I Didn't Say It

Phil Murphy, New Jersey’s Democratic governor, lashed out at a group of protesters objecting to mandatory vaccinations:

“These folks back there have lost their minds—you’ve lost your minds. You are the ultimate knuckleheads. And because of what you are saying and standing for, people are losing their life. You have to know that. Look in the mirror! Look in the mirror!”

He also called them the “ultimate knuckleheads” which is the polite way of saying they are dumb AF.

Now, listen to this “knucklehead” …

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Ron DeSantis, Flori-Duh governor, having a hissy fit at a press conference because this darn Delta variant is ruining his campaign for president:

“We obviously have some people that are not vaccinated that have been admitted to hospitals. Are you going to sit there, are you going to sit there, and are you going to sit there and criticize, or we going to try to treat and try to help the folks? You know, I’m just sick of the judgment, the judgmental stuff on some of this stuff, nobody’s trying to get ill here, okay? There’s people that were hermits for a year and a half that wore six masks and did that and still contracted it. Let’s not indulge these things that somehow it’s their fault.”

Um, Ron? Asshat? What are you gonna do to help, rather than head out to Utah and Texas and campaign there?

We know that no one is trying to get sick, but you sure aren’t doing anything to help.

The upside? DeathSantis’ poll numbers are falling faster than a lap dancer’s G-string during Fleet Week. 

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Rudy Giuliani, going all Nixon on us, saying he is not a crook:’

“I committed no crime, and if you think I committed a crime, you’re probably really stupid, because you don’t know who I am. Is the guy who put the mafia in jail, terrorists in jail, Ed Koch’s commissioners in jail, and the worst people on Wall Street — I’m not going to file (a form)? I mean, that’s just crazy. I am more than willing to go to jail if they want to put me in jail. And if they do, they’re going to suffer the consequences in heaven. I’m not, I didn’t do anything wrong.”

I’m guessing that while those who think he’s a criminal and a traitor might suffer the consequences in Heaven, Rudy will be sweating black hair dye by the gallons on a much lower floor.

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Maria Bartiromo, Fox Business host, saying the Delta Variant is a Democrat plot to win the mid-terms:

“It’s all quite convenient with a year to go before the midterm elections. It doesn’t appear the Democrats can win on policy so what are we going to do? Have a lockdown in the summer of 2022 so that we ensure mail-in ballots are flowing from empty parking lots and dead people?”

So this dim bulb is predicting a lockdown for next Summer?

Take a seat, Karen; the Democrats are the ones getting vaccinated and wearing masks and taking precautions while you and your ilk, spread anti-vax lies even though you took the vaccine.

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Tom Cotton, Arkansas GQP senator, bashing Fauci and the CDC and saying we need to trust politicians:

“Let me say, nobody elected the CDC. Nobody elected Tony Fauci to make these decisions. Advisers advise, elected officials decide. And the American people elected Joe Biden and the members of Congress and our governors and state legislatures to make these decisions for us. If you just turn these decisions over to a bunch of public health bureaucrats, of course the only thing they’re gonna consider is what they think is in the best interest of public health.”

I wonder if Cotton realizes that he has now admitted that Biden won the election. He was so caught up in saying we need to trust the likes of Tom Cotton over science and scientists, that he put his loafer in his piehole.

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Ben Carson, at CPAC, saying welfare is worse for the Black community than slavery:

“When you look at what the Black community has been through, go all the way back to slavery. It was the family, the strong family units and the faith in God that got people through that, that got people through Jim Crow, through severe segregation, through all the difficulties. But what really had a negative impact was when the government came along said, ‘There, there, you poor little thing, I’m going to take care of all your needs’ and started implementing policies that were destructive to the family formation. Those are the things that have hurt the Black communities the most.”

I’ll remind you again: Carson is a brain surgeon.

And yet he’s brain dead. Slavery was good for families, you know, until the Master sold your mother and your sister, or worse, raped them; or when he murdered your father or sold him off.

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Bobservations

This past Monday evening, as I was picking Carlos up from work, I said:

“I’m gonna take tomorrow off and finish priming the bedroom.”

