Ain't That America XXXI:

It’s been a week of presidential racist Tweets, of homophobia from the Oval, of an Attorney General whose job is to work for We The People suggesting that if our 401Ks are profitable then why are we questioning if the president and many members of his inner circle weren’t and possibly still are, raping underage girls …

Things to remember:

The US never had a problem with election integrity before Cankles.

The US never had a problem with Russian interference before Cankles.

The US never had a problem with candidates accepting their defeat before Cankles.

Cankles is a liar, a cheat, a criminal, a traitor, a racist and a rapist. Surely we can do better?

Last week Cankles invited only GOP governors to the White House for a bipartisan meeting but then this week, he Taco’d and invited all governors, Democrat And Republican, except for two: Colorado Governor Jared Polis, the gay one, and Maryland Governor Wes Moore, the Black one.

Republican Representative Thomas Massie roasted Attorney General and Cankles’ Bitch, Pamela Jo Bondi after she showed up on Capitol Hill with prepared insults in a high school Burn Book to lob at critics while refusing to answer questions about Jeffrey Epstein.

Worse than that Bondi, speaking possibly from inside Cankles’ ass, suggested that the DOW was up over 50,000 so we should not concern ourselves with the rape of underage girls by Epstein, Cankles, and so many members of his Cabinet cuz our 401k’s are worth more.

Cankles disapproval rating reached a new high this week with Nate Silver’s Silver Bulletin average putting the fascist’s net approval at -13.7 points.

CNN’s Poll of Polls put Cankles at 39% approval and 59% disapproval, for a –20 net rating.

Vote this unpopular gaseous, gelatinous, pants shitting blob out of office.

California Democrat Representative Eric Swalwell pressed ICEstapo chief Todd Lyons to apologize to the families of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, two AMERICANS murdered by ICEstapo agents in Minneapolis last month and Lyons flat-out refused.

Jeremy Carl, Cankles’ nominee for a senior State Department post, struggled at his confirmation hearing to answer, ‘What is white identity and why is it under threat?’ even though he authored an entire book about it. He rambled about white food and Black food, white music and Black music and white worship styles, saying that a loss of a dominant white culture is weakening the country.

The White House still stands behind him because … white.

Andres Wilkinson, a US Customs and Border Protection supervisor is facing federal charges over allegations he harbored an undocumented immigrant who Wilkinson says is both his girlfriend and niece.

The complaint alleges that Wilkinson was aware of her unlawful immigration status yet maintained a romantic relationship with her.

Every accusation is an admission.

Kristi DogKiller Noem has a US Coast Guard pilot fired after he left her … wait for it, it’s epic … blanket behind. He was told to take a commercial flight home when they reached their destination but was eventually reinstated not because firing someone over losing an ego maniacal traitorous bitch’s blanket but because no one else was available to fly her home.

Was her broom in the shop?

Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick admitted that he lied about never visiting Pedophile Island owned by Jeffrey Epstein and that he’d cut ties with Epstein after first meeting him in 2005.

But emails prove Lutnick was invited to Epstein’s Island in December of 2012 and that Epstein’s assistant later wrote on her boss’s behalf, “It was nice seeing you.”

It’s not a stretch to say pedophiles will lie.

Wyoming  GOP Senator Cynthia Lummis says she now understands “what the big deal is” after reviewing unredacted Epstein files:

“Well, initially, my reaction to all this was, ‘I don’t care. I don’t know what the big deal is.’ But now I see what the big deal is … 9-year-old victims … wow.”

Of note is that pandering lying complicit asshat Lummis only changed her mind after announcing she would not seek reelection and therefore would not need assistance from Cankles in her campaign.

Pathetic.

And Krist DogKiller Noem, who isn’t busy enough firing military members who forget her binky now says that DHS is in charge of voter integrity and she alone will make sure that, and I quote, “all the right people will vote for the right people.”

The story was on JoeMyGod and I felt the need to fix the headline to make it more accurate

On the upside …

The Cankles Regime ordered the removal of a large Rainbow Flag from a flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument last week in his latest attack on the LGBTQ+ community. A few days later New York City officials and LGBTQ+ activists raised the Pride Flag once again, shouting:

“We will not be erased.”

