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BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

THREE TIMES THIS WEEK, DOO-DOO RON RON DESANTIS HAS E-MAILED BEGGING FOR FUNDS AND INSISTING "DO NOT TELL MY CHILDREN THAT MEN CAN GET PREGNANT." THE GOVERNOR IS ATTEMPTING TO IMPOSE A QUARANTINE ON ALL KNOWLEDGE -- TRUE AND FALSE -- WHICH IS BEHIND HIS ATTACKS ON UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOOLS IN FLORIDA.

DOO-DOO RON RON SPOKE TO THESE REPORTERS -- MUST CREDIT BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB -- WHILE "DOING MY BUDNISS" ON THE TOILET.

OUR FIRST QUESTION, "MEN GETTING PREGNANT?"

"I DON'T KNOW, I DON'T KNOW," A NERVOUS RON RON SAID BETWEEN LOUD GRUNTS. "IS IT POSSIBLE? I WAS TALKING TO MY WIFE WHILE SHE WAS DOING HER CHEST EXERCISES AND SHE SAID SOMETHING ABOUT YOU DON'T GET YOUR PERIOD AND I STARTED THINKING, 'I HAVEN'T HAD A PERIOD. COULD I BE PREGANT?' I HOPE NOT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT DONE DESTROYING FLORIDA YET AND I REALLY, REALLY WANT TO BE PRESIDENT. OH GOD! OH GOD!"

"ARE YOU OKAY?" -- THESE REPORTERS ASKED -- MUST CREDIT BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S MEGA DUB.

"YEAH," SAID DOO-DOO RON RON SIGHING HEAVILY. "MAN, THAT WASN'T A DUMP, THAT WAS A BIRTH. YOU FEEL ME?"

IN OTHER NEWS, TRAGEDY STRUCK LORIE SMITH.

HATE MERCHANT LORIE SMITH, PICTURED ABOVE WITH HER ADVISOR, TRANSPHOBE JONATHAN TURLEY AS THEY CELEBRATED HER GETTING AWAY WITH LYING TO THE SUPREME COURT, PARTIED HARD FOLLOWING HER VICTORY OVER EQUALITY AND FAIRNESS AND DEMOCRACY AND MAY, INDEED, HAVE BEEN DRUNK ON KIR ROYALE WHEN SHE ARRIVED AT HER LONELY HOVEL IN COLORADO SPRINGS.

NO SOONER HAD SHE SAT DOWN THEN SHE BEGAN TO WONDER WHERE MITTENS WAS? "MITTENS?" SHE REPEATEDLY CALLED OUT. BUT THE CAT NEVER CAME OUT OF HIDING. FINALLY, AFTER LETTING A LITTLE PEE LOOSE IN HER PANTIES, SHE REALIZED HOW LOOPED SHE WAS AND GOT UP TO GO TO THE BATHROOM WHEN, TO HER HORROR, SHE LOOKED DOWN AT THE CHAIR AND SAW MITTENS.

SHE HADN'T REALIZED HE WAS ON THE CHAIR AND SHE SQUASHED MITTENS.

AND SPRINKLED A LITTLE PEE ON HIM.

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

We're starting again with Marianne Williamson who is seeking the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.

From the discussion above, picking up from yesterday:

@Maebe_A_Girl: Also, when you were talking about this idea that gay people are trying to 'groom' children, that is very offensive.

Marianne Williamson: Yeah.

@Maebe_A_Girl: My daughter was born -- She has three gay men who are her godfathers and it never would have occurred to me in a million years that they would be anything other than fantastic godfathers to her. And they absolutely were. One has now passed and the other two are very close to her and they couldn't have been better. And they couldn't be better now as godfather figures in her life -- in her life and important. What you said is so true and I've had a lot of involvement with the gay community -- mainly because of the AIDS crisis -- I've never felt that there was a 'reaching out.' This is not a proselytizing group, it's kind of like, you do you.

