Rachel Maddow speaks with Ezra Levin of Indivisible about the “No Kings” protest this Saturday 10/18, which could be bigger than the June 14th protest earlier this year (we should do what we can to make that happen)... yep, the trick will be not to get suckered in by wingnut troublemakers trying to say “See? I told you those dastardly libs want to blow up everything”...(“sustained opposition to the regime” indeed)...
...and John and Jayar of The Damage Report tells us that Bronzer Beelzebub just loves him some coal, doesn’t he?...yeah, that’s why he sold out the coal miners (opposing a safety regulation), which should surprise precisely no one, so much so that coal miners protested yesterday at the Labor Department (here...more power to them), arguing that Dementia J. Trump failed to protect them from black lung disease...um, I’m genuinely sorry for the miners, but as far as I’m concerned, that begs the following question: WHAT THE HELL ELSE DID YOU EXPECT FROM A LYING CONMAN?? And yes, we have Example #652 of Biden doing something for a particular voting bloc, but those people said, naaaaah, we want the failed businessman and reality TV host instead...didn’t know silica dust was 20x more toxic than coal dust, which IMO is yet another reason to leave behind this decrepit, dirty form of energy...and I agree with Jayar that it needs to be pointed out OVER AND OVER that this administration is screwing over yet another group of workers despite last year’s campaign promises (I hear there’s some national political party out there whose first name starts with a “D”; you think they’re EVER going to get the message to yell their heads off about stuff like this?? And John’s bit of sarcasm at the very end is about right also...more here and here)...
...and David Doel brings us another smart take IMO, this time on the Israeli “peace” deal...I realize this is behind the news cycle a bit, but I think this clip matters anyway...oh, and spoiler alert; the Republican Party isn’t going to “adjust” given the admittedly massive divide between elderly boomer conservatives supporting Israel and younger Republicans maybe not supporting Israel quite so much (respect to Harry Enten anyway, though)...I don’t think Doel is quite right when he says, “no Israelis have been killed since October 7th,” but I don’t have any data on that at the moment, though Doel is 150% right to say this isn’t some kind of military contest or whatever because only one side has a military here...oh, and memo to Ralph Nader; November 2000 is on the phone and it just told you to STFU...Doel is absolutely right to say that this struggle truly isn’t over until Palestinians have the right of self determination and ALL PARTIES responsible for this genocide (including Hamas) are standing in a docket in the Hague, and Doel is also right to call out the hostages held by Israel in this, including children – try explaining that one if you can...”Oh, they threw rocks and that’s enough”...bitch, please...also, there’s the whole other argument put out there by Israeli journalists that “Bibi” purposely built up Hamas because he didn’t want to deal with the more rational Fatah organization in Palestine because that would have forced Netanyahu to pursue a peace deal earlier than he did (here - the fact that this could have been done in September ’24 is more evidence to me that Netanyahu didn’t want Biden to be able to claim credit for it, so “Bibi” just said, “screw it - let’s just kill and maim more Palestinians to reward my pal Trump”...prove to me that I’m wrong on that)...
...and somewhat related to the Israeli incursion into Gaza (the latest one), Sam and Emma of The Majority Report tell us about that big, strong manly wingnut pundit Dave Rubin ridiculing 22-year-old Greta Thunberg, who risked her life to save Palestinians trying to flee the carnage in Gaza (you see, being a gay man, Rubin has to do SOMETHING to show she’s still “in” with the wingnut crowd)...oh, and Rubin screws up also when trying to define “Israeli” food; “schnitzel” is popular in central Europe (SMDH)...oh, and OF COURSE, we also have Pumpkin Pol Pot showing up for more of his BS take on this (I try to ignore pissants like Rubin, but occasionally attention must be paid I think...slightly NSFW/H)...
...and Stephen Colbert gives us his take on the Middle East peace deal (yeah, but what about reparations to all of the Palestinians killed and otherwise butchered? I don’t blame Stephen for that, though)...oh, but Time sure rushed out that unintentionally horrendous cover of the Gropehnfuhrer and his “neck mangina” (I didn’t come up with that, so tell ICE to beat down someone else’s door for that one)...of course, we’re treated to more moments with this tactless oaf of a *preznit, and of course, leave it to Repugs to say, “Oh, you bad Dems! Because of the shut down and your stubborn refusal to let us destroy people’s health care, we’re going to furlough all of those federal employees like we wanted to do anyway”...oh, and Kristi (“Unsafe At Any Speed”) Noem is trying to force airports to show a video blaming Dems for the shutdown...uh, no...and we’re graced with another pic of ICE’s “Meal Team 6” (still love that one) arriving in the Windy City...nice job to also plug “No Kings” at the end...
...and here’s some newer blues that hopefully will help us get through the “hump day.”
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