I have some personal days and thought I’d use one. Carlos said fine, mainly because we are tired of sleeping in a queen-sized bed with three cats. That next day, I drove him to work, went home and began painting. Around noon, the phone rings and it’s Carlos:

“I called work and they said you didn’t come in.”

I replied:

“I told you I was taking the day off to paint.”

“But you said ‘tomorrow,’ so I thought you meant Wednesday.”

“Honeybunch? When a person says ‘tomorrow’ on Monday, they mean Tuesday, because on Monday Wednesday is the day after tomorrow.”

Lord, that man.

Sidenote: when Carlos called me at work that Tuesday, my boss thought I hadn’t told Carlos I was taking the day off, and didn’t want to get me into any trouble, or insert himself into what he thought might be a fight, and so he told Carlos I was ‘indisposed.

After Ben Carson tried to buy a dining table for $31,000, we found out that the Interior Department spent nearly $139,000 on a work order labeled as “Secretary’s Door.” The project was carried out by a Maryland company called Conquest Solutions … the only company to bid on the job … that specializes in building automation systems, like costly doors.

Now comes the part that’s hard to believe, I mean, if you believe a door can cost $139,000; a spokes-idiot for Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke claims the cost of the doors was news to her, and that the work was requested by career staffers as part of a building modernization effort; she claimed that historic preservation requirements and new locks raised the cost.

Uh huh; so, you do know the cost, or you don’t know the cost? And if this is part of an historic restoration, how does an automatic door fit into that.

Let’s have Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff have the last word on the matter:

"What a waste. Just think how many dining sets you could have bought or private jets you could have chartered with that money."

The grifters are running the government, people. Get out; resist; vote.

After allegedly threatening to take his life last month over allegations that he raped two underage boys, Ronnie Gorton, a married father and pastor of The Awakening Church in Tennessee, was indicted on 47 counts of illegal relations with three underage boys including five counts of aggravated sexual battery, 17 counts of sexual battery by an authority figure, two counts of continuous sexual abuse of a child, 16 counts of statutory rape by an authority figure, two counts of exploitation of a minor by electronic means, two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, two counts of purchasing alcohol for a child, and one count of rape.

Yup, the pastor f**ks children.  Just sayin’.

In Bye Felicia News … Victoria Miller and her three daughters, the Christian owners of W.W. Bridal Boutique in Pennsylvania have decided to close their business due to fears that impending ordinance would require their public business serve all the public and stop denying service to lesbian couples:

 “The members of our town council have made it known they will pass an ordinance soon. We have chosen to close rather than be forced to go against our faith.”

Um, Victoria, you can still practice your Bigotry and Hate Faith, you just can’t use it to deny services to people.M’kay?

Look! A grifter! It looks like _____ isn’t the only _____ with potential conflicts of interest in the White House.

Ivanka “Complicit” _____, an ALLEGED senior White House adviser will pull in more than $1 million a year from the family business that has continued to develop luxury resorts across the globe during the ______ sham presidency.

And, some of those _____-branded developments are hiring state-owned companies for construction, receiving gifts from foreign governments in the form of public land or eased regulations and accepting payments from customers who are foreign officials.

Yes, she’s a thief and lair and grifter and con artist, just like her husband and her daddy.

Meanwhile, Back at Ben Carson’s $31, 000 dining table for his office.

When the story broke, Carson and his staff claimed they had no knowledge of the cost of the table, but since they all work for _____, we now know that was a lie.

Newly released emails show Carson and his wife selected the furniture themselves. The email, with the subject line “Secretary’s dining room set needed,” sent to Carson’s assistant refers to “printouts of the furniture the Secretary and Mrs. Carson picked out.”

The Secretary picked out.

Yup, it’s a swampy slime-fest in DC, thanks to _____ and his ilk.

Dennis Alexander is a teacher and a reserve police officer.

Dennis Alexander was teaching a course about gun safety for his Administration of Justice class.

Dennis Alexander accidentally fired that gun inside the classroom injuring three students.

But, by all means, arm teachers. What could possibly go wrong?

The NRA proved once again what a disgusting group of terrorists they are, and in doing so are practically guaranteeing that millions of teenagers, who will be old enough to vote for the first time in November, will be Democrats.