Marianne Williamson: And so why don't we do something and blame somebody? Say, "Hey, let's actually look over there and let's talk about how these people are trying to infiltrate our way of life and try to attack our children." It's such an easy, easy way to get people riled up -- is when you bring children into the matter because, of course, everyone wants to protect children. LGBTQIA people want to protect children. And that's why we are so outspoken about these issues -- because we, LGBTQIA adults, were once LGBTQIA children and we remember what it was like to be ostracized, to be othered and to be made to feel that we are not worthy because our of our internal identities. And so I think the whole thing is a huge distraction and there are so many things that we could talk about. And the fact of the matter is what the GOP is saying that queer people are trying to do to kids is simply false. You know, there are studies. There are no -- LGBTQIA people in general are no more likely than cis gender -- heterosexual people -- to be pedophiles, to be sexual assaulters. But because of the fact that LGBTQIA people, a lot of it [what we are] revolves around our sexual identities and our gender identities, the GOP just easily distorts that into this idea of: "Oh, this is all about sex. Why are you teaching our kids about sex?" And the thing is, I don't want to teach your kids about sex. I don't even want to talk to your kids. I just want your kids to know that they are safe and they are loved regardless of whether they are straight, gay, cisgender or transgender, whatever. We want to create a society where everybody is welcomed and there is not this hierarchy of "Well I'm better than you because I'm straight, I'm better than you because I'm cis-gender." And that has historically been the battle that queer people have had to fight. And so it's remarkable in many ways and I think that now is the time that we really have to be outspoken about these things in order to create a better life for the kids that are growing up right now. I -- Again, I can't imagine what it's like to be a middle-schooler or a high-schooler right now, seeing that there are over half-a-thousand anti-LGBTQIA bills moving across the United States. I don't know what that would do to my self-esteem as a teenager. And it makes me really worried about -- about these kids. I've never particularly thought of myself as a young person going into politics. I got into politics out of necessity. And I started to look around and I started to realize things are changing and not necessarily for the better for particular communities and, in particular, the LGBTQIA community. And my sort of a-ha moment, if you will, was the Trump election in late 2016. When the Trump administration started in early 2017, I felt that I needed to -- I felt that I needed to use my platform as a drag performer and as a community figure to promote LGBTQIA rights and to promote our inclusion. And so I started doing a lot of parodies of folks in the Trump administration. I did a number of parodies -- you know, Betsy DeVos, Kellyanne Conway, Malania Trump. And part of the reason that I continue to do this throughout the Trump administration was because I would do these performances which -- in my mind -- they were satirical performances but they were also educational to let you know what was happening. You're being entertained but also you're learning that the administration is not necessarily -- Actually not even not necessarily but just flat out not on our side. And I felt that it was really important to draw people in. I think a lot of people are turned off by -- just by the idea of politics. It can seem really intimidating -- especially if you don't feel like you know everything about politics. But here's the thing, everybody knows what they feel inside is right or wrong.

Marianne Williamson: Right.

@Maebe_A_Girl: And this is absolutely in my mind what politics is all about. I'm here, you know, standing before you having this conversation and I'm running for Congress because I need to let everybody know that I feel this is what I think is right or wrong and if you agree with me vote for me, if you don't agree with me, vote for somebody else. But I want to live in a world where folks accept and tolerate everybody. Tolerance? I'm really starting to really dislike that word because I don't want to just be tolerated, I want to be fully integrated and celebrated, you know?

Marianne Williamson: It still implies judgement.

@Maebe_A_Girl: Like "Well, okay, alright, we'll let you in the room. We'll let you in the room but we're not going to let you have the microphone for very long." And, here's the thing, Marianne, I host drag shows every single week. I am best on the microphone. Give me the microphone because I will tell you what I have to say. And what I have to say is that we deserve -- we deserve equity and inclusion. And unfortunately, most of the parents that actually were in the room had kids in the Glendale school district and are in support of LGBTQIA inclusion. The school board is in support of LGBTQIA inclusion. And again, this is all age appropriate. You know, the way that you talk to second graders.

Marianne Williamson: In a democracy, these are considered moderate positions. What you were saying, though, I agree so much. If people -- People are living so much on the edge. People are living just to survive. 70% of Americans now report living with economic stress. So I agree with everything you just said.

