What bothers me is that Self is one of many - his constituents obviously find his juvenile bullshit, and his utter bigoted hatefulness, acceptable if not laudable. And typical of cowards, instead of apologizing he doubles down by quoting his equally deplorable colleagues and fellows. Slimeballs like Self proudly display their pathetic passive aggressive little gestures because they love the attention they get from other shitweasels like themselves.
IMO, he's equal parts attention whore and hateful bully. It would have been so incredibly EASY to simply introduce McBride properly and get on with the business at hand with no fuss and no brouhaha, but noooooooooo, Self wasn't having it. Where's the glory and recognition in that, when you can up your game by openly mocking your trans colleague for no other reason than because you can, and then rage-tweeting all day about this horrible person who had the balls to shut you down. Bring on the brouhaha, get your name out there, garner all those reptilian-snouted congrats and back-slaps, and wallow in their words of affronted commiseration at how this horrible trans man had the unmitigated gall to DISRESPECT YOUR HE-MAN PERSONA. HORRORS!!!
And also, no MAGAGOP bully worth his salt is going to waste any opportunity to sneak in a cutting remark or a slur at a target, especially in public. People like him love to humiliate those they don't like in front of other people. They get off on watching the shocked expressions and the embarrassed discomfiture as they watch their targets pause to collect their thoughts and get back on track, all the while thinking to themselves that hey, they really showed 'em!
Except this time, the target expertly hit the slur ball right back into his court. And He-Man Master of the Universe spent the rest of the day in a very public meltdown, squealing like a stuck pig.
She was magnificent and our boy, Bill did Massachusetts proud again. I've been asking him to introduce a bill to prohibit those with no balls ( Keith Self) out of Men's Rooms and those who act like dicks and pricks (Mace, Taylor Greene and Boebert) for example our of Women's Rooms.
Texas- you know, where all the tough guys with guns stood around for over an hour while ONE psycho slaughtered a bunch of kids in a school. Don’t Mess With Texas…..really scary stuff. Cowards and frauds.
"We said treat all Republicans as Nazis and Nazi collaborators until further notice, AKA forever." I've been making the case for this since I first voted. Stormtrumpers have merely stripped away the last bit of attempted camouflage.
Evan is exactly right. They can't take it. If they lie, tell them to Prove It! If they're bigoted like Boebert, call them on it aggressively. "Did you call a 77-year-old man's cane a Pimp cane? Okay then, you're a vape puffing whore and I've got actual proof of that." Or something simple like "that is racist, do you belong to the KKK?"
The Dems need to drop that schoolyard mentality of "ignore-the-bully-and-he'll-go-away." That crap didn't work in the schoolyards of yesteryear (and thank goodness the grown-ups finally realized that and began addressing the issue head-on) and it won't work in the Halls of Congress either.
Dems, you cannot continue allowing McBride, AOC, and a handful of others to be the only adults in the room doing all the heavy lifting for you. Step up and PUBLICLY call out every breach of decorum and protocol for what it is in the manner provided by Dorothea in her comment above. Call out every hateful bill they try to pass. "Rep. MAGAt, why are you voting against the feeding hungry school children? Do you enjoy watching children starve? What is your reason for wanting seniors to have to choose between food and medical care? Why do you want to keep health care out of reach for most of your constituents when you yourself receive it for free?" And on and on.
Oh, but you don't want to start a war, you say? Well, look around. They have already declared war on YOU, and they're winning without even firing a shot, because you just stand there doing nothing and thinking you are being the bigger person by ignoring it. You're not. You're just letting the bully get away with it, and guess what? It won't stop. The bully knows you'll just roll over and play dead and will keep coming back for more *until YOU put a stop to it.*
The rut we've got to get out of on the talking heads shows are that the Republicans throw out a blatant lie, then the Democrat is expected to prove it's a lie.
Fuck that bullshit. Call them out right away.
A lie is a lie until the liar proves it's true. Not the other way around.
Male GOP is a motley assortment of squishy nutsacks and weird, misshapen, flaccid micropeens.
These republicans are such tiny people.
What bothers me is that Self is one of many - his constituents obviously find his juvenile bullshit, and his utter bigoted hatefulness, acceptable if not laudable. And typical of cowards, instead of apologizing he doubles down by quoting his equally deplorable colleagues and fellows. Slimeballs like Self proudly display their pathetic passive aggressive little gestures because they love the attention they get from other shitweasels like themselves.
IMO, he's equal parts attention whore and hateful bully. It would have been so incredibly EASY to simply introduce McBride properly and get on with the business at hand with no fuss and no brouhaha, but noooooooooo, Self wasn't having it. Where's the glory and recognition in that, when you can up your game by openly mocking your trans colleague for no other reason than because you can, and then rage-tweeting all day about this horrible person who had the balls to shut you down. Bring on the brouhaha, get your name out there, garner all those reptilian-snouted congrats and back-slaps, and wallow in their words of affronted commiseration at how this horrible trans man had the unmitigated gall to DISRESPECT YOUR HE-MAN PERSONA. HORRORS!!!
