Don't Get Me Started with Linda Sharp

Another Day, Another Dullard

Where to even begin?  Every 24 hour news cycle brings a cornucopia of rhetorical rubbish and festering stupidity.  A Cranksgiving basket overflowing with bigotry, mendacity, deceit, betrayal, cowardice, and flat out lies.

It's like Christmas every day.  I mean if Christmas was defined as being gifted with boxes, bags, and bow bedecked piles of horseshit.  

So join me, won't you, in donning a metaphorical hazmat suit and jumping right in...

Let's start with transphobia's biggest cheerleader these days.  JK Rowling.  Yes, old JK of Harry Potter fame.  She has been banging the hate drum towards trans people for a long time now.  Her latest target?  Olympian Imane Khelif of Algeria.  Imane does not fit in her and her dimwitted followers idea of what a woman looks like - you know delicate features, slim frame, diminutive in stature.  So when Khelif bested a competitor in the ring, Italy's Angela Carini, JK couldn't help herself.  Transphobia being like an itch you just have to scratch, or maybe better likened to bigoted Tourette's - she just has to scream out loud. 

She started with this:

And quickly warmed to her completely uninformed theme with this:

Like any good bigoted, who protects their chosen hatred at all costs, even when presented with FACTS, she doubled down.

Here's the truth about Khelif.  Khelif is not a man.  Khelif was born a female and is not transgender.  (In fact, there are no trans women at the 2024 Olympics.) Khelif has a condition called Swyer syndrome. That means her chromosomes developed into X and Y (that is male chromosome), not just XX, and she has higher testosterone compared to female athletes.  For the record, it is estimated that 6.4% of every 100,000 live female births also have the XY chromosomes.  

Kehlif was born a cis female, raised a cis female, lives as a cis female.  Period.  She is also from a country in which even being homosexual carries a minimum two year prison sentence.  But because she has higher testosterone levels (AS DO MANY WOMEN), and she is not lithe and overtly hueing to feminine stereotypes, the bigots have castigated her, slandered her, endangered her life.

Her being bigger and stronger?  So what?  Have you watched the volleyball women?  They look like they were subjected to being drawn, not quartered.  And the rugby women?  Care to go a few rounds with them gents?  They'll flatten your insecure little nads with one well placed cleat.

Bigotry is ugly and ignorant.  And people like Rowling deliver these cancerous and sweeping condemnations with no regard for FACTS or the lives they affect.

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Up next in the vile ignorance category is everyone's favorite Couch Copulator and name changer, James Donald Bowman James David Hamel James David Vance J.D. Vance JD Vance.  Have a listen...

Vance on Tape: Rape and Incest, "inconvenient", no excuse for abortion ban exceptions. pic.twitter.com/THK52Bnsm1

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 2, 2024

Inconvenient?  Wow, thanks JD.  Thanks for clearing that up for me.  Great to know I was only inconvenienced, not held down and brutally violated.  How silly of me to be followed around for decades by a mere inconvenience.  My bad.  All those nightmares?  I cannot begin to apologize enough to my husband for years of what was obviously me just blowing it all out of proportion.  You stupid, shape shifting fuck.  YOU HAVE A WIFE.  YOU HAVE A DAUGHTER.  Hell, YOU HAVE SONS.  Any of them could be taken, raped, and inconvenienced.  Will you just tell them to rub some dirt in it and get on with things?  And if a pregnancy results?  Too bad, so sad.  God must have wanted that piece of shit to impregnate them, right?  

How, HOW can any woman support these insufferable, violence supporting little bitches?  How can any man?  A real man would be devastated if his wife, daughter, mother, cousin, son, brother, sig other was attacked and raped.  A real man would support that person should they become pregnant in whatever decision they wanted to make.  

Inconvenient.  I just can't...

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Then there's everyone's favorite fascist f**k, Donold.  In yet another pretaped, favorably edited interview with FOX he declares there is no need for him to Debate VP Harris.  

Trump: Why should I debate? Everybody knows me pic.twitter.com/qGZJdjJf7S

— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) August 2, 2024

Coward, thy name is Donold.  First point of order?  He is not leading in any of the polls.  And second?  He and his handlers know he would be handed his stankass in any debate with Kamala Harris.  But do go on, Chicken von Yellow-belly.

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In the category of MAGAts eating their own (we love to see it ), we have their favorite (until this morning) 2nd amendment masturbator and murderer, Kyle Rittenhouse.  Oh, how they have loved him since he "defended" himself in a situation that was completely of his own making.  But wait, here he comes stating he isn’t voting for Donald Trump because he’s too weak on the Second Amendment.

