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Mark King, HIV/AIDS activist, looking back on his life, and the struggle today, of living with HIV and how it compares to the dark days of this regime:

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“My joy is a big fuck you to AIDS. My joy is a big f**k you to [Cankles]. Even in the most murderous days of the AIDS epidemic, we had a sense of humor … Putting an enormous condom over the home of Senator Jesse Helms was hilarious. Crisis hotlines are being unplugged. HIV prevention and treatment is being unplugged. People will die. It might not seem as immediate and in your face as what I had to face, but it’s there. I’m tired of internalizing that. I am fucking fabulous. I’m not going to take on the characteristics that people have put on this disease. If it’s going to live in me, it’s going to take on my characteristics, not the other way around. The collective voices of HIV positive people … are a roadmap to how we deal with adversity. It might be a cliché in the gay men’s community, at least, that you have a certain expiration date. Suddenly, you are invisible in the bars and the grocery stores. It takes a certain generosity of spirit from somebody like me to not want to go around and just tell my tragedy and instead say, this is something that happened to me that gives me the capacity to have more empathy for someone else, and that I can bring that experience into any conversation without saying it. All of those cameras in the ’80s trained on all of those white bodies. Why weren’t they trained on the Black allies that were there beside us? Because Black people dying was nothing new. It was new that white, privileged people were dying … The resistance today looks a lot more like our actual community. They often say about this current administration that cruelty is the point. Racism is the point. Transphobia is the point. That’s a winning strategy for them… So we cannot shy away from those political talking points that we think are losing points for us just because it makes people uncomfortable. There’s nothing wrong with being uncomfortable. It’s growth, and we need that growth in our own community. Don’t let them lop off letters from LGBTQ as if it will hold the wolves at bay a little longer. It’s not going to. They’re coming for all of us. [But] we paved the way. We put our bodies on the line so that somebody else might live better, longer, healthier. That’s good enough for me. Find the joy in the next piece of cake. Write outside the lines. Do something naughty… This is as corny as it gets, but if there’s one thing I’ve learned in 40 years, it’s that we are here to help somebody else. This life can be scary… and we’re here to make the ride a little less scary for someone else. Help somebody else. That’s the sort of thing you’re supposed to knit into a throw pillow, but it’s true.”

King has been through it all, more than once, and is here and still fighting HIV/AIDS stigma and now also fighting this fascist hate-filled regime.

Join in.

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Mark Hertling, retired Lt. General, on Pete Hegseth’s speech before the military leaders:

“This was a disciplinary approach in public so the whole nation could see. And it was an attempt at separating the military institution from the people they defend. And I guarantee you that the people in that audience will not execute any illegal orders. We’ve been saying that for a long time.”

I hope he’s right; I hope our military leaders stand up against this authoritarian regime and stop this.

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Pink, singer and activist, on this regime:

“Let’s be clear: if you believe the government belongs in a woman’s uterus, a gay person’s business or marriage, or that racism is okay—then please, in the name of your Lord, never fucking listen to my music again. And also, fuck right off. We good?”

This is resistance and standing up and speaking up and we need more of it from our leaders and from our friends and neighbors.

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JB Pritzker, Illinois Democrat Governor, taking on the madness of Cankles:

“This is a man who’s suffering dementia. This is a man who has something stuck in his head. He can’t get it out of his head. He doesn’t read. He doesn’t know anything that’s up to date. It’s just something in the recesses of his brain that is effectuating to have him call out these cities. And then, unfortunately, he has the power of the military, the power of the federal government to do his bidding, and that’s what he’s doing.”

Remember when he and the GOP attacked Joe Biden? That’s the strategy; every GOP accusation is an admission.

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Nancy Pelosi, Democrat Representative and icon for the people, on Democrats versus Republicans:

“Democrats who created Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA, all of that, are now being asked to reject that so we can give a tax cut to the rich. We’re not doing it. It isn’t a question of, ‘Let’s come back together so we can discuss it.’ That isn’t going to happen.”

Pelosi, putting the needs and wants of many, the ability to help those that need it most, over the greed and wants of a handful of narcissistic billionaires.

Once again, Nancy stands up to Cankles.

