Month: June 2022

Creepy White Evangelical Couples Brandish ‘Don’t Abort. We Will Adopt Your Baby’ Signs

Following the Supreme Court’s devastating ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, protestors on both side of the abortion debate attended rallies and protests. The passion that the abortion issue elicits was illustrated in the many homemade signs demonstrators held high.

Photographs of Stepford couples brandishing signs stating “Don’t Abort. We Will Adopt Your Baby” went viral on Twitter. The prospect of these creepy ass white couples adopting a baby is a great premise for a Stephen King novel.

These signs perfectly illustrate the hypocrisy of white evangelicals, and they demonstrate that virtue signaling isn’t reserved for the left only. There are more than 400,000 children are languishing in foster care in the United States, why haven’t they adopted children already?

Thanks to the Supreme Court’s execrable ruling in a few years there will be a million children suffering in foster care.

If evangelicals really cared about pregnant women and girls who are torn about giving birth because of diverse reasons: victims of rape or incest, living in poverty, emotional instability, medical problems, etc., they wouldn’t add to their anguish by brandishing their taunting signs.  They would skip the rallies, stay home and look after their own children.

Biden Ranks Near the Bottom of List of Presidents from Best to Worst

Where does Joe Biden rank in the list presidents from best to worst? He’s not at the bottom of the list with the likes of Richard Nixon, Donald Trump and Andrew Jackson, and he’s not at the top with heroes like Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and John F. Kennedy.

Biden doesn’t have the eloquence of Barack Obama, the wit of John F. Kennedy, the charisma of Ronald Reagan, the courage of Abraham Lincoln or the mastery of the Senate of Lyndon Johnson.

What Biden does possess is a penchant for plagiarism, a well-documented predilection for fondling young girls and a stubborn streak a mile wide. Biden’s liabilities, especially his declining cognition skills, rank him just above the aforementioned losers at the bottom of the list.

If Biden had any self-awareness, he would realize that he became president only because his opponent was the reprehensible, execrable and demented Donald Trump. He would acknowledge that time takes its toll on all of us, and his mental acuity has diminished to the point where he isn’t qualified to be the president of the Bingo Club at a nursing home.

Biden is the embodiment of the Peter Principle, and he might have ranked in the middle of the list had he been elected president a couple of decades ago when he was still mentally competent.

Thanks to Trump’s Supreme Court America Will be Flooded with Unwanted Babies and Unneeded Guns

The Trumpian Supreme Court overturned almost 50 years of federal abortion rights in its execrable decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

Thirteen states have trigger laws that will soon make abortion illegal, and many other red states are expected to enact laws that outlaw abortion. Bottom line, abortion will be illegal in about 25 states.

This egregious ruling robs women of sovereignty over their own bodies and will result in tens of thousands of unwanted births.

Middle class and affluent women won’t be as severely impacted as poor women, they can afford to take time off from work and travel to a state where abortion is still legal. But poor women may not be able to afford to take time off from work and travel to another state.

According to the latest census the population of the United States is 329 million, with 37 million citizens living in poverty. The atrocious Dobbs ruling will add multitudes to the poverty rolls.

A week earlier the far-right Supreme court ruled that the Constitution protects an individual’s right to carry a handgun in public for self-defense.

There are estimated to be over 400 million guns in the United States between police, the military, and American civilians. Thanks to the Supreme Court’s ruling even more citizens will be walking around packing heat. The Wild Wild West was never as chaotic, dangerous and uncivilized as modern-day America.

Thanks to Trump’s Supreme Court we will have millions more unwanted babies, and millions more unneeded guns.

Outrage: Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade

“The Supreme Court on Friday overruled Roe v. Wade, eliminating the constitutional right to abortion after almost 50 years in a decision that will transform American life, reshape the nation’s politics and lead to all but total bans on the procedure in about half of the states.”

The New York Times

The January 6 Committee Hearings have exposed in stark relief how close the authoritarian Donald Trump’s machinations came to keeping him in power in spite of his landslide loss to Joe Biden. We are living in perilous times and we can’t take anything for granted, not democracy or our constitutional rights.

