Tuesday Stuff

Tennessee Brando brings us the story of a Georgia woman arrested for disposing of her miscarriage, and apparently the cops are treating it as the disposal of a dead body (yes, you read that right – the fundie zealots have been trying to prosecute women and health care providers for abortion for-freaking-evah, and this is just the latest wretched development in this process...and yes, this is indeed tied to Project 2025); the mother could have been looking at a 10-year prison sentence if she had gotten medical help with her pregnancy which had taken a catastrophic turn, though we’ll just have to see what happens now...and no, this isn’t an April Fools’ joke; I wish it was (mildly NSFW/H)...



...and Thom Hartmann gives more detail on Our Treasonous Orange Pustule turning this country into a playground for billionaire psychopaths...and I would say that Gustav Gilbert’s assessment about these nutjobs having a total lack of empathy is pretty spot-on (Gilbert was discussing the Nuremberg trial defendants after WWII, but he could have easily been talking about today also)...Thom says the lack of empathy in the GOP goes back to Ayn Rand and The Sainted Ronnie R, and he makes a good argument, but I would say it goes back further to Nixon...Thom has told the story of William Edward Hickman (and Rand’s celebration of this monster) before, but I think it bears repeating (“Even mice have more empathy than the people running our government now.”...I would also say that that speaks volumes)...



...and this Rebel HQ clip tells us that it looks like Yambo is Making Private Prisons Great Again, in particular CoreCivic run by Damon Hininger, with this ghoul looking for another 60-100K beds for housing individuals captured by this utterly lawless administration...and yep, we should indeed “follow the money” on this...I think AOC was speaking out against the utterly horrible Laken Riley bill, in which the “party of Lincoln” typically took a horrific tragedy and made political fodder out of it in order to speed our descent into fascism...and these videos showing immigrants in chains are supposed to be “fun”? No end to the depravity from these life forms...and I must have missed the memo saying that the glibertarian Cato Institute is somehow a legitimate news source (and yet again, there was the Lankford-Murphy bill in the U.S. Senate to address our immigration issues, of which there are many, but Combover Caligula ordered his minions to spike it so he’d have the issue to demagogue over in the election last year...I know I’ve criticized Sharon Reed in the past, but this is a good report about an utterly awful topic)...

...and as far as that typically ridiculous claim from White House spokes-liar Karoline Leavitt that the CBP One app was something like a Disney World pass for illegal immigrants from President Biden, I give you the following from an actual news report here...

The program was a key part of the Biden administration’s effort to gain control over migration through the southern border. On the one hand, the administration blocked asylum for migrants who crossed illegally. At the same time, U.S. officials believed that by offering migrants an organized way to enter legally through an app, they could discourage attempts to gain entry without authorization. Border numbers have dropped dramatically in recent months, and officials believe the program is a major reason.

Here is the Rebel HQ clip...



...and this CBC report informs us that Kentucky bourbon makers are getting hate mail from Canada...Victor Yarbrough of the Brough Brothers distillery is profiled; the man is definitely a casualty in all of this Trumpist tariff BS, and I’m sorry, but honestly, what else can you expect? And I just can’t find the words to express what I think of these individuals who actually think Generalissimo Trump has a “plan” for ANYTHING, including his utterly pointless tariff/trade war nonsense...I’m sure they’re thoroughly indoctrinated by right wing BS and their own biases/prejudices...I suppose it will take all of this wrecking their own finances before they see the light, but given that we’re talking about Kentucky, I don’t suppose I can count on that either...



...and Farron Cousins informs us that Cantaloupe Capone is now under water polling wise for the boomers, with a net -9 disapproval, and the numbers are even worse when you isolate his performance on the economy...and is Cousins ever right about making sure my demographic never selects that “R” checkbox again when it comes time to vote...



...and I don’t blame Nancy Wilson of Heart one bit for echoing this sentiment; this song was written in a wholly other context many years ago, but I think it also fits for our present circumstance given the fraudsters in our lawless governmental regime.