Friday Stuff

Jesse Dollemore, in the clip below, discusses Trumper Karoline Leavitt mentioning something about Holy Week, which is currently in progress...and I’m sure you can imagine what I think of the Gropenfuhrer’s “faith office,” with co-fraudster Paula White in charge, naturally – yeah, I’m sure there was a “celebration” on Holy Thursday and for today, which of course is Good Friday, which will demonstrate beyond a doubt that our ruling cabal of grifters and lowlifes don’t have the foggiest idea of what those two days really mean, and isn’t it just too precious to see how spokes-liar Leavitt automatically conflates this with the Easter egg roll? (and kudos to Jesse for including the quote from scripture about how people of faith are supposed to pray...not proselytizing – if you don’t observe, that’s your call and that’s fine...my problem is with people who claim to be holier than thou and are basically “whited sepulchers”)...also, great point by Jesse to mention Christians in this country as undocumented people who are being persecuted for real by our ruling regime (slightly NSFW/H)...



...and Brittany Page brings us the tale of the whistleblower on Elmo and DOGE who was threatened according to reporting from NPR, with these DOGE cretins and Elmo going after the NLRB, including having a drone follow the whistleblower (Daniel Berulis, who went public) while he’s walking his dog – just no bottom for these foul nematodes...and oh yeah, these DOGE life forms made off with all kinds of sensitive data about allegedly corrupt labor practices which has not one damn thing to do with reducing federal spending...and on top of that, a Russian IP address and Starlink are involved, because why not (and Berulis’s lawyer is saying this is happening government-wide...uh, @DNC, you paying attention to this? You have a response to this???)...



...and I realize we’re past the Medicare enrollment period, but this clip from More Perfect Union is yet another reminder of how awful Medicare Advantage is (with Wendell Potter dropping more than a few “truth bombs,” so naturally Dr. Oz wants to expand M.A. since he has to be in on the grift also)...have to admit that I didn’t know about “upcoding” to exaggerate patients’ conditions for the insurers to get bigger reimbursements from the feds (i.e., we the taxpayers), but yeah, that sure tracks with all of this corruption...all of this means that we pay about $83 to $140 billion more than we should – ugh (and United Healthcare is part of this infamy also of course)...



...and speaking of scammy behavior from our ruling cretinous regime, Robert Reich lets us know that the 2017 Trump tax thievery was worse than we thought, with AT&T doing pretty much what you would expect among other corporate monsters (i.e., rewarding executives and shareholders and not doing a hell of a lot for anyone else, including slashing 40K jobs)...I know very well that Democrats are far from perfect, but this garbage comes overwhelmingly from one political party, and it’s going to continue unless a hell of a lot of people wake up and vote out these frauds and lickspittles (trying to be G-rated here)...



...and Ronny Chieng of The Daily Show brings us an update on our HHS Secretary...”Kids with autism...will never pay taxes”...WHAAAA??? Oh, and “Bobby Brainworms” sez we’ll supposedly know what causes autism in September...just dumber than a bag of wet meatloaf...oh, and big surprise – it looks like Elmo impregnated another YouTube “influencer” – I guess he doesn’t even bother to keep a scorecard at this point...and “raw DOGE” – good one...and oh look, “I’ll Drink To That” Hegseth told the Naval Academy to purge some “DEI” books (but keep Mein Kampf – and why do you even have to ask why, you dastardly lib??!!), which is only slightly less disgusting than the way he allegedly eats bagels with cream cheese...



Update 4/20/25:

...and speaking of disgusting, what would Life In These United States be like without another mass shooting...actually, there was one in Texas and one in Flori-DUUH! (here and here)...you want this crap to end? Well, for starters, stop electing freaking Republicans since they stand in the way of common sense gun laws!!!



Update: Color me (not) shocked (here and here).

Thursday Stuff

This is a photo of Jeet Heer, a Canadian politics writer for The Nation who often appears on lefty/progressive platforms offering his take on matters pertaining to the U.S. and world events. And apparently, he recently went on The Majority Report and said that former President Joe Biden somehow paved the way for the deportation of Mahmoud Khalil (I won’t link to the clip because I think the premise is ridiculous)...I actually bothered to research that claim a bit and discovered that former antisemitism ambassador (I honestly didn’t know there was such a title) Deborah Lipstadt under Biden offered some support for what Mango Mussolini is doing, though I don’t believe she supported the deportation of Khalil (you can read the article from this link and decide for yourself if you want). And of course, the Biden administration didn’t deport a single college protestor; I haven’t been able to find any evidence that that took place (if it had, you can be sure Fix Noise among others would have been screaming over it, though it’s not like they actually care about the substance of the issue of course).

