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March 1, 2021

Such a sad story. His father wanted him to be a jihadist from an early age.

And I imagine having the name “bin Laden” and being the son of THAT bin Laden, at that, did him no favors.

March 1, 2021

MBS and his supporters re: Jamal Khashoggi.

“MBS is very bold and aggressive, cleaning up everything very rapidly in the Kingdom, look at how incredibly hands-on, competent, and effective he is !”

Same people: “How could he possibly have been aware of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi? He doesn’t control everything! He can’t be held responsible!!”

Hmm...

February 5, 2021

Even IF I believed in the MAGA shit, I can't imagine having any respect or love for Trump.

It’s so obvious that he doesn’t give a shit about any of his supporters, that he doesn’t believe half the shit he says (because he’s incapable of believing anything but what is immediately helpful to his own vain self-interest aka greed and narcissism), and that he’s ultimately a coward. And he grifts off of his own supporters constantly.

Where was Trump on January 6, after he instructed his cultists to “march down Pennsylvania Avenue to Congress?” If I remember correctly, it was Trump who said WE are going to go to the Capitol. Yet while his supporters obliged, Trump fled the scene, washing his hands of the violence he unleashed, which led to the deaths of several Trump supporters and a couple of cops, and the arrest of many more MAGA cultists.

They were doing it to keep HIM in power. They were loyal. And how does Trump treat people who are loyal to him? Ask Michael Cohen, for one.

If you hate “the libs” more than you love yourself or care for your own well being, than I suppose supporting some Reality TV host fraud piece of shit is fine - you know, as long as he “triggers the libs. ”

February 5, 2021

An unintentional insight into right-wing derangement.

https://twitter.com/jessekellydc/status/1357750466550054914

“who will happily kill you for what they believe“

Is he telling on himself?!
February 1, 2021

Republicans in state legislatures to transgender youth: drop dead.

Excellent op-ed in the NYT by Jennifer Finney Boylan.

With the coronavirus raging, the economy shattered and white supremacy on the rise, Republican legislators have pushed to the top of their agenda young queer people trying to live their lives safely, and in peace.

Transgender youth — surely the most vulnerable of the already vulnerable L.G.B.T.Q. community — are the target. On the day after the election, Ryan T. Anderson, a fellow at the Heritage Foundation, lamented to The Washington Post, “On the same day he called for healing and unity, President Joe Biden signed a radical divisive transgender executive order that threatens the privacy and safety of women in single-sex facilities, equality and fairness in single-sex sports, and good medicine based on the reality that males and females are biologically different.”

This would be the now-familiar conservative canard that granting equal rights to queer people somehow endangers the womenfolk. Is now a good moment to point out, once again, that more Republican congressmen have been busted for inappropriate behavior in public restrooms than trans women?


https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/opinion/trans-rights-biden-states.html

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