Monday, June 08, 2020

Monday Stuff (updates)


I had the following not-very-deep-I’ll-admit thoughts, if you will, after watching the following video featuring this grifter-ette from our First Crime Family.

We don’t need to merely vote the Trump regime out of power once and for all in November (though we MOST DEFINITELY need to do that). We need to rid our government of all of the enablers who allowed them to run roughshod over this country’s institutions and way of life over the last 3 ½ years or so (to say nothing of accounting from the COVID-19 pandemic casualties, which surely must be approaching 110,000 by now…and once again, if the Gropenfuhrer had a “D” after his name instead of an “R,” he would have been impeached in the House, tried for real in the Senate, convicted – assuming he didn’t resign in advance of that – and sentenced to prison, and our corporate media would be running stories nonstop of what led up to that and any and all future consequences).

And also, after Trump is tried and convicted as a private citizen, we need to hold to account everyone who played a role in his rise to power. That means our allegedly elite corporate media pundit class, our governmental think tanks and other “influencer” bodies and institutions or whatever cast, other “shadow” candidates who owe allegiance to foreign persons and/or governments who seek to do us harm (I’m talking to YOU, Dr. Jill Stein!), our faith leaders…you name it. And no, I’m not calling for anything related to violence. But I most definitely am calling for anything and everything related to hounding and shaming these life forms for the remainder of their days.

And I think this Meidas Touch video is a nice step in that direction, though of course we need to do much more…



Update 1 6/8/20: Such is life when your daddy is grossly unpopular, cupcake (here).

Update 6/12/20: And leave it to the whining, spoiled little princess to run kicking and screaming to Daddy Warbucks when she doesn't get her way - and I definitely don't mean Our Orange Pestilence (here).

Update 2 6/8/20: Actually, I take back what I said above about only punishing Trump supporters socially - the life forms in this video supposedly re-enacting George Floyd's killing deserve jail.


Update 6/9/20: You know what they say about paybacks - heh...


Update 6/10/20: Didn't take long, did it?

…and Farron Cousins tells us that Betsy DeVos and Steve Mnuchin have been sued (though, as Cousins notes, DeVos has been sued so many times that it’s easy to lose count) for taking CARES Act money from student loan debtors and applying the $$ to the loan, even though the persons holding the loans were granted relief of loan repayment through the Act and likely were seeking to apply the $$ to, y’know, dumb stuff like food and clothing and shelter and paying their utility bills..punish everyone from this criminal enterprise of a “presidential administration”



…and I thought this was a good “Now This” video interviewing those protesting to find out why exactly they’re doing so – overwhelmingly, the reasons have to do with racism and criminal justice I know, but there’s also an economic component to be sure (probably a public health component also)…



…and I think this is a pretty good take from Kyle on social media censorship including Twitter and Facebook…I grudgingly have to admit that he’s right about “there’s no such thing as a little bit of censorship”…from what I read, the people protesting at/about Facebook are upset about groups getting messages out that basically encourage racism and the status quo of police violence, and they’re right to do that – I’m sorry, though; I just don’t have a good answer, but something tells me censorship isn’t it (and given the recent Tom Cotton dustup in the NY Times, the now-demoted former Op-Ed editor blew it by not only not reading what Cotton said, but apparently also seeking out Cotton for a column in the first place – once again, our corporate media bends over backwards for conservatives…if they wanted to publish Cotton’s hateful screen basically calling for a police state, well, that’s protected speech – they should have run a point-by-point column next to it, though, explaining why Cotton was completely and utterly wrong)…



…and Ana and John tell us about Rahul Dubey, the Washington D.C. man who hid protestors in his house so they wouldn’t be arrested for breaking curfew (if I were still doing Do-Gooders and Dregs, Dubey would be my Do-Gooder of the Year hands down for this)…



…and I’m not sure how many “protest” tunes I have left – probably overlooking a few – but I didn’t want to forget this one.

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