I Didn't Say It

Carl Nassib, Las Vegas Raiders defensive end, making sports history, and just plain history, by coming out as gay this week, and becoming the first active player in NFL history to do so:

“What’s up people? I’m at my house here in West Chester, Pennsylvania. I just want to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay. I’ve been meaning to do this for a while now, but I finally feel comfortable enough to get it off my chest. I really have the best life, I’ve got the best family, friends and job a guy could ask for. I’m a pretty private person, so I hope you guys know that I’m not doing this for attention. I just think that representation and visibility are so important … I would not have been able to do this without [the NFL, the Raiders organization, my coaches and teammates]. From the jump, I was greeted with the utmost respect and acceptance … I actually hope that like one day, videos like this and the whole coming-out process are just not necessary. But until then, I’m going to do my best and do my part to cultivate a culture that’s accepting, that’s compassionate and I’m going to start by donating $100,000 to the Trevor Project.”

Welcome out, Carl, and please accept as out gift from HOMO HQ, your official copy of the Gay Agenda and the Coming Out Toaster Oven™.

You have done a great thing for athletes, football players and professional sports. We’ve been waiting a long time for  player to come out and here you are. Thank you.

Sidenote: NFL commissioner Roger Goodell applauded Nassib for living his truth:

“The NFL family is proud of Carl for courageously sharing his truth today. Representation matters. We share his hope that someday soon statements like his will no longer be newsworthy as we march toward full equality for the LGBTQ+ community.”

PS The NFL has matched Carl Nassib’s $100,000 donation to the Trevor Project.

PPS Carl is hot. 

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Andrew Giuliani, Rudy’s boy, raging on Twitter about the judges who ruled against his daddy:

“As you may have heard, a few minutes ago my father’s law license was just suspended by the New York state First Appellate Division. All five of them are Democrats, three of which were appointed by Andrew Cuomo. Five to nothing, ultimately. Democrats with zero Republicans on there. This is just unbelievable to see just how politicized all of this has become. I am infuriated by all of this. This is going after one of [Thing 45’s] closest allies. That’s exactly what this is, and any American that doesn’t believe that—they are just biased. This is unacceptable, and I stand by my father. He did everything, ultimately, by the book. And the fact that there would be this politicization in our Justice Department is just disgusting. This is a cancer that needs to be cut out.”

A few points, Andy:

First: simmer.

Secondly: your father’s license was suspended because it was determined that he lied in court about voter fraud, and this is just a continuation of the sixty-some-odd times that either your daddy, or some other Thing 45 hack, lied to a court.

Thirdly: I know you wanna be governor of New York so perhaps you should learn that the New York state judicial system which suspended Daddy’s license is not part of the Justice Department.

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Dick Morris, Newsmax contributor and fool, on Critical Race Theory leading to black children killing their fathers:

“What does this do to the children? What does this do to a kid? A quarter of all black marriages are intermarriage, racially. So what does that do to a black boy whose mother is black and his father is white? What does he think? ‘My father exploited my mother and that’s how he got successful?’ If the couple breaks up does he have to choose one over the other? Does this reinforce the Oedipal notion that all kids have wanting to kill their father and marry their mother?”

Insanity is a sad state of affairs, and this loon shouldn’t be allowed on a TV “news” program anywhere.

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Mark Levin, Fox News host, helping to spread that other Big Lie that Antifa and Black Lives Matter attacked the capitol last January … dressed as Oath Keepers and Proud Boys and Thing 45supporters:

“We are hearing that we have more FBI resources applied to this than to anything else. That people are being rounded up all over the country and being charged in some cases with misdemeanors. We have SWAT teams that are being used to collect people and bring them back to Washington. We’re hearing that they are in some of the worst jails and that some of them are being put in solitary confinement where they only have an hour where they can go outside, if that. We hear that they’re being told that they have to pay funds so they can fix the Capitol building. And I ask myself, how about Black Lives Matter and Antifa? Who is rounding them up? Who is sending SWAT teams out to get them? I want to know who it is they are rounding up, what’s happened to them, what they are being charged with. This information needs to be made public.”

Mark, you pandering, lying, fool; the FBI and DOJ are not keeping the arrests or charges secret. In fact, the DOJ has an entire website titled “Capitol Breach Cases” where you can find names, dates, charges, photos, and social media screencaps.

But by all means, cry foul and lie and pander to your ignorant viewers.

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Lindsey Graham, South Carolina’s closeted Senator, on Fox News, about the voter rights bill:

“In my view, SR-1 is the biggest power grab in the history of the country. It mandates ballot harvesting, no voter ID. It does away with the states being able to redistrict when you have population shifts. It’s just a bad idea, and it’s a problem that most Republicans are not going to sign—they’re trying to fix a problem most Republicans have a different view of. I like Joe Manchin a lot but we had the largest turnout in the history the United States, and states are in charge of voting in America so I don’t like the idea of taking the power to redistrict away from the state legislators. You’re having people move from blue states to red states. Under this proposal, you’d have some kind of commission redraw the new districts, and I don’t like that. I want states where people are moving to have control over how to allocate new congressional seats.”

Sorry, ma’am, you’re grasping at straws. I think you don’t want anyone looking into your election win last fall.

