Wednesday Stuff

Jesse Dollemore tells us that 47’s regime is shaping up to be an authoritarian nightmare, with potential Trump FBI head Kash Patel promising retribution to those considered to be enemies of the state, more or less (and OF COURSE more screeching on Truth Septic has to include a typo, right?)...yep, as Jesse says, this ruinous term about to begin will be about revenge first and foremost, and I’d be lying if I said I knew what form that would take...



...and Rachel Maddow gives us some important context on Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter (and I know I touched on this earlier also); namely, I’m talking about a comparison to similar presidential power exercised by 45/47 as well as his beyond ridiculous cabinet appointments...yeah, spare me the selective outrage, especially since, as Maddow notes, Bronzer Beelzebub will likely pardon everyone convicted in the 1/6 attack on the Capitol (and more on pardons is here)...



...and David Pakman presents this clip of Trumpist lickspittle Joe Kernan admitting that Combover Caligula is about to explode inflation...I know these clips lately have had a bit of a recurring theme, but I think it’s important to emphasize that Bronzer Beelzebub INTENDS TO UTTERLY WRECK OUR ECONOMY, which should have been plain as day to idiot voters in this country, but we are where we are, sadly...I heard about Kernan and the Scaramucci thing, but I didn’t really pay a lot of attention to it to be honest...important to note what Trump going after immigrants and those in this country with temporary protected status would do to the economy also...



...and this gentleman explains what led to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which Trump and his pals are poised to utterly destroy (slightly NSFW/H)...

To the ignoramuses who have no fucking clue of the damage Trump is about to do to America when psychotic shitstain abolishes the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. 😳👇 pic.twitter.com/YUcfApEoQJ

— Bill Madden (@maddenifico) December 2, 2024

...and here are more seasonal selections (hard to be upbeat with this stuff, but I'm trying).

Tuesday Stuff

David Shuster of Rebel HQ brings us a clip of Texas state rep James Talarico, who does his best to shame a MAGA Repug (to the extent that these life forms can even be shamed at all) concerning a bill to post the Ten Commandments in all classrooms in that loathsome state (discounting Austin of course)...they kind of cut the video in a strange place here...



...and I thought this lady had some good NSFW/H advice for the Trumpers out there, which I totally expect them to ignore of course...

Every motherfucking thing this woman said. If after learing how shit works, you still support Trump — you're not just dumb, you're evil. 🎯🎯🎯👇 pic.twitter.com/kkudIn3rdy

— Bill Madden (@maddenifico) November 30, 2024

...and Chris Hayes brings us the reality perspective here, informing us that our worst economic nightmare has indeed come true...and yeah, I think the comparison to what Liz Truss did in the U.K. is probably accurate unfortunately, but a big problem is that nobody over here can declare a “snap” election whenever they feel like it if the ruling party loses confidence among the voters...we’re stuck with Our Demented Orange Toddler-In-Chief for at least four years, to say nothing of the fact that the U.K. will preserve representative democratic government, and God only knows what #47 will do...



...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 11/29/18...let’s just say that Fix Noise talking head Pete Hegseth has been in the news recently (also as noted here), and here he is a few years ago making excuses for this typically pathetic episode from Repug U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, making casual remarks about lynching, because why not I guess...



...and here are more seasonal selections.

Monday Stuff

I thought the guy making this video gave us a pretty good glimpse of the “shell game” that we can expect from Mango Mussolini and his lizard-brained followers once they grab the reins of power (thanks to Bill Madden of Xitter for some of these Tik Tok clips...NSFW/H)...

1,000 fucking percent. 🎯🎯🎯👇 pic.twitter.com/8uvY7sP8nu

— Bill Madden (@maddenifico) November 30, 2024

...and like you I'm sure, I'm starrting to see more and more videos like this; fat lot of good it does NOW, though...

The loathsome piece of shit got away with it all. The American justice system is a fucking joke. 😳👇 pic.twitter.com/YpZdK8iGGP

— Bill Madden (@maddenifico) November 27, 2024

...and Farron Cousins lets us know that Trump voters are starting to realize that Our Treasonous Orange Pustule intends to crater the economy...again (I thought this was a pretty sound analysis of what we could be looking at, unfortunately, and as Cousins says, it’s not like we weren’t warned)...



...and it looks like Louisiana has passed what is in essence a “flat tax” of 5.5 percent for individuals and businesses, which will be highly regressive for poorer earners (more here), even though increases to standard deductions for seniors and other individuals were thrown in as a bit of a “sugar high” before the crashing reality sets in, with Yasmin Khan (I continue to be thoroughly unimpressed with Sharon Reed; if she’d bothered to actually do her homework on the taxation issue instead of pivoting to abortion, which is a whole other matter, she would have brought more to the conversation, and the “mayor of 9/11” really isn’t part of this story either...pushing a “flat tax” was the hobby horse of sorts that former Repug wunderkind Jack Kemp rode forever ago (here); it was wrong then and it’s wrong now, but leave it to the Repugs to NEVER abandon their bad ideas hoping that people forget, which often happens unfortunately)...



And oh yeah, there is this (in response to this...also this)...

Oh, fuck off, everyone clutching their pearls over Biden pardoning his son. MAGA motherfuckers, including Trump, wrecked his life. As Biden said, "In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me." So fuck them. Use power when you have it. It's a lesson all Democrats could learn.

— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit.bsky.social) December 1, 2024 at 9:12 PM

Update: And OF COURSE Repug-lite Gluesenkamp Perez along with the equally useless Michael Bennet and Gary Peters take shots at Biden for doing the right thing (here)...I can promise you I’ll remember this if Peters seeks another term in the Senate and decides to start emailing and texting me day and freaking night for dough like he did last time...not surprising also that “the old gray lady” thought this story required three reporters, just to make sure they belittled President Biden as much as possible like they’ve done all along (I have what I think is a principled disagreement with Jason Crow, so I'll leave him out of this for now).

...and here are more seasonal selections.

Sunday Stuff

(By the way, I'll probably be on a bit of a modified posting schedule in anticipation of the holidays...also, since they've arrived late this year, I'll also be squeezing in more seasonal tunes; sorry for the boring bit of housekeeping stuff.)

David Pakman tells us about Dr. Jerome Adams on Xitter who sez we could be looking at 3 pandemics under RFK, Jr. as HHS Secretary; H5N1, whooping cough, and measles...lots of important info in this clip from Pakman about immunization rates to get to “herd immunity” on this potential outbreaks...and yeah, if you live in a state under Repug governance, well, maybe one option is to move to a blue state if you can...



...and I now give you the latest installment of This Day In Doomsy History (more or less) from 11/30/17, in which the Archbishop of Canterbury gives us his take on the alleged religiosity of Trump and his minions (NSFW/H)...



...and it's time to (more or less) begin my seasonal selections with these tunes...