This from the lovechild of a Twinkie and an AR-15.  This from the teenaged attention whore who reveled in his time at Mar-a-Lago.  Seems as his appearances have dried up, and his money coffers are emptying, he is either working the media to get the spotlight back, or being a petulant little teenager whose orange sugar daddy has forgotten his name.

Watching the MAGAverse implode this morning has been a thing of beauty.  I mean, when you lose notorious Elon Musk ass sniffer and MAGA shit stirrer, CatTurd... 

How it started...

How it's going...

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Rounding things out, I think the gold medalist in the Projection category has to be Jeanine Pirro of FOX and box wine fame.  A woman so notoriously out of it during her segments that SNL has sent her up repeatedly.  Here we have Judge Franzia McJaegermeister actually questioning if Kamala Harris has been sober the past three and a half years.

Jeanine: You had to look at Kamala Harris and say is she sober for the past three and a half years pic.twitter.com/4SFEepCfXc

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 1, 2024

Her laughing really gets under their skin.  I guess in Jeanine Thunderbird's mind, if you're laughing you must surely be wasted.

As the next 24 hours roll on, the garbage is going to continue to pile up.  They are floundering in the face of rising Harris polls, overwhelming enthusiasm for her, incredible fundraising reports from her campaign, and Biden/Harris bringing home the prisoners from Russia.

The stock market dollars may be tanking today, but with the MAGAts at the microphones, it is an embarrassment of writing riches.  Another day, another dullard...

 

The Hill They Die On

Long ago, during the halcyon and hilarious Jon Stewart years on Comedy Central, he coined the term 'Bullshit Mountain' as the home and pile of excrement that constantly poured forth from the GOP and their enablers on FOX.  An ever growing heap of lies, allusions, thinly veiled bigotry, and completely naked racism.

When he retired, Bullshit Mountain did not do the same.  If anything, the bullshit continued to flow and, like lava, devoured land, towns, suburbs, and hamlets in its wake.  It unleashed more racism, more hatred, more blatant lies, more repugnant creatures who crawled up through the fetid mounds.

They found their new bullshit standard bearer when DonOLD Trump oozed up from below.  For decades known as a self admitted piece of shit, he fit in beautifully on Bullshit Mountain.  Even when he began spray painting himself orange, he still blended with the manure - his skin and hair like digested sweet potatos and corn.

We have watched in disgust, horror, revulsion for years now as his ignorance, hubris, self-aggrandizement, and bigotry only served to endear him to the other residents of BM.  In fact, his ignorance, hubris, self aggrandizement, and bigotry made them feel seen - game recognizes game, as it were.  MAGAts rejoiced in gathering to hear someone serve them word salad peppered with croutons of racism and hate and targeting of the other.

They took up the flag of birtherism when he made the search for Barack Obama's birth certificate worthy of a new Indiana Jones movie.  It had everything.  Something they deemed elusive, manufactured intrigue, Nazis...

It was all a way to tout his racist bonafides without having to actually say the "N" word.  It didn't work out for him, but it planted the seed and his flag on Bullshit Mountain, serving as a marker and pilgrimage spot for what was to come.  

When he slithered back into the political fray in 2015, his first remarks laden with derision for Hispanics, dripping in bigotry, with some profanity on top like a cherry on a shit parfait, the sewers opened and out came every white supremacist, Confederate flag waver, straight up Nazi, and suburban Karen/Chad racist in this country.  They felt cozy in the sewer he set up for them.  They could openly share all that pent up ragism (rage + racism) in the light.  He said so.

Their lord said there would be racism, and there was.  And it was not good.

Nazis have openly marched (albeit in masks - hilarious - as they shat themselves over the simple request to mask up because of COVID spread), innocent people have been attacked and died at the hands of Trump's stochastic terrorism, and any shade of brown skin immediately gets you a "Go back where you came from" from his supremely ignorant horde.  (Chef's kiss to their stupidity: in 2018 a Trump supporter got in the face of Navajo legislator Rep. Eric Descheenie demanding to know if he was here "legally".)

That last one is the perfect example of Trump's "I love the uneducated!" remark years back.  Of course he does.  He's not a smart man.  And he knows this.  Peel back the blubber of hubris and hollering and there is a blindingly stupid trust fund baby who has never truly worked a day in his life.  His whole schtick has been smoke and shadows, bullshit and bedazzling - all to cover the fact that he is all bluster and no brains.  He knows that bumper stickerisms work with his cult because that's what works with him.  Even in the White House, they reduced his daily briefings to pictures and few words.

