John and Jayar of The Damage Report bring us a clip of former DC homicide Detective Ted Williams dropping a “truth bomb” on Fix Noise about what’s really going on in D.C. with crime...as anyone who has been paying attention can see, Mango Mussolini wants a slo-mo takeover of sorts over blue state cities to help usher in his dictatorial rule for real (and as usual, distract from Epstein and his utterly failed administration); he’s never wasted a single brain cell in his head on trying to better the lives of anyone besides himself...and yes, all of this is a truly appalling reality check of sorts for waay too damn many people in this country who consume right-wing media 24/7/365 (and as far as I’m concerned, demonizing DC this way is a throwback to the “welfare queen” BS from The Sainted Ronnie R, and probably even before that)...and Nail. Hammer. Head for John saying that it would have been nice for our beyond useless corporate media to point out #47’s BS last year during the election when we COULD HAVE DONE SOMETHING ABOUT THIS!!!...
...and Leeja Miller makes what I thought was an interesting comparison to now and the pre-Civil War days...interesting history on how many times the “let’s get the hell out of Texas to deny quorum” move has been used in the past...and leave it to AG Ken Paxton to go “judge shopping” to the 8th district in Illinois to find a Repug-friendly judge to hear his case to go after the Texas lawmakers in that state...and the reason John Cornyn is making such a stink and trying to get the FBI involved is because he knows he’s in a tough primary contest with Paxton to defend his U.S. Senate seat (Cornyn, that is) and he’s trying to “out Trump” Paxton with this move...interesting discussion about states honoring extradition orders and inter-state cooperation in general...interesting parallel also to the pre-Civil War days of “free” states vs. “slave” states; kind of pathetic to realize how we’ve de-evolved to make that comparison...can’t think of a word to describe the irony of using the 14th Amendment today to punish immigrants from this era given that that amendment was passed to ensure citizenship primarily for freed slaves...important history also of the abomination that was the Fugitive Slave Act...NSFW/H...
...so what is our ruling regime coming up with now? Well, as Farron Cousins informs us, #47 is proposing that foreign tourists would have to pay a bond to come here between $5 and $15K, and as Cousins notes, those would primarily be travel visas that would have to be paid by people probably trying to scrimp and save to come here at all...yep, just watch Vegas, Orlando, NYC, and all the other favored tourist spots just do the big swirl in the hopper, economically...as I’ve said, everything Our Treasonous Orange Pestilence does makes us weaker and helps Vlad The Butcher...
...and this report form More Perfect Union does a deep dive into the scam of the “wellness” industry...didn’t know about the “Proxmire Amendment” in 1976 that made it easier to sell unproven supplements (Sen. Proxmire was the guy who gave out his “Golden Fleece” awards to government entities who were wasting funds, according to Proxmire)...didn’t know the “wellness” industry has ties to the Birchers and the wingnuts, but that sure fits the profile IMO...and good job to mention Buckley v. Valeo, which lifted the limits on campaign expenditures by corporations and how that plays into this story...it looks like the supplements industry really started to take off in 1994 with the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994...good job to create a fake product and get assorted right wing goofballs to endorse it to show how scammy this business really is... Gwyneth Paltrow’s role in this is discussed, along with the anti-vax nonsense of Jenny McCarthy (and the disproven claim from Brit Andrew Wakefield that the MMR vaccine caused autism in ’98) and “Bobby Brainworms” suing vaccine makers...and whaddaya know? There’s a tie between Wakefield and Cantaloupe Capone...and oh yeah, this Joseph Mercola is another one of these frauds peddling this idiocy (and to the tune of $4 billion a year...just no words at this point)...
...and Seth Meyers tells us about the latest gonzo press conference with Our Ochre Abomination (and yeah, there SHOULD be a laugh track in the background while Dementia J. Trump concocts his gonzo ramblings...and I’m shocked that CNN actually fact-checked Our Treasonous Orange Yam in real time; they’d better be careful or they’ll get sued for about a billion dollars by our *preznit...and even by the guttural standards of this joke of a presidential administration, the ramblings concocted by Cantaloupe Capone here were particularly nuts)...
...and when it comes to my seasonal selections, it’s been a little while since I included this, so here it is.
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