(Note to those pinheads in charge of the network that once fired Phil Donahue for protesting the Iraq war – I SERIOUSLY hope you don’t think this “bend the knee” gesture to our fascist ruling regime will cause me to watch you more than I do already.)
David Doel brings us this video of Rachel Maddow commendably speaking out against MSNBC letting Joy Reid go and reassigning Katie Phang and the other correspondents...and yeah, if Michael Steele is a “lefty,” then I’m a Chinese aviator; my understanding is that Symone Sanders-Townsend and Alicia Menendez are basically middle of the road, which I’m sure is exactly what MSNBC management wants...and I’ll admit I don’t follow the machinations and gamesmanship of the TV biz like others do because I think more important stuff is going on, but yeah, I can definitely see the argument that Joy Reid’s stance on Gaza could have been the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back (and I applaud Reid for that, by the way, as well as the others at MSNBC who opined in similar fashion...I had a big issue with Reid over the whole “Bernie Sanders body language expert” thing, but other than that, I thought she was spot-on and certainly didn’t deserve this treatment...and I wonder how many of these fine folks whose careers are now in limbo will end up leaving ultimately; I hope that doesn’t happen, but we’ll see)...
Update: And meanwhile, I'm sure right-wing "influencers" online will have no trouble getting funded by Trump-loving sugar daddies (here).
...and Brian Tyler Cohen brigs us a clip of this numbskull U.S. House Rep Mark Alford of Missouri apparently trying to turn up the volume on his microphone to drown out people protesting his nonsensical answers about King Elon I at a recent town hall, but sadly for Alford, it didn’t work (clip shows the Fitzgerald and Grothman clips again with crowds rightly turning on them, which is fine with me...NSFW/H)...
...and Thom Hartmann gives us a disturbing but important history lesson on the Reichstag fire and how Vlad The Butcher did something similar to re-absorb Chechnya, which was a sovereign nation (gassing a theater – yep, that’s about par for the course for our former “ally”)...and Thom is spot-on in the matter of Dems needing to be prepared if, God forbid, this country suffers another catastrophic attack as we did on 9/11, but I don’t have a lot of faith in that seeing that the Dems weren’t even prepared for Project 2025, and they had at least a year and a half to read about it and figure out how to respond...additionally, I didn’t know about Cantaloupe Capone shutting down our NATO base in Greece, which also helps Vlad The Butcher...par for the sorry course, as it were (Thom needs to work on the quality of his videos since they’re still pretty choppy)...
...and I give Brittany Page so much credit for this video; our alleged fourth estate geniuses should do more stuff like this (regarding the clip with Jim McGovern that I’ll note shortly)...first, she tells us that it looks like Repugs are coming after Medicaid to pay for their stinking tax cuts (with the bill that just passed the House with all Repugs voting for it except Thomas Massie of Kentucky for some reason), with the Gropenfuhrer leading the way as per usual, despite the nonsense that he blathered to Sean Inanity...and then, kudos to McGovern for introducing his amendments not to give tax breaks to anyone making more than #$1 million, or even $100 million; every Dem on McGovern’s committee voted Aye and every Repug voted Nay, so the measure failed (and the same for Repugs in favor of tax breaks for about the 748 billionaires int his country, just for that extra special “FU” to the residents of those 9 “R” congressional districts allegedly represented by those individuals on that committee...and yeah, I don’t want to imagine how devoid of conscience you have to be to oppose protecting the child tax credit, which is already too damn small in this country...but we love the children so much, don’t we?)...
Update: There’s still time to try and push back against this garbage budget and its ruinous impact on people’s health care, and again, for the sake of tax cuts for people who we already shower with money in this country and who definitely DON’T NEED more of our hard-earned income (and for PA-01 folks, Bri-Fi is on this list).
...and Robert Reich basically says that Dems need to grow a freaking spine...how true (and FORGET ONCE AND FOR ALL about moving to this mythical “center” that is the stuff of free candy canes, unicorns and bubble gum clouds, as it were)...
...and it’s been awhile I guess since I included a newer tune dealing with twenty-something romantic angst, so I might as well add this and give a brief respite from some of the “moldy oldies” I usually put up in this space.
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