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Steve Schmidt, GOP strategist who ran John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign , on Cankles:

"[Cankles] has been the worst president this country has ever had. And, I don't say that hyperbolically. He is. But he is a consequential president. And, he has brought this country in three short years to a place of weakness that is simply unimaginable if you were pondering where we are today from the day where Barack Obama left office. And there were a lot of us on that day who were deeply skeptical and very worried about what a [Cankles] presidency would be. But this is a moment of unparalleled national humiliation, of weakness. When you listen to the President, these are the musings of an imbecile. An idiot. And I don't use those words to name call. I use them because they are the precise words of the English language to describe his behavior. His comportment. His actions. We've never seen a level of incompetence, a level of ineptitude so staggering on a daily basis by anybody in the history of the country whose ever been charged with substantial responsibilities. It's just astonishing that this man is president of the United States. The man, the con man, from New York City. Many bankruptcies, failed businesses, a reality show, that branded him as something that he never was. A successful businessman. Well, he's the President of the United States now, and the man who said he would make the country great again. And he's brought death, suffering, and economic collapse on truly an epic scale. And let's be clear. This isn't happening in every country around the world. This place. Our place. Our home. Our country. The United States. We are the epicenter. We are the place where you're the most likely to die from this disease. We're the ones with the most shattered economy. And we are, because of the fool that sits in the Oval Office behind the Resolute Desk.”

Take no prisoners. Every single vile, hate-filled, racist, fascist, criminal thing that happened here, from erasing history and transgender Americans, to invading our own cities, to denying healthcare to the poorest among us, can be traced back to the gelatinous, cankled traitor at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Steve Schmidt, public affairs strategist, letting the MAGAts and Proud Boys and Oathkeepers and the other crazies know where we stand:

“I am not afraid of any of these people. I will not be afraid of these people. The whole fetid lot of liars, weirdoes, loons, militias, religious nuts, fascists and conspiracy theorists, all of them need to understand something. The rest of us are holding the line and we aren’t taking one more fucking step backwards to accommodate their insanity. Not one. The exhausted majority is what I’m a part of. It’s got Republicans, Democrats, independents, new voters and new citizens. It’s made up of people of all faiths, creeds, religions and no religion at all. It is common sense based and we are sick of the bull shit and will not allow a belligerent minority to hijack our country, our families, our kids, our faiths, our communities, our unity, our liberty, our bodies and our future. Never.”

Always keep in mind that no matter how loud the MAGAts are, there are fewer of them than there are Democrats and Independents and Republicans who were never for Thing 45 or have since become anti-Thing.

They’re loud, they’re obnoxious, they’re racist, dumb, and slightly insane, but they aren’t the majority.

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Eric _____, on Fox News, lying:

“Last night, I had an argument between two people in a restaurant who were trying to buy Lara and I dinner to apologize for what the United States government has done to our family. I mean, you wouldn’t believe the energy out there. I’ve been through all of these firestorms over the year. I’ve never seen America more mad than it is right now. People get this for what it is, Sean. You know, they’ve removed the wool from people’s eyes and people know exactly what’s going on. They’re targeting [Thing 45], they’re targeting his family, they’re targeting everybody around him.”

Yeah, that totally happened.

Let’s be clear, Eric is the one who stole money from a children’s charities.

Let’s be clear, if someone offered to buy Eric and Lara, his keeper, a dinner, they would take a photo together and display it all over social media, but, like his father, he thinks we’re dumb enough to believe anything he says because, in fact, he is that stupid.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene, giving Lauren Boebert a run for her money as the dumbest member of Congress, on solar and wind energy:

“Thank god for air conditioning. Let’s talk about refrigerators. I personally like my refrigerator. I know you all like yours. What about washing machines and dryers? Lord please God don’t make me scrub clothes in a bucket and have to hang them out on a line when we switch over to wind turbines and solar panels. I’m gonna be really pissed off about that. I mean, how absurd is this? I like the lights on. I wanna stay up later at night. I don’t wanna have to go to bed when the sun sets. It’s so silly! I mean, all of this is insane.”

For the love of the goddess Georgia, I know you’re a Red State, but do you have to be stupid state as well?

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Sean Hannity, once again kissing the ring of the former Traitor In Chief:

“What do you think the next thing that happens here is, do you think that they would try and indict the former president in the hopes of convicting him and having him in jail at the time of the next election to prevent him from running? Because a conviction by the way, constitutionally, would not prevent him from running for office. You know, this code that is being cited by Marc Elias and all these other people negates the very enumerated qualifications in the Constitution, and the specific requirements for somebody not to be eligible to run, and that would be impeachment and conviction. It doesn’t mention anything about being, you know, maybe not following every single dotted i and crossed t in the Presidential Records Act of the National Archives Act.”

