Completely Horrible People

From the Log Cabin Republicans: Gay, lesbian, and bisexual members of society would effectively become an ‘extinct species’ under this bill. That’s because it would enshrine the gender identity agenda that is counter to gay rights. For decades, we gays preached to the world that we were ‘born this way,’ and that being gay, lesbian, or bisexual ‘is not a …

The Chicago Tribune reports: Illinois U.S. Rep. Marie Newman’s push to pass a law that would ban discrimination against LGBTQ Americans has put her at the center of a feud with controversial Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, a pro-Trump freshman congresswoman from Georgia who has espoused baseless conspiracy theories. On Tuesday, Newman took to the House floor urging for the passage …

The New York Daily News reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is declaring war on the Equality Act, calling the effort to defend LGBT rights an attack on people of faith. The far right-wing lawmaker says the act will force Christians to approve abortions and would treat transgender people the same as those born as a boy or a girl. …

Snopes reports: Radio host Rush Limbaugh has died at the age of 70 after a year-long battle with lung cancer. As conservative fans mourned the death of the radio pioneer, many on social media pointed to Limbaugh’s history of making sexist, homophobic, and bigoted remarks. Author Jessica Valenti, for example, posted a message on Twitter stating that Limbaugh once had …

The New York Times reports: Ms. Greene, elected to Congress in November, has for years circulated bogus theories, including around mass shootings. On Tuesday, CNN reported that in 2018 and 2019, Ms. Greene indicated support on her Facebook page for commenters recommending violence against Democratic leaders. In January 2019, CNN reported, Ms. Greene “liked a comment that said ‘a bullet …

Jenna Ellis, Trump lawyer and self-avowed Christian, was recently exposed for lying about her termination from a Colorado county’s district attorney’s office and for having invented most of her resume. Last night she took at potshot at the appearance of Biden press secretary Jen Psaki, implying that Psaki is trying to look like a man. Ellis’s tweet was in response …

The Wrap reports: Anti-mask protesters aggressively approached shoppers at a Ralph’s grocery store in Los Angeles’ Century City neighborhood and then moved to the nearby Westfield mall, leading to minor altercations and the police at times intervening. At the Ralph’s grocery store, one female protester falsely claimed a man hit her and began pursuing the man with a shopping cart …

Mediaite reports: Trump campaign adviser Harlan Hill will no longer be allowed on Fox News after tweeting during the vice presidential debate Wednesday night that Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) is an “insufferable lying bitch.” “Kamala Harris comes off as such an insufferable lying bitch. Sorry, it’s just true,” tweeted Hill, an Advisory Board Member on the Trump campaign and occasional …

Esquire reports: Right-wing professional troll Toni Lauren — no, wait, is it Torrence Larpen? Turgid Largeham? Tomi Lahren? — has taken to Twitter yet again to weigh in, and I can already hear you groaning involuntarily from all the way over here. At this point, Trump’s specific brand of macho posturing is par for the course, but it’s Lerfen’s response—what …

Forbes reports: At a rally in Minnesota, President Trump described an MSNBC anchor hit by a rubber bullet while covering protests after the death of George Floyd in May as “a beautiful sight,” comments quickly condemned by journalists including CNN’s Jake Tapper. In his remarks, Mr. Trump mistakenly said of Velshi, “he got hit on the knee with a canister …

Fox News reports: The media treats Democrats as “delicate pieces of china,” while Republicans are largely portrayed as the “bull in a china shop,” former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin argued Wednesday. In an interview on “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Palin said she was both “nauseated and just laughing,” from remarks delivered at the Democratic Convention, reflecting a culture that is “just …

“The NBA has fired a freelance photographer because he insulted Kamala Harris. His name is Bill Baptist. He posted an image that read ‘Joe and the Hoe.’ H-O-E. Now, what do you think that’s about, ‘Joe and the Hoe’? “Well, that takes me to the second story. ‘It’s no secret, but public knowledge that Kamala Harris slept her way up …

“I think that this is more of an issue of Michelle Obama’s liberalism, because the Family Institute for Studies has shown that actually conservatives tend to be more joyful and more happy overall with their lives because we still believe in the pillars of society, which is the church and the family. “I would encourage Michelle Obama to go to …

“I love the fact that James Carville would point to the past debates of Joe Biden. Let’s be clear, that’s why he was last in all the polls during the debates. It was only South Carolina that saved him. “When you’re on a debate stage, you can’t reach out like Joe Biden has done so many times and said, ‘Please, …

“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, she had to pull this tweet down. But she didn’t pull it down before it was shared over 200,000 — 20,000 times, sorry. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted this a couple, three days ago: ‘It is vital that governors maintain restrictions on businesses until after the elections in November, because economic recovery will help Trump be re-elected. A few business …

The Hill reports: GoFundMe has suspended a fundraiser established by conservative activist Candace Owens for a café co-owner who called the late George Floyd a “thug,” saying her campaign violated its policies on “intolerance of any kind.” Owens had raised more than $200,000 for the Parkside Café in Birmingham, Ala., after co-owner Michael Dykes sparked backlash by insulting Floyd and …

Jared Holt reports at Right Wing Watch: The hashtag #FilmYourHospital trended on Twitter Sunday, encouraging people to travel to ​nearby hospitals and record video of the exterior to supposedly show that media coverage of chaotic and overcrowded hospitals ​is untrue. It appears that right-wing radio host Todd Starnes may have inspired the trend, although Starnes has not used the specific …

The New York Post reports: White House adviser Kellyanne Conway is blaming New York Mayor Bill de Blasio for making his city the epicenter of coronavirus spread in the US. “I’m not playing politics,” the counselor to President Trump told reporters Thursday, “but you have a mayor saying, ‘Look at me, I’m on the subway, go out on the town.’” …

Will Sommer reports at The Daily Beast: Twitter suspended prolific smear merchant Jack Burkman on Thursday afternoon, after the blundering conservative operative sent tweets that threatened to incite a panic about coronavirus-related food shortages. Burkman, an attention-hungry lawyer who has teamed up with fellow bumbling trickster Jacob Wohl in the past to promote comically false smears against Democrats, wrote a …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump Jr. posted a picture on Instagram calling Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) a “pussy” after the former GOP presidential candidate announced that he would be voting to convict President Trump on one of two impeachment charges. The picture featured Romney wearing high-waisted jeans, and was captioned: “Mom Jeans, Because you’re a pussy.” Trump Jr., who …