Meme Dump ... Happy Pride

Meme Dump ... Happy Pride!

Bobservations

There is a woman who gives Carlos rides to court if I can’t and I have dubbed her his CarWife. He loathes that so you know I run with it.

Well, this woman asked him to meet her son, who is on the Autism spectrum, because both he and Carlos are science nerds.

This week the woman’s husband had a minor heart procedure and Carlos texted that he was glad it all went well and signed off:

“Sending him love.”

He tells me this and I ask, dumbfounded:

“Are you dating this entire family? I mean, first the mom and then the son and now the husband?”

His mother-wife, and son-husband, and husband-husband??? It’s all too much!

This Tuxedo Says is from September 2021 when COVIDIOTS were spreading their so-called cures:

"I swear, one of these days Tuxedo is gonna snap his neck with all the head shaking at the daily news."

I still feel that way today!

Ketanji Brown Jackson graduated magna cum laude from Harvard-Radcliffe College and cum laude from Harvard Law School where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. She had 20 years’ experience as a lawyer and 10 years’ experience as a federal judge when she was nominated for the Supreme Court. And the GOP called her a DEI hire.

Markwayne Mullin has a high school diploma and a 2-year community college degree in construction management, no military or law enforcement service, and was a cow-calf rancher. He was nominated to be secretary of Homeland Security. And the GOP rallied behind him.

Think on that!

After San Antonio officials removed a rainbow crosswalk in the city’s Pride Cultural Heritage District, the community responded by installing rainbow sidewalks.

This is The Resistance at work!

You wonder why Cankles wants the SAVE Act passed so desperately that he’s refusing to sign any other bills until it goes through? Look at this:

In 2024, Cankles won nearly 58% of the vote in Starr County, Texas.

Last week, 96% of all votes cast for Senator were in the Democratic Primary.

Yes, you read that right.

If Cankles wants boots on the ground in Iran he should deploy the ICEstapo. They’ve spent months terrorizing American cities like some kind of elite military force so send ‘em to war.

Let’s see how brave they are now.

Oy, Cankles’ favorite attorney lapdog, Alina Habba, made such a gaffe on live TV while trying to nail Kamala Harris. She was being interviewed on Newsmax when she tried to say that Kamala Harris didn’t know Reverend Jesse Jackson so why did she attend the funeral:

“If you look at Kamala Harris’ comments of desperation at Reggie Jackson’s funeral, and she didn’t even know him, if you look at this, they’re reaching so far.”

Um, Alina, honey? It was the funeral of civil rights icon Reverend Jesse Jackson and not the funeral of a former baseball player who is, in fact, not dead.

Speaking Cankles held a press conference at his Doral golf resort amid the ongoing illegal war in Iran and said this idiocy:

“All of the people that died through the roadside bombs. Died and are, right now, walking around with no legs, no arms.”

Seriously stupid and demented and unfit for office.

Kyle Ponte is a Los Angeles–based dancer, choreographer, model, and actor with over a decade of professional experience spanning stage, film, television, and commercial work so Would You Hit It?

Bobservations

As I’ve said before, Carlos and I love Jeopardy and watch it most nights, playing along. But the other night we got stumped by the final Jeopardy question:

“Missionary William Ellis  reported in 1825 that ‘his bones were preserved and considered sacred’ by the people of Hawaii.”

I said:

“Father Damian”

“Who?”

“Father Damien, Part of Hawaii was a leper colony back in the day so they’re probably honoring him.”

“Oh—”

“Or it’s King Kamehameha.”

And both were wrong; it was Captain Cook, leading Carlos to say:

“Who?”

“Captain Cook. He was an explorer in the Pacific.”

“Captain  Kirk? From Star Trek?”

“What!??!! Captain Kirk? From a TV show? They saved his bones from when he died in 1825 even though he was in a TV show in the 1960s? Oh my god, do you think Star Trek was real and Kirk and the Enterprise traveled back in time to 1825 to explore the Hawaiian Islands?”

“I’m not talking to you for the rest of the night.”

I thought that was best.

This Tuxedo Says is from May 2021 …

"Tuxedo doesn’t wanna tell y’all how to vote, but he does think you’ve been getting it wrong for years."

And while he’d never tell you how to vote, he would demand that you, ahem, CAST A GODDAMNED VOTE!!

Texas Governor Hot Wheels followed Florida Governor Gogo Boots' lead by demanding that all rainbow Pride crosswalks be painted over because he Hates The Gays.

So, in a statement of support for the LGBTQ community, Oak Lawn United Methodist Church in Dallas decided to paint their front steps leading to the church in rainbow colors. Senior Pastor Reverend Rachel Griffin-Allison called it a demonstration of faith and inclusivity, conveying that every person is created in God’s image and deserves dignity and belonging. The church sees this not as a political stance, but as a commitment to love and support marginalized communities.

