Random Musings

The Resistance is real and it’s spectacular ... Virginia voters elected Danica Roem, the state's first openly transgender candidate, to the Virginia House of Delegates on Tuesday.

Roem unseated incumbent delegate Bob Marshall, who had been elected thirteen times over 26 years. Marshall had unsuccessfully tried to pass a Bathroom Bill in Virginia last year and now a trans woman has taken his spot.

Paybacks are a bitch, Bob.

In other Blue News ... Democrat Ralph Northam won the Virginia governor's race while Democrat Phil Murphy took New Jersey’s governor's office. Democrats were also within striking distance of flipping the 17 seats they need to take the Virginia House of Delegates -- giving the party much more influence on redistricting in 2020.  Oops, sorry, not sorry GOP gerrymandering.

Not all was good ...Asshatted bigot and homophobe Roy Moore skated to victory in Alabama, but, hey, it’s Alabama and they kinda don’t know what they’re doing down there. But ... in Florida, Democrat Annette Tadeo won a Republican-held state Senate district 51% to 47%, while in New Hampshire, Democrat Kari Lerner beat a former GOP state representative to fill a state House district that Donald Trump won by 23 points last November.

Those wins make it eight GOP-controlled state legislative seats that Democrats have flipped in 2017; and that means that of the 27 GOP-held state legislative seats that have come open in 2017, Democrats have flipped almost 30% of them.

The signs are there for an electoral house-cleaning of Republicans in 2018.

Over the weekend Carlos and I went to a Día de los Muertos celebration, a Mexican holiday celebrating the dead with altars and pageants and, well, people with skulls painted on their faces.

It’s all in good fun, and bright colors, and great music.

And the next day, Sunday, we went to ... church.

Well, to a church, the Lyttleton Street United Methodist Church, where our friend David was singing in the choir. It wasn’t a church service, but a concert to raise money so the church could buy a new organ keyboard.

It was a nice show, some really great music and I didn’t spontaneously combust upon entering the building.

Win.Win.

During a press conference in South Korea this week a reporter asked if _____ would consider “extreme vetting” for gun purchases after the mass shooting at that church in Texas.

The Fat Bastard’s answer was typical GOP bull shiz pandering:

“If you did what you’re suggesting, there would have been no difference three days ago, and you might not have had a very brave person who happened to have a gun or a rifle in his truck go out and shoot him and hit him and neutralize him, and I can only say this: if he didn’t have a gun, instead of having 26 dead, you would have had hundreds more dead, so that’s the way I feel about it.”

Nice try, asshat, but any sane person knows the answer to gun violence isn’t more guns.

When the reporter followed up her question by asking if _____ was considering any gun control policy, he tossed a word salad at her:

“When you look at the city with the strongest gun laws in our nation, in Chicago, and Chicago is a disaster. Just remember, if [the man who shot the shooter] didn’t have a gun or a rifle, you’d be talking about a much worse situation in the great state of Texas.”

The Fat Bastard has continually claimed that Chicago—which has a high number of gun-related deaths—has the strictest gun laws but, what’s that, it’s a lie.

From a liar.

This is funny ... Ivanka Trump was set  to speak on “women’s empowerment” at a speech in Tokyo but when she opened her complicit, lying, cheap handbag making yap, she was speaking to a half-empty room.

And naturally, in the wake of the Spicer Conaway Fake News anthem, a White House spokesperson said security measures prevented people from getting in the room, even though no one ... no one ... was in line to get in; Ivanka handlers, though, quickly moved people to the front of the room so it would look better.

It didn’t. I guess no one could attend because Ivanka pays women just $62 a week to work in her factories.

Empowerment my ass.

Oh sheesh Sean Puff Daddy Puff Puffy P. Diddy Diddy Sean John Combs has changed his name ... again.

He announced, on his birthday, that his new name will be Love or Brother Love:

“I decided to change my name again.I’m just not who I am before. I’m something different. So, my new name is Love, aka Brother Love. I’ve been praying on this… I know it’s risky. It could come off as corny to some people.”

Corny? Stupid is more likely, especially when we now learn ... he changed his mind and won’t be changing his name.

Maybe it’s because he learned a former WWE personality Bruce Prichard is already going by the name Brother Love.

Siddown Diddly Do Wop fool.

Attorney General Jeff “Keebler Elf” Sessions will come out of his tree and go before the House Judiciary Committee next week to explain, yet again, why he lied and lied and lied about ties to former _____ staffer George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents about contacts with Russians.

Oh Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, you’ll make an adorable prison bitch,  perched on a high shelf in Bubba’s cell.

Betsy DeVos, the anti-everything about education Education Secretary is expected to resign because, well, she’s awful and no one likes her.

Bye Felicia.

Ben Affleck, who has his own issues with sexual harassment, has pledged to donate all future Harvey Weinstein company and Miramax residuals to either Film Independent or the anti-sexual violence organization RAINN.

Nice try Ben, but it’s just for show, right?

Finally ... some fine looking men, left to right, like Brandon Mychal Smith from the Best Show You’re Not Watching, You’re The Worst, to Killian Scott, sexy evil on Ripper Street and now sexy evil on Damnation, along with Logan Marshall-Green, smoldering sexy on Damnation.

Indeed.