Tuesday, May 02, 2023

Tuesday Stuff


John Oliver gave us this segment on immigration a couple of nights ago (nice job to refer to that life form called Stephen Miller as “incel Caillou,” though Biden and the Dems do have work to do for sure – and somehow I don’t think introducing a facial recognition app is going to solve this...we need a “whole of government” solution, and good luck with that and the kicking and screaming of the “party of Lincoln”...I wish we could exclude private companies like CoreCivic and Geo Group, but unfortunately I don’t know how to freeze them out of this...if nothing else, Biden and company need to put up more of a fight against right wing BS on this...this has been an issue for decades, and it’s only getting worse with governmental instability and climate change plaguing the whole world, not just affected countries from which refugees are trying to escape...and there's more idiocy from the "loyal opposition" on that in a later clip – of course, with the writers’ strike now going forward as noted here, this might be his last show for a little while...NSFW/H)...



...and in keeping with the theme of our ridiculous immigration situation in this country, Beau tells us about supposed tough guy and Texas guv Greg Abbott and his “bounty,” or whatever that nonsense was, to get the alleged murderer of 5 people in Abbott’s state – and oh yeah, categorizing them as “illegals” first (which apparently isn't true) as opposed to, y’know, people, is a typically lowball move from “all hat no cattle” Abbott... Beau’s right that this whole damn mess from Abbott is yet another PR stunt (more here)...



Update: Well, this is a relief.

...so what is “the lone star state” focused on instead? Why, treating women in an utterly barbaric way of course... Texas resident Amanda Zurawski gave testimony to the U.S. Senate about her utterly horrible experience because abortion wasn’t available to her as a medical care option, with her senators Cruz and Cornyn absent during her testimony of course (NSFW/H)...



Update 5/4/23: More barbarous cruelty from a so-called "developed" nation is here.

...and speaking of anti-abortion nonsense, Rayy Vana of Rebel HQ tells us about Dr. Nisha Verma dealing with Sen. John Neely Cornpone of Louisiana and his ridiculous hypothetical about abortion, which is typical for someone who will never be “in the stirrups,” and no, that definitely is not a cowboy reference...



...and in another example of U.S. congressional Repugs acting like total fools, Ben Gleib and Cenk Uygur discuss Marjorie Traitor Greene rambling on like the nutcase she is over climate change...and oh yeah, RoJo contributed more nonsense in the Senate (you know him, the guy who “won” by 27K votes last year in his election even though the votes of 37K Dems in Wisconsin were suppressed as noted herehey Cenk, try bitching about THAT instead of going right to your default of “Dems suck,” OK?)...



...and this happened 20 years ago, which definitely brings to mind this tune.

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