Just Say it

  

Denouncing antisemitism shouldn’t be hard; for some Republicans, it seems to be Some GOP leaders this week denounced Trump’s dinner with Ye and Nick Fuentes. Others continued to try to excuse him. The party is paying a price for that…..

….Some have been straightforward. Especially in the Senate, Republicans have shown an increased willingness to criticize Trump. That's a sign of how the losses by Trump-endorsed candidates in the midterm elections have reduced his standing in the party. (LA Times)

"Kanye. Elon. Trump," read the tweet, which held up Ye alongside Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, who has been bringing back right-wing figures who were once banned, and former President Donald Trump. Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee had tweeted in apparent support of Ye on Oct. 6. The tweet was removed Thursday. (NBC)

 

Miriam Adelson and her Family, Jeffry and Janine Yass, Bernard and Billie Marcus, and Paul Singer, 5 Jewish Donors to the republican Party. Some have said they no longer support Trump because suddenly they think they have realized he an ANTI-SEMITE. Most remained silent when Trump informed us that in the Charlottesville VA, riots, “there were good people on both sides.” Most will tell you it is about their supposed understanding of Trump to have a passion for the state of Israel, ignoring his lack of understanding about the state of the Jews in this country. Most, to all of these families, HOWEVER, still support the GOP. The GOP, where Paul Gosar, Taylor-Putin-Greene, Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, and GYM Jordan will become the Majority leadership, they still LOVE THEMSELVES SOME TRUMP. 

 

It SHOULD BE WASY, for these Jewish Donors, to say out loud, WE WILL NOT SUPPORT ANY CANDIDATE FROM TRUMP TO A DOG CATCHER, WHO CANNOT BE LOUD AND SAY, AND SAY THE WORDS SPOKEN BY PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: “I just want to make a few things clear: The Holocaust happened. Hitler was a demonic figure,” Biden said in a tweet. “And instead of giving it a platform, our political leaders should be calling out and rejecting antisemitism wherever it hides. Silence is complicity.”

 

BUT TO DATE THEY HAVE NOT!

 

 

 

 

 

JUDGING

 Judge Aileen Cannon’s intrusive and unjustifiable reign over the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into Donald Trump is over. On Thursday, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Cannon had no jurisdiction to hear Trump’s complaint in the first place. (Vanity Fair)

The House Judiciary Committee announced on Thursday that it would hold a hearing on Dec. 8 to investigate the religious right lobbying campaign that led to the allegation that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leaked the outcome of his 2014 Hobby Lobby decision to its participants. (MSNBC)

Thomas has done it again. Last week the longest-serving justice on the nation’s highest court defied widespread calls from legal experts that he recuse himself from cases that have anything to do with the seditious events surrounding Jan. 6, 2021. You know, the failed coup in which Thomas’ wife, far-right political activist Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, was a participant. Worse, this latest case possibly implicates Ginni Thomas directly in what was an unprecedented attempt to thwart a peaceful transfer of power. (LA Times)

 

I BEG the question and BEG even harder for an answer. How is it that Justice has fallen from grace? I WANT to understand, I WISH to know, if those for whom the title Judge or Justice, seem as corrupt as the criminals who sit in their courtrooms, when will truth, honor, and adherence to laws ever HAPPEN?

 

I am not naïve enough to think that ONCE UPON A TIME, all JUDGES and JUSTICES were above board, less corrupt, and not politically motivated for the good of self, BUT somehow, along the way, the rot and ruin which may have been here and there, is INCREASING AND INCREASING.

 

What I see is the BAD, and what I do not see, is HOW TO rid the BAD and change it into GOOD!

Is This Me

 I was lucky. When I finally came out and freed myself from the burdens I placed on myself because I felt being a homosexual was a bad thing, I had somehow missed the pandemic of HIV-AIDS. In trying to understand who I was, I had been confronted with this awful “Gay Man’s cancer”, and truly wondered if in fact being Gay was a punishment from God. I believed and still believe in my God but did consider maybe God had certain plans for Homosexuals all the while I dealt with my own sexuality and being. 

