Gary Bedard
Thursday, August 1, 2024
Simone Biles
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
President Biden: With fear for our democracy, I dissent
I know I'm not a young man. I don't walk as easily as I used to. I don't talk as smoothly as I used to. I don't debate as well as I used to. But I know what I do know. I know how to tell the truth. I know right from wrong. I know how to do this job. I know how to get things done. I know like millions of Americans know. When you get knocked down, you get back up. I give you my word as a Biden, I would not be running again if I didn't believe, with all my heart and soul that I can do this job
The entire campaign rally can be viewed here
Here are Trump’s lies during the debate debunked with charts
Later President Biden addressed the U.S. Supreme Court decision that Donald Trump was immune from prosecution for official acts he took during his presidency.
“For all practical purposes, today’s decision almost certainly means that there are virtually no limits on what the president can do,” Biden said, adding that he pledges “to respect the limits of the presidential powers.”
“Donald Trump sent a violent mob to stop the peaceful transfer of power. We watched it happen, the attack on police, the ransacking of the Capitol, a violent mob hunting down the House Speaker, the gallows erected to hang Mike Pence. It was one of the darkest days in the history of America. Now the man who sent that mob is facing potential criminal conviction. The American people deserve an answer about what happened on January 6 before they’re asked to vote again this year.”
“It will now depend on the character of the men and women who hold the presidency to define the limits of its power. I will respect the limits as I have for three and a half years. But any president, including Donald Trump, will now be free to ignore the law. I concur with Justice Sotomayor’s dissent. She said ‘In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law. With fear for our democracy, I dissent.’ So should the American people dissent. I dissent.”
Watch the full speech here or here
Full transcript here
Meanwhile, the leader of Trump’s terrifyingly fascist Project2025 plan just said this: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be”
Saturday, June 29, 2024
Kamala Harris
Later Harris appeared on Rachel Maddow to discuss the stakes of this year’s presidential election
At a speaking event Harris said of the President: “Joe Biden made clear this election is a contrast between someone who lies and someone who leads.”
Thursday, May 9, 2024
When Love Breaks Down
Sunday, March 17, 2024
Ethan Slater
My new man crush Ethan Slater star of the Broadway musical SpongeBob SquarePants. Slater will star in the upcoming Wicked movie based on the musical.
Sunday, March 3, 2024
All of Us Strangers
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Jonathan Larson
I’ve been listening to a lot of Jonathan Larson’s music lately and thinking about him.
Larson passed away in 1996 at the age of 35 from an aortic dissection the day before Rent opened off Broadway.
Only days before, he had gone to the hospital complaining of chest pain but they sent him home undiagnosed. It’s a tragic story which I believe happens more often than people realize because what I’ve learned from having Adhesive Arachnoiditis is that doctors have unlimited power to cover up their mistakes. They have more power than even our elected officials and they can lie and cover up when their mistakes cause an unwrongful death. Because the hospital industry protects them and not the patient and there is no one to hold them to account. I know because they did it to me and are still covering up my disease to this day because it was caused from an epidural.
Larson was outspoken, about social issues in his plays. I believe in 2024 He would have been a much needed voice for democracy. He would have helped fight the creeping fascism that exists today and is poised to takeover the US in 2024. Larson would have been 64 this month.
I will most likely die similarly to Larson. Undiagnosed and in my home. Jonathan’s work mattered so much. He touched so many lives but it wasn’t until after his death that so many people even got to know of him. I hope my art can touch people even in some small way like that when I’m gone. Here is my posthumous tribute to you Jonathan. Thank you for everything you did. I really love you.