I guess if that happens and Thing 45 is reelected he won’t live at the White House but the Big House?

Yeah, that’s a good look Sean.

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Chris Swecker, former assistant director of the FBI, on the raid at Mar-a-Lago:

“These are heavyweight statutes. The first statute is basically the espionage statute. It talks about things that he may have done with the documents that would result in injury to this country and … he did these things willfully. That is serious enough that is a ten-year penalty if he’s convicted. Now, the third statute, which is the obstruction-related statute, carries as 20-year penalty and it alleges that he somehow impeded an ongoing matter, which could have been the grand jury investigation of what we now know is an espionage case. So this is a much more serious case than just possession of classified documents.”

This isn’t just some work papers he took home with him; these are classified documents that he stole,  quite possibly to sell to a foreign nation for big money or use as extortion in case anyone turned against him.

Lock.Him.Up.

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Donald Norcross, a fourth-term Democrat Congressman from New Jersey, on codifying marriage equality into Federal law:

“I woke up this morning, got ready to come over to the Capitol, and as I often do, I glanced over to pictures of my family. And I glanced to a picture of my nine-month-old grandson. Couldn’t be happier about the newest addition to my family. I couldn’t be prouder of the two people who brought him into the world: my daughter Corey and her wife, Hedya. When my daughter told me she wanted to get married, I told her what every good parent should tell her: that if this is the person you want to spend the rest of your life with, I couldn’t be happier for you. And as I stood at their wedding … I knew it was only made possible because of a recent Supreme Court decision. And today… that same court has opened the door to dismantling families like mine. Splitting this little guy’s family apart, potentially. We can’t let that happen …. I don’t speak about the religious beliefs of my colleagues, but I have to ask: What God would fault in this baby and his two mommies? There is nothing wrong with this. This is pure love. It’s what we all should aspire to. And with that, I encourage my colleagues to vote ‘yes’ so we are equal in all states.”

The legislation passed 267-157, a tally that includes most of the Democratic caucus plus 47 Republicans. The bill’s prospects are unclear in the Senate where at least 10 GOP votes are needed to break a filibuster and get the legislation to President Joe Biden’s desk.

But do not stand for reversal. We will not go back.

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Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Transportation, and new father, on those Don’t Say gay bills:

“Chasten, my husband, pointed out that if our kids someday, some Monday morning, come into class, and kids are sitting around and the teacher’s got the Morning Circle talking about how everybody’s weekends went, and one of [the kids] said, ‘I had the best weekend with my Dads’ is the teacher supposed to say, ‘No, we don’t talk about that here.’ Any age where it’s appropriate to talk about a kid’s Mom and Dad, then it should be appropriate to talk about a kid’s Mom and Mom or Dad and Dad, or whatever family structure we live with. That’s part of what it means to be pro-Family, is to be pro-Every Family.”

Simple common sense. Simple respect. Simple understanding that not everyone is the same, not all families are the same, but you treat all of them with respect.

I swear to the goddess, we really need this kind of honest, common sense in the White House and Pete better be President one day.

Or else this queen will pitch a fit.

PS Full transparency: I love a good Pete quote but I also love using my Hot Pete Pic™.

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Liz Cheney, Wyoming Republican Representative, known for putting country over her party, on the work of the January 6 Commission:

“Well, what I would say is that what’s happening today in Ukraine is a reminder that democracy is fragile, that democracy must be defended, and that each one of us in a position to do so has an obligation to do so. Clearly, I think Leader McCarthy failed to do that, failed to put his oath to the Constitution ahead of his own personal political gains. And I think that, at the end of the day, each one of us is responsible for our own actions and activity. But, if we don’t stand for our Constitution, if we don’t stand for democracy, if we don’t stand for freedom, if we — if we forget that our oath to our Constitution is an oath to a document, it’s not an oath to an individual, we have got to always remember that, or our democracy is in peril.”

Preach Liz! Though I doubt many in your party would hear you or understand you, Preach!

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Scottie Scheffler, Number 1 golfer in the world, on why he plays the game:

“The reason why I play golf is I’m trying to glorify God and all that He’s done in my life. So for me, my identity isn’t a golf score. Like [my wife] Meredith told me this morning, ‘If you win this golf tournament today, if you lose this golf tournament by 10 shots, if you never win another golf tournament again,’ she goes, ‘I’m still going to love you, you’re still going to be the same person, Jesus loves you and nothing changes.’ All I’m trying to do is glorify God and that’s why I’m here and that’s why I’m in this position.”

