Thursday Stuff

Dem Governor Kathy Hochul of New York tells Orange Sh*tstain what he can do with his attempt to overturn congestion pricing in New York City...oh, and did everyone get the memo that #47 has proclaimed himself king as noted here? Heckuva job, all of you idiots who supported this delusional egomaniac as well as those who did nothing to support Harris/Walz...



...and Dem U.S. Senator Dick Durbin says Bronzer Beelzebub’s remark that Ukraine started their war with Russia is “outrageous,” and Durbin is right, to say the least...additionally, Eric Schmitt is nothing but a suck-up to our “king” of course, and I can’t believe I’m saying this, but John Neely Kennedy is spot-on correct here (I’ll let that remark about the dog and the fire hydrant go for now)...



...and boy, is Dem governor J.B. Pritzker of Illinois hitting the proverbial bullsye here as well...

JB Pritzker, sounding the alarm. Fascism is here, y'all. 2025 America is 1934 Germany. 😳👇 pic.twitter.com/XZOSx5ILUX

— Bill Madden (@maddenifico) February 20, 2025

...and John and Viviana Vigil of The Damage Report let us know that “King” Trump is splitting up families, again, who are trying to emigrate to this country, citing an example of a woman stopped by Arizona cops for driving under the speed limit...and yeah, it does indeed sound like some “Karen” ratted out the woman, who was engaged in the apparently highly offensive act of selling empanadas – God almighty...after hearing stories like this, it’s wonder anybody wants to still come to this country at all...



...and Lawrence O’Donnell informs us that, for the first time since the program was instituted, Social Security payments aren’t guaranteed thanks to Combover Caligula and Apartheid Clyde...not surprised in the least to hear that President Musk and his flunky violated the terms of succession when it comes to oversight of this hugely vital program...important history lesson here from O’Donnell on how Social Security originated and was supported by Dwight Eisenhower, the first Republican president elected after the program was enacted...on a personal level, I can’t tell you how important and gratifying it is – and more importantly, how TRUE it is – to hear O’Donnell praise the IRS and the Social Security Administration...



...and I’ll keep an eye out for ’25 tour dates for this group, but nothing has shown up so far...I like their sound, I have to admit.

Wednesday Stuff

Ali Vitali speaks with Dem U.S. House Rep Seth Moulton about that insulting speech from Couch Boy in front of our NATO allies (who hopefully will remain allies)...and I’m sure China and Russia thought Vance’s ridiculous words were just peachy...and I don’t think it’s a coincidence under any stretch of the imagination that Vance also went to meet present-day Nazi party members, which is truly gut-churning...not the biggest fan of Moulton to be honest and he kind of lost me a bit towards the end here, even though he has served our country; I’m tired of hearing about how Dems lost the damn election because of trans women in sports...there were a lot of factors behind what happened which I’ve gotten into ad nauseum I’ll admit, but I’ll just say this; when families like those of yours truly are sitting around the dining room table meeting over bills and the checkbook and looking at the $$ coming into the Doomsy household, we could absolutely care less if someone currently taking puberty blockers and looking at possible gender reassignment surgery is going to play field hockey for a women’s collegiate team in Kentucky (and by the way, for everyone freaking out about sharing a bathroom with an LGBTQ individual, I’ll just say this – it’s likely that YOU ALREADY HAVE AND YOU JUST DIDN’T KNOW IT, SO GET A F*CKING GRIP, OK???!!)...



...and Rachel Maddow lets us know that President Musk and Our Ochre Abomination laid off a bunch of workers at the Hanford nuclear site and left the place with a skeleton crew (“Have you considered resigning?” indeed...sooo, first they fired the nuke personnel and then tried to “un-fire” them – are there any actual adults in this clown car of a *presidential administration* I wonder?)...I have to admit that I didn’t know about the drone that crashed into the Chernobyl nuclear site, but thank God it didn’t lead to anything...



...well, if nothing else, it looks like this abomination of a *presidential administration is trying to Make Cancer Great Again...here comes The Lincoln Project doing more of the work that the DNC should be doing, whether it’s run by Ken Martin, Jaime Harrison, Tom Perez, Tobey Maguire, ZaSu Pitts or whoever (you can Google her)...



...and Marc Elias and Paige Moskowitz of Democracy Docket discuss PA Dem governor Josh Shapiro suing President Musk and Bronzer Beelzebub to potentially unlock $3 billion in federal funds (more specifically, from the OMB under Project 2025 cretin Russell Vought)...and Elias is right that Repug governors and attorneys general should be joining Shapiro’s suit also, but good luck with trying to stand up to our ruling cabal of grifters and lowlifes...I know Elias knows the law on this stuff better than I do, but to me, it’s still a constitutional crisis if the Trump gang decides to “slow walk” compliance with a court order and tries to use stoo-pidity as a defense...



