Showing posts with label Hung Cao. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hung Cao. Show all posts

Friday, October 04, 2024

I Didn't Say It ...

Sue Altman, Democrat running for the US House of Representatives in New Jersey's 7th District, on the topic of trans inclusion in sports:

"If we decide as a society that making rules about who is and who isn’t female is more important than giving young children a chance to be on teams and compete and to be part of something bigger than themselves, especially young people who are more susceptible to suicide and bullying, then I think we’ve lost our way a little bit. As someone who’s been working to advocate for women’s rights and women's sports, I promise you that in the locker rooms of women's sports teams, we’re not super worried about this. We've been worried about getting equal access to gym time, good referees, good trainers so you don’t get injured, fair shake at scholarships, equal pay at the higher levels. I will let individual sport committees decide the highest, highest-level things, but at the very heart of it, we have to respect people of all genders and give young children, especially young people and adolescents struggling with their gender identity, the chance to compete."

Huh. Common sense and respect. That’s how it should be, not name calling and shaming and lying.

Common sense and respect.

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Hung Cao, the GOP Senate nominee in Virginia, disparaging drag queens and people who are tolerant of them during a debate:

“When you’re using a, you know, drag queen to recruit for the Navy, that’s not the people we want. What we need is alpha males and alpha females who are going to rip out their own guts, eat them and ask for seconds. Those are young men and women that are going to win wars.”

Oh honey, say that to a drag queens face and then talk about guts being ripped out.

Of note is that Cao has said that he is running for office in Virginia to stop witchcraft that he says is running rampant in California. Now, I dunno, but it sounds to me like someone has had his brain ripped out.

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Caroline Giuliani, Drunkle Rudy’s daughter, says she’s backing Vice President Kamala Harris in  the upcoming election:

“After months of feeling the type of sorrow that comes from the death of a loved one, it dawned on me that I’ve been grieving the loss of my dad to [The Felon]. I cannot bear to lose our country to him too.”

Sorry to say, but your father is a lost cause and I think if, and/or when, he goes to jail and The Felon all but gives up on him, your father will still be kissing that grifter’s ring.

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Daniel Radcliffe, on the passing of his beloved co-star Maggie Smith:

"The first time I met Maggie Smith, I was 9 years old, reading scenes for 'David Copperfield,' my first job. I knew little about her, except my parents were in awe. I also knew she was a Dame, so I asked, 'Would you like me to call you Dame?' She laughed and said, 'Don't be ridiculous!' Maggie had a fierce intellect, a sharp tongue, and could intimidate and charm simultaneously. She was, as everyone will attest, incredibly funny. I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with her and shared time on set. The word 'legend' is overused, but if it applies to anyone in our industry, it's Maggie. Thank you, Maggie."

She sounds fabulous and she will be missed.

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Corey DeAngelis, “anti-woke” campaigner, a so-called “school choice evangelist” and “parental rights” activist, talking about his time as a gay website performer:

“As an activist for parental rights and school choice, my passion is personal. Just like everyone else, I have made mistakes throughout my life, learned from those mistakes, used that as an opportunity to grow and tried to channel that experience into something positive. I was a victim of poor decisions and poor influences. I have turned that experience into the fuel that fires me to save young people from being put in the same position I was put in and to help parents protect their children. I will never stop fighting for what is right.”

Let me get this queer for you: Corey likes dick, and he still likes dick, but he’s sorry he got caught liking dick.

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Jake Shears, the former Scissor Sisters frontman, on his difficulty meeting guys:

“I don’t feel like men check each other out [in London]. There’s not a lot of just flirting with guys here at all. There’s no acknowledgement of one another, even if you’re going to the same gym every day. I feel in other cities, New York ... LA, people definitely acknowledge each other a little more, talk to each other, check each other out, flirt, cruise and I don’t see that very much here at all. I’m not great on the apps. They don’t really work that well for me, so that’s kind of off the table. And ... the bars are kind of gone. The sort of gay bars we used to go on a weeknight, that sort of culture is missing now. The Joiners Arms [a beloved London gay bar that closed] or flirting with guys or like taking somebody home ... I can’t remember the last time that that happened. I do think it’s a nightlife issue and just the apps taking that off the table. People rely on the apps for that so they don’t have to do it in person.”

When you rely on an app or a computer or a phone to make the first move you are kind of missing out on the thrill of meeting someone. It’s all so clinical and precise whereas in person it can get messy and funny and real.

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Monday, November 27, 2023

Vote. Vote Blue. Here's A Slew of Reasons Why

Here we are again, with a wee taste of the lunacy, racism, criminality, and bigotry and hate inside the GOP …

Back in 2004, Mike Johnson, current GOP House Speaker, was the lead attorney for Stockwell Place Elementary, a school being sued for pushing Christianity on its students. A set of Jewish parents claimed the school held prayer sessions, taught Christian songs in class and promoted a teacher-led prayer group called Stallions for Christ that met during recess.

Johnson warned his congregation at the Airline Drive Church of Christ in Shreveport that the lawsuit by the Jewish family was to keep Christian activities out of a public school:

“The ultimate goal of the enemy is silencing the gospel. This is spiritual warfare.”

No, it’s a family trying not to have another religion foisted upon their children without their consent. Imagine Mike Johnson’s reaction if Islam was pushed on his children at school.

Mike Johnson is a Christian Nationalist; trust.

