Friday Stuff

Brian Tyler Cohen comments on Dem AZ Senator Ruben Gallego’s idea of renaming that stinking White House ballroom in honor of Barack Obama, which (short of destroying it utterly with the same wrecking ball used on the East Wing) is a good idea as Cohen says because it would get you-know-who's shorts tied into perhaps a permanent knot...and by the way, I think it was Jake Tapper who said Dems had clipped the “top priority” quote from spokes-liar Karoline Leavitt...um, that quote sounds pretty legit to me based on this clip (and I give Jessica Tarlov so much credit for dealing with those hyenas on that ridiculous show on her trash network...NSFW/H)...



...and John and Sharon Reed of The Damage Report let us know that it looks like the alleged “peace deal” with #47’s pal Bibi went up in smoke, including 46 kids and 20 women killed in the latest strike; add that to the death total of about 211 Palestinians since this “truce” was supposedly struck...and once more, the butcher in charge of Israel demonstrates that he doesn’t know the meaning of the phrase “proportional response,” assuming the Israeli story about Hamas violating the cease fire is even true...oh, and Our Sweaty Orange Boy says Hamas should behave itself in response...uh huh (I don’t think I’ve ever heard John so animated...kudos)...



...and David Pakman tells us more about large-scale job losses as the economy under Cantaloupe Capone collapses, with at least 100K jobs gone in total across a variety of industries...I’d heard about the AWS (Amazon Web Services) outage, but I didn’t know the impact was as widespread as it was (I read awhile back that Amazon makes more money out of AWS than it does over its consumer business)...and of course, the dirty little secret about AI (well, maybe not so secret now) is that it will lead to even more job losses...



...and Belle of the Ranch discusses #47 saying he doesn’t need Congress, which, as Belle notes, is particularly demented given that he indeed needs Congress to pass a budget...I guess Bronzer Beelzebub decided that he got everything he wanted in his Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck so now he can just kick back, eat Big Macs and watch Fix Noise for another three-plus years while Pee Wee German runs the country...



...and Desi Lydic of The Daily Show brings us the tale of Our Treasonous Orange Yam greeted by “YMCA” when landing in South Korea, where Pumpkin Pol Pot gets a “golden crown”; I’m old enough to remember Dem VP nominee Tim Walz warning last year about everybody in the world paying off Don The Con with flattery to get whatever they want...I realize it’s tough to come up with humor over the fact that A WHOLE BUNCH OF (MORE) PEOPLE ARE GOING TO GO HUNGRY WITH THE LOSS OF SNAP BENEFITS STARTING ON SATURDAY (and once more, I give you this), but Lydic gives it a good try...and yeah, what a shame Timothy Mellon couldn’t find some dough for SNAP, amirite – I guess he thinks that’s just more stinky “big gumint” socialism (but paying our troops isn’t??)...w/Michael Kosta (mildly NSFW/H)...and by the way, I know I spend a lot of time here commenting on #47’s latest insanity, but believe me when I tell you that I would LOVE to devote more time instead to commenting about what Dems would do if they ever returned to power, but Team “D,” as usual, does a lousy job of telling folks about that, which is inexcusable...



...and uh oh, here comes the Big, Scary, Radical Left Agenda (I guess that counts a little towards what I just said) – RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!...



...and RIP bassist extraordinaire Anthony Jackson...

...and by the way, Happy Halloween everybody (in spite of everything).

Thursday Stuff

Richard Ojeda of Rebel HQ tells us that nobody’s buying Trump’s BS on the economy, despite the “happy talk” spin at Fix Noise over Hamburger Helper (the epitome of processed food – no wonder there’s a diabetes epidemic in this country I say to myself), which is typical...more here on our cattle ranchers getting it in the neck from Pumpkin Pol Pot and his “buy Argentinian beef” move...”the stupidity doesn’t discriminate between party lines” indeed...one of Ojeda’s great points is that this supposedly great beef deal with Argentina is going to do nothing but give us what amounts to the entrails; the prime cuts will likely end up on the plate of the one percent as per usual (and speaking of Fix Noise stoo-pidity, there is also this)...



