Literally The Worst People in the World.

Christians who do harm in service of their religion... ....do they even believe in the faith they practice? Or anything at all? I don't think they do. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dermot-fenster/message

Straight people constantly ask, what's the point of gay pride? WHY have these events? What's The point of all the rainbow logos on consumer product packaging and corporate logos? Why don't lgbtq people care that Corporations aren't sincere in their support for lgbtq rights? (That's right, by the way, we don't care whether any Corporation is sincere about their support for lgbtq rights or not as long as they get as many rainbows out there as possible!) WHY WHY WHY WHY WHYYYYYYYY?! Answering all of your silly questions, so you can understand, once and for all, what it's all about, and then realize that it should have been obvious to you all along. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dermot-fenster/message

The scientifically proven reality of LGBTQ people is butting heads with Christian dogma.  And (finally) winning. But even as 81% of Americans oppose anti-LGBTQ discrimination, the church is digging in its heels and doubling down on demonizing LGBTQ people, attacking retail stores for selling shirts with rainbows on them, and allowing Pastor Jason Graber, the Pastor from Spokane who says all LGBTQ people should be shot in the back of the head and hung from bridges, to function as the public face and voice of Christianity in America. Congregations are shrinking and being distilled down to their most radically outspoken members. Will Christianity adapt? Or will it go down like Major Kong in Dr. Strangelove, riding their own homophobic hate missile straight into the ground? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dermot-fenster/message

"Republics" come in two flavors: democratic and non-democratic.  In a democratic republic, representatives are elected to represent portions of the population and every citizen gets to vote on who those representatives will be. A non-democratic republic is the same,  except only the elite "first class" or "voting class" citizens have the right to vote.  The rest are "second class" citizens with no voice in how their lives are governed and posses only the rights and freedoms that the voting class decides to allow.  When Republicans refer to America as a "Republic" without the "Democratic" modifier, they do so intentionally because a non-democratic republic is exactly what they want America to become.  And you KNOW who they want that elite "voting class" to be. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dermot-fenster/message

The reasons are obvious. And you can track the ongoing campaign by Republicans to legislate trans people out of existence by going to http://translegislation.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dermot-fenster/message

Republicans don't have the huevos, the cojones, the intestinal fortitude, the nerve, the testicular fortitude, the courage, the ovaries, the guts, the stones, or the spine to even make an attempt at answering this question about drag queens --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dermot-fenster/message

Being transgender doesn't wait until you're 18 to happen.  Not even close.  If you don't understand HOW criminalizing gender affirming care and forcing transgender kids to conform to their birth sex severely f*cks up the most developmentally important 8-10 years of their lives, I've explained it here.  And it's not that complicated. This is more of the same sh*t: Keeping red states red by driving out everyone who isn't a straight, white, christian bigot.  And every red state gets them TWO SENATE SEATS, no matter how small of a state it is.  Kansas: 2 Senators.  California?  Also 2 Senators. This is how the GQP still holds almost half the Senate seats, exerting a level of influence WAY THE F*CK BEYOND what they should be able to while having LESS THAN 20% of the population in their corner. In their petty, underhanded quest for minority rule, there is no limit to the amount of suffering they are willing to inflict. And they've proven, once again, that they're even willing to inflict that suffering on innocent children. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dermot-fenster/message

After passing 238 ANTI-LGBTQ laws in just the first 119 days of 2022, the Republicans who passed them were almost universally reelected. Clearly the practice of pandering to hate is working in red states. So I picked a transphobe out of the crowd and asked him a question.An overwhelming majority of transgender people report immediate and significant improvements to their overall happiness and well-being after transitioning.  Why is that such a bad thing?What followed was a twisted, yet predictable conversation. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dermot-fenster/message

wanna UNITE THE RIGHT? You're gonna have to give them something to HATE. But that can be tricky, especially when your right wing faction is horrendously lacking in both fortitude and strength of character. If you want to mobilize weak people, you have to give them the softest possible target, preferably one that most people aren't inclined to stand up for. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dermot-fenster/message

The first step in solving any entrenched societal problem is to give a f*ck. That means being invested in every aspect of the problem and empathizing .with everyone involved. It doesn't matter what Step 2 is when you're failing at step 1. I'm going to talk to you anti-gun folks about that, everything else you're doing wrong, and how you could do better. It is noble and honorable to want to address the problems of gun violence and mass shootings, but the only way you'll succeed is to stop focusing on merely plastering bandaids over the symptoms and shift your focus to SOLVING THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM. We can reduce mass shootings to a pre-Columbine level of Rarity if we can just find a way to work together. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dermot-fenster/message