...and this is probably low-hanging fruit by comparison, but I think it still deserves to be mentioned...it looks like Elon’s “baby mama” is acting like a woman scorned, if you will, and is behaving accordingly on social media (Kyle Kulinski explains)...not to split hairs too much, but that first paragraph of Ashley St. Clair’s statement doesn’t make sense; “protect your child” from what?? Yes, the safety of the child should be ensured, but I think the lady doth protest too much also...I think St. Clair is another “clout chaser” in the final analysis...I went back and forth a bit on whether or not I should include this because I honestly don’t care about Elmo’s personal stuff, but if nothing else, it points out yet again the double standard of the “fundies” out there who proclaim that #47 is an allegedly godly man who has had multiple divorces/multiple kids with other women and now takes orders from the world’s richest man who apparently has had so many kids with other women that you need a scorecard to keep track of them...meanwhile, they ruthlessly attacked #46, who had two wives, one of whom was killed in a car crash with their daughter, and was a devout father who regularly attended Church services, not that conservative hypocrites cared of course (NSFW/H)...



...and happy 85th birthday to the incomparable Smokey Robinson.

Tuesday Stuff

Sam of The Majority Report tells us that Pete Hegseth, the Fix Noise host turned SecDef for President Musk and his orange minion, decided to rename Camp Liberty in Nort Carolina (which used to be called Fort Bragg after a Confederate traitor) back to Fort Bragg, but this time, after a different “Bragg,” if you will, from Maine, who apparently was a legit hero in WWII as noted here...even when this administration screws up, they manage to do it in reverse and in this case actually did something kind of OK (yeah, and Hegseth was the guy who just gave that speech telling Ukraine they’re on their own against Vlad The Butcher)...Sam talks about the revisionist history in favor of the “star n’ bars” that really goes back to the beginning of the last century...commentary ends at about 6:54 (and I definitely share Sam’s Dem frustration that he articulates with the caller)...



...also, we had a bunch of commendable "Not MY President" day protests on Presidents Day against our criminal ruling regime...video includes commentary from Nicolle Wallace (more here)
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Thousands of Americans came out for 'Not My President's Day' protests in numerous cities across the country. 😳👇 pic.twitter.com/8YaOb8QD8p

— Bill Madden (@maddenifico) February 18, 2025

...and Farron Cousins of Ring of Fire tells us that Trump AG Pam Bondi has decided that the FBI doesn’t need to investigate foreign influence in our elections since she abolished the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force...and oh yeah, that means that we’re not going to investigate people working as foreign agents in our government also – what could go wrong I wonder (especially since Bondi herself was working as a foreign agent for Qatar)...



...and continuing with the nonsense going on at the Trump “Justice” Department, Lawrence O’Donnell informs us that that wretched body now isn’t allowed to investigate utterly corrupt NYC mayor Eric Adams in accordance with an order from President Musk and his orange flunky, as well as a directive from this Emil Bove character...yep, we’re pretty much officially a banana republic now; oh, but all is forgiven if the stock market does well, amirite? (#sarcasm)...I’m sure Adams will celebrate this development with another plane flight to Turkey, assuming he hasn’t already done so...have to admit that I’m not familiar with Danielle Sassoon and I’m sure she’s a bedrock conservative in many ways, but she’s spot-on here in the matter of following the law and statutes despite political influence...kudos to her and the other DOJ lawyers who resigned instead of participating in this pathetic farce...



...and Yasmin Khan of Rebel HQ tells us about the Murdoch Street Journal more or less politely questioning Mango Mussolini on his alleged financial skills, with #47 definitely “getting it backward” on wanting Fed Chair Jerome Powell to cut interest rates while all of this BS with supposedly raising tariffs plays out...and by the way, it’s an open question as to whether or not a president can fire a Federal Reserve chairman since it’s never been tried before and each Fed chair is confirmed for a 10-year term (Powell was appointed in 2018), but law and precedent have never mattered to our demented toddler-in-chief before (actually, second-in-command to President Musk), so why should it now I guess...



...and I don’t see any Philly-area tour dates coming up for this guy, but I hope one is forthcoming...I really get into this newer tune.