Zero intellectual curiosity is the perfect breeding ground for bigotry and hate and racism - all based in hand-me-down tropes from their equally dim forebears, fear of the other, and the feeling of being better than based on nothing more than an accident of birth.

I've said it before and it bears repeating:  If you are white, you did nothing supreme to bring that about.  You are simply the product of white people having unprotected sex.  That's it.  That's all.  You weren't touched by an angel.  Your mother was touched by a dick.

Which brings me to yesterday, when the Dick-in-chief sat for an interview at the National Association of Black Journalists gathering.  Now, an argument can be made both ways here.  I believe it is an awful idea to give this cretin a platform to further spew his bullshit and heinous plans should he win.  But then, given what went down?  Perhaps giving him a live platform - not pretaped, edited, questions agreed upon in advance - is the simplest way to continually capture the blinding stupidity and overt racism he cannot help but ooze.

Right out of the gate he was offensive that the first question, asked by Rachel Scott, detailed his past words, verbatim, that were racist.  She basically inquired how he squared that with seeking the votes of black people.  His response?  “I have never been asked a question in such a horrible manner, first question. You don't even say ‘Hello, how are you?’ Are you with ABC? Because I think they are a fake news network, a terrible network.”

Everything devolved in spectacular fashion from there.  From blowing off the role of VP  "does not have any impact. No impact" to not knowing about Sonya Massey being shot in her own home"I don't know the exact case, but I saw something" to the shit heard round the world about VP Harris, "I didn't know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black and now, she wants to be known as Black. So, I don't know, is she Indian or is she Black?" 

I was sitting in a Florida DMV yesterday keeping up with all of this online.  The majority of the people waiting with me for driver licenses, to pay taxes, etc were black or some lovely shade of brown.  In this state, as an older white woman, I know what the default assumption about my politics are.  I expect, receive, and understand the side eye I receive from so many when I am out.  That same cloaking device that allows me to navigate life without suspicion in my car, in retail environments, etc - my pale skin - makes me suspect to those whose skin is darker than mine.  And in a state made up of people from so many places, with shades of skin like Joseph's coat of many colors, it makes me sad. 

Not for me.  Let me stress that.  I do not feel sorry for me - AT ALL. I can speak to how deeply repulsed I was at what I was watching and hearing. But by virtue of my skin, and what it has provided for me throughout my life, I cannot even begin to touch what it has to feel like to be in the demographics they are so intent on demonizing.

What I hate is the rampant racism and suspicion and derision so fully on display in this state.  The open hostility to anyone whose skin is brown or black - seriously, join NextDoor in your area - it is ugly out there.  And where I live?  A stone's throw from the Mecca of MAGA, Mar-a-Lago?  Oof.  Houses, apartments, boats - draped in Trump flags.  And when that felonious fuck comes to town and parks his gaudy plane along the highway?  JFC, the people that gather with their signs, flags, bullhorns.

So I sat and watched and read as he shat the bed in real time.  An interview that was supposed to be an hour, cut in half when the question about Pr0ject 2o25 came up.  His handlers pulled him off the stage.  Seriously, they didn't move him that fast when someone was shooting at him.

The fallout was immediate as was the response and doubling/tripling down from his coven.  His inability to comprehend the word biracial is bad enough, but to see how quickly his mouthpieces embraced his message and added to it with their own equally racist and ignorant comments?

His own VP candidate, a man with an Indian wife and biracial children called the response to Trump's words, "hysterical."  Completely blowing off, instead of disavowing, the type of racist rhetoric already being aimed at his family.

Jesse Watters, who cautioned men against voting for a woman lest they turn into one, sat with his panel and said the words, "She's not African American, technically (<---he stressed that word), because she has a Jamaican dad."

Insert look of gobsmackdom.  Seriously.  Um, Jesse, let's start with Jamaican not being a race, but from a place.  And does that make the people less black?  Where do you think most of those black people came from?  The vast majority of people in Jamaica are of sub-Saharan African descent.  She's Black and she's Indian.

He then likened her to Barack Obama, "Barack Obama was mixed race. He identified as Black."

Oh boy.  Yes, Jesse, Barack had a black father and a white mother.  And I would have LOVED to see the faces of all you raging bigots if he had identified as white.

At his rally last night, Trump's parking garage attorney Alina Habba blathered, “I’m a strong woman, a mom, a lawyer and an American. And unlike you, Kamala, I know who my roots are, I know where I come from."  Seriously, the concept of someone being two things at once is breaking their little brains.  Just curious, Alina - what are your thoughts on Rafael Ted Cruz and Nimrata Nikki Haley knowing their roots and where they come from?  Seems to me out of the three, Kamala is the only one who did not feel the need to change her name and hide her ethnicities to further her political aspirations. 