In an effort to counter calls for new gun control legislation on Wednesday, the same day that thousands of students across the country, and the world, walked out of schools to protest gun violence, the NRA tweeted a picture that image depicting an AR-15 style rifle, the same gun used in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, with the caption, “I’ll control my own guns, thank you.”

Vile. Mocking students who watched as classmates were slaughtered by the very same kind of weapon they want everyone to own.

I hope these students keep marching and talking and protesting and voting. I’ll be doing the same right alongside them.

South Carolina’s GOP Governor, Henry McMaster, who just yesterday called the student walkout “disgraceful”, proved how disgusting a man he is by issuing an executive order Tuesday that allows foster care providers to discriminate based on religion without losing their license.

For decades, the Greenville-based Miracle Hill Ministries has only allowed foster children to be placed with parents who share the organization’s Christian beliefs. That practice came under fire when a new regulation took effect thanks to My President, Barack Obama, that prevented publicly licensed and funded foster care agencies from servicing specific religions.

But McMaster is all about discrimination. Luckily, he’s up for reelection and I’m hoping the people of South Carolina put an end to his career.

Palate Cleanser… this week on Homeland, Carrie enlisted a team to help her get information out of a suspect, and, well, if I was ever going to get roughed up for information, these three sides of beef could dot …just saying.

Clockwise, from the top, Hot Ginger William Popp, Beefcake Clé Bennett and snarky James D'Arcy.

Interrogate me, boys!

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Joe Kennedy III, Massachusetts Democratic Congressman, taking a shot at Lyin’ Paul Ryan and the GOP’s _____Care proposal:

“I was struck last night by a comment that I heard made by Speaker Ryan, where he called this repeal bill ‘an act of mercy.’ With all due respect to our speaker, he and I must have read different scripture. The one that I read calls on us to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, and give comfort to the sick. It reminds us that we are judged not by how we treat the powerful, but how we care for the least among us. … There is no ‘mercy’ in a system that makes healthcare a luxury. There is no ‘mercy’ in a country that turns its back on those most in need of protection — the elderly, the poor, the sick, and the suffering.”

Isn’t it grand when the liberals throw the Bible back in the face of the Bible thumpers like Ryan who have no idea what the Bible says or means?

Loving it!

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David Letterman, on President _____:

“I mean, how do you build a dictatorship? First, you undermine the press: ‘The only truth you’re going to hear is from me.’ And he hires the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Steve Bannon, to be his little buddy. Bannon looks like a guy who goes to lunch, gets drunk, and comes back to the office: ‘Steve, could you have just one drink?’ ‘Fuck you.’ How is a white supremacist the chief adviser to our president? Did anybody look that up?”

Preach it, Dave!

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Amar’e Stoudemire, former NBA star, asked if he would have a problem with a gay teammate:

“I’m going to shower across the street, make sure my change of clothes are around the corner. And I’m going to drive [and] take a different route to the gym.”

Isn’t it funny how homophobes always think gay men will come after them? We won’t because you’re an effing Neanderthal.

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Amar’e Stoudemire, apologizing for being a homophobic dick:

“I want to apologize for my offensive comments against the LGBT community. These remarks were taken from a larger interview where a reporter was asking me hypothetical questions, and all my answers had a comedic undertone. The answers I gave were meant to be taken as jokes and I am deeply sorry for offending anyone. I am open to creating a dialogue to assist the fight the LGBT community encounters daily and will continue to focus on playing basketball.”

Homophobia isn’t funny, asshat, just like if a white player said he’d cross the street rather than shower with a black player is never, never, funny.

Piss off.

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Ben Carson, on slaves and how and why they “chose” to come to America:

“That’s what America is about. A land of dreams and opportunity. There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less. But they, too, had a dream that one day their sons, daughters, grandsons, granddaughters, great grandsons, great granddaughters might pursue prosperity and happiness in this land.”

I remember reading about Africans being rounded up by slavers, chained together in the holds of ships, crapping themselves, pissing, themselves, fed slop, and having to remain shackled even if the slave next to them died during the voyage.

So, yeah, I believe they saw this as a dram of an opportunity to come to America for a better life by being sold as property, used, beaten, murdered, raped, at the whim of white men.

Ben Carson seriously needs to shut the fuck up.