And we're stopping there. Yesterday, we noted the first half of the video and the plan was to note the rest. I had some "[. . .]" in yesterday's and that wasn't me editing anyone, it was skipping. I thought it might have been the connection but I've streamed it again and it's edits. Which is fine, but it throws off the last two minutes of the video because there are jump cuts and it's harder to follow.

The full segment is now up at Marianne's YOUTUBE channel and we'll note that video.

So let's talk about what took place with that video: Marianne found her voice and found a reason to argue vote for her.

So many claims that this person (man usually -- Marianne and Republican Nikki Hayley are the only two women currently competing for a political party's presidential nomination) or that is strong.

But strength isn't being a bully which rules out all the GOP hopefuls except for Chris Christie. Strength also isn't staying silent. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not exhibiting strength when he refuses to stand up for an attacked segment of our country.

It's a segment, yes. And some can whine, "Such a small one!" It really doesn't matter the size -- unless you're a size queen -- the issue is are you going to defend those wrongly attacked?

If you want our votes, we need to feel we can trust you, we need to feel if we were wrongly attacked, you would stand up for us. That's how you show true strength. You don't just chase a poll, you stand up and speak out for freedoms and democracy.

If you can't do that, really what can you do?

Marianne also gets that this segment issue is nonsense. We're not in the atomic age. We've moved on. But did we learn anything? The atomic age was about discovering via splitting things and breaking them up and destroying them.

I see a lot of those types speaking right now and trying to convince you to support them.

Marianne is getting at the reality that it's not the end. That is not the end. If that's the end, everything is a broken toy. The point of addressing the issues in this country is not to divide but to synthesize. And we need to be able to address issues such as transphobia, such as racism . . . The Mrs. Max Blumenthals don't get that you have to put it together, you have to pull it together to address any issue. The Mrs. Max Blumenthals think addressing the war on LGBTQ+ Americans is pulling the focus -- honestly, what focus is there in the United States? -- and detracting from other issues. No, it's not. These are interrelated issues. How we look at one another is directly related to how we look at others. When we let hate merchants divides us as Americans through othering, we set the trap for them doing the same with foreign countries.

Marianne is turning her campaign around. She's showing that she understands how complex and interrelated this all is.

That's bravery and that's inspiring.

Applause for Marianne.

Normally that's where we stop in the discussion. Not this time.

Now we're going to talk about the fake asses and how they try to deceive and pretend and all their fakery. On Twitter, this is the most streamed video that Marianne has posted to Twitter. It also has reactions. A lot. Many are positive and that's great. But we're going to focus on the negative reactions because I don't like liars and liars have been using the internet for hate campaigns and getting away with it. Let's review the 'people' leaving negative feedback to Marianne's discussion.

Serious Joint Avatar is just a transphobe and that's all we need to know there.

@ladywhateve will not support Marianne now because of this video, she insists. Liar. You were never supporting her. You support Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and have done so for weeks. It's not that hard to find out what you've been writing about online. You're a liar who left a comment trying to make it appear that you were with Marianne or on the fence but then this video! Liar, you have Robert as your background on Twitter. Lying trash. You're trying to Bud-Light Marianne.

vic proulx takes time out from his conspiracy theories to insist Marianne is wasting time with this issue. Well don't waste your time, vic, I'm sure there's some solar flare somewhere turning people into transmutants with super powers and we all so need your expertise on that. P.S. you're a Robert F. Kennedy Jr. supporter and never planned on voting for Marianne -- go away, liar.

HLY SPRT took time away from doing racist Tweets to lament that this isn't a "kitchen table issue." Clearly, judging by other Tweets, you're another Robert supporter and I hope you are joking with your fears that the government will chemically castrate White people, I hope you're not that racist and that much of a KKK freak. It may be time for the media to start reporting on the mindset of Robert's supporters.

zombywoof is a Tim Pool freak (right-winger) who is bothered that only a small percent of the population in the US is trans. And only a small portion is on death row. The most recent estimate is 2750. So I guess that means we stop working on that issue as well? Idiot.

