Sunday, December 04, 2022

A room of her own

BULLY BOY PRESS CEDRIC'S BIG MIX   -- THE KOOL AID TABLE   

FULL TIME HATE MERCHANT LAUREN BOEBERT IS IN A TIZZY OVER A ROOM NAMING.  INFORMED THAT OUTGOING SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE AND LONGTIME HAG NANCY PELOSI WAS HAVING A ROOM NAMED AFTER HER, BOEBERT SPAT OUT THAT THERE ISN'T "ANYONE LESS DESERVING.''



REACHED FOR COMMENT, NANCY PELOSI DID HER INFAMOUS FAKE CLAP AND STATED, "WE ARE ALL SO GLAD THAT LAUREN HAS FINALLY LEARNED TO READ."


FROM THE TCI WIRE:


Let's start with the deeply stupid.  Notorious homophobe Jonathan Turley is back to sharing his increasingly warped and unfit opinions:

Justice Amy Coney Barrett is facing increasing calls to recuse herself from a major Supreme Court case due to her religion. These absurd demands say less about the ethics of Barrett than the bias of her critics, who have waged an unrelenting and vicious campaign against the jurist and her family.

At issue is 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis’ Dec. 5 argument. Even before the court granted review, I noted it could be one of the most important free-speech cases in history. It involves a web designer who declines jobs for same-sex marriages over her religious beliefs.

Liberal academics and pundits have decried Barrett’s participation in the case because she has been part of the Christian group People of Praise, which holds traditional views of marriage and homosexuality. The media are quoting former members calling themselves “survivors” saying the group holds views that make it impossible for her to judge the case fairly.

Impossible, that is, if Barrett is willing to discard every principle of legal and judicial integrity she has maintained her entire career.


It's not a free speech case, first of all.  Tradeswoman Lorie Smith designs webs sites.  She wants the government to give her an out so she never has to design for thoe 'icky' gays -- apparently Lorie's a closet case who fears proximity to equality will unleash her inner demons and immediately turn her into a muff diver if she's forced to treat all customers the same.


Jonathan lies -- because that's what he does now -- and writes that Coney Barrett (it is Coney Barrett -- those are two last names and Jonathan and others need to get that right) is being called out for being "part of the Christian group People of Praise, which holds traditional views of marriage and homosexuality."  Let's leave aside Jonathan's misguided nothing of ''traditional'' -- he's a raging homophobe -- and focus on that claim -- all she did was belong to a group that holds beliefs.


Liar.

Stephanie Kirchgaessner (GUARDIAN) explains a detail Jonathan -- accidentally, we're sure -- omits:


They point to Barrett’s former role on the board of Trinity Schools Inc, a private group of Christian schools that is affiliated with the People of Praise and, in effect, barred children of same-sex parents from attending the school.

A faculty guide published in 2015, the year Barrett joined the board, said “blatant sexual immorality” – which the guide said included “homosexual acts” – had “no place in the culture of Trinity Schools”. The discriminatory policies were in place before and after Barrett joined.

The schools’ attitude, the former People of Praise members said, reflect the Christian group’s staunchly anti-gay beliefs and adherence to traditional family values, including – they say – expelling or ostracizing members of the People of Praise “community” who came out as gay later in life or their gay children.

“I don’t believe that someone in her position, who is a member of this group, could put those biases aside, especially in a decision like the one coming up,” said Maura Sullivan, a 46-year-old who was raised in the People of Praise community in South Bend, Indiana. Sullivan identifies as bisexual and recalls coming out to her parents, who were members of the People of Praise, when she was 19.

“They decided that I wasn’t allowed to be around my sister, who was 13 at the time, without them around, because I could ‘influence’ her in bad ways. Stuff like that. So I had a tenuous relationship with my family,” she said. “To be cut off from my family was the ultimate loss of community.” Sullivan and her parents, who are no longer members of the faith group, have since repaired their relationship, she said.

Questions about the People of Praise’s attitude toward LGBTQ+ members and their families, and Trinity Schools’ policies, have resurfaced because the supreme court will hear oral arguments on 5 December in the case of 303 Creative LLC v Elenis.


Jonathan Turley is not an honest broker.  Her sitting on the board and doing so when it refused children because their parents were same-sex goes to why she should recuse herself.  It's the equivalent of racial restrictive covenants that allowed 'traditional' people to refuse to sell their home to Jews, African-Americans, etc.