Monday Stuff

Farron Cousins of Ring of Fire informs us that Jim Farley, Ford CEO, said in a recent interview that Trump’s tariffs could destroy the auto industry, which I suppose is realizing the Repug Party dream of former presidential candidate Willard Mitt Romney (here)...for #47, though, creating confusion is the point, facts and consequences be damned...”oh, maybe we’ll pause the tariffs with Canada for a week or two, but full steam ahead on tariffs with Mexico, and we’ll enact the China tariffs on the third Tuesday of the month,” etc...this is what you voted for, all of you Trumpers out there and anyone who wouldn’t support Harris/Walz...



...and Jesse Dollemore tells us about Our Treasonous Orange Pestilence following the Hitler playbook in remarks that could be a pretext to possibly invading Canada...yep, horrific as this is, it all has to be giving Vlad The Butcher an excuse for an ear-to-ear grin, tragically (and again, as somebody pointed out, this is all noise to hide what DOGE is doing to our government, but it’s still worrying as hell)...the sentence where Jesse uses NSFW/H language is one that I agree with 150 percent...and yeah, “Governor” Trudeau – we already knew that #47 was a piece of sh*t, and this just gives that more emphasis...”a lotta ships out there”...what a f*cking moron!...



...and speaking of foreign nations, Yasmin Khan of Rebel HQ tells us about Denmark trolling Mango Mussolini with a buyout offer for California, complete with quotes about purchasing the Golden Gate state from Lars Ulrich of Metallica and children’s author Hans Christian Andersen (and yes, I know the latter is deceased)...



...and Chris Hayes tells us the story of President Musk and his henchman trying to take $80 million in FEMA funds from NYC – actually, the guilty party is DHS Secretary Kristi (“Unsafe At Any Speed”) Noem...I’m sure it will come as absolutely no surprise that, as Hayes points out, the funds were appropriated properly through an act of Congress signed into law by President Biden, and most definitely the migrants who benefit from that are here legally and aren’t living in luxury high-rise apartments or whatever (and yeah, in “luxury” for $12.50 a night, and in Manhattan no less...and this nonsense move caused a $15 K overdraft fee for NYC on top of all of the other idiocy)...Hayes speaks with NYC controller Brad Lander about this mess...



...and in yet another ad that the beyond clueless DNC should be making, The Lincoln Project lets us know, among other things, that every state/commonwealth in this country has laws about protecting your online data, even if our ruling cabal and grifters and frauds refuses to acknowledge that...sure would be nice to nail King Elon’s wretched ass for poking around sensitive private data and stick him in the slam for all of his DOGE bullsh*t...



...and kudos to Sheryl Crow for performing what I would call an act of patriotism here.

Friday Stuff

Mike Figueredo brings us the story of farmer Skylar Holden, who made a TikTok bit worrying about continued funding for his farm through the Inflation Reduction Act (everybody remember that one from Biden?)...and I don’t want to hear about this guy “taking a quiz” that supposedly told him that the Gropenfuhrer was the best candidate for president; as I and others have mentioned numerous times, we’re talking about an individual convicted on 34 counts of paying off a p*rn star with campaign funds, as well as someone held criminally liable for “sexual abuse” (i.e., rape) in accordance with the verdict from a New York court (in addition to all of the ruin from his horrific first term), and you STILL thought “he’s my guy,” as well as the fact the #47 is such a bald-faced liar that he doesn’t even know what reality is...Holden does have a bit of a point that there’s an opportunity for Dems here to educate people who could vote on our side, but I don’t have faith that Schumer and Jeffries will capitalize on this moment, sadly...also, good on Holden seriously for having the conversations he describes...and Figueredo is absolutely right about people who are too far gone; I have to admit that I have personal experience with that, regrettably (NSFW/H)...



...and Leeja Miller tells us about King Elon I and his cadre of “creeps and dweebs” in DOGE...and yeah, this Steve Davis character in charge of DOGE staffing has ties to – wait for it! – George Mason University and Koch Industries...and this Peter Marocco life form associated with this criminal enterprise has ties to 1/6 also...additionally, Stephanie Holmes is associated with notorious wingnut law firm Jones Day (also, the Pacific Legal Foundation is another collection of right wing “fellow travelers”)...and yes, I completely agree with Miller’s commentary about protecting journalists...If nothing else, this clip should let us know the depth and breadth of the “vast right wing conspiracy” Hillary Clinton once warned us about (and of course, she was completely vilified for saying so)...people smarter than your humble narrator have called all of this DOGE garbage a “digital coup,” and sadly, I think that’s correct...