My broader point, though, is this – Jeet Heer went out of his freaking way every place he could online to utterly trash Biden over ANYTHING during the election last year, and sometimes for absolutely nonsensical reasons. If you have a well-thought-out policy disagreement, that’s fine (I definitely had them, particularly on Israel’s genocide in Gaza...and yes, Hamas launched the horrible 10/7 attack, but Netanyahu’s epochal destruction in response was far worse IMO). However, Jeet Heer often posted cartoon memes and all kinds of other pitiful garbage making fun of Biden’s age, motor skills...you name it. And what really gets me about this is that this guy is accepted in some progressive circles as some sort of policy maven. At the end of the day, he’s a Canadian citizen WHO DOESN’T HAVE TO LIVE WITH THE CONSEQUENCES OF DOING HIS PART TO SUPPRESS THE VOTE AND STICK US WITH YOU-KNOW-WHO!

So basically, if I see anything having to do with Jeet Heer, I ignore it. I don’t often invoke the disparaging charge that someone or something is a member of the “loony left,” but that segment does exist, though it isn’t anything as large as the wingnuts make it out to be. I pretty much put Jeet Heer in that category; I also know that me saying any of this won’t make a bit of difference in how widely this guy is quoted and/or given the respect he doesn’t deserve IMO, but I’m saying it anyway.

All of this is a bit of a long-winded setup I’ll admit to this clip from Tennessee Brando in which former President Biden spoke out against how King Elmo and Yambo are trying to wreck our government and Social Security in particular. Oh, and please try reminding me again about why we needed to suffer through all of this because of a single bad stinking debate performance (NSFW/H)...



...and I know I’ve said this before, but I’ll mention it again...powerful people and institutions have been propping up Our Ochre Abomination for-freaking-evah, but it has taken everyday people to hold him to account (namely, juries in a court of law), as this gentleman does again here in this commentary about Kilmar Abrego Garcia...I wish I could share this man's faith that the SCOTUS of Hangin’ Judge JR will bring #47 to heel, but I definitely do not (and kudos to Dem U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland for flying to El Salvador to try and fix this mess as noted here - figures that the thugs in charge of that country turned him away...NSFW/H also)...

The world is watching: Trump's cruel, sadistic, and barbaric response to Abrego Garcia's illegal deportment and incarceration reveals a pathetic and morally bankrupt old man who has no business being president of the United States. 😳👇 pic.twitter.com/T4AEq3cfrp

— Bill Madden (@maddenifico) April 15, 2025

...and on the subject referenced in the prior clip (i.e., illegal detention of U.S. residents), Julie Turkewitz, a bureau chief for the New York Times, discusses the Venezuelan men rounded up by #47 and sent to that prison in El Salvador; she discusses the utterly ridiculous “points system” that was used to determine whether or not these men should be targeted for deportation (2 points if you’re seen in a photo with a gang member, 2-4 points for a tattoo, even one for Autism Awareness...ugh)...



...and Jesse Dollemore tells us about ICE trying to nab US citizens returning to this country by spying on cell phones, in this case detaining an attorney returning from Canada to Vermont (and believe it or not, I think the guy is a Trumper, but that hasn’t been confirmed)...can’t think of a word for the naivete of this guy to think that Combover Caligula would improve anything at all...and God, those f*cking Republicans in that poll...”A lot of people need to find their tragedy before they find their empathy” indeed (NSFW/H as well)...



...and Yasmin Khan tells us about you-know-who having another meltdown over a recent disastrous poll from CNN and Harry Enten...and that poll about the swing on tariffs tells a story indeed; partly, it tells me that voters didn’t really understand the damage that would be wrought by all of this tariff insanity – and I partly blame our fourth estate that was preoccupied with the horse race as opposed to, y’know, dumb stuff like actual policy (removing my tongue from my cheek)...in addition to pig-headed, obstinate Repug voters, I also blame the clueless election losers of the DNC for not finding a way to capitalize on all of this last year...



...and today is the 65th anniversary of the death of early rock n’ roller Eddie Cochran in an auto accident.