This is a dark age in the history of our democracy, this execrable ruling may be a precursor of horrors to come. Today the far-right Supreme Court dealt a crushing blow to women’s rights, will they strike down marriage equality next?

Welcome to the Handmaid’s Tale America, racists and Christian nationalists and far-right reactionaries have taken over the Supreme Court and the Republican Party.

These religious conservatives are in the minority, the majority of Americans wanted Roe to remain the law of the land. The vast majority of Americans support sensible gun control laws, but yesterday the Supremes struck down New York’s law limiting guns in public.

To hell with fascist red, white and blue fake patriotism, America is a rainbow country. America is a “live and let live” democracy, and we must take our country back from white evangelicals, far-right Justices, and Trumpian Republicans.

White Evangelical Ministers are Fluffers for Trump

Kevin Smith, an African American Baptist pastor, criticized his fellow pastors for being whores for twice-impeached former President Donald Trump during a speech on the first day of the annual Southern Baptist Convention.

The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is the world’s largest Baptist denomination, and it was organized in 1845, when it split from northern Baptists over the issue of slavery. The SBC was strongly opposed to its abolition.

Almost two centuries later racism is still firmly entrenched in the SBC; many SBC ministers got their panties in a twist when Barack Obama was elected president in 2012.

Kevin Smith demonstrated what it means for a prophet to speak truth to power, he chastised the SBC for whoring themselves to the racist Donald Trump at their annual gala.

The honorable Smith compared Trump-supporting ministers to whores, I would compare them to fluffers. A fluffer is a person employed on a pornographic film to ensure that the penis of a male actor remains erect.

White evangelical clerics are ever-loving fluffers, their main focus is to make sure Trump’s enormous ego remains erect. They are more concerned with fluffing the vain, racist, vindictive, petty steaming pile of human shit, than they are in glorifying Jesus Christ.

Is there anything more pathetic than being a fluffer for Trump?

Mike Pence a Hero? Hell to the no!

In the January 6 committee hearings Mike Pence is being depicted as a hero for his refusal to obey Donald Trump’s unconstitutional demand that he to reject key electoral votes on Jan. 6, 2021.

Pence doesn’t deserve a place in the Mount Olympus of American patriots for dutifully performing his ceremonial role on Jan. 6, 2021.

Pence is not a hero, he’s a sniveling sycophant, an egregious enabler and a yellow-bellied yes man.

If Pence had smidgeon of the courage of the police officers who protected him and his congressional colleagues on Insurrection Day he would testify before the January 6 committee to ensure that Trump never becomes president again.

Pence is still an ineffectual wimp, witness his answer to Larry Kudlow when he asked him if he’s ever seen a president say as many falsehoods as Joe Biden. “Never, in my lifetime”, responded the great man of courage and integrity.

Pence was by Trump’s side when the twice-impeached former president uttered tens of thousands of false or misleading claims during his tenure, and yet he has the temerity to say that Biden is a bigger liar than the pathological liar and chief proponent of the Big Lie.

Pence a hero? Hell to the no!

Joe Biden’s Bike Fall a Timely Reminder He’s Too Old to Run for Reelection

President Joe Biden tumbled when he tried to dismount from his bike at the end of a ride Saturday at Cape Henlopen State Park near his beach home in Delaware, but he insisted he wasn’t injured.

Biden’s $599.00 Trek FX 1 Bide was tricked out to the max with a ton of accessories, including a wireless computer, a coiled cable lock, a bottle cage, and a rear-view mirror attached to the handlebars.

But the accessory that the accident-prone septuagenarian really needs are training wheels.

A reporter caught Biden walking gingerly out of church later that day, and asked him if he was OK, and he “hopped” a millimeter off the ground to “prove” he was just fine.

Biden is far from OK; his diminished mental acuity and physical agility should make him reconsider running for reelection.

Biden needs physical therapy for balance training and strengthening of his muscles and he would be well-advised to engage in brain training games to improve his cognition skills.

Biden rides his bike, with his retinue of Secret Service in tow in an attempt to prove he’s healthy, but he’s not fooling anyone. Not a good look, even Brad Pitt looks awful silly wearing a bike helmet.

Evangelicals Are an Existential Threat to Democracy

Evangelical Christians prioritize their “individual god-given rights” over love thy neighbor.

