Showing posts with label Republicans With Gay Friends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Republicans With Gay Friends. Show all posts

Friday, November 1, 2024

Hairball-Inducing


By Miss Kubelik

We cats welcome everyone to the cause of defending democracy against Benedict Donald and the MAGAts. We refuse to bicker about policy differences (because what will they matter if our democratic form of government is destroyed?), and we will not take converts to task on social media with messages of "What took you so long?" Sure, it's tempting. But this is an emergency.

Still and all, we have to make some observations about Nicolle Wallace's plea today to George W. Bush to publicly endorse Vice President Harris. What a reminder that before Trump, we used to call Bush the younger the Worst Person Who's Ever Lived. He sent thousands of Americans to die in a phony, trumped-up war, abandoned thousands of others during and after Hurricane Katrina, and plunged the country into an economic freefall in 2008 — all of which took us years to recover from.

In fact, with those three acts, George W. Bush paved the way for Trumpism. Matt Bai in The Washington Post (from which we unsubscribed, by the way) recently observed this.

Those facts alone make us cats want to hack up a hairball. But Wallace's reference to Bush's 2004 declaration that they should "leave everything on the field" as a justification for her argument really makes us sick. Do you remember what that entailed 20 years ago? Republicans demonizing gay people in battleground states, led by Karl Rove and (the, of course, very gay) Ken Mehlman — banking on voters' fear of "the other" to gain support in advance of terrifying concepts like marriage equality.

That said, why did Wallace do this?

Was it a public plea because her private entreaties weren't being heard, or were rejected outright? Did she do it because of Trump's recent comments on Liz Cheney? Did Barbara the daughter (who's endorsed Harris), or Laura, or someone else close to Smirky, tell her he would listen if she went public? Did she want to strengthen the platform for former Republicans on MSNBC during a Harris Administration? Or did she just want to give cover to other GOP late endorsers? We think the backstory on this is hugely complex — and maybe someday we'll find out the details. Meanwhile, we cats HISS and PURR at the same time.

Thursday, February 22, 2024

CPAC Goes Poof (Not A Pun)

 

By Zamboni

Wow! Looks like the organizers of CPAC 2024 should have picked a smaller venue than the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center. They're not exactly packing them in, so perhaps they should downsize next year — if, indeed, they even decide to hold another one.

The event runs through Saturday, so we guess there's a chance that this room gets filled at some point. But the vibe is definitely one of indifference and lethargy — or maybe fear of being groped by Matt Schlapp, LOL. The low turnout is particularly interesting coming on the heels of Benedict Donald's money troubles. His campaign raised $3 million less than Nikki Haley did last month, and it has 200,000 fewer donors than it did four years ago. Add the fact that it spent more in January than it took in — on legal fees, we assume — and you're looking at a weak, maybe even flatlining 2024 for the Trumpsters.

(Nevertheless, the media seem intent on portraying Joe Biden as the "beleaguered" candidate, but that's a subject for another post. Warning to journalists: We will not be kind.)

Why is Donald doing so poorly? Do his previous donors have a problem with paying for his lawyers? Are they bored with the same old shtick he rolls out at his "shows"? Are they tired of all the losing when he promised them nothing but winning? Or — and this is the first thing that crossed our minds — are a lot of them dead from COVID? Perhaps it's all of the above. At any rate, we cats love it, and we PURR.

Sunday, December 31, 2023

New Year's Resolution: Don't Let The Republicans Get Away With Their Crap

By Sniffles

As we get ready to knock another year off the kitchen counter, let's resolve to always call out Republicans when they start vomiting up nonsense. Which is what they do all the time.

Yes, it will be exhausting. Yes, it's because they must project their own sins onto Democrats in order to fool voters in the 2024 election. No, it will not work — as long as we keep telling the world that they're liars, because we can't rely on the media to do it without our saying so in the first place. (Apparently, investigative journalism has died.)

The latest example from our neck of the woods is the brouhaha the GOP is trying to gin up over Chick-fil-A and New York highway rest stops. There's a fight going on to make the right-wing, antigay franchise, which has restaurants at several stops on the New York Thruway, open on Sundays, which the company famously does not do.