Emma M Tenorio tells Marianne that she just lost her vote -- she's got to protect her children. Hope Emma plans to protect them from lies because, turns out, Marianne didn't lose Emma's vote, she didn't have it. Emma's another crazy for Robert and the crazies do him no good.

KanefireX, community members may remember, was a racist in the '00s and has now resurfaced on Twitter where he still is but is a racist but also now a Michael Tracey fan. He wants Marianne to know that transgender is all a Marxist ploy. Thanks for taking time away from bleaching your white sheets to share that, Kanefire X.

PoppingWeasels wants a refund on his 2020 donation. For what she did this week. Doesn't work that way but good thing you got behind RFK Jr, right? Three weeks ago, wassn't it? Not planning to vote for her but wants people to think this interview sent him reeling. Liar.

Please grasp, this is what these con artists do. They pretend they're customers of Target, for example, and are never ever going to Target again because of a Pride display. They're liars. By the way, Emma above also wants everyone to go to Target and f**k things up because of the Pride display. She loves Robert. Robert, I'm seriously worried about the sick f**ks you are attracting.

DoNotDivideUs is anti-trans as his account listed makes clear and so does the other account from which he posted another outcry Tweet about Marianne interviewing a transgender person.

Again, we focused on the crazies. They've been around for sometime. Liars online who are part of an organized attack machine. They didn't always attack. The first time the media ever encountered them was in 2008 when THE NEW YORK TIMES took forever to grasp that the "thousands" of Barack Obama supporters were actually about 150. It took the paper that long to notice it -- we noticed it right away. Several of the multiple posters had trouble keeping their identities straight and would get confused as to what they had posted under which name. (To their credit, a TIMES political reporter did e-mail to say "you were right" when they figured out what was going on.) It's astroturf and it pretends to be a movement. They're doing it online right now with the attacks on THE LITTLE MERMAID and DISNEY+ (on those attacks, please read Stan's "Erin Johnson is a racist who writes for SCREEN RANT" and "THE LITTLE MERMAID has brought in twice as much money as what?"). They're trying to create the impression of a wave that's really not there for them. It's a result of saps like Dana Milbank who saw the 2004 election as his own world of popularity and didn't grasp that he was on a mailing list that was being worked. How dumb do you have to be?

Rachel Looker (USA TODAY) reports on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign:

In Norristown, Kennedy condemned the “toxic polarization that is really destroying our country.” Like his father in the 1960s, he lauds a similar crusade, but is instead campaigning on his belief that leaders in the Democratic Party today amplify division and push lies.

The junior Kennedy has his family's name but lacks his ancestors' popularity and is perceived differently in the public eye −in part for pushing anti-vaccine views that are at odds with what government agencies and prominent public health experts say. More diseases, like measles, can occur in communities with pockets of unvaccinated people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

I've seen you buddy up to Tucker Carlson, Glenneth Greenwald and Matt Taibbi -- transphobes one and all. Your niece telling me you're not a transphobe and that you do not hate LGBTQ+ people isn't enough. You need to find your voice. You've been more than willing to meet with any crazy in the world. It's time for you to find the voice to defend the most targeted in the community. You're the one invoking your father -- and you should -- but he wouldn't be silent when a minority population was targeted.

Some of that, I would say, involves some private conversations. I think if you appear on some public platforms with them, you offer them critiques -- and again I think you're capacity to do this is greater than folks like ours because of who you are. But you can engage people in what you were term "loving critiques" on public platforms so that folks can be clear about what your position is as you try to show people and win people over to new positions without necessarily having a huge fight that's good for television but doesn't move people over to certain political positions. [. . .] But if you go to an event that's an event to boost them and you only praise them then of course they're your friend but again I think it diminishes your stature and who you are because it looks like to the rest of us who are seeing it that you're not offering critical love as you stated earlier about some of the organizations and people that you care for but instead it feels as if you're endorsing their platforms and who they are and their ideals

That's Kamau Franklin offering some wise words to Cornel West (we'll include the video in a moment) that equally apply to Robert.

Marianne's running a real campaign. At present, Robert's not. That is reality. And. Robert, if your scared that all the crazies will fall away if you defend those in need of defending? You really aren't your father's son.

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