I Didn't Say It ...

Emmanuel Macron, standing next to The Felon, and telling the truth about Ukraine, Putin, and Putin’s Bitch, The Felon:

“I stopped talking with Putin after Bucha and the war crimes … In 2014, after Crimea, Putin violated the peace agreement. In 2022, just before Putin attacked Ukraine again, he denied to me [that] he planned to attack. So being strong and having deference capacities is the only way to be sure that Putin will respect any peace plan. So you never want to say you won’t put troops on the ground, because that’s giving Putin a blank check to violate ant peace agreement.”

We need more world leaders, more party leaders in this country,  speaking truth to power about Putin and The Felon and their lies.

We know what happened in Ukraine, and the tyrant and his little bitch cannot change that FACT!

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Janet Mills, Maine’s Democrat Governor, telling The Felon she will see him “in court” after he ordered the Department of Education to investigate Maine’s refusal to ban transgender athletes:

“I have spent my career—as a District Attorney, as Attorney General, and now as Governor—standing up for the rule of law in Maine and America. To me, that is fundamentally what is at stake here: the rule of law in our country. “No President—Republican or Democrat—can withhold Federal funding authorized and appropriated by Congress and paid for by Maine taxpayers in an attempt to coerce someone into compliance with his will. It is a violation of our Constitution and of our laws, which I took an oath to uphold. Maine may be one of the first states to undergo an investigation by his Administration, but we won’t be the last. Today, the President of the United States has targeted one particular group on one particular issue which Maine law has addressed. But you must ask yourself: who and what will he target next, and what will he do? Will it be you? Will it be because of your race or your religion? Will it be because you look different or think differently? Where does it end? In America, the President is neither a King nor a dictator, as much as this one tries to act like it – and it is the rule of law that prevents him from being so. I imagine that the outcome of this politically directed investigation is all but predetermined. My Administration will begin work with the Attorney General to defend the interests of Maine people in the court of law. But do not be misled: this is not just about who can compete on the athletic field, this is about whether a President can force compliance with his will, without regard for the rule of law that governs our nation. I believe he cannot.”

Again, a woman in public office is taking a stand against The Felon. Brava Governor Mills, brava. But where are the men? Why are most, not all, of them silent? I mean, stay silent if you choose, but when it’s time for reelection my coins will be going for the female candidates who stood up to tyranny.

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Blake Dremann, trans US Navy Commander, of drunken predator Pete Hegseth’s attempt to remove trans Americans from service:

“If the Secretary of Defense wants to see what trans service looks like, they can come out to Guam and watch me lead my sailors. Watch how they follow me not because I’m trans but because of the leader I am.”

Dremann and a small group of mid-level trans officers and enlisted personnel began advocating for open transgender service even though they had no trans Colonels, no Navy Captains, no General Officers in their corner. They weren’t supposed to win and yet, by showing up—walking the halls of the Pentagon, telling their stories, and refusing to be erased—they convinced the Department of Defense to change course.

I’ll take one Blake Dremann over a whole shipload of Pete Hegseths in our military.

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JB Pritzker, Democrat Governor of Illinois, on the idea of America becoming Nazi Germany in the hands of this administration and those who goose-step along with it;

"As some of you know, Skokie, Illinois once had one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors anywhere in the world. In 1978, Nazis decided they wanted to march there. The leaders of that march knew that the images of Swastika clad young men goose stepping down a peaceful suburban street would terrorize the local Jewish population—so many of whom had never recovered from their time in German concentration camps. The prospect of that march sparked a legal fight that went all the way to the Supreme Court. It was a Jewish lawyer from the ACLU who argued the case for the Nazis—contending that even the most hateful of speech was protected under the first amendment. As an American and a Jew, I find it difficult to resolve my feelings around that Supreme Court case—but I am grateful that the prospect of Nazis marching in their streets spurred the survivors and other Skokie residents to act. They joined together to form the Holocaust Memorial Foundation and built the first Illinois Holocaust Museum in a storefront in 1981—a small but important forerunner to the one I helped build thirty years later. I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly. But I know the history intimately—and have spent more time than probably anyone in this room with people who survived the Holocaust. Here’s what I’ve learned—the root that tears apart your house’s foundation begins as a seed—a seed of distrust and hate and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame. I’m watching with a foreboding dread of what is happening in our country right now. A president who watches a plane go down in the Potomac—and suggests—without facts or findings—that a diversity hire is responsible for the crash. Or the Missouri Attorney General who just sued Starbucks—arguing that consumers pay higher prices for their coffee because the baristas are too “female” and “nonwhite.” The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here: They point to a group of people who don’t look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems. I just have one question: What comes next? After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities—once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends; after that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face—what comes next? All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we don’t want to repeat history—then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it. I swore the following oath on Abraham Lincoln’s bible: ‘I do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Governor .... according to the best of my ability.’ My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America—and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions—but in deference to my obligations. If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this: It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All I’m saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control. Those Illinois Nazis did end up holding their march in 1978—just not in Skokie. After all the blowback from the case, they decided to march in Chicago instead. Only twenty of them showed up. But 2000 people came to counter protest. The Chicago Tribune reported that day that the “rally sputtered to an unspectacular end after ten minutes.” It was Illinoisans who smothered those embers before they could burn into a flame. Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let the “tragic spirit of despair” overcome us when our country needs us the most."

