Friday Stuff

Farron Cousins tells us about MAGA freaks (some bunch called SoCal Patriots) wanting to take over Disneyland, because, as we know, nothing says how much you oppose a certain business than giving that business a bunch of money to patronize them, and doing so on the day of a pride event is turning the stoo-pid up to 11 (SMDH)...slightly NSFW/H...



...and Glenn Kirschner of Justice Matters gives us his take on the 5 Dem members of Congress who have encouraged our military not to follow unlawful orders, including Sen. Mark Kelly, who has a record of accomplishment in service to our country that the Trumpers can only dream about (with Kelly subsequently earning the wrath of “I’ll Drink To That” Hegseth, and oh yeah, Crazy Eyes Kash Patel and the FBI climbed onboard this crazy train also)...Kirschner methodically communicates what the Dem Congress members said and how their words are on legally sound footing (not only are these members required to point out that unlawful orders shouldn’t be followed, but the offending service members could be liable for following those orders, with the potential to be court martialed)...



...and Jen Psaki gives us a rundown on Cantaloupe Capone’s “clown car cabinet” living up to its name, including Kristi (“Unsafe At Any Speed”) Noem and the aforementioned Kash Patel, who has taken a lot of jet trips that apparently have nothing whatsoever to do with his job as FBI Director, including to a hunting resort in Texas called the “Boondoggle Ranch”...and I know the details about Noem funneling taxpayer dollars to a favored firm isn’t new stuff, but it still bears repeating IMO, along with Sean “Let’s All Dress Up To Go To The Airport” Duffy; didn’t know he scrapped a Biden-era policy to comp travelers for flight disruptions, but that doesn’t surprise me either...and let’s not forget Scott Bessent telling folks to move from a blue state to a red state, completely ignoring the fact that blue states subsidize the hell out of red states (here)...and let’s not forget Bobby Brainworms trying once again to spread the fiction that vaccines cause autism (didn’t know a lot about the Olivia Nuzzi business, but that does indeed stink to high Heaven)...I know the Mark Kelly dustup was covered in the prior Kirschner clip, so I’ll pretty much “leave it there” on that one (and the Lindsey Halligan/James Comey/Letitia James story is also behind the news cycle I know, but still important to note)...



...and John and Sharon Reed of The Damage Report tells us that the Dems have the largest generic ballot lead for next year’s midterms that we’ve seen in 8 years, but that doesn’t mean that we can slack off and NOT put in the necessary work to at least take over the U.S. House, and at a minimum make a dent in the “R” party’s Senate majority (and the drag from the Tangerine Toddler, currently polling at a whopping 24 percent among independents, has a lot to do with that)...I’m not exactly sure how the Dems messed up New York, if that’s what Reed is talking about, but to be honest I have issues with her from time to time, though she’s right to imply that Dems need to tell people that they’ll get stuff done if people vote for them...and speaking of supporting Dems, let’s not forget about Aftyn Behn in Tennessee; to help her, click here...



...and Mr. Newberger gives us another number ripped from the headlines...



...and dear God, it really is that time of year again, isn't it?

Happy Thanksgiving 2025

I got a kick out of this pic, I have to admit (courtesy of Pixdaus and Daily Kos)...

...and here's another holiday fave, with an intro by Seth MacFarlane as Stewie Griffin (and again, the captions make this hilarious as far as I'm concerned)...



...and here is more holiday fun...



...and I liked this also, I have to admit...



...and here's a Thanksgiving message for those wonderful folks at the TSA.




Update 1: And here is another late addition.



Update 2: Might as well add this too (and yeah, "Man Tan" Boehner is long gone I know, but those who've followed him have done their best to make things worse).



Update 3: Imagine all the people that can be fed for $35 grand (here, getting serious for a minute).

Update 4: And since I add to this list every year, I might as well include this too (hasta la vista, baby!).



Update 5: And I suppose this is an apropos item too.