...and Jesse Dollemore lets us know that the administration of Cantaloupe Capone is covering for King Elon every way possible; yeah, it looks like Karoline Leavitt has to work on her lying skills...oh, and this pea-brained harpie thinks we have no interest in climate change in Sri Lanka? We have interest in climate change EVERY-FREAKING WHERE SINCE WE ALL SHARE THE SAME FREAKING PLANET, YOU MORON! (mildly NSFW/H also)...



...and Seth Meyers tells us that our Orange Demagogue is trying to punish the AP for not saying Gulf of America in their reporting; also, Bronzer Beelzebub made himself Kennedy Center chair (oh, excuse me...the board he basically appointed himself was responsible for that)...yeah, “some people” this and “some people” that; more lies (Seth is getting a little edgy here trying to break through that “fourth wall” on the spit take thing)...oh great – after listening to Our Ochre Abomination talking about “the Gerald Ford” and LaGuardia and plane and magnets and hydraulics or whatever, it’s plain to the entire world that HE’S FREAKING SUNSETTING!!!...



...and Tennessee Brando brings us the story of Dem lawmakers in his state getting up and walking out of Repug guv Bill Lee’s State of the State address in protest, led by Justin Jones and Gloria Johnson...and if you even vote for a sanctuary city, you could be charged with a felony in that state? What freaking country am I living in again???!! (slightly NSFW/H as well)...

...and happy Valentine’s Day, everybody (and glad to see that there’s plenty of love right now for our Iggles also...and I think the next Utopia tune was "Love In Action").

Thursday Stuff

I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 2/14/17...it’s safe to say that I gave up on Bill Maher awhile ago, but back when he actually made sense IMO, he gave us this bit about “falling in love” with knowledge; I think it’s getting harder to find good content from our corporate media publications (which makes Ground News even more important as far as I’m concerned), but I think it’s fair to patronize who we can as our means allows...for example, I subscribe to the online version of the New York Times FWIW, and even though they employ Peter Baker and some of that paper’s ridiculous Op-Ed writers, they also employ talented ones like Jamelle Bouie, even though the good writers keep leaving (like Charles Blow and Professor Krugman)...people like Charlie Savage know their stuff also...I would also suggest supporting people like Will Bunch and Charles Pierce, and also The Rude Pundit (clip is briefly NSFW/H in a couple of spots)...



...and Chris Hayes lets us know that an appeals court rejected a bid to reinstate a funding freeze from King Elon I...oh, and DOGE is “transparent,” Elmo? WHERE???!!! As Hayes says, what we know of that enterprise of President Musk and his flunky (DOGE I mean) came out of independent reporting...and since *President Accordion Hands is so obsessed with “corruption,” I think it bears repeating that HE FIRED ALL OF THE FREAKING INSPECTOR GENERALS WHO WOULD ROOT OUT THE “CORRUPTION” THAT HE CLAIMS IS SO BAD!!! I think Hayes also does a good job here of pointing out how Mango Mussolini doesn’t give a fig about the law, despite his nonsensical claim that he’ll abide by court rulings...



...and Lawrence O’Donnell points out how ridiculous that photo-op with King Elon and his henchman truly was...and again, #47 acting like he’s going to abide by courts – yeah, this is from a professional liar...King Abdullah of Jordan visited in the midst of all of this, with O’Donnell discussing the nonsense created by the Gropenfuhrer as well as O’Donnell’s own Hollywood billionaire story...and I think the stuff about the woman allegedly making $30 million working for the federal government is the “welfare queen 2.0” based on the nonsense first created by The Sainted Ronnie R...and yeah, maybe it’s partly my fault that I’m utterly not shocked by President Musk and his second in command deciding not to send food to starving people in Sudan (following up on the Hayes clip on that idiotic photo op where Bronzer Beelzebub looked utterly helpless) – maybe I shouldn’t be as numb to this stuff as I am...I guess O’Donnell’s prior clip arguing that we’re defenseless against stoo-pidity is true, I hate to say...also, I’m utterly not shocked by #47’s actions around Musk’s 4-year-old – Combover Caligula is a demented narcissistic sociopath, so this is just another day with a “y” in it...



...and completing my MSNBC trifecta, Rachel Maddow speaks with Eric Lipton (speaking of good writers for the NY Times), who exposes Musk’s shocking conflict of interest; getting people fired for investigating him, eliminating competition...you know, typically altruistic stuff from that overgrown nepo baby (#sarcasm about altruism - and I don’t mean Maddow)...and of course, Our Ochre Abomination gets rid of the heads of the NLRB and the EEOC, because of course...and oh yeah, who needs a stinkin’ FEC to investigate complaints from last year’s election of Elmo sending payments to “encourage voter registration” – more pretty obvious illegality...and kudos to Phyllis Fong for showing up to work and telling Diaper Donnie and Apartheid Clyde what they can do...of course, Elmo wanted her gone because she had the temerity to investigate test monkeys getting abused by Musk’s company Neuralink (I’m not going to say another word about that...gut churning stuff)...and by the way, I have a token presence on Xitter, but if Musk puts that completely behind a paywall, I’ll deactivate and remove my account...