Yes, God doesn’t care if you work with the poor, feed the hungry, house the homeless, but gosh darn it, She wants you to be the best golfer in the world.

I’m not a big believer in capital ‘G’ god, but if I were, I don’t think she’d be watching golf.

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Steve Schmidt, GOP campaign consultant, disabusing  Junior of any notion that he wielded any power over the US government in the wake of the 2020 election:

"CHEAT SHEET: The United States of America is the OLDEST CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC IN THE WORLD. The AMERICAN PEOPLE are SOVEREIGN. This means they are in CONTROL. The AMERICAN People~NOT the people they elect are in CONTROL. A Presidents SON has no standing in this land. He holds no TITLE and no HONORS . He is simply a citizen. NO MORE and NO LESS than any other CITIZEN. He has no authority, no special privilege. HE CONTROLS NOTHING. The FACT that [Junior] speaks like that shows his malice and autocratic heart. He speaks in the language of political violence. It is the language of PUTIN. American Presidents and their sons control nothing. [Junior] showed in real time how much [Thing 45], his aides and family hate that idea. These people must never hold any position of power or public responsibility ever again."

Junior sent multiple texts to Voter Fraud and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows right Daddy lost the election, saying there were multiple paths the now-former president could take to remain in power, and added:

"We control them all.”

Oh, Junior, do another line asshat, rage about a laptop, and take a seat.

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Kacey Musgraves, country singer, speaking out against the “very shameful” anti-trans measures in her home state of Texas at the 33rd GLAAD Media Awards where she was honored with the Vanguard Award:

“[I’m] very proud to be a Texan, but I don't like how the state has handled anything in that category, to be honest, and I just think that we can do better. It's a really scary time, it's kind of unbelievable that we still live [in] this time where personal freedoms and preferences are under attack like that. So, to feel the love of the community in this room, I'm really honored. There's so many icons and innovators here tonight. And I genuinely feel like I would not be where I am without the support and love of them. One of the biggest compliments, hands down, that I've ever gotten in my career, was a gay country fan saying, 'You know what, you have made me feel like I'm finally invited to a party that I've never been invited to.’ And that killed me in the best way possible.”

On the red carpet, Musgraves said she “would jump in front of a moving train for the LGBTQ+ community. Musgraves uses her platform to advance LGBTQ+ voices in country music, and to raise awareness around Texas’ anti-trans bills.

Good for her. And thank you.

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Sebastian Gorka, _____’s nominee for the National Security Education Board, spewing filth:

“What has whiteness brought us? What has western civilization brought us? When you look at the western civilization, when you look at representative democracy, you look at rule of law, you look at equality before the law, you look at equality of the sexes. Or, we could go to the African subcontinent and have female genital mutilation be a part of their local culture, or we could have slave markets in Libya.  Maybe we should follow the slave markets of Libya, as opposed to the inherent whiteness of our civilization. If whiteness is bad, then what do we replace it with? If we have to replace it with, I don’t know, blackness or yellowness, what does that mean? Does it mean that some cultures are better than others? Oops—I thought we weren’t allowed to say that.”

I guess Gorka forgot about slave markets in America; I guess he forgot that whiteness didn’t bring equality, those people deemed ‘less than’ protested and fought for it.

Fucking racist. Another one in this White House.

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Juan Williams, Fox ‘News’, on Putin’s bounties on American soldiers:

“There is no way to explain President _____’s lack of action in response to US intelligence showing Russia paid bounties for the murder of American soldiers. Even worse, there is no explanation for why Congressional Republicans aren’t raising Hell over _____’s silence.”

For a president who says he’s the best military president ever, and is the law and order president, he certainly doesn’t appear interested in finding out if this story is true. I wonder why …

Oh, Putin. He’s Putin’s Little Bitch.

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Steve Schmidt, political strategist for GOP candidates, on ______’s epic COVID-19 fail:

“_____ has brought death, suffering and economic collapse on an epic scale. And let’s be clear. This isn’t happening in every country in the world. This place. Our place. Our home. Our country. We are the epicenter. We are the place where you are most likely to die from this disease. We’re the ones with the most shattered economy. And we are because of the fool that sists in the Oval Office.”

Remember, Schmidt is a Republican, mourning the loss of his party to a faux-Christian, racist, rapist, pussy grabbing, traitor.

