Showing posts with label Yusef Salaam. Show all posts
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Friday, August 30, 2024

I Didn't Say It

Yusef Salaam, Korey Wise, Raymond Santana and Kevin Richardson, four of the Central Park Five— Antron McCray could not attend—speaking at the DNC of being falsely accused of rape in 1989 and having The Felon suggest they be put to death:

“[The Felon] wanted us killed. He wanted us dead. We spent a combined 47 years in prison. We were exonerated after the perpetrator confessed and DNA proved it. Yet today, [The Felon] still stands  by his original call for us to be executed. HE WILL NEVER CGANGE. Together, on November 5, we will usher Kamala Harris into the White House and Americas will finally say goodbye to that hateful man.”

The Felon never, NEVER, admits he’s wrong, even when faced with proof. Facts don’t matter; he is right, always. Even when proven wrong.

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Megyn Kelly, Fox Entertainment has-been, on her podcast, calling journalist Kaitlyn Collins disgusting and a bitch:

“The media of course has been disgusting, you know, no one’s surprised. But it is kind of fun when it gets called out. And yesterday—or last week there was a viral clip of Kaitlan Collins, who CNN is trying to make into a star—I’m sorry, but she’s only a star with leftists and the fact that she has some roots in Alabama does not make her a fair and balanced reporter. I will submit for the record: Her biggest sin is not that she is biased, though she is, it’s that she’s boring. She’s extremely boring with no personality. I have a pro tip for her: Smile, try smiling every once in a while. Try not to be, like in your delivery, such a cold-hearted bitch all the time, because it gives people nothing to bond to.”

It sure sounds like Kelly is a woman-hating, lying PPOS podcaster jealous of another woman sitting atop a cable news network like she used to do when she was, in her own mind, relevant.

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Pete Buttigieg, on Fox News … well, Fox Entertainment, on The Felon’s presidency:

“He didn’t keep his promise of 6% economic growth. He broke his promise to pass an infrastructure bill. He even broke his promise to that J6 mob when he said, ‘I will be at your side when you march down to the Capitol.’ But he actually did keep two promises: He kept his promise to destroy the right to choose in this country, and he kept his promise on tax cuts to the rich. If you want to know what a second [Felon] term would look like, I would look at those rare promises that he actually managed to keep. He’s disavowed a lot of things. I don’t believe him. He lies all the time. Republicans who are in [his] personality cult look at [him] and say he’s perfectly fine even though he seemed unable to tell the difference between Haley and Pelosi, even though he’s rambling about electrocuting sharks and Hannibal Lecter. We don’t have that kind of warped reality on our side. Crime is down under Joe Biden and crime was up under [The Felon]. Now, I don’t know how often that gets reported on this network, so if you’re watching this at home, do yourself a favor and look up the data. Why would America want to go back to the higher crime that we experienced under [The Felon]?”

Listen to Pete; common sense and facts, not bull shiz and lies from The Felon and his ilk, er, ick.

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Ana Navarro, speaking of The Felon at the DNC:

“Let’s be serious. [The Felon] and his minions call Kamala a communist. I know communism. I fled communism from Nicaragua when I was 8 years old. I don’t take it lightly. And let me tell you what communist dictators do. And it’s never just for one day. They attack the free press. They call them the enemy of the people like Ortega does in Nicaragua. They put their unqualified relatives in cushy government jobs so they can get rich off their positions like the Castros do in Cuba and they refuse to accept legitimate elections when they lose and call for violence to stay in power like Maduro is doing right now in Venezuela. Now you tell me something. Do any of those things sound familiar? Is there anybody running for president who reminds you of that?”

Ana used to be a Republican, and a conservative journalist, but something happened in 2016 that caused her to change her mind.

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Tammy Duckworth, Democrat Senator from Illinois, who lost both legs in the Iraq War, on another of The Felon’s anti-military speeches:

“[He] is despicable. He doesn’t deserve to be commander in chief. And certainly those remarks are consistent with where he’s always been. He thinks that we’re suckers and losers. Do voters want a five-time draft dodger who denigrates military men and women and our veterans and calls us suckers and losers, who doesn’t want to have his picture taken with amputee veterans of various conflicts to be the next commander in chief or are you going to have Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, who care deeply about veterans? It’s despicable what Republicans are doing. The same party that thinks that [The Felon], who dodged a draft five times, who thinks veterans are suckers and losers, that’s who they think is better than someone who served 24 years in uniform.”