I'm a gun owner. I'm a concealed carrier. But I refuse to count myself as part of such a selfish, ignorant, myopic community as the one that has formed around guns and gun ownership. This is part 1 of a 2 part episode, where I holler at the gun folks about where and how they're f*ckin up. In part 2, I'll be hollerin at the anti-gun folks, because they're f*ckin up too. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dermot-fenster/message

We can still get along. My friend and I were talking politics and a question arose: What can Republicans do to help repair the bridges they've burned? How could they reestablish the lines of communication and cooperation that they've deliberately cut by treating everyone who doesn't share their ideology as their MORTAL ENEMY? I've made a list of a few simple things Republicans can do that would very quickly get the country and the relationship between our two parties fully back on track. (Not that they'd ever actually do any of these things...) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dermot-fenster/message

Corporate crooks like Kevin McCarthy pander to the prejudices of people like Lauren Boebert in order to use them as both their attack dogs and as a distraction. That's a dangerous game to play, especially when someone like McCarthy forgets that while the bigotry and hatred is just an act for him, people like Lauren Boebert truly believe in the their twisted MAGA ideology. When he spoke out against Trump's insurrection on 1/6, his mask slipped. And the True Believers, like Lauren Boebert....they noticed. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dermot-fenster/message

"Hurt people hurt people. Praying that those who committed this hate crime can one day accept the love of Jesus." Let's break this hilariously cringe Tweet down! My favorite parts: 1) "Hurt people hurt people," meaning that "queers" are somehow damaged and mentally ill. 2) Her laughable declaration that this was a hate crime, when in reality, in the extremely unlikely event that it wasn't staged, it was a response to CENTURIES OF HATE CRIMES against the LGBTQ community by Christians, which they have always justified by referring to Leviticus 18:22, "If a Man Lies with a man as he lies with a woman, it is an Abomination and both of them shall surely be put to death. Their blood will be upon them." This is what these ACTUAL BIGOTS teach to CHILDREN. 3) Lauren Boebert pretending like she actually has it in her, somewhere deep down in her shriveled, decrepit heart to be magnanimous and forgiving and actually pray for the people who supposedly did it. LOL. Lauren Boebert, who is so petty and hostile to anyone who disagrees with her that she tweeted in celebration of Cori Bush- -who actually fought for Americans by sleeping in the freezing rain on the House steps to get our eviction moratorium extended during the pandemic- -seeing lackluster sales of her (excellent and inspiring) book, "The Forerunner," its first week after being released and so wretchedly hateful that she was willing to use the January 6th mob as a murder weapon to try to assassinate Nancy Pelosi by Tweeting that she had left the House Chamber just SECONDS before, notifying the mob that she was on the move, that she was vulnerable, and where she had been sheltering, for no other reason than the fact that Nancy Pelosi was part of the political opposition. And we're supposed to believe that someone as ruthlessly and murderously hateful as LAUREN BOEBERT has it in her to pray for any "queer" person? Especially one who supposedly sprayed graffiti on a church? Hold on, you'll have to give me a minute to stop laughing

Anthony Huber's only brush with the law came as a result of getting in a fight with his brother when he was 18 years old. Kyle Rittenhouse's supporters have twisted that event into a series of charges that make him look like Hannibal Lecter. The truth: after that one spot of trouble he had as a teenager, he became a productive citizen, charismatic, energetic, and a passionate civil rights activist. Gaige Grosskreutz, a trained EMT, was briefly held for burglary and released in light of additional evidence and suspects emerging. He also once paid a small fine for being over the legal limit for alcohol while carrying his CCW. Supporters of Kyle Rittenhouse have twisted those incidents too, portraying him as a habitual violent felon who robs people and carries illegal weapons. The truth: while Kyle Rittenhouse styled himself as a medic, Gaige Grosskreutz is the real deal, a trained EMT and also a passionate civil rights activist who was LEGALLY carrying a concealed handgun, treating approximately 10 people in Kenosha that night for wounds sustained from rubber bullets, pepper spray, and beatings from batons. Two decent, compassionate human beings who are constantly demonized by the absolute biggest piles of human excrement in the entire right wing: Kyle Rittenhouse supporters. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dermot-fenster/message