Finally, a male Democrat spelling out what is happening; reminding us that doing nothing is not an option; telling us that it can happen here.

Resist!

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Mark Levin, Fox News host, also stepping up to callout The Felon’s lies about Ukraine:

“I don’t have a problem if it’s the position of our administration to cut back on support for Ukraine—which I oppose, by the way—then so be it. Elections have consequences, so be it. But I want to make sure the facts are on the table and you, the American people, draw your own conclusion. MAGA doesn’t support Putin. Zelensky ordered martial law—that’s what the constitution there compelled. Zelensky hasn’t called for an election—that’s what the constitution there compels. Now, I’m waiting for the first free election for Vladimir Putin. I mean, this is almost comical in a sick way that Putin is demanding an election. Why is he demanding an election in Ukraine when he doesn’t have free and real elections in his own country? And why does he get to call the shots when in fact, he murders people who dare to challenge him? This is what we’re dealing with. Again, old KBG, and not just KBG, he [Putin] was in like Flynn with the Stasi in East Germany. So, I don’t know why there are people that not only oppose Zelensky but seem to support Putin. The parliament—with all parties in the parliament—support what he’s doing. They’re trying to survive. Ukraine did not invade Russia. Russia invaded Ukraine. But the idea that Ukraine must hold elections in violation of its own constitution as a condition for peace, or that Ukraine must give up more territory as a condition for peace… you have to understand the Ukrainian people don’t want to do that. That’s why Zelensky is at 57% [approval rating], higher than most politicians in our own country!”

Again, there are some heads at Fox News, who will stand for truth and speak out against the lies of a wannabe dictator. And I am not saying that Levin is an ally of Democracy, but if a hired hand at Fox can speak up the dangers of a Felon in the White House, then we can all speak up.

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Chris Kluwe, former NFL punter, who was arrested in California last week after protesting against what he called a tribute to the Maga movement at a city council meeting in Huntington Beach:

“As the community made clear at the library commission meeting last Tuesday, everyone is in favor of a plaque to celebrate the library, but the vast majority are against including a MAGA acrostic. Unfortunately, it's clear that this council does not listen. So instead I am going to take my time to say what MAGA has stood for these past three weeks: MAGA stands for trying to erase trans people from existence. MAGA stands for re-segregation and racism. MAGA stands for censorship and book bans. MAGA stands for firing air traffic controllers while planes are crashing. MAGA stands for firing the people overseeing our nuclear arsenal. MAGA stands for firing military veterans and those serving them at the VA, including canceling research on veteran suicide. MAGA stands for cutting funds to education, including for disabled children. MAGA is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti democracy, and most importantly, MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement. You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is. I will now engage in the time-honored American tradition of peaceful civil disobedience.”

He was then arrested and escorted out of the building. Kluwe is taking a stand; we all need to take that same stand.

Stand up, speak up, resist and for the sake of all of us, vote.

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I Didn't Say It

Arnold Schwarzenegger, former governor of California, on anti-maskers:

“Screw your freedom, because with freedom comes obligations and responsibilities. We cannot just say, ‘I have the right to do X, Y and Z.’ When you affect other people, that is when it gets serious. You cannot say, ‘No one is going to tell me that I’m going to stop here, that I have to stop at this traffic light here. I’m going to go right through it.’ Then you kill someone else, and then it is your doing.”

I like the anger and the outrage but the MAGAts don’t seem to get the idea, even when their own family members are dropping like flies.

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Lamar Jackson, Baltimore Ravens quarterback, says he was infected twice with COVID-19 in the last eight months but remains noncommittal on getting the vaccine:

“I just got off the COVID list. I got to talk to my team about this and see how they feel about it. Keep learning as much as I can about it. We’ll go from there.”