The party of the military, the party of veterans, supports a man who dodged the draft five times because his feet hurt; a man who claimed staying safe from STDs was his own personal Vietnam; a man who belittled John McCain for his service; a man who stayed away from a ceremony honoring Americans who died on D-day because it was raining; and a man who has called soldiers “losers and suckers.”

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Chris Sununu, GOP New Hampshire Governor trying to explain away The Felon’s vile comments on recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor:

“Yeah, they were asinine comments. There’s no doubt about that. Again, I don’t think they’re the first asinine comments former President Trump has ever made. I don’t think they’ll be a game changer in terms of the election. So to make these types of comparisons is so far afield, I don’t think it’s going to be a big politically, big politically in terms of moving votes. He said crazy things like this before. At the end of the day, he’s got to just focus on what Americans are feeling, which is the economy, the stresses, the border crisis, the migrant crisis.”

Ignore the military hating, racist, rapist, traitor, con artist behind the curtain?

No thank you.

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Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader, on this election:

“I’m confident that we’re going to do everything that we need to do over the next few months to make sure that House Democrats take back the majority so the American people do not have to encounter that question [on House Republicans refusing to certify the election]. It is a reality that far too many of my extreme MAGA Republican colleagues in the House have engaged in election denial, conspiracy theories, and have tried to undermine the very fabric of our democracy and the peaceful transfer of power. That’s what Project 2025 is all about.”

As if you needed another reason to vote blue, howsabout making sure the certification of the election goes off without a hitch.

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Jerushah Duford, Billy Graham’s granddaughter, coming out for Kamala Harris:

“In 2016, when a man bragged about assaulting women, various leaders of my faith then propped up this man as a poster boy for godly manhood and leadership. This broke my heart as I have watched—quite frankly, for the last eight years—people who were curious about Jesus and His teachings [have] done a 180 and walked in the other direction from my faith.”

To be a person of faith, so-called faith, and throw your support behind a con artist, sexual predator, pussy grabber, racist rapist, shows everyone, including Franklin Graham, your true colors.

And it must make true Christians lose their minds.

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Friday, June 14, 2019

I Didn't Say It ...


David Canepa, San Mateo County Supervisor , on plans by Chick-fil-A to open a new location in Redwood City, California:

“Chick-fil-A’s values don’t represent our values. The logo might as well say ‘we hate gay people.” 

But instead they hide their hate behind Jesus.
Jim Merritt, Republican Indianapolis mayoral candidate, has announced that he won’t participate the city’s Pride event—Indy Pride asked him not to come—but also expressed regret for supporting Indiana’s controversial 2015 religious freedom bill:

“(Walking in the parade) was meant to show that I respect the feelings and rights of the LGBTQ+ community and desire to engage in dialogue with them and to serve them as our mayor. However, one must also respect another’s wishes. This is Indy Pride’s celebration, and I do not wish to dampen it. Therefore, I will not be marching in the Pride parade on Saturday, because I do respect the rights, feelings and wishes of those who organize and participate in this event.”

While campaigning to become mayor of Indianapolis, Merritt defended his anti-LGBTQ voting record, saying “I stand by every vote I’ve had in the last 29 years as a state senator.”
One of those votes was in support of a state constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage and the “religious freedom” law to allow businesses to refuse to serve LGBTQ people.
So, yeah, keep trying hater, but we still see the real you.
Jon Stewart, the former Daily Show host , taking on Congress over its failure to act on the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund running out of money:

“I can’t help but think what an incredible metaphor this room is for the entire process that getting health care and benefits for 9/11 first responders has come to. Behind me, a filled room of 9/11 first responders. And in front of me, a nearly empty Congress. Sick and dying, they brought themselves down here to speak to no one. Shameful. It’s an embarrassment to the country and it’s a stain on this institution.”

Let it be known that the members who attended the meeting were all Democrats, and that it was Republicans who didn’t show up.
That is also a metaphor for the GOP.
Franklin Graham, on his Facebook page, cheering the removal of Pride flags at American embassies:

“I want to thank President Donald J. _____ and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for making the decision not to fly the gay flag over our embassies during June in recognition of gay pride month. That is the right decision. The only flag that should fly over our embassies is the flag of the United States of America. The gay pride flag is offensive to Christians and millions of people of other faiths, not only in this country but around the world. The U.S. flag represents our nation—everyone—regardless of race, religion, or sexual orientation.”

