I Didn't Say It

Richard Grenell, homocon and former Inmate# P01135809 official, on Ron DeSantis’ anti-LGBTQ+ video that was created by the same staffer who made the infamous DeSantis “Nazi” video:

“What he did in that video was completely homophobic, terrible dialing us back, and he lost a lot of suburban women. We have to have a society where we allow adults to live their lives as long as you’re not hurting somebody else. And so I think that that’s the policy that [Inmate# P01135809] absolutely had in his last administration. And he is showing to be somebody who is not taking the bait on these radical policies. There’s a whole bunch in that video that crosses the line. That wasn’t just about protecting children under the age of 18, that was going after gay adults. That’s unacceptable. I’ve worked way too hard in my career to allow a presidential candidate to dial us back like that. I believe that Ron DeSantis ruined his chances for 2028. Nobody wants to see a homophobe take over the Republican Party again.”

Funny, this self-loathing asshat had no problem supporting a president who literally erased the White House LGBTQ+ page his first day in office; he erased it, as if we don’t exist and don’t matter.

Richard, really Dick, Grenell can take his faux DeSantis outrage and shove it.

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Roger Stone, traitor and QAnon nutjob, using his faux Christianity as a money beg for his legal woes:

“On the morning of January 6, I was in the shower. The lord came to me in the shower—you want to make fun of me? Go ahead. A voice clearly told me, do not go to the Capitol. And I did not go to the Capitol. Yes, the Lord does send you a message. He does speak to you. And you need to speak to him. Like when the day after the election, I was in Memphis. I was headed to Mike Lindell’s studio. The car that I was riding in with two security guards was broadsided. The car was demolished, was totaled. They were both injured. I walked away without a scratch.”

Yes, please you so-called Christians who support Stone and Inmate # P01135809, tell us you truly believe that God came to Roger Stone in the shower.

Ain’t nobody, even God who, if you believe She exists, wants to see that loose-skinned sack of flesh nekkid in the shower. But the MAGAt Christians will buy Stone’s story and send money to help another criminal pay his own debts.

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Nikki Haley, GOP presidential flip-flopper, on Inmate # P01135809:

“First of all, he’s innocent until proven guilty. But you are implying that the American people are not smart. The American people are not going to vote for a convicted criminal. The American people are going to vote for someone who can win a general election. I have faith in the American people. They know what they need to do. And so, I think that, yes, I will support the Republican nominee always, and I will make sure that that person, we’re going to pick someone that’s going to beat a President Kamala Harris. Because we can’t have a President Kamala Harris or we’ll never get our country back.”

Does she ever remember what she says? I mean, here she is saying the American people are too smart to vote for a convicted criminal, and just a couple of weeks ago she said onstage at the GOP debate that she would support Inmate # P01135809 for president even if he was convicted of a felony. So, is she not an American because she’ll support a criminal or is she stupid because she’ll support a criminal?

One thing is clear, Nimrata Haley believes the people don’t hear what she says one minute and then her new opinion the next minute.

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Marsha Blackburn, GOP Senator from Tennessee

“I think the one that deserves our attention at the top of the list is President Biden, who is to be the leader of the free world And when you see Joe Biden struggle with words, with days, with times, with places, then it drives home the point of how important it is to have someone who is capable in leadership. I don’t think anybody wants to have a President Kamala Harris. I’ve talked to people who were with [Mitch McConnell] right after that, and he was alert and fine and moving forward, asking questions, very involved with the meeting that he was attending and seemed to be on top of his game.”

Yes, Marsha Blackburn, she of the dead muskrat on her head, thinks Mitch McConnell freezing up like a robot on the fritz is nothing at all, but Joe Biden is a demented evil genius running a covert government and trying to convict Inmate # P01135809.

Seriously, Tennessee, is this your best?

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Maxine Waters, Democratic Congresswoman and keynote speaker for this year’s US Conference on HIV/AIDS, blasting her GOP colleagues for proposing cuts to both national and international HIV programs:

“[Not reauthorizing this program] would endanger the lives of millions of people around the world who are living with HIV and risk the lives of millions more who are at risk. Moreover, it would undermine the United States leadership on global health issues. [The program’s $6 billion annual budget is] our money. That’s the people’s money. You cannot decide who you’re going to spend it on and who you’re not going to spend it on. The rate of new HIV diagnosis among African Americans is about eight times that of whites, and the rate among Latinos is about four times that of whites. Black gay and bisexual men face especially high-risk accounting for more than 9,000 new HIV diagnoses in 2019. And furthermore, Black women account for more than half. Fifty-five percent of new HIV diagnoses are among Black women, and [Republicans] are talking about cutting [HIV funding] when there is still a crisis and Black women are at the head of that crisis? Hell no.  We are worthy. We are worthwhile. We deserve to have support of the public…to build safe lives. If you think we’re going away quietly because you think you have the votes in the House, you have another damn thing coming. “

This is the GOP’s latest attack on the LGBTQ+ community, on women in this country, and on people of color in this country, acting as if their health concerns don’t matter because of their sexual orientation or because the GOP is still mired in the HIV/AIDS bigotry from the crisis first began.

