The Supreme Court is corrupt. And we saw that last
week as one decision after another rolled back progress. But the worst
decision was the Colorado case. My brother and I were talking about it
(he's gay) and he said to pass on thanks to Ava and C.I. for getting it
when most do not, see "Media: Corrupt Court, Corrupt YOUTUBE." The ruling says that gay men and lesbians can be
discriminated against for 'religious beliefs.' As they explain, this is
a two-tiered citizenship for Americans. Lesbians and gay men are
less-than and no longer have full rights. This is offensive.
I
can't believe we're back to this garbage in this country. If you
missed it, the Civil Rights Movement and, before that, the Civil War
were about saying no to a two-tier system of citizenship.
Colorado’s Attorney General Phillip Weiser took on the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that
a web designer couldn’t be compelled to create wedding websites for
LGBTQ couples, calling the decision a “license to discriminate.”
MSNBC’s Simone Boyce asked Weiser what Justice Gorsuch meant
when he wrote, “Under Colorado’s logic, the government may compel
anyone who speaks for pay on a particular topic to accept all
commissions on that same topic.”
“What
he is trying to say is that here is someone that had a free speech
interest that was being implicated in a negative way,” Weiser said. He
continued:
But
the problem, first off…this is a made-up case. This was based on
hypotheticals, and the court didn’t have to deal with the whole
equation. In a real case, you have a victim who is denied services, and
the consequences of the court’s ruling would be much more self-evident.
But second, let’s be clear, here; whoever creates a website, or whoever
creates any artistic work can make whatever they want. Our position,
they have to sell it to everyone, and they cannot restrict the sales in a
public business because they don’t like someone’s ethnicity, religion,
race, what have you.
“A
societal challenge because we as a society now have a choice if we have
an expressive business. We can serve everyone and stand for our
nation’s motto of ‘E pluribus unum‘, or now, as you said,
people have a license to discriminate, saying, ‘I have this expressive
product and I’m not going to offer it to everybody.”
A two-tiered system of citizenship, as Ava and C.I. noted. It's disgusting. It's something that happens in the 1800s, not in 2023. NEWSWEEK notes:
The attorneys who successfully argued a high-stakes case before the Supreme Court last week could be disbarred amid new reports that refute the veracity of a key document at the center of 303 Creative v. Elenis.
On Friday, the Supreme Court's 6-3 conservative majority ruled in favor of a Colorado web designer who
argued she should not have to serve gay customers due to her religious
beliefs as a Christian, and that prohibiting her business from doing so
would violate her First Amendment rights.
One
of the documents that both sides of the case repeatedly referenced was
an inquiry that Lorrie Smith received from an engaged same-sex couple
asking her to build a website for their wedding. But in the days leading
up to the court's bombshell decision, reports emerged that the inquiry
was falsified and the man named in the complaint told several news
outlets that not only had he never sent Smith the website request, but
also that he is straight and has been married to a woman for the last 15
years.
They should be disbarred. They defrauded the Court. Lorie Smith is not just a hate merchant, she's a liar who lied in Court, made up something that never happened. That's what trash has to do in order to win and she's trash. She's a hate merchant the world will spend the rest of her life hating.
Since the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision 13 months ago, which overturned Roe v. Wade and
deprived women of the constitutional right to access abortion, the
ultra-right majority on the court has engaged in a rampage against basic
democratic rights and the social rights of the working class.
This
culminated Friday in two decisions with the same 6-3 split among the
justices: to declare unconstitutional the Biden administration’s limited
reduction of student loan debt owed to the US government; and to
endorse the “right” of a commercial web designer to refuse to create
materials for the wedding of a gay couple.
The class character of
the first decision is obvious: an executive action by the federal
government to bail out wealthy bank depositors is constitutional, but
not a limited action to help debt-burdened students. The second decision
destroys a constitutional right to be free of discrimination, while
paying lip service to the First Amendment. The court declares that the
web designer can justify her bigotry on the basis of “freedom of
religion.”
I'm stuck here. These are
appalling decisions that need to be called out and they are part of many
others including MARCUS DEANGELO JONES V DEWAYNE HENDRIX from the week
before last. At THIRD, we didn't do "truest" statements this week --
where we quote from an article, report or video segment or speech. I'm
glad. Because I know one of the nominees would have been a Friday piece
at WSWS. And I didn't agree that it deserved a truest. WSWS published
an article covering the student loan debt decisions. A bad decision by
the Court that will have real consequences. WSWS then published an
article about the bad decision where the Court overturns Affirmative
Action -- a monumental injustice. And it tried to fold into that
article what Patrick Martin calls above 'refuse to create materials for
the wedding of a gay couple.'
