I have to stop this thread and post it as I am about 30 tabs behind. Due to making homemade ravioli with Ron.

Elagabalus14 hours ago

Ron DeeeeeSantis must wake up every morning and think to himself, “what can I do today to further destroy the lives of the little people?” And then he sets out to do it.

TomKitten196020 days ago

The problem is that they view our pride as their shame. They don’t understand that it’s not about them. They don’t have to feel anything, just acknowledge that we are fellow creatures and move on.

Dr. HAAAAAAA TomKitten196020 days ago

I was walking hand in hand with hubby, a person turned and said to me. “You have no shame”
My reply “Well thank you a very unexpected complement.”

Rocco Gibraltar AtticusP18 hours ago

Hey white trash rednecks. Guess what? We don’t need a rally or a fucking hat. We vote for true honor and respect of our country. Go put your confederate flag on the back of your tacky ass pickup truck, while you hurl empty cans of manly beer at electric cars.

Told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing.

bambinoitalianoa day ago

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Uncle Mark: HoHo-smoking homo OTOH..a day ago

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Paula day ago edited

Not new, but it seemed appropriate today

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Dwight Williamsona day ago

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Uncle Mark: HoHo-smoking homo claya day ago

IDK, I rather enjoyed seeing that paltry Trump rally in Bumblefuck, SC…especially the booing of Ms Lindsey. (Imagine being boo’d by the citizens of the very county you were born, raised & lived in. Must be how Trump felt in NYC.)

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thatotherjean a day ago
No, Brian, no. Nobody wants to “steal” your independence: they want to share in your rights. You’re treating those rights as though they belonged exclusively to white, straight, male people, to be granted to others as you see fit. No. The rights to “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” among other rights, belong to all of us.
Karma Chases Dogma  thatotherjean20 hours ago
A man you don’t even know sticks his pecker in another man you don’t even know. Tell me, Brian, exactly how is this stealing YOUR independence? The gay agenda is to live a normal life like everyone else

Kurtis Rader thatotherjean14 hours ago

Brian is objecting to the fact he no longer has the “independence” to stone gay people to death without repercussions as his religion demands. To misquote George Orwell: Some rights are more equal than others.

TennesseeEscapee BensNewLogin21 hours ago

From his perspective, the Constitution was given to us by god. What a twisted psyche he must have.

Shy Guy TennesseeEscapee17 hours ago

They literally do believe that. There’s a line of cringeful paintings of how they think of it:

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Stultusa day ago

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Paddycakes2001  jaspersdad18 hours ago
That was great. One thing I wish he had also asked when the guy said drag is inherently sexual is “Oh, does that turn you on?”

amandagirl15701 Paddycakes20019 hours ago

True story. There was a guy in the gay bar years ago, who said he was totally straight, but got off on drag queens. But he’s totally straight and it wasn’t gay at all. That’s how their minds work.

AyJayDee2 21 hours ago
There’s a real, concerted effort by the Republicans and the anti-liberal left to use RFK Jr. And Cornel West to spoil the 2024 election and help Trump win another term.

Raging Bee AyJayDee221 hours ago

Yup, just like they used Ralph W. “Lenin Lite” Nader and Jill Stein.

bearLvrFL AyJayDee219 hours ago

I ran into someone on the left who tried the “why the hating on RFK Jr?” on one of my social media pages. I responded, “Because of the belief in numerous conspiracy theories and ads that appear to have been made in Russian troll farms. No other reason, tho!” 😉

KnownDonorDad21 hours ago

and that the contributions came from a “right down the middle” mix of Republicans and Democrats.

That statement is as credible as his views on vaccines.

What, me worry?21 hours ago

He is not a democrat. He is being supported by the far right. This is their new thing–sham candidates, many of whom run as a democrat and if they win, they change their party affiliation to republican. This sure stinks of election fraud to me. I hope he gets so humiliated that he slinks away back into whatever cave he’s been hiding in and is never seen or heard from again.