Vote them all out and elect compassionate people to represent all of us in Congress.

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I Didn't Say It ... The Chauvin Verdict

President Joe Biden:

“Today, a jury in Minnesota found former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin guilty on all counts in the murder of George Floyd last May. It was a murder in the full light of day, and it ripped the blinders off for the whole world to see the systemic racism … that is a stain our nation’s soul; the knee on the neck of justice for Black Americans; the profound fear and trauma, the pain, the exhaustion that Black and brown Americans experience every single day. The murder of George Floyd launched a summer of protest we hadn’t seen since the Civil Rights era in the ‘60s — protests that unified people of every race and generation in peace and with purpose to say, ‘Enough.  Enough.  Enough of the senseless killings.’ Today’s verdict is a step forward [but] let’s also be clear that such a verdict is also much too rare.  … But it is not enough.  We can’t stop here. In order to deliver real change and reform, we can, and we must do more to reduce the likelihood that tragedies like this will ever happen and occur again; to ensure that Black and brown people or anyone—so they don’t fear the interactions with law enforcement, that they don’t have to wake up knowing that they can lose their very life in the course of just living their life.  They don’t have to worry about whether their sons or daughters will come home after a grocery store run or just walking down the street or driving their car or playing in the park or just sleeping at home.  … The guilty verdict does not bring back George.  But through the family’s pain, they are finding purpose so George’s legacy will not be just about his death, but about what we must do in his memory. … This is the time for this country to come together, to unite as Americans.  There can never be any safe harbor for hate in America. … [We] can’t leave this moment or look away, thinking our work is done.  We have to look at it … as we did for those 9 minutes and 29 seconds.  We have to listen.  ‘I can’t breathe.  I can’t breathe.’  Those were George Floyd’s last words.  We can’t let those words die with him.  We have to keep hearing those words. We must not turn away.  We can’t turn away.  We have a chance to begin to change the trajectory in this country.  It’s my hope and prayer that we live up to the legacy. May God bless you.  And may God bless the — George Floyd and his family.”

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Raphael Warnock, Georgia’s Democrat Senator:

"The reason why we've all been waiting with bated breath for this verdict is we've seen the opposite outcome so many times, and we have yet to put forward the kind of legislation that will create a different outcome, so we must do our job in this chamber."

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Chuck Schumer, New York’s Democrat senator and Senate Majority Leader:

"This guilty verdict serves as an official proclamation of what so many of us have known for nearly a year: George Floyd was murdered by an officer who was sworn to protect and serve."

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York’s Democrat Representative:

"This isn't justice. I … don't want this to be framed as the system working. Because it's not working. And that's what creates a lot of complexity in this moment. It's really important that this verdict is not used as a replacement for policy change."

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Nancy Pelosi, California’s Democrat Representative and House Speaker:

"We all saw it on TV. We saw it happen. And thank God the jury validated what we saw. So again, thank you George Floyd for sacrificing your life for justice. Your name will always be synonymous with justice, and now we have to make sure justice prevails in the sentencing."

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Bernie Sanders, Vermont’s Independent Senator:

"The jury's verdict delivers accountability for Derek Chauvin, but not justice for George Floyd. Real justice for him and too many others can only happen when we build a nation that fundamentally respects the human dignity of every person."

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Van Jones, CNN commentator:

"More cops can speak up. More police chiefs can speak up. And more people can do the right thing in these situations. In January and February of 2020 if you had asked the average white person, is police brutality a big deal, is anti-racism a big deal, some would have said yes, some would have said no [but] because of that young woman [Darnella Frazier] and because of the video, 20 million white Americans marched … millions. There were Black Lives Matter marches in Idaho, where there’s no Black people. That gives you a sense of how humanity’s heart was touched. That shouldn’t just happen in the streets when we’re marching. There’s so many opportunities for us to do better. Listen, the empathy gap that we’re seeing throughout our politics can start to close a little bit. It's important to understand … the police chief fired the guy and testified against him. There were people throughout the profession of law enforcement who came forward and did the right thing for once, and they all still have their jobs. More cops can speak up. More police chiefs can speak up. And more people can do the right thing in these situations."