This isn't minor.  And she should have to recuse herself.


Jonathan's confident that she can follow the rules.


Of course, Jonathan was confident -- even after DOBBS was leaked -- that ROE wouldn't be overturned.


And, of course, in that case Amy tossed aside precedent, five decades of precedent, to abuse the law and to 'honor' her 'religion.'


Jonathan's becoming a damn liar.  He seems to have some grand purpose these days involving self-humiliation.  It's sad and pathetic to watch him.


Amy sat on a board that discriminated against gay people and she did so only a few years ago.  She didn't disclose this when she nominated for the Court:

Barrett has never publicly acknowledged her membership in the community since becoming a judge and did not disclose it during her 2020 confirmation. It was reported at the time that the People of Praise erased all mentions and photos of her from its website ahead of her meetings with lawmakers.

Had she made the disclosure, she wouldn't be on the bench now.


She's part of the reason it is now an illegitimate Supreme Court.  Liars like Amy misled America to get on the bench and now are refusing to respect settled law so that they can instead attack the very fabric of America.  


And there's Jonathan Turley lying for them.  



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    Marjorie Taylor Greene should come with a safety warning

     

    BULLY BOY PRESS CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE   

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    SHAKING HER HEAD AND TAKING A BIG BREATH, MARJIE LAMENTED THE FACT THAT "MY GAL PAL" PICTURED BELOW WITH HER HUSBAND IN  Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "The Real Groomers," "WOULD RATHER SPEND TIME WITH THE MAN SHE TOOK A RESTRAINING ORDER OUT ON THEN ME!!! EVERYBODY HATES ME!!!! I THOUGHT I'D FEEL BETTER WHEN THIS DAY CAME!!!!"


     Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "The Real Groomers"




    FROM THE TCI WIRE:


    Weak ass Tulsi couldn't even stand by her comments made on podcasts.

    She's a liar and fake and anyone claiming she's anti-war at this point is just deluding themselves.  When push came to shove, spineless Tulsi collapsed onstage.


    Now she makes bucks by attacking LGBTQs.

    "Grooming."

    As Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "The Real Groomers" pointed out, the real groomers are people like Lauren Boebert and her husband Jayson.  When not beating Lauren (it's true, she had to file for a protective order at one point), Jasyon liked to drag Lauren to a bar to watch as he exposed himself to young women.  She lied in a book that he didn't do it.  A book somebody else probably wrote for her, remember, she dropped out of school and then failed the GED multiple times.  But Jayson admitted it in court and was put on probation.

    Those are groomers.  

    They're trying to say that the LGBTQs are groomers.  This is not new, know your history.  The argument is that they are grooming children -- it's the one Anita Bryant made all those years ago.  She called it recruitment and argued, as the hate mob does today, that they had to recruit (or groom) because they couldn't reproduce.

    They couldn't reproduce?  Like Tulsi?

    The community doesn't have to reproduce.  It's always been with us and that's what the liars want to deny.

    What's worse is they want to harm children.  That's the reality: Tulsi, Tucker and others want to harm children.

    Jonathan Turley, noted homophobe, defends them.

    Who defends the children?

    In Florida, they have the 'Don't say gay' legislation which Tulsi supports.  She tells you this is about parental choice.

    Yet, she's raging in the video REVOLUTIONARY BLACKOUT video about parental choices, you grasp that right?

    If you are transgender and under 18, most cases you're not getting surgery without the consent of your parent or legal guardian.

    Do we not grasp that?

    So in other words, anyone surgically transitioning under 18 would be doing so with parental consent.

    Tulsi doesn't trust parents with that decision apparently.  

    But when it's banning discussions of same-sex relations or transgendered people or non-binary persons, Tulsi all for that.

    School is supposed to prepare you for life.  A second grader needs to know that there are all kinds of families and, yes, that does include children with same-sex parents.

    Tulsi and Tucker can't grasp reality: Some children are gay.

    There are little boys and girls who already know that they are gay.  

    Some people take longer to figure it out.  Tucker will probably be 62, before he figures it out.

    But there are kids right now, in second grade, who know they're gay.

    And how are they helped or even recognized by the don't say gay nonsense?

    They're not.  

    Bobby (Billy Eichner's character in BROS) makes that point.  

    Do their rights not matter?  Do their feeling recognized in their schools not matter?

