Ain't That America VIII

Another week, and more scandals ... Jeffrey Epstein is dead but his story and connection to The Felon will not die ... our attack on Iran wasn't at all what The Felon said it was ... Josh Hawley flip-flopped like a dying fish on a dock ... James Comer proved himself both stupid and hypocritical in one swoop of a pen ... and Gym Jordan might have to testify to his part in a college rape scandal after nearly twenty years ... and some Good News, too ...

The Felon has been diagnosed with a “benign and common” vein condition known as chronic venous insufficiency after he noticed swelling in his legs; according to Johns Hopkins, chronic venous insufficiency occurs when veins in the legs struggle to allow blood to flow back up to the heart.

And because his veins are filled with cheese.

The team at the state Department’s Office of Casualty Assistance, which supports US diplomats and their families abroad in the event of death or severe injury, received termination notices last week as the team was repatriating the remains of a senior US official who died in a car crash in Mexico. The State Department says that such future operations will be handled by another department though staff in that department have no experience in dealing with such a solemn task.

Just dead people so who cares, right?

Remember the Great Obliteration of the three nuclear enrichment sites in Iran struck by the United States missiles last month?

One was destroyed but the two others were not as badly damaged and may have been degraded only to a point where nuclear enrichment could resume in the next several months.

He lied to us again.

In Stoopid News The Felon claimed during an Oval Office press event that he was “surprised” that Jerome Powell was appointed Fed Chair.

Funny, cuz The Felon is the one who appointed him in 2017

GOP Senator Josh “Chicken Run” Hawley has introduced legislation that would repeal the cuts to Medicaid that he helped make possible only two weeks ago.

Seriously, you cannot make this shiz up.

Florida’s Director of Emergency Management is defending the conditions at the “Alligator Alcatraz” internment facility, arguing that people sheltering from hurricanes wish they had the kind of space undocumented immigrants get at the site.

No food, few toilets, sleeping on the floor. Sounds plush.

Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, The Felon’s Regime has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people abroad who need it.

Nearly 500 metric tons of emergency food—enough to feed about 1.5 million children for a week—are set to expire and America will just burn it rather than feed children.

Well, since the children are no longer fetuses, The Regime doesn’t care about them.

Republican lawmakers have blocked a move that could have forced The Felon’s Regime to release the files on the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s death and investigation with all but one of the GOP members of the House Rules Committee voting against a Democrat amendment that would have allowed Congress to vote on whether the files should be made public or not.

He’s on the list.

GOP Representative James Comer has been leading the probe into Joe Biden’s cognitive state during his presidency, with Republicans alleging that Biden’s occasional use of an “autopen” to sign documents—a practice other presidents have done as well—proving he wasn’t fully in control or aware of what his administration was doing.

But documents show that some of the letters and subpoena notices James Comer sent out in connection with his investigation have been signed using a digital signature—not written by the congressperson himself.

Every GOP accusation is an admission and I need James Comer to have a cognitive test.

Hundreds of immigrants with no criminal charges in the United States are being held at Kristi’s Koncentration Kamp in Florida that federal officials have characterized as a place where “vicious” and “deranged psychopaths” are sent before they get deported.

It’s like being arrested for DUI and sent to Death Row.

 Trump officials have directed staff at national parks to review all items in gift shops for anti-American content that “inappropriately disparages Americans past or living” or that includes “matters unrelated to the beauty, abundance or grandeur” of a natural feature in its description.

Erasing history.

Attorney General Pamela Jo Bondi has fired her personal ethics adviser because she ain’t got time for ethics!

She has files to scrub.

An ideologically divided Supreme Court on July 14 allowed The Felon’s Regime to fire hundreds of workers from the Education Department and continue other efforts to dismantle the agency.

They want to keep Americans poor and stupid so any scrap they toss your way is seen as a gift and you’ll continue to fall in line.

Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, was fired from her job as a prosecutor in the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office, according to two people who were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Comey had worked in the U.S. attorney’s office for ten years and prosecuted both Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell. but there's nothing to see here except ...

He’s on the list.

George Retes, a US Army veteran, arrested during an immigration raid at a Southern California marijuana farm, says he was sprayed with tear gas and pepper spray before being dragged from his car and pinned down by the ICEstapo. Retes works as a security guard at Glass House Farms in Camarillo was arrested despite him identifying himself as a US citizen.