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Martin O’Malley, former governor of Maryland and Democratic Party presidential candidate, trying to persuade people not to attend the White House St. Patrick’s Day gathering:

“The enduring symbol of the United States of America is not the barbed wire fence, it is the Statue of Liberty. So please, ‘in the name of God and of the dead generations from which Ireland receives her old tradition of nationhood, boycott _____’s St. Patrick’s Day gathering at the White House ... Let’s show _____ how many Irish Americans and fellow Americans oppose his policies. Make you Irish ancestors smile. We are not a deportation nation that breaks up immigrant families and separates parents from their children. As John F. Kennedy said, ‘We are a nation of immigrants.’ Our diversity is our greatest strength. Take a stand for the true character of the United States of America—a free and generous country, a Republic with liberty and justice for all.”

Bravo, sir, bravo. We all need to remember that we all came from ancestors who traveled here from somewhere else, and that immigrants are not bad.

Bad is the bigot in the White House spreading fear and hate.

PS Martin O'Malley is hot ... just sayin'.

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Gavin Grimm, the trans student, taking his fight to use a bathroom to the Supreme Court—who last week, after _____’s dismissal of Obama’s guidance, sent it back to appeals court:

“This case will not be resolved until after I graduate. But this fight is bigger than me. I came to realize that very early on, and it is truer now than it ever has been. This fight is for other trans youth in my high school. It is for other trans youth in Virginia. It is for all trans youth who are in school or one day will be. It is for the friends and loved ones of these youth, who want these children to be happy and healthy, rather than at risk and in danger as so many trans people are.”

The fight will go on, and trans Americans and their allies will be victorious.

Mark my words.

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This.That.

So .... vacation. 

Tuxedo wanted to go and tried to stowaway in a suitcase but, alas, was unsuccessful.

It was lovely and peaceful and fun and we got to meet up with friends we hadn’t seen since we left, but ... while it took us about nine-and-a-half-hours to make the nine-hour-and-seventeen minute drive to Ft. Lauderdale on this road:

It took us two hours to drive the 53-minute drive from Ft Lauderdale to our hotel on this road:

But once there we found a local Cuban restaurant, La Carreta, was right nearby and I got my Caldo Gallego fix. For those who don’t know, Caldo Gallego is a white bean and broth soup with pork and it was the perfect capper after a day of driving.

We had a few appointments to take care of while down there but we also visited the Fairchild Tropical Gardens, a favorite spot of ours while we lived there. 

They had a new butterfly house and this guy seemed to want to attach himself to me and come back to South Carolina.

Alas, he could not, but ... whilst walking we happened upon this guy and I begged Carlos to let me bring him home—the cats love to play with lizards—but Carlos the Spoilsport, AKA The rational thinker, said, ‘No.’ But seriously we must have seen 6 or 8 of these beauties and many more of a smaller variety lounging about in the gardens.

We also met up with our friend Benjamin and his boyfriend, Ralph, for a trip to Shubui, our favorite Sushi place. Sadly, the weather had turned cool so Carlos and I donned light sweaters with our shorts and shoes. Benjamin and Ralph, South Floridians forever, wore long-sleeves and long pants and literally raced from the car to the restaurant because of how cold it was that night.

It.Was.Sixty.Eight.Degrees. Carlos and I laughed when we told them that that morning, in our hometown, it was 14 degrees and we’d had snow fall—we heard the news from our pet-sitter. Still, Benjamin and Ralph ran whenever we were outside and cranked the heat in the car to stave off the chill ... of 68 degrees.

It was a nice getaway—nicer because we avoided the horrific cold here for the warmth down South—but, as Seinfeld does, and as I do, I immediately calculate how many hours until we can get home, minus the time sleeping of course.

As much as I love to go away and see old friends and favorite places. I love coming home.

In high-larious news, AKA News of the Stupid, a neo-Nazi group has postponed its planned march in downtown Whitefish, Montana because they couldn’t come up with the $125 fee.

Andrew Anglin, publisher of The Daily Stormer, had planned the march in praise of white supremacist Richard Spencer, but mailed the city of Whitefish an incomplete application seeking a special event permit.

Anglin wrote on his hate-site: “I have spoken at length with my lawyers – though the ACLU has yet to respond to my inquiry – and we’ve decided that due to the permit refusal by the city of Whitefish, we will need to postpone the planned march.”

