I Didn't Say It

Chris Hayes, MSNBC, dragging Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and the GOP, for their overall hypocrisy:

“In Ron DeSantis’ Florida, the state will decide what books your child can or cannot leave their school library [with] by threatening teachers and librarians with time in prison if they do not comply with vague laws about instruction on race, gender and sexuality. The state will decide what women can do with their own bodies by banning abortion at six weeks. Of course, that is for all intents and purposes a complete abortion ban, which means that Ron DeSantis and the Republican Party of Florida control the bodies of every Floridian who can get pregnant. It’s their body not yours. The state will also decide how you can dress in public, which costumes you can wear. By enacting what is essentially a full ban on drag performances that will also likely restrict Pride events. The state will decide what kind of speech corporations can engage in … but Ron DeSantis’ dystopian authoritarian vision is most apparent in the legislation he just signed yesterday. It bans all gender-affirming care for all minors in Florida, everyone 18 and younger, that law also empowers state courts to change custody agreements if a child is receiving or is at risk of receiving gender-affirming care. Meaning taking a kid away from a parent. Telling parents how they can or cannot raise their own children is among the most authoritarian things a government can do … While Ron DeSantis tours around the country promoting himself and his new memoir titled, ‘The Courage to Be Free,’ at home he runs a government based on the opposite of freedom. His agenda is about state authority and its punitive views and decrees from on high. In Florida, [he] is running a kind of little MAGA kingdom, in which Ron DeSantis and the Republican Party in the state legislature, with their big majorities, tell you how to live your life and you don’t get to choose … Now  the sick irony here the one that I just can’t get over and really kind of sticks with me is that the right-wing movement that gave us this new law signed yesterday, is the very same group of people that screamed about parental rights for years, amidst the pandemic. ‘I get to say whether my kid wears a mask, I get to say whether my kid gets vaccinated. I get to say whether my kid goes to school.’ And Ron DeSantis was the public face of that movement. What a tough guy … you see all that swagger? He’s gonna stand in your way. If you’re coming after parental rights, if you try to tell a parent what they can do with their kids. That very same wing of the Republican Party embodied by Ron DeSantis and the government of the state of Florida, has now demanded and produced a situation in which the government, that guy you saw there with a tough guy swagger about freedom, is going to decide if your child who lives in your home, that you gave birth to or raised, that you love, your kid, what kind of care they can get. He decides … You may not like it, but you know what? It’s none of your, excuse me, goddamn business. To me, that is what the courage to be free means. Freedom means that in my household, our family decides what kind of health care our child does or does not get. Not Ron DeSantis. Not the Republican Party. That is no longer the case in Florida.”

Truth; and if it doesn’t scare the crap out of you that Ron DeSantis wants to tell everyone how they have to live their lives then you deserve what you get, because once he’s done coming for drag queens and trans kids and people of color, he’ll come for the rest of you.

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Lauren Boebert, dingbat, during a House hearing on lowering prescription drug prices—which she opposes—showed the kind of mother she is:

“I left a prescription at a pharmacy once. I went to get birth control. I was there at the counter, went to pay for it, and the price was very, very high. I said wow, is this a three-, six-month prescription? They said, no ma’am, this is one month. I said it’s cheaper to have a kid. And I left it there, and now I have my third son, Kaydon Boebert, and so it actually turned out to be a really great thing.”

Must be nice being Bobo’s third child and knowing that the only reason he’s here is because his mother’s checking account was overdrawn and she couldn’t get the pill.

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Katrina Shealy, South Carolina Republican state Senator, before she voted no on the state's new 6 week abortion ban, offering a suggestion for the men in America:

“Men are 100% responsible for pregnancies. Men are fertile 100% of the time. So, it is time for men in this chamber and the ones across that hall and all across the state of South Carolina to take some ejaculation responsibility.”

I think child support, monetary child support should also start at six weeks and continue on for the next eighteen years and when men see the high cost of sticking their dicks wherever they choose maybe they’ll keep their pants zipped.