That is the worst
decision from a legal stand point and I get that most people do not
grasp the law in this country. But if you want to destroy a community,
that's the decision to use.
They can build on it, they can expand to include other groups.
It is a decision out of Nazi Germany.
The Court no longer believe in equaltiy.
Any
legal scholar should look at the decision and tell you what happened is
there is now a two-tier system of American citizenship. There is a
system where straights (and assumed straights) have full rights and
gays and lesbians do not. There is no pretense of equal in the eyes of
the law.
That should frighten the hell out of everyone.
This is not minor. We are supposed to be built on a system where the law is fair and the law is equal.
You have the right to this, I have the right to this.
We have to go back to the 1800s to find something similar.
Discrimination is okay -- legally okay -- and we're pretending this is something minor.
Again,
don't think, "Well I'm never going to have a same-sex wedding." This
can be expanded. This is something out of A HANDMAID'S TALE and the
fact that so many people do not appear to grasp that goes to how easy it
is for rights and liberties to be stolen from all of us.
If
you're not getting this, you are part of the problem. You need to
grasp what the law now says and what a huge shift this is.
And on the right, those who are openly on the right-wing, are celebrating. They grasp what just happened.
The
ones who are hiding their right-wing nature? Well I don't see a word
on this from RFK Junior. I see Junior Tweeted repeatedly on Sunday
about releasing the records on his uncle's death. Because that is the
most important thing right? Oh, and he made time to apologetically call
out the case overturning affirmative action -- apologetically and
pathetically because if he doesn't hold onto his right-wing base, he has
nothing.
The last name means very little
when, many, many weeks later, you still can't pull together a campaign.
You're still trying to hang out with Moms For Liberty and you're too
much a boy to stand up. RFK -- Senior -- was not a saint by any means
-- as many women could have attested -- but at the end he did find a
voice. I'd say, "Took him along enough," but he was only 42. Junior
is 69 and can't find his voice.
RFK, at the end, spoke for the people in need, the migrant workers, the people under assault.
Having to wear a mask during the height of COVID was not an assault.
And I'm getting tired of all the freaks on this issue.
It
was a pandemic. We never told you what to do here. We didn't shame
Eric Clapton or try to -- I even noted that he would probably come out
of the pandemic looking good. We didn't worship at Fauci. He was lousy
at his job and he should have been fired.
But
we also grasped that it was a pandemic and that many people were just
trying to survive it, not to hurt anyone and not to hurt themselves.
That reality is lost in RFK Jr.'s campaign of crazy.
You didn't want the vaccine, you really didn't have to get it.
I
didn't get it until the end. I was on chemo and a hundred other things
and my doctors wouldn't let me -- a fact that I made known here
repeatedly.
I don't know of anyone who went to prison for refusing the vaccine.
But it's a big issue to Crowd Crazy to this day.
Because they felt so damn impotent.
Guess
what, butt hurt, so did the rest of the world. It's what happens when
something no one is expecting sweeps up the planet.
But that's all he and Naomi Wolf and other increasingly unhinged people have to offer.
Did Fauci lie?
He
lied repeatedly. We noted it repeatedly. It's why he should have been
fired. He certainly should have been fired when Joe Biden was sworn
in. He had repeatedly contradicted himself and lost the trust of too
much of the public.
COVID continues. The COVID
measures are gone. We have real problems to deal with. That doesn't
mean journalists shouldn't look into what took place or how consensus
was formed or forced behind closed doors. It does mean it's not really a
campaign issue.
Unless you're some right-wing
crazy who can't deal with the fact that COVID actually scared you. As
it should have. A world-wide pandemic is scary. But you can't deal
with your own fear, so you're scared and pissed off and looking for the
craziest fool who'll speak to that and you run to Junior.
Ava and I wrote about the two-tiered citizenship that now exists in the US in "Media: Corrupt Court, Corrupt YOUTUBE" on Sunday at THIRD and here I posted multiple interviews and commentaries and statements.
An e-mail asked why I didn't include the ACLU?