Kamala Harris has always openly embraced being biracial and loving being bi-cultural.  It's never been a secret.  She is Indian.  She is Black.  She attended an HBCU.  She is exactly who she has always been.  That they are scrambling to make it a "thing" against her?  Good luck with that.  Going for 0% of the Black vote now, huh?

They have nothing.  It's that simple.  So when their leader spewed more racist bullshit yesterday, that is all they had to run with.  And run they are, hands full of it, trying to create a scandal when there is literally no there there.  Trump is simply the same race baiting shitbag he has always been.  The same bigot who took out a full page ad calling for the death penalty for the wrongly convicted Central Park Five.  Age has not tempered him; it has not made him grow wise or see how vile his behavior and beliefs have been.  It's all he knows, and he doesn't want to know better, to be better.

For her part, VP Harris responded to their pathetic attempts with dignity. “This afternoon,” she said, pausing for boos from the crowd. “Donald Trump spoke at the annual meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists.  And it was the same old show: the divisiveness and the disrespect. And let me just say, the American people deserve better." 

We do deserve better.  Racism was always going to be an ugly part of this campaign season.  We knew that.  But to see that it is now the talking point, their whole strategy?  Good.  Let them keep spewing their hatred, and vile rhetoric, spreading their racist memes like hot lava.  It's not going to touch Harris, it's not going to touch us.  Like the people in the shadow of Vesuvius, it's all going to fall on top of them.

Bullshit Mountain was always going to be the hill they died on.

Talking Out Their Asses

We're all familiar with that phrase.  To talk out one's ass.  

Defined as to speak with authority on a subject that one doesn't know much about, to exaggerate, or to talk nonsense. 

We have been inundated with examples of that via Donold Trump since, well, since forever.  Long before he rode his gaudy escalator down into the bowels of our political process, he was known as a prime purveyor of bullshit.  A self aggrandizing attention whore who called up Page Six and People to drop gossip about himself - paging, John Barron - in a hilariously undisguised voice.  A bankrupt, many times over, who would continue to hold court on our televisions as if he had any business acumen to impart upon the gathered Apprentices.

As a million of our fellow citizens passed away under his administration, he stood at the podium and repeatedly spoke of knowing more than the doctors.  Advising the electorate to buy horse dewormer, eschew vaccinations, ingest bleach, chloroquine (many died from buying and taking the form used to clean fish tanks), and somehow expose our innards to lightbulbs.  

He claimed that by being sent to military school he went through more rigorous training than actual soldiers.  (“More training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military.”)  He knew more than the Generals.  (“I know more about ISIS than the generals do, believe me,” he bragged in November 2015.) More than the medical experts.  (“Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability.”) 

More than anyone about anything at any time in the history of the world.  And the biggest talking-out-his-ass tell?  Anything receiving the "believe me" punctuation.  Pure bullshit.  

So it has never been a shock that those who support him and flock to him are graduates of the same school of Anal Exposition.

They know their audiences are simple minded, respond to easily digested and regurgitated bumper stickerisms, and have little to no intellectual curiosity.  So repeat a lie often enough and it becomes their gospel.

FOX has taken that brand of propaganda to new heights.  Or lows actually.  They welcome phone calls from the Conman-in-Chief  at every opportunity, allow him to spew his rectal rage, pitch him softball after softball, and never, ever clap back or correct him.  Actual interviews are now pretaped and heavily edited.

He has been assisted in between interviews and rambling rallies by manure masters like Sean Hannity, kicked-to-the-curb Tucker Carlson (don't worry, Putin has adopted him), and the morning crew - dolts all, who know where their mortgage money comes from.  They lie like they breathe, distort, disparage, and debase themselves daily in the process.

But the gold medal today goes to a man whose verbal gymnastics out twist Simone Biles; whose ability to pummel the truth is rugby worthy; whose rectal rhetoric rivals that of his cantelope hued hero, Trump:  Congratulations, Jesse Watters.   

As it becomes more and more evident with each passing day (hell, hour) that the support for VP Kamala Harris is real, robust, and unrivaled since the days of Obama, the MAGAts grow more fearful and therefore must up the ante in the bullshit stakes for their base.  On the back of the White Dudes for Harris Zoom that took place Monday night, rallying over 190,000 participants and raising over $4 million in the process, the insecure little boys at FOX had to say something.

