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Beto O’Rourke, former Texas Representative and candidate for governor, taking on a heckler at a rally who laughed as he described the gun used to murder 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde:

“It may be funny to you, motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me, OK?”

O’Rourke rightfully fired back at the laugher, who was standing among a small group of supporters of GOP asshatted Governor Greg “I don’t care about dead kids” Abbott.

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Dan Patrick, Texas GQP Lieutenant Governor, saying the US Constitution was literally written by God:

“We’re a nation founded upon not the words of our founders, but the words of God because he wrote the Constitution. We were a Christian state and lost that for many years.”

No, asshat, we were never a Christian nation and Texas was never a Christian state, which is what we have Freedom OF Religion, and Freedom From Religion.

God wrote the Constitution? I haven’t heard such ridiculous ignorance in a looooong time.

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Mick Mulvaney, former acting chief of staff for Thing 45, saying that the reported informant who tipped off authorities about where those classified documents were stored at Mar-a-Lago would have to be “very close” to the former president:

“This would be someone who was handling things on day to day, who knew where documents were, so it would be somebody very close inside the president, my guess is there’s probably six or eight people who had that kind of information. I didn’t know there was a safe at Mar-a-Lago and I was the chief of staff for 15 months.”

Rumors fly that Melanie wants no part of a second term in the White House and maybe she’s the one who squealed.

I kinda believe that.

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Lindsey Graham, South Carolina GQP Senator and former Junior Miss, on same-sex marriage:

“I think states should decide the issue of marriage and states should decide the issue of abortion. I have respect for South Carolina. South Carolina voters here I trust to define marriage and to deal with the issue of abortion. Not nine people on the court. That’s my view.”

Graham said he believes the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision to legalize same-sex marriage would not be overturned, but that doing so “would be up to the court.”

Yes, the lifelong “confirmed” bachelor is anti-marriage equality probably because there isn’t a gay man alive who’d put a ring on it for Miss Lindsey. And that poor dear frets so much about always being a bridesmaid and never a bride, that she forgot that South Carolina legalized same-sex marriages in November 2014, before SCOTUS did in June of 2015, so we were ahead of national curve you pandering queen.

Come for my marriage, ma’am, and see how that works for you.

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Traitor, after stating his name, pleaded the Fifth while being deposed by the New York Attorney General, and then said when asked to answer a question:

“Same as before.”

He said that 440 times, even after saying only mob bosses plead the Fifth.

For once he and I agree: he’s a criminal.

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Glenn Youngkin, Virginia’s GQP Governor, on outing children to their parents:

“With regards to informing parents with most important decisions about their children, I think everybody knows where I stand, parents matter. Parents should be at the forefront of all of these discussions. And I firmly believe that teachers and schools have an obligation to make sure that parents are well informed about what’s happening in their kids’ lives. And one of the things we learned last year during the campaign is that parents were tired of being pushed to the background in their child’s education.”

He says parents matter, but those LGBTQ+ kids who might be kicked out their homes, or worse, when outed to their parents, he doesn’t give a flying fuck about.

And this isn’t about education, it’s about shoving young LGBTQ+ Americans back into a closet to make these fucking Republicans feel better.

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Bobservations

A couple of programming notes … my father has postponed his New Ankle™ surgery for the time being so I won’t be heading out West for an extended stay. He may reschedule; he may not.

On the Carlos front, he’d been a bit worried about his mother since his father passed away; she’s staying with family in Querétaro, outside Mexico City, and they’re keeping her busy and taking good care of her. But the other day, Carlos was speaking to her on the phone and after he’d finished, he hung up and said to me:

“I can’t believe it.”

“What?”

I was telling my mother something, and I made a little joke and she laughed.”

“I can’t believe that anyone would laugh at one of your jokes.”

“No, seriously, this was the first time I’d heard her laugh in I don’t know how long.”