But, you know, he’s brown and works at a farm.

Pedophile enabler, and GOP Representative Jim Jordan, was deposed last week about allegations that he failed to protect the wrestlers he once coached at Ohio State University from a sexual predator.

Jordan has been running from this story since 1994, before he got into politics, has repeatedly and publicly denied any knowledge that the team’s doctor, Richard Strauss, was preying on the athletes.

But why hide Gym??

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, AKA Pee Wee German, one of The Felon’s fascist friends went on national television and ridiculed the city of Minneapolis as a crime-ridden haven for undocumented immigrants.

But then Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty responded:

“If we wanted a white supremacist’s opinion, we’d ask. But we don’t. So we won’t.”

Poor Pee Wee.

California will partner with the Trevor Project to provide suicide prevention support to LGBTQ+ youth; the announcement comes weeks after The Felon’s Regime said it will no longer provide national suicide and crisis hotline services to LGBTQ+ youth.

Cuz, it’s just kids and LGBTQ+ ones at that killing themselves so who really cares?

Fox News host Jesse Watters acknowledged this week that his program made a mistake he lied about California Governor Gavin Newsom’s phone call with The Felon during last month’s immigration raids in Los Angeles.

Newsom filed a $787-million defamation lawsuit against Watters and Fox News and both the network and their little bitch boy Jesse apologized.

The Felon’s Little Johnson claims his boss’s approval ratings are skyrocketing saying CNN—that bastion of journalistic integrity—says The Felon is at a 90% approval rating. But, facts are facts, and Nationalist Christian, AKA Nat-C, Mike Johnson is lying …

After declining slowly, but steadily, since the beginning of July, The Felon’s approval rating started to drop more quickly. His net approval rating was -6.9 on July 10th. A week later it’s down to -8.9. And his net approval on most of the issues has also fallen:

Immigration: -3.4 —> -7.4

Economy: -12.1 —> -14.1

Trade: -14.5 —> -17.5

Inflation: -24.5 —> -24.8

And the share of Americans who strongly approve of The Felon has fallen below 27% percent for the first time in his second term; 43% of Americans strongly disapprove of the regime.

The midterms are coming and you know what to do …

Another One: Eric James Borges

Eric James Borges, a 19-year-old gay filmmaker. who recorded his won “It Gets Better” video, committed suicide this week.
Known as EricJames to friends, he was a volunteer at the Trevor Project, an organization devoted to preventing LGBT teen suicides. Trevor Project spokeswoman, Laura McGuinnis, said, “He was a volunteer teaching suicide prevention, so he knew what counseling was available to him. Unfortunately suicide is so complicated, so rooted in mental illness, that it is difficult to know why he made that decision. It is very, very sad.”
He seemed like the last kid who would commit suicide, doesn't he? He worked with the Trevor Project, he made his own 'It Gets Better' video. He knew all about LGBT suicides.
But EricJames came froma  family  of "extremist" Christians, who called him "disgusting"and then kicked him out of their home last October.
For being gay.
His own parents, at one time, tried to perform an exorcism on him to make him straight, and therefore acceptable to their  "lifestyle". EricJames also endured emotional and physical abuse at school which caused him to drop out of high school. But, in his video, he said, it had gotten better for him: “You will love, be loved, and I love you...You are not alone.”
EricJames also created a short film called “Invisible Creatures,” in which he shows both gay and straight couples expressing their affection in similar ways because, let's understand one thing, love is love, no matter what gender the couple.
This was a young man who might have helped other LGBT youth to fight the urge to give up, to keep going, to know that it gets better,. but, in the end, probably for one brief moment, EricJames forgot all that, and decided it wouldn't get better.
We'll never know what he might have done as a filmmaker. 
We'll never know what he might have done to help LGBT youth.
We'll. Never. Know.


via Queer Landia and The Washington Post

Another One: Jamey Rodemeyer

Jamey Rodemeyer was just fourteen, and already the victim of bullying and harassment. But it looked like Jamey was going to survive the taunts and the teases; he even created his own 'It Gets Better' YouTube video, in which he said, in part, “That's all you have to do. Just love yourself and you're set. And I promise you, it'll get better.”

Sadly, for Jamey, it didn't get better.

Jamey Rodemeyer took his life this past Sunday, his parents discovering his body after returning from a weekend camping trip.