 

I met people who had lovers, partners, and friends who died of HIV AIDS. I am good friends with many men who some thirty years later remain HIV positive. I heard stories, relived moments, and gleaned the heartaches, heartbreaks, and healing that so many in the LGBTQ community had to suffer, endure and accept. As the saying goes, I am “six degrees of separation” SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION: is the theory that any person on the planet can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances that has no more than five intermediaries.

 

I am sad, that for so many decades I had to hide my fear of being myself, a male, among so many other natural phenomena as being a Homosexual. Finally free, finally stronger, I regret the time spent hiding, but have embraced the time of proudly saying THIS IS ME. It is World AIDS Day, a time to remind as well as remember that once upon a time, silence did equal death. And to insist, that whatever the cause of justice and equality, NEVER BE SILENT AGAIN!

 

In 1967, a very talented friend, named Danny Pickholtz and I wrote the opening number song to a play I wrote. The play and the song are called ‘Is This Me.’ Little did I realize I was writing about myself. Danny wrote the music, and I wrote the lyrics. We never produced it. I dedicate this song to all of the lives who never had a chance to live a long life and say, Is This Me!

 

“Is this me, is this me

Who was I pretending to be till now,

Tell me? I want to know! I want to know!

Was I little bit too shy for myself,

Was I bit afraid to tell the world that I am here and ready?

Now’s the chance for me to take it,

Now’s the time for me I better make it

Who’d have thought that once that I

Once had been a nowhere guy,

Now I’m glad that I am I

This is me!” (Is This Me/Gerry Buncher)

 

 

 

 

Monarchy or Supreme

 While it claims to be a nonpartisan, neutral arbiter of the law,[ The Supreme Court], its conservative majority was deliberately cultivated to expand religious freedom for conservative Christians at the expense of the rights of those deemed less worthy of protection. (MSNBC)

Once again, a Justice of the Supreme Court, is in the news, for creating the news, and not for acting as an impartial Jurist. Justice Alito, a bible-thumping, conservative-leaning political figure, who somehow believes that the Founding Fathers, secretly did not intend this nation to have a divide between Church and State, had apparently confided to the Evangelical Christians associated with the Bring Back Christianity crowd at Hobby Lobby, by divulging the outcome of a closely watched religious freedom case, Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, in which the court held that private corporations can demand religious exemptions from the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that employer health plans cover contraceptives — this LEAK is the second from which both rulings were penned by Alito. The first was a leaked draft of the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturning the right to an abortion.

 I am SICK AND TIRED of this level of hypocrisy performed by the cadre of Christian Conservatives and honestly must wonder, how in the world the common citizen can survive the ever-flowing Tsunami of double standards! Sure there must be ways and means to stop this suicide of democracy, like creating a law that the Supreme Court Justices no longer serve a life term on that bench. The Supreme Court Justices actually do not have any other court from which enforcement of recusal can be mediated, as the Supreme Court is the highest court in our nation. This means there are currently NO other courts to keep a check and balance on the Supreme Court. Some higher authority needs to be implemented…or else the SUPREMES might as well be Monarchy!

 

 

MY MARRIAGE

  

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) forced the upper chamber to delay a procedural vote on the bill this month until 10 p.m. after he was unable to win the necessary support for his amendment to further strengthen the religious liberty provisions. “They shouldn’t be able to punish religious belief,” Lee said on the Senate floor before the Nov. 16 vote. “That’s all I want. A protection saying the federal government may not punish any individual or entity based on a religious or moral conviction-based belief about marriage. That is not too much to ask.” (The Hill)

 