In the four years since DeSantis took office, his administration has routinely stonewalled the release of public records, approved a slew of new legal exceptions aimed at keeping more information out of the public eye, and waged legal battles against open government advocates, the press and other watchdogs. DeSantis, a Harvard-educated lawyer and former U.S. attorney, is the only Florida governor known to use “executive privilege” to keep records hidden, transparency advocates and experts said.
His travel records, previously under scrutiny by the media, are now secret, thanks to a new legal exemption — one of a record number created in 2023 by the Republican-led Legislature and approved by the governor. DeSantis also has fought to conceal information about some of the most significant events during his tenure, including withholding Covid infection data and blocking release of records about the controversial relocation of dozens of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, legal filings show.

another_steve20 hours ago

Fitting, that he and Trump — two of the scummiest human beings on Planet Earth today — are the de facto leaders of today’s Republican Party.

A perfect fit — they with it.

Ross another_steve20 hours ago

are the de facto leaders of today’s Republican Party

Only because Hitler isn’t available.

TallyDink19 hours ago

I just listened to episode 2 of Rachel Maddow’s latest podcast, Deja News.
Great analysis of how the current dictator of FL is dredging up the hate & fear of others, just as the John’s Report did in the 50s & 60s.

Yves R. Mektin20 hours ago

Yeah, Desantis has been making a mockery of Florida’s so-called “sunshine laws”.

Doughty last appeared on JMG in June 2021 when he blocked the COVID vaccine mandate for federal workers in a ruling that was riddled with false anti-vaccine claims and which cited a notorious anti-vaccine activist. In September 2022 he issued a permanent injunction against vaccine mandates for teachers.

Paddycakes20012 days ago

I read through the decision. It’s bonkers. It’s all just regurgitating conspiracy theories and complaining about the decisions of Twitter and Facebook that *every* other court who has looked at this nonsense has held to be private action, not government action, and thus not violating the 1st Amendment at all. And it gripes about things done when Trump was still president. One of the plaintiffs is Jim Hoft of the Gateway Pundit, a/k/a the dumbest man on the Internet, and the judge complains about a Twitter suspension before Biden became president. And, of course, it claims the story about “Hunter’s laptop” was suppressed even though it was the biggest story in the country — and happened when Trump was president.

This is really nutty stuff. Not surprising, I guess. This is the same judge who credulously quoted anti-vax nonsense and granted an injunction against HHS’s requirement that healthcare workers get one of the vaccines. The Supreme Court undid that and held that “mandate” was perfectly constitutional. This judge can’t learn his lesson and control himself. Given the current composition of the 5th Circuit, though, we shouldn’t be surprised if it stays in place for a while.

Ken Elmquist2 days ago

They don’t know their flag. They don’t know the law. They don’t know the Constitution. They don’t know their history. They don’t know their Buybull. This is today’s anti-woke Republicans.

The_Wretched Ken Elmquist2 days ago

It’s not just ‘don’t know’, they actively misinform their alt-reality.

Buford2 days ago

As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen (Muslims); and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan (Mohammedan) nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.

Treaty Of Tripoli, Article 11, 1796… passed unanimously in the US Senate by many of the actual ‘founders’.

zhera2 days ago

As a forriner I find it super weird how much the Founding Fathers are respected and ‘claimed’. It’s like a religion to some Americans.

They were just people, and more importantly, people of their time. Slave owners, white, educated (read: rich). People who wanted to do their best for their country but they were full of flaws like the rest of us.

Who gives a fuck what someone said several hundreds years ago? Oh, right: Bible humpers.

Tuxedocat PJ2 days ago edited

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“And here’s the thing,” Robinson said during his speech on Sunday. “Whether you’re talking about Adolf Hitler; whether you’re talking about Chairman Mao; whether you’re talking about Stalin; whether you’re talking about Pol Pot; whether you’re talking about Castro in Cuba; or whether you’re talking about a dozen other despots all around the globe, it is time for us to get back and start reading some of those quotes.”

BeccaM2 days ago

It’s really feeling like the late 1930s around here these days… Didn’t we mostly all used to agree that NAZIS ARE FUCKING EVIL?

BartmanLA 2 days ago
They’re not going to “tolerate” what the actual fuck??? The LGBTQ community has been TOLERATING the hate and bullshit discrimination from the right and conservatives for DECADES… Get off your fucking high horse and go do something actually worthwhile, better yet just go crawl in corner and die!

