Showing posts with label Tom Corbin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tom Corbin. Show all posts

Friday, August 14, 2020

I Didn't Say It ...


Joe Biden, on _____’s executive orders:

“Unable to deliver for the American people in a time of crisis, Donald ______ offered a series of half-baked measures today. He is putting Social Security at grave risk at a time when seniors are suffering the overwhelming impact of a pandemic he has failed to get under control. And make no mistake: Donald _____ said today that if he is re-elected, he will defund Social Security."

Remember all that money you paid into Social Security?
Say goodbye to it if this corrupt fuckmonkey is reelected.
MacKenzie Bezos, ex-wife of Amazon One-Percenter, Jeff, Bezos, has given away $1.7 billion of her wealth since her divorce, some to LGBTQ charities:

“Like many, I watched the first half of 2020 with a mixture of heartbreak and horror. Life will never stop finding fresh ways to expose inequities in our systems; or waking us up to the fact that a civilization this imbalanced is not only unjust, but also unstable. What fills me with hope is the thought of what will come if each of us reflects on what we can offer. Opportunities that flowed from the mere chance of skin color, sexual orientation, gender, or zip code may have yielded resources that can be powerful levers for change. People troubled by recent events can make new connections between privileges they’ve enjoyed and benefits they’ve taken for granted. From there, many will choose to share some of what they have with people whose equal participation is essential to the construction of a better world.”

Meanwhile her husband rakes in millions every day and treats his employees like garbage.
Bill Maher, Real Time host, delivering a mock eulogy for _____:

“What kind of spectacular prick do you have to be that everyone’s last request is ‘make sure that a**hole isn’t at my funeral?' Some men look at the world and ask, ‘Why?' Donald _____ looked at the world and asked, ‘What’s in it for me?’ His generosity knew only limits, and he never once failed to put himself before others. He was a devoted father who every day tried to teach his children the wrong lessons of life. Be quick to anger, never never let go of a grudge. See the worst in people, and treat them all equally based strictly on how much money they make and what they look like. So many wanted to speak here today, but couldn’t break their non-disclosure agreements. And our hearts go out to Melania who RSVP’d ‘maybe.’ Donald always said he knew she was the one the moment he saw her and said those three little words: ‘add to cart.’ As for me personally, I guess what I’ll miss most about Don is his dull wit. He was never laughing. And when he made you laugh, it was always unintentional. But as a walking parody of himself he was a challenge to satirize and made me a better comedian for it. He died as he lived: wearing makeup and lying in front of all of us. So fly free, whiny little bitch. Fly free.”

Whiny little bitch! Loving it.
Tom Cotton, the GOP Senator from Arkansas, proposing a bill that would penalize schools that adopt the 1619 Project, which places slavery at the center of discourse in American history teaching:

“The entire premise of the New York Times’ factually, historically flawed 1619 Project … is that America is at root, a systemically racist country to the core and irredeemable. I reject that root and branch. America is a great and noble country founded on the proposition that all mankind is created equal. We have always struggled to live up to that promise, but no country has ever done more to achieve it. I have no problem with people debating that in a constructive, reasoned, deliberate fashion. What I can’t tolerate, what I think no one should tolerate, are angry mobs tearing down statues of anyone. We have to study the history of slavery and its role and impact on the development of our country because otherwise we can’t understand our country,. As the Founding Fathers said, it was the necessary evil upon which the union was built, but the union was built in a way, as Lincoln said, to put slavery on the course to its ultimate extinction.”

The one phrase that sticks out to me the most is “America is a great and noble country founded on the proposition that all mankind is created equal.” If that were true why did we enslave people; treat them as property; abuse, rape or murder them if they ‘disobeyed’ their white owners? If “all mankind is created equal” why were Blacks legislatively described as three-fifths of a person—or three-fifths of a US citizen? Why were they not counted as all other men who were created equal counted?
Take a seat, racist.
Trevor NoahThe Daily Show host, on Tom Cotton’s calling of slavery a “necessary evil” and for objecting to teaching the 1619 Project  in schools:

“[So] Senator Cotton thinks that this curriculum is racially divisive? Really, this curriculum? Yo, you know what’s really racially divisive? Slavery. And here is the thing: People are upset because when Cotton says that slavery was a ‘necessary evil on which the union was built,’ it sounds like he’s defending slavery, all right? And that’s not something a U.S. senator should do, even if his name is Cotton.”

Snap.

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

SC GOP Lawmaker Tom Corbin Is A Misogynistic Moron

I wasn’t sure where to file this particular story … In South Carolina, It’s Not The Heat, It’s The Stupidity. Perhaps. The Height of Stupidity … Fits there, too. The GOP Hates Women; yup. Asshat of the Week; works for me.

But then I decided it fits in every category of misogynistic Republicans saying stupid things and then trying to walk it back as some kind of joke because anti-women jokes are funny, right?

This all started when the South Carolina :::sigh::: State House Senate judiciary committee gathered at a steakhouse near their offices to discuss a Criminal Domestic Violence [CDV] bill and, while waiting for dinner to be served, South Carolina Senators Tom Corbin and Katrina Shealy got into a little argument.

The exchange occurred after they disagreed on the gun provision of the CDV bill, which is aimed at curbing domestic violence. The provision in question seeks to prevent domestic abusers from having easy access to guns. Under the proposal, those under protective orders could not possess a gun, and those convicted of domestic violence could not possess a gun for a decade after their sentence is served. Corbin said he supports other parts of the bill but believes a restraining order is no reason to take away someone's Second Amendment rights; you know, because someone is threatened and fears for their life is no reason to take a man’s gun away.

Not even when you realize that South Carolina ranks Number Two in the entire nation in violence against women, and most domestic violence deaths involve guns. Still, as arguments do, this one got a little heated, and Shealy is reported to have asked Corbin where he “got off” attacking women and Corbin replied:
“Well, you know God created man first. Then he took the rib out of man to make woman.  And you know, a rib is a lesser cut of meat.”
Yes. He did. Then, apparently, Shealy got in Corbin’s face … how dare she, she’s a woman! … and that was when their colleagues thought they might have to hold her back; personally, I would have let her have a go at him.

Still, you might think she’s a little sensitive, you know, being a woman and all … they’re so emotional … but let’s be clear that Shealy is the only female member of the South Carolina Senate and has endured Corbin saying things to her like:
 “I see it only took me two years to get you wearing shoes.
And she has heard Corbin also claim that women don’t belong in the Senate, they belong “at home baking cookies” or “barefoot and pregnant.”

Gosh, there is nothing as funny as a joke as old as the hills, or the hillbilly who utters it. Of course, that Good Old Boys club of South Carolina Senators rushed to Corbin’s defense, saying it was all in good fun and just a joke and Corbin was kidding and … and … and …

Except Katrina Shealy, the target of the jokes, doesn’t find them funny, and has apparently, repeatedly, asked Corbin to stop, though, naturally, he says he can’t recall her ever asking because he doesn’t believe women have anything worthwhile to say so he never listens to them; he does seem to recall that she's teased him about being overweight and bald but:
"If it bothers her, I'll quit joking around with her."
See, calling her “less than’ is a joke, and an ongoing one at that, for the likes of Tom Corbin, but he wants y’all to know that she’s just as to blame … or something:
"She stuck a knife in my back because we're at odds over this [CDV] bill [and] she's trying to make me out to be a woman-hater."
No, Tom, the only one who makes you look like a woman-hater is you, though I don’t think you’re afraid of women, I think you’re afraid of smart women because they make you look like a knuckle-dragging, cave-dwelling, one-brain-celled Neanderthal.

Like I said, this particular story fits so many categories …
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