Friday Stuff

David Reddish of Occupy Democrats brings us the clip of late animal researcher Jane Goodall’s interview with Ari Melber where she compares our 47th *preznit to a chimp trying to achieve dominance – video also revisits Goodall’s landmark work in studying chimpanzees in the wild...RIP...

...and turning to our top story, I’m sure it comes as no surprise whatsoever that the “party of Lincoln” is blaming the shut down squarely on the Dems, led by “couch boy” and Trumpette spokes-liar Karoline Leavitt...also, I’m not sure it’s even legal to put messages on government web sites blaming the “radical left Democrats” for the shut down, to say nothing of wholly inaccurate (and it probably does violate the Hatch Act, as Claire McCaskill says)...yeah, the Dems are such a menace to this country, allegedly, especially since they have NO CONTROL OVER ANY FEDERAL BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT!!, thanks to the dunderheaded stoo-pidity of voters last year...and this indeed is what that pissant Russell Vought, author of Project 2025, wants to see come to pass...and oh yeah, I’d forgotten about the $20 billion that Dementia Donnie is going to give to that goofball-with-the-chainsaw Javier Milei in Argentina; wouldn’t it be nice if “We The People” had some input on THAT decision (Chris Hayes speaks with McCaskill, who I’ve had issues with to be honest, and Brendan Buck...and yes, I know Buck is a Repug, but I still would have liked to hear what he had to say)...



...and Kyle Kulinski tells us about Police Chief Thomas Mills in Illinois going off on the ICE Gestapo, commendably (more here)...and OF COURSE, one of the Gropenfuhrer’s jackbooted thugs runs over somebody and drives away...I really wish I could find a way to take issue with Kyle’s comment about “fault lines,” but I really can’t at the moment...”you cannot lay down in a chalk outline of yourself and let the fascists do whatever they want”; I may keep coming back to that quote...NSFW/H of course...



...and Jesse Dollemore gives us a clip of world leaders having a good laugh over the claim from Our Treasonous Orange Pustule that he ended 7 wars or whatever...oh yes, the wingnuts would have us believe that the world had no respect for Presidents Obama and Biden...suuure...well, what do you call the response to that train wreck in front of the UN that Jesse discusses here? And with all due respect to Jesse, I couldn’t give a rat’s ass what “MAGA world” thinks because those life forms have decided to put any brain activity, to say nothing of conscience or morals, into something approximating a blind trust...and with all of the madness going on (“flooding the zone” as Vice President Bannon said), it’s easy to forget that Bronzer Beelzebub did indeed tell our military leaders to attack Americans in our cities...



...well, for a dose of actual sanity, Brittany Page tells us about a Reagan-appointed judge (William Young) who blasted Mango Mussolini for “ideological deportations” of students professing support for Palestinians and criticism of “Bibi” and his genocide in Gaza...not surprised to hear Jake Tapper’s completely wrong take on Kimmel being removed as the most direct attack on free speech that Tapper has seen; yeah, it was bad, but the Khalil and Ozturk stories were worse...Judge Young does indeed articulate beautifully how free speech is guaranteed in this country based on the Constitution for citizens and non-citizens alike, and also states that these Constitutional violations from our ruling cabal of grifters and lowlifes need to be fixed somehow...”we must not be a nation that imprisons and deports people because we’re afraid of what they have to tell us,” indeed...more on the “No Kings” protest on 10/18 is here...



...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ discusses some recent comments from Pope Leo regarding faith matters...I have no issue with what the vicar of Christ is saying because he’s addressing the ambiguity of being in favor of abortion and the death penalty, and oh yeah, we’re not supposed to mistreat immigrants either...that’s kind of where I come down also (on abortion and the death penalty I mean), for what it’s worth; to me, faith doesn’t mean much to anybody if you’re not wrestling with it and trying to examine yourself based on what you’re taught, but that’s just me I guess...I have to remember to add that book from John Fuglesang to my Xmas list (and it looks like retiring Dem Senator Dick Durbin chose the path of humility himself to try and avoid the ginned-up controversy over his award)...I wonder what would happen if any of the “Catholics” in the Trump gang were asked to recall any of the Beatitudes or the Sermon On The Mount?...



Update: I have a feeling Jesse is right that this video is going to end up age restricted on YouTube, so I’ll just link to it here and let you view it as you wish, dear reader.

...and Stephen Colbert takes a look at the shut down also...gee, I wonder if the TSA folks are going to wand you extra hard now since they’re not getting paid? And gosh, I was counting on the “naked mole rat web cam” being available (and yes, I know the shut down is serious stuff)...and I know Schumer and Jeffries have to say and do some of this stuff, but they just let themselves get played over and over – ugh!...and leave it to Cancun Cruz to somehow show up and create more of a train wreck...



...and I think we can all use a nice weekend, and hopefully we can get that going with this newer tune.