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Lady Gaga, on why she chose not to speak out against the rumors that she was transgender:

"When I was in my early 20s, there was a rumor that I was a man. I went all over the world. I traveled for tours and for promoting my records, and almost every interview I sat in, they said … there was this imagery on the internet that had been doctored … the reason why I didn't answer the question is because I didn't feel like a victim with that lie. I thought: What about a kid who is being accused of that would think about a public figure like me feeling shame? In that case, I tried to be thought-provoking and ... I tried to use the misinformation to create a disruptive point." 

It goes back to being called gay and thinking it an insult … it’s not, and to think of it that way is to feed into the homophobia.

Gaga did that same thing for transphobia; it’s not a horrible thing, it’s just a ‘thing.’

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Markwayne Mullin, GOP senator from Oklahoma, on if he would commit to a peaceful transfer of power.

“It’s hard to say what you’re going to do or what you’re not, because my job is to make sure that irregularities are within the standard that the federal government puts out in place, which is us. The federal government sets irregularities as to how far those can go. So is it going to be less than 1% or is that less than a half percent? Whatever those regularities are, we’ll take that case at a time.”

That’s a word salad saying, ‘I will do what’s best for the GOP taking control and mask it as patriotism because I’m a fucking traitor.’

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Janet Jackson, proving money and success doesn’t make you intelligent, speaking on Kamala Harris’ race:

“She’s not Black. That’s what I heard. That she’s Indian. Her father’s white. I haven’t watched the news in a few days. I was told that they discovered her father was white.”

Harris’ father is Jamaican while her mother is Indian, but far be it from Janet to investigate the story  herself and just take what she ‘heard’ as fact.

PS A spokesperson for Jackson says the comments were “based on misinformation” and “she deeply respects Vice President Kamala Harris and her accomplishments as a Black and Indian woman … Janet apologizes for any confusion caused and acknowledges the importance of accurate representation in public discourse. We appreciate the opportunity to address this and will remain committed to promoting unity.”

PSS Now reps for Jackson say the "apology” for the singer’s ill-informed comments was made by a person who is not the singer’s manager, as he had claimed, and thus was not authorized to speak on her behalf.

So, Janet is still an idiot? Okay. Maybe she needs to exert some Control over what she hears and what she says and what people say for her.

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Glenn Grothman, Wisconsin GOP Representative, admitting that he had no evidence of his claims of voting fraud regarding federal elections:

“Well, obviously, it would take, you know, 10,000 inaccurate ballots or 20,000 ballots to turn things around ]and] no, we don’t have evidence of that. But who knows? If you find a little bit of cheating, who knows if you had the time and resources to look around for more. Who knows what you’d find.”

You’ve had years asshat; years!!! And you’ve found nothing and yet you’ve wasted and continue to waste taxpayer money to appease a rapist racist traitorous con artist grifter because your entire party is spineless.

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Miranda Devine, Fox contributor, lying … because it’s Fox:

“These people have pulled out no stops, all stops, to portray January 6, 2021, the riot at the Capitol, as being the worst terrorist attacks since Pearl Harbor, worse than 9/11. This was completely ignoring the BLM Antifa violence that terrorized American citizens for months in 2020 and, you know, as opposed to what was really just an inconvenience for some members of Congress for a few hours at their workplace. But they have not stopped and what [White House press secretary] Karine Jean-Pierre and all of those, that montage of talking heads you just played, what they show is that they are going to double down and in Orwellian fashion they are blaming the victim, [The Felon], for instigating the violence that they have instigated.”

Hey Miranda, how would you feel if a bunch of people carrying flag poles as weapons broke through the windows of your house, stole your personal property including private papers and computers, shit on your walls and threatened your life?

Would it be just an inconvenience, you Low IQAnon fool?

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Tracee Ellis Ross, on those so-called “childless women”:

"As a 51-year-old childless woman, I wanna say to the people who think a woman's worth is measured in her baby count—I mean, shoutout to all the amazing mothers—but childless women have been mothering the world and elevating culture as aunties, godmothers, teachers, mentors, sisters, and friends … the list goes on. You do not have to push out a baby to help push humanity forward.”

Miss Ross is brilliant and thoughtful and spot on.

Women have been caring for all of us forever, and without women, we, none of us, would be here.

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Seven Republicans Tell Furloughed Workers To F**k Off

Our new Democratic-controlled House of Representatives recently passed a bill to make sure the approximately 800,000 federal employees out of work because the President is a narcissistic infant will get back pay for the shutdown.

In fact, 411 House members voted for the bill, passing it with overwhelming bipartisan support. Well, except for seven House Republicans  disagreed. And heeeeere they are ….

Justin Amash of Michigan

Andy Biggs of Arizona

Paul Gosar, also of Arizona

Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin

Thomas Massie of Kentucky

Chip Roy of Texas

Ted Yoho of Florida.