Like every lgbtq kid raised in a fundamentalist Christian/Catholic household, I was relentlessly, brutally GROOMED to be straight. The disingenuous, red pilled, craven, spineless, pathetic cowards spreading LIES about the drag Story Hour don't want you to think about what I and every other gay kid who I grew up fundamentalist Christian or Catholic went through when our parents, churches, and communities pulled out all the stops pressure, shame, threatening, and beat the gay out of us. They don't want you to think about all of the SHAME, FEAR, and PAIN they all put us through to try to FORCE US to CONFORM to the sexual orientation and gender identity they decided we should be defined by, regardless of what we wanted for ourselves. They don't want you to think about how we actually WANTED that grooming of us to work, how we HELPED them groom us at every turn, how badly WE WANTED TO BE STRAIGHT MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD. And they SURE AS HELL don't want you to think about how in spite of all of that, none of that makes the slightest change to our sexual orientation or gender identity. Because if you think about how all of those things DIDN'T DO A SINGLE GODDAMN THING to influence our sexual orientation or gender identity in any way WHATSOF*CKINGEVER, the idea that a drag queen reading a story book is going to do what all of that couldn't do will start to sound pretty goddamned stupid. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dermot-fenster/message

No one has switched off of trump or trumpism. We're just seeing greater turnout on the anti-trump side in the first national election since the attack on January 6th. Everyone who was a Nazi before is it Nazi now. Everyone who was against Nazis before is against Nazis now. Every single campaign Dollar on these midterms was wasted. Everyone loaded exactly the way they were going to vote before any of the rally's, ads, debates, and everything else campaigns ran to try to convince people to vote for their candidates. If you look at Social media, you will see that Republicans are now talking about using violence rather than engaging in the electoral process because they realized that the electoral process does not work for them anymore. People don't want to elect candidates whose agenda is to deprive people of basic human rights. The Republican party wants to be seen as and function as a serious political party while also doing the things that make that impossible, such as removing people's basic human rights, as in their efforts to overturn Lawrence V Texas so that the 11 states with laws that make it illegal just to be gay can start enforcing those laws again. You can't have both, it has to be one or the other and they will not choose to be an actual serious political party. They will lean hard into Nazism. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dermot-fenster/message

We (rightfully) accuse Republicans of failing to empathize with us on every issue, all the time. But when it comes to this issue, guns, we are failing in exactly the same way to empathize with people for whom guns are inextricably linked with their identities not just as americans, but as human beings. People who would not have protein in their diet if they couldn't HUNT for it. People who put their life on the line in military service and came away with no skills other than firearms and have used those skills to make a living. People who live in wild hog country and could easily be killed by them if limited to only bolt action rifles or pistols. People who normally would be on our side on gay rights, black lives matter, abortion rights, and they even voted for Joe biden, but in state and local elections they vote for Republicans because of our inability to empathize with the fact that Firearms are integral to their daily lives. We have to do better. We could take a very large piece out of their voter base and be able to enact the kind of policies that would actually address the root causes of mass shootings rather than just putting a Band-Aid on them by Banning certain guns or all guns entirely. Absolutely hate making their argument for them on this, but guns are not the root cause of mass shootings. We have, by far, the largest income inequality Gap in the first world. Direct result of this government the suicide rate is gone up in the past from one in every 8,000 people to one in every five, which works out to about 40,000 suicides each year. And as more unstable people get swept up in the 53%, and rising, of Americans who don't even make basic cost of living, those suicides are increasingly going to come in the form people who want the world to burn, who want to take as many people as possible as the price they see themselves exacting for them being condemned to a hopeless future. Just as I give them that, I also have to emphasize that it was the Republican Party who has helped corporations kill organized labor for the past Century so that we have no recourse to negotiate for a living wage. Just in the past couple decades, the increase in cost of living has outpaced wage growth by 392% for those of us who are below the corporate upper management level. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dermot-fenster/message