Wednesday Stuff

Lawrence O’Donnell gives a well-done IMO commentary below defending Harvard as well as Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man illegally sent to a prison in El Salvador...and don’t give me this crap that “oh, the president of El Salvador says he’s unable to send him back”...If Pumpkin Pol Pot told this guy Bukele to send Garcia back, it would happen PDQ, but of course that’s not the timeline we’re living in now, is it? (and yeah, “Constitutional dementia” fits for Mango Mussolini and his minions as far as yours truly is concerned)...O’Donnell’s passion is commendable when it comes not just to Mr. Garcia but defending the scholarship and innovations from Harvard Medical School...and as far as that bit about supposedly hitting elderly ladies on the head with a baseball bat, I have only to add that I DON’T BELIEVE A SINGLE, SOLITARY WORD THAT COMES OUT OF THE LYING MOUTH OF THAT TREASONOUS ASSH*LE (oh, and did anybody else notice that the president of El Salvador Bukele didn’t get any static from #47 or his mini-me about not wearing a tie in the Oval Office, unlike the complaint hurled at another world leader with more courage in his cuticle than Bukele/Trump/Vance have in their whole bodies?)...



...and Farron Cousins tells us about Our Ochre Abomination raising prescription drug prices by more stinking tariffs on imported pharmaceuticals – yet another horrible front in his beyond-disastrous trade war...and I’m not surprised to hear companies trying to hide their quarterly earnings because those numbers are such a train wreck...oh, and Cantaloupe Capone also got rid of Biden’s $35 cap on insulin, I guess just because he automatically thought it was bad because it came from his predecessor...



...and Kyle Kulinski discusses Our Orange Man-Baby cutting off FEMA funds to MAGA states, including North Carolina, where #47 once criticized FEMA’s response under Biden of course, though now that he’s prez, he’s all “la la la, can’t hear you!”...oh, and the CDC also said “nah” to Milwaukee’s request for help with unsafe lead levels in public schools...and one more thing: don’t even imagine that I’m going to get on a stinking cruise ship given the fact that there won’t even be inspections any more for communicable illness...and who needs climate studies also? I guess that’s their approach...also, any public communication for the SSA will be on Nazi Twitter, and Head Start will be eliminated also...yep, we’re pretty much cutting our own selves down to the level of a third-world country (this indeed is a “war on data,” among other things)...and yes, there definitely is another protest scheduled for this Saturday 4/19 (NSFW/H)...



...and John and Yasmin Khan of The Damage Report inform us that Dem U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is running for another term, so what is the “party of Lincoln” focusing on in attacking him? Why, trans athletes of course...and yeah, does Georgia have a SINGLE FREAKING TRANS ATHLETE IN THE ENTIRE DAMN STATE???!! And even if they did, WHO THE F*CK CARES?? Actually, John Oliver had a good recent segment on this...the wingnuts with too much damn money and time on their hands figured out somehow that trans athletes in girls’ sports is an issue that mobilizes their frothing-at-the-mouth crazed followers (I mean, they already destroyed Roe, so now they need a new place to direct their ire)...great point by Khan that the people screeching the loudest about a trans person HAVE LIKELY NEVER MET A TRANS PERSON...and in case you’re freaked out about sharing a bathroom with a trans person, chances are you already have and you didn’t even know it, and if you’re so damn afraid of unisex bathrooms because you think it’s a “trans agenda” or whatever, then don’t ever travel to Europe or the U.K...getting back to the John Oliver clip, he profiled a young woman named Payton McNabb who suffered a concussion when she was hit in the face with a volleyball hit by a trans athlete – I guess the thinking is that girls can’t hit the hell out of a volleyball on their own – and to tell you how dumb the outrage is on this, McNabb decides to play another sport, which is fine – that would be girls’ softball, but guess what position she played? Catcher, with the highest likelihood of suffering another concussion...can’t think of a word for the idiocy...



...and Rachel Maddow discusses here the fact that our Secretary of Education Linda McMahon supposedly knows about “A1”...and isn’t it just too precious to see the African American lady and that guy smiling and nodding and maybe thinking “how the hell does she not know that it’s ‘AI’??!!”...”everything they’re doing is so terrible,” indeed (more here)...



...and I guess this newer tune is an update on the Gregor Samsa story (you can Google him)...I’m in the mood for something a little upbeat for spring, which is coming...the Trumpers/MAGA haven’t found a way to prevent that yet, though I’m sure they would if they could.

