Here comes another item where I’ll admit that I’m behind the news cycle a bit – apologies...Chris Hayes tells us about the recent crypto dinner with Cantaloupe Capone, a “Met Gala of presidential pay-to-play” for largely foreign donors...I wonder what the reaction would have been if, say, President Biden had attended a fundraising event for his son Hunter to defer legal costs, but the elder Biden said, “Oh, I’m just attending this in a personal capacity and not as president”; any idea how many heads would have exploded on Fix Noise?...and gosh, isn’t it con-vee-nient that, after Justin Sun purchased Trump’s meme coin, the case against Sun was dropped shortly after #47 was sworn in, huh?...and how emasculated do you have to be to be taunted as “little Marco” by Our Treasonous Orange Pestilence, but then end up as a job working for him anyway (more here and here)...
...and with the prior clip in mind a bit, John and Brett Erlich of The Damage Report bring us “the state of the haves and the have-nots”...apparently, the top 10 wealthiest Americans have earned a billion dollars a day over the last year...John gives us more gory details on the recent tax scam bill passed by the House, with $135 billion (at a minimum) drained from US tax receipts; as the clip states, according to Oxfam, a measly 3 percent tax increase on these bastards would cover food and housing assistance for over 22 million people...
...and David Shuster tells us about Our Ochre Abomination recently sinking global markets again, this time by calling for a 50 percent tariff on goods from Europe (from last Friday)...I realize Our Orange Imbecile doesn’t understand and/or care about the consequences of his actions, but as I’ve said before (and there are plenty of people smarter than I am on this), messing with stocks is one bad thing, but you REALLY can’t do that to the bond market since it reflects the good faith and credit of this country...and oh yeah, let’s not forget (as Shuster says) that Moody’s downgraded the U.S. credit rating over that beyond-ridiculous bill the House just passed which constitutes the largest redistribution of wealth in this country’s history...and oh yeah, this Scott Bessent character makes a snarky remark about the CBO, and without proof of wrongdoing of course since he knows that pretend journalist Bill Hemmer won’t actually call him on that claim, and it’s also cowardly of Bessent to drag Janet Yellen into this mess...
...and Ben Meiselas of the Meidas Touch Network speaks with Dem U.S. House member Jared Moskowitz, who worked with FEMA in the past...clip also shows us rural Trump voters on FEMA being MIA across areas in the south devastated by tornadoes (I believe assistance was denied to Tennessee and Arkansas, but I’m not 100 percent positive on that...yeah, politically those states are basically nuts, but I would never argue that they should be denied relief for that reason)...according to Moskowitz, dog killer Kristi (“Unsafe At Any Speed”) Noem is “going to turn FEMA into the Newark airport”...and FEMA has lost 30 percent of its workforce? I shouldn’t be surprised, but I am...and yeah, these “blanket pauses” on funding sure sound illegal according to Moskowitz, and knowing our ruling regime, I’m sure they’ll get challenged in court over it, lose, but just keep engaging in this bad behavior and dare anyone to try and stop them...
...and here’s another item I meant to get to previously; Brian Tyler Cohen lets us know that a Dem recently won a statewide special election in New York in a district Trump won by 55 points...story leads into a report on the Trump backlash dragging down conservative candidates all over the world, particularly in Australia, Romania and, of course, Canada...and I’m sorry to throw cold water and I hope I end up being wrong, but overall, Hakeem Jeffries isn’t meeting the moment with the required urgency as nearly as I can tell, though he’s definitely spot-on about pretend “moderate” Repugs, like Bri-Fi...
...and Brittany Page brings us the tale of San Jose, CA Mayor Matt Mahan threatening to arrest the homeless if they refuse shelter...and echoing Page’s fine point, what the $#@! exactly is a “quality of life” crime? And yeah, as someone who regularly interacts with the city of Philadelphia, I get it that homelessness can be a nuisance for someone dropping in from the ‘burbs for one reason or another (and I’m not trying to say that any urban policy should be constructed around my personal convenience, for the record), but there HAS TO BE A BETTER SOLUTION than to arrest these people...and don’t think I’m going to take it easy on this Mahan guy because he’s a Dem...
...and I thought this was a nice, heartfelt little ditty from our neighbors to the north...
...and as long as I’m in a Canadian frame of mind (go Oilers!), allow me to wish a happy 80th birthday to Bruce Cockburn (performing with Richard Margison).
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