Friday Stuff

Nicolle Wallace and her guests give us some analysis of Pam “Blondi’s” recent aggrieved testimony before the Senate, full of the typically combative and petulant BS you'd expect aimed at Democratic senators...also discussed is Erik Seibert, the former US Attorney for the eastern district of Virginia who was forced out after he refused to indict NY AG Letitia James, though of course James was eventually indicted on charges that will likely be dismissed in short order (here)...yep, “Blondi” refused to answer Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s question about whether or not she acted directly on orders from Mango Mussolini on indicting James Comey (of course she did)...not surprised to see Blondi save perhaps her worst vitriol for Dem Sheldon Whitehouse since he absolutely has these Trumpist cretins figured out (Wallace speaks with with Ken Dilanian, Andrew Weissmann and Claire McCaskill – I honestly don’t know why McCaskill is shocked that no Repug stood up for a Dem – I mean, seriously, when has that EVER happened)...I didn’t see the hearing, but I’m inclined to side with Dilanian in that the stonewalling over the Tom Homan/$50K in the supermarket bag might have been more outrageous than anything else...oh, and of course our ruling regime leaked to Fix Noise that the FBI under Crazy Eyes Kash Patel fired and dismantled the anti-corruption squad of that agency (including phone records linked to the 1/6/21 insurrection and the effort to stop the vote certification; more criminal behavior of covering up tracks from our fascist ruling cabal)...so much for commentary from Weissmann I guess...



...and Kyle Kulinski tells us about Don The Con calling for Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to be arrested for not supporting ICE thugs, which, as Kyle notes, is a sick joke even for our criminal ruling regime given all of the ICE-perpetrated violence, including an attack on an 84-year-old couple, and the husband served for 10 years in Vietnam...boy, is Kyle ever right about the fact that we need our own Nuremberg trials, with these ICE bastards in the docket first (and I’m pretty sure there are laws against making fake 911 calls); the January 6th Committee should have led into those types of hearings, but as far as I’m concerned, Merrick Garland sucked the life out of all of that...oh, and Opium is a brand of men’s cologne from Yves Saint Laurent, not that any of these deep-fried, corn-fed bumblef*cks from down south recruited by ICE would actually know that of course...and calling that bunch from Texas arriving in Chicago “Meal Team 6” is pretty freaking hilarious...on the other hand, a priest getting shot in the head with a pepper ball is pretty goddamn enraging...and ICE snipers on a roof shooting rubber bullets at a totally non-threatening crowd; didn’t we used to fight wars against countries that did stuff like this? And by the way, I know some of this stuff is repetitive from prior clips including the one yesterday with Mike Figueredo, but I’m fine with repeating this stuff as many times as I think I have to (Kyle's NSFW/H outrage is completely called for IMO)...



...oh, so what else is considered a priority for Bronzer Beelzebub and his lackeys? Why, #47 is planning an 80th birthday party for himself next year with MMA stuff at the White House, which, let us not forget, is “the people’s house”; presidents are only contracted tenants there...Our Treasonous Orange Pustule continues to utterly debase our institutions of government every possible way he can...



...and John and Jayar of The Damage Report bring us the sorry tale of Israeli thugs kidnapping activists on a flotilla trying to help Palestinians escape, including Greta Thunberg...wow, what strong “men” these IDF bastards are, brutalizing a young girl and many others only trying to help Palestinians escape utter hell (and by the way, I don’t give a damn about this; I trust absolutely nothing from the frauds and pretenders running our government and that of Israel, and as far as I’m concerned, this announcement was timed to try and get Combover Caligula nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, which would be only a slightly less disgusting choice than Henry Kissinger way back when...talk to me when some type of international mediation approves the deal)...



...and Josh Johnson of The Daily Show brings us up to date on the government shutdown...yeah, screw the TSA employees and bringing back the fired air traffic controllers as long as we can still keep looking for Amelia Earhart, right?...and leave it to a clueless Trumpist knucklehead like Sean Duffy to film some kind of a video with air traffic controllers IN THE TOWER WHEN THEY’RE TRYING TO LAND PLANES AND MAKE SURE THEY TAKE OFF OK!!! (with Jordan Klepper)....NSFW/H also...