We don't give a full litter box about Chick-fil-A's supposed piety in allowing their employees to worship on Sundays. What about the many Thruway travelers who don't observe the Christian Sabbath? More to the point, why can't Chick-fil-A hire non-Christians to work their restaurants and serve hungry travelers that day?

So we cats have written our New York State Assemblywoman, Carrie Woerner, to tell her exactly that. We didn't mention that we've never eaten at a Chick-fil-A, and never will. Our larger point is this: Don't sign up to open food franchises on the Thruway if you can't abide by the rules — and those rules say, you must be open on Sundays.

Lindsey Graham has sashayed across the sets of Fox "News" to scream about Chick-fil-A and claim anti-Christian bias by the state of New York. Which is utter claptrap. Someday, we'd like to know what it is that the Russians have on Lindsey to turn him into such a Trumpy jackass. In the meantime, let's call him out. We cats HISS.

Thursday, November 16, 2023

Who Knew Atlantic City Could Be Lavish?

By Sniffles

Somebody please break it to Elise "Elsie" Stefanik that her 2022 golden boy George Santos won't be running for re-election next year. George's announcement came hard on the heels of the House Ethics Committee's 56-page report on his nefarious doings — using campaign money for "lavish" trips to Atlantic City (whut?), Botox treatments, and porn, among other things. Are these the family values that the Republican Party used to champion? What a difference a Trump makes.

One guess is that Santos's announcement was meant to buy off enough GOP votes to forestall a two-thirds vote to expel him immediately. Since we love hanging the Santos albatross around New York Republicans' necks, we're rooting for George.

But after that — what's next? Will Santos write a tell-all book, and rat out all the closeted gays on the Christian right? Or maybe a children's book? Will he get a Speakers Bureau or Newsmax commentator gig? Start a phony foundation to support "diversity" in the GOP, and pay himself $1 million? Join the faculty at Liberty University? Or serve as Ambassador to Brazil in the second Trump Administration?

(We threw that last one in for laughs.)

No predictions here, unless it's book-writing: Like Hitler, he'll probably have to do it from jail. We cats PURR.

Monday, July 3, 2023

WTF?


By Sniffles

The Trumpsters and Republicans are all about projection, right? Their shtick these days is "Biden corruption" and "Biden treason" — which is pretty funny when you consider how the Trumps used the federal government as their personal piggy bank and how Donald shared national security documents with people who had no business seeing them. So when they toss about accusations like that, they're just proving they're worried about what's coming down the pike.

That said, who knows what to make of this extraordinarily bizarre DeSantis ad? Is he trying to hint that he's secretly gay? One of those heavily closeted, self-loathing homosexuals? That's a lazy trope that we try to avoid, but this thing is a head-scratcher. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg kind of sums up everyone's puzzlement here.

Whatever the answer, the ad is a huge misfire. Rumors are flying that Team DeSantis has had to spend the holiday weekend working the phones to placate upset donors. But Rhonda can't take it down — that would be admitting a mistake, for which Benedict Donald would endlessly mock him. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy! We cats PURR.

Thursday, June 1, 2023

MAGA Heads Are Exploding

 

Happy Pride Month, everybody! Especially all those Trumpy race car fans. (They're already mad at Chick-fil-A.) We cats PURR.

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Outed

By Miss Kubelik

What's more hilarious — that the hypocrite Matt Schlapp has finally been publicly sued by someone he homosexually assaulted, or that the someone turned out to be from the Herschel Walker campaign? Such a fine coda to the Republicans' Georgia nightmare. We cats are loving every minute.

The Schlapps' attorney has averred that his clients are "suffering unbearable pain and stress" from the victim's lawsuit. Yes, it must be terrible to wait for all those other shoes out there to drop. Is there a Gloria Allred-type lawyer who specializes in suing famous gay-hating homosexuals who fondle men and expect them to keep quiet about it? Because that person could get a ton of business just from the folks who haven't yet, um, schlapped back. We're sure of it.

Matt Schlapp has always seemed incredibly gay, so it's surprising that this hasn't happened earlier. But we didn't like to think about it much. One, the subject of Matt Schlapp is nauseating, and two, gays who hide their sexuality and demonize those who don't are depressing. We couldn't care less about their "unbearable pain and stress" — we worry about the pain and stress they cause others, prey included.

