Tuesday Stuff

Richard Ojeda of Rebel HQ discusses FEMA head David Richardson appearing before a House panel over the whopping 20% phone response from his agency to Texas flood victims in the area of Kerr County...and oh yeah, Kristi (“Unsafe At Any Speed”) Noem says the terrible call center response is...ok, everybody now...”fake news,” with Richardson echoing the same BS (fine...here is a link to a CNN story reporting the same damn thing)...and nice work by Dem U.S. House Rep Laura Friedman in particular to call out this nonsense...good job by Ojeda to point out just how much California is bailing out these red state bottom feeders (but again, I would never say that anyone in this country isn’t entitled to the help they need in an emergency)...

...and staying with “the land of the yellow rose,” Brian Tyler Cohen tells us about Dem legislators leaving their state to deny quorum to Repugs who are trying to pass a beyond ridiculous gerrymander of districts in preparation for next year’s congressional elections, and once more, Dem state Rep James Talarico stands tall...and I like the idea of Dems going on the offensive and redrawing congressional maps in their favor (about time, I’d say); hey, if Repugs are going to play this game, so should we (the national Democrats should have found a way to come up with a lefty/progressive version of Americans for Prosperity, the State Policy Network, etc. LONG ago to plan that, but the time to do that is definitely now for sure...and that segment with Marc Elias is spot-on; also, kudos to Dem governors Gavin Newsom, J.B. Pritzker, Kathy Hochul and Wes Moore for sounding the alarm also)...



...and as Farron Cousins points out here, it looks like Generalissimo Trump’s media company may end up going the way of Trump Vodka, Trump Steaks, Trump University, etc. – couldn’t happen to a more deserving cretin (and sooo, they were temporarily saved by buying Bitcoin? As opposed to, y’know, actually trying to improve their scammy, useless product? Figures)...



...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History”...the Israeli Humanitarian group B’Tselem tried to run ad listing the names of dead kids in Gaza, but the ad wasn’t allowed to run (“too politically controversial” for the Israeli Broadcast Agency)...and no, this clip isn’t from last week, but from 8/5/14...gives you an idea of how long “Bibi” has been waging his genocide in that area; actually, it goes back further than that (with John and Ana Kasparian...a truly depressing, but not surprising, update is here)...



...and I'll admit that Mr. Newberger gets a little edgy at times, but that comes with the territory when you're making a living with comedy I know (more here)...



...and here's a newer tune to (hopefully) lift our sprirts a bit.