Leave it to Jesse to take talking out his ass to Olympic levels.

They’re losing it...

Fox News' Jesse Watters: “When a man votes for a woman, he actually transitions into a woman." pic.twitter.com/rQkoiA1WLe

— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) July 31, 2024

Let me reiterate what he said. 

1.  "I don't see why any man would vote Democrat."

Hmmm, maybe because he is decent?  Doesn't hate people based on their gender, race, sexual orientation.  Maybe because he has a wife or daughter and believes their bodily autonomy should be left the hell alone?  Maybe he sees what a conplete and total conman-shitshow-felon-idiot you have running on your ticket.

2. "To be a man and vote for a woman, just because she's a woman? Is either childish, that person has mommy issues, or they're just trying to be accepted by other women."

Just curious, Jesse - when a man votes for a man, just because he's a man (looking at your entire party), does that indicate daddy issues?  Is that childish?  Are you men just trying to be accepted by other men?  

3. "And I heard the scientists say the other day that when a man votes for a woman, he actually transitions into a woman."

Scientists?  Really?  Graduates from the Watters-Colon Institute for the Intellectually Constipated?

This takes the prize in the blurting out the buns rambling stakes.  It honestly brings to mind pictures of a hippo shitting - just a spray like a street cleaning truck.  Splatter it out and hope it sticks?  What is the angle here, Jesse?  Hoping to scare your already insecure manbaby base into staying the course and voting for the most inept sack of garbage to ever sit in the Oval?  Ooooooo, don't even think about voting for Kamala!  If you do, your danglers with immediately shrivel up, your dick will invert, you'll grow breasts (ok, ok, in all fairness, many MAGAt men already have very nice racks), and start wearing you wife's panties?

I'd love to think that his viewers are smarter than that, but then one breath later I remind myself of all the other ragey road apples they have swallowed to keep their fear, outrage, misogyny, bigotry, and righteous inpignation fed.

You'll transition into a woman.

Simone, hand over one of those gold medals.  Jesse not only twisted himself into a pretzel, but stuck his head up his own ass while sticking the landing.  Fine.  It is hard to fall over when you land waist deep in your own shit, but still...

Childfree, No Choice, Cheeto Obsession Is Weird

Poor James Donald Bowman James David Hamel James David Vance J.D. Vance JD Vance.  Seems that not a day goes by where his past doesn't creep out of the couch cushions and bite him in the ass like some long lost spork from a KFC bender.  

From couch "surfing" to dolphin porn search results to his affinity for poorly placed guyliner (seriously, nothing wrong with men wearing makeup, but get yourself to a Sephora and ask for help), old JD just can't catch a break.

Some of his latest attempts at defending himself or his wife, Usha, have not gone well for him.  

I find it hilarious that he seems surprised that there are people in the party to which he has hitched his wagon - a party filled with racism, Nazis, white supremacy, and misogyny - who have been quite vocal about his choice of spouse.  One of the louder voices, prominent white supremacist Nick Fuentes, asked, “Who is this guy, really? Do we really expect that the guy who has an Indian wife and named their kid Vivek is going to support white identity?”

His weak tea response? “Obviously, she’s not a white person, and we’ve been accused, attacked by some white supremacists over that. But I just, I love Usha.”

Good, you love her.  Glad to hear it, but the fact that you have been going around acting surprised by the blowback and outright racism coming her/your way?  That one of your children is dragged in by virtue of his name?  Wake up.  Usha and your children are not some special breed of brown.  JFC, have you paid any attention to the overt racism thrown at a black candidate?  Their families?  There is not a clause in white supremacy that provides them or your family a Get Out Of Racism free card.

JD, they don't like brown people.  It's that simple.  It's literally one of their main talking points.  Brown people = BAD.  Brown people should go back where they came from.  Brown people take their jobs.  Brown people muddy up the low melanin content from which they draw their source of better than.  

This is YOUR party, JD, and you can cry if you want to, but this is the sewer into which you and Usha have happily dove in headfirst, dragging with you your children, in your lust for power.  

Let's talk about children.  You have three.  I have three.  In your telling, I am a better person and my taxes should be lower.  (Sorry that my love of cats effs up one of your main talking points.  Kids AND cats?)  I have some deeper, magical attachment to this country because I fucked without protection?  Yea, me?  GTFO.  (Although I am sure he will deduct a million points from Gryffindor because I have and love my transgender child.)