I learned that 600,000+ Americans have died from this, but apparently that’s not enough information for Jackson. I hope his team kicks him to the curb so he doesn’t infect them since he’s such an easy target for the virus.

PS Judging by that photo, the first step is teaching Lamar how to wear a mask.

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Johnny Weir, Olympic figure skater, out gay man and fabulous human, coming for one of Thing 45’s “lawyers, Jenna Ellis, who said this about Johnny’s clothing: ‘Bring back the days when boys cared about growing up to be actual men’:

“The man I’ve grown into is a human that embraces the strength of the man & woman who raised me to be myself. If you feel squashed by the boot of someone else’s beliefs, remember you are free to live your life the way YOU believe. Also, religion isn’t an excuse for hate.”

Methinks Jenna’s just a jealous angry wreck and needs to vent on something since her whole Big Lie lawsuit, and her large posterior, were kicked to the curb by the courts.

Jenna, honey, on your best day you will never be as fabulous as Johnny on his worst day.

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Angel Bismark Curiel, Pose star, on challenging real-life transphobia after taking on the role of Papi on the FX series:

"There was an instance when I was on a set having shot, I think, the first or second season of Pose, where I was in a car with a driver and the driver said something extremely transphobic. I knew that this was a make-it-or-break-it moment, this was do or die, you had to check this. [I told him] ‘It’s because of gentlemen like [you] that trans women end up dead.’ I had to check that, and the way I checked that, I had to hold space with his boss, I had to hold space with him. I had to hold space with my boss, because that was the only way we were gonna say, 'Hey, it doesn’t matter what show I’m on, it doesn’t matter if I’m Lil Papi on Pose or not, this s**t is not OK and here’s why it’s not OK and how are we going to fix it, what are we going to do to make sure this gentleman knows that this is not OK?' Those are the hard conversations that need to be had."

Good on him for standing up and speaking up. You can’t change minds staying silent.

Sidenote: Curiel, who began dating Pose writer-director and Black trans woman Janet Mock in 2018, says his relationship with Mock helped inform his performance as Lil Papi, who is also a cisgender straight man in a relationship with a trans woman.

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Emmanuel Macron, President of France, on new lockdowns in his country:

“I no longer have any intention of sacrificing my life, time, my freedom, and the adolescence of my daughters, as well as their right to study properly, for those who refuse to be vaccinated. This time, you stay home, not us.”

Seriously, why should those of us who have done the right thing, for ourselves and our fellow country men and women, be locking down and social distancing.

Let those who ignore facts stay home.

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Pete Buttigieg, Transportation Secretary, schooling Fox News host Bret Baier on electric cars during an interview when Baier asked why Tesla CEO Elon Musk had not been invited to a White House meeting on tailpipe emissions:

“We were celebrating the other day the fact that we brought together labor leadership and the leadership of many of these employers of UAW. Now, what we are working on in our department and what we were announcing that day was tailpipe emissions standards. To their credit, an all-electric company like Tesla doesn’t even have tailpipes and that’s an exciting thing to see too.”

Tesla doesn’t have tailpipes.

Mic.Drop.

Goddess I love Pete. And I always love that hot picture of him.

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I Didn't Say It ...

Seth Meyers, on _____’s plan to outsmart Democratic House members—“I think I know more than they know.”—who have promised to investigate him once they take the majority:

“No, no you don’t. _____’s like a Gotham City gangster who thinks he can outsmart Batman — and ends up dangling from a gargoyle. Grifters always think they can outsmart everyone else. And that’s what _____ is. A grifter who surrounds himself with other grifters. Right now, as we speak, _____ is being sued in Federal court for defrauding investors. He just appointed an acting attorney general who advised a firm accused of scamming customers and his candidate for Senate in Florida, the state’s governor, was involved in one of the largest Medicaid frauds in American history.”

I’d love to see him dangling from a gargoyle.

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Emmanuel Macron, French president, taking a shot at _____ over his comments that he’s a “nationalist”:

“Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism. By putting our own interests first, with no regard for others, we erase the very thing that a nation holds dearest, and the thing that keeps it alive: its moral values.”

Bu you’re talking of _____ and we all know he has no morals.

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Justin Trudeau, Canadian Prime Minister, also taking a dig at _____ for not wanting to het his rug wet:

"As we sit here in the rain, thinking how uncomfortable we must be these minutes as our suits get wet and our hair gets wet and our shoes get wet, I think it's all the more fitting that we remember on that day, in Dieppe, the rain wasn't rain, it was bullets."

