I Didn't Say It

Mallory McMorrow, Michigan Democrat State Senator, defending herself from an attack from Republican State Senator Lana Theis:

“I am the biggest threat to your hollow, hateful scheme. Because you can’t claim that you are targeting marginalized kids in the name of ‘parental rights’ if another parent is standing up to say No. You say, ‘She’s a groomer. She supports pedophilia. She wants children to believe that they were responsible for slavery and to feel bad about themselves because they’re white.' I am a straight, white, Christian, married, suburban mom who knows that the very notion that learning about slavery or redlining or systemic racism somehow means that children are being taught to feel bad or hate themselves because they are white is absolute nonsense.”

This is what Democrats need to do. Stand the fuck up and speak the fuck up and call out this lunacy as nothing but a fear tactic meant to scare up votes for the GOP.

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Charlee Corra, child of Roy Disney, Walt’s grandnephew, has come out as transgender—pronouns are he/him and they/them—to speak out against the anti-LGBTQ+ bills that Disney originally failed to condemn:

“I had very few openly gay role models, and I certainly didn’t have any trans or nonbinary role models. I didn’t see myself reflected in anyone, and that made me feel like there was something wrong with me. That’s what makes legislation like the “Don’t Say Gay” law and other anti-trans laws so harmful … They can’t learn about their community and their history at school, or play sports or use the bathroom they want to use?”

It’s all about simple respect, taking people as they are, whether you fully understand it or not.

At the HRC gala, when Corra publicly came out, ha also announced that the Disney family would be matching donations of up to $250,000 at the annual Human Rights Campaign gala in March. Last week, Corra’s father Roy upped the ante to $500,000 in the fundraising email.

Maybe the family can help erase the harm that the company inflicted on the LGBTQ+ community.

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Ian Mackey, openly gay Missouri lawmaker, called out state Representative Chuck Basye’s new bill that allows school districts to vote on banning trans student athletes from youth sports, and brought up Basye’s own gay brother:

“Your brother wanted to tell you he was gay, didn’t he? Why would he think [his family wouldn’t accept him]? I would have been afraid to tell you too. I would have been afraid to tell you to because of stuff like this because this is what you're focused on. This is the legislation you want to put forward. This is what consumes your time ... I was afraid of people like you growing up. Thank God I made it out … I think every day about the kids who are still there who haven't made out, who haven't escaped from this kind of bigotry. Gentlemen, I'm not afraid of you anymore, because you're gonna lose. You may win this today, but you're going to lose.”

They’ve lost already when you realize how they shut people out, their own family members, for a vote, for a political position; they sold their souls for power.

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Tom Suozzi, New York Democrat state Representative, who is running against Governor Kathy Hochul in the Democratic primary, has called a controversial new Florida law aimed at discouraging discussions about sexuality and gender in classrooms “reasonable”:

“I think it’s a very reasonable law not to try to get kids in kindergarten to be talking about sex. I wish it wouldn’t become such a hot button issue where people are just attacking each other—it’s just common sense. I’m very much in favor of equal rights, I’m very much in favor of treating gay people fairly and treating them like the human beings they are.”

And he thinks denying the right to exist in discussions is equal? No one, no one, is saying that kindergartners will be discussing sex, but if the topic of sexual orientation comes up—which, keep in mind, is not about sex, but orientation—simply explain that sometimes men love women, and sometimes men love men, and women love women..

It saddens me that a Democrat is either this ignorant or this pandering.

UPDATE: Suozzi wants to make clear that he doesn’t support Florida’s controversial new law restricting discussion of sexual orientation in schools, despite saying some aspects of it were “reasonable” and made “common sense.”

Uh huh. But that’s exactly what you said, until the public caught wind of it, and now you’re changing your tune.

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Frank Niceley, a Tennessee GOP state Senator, who voted in favor of a bill to cut down on homeless camps spoke on the Senate floor about how Adolf Hitler is an example of hope for the homeless:

“I haven’t given y’all a history lesson in a while and I wanted to give a little history on homelessness. In 1910 Hitler decided to live on the streets for a while. So for two years Hitler lived on the streets and practiced his oratory and his body language and how to connect with the masses. And then went on to lead a life that got him in the history books.”

Last I checked he wasn’t in the history books for his eloquence, but for the murder of 11,000,000 human beings.

Seriously, Tennessee, this is what you elect to office? That explains your backwoods, back water, toothless cousin fucking state.

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Mayim Bialik, on how she was asked to "tone it down" while hosting, citing how her gender plays a role:

"I think as a woman there's a special consideration, because when women sound definitive or stern it's a different message than when men sound definitive or stern. And a lot of times when people will say, 'Oh, you sound like you think you know it all,' I'll think, 'Gosh, that's just because I'm using an affirmative voice.' One of the neat things about having a woman in this role is it's bringing up a lot of questions about the labels we put on those things. One of my biggest challenges is I'm so impressed that people know the answers that they've asked me to tone down how excited I am when people get them right, which I think is a great note to get."

Personally, I like Bialik on Jeopardy, even more than I like Ken Jennings, and to think they asked her to ‘tone it down’ seems highly misogynistic.

God forbid a woman should sound definitive.

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I Ain't One To Gossip But ...

I don’t watch Celebrity Big Brother because they aren’t celebrities and Big Brother is stupid and, yes, Julie Chen. But apparently this time Hot Mess Lindsay Lohan’s mother, Dina “Pour me another” Lohan is in the house and she has admitted to having a boyfriend of over five years that she has never even met.