Tuesday Stuff

Rachel Maddow tells us of DHS Secretary Kristi (“Unsafe At Any Speed”) Noem and her cringey cosplay theater...oh, and there was that info-mercial she did for a Texas dentist while she was South Dakota governor, which was paid for by that state’s taxpayers – heckuva return on investment, huh?...and in addition to bringing along her allegedly-not-squeeze Corey Lewandowski to a photo-op, Noem also included wingnut influencer Chaya Raichik, because why not?...



Update: Why am I not surprised to hear that Noem has a $200 million budget to enable her self-promoting idiocy (here)?

...and David Pakman gives us the news on the Gropenfuhrer’s health checkup, and hoo boy, does it smack of Dear Leader propaganda...he scored high on soul? Jumpin’ Judas H. Priest On A Freaking Pogo Stick!! “They want you so demoralized by the absurdity that you stop questioning anything” indeed...and yeah, nice job to misspell “scarring” on the report with the results..



...meanwhile, for health news in the world of reality, Emma and Matt Lech of The Majority Report let us know that another Texas child has died of measles, the third in the last two months (and 500 reported cases)...I totally agree with Matt in that we need to find a way to somehow sanction people for spreading anti-vax garbage; I know it’s too late when it comes to trying to control the spread of the virus from those who are unvaccinated, but there should be consequences for this dangerous stoo-pidity (NSFW/H)...



...and Jesse Dollemore tells us about Bronzer Beelzebub threatening that he’ll direct his FCC to get rid of CBS’s broadcast license over the recent “60 Minutes” report with Ukraine President Zelenskyy, following another murderous attack by Vlad The Butcher on 18 Ukrainians, including 9 children (and 34 Ukrainian civilians were murdered also, including 2 more kids, and on Palm Sunday as an extra “FU” from Mango Mussolini’s benefactor)...and that mess on Truth Septic could indeed be “a drug-addled freakout”; that explanation works for me...



...and Robert Reich brings us the tale of Elmo’s DOGE helping billionaires escape paying taxes...basically, gutting the IRS helps the stinking one percent evade MUCH MORE in taxes than could ever be saved with Elon’s DOGE nonsense...



...and speaking of taxes, this year didn’t go so hot with us and the feds, but we’re making adjustments... at least with King Elmo gutting the IRS, we won’t have to worry about waiting for a refund (cold comfort, I know).

Monday Stuff

David Pakman informs us that the big question is getting asked not just by tree-hugging libs like yours truly, but by fund managers running “the big casino,” and that big question is whether or not Mango Mussolini has gone completely bonkers over the tariff madness...if this were Biden somehow, I can assure you that nobody would be delicately tip-toeing around the topic...all it took was one admittedly bad debate performance for our media and political “insiders” to stage a collective freakout, which has a lot to do with how we ended up in this mess...



...and Kyle Kulinski tells us how those beyond-insane tariffs are shuttering manufacturing, including a proposed plastic recycling plant in Erie, Pa...glad to hear Kyle’s take on how Yambo blew up the CHIPS Act from Biden and killed a lot of high-end manufacturing jobs...I wish I could disagree with a single word of Kyle’s analysis, but I can’t actually (NSFW/H)...



...and Chris Hayes lets us know that Cantaloupe Capone has gutted funding for a kids’ history contest timed for National History Day...great job by Hayes to put this obscenity in the context of the cost of Mango Mussolini’s golf BS or Elmo’s federal contracts...God forbid we have happy kids who want to learn and encounter others who do also...”Who voted for this?” indeed...



...and Farron Cousins tells us that Repug U.S. House Rep Nancy Mace decided to hold a 15-minute virtual town hall (a la Bri-Fi) with her constituents where she verbally lambasted one of them for asking a question related to DEI...great point by Cousins that, if people showing up to town halls were actually paid actors by George Soros or something, somebody would have uncovered that by now...also important to point out how chicken Mace really is for criticizing someone else’s supposed lack of courage when Mace doesn’t even have the guts to face her constituents herself...



...and John Russell of More Perfect Union went to the recent Bernie/AOC rally in Denver and interviewed some of the attendees...and if anybody out there thinks I’m a rubber stamp for corporate Democrats, think again...and listening to the lady who’s a nurse dealing with her issues rang more than a few bells for yours truly...I have to admit that I’m uncomfortable with invoking Luigi Mangione because he’s accused of the murder of a CEO, and I don’t think anyone should rally around that, despite the fact that United Healthcare is an absolutely awful company – I’m sure the lady who spoke about him knows that, but I think that should be emphasized...and I think this is way too funny (NSFW/H also)...



...and happy 80th birthday to heavy metal guitarist Ritchie Blackmore.