This is their statement:
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court this morning issued its ruling in 303 Creative v. Elenis. David Cole, Legal Director for the American Civil Liberties Union, offered the following response:
“The
Supreme Court held today for the first time that a business offering
customized expressive services has the right to violate state laws
prohibiting such businesses from discrimination in sales. The Court’s
decision opens the door to any business that claims to provide
customized services to discriminate against historically-marginalized
groups. The decision is fundamentally misguided. We will continue to
fight to defend laws against discrimination from those who seek a
license to discriminate.”
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Colorado filed an amicus brief
urging the Supreme Court to reject the First Amendment challenge to a
Colorado civil rights law requiring businesses open to the public to
treat customers equally.
Yeah, I took a hard pass on that weak ass statement from a group made of attorneys. Instead, we offered the Center for Constitutional Rights:
June 30, 2023 - In response to the
Supreme Court ruling that businesses may deny services to LGBTQI+
people, the Center for Constitutional Rights released the following
statement:
Today,
in its latest display of its political activism, the Supreme Court
sanctioned discrimination by giving businesses that engage in
"expressive conduct" a license to deny services to LGBTQI+ people. We
have known for a long time that in the eyes of the Court, there are only
two Constitutional rights that matter: the First Amendment right to
religious expression and the Second Amendment right to bear arms.
Nonetheless, today’s decision was crushing. It deals another blow to a
community already under attack in legislatures across the country, by
the very same movement that claims the allegiance of six justices on the
Supreme Court.
Public
accommodations laws regulate what businesses must do, not what they must
think, if they seek the public benefit of accessing the public
marketplace. Such nondiscrimination laws, like the one in Colorado, are
designed to ensure that LGBTQI+ people can freely shop for services like
everyone else, rather than being required to shop for businesses that
don’t discriminate against them. The right-wing justices have once again
signaled that their mission is to dismantle laws that protect
marginalized communities and to use the law to back punitive and
exclusionary social hierarchies. As Justice Sotomayor lays out in the
dissent, “[t]hose who would subordinate LGBT[QI+] people have often done
so with the backing of law.”
In
this case, the Court was so determined to carry out its mission that it
bypassed Constitutional requirements of standing by weighing in on an
imaginary dispute concocted by conservative legal activists and issuing
an advisory opinion, so that they could legislate policy.
The
Religious Liberty Clauses of the First Amendment have been historically
used to protect minority religions against discrimination by
majoritarian orthodoxy and to advance a pluralistic, egalitarian
democracy. It is thus especially perverse that this Court would delight
in producing the exact opposite, anti-democratic result: granting
orthodox Christianity an imagined constitutional freedom to discriminate
against the minority LGBTQI+ community. And, as Justice Sotomayor
emphasized, the decision is not limited; it could give license for
businesses to discriminate against interracial couples because of the
(pervasive) extremist-evangelicalist commitment to segregation.
Together
with yesterday’s decision invalidating affirmative action, this ruling
lays bare the values of this Court. In six justices’ view, the
Constitution says it is just fine for a business to exclude someone on the basis of their protected status (LGBTQI+), but it is unconstitutional for a university to include
someone on the basis of their protected status (race). This is bigotry
masquerading as law. And, in so ruling again, this Court continues to
advance a Jim Crow jurisprudence in which the white, male, Christian
insider’s freedom is made meaningful only through the subjugation of
vulnerable populations. For this conservative movement, as for John
Calhoun or George Wallace, discrimination fuels their feelings of
freedom. These six individuals somehow retain the power to impose their
18th Century values on a democratic majority that believes in equality
and fairness. The Court has little legitimacy left.
We
reject these cruel and unlawful decisions, and the cowardly attempts by
a right-wing movement to wield the Constitution to protect white power
and deny the human rights of the multitude. But human rights cannot be
suspended by reactionaries in robes. And they cannot be secured by even
enlightened court rulings. If there is solace to be found today, it is
in the knowledge that that task before us is the same as it was
yesterday: to resist, organize, and unite. Our potential collective
power, and only that, offers hope of liberation and full human dignity
for LGBTQI+ people and other marginalized communities.
I
cannot believe how many people are missing the point on this. I have
nothing against a gay but I own a bed and breakfast and I just can't
allow a gay into my home with another gay because my Bible tells me it
is wrong. Or: I own a small hotel in New Hampshire and I rent rooms out
by the hour but not to a gay because of my Bible. You have no idea how
this can expand out. The Court knew. They knew what they were doing.