It's a sign of Resistance, too.

Many in The Cult have begun ranting that Obama built a basketball for anywhere between $200M and $376M court while president and that’s no different than Cankles erecting The Jeffrey E[stein Ballroom.

But here’s the deal, you neanderthals … no offense to actual neanderthals … Obama converted an existing outdoor tennis court into a basketball court by painting new lines and installing a couple of hoops and it cost nowhere near the hundreds of millions y’all claim.

He didn’t fucking bulldoze a house.

We had a small glitch with the kitchen this week. A cabinet felt off-center and there were some panels that weren’t the right ones, so I called the company and their contractor and designer came out to talk it over. Luckily, our contractor was here—he’s doing tiles work and installing new lighting—so we all were able to talk it out and get the problems solved … but not the problem of my mouth … so when their contractor asked if  one line on the wall was straight and Craig, our contractor, said there were no straight walls in any house he’s ever worked in, and I said:

“There’s nothing straight at all about this house.”

The designer, Carlos and I chuckled; the contractors didn’t get the joke. But as they were leaving the designer joked about not having a negative review on Facebook from me, and I said:

“I would never leave a bad review on Facebook. I’d just firebomb the office and torch the business to the ground.”

She laughed; I didn’t … for a couple of moments!

Gabriel Burger is a Brazilian model based in São Paulo—which we know makes him one of Maddie’s favorites—but Would You Hit It?

Bobservations

You know it’s been said that 50% of all marriages end in divorce and ours is no exception.

It happened like this: one morning over breakfast Carlos began talking about Rosita; since he’s home more often than I, the two have bonded and while she sleeps between us she will only sit in his lap, but this isn’t about that. He began talking about how much like a dog she is because she roams the house checking on her people; he said she came out to the kitchen to see him, and then she disappeared down the hallway to find me. I said:

“Tuxedo used to do that. He used to come to the door, like a dog would, whenever we came home from somewhere.”

And Carlos said:

“Well, Rosita seems smarter than Tuxedo.”

Yes, he did; and he meant it, and so I said:

“This is going to sound crazy, and I don’t care cuz it is, but don’t you ever say a negative word about Tuxedo again.”

“Well, I was only—”

“BAH!!!!!”

“I just meant—”

“BAH!!!!!!!!!”

And because he saw the look on my face, with the glimmer of a tear in my eye, he said:

“Sorry.”

And all was right in the house again.

This week’s Tuxedo Memory is a quickie … from May 2012, just Tuxedo posing for a photo; he did love to have his picture taken!

"Caturday TuxedoDay

The Most handsome Cat Ever."

Note to self: remind Carlos of this.

Ryan Basye owns an Omaha, Nebraska apartment building and when he asked his daughters, ages five, seven, and nine, what color he should paint it, they all wanted the colors of the rainbow.

While his daughters were motivated by a love for colors, Basye was intrigued by the idea because of a 2022 conversation he’d had with a fellow property owner, during which the person made anti-LGBTQ+ remarks. So Basye painted the house rainbow and, in addition to making his daughters heroes at school, the house has brought joy to more people than he ever predicted:

“It puts a smile on my face knowing that neighbor has to see it every day [and] this place is right by an elementary school so we get lots of kids walking by with smiles on their faces. It has been about 99% positive.”

Basye—who owns about 25 properties and has been a realtor for 20 years—offered to help his tenants move out if the attention got to be too much but his tenants love the building.

So do I.

X, formerly known as Twitter, could lose as much as $75 million in advertising revenue by the end of the year as dozens of major brands pause their marketing campaigns after X owner, Elon Musk, endorsed an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory this month.

Oh Elon, now buy Chick-fil-A and Hobby Lobby! And Walmart.

Neo-Nazis gathered in the town of Wunsiedel in Germany last week and found themselves the target of an anti-fascist prank when they inadvertently raised $12,000+ dollars [€10,000] for an anti-extremist organization.

After years of far-right extremists marching through Wunsiedel this year the organizers of Rechts gegen Rechts [Right against Right] took a different approach and had local residents and businesses sponsor the 250 participants of the march. For every meter they walked, €10 went to a program called EXIT Deutschland, which helps people escape extremist groups.

Campaigners hung posters to make the march look more like a sporting event, with slogans such as “If only the Führer knew!” and “Mein Mampf” [‘My Munch’] next to a table laden with bananas. They even hung a sign at the end, thanking the marchers for their “donations.”

And this is how Nazi’s donate to anti-hate groups! You know, cuz Nazis are stupid.

Fox News idiot Jason Chaffetz got roasted on X for claiming he spent $90 on a Thanksgiving turkey all thanks to Bidenomics:

“I mean, we went to go buy a turkey today. It was $90 for a turkey! It’s all a choice by Joe Biden. That is what Bidenomics is.”