...and Kyle Kulinski echoes this somewhat as he presents Combover Caligula’s poll numbers which are crumbling to abysmal new lows...and I’m sorry, but I don’t have much of a positive opinion about Hispanic voters as a bloc based on what happened last year; yes, the Dems did a typically awful job of outreach, but that still doesn’t absolve those voters IMO...looks like #47 went from even last year to 25-65 down now with those voters, echoing similar numbers with other groups...this is eminently predictable given the ICE Gestapo raids and the militarization of our cities to go after immigrants, and those stinking tariffs aren’t helping one bit either of course...a 20-point lead among Independent voters is good, but we’re a looong way from November ’26 (and as a commenter on YouTube pointed out, anybody in that 32 percent favorable range based on the polling must meet the clinical definition of insanity)...and 25-67 when it comes to Gen Z voters, huh? Yeah, I’d consider building a ridiculously ostentation ballroom to try and hide from voters also with numbers like that...more here (NSFW/H)...



...and Jon Stewart of The Daily Show (of course) brings us up to date on the ballroom fandango and a whole bunch of other Trumpist garbage, including that idiotic dance (again) in Kuala Lumpur (somewhere along the line, it looks like Mango Mussolini ditched the red tie, albeit briefly...and believe me when I tell you that I would LOVE to see Our Treasonous Orange Yam try to hold down a job in news media...all he would do it trip over his metaphorical d*ck and it would be truly hilarious)...

...and as we know, every once in a while, a story comes along which stops you pretty much dead in your tracks, and yesterday’s news of the passing of longtime WMMR disc jockey Pierre Robert definitely falls into that category...to say Robert was a radio institution in these parts doesn’t even begin to describe his positive impact for over 40 years...definitely a joyful presence who tried his very best to share his love of music (and Philly overall, really) with all of us...I can’t imagine filling the musical and cultural void created by his loss, assuming that’s even possible, but I guess the best tribute we could pay to him would be to remain positive and reach out to others as he would and try to imitate his example...



...and if there was one band Pierre loved above all others, it was the Grateful Dead, so I’d like to offer this selection as a tribute (I suppose I should include “Alice’s Restaurant” which he would play every Thanksgiving...maybe another time)...



Update: Also, speaking of Philly radio personalities, I used to listed to this guy a lot during the morning drive time (and for Temple Owls football)...RIP as well.

...and here is another seasonal selection.

Wednesday Stuff

Jesse Dollemore informs us that nearly half of ICE recruits (about 200 apparently) showing up for training are being sent home because they can’t pass an open book test on the Constitution or immigration law, and some also have prior convictions and apparently can’t pass a drug test; additionally, it seems a bunch of these nematodes were brought onboard without going through the full vetting process (mildly NSFW/H)...



...and Tennessee Brando tells us about MAGA mocking the hungry (here) as Cantaloupe Capone wrecks everything, which is typical for the bunch who yelled about groceries all over the place last year, believing that Their Orange God really would lower prices on day one as Brando points out...great point about the cruelty being what matters for Repugs generally; I don’t say that MAGA are different from other Repugs because they’re not – this Trumpist bunch is just the latest iteration of the same crew of intolerant assh*les...I love Brando’s take on the people who “punch down” the most and how these individuals pretend that they’re something special on every Sunday in particular (mildly NSFW/H)...



...and Farron Cousins brings us Americans sharing horror stories from Don The Con’s tariff nightmare...yep, corporate media in this country will NEVER have a problem finding well-off individuals saying how good economically everything supposedly is, but Heaven forbid that they go to these ubiquitous-during-the-presidential-campaign diners for more “Trump Voter In Trump Country” pieces NOW, because they’re likely to get a dose of reality...fortunately, The Guardian actually did what they were supposed to on this story, talking with 40 people to get the gory details...



