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Pete Buttigieg, former Secretary of Transportation and future President of the United States, calling Cankles unfit to lead troops:

“This is clearly amateur hour at the Pentagon and in the White House. And again, the price is being paid by all of us. You can also just tell from the administration’s attitude toward this war, the fact that they’re putting out videos treating this like a video game. It’s not a video game for the families of the fallen. And then, just this week, we saw campaign fundraising materials being put out, emails where the president’s committee, the president’s political operation, was raising money off of images of him at a dignified transfer. Any politician who does that has no business leading American troops in the war. If the president is willing to raise campaign funds over the bodies of America’s war dead, he is unfit to be the commander-in-chief.”

And when the families of those killed in Iran asked not to have cameras when their children’s bodies came home, the media was kept out … but not White House photographers who ignored the families’ wishes and filmed the event.

This is Cankles; a draft-dodging pedophile who only cares about himself.

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Margaret Cho, actor and comedian, on the Democratic party:

“I want a Democrat to get bit by a zombie. I want a bloodthirsty, feral, hotheaded warrior creature who wills top at nothing to win. Where are my political animals who will fight tooth and nail for what is right? I’m sick of the high road. It’s gotten nowhere. We need a new route. A lowdown dirty one.”

I don’t want dirty Democrats, but I want Democrats with balls; Democrats who speak up and resist and demand answers. I want Democrat who win in November and begin holding this regime, from Bondi and Noem, to Hegseth and Miller, and all the rest, accountable for their crimes.

We don’t need to get dirty to do that, we just need to stand the fuck up.

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Colman Domingo, actor, accepting the President’s Award at the 57th NAACP Image Awards and praising his stepfather:

“I had about four different speeches written and I let go of all of them this morning. ‘Cause I wanted to speak from the heart, and talk about service, and what gets you to this stage. You don’t get here alone. You get here by having a stepfather, Clarence Bowles, who came along when I was about eight years old and married my mom. He was a blue-collar worker, sanded hardwood floors. He fired me from my summer job with them. He said, ‘Son, come here. This is your last summer doing this.’ I said, ‘Why? I thought I was doing a good job.’ He says, ‘I don’t want you doing this backbreaking work. I want you to work with your mind.’ He held out his hands that had callouses on them, and he said, ‘Let me tell you something. I don’t want that for you. I want you to have soft hands. And I want you, when you go far, I want you to have something you believe in, and do good things in the world.’ And I carry that message with me, with every man that I portray. I want to make sure that I give them their full humanity, to make sure they look just like us in every single way, in all of our complexity. I want to make sure that there’s love, love, love, and more love.”

Sounds like Clarance Bowels was a wonder father who wanted more for his stepson than maybe he had as a child.

We could all use a parent, or parents, who lift us up.

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Maren Morris, Grammy-winning country singer, ripping MAGAts for now saying they “didn’t vote for this”:

“I don't have forgiveness for the triple [Cankles voters] or ANY of the [Cankles voters]. You did vote for this. He is a dementia-ridden, diaper-clad, cornball ex-TV host. Bankrupt as f*ck. Look at his stats … you got bamboozled.”

So, MAGAts, if you’re upset that the world’s most blatant liar tricked you, then responsibility is on you for being too stupid to recognize what’s actually going on…especially the third time around!

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Laverne Cox, actor and trans advocate, speaking at the GLAAD Media Awards:

“What we’ve seen over the past seven years is a strategic, well-funded, calculated effort to systematically dehumanize transgender people to make us subhuman. The ways that they speak about us, men in girls’ sports. Words like ‘biological sex,’ ‘transgenderism,’ ‘trans ideology,’ all of these words are designed so you don’t see us as people. You see us as some kind of idea that is meant to come and take something from you. It’s never been about sports or protecting women in sports. It’s never been about the children. If they wanted to protect women and children, they would prosecute the motherfuckers who are in the Epstein files. Many of whom are serving in this regime.”

Spot on; the GOP shrieks about the children, but children go hungry in America; the GOP squawks about abortion but ignore the children once they’re out of the womb; they fake cry about the dangers of drag queens and trans Americans harming children, but so and say nothing about billionaire pedophiles hosting Rape a Child parties on tropical islands.