_____ wouldn’t know from bullets, either, since he claimed to have bad feet and so he couldn’t go to war, but could play football.

Still, good on Prime Minister McCutie for the shade.

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_____, on his choice of Matthew Whitaker to replace Jeff Sessions:

“I don’t know Matt Whitaker. Matt Whitaker worked for Jeff Sessions, and he was always extremely highly thought of, and he still is. But I didn’t know Matt Whitaker. He worked for Attorney General Sessions.”

First off, it should concern the entire country that _____ appointed a man as acting attorney general that he claims he doesn’t even know. I mean, why not appoint me, then?

Plus, as we know that was a Big Fat Lie from a Big Fat Liar; on Fox & Friends in October, _____said:

“I can tell you Matt Whitaker is a great guy. I know Matt Whitaker.”

For goddess’ sake, Seriously, the man is a nutjob.

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Susan Orfanos, whose son, Telemachus, was murdered in that bar shooting last week, had survived the Las Vegas mass shooting last year:

“My son was in Las Vegas with a lot of his friends and he came home. He didn’t come home last night, and I don’t want prayers. I don’t want thoughts. I want gun control, and I hope to God nobody sends me any more prayers. I want gun control. No more guns.”

Seriously, will someone please listen.

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Kirsten Gillibrand, on _____’s appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general:

“Because he’s such a senior position, you need advice and consent of the Senate…There was a succession plan. It should have been Rosenstein. They not only disregarded that, but then put someone in place who has not had hearings and approval by the Senate…He should recuse himself [from the Mueller probe] … He’s a lackey of the president.”

You say lackey, I say lap dog.

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Jimmy Kimmel, saying White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckleberry Sanders should be fired for sharing a doctored video of CNN’s Jim Acosta “assaulting” an intern:

“That’s where the Hucka-B.S. machine comes in. Jim Acosta clearly never touched that White House intern. That’s just a lie. And I think this also might be the first time I’ve seen Sarah Sanders take the woman’s side on any subject ever. So good for her, baby steps. But she should be forced to resign for that. I mean, she intentionally disseminated doctored video footage to discredit a reputable journalist. She’s the White House press secretary! She should be fired for that. She should be fired…Sarah Huckabee Sanders should be fired and sent to live at a Joann’s Fabric Store for all the rest of her days.”

I’m just happy that one day, when all the leis are exposed and proven to be actual lies, that Huckleberry will have to explain to her children why she goose-stepped along with a racist misogynist pig.

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Michelle Obama, in her book, Becoming Michelle, on _____’s birther comments:

“The whole [birther] thing was crazy and mean-spirited, of course, its underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed. But it was also dangerous, deliberately meant to stir up the wingnuts and kooks. What if someone with an unstable mind loaded a gun and drove to Washington? What if that person went looking for our girls? Donald _____, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk. And for this I’d never forgive him.”

Nor will I.

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The Funny Papers

Bill Day, Mike Luckovich, David Fitzsimmons, Steve Sack, Drew Sheneman, Nate Beeler. Clay Bennett, Gary Varvel, David Horsey

The Buffoon Landed ... With A Thud

Just when you thought _____ was a national embarrassment, he takes off for the Middle East and Europe, thus becoming a global humiliation.

And how did he do that?

For one, after campaigning against “radical Islamic terrorism”, and threatening to ban Muslims from coming to this country, he spoke before a mostly Muslim nation and stopped using his pet phrase and never once mentioned his Muslim Ban because ... lying pandering hypocrite.

He may have also offended Saudi Arabia by referring to “Islamic terror” rather than “Islamist terror.” But, hey, the man who claimed everyone is low energy and Hillary has no stamina, was exhausted that first day out so he cancelled some events and took a nap instead.

And maybe his sleepiness is the reason he called Saudi Arabia’s King Salman “King Solomon”— he was off by 3,000 years—and turned the Strait of Hormuz into the “Straits of Hormuz.”

Or, maybe he meant the heterosexuals of Hormuz? Hard to tell what a buffoon really means when he speaks.

And the buffoon, who once scolded President Barack Obama for bowing before a Saudi ruler, bowed before a Saudi ruler; _____, who once criticized Michelle Obama for failing to wear a headscarf in Saudi Arabia, gave a speech there while his bareheaded wife and daughter listened.

Points, though, to Melania for, not once, but twice, smacking away her husband’s hand as he reached for hers.