And we will not be silent.

A judge has ruled that the Cankles Regime cannot proceed with plans to rescind $602 million in public health grants from four Democratic-led states—Colorado, Illinois, California and Minnesota—saying Cankles desired termination of the grants was based on “arbitrary, capricious, or unconstitutional rationales.”

And stupidity.

So, what have we learned: the GOP under the DogKiller will try to steal the election by keeping many Americans from voting so pay attention, be diligent and:

Good News: Kassidy Peters Gives Up Job Her Mommy Got For Her

Kassidy Peters, the daughter of South Dakota ReTHUGlican Governor Kristi Noem will relinquish her real estate appraiser license and leave the industry by the end of the year because … too many people are questioning how she got her license.

You see, in early 2020 Kassidy Peters applied for an appraiser license and was denied. Then, in June 2020,Kassidy’s mommy, Kristi Noem, took Kassidy to a private meeting with Sherry Bren, who leads the state’s appraiser certification program, and South Dakota Labor Secretary Marcia Hultman, and lo and behold, suddenly Kassidy was licensed. The following week, Hultman asked for Sherry Bren’s resignation.

Nothing to see here, and though no one knows what transpired at that July 2020 meeting, Kristi Noem swears her goal was only to make the process of obtaining n appraiser’s license more equitable, and added:

“I never once asked for special treatment for Kassidy. She is my daughter and I’m proud of her. I raised her to accomplish things on her own.”

Well, except Kassidy didn’t accomplish it on her own; she accomplished it when mommy had a meeting, and Kristi Noem never once called the process of obtaining an appraiser’s license inequitable until her daughter was denied.

If it smells like a typical lying, cheating, bullying ReTHUGlican helping the self-entitled demon spawn of their loins, then that’s what it is, so, Kassidy, hon, save you righteous indignation for the people who buy your story.

Rational people do not.

Good luck in the job hunt, but keep mommy out of the process this time?

_____'s Giant Ego, Little Dick

I know it’s no shock how idiotic, childish, unhinged, unfit, mentally and physically, _____is as president, but even this gave me pause.

We know that _____ loves to play golf because he plays it all the time, even during a manufactured national emergency, and we all know he’s a lying narcissist, but …

If you were to visit _____ International Golf Club you would find a series of small rectangular brass plaques on his locker, recognizing him as the 1999, 2001 and 2009 club champion, and the 2012 and 2013 senior champion. But there's a new one that says he was the club champion in 2018 … while he was president!

______, who  turned 72 last year, an impressive age to win even a senior club championship, is the reigning club champion at his own _____ International course. And that most recent “win” in 2018, brings his club-championship haul—all won at clubs bearing his name, mind you—to an even 20.

But, and here’s where you might be shocked, that plaque is a lie. You see, _____ is not actually the men’s champion at the club, he’s the co-champion, though that distinction is not made on his locker plaque.

Ted Virtue, a 58-year-old CEO from New York, had actually won the 2018 club championship title alone, but after winning the championship, _____ ran into him at the club and said something like:

“The only reason you won is because I couldn’t play.”

______ cited the demands and pressures of his “job” although he did make twenty visits to that club alone in 2018. And so, because _____’s ego won’t stand a loss, he proposed a nine-hole challenge match to Virtue, winner-takes-the-title.

Virtue said yes; _____won. And then _____ said to Virtue something like:

“This isn’t fair — we’ll be co-champions.”

Except that the only reason there was a match between the two is because the childish Toddler-In-Chief who owns the club, basically demanded a rematch, even though Virtue was the clear winner.

But _____ wanted that plaque on his locker so … coerce, lie, cheat; just like the White House. I mean it's not enough to be the effing President of the United States, he wants to be a golf champion at the clubs he owns.

Here's the "champion"golfing ... look at his, um, form!

South Carolina GOP Kills Bill To Extend Voter Registration

It’s very clear that the GOP thinks the only way they can win an election is to cheat.

And I’m not talking just Donald _____ski.

Here in South Carolina, where it’s not the heat, it’s the stupidity, a bill  that would have extended voter registration, has been derailed by state Republicans, without a moment of debate, crying voter registration fraud.