To prove his point, Chaffetz posted a photo of the “premium young turkey” he bought from Meiers for $114.02—even more than the originally claimed $90—but failed to note in his idiotic snowflake rant that his turkey was “thoughtfully raised on sustainable family farms” and was “100% vegetarian fed, raised without antibiotics, no preservatives, minimally processed.”

Yes, this Fox News lying, rightwingnut MAGAt went out on bought himself a woke turkey!

This week Mr-Former-Fake-One-Term-Twice-Impeached-Currently-Four-Time-Criminally-Indicted-Not-My-President-Gurl came to South Carolian for the Palmetto Bowl game between Clemson and USC. And because he can’t control crowds he doesn’t hire, Thing 45 was soundly booed as he arrived and given many one finger salutes, at the game.

Even better is that billboard erected in downtown Columbia reminding him that he’s a loser.

Sometimes South Carolinians get it right.

PS Notice that the sign was sponsored by “Radical Leftist Vermin.”

On the flip side of South Carolinians,  this was the temperature yesterday morning when I woke up and believe me, you never heard so many people complaining about the first really cold day of the year.

Oh, people wait until February …

Marcus Freeman is thirty-seven, a former linebacker and currently the head coach at the University of Notre Dame. Would You Hit It?

My Thought: a friend who is a Notre Dame football fan posted his picture on her Facebook page and I commented:

“Oh my … ::::thud:::”

And I meant it.

The McCarthy's Take A Stand

Gosh I love starting the week off with a smile, and a big dose of Pride.

In Oregon last week, the Newberg School Board voted to ban any “political” speech from their schools because their messages can be divisive; the board was mostly talking about LGBTQ+ Pride flags and Black Lives Matter signs because, the board claims, and wait for it, it’s stunning, Pride support and BLM support make white and straight students feel excluded.

Actually, Pride and BLM support only makes bigots and racists feel excluded, and Erin McCarthy and her husband, Jaybill, who live in Newberg and own land on a hill about a half mile from Newberg High School, banded together with other residents to make a giant Pride flag on the hillside.

Jaybill McCarthy says the idea that you cannot have a Pride flag or a Black Lives Matter sign would “erase a bunch of people.” And so he and his wife shared their idea on social media and got responses from hundreds of people in town who either donated money for materials and helped build and erect the flag.

Erin McCarthy says:

“We wanted maximum visibility. The result is pretty amazing, we love it. It’s not expressing a Democratic idea or Republican idea or conservative or liberal. It’s human beings. It’s recognition that people exist.”

While the school board voted in favor of the policy to make white and straight students feel better at school, Tai Harden-Moore, a Black mother explained that her son faces discrimination in school where he is often called a N****r while other parents supported the ban saying that the Pride flag is for “deviants.” But Erin McCarthy says her message with the giant flag is:

“You are not alone. Even though this is difficult, there are people who are there for you.”

The McCarthy’s even painted the word “LOVE” in rainbow colors on their barn.

For the record, Pride does not exclude; it seeks to make LGBTQ+ youth feel included. And a Black Lives Matter sign is just that; it doesn’t say Only Black Lives Matter; it isn’t anti-white. It just means that for a very long time Black lives did not matter and it’s time we recognize that and learn from it.

And while I’m on the soapbox, neither idea is a political idea; they are social ideals of treating everyone equally, and anyone who tries to make them a partisan movement and works to ban the signs are on the side of history where not all men, and women, and LGBTQ+ Americans and Black Americans, are equal.

And that’s just plain wrong.

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Jesse & Nicholas Show Their True Colors For Pride

Oh, this is how it’s done.

You can put up your flags, or douse your house in rainbow lights, but if you’re Jesse Campbell and Nicholas Vazquez  and it’s Pride Month, you create a paintbrush leaking a rainbow down the porch and across the walkway of their front yard.

Jesse and Nicholas live with their 16-month-old son in the Chicago neighborhood of Andersonville and decorated their house for Halloween, fall, and the neighbors loved it. So along comes Pride, and  they decided to decorate again but, you know, anyone can hang a Pride flag.  Jesse, who is an interior designer, and Nicholas were inspired by a quote Jesse saw on the internet:

“Don’t be afraid to show off your true colors.”

And they Cyndi Lauper-ed their home! They made the paintbrush out of Styrofoam, then hung rainbow taffeta at the entrance of their porch and painted up the walkway, including adding their inspiration quote.

Nicholas, who works at a credit counseling firm, says sometimes he sits inside the house, windows open, listening to passersby talk about the art piece:

“Kids are kids, and they start asking questions. I can hear them, and the parents are taking the time and explaining [Pride[ to them and what this means and the colors and how this makes people feel.”

Jesse and Nicholas are also using their display to raise money for The Trevor Project. They installed lawn signs with QR codes leading people to donate and are close to reaching their $10,000 goal.

Happy Glorious Pride!

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