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Bret Baier, Fox News, on _____’s Rose Garden Press Conference that turned into a campaign stop after he talked for an hour before taking questions:

"Presidents in the past have stayed away from overt campaign rhetoric from the Rose Garden or the White House, but it is the President's discretion. It is worth noting, however, to be fair, that had President Obama made this kind of speech from the Rose Garden, Republicans on Capitol Hill would likely have been up in arms."

Sure, because a Black man shouldn’t be allowed to do that, but a racist pussy groping traitor is just fine with GOP Cowards.

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_____, calling New York City a “hellhole” after SCOTUS ruled that the Manhattan district attorney can subpoena his tax returns as part of an investigation into hush money payments:

“From a certain point, I’m satisfied. From another point, I’m not satisfied, because frankly this is a political witch hunt, the likes of which nobody’s ever seen. It’s a pure witch hunt. It’s a hoax, just like the Mueller investigation was a hoax, which I won. This is just another hoax. This is purely political. I win at the federal level, and we won very decisively, and so they sent it in to New York, and you know what’s going on in New York. Everyone’s leaving. It’s turned out to be a hellhole, and they better do something about it. This is a political witch hunt that just continues.”

Wait, I thought Mueller was the witch hunt of the likes we’d never seen?

Sounds like the Occupant of the White House is a’scurred.

Conspiracy Theory: If _____ doesn’t win in November, he will resign from office, making Michael Elizabeth Pence the president until Biden takes office in November. Pence will then pardon _____ for his crimes, but if the SDNY comes after him, _____ will leave the country for somewhere without a US extradition treaty.

Huh; works for me, but could he take his whole rat-infested family, too?

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Chris Wallace, Fox News, taking Education Secretary Betsy DeVos over a threat to cut off funding for schools that choose not to reopen during the pandemic:

“Are you and the president unilaterally going to cut off funding that’s been approved by Congress—and most of the money goes to disadvantaged students or students with disabilities? You can’t do that! I know you guys support vouchers and that’s a reasonable argument but you can’t do that unilaterally, you have to do that through Congress. And secondly, isn’t cutting off funding exactly the wrong answer? Don’t you want to spend more money to make schools safer, whether it’s with plastic shields or health checks, various other systems? Doesn’t it make more sense to increase funding for schools where it’s unsafe rather than cut off funding?”

How an uneducated self-entitled yacht-owing cow became Secretary of Education is beyond  me …. Oh, financial support for _____’s campaign.

Sidenote: I am loving Baier and Wallace and Williams, at Fox News of all places, taking on _____ and his Swamp Dwellers.

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Kayleigh McEnany, on _____commanding that schools reopen, or he’ll pull funding:

“The president has said unmistakably that he wants schools to open. And when he says open, he means open in full, kids been able to attend each and every day at their school. The science should not stand in the way of this. The science is on our side here. And we encourage localities and states to just simply follow the science and open our schools.”

Nope, don’t listen to a scientist listen to the words of a man who paid someone to take his SATs over those of a scientist. And listen to this Bullshit Barbie try to spin it like science is wrong, and then in the next breath say science is on their side.

How.Fucking.Stupid.Are. They?

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Andrew Cuomo, New York Governor, on Senate Majority Leader Moscow Mitch McConnell’s recent comments opposing so-called “blue state bailouts”:

“What he’s saying is that if you look at the states that have coronavirus problems, they tend to be Democratic states—New York, California, Michigan, Illinois, they are Democrat states. How ugly a thought? I mean, just think of what he’s saying. People died. Fifteen thousand people died in New York, but they were predominantly Democrats, so why should we help them? I mean, for crying out loud, if there was ever a time for you to put aside your pettiness and your partisanship, and this political lens that you see the world through—Democrat and Republican, and we help Republicans but we don’t help Democrats. That’s not who we are. It’s just not who we are as a people. If there was ever a time for humanity and decency, now is the time. And if there was ever a time for you to stop your obsessive political bias, and anger—which is what it’s morphed into, it’s just a political anger—now is the time. And you want to politically divide this nation now, with all that’s going on? How irresponsible and how reckless.”

That’s Bitch McConnell in a nutshell. A partisan hack who doesn’t care if a Democrat dies because that only helps him move his hate-fueled agenda forward.

Mitch McConnell can politely fuck off.