So what the accuser from the Walker campaign must be going through is a shame. But we cheer his attempt to hold his assailant to account. Let's hope Matt gets more than a schlapp on the wrist. We cats PURR.

Monday, October 10, 2022

How Proud Is Home Depot?


By Baxter

Atlanta held its Pride Festival this weekend, which included a huge parade with nearly every statewide Democratic candidate marching (or, at one point, riding in a classic pink convertible).

No Republicans turned out for the fun. But a few corporations did.

"Atlanta’s business establishment has embraced the three-day event," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. "Just about every major Atlanta-based corporation was represented: Coca-Cola, Cox, Delta, Home Depot and UPS each had large contingents."

Hmmm, Home Depot. Didn't we cats recently see a news story about an enormous Home Depot contribution to Herschel Walker's Senate campaign? Like nearly $2 million?

They deny it. "The company has not contributed to [Walker's] campaign," they said in a statement. "The contribution was from our co-founder Bernie Marcus, who left Home Depot more than 20 years ago."

Hmmm, again. As a follow-up, people are asking Home Depot how many shares of stock Marcus still owns. No response yet.

It's pretty neat that Home Depot is being put on the spot about this, but still — it sounds like they're trying to have it both ways on gay rights. Journalists shouldn't let them wriggle out of it. We cats HISS.

P.S. You can donate to Senator Raphael Warnock's campaign here.

Thursday, April 28, 2022

Republicans In Disarray

By Baxter

If there were a word like disarray that began with an "R" instead of a "D," we'd never hear from lazy journalists about Democrats-in-you-know-what again. We cats have looked for a word like that, but have pretty much come up empty. So let's just say that the GOP is imploding.

The hapless Kevin McCarthy and his tape travails are only part of the story. First, it seems pretty clear that the party is making a coordinated effort to pull the rug out from under Madison Cawthorn's wheelchair. Have you seen and heard the stuff that's been leaked on him lately? Insider trading, women's underwear, and now, crotch fondling? Ugh. See what happens when you out Republicans on their cocaine orgies?

There's more: Matt Gaetz and other Trumpsters are attacking McCarthy and Steve Scalise now. Our own (GACK!) Congresswoman, Elise Stefanik, is having to deny that she leaked the McCarthy tapes. And Marjorie Taylor Greene? That girl is just a wreck.

But the most delicious one is the sight of Florida Governor Ron "Don't Say Gay" DeSantis, hauling his unappealing ass out to Nevada to campaign for the brainless Adam Laxalt for Senate, only to have Benedict Donald make a surprise endorsement of a GOP candidate for Nevada governor while the DeSantis event was underway. As you can imagine, the subsequent headlines were all about Ron & Don and 2024, with Adam ending up an afterthought.

We still don't think that Trump will run for President again, but he's definitely keeping his options open — and just sent an embarrassing shot across Don't Say Gay Man's bow. We cats love it when Republicans fight, and we PURR.

Friday, March 11, 2022

Smart Moves And Dumb Moves


By Hubie and Bertie

"Thank you for your service," Vice President Harris told Polish troops on her trip to Europe this week, raising the specter (at least, in our minds) of the brave Polish pilots who volunteered for the RAF in World War II.

It was clever of President Joe Biden to send Harris on this mission, because it helped raise her international profile, in case — well, just in case. And we always knew that she was more than up to it. Biden just positioned her to the world not only as his Vice President, but as a potential President. This is really smart.

But back at home, the sound decisions of the Biden-Harris Administration continue to clash with the idiocy of the opposition and their enablers. Right now, we cats are spitting mad at the Disney Corporation, for what they're doing in Florida.

After the state legislature enacted anti-gay laws in the Sunshine State — at the bidding of white supremacist Ron DeSantis — Disney, following a flaccid initial response, finally decided to act. Their solution? Suspend all political donations to candidates and incumbents in Florida.

But why penalize Florida Democrats who have been fighting DeSantis's bigotry since day one? Why punish those who bravely stood up to protect and preserve the rights of children and of Disney's 50,000+ Florida employees? Punish the Republicans, not them.

Florida Democrats should not suffer the same fate as the haters. "Bob Chapek," whoever you are, you are an idiot and a jerk. We cats HISS.