I smell catfish.

Dina says that she and her man, who lives in San Francisco, and may, or may not, be a ninety-year-old Chinese woman, have been in a long-distance relationship with for five years and she wants to marry him.

Hopefully after they meet.

Dina, who claims to speak to her beau every day, says the reason they’ve never met is because he lives in San Francisco where he :::cough:::: takes care of his mother, while she lives on the East Coast where she takes care of draining boxes of Chardonnay, and since they don’t have planes that fly coast-to-coast—that’s so science fiction—the two haven’t met.

And yet even more interesting, is that Celebrity Big Brother offered to fly Dina’s love from San Francisco to LA where the show is filmed to make their first meeting so special and not at all a ratings grab, and the boyfriend opted not to do that.

And it’s not because he’s a ninety-year-old Chinese woman.

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Miranda Lambert is a hot mess. Y’all know she began dating a married man who was with her on tour, and then dumped him as soon as his wife left him; Miranda likes her boyfriends to be married and stay married … to other women … but she’s also a food throwing hillbilly.

It seems Miranda, her mother and a family friend were dining at the Stoney River Steakhouse in Nashville and when the family friend, an unidentified male, went to use the restroom. Well, in that restroom, another man made an off-color remark to Miranda’s friend millennials and their phones, and the two men started shouting at one another.

When Miranda’s friend came back to the table, he told Miranda about the guy in the bathroom and suddenly that guy appeared at their table and started shrieking at them, too. Miranda started arguing with the older man and ALLEGEDLY had to be held back from physically assaulting him, so she did the second-best thing … she walked over to another table where the man’s wife was sitting and dumped a salad into the wife’s lap. The police were called but Miranda and her gang had already sped away from the restaurant.

I kinda thought she was white trash for the way she loved breaking up people’s marriages … after breaking up her own … but she’s opened a door to a whole sub-basement of redneck behavior now.

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Tonight …on a Very Special Blossom, Mayim Bialik goes all Miranda Lambert at an airport.

It seems The Big Bang Theory co-star, who pulls in about $450,000 an episode, was flying First Class and her flight was delayed. She then tried to book a seat for her enormous piece of luggage and threw a fit when she was refused, and saw “regular” people taking their “regular sized” carry-on luggage onto the flight. And so, as entitled folks do, Bialik took to Twitter and Instagram to troll for sympathy for her 1% problems:

“@UnitedAirlines i ran for 10 min to make the flight you made me late for with your delays. This is about humanity. She didn’t even say she was sorry. I’m sorry I flew your airline. Thanks for booking me on a later flight. But right now she needs to remember we are all human.”

“To the @UnitedAirlines flight attendant who shut the boarding gate in my face. I made my connecting flight in Houston. it was a tight squeeze but You said there were plenty of open seats. when you saw my carry on suitcase you said there was no room and shut the door in my face.”

“And also why couldn’t my little suitcase somehow fit? Maybe the first class seat I was supposed to sit in could have held it and I would have gladly sat in all of the open seats anywhere on that plane. :(“

“And there were five other people from my flight standing there with me who she let on the plane. Maybe she just doesn’t like The Big Bang Theory. They all had carry-on luggage too.”

According to an even longer Instagram explanation, which included a picture of her “little suitcase”, Bialik complained that the “lady stewardess”—apparently Bialik hasn’t flown in a plane since the 1950s—made her look like a “prima donna” because she shouted out, “I have a first-class seat!” … Bialik claims she wanted her luggage to have the first-class seat while she’d take a seat back in steerage with the poor folk …or something. 

She then suggested that “maybe the [lady stewardess] hates women who look like they’re going to cry” or that “maybe she hates the Big Bang theory.” Or maybe she hates self-entitled one-percenters who run late for their flights because their first flight was delayed but think their next flight should wait on the ground until Dame Lady Duchess Bialik arrives?

Siddown, Blossom.

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Kim Kardastrophe, who has clearly never met a plastic surgeon she didn’t want to employ, or a body part she didn’t want bigger, smaller, flatter, rounder, tighter or jigglier, is furious, furious I tell ya, that people think she had a nose job.

That’s her, up there, with the totally not altered schnoz.

But, while being a guinea pig at her makeup artist’s, Mario Dedivanovic, Master Class, Mario pointed out Kim had a small bump on her nose to a room filled with aspiring makeup artists and then demonstrated a nose contouring technique he uses to cover it up. And that’s when Kim declared that her nose is her lone original body part …

“I never had my nose done. Everyone thought I did, and I said wait until I have kids because your real features come out.”

Kim frequently mentioned her laser treatments and Botox, her waist cinching and her ass expanding, but that nose is as original as the fenders on my 1969 VW Bug that I had in college {note, the fenders weren’t real.]

And neither is the proboscis on that face

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Denise Richards made her first appearance on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and … she seems nice. But we all know nice doesn’t get you too far on a Housewives show, so we need some dirt. Like how she met her latest husband, Aaron Phypers. Denise says they met at his “wellness” center and that she was a client, but … here’s some dirt.

See, up until a couple of years ago, Aaron was married to Denise’s neighbor, Nicolette Sheridan, so maybe she met on the corner, and then at the “wellness”? Keep in mind, this is the same Denise Richards who dated Richie Sambora, who had been married to another of her neighbors, Heather Locklear.

Now, that doesn’t mean Denise is a husband stealing she devil running amok in the ‘hood stealing her friend’s husbands …

Does it?

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