    Free speech (fake) champion Jonathan Turley doesn't care about their free speech rights.  He doesn't care that a gay child has a higher likelihood of attempting suicide.  

    He won't defend their rights at all.

    By addressing reality early on -- and I'm not talking sex education, I'm talking the reality of the world we live in -- there's a good chance that certain little boys and girls will not be targeted and harassed in their schools.  

    But that doesn't matter to Turley, Tulsi or Tucker.

    It's a good thing that at least Tulsi was smart enough to reproduce (unless she's frozen her eggs, her chances at pregnancy are winding down).  

    Grasp that Jonathan Turley -- who pretends he's for free speech -- has not once called out the harassment of trans speakers.  

    I don't know Alex Jones and I don't want to know him.  If his people and what they did in Denton, Texas recently is truly representative of him then has has no redeeming value.  

    So they bully and mob to try to stop Transgender Storytime.

    And that was this month.  And yet 'free speech' Jonathan Turley didn't defend them.

    That's only surprising if you don't grasp that his history is one of refusing to recognize the LGBTQ community.

    Unlike Jonathan, I actually support free speech.

    I have a record of doing so.

    Jonathan grabs his pearls and gets all nervous if someone heckles or boos.

    That's free speech as well.  And I've been on the receiving end many times.  And will continue to be on it.  And that's fine.  In the '00s, near the end, a veteran was somewhere, I believe NYC, speaking on a forum and he was the pro-war voice.  He got booed.  Some were offended in print and how awful.

    No.

    It's not awful.

    It's free speech.

    I wrote about that here.  I also noted that I was sympathetic to him because it hurt his feelings but that he needed to grasp that the worst had happened and that any future speaking would include the knowledge that he would live through being booed.  

    I support free speech.

    Jonathan Turley pees his pants because a Supreme Court opinion is leaked.  It's so offensive!!!

    It's free speech.  Turley's become a joke in his old age and a damn hypocrite.

    'Children' were not going to the Denton coffeehouse unless they were taken by their parents.

    There was a bullying effort by INFOWAR followers to silence and suppress a transgender storyteller and Jonathan wasn't concerned.  It's only free speech for him these days if the person whose free speech rights are threatened is a conservative.

    That might be confusing until you grasp that he's now paid by FOX NEWS.  

    The LGBTQ community includes children and they have rights.

    Tulsi, who's never raised a child, wants to speak of "our children" but apparently she just means straight children.  She knows nothing about the LGBTQ community -- a community she has spent years trashing -- and she wants to decide what children can hear and what they can't.

    She has NO children.  She's raised  NO children.  She's NOT an educator and has NO background in childhood education.

    So FOX sees her as the perfect person to put on to talk about children's rights.

    Children have the right to be smarter than Tulsi Gabbard.  That requires actual education.  Otherwise, like Tulsi, they end up cult members doing whatever Guru Chris tells them to do.

    Lauren voted to overturn the Violence Against Women Act.  Like Tulsi, she needs education.  Desperately.  I hope she gets it before Jayson beats her to death.

    But in the meantime, let's be really clear that the US doesn't need to hear from a woman married to a man who beats her.  Too many people are passing themselves off as experts.

    Lauren, like Tulsi, wants to be an expert on children but most American families -- right, left or what have you -- don't want their children being beaten by a spouse or their children beating their spouse.


    Spousal abuse is not a value anyone supports unless they're deeply stupid.  

    That's what happens when you're uninformed and uneducated.  Like Tulsi.  Home schooled and two years in her cult's school, she tried community college but couldn't grasp it.  Basic classes were beyond her because she's just not capable of learning.

    Instead of recognizing her deficiency, she wants to make all of America as uneducated as her.

    The country's children need to be educated.  In reality.  That especially means a greater emphasis on science.  It also means an awareness of the world around us and, sorry, Tucker, Tulsi and Turley, that world around us includes gay males, lesbians, bi-sexuals and transgenders as well as non-binary.  

    They have a right to representation as well.

    They exist and their rights matter to.

    They don't need to grow up being bullied.  They don't need to grow up being rendered invisible.  

    Stop pretending you care about children when you're actually working to increase the rates of suicide with your actions.

    FOX NEWS is garbage because of what they're doing and how they're harming children.

    Idiots like Tulsi will watch those programs and, in the pretense of 'saving' their children, will do great harm.

    A trueism throughout the last century and today: Those objecting the loudest to basic recognition and human decency are usually the ones hiding something.  