...and RIP Chris Dreja of The Yardbirds, the band that helped launch the careers of Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, among other accomplishments.

Thursday Stuff

John and Jayar of The Damage Report tell us about the latest insane nonsense from the scurrilous worm who is actually calling the shots for our ruling regime; yep, it’s Baby Goebbels and his “Democrat” Party this and “Democrat” Party that...hey, Pee Wee German, where’s the lefty connection to the Charlie Kirk shooter? Go ahead, I’ll wait...and while you’re at it, let us know who the Michigan shooter supported politically, and also who was on the hit list of the alleged killer of Melissa Hortman and her husband...any Repugs? (I could really be snarky and say that Miller should ask Elon Musk how Miller’s wife is doing...yeah, I know, they go low and we go high...oh well...)...oh, and just for sh*ts and giggles I guess, some of the supposedly non-violent MAGA crowd burned down the home of a South Carolina judge who ruled against Dear Leader; the judge’s husband had to be air lifted to a hospital as a result of the attack, and their kids suffered serious injuries also...oh, but Antifa did that...suuuure...



...and Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report discusses people bravely uniting to drive away the ICE Gestapo trying an attempted kidnapping...oh yeah, isn’t that ICE guy such a big, strong manly man to cuff a smaller woman who apparently is a city council member asking for a warrant...f*cking fascist...as Figueredo says, you can’t just detain people without a warrant, and that applies to EVERYBODY...he also gives us a recap of the Chicago apartment building raid, which further reinforces what Texas Paul said yesterday that these ICE goons are alt-right scumbags who don’t view people of color as actual Americans anyway, or likely people at all for that matter...also, the pics and videos on the DHS website of people getting dragged off, used pretty much for recruitment indeed, is yet another reason why that whole damn agency needs to be abolished (and yeah, the reason the ICE goons never show warrants is because they don’t have them in the first place)...and OF COURSE they’re now trying to track cell phones of people to hunt down suspected illegal immigrants...I agree with Figueredo; the WWII-era Nazis would be doing this stuff if they had the technology back then (NSFW/H)...



....and Brian Tyler Cohen and Glenn Kirschner let us know that, apparently, Mango Mussolini is having another problem tying to prosecute New York AG Letitia James, and that would be the fact that Attorney Elizabeth Yusi of Virginia smartly doesn’t want to risk disbarment by going forward with this “dead dog” of a prosecution...hmmm, “probable cause”; let me check my law textbooks to see if that’s anywhere in sight here – ooopsie! Guess not...and yeah, I also have a feeling that this whole mess will land in the legally clueless lap of Trumpette Lindsay Halligan...one of the good points here is that it’s still mind boggling to contemplate all of the people in #47’s orbit who refuse to learn the lesson that Everything Trump Touches Dies...



...and yeah, I think we have another winner here from Mr. Newberger...



...and best birthday wishes to Jackson Browne...



...and today would have been the 85th birthday of John Lennon.

Wednesday Stuff

Tennessee Brando informs us of the wingnut outrage du jour, though you can tell that they’re running out of distractions from the files of He Who Shall Be Unnamed when Kristi (“Unsafe At Any Speed”) Noem makes an issue about not being able to access bathroom facilities (I’m sorry for her discomfort, but not for her petulant whining about it)...I honestly don’t know what that last Noem rant was all about...”they’re so weak,” meaning the NFL? The organization with enough dough to buy your regime of hacky DHS sadists and neophytes more than a few times over (and no, I’m not a fan of the league)? And I don’t have a clue about this Bad Bunny person either, and to be honest, I couldn’t be bothered...and boy, is Brando ever right about focusing on more important issues, but unfortunately, the wingnuts keep dragging our corporate media to the right in the direction of the metaphorical cliff (mildly NSFW/H)...



...and I thought this was a typically spot-on commentary from Texas Paul of the Meidas Touch Network on the jackbooted ICE thugs who just raided that apartment building in Chicago (I recently included the Chris Hayes clip on that)...

