For The Haters and Bigots Shall Always Be Among Us
And they'll ALWAYS think they're the smartest ones in the room
You can call me biased, but I’m married to a nurse practitioner, and most of my friends are doctors, nurses, and other flavors of medical professionals. So when it comes to the questions surrounding the COVID-19 vaccines, there ARE no questions.
After all, who am I going to believe- the folks with ten years of medical school? Or the guy who spent 20 minutes on Google?
Wait, wait…don’t tell me….
Libs of TikTok, for some reason, hasn’t been labeled as a hate site, but it should be. Its raison d’ etre is to spread hatred and fear of transgender Americans specifically and the LGBTQ community generally. Now Chaya Raichik, the site's founder, is publishing a children’s book. It’s never to early to propagandize and indoctrinate our precious snowflakes, eh?
Raichik isn’t the first hater to take a shot at monetizing hatred, transphobia, and homophobia- but she’s undoubtedly one of the most disgusting and reprehensible.
And America’s Best Christian is right; it’s about finding ways to profit off homophobic MAGA pinheads.
Ain’t capitalism grand?
Consider this: If Junior’s last name wasn’t “Trump,” he’d probably be working the night shift at a Wawa in East Bumfuck, WV, and bemoaning his miserable existence.
Junior inherited his father’s IQ and his mother’s sense of entitlement. Unfortunately, he’s parlayed those gifts into a career as a professional asshole. Nice work if you can get it, eh?
It’s a wonder he hasn’t run Trump Org into the ground. ‘Course, there’s still plenty of time for that…and Junior’s just dense and inept enough to be the man for the job.
There was a time when Scott Adams might have been able to salvage something of his career. The man’s a brilliant cartoonist. But, sadly, he’s a genuinely shitty human who lacks the self-awareness to understand that not everyone’s attuned to his racism, homophobia, and generalized asshole-centric view of the world.
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Now, Adams is fully aware that he’s torpedoed his once-promising career because few newspapers and media outlets will touch him and most are cutting him loose. And the few still carrying Dilbert probably won’t be for much longer.
May Scott Adams crawl back under the rock from whence he emerged. No decent person wants to be subjected to his racist, homophobic shit.
Yeah, this was SNL, but if you close your eyes and listen to the speech, you couldn’t tell it wasn’t an actual Donald Trump speech. Why? Because most of his speeches were just this incoherent.
Trump did change the regulations to make trains less safe, possibly setting the table for the East Palestine derailment. So is he to blame for the disaster? That might take some time to determine, but he didn’t do anything to make trains carrying hazardous chemicals safer.
Republicans wanting to blame Pete Buttigieg and President Joe Biden might want to be careful about assessing blame before doing their due diligence. They might not like what they discover.
You talk about the truth as if it matters to Charlie Kirk…or any other Christian Nationalist. Since when does the American Taliban give a damn about the truth? They’re concerned about one thing- political power- and they’ll do and/or say anything they believe will get them closer to that goal.
If Charlie Kirk believes he has to lie about Scripture or the Founding Fathers' writings, why would he think twice about it? The truth is whatever he can convince his audience it is. Objective, empirical truth means nothing; it’s what the sheeple can be persuaded to believe.
And if you’re taking history or Bible lessons from Charlie Kirk, you have more significant problems than you know.
Perhaps your first mistake is assuming Kevin McCarthy understands that the proverbial ethical/moral barrel has a bottom. It doesn’t, so if anyone thinks this is the nadir, you’d do well to remember that he’s barely two months into his Reign of Error as House Speaker.
No, McCarthy’s only getting started, so you can rest assured that more and far worse await us. We can’t begin to know what that will be, of course, but when you consider that McCarthy has the ethics of a snake and the moral underpinnings of Herman Goering, it won’t be good.
If slime were a person, it would be Kevin McCarthy. You can use your imagination from there.
This is America. No one should have the right to force themselves and their beliefs on anyone such as the un-American creeps at Operation Save America would do. They’re free to oppose abortion, but violence is beyond the pale.
What allows the Far-Right to believe they have the right to force their beliefs on those who don’t share them? What provides them the moral authority to be assholes to others simply because they hold different views?
Well, at least someone’s proud, eh?
I’ve probably said this before, but my expectations aren’t exceptionally high. All I want is to live in a country where people are respected. We need not agree 100% of the time, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect- or even hope- that we respect each other’s individuality.
That means that we need to recognize that we won’t share the same values or opinions on certain issues. And that’s OK…or at least it should be. Ideas aren’t the problem. The problem is how we react to others who adhere to different values and/or ideas. Or come from different cultures and speak different languages. Or follow different religions and profess different political views and ideologies.
America isn’t the property of White Conservative Christian heterosexuals. America belongs to no one demographic group. No matter how insecure some White Conservative Christian heterosexuals become, this will never be “their” country. America belongs to all of us, regardless of who we are and which “club” we belong to.
How about we start acting like there’s plenty of America to go around? No one will take your piece of the pie, and no matter how much you fear otherwise, there’s plenty for all of us.
So how about we all relax, take a deep breath, and have a cookie? And maybe some coffee? We could even try talking to one another…and who knows what might happen? We might even find out that we like one another.
Wouldn’t that be something?
"Junior inherited his father’s IQ and his mother’s sense of entitlement." -- Good line!