Sunday, September 26, 2021

Republicans In Ruins


By Miss Kubelik

If the word "disarray" began with an "R," journalists would never write another line about Democrats being in — well, you know. They love the alliteration so much, and it lets them do another lazy story about how our side is consumed with infighting.

Well, political haggling over Build Back Better is nothing compared to what the Republican Party is going through now. The split was underlined tonight by a "60 Minutes" interview in which Liz Cheney went after Kevin McCarthy and the insurrectionists in terms that the media would go nuts over if any of us said them about our fellow Democrats. McCarthy, she said, should be ashamed of himself. So true.

She also listed the many, many issues on which we seriously disagree with her. (Sorry, Liz, but waterboarding is torture.) So we're still not sending her any money. But we wish her well in her campaign to defend the Constitution. And since repealing marriage equality is obviously next on the right wing's agenda, it's significant that she had the balls to say tonight that she was wrong to oppose it. Good for her. We cats PURR.

Sunday, August 15, 2021

The Isolation Of Lindsey Graham


By Hubie and Bertie

Back in the day, White House counsel Chuck Colson said he would run over his grandmother to get Richard Nixon re-elected. Nixon did win in 1972 — but he resigned in 1974, and Colson went to prison for Watergate-related crimes.

We remember the frisson of shock that rippled through Washington when Colson made that grandmother remark. Turns out, it was just a precursor of today's Republican Party.

Today's poster child for that anything-to-win mindset — among many poster children, by the way — is probably Lindsey Graham. Lady Lindsey is the subject of a lengthy New York Times profile that, basically, tries to explain why he's so ready to whore himself for Donald Trump.

The article never really answers the question. After a traumatic, orphaned childhood, was Lindsey always looking for approval and acceptance from alpha males? Was it golf? Or (our take), is he just a soulless fiend who would do anything — even betray the memory of his fave buddy, John McCain — to stay close to power?

Whatever it is, Lady Lindsey has apparently salvaged his "friendship" with Benedict Donald. But his relationship with President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. seems to be beyond repair. A post-2020-election call with the President-elect did not go well. Although Joe Biden has surprised us in many ways — his ability to temper his commentary, to pivot, and to forcefully push back — there's one thing we all know for sure: You do not attack his family and get away with it.

So Lady Lindsey is living in this odd limbo. Not loved by Benedict Donald, who loves no one except himself, and estranged from reasonable people in Washington who can't fathom Graham as a loyal Trumpster. We'd feel sorry for him, except we don't. We cats HISS.

Thursday, August 6, 2020

Cat Fight! Brianna Keilar vs. Mercedes Schlapp

By Hubie and Bertie

Mercedes and Matt Schlapp are the most irritating — and, on the husband's side, closeted — couple since Michele and Marcus Bachmann.

It's a wonder that any respectable news organization would have either of them on at all. But at least when CNN booked Mercedes for Brianna Keilar's early-afternoon show, Keilar was not letting her get off easily. When Schlapp tried the now-tired GOP saw that voting by mail is rife with fraud, Keilar gave her the heave-ho with, "This is pointless. I get it, you’re just saying a bunch of crap! Okay. You’re saying a bunch of crap...very nice to have you."

Schlapp must have been smarting from that, because to retaliate, she went after Keilar's husband on Twitter — but got the wrong guy. Oops.

You know, it's just the latest, albeit small, example of how bad the Trumpsters are at all this. We had just been musing about why they let Jonathan Swan's Axios interview sit in the can for an entire week without even attempting to get out ahead of it. They knew how bad Benedict Donald had been. Why didn't they try a little pre-emptive damage control? Trot out some Trumpy healthcare statisticians to talk about how important deaths-per-cases is, for example? They're not shy about having their trade representative talk about medical matters, so what stopped them?

So why wasn't Mercedes Schlapp smart enough to tweet correctly about Brianna Keilar's husband? Because she couldn't pass a cognitive test? Had to pay someone to take her SATs? We cats wonder, and we HISS.

Monday, May 28, 2018

Cat Fight! Kelly Sadler vs. Mercedes Schlapp

By Sniffles

Apparently the White House leaker wanted to resurrect the "John McCain is dying anyway" story just in time for Memorial Day and tonight's HBO McCain documentary. And just as apparently, it worked. Consider the controversy, if not McCain the brain cancer patient himself, officially revived.