This self-centered sentiment was exposed during the pandemic, evangelicals took pride in refusing to obey mask and vaccine mandates that were put in place by medical experts for the good of society. They trust in Jesus to protect them from the coronavirus, and to hell with the faithless masses who don’t abide by the “Jesus is my vaccine” principle.

It’s easy for them to adopt this egocentric attitude when they consider everyone outside their tent godless sinners unworthy of the almighty’s protection.

Evangelicals are the largest and most pernicious cult in America, and their ultimate goal is to overthrow our democracy and establish a Christian nationalist theocracy.

The “we are God’s chosen people” narrative isn’t confined to COVID narratives. Under a Christian nationalist regime there wouldn’t be any legal protection for religious minorities, gays and lesbians and immigrants. Universal healthcare would be abolished, abortion clinics would be burned to the ground, and universities would be closed down. Evangelicals are an existential threat to our democracy and liberty, and we must fight these selfish bastards with the same energy that we fight Nazis and other racist organizations.

PAC That Destroyed Madison Cawthorn Claims Lauren Boebert Was an Escort & Had 2 Abortions

“The American Muckrakers PAC, Inc. issued a press release claiming Rep. Lauren Boebert was an unlicensed paid escort and had two abortions. The release also claims Boebert met senator Ted Cruz in Aspen, Colorado through an introduction by a Koch family member and ‘client,’ and that Cruz donated ‘at least $136,250.00 to the Boebert Campaign and helped her raise large sums of money during trips Boebert made to Texas.’

Rep. Boebert responded to the allegations by tweeting: ‘Fact Check: Not true. Fake News. Four Pinocchios. Also… Y’all need Jesus!’ To which American Muckracker’s PAC replied, ‘No. Second. Term. For. Boebert. If it’s fake news, then sue us.’”

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These salacious allegations haven’t been confirmed by a major media outlet, but I wouldn’t dismiss them out of hand. After all, the American Muckrakers PAC leaked lurid photos and creepy videos of former Rep. Madison Cawthorn that directly resulted in his primary defeat.

Boebert calls the allegations that she was a paid escort and had two abortions “fake news”, but this is the pathological liar who is the leading proponent of the Big Lie in Congress.

I believe the allegations made by the PAC; Boebert’s Pinocchio nose is longer than any dildo she employed as an escort.

If a congresswoman had a history of working as an escort and she’s had a couple of abortions, that’s not disqualifying. The average escort has more dignity and respectability than the average politician, and there’s no shame in having an abortion.

But when a congresswoman runs on a platform of family values, and she’s vehemently anti-abortion, her blatant hypocrisy is a disqualifying factor.

Allegedly Boebert was a paid escort who met clients through SugarDaddyMeet.com. Imagine paying for a high-priced call girl, she knocks on your door, you excitedly swing the door open, and standing there is Boebert.

I won’t delve into the likelihood that Ted Cruz was a client of the evangelical escort, I don’t want to gross out my readers.

Let’s pray that Boebert will meet the same fate as Cawthorn.

Democrats Must Face Reality: Joe Biden is Too Old to Run for Reelection

The sky is blue, the grass is green, the ocean is wet and Joe Biden, 79, is too old to run for reelection. That’s not a remark born of ageism or anti-Democrat sentiments, it’s common sense.

After all I’m a progressive to the left of Biden, who appreciates how the septuagenarian president restored America’s faith in democracy, and the rule of law.

Biden has his defenders, notably House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 82, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, 71.

It’s time to turn the page, it’s time for a new generation to take over, it’s time to refresh and revigorated democracy by getting rid of this white gerontocracy.

The geriatric leadership of government is a disease that affects both parties, the Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is 80, and the wretched dictator of the GOP, Donald Trump is 75.

These decrepit and doddering old politicians are the epitome of white privilege, and they should be holding court is a rest home community room and not the White House and Congress.

The average age of the Senate is 64.3 years — the oldest in history. Seven senators are in their 80s. This is an intolerable and untenable situation. By all accounts Dianne Feinstein, 88, can’t complete a coherent sentence because she has the attention span of a gnat.

