Friday, April 03, 2026

I Didn't Say It ...

Ts Madison, entertainer and trans actress and first Black trans woman to star in and executive produce her own reality series, on being a trans person in America today:

“Your visibility is your activism. Your presence is your advocacy. There is no reason for us to be living in the shadows. We’re living in a climate right now where the erasure of trans people… seems as if it’s been priority number one in this administration. The way that you garner votes is you fear monger, especially from this regime.”

Her new activism comes at a time when transgender Americans face a wave of new restrictions from the recent passage of Idaho’s bill criminalizing … CRIMINAZLIZING … transgender people’s bathroom use to Kansas,  where the government invalidated transgender drivers’ licenses and ID cards.

We all need to stand up, by and for our trans brothers and sisters.

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D.L. Hughley, comedian, on not voting for Cankles:

“I am very proud I’ve never voted for a president who raped women and children. I never voted for a president who defrauded charities. I never voted for a president who celebrated the death of anybody. And half [the people] in this country can’t say that.”

Count me proud, too!

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Andy Kim, New Jersey Democrat Senator, on the Pentagon preparing for a weeks-long ground invasion:

“We cannot have American troops on the ground in Iran. This is going to be such a risky operation. And for what purpose? This is not an end to this war, this is something that will only prolong it and increase the risk at a time that we’ve seen already so many service members put at harm’s way, and this administration not giving them everything that they need. Where are they going to bunker down? Where are they going to get provisions? Putting them in that kind of way is so risky.”

This administration, from Cankles on down, is woefully inept at leading, and will end up getting more Americans killed and for what? Money? Ego? The drunken leanings of a Fox News pundit?

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Billy Porter, out actor and activist , protesting at the Kennedy Center and warning that Cankles cultural agenda is threatening creative independence:

“Authoritarian governments go after the arts first because the arts have the power to reach inside of people and change the molecular structure from the inside out. As a Black gay out artist, I caught the wave of what we now know as performative wokeness and I crashed through glass ceilings that were concrete. And I have noticed the opportunities slowly drying up for the work that I do. The Midwest CBS shows and the cop shows… all of that stuff still exists but when it’s time to talk about heart, when it’s time to talk about connection, when it’s time to talk about people that don’t look like everybody else… there’s not a lot of that work going on right now. People feel safer when we come out, and we speak. They feel like, ‘OK, maybe I can give something of myself and join… and not feel alone.’ This is not the normal resistance. We have to redefine what going high looks like in this new world order. We have a government who does not follow the rules.”

The arts are where we see the world, and see ourselves, and if we allow the government to control and shape the arts, millions of voices will be silenced and you will only hear and see what the regime wants for you.

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James Carville, on the future of Cankles as he sees it:

“Listen up, [Cankles]. I’m gonna tell your fat fucking ass something. You’re getting ready to get the living crap kicked out of you. You don’t know, because they haven’t really told you. You’re gonna know what it feels like to get punched in the mouth by Mike Tyson. You know who’s gonna turn on you? What’s left of the Republican senators. There may be 43 to 45 of them left. Now the House is gonna vote to impeach you. You’re gonna be impeached in 2027. These senators can’t stand you. These Republican senators, they can’t stand you. They have to be there because of their politics, back in their states, but it’s gonna be apparent to them that you’re a loser. You’re a losing fucking bet. We refer to it as a come-to-Jesus moment. You’re gonna assess where you are, even through your cloudy, stupid, fat-addled brain, you’re gonna figure out, ‘I gotta get the hell out of here.’ You’re going to cut a deal and you’re gonna resign. [Vance] is going to pardon you. He’s got to pardon a lot of other people, but he’s a creepy, ambitious little twerp. He’ll do whatever he can to get into the White House. But they can’t pardon you for state crimes. They can’t pardon you in the International Criminal Court.”

Oh James, please be right, dear goddess please be right. I mean, I know he’ll run, but we can still punish him by freezing his assets and making sure he never ever comes on American soil ever again … not even to be buried on the 15th green at one of his punk-ass golf courses.

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29 comments:

  1. All these quotations are great but a special shout-out to Ts Madison!

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    1. All queer people need to remember that visibility, coming out, IS activism, and it's a good place to start.

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  2. Love T.S.!
    Her podcast is fabulous!

    And I’m with you. I hope Carville is right!