So, GOP, save your bullshit, your hypocrisy, and your faux-Christian outrage. You only care about billionaires.

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I Didn't Say It

Kevin Bacon, praising RuPaul's Drag Race season 15 musical, Wigloose: The Rusical, railing against those anti-drag laws around the country:

"Big shoutout to … Wigloose: the Rusical (and props to Heaven Bacon). With all the recent anti-drag bills, this came at just the right time. Drag is an art and drag is a right."

Bacon also linked to a page for RuPaul’s Drag Race production company World of Wonder's initiative with the ACLU, the Drag Defense Fund, which raises money in support of those impacted by the legislation.

Cuz drag is an art and drag is a drag, and drag is …

Of note:  amid the rise in homophobic and transphobic political attacks, several Drag Race winners, icons and LGBTQIA+ community members will take part in the Drag Isn't Dangerous digital telethon on May 7, featuring Monét X Change, Trixie Mattel, Jinkx Monsoon, Kerri Colby, and more in a streaming event that will raise funds for those affected by anti-drag legislation.

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Maren Morris, country singer, after performing at a benefit concert to oppose Tennessee’s anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, took her message to Instagram after with a dare for her home state:

“Thank you Nashville, the gorgeous Queens and the LGBTQ+ community for showing up last night. A HUGE thank you … for pulling off the unthinkable at Bridgestone. A lot of healing happened and it won’t be forgotten … I brought my son here earlier today for soundcheck, and he’s turning three this week, and we got to go in the room where all the queens were getting ready and doing their makeup. And he freaked out when he went in there because it’s just magic what drag queens do. There’s wigs everywhere, and the smell of hairspray and wig glue; there’s glitter; everyone’s in a good mood. It’s just like a room of love and yes, I introduced by son to some drag queens today so Tennessee f**kin’ arrest me.” 

This is how it’s done: stand up, speak out, dare the haters to act.

Their fear tactics will not win.

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Dennis Prager, conservative podcaster, on banning drag because the Baby Jeebus:

“So, first of all, I personally don’t find it funny. I mean, if it’s a routine, like what was the one, the famous movie, Mrs. What—what was it called? Mrs. Doubtfire, that’s different. It was a middle-aged guy as a dowdy woman. And you know, the travails that ensued, that was a comedy. But in general, drag queen shows are not Mrs. Doubtfire. For many there was a sexual element, certainly for the performers. Would you like to perform in a dress or in a skirt or whatever other women’s clothing would be involved? Secondly, I wouldn’t attend because I actually take the Bible seriously and it says, ‘A man shall not wear a women’s clothing.’ I want to preserve the order that the Bible has established, and it’s an order built on distinctions. One of them is male/female. When you shatter the distinction in dress, you begin the process of shattering the distinction. So I think that the damage is not worth the fun.”

Hey dumbass? Take a look at movies since movies began and see how many men in  women’s clothes films and TV shows and plays have been made over the years. And I’m sure you’ve seen a lot, but if you haven’t, your loss. But you don’t have the right to tell anyone else in America what they can and cannot see. Oh, and if you follow any of the teachings of the Bible, you best follow them all, you shrimp eating, mixed fabric wearing heathen, because God sees you and She isn't happy.

You don’t like drag, don’t go. You won’t be missed.

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Kelley Robinson, President of the Human Rights Campaign, wants Republicans who wage war on transgender people to know she sees right through them:

“What I see in front of me is insecure people with power that are doing all that they can to hold onto it. Any time somebody talks about turning the clock back, that's a dog whistle. Whether you want to bring it back to 2015, or you want to bring it back to 1915, or you want to bring it back to 1815, we know what you are saying. You are trying to drag us back. For me, the brilliant thing and the beautiful thing about this country is that we can envision a possibility in the world that our ancestors had never experienced before, that's the whole beauty of the whole experiment to me.”

She’s right; the GOP is scared after 2020 And 2022, and terrified of what 2024 might bring, so they ignore their campaign promises and instead use fear and a campaign tool.

I’m not afraid of drag queens or history or books or the LGBTQ+ community or of women choosing to make their own health care choices, and I will never vote in fear.

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