It’s only offensive to Christians who practice hate, Frankie, and that ain’t very Christ-like.
Oh, and since the State Department began rejecting all embassy requests to fly Pride flags, some U.S. diplomats have been finding ways to defy, or at least get around, the new policy.
In fact, the facades of the U.S. missions in Seoul and Chennai, India, are partially hidden behind large rainbow flags, while the embassy in New Delhi is aglow in rainbow colored lights. The website for the embassy in Santiago, Chile, shows a video of the chief diplomat raising a rainbow flag last month for the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, and the Vienna embassy’s website features a photo of a rainbow flag flying below Old Glory on a mast jutting from the building, a statement by Diplomats for Equality and a story about a professor lecturing on the visibility and growth of LGBT rights.
So, yeah, deal with that.
Nancy Pelosi, on _____ saying he would accept a foreign government’s help in reelection bid:

“Everybody in the country should be totally appalled by what the president said last night. Should be totally appalled. He has a habit of making appalling statements. This one borders on so totally unethical but he doesn’t even realize it. However, what we want to do is have a methodical approach to the path we’re on and this will be included in that. But not any one issue is going to trigger, oh now we’re going to go do this.”

He did it once; what are we surprised he’d do it again?
Vote the motherfucker out.
Laura Ingraham, calling the story that _____ made everyone wait last week to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day, fake news:

“By the way, some of you may have heard or read that President _____ supposedly held up the entire D-Day ceremony in order to do this interview with me. That is patently false. Fake news.”

Except in the interview, on tape, speaking to Eva Braun Laura Ingraham herself, _____ bragged about making everyone wait while he talked to her.
She actually said that what happened on her show, in front of the world, did not happen.
Crazy bitch.
Craig Northcott, district attorney general of Coffee County, Tennessee,  saying same-sex couples aren’t entitled to domestic violence protections because … God:

“Are you going to do what God says, or are you going to do what man says? I disagree with it, what I do with domestic assaults. On the one hand, I don’t prosecute them because I don’t recognize it as marriage. On the other hand, if I don’t prosecute him, then the sinner, the immoral guy, gets less punishment. What do you do? “I said there’s no marriage to protect, so I don’t prosecute as domestic [violence], and that is one of many decisions like that that you face.”

Um, well, you asshatted dumbass, same-sex marriage is legal, even in your backwater section of Tennessee, so it matters not what you ‘believe’ you are supposed to follow the law and it you don’t want to because … God … then get the f**k out of office.
Thump your Bible on your own time.
Yusef Salaam, one of the so-called Central Park Five—himself, Korey Wise, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, and Raymond Santana—accepting the inaugural Roger Baldwin Courage Award, for the group and for director Ava DuVernay, whose Netflix series When They See Us retold their decades-long legal battle over being accused of a gang rape:

“I am one of the Exonerated Five. After decades of being known as the Central Park Five, we thank Ava for acknowledging our humanity and telling our story with honesty and factual representation. We had to struggle to break the label that the media gave us. We stumbled forward, falling on our face at times. [But] Korey [Wise] said it so well. He said, when Donald _____ took out that full-page ad, and put them in all of New York City’s newspapers, calling for our execution, he placed a bounty on our head. They had published our names, our phone numbers, and our addresses in New York City’s newspapers. Imagine the horror of that. Just step backwards once, to the 1950s—we would become modern-day Emmett Tills. It was almost as if they were trying to find someone from the darkest enclaves of society to come into our homes, drag us from our beds, and hang us from trees in Central Park. [He begins to weep] I’m not ashamed to cry in front of you. These are tears of pain. These are tears of joy. We are the heroes of this story.”

The five men were arrested as teenagers, falsely convicted, sentenced to years in prison, and eventually exonerated for the rape and assault of a white jogger in Central Park in 1989, They endured the name-calling by playboy real estate developer who bought full-page newspaper ads with the headline:
 “BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY.”
They endured being called a “wolf pack” and of having Pat Buchanan insist that if only “the eldest of that wolf pack were tried, convicted and hanged in Central Park, by June 1, and the 13- and 14-year-olds were stripped, horsewhipped, and sent to prison, the park might soon be safe again for women.”
And.They.Were.Innocent.