..and Rachel Maddow tells us about protesting the Gropenfuhrer so he doesn’t take away the right to protest...”nothing is inevitable” indeed...yep, it figures that Bronzer Beelzebub would use a C-17 cargo plane to export a grand total of FIVE FREAKING PEOPLE out of the country (ahhh, just smell the incompetence, my fellow prisoners...more here)...kudos to Maddow for in particular highlighting Comcast for contributing to that stinking ballroom...not sure why this was cut at the moment Maddow talked about the Chicago protests against ICE (more here)...



...and I guess it was inevitable that our neighbors to the north would respond with their own version of (N)ICE...oh, the humanity! (here)...



...and I realize we’re heading into the time of year for witches and goblins and the like (and the kids are getting ready to head out for candy – hopefully the weather will cooperate)...with that in mind, I present this tune.

Tuesday Stuff

Thom Hartmann speculates as to why Combover Caligula is after Venezuela...to be honest, I think it’s just for the damn oil, but it’s still an interesting theory that Vlad The Butcher wants #47 to attack that South American country because that revives the whole “pre-emptive war” thing against a nation that hasn’t attacked us (like the “Moscow Munchkin” did with Crimea and Ukraine, as Thom tells us; some scary parallels here)... 3:24 to 4:33 is an ad...interesting perspective from caller “George” about alliances Venezuela has with Russia; Putin would just LOVE to see us bogged down in another forever war, which would garner sympathy for “the Russian bear” since they would be perceived to be getting picked on by the world’s most powerful military – just my theory I’ll admit (and once more, there is this)...



...and David Pakman lets us know that everything is falling apart under Don The Con, including SNAP benefits for 42 million people...and as always, every accusation is a confession from this bunch, this time about “extortion”...and I honestly don’t know how Bronzer Beelzbub can sue his own DOJ for $230 million, but I realize any notions of legality don’t pop into this demented fourth-grade brain (and I’d actually forgotten about the $200 million from Kristi “Unsafe At Any Speed” Noem on her private jets)...and speaking of SNAP benefits, I’ll try to have more to say about this...



...and Robert Reich tells us about all the ways that the biggest names in the supermarket biz are ripping us off with pricing scams for supposedly “on sale” merchandise (“minimal competition opens the door to maximum price gouging” indeed)...



...and this clip from More Perfect Union takes a bit of a deep dive into AI leading to antisocial behavior (my paraphrasing), having to do with an over-reliance on AI chatbots (reporter is Karen Hao)...LA music producer James Cumberland is profiled; apparently, he used an AI chatbot to learn how to make a music video and went down the proverbial rabbit hole, tied to the threats of sycophancy and “emergence”...this is also tied to more and more data centers being built to create more and more sophisticated AI apps to harvest more and more data, and I hope you see the same slippery slope here that I do...as far as I’m concerned, this is also a consequence of our lives becoming more fragmented and isolated and dependent on technology (not a very original “hot take” I realize)...Sam Altman of Open AI is featured, discussing ChatGPT...I just don’t know enough about this yet to determine whether or not Altman’s steps to address the issues raised here are good enough; I hope they are of course...and as usual, Brave Sir Josh Hawley makes good-sounding noises on an issue for headlines, but the proper follow through never sems to materialize (somewhat NSFW/H)...



...and Jordan Klepper of The Daily Show takes a look at Fix Noise token personality Lawrence Jones...I have to admit being more than a little fed up with people proclaiming, “Well, I’m a conservative/libertarian/whatever, so that means that my opinions are my own”...oh puh-leeze! Rupert Murdoch tells you to jump and you ask “how high?” just like everyone else in The Roger Ailes BS Factory...also, I think we’re fortunate that Jones knows nothing about criminal matters (here) or foreign policy (here)...



