Thursday, June 05, 2025

Thursday Stuff


Rachel Maddow brings us the tale of Apartheid Clyde’s attempt to utterly destroy the U.S. Institute of Peace...Elmo forced out the staff of the organization, then was told he couldn’t do that (org was created by Congress, not the executive branch...Musk/Trump couldn’t take either the building or the org’s endowment), and then the staff returned to find their building infested with water damage, rats and roaches, and oh yeah, a hell of a lot of cannabis too (oddly apropos IMO, though it’s crappy of course that the USIP employees, who did NOT ONE DAMN THING WRONG, had to deal with that...and BTW, I heard the person who clocked Musk was Scott Bessent...hard to root for a winner in that episode)...



Update 6/7/25: Told ya' (here).

...and Jesse Dollemore informs us that the new head of FEMA, David Richardson, apparently didn’t know that hurricane season in the Atlantic was an actual thing...oh, but not to worry, because Richardson will “run right over you” if you do anything contrary to the intent of Our Ochre Abomination...slightly NSFW/H...



...and in a related vein, Kyle Kulinski gives us a clip of Florida climatologist John Morales basically giving us a warning that hurricane forecasting isn’t going to be worth much because of NOAA destruction from King Elon I...and Kyle is 150 percent correct that Musk needs to go to the gray bar hotel for all of his illegal DOGE wreckage (his boss should have been there already of course...and oh yeah, the hurricane season that FEMA head David Richardson didn’t know about is about to hit...NSFW/H also)...



...and concerning the “Big Beautiful Act” (and yes, once more, it is literally called that), Robert Reich blows up more lies about work requirements in Medicaid; the “party of Lincoln” on Capitol Hill wants to make such a requirement a federal condition, if you will, when it already is ruinous on the state level and actually works against people trying to find employment, as Reich explains (in the end, though, it’s all a scam anyway to kick people who need it off Medicaid to pay for more stinking tax cuts)...



...and since we have to take humor where we can get it IMO, “The Daily Show” tells us about “White Flight” racial support pilots, along with firefighters, boat captains and surgeons (laughing through clenched teeth I guess, somewhat)...



...and I'm just trying to keep up a halfway decent seasonal frame of mind with this tune.

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