He Really Said This

 

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Bob Menendez has been sentenced to 11 years in prison.

Democrats send their criminals to jail.

Republicans send theirs to the White House.

Skyler Johnson

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Coping With Trump 2.0, First Weeks

 

The Keystone Kops

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Here's a whoops we all saw coming.

You'll recall that following the November election of openly transgender Rep. Sarah McBride, Rep. Nancy Mace raised a ruckus about trans women using female bathrooms at the U.S. Capitol. Speaker Mike Johnson then mandated that restroom access be determined solely by the gender assigned at birth.

It's taken a nanosecond for egg to land on Republican faces.

On Thursday, a male reporter saw Rep. Lauren Boebert "bursting out of the House Women's restroom during this afternoon's vote series." She complained to security of "a guy" in the bathroom. Boebert went to the House floor to round up Mace, and the matched pair of Dolores Umbridges stormed into the bathroom. Seconds later, they came back out and returned "quietly to the floor." 

Boebert later said, "I made an error regarding a mistaken identity. I apologized, learned a lesson, and it won’t happen again."

The hell it won't. As long as the self-appointed potty police are on patrol, this sort of thing will happen again and again, to everybody's embarrassment. Reportedly the duo thought the person was McBride herself. Imagine being that cisgender woman they confronted? Imagine being so hot to make political points by snagging a transgender offender that your eyesight deserts you?

I'd like to know whether the Un-dynamic Duo missed any votes while conducting this charade of a crusade. Actually, now that I think about it, this could be an effective method of keeping the reactionary pair from voting. We should arrange a constant stream of cisgender, androgynous women, both gay and straight, occupying the bathroom so that Boebert and Mace are always too absorbed with monitoring the stalls to cast any actual votes. 

Hey, they assigned themselves this task. Just because they screwed up royally, they can't stop now. America expects them to be conscientious commode cops. It's a tough job, but these two are clearly suited to spending their days perched outside the restroom, trying to deny entrance with crossed toilet brushes.

Speak Truth to Glower

 

Supporting the Resistance

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I'd allowed my ACLU membership to lapse, and that organization wouldn't let me forget it. But I was glad to see in its most recent mailing that the ACLU isn't going after me so much as Donald Trump.

This appeal for money, crafted before Trump took office, includes a poster-sized letter that reads "Dear President-elect Trump:  In case you had any doubt, WE ARE THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION. And we're not moving to Canada."

I like that line so much I wish I'd written it.

But it immediately reminded me how even my adult nieces have talked of fleeing to Germany, where we have roots, as a result of Trump's return to the Oval Office. That's a deeply sad state of affairs.

And ironic. Emigrating to Germany to escape potential fascism in America? Mein Gott.

I did indeed re-up with the ACLU today. While I don't agree with all of the group's positions, this is no time to be fussy. The ACLU fought Trump hard the first time around, and boy, do we need that again. My problem is I lack the money to support all the organizations standing against the Trump agenda.

Perhaps it's time I opened a fake university.

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Okay, I’ve gotta call time. Trump just claimed America split the atom. That’s THE ONE THING WE DID.

New Zealand satirist Ben Uffindell after Trump's inaugural address

Source:  The Guardian