This means that for almost the entire time during which the Old Testament took place, the Israelites didn't even worship the one God that was the main character at the center of every story in the Old testament. Remember the story about the Israelites losing faith in God and instead worshiping Baal, the golden calf? The fact that they were polytheists from the beginning all the way up to their arrival in Jerusalem completely invalidates the entire narrative thrust of this event and every other event in the Old Testament whose moral revolves around adhering to their faith in Yahweh, the One True God. The Old Testament was written around 721 BC. The locations around that time frame were basically correct, but the further back the author went, the less accurate the places and chronology became. The locations from the later part of the Book of Genesis didn't actually exist for another Thousand Years After those stories supposedly took place. The Israelites were never slaves in Egypt. Egypt was actually conquered and ruled by another nation of people for about a hundred years right smack in the middle of the time when the Israelites were supposedly slaves there. The Egyptians also kept impeccable records of who they did keep as slaves. The Israelites were never part of that and were proven by historical records to live in a completely different part of the world at that time. The story of Moses being placed in the basket as a baby and floated down the river was lifted entirely from a religious myth invented by a completely different nation of people. This is just ONE of many other stories in the Bible that were also borrowed from the religious mythologies of other nations. The Bible is ENTIRELY contradicted by historical record, yet it has been used by its devotees as justification for ruining COUNTLESS lives, spilling OCEANS of blood, and generally being LITERALLY THE WORST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. Time to wake up, MAN up, and stop blaming your atrocities on a myth. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dermot-fenster/message

In one browser tab, they fat shame anyone with a larger size body and anyone who promotes body positivity and fat acceptance. Their other browser tabs are occupied by a whole lot of big girl porn. Out of all those browser tabs, the only one they should be ashamed of is the one where they are pouring a disturbing amount of energy into their effort to make people with larger bodies feel as bad about themselves as possible. Yet the other tabs are the ones they would never confess to opening. The should be no shame in being attracted to BBWs. They're big. And they're beautiful. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dermot-fenster/message

Republicans make blanket generalizations about entire races of people being prone to violence and criminality. Then they throw a screaming fit about being called out as racists while claiming, "The numbers said it, not me! I'm just pointing out what the data PROVES!" Their data is ALWAYS laughably narrow, out of context, incomplete, irrelevant, or fabricated entirely. But even in the unlikely event that they someday might make such a claim and support it with accurate data, crime stats don't even come close to being sufficient evidence to suggest, let alone PROVE INHERENT CRIMINALITY IN AN ENTIRE RACE OF HUMAN BEINGS. Hey I have a crazy idea. If you're so racist that you feel compelled to enact legislation that literally bans the teaching of black history, fabricate hundreds of incidents at BLM protests that never happened, manipulate photos to make it look like BLMprotesters destroyed property that they didn't actually destroy, describe a protest event as a massive wave of violent crime when more than half of the crimes listed are shoplifting offenses that just happened to occur on the same day as the protest, hire medical experts whose primary source of income is speaking at white supremacist events to give interviews talking about how George Floyd died exclusively of a drug overdose when he was actually just strangled, devote hours and hours of airtime to how Breonna Taylor dated a drug dealer despite the fact that the drug dealer in question was brought into custody with no evidence against him and eventually released, repeatedly tweet the #JusticeForChauvin hashtag..... ...maybe just..... .....grow some balls and take ownership of your prejudices. Just sayin. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dermot-fenster/message

Not a single Republican has responded to any of the responses to their drive-by tweets they've been fire-hosing out of their asses as part of Operation GOATSE. Anyone with true strength of character would be willing to back up the things they say, except it's so much for his being said in these drive-by tweets is so patently absurd that it's not even worth responding to. They don't even have the courage to read those responses. They used to respond, back in the earlier years of the Trump movement, but given that the basis for all the ideological Hills they chose to die on back then were so factually inaccurate that it was impossible to even post a position without getting completely dismantled, this isn't any kind of a surprise. What is surprising is that they still choose to put forth an image of themselves as big, strong, tough, manly men. They don't even have the balls to own their prejudices. Instead, they constantly try to rationalize and support them with fabricated stories, fabricated data, statistics out of context, denial of accurate information, twisted and exaggerated versions of events, and conspiracy theories and innuendo that don't exist within light years of actual reality. I've met some genuinely tough Hombres in my life who share the prejudices of today's Republican Party. They don't vomit up metric tons of false information in a desperate effort to justify their prejudices. If they even present any justification at all, which they rarely feel the need to do because they are ACTUALLY CONFIDENT in their beliefs, they will simply tell you it's what they've always believ0ed based on what they were taught and what they've seen and that they feel no need to question that. They don't care what anyone thinks about it and they don't need anyone's validation. Today's Republican party, on the other hand, is made up of soft, weak men with such a fatal lack of confidence in their own beliefs that they can't go 5 minutes without fire hosing a tidal wave of demonstrably false propaganda in support of the anemic house of cards they call an ideology. The fact that they claim to possess a single ounce of integrity, decency, courage, or strength of character of any kind is probably the most patently absurd tenet of their entire ass-backward belief system. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dermot-fenster/message