Proponents has argued the bill would have simplified the voter registration process, and why is that wrong, and House members approved it with rare bipartisan support in a 70-30 vote. But suddenly, some twenty Republicans switched their votes to oppose the bill and another seven Republicans who did not vote the first go-round suddenly decided to vote ‘No’.

The final vote was 55-40 to kill the bill.

A bill to make it easier to vote in America, the land of the lowest turnout. Why? Oh, yeah, the more people that vote the more likely Republicans will get kicked to the curb, and if you can’t win because you’re better, win because you cheat.

If you ever wondered why you should Vote Blue, this is the best reason of all, because the GOP wants to make it harder for you to do so, while the Democrats want to make it easier.

And why is that a bad thing?

The State

Another Win For The Resistance: Court Blocks Most of North Carolina GOP’s Legislative Coup

Last December, weeks after the election, when North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory conceded that he’d been “flushed” from office,  North Carolina Republicans tried to overhaul the state election boards to keep newly elected Democratic Governor Roy Cooper from taking control over them as is his right as governor.

The Republicans passed a law merging the state election board with the State Ethics Commission, creating a “New State Board” with eight members; the governor and the Legislature would each select four members, and the board would require a supermajority of six votes to take any action. And they changed the rules, allowing for a Republican to chair the board in election years, and a Democrat to chair it in off-years.

In other words, the North Carolina GOP tried to make sure that the state and county boards would be perpetually gridlocked. And, under GOP control, the election board would have slashed early voting—making it difficult for middle to lower class people to get to the polls—and  lower class and purged thousands of minority voters—who mostly vote Democrat—from the rolls.

But this week a court ruled: Not today Satan.

A North Carolina state court ruled that most of the GOP-dominated Legislature’s power grab—which stripped authority from the incoming Democratic governor—violated the state constitution. Huh. The GOP violating a Constitution? Who knew?

The court also ruled that the GOP cannot force McCrory appointees into full-time, permanent positions under Governor Cooper, who would then be unable to choose his own team; in the final days of his term as governor, McCrory converted nearly 1,000 political positions into permanent ones, all hostile Republicans who would then refuse to work with a Democrat governor.

But, the court upheld a new law requiring the governor to submit his Cabinet appointments to a state Senate for a vote. Before Cooper took office, governors appointed Cabinet secretaries without legislative interference, but Republicans abolished that practice, granting themselves the opportunity to provide “advice and consent.”

Cooper’s office has suggested he will appeal the decision regarding Cabinet appointments, and, of course, the GOP will appeal the parts of the ruling it doesn’t like; but, given that the state Supreme Court leans a little more left than it does right, the GOP will be the long-shot to win.

Still, even with that one snag, this was a judicial smackdown of the North Carolina GOP which tried to turn the state into a one-party state, where the poor have no voice, and the minority has no vote, and only the opinions of rich white Republicans matter,

But, again, not today Satan.

Slate

Random Musings

So, Carlos and I, well, mostly it was just me, were watching the Tony’s on Sunday, or as fabulously gay fabulous host NPH called it, Fifty Shades of Gay.

I’m a big theater queen; Carlos? Not so much. But he joined me for the awarding of a special Tony to Hugh Jackman, and his Huge Ackman, for his work with Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. 

Jackman, during his old out one man show on Broadway, raised nearly $2 million dollars for the cause and was deserving of the special Tony.

But, awarding Huge, er, Hugh, his special Tony was his wife, Deborah, and, as he finished his speech, Jackman turned and kissed her.

I thought, Well, isn’t that sweet.

Carlos said, Lucky bitch.

And i agree.

Big news on the LGBT-front, and the marriage equality front.

Three state's democratic committees, from Montana, Wisconsin, and, wow, Texas, are adding planks to their manifestos coming out in support of same-sex marriage.

From Montana: “We support repealing Section7, Article 13 of the Montana Constitution. All adults should have the right to legally marry another adult of their choice regardless of sex or gender. We believe same-sex spouses should have the same legal benefits, protections and responsibilities granted to all those who marry”

From Texas: Texas Democrats join President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden in calling for and affirming equal rights including marriage equality for all Americans. We, along with our President and Vice President, recognize that same sex marriages should be valid and legal in America. Texas Democrats support President Obama and the United States Justice Department in recognizing that the Federal Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and in refusing to defend DOMA in any Federal Court proceeding. We call for the total repeal of DOMA. 