    XOXO

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    1. Carville is married to a cousin of one of my best friends, and he's pretty sharp.
      Cankles resigns after big midterm losses so he cannot get impeached. CouchFucker takes over and pardons him ... BUT he cannot pardon ALL of Cankles crimes.
      xoxo

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  3. Hopefully none of the crowd of wastrels, who are supposedly running the US right now, will be pardoned for the mess they are making of your country. The respect America was held in prior to 2025 has been whisked away in the wind. Russia and China see a burst balloon that can be used for their own whims as Hedgebreath throws out hundreds of years of military experience and replacing it with wannabe crusaders. At the rate Donald Duck and Hedgebreath are going Iran is going to come out on top in this unnecessary war.

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    1. Iran already looks better run than this mess over here.

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  4. Billy Porter is sadly correct. You can see the lessening of diversity on TV. It started in the news divisions and fanned out from there.
    Oh, how I hope Carville ir right --- and you, too. In fact, I would love to see that entire family run out.

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    1. In America these days everything is all WHITE.
      I'm hoping Carville's words prove true!

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  5. Anonymous10:13 AM

    the dog's mother
    xoxo :-)

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  6. VOTE BLUE in November, and massive change can happen in January.

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    1. Yes Yes and Yes, and then again Yes.

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    1. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

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  8. I think Carville is mostly correct. The Republican problem has always been the fact that they've deluded themselves into believing all they had to do was get themselves in charge, and have an authoritarian president. They assumed that the American people would be like Russians and acquiesce to a wannabe dictator. They simply refused to even consider a worst case scenario. And if they try to do something super bad, America is going to stomp the shit out of them.

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    1. Pardon Cankles all you want, but you can't pardon state or international crimes and so to appease the masses CouchFucker might just though the entire cabinet under the bus, punishing the underlings for the lunacy of Cankles.

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  9. I do think Trump has steadily alienated more and more of his base, which will certainly come back to bite him. I'm not sure it's going to be quite the trouncing that Carville predicts, but Lord, let's hope so!

    Loved the quotes by Ts Madison, Hughley and Porter.

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    1. I think, and hope, that enough Blues are elected to start holding this regime accountable and removing Cankles from office ... if he doesn't run first!

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  10. As usual, a lot of food for thought here Bob. Thanks for putting these quotations together.

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  11. Love and respect for Ts Madison. Thanks to these smart people. Please be right, James!

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  12. T's Madison is gorgeous!!! My Trans Grandson is worried about the future and what it holds for those like them. Ditto on what D.L. said, I can say I never Voted for one either. I do think Carville could be Right and I do think we should seize the whole Family's Assets, not just freeze them, seize them all, every Cent of it, like we do to all Syndicated Crime Families and Cartels. I'd like to see a Marie Antoinette ending to him frankly, Televised, to be a Warning to any others who are even thinking about pulling this kind of shit on America ever again.

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    1. I think I'd rather see him locked up, because if we were to execute him he becomes a martyr to the cult and then they become more dangerous. Lock him up, sieze his assets and turn Mar-Illegal into post-op recovery center for transgender Americans.

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  13. Fucking Kansas. I escaped that state when I was 22. Now look where I've ended up. I wish James Carville were right, but I can't picture the majority of the Republican senators, or representatives, turning on the felon. They don't want to deal with the ugliness their families will go through, including death threats. When you see the faces of some proud boys in your window, that's a real come to jesus moment.

    Love,
    Janie

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    1. I think they will if, or when, the Democrats get a majority, because the GOP will know Cankles is finished.
      xoxo

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  14. These quotes were are good ones to read. Today I am feeling a bit hopeless that nothing will ever change. Tomorrow, hopefully I will feel more positive. I would love to believe that the Democrats will trounce the GOP in the upcoming elections, but the pessimist in me thinks that the gains won’t be enough to rid our country of the felon. My dream: The Democrats win with such a huge majority that the felon is impeached, JD Vance gets impeached, and the Speaker of the House becomes president. (Which won’t be Mikey Johnson)

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    1. I have the exact same dream!!!

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  15. To be honest, I wouldn't know a trans person from anyone else, unless they shared that information with me. I'd rather focus my attention on those who actually pose a threat.
    I, too, hope that Carville's ideas are correct, and by then the Dems will hold both the House and the Senate leaving JDV impotent. AND then I'll be watching for the ICC trials!

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