KrysMc
KrysMc
@krismcd.bsky.social
Shakespeare prof, historical fiction and SF/F reviewer, budding editor. Pro: knitting, books, cats, comedy, fat liberation, people standing up for each other. Miss my native South but glad to live in Blu(ish) Michigan. She/her/hers.
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If he was anywhere else besides the Trumpiverse, he’d be ridiculed and hounded out of public life, and possibly put into custodial care as mentally incompetent. That an adult human can publicly say such things without consequences …I just don’t know how we got here.
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
All y’all in Mississippi who want to hear about DC elites eating in fancy restaurants, raise y’all’s hand.
Trump on DC: "Nobody wanted to eat out. They were afraid. Even if you were in the restaurant, people would walk in and like the Wild West, 'Hold it up!' Everybody is standing there. Can you imagine? A fancy restaurant. They were robbing the whole restaurant. It's crazy."
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Kind of funny, in an Ancient Greek Hell kind of way, that this guy handed Trump the presidency in 2016, and as a reward Trump is kicking him in the teeth forever. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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White racists will always default to the vicious lie that people of color are dirty and don't know how to take care of their homes.
Trump is BIG MAD about Obama saying the White House now looks like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory: "He's not a smart guy. He's not smart at all ... for you to say it's a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you were a lousy president"
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Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.
chat I don’t think doubling down on this ad is working out real well for vivek
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Please, PBS -- "escalates rhetoric"???? "Spews racist lies" is simpler and more factual.
President Donald Trump escalated his attacks against Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed on Sunday with rhetoric that questioned the Muslim candidate's loyalties to the U.S. and repeatedly tried to tie him to extremism, claims the Democrat has repeatedly denied. https://to.pbs.org/4iiD647
This is so infuriating. Believing that trans people deserve equal rights is not an "extreme" view. Shame on all "centrist" Dems who are throwing trans folk under the bus in an effort to appease transphobic voters. If you get elected, we expect you to make laws that support trans rights.
Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.
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Any politician who’s willing to throw away one group’s rights is willing to throw away everyone’s rights. It’s that simple. Every single consultant, pundit and candidate who’s shown a willingness to abandon trans rights needs to be shunned from the party forever
Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”
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Looks like he’s reading the words directly from the teleprompter. Which would indicate he’s not ad-libbing that line. Which would indicate that the aide who wrote it in must want the GOP to lose this fall. (Also did he call it the “Hormone Strait?”)
Trump: "While oil prices are temporarily high ... the United States oil and gas business is making hundreds of billions of dollars"
2026 is the year the Leader of the Free World spent every other waking minute fantasizing about large muscular men punching each other, and the other half of his time fantasizing about decorating his house.
Trump: "Now our soldiers are allowed to be strong people ... they are the best looking people you've ever seen. And they stand in the streets. And they walk up to a gang and they beat the shit out of them."
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It's OK for shows -- especially satirical ones -- to be silly! I'm an unashamed Gleek/HS drama nerd looking forward to the reboot.
Many have referred to the news of Glee’s return as a “threat” and liken the slushy-stained halls of McKinley High to “hell.” Have you all forgotten that Glee was actually good?
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Total respect for NBC's Monica Alba, who asked Trump exactly the question he needs to answer. By refusing to answer, and attacking her, he has effectively told the world that no, sexual abuse allegations do no mean a thing to him. Imagine if she wasn't there. We'd be the poorer for it.
😳 WOMAN REPORTER: Do sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir? TRUMP: Wait. Wait! Wait wait wait. Slow down. Who are you with? REPORTER: NBC, sir. But they are very serious sex abuse allegations TRUMP: Quiet! Isn't she a fresh person? You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?
The Slanderer-in-Chief engaging in some especially intense slandering today. Looking forward to the lawsuits.
Trump on El-Sayed: "We can't him in the United States-- we can't have him in the United States Senate. I look so forward to Michigan. I think it's gonna be wild. Because he's a total phony. He's a little phony. He's a jihadist. He's a vicious, violent jihadist."
I don't generally recommend listening to anything That Man says, but you really have to watch him loudly angrily insisting that the abusive mother is the believable one in Ramaswamy's slanderous ad against Amy Acton. Disgusting.
Q: Now that you know the backstory about Amy Acton and her stepfather and why she hasn't talked to her mom in so long -- her stepfather was indicted for rape -- do you change your mind about the ad? TRUMP: No. No. It's a mother speaking badly against Amy Acton. You don't know anything.
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The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.
Trump: "You know, the first question -- they have a lion, a snake, a giraffe, and a bear. And they say 'which is the snake?' ... by the time you get to number five a lot of people are left out on the road ... I get no credit for it."
Between this fool and Rep. Omar, there’s only one convicted criminal who should leave, and it’s not Rep. Omar.
Trump calls for Ilhan Omar to immediately resign & says, "please inform our great Speaker, James Michael Johnson that the Democrat Party has conceded her seat ... she will not be allowed to me a member of that body any longer" Trump's crowd in Iowa then starts chanting "Lock her up! Lock her up!"
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Remember when Pete Hegseth's mom wrote him a letter telling him he was a misogynistic POS?
Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"
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One thing you can count on, sure as the sun rises in the east, is that Trump will ALWAYS praise and defend a child abuser who supports him politically.
Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"
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Whenever they're heckled, Trump/Vance make a pitiful joke about how the protestor is fat &/or dirty &/or lives with their parents, & wait for a big laugh that never comes. That's all they've got, folks -- they totally lack imagination or a sense of humor. They think "Dumocrat " is a sick burn.
wow -- a protester right behind Vance spikes his MAGA hat and start yelling at Vance before getting hauled out. Vance smears him for allegedly looking like he hasn't washed his hair.
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"We're not going to try people in the court of public opinion" says the man who admitted to lying about accusing Haitian refugees of eating dogs and cats. They have literally no shame.
JD Vance: "There is no person who hates the idea of people enriching themselves fraudulent over access to the government than Donald J Trump"
Almost every statement that comes out of Vance's mouth ends up being essentially "stop complaining" or "you should thanking us." DARVO is literally the only thing he has to offer.
Q: Witkoff called Putin 'a humanitarian' for agreeing to release Stephen Hubbard. Do you agree with that? JD VANCE: I agree with Steve Witkoff saying something nice to a person who just released an American hostage.
In my Comedy & Satire class we have been discussing for, well, 10 years that political satire no longer needs to exaggerate to mock -- it just needs to present the facts. Democratic advertising has only recently begun to take the hint.
Headline should read, “Trump shows Putin that seizing US citizens is a good way to get valuable concessions.”