    When Ellen DeGeneres came out, a friend who had loved her comedy, even to the point of begging me to get her into a taping of the sitcom ELLEN (I got her in multiple times) turned on Ellen when she came out.  Refused to even admit that she'd ever been a fan.  Last decade?  The actress came out.  I'll be kind and not name her.  

    But that's who I think of when I think of these idiots like Tucker, Tulsi and Turley who are so determined to limit our society instead of expanding it, who would rather throw stones than embrace.  

    These people need to be called out.  They're not silly idiots that we can just laugh at, they are people dedicating their lives to destroying others.  
     


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    FROM THE TCI WIRE:

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    There will be a floor vote in the Senate.  Here's Senator Tammy Baldwin's statement on what took place this week:


    WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) released the following statement following the Senate vote, 62-37, to advance the Respect for Marriage Act.

    “Today, we took a step forward in our fight to give millions of loving couples the certainty, dignity, and respect that they need and deserve. A bipartisan coalition of Senators stood with the overwhelming majority of Americans who support marriage equality. We came together to move the Respect for Marriage Act forward and give the millions of Americans in same-sex and interracial marriages the certainty that they will continue to enjoy the freedoms, rights, and responsibilities afforded to all other marriages,” said Senator Baldwin. “I am proud to have worked across the aisle to earn broad, bipartisan support for this legislation, and look forward to making marriage equality the law of the land.”

    And it should be the law of the land.  But it's not yet.  I'll celebrate when it is.  

    In the meantime we're getting garbage coverage.  

    So-called reporters printing lies.  I've got four to choose from, they all go with the same lie, but we'll just use one.  Playground honor will prevent us from identifying the author of the one we're using but Google will snitch on her if you copy and paste the paragraph below into a Google search:


    If you’re wondering why protecting same-sex and interracial marriage is even something that needs to be voted on in the year of our Lord 2022, the legislation was prompted by comments from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who recently said that the Court should reconsider opinions protecting access to contraception and same-sex and interracial marriages. (It’s worth noting that Thomas is also in an interracial marriage, having been married to Virginia “Ginni” Thomas since 1987.)


    Do you see the problem?  Three other outlets also can't get it right.

    And worst of all, she thinks she's cute with her parenthetical.

    No, Clarry Thomas did not bring up LOVING V VIRGINIA.  That's the case that overturned bans on interracial marriage.  He listed marriage equality, he listed sodomy and he listed birth control.  LOVING is founded on the same due process aspect.  But Clarry omitted it precisely because he is in an interracial marriage -- exposing himself as a hypocrite.  Many of us called him out on it when his concurring opinion (what the reporter calls "comments") was issued -- that includes Samuel L. Jackson who was very vocal about the hypocrisy (I would praise anyone for speaking out but, disclosure, Samuel is a good friend of mine).  

    Now I hope it becomes the law of the land and we'll be thrilled here if it does.  But, again, we'll celebrate then, we'll breathe easy then.

    We thought ROE was the law of the land until a cabal conspired to shred precedent and overturn fifty years of settled court law.

    And during those decades, we watched as Democrats chipped away at it.  Our 'friend' Hillary, of course, was part of the attack on abortion rights in the immediate months after the 2004 election.  You had a plan by the party -- by leaders in the party -- to push the Democrats away from abortion.  They paid various little peons to write non-thought pieces on it.  And you had various politicians come forward to move the party away from abortion rights.  Hillary took part in that.  THE NEW YORK TIMES documented it. 

    So let's step pretending that We the American People have any groups of friends in Congress when it comes to reproductive rights.  As Elaine noted, while people are listing Nancy Pelosi's supposed accomplishments as Speaker of the House, the reality is that she was Speaker of the House when women lost significant rights.  Way to go, Nance.

    We had ROE and we had years of chipping away at it.  Poor women were, of course, the first to suffer.  And we can blame men because men were in Congress and women really don't come into Congress in significant numbers until the 1992 genderquake (resulting largely from the country seeing the way the Senate demonized Anita Hill).  But the reality is, ROE continued to be sliced and diced.

    And when it wasn't being chipped away at, it was being used as a political football.

    Codifying it not only would have saved reproductive rights, it would have pulled a get-out-the-vote tool from the Democratic Party not to mention a fundraising tool for the party.

