Belle of the Ranch tells us about the grocery problem faced by Bronzer Beelzebub...and an increase in “Go Fund Me” pages for groceries since we’re looking at the biggest price climb since the pandemic, huh?; Naaah, our economy isn’t doing the big swirl in the hopper – not much it isn’t...and it sounds like our regime of grifters and lowlifes knows that the tariff madness and ICE garbage are having an impact all over our economy, but the people in charge simply don’t care (and it does indeed sound like a good strategy to prepare as if we’re looking at a natural disaster, unfortunately)...
...and Tennessee Brando informs us that it looks like #47 was unsuccessful in trying to kill off another Vice President (i.e., the mishap at Camp Pendleton)...fortunately, CA guv Gavin Newsom had the foresight to close Interstate 5 near the base ahead of this nonsense so people didn’t get hurt (and when I say “nonsense,” I refer to the staged photo-op, not anything from our military)...I guess “couch boy” ended up OK, which is good; as much as I detest this regime (and despite what they want for us), I don’t encourage violence against any of them since that would be messed up, even for this motley collection of Homo sapiens...I didn’t think that the demonstration in honor of the Marine anniversary was timed to try and deflect attention from the “No Kings” protests, but that definitely makes sense...glad to hear Brando express concern about this Trumpist garbage somehow being normalized, which should NEVER happen (mildly NSFW/H)...
...and speaking of the recent “No Kings” protests. Robert Reich comments that he thinks “the sleeping giant is awakening” (hope so)...Reich goes over prior historical events (the McCarthyite witch hunts, Vietnam, Watergate) and attempts to draw a parallel to now...every circumstance and context is different, and in prior years we had corporate media on our side, but I believe we can no longer say that, unfortunately...
...and Farron Cousins tells us that the nomination of Paul “I Had A Bit Of A Nazi Streak” Ingrassia to lead the Office of Special Counsel was just pulled because U.S. Senate Repugs said this guy wouldn’t even make it out of a committee for a floor vote, so apparently his mom went and complained, but to the U.S. House, which can’t do a damn thing in response...womp womp (oh, but she was mad at House Dems Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia for sending out that letter about her son; cue the world’s tiniest violin)...
...also, in a date perhaps forgotten (though it shouldn’t be), today is the 42nd anniversary of the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, which killed 241 of our service personnel and 307 people in total (here)...being the pointy-headed lib that I am, I always believed that the invasion of Grenada that came soon afterwards was pretty much an attempt at a diversion by The Sainted Ronnie R (initial reporting by David Brinkley)...
...and Stephen Colbert gives us his “Tearing Down The House” monologue...yeah, I know it’s a joke, but I could actually do without some ridiculous drama once in a while from Our Demented Orange Toddler in An Oval Office...this tells us more on Our Sweaty Orange Boy’s demolition of the east wing of the White House (just take a second and try to contemplate the sense of entitlement on display from such horrific destruction and also try to imagine what would have happened if a Democratic president had done something like this...there would be calls for impeachment 24/7/365 from EVERYBODY)...and yep, a typically clueless move from Scott Bessent to say, “ssshhh, no pictures of our wanton destruction of the people’s house”...and I hope nobody out there was planning to visit any of our national parks while the shut down WHICH COULD BE ENDED IF REPUGS STARTED ACTING LIKE ADULTS AND STOOD UP TO DON THE CON AND PROTECTED OUR HEALTH CARE continues...oh, and as I just noted, another Nazi nominee from our collection of guttural lowlifes bowed out, and that would be the previously mentioned Paul Ingrassia...and the story of the woman in the penis costume in Alabama who was handcuffed and arrested is partly dumb but also hilarious...
Update 10/24/25: A related item for Bluesky folks is here.
Update 10/26/25: More on this is here.
...also, today would have been the 100th birthday of Johnny Carson, without whom Colbert and many others likely wouldn't have jobs (a fact they all acknowledge with gratitude...by the way, I hope you won't be shocked to learn that this was rehearsed)...
...and happy recent 85th birthday to Manfred Mann – hope it was a good one.
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