Um, dickwad? May I call you Dickwad? You didn’t send all the money in and you didn’t fill out the application correctly. M’kay?

Sheesh, white supremacists are cheap ... and stupid ... and they lie.

Ben Carson, _____’s nominee for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development,--qualified because he has once lived in a house in an urban area—was asked for his thoughts—funny that, thoughts? Plural?—on LGBTQ housing rights and he quickly vomited up his old Gays Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Marry bull shiz:

“Of course, I would enforce all the laws of the land. And I believe that all Americans regardless of the things that you mentioned should be protected by the law. What I have mentioned in the past is the fact that no one gets ‘extra rights’. ‘Extra rights’ means that you get to redefine everything for everybody else. That to me doesn’t seem to be very democratic.”

Um, Ben, as a Black man, you do remember that marriage was “redefined” back in the 1960s to make interracial marriage legal, right? Are you against that? And I know you’re a brainless brain surgeon, but you do know that marriage has evolved and changed dramatically since the beginning of time, right?

Oh, you don’t? Then sit the fuck down you clinking clanking clacking collection of caliginous junk.

So, #Pissgate. #UrineTroubleDonald. #GoldenShowers. #PEEotus. How is that we didn’t see this coming? I mean, c’mon, that picture is not new!

Wingnuts, and _____, went wild over Meryl Streep’s brilliant speech at the Golden Globes when she called out _____ for mocking a disabled man—and let’s be perfectly clear, he mocked a disabled man.

Meghan McCain, the self-entitled, self-indulgent, self-involved daughter of the long passed his retirement day senator John McCain, Tweeted out this load of crap about Streep and the liberals:

I love that the daughter of a millionaire thinks she speaks for the Middle and Lower classes; she probably Tweeted that whilst having the servants butter her bread over breakfast at the manse. But then internet troll, and gasbag, Tomi Lahren, as true an illiterate as I have ever seen, also weighed in:

Yes, the woman who makes a very good living being an internet asshat thinks she’s a Middle Class American.

I was already to take these too ignorant rightwingnuts on until I found this, by veteran Charles Clymer:

Price.Less.

And lastly, as the inauguration of _____ approaches—and remember, turn your TVs off that day to make it one of the least-watched events ever because low ratings will annoy_____—I was turned onto this site by Warrior Queen, Anne Marie, of From My Brian To My Mouth fame. It’s the Indivisible Guide, whose aim is to unseat, rattle and resist President ____.

“Donald Trump is the biggest popular vote loser in history to ever call himself President- Elect. In spite of the fact that he has no mandate, he will attempt to use his congressional majority to reshape America in his own racist, authoritarian, and corrupt image. If progressives are going to stop this, we must stand indivisibly opposed to Trump and the members of Congress (MoCs) who would do his bidding. Together, we have the power to resist — and we have the power to win.

We know this because we’ve seen it before. The authors of this guide are former congressional staffers who witnessed the rise of the Tea Party. We saw these activists take on a popular president with a mandate for change and a supermajority in Congress. We saw them organize locally and convince their own MoCs to reject President Obama’s agenda. Their ideas were wrong, cruel, and tinged with racism— and they won.

We believe that protecting our values, our neighbors, and ourselves will require mounting a similar resistance to the Trump agenda — but a resistance built on the values of inclusion, tolerance, and fairness. Trump is not popular. He does not have a mandate. He does not have large congressional majorities. If a small minority in the Tea Party can stop President Obama, then we the majority can stop a petty tyrant named Trump.

To this end, the following chapters offer a step-by-step guide for individuals, groups, and organizations looking to replicate the Tea Party’s success in getting Congress to listen to a small, vocal, dedicated group of constituents. The guide is intended to be equally useful for stiffening Democratic spines and weakening pro-Trump Republican resolve.

We believe that the next four years depend on Americans across the country standing indivisible against the Trump agenda. We believe that buying into false promises or accepting partial concessions will only further empower Trump to victimize us and our neighbors. We hope that this guide will provide those who share that belief useful tools to make Congress listen."

Check it out, HERE, and #Resist.

As I said, I won’t watch the inauguration, but I will be glued to the set during the impeachment hearing because I am sickened by the fact that we are going from this to that ...