“Well, if you think about all she’s gone through, in the last month that we know about, not even considering that last few years, she probably hasn’t had the chance to laugh much.”

But that was all it took to ease Carlos mind about his mother; a little laugh during a phone call. I am so glad he got to hear that.

Sidenote: I told him that I was kinda happy not to have to go to Oregon for five weeks; and he said:

"Awwww, you'd miss me?"

"You? I'd talk to you five times a day, but Tuxedo doesn't have a phone! What would I do?"

What can I say, what Tuxedo and I have is real, and it's fabulous.

Plus, you know, being away from Carlos would make me crazy.

Shortly after Talabama Governor Kay Ivey signed that extreme anti-abortion bill into law,  she attended the  execution of Michael Brandon Samra, who took part in the quadruple murder of the family of a friend.

Keep that in mind when she says she’s all about the sanctity of life because she attended an execution. In fact, since Ivey assumed office two years ago, Talabama has executed six other men, including convicted serial bomber Walter Moody who, at 83, was the oldest person executed in the nation’s history; and don’t forget Ivey’s attendance at the execution of  Domineque Ray after the Supreme Court refused to issue a stay when Ivey’s government denied the condemned Muslim inmate access to an imam in the death chamber, although it does provide a Christian chaplain.

Keep in mind that California has the nation’s largest death row with 735 condemned inmates, Alabama has the highest per capita rate of death sentences.

So much for Ivey’s notion that the new abortion ban “stands as a powerful testament to Alabamians’ deeply held belief that every life is precious & that every life is a sacred gift from God.”

Every life is precious?

Senator Mike Lee, a Utah Republican, bigot and homophobe spoke out in opposition last week after the House of Representatives passed the historic Equality Act, which expands existing civil rights laws to protect LGBTQ people.

Lee said the legislation, which heads to the Senate but has little chance of being brought to the floor for a vote, is unnecessary because:

“LGBT people don't need protection because Americans are becoming more "tolerant."

Funny, cuz all that tolerance was nowhere on display last December when GOP bigot and homophobe Mike Lee blocked the renomination of a lesbian to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission because he said her views on marriage were "radical."

LGBTQ Americans need protection from asshats like GOP bigot and homophobe Mike Lee.

Last week Robert F. Smith, the billionaire investor who founded Vista Equity Partners and became the richest black man in America, gave the commencement speech at Morehouse College and kind of went off on a tangent when he …

… told all 396 graduates that he and his family would pay off the entire graduating class’s student debt so they could start their lives without student debt hanging over them.

That’s right. In this last years, full-time tuition at Morehouse was $25,368, with other expenses such as room and board, books and fees, pushing the total to over $48,000.

And :::poof::: it’s gone, thanks to Mr. Smith.

Guess which judge will be hearing _____’s appeal on turning over his taxes to the House?

Wait for it.

Wait for it

Wait for it

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Wait for it.

Merrick Garland.

Kris Kobach, the GOP asshat and former Kansas secretary of state, has given the White House a list of requirements that he needs if he is to become the administration’s “immigration czar,” a job _____ has been looking to create to coordinate immigration policy across government agencies.

Here’s what  Kobach needs:

Seriously? What a little bitch. Money, private planes, weekends off. Who does he think he is? Ivanka?

This week Beto O’Rourke “rebooted” his campaign because, after starting off big, he’s really gotten nowhere, so it’s like a do-over.

How about a stop? Full stop.

I like Beto, but if after a few months of campaigning you’re getting nowhere and think you need a reset, you really need to take a seat.

He’s at it again … totally-not-gay-at-all former Republican Congressman, noted homophobe  Aaron Schock was snapped poolside at the Standard Hotel in West Hollywood by a gay tourist visiting from New York.

The closet case was accompanied by an attractive speedo-clad young man lounging at the pool, until he got into the water and tried “chatting up” another young man.