Being able to procreate is a matter of biology.  That's it.  Some people can, some people struggle, some people can't, and some people simply don't want to.  I can promise you that when I was in the mix and the fluids were flowing, I was not reciting the Pledge of Allegiance or thinking about the stars and stripes.  I WAS HAVING SEX.  FOR FUN.  FOR PLEASURE. Was I happy when I turned the test positive?  Yes, because we wanted to start a family.

OUR CHOICE.

In the latest video to surface from old JD, he has some wild descriptors for those who do not make that their choice.  

NEW JD VANCE VIDEO RELEASED

JD Vance says people who don’t have children are “sociopathic,” “psychotic,” “deranged,” and “less mentally stable.”

There are endless receipts of Vance’s weird and creepy comments. He is obsessed with this topic. pic.twitter.com/2P0WmUvO0v

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) July 30, 2024

Sociopathic?  Psychotic?  Less mentally stable?  Deranged?

OK, I'll play this game.  My first card down will be my sister.  Brilliant, doctorate, conservation biologist, travels the world, teaches, never took her foot off the gas for a second - even when in the midst of 16 rounds of chemo.  Childless by choice.  Having kids was simply something she never desired.  You know what else she is?  A kickass Aunt to my three children.  Caring, loving, involved.  A trusted harbor for them in this world.  Her taxes should be higher simply because she did not pop out some of her own kids?

My second card will be one of my daughters.  Like Vance and Usha, her CV has some Ivy twined around it, in her case a Master's from Harvard that came after a summa undergrad, and as of this Friday, we can officially add Doctor to her name.  In just over a month she will be starting her post doc in California and also teaching a university class of 300 students.  She does not want children either, JD.  Silly girl went and got married so I guess she is wasting one of your god's sperm soldiers? 

Here is what neither of them are: 

Sociopathic.  By definition a sociopath is someone who consistently disregards others' rights and feelings.  My daughter is literally out in this world counseling children and adults through some of their worst nightmares.  My sister cares deeply about every living thing in her path - from people to prickly cacti.

Psychotic.  Psychosis is typically comprised of three areas:  hallucinations, delusions, confused and disturbed thoughts.  Forgive me, James David, but it seem these descriptors capture your behaviors, not theirs.  They are not confused about their choices.  They are not deluded about where they are going in this world.  And they have no hallucinations about cats, children, or their ovaries.

Less mentally stable.  Do you know how much time they spend thinking about other peoples' genitals, menstruation, fertility, or bathroom choice?  None.  Because they are not intrusive, insecure, misogynistic chodes like you and your little boys club.

Deranged.  So not having children is deranged?  Just curious how you think that label lands on the countless women and men who struggle with fertility?  Especially as the MAGAt plan is to ban IVF?  How about the ones who have managed to become pregnant and tragically lose the pregnancy?  Look, I have been in that last camp and while I was angry, profoundly sad, and cried for weeks, at no point was I deranged.  And my sister and daughter are not either.  They are powerful, focused, driven, and know what they want in this world.  And what they don't want.

Perhaps it's that last line that really pushes you and your ilk over the edge.  They are not following your "rules" for females.  They don't need your permission, and frankly, don't want it.  You don't scare them.  And they don't need you.  They are married by choice to men who laud their achievements; who are proud of the trails they are blazing in this world; who did not want a doormat or a "trad wife".

Vance has also stated that people without children, "have no physical commitment to the future of this country."

What complete horseshit.  I love my children, but my sex trophies do not tether me tighter to this country.  And as for my sister and daughter - nothing but commitment to the future of this country - through conservation, concern over climate, and literally working to keep people alive - that is commitment, that is others before self, that is the best of what a person can strive to be.

It is completely predictable how they have gone after Kamala for being childless, despite knowing full well that she has been an amazing step-parent for years and years.  That somehow her not birthing a babe makes her unqualified for office.  Um, point of fact, sirs, not a single President, in the history of this country, has ever given birth.  And no, a 20 second contribution to the pregnancy process does not qualify a man for anything.  Well, maybe some medication to help make it last longer, but I digress...

It is an understatement to use the term o' the day, that of weird, for his and his party's obsession with all things procreation.  Well, not all things.  They have zero interest in legislating the testes of menfolk.  Men are allowed, hell, high fived for spreading that seed wherever, whenever, Shakira.  Sock, couch cushions, a blow up doll, someone they are raping, a girlfriend, a Tinder hookup, a spouse - just shower the world with that baby batter.  No mention of them being whores for their recreation.  No condemnation for them wasting millions of potential lives, lives that end up crusted to the sheets or wadded in a Kleenex. 