Enough is enough. Joe Biden is too old. Donald Trump is too old. These old-timers think of Baby Boomers as youngsters, and they need to be put out to pasture.

Evangelicals: ‘We Have a Sin Problem, not a Gun Problem! What BS!

White evangelicals have replaced trust in the Bible with allegiance to Republican orthodoxy.  Fidelity to the GOP’s toxic platform of anti-abortion, anti-climate change, anti-science, anti-gays, anti-immigration and anti-gun control is more important than belief in the inerrancy of the Bible, the virgin birth of Jesus Christ, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

White evangelicals are fervently pro-NRA, and they are vehemently opposed to even the most basic gun control measures like red flag laws, raising the age to purchase a long gun from 18 to 21, and enhanced background checks.

Needless to say, evangelicals don’t offer sophisticated reasons for opposing gun control laws. The following meme is ubiquitous on evangelical social media platforms:

“Cain killed Abel with a rock. The Lord did not get rid of the rocks. He blamed Cain, not the rock. We have a sin problem, not a gun problem. “

This meme doesn’t have the eloquence of the King James’ translators, but I admit it’s catchy. We don’t live in the Stone Age when prehistoric Cains and Abels settled their disputes with rocks and sharpened bones, we live in a technological age when sociopaths massacre schoolchildren with semi-automatic assault rifles, not rocks.

We do have a sin problem, more accurately referred to as a mental health problem, and we must allocate more resources to mental health, but at the same time it’s incumbent on us to make it more difficult for psychopaths to purchase assault rifles.

The Lord didn’t get rid of the rocks after Cain murdered Abel, and in spite of billions of thoughts and prayers, he hasn’t got rid of the guns, even though almost every day there’s another mass shooting in America.

Beseeching the Almighty will get us nowhere, we must vote out of office pro-NRA politicians, ridicule and expose evangelicals who are beholden to the gun lobby, and declare a holy war on the gun merchants.

Burger King Austria Debuts Pride Whopper with Same-Side Bottom Buns

Businesses all over the world celebrate Pride month by featuring limited-edition rainbow-colored products. Children from nine to 91 enjoy eating rainbow-colored ice cream cones and cookies.

However, Burger King Austria is taking the concept a bit too far with its Pride Whopper, which is the same Whopper served with the same half of a bun on each side. According to Burger King Austria, the special Whopper represents equal love and equal rights.

The Whopper with two same-side bottom buns is a nod to gay men prefer to be the bottom person when engaged in anal sex.

This ad is problematic because it gives the impression that gays are obsessed with sex, and that it’s the sex act that defines them. Anal sex doesn’t define gays any more than sexual intercourse defines heterosexuals.  

Sex is wonderful and beautiful, but it’s wrong to define a person by his sexual preferences.

I believe in Burger King’s motto “Have it your way”, but for me that means extra pickles, not two bottom buns. When I’m eating a Whopper the last thing I want to think about is anal sex.

Heroic Pro-Choice Activists Strip Down to Their Panties During Joel Osteen Church Service: ‘Overturn Roe, Hell No’

“Three abortion activists stripped down to their underwear in protest to interrupt a Sunday service at pastor Joel Osteen’s Texas megachurch.

After Osteen had finished leading a prayer and congregants began to sit down, the women stood up and began chanting, ‘my body, my fucking choice.’ Two of the women removed their dresses, with one shouting, ‘Overturn Roe, hell no!’”

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A church is a safe place, a sanctuary, for believers to gather together to worship their God and fellowship together. It’s sacrilegious and blasphemous for pro-choice activists to invade this holy place, strip down to their drawers and shout expletives, right?

Maybe not! A hospital or clinic is a safe place, a sanctuary, for patients to avail themselves of medical care, and its’ an outrage for pro-life activists to harass women and medical staff at abortion clinics, screaming at them, calling them murderers. This harassment of women seeking medical care at Planned Parenthood clinics happens so frequently that it rarely makes the local news.

I applaud the activists, a trio from Texas Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, for speaking truth to power! Jesus, looking down from heaven, most likely applauded their performance art.

My only quibble is that the brave holy women should have targeted the more reactionary Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, led by Trump-supporting John Hagee, instead of Osteen’s church which rarely tackles controversial subjects.