And also, no MAGAGOP bully worth his salt is going to waste any opportunity to sneak in a cutting remark or a slur at a target, especially in public. People like him love to humiliate those they don't like in front of other people. They get off on watching the shocked expressions and the embarrassed discomfiture as they watch their targets pause to collect their thoughts and get back on track, all the while thinking to themselves that hey, they really showed 'em!
Except this time, the target expertly hit the slur ball right back into his court. And He-Man Master of the Universe spent the rest of the day in a very public meltdown, squealing like a stuck pig.
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.
She was magnificent and our boy, Bill did Massachusetts proud again. I've been asking him to introduce a bill to prohibit those with no balls ( Keith Self) out of Men's Rooms and those who act like dicks and pricks (Mace, Taylor Greene and Boebert) for example our of Women's Rooms.
Ah, yes. The party of Christ, treating all people with dignity.
Ta, Evan. Sarah McBride is a Certified Badass! Self is a self-righteous POS.
Wait, I thought Sarah MacBride was cancelled for not having fought hard enough on the Congressional bathrooms thing?
“Mr. Chairman, have you no decency?”
Is this even a question anymore? Republicans have no decency.
Honestly, what does it cost people to treat others with the same decency they’d want to be treated with? Did MAGAt Jesus repeal the Golden Rule?
When I was a little girl, my mom taught me that it costs nothing to be kind!
That's what I had thought, too.
Texas- you know, where all the tough guys with guns stood around for over an hour while ONE psycho slaughtered a bunch of kids in a school. Don’t Mess With Texas…..really scary stuff. Cowards and frauds.
It was a perfect response from Ms. Mcbride!
I’d love to see Representative Selfs browser history. It could be a uh, self own.
She did the perfectly right thing: "Thank you Madam Chair." 🥰 Perfection! 🫡
The defense on her behalf was perfect, too, tho I expected him to double down by adding "Have you no shame?" 🙇♂️
And that prissy response from that douchecanoe extraordinaire was par for the course with these Nazi monsters. 😤🤯🤮 Godz below I hate them fuckers.
"We said treat all Republicans as Nazis and Nazi collaborators until further notice, AKA forever." I've been making the case for this since I first voted. Stormtrumpers have merely stripped away the last bit of attempted camouflage.
"“Thank you, Madam Chair,” she replied, without missing a beat, to the Republican chair-MAN of her committee."
fuggin' CHEF'S KISS!!!!
LOL! She already had that one in the chamber with HIS name etched on it
Locked and loaded.
Where's the problem? If Self wants to recognize only men and women, all he has to do is recognize Ms. McBride as a woman, just as she does.
The only problem here is Self and people like him. That is, bigots.
not just bigots . . . also flaming, oscillating, scintillating, gaping, assholes too
Evan is exactly right. They can't take it. If they lie, tell them to Prove It! If they're bigoted like Boebert, call them on it aggressively. "Did you call a 77-year-old man's cane a Pimp cane? Okay then, you're a vape puffing whore and I've got actual proof of that." Or something simple like "that is racist, do you belong to the KKK?"
THIS.
The Dems need to drop that schoolyard mentality of "ignore-the-bully-and-he'll-go-away." That crap didn't work in the schoolyards of yesteryear (and thank goodness the grown-ups finally realized that and began addressing the issue head-on) and it won't work in the Halls of Congress either.
Dems, you cannot continue allowing McBride, AOC, and a handful of others to be the only adults in the room doing all the heavy lifting for you. Step up and PUBLICLY call out every breach of decorum and protocol for what it is in the manner provided by Dorothea in her comment above. Call out every hateful bill they try to pass. "Rep. MAGAt, why are you voting against the feeding hungry school children? Do you enjoy watching children starve? What is your reason for wanting seniors to have to choose between food and medical care? Why do you want to keep health care out of reach for most of your constituents when you yourself receive it for free?" And on and on.
Oh, but you don't want to start a war, you say? Well, look around. They have already declared war on YOU, and they're winning without even firing a shot, because you just stand there doing nothing and thinking you are being the bigger person by ignoring it. You're not. You're just letting the bully get away with it, and guess what? It won't stop. The bully knows you'll just roll over and play dead and will keep coming back for more *until YOU put a stop to it.*
The rut we've got to get out of on the talking heads shows are that the Republicans throw out a blatant lie, then the Democrat is expected to prove it's a lie.
Fuck that bullshit. Call them out right away.
A lie is a lie until the liar proves it's true. Not the other way around.