…and thank goodness the “culture warriors” of Fix Noise are trying to protect the holiday…



…and I guess this is an appropriate tune for the day...




...along with this.



Update 11/25/21: Well said.

Update 11/27/21: And here is a video about another holiday tradition.



...and I'll let Trae Crowder have the last word for now (NSFW/H).

Wednesday Stuff

David Shuster of Rebel HQ lets us know that architects have warned that Trump’s ballroom is a national embarrassment, doubling the size of the main White House building (and still more lies from Combover Caligula about the existing architecture not being touched or whatever...and as far as this “first lady” is concerned, losing that office is likely NBD to her since she probably isn’t there much anyway)...and I think that 33 percent approval is too high, but I realize those are the Trumpist cult life forms on that one...and yes, Our Treasonous Orange Pestilence has violated yet another law, this time not clearing his wretched plans through the National Capital Planning Commission (I mean, they’d flag what #47 is doing anyway, which is likely the reason they’re being left out of this mess)...and if #47 says this cluster will cost $300 million, you can be sure the amount will actually be at least double (here are some of the other guilty parties)...oh, and some of that dough will supposedly come from the $230 million he expects from the DOJ (in essence, suing the U.S. taxpayer?) Typical gall from this flatulent meat sack...GREAT point by Shuster about Repug congressional silence, and that includes this guy...and Jessica Tarlov should get a medal at least for continuing to drop her truth bombs on those miscreants at The Roger Ailes BS Factory...



...and Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report tells us that hundreds of pro-Trump X accts are actually foreign bots...leave it to Apartheid Clyde to stumble into doing the right thing (rolling out the new feature to increase transparency, albeit to drive engagement and ad revenue as Figueredo says by posting ever-crazier stuff), and also step on a huge metaphorical rake in the process, finding out that “America First” accounts are originating in Russia (of course), India, Pakistan, Nigeria (!), Thailand and the UAE, among other places...didn’t know that bots now make up the majority of online traffic, but I suppose that tracks (you can be sure that I’m a flesh and blood human though, my fellow prisoners)...and sadly, I also believe this will get worse because of generative AI...and it’s pretty plain that Elmo is messing around with Grok also, something that actually does work the way it should, a bit anyway...and the “throat goat”? I think I need to be de-loused after hearing that...NSFW/H...



...and given that we’re in the busiest time of the year for folks on the move, I thought I’d include this CBC report on Canada travel to the US dipping sharply in October, marking the 9th month of declines, because of the Gropenfuhrer (about 24% for air travel and 30% for land travel, included in a 6.3% drop in international visits and about a 3% drop in tourism spending, adding up to a loss of about 5.7 billion over last year)... with CBC reporter Jennifer LaGrassa, Prof. Usha Haley and US restaurant general manager Bob DiMattia...of course, we’re hoping for folks to come for the FIFA World Cup and the 250th, but I think we’re “whistling in the dark” on that one...we’ll see...



..and Robert Reich informs us of what Pumpkin Pol Pot is doing to Thanksgiving, with more on #47’s price increases, with turkey up 40%, partly because he’s fired scientists and bird flu experts while the avian flu wreaks havoc; also, his CDC and Department of Agriculture cut off reporting to states on this outbreak, so there’s no coordination on fighting back...he also rolled back anti-monopoly policies intended to at least slow down mergers of food companies that exacerbates price gouging...also, those stinking tariffs adding what’s essentially an import tax worsens this mess also, particularly since we import so much of our food (and with respect, I don’t expect our “conservative relatives” to see ANYTHING on this...I know I mentioned the plight of our farmers earlier in that More Perfect Union clip from a day or so ago)...