Yet here we are watching, hearing them tout their plans for monitoring women's menstruation and pregnancies to make sure we don't go sneaking off for an abortion.  Not making that up.

Honestly, in my 20s, I never would have imagined that the idea of government monitoring women's bodies in America would be a campaign issue in the year 2024. This is MAGA and the GOP today. https://t.co/IEuehTK8DH

— Amy McGrath (@AmyMcGrathKY) July 30, 2024

You do realize who is in that clip?  Jason Miller.  The Jason Miller who famously allegedly snuck an abortifacient into his pregnant girlfriend's smoothie, causing bleeding, a near coma, and the loss of the pregnancy.

Mmmmm, those family values.  Obviously for thee, not me, huh, Jason?

This is the stuff contained in their heinous Pr0ject 2O2five.  And while it's fun to continue to bomb them with the word 'weird', the more apt term is dangerous.  So, so dangerous.  My, yours, hers, his - bodily functions, from urine output to semen input - are no one's business but ours.  The government has no place in deciding what I can and cannot do with my body.  Your bastardized form of Christianity has no bearing over anything I do.  You want to push out 15 kids?  Fine, your choice.  You don't want them to read any books but your Bible?  Detrimental to their development and the future of this country, but still, your choice.  But your choices end at your doorstep.  If I cannot drag you by hair to have an abortion because MY BODY!  MY CHOICE!, then you cannot force me or anyone else to not have an abortion if that is what we want or what our health demands.

I do not have to worship your chosen savior.  I do not have to tithe one damned dime to keep your pastor's Rolex shiny.  I do not have to provide you details about my last period.  And your insistence that I do is obsessive.  Controlling.  Intrusive.  Weird.

I must admit that it is fun watching the MAGAs melt down over that simple word being attached to their behaviors.  But come on, can you blame us?

Ummmmmm...

This is how one supports DonOLD?

I honestly don't care that he wears Depends.  We come into this world leaking into diapers and we exit it that way, too.  I have tended to enough now-dead parents to know that absorbent undergarments become as much a necessity in age as they do for my 20 month old granddaughter.  I do care how obsessed they are with an old felon whose body is the composition and color of a bag of Cheetos.  How deluded they are about his actual optics, not the hallucinations they allow themselves of him as some Rambo reincarnate.  How they can hear his words and derive something "brilliant' from them. 

Um, waiter, I did not order this word salad...

As the days move forward, no doubt the weirdness will continue its uptick.  Further videos will be unearthed;  more rebuttals will fall flatter than the cushions on JD's Grammy's sofa;  more meaningless prattle will fall from the dementia-ed lips of their saggy savior; and more bullshit will emerge from the soft boiled minds of their followers.  Like this...

Now, Tim Poole is not the sharpest knife in the MAGA drawer, but this is some fever dream level rambling.  Forced abortions?  The specificity of Hondurans camping on your foldout?  And 800 wars?  Seriously, Tim, put down the crackpipe.  That anyone will read this patently fake pontificating and believe it?  All I can say is that those people vote.  So you'd better check your registration and plan on voting, too.

Because if they manage to crawl, lie, cheat, or steal their way back into office, weird will be the least of our worries.

The Last Sucker

Ahhhhh, Paris (for these purposes please pronounce as Pair-Ree in your head).  History, culture, food, art, landmarks aplenty, and people with an understanding of not just their history, but of the games they are currently hosting.

The Olympics date back thousands of years.  According to historians, the first written observation of the games owes to the Greeks and dates back to 776 BC.  Note that BC - before Christ - that will be important here.  They began observing time in Olympiads - the time between games, choosing every four years to honor the Greek god Zeus. Throughout time and space, the games have ebbed and flowed depending on who was ruling the roost.  

From the official Olympics site, In 393 AD, the Roman Emperor Theodosius I banned the Olympic Games for religious reasons, claiming that they encouraged paganism. They were not revived until the modern era.

Yes, religious ass knotting goes back a fur piece, as they say.

The games were not revived until 1894, spanning a single week in June in Paris, France.  At the end of that week, the International Olympic Committee was born.  Under their guidance the first official games took place back in their home of origin, Athens, in 1896.  And on we went.  Women were finally allowed to compete in 1900, events were added, dates broadened, etc.

But everything goes back to a time when we puny humans invented gods and goddesses for every single thing we could not understand.  The tides?  A god named Poseidon.  Love?  Bring on Aphrodite.  The harvest?  Paging Demeter.  What comes next?  Let's hear it for Hades!  Hermes?  No, not the god of impossibly expensive handbags.  He reigned over fertility and livestock and music.  Someone to wrangle them all?  CEO Zeus.