This is not difficult to understand. We are witnessing an ICE Gestapo that is full of white supremacists. The fascist authoritarian Trump regime has recruited Nazis that hate brown-skinned people as much as they do. 😳👇 pic.twitter.com/7wtNbacA10

— Bill Madden (@maddenifico) October 6, 2025

...and Jesse Dollemore tells us about Lawrence O’Donnell of MSNBC taking Jake Tapper to task, with the CNN talking head claim that he had a texting “interview” with Bronzer Beelzebub who somehow couldn’t make himself available in person (and Tapper of course has burnished his corporate media bona fides with a book on the alleged cognitive issues of former President Biden)... great point to note that we not only don’t know what questions didn’t get a text answer, but also the length of time it took to get the answers that Tapper actually received...mildly NSFW/H...



...and Thom Hartmann tells us about Dem guvs J. B. Pritzker and Gavin Newsom speaking out against the Gropenfuhrer trying to militarize our cities with his ICE goons...kudos to Portland, OR for pushing back, including not suspending the naked bike ride (more here for Bluesky folks)...didn’t know nudity in public as a form of protest is protected under Oregon’s constitution...also, it figures that this guy at George Mason University (a big-time hotbed for wingnuts) would give Combover Caligula advice on fending off the International Criminal Court, partly because our ruling regime, among numerous other misdeeds, keeps blowing up people off the coast of Venezuela...as a side note, Newsom has done a good job in a lot of areas, but he needs to be MUCH BETTER on LGBTQ plus issues as noted here...



...and if you’re looking for someone who’s an expert on country music, then I’m definitely not the person to talk to about that; that being said, it appears that country music star Zach Bryan has crossed ICE a bit in his new song, to his great credit (tune is tentatively titled “Bad News”)...so far, Bryan has stood strong and hopefully that will remain the case; you can always tell the utter wrongness of the wingnut position by the amount of crying they do online among various “influencers” when they’ve been called out...and I knew Benny Johnson was a loser, but to dress up not as the Dark Knight but the ‘60s Adam West Batman is adding insult to injury as far as yours truly is concerned...Steve Harness of Really American tells us about it (NSFW/H)...



...and as nearly as I can determine, today is the 80th birthday of one-time Procol Harum guitarist Ray Royer, who appeared on the band’s initial recording and then left...this song was recorded after his departure.

Tuesday Stuff

Oh, and here’s more about Life in These United States...Chris Hayes informs us that ICE busted into a Chicago south side apartment building in the middle of the night with guns drawn, zip tied 37 people including kids and dragged them to the sidewalk (and some into vans)...and no, I definitely don’t believe the Tren De Aragua BS...and I’m sure it will come as no surprise that “I Like Beer” Brett Kavanaugh of the SCOTUS had NO PROBLEM WHATSOEVER with racially motivated stops by ICE (hence the term “Kavanaugh Stops” entering our lexicon during this dark time)...



...and Richard Ojeda of Rebel HQ gives us his take on the utter destruction of farming in this country under Our Treasonous Orange Pustule, primarily soybean farmers, which could have been predicted by...oh, I dunno...MAYBE EVERY FREAKING PERSON ON EARTH WHO WAS PAYING ATTENTION! And I don’t have anything personal against the farmer interviewed by Katy Tur, but for jackass friends of this guy to say “you have to trust him,” meaning Cantaloupe Capone...well, I just can’t think for a word for the stoo-pidity...I’d forgotten about the connection here to Apartheid Clyde and Argentina’s lithium mines, but that’s a great point also...glad to hear Ojeda mention USAID, which, according to wingnut toady Jonah Goldberg, is something Americans supposedly don’t care about; I’m sure our farmers would beg to differ (more here and here...mildly NSFW/H)...



...and John of The Damage Report lets us know that, apparently, a Repug candidate for Lieutenant governor has a Nazi p*rn scandal brewing (allegedly! And another one for that party after Mark Robinson), and that would be John Reid of Virginia...yeah, it’s not a good look to be promoting content from some dude on a Tumblr account in 2015 who’s advertising some kind of gay bondage fetish behavior (and I don’t want to repeat some of that language either)...I think John’s tongue-in-cheek approach here is the right way to take this stuff...oh, and it looks like Governor Trumpkin threw Reid under the bus the first chance he got...pass the popcorn...