From Wisconsin: Wisconsin Democrats are calling for marriage equality in their 2012 platform. The platform reads: “We support marriage equality for all couples.” Under party rules, each congressional district convention can forward 10 resolutions to the state convention and the resolutions adopted by delegates to the state convention form the basis of the party’s platform. The LGBT caucus sponsored the platform plank, working with county parties in several areas of the state to adopt a resolution calling for marriage equality.

Hopefully more states will follow the lead, and the DNC will do the same. Perhaps at the convention in Charlotte LGBT equality will finally be included.

It’s time.

Wow, the haters are turning on their pastor.

It seems that the Reverend Frederick Haynes III of the Friendship-West Baptist Church has come out against his blasted fellow pastors and members of his own congregation for their outrage at President Obama's endorsement of marriage equality.

Haynes shouted above the din of his congregation, who roared their disapproval at him:

"You should have seen preachers just scurrying and hurrying to call a conference call to call out the President for what he had declared as a personal opinion. He said it was a personal opinion. But whatever you like to ostracize other people it's because there's a fear that you have yourself, and the fear that you have finds itself rooted in an ignorance of other people. Or in a projection of your issues. Either there's ignorance or there is a projection of your issues...It really blows my mind how outraged you are. You are so outraged over what the President said. First of all, take a chill pill. Take a deep breath, everything's gonna be all right."

And then, for good measure, he added:

"Have you ever read the Gospel and heard Jesus say anything about homosexuality?...Black folk can't even deal with homosexuality because we got issues with sexuality. And because we got issues with sexuality we can't have a healthy discussion about homosexuality. Why, why do you get so upset?"

Finally a preacher willing to stand up and talk about what’s in the Bible and what isn’t. I serious hope some of his people were listening.

Okay, back when Janet Jackson had her infamous nipple slip at the Super Bowl, Madonna was especially condescending about what she saw as Jackson’s “need” to show a nip to prove herself relevant.

Cut to a few years later and Madge yanks down her bra at a concert in Istanbul to show her own titty.

Pot.Kettle.You’re no longer relevant.

And, looking at you, looking at your nipple, well, while I never saw this with my own eyes, it reminds me of a grandma looking at her own titty.

And it needs to stop.

Finally, 30 years later and the case is solved.

The dingo did eat her baby.

A Northern Territory coroner has found that the dingo was indeed responsible for the death of Azaria Chamberlain back in 1980. 

Coroner Elizabeth Morris told a packed courtroom this week that a dingo was to blame for the attack at Uluru, which originally saw Azaria’s mother Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton jailed for murder and her husband Michael given a suspended sentence for being an accessory after the fact. 

Case closed, eh?

In an effort to remain relevant herself, Celine Dion has done the unthinkable.

She has taken to covering Adele songs in her Las Vegas Revue.

Celine Dion. Adele. Oh, honey, no.....no.

Seriously, Celine, you need to stop. Your over-the-top theatrics, your impression of yourself as the most amazing singer ever, has got to end.

You’re a lounge act, baby.

And I'd ask that you be on your best behavior. I am still gathering signatures to have you deported back to Canada for your decades long assault on my eardrums.

Consider yourself warned.

Even though the anti-equality sect in Washington has gathered enough signatures to place a hate vote on the ballot in Washington, I am not surprised to learn that some 1,000 signatures submitted as part of that petition to send Referendum 74 to voters are believed to be fraudulent.

What’s that? Haters cheat?

Secretary of State Sam Reed’s office confirmed Monday that at least 51 of the petition sheets containing about 1,000 signatures were found to be “apparently fraudulent.” The signatures did match the names of registered voters but the signatures did not match what was on file.

The sheets containing the fake signatures were turned in by the same person who was paid to collect signatures.

Go figure.

The sheets containing “bad signatures” will be turned over to the Washington State Patrol for a full investigation after all sheets are examined.

I say, since they have a cheater working for them, throw out all the signatures and make them start over.