Houndentenor BartmanLA2 days ago

This is why there is no middle on the issue lgbt rights. We want equal rights; they want us to disappear. At the very least they want us all back in the closet afraid that we will be fired, ostracized or even killed if we come out. There is no middle ground between the two.

Cackalaquiano2 days ago

“We’re not gonna tolerate this rainbow pride stuff anymore.”

You’re gonna need to find a way to manage your emotions. We’re not going away

J.Martindale Cackalaquiano2 days ago edited

Who made this Nazi asshole God? I don’t give a fuck what the prick tolerates. He has way too high an opinion about his shitty, bigoted opinions.

Derek in DC2 days ago

Big shots on the right, even the supposedly educated “conservative thought leaders,” always sound so incredibly ignorant when they talk about LGBTQ+ America. They always seem to talk about us like we’re citizens of a different country (the way most of them think Puerto Ricans are citizens of a different country). Are they just pandering to the rank-n-file, or are they really so genuinely clueless? Honestly, part of me would prefer Machiavellian pandering to braindead ignorance.

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Sister_Bertrille Teslaac2 days ago

Here you go. An oldie but goodie.

Former Arkansas Governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has called LGBTQ rights the “biggest threat” to religious morality in America.

In an interview with The Christian Post, Huckabee…decried acceptance of LGBTQ people and blamed the “Christian Church” for not doing enough to combat LGBTQ equality.

You Again? Sister_Bertrille2 days ago

Don’t forget this creepiness:

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Florida Atlantic University Halts Search For President Over Questionnaire Asking If Applicants Are “Queer”

Don’t say gay bills started out to protect little kids from gender identification or sexual orientation that might confuse them, you know little kids up to grade three or around 8 years old.  Then they raised the age to grade 8 or 14 because again they wanted to protect the children from something that would confuse them, but by that age I doubt that may kids were confused by those topics.   Then to protect the children they expand the entire ban on those topics in all public schools in all grades, I guess because young adults would be confused about gender identity and sexual orientation?  Now they have banned what can be taught in higher education and they are demanding to know the sexual orientation of potential hire.  The real goal is now and always has been to remove any representation of LGBTQ+ especially gay and trans people.  They want to wipe gay and trans people out of society.  These are real Christian nationalist racist bigots, true believers, and they will keep going until they are removed from any position of authority.  Hugs

 

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports:

Just days before the three finalists for Florida Atlantic University’s next president were set to speak at public forums, the search has been stopped in its tracks.

State University System of Florida Chancellor Ray Rodrigues sent a letter to Brad Levine, chairman of both the FAU Board of Trustees and the Presidential Search Committee, citing “anomalies that have been alleged in the Florida Atlantic University presidential search.” The letter, dated Friday, was posted on social media Friday evening.

The letter said Rodrigues’ office “received concerning information,” including that search committee members conducted a straw poll to rank their six preferred candidates out of a list of nearly 60 and that one candidate said a questionnaire asked if his sexual orientation is “queer” and that another survey asked whether his gender is “male, female or other” and what pronouns he uses.

Florida Politics reports:

Rodrigues said such questions appear to violate U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulations forbidding questions about job applicants’ sex, sexual orientation or gender.

According to the letter, consulting firm AGB Search did not inform members of the FAU search committee that such questions would appear on the questionnaire. Rodrigues said that raises further questions about whether information was being withheld from university officials.

“Those rankings were submitted confidentially and directly to the search firm,” Rodrigues wrote. A new Florida law keeps finalists for college and university president searches confidential until a list of finalists is publicly announced.

Desantis had recommended viciously anti-LGBTQ state Sen. Randy Fine for the job, but Fine did not make the list of finalists. That, you can be sure, will play into this story as it unfolds. As you can see below, some apparently believe that the questionnaire issue is being used as excuse to ultimately give the job to Fine. FAU, based in Boca Raton with multiple satellite campuses on the southeast coast, has an enrollment of 30,000.

 

 

There are two separate issues here.
1-Baby DeSantis is having the vapors because his homophobic pick didn’t make the Final Cut. Tough.
2-Whatever we feel about the term “queer” is a separate debate. No job application should ask about sexual orientation or sexual identity. Doing potentially leads to discrimination.