Over the past month, ELECTED Republican trolling on social media has skyrocketed. They're spreading their big white Christian butt cheeks, gripping the edges of that sphincter, and BLAST-FOUNTAINING antagonistic diarrhea all over the internet in an attempt to repeat Steve Bannon's 2016 election strategy of flooding The Zone with s***. During the work day, that 9:00 to 5:00 period when most ADULTS are getting on with the business of keeping America running, ELECTED Republicans are tweeting out demonstrably false, antagonistic tweets directed at their Democrat colleagues every 10 to 15 minutes. The desperation is palpable. It's clear that they are starting to realize that they have secured the support of everyone that they are ever going to attract in this lifetime. It's clear that they have come to the conclusion that the best they can hope to do with their messaging is to show off how committed they are to ~~~~ in order to retain the support of those who have voted for them in the past: Literally the worst people in the world. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dermot-fenster/message

The Republican effort to drive Democrats out of red States with laws like the 238 anti-lgbtq laws they passed in just the first four months of 2022 has been mostly toothless, but if they can reverse the next three Supreme Court decisions they have their eyes on, they might be able to successfully make red States unlivable for lgbtq people, black people, and Democrats all together. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dermot-fenster/message

Easy access to guns sin certainly exacerbating the problem and common sense gun control is definitely a worthwhile effort, but we will not eliminate the driving force behind these shootings until we address the one problem that increases the severity and impact of all others: INCOME INEQUALITY. Republicans have intentionally inflicted a state of poverty on America that has the vast majority of us living paycheck-to-paycheck. Staring down the barrel of a life barren of any real prospects for a better future, more and more people are driven to a state of hopeless rage that ends up being focused on innocent victims as these hopeless, broken people decide to take as many people with them as they can. The Republican Party is directly responsible for ALL of the most influential drivers of mass shootings, especially income inequality. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dermot-fenster/message

Just as a courtesy to you gun folks, I'm going to expllain why no one seeks or listens to what you have to say about guns and gun control anymore. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dermot-fenster/message

Yes, this is the GQP's worst crime. Ever. Keeping people poor KILLS them. It takes years off their lives and degrades the life they have left. The GQP and corporate America have been collaborating on an effort to make sure most Americans are paid as little as possible. Since the year 2000, cost of living in America has increased by approximately 400%. Yet, starting pay rates for every position below the corporate upper management level have only increased by about 8%. WHY DO THEY DO THIS? - in exchange for financial compensation from corporate lobbyists - to make it as easy as possible to manipulate people by by artificially inflating the cost of living and then falsely blaming Democrats for their financial difficulties to win elections - to give themselves the perfect justification for voting down or filibustering any new spending bills on social programs and slashing, burning and eliminating all existing social programs that they can in order to keep as much tax revenue as possible for themselves, their projects, and their interests.... all they have to do it is convince voters that any and all government spending will increase the tax burden on regular people HOW DO THEY DO THIS? - by voting down or filibustering any and every piece of legislation that would regulate the way any aspect of a business is run, especially legislation related to employee compensation and legislation that would ban all of the scummy, evil, reprehensible union-busting practices companies have used over the past half-century. - by running smear campaigns, characterizing every unionized business as a mafia front and then using that as a justification to constantly investigate, harass, audit, and find any justification, no matter how tenuous or outright fabricated, to shut down and disband labor unions..... ....so that we have NO REGULATORY PROTECTION and NO RECOURSE to negotiate for fair pay and have to simply settle for the scraps they toss on the floor for us. That's MAGA for you: Make Americans Go-Broke Always --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dermot-fenster/message