The latest brouhaha has Kelly Sadler outing Mercedes Schlapp as the White House leaker in the presence of Donald Drumpf himself. But we cats are patting ourselves on the back, since as soon as Schlapp gratuitously let the "I stand with Kelly Sadler" comment slip, we knew she had leaked the McCain insult in the first place.

That's because Schlapp and her femme husband (they remind us a little of Mr. and Mrs. Michele Bachmann) are avatars of the hard-core Christian right, which has never loved McCain. So they're sending a message to their fellow travelers on the GOP's anti-McCain fascist flank, for whom the senior Senator from Arizona is surely expiring too slowly. Also, Schlapp is campaigning hard to be White House Communications Director, and Sadler's travails reflect badly on Lyin' Sarah Sanders, to whom Sadler reports. A classic meow mêlée, in our eyes.

Or chalk it up to the fact that the Trumpsters are all incompetent, power-mad, hateful fools. Can both be true? (Sure!) We cats HISS and PURR at the same time.

Thursday, January 4, 2018

The Stuff Of Mike Pence's Nightmares

By Baxter

Boy, do we love this photo. That's Doug Jones, Democrat of Alabama, being sworn in as Senator by the homophobic religious zealot Mike Pence, while Jones's gay son, Carson, looks on. ("Looks on" as in, "Mangez merde and die, sucker!")

This is delicious not just because as Governor of Indiana, Pence suffered nationwide embarrassment over his "religious freedom" law (and did a one-eighty on it because, of course, Pence is nothing if not an opportunist) — but also because pedophile and faux-Christian Roy Moore, whom Jones smote in the Senate race, tried to out Carson after the election on his Face Thing page.

It was a futile gesture, and Mike Pence was stuck having to swear in Jones the other day. While we revel in the sweet revenge, we can't help noticing that Louise Jones, looking away from Pence, had the better view. We cats PURR.

Monday, September 4, 2017

And About That Belt...

By Baxter

We cats are glad to hear that prosecutors looking into former Congressman Aaron Schock's improper use of campaign funds are declining to, um, "probe" his sexuality.

Because gosh, there's really nothing to, um, "probe," is there? It's pretty clear to us. A guy who wears this shirt and who decorated his House office like Downton Abbey surely can't pass muster with the likes of Tony Perkins and the guys who wrote the Nashville Statement.

To be clear: We don't care who Aaron Schock sleeps with. We do care if he misuses public money. And we definitely care that for whatever reason, he decided he had a home in his bigoted, homophobic Republican Party and proceeded to vote accordingly.

So let's all celebrate the fact that Aaron Schock is no longer haunting the halls of Congress — and let's hope that while his past will forever remain checkered, his closet no longer is. We cats PURR.

Monday, June 26, 2017

Ghost Of Scalia Past

By Miss Kubelik

It's bittersweet that on the second anniversary of Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court has handed the New Worst Person Who's Ever Lived a partial victory on his Muslim ban. We're trying not to think about that, though, and stay focused instead on how beautiful the White House looked on this night in 2015.

But more scary things are afoot. SCOTUS has agreed to hear why homophobic bakers shouldn't have to make cakes for gay weddings — in short, they'll decide whether the government of the United States will come down on the side of particular (and particularly intolerant) religions instead of guaranteeing public access to goods and services. That's a biggie. It's also a reminder that a right-wing lamebrain is sitting in Merrick Garland's stolen seat, which continues to outrage us.

That very lamebrain, in fact, dissented on one good thing the Supreme Court did today — guaranteeing same-sex couples the right to be listed as parents on their children's birth certificates. Now, honestly, who could oppose that? Answer: Thomas, Alito and yes, Gorsuch. See? Shudders all around.

Well, maybe we should all cheer up: Anthony Kennedy didn't announce his retirement yet. That — and getting through another heart-stopping last day of the current SCOTUS term — makes us PURR.

Thursday, December 22, 2016

False Equivalency, Again

By Baxter

Remember when North Carolina was a bastion of Southern progressivism? No worries if you don't. The days of Terry Sanford and Jim Hunt are long gone, and today the state has slipped alarmingly backward — with the malevolent spirit of the Ghost of Haters Past, Jesse Helms, reigning supreme. (If he were still around, though, Helms probably wouldn't be pleased that he plays a bit part in the celebratory exhibit on Robert Mapplethorpe, now at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.)

