I Didn't Say It

Brian Cox, actor who identifies as straight, on the image of Brad Pitt walking onto the set of the 2004’s Troy:

“It was a great experience, a great cast. I remember at one point being agog at Brad. He’d never been in costumes like that…Brad walked on set and my jaw was down because he was so stunningly beautiful. I’m straight but I thought, ‘Wow, my God! This guy is stunning.’ What chance does one have on the screen against this beautiful, beautiful man?”

True words, Brian, true words. I’m a big old ‘mo but I gushed at Brad in his leather kilt and his long blond hair … mmmmm.

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Ron DeSantis, governor of Flori-duh, saying  podcast host Joe Rogan shouldn’t apologize for his past racist comments:

“No, he shouldn’t have apologized. I mean, you see what happens? The mob will come after people, and they’re targeting Rogan because he’s threatening to upset the apple cart on some of the things that they’re holding dear.”

Keep in mind that this week it was decided you can’t say ‘gay’ in Florida schools, but the governor gives you a pass on the n-word.

Also keep in mind that when Nazis paraded around Flori-duh, DeathSantis did not condemn them—shades of ‘nice people’?

Lastly, keep in mind that, during his 2018 campaign for Governor, DeSantis resisted calls to apologize after saying “the last thing we need to do is to monkey this up” in reference to electing his opponent Andrew Gillum, a Black man.

Racist fuck.

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Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader, criticizing the Republican National Committee [RNC] for its censure of Kinzinger and Cheney, and then calling January 6th “violent insurrection” not a “legitimate political discourse”:

“It was a violent insurrection with the purpose of trying to prevent a peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election. ... That’s what it was. [And] this issue is whether or not the RNC should be sort of singling out members of our party who may have different views from the majority. That’s not the job of the RNC.”

McConnell is already at odds with Thing 45, but the RNC’s asinine statement is also splintering the GOP into traitors and non-traitors.

Not a good luck for the mid-terms.

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Chris Christie, former GOP governor of New Jersey, commending Michael Elizabeth Pence for unapologetically defending certifying the election:

“Let’s call it what it is. January 6th was a riot that was incited by [Thing 45] in an effort to intimidate Mike Pence and the Congress into doing exactly what he said in his own words last week: overturn the election.”

Let’s call it what it is: this is the first stab at a Christie/Pence or Pence/Christie ticket in  2024.

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Liz Cheney, Wyoming GOP Congresswoman, in response to the RNC’s censure vote:

“The leaders of the Republican Party have made themselves willing hostages to a man who admits he tried to overturn a presidential election and suggests he would pardon January 6 defendants, some of whom have been charged with seditious conspiracy. I’m a constitutional conservative and I do not recognize those in my party who have abandoned the Constitution to embrace [Thing 45]. History will be their judge. I will never stop fighting for our constitutional republic. No matter what.”

The woman has balls of steel, while the rest of the GOP has cotton balls.

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Jimmy Carter, former president and current heroic human, on the legitimacy of Thing 45's presidency:

“I think a full investigation would show that [Thing 45] didn’t actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election, and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf. [He] is an illegitimate president. Basically, what I said, I can’t retract.”

Jimmy smiled as he said that last bit because he has zeros fucks to give a traitorous racist rapist.

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I Didn't Say It

Trevor Noah, “The Daily Show” host, on Fox “personalities” pushing back against President Biden’s promise to nominate a Black woman to SCOTUS:

“Biden is going to pick a Black woman who is also qualified. These people act like Biden is just going to show up to the mall and be like, ‘Yo, Shaniqua, come with me.’ And why not try to make the Supreme Court a little more representative of the country it represents? I mean, their rulings impact the lives of every person in the country. Of course [Tucker Carlson’s] upset. Think about it. For almost all of American history, the entire Supreme Court was white dudes with bow ties and weird hair. Now that’s all gone. It’s all gone. Where’s Tucker’s representation, huh?”

It’s hard to deny that those on the right, politically and in the media, are letting their racism shine through. They don’t even bother hiding it anymore … see next quote.

SIENOTES Trevor really floats my boat … hot, funny, and smart.