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J. August Richards, actor from Angel and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., coming out as gay:

“One of the things that I find is so fascinating about Oliver his character on Council of Dads who is gay] is that we have never had anybody like him on network television. He’s a black, gay professional married to another man who is also a black, gay professional. This has never happened before on television … with a daughter. If I think about why I even got involved in this industry it was really to combat oppression, to also, I knew how I was affected by the people of color I saw on television or that I didn’t see on television. So this being a married gay man with a family I realized that on television I don’t take anything I do lightly and you have an opportunity to put an image into millions of homes and I wanted that image to be honest and I wanted it to be correct. So honestly, it required me to show up fully in a way that I don’t always when I’m working. I knew that I could not portray this gay man honestly without letting you all know that I was a gay man myself. I’ve never done that with the people that I worked with. … I knew how important it is to other people out there like me, who would need to see that role model.”

Welcome out, J. August, and thanks for being a role model for the Black community as an openly gay man.

Also, please accept our gift from, HOMO HQ, the Official Coming Out Toaster Oven™ and a copy of The Gay Agenda. You’re making a difference on TV and in the lives of not-yet-out men, and women, everywhere.

Welcome out.

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Van Jones, CNN political commentator, on the decision by some states to ease stay-at-home restrictions and open businesses:

"I think it's incredibly reckless. And, you know, signing these orders is signing a death certificate for many, many, many people who do not need to die and who will. I mean, it's just the bottom line. You're talking about states where they haven't even flattened the curve. It's a death sentence for communities of color that are on the frontlines of this thing already and have the least ability to deal with it. [We] need to be rushing masks, rushing tests, rushing respirators and ventilators to communities of color, because that's where the pain is. This is playing the data card. The data shows that, you know, these are the frontline communities in this fight. From the grocery stores to the hospitals people who live in communities of color need help."

Huh. Communities of color are the hardest hit and most vulnerable—as well as the elderly—and the GOP governors want to reopen?

Sounds kinda racist, don’t it?

PS Van Jones is hot. Just sayin’.

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Kelly Loeffler, Georgia’s GOP Senator, and the wealthiest member of Congress, dismissing the accusations of inside trading—she sold millions worth of stock after a private briefing about the impending pandemic—as a “socialist attack.”

“This is a political attack that is designed to distract from the issue at hand and to use this outbreak to play politics. We have addressed this and taken extraordinary measures to make sure we can’t be attacked for our success. This gets at the very heart of why I came to Washington, to defend free enterprise, to defend capitalism, and this is a socialist attack. We have taken extraordinary measures and I am focused solely on working for Georgians. I’ve been doing that seven days a week around the clock, and it’s my honor to be here and serve, and that’s why I stepped out of the private sector.”

After initially dumping shares in companies that plummeted in value, Loeffler and her husband, who chairs the New York Stock Exchange, invested heavily in a medical supply company.

Coincidence? I think not. Now, Loeffler faces a special election in November to retain her seat, and a pro-_____ Super PAC is supporting one of her GOP challengers; there are several Democrats in the race, which could decide which party controls the Senate.

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Steve Schmidt, GOP strategist, on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, truth-telling about _____'s reelection prospects:

"We have tens of thousands of Americans who will lose lives they didn't have to. We see an economic collapse that didn't have to be. And we see every indication things will continue to get worse because of the ineptitude of the response. And that's the president's legacy heading into the reelection. He is the greatest disaster in the modern history of the country made worse by the ineptitudes, inefficiency, and confidence of the executive response."

Schmidt was not shy it placing the blame for the deaths of thousands of Americans on President Donald Trump. His callous disregard compounds the need to get rid of this unqualified poser.

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Lance Bass, now openly gay, on the time a bandmate asked him about his orientation:

“It was a big day for me because it was the first day someone asked me if I was gay. Chris Kirkpatrick sat me down and said, ‘Hey dude, are you gay?’ No one had ever asked me that. I was super in the closet and way too young to even know or care what was happening. But I remember getting so freaked out on that set because he caught me so off guard. I’m sure at that point people were wondering—so why don’t you have a girlfriend? It was very blunt. It scared me. I said, ‘No, what are you talking about?’ I wasn’t even telling myself. I definitely wasn’t gonna tell Chris.”

I think most of us have had someone ask if we’re gay, before we were ready to come out, proving it needs to be done when you’re ready, and ready to live openly and out loud.

Today, Bass is an LGBTQ advocate and happily married to actor Michael Turchin; the two recently lost a baby eight weeks into a pregnancy. It was their ninth try at conceiving a baby through IVF and they say they will try again.

I hope it works for them.

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