Aaron? Come out already you big queer. And then go away, because after all the years and effort you spent denying the LGBTQ community representation and equal rights, we don’t want you or your turquoise belt.

Come out. Go away.

The oh-so-dreamy Adam Senn was born in Paris, France, but grew up in Sugar Land, Texas, outside of Houston. He studied theater as a child and throughout high school, but then moved to New York City where he began smoldering up my internet searches and modeling for Dolce & Gabbana, among others,

‘In 2016 he began acting, most notably playing a bisexual basketball player in VH1's Hit the Floor for two seasons; why it gotta be ‘bi’?

Anyway, it all boils down to Adam is hot and sexy and cool and just what I needed today …

Just sayin’.

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Amy Klobuchar, Democratic Senator and 2020 presidential hopeful, on how _____’s rhetoric aids people like the Quebec and New Zealand mosque terrorists:

“I don’t think you can actually take each of these murderous acts and say what role Donald _____ has played, but I can tell you this: his rhetoric doesn’t help. And many of these people, whether it was the person who tried to bomb Barack Obama or this murderer in New Zealand, have cited Donald _____ along the way. That means to me, at the very least, he is dividing people. He, at the very least, should be giving strong statements, public speeches, defending Muslims in this world."

He’ll never say a nice word about Muslims because his base, those religious hypocrite so-called Evangelicals, would revolt.

So, they can all fuck off.

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Laura Ingraham, on _____’s threat of violence if people stand against him:

 “Here’s actually what _____ said. He said, ‘I can tell you I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for _____, I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very, very bad.’ Why did the media try so hard to ascribe the most violent intention to the president, who is talking, obviously, kind of like a New Yorker there? What’s going on?”

She doesn’t think that when _____ says he has all these people on “his” side, people he suggests will do wahetver he asks, that it’s a threat?

Yes, Ingtaham is that ignorant.

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Beto O’Rourke, on the massacre in New Zealand and calling for a moratorium on sales of the AR-15:

“We allow people in this country to buy weapons that were designed, engineered, and sold to the United States military for the express purpose of killing people as effectively as possible in as great a number as possible. If you own AR-15, keep it. Continue to use it responsibly and safely. I just don’t think that we need to sell any more weapons of war into this public.”

Makes sense, but it’ll never happen in the United States of Guns no matter how many of us are murdered.

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Pete Hegseth, Fox News goose-stepper, responding to O’Rourke:

“Such easy, loose rhetoric of the left. They’ll say it — I’ll say it again, if I own an AR-15, stocks of gun companies probably will go up after things like this. Responsible gun owners recognize their right to own rifles like that. You can use “weapons of war” or “assault ban” all you want. This will appeal to his base, young people who are uninformed about the difference between an automatic and semi-automatic rifle. But, go out and get your second AR-15 today. Maybe it’s a good reason to do so.”

Yes, he wants more guns because we;’ve seen after years and years and years of mass shootings in this country that more guns is the answer.

Fuck off.

PS Keep in might that Hegseth is the same moron who says he hasn’t washed his hands in ten years because germs aren’t real since he can’t see them.

Yes, he did.

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Johnny Isakson, GOP Senator from Georgia, who vowed after John McCain died that he would deliver a “whipping” to anybody—including Trump—who impugned McCain’s good name. making good on his promise:

“I just want to lay it on the line, that the country deserves better, the McCain family deserves better, I don’t care if he’s president of United States, owns all the real estate in New York, or is building the greatest immigration system in the world. Nothing is more important than the integrity of the country and those who fought and risked their lives for all of us.”

Integrity would be taking your statement to the floor of the Senate and urging others in Congress to do the same.

But sure, say it in an interview. Coward.

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Stephen Colbert, mocking Devin Nunes” $250 million lawsuit against Twitter:

“Nunes is suing Twitter for allowing accounts to insult him … What? That’s what Twitter is! That’s all it does. Can you tell the sun not to shine? Can you tell the rivers not to flow? Can you tell @MAGAman5000 not to call me the king of the beta male soyboy cucks after I suggested that Frozen was in fact a delightful children’s movie?”