Tracy Rodemeyer, Jamey's mother, says he was always taunted and teased and bullied because of his sexuality: "So he hung around with the girls a lot, so then the teasing started happening like 'Oh you're such a girl or you're gay or whatever and that bothered him for many years."

Jamey’s father Tim Rodemeyer said, "To the kids who are bullying they have to realize that words are very powerful and what you think is just fun and games isn't to some people, and you are destroying a lot of lives."

It isn't just a game. it isn't just kids being kids, because kids being kids doesn't usually end up with one of the kids taking his or her own life.

It has to stop. The kids who are being bullied need to stand up and speak up to their parents and teachers about what's being done to them "all in good fun." And parents need to take this seriously; your kids are literally being bullied to death. this is not a joke, or a rite of passage. Bullying = Death.

And the schools, all schools everywhere, need to adopt, and enforce, a Zero Tolerance Policy on bullying. You bully a student, you're suspense. Do it again, you're out.

This has to stop. How do we let a young man like this take his own life? Why do we let it happen?



If you know of someone who is being bullied, or if you are the victim of bullying, there are plenty of places to seek help:

The Trevor Project 24/7 Suicide Hotline for GLBTQI Youth
1-866-4-U-Trevor 
www.thetrevorproject.org

USA National Suicide Prevention Hotline 24/7, Free & Confidential 
1-800-SUICIDE 
1-800-273-Talk

How to Get Help from Bullies? 
www.StopBullying.gov

source

Daniel Radcliffe Is A Hero

In 2009, while appearing on Broadway in "Equus", Daniel Radcliffe learned about The Trevor Project, the leading organization for suicide prevention efforts among LGBTQ youth. Since then, he has become a huge supporter, both financially and as a spokesman, for the group, and so, for his efforts, Radcliffe is being honored with The Trevor Project’s Hero Award at a ceremony in New York this June.

Daniel Radcliffe: “It’s fantastic. The fact that they think of what I’ve done by promoting awareness of the Trevor Project itself and the issues that it works to promote and help is a great honor....I think that out of everything that I’ve done so far in my career, I think this is absolutely one of the most important, if not the most important, thing that I’m associated with.”


And, maybe a little embarrassing: “The people that are doing the heroic things are the people answering phones 24 hours a day in the Trevor call centers." 


The Trevor Hero Award recognizes a person who serves as an inspiration to sexual minority youths and increases visibility and understanding of the LGBTQ, community. Past recipients include Nathan Lane, Dustin Lance Black, and Vanessa Williams.

The Trevor Project was founded in 1998 by filmmakers James Lecesne, Peggy Rajski and Randy Stone, whose 1994 film, “Trevor,” about a gay 13-year-old boy who tried to commit suicide after his friends learned of his sexuality, won the Academy Award for Film Short.

The Trevor Project

President Obama: It Gets Better

Beautiful words, beautifully spoken. And as DavidDust reminds us [HERE], we would likely never hear these words form a president McCain....or :::shudder::: President Mama Grizzly Bore, but......
I wish he'd have spoken sooner.
It always seems to me that he takes a little extra time when responding to issues important to the LGBT community. In fact, it seems, as he did with the Proclamation of Pride Month, that he speaks up after we hear from Secretary of Sate Hillary Clinton.
Just once, I'd like to hear him speak first.
Cynically out.

Bishop Gene Robinson: It Gets Better

Chris Colfer: It Gets Better

Expecto Patronum!

That's Wizard-speak from the Harry Potter books for I await a protector.

Daniel Radcliffe, aka Harry Potter, has become a protector, of sorts, having recently made a sizable donation to the Trevor Project, a non-profit organization that operates a nationwide, around-the-clock suicide prevention helpline for LGBT youth.

Daniel Radcliffe: "I am very pleased to begin my support of The Trevor Project, which
saves lives every day through its critical work. It's extremely distressing to consider that in 2009 suicide is a top three killer of young people, and it's truly devastating to learn that LGBTQ youth are up to four times more likely to attempt suicide than their heterosexual peers. I deeply hope my support can raise the organization's visibility so even more despondent youth become aware of The Trevor Helpline's highly trained counselors and Trevor's many other resources. It's vitally important that young people understand they are not alone and, perhaps even more important, that their young lives have real value."

Expecto patronum indeed.