David Pakman gives us info on the nationwide protests planned for tomorrow...and after yesterday’s stock market news, I would say for sure that it’s “torches and pitch forks” time...and I hope you can access this thread from Dem U.S. Senator Chris Murphy on Bluesky in which Murphy makes it pretty damn plain that the goal of the Gropenfuhrer isn’t economic, it’s political (as in, #47 wants to be a dictator, which should have been obvious already to anybody with their eyes and ears open, and Pakman is about 150 percent correct when it comes to making sure that there’s no violence from within any group tomorrow that gives the cops an excuse to bust heads and for wingnut media to screech about paid crisis actors from George Soros or something...more here)...
...and as Brian Tyler Cohen tells us here, can we please dispense with this “reciprocal tariffs” stuff...I mean, I suppose that applies in some cases (I’m hardly an econ expert), but it turns out that the Trumpers came up with some bogus calculation on what other countries are doing in response to our tariff madness (I know, color me shocked that Bronzer Beelzebub is lying again)...and hey, when you’ve lost even Fix Noise (to say nothing of the other networks with these alleged financial geniuses), I would say that it’s time to stop digging that hole (“If these people were capable of shame, they wouldn’t be able to sleep at night” indeed, including the beyond-useless Byron Donalds from Flori-DUUUH!)...
Update: But Biden looked lost and confused in a debate, so "whatev," right?
...and Sam and Emma of The Majority Report present what I would say is an interesting theory claiming that Yambo wants to be like McKinley after surviving an assassination attempt, though I see no way whatsoever that he could’ve come up with that idea on his own (and I’ll always have questions about what happened in Butler, Pa, by the way, including the fact that #47’s ear healed so miraculously afterwards)...and yes, dear reader, Harris Faulkner is truly that big of a “dim bulb” – I seriously wonder what kind of a “shared sacrifice” SHE is prepared to make in response to this tariff destruction (here)...
...also, it looks like our outlaw ruling regime has gutted health care for veterans (speaking of cruel, stoo-pid and beyond ridiculous)...Brittany Page lets us know about vets forced to meet with counselors in open cubicles as part of the “return to office” push from Cantaloupe Capone and King Elon...I mean, returning to the office wouldn’t be terrible if there was adequate closed-door meeting space, which obviously there isn’t (and by the way, that appears to be a violation of federal law, primarily HIPAA)...just no end to the depravity from these monsters behind this stuff (based on fine reporting from Judd Legum)...
...and turning to non-economic matters having to do with Congress, Yasmin Khan discusses Repug wingnut Anna Paulina Luna coming up with a “discharge petition” to force a vote to allow remote voting for members on maternity (and paternity) leave for 12 weeks in response to a parliamentary gimmick that MAGA Mike Johnson came up with to block the proposal from Luna and 2 Dems...as usual, a wingnut only does the right thing when it affects them personally, but I would be remiss if I didn’t give Luna credit here (and I’m sure you’ll be absolutely shocked – well, maybe not really – to hear that Chip Roy is lying yet again...great point by Khan that proxy voting already took place during the pandemic and the political life of the country didn’t come screeching to a halt...and by the way as noted here, Brave Sir Brian Fitzpatrick found a way to miss this vote...I guess he was busy dedicating a post office or handling out a plaque to Boy Scouts or something...more here and a Bluesky link is here)...
...and RIP Val Kilmer – I was tempted to include a clip also from that totally silly movie “Top Secret,” but I settled on this from a personal favorite flick (and I thought he did a workmanlike job in “Batman Forever” given that he had to deal with so many other actors hogging the screen, notably Jim Carrey)...
...and it's time once more for another yearly remembrance (but be careful since our would-be dictator would just say "this is DEI" and ban any mention of it).
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