Update: And concerning Elmo, I hope no one is surprised by this.

...and would that our politicians had a fraction of the character and brains of this gentleman...

This gentleman is spot-fucking-on. 🎯🎯🎯👇 pic.twitter.com/Su1WkwwSbW

— Bill Madden (@maddenifico) February 12, 2025

..and happy 75th birthday to Peter Gabriel.

Wednesday Stuff

David Doel informs us that U.S. support from Canadians is plummeting, which should come as absolutely no surprise given the antics of our 34-count-convicted-felon *preznit...I think I mentioned already that, when it comes to Canada and the military, there was no hesitation at all from them about invading Afghanistan after 9/11 in accordance with honoring Article 5 of the NATO pact (an attack against one nation is an attack against all – of course, Orange Sh*tstain is too dumb to recall that or even know it in the first place)...oh, and by the way, as Doel notes, all of this nonsense from our Toddler-In-Chief is helping support for Canada’s liberal party – talk about unintended consequences...and that bar graph about America’s favorability as viewed by Canada after 1/20 of this year really does tell the sad story...yep, #47 is responsible for a wave of Canadian nationalism affecting their economy (which could have been foreseen by anyone with a functioning brain synapse), and I can’t see how anybody will know what kind of impact that will have on this country...



...and Farron Cousins tells us more on how King Elon I is causing chaos in the White House of Cantaloupe Capone...hadn’t really thought that DOGE is just another tool to create a smokescreen for the Gropenfuhrer, but if there’s a single thing this ruinous administration is good at, it’s misdirection (aided by our thoroughly compliant corporate media), and it makes sense that Elon is a tool for that, among other things...didn’t know there was a pic of Elmo behind the Resolute Desk, which should offend everyone in this nation (but good luck with that I know)...



...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ brings us the tale of Trumpist Judge Carl Nichols blocking the Gropenfuhrer from trying to dismantle USAID and laying off 22K workers...also, we get an update from 19 state attorneys general trying to stop King Elon and DOGE form accessing private data from the Treasury Department...and gee, isn’t it interesting to see how Little Marco was for foreign aid before he was against it, as well as Huckleberry Graham...and “tremendous fraud, tremendous waste”...projection much, Diaper Boy?...not sure why they included that idiotic Jonah Goldberg clip again; already pointed out that Goldberg is full of sh*t...



...and Jesse Dollemore tells us about Our Ochre Abomination not necessarily endorsing Couch Boy for ’28, in response to a question from Bret Baier of Fix Noise...I don’t think this was “throwing Vance under the bus,” but it was definitely a lukewarm endorsement, which is the best you’ll get from Our Treasonous Orange Pustule...oh, and apparently Baier goes to Mar-a-Lago to golf with the Gropenfuhrer; as Atrios might say, time for another blogger ethics panel (the joke being that filthy, unkempt liberal bloggers such as yours truly aren’t privileged enough to share “the discourse” with our Beltway courtier media and their brethren)...



(And by the way, like legacy corporate media and “independent” media, which I try to be in my way, I know I’m spending a lot of time on President Fergus Laing because of the threat he poses...believe me when I tell you that I’d like to spend at least as much time on what the “D” team is doing in response, but that exercise is greatly hindered by nonsense like this...and I mean the response from the "D" team, not people contacting them.)

Update 2/14/25: OK, this is positive (from earlier this week)...

Want to know what the DNC is doing? Mainstream media will not report this. Here is what they did today.

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— Choco Harvey Milk (@chocoharveymilk.bsky.social) February 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM

...and we’re planning for a parade in these parts for the world champion Philadelphia Eagles (and the projection is for a million people to attend – I have a feeling they’ll make that number easily), and yours truly may be there also – that’s not decided at the moment; in the meantime, Robert Reich lets us know about these private equity bastards investing in the NFL...right now, they’re limited to a 10% stake in each team as Reich tells us, but yeah, we DEFINITELY should keep an eye on this...



...and with the David Doel clip in mind (re, the Trumpist idiocy against Canada and Mexico in particular), I thought I’d periodically put up clips from vocalists/musicians in those countries, and I want to start with this from our neighbor to the north.