...and tomorrow marks the 54th anniversary of the death of Duane Allman in a motorcycle accident.

Monday Stuff

“We’re just gonna kill people” (perhaps not an exact quote I know, but close enough)...Jesse Dollemore tells us that that’s the very latest utterance from Our Treasonous Orange Yam; there’s so much verbal diarrhea that comes out of his stinking maw that I’ll admit that it’s hard to parse some of it properly, but we now have evidence that this narcissistic sociopath is just planning to commit indiscriminate acts of murder when he feels like it (once more, that quote about shooting people on Fifth Avenue fits, unfortunately)...I suppose it’s necessary once again to point out that the president has to go to Congress for a declaration of war, which is spelled out in the Constitution Repugs pretend to revere so fervently...I think Jesse is right to point out that this language from Combover Caligula is just an extension of what he said towards people who disagree with him on other issues, such as the militarization of our cities, the rampant (likely) criminality of his administration overall, #47’s ridicule of the climate crisis as “the green new scam,” etc. (mildly NSFW/H)...



Update: And this development should surprise exactly no one.

via GIPHY

...speaking of violence, John and Viviana Vigil of The Damage Report (definitely not them) inform us that one of Trump’s 1/6 pardoned insurrectionists, Jake Lang, is seeking a U.S. Senate seat from Flori-DUUUH!, and this guy is apparently running on a campaign to deputize Proud Boys and other insurrectionists to go after people they think are illegal immigrants; why should this be considered a stretch at this point...oh, and by the way, another 1/6 rioter has been charged, this time with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries, and that would be some life form named Christopher Moynihan (but, of course, according to Sean Inanity, the alleged threat from dancing inflatable frogs and unicorns is more urgent than the terroristic acts of those 1/6 criminals pardoned by the Gropenfuhrer since violence is only coming from the left...uh huh)...



Update 10/31/25: And here is the latest idiocy from "the sunshine state."

...and Chris Hayes gives us more on the destruction of the east wing of the White House (“exactly what I expect from that idiot” for sure)...at least Democratic senators have shown a sign of life, writing to the National Park Service as well as the trust from the donors collecting for the construction asking for details, such as when the project began and at what point they knew how much it would cost, as Hayes points out...looks like dough to settle #47’s bogus lawsuits went towards this ridiculous project also...and oh yeah, we also get an idea of how much the Gropenfuhrer and his kin have benefitted from crypto (BINANCE specifically, whose CEO was just pardoned, allowing resumption of US operations...pardon recommended by “a lot of people” of course...more lies), which is used largely by criminal enterprises...Hayes speaks with Jamelle Bouie and Douglas Brinkley (“a symbol of Trumpism” indeed...and this should suprise exactly no one)...



...and oh, baaad Democrats for clipping the “main priority” quote from spokes-liar Karoline Leavitt (here); do you know what I say in response? GOOD FOR THE DEMS, considering that Fix Noise clips quotes from Democrats ALL THE FREAKING TIME!!!...

...and speaking of madness from our delusional, ketchup-tossing toddler who just wrecked "the people's house" (more on that here), it appears that Dementia J. Trump just raised the tariff on Canada because he has hurt fee fees over an ad by that country featuring “Saint Reagan” explaining how awful tariffs really are (more here and here)...and last I checked, you didn’t need permission to quote words from a speech in the public domain with proper attribution (Update: Doug Ford chickened out and took down the ad) – the spot aired during the Toronto Blue Jays/Seattle Mariners ALCS game; not sure which one...I definitely could do without some of Scar’s kibbitzing here, but I think there’s also a lot of substance in this clip...



...oh, and concerning the White House ballroom, here’s more from Mr. Newberger (it would be tragically apt if somehow this wreckage made the entire White House structurally unsound to the point where it needed to be torn down and rebuilt)...



...and I hope you’re in the mood for a newer blues tune, because here it is.