 

Liberal Redneck – White House Cocaine


So I guess they found cocaine in the White House. As such, here’s a silly video about it.

I Interviewed Trump Supporters at His Rally, Goes HORRIBLY WRONG!

Luke breaks down the interviews he conducted with Trump supporters at Trump’s Pickens, South Carolina rally over the weekend.

Trump And Our Two-Tiered Justice System | The Problem with Jon Stewart

How TYT has SHIFTED FOCUS and is Creating CONTENT useful for The Right (Feat. @olurinatti!)

Trans TYT Employee Quits, Condemns Cenk Uygur & Ana Kasparian’s Anti-Trans Rhetoric

I have become more worried about the TYT network.  Anna was given more authority over the show and the hosts, and she has since them abused that authority.  She talks over every other host, belittles them, and acts toward Cenk like she is a host on Fox who is the one talking to a token not hard right person.  Anna acts like the over top authority that shall not be questioned, and by her own admission has moved very right wing in her thinking.   She demands the limelight on every show.    She interrupts him constantly yet refuses to let him interrupt her, she rails against his opinions unless it is him attacking democrats. 

Cenk got really bitter and admitted he burned his bridges in the Democratic Party after he ran for congress and lost badly.  He was someone who never held any public office yet felt entitled to the office due to his show to gain entry to the federal House of Representatives.   So now he attacks Joe Biden / the Democratic Party at every turn no matter how trivial the reason just because he is constantly pushing for someone to primary Biden, which is not going to happen.  All Cenk is doing with these constant angry attacks is to provide the republicans with stuff they can use to attack Biden in the General election.   The show has changed a lot over the last year and I have canceled my membership. 

TYT was once was a news program that cut through the bias driven media of opinion corporate networks.   Now the shows they host have become inflammatory opinion driven episodes that could be shown on Fox News or delivered by their hosts.  Sad but Anna had a change in thinking just 6 months ago because of a traumatic incident, and Cenk got bitter that he couldn’t just move into congress.  Between them they changed their show from news to opinions.   They have gone from saying remove emotion to see the misinformation to screaming emotionally about the misinformation they spew.  This is one of a dozen videos from former workers and guest hosts who have recently been turned on by Cenk and Anna.    Hugs

Biden: Lick the World! | Fox News Trial Delay | Clarence Thomas’ Quid Pro Quo with Harlan Crow

These are old now but remember I have not been feeling well and just now getting on my feet.   Oh, it seems that the state of Florida has now required a new expense for people on pain medications.   I will explain later.   As if us poor people needed more medication costs.   Yet the wealthy and well-connected get to lie as much as they want to get everything they need.    Hugs

President Biden went off script in a speech in Ireland, Fox News is rumored to be seeking a settlement to avoid more embarrassment in the Dominion lawsuit, and details continue to surface about the suspicious relationship between Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and billionaire Harlan Crow.

With Supreme Court LGBTQ decision, marriage equality is at risk

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/06/30/opinion/supreme-court-lgbtq-equality/

The hostility of a majority of justices to the 2015 Supreme Court case protecting same-sex marriage is so open that, until they can follow Justice Clarence Thomas’s call to overrule that decision, they are determined to strip same-sex couples of civil rights protections that other lawfully married couples enjoy.

With Supreme Court LGBTQ decision, marriage equality is at risk

The court’s decision demeans our nation’s aspirations to equality and inclusion and thereby diminishes us all.

The same-sex marriage equality decision stands for now, but it should be added to the list of endangered precedents.
The same-sex marriage equality decision stands for now, but it should be added to the list of endangered precedents.GLOBE STAFF/ADOBE

This week, the Supreme Court ruled for the first time that businesses generally open to the public can nonetheless discriminate against LGBTQ customers.

At issue in the 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis case was an evangelical Christian website designer from Colorado who did not wish to offer the same services to a same-sex wedding couple that she would offer to a heterosexual couple. The court ruled that, as an artist, the designer would be engaging in speech protected by the First Amendment by selling her customized services and thus could not be compelled to serve those whose wedding plans contradict her beliefs about marriage. Indeed, she could not be required to take down a message saying that she won’t serve gay couples.