This week, Governor Ron “Lifts” DeSantis awarded more than $28 million through the Florida Job Growth Grant Fund to expand semiconductor manufacturing and chip manufacturing through five workforce development projects.

To be clear President Biden made the funds available to Florida, where the Governor there will assign the funds, but DeSantis had nothing to do with the money coming in and offered zero thanks to the man who did.

President Joe Biden.

Shortly before Javier Milei was elected president of Argentina, United States Representative, and Republican, María Elvira Salazar praised the country as having everything, including “only one culture, only one religion and only one race, completely homogeneous.”

Christian Nationalist and racist ideals propagated by the GOP.

A 56-year-old man from western NY crashed his car near the Rainbow Bridge border checkpoint from the US into Canada. He was reportedly supposed to be at a Kiss concert that was cancelled, so he decided to go to a Niagara Falls casino in Canada with his wife in their $300,000 Bentley; they both died in a fiery crash.

But Fox News and right-wing Republicans, who have been waiting for a terror attack related to border security, to blame on Biden, began spreading disinformation that the vehicle was “full of explosives” and that it was a “terrorist attack.”

The man was pissed because KISS cancelled a concert and rightwingnuts and Fox News used that story to lie about a terror attack.

Back to Tiny Ron DeSantis who, in his latest appeal to MAGAts and racists, threatened to send “Kamala [Harris] back to her liberal homeland.”

Her homeland is California, but the racist tome of this remark seems to suggest that because of her skin color, Harris is not an American.

Racist. GOP. Ron DeSantis.

In Arkansas, GOP Governor and former Liar-In-Chief to Inmate # P01135809, Sarah Huckabee Sanders held kickoff party for the Arkansas Razorbacks 2023 football season which cost the people of Arkansas over $13,000, including $1400 for gingham tablecloths, $600 for pom-poms, and $450 for buttons that read “Best Gov/Best State;” it costs a lot to feed Aunt Lydia’s ego.

It was invitation-only and I guarantee the people of Arkansas did not sign off on their money being used to feed Huckleberry Cronies.

Is Joe Biden too old to be president? I’m not sure, though I’d prefer handing the reins off to someone younger, like Inmate # P01135809, who used Veterans Day to honor our troops by quoting Adolf Hitler:

“In honor of our great veterans on Veteran’s Day, we pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, Fascists, and Radical Left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our Country, lie, steal and cheat on Elections … “

Hitler once said:

“We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, Fascists, and Radical Left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our Country,.”

Is Joe too old? Maybe, but between the choice of too old and someone who quotes Hitler I choose age over a traitor.

Speaking of Demented, here again is Inmate # P01135809, confusing President Biden with President Obama:

“The head of Hungary ... Viktor Orban, did anybody ever hear him? Probably, you know, considered very powerful, very powerful within his country and outside of his country, not exactly loved by some of the European nations ... he didn’t allow millions of people to invade his country ... so he doesn’t have crime and he doesn’t have the problems that they’re having in other countries where millions of people who are allowed to go in. But they were interviewing him two weeks ago and they said, ‘What would you advise President Obama? The whole world seems to be exploding and imploding.’ And he said ‘It’s very simple. He should immediately resign and they should replace him with President Trump, who kept the world safe.'”

Liar and demented.

And speaking of crazy, Ron DeSantis is telling Iowans that in the unlikely event the Bahamas got warlike and attacked South Florida, he would obliterate the island:

“And I thought to myself like if the Bahamas were firing rockets into Fort Lauderdale, like we would not accept that for like one minute. I mean, we would just level it. We would never be willing to live like that as Americans.”

Like I guess he like thinks Hamas and like the BaHamas are like the same place?

A vast majority of Republicans say they support installing deterrents such as razor wire and deadly buoy barriers in rivers to prevent immigrants from entering the country illegally, even if people are endangered or killed.

They are okay with murder.

Mississippi Governor, and Republican Tate Reeves’ top campaign contributors, who gave his campaign at least $50,000 received a total of $1.4 billion in state contracts or grants since he took office in 2020.

Quite a bargain. The GOP is for sale, clearly.

Some central Florida lawmakers are considering “all legislative, legal and executive options available” to stop business owners in a small town from voluntarily displaying rainbow decals in their windows indicating that they are “safe place” for LGBTQ+ people who feel threatened.

You can’t say gay, and you certainly can be gay-friendly, or even a safe place for LGBTQ+ Floridians.

The Houston Independent School District, the largest in Texas and the eighth-largest in the country, will eliminate librarian positions in 28 schools in order to turn the libraries into “discipline centers.” The move does not appear to be budget related, as librarians will be allowed to apply for other positions and the state has a $32 billion surplus.

No books; no study aids; detention centers.

Hung Cao, a Republican running for US Senate in Virginia, is warning voters that “witchcraft” has “taken over” in some parts of California because a place in Monterey, California that was once called ‘Lovers of Christ Point,’ is now called ‘Lover’s Point.'

“They took out the Christ, it’s ‘Lover’s Point,’ and it’s really—Monterey’s a very dark place now, a lot of witchcraft, and the Wiccan community has really taken over there. We can’t let that happen in Virginia.”

And so he’s running on the “There’s Witches In California” platform.

And that’s just a small taste of GOP lunacy.

Christian Nationalism; racism; anti-LGBTQ+; banning libraries; lying, cheating, g rifting; fearmongering.