Seriously, ma’am, you want us to believe that making voting easier is a bad thing? And just because your Master lost the House, the Senate and the White House?

Bitch, please.

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General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivered a blistering retort to sexual predator Matt Gaetz’s criticism that the military is too “woke.”

“I do think it’s important, actually, for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and be widely read. And it is important that we train and we understand. I want to understand white rage, and I’m white. What is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America? I’ve read Mao Zedong. I’ve read Karl Marx, I’ve read Lenin. That doesn’t make me a communist. So what is wrong with understanding—having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend? And I personally find it offensive that we are accusing the United States military, our general officers, our commissioned, non-commissioned officers of being, quote, ‘woke’ or something else, because we’re studying some theories that are out there.”

And I would ask, what’s so wrong with being ‘woke’. It’s being aware, being educated, understanding that your own experience, your white experience, isn’t the only experience; understanding what has been done in this country since it began.

Oh, I guess I also answered why the GOP is against being woke.

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I Didn't Say It ....

President Barack Obama, in his State of the Union speech:

"We will ensure equal treatment for all service members, and equal benefits for their families – gay and straight. We will draw upon the courage and skills of our sisters and daughters, because women have proven under fire that they are ready for combat. We will keep faith with our veterans – investing in world-class care, including mental health care, for our wounded warriors; supporting our military families; and giving our veterans the benefits, education, and job opportunities they have earned."

I stand with you.

Mark Dayton, Minnesota governor, in his State of the State address:

"I believe that every Minnesotan should have the freedom to marry legally the person she or he loves, whether of the same or other sex. Last year, Minnesotans began a conversation about why marriage matters, and we found our common belief that it is about love, commitment, and responsibility. I want Minnesota to be a state which affirms that freedom for one means freedom for everyone, and where no one is told it is illegal to marry the person you love."

It’s on people. The march is still going along and more and more states, and the politicians of those states, are joining in.

Brian Sims, openly gay Pennsylvania state representative, on being gay and playing college football:

"The truth is I was gay my whole life. I had dated girls in high school. I think I knew I wasn't straight long before I knew I was gay. I knew by the time I got to college that I was gay. My team actually came to me to ask me whether I was gay. They wanted to talk about it. They asked me about the struggle and when I was going to tell people. I didn't go through the same struggles as people today. Today, you have 14-15-16 year olds so confident and secure in their sexuality. I was not. I wasn't a gay 17-year-old ready to come out to the world. When I got to college, I realized I was gay. I just didn't know how to go about it. My college didn't have a LGBT group to give me the language to come out. It was my quarterback who asked me first."

This is what openness does. It takes away the stigma and leaves people free to ask questions, to understand what being gay means and what it doesn’t mean.

Evan Wolfson, of Freedom To Marry, on the pro-marriage equality movement in Europe:

"With France and Britain poised to become the next countries to embrace the freedom to marry, it's clear that the momentum we see here in the United States for ending marriage discrimination is, in fact, a global movement toward greater freedom and equality for all - and the U.S. should be leading, not lagging. America cannot afford to fall behind its closest allies and trade partners in this global economy, and needs to do right by its families, as a right-of-center British prime minister and left-of-center French president have called on their parliaments to do, with resounding success."

We think we're oh-so-progressive in the US and yet we are lagging behind on this one.

When Spain allows marriage equality, and England and France are poised to do the same, and we sit here on our hands, well, that's not progress at all.

A.J. Spiker, Iowa Republican Party, on the members of that state's GOP who either no longer want to push for the 2009 marriage equality law to be overturned or who accept same-sex marriage altogether:

"Well, the party wants to be welcoming and we're a big tent and we want to have people of a lot of different views that are part of the party.  But what they also need to understand is that there is a gay marriage party in the state of Iowa and that is the Iowa Democratic Party.  The Republican Party embraces one man, one woman marriage and embraces the right of the people to vote on the definition of marriage."

Isn’t it funny how these politicos can say they want to be the inclusive party in the same breath that they say they want to continue denying equal rights to The Gays?

They aren’t fooling anyone.
And neither is Spiker's bad case of 'Gay Face.' ALLEGEDLY.

Dick Morris, political strategist who predicted a Romney landslide, on marriage equality:

"My view on gay marriage is that if a state decides to go for gay marriage, the legislature or the voters, that's great. That's up to them. I've got no problem with it. I don't believe that the courts should jam it down anybody's throat....If people want it they should be able to do it but it's got to be a decision of the community."

So, the "community" gets decide on my rights?

Is that at all American?

I'd like the "community" to decide on Dick Morris and whether or not he is an asshat for pay on FoxNews, or just an asshat.

Mike Piazza, on the 'gay' rumors:

"I found it hugely insulting that people believed I’d go so far out of my way — living with Playmates, vacationing with actresses, showing up at nightclubs — to act out a lifestyle that would amount to a charade. If I was gay, I’d be gay all the way."

It’s nice to hear, Mike, but it would have been nice to hear, say, ten years ago when you addressed the same rumors with a defiant ‘I’m not gay’. Had you said, ten years ago, that if you were gay you’d be ‘way’ gay, perhaps professional athletes would have stepped further along the equality road a lot sooner.