All of these gods have their equals in Roman mythology.  Because that's what we humans do.  We invent, we borrow, we steal, and we warp to our best interests and likings.

Regardless, the Olympics have a rich and storied history.  From competing in the nude to blood offerings of 100 oxen - the games were about paying tribute to the gods, especially Zeus.  No Jesus.  No apostles.  Nada.

Fast forward to the opening ceremonies broadcast from Paris on Friday.  Encompassing everything and everyone from Lady Gaga to Celine Dion to Snoop Dogg, there was spectacle aplenty, a bacchanal for the eyes.  Including what has firmly knotted the asses of Christians for the past 48 hours.

A tableau that included drag queens (clutch pearls!), a runway, and a French actor painted blue and depicting the Greek god of intoxication and revelry, Dionysus, was quickly grabbed onto (along with those pearls) as mocking The Last Supper.  

Let's recap.  Remember the reference to BC - BEFORE CHRIST?  Leonardo Davinci painted The Last Supper between 1495-1498, looooooooooooooog after Dionysus was tearing it up in de BC clerb.  And it is not a photo, for Christ's sake (all pun intended).  It is a depiction, an interpretation of a story.  As real as this depiction:

The artistic director for both the opening and closing ceremonies, Thomas Jolly, flatly stated, "It was not my inspiration."  Adding, “There is Dionysus (Philippe Katerine painted in blue) who arrives on this table. He is there because he is the God of celebration in Greek mythology. The god of wine, which is one of the jewels of France. He is also the father of the goddess Sequana, who is connected to the river, the Seine.  The idea was to have a pagan celebration connected to the gods of Olympus."

“You will never find in me a desire to mock and denigrate anyone. I wanted to make a ceremony that repairs, reconciles and reaffirms the values ​​of our Republic — liberty, equality, fraternity.” 

That the IOC had to come forward and do the rote 'apology to those who were offended' just speaks to how lame this manufactured controversy is.  

Christians have never behaved well when they receive pushback, but that victimhood mentality has reached a zenith of late.  The inability to understand that what they believe is not what anyone else has to believe ignites in them such a fire of self righteous indignation and cries of discrimination that all one can do is laugh.  And vote to keep these people out of office.  

And their hypocrisy is stunning.  They constantly pass around truly laughable memes and pics of Trump depicted as Jesus on the cross, refer to him as being sent by God, and buy his Bibles (hypocrite, party of MAGA, your table in Hell is ready), yet that is not heresy?  That is not offensive to their God?  That doesn't break one of the big Ten, you know the one about having no other gods before me?

And now this.  There has been a complete break down of characters depicted in that performance making its way around the web.  Shared to refute/educate the victimy whiners demanding our athletes be brought home over what they do not understand.  Even Congress' own Moses, Mike Johnson, has been out there posting about how depraved we heathens are and how offensive that tableau was.

Here's the rub though.  As with all their bullshit and lies, when refuted, broken down for them, explained in detail why they are wrong - they do not apologize, admit their misunderstanding, appreciate the information.  They do one of two things:

Double down.  Because victimhood is so much better than admitting you were ~gasp~ wrong.

Act like they never bleated their bullshit to begin with.  Rearview mirror it.  MAGAts are the ServPro of politics.  Like it never even happened.

For the record, The Last Supper has been parodied and sent up repeatedly through the years.  Most notably when The Sopranos was at its height.

How about these?

Offended?  They have all been around for decades.

And what about this one?  From the Trump as Jesus chapter in the Book of Magat:

You people are out there openly worshipping an adulterer, criminal, rapist - treating him as the Second Coming, yet you see no problem with how you have taken Christianity, drenched it in MAGAtry, and made it a complete, and frankly repulsive, laughingstock.  This is why we deride you.  This is why people are leaving your churches.  This is why you are not taken seriously.  Because you are not serious people.  You are professional victims who think that being told to keep it to yourself is some form of discrimination, yet inserting the Ten Commandments into public schools is divine.

This is who you worship.  A narcissist who has never had any need or desire for your religion until he realized that he could easily play you by using it.  You constantly mock President Biden, who actually attends church each week, yet have no problem with your spray tanned succubus who attends his golf course each week.  

The Olympics did not mock your painting anymore than did Bugs Bunny and the Smurfs.  But you'll believe anything that allows you to cry victim.  Honestly, the next painting should be of all of you, a sea of red hats around an orange, festering diaperload called The Last Sucker.

I do believe this is where the phrase 'And Jesus wept' belongs...