Saturday, June 05, 2021

Saturday Stuff


This Now This clip tells us about Texas state Dems walking out of the “lege” to protest that garbage anti-voting bill by Republicans, with commentary by Beto O’Rourke...but as O’Rourke says, as great as that was, it doesn’t mean anything if the Senate Dems don’t manage to get the For The People Act passed...



...and speaking of stupid voting tricks, Rachel Maddow speaks with PA AG Josh Shapiro about the three wingnut lawmakers from our beloved commonwealth who went to AZ to meet with the “Cyber Ninjas” nut jobs over the Arizona “fraudit” (don’t know why this video was edited in such a way as to not mention the three, which Maddow pointed out – more is here)...



...and all of this garbage is in the service of Our Former Orange Pustule-In-Chief...and Repugs can deny that Mango Mussolini no longer has a hold on the GQP Party, but if that were true, then why the hell are they trying to pass laws in complete, lockstep accordance with Number 45’s wishes? And speaking of Former Generalissimo Trump, Ana and John tell us that he couldn’t even be bothered enough to post content to his blog, and like he did with his other failed enterprises, he got bored with it and walked away...



...and David Doel informs us that a poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation tells us that many people think you have to pay for the COVID vaccine, and that could be keeping us from getting to the now-heralded 70 percent vaccination number (which, as Doel points out, is a consequence of getting billed for services the way we do in the U.S.)...



....and speaking of communicable illnesses, today is the 40th anniversary of the first patient diagnosed with AIDS in the U.S. as noted here; acclaimed writer Randy Shilts discussed the response (if you can call it that) from the Reagan Administration...



...and with that in mind, I present this video; I usually wait until a little later in the summer, but I think now is as good a time as any to bring it back.

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