Completely Horrible People

Mediaite reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) sported a celebratory grin as she was mobbed by protesters and heckled Friday outside the Supreme Court. The freshman congresswoman celebrated after the court overturned Roe v. Wade. Her presence drew a reaction from protestors on both sides of the abortion issue. In one video, someone yelled, “Eat shit, Marjorie!” Another person called …

“Okay, in other words, you fell. You had a fall. Gotcha. That’s a line-of-duty injury as well. A couple of hundred yards from you, Ashli Babbitt was being dragged backwards out of the Capitol as she was bleeding out, shot by one of your fellow officers, even though she was unarmed. Posed no threat to anyone. OK? But you bumped …

The Daily Beast reports: The family of Isaac Hayes has spoken out against former president Donald Trump walking off and dancing to one of the late soul music pioneer’s songs following his controversial speech at the annual NRA convention. The ex-president’s speech at the gun-lobby event, mere days after 19 schoolchildren and two teachers were massacred in Uvalde, Texas, featured …

Media Matters has the transcript: LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): I want to be very, very clear tonight. President Biden appeared on camera tonight for less than eight minutes, not because he believed that his words would comfort the families or the friends of the victims, not because he believed that he would calm what are obviously frayed nerves of a worried …

“If you’re gonna get an abortion, you do have to get banged. So all of the blue-haired pro-choice protesters don’t need to worry much about abortions. I’m sorry, I just had to say that. “It’s easy to give something up when you don’t have it. It’s easy to give up shopping when you’re broke, like we all are under Joe …

From Milo Yiannopoulos’ Telegram channel: I’ve never been the same since Covid. I didn’t get sick when it was just the flu, but I did come down with one of those super-strong, souped-up, vaccine-enhanced incarnations of the virus that were doing the rounds last summer. My blood oxygen went down to 65, briefly. I didn’t care. I wasn’t prepared to …

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, …