Rep. Ocasio-Cortez's Lesson On Decency

In which Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) delivers a lesson on decency and leaves misogynist jackhole Rep. Ted "Yoyo" Yoho (R-FL) and indecent men like him properly gutted and filleted:

Tweets Of The Day -- It's Who They Are

It just takes a few tweets...

"People are dying, but..." says Fox "News" talking head --

"all my friends are saying you know, this is not a priority, people are dying and i realize that, but they can't get their nails done" pic.twitter.com/UnkqFdvvmp

— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) March 26, 2020

The smug, elected (!) tribune of the billionaires people puts a female reporter in her place --

Here's Mitch McConnell responding to a female reporter's extremely straightforward question about the coronavirus bill by condescendingly asking her, "do you work here?" pic.twitter.com/kgZwDJElB1

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 26, 2020

The incompetence, toujours the incompetence --

SCOOP: We obtained the detailed National Security Council “pandemic response playbook” left by the Obama team for the Trump team. It was, basically, “thrown onto a shelf.” w/ @ddiamond https://t.co/BPQYLLkyL0

— Nahal Toosi (@nahaltoosi) March 26, 2020

We'll let Sen. Sanders deliver the final blow --

Here’s Bernie Sanders pointing out the absurdity of Republicans clutching pearls over workers making a few extra bucks from the coronavirus bill when they had no problem with trillion-dollar tax cuts for the wealthy in 2017 pic.twitter.com/ABenmjayVl

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 26, 2020

Grassley: Binders Full Of Women Stat!

If you thought the Rethuglicans' use of a female prosecutor substituting for themselves to interrogate Dr. Christine Blasey Ford in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings was curiously misogynistic (not to mention cowardly), the comments yesterday by 85 year-old desiccated corn stalk and American Gothic model Sen. Chuck Grassley dropped the dog whistles and went for the blowhorn:

"Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) predicted that there would be more Republican women on his panel next year, after suggesting that the panel’s workload was a deterrent.

'It’s a lot of work - maybe they don’t want to do it,' Mr. Grassley told reporters. 'My chief of staff of 33 years tells me we’ve tried to recruit women and we couldn’t get the job done.'"  (our emphasis)

Yes, the little ladies can't handle the workload that a half-senile old coot can. As far as recruitment, he might want to ask the Dems for clues, since four of the ten Dem Committee members are women who are doing the hard work, in contrast to their befuddled Chairman and his cowardly cohort hiding behind a woman.

(Photo: Desiccated corn stalk Grassley)

Manly Missouri Republican Courtland Sykes -- Man Or Myth?

The Republicans are sure cranking out some strange excuses for male candidates in the "heartland" of Missouri (or are they?).

We all remember failed 2012 Senate candidate Todd "Legitimate Rape" Akin, right? He's the not- OB/GYN genius who, when asked if a pregnancy caused by rape should be allowed to be aborted, mansplained as follows:

From what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let’s assume that maybe that didn’t work or something. I think there should be some punishment. But the punishment ought to be of the rapist, and not attacking the child.

It was bye-bye "Dr." Todd after that.

More recently, there's Stormtrumpin' Republican governor and (former) rising star Eric Greitens, the family values guy who had an affair, then (allegedly!) tried to blackmail his paramour to keep her quiet.  Thoughts and prayers to Eric as his career goes down in flames.

Today, we hear of another Republican, Courtland "Yikes!" Sykes, who is following in Akin's footsteps, ostensibly running for the Senate against Claire McCaskill. So, what dumbass thing did Courtland pull out of his manly heinie to earn our attention?

Republican U.S. Senate candidate for Missouri Courtland Sykes blasted “women’s rights” this week. 

In a statement posted to Facebook on Tuesday, Sykes said that he had been asked if he “supports women’s rights.” 

“I want to come home to a home cooked dinner every night at six,” Sykes said, referring to demands he makes of his girlfriend. “One that she fixes and one that I expect one day to have daughters learn to fix after they become traditional homemakers and family wives.” 

According to Sykes, feminists push an agenda that they “made up to suit their own nasty snake-filled heads.”  (our emphasis)

Apparently, he's picked up the local male Republican culture pretty rapidly, since he's only been a Missouri resident for about a year, having slipped over the border from Arkansas (have they no border security?). He's also a big supporter of Donald "Rump" Trump (and Roy Moore and Steve Bannon!). His girlfriend also presents herself as an anti- Hillary screecher.  So, in summary, they deserve each other.

Now some are holding out the possibility that Yikes is one of the greatest political performance artists of this era, the Borat of the 2018 election cycle. His persona and "beliefs" certainly cry out "You've got to be kidding me!" (But then, when you consider the base to whom he's pitching his campaign/ act, you have to think, he's really hitting some of their sweet spots with those rants.) Some lesser "performance artists" like proto- candidate Robert "Kid Rock" Richie used a teased run for office only to later admit it was a publicity stunt to sell swag; of course, still others use runs to raise their profile and/ or to raise money for a particular agenda.  What Yikes turns out to be (other than a failure as a candidate or a magnificent performance artist) is really not going to be important in the long run.

But, either way -- over- compensating candidate or wily performance artist -- Yikes is performing a public service by accurately representing the misogynist views of much of the leadership and the base of the Republican Party, reminding us all over again why we need to defeat them every time and everywhere.

BONUS:  Add to the mix this shot of Yikes with his girlfriend and Steve Bannon (via Crooks & Liars) -



(Top image:  Yes, but is Courtland Sykes the real candidate? Also: Blue Steel!)

Great Moments In Republican Rhetoric: Limpballs The Misogynist

Here's Oxycontin-popping hate merchant Rush "Limpballs" Limbaugh, disparaging job-killer Carly "Snarly" Fiorina, who sided with Fux's Megyn Kelly in her feud with fellow misogynist gasbag Donald "Rump" Trump:

“Well you know, that’s the solidarity of the vaginas. Wait a second now — vaginas have monologues. We know this; there was a play."

 Limpballs and Rump.  Well you know, that's the solidarity of the assholes.