The only ones to vote No, while they sit back and collect their annual salary of at least $174,000. And Glenn Grothmanexplains it like this:

“We can work out something, for some sort of compensation, but to get paid full pay for maybe three or four months when you’re not working? That’s why we’re $22 trillion in debt. These people around here can’t say no to anything.”

Um, except, asshat, they aren’t asking for time off; they were forced to either leave their jobs, or stay and work their jobs without pay, because of your President; and yet you want to punish them?

Let’s look at the numbers … all  federal employee compensation, including money for pensions and healthcare packages, is around $200 billion. Whoosh, that sounds like a lot, but when you compare it to the GOP Tax Scam, which are racking up costs of about $150 billion a year , or the $21 trillion the Pentagon lost track of between 1998 and 2015, $200 billion in federal employee compensation is just pennies.

But, hey, who cares that those federal air traffic controllers received checks for $0.00 while they are still working; and who cares if there is no back pay guaranteed for the thousands of federal contractors who are not on a W-2 arrangement with the federal government. And who cares that forcing people to work without pay is basically slavery. And who cares that members of Congress members have these perks allotted to them, year-round, government shutdown or not:

Congress members get annual allowances averaging $1.27 to staff and manage their offices almost entirely as they see fit, as well as for travel and other expenses.

Congress members work as average of 138 legislative days each year—roughly four-and-a-half months.

Congress members are required to purchase health insurance via an Affordable Care Act exchange, but they receive a federal subsidy amounting to 72% of their premiums.

Congress members, depending on age and length of service, receive a lifelong pension of 80% of their salary.

Congress members who die in office have seen to it that their families receive a payout equal to a year's salary $174,000[ of note, there is a one-time $100,000 death gratuity for families of military personnel killed in action.

Congress members have access to free, reserved parking spots at DC-area airports, a dedicated congressional call desk with major airlines and the ability to reserve seats on multiple flights but only pay for the flight boarded.

Congress members, upon leaving office, receive lifetime benefits such as use of the taxpayer-funded gym at the Capitol, access to the House and Senate floors, parking in House lots, and the ability to dine in the House and Senate dining rooms.

So why should they care if government employees aren’t getting paid, and will receive no back pay?

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Things Stupid People Say, Part 2: Republican Glenn Grothman: People Should Work Seven Days A Week

I thought it might be hard to picker a winner of the Things Stupid People Say Contest, but it wasn’t difficult at all.

It’s Glenn Grothman, a Wisconsin Republican state senator who just might become the next congressman from state's 6th district. I doubt he’s never read a moronic statement, or an outright lie, that he didn’t repeat and repeat and repeat.And, without further ado, here are some of the gems that came dripping out of his piehole.

In 2004, Grothman called for new restrictions on the federal food stamps program because poor people don't act poor enough:

"I've interviewed over a dozen people who check out people who pay with food stamps, and all felt people on food stamps ate better — or at least more costly — than they did. [People] who work in food stores indicate that many people who use food stamps do not act as if they are genuinely poor."

Cuz, you know, being on Food Stamps means you're rich and you eat a whole lot better than other people.

In 2010, Grothman, who believes homosexuality, is a choice, wanted to ban Wisconsin public school teachers from saying the word “homosexuality” in sex education classes because some teachers had an "agenda" to turn kids gay.

I think teachers just want to turn kids into thinking adults, something the GOP probably doesn’t want to happen.

Also in 2010, Grothman continued to rail against homosexuality:

“Did people even know what homosexuality was in high school in 1975? I don't remember any discussion about that at the time. There were a few guys who would make fun of a few effeminate boys, but that's a different thing than homosexuality. Homosexuality was not on anyone's radar. And that's a good thing."

Grothman doesn't just miss the '70s, he’s also said he’d like to go back to those simpler days of the 1950s, when the black folks knew their place and The Gays lived in closets.

In 2011, after voting to repeal Wisconsin's equal-pay protection law, Grothman argued that the male-female pay gap wasn't about discrimination in the workplace:

"Take a hypothetical husband and wife who are both lawyers, but the husband is working 50 or 60 hours a week, going all out, making 200 grand a year. The woman takes time off, raises kids, is not go go go. Now they're 50 years old. The husband is making 200 grand a year, the woman is making 40 grand a year. It wasn't discrimination. There was a different sense of urgency in each person. You could argue that money is more important for men.”

You could win the argument that Glenn Grothman has his head up his ass.

His latest bit of ridiculosity occurred when he proposed rolling back a Wisconsin law that required employers to give workers at least one day of rest per week; he called the existing law "a little goofy":

"Right now in Wisconsin, you're not supposed to work seven days in a row, which is a little ridiculous because all sorts of people want to work seven days a week."

Except Congressmen, who worked just 133 days in 2014. I guess Grothman just means regular folks need to work seven days a week.

Glenn Grothman, perhaps — well, not perhaps, but truly — the dumbest human being on the planet … even edging out the Mama Grizzly Bore™ since she’s less involved with politics these days and more involved with street brawls.

via MotherJones