Fuck you, Mike Lee. You insist that somehow this NO NATIONAL OFFICIALRELIGIOUS NATION, has the power to create laws that won’t discriminate against Holy Rollers, but IT can and will discriminate against those for whom the RELIGIOUS ZEALOTS have a problem! Religious Liberty, as in some religions DICTATING their own PREJUDICES against those Americans for which our Constitution guaranteed liberty, and freedom? You are a Homophobe, plain and clear. And I wonder Mike Lee, as a Mormon, what about Interracial marriages?  Like other religious groups, Mormons have a complicated history around race. Until a few decades ago, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints taught that they “shall be a white and a delightsome people,” a phrase taken from the Book of Mormon. Until the 1970s, the LDS Church also restricted black members’ participation in important rituals and prohibited black men from becoming priests (The Atlantic) 

 

“This bill maximizes the protections we were able to get with the votes we have,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) told Changing America. “We can certainly build on that to try to fully codify the constitutional law, but this was an important and necessary step.” “We’re settling for crumbs,” Alejandra Caraballo, a prominent LGBTQ activist and instructor at Harvard Law’s cyberlaw clinic, tweeted after the amended bill was released. (The Hill).

 

I am an American citizen. I am a Jewish religious American citizen. I am a Gay Male American citizen, and today, once again MY RIGHTS, MY DIGNITY, and MY CHOICES remain in JEOPARDY!

they are the same

 It’s that Trump has always been desperate to send signals to his base of support that he agrees with and loves them. That his political instinct has always centered on stoking loyalty from his most energetic supporters, a tactic that helped him narrowly win the presidency in 2016. Others in the party, often worried about party primaries, adopted a similar policy of declining to confront Trump’s base, which is why the response to controversies has consistently been silence. (Opinion/Washington Post). 

Desperate Deranged, Delusional. Pick one, choose all, make your own selection, but whichever adjective you provide before the name of Trump, and at least 95%of our current crop of Republican Politicians, understand that Trump and his parade of Turd Collectors, are in their jobs, not for the good of the people, but for the welfare of themselves. 

 

I honestly have to wonder, are the current crop of Coup loving GOP politicians, so afraid of inciting the rage of the BASE OR, perhaps, MAYBE they do indeed share the Racist/Anti-Semitic/Homophobia/Misogynist/Bigotry embraced by TRUMP and his Minions?

PERHAPS, BUT

 Perhaps. But then again NOT

Sports, as in Professional sports, should never meld into politics. Really! So athletes can promenade on a field wearing their version of their country’s colors sing their National Anthems wave their flags, and pretend that anti-LGBTQ, anti-women, anti-immigrant, anti-freedoms, and liberties are family secrets and nobody else’s business.

 

Becoming an Anti-Trump is now a righteous Republican quality. Really! He was a good guy acting as a wanna-be dictator. He encouraged Bigots, Racists, Xenophobes, Anti-Semites, and Homophobes to step forward and take priority. He incited a Coup attempt and motivated treasonists to overtake the Capitol. But that was cool, and he was cooler. Except when too many loons didn’t win their elections, so suddenly being anti-Trump is the right-wing thing to do.

 

Jews, LGBTQ Latins, and African Americans in America are free to vote Republican. Really! Let me guess, it’s all about the Benjamin, and the economy somehow (pardon the pun) trumps morals and ethics. Let me guess, religion as in the Jews think the Evangelicals are better friends of Israel, the Latins, and the African Americans can be disgusted with the un-Christian-like actions of the LGBTQ and the upper financial echelon of LGBTQ are more invested in their Capitalistic material well-being than equality.

 

Crime is real. Really! Which crimes are we speaking of. The crimes are only in urban areas, of course not in rural towns. Not the crimes each time a State Legislature creates politically gerrymandered districts. Not the crimes of lying about election results and threatening the Poll Workers. Not the crimes of participating in a COUP. Not the crimes of a tax system that only seems to Trickle Up.

 

Hypocrisy is all around us. Bullshit lounges on the ground from which politicians walk. And way too many of us prefers to look away. Perhaps But then please no longer.