that Carlos thinks of me as a ‘darling, dangerous little mongoose.’

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