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Joe Rogan, podcaster and anti-vaxxing loon, on Black people:

“The black and white thing is so strange because the shades are such a spectrum of shades of people. Unless you are talking to someone who is, like, 100% African from the darkest place, where they are not wearing any clothes all day and they have developed all of that melanin to protect themselves from the sun, even the term Black is weird. When you use it for people who are literally my color, it becomes very strange.”

Racism, plain and simple, with a healthy dose of what-the-fuck-it is, because a lot of those folks aren’t Black enough?

Fuck all the way off you racist asshat.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., apologizing for saying Anne Frank had more freedom in hiding from the Nazis than people have today under U.S. vaccine policies:

“I apologize for my reference to Anne Frank, especially to families that suffered the Holocaust horrors. My intention was to use examples of past barbarism to show the perils from new technologies of control. To the extent my remarks caused hurt, I am truly and deeply sorry.”

I don’t buy this; he’s too smart. He knows his words are still out there, having their desired effect on the masses, so his apology his hollow. The good news is that both his sister and his wife took him to task for his remarks:

Kerry Kennedy, his sister, said:

“Bobby’s lies and fear-mongering yesterday were both sickening and destructive. I strongly condemn him for his hateful rhetoric. He does not represent the views of RFK Human Rights or our family.”

Cheryl Hines, his wife also said:

“My husband’s reference to Anne Frank at a mandate rally in D.C. was reprehensible and insensitive. The atrocities that millions endured during the Holocaust should never be compared to anyone or anything. His opinions are not a reflection of my own.”

But, again, the damage, and the ignorance, has already been spewed.

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Neil Young, musician and activist, demanding that his management team and record label remove his music from Spotify for their anti-vaccine lies:

“I am doing this because Spotify is spreading fake information about vaccines—potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them. Please act on this immediately today and keep me informed of the time schedule. I want you to let Spotify know immediately TODAY that I want all my music off their platform. They can have [Joe] Rogan or Young. Not both.”

Young is referencing the steady stream of misinformation about vaccines that Joe Rogan has peddled on his podcast. Young also has the back of some 270 doctors, physicians, and science educators who signed an open letter asking Spotify to stop spreading Rogan’s baseless claims.

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Ted Cruz, wacknut GOP loon, promoting the asshatted idea that President Biden will nominate Vice President Kamala Harris to the Supreme Court:

“I think there is a chance they name Kamala to the court, in part because they can’t stand her. And one of the virtues of naming her to the court is they get to get her out of the White House. My guess is if Kamala was nominated, it probably would be a 50-50 vote. Maybe she’d pick up a Republican vote. I would not be on the fence. I would be a hell no on Kamala if she were nominated.”

Oh, that hurts, Ted Cruz being a No vote to anything the Democrats suggest, even something as ludicrous, and QAnon-ish, as this.

Gosh he’s an ass.

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John Stockton, retired NBA Star, who may have hit his head one time to many on the hardwoods, saying more than 100 professional athletes have died from the vaccination:

“I think it’s highly recorded now, there’s 150 I believe now, it’s over 100 professional athletes dead—professional athletes—the prime of their life, dropping dead that are vaccinated, right on the pitch, right on the field, right on the court.”

They’re dying right on the court, mid-practice or mid-game and there is not one single video to document this?

Why that makes Stockton look like the Dumbest Fuck Walking.

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Brian Cox, actor, on Johnny Depp and turning down the part of the Governor in the “Pirates” franchise is his new memoir, Putting the Rabbit in the Hat:

“It would have been a money-spinner, but of all the parts in that film it was the most thankless. Plus, I would have ended up doing it for film after film and missed out on all the other nice things I’ve done. Another thing with ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ is that it’s very much the ‘Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow’ show, and Depp, personable though I’m sure he is, is so overblown, so overrated. I mean, ‘Edward Scissorhands.’ Let’s face it, if you come on with hands like that and pale, scarred-face make-up, you don’t have to do anything. And he didn’t. And subsequently, he’s done even less. But people love him. Or they did love him. They don’t love him so much these days, of course. If Johnny Depp went for Jack Sparrow now, they’d give it to Brendan Gleeson.”

I can’t argue with that …. Especially the ‘overblown, overrated’ bits.

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