Seriously, he wants to sue Twitter because some Twitterers, well, a lot of Twitterers , make fun of him. And so Stephen Colbert, hoping to be part of the lawsuit, created a fake Twitter account—@DevinNunesSkin--and issued its first Tweet:

“Still thin.”

Funny, cuz it’s true.

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Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand Prime Minister, after the mass shooting in Christchurch and the terrorist:

“He sought many things from his act of terror, but one was notoriety, and that is why you will never hear me mention his name. He is a terrorist, he is a criminal, he is an extremist. But he will, when I speak, be nameless.”

Ardern opened her address to Parliament with a greeting in Arabic:

“As-salamu alaykum … Peace be upon you, and peace be upon all of us.”

Yes, please.

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Cameron Hawthorn, up-and-coming country singer, debuted a new video, “Dancing in the Living Room”, a tribute to love and Hawthorn’s coming out:

“I remember always thinking how special it was to dance freely with my boyfriend in the living room of our apartment—being gay, it’s not as easy to dance as a couple in public together as it is for a straight couple. I wanted to express how special that moment is for a couple, when it’s just the two of you in the privacy of your own four walls.”

It’s sweet, and he’s hot.

So, welcome out Cameron, and please accept as our gift, from HOMO HQ, the Official Coming Out Toaster Oven—perfect for an after-dance snack—and a copy of The Gay Agenda.

Welcome out.

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Beto O’Rourke, on running for president:

“You can probably tell that I want to run. I do. I think I’d be good at it. This is the fight of our lives, not the fight-of-my-political-life kind of crap. But, like, this is the fight of our lives as Americans, and as humans, I’d argue. I want to be in it. Man, I’m just born to be in it, and want to do everything I humanly can for this country at this moment.”

You can’t deny his passion, and you can’t deny his charisma, but I don’t think this is his year.

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Pete Davidson, responding to people who are somehow upset that his new girlfriend, Kate Beckinsale, is twenty years older than he:

“Apparently people have a crazy fascination with our age difference. It doesn’t really bother us, but then again, I’m new to this. So, if you have questions about a relationship with a big age difference, just ask Leonardo DiCaprio, Jason Statham, Michael Douglas, Richard Gere, Jeff Goldblum, Scott Disick, Dane Cook, Derek Jeter, Bruce Willis, Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee, Alec Baldwin, Sean Penn and whoever the president of France is. Mel Gibson, Billy Joel, Mick Jagger, Sylvester Stallone, Eddie Murphy, Kelsey Grammer, Larry King, Larry King, Larry King, Rod Stewart and Donald _____.”

True dat. If the man is decades older than the woman, people say almost nothing. But a younger man and an older woman?

Quelle horror.

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Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana and future presidential candidate, slamming Michael Elizabeth Pence for supporting _____:

"How could he allow himself to become the cheerleader of the porn star presidency? Is it that he stopped believing in scripture when he started believing in Donald _____? I don’t know. [How] could he get on board with this presidency? My understanding of scripture it’s about protecting the stranger and the prisoner and the poor person and that idea. That’s what I get in the gospel when I’m in church. And his has a lot more to do with sexuality and a certain view of rectitude. And we saw that in Indiana when he really embarrassed our state with policies that both Democrats and Republicans, in not just the political world but the business community, stepped up and said, ‘Hey, you’re making us look like a backwards place in just the moment we’re trying to advance.’ And unfortunately, he now has a national stage for some of those fanatical social ideas.” 

I like Pete. Pete speaks his mind. I don’t think Pete has a shot at being president in 2020, but maybe sometime. But, think on this …

What if whomever gets the Democratic nomination chooses Pete to be their Veep, and then Pete will be able to debate Michael Elizabeth Pence … and he will mop the floor with him.