Until this week, under long-standing state public accommodations laws, if a business wanted all the benefits that came from being generally open to the public, then it had to serve all customers equally. Since 1964, this principle has applied to a motel in the heart of AtlantaOllie’s barbecue joint in Birmingham, Ala., and social clubs and private schools that advertised to the general public. As Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted about the historic case involving Ollie’s, it would not do for the owner to have said, “I’ll serve Blacks but only on a takeout window, not inside my restaurant because that sends a message that I endorse integration.”

By twisting free speech into a license to discriminate, the court has now carved out an exception from public accommodations law for businesses that recast their services in ways that highlight their expressive features. But the court offers no workable principle to cabin that exception in any meaningful way.

One major problem with the court’s premise is that no reasonable observer would attribute to the website designer the message that she endorses gay marriage merely because, as required by a state antidiscrimination law, she designs a website for a couple regardless of their sexual orientation. The designer isn’t speaking for the couple — she just creates a medium for their message. And Colorado’s law doesn’t prevent her from making that clear to everyone.

Writing for the majority, Justice Neil Gorsuch relied on a prior case in which the court ruled that the organizers of the Boston St. Patrick’s Day parade could not be compelled to include a float bearing a banner for the Irish-American Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Group of Boston. But the unanimous opinion in that case stressed that while parade organizers could exclude the banner, they could not exclude marchers simply because they were gay or lesbian. So that case does not remotely support this decision’s radical misuse of free speech doctrine.

The court left conspicuously unanswered the sensible questions justices asked at oral argument last December: What if a website designer refused wedding business from an interracial couple because of moral objections to such marriages? Or interfaith marriages? Only Sotomayor’s dissenting opinion even mentioned the 1967 Supreme Court decision striking down bans on interracial marriage, adding: “How quickly we forget that opposition to interracial marriage” often reflected religious beliefs akin to those of the web designer in this case. What if a photographer doesn’t want business from a person with disabilities? What if a photo store doesn’t want its “Scenes with Santa” to include photos of a white Santa holding a Black child?

These questions show that there is no way to cabin the decision and limit it to LGBTQ customers or to limit the demeaning message the court’s decision itself sends to any particular category of individuals. As the dissent powerfully shows, the court’s decision demeans our nation’s aspirations to equality and inclusion and thereby diminishes us all.

During oral argument, Justice Samuel Alito tried to distinguish between “honorable” religious objection to same-sex marriage, worthy of respect in his view, from opposition to interracial marriage, which he rejected as indecent even if religiously motivated. His voice was absent from this ruling, and the majority opinion by Gorsuch avoided basing the decision on judgments about which religious messages are honorable and which are prejudiced. Every law student learns that government has no authority to decide whose religious beliefs depart indecently from the norm.

Of course, discrimination against interracial and interfaith marriage is indecent. But who is any justice to tell us that discrimination against same-sex couples is different, not really a matter of prejudice but honorable when religiously inspired?

Recently, the Boston Red Sox released a pitcher who had posted homophobic tweets about gay people being bound for hell unless they repented. The fact that the player was sincere in his religious beliefs did not keep the Red Sox from seeing the harm that his speech caused. But the Supreme Court does not see, or care about, the harm its decision portends.

The hostility of a majority of justices to the 2015 Supreme Court case protecting same-sex marriage is so open that, until they can follow Justice Clarence Thomas’s call to overrule that decision, they are determined to strip same-sex couples of civil rights protections that other lawfully married couples enjoy.

For many years, the court stopped short of overruling Roe v. Wade, until it did in 2022. For many years, the court stopped short of declaring affirmative action unconstitutional, until it did this week. The same-sex marriage equality decision stands for now, but it should be added to the list of endangered precedents.

As Sotomayor rightly concludes, “It is a sad day in American Constitutional law” when the highest court in the land closes its term with a decision that affronts the basic dignity of us all, for “the promise of freedom is empty” if government “is powerless to assure that a dollar in the hands of [one person] will purchase the same thing as a dollar in the hands of a[nother].”

Laurence H. Tribe is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. Jeffrey B. Abramson is professor of government and law emeritus at University of Texas at Austin and a former Middlesex County assistant district attorney.

Let’s talk about 4th of July trivia….