Friday Stuff

(I previously posted about the JFK Assassination here from a year ago, in case you want to revisit that topic.)

To begin, Thom Hartmann tells us about a Texas (of course) Repug state legislator who introduced a bill that would force ISPs in that God-forsaken state to block any websites dealing with abortion or abortion medication, basically saying anybody can sue (kind of mirroring the bill where people in “the land of the yellow rose” can rat out others who are involved in transporting a pregnant person for an abortion and get $10K for doing so)...and this lunacy actually extends to Iowa, Idaho and Tennessee, and Alabama too of course (trying to prosecute abortion providers under the RICO Act, which is used to go after organized crime of course, and when Repugs take over the federal government in January, I think we can rest assured that they’ll try to pass something like this on the national level...heckuva job, all you idiots who voted for this madness - and boy, is Thom right about these characters and "1984")...



...and when it comes to our slow-motion stroll directly into fascism, Rachel Maddow informs us of the bill Trump would use to shut down any organization he doesn’t like (H.R. 9495, which I commented on last week I know)...and OF COURSE, despite the fact that this garbage bill to help Combover Caligula be even more of a dictator was shot down at first, leave it to the “party of Lincoln” to try and breathe life back into this monstrosity (and as noted here, this horror was indeed reintroduced in the House and passed, and Bri-Fi, being the utter coward that he is, voted Yes once more...this garbage will be stalled in the Senate...for now...also, it looks like Comcast is “spinning off” NBC and MSNBC, so the future of the latter in particular may be in jeopardy, but hopefully not – wish that cable behemoth would do that for The Flyers)...



...and Anthony Vincent Gallo of Occupy Democrats brings us the tale of wingnut Repug U.S. House Rep Nancy Mace introducing a bill mandating that members use bathrooms associated with biological sex from birth (here), which is aimed right at the first transgender person in that body, Sarah McBride (who was just elected from Delaware)...and great point by AOC to mention Mace fundraising off this...and yeah, inspecting women and girls’ to check their genitals before they go into bathroom? What freaking country am I living in again?...



...and Jesse Dollemore gives us a rather gut-churning update on the police report from Trump Defense Secretary candidate Pete Hegseth, who has allegedly abused women in a truly gross and likely illegal manner (just like Jesus would do – snark mode off)...even with the redactions, it looks like Hegseth can be credibly accused of r*pe...I’ll keep an eye out in case this video gets age-restricted by YouTube...apparently, acting like a caveman this way is required to serve in Trump’s cabinet...

...and Mike Figueredo discusses Chris Van Hollen (interviewed by Mehdi Hasan) quite rightly calling out Biden for allowing our “ally” Bibi to walk all over him...eventually, the story of why Harris/Walz lost will be told, and I believe it will have NOTHING to do with embracing Mango Mussolini, but instead will be based on Netanyahu’s latest incursion into Gaza, the RELENTLESS drumbeat against Biden on the economy from the wingnuts and “centrist dipsh*ts” as Atrios quite rightly calls them, and also, Dems’ complete and utter failure to compete with Repugs on messaging...heckuva job, DNC! (as either Barron’s or The Economist noted, Biden had a lot to do with giving the U.S. the best-performing post-COVID economy in the world)...about Van Hollen – I believe he’s basically right, but he’s from a deep blue state of Maryland (a terrific place), and while politics shouldn’t take precedence over human lives, I think Biden has had much more of a difficult political task here (representing the whole nation) than Van Hollen has (probably more to say about that, but I’ll leave it there for now...and yes, I know human suffering here is the primary issue and not “keeping score” between the parties)...it does appear that there is no good end to this tragedy...I wouldn’t go as far as Figueredo does here in calling Biden a war criminal (especially since Figueredo makes no mention of what started all of this on October 7th), but I understand his point (NSFW/H at the very end)...



...and I guess I’m overdue for a newer tune and video dealing with what appears to be twenty-something angst...hope this will suffice.