John Waters: ‘Donald Trump Has Ruined the Allure of Bad Taste for all Eternity’

Queen of camp filmmaker John Waters is a connoisseur of bad taste, for decades his flicks have tied up the panties of polite society.

But the auteur’s trashy, kinky and quirky cinematic vision has delighted enlightened members of society.

Waters’ magnus opus is “Pink Flamingos”, a movie reportedly with an art department budget of around $200. In the final scene Divine, a morbidly obese drag queen, eats real dog feces. I don’t know what is the greatest offense: naming a movie after the ultimate symbol of bad taste or having the lead actor eat dog shit.

In a recent interview Waters complained that former President Donald trump has ruined the allure of bad taste for all eternity. Trump was “the nail in the coffin”, Waters told the Guardian.

When a philistine with a mouth that resembles a sphincter becomes president of the United States and turns everything he touches to shit, there is no longer any room in society for genius with a trash aesthetic like John Waters.

Donald Trump Should Declare Himself to be a Messiah Greater Than Jesus Christ

With the midterm elections only five months from today, Donald Trump has increased the frequency of his MAGA rallies. Once Trump cultists made a pilgrimage to as many MAGA rallies as they could afford to attend, but with a clambake almost every week they elicit shrugs from the faithful.

Trump pep rallies have lost their pep, and are as exciting as watching grass grow. The stilted reading of lame remarks of the teleprompter. The tossing of MAGA caps into the crowd. The ridicule of Rhinos and liberals. The spastic dance moves. The airing of grievances. The familiar refrains of “Lock her up” and “Build the Wall.”  The ennui. The boredom. The angst.

Trump needs to revive his rallies and what better way than by explicitly declaring himself a messiah like the world has never seen before. Not a loser messiah who allowed himself to be tortured, ridiculed and crucified like Jesus Christ, but a messiah who will torment, ridicule and obliterate his enemies.

The time is right for Trump to declare himself the new Messiah, white evangelicals already treat him with awe and reverence. Only by declaring himself the Lord’s anointed will he inspire his sycophants to go to the polls.

Evangelical Sermons Full of Sound & Fury, Signifying Nothing

Countless sermons are delivered in evangelical pulpits every Sunday, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. These exhortations disappear into the ether, without adding anything of weight or substance to the national discourse.

Historians will little note nor long remember these harangues, they are just footnotes in the arc of the moral universe that ultimately bends towards justice.

These homilies serve as a porn soundtrack for the weekly evangelical circle jerks. These sanctimonious cultists may roll down the aisles, dance in the Holy Ghost and cry out to the Almighty, but their prayers don’t ascend into the heavens, and only dark forces take note of their histrionics.

White evangelicals are an existential threat to our democracy, but let us not be unduly exercised. Fight them tooth and nail, but comfort yourselves in the knowledge that they are doomed to irrelevancy. Freedom, liberty, and science will prevail over theocracy, superstitions and ignorance.

Hate Preacher Franklin Graham on a UK Tour Called ‘God Loves You’

Donald Trump is a vessel of unbridled hatred, and his malignance seeps out of his decrepit soul and defiles all those who support him. Trump has a cadre of white evangelical ministers who amplify his Gospel of Vengeance, and who strive to win converts to his MAGA worldview.

Franklin Graham is one of the belligerent buffoon’s most vehement defenders, and he demonizes gays, immigrants, liberals and Muslims in the name of his Lord and Savior, Donald Trump.

Graham isn’t content with poisoning political discourse and defiling the Christian religion in the homeland, currently he is on a United Kingdom tour called “God Loves You.”

I would urge the citizens of the United Kingdom to heed the biblical warning:

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits.”

The headliner of the UK “God Loves You” tour has made a name for himself in America by preaching hatred against gays, immigrants, Muslims, and anybody else who doesn’t subscribe to his Neanderthal religious beliefs.

But his greatest sin is comparing the sociopath Donald Trump to Jesus Christ, and supporting his racist, misogynist and homophobic agenda.

Some venues have cancelled Graham’s tour events, but that’s not enough, the preacher of hate should be expelled from the UK.