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Cher, on the passing of her friend Tina Turner:

“When I first knew her, she was still with Ike. It was very strange to see her with Ike and afterward. I was so thrilled, because afterward, she was so free. You could just see her being able to take a big breath. Her new life was like a big, fresh breath. She was such a force. Honestly, I think she just hit everything head-on... She wasn't about to stop. She might not have won every battle, but she fought every war. She was there fighting for all the things she believed in … She's one of the great artists of our generation, in rock and roll. There was no other person like her. There's no other person who could come close to who she was. I started going to visit her because I thought, ‘I need to put this time into our friendship, so she knows we haven’t forgotten her.’ So we kind of all took turns going and spending time with her. It made her happy and someone said, ‘When you two laugh together, it is the funniest thing that you could ever possibly want to hear’ because we both have distinct laughs. [She] said, 'I can't spend too much time,' [but] then five hours later we were laughing like crazy…She was having a good time in spite of the fact that she was really sick and not wanting people to know about it. There was no other person like her.”

Diva to diva.

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SC GOP Lawmaker Tom Corbin Is A Misogynistic Moron

I wasn’t sure where to file this particular story … In South Carolina, It’s Not The Heat, It’s The Stupidity. Perhaps. The Height of Stupidity … Fits there, too. The GOP Hates Women; yup. Asshat of the Week; works for me.

But then I decided it fits in every category of misogynistic Republicans saying stupid things and then trying to walk it back as some kind of joke because anti-women jokes are funny, right?

This all started when the South Carolina :::sigh::: State House Senate judiciary committee gathered at a steakhouse near their offices to discuss a Criminal Domestic Violence [CDV] bill and, while waiting for dinner to be served, South Carolina Senators Tom Corbin and Katrina Shealy got into a little argument.

The exchange occurred after they disagreed on the gun provision of the CDV bill, which is aimed at curbing domestic violence. The provision in question seeks to prevent domestic abusers from having easy access to guns. Under the proposal, those under protective orders could not possess a gun, and those convicted of domestic violence could not possess a gun for a decade after their sentence is served. Corbin said he supports other parts of the bill but believes a restraining order is no reason to take away someone's Second Amendment rights; you know, because someone is threatened and fears for their life is no reason to take a man’s gun away.

Not even when you realize that South Carolina ranks Number Two in the entire nation in violence against women, and most domestic violence deaths involve guns. Still, as arguments do, this one got a little heated, and Shealy is reported to have asked Corbin where he “got off” attacking women and Corbin replied:

“Well, you know God created man first. Then he took the rib out of man to make woman.  And you know, a rib is a lesser cut of meat.”

Yes. He did. Then, apparently, Shealy got in Corbin’s face … how dare she, she’s a woman! … and that was when their colleagues thought they might have to hold her back; personally, I would have let her have a go at him.

Still, you might think she’s a little sensitive, you know, being a woman and all … they’re so emotional … but let’s be clear that Shealy is the only female member of the South Carolina Senate and has endured Corbin saying things to her like:

 “I see it only took me two years to get you wearing shoes.”

And she has heard Corbin also claim that women don’t belong in the Senate, they belong “at home baking cookies” or “barefoot and pregnant.”

Gosh, there is nothing as funny as a joke as old as the hills, or the hillbilly who utters it. Of course, that Good Old Boys club of South Carolina Senators rushed to Corbin’s defense, saying it was all in good fun and just a joke and Corbin was kidding and … and … and …

Except Katrina Shealy, the target of the jokes, doesn’t find them funny, and has apparently, repeatedly, asked Corbin to stop, though, naturally, he says he can’t recall her ever asking because he doesn’t believe women have anything worthwhile to say so he never listens to them; he does seem to recall that she's teased him about being overweight and bald but:

"If it bothers her, I'll quit joking around with her."

See, calling her “less than’ is a joke, and an ongoing one at that, for the likes of Tom Corbin, but he wants y’all to know that she’s just as to blame … or something:

"She stuck a knife in my back because we're at odds over this [CDV] bill [and] she's trying to make me out to be a woman-hater."

No, Tom, the only one who makes you look like a woman-hater is you, though I don’t think you’re afraid of women, I think you’re afraid of smart women because they make you look like a knuckle-dragging, cave-dwelling, one-brain-celled Neanderthal.

Like I said, this particular story fits so many categories …

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