Lindsey Graham and Marjorie Taylor Green shoved a nauseating amount of discussion of the particulars of Christianity into judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation hearings for two reasons. They didn't think that they would be able to directly violate the first amendment by denying her the seat based on her religious beliefs, but they decided to give it a try. But what they were primarily trying to do was normalize religious influence on government processes and appointments. Well, mainly Lindsey Graham was trying to do that. All Marjorie Taylor Greene knew was that her handlers told her to go on a rant about Adam's Rib and it would trigger the libs. She doesn't have two brain cells to rub together, so there would have been no point in trying to explain the nuances the plan to her. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dermot-fenster/message

What do you call it when Republicans tweet the same thing every single day, tweet absolute Fabrications, and obsessively go after people for their age, race, gender identity, and sexual orientation? I call it a surrender. A confession. An admission that they have nothing to offer. Except, of course, hate, lies, and pettiness. But I'll let them tell you that themselves. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dermot-fenster/message

Cartels murder over 30,000 Mexican citizens in a year and suffer zero consequences for it. Cartels control the vast majority of the illicit drug Market in America. Cartels have the Mexican Government under their thumb. And we made all that possible. And Republicans would prefer that America NOT have the decency to help clean up the mess it has made in Mexico. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dermot-fenster/message

Hunter Biden's addictions are a symptom of his post-traumatic stress disorder from the accident that killed his mother and baby sister This is not someone who was doing drugs for fun and got carried away. Hunter Biden was trapped in the horrific moment that half his family was crushed and obliterated, two feet in front of his face. A part of him will always be that age. A part of him will always be in that car. Since then, he has struggled in a variety of ways, with his lowest moments unfolding in the public eye, despite the fact that beyond putting on a suit and showing up to cheer for his dad at a select few events, he has never made a single move toward involving himself in politics. And YOU don't have the guts to say a damn thing while piece of sh*t Republicans meme him, insult him, call him a crackhead, falsely accuse him of crimes and conspiracies, constantly threaten his life, and do their level best to destroy him? THIS IS ON YOU. You do nothing. You say nothing. You PERMIT this. Get your sh*t together. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dermot-fenster/message

We're about to find out how many Americans will let the Republican party slowly disenfranchise,arginine, and in some cases exterminate everyone who is, in any way, "other." That number is what will determine whether we ever get to talk about this fight against #GQP fascism in the past tense. Father Martin Niemöller understood that all too well. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dermot-fenster/message

" Pete Buttigieg can take his electric vehicles and his bicycles and he and he and his husband can stay out of our girls bathrooms." -Kevin McCarthy, via the mouth of Marjorie Taylor Greene. If you've seen Nightmare Alley, you know what a circus Geek is. Marjorie Taylor Greene is the #GQP's Geek. The train wreck you can't look away from. The distraction that pulls your attention away from what the #GQP is really up to. As long as the #GQP is constantly lying, cheating, and stealing, they will always need a Geek to distract us from it. (For some reason I keep mentally switching Geek and Gimp...XD ) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dermot-fenster/message

The grownups in my life told me that after slavery, there were no "real" problems for black people. That was the narrative I was fed as a kid. And now the #GQP wants to go back to that model of education. You know- -the REVISIONIST one. Some of the kids I grew up with are actual loud and proud Nazis now. I wonder why. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dermot-fenster/message

Wouldn't it be ironic if the #GQP, in creating the #DontSayGay bill (which will result in the deaths of many #LGBTQ kids), was ignoring the literal Voice of God? You know, that little Voice deep inside - the one that tells you not to hurt people. Your conscience. (Worst quality so far - I'm still getting over a really bad cold. Sorry about that. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dermot-fenster/message

1) Ages 6-9, or K-3rd grade, is not too early to learn about sexual orientation and identity 2) The other reasons #DontSayGay is so damaging to EVERYONE 3) Why the #GQP is REALLY creating laws like the #DontSayGay bill (it's not homophobia) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dermot-fenster/message

The constant dishonesty that we are seeing from the Republican Party is not normal. It falls far outside the normal range of human imperfection. Why do they lie so much? It really doesn't matter why. What we should really be concerning ourselves with is it what this level of dishonesty says about their intentions. The fact that they are lying this much indicates that they are no longer interested in having a meaningful dialogue with the rest of us. They made a conscious decision to terminate that relationship and move on to the next phase, which is to force their agenda through, which will affect every aspect of our daily lives if they are successful. We really need to be a massive f****** lot more worried about this than we are. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dermot-fenster/message