That I’d love to see.

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John Oliver, on _____’s visit with tornado victims in Alabama, where he signed Bibles:

“I am not remotely surprised that _____ did that. I’m just slightly confused as to why anyone would want him to, because seeing _____’s autograph on a Bible should be like seeing a picture of your own Mom on the cover of a Penthouse magazine. It should render the whole thing useless, and if you keep reading after discovering it, you’re going directly to Hell. [But] look, some people there clearly wanted his autograph and presidents have signed Bibles before, but Trump didn’t just sign the book. He signed the cover! And it is weird to sign the cover of any book, and weirder still to sign the cover of the Bible with [that] signature. Because I don’t care what your name is, that is not how you sign something. That’s how you test if your Sharpie still has ink left before you sign something.”

Also of note is that_____’s signature looks like a row of Klan hats, which is quite telling.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, on her detractors:

“I find it revealing when people mock where I came from, saying they’re going to ‘send me back to waitressing,’ as if that is embarrassing or shameful. It’s as though they think being a member of Congress makes you intrinsically ‘better’ than a waitress. But our job is to serve, not rule.”

Sad that most in Congress don’t realize they are the servers and we are the served.

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Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, on impeaching _____:

“I’m not for impeachment. I’m going to give you some news right now because I haven’t said this to any press person before. But since you asked, and I’ve been thinking about this: Impeachment is so divisive to the country that unless there’s something so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan, I don’t think we should go down that path, because it divides the country. And he’s just not worth it.”

Keep that in mind, until, and unless, the GOP acquires a spine, impeachment will be a waste of time and will divide this country further.

Bets bet? Vote that fat lying adulterous, traitorous, conman, misogynistic, racist, anti-Semitic, white supremacist, homophobic ass out of office.

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Botham Jean's Murder, Beto O'Rourke and Ted Cruz

Down in Texas, Congressman Beto O’Rourke is running for Senate against Ted Cruz.

O’Rourke has said he supports firing Dallas police officer Amber Guyger after she entered the wrong apartment and killed Botham Jean, an innocent man. He agrees with calls by Jean’s family, and many others in Dallas, that should be fired:

“There has to be a full accounting for how young black men continue to be killed in this country without accountability, without justice, without these full investigations, without respecting their civil rights. This cannot continue.”

Ted Cruz had a different response; he says people are rushing to judgment on the case and that O’Rourke and Democrats were “quick to always blame the police officer”:

“It may well be that two lives were destroyed that night. That obviously the individual that was at home in his apartment and found himself murdered — that is horrific and a nightmare.”

Yes, he said that Botham Jean—and he cannot even say the man’s name—“found himself murdered.” And then he claims that Amber Guyger’s life was also destroyed that night except that Guyger is still alive; the only thing she ruined is her career, except Cruz doesn’t think she should be fired for entering an apartment she thought was hers and then murdering the occupant of that apartment and then taking three days to get her story straight.

Let’s make this perfectly queer for Ted … according to Guyger’s own account, she came home on September 6 after a long shift and didn’t know that she’s gotten off on the wrong floor of her building and that the apartment she entered was in was not hers and instantly began shooting at the “large silhouette” in the darkened room. When she turned on the lights in the apartment, she realized her mistake.

Mistake?

Botham Jean’s family disputes that account, saying Guyger should have noticed obvious signs that she was in the wrong apartment on the wrong floor; in addition, witnesses say they heard her knocking on Jean’s door and yelling.

But still, in America in 2018, Amber Guyger, after shooting an innocent man in his own home, is the victim in all of this for people like Ted Cruz, and Botham jean is simply the man who “found himself murdered.”

That’s it in a nutshell Texas; do you want a senator who sees this shooing as disturbing, as something that needs to stop, or do you want a senator who blames the real victim for being gunned down in his own home, and then calls the shooter a victim. Do you want another police officer going unpunished for a fatal shooting?

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