They are a corrupt Court and there needs to be change immediately.
Condemning the right-wing majority on the U.S. Supreme Court as corrupt and "heavily politicized," U.S. Reps. Ro Khanna
and Don Beyer on Friday reintroduced legislation to impose term limits
for the nine justices in order to "restore judicial independence."
Hours after the court ruled that businesses can refuse services to LGBTQ+ people and struck down
President Joe Biden's student loan debt relief program, Khanna
(D-Calif.) said that the framers of the Constitution established
lifetime appointments for justices on the nation's highest court in
order "to ensure impartiality," but recent rulings by the six right-wing
members of the panel's supermajority have not held up that standard.
"The Supreme Court's decision to block student debt relief will put many hardworking Americans at risk of default and will be a disaster for our economy," said
Rep. Ro Khanna. "Our Founding Fathers intended for lifetime
appointments to ensure impartiality. The decision today demonstrates how
justices have become partisan and out of step with the American public.
I'm proud to reintroduce the Supreme Court Term Limits and Regular
Appointments Act to implement term limits to rebalance the court and
stop extreme partisanship."
The legislation would create an
18-year term limit for justices appointed after the law was enacted.
Justices would be permitted to serve on lower courts after their term
was up.
Beyer (D-Va.) said the time has come to impose term
limits following numerous partisan decisions by the Supreme Court,
including its overturning of Roe v. Wade last year, and revelations about undisclosed financial ties that right-wing Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch have had to Republican megadonors and operatives who have had business before the court.
"For
many Americans, the Supreme Court is a distant, secretive, unelected
body that can make drastic changes in their lives without any
accountability," said Beyer. "Recent partisan decisions by the Supreme
Court that destroyed historic protections for reproductive rights,
voting rights, and more have undermined public trust in the Court—even
as inappropriate financial relationships between justices and
conservative donors raised new questions about its integrity."
Currently, said Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), "six extremist, unelected activists" are doing "the bidding of billionaire Republican donors from the bench."
"This
illegitimate Supreme Court has become a cesspool of corruption and is
in urgent need of reform," she said. "It's time to end lifetime
appointments to the Supreme Court."
A poll by Marist College in April found
that 68% of Americans back term limits for Supreme Court justices while
just 37% of respondents said they had confidence in the high court.
The judicial watchdog group Fix the Court endorsed Khanna and Beyer's proposal, noting that from the nation's founding until 1970, Supreme Court justices served 15 years on average.
"That
number has nearly doubled in the last few decades, as the power the
court has abrogated to itself has also increased exponentially," said the group.
The current system has allowed Supreme Court justices to "possess unchecked power for life," said
Gabe Roth, executive director of Fix the Court. "Luckily, there's a
popular, apolitical way to fix this: by requiring future justices to
take 'senior status' after 18 years, at which point they'd fill in at
SCOTUS when needed, rotate down to a lower court, or retire."
"This
idea forms the basis of Rep. Khanna's bill," he said, "and I'm pleased
to support his work to establish fundamental guardrails for the most
powerful, least accountable part of our government."
Affirmative
action is a needed program. Programs can be ended and they can be
restarted. Congress, for example, can (and should) pass a new program.
But
when we're dealing with the highest court in the land stripping rights
from citizens? Do you know how hard that is to come back from?
If
you work for THE NATION, you clearly don't because they have nothing on
their main page about this decision. They've got the student debt
decision, they've got affirmative action, nothing on this.
And
yet a group of Americans have been given less-than citizenship by a
corrupt Court. They are no longer full citizens worthy of full
equality. They are less-than.
And that should leave everyone outraged and apalled.
But
some idiots don't grasp how it starts and how, if it's not called out,
it builds. The Bible was a justification for slavery, for example. The
Bible's not a manual for no-fault divorce. You want to see where the
Court builds next as they go through the list of denying full rights to
American citizens?
You didn't read history? You didn't Margaret Atwood? You can't catch a documentary on Nazi Germany?
All
the decisions handed down were awful and unfair. Only one, however,
gives the Court the power and the way forward to remove rights from
citizens.
The Court needs to change and it needs to change now.
The
Democrats need to come up with a plan for Court reform that includes
term limits and includes an ethics code and includes accountability.
Now.
Gina asked me to note this from Marianne's campaign.
"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!"
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.
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?
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.
