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Pete Buttigieg, Transportation Secretary, speaking directly to Elon Musk on X, about Elon’s disinformation lies about federal disaster aid for victims of Hurricane Helene:

“No one is shutting down the airspace and FAA doesn’t block legitimate rescue and recovery flights. If you’re encountering a problem give me a call.”

Funny, cuz Elon Musk, AKA Leon Skum, wasn’t in North Carolina, or offering any kind of aid to victims; he was sitting on his fat ass in his easy chair Tweeting on Twitter with his lies and conspiracy theories.

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Sally Field, on the “hideous” and “traumatic” illegal abortion she underwent as a 17-year-old in 1964:

“It was during a time even worse than now. A time when contraception was not readily available and only if you were married. But I feel that so many women of my generation went through similar, traumatic events and I feel stronger when I think of them. I believe, like me, they must want to fight for their grandchildren and all the young women of this country … we [a doctor, his wife, and my mother] parked on a really scroungy-looking street [in Tijuana], it was scary and he parked about three blocks away and said, ‘See that building down there?’ And he gave me an envelope with cash and I was to walk into that building and give them the cash and then come right back to him … a technician giving me a few puffs of ether but he would then take it away, so it just made my arms and legs feel numb [and] weird, but I felt everything – how much pain I was in. Then the situation turned darker. I realized that the technician was actually molesting me, so I had to figure out, how can I make my arms move to push him away? So it was just this absolute pit of shame. And then, when it was finished, they said, ‘Go go go go go!,’ like the building was on fire. And they didn’t want me there, you know, it was illegal. These are the things that women are going through now—when they’re trying to get to another state, they don’t have the money, they don’t have the means, they don’t know where they’re going … and do that to our little girls and our young women, and not have respect and regard for their health and their own decisions about whether they feel they’re able to give birth to a child at that time.”

Is this what you want for women in America in 2024, because it’s what you get if The Felon, Sofa Loren and Project 2025 take over in January.

Don’t go back to those dark days; move forward.

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Kamala Harris, hitting back at Arkansas GOP Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders' comments that Harris "doesn’t have anything keeping her humble" because she doesn't have children:

"I don't think she understands that there are a whole lot of women out here who, one, are not aspiring to be humble; two, [there are] a whole lot of women out here who have a lot of love in their life, family in their life and children in their life, and I think it's really important for women to lift each other up. We have our family by blood and then we have our family by love. And I have both, and I consider it to be a real blessing. They are my children. And I love those kids to death, and family comes in many forms.” 

It's sad that a woman, even one as vile as Huckleberry, would suggest that Kamala’s step-children are not her children and she’s not been a mother to them.

But Huckleberry is part of that GOP Lies Cult …

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Pamela Brown, CNN anchor, on more of those GOP lies:

“I want to go through the facts here. One: It is illegal for undocumented immigrants to vote in presidential elections. Two: Congress appropriates funds with intent for specific purposes. The money allocated to DHS for helping states to house migrants is separate, completely separate from the money for disasters. No money is being stolen from disaster relief. Three: FEMA says it has enough money for disaster relief for Helene, posting this fact-check to its website. In fact, before the show, just to make sure I had all the facts right, did some digging, I spoke to a DHS official. That official says, as of this morning, $45 million from FEMA has already been used for Helene disaster relief. The concern is that people hear that money is going elsewhere, they may not even apply for relief. The official says people should know there is money available now to help.” 

Spread the facts; stop the lies. When someone offers up these GOP lies, tell them to their faces that the stories are bull shit from a bull shitter afraid he’s going to lose and end up in jail.

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Olivia Troye, former Homeland Security advisor, on  The Felon’s claims that Biden and Harris are ‘politicizing’ these natural disasters:

“Let me be very clear: as a Homeland Security Advisor in [The Felon] White House, I witnessed firsthand how [The Felon] politicized disaster relief, leaving devastated Americans waiting for help. Leaders across the country and government were calling my office, desperate for action as [he] failed them in moments of crisis. Today, he’s once again failing Americans by distorting the facts and spreading lies. The Biden-Harris Administration is stepping up in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene with decisive leadership and a swift, effective response.”

He cannot do the job so he denigrates those that do; he cannot handle the job so he belittles those that can.

He’s unfit for office, so he lies about those who aren’t.

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Stephen King, author, on Sofa Loren:

“JD Vance never lost that snotty little half-smile—the expression of a used car salesman who just convinced a potential buyer that the Check Engine light on the used Toyota he’s trying to get off the lot is just a computer glitch.”

Slimy; can’t tell the truth from a lie; never wants to be fact checked; can’t stand when a woman bests him; that’s JD.

