Random Musings

There was a conspiracy theory going around at the start of the presidential campaign that [t]Rump was bought and paid for by the Clinton’s to secure the GOP nomination and then tank the election so Hillary wins.

Now, while it looks like that’s what’s happening, as [t]Rump’s poll numbers are falling faster than his wife’s outfits at a photo shoot, I never believed that [t]Rump would consciously lose anything because then he’d be a loser and y’all know he hates losers.

But what about this? What if it was the GOP who got [t]Rump to run and then urged him to tank so at the last minute they could put in a real candidate who might win?

Of course, that would be assuming the GOP had a real candidate … and they didn’t and don’t … and it would also assume that, yet again, [t]Rump would be the loser.

Still, I do love a good conspiracy theory.

In the wake of the Orlando shooting, John McCain, the Grampa of the GOP, and failed presidential candidate, placed blame for the shooting in President Obama’s lap … only to backtrack hours later because he’s a loon.

On the Senate floor, McCain said "Barack Obama is directly responsible for" because when Obama "pulled everybody out of Iraq, al-Qaida went to Syria, became ISIS, and ISIS is what it is today thanks to Barack Obama's failures, utter failures, by pulling everybody out of Iraq."

Of course, again, McCain is full of The Shiz and as everyone jumped on him for his lunacy he tried to spin it saying he "misspoke":

"I did not mean to imply that the President was personally responsible. I was referring to President Obama’s national security decisions, not the President himself."

Except that he said three times, Obama was "directly responsible."

All that from John McCain who, and I am saying this clearly, is “directly responsible” for Sarah Palin, and is “directly responsible” for ISIS because he supported the war in Iraq.

Gramps needs to put on his Bermuda shorts, grab a  Pabst Blue Ribbon and sit on the porch and be quiet.

Carlos and I love Vicious, a BBC program that airs, or aired, here on PBS, about an elderly gay couple played by Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi.

It was bitchy and fun and kinda vicious, and it co-starred a young man, Iwan Rheon, who played Ash, who was kinda cute, in that height challenged pale Brit kind of way.

Well, last Sunday was the series finale, and Ash was leaving London to go to school in New York and another young man, Oliver, moved in upstairs. Oliver was played by Alistair Brammer and was all kinds of hot … and in just one small snippet of the show’s ending.

Still, he was hot while he lasted.

Donald [t]Rump met with what he hopes will be his evangelical council when he’s elected president and it’s a who’s who of who hates The Gays.

Former Wingnut, Crazy-eyed, failed Presidential candidate and Representative Michelle Bachmann, who co-owns an ex-gay torture clinic with her wife Marcussssss Bachmann, is the first name on the list.

Uh huh.  Others named to the board include Focus On The Family founder James Dobson, former Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed, and anti-gay preacher Harry Jackson.

Is it an evangelical council or a [t]Rump-endorsed Hate Squad?

Citing the Orlando shooting the statement — some fifty, mostly LGBT groups, led by the Arcus Foundation — says LGBT people remain vulnerable to bias-motivated violence, especially transgender people and LGBT people of color:

“Any solutions to the problem of hate violence, including anti-LGBTQ violence, must address the alarmingly easy access that bigots have to such deadly weapons. For example, under current law, people convicted of violent hate crimes can legally buy and possess guns. This is unacceptable.”

The statement calls on Congress to take two approaches to combat gun violence:

1) prevent known and suspected terrorists and those convicted of violent hate crimes from legally buying guns;

2) ensure criminal background checks are required on all gun sales, including online and at gun shows.

Among the signers of statement are national LGBT groups like HRC, GLAAD, OutServe-SLDN, the National Center for Transgender Equality and Pride at Work as well as local LGBT groups like Equality Alabama, Fair Wisconsin and Gay Men’s Health Crisis.

Maybe The Gays and our allies can get this done!

So … Apple told Republican leaders it will not provide any funding or any other support for the party’s 2016 presidential convention, as it has done in the past because … [t]Rump’s controversial comments about women, immigrants and minorities.

While Facebook, Google and Microsoft say they will provide some support to the GOP event in Cleveland, Apple said:

Oh hell no.

Apple’s political stand against Trump is a sign of the widening schism between Silicon Valley and the GOP’s asshat nominee.

Good on Apple, eh?

Last week I talked about the Baptist “pastor” in Sacramento who preached about how not enough gay people were killed in Orlando. And now it looks like hate might cost him his church.

Harsch Investment Properties, owner of the building in which Verity Baptist Church and its Pastor Roger Jimenez preside have decided not to renew the church’s lease, and have asked church officials to consider moving.

While Harsch cannot legally evict the church under the terms of the lease, representatives of the property management company say they cannot tolerate “tenants who advocate hatred and the taking of innocent lives.”

Officials communicated their views to church officials, and while their lease does not expire until March 31, 2017, the property managers have asked them to consider moving out of the business park.

I guess hate might have to find a new place to set up shop … might I suggest Hell?

So, howsabout this Democratic sit-in? Cool stuff, especially watching Lyin' Paul Ryan try to maintain order to no avail.

The best part of all was Ryan's calling it nothing but a publicity stunt when 90% of Americans, including 90% of Republicans, and the Democrats, want some form of gun control, some kind of change to the gun laws, and the Republicans can't do anything but wipe the blood off their hands — hint, it won't come off — and cash those NRA checks.

Speaking of publicity stunts ...