And then it was on to Israel, where _____ announced that he “just got back from the Middle East,” apparently unaware—because, yes, he’s a buffoon—that Israel is in the Middle East.

He visited the Wailing Wall and wondered how they got Mexico to pay for it; he visited Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust museum, spending fifteen minutes remembering the six million Jews slaughtered in World War II, and left a note that read:

"It is a great honor to be here with my friends! So amazing and will never forget!"

Oy. 

And then it was on to the Vatican and that awkward photo op with the Pope, where _____ beamed like a buffoon, while the Pope grimaced at the idea of posing with a climate-change denying adulterer and his third wife, apparently dressed for a funeral.

After Monday night’s attack at that concert in Manchester, England, _____ reacted by saying:

“I won’t call them monsters because they would like that term. . . . I will call them from now on losers because that’s what’s they are. They’re losers.”

Yes, he has decided to call murderous terrorists by the same name he calls Rosie O’Donnell, Cher, Rihanna, Mark Cuban, George Will, Charles Krauthammer, Bill Maher, Ana Navarro, Chuck Todd, the attorney general of New York, an astrologer in Cleveland, Gwyneth Paltrow, Howard Stern, Jeb Bush, John McCain, Marco Rubio, Karl Rove, Megyn Kelly, the Huffington Post and the New York Daily News ... among others.

Then the buffoon jetted off to attend a meeting of NATO—an alliance he calls “obsolete”—in Brussels—a city he called a “hellhole”—where it was one gaffe after another ...

Remember that wildly uncomfortable handshake with new French President Emmanuel Macron—whom _____ said he always supported even though he never did—that lasted even longer than creepy eye-roll inducing handshake with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

And what about the video where _____ shoved Montenegro Prime Minister Dusko Markovic out of the way so he could be at the front of a photo op?

That shove, heard ‘round the world, was taken in stride by _____’s victim, Dusko Markovic, who said:

"It didn't really register. I just saw reactions about it on social networks. It is simply a harmless situation."

Markovic then took the high road and thanked _____ for supporting Montenegro's membership in NATO and said, "it is natural that the president of the United States is in the front row."

Except he shouldn’t shove his way to the front.

The buffoon spoke in front of NATO’s new headquarters, and scolded our allied for not paying their bills; this from a man who has been sued more times than I can count for stiffing contractors who have worked for him:

“NATO members must finally contribute their fair share and meet their financial obligations. This is not fair to the people and taxpayers of the United States. And many of these nations owe massive amounts of money from past years and not paying in those past years.”

He went on ranting that “with these chronic underpayments and growing threats, even 2 percent of GDP”—the amount NATO members pledged to move toward by 2024—“is insufficient to close the gaps in modernizing, readiness, and the size of forces. We have to make up for the many years lost.”

And so, he then closed out his classless speech by thanking Germany for contributing a portion of the Berlin Wall, and the 9/11 Museum for donating a remnant from the North Tower, to become part of the NATO headquarters’ new grounds, and then adding:

“I never asked once what the new NATO headquarters cost. I refuse to do that.”

Awkward ... and then awkward-er ... when the buffoon decided to air his grievances over Germany's trade surplus with the US:

“The Germans are evil, very evil. Look at the millions of cars they sell in the U.S. We’ll stop that.” 

Now, I’m not saying that this was _____ being petty and vindictive and spiteful and petulant and spoiled and bratty, toward Germany, and Chancellor Angela Merkel, but his little tirade happened shortly after French President Macron greeted German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and several others, before deigning to take _____’s fat tiny hand in his again.

And finally, after berating our friends and allies in Europe, the buffoon spoke with Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel and complained that he has had difficulty building golf courses there.

Oh, so that’s why he took the trip ...

See, right before running for the presidency, Citizen ____, threw a tantrum when he learned of plans to build off-shore windmills within sight of the Trump International Golf Links in Scotland. He tried to buy politicians to fight for him before scrapping the Scottish project and building a resort in Ireland instead; and then he took his whining to the Supreme Court where he lost the battle against the clean energy windmills.

Another source—and it might be mu new hero, French President Emmanuel Macron—was baffled by the exchange with Belgium’s leader:

“Every time we talk about a country, he remembered the things he had done. Scotland? He said he had opened a club. Ireland? He said it took him two and a half years to get a license and that did not give him a very good image of the European Union. One feels that he wants a system where everything can be realized very quickly and without formalities.”

As long as it pads his bank account because _____ has just proven himself to be the Ugliest American.

Sorry world.