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Tommy Davidson, comedian, on how his mother helped him understand his trans son:

"When I first saw a man that was like a woman, it was here in New York. I saw a man that acted like a woman, and kind of looked like a woman, but kinda was a man. And I asked my mother, she gave me the perfect answer. I said, 'What is he? Is he a man, or is he a woman?' And she said, 'You know what, hon, he's kind of both.' What she did was condition me to not reject 'other.' To not reject something that wasn't like me, so in that way, it was simple. If you have that child, you raise them that gender, you're expecting what you got. And you know what those two things are, [but] if it's changed along the way, for me it's not strange, but it's natural to get used to it."

What she did was condition me not to reject other.

It’s simple; you love your child as they are, as they live, as they love. It’s not rocket science.

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Tabitha King Brilliantly Called Out The Sexist Media

If you’ve ever read a Stephen King book, any of them, you’ll know what a critical role his wife Tabitha played in helping to launch his writing career. And Tabitha is an accomplished author all on her own, with eight novels and two non-fiction books out there, so she is not simply “Stephen King’s wife.” 

At least to most people; but, after Stephen and Tabitha King made a major charitable donation to the New England Historic Genealogical Society—oh, and the gift was Tabitha King’s idea—the couple was thanked with headlines and notifications like this:

“Stephen King and his wife donate $1.25M to New England Historic Genealogical Society.”

And so Stephen King took to Facebook to post a letter Tabitha had penned:

My wife is rightly pissed by headlines like this: “Stephen King and his wife donate $1.25M to New England Historic Genealogical Society.” The gift was her original idea, and she has a name: TABITHA KING. Her response follows.

“Dear Editors (married to a wife or a husband):In recent media coverage of a gift that my husband (ironic usage) and I made to the New England Historical and Genealogical Society, we became Stephen King and his wife.

Wife is a relationship or status. It is not an identity.

You could have made other choices. You could have referred to me as Of Stephen. Or His Old Lady. Or His-Ball-And-Chain.

I have sons. You could have referred to me as Mother-of-Novelists. I have a daughter but wouldn’t it be just silly to refer to me as Mother-of-Clergy?

I’m seventy. I thought I would give you permission, if “Of Tabitha” predeceases me, to title my obituary, Relick of Stephen King.

In the meantime, you might consider the unconscious condescension in your style book, and give women their names.”

True, Stephen King does get most of the publicity, but should that mean Tabitha is just his wife, a nameless part of his life? Stephen and Tabitha King have been active in politics and supporting the arts for decades, and their contributions will live on long after they’re gone, but they are the contributions of Stephen and Tabitha King.

And this isn’t simply political correctness, this is about acknowledging a person for being more that “the spouse of”; she is half of the Kings and she deserves that recognition. As do all women; they aren’t appendages and afterthoughts and wives.

I was raised by a father and a mother and mu mother wasn’t just my father’s wife, nor he simply my mother’s husband. My mother was a nurse, a teacher, a cook, an artist, a source of love and compassion, an example of how to treat people, accept people, understand people. She wasn’t just the wife of my father, she was her own person, like Tabitha King.

We need to remember that because, if I have my way, and if my dream comes true, one day women will run the world.

PS This is Tabitha King, in her own right.

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Stephen King Is Right! Pet Sematary Is Real!

Well over a week ago, Bart the Cat was out walking in his neighborhood as he usually does, when he was hit by a car. A passerby declared Bart dead at the scene, though there is no information regarding the passerby, either name or profession.

Bart was taken home, where Ellis Hutson, the man he owned — because, let’s face it, cats own people — was so upset about Bart’s passing that he could not bring himself to plan a funeral, or perform the actual burial, so he asked a neighbor to dig a grave in his backyard, and then Ellis watched as the man placed Bart into the ground; ashes to ashes.

Five days later … five.days.later. .... Bart rose from the dead and dug himself out of that grave.

Oh, but he did. Ellis’ neighbor found Bart pawing around her yard and meowing for food. Bart was taken to the Tampa Bay Humane Society where vets discovered that he had a broken jaw, a busted head and had lost sight in one eye.

The vets told Ellis that the car accident knocked him out, but did not kill him, and that when Bart came to a few days later, and found himself thankfully not six-feet under, he clawed his way out of the grave and back to, at least, his Second of Nine Lives.

Ellis can’t afford to pay the $2,000 vet bill, but don’t worry; no one is going to try and take Bart down again. The Humane Society will cover the bill for Ellis and says that in six weeks Bart will be as good as new.

In related news, Dusty Albritton, the driver of the car who hit Bart and “killed” him, best be on the lookout for a mangy black-and-white cat because …

… Pet Sematary is real, y’all.