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Adam Kinzinger, GOP Congressman with a spine, on assuming
there would always be a "career-ending" vote he would have to take
because of his party’s fear of investigating the 1/6/2021 attack on the Capitol: "I made the decision early in my career that I would be
willing to take a potentially career-ending vote, but I thought that vote would
be for something like a Social Security reform bill. I never thought it would
be for defending democracy. Kevin [McCarthy]
gave a great speech the week after [the insurrection], and then he went to
Mar-a-Lago and charged the paddles and brought [Thing 45] back to life. That's the moment when I
realized, Oh, man, this is a problem. You come to understand that when the
party and party leaders talk about unity, and in the same breath, say that [Thing
45] is the leader of the Republican Party, what they're talking about isn't
unity. They're talking about capitulation. When under the guise of unity, you
act like Jan. 6 was just whatever you want to make of it, that is capitulating
to a false narrative and to a dangerous attack on democracy. I will certainly
talk to Kevin if he wants to. But I don't see how we're ever going to come
eye-to-eye on this until there is a recognition that we can't be the party of
insurrection. Part of me doesn't blame [McCarthy], because he's not going to be
a senator, he's not going to be governor. Being speaker is a huge deal. I think
in his mind, once he's speaker, he will be in a position to maybe lead the
party differently. But the problem is that this is the
moment where opinions of our base voters and our party are being baked
in. This is
the moment where history is being written as to whether something like Jan. 6
can happen again." Kinzinger spells it out plainly: Kevin McCarthy is willing
to stand for, and behind, a traitor to this country in the hoes that he can
become Speaker of the House. Damn Democracy; damn justice; damn doing what’s right. Kevin
McCarthy is only out for Kevin McCarthy. As are most n the GOP, save Kinzinger and Cheney. |
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Matthew McConaughey, who has suggested he might run for governor of Texas, posted
this little oddball nugget on July Fourth: “As we celebrate our independence today, as we celebrate our
birth as a nation, the day that kick-started a revolution to gain our
sovereignty, let’s admit that this last year, this trip around the sun, was
also another head-scratcher. But let’s also remember that we’re babies as a
country. We’re basically going through puberty in comparison to other
countries’ timeline, and we’re going to go through growing pains. We are going
through growing pains. This is not an excuse, this is just the reality, and
this is good, because we got to keep learning, we got to keep maturing, we
gotta keep striving, we gotta keep climbing, we gotta keep building. And we
gotta make sure we maintain hope along the way, as we continue to evolve.” McConaughey is apparently just a point behind GQP Texas Governor Greg Abbot in the polls, but these little Tweets are a bit
dopey. Even for McConaughey. |
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Stephen Dorff, actor, ripping into the Marvel’s multibillion-dollar
superhero franchise, and bashing both Scarlett Johansson and Black Widow: “I still hunt out the good s–t because I don’t want to be in
‘Black Widow. [It] looks like garbage to me. It looks like a bad video game.
I’m embarrassed for those people. I’m embarrassed for Scarlett. I’m sure
she got paid five, seven million bucks, but I’m embarrassed for her. I don’t
want to be in those movies. I really don’t. I’ll find that kid director that’s
gonna be the next [Stanley] Kubrick and I’ll act for him instead.” Okay, I am no fan of most of these superhero movies, but Dorff’s rant seems a little like sour grapes when you remember he starred in 1998’s “Blade,” which is a Marvel-owned film. He sounds petty and jealous. And I doubt the next Kubrick has Dorff’s name on any future casting sheets. |
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Matt Gaetz, Flori-duh Congressman and ALLEGED sexual
predator, says he will nominate Thing 45 to be the next Speaker of the
House: “After the next election cycle when we take back the House of
Representatives, when we send Nancy Pelosi back to the filth of San Francisco,
my commitment to you is that my vote for Speaker of the U.S. House of
Representatives will go to [Thing 45.]” I guess Gaetz, who’s literally a moron, doesn’t realize that
you must be a member of Congress to even be considered for Speaker, and not
just voted in by a pedophile sycophant. |
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Kayleigh McEnany, former liar for Thing 45 and current liar for Fox News, is
at it again, saying the Founding Fathers were anti-slavery: “The
haters never take a day off from hating, that is clear. And they never take a
day off from getting the facts wrong. We know most of our forefathers, all of
our main Founding Fathers were against slavery, recognized the evils of it.” Well,
big surprise, that’s a bold-faced lie. The
majority of signers of the Declaration of Independence—forty-one of the
fifty-six—actually owned slaves. But,
g’head Kayleigh, tell us another one. |
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Adam Kinzinger, saying he believes there were some in
the GOP who were aware of what was going to happen on January 6: "I will say, if you just looked at Twitter—the whole
reason I brought my gun and kept my staff home and told my wife to stay in the
apartment was looking at Twitter. I saw the threats. When Lauren
Boebert—I will call her out by name—tweeted 'Today is 1776,' I don't
know what that meant other than this is the time for revolution. Maybe it was a
dumb tweet that she didn't mean. Fine. I'll give her that credit for now. But
if you have members of Congress who were involved in nurturing an insurrection,
heck yeah, we need to know. [And Marjorie Taylor Greene]. That's not a serious
legislator. She's not on committees. She's a freshman. No offense to freshmen,
but I have no legislative need to have conversations with her. I also see what
she's doing as dangerous to the country, and so I have no need to be her
friend. I'm not going to go sit down in a corner and convince her of my side.
And if I do, then about 10 minutes later she'll be taken over again by the
desire to raise money. But I get along with the vast majority of the Republican
conference. I think the vast majority agree with my position; they just aren't
speaking out. I don't blame them all for that, but I wish more would." Kinzinger also blames Democrats for making it worse by not
accepting defecting Republicans into their tribe. The Democrats need to work
with, stand beside, and fight for, those in the GOP who will speak out against
the lunacy f their party today. I have liked Kinzinger for what he says now, and have dogged
him, for his GOP, and Thing 45, support in the past, but he is really taking a
stand for this country and we need more like him. On both sides of the aisle. |