Guns Nuts, Christians and GOP Politicians Love A Good Mass Murder

I promise to get back to regularly scheduled blogging soon, but my heart still aches and my stomach still hurts and my eyes water every time I think of Orlando.

And then I read things and I get angry, and maybe angry is better; because, with anger sometimes comes action, and with action maybe we can stop this NRA goose-stepping being done by politicians and conservatives and gun nuts — and I separate gun nuts from responsible gun owners because I know some responsible gun owners.

But this is about the Christians and the Republicans and the NRA and the vile things they have said and done after the mass murder at Pulse nightclub early Sunday morning …

After two days of saying nothing the NRA broke their silence on the Orlando attack with this:

“The terrorist in Orlando had been investigated multiple times by the FBI. He had a government-approved security guard license with a contractor for the Department of Homeland Security. Yet his former co-workers reported violent and racist comments. Unfortunately, the Obama administration’s political correctness prevented anything from being done about it.”

And had checks and balances been put in place maybe he wouldn’t have been able to buy an assault weapon.

“Repeating the same thing but expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. "

Like when the NRA repeats the same filth while dead bodies are being removed from churches and schools and movie theaters and nightclubs.

“Law-abiding gun owners are tired of being blamed for the acts of madmen and terrorists. Semi-automatics are the most popular firearms sold in America for sport-shooting, hunting and self-defense.”

An automatic weapon isn’t used for hunting, unless you want to mutilate your prey … which is the purpose of those guns.

The NRA will do whatever, and pay whomever, to keep their agenda of more guns, more guns, better guns, more ammo until we do something.

Do.Something.

“Pastor” Roger Jimenez, a Baptist preacher in my hometown of Sacramento, is actually praising the attack on Pulse nightclub because gay men and women were killed:

“Are you sad that 50 pedophiles were killed today? Um no, I think that’s great! I think that helps society. I think Orlando, Florida is a little safer tonight.”

Jimenez then went on to call for even more death at the hands of the government:

“If we lived in a righteous government, they should round them all up and put them up against a firing wall, and blow their brains out.”

Yes, this man is a Christian.

Remember when Ted Cruz, Lying, hypocritical, gay-hating, NRA cocksucker Ted Cruz stood alongside Kevin Swanson, another Christian “pastor”, who called for killing The Gays?

Now, he’s using The Gays as a weapon in his war on Muslims by posting this to his Facebook page:

“For all the Democrats who are loud champions of the gay and lesbian community whenever there is a culture battle waging, now is the opportunity to speak out against an ideology that calls for the murder of gays and lesbians. ISIS and the theocracy in Iran … regularly murder homosexuals, throwing them from buildings and burying them under rocks. This is wrong, it is evil, and we must all stand against it. Every human being has a right to live according to his or her faith and conscience, and nobody has a right to murder someone who doesn’t share their faith or sexual orientation. If you’re a Democratic politician and you really want to stand for LGBT, show real courage and stand up against the vicious ideology that has targeted our fellow Americans for murder.”

Yes, Ted Cruz is now painting himself as an ally to the LGBT community because it means he can continue his Hate Speech against all Muslim people.

Tony Perkins, of the Hate Group Family Research Council, and another Christian Republican, took to the airwaves to politicize murder by blaming President Obama has said this:

“Unfortunately, the attacks on U.S. soil have only grown in this administration’s refusal to call them what they are — Islamic terrorism. The gunman, a homegrown extremist who reportedly pledged his allegiance to ISIS before his bloody rampage, left little doubt about his motivation — a motivation the president still refuses to confront.”

Not guns, not religion, not homophobia, but Obama.

And let’s talk Tennessee Republican Congressman Andy Holt, who, in light of the use of an assault weapon to slaughter 49 Americans over the weekend, will continue with his plan to give away AR-15 rifles, the same firearm used in Sunday’s deadly attack in Orlando, as prizes at a fundraiser later this month.

Yes, he wants to give guns away as a prize.

But let’s end with the worst of all, Donald J [t]Rump, who spoke yesterday about the massacre, and smiles every time he got a round of applause when he denigrated Muslims.

Think on that: talking about 49 people being murdered and a presidential candidate smiled.

And then he used the massacre to promote his bigoted immigration policies and attack Hillary Clinton, claiming he is a better friend to women and the LGBT community:

“This shooter, and amazingly, in Orlando was the child of an immigrant father who supported one of the most repressive regimes on earth. Why would we admit people who support violent hatred? Hillary Clinton can never claim to be a friend of the gay community as long as she supports immigration policies that bring Islamic extremists to our country and who suppress women, gays, and anyone else who doesn’t share their views or values. Ask yourself who is really the friend of women and the LGBT community. Donald Trump with actions, or Hillary Clinton with her words? I will tell you who the better friend is and someday I believe that will be proven.”

Two things:

1] Upon hearing him say this, I Tweeted this to [t]Rump”

As a lifelong member of the LGBT community I can safely say we don’t need friends like you. Kindly fuck off.

2] Donald j. [t]Rump blatantly lied when he said the shooter was “born in Afghan to Afghan parents who immigrated here.” The shooter was born in New York, where  [t]Rump was born. Should we be looking at all New Yorkers as terrorists, because I can think of one, one who looks like a wet bag of Cheetos dust, who comes to mind.

And so therein lies my rage: Christians, conservatives and powerful gun groups, standing on the bodies of dead Americans, not caring about dead Americans because they’re gay — you know, all the right people are dying … something religious people and conservatives said about the early victims of AIDS — and smiling and laughing and blaming and running for office.

I may need another day to get over this ….