    And that, let's be honest, is why Nancy never led on codifying it and why Barack Obama broke his campaign promise that the first thing he would do as president was codify ROE.  

    If you supported ROE you were held hostage for years by the Democratic Party.

    They didn't protect it by making it law, they didn't protect it by ensuring that all women had equal access.  

    They used it.

    And some are e-mailing saying that I'm not celebrating our victory in the midterms.

    I don't see it as a victory and I'll explain why.

    But we did note WSWS's live coverage blog when they noted the victories in various states in this month's elections.

    I've waited and waited -- in vain? -- for the Feminist Majority Foundation to put out some statement.  Maybe they're not feeling it -- I'm not feeling it -- and maybe we're both wary for the same reason.

    The American people turned out and supported the right to privacy.  They did a great job.

    But the people usually do.

    It's the politicians that don't.

    The Democrats lost the House.  That's reality.  They should have lost it by a bigger percentage, they should have lost the Senate.

    Abortion is what saved them.

    And as I write that I cringe because they don't have a history of standing up.  They have a history of using and abusing.

    I'll use an example from this century.  As a party, they supported the Iraq War.  After the people turned against it, the party began to find its voice.  (There were members against the war who were in Congress, they did not steer the party.)  Finally, in 2006, Nancy promised us that if the Dems could get control of just one house of Congress in the midterm vote, they could end the Iraq War.

    The American people gave them control of both houses.

    And they didn't end it.

    They didn't end it because no one had expected control of both houses.  Despite the fact that the public had turned against the war, the idiots leading the Democratic Party hadn't expected that turnout.  So instead of ending it, it was decided to carry it over for at least two more years.  If opposition to the war could get them control of both houses, it could also lead to control of the White House.

    The dying didn't matter.  The Iraqis dead and wounded didn't matter, the US troops dead and wounded didn't matter.  The violations of international law didn't matter.  

    To the party, the Iraq War was nothing more than a get-out-the-vote tool.

    And, to this day, we still have US troops stationed in Iraq.

    Yes, abortion is probably the biggest reason that Dems were not wiped out in this month's mid-terms.

    But why I'm not feeling a 'victory' here is because the party tends to use women and I can see very easily the Democratic Party refusing to address abortion by codifying it so that they can use the issue as a get-out-the-vote and fundraising tool for several more election cycles.

    I hope that doesn't happen.

    But already Joe Biden's declared this week that ROE won't be codified.  

    Really.

    Because before the election, when he needed people to vote Democrat, he said what?

    That he was fine with suspending the filibuster to codify abortion rights.  Or does no one remember that?

    And Dems may not control the House, but they have 212 seats to the Republicans 218 and there are still five more seats to be called.  Let's say that they all went Republican.  That would be 223.  That's eleven seats.  

    Isn't Joe the reach across the aisle guy?  

    He can't get 11 votes in the House from the Republicans?

    The Dems can't make deals that would garner the support of 11 Republicans.  

    Abortion is not a fringe issue, it has majority support.  

    There's no excuse for not putting this to a vote.  There's no excuse for not demanding bipartisanship on this issue.  It is what the American people support.  

    So this nonsense that Joe offered this week of how the results of the election mean nothing can be done is nonsense and garbage and too many of us have seen this over and over.  So, yes, I fear abortion is an issue that they are going to string us along on for several election cycles unless we make it clear that we're not playing that game.

    That means stop lying, stop spreading lies, stop being silent.  It means that we stop pretending that backstabbers like Hillary Clinton are our friends.  Again, she used the aftermath of the 2004 election to trash abortion rights -- even THE NEW YORK TIMES called her out on it.

    The lines were drawn long ago and if you're not going for our right to privacy, you're not our friend and we're idiots if we pretend otherwise.

    Sorry if I took the buzz off the victory.  I was biting my tongue.  Ahead of the elections and now.  I'd planned to address that when we did the year-in-review here.  But that is the reality of the way the party is with abortion.  We have the numbers, we just don't have the representation in Congress.  We would if we'd stop treating them like our wayward spouses and clucking over them and acting like it was okay that they forgot to take out the garbage and aren't they cute.  They aren't our spouses.  They are our public servants.  And we need to remind them of that.

    I am very hopeful that marriage equality will be the law of the land due to an act of Congress.  And, if that happens, it will be something to celebrate.  But I've watched the Democratic Party with ROE for too many years and Joe's remark this week indicates nothing has changed or been learned there.



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