...and David Doel gives us more on Graham Platner, who continues to impress in his run for the Dem nomination to take on “Disappointed” Susan Collins in the Maine U.S. Senate contest...I think Platner strikes the right tone...yes, I know I get more than a little snarky, and maybe I shouldn’t, but I honestly try to back up what I say with reliable information for what it’s worth (and while illegals pay into benefits we enjoy, they can’t actually collect those benefits themselves)...and boy, is Doel ever right about trying to chase a bunch of new voters at the expense of beating your head against a metaphorical wall trying to reach voters who will just put their hands over their ears and go “LALALALA I CAN’T HEAR YOU!!!” (mildly NSFW/H also)...



...and Ronny Chieng of The Daily Show gives us the latest on the government shutdown (I hope Blue Oyster Cult didn’t give permission to use that song and sues the Trump gang...more here)...and “Republican Kitty”??? Whoever the clueless loser at the DNC was who came up with that, they should be fired on the spot (and I have no issue with Sarah McBride and her clips because she took so much crap from the “R” bunch for being a trans person)...also w/ Michael Kosta (Russell Vought deserves that ridicule at a minimum...mildly NSFW/H)...



...and the weather is too nice in these parts to not enjoy a newer tune – hope this will help lighten things a bit.

Monday Stuff

Sam and Emma of The Majority Report tell us about the latest development in the “garden state” – it looks like Morris County, NJ Sheriff Jim Gannon might need to be sent back to the factory and get some kind of a robotic implant form Grover Norquist to make sure he NEVER, EVER AGAIN mentions NEW TAXES, which he brought up in a lieutenant governor’s debate (more here...and of course, that stuff about millionaires employing us is typical Repug boilerplate that has very little basis in reality)...”your business is a function of demand” indeed (to help Mikie Sherrill, click here)...



...oh, and did you hear that Bari Weiss is going to be editor-in-chief at CBS News under their new regime with Paramount and David Ellison (here)? Please enlighten me as to Weiss’s credentials in hard news reporting and covering major news stories (yes, I know that's a naïve sentiment given the wingnut media consolidation going on)...this video from John Iadarola and Cenk Uygur from five years ago goes into Weiss’s exit from the New York Times editorial page...yep, Weiss displays her own grievance and sense of entitlement in what purports to be a resignation letter to the paper...”oh, I’m a poor, oppressed conservative...help me!!”...I thought John made a good point that, in Weiss’s criticism, she’s trying to say her editorializing is at least as important as actual reporting...uh, no...also, I think it’s pretty plain that Cenk was right about Weiss continuing to “fall upward” because she’ll always have the backing of at least one right wing billionaire so she won’t have to compete in “the free marketplace of ideas”...



...and this clip from Really American informs us of another alleged controversy...OK, let me see if I got this – Trumpette spokes-liar Karoline Leavitt is claiming that Antifa mobs in Portland seized and captured some wingnut “journalist” named Nick Sortor, but this Sortor guy can’t give any details about the people who allegedly assaulted him, or any information on the cops who cuffed him? Oh, but Sortor was allegedly detained because he was a “conservative” (here)? And how would some allegedly unruly alleged mob know that? And oh yeah, the claim about Biden supposedly providing health care to illegal aliens is a particularly ridiculous lie as noted here...and when it comes to actual journalists being endangered, I’m still waiting for our ruling regime to express some type of concern over this (NSFW/H)...



...and Brian Tyler Cohen and Marc Elias discuss Pumpkin Pol Pot telling federal agencies that anyone arrested for burning a U.S. flag will get a year in prison...1) Despite #47’s evil intentions, he cannot summarily sentence anybody for the commission of a real or (likely) imagined crime, 2) There are ample legal cases supporting the fact that flag burning, while idiotic, is protected free speech...and once again, we’re in “do away with Posse Comitatus” territory...yep, I think “l’etat c’est moi” kind of says it for Bronzer Beelzebub...good discussion by Elias on how the antics of Our Treasonous Orange Pustule are waaay beyond McCarthyism...



...and Mr. Newberger brings us an upbeat little number for us to have fun with (albeit through clenched teeth), right from today’s headlines...



...and last Thursday I included a tune from the former Cat Stevens, but I neglected to point out that that day was also the 80th birthday of another musical icon primarily from the ‘70s, and that would be Don McLean, so happy belated wishes...some messy personal stuff I’ll admit, but that shouldn’t detract from his music as far as I’m concerned.