North Carolina descended into chaos and idiocy yesterday, as the you-repeal-yours-I'll-repeal-mine deal to junk the state's notorious HB2 "bathroom bill" fell apart. Republicans' heads exploded when the Charlotte City Council left intact its community relations committee's power to nix discrimination. So GOP legislators fired back: Leave HB2 on the books, they said, for a six-month "cooling off" period, after which they'd maybe kinda sorta look at a repeal.

The result: Lots of insults, a ton of finger-pointing, and no deal. But color us cats skeptical on the Republicans' umbrage.

After all, why are those two things equal? Why does empowering a city committee to deal with discriminatory practices that may or may not happen rise to the level of leaving a hate-based, paranoid, unenforceable, business-killing, tourism-killing, and collegiate and professional sports-killing law in place for half a year — and maybe forever? Somebody please explain.

And why would a state not want to protect its citizens from discrimination, anyway? Maybe we should visit that Mapplethorpe exhibit again — just because we know Jesse Helms wouldn't want us to. Meanwhile, we urge the world to continue its boycott of the Tarheel State, whose knavish Republican rulers make us HISS.

UPDATE: The Electoral Integrity Project has concluded that North Carolina no longer ranks as a democracy. How many other Republican-run states would also qualify? We cats HISS again.

Thursday, September 22, 2016

And Now, From The Department Of Horrifying Thoughts Department...

By Miss Kubelik

Item #1: The political world is agog that George H.W. Bush has refused to deny the cat that Kathleen Kennedy Townsend recently let out of the bag: He'll vote for Hillary Clinton. However, we think few pundits are taking the Bush-Trump conundrum far enough into the future.

When will someone observe what the Bushes have already figured out — namely, that if Donald Drumpf doesn't go down to defeat in 2016, George P. Bush will have to run against Donald Jr. for the Republican nomination in 2024? (Whoa, hairball time.)

Item #2: Newt Gingrich is claiming that Drumpf is "the first conservative" courageous enough to brave America's hideous "inner cities" and "talk change." Obviously, what the former House Speaker meant was that Drumpf is a whitey who's not afraid to talk to black folk.

This statement is not only condescending, it is a lie. We cats are not in the habit of defending Republicans, but does anybody remember the GOP's 1996 Vice Presidential nominee? Jack Kemp was a trailblazer in reaching out to the African-American community, citing his football career as the basis for his belief in racial equality. If Kemp were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.

Item #3: This one is probably more scary for Republicans than for us. But there's a report that Mike Pence is going to attend Monday night's debate. He wants to "be there" for Drumpf. Okay, we'll set aside the bromance-y implications of that assertion and just say that it's a stupid waste of campaign resources. (Pence should be in a key battleground state, watching with supporters — oh, never mind.)

But maybe we do know why. Take Pence away, and who's going to be in the spin room for Drumpf afterwards? Gingrich, whom Garry Trudeau used to portray as a bomb with a lit fuse? Crazy Rudy Giuliani, foaming at the mouth? The Drumpf campaign needs a grownup, and since Kellyanne Conway can't seem to handle questions about Donald Trump's tax returns, and Steve Bannon and his white hood are under wraps, it looks like Mikey gets the job. We cats HISS.

Thursday, August 11, 2016

Pedophiles For Trump

By Miss Kubelik

Tit for tat, as they say. Barely a day after the Donald Drumpf campaign screamed about an unsavory character showing up at a Hillary Clinton rally, they got one of their own.

Yep, that's Mark Foley, whose taste in Congressional pages ran to the underage and the male, sitting behind Drumpf and soaking in every word at a rally yesterday in Sunrise, Florida. You can't tell from this photo, but if you watch the video, you can see Foley jumping up and down, waving to Drumpf ("Me, Donald, me!") and applauding like a fool. Ugh.

It's really too bad that Foley couldn't have been joined at the rally by the House Speaker who so zealously protected him as he preyed upon pages. But Dennis Hastert — whose taste in high school wrestlers were oh so similar to Foley's — is rotting in jail. We cats PURR.