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Kamala Harris, Vice President:

“This verdict is but a piece of it. And it will not heal the pain that existed for generations, that has existed for generations among people who have experienced and first-hand witnessed what now a broader public is seeing because of smartphones and the ubiquity of our ability to videotape in real time what is happening in front of our faces. And that is the reality of it. That’s why Congress needs to act. And that’s why they should pass the George Floyd Justice In Policing Act.”

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Maxine Waters, California’s Democrat Representative:

"You know, someone said it better than me: I'm not celebrating, I'm relieved." 

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Tuesday Thought #3

I Didn't Say It ....

Martin Luther King III, on _____ and the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday:

“When a president insists that our nation needs more citizens from white states like Norway, I don’t even think we need to spend any time even talking about what it says and what it is. We got to find a way to work on this man’s heart. [Former Alabama Governor] George Wallace was a staunch racist and we worked on his heart and ultimately George Wallace transformed.”

Um, all well and good, but _____ doesn’t want to change because he wants to appease his base of racists and alt-righters.

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Jeff Flake, Arizona GOP Senator, on _____’s declaration that media is “the enemy of the people”:

“[He] borrowed that phrase. It was popularized by Josef Stalin, used by Mao as well—enemy of the people. It should be noted that Nikita Khrushchev who followed Stalin, forbade its use, saying that was too loaded and that it maligned a whole group or class of people, and it shouldn’t be done.”

That’s the first line of a dictatorship: malign the media and make the people not to believe what they read, but only what comes from the asshats mouth.

Don’t succumb.

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Mia Love, GOP Representative from Utah, on _____’s “shithole” remarks:

“I can’t defend the indefensible. You have to understand that there are countries that struggle out there. But their people, their people are good people and they’re part of us. We’re Americans. I think [his remarks] were [racist], yes.”

Love is the first Haitian-American elected to Congress.

Yes, her family came from a “shithole” country.

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Cory Booker, Democratic Senator, and Hottie, from New Jersey, to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen over her failure to recall whether _____ said “shithole” countries:

“The commander in chief, in an Oval Office meeting, referring to people from African countries and Haitians with the most vile and vulgar language–that language festers. When ignorance and bigotry is alive with power, it’s a dangerous force in our country. Your silence and your amnesia is complicity. When Dick Durbin called me I had tears of rage when I heard about his experience in this meeting, and for you not to feel that hurt and that pain and to dismiss some of the questions of my colleagues … when tens of millions of Americas are hurting right now because of what they’re worried about what happened in the White House, that’s unacceptable to me!”

Word.We all need to be like Cory.

Speak.Up.Vote.

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Seth Meyers, on _____ calling himself the “least racist” person ever:

“Why do you do that to yourself, man? If you’d just said, ‘I’m not a racist,’ then maybe you could muddy the waters and people would have to debate it. But when you say ‘the least racist person,’ you just set off alarm bells. It’s the difference between saying, ‘I’m a tall person’ and ‘I’m the tallest person on Earth.’ With one, you go, ‘Yeah, pretty tall, I guess,’ and with the other you go, ‘Oh, he’s crazy.'”

Cuz he is crazy.

And a racist.

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Seth Meyers, again, because he’s rocking it lately, on ____’s demands that immigration be merit-based:

“You want immigration to be merit-based? Your job isn’t even merit-based! Your whole life has been the opposite of merit-based. You’re a celebrity billionaire despite the fact that you’ve declared bankruptcy six times and you’re president despite being wildly unqualified. If you want a merit-based immigration system, fine. But then you should have go back to whatever bog your family crawled out of and get in the back of the line.”

Damn!

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Maxine Waters, Democratic Representative from California, saying she will not attend _____’s first State of the Union address following his “shithole” comments:

 “Why would I take my time to go and sit and listen to a liar? Someone who lies in the face of facts, someone who can change their tune day in and day out. What does he have to say that I would be interested in? I don’t trust him, I don’t appreciate him and I wouldn’t waste my time … listening to what he has to say. He does not deserve my attention.”

Unless it’s impeachment, right, Maxine?

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Adam Rippon, openly gay U.S. Olympic figure skater, on Vice President Mike Pence leading the U.S. delegation at the Winter Olympics:

“You mean Mike Pence, the same Mike Pence that funded gay conversion therapy? I’m not buying it. If it were before my event, I would absolutely not go out of my way to meet somebody who I felt has gone out of their way to not only show that they aren’t a friend of a gay person but that they think that they’re sick. [And] if he’s okay with what’s being said about people and Americans and foreigners and about different countries that are being called ‘s—holes,’ I think he should really go to church.”

Again, bravo, sir. Stand tall.

Rippon said he might speak to Pence if he felt there was a way to have “an open conversation.”

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