..and Seth Meyers presents another “A Closer Look,” including Cantaloupe Capone’s weird turkey pardon...and dressing like a Swarthmore English Lit prof, huh?...it’s actually painful to watch this babbling idiot go on about Illinois Dem guv J.B. Pritzker and Hunter Biden (and as if Combover Caligula has the right to criticize ANYBODY for being overweight)...and oh yeah, we had gang members, drug dealers and rapists walking through our open borders, but all that’s been fixed now (treated once more to Dementia Donnie’s Greatest Hits, though I guess “grass beef and smoothies” is a newer number)...oh, and he’s still going after his political enemies of course even though their cases were thrown out, including “Leticia” James...and let’s also not forget Marjorie “Traitor” Brown – yep, that last lonely synapse in #47’s noggin is flickering again...and his name is the sound you make when you sit in a golf cart – good one...



...and this might be the last newer tune for a little while, but as with all things concerning this site, it’s up in the air – just in case, here it is.

Tuesday Stuff

Yasmin Khan of Rebel HQ tells us about Fix Noise trying to spin the Jeffey Epstein files story into a “Democrat hoax” and failing (once more, Jessica Tarlov brings the reality perspective to that gaggle of idiots on that propaganda network)...and as far as Hakeem Jeffries is concerned, he wouldn’t be in the role he’s in unless the donor class gave its seal of approval, which speaks volumes to me about how he is NOT the voice we need in the U.S. House (despite random moments when he shows a flash of leadership)...and of course, leave it to Kilmeade to come up with “Yeah, well, so-and-so mentioned Jeffries and that’s enough,” and Gutfeld joins in with the borderline “ad hom” because he has no other way to respond...also, Harry Enten brings the polling numbers which are pretty much indisputably bad on Epstein in particular for the Gropenfuhrer...and Lawrence Jones’s idiotic “let’s blame the people wanting the damn files released” take on this is pretty much DOA...



...and David Pakman discusses ABC’s Jonathan Karl holding Kevin (“Human Capital Stock”) Hassett to account on the economy, particularly over that ridiculous “Walmart’s Thanksgiving Prices Are Cheaper” nonsense line (you couldn’t pay me enough to actually eat food from Walmart, by the way)...and “The prices didn’t go up because of the tariffs, but they are going to go down because we’re removing the tariffs”...I’ll tell you what; if anybody out there can make sense of that, please let me know and I’ll turn this blog over to you and let you write these posts, OK? And I think this is a pretty good response to Hassett’s BS from CNN’s Daniel Dale...



...meanwhile, Ali Velshi of MS NOW gives us some reality on the economy, with numbers from September...the unemployment rate is 4.4% which is the highest in four years, though, as with everything else, the trends are what matter (and I don’t expect that they’ll be good)...not sure exactly why black women have been hit so hard in this economy (more than any other demographic), though I could guess I suppose, maybe because of the carnage this administration has wrought on the federal workforce and DEI initiatives...Velshi speaks with Justin Wolfers and Caleb Silver...”Uncertainty is kryptonite” indeed, for everybody...along with everybody else, I’m hearing that AI is driving our economy; I hope we’re prepared for that not being the case at a certain point, and I don’t see that we are...we’ve just experienced the weakest January through September in the US labor market in 15 years, with the exception of the ’20 COVID shutdown (and we know who was prez for that)...and Silver says “stagflation,” which confirms my worst fears that we would be looking at this in Q4...Wolfers in particular does a good job IMO in explaining how #47 drones on about “affordability” without having the remotest idea of what to do about it...I’m a little uncomfortable with Velshi’s phrase “the black economy,” but overall he’s a pretty straight shooter...”Manufacturing is what rich people think poor people should do” is likely correct; that said, it’s think it’s a good thing to see an increase in enrollment in trade schools...



...and Jesse Dollemore discusses the “big fat ‘L’” with the James Comey and Letitia James cases being dismissed because Lindsey Halligan was improperly named as prosecutor without Senate confirmation, according to the ruling (and yeah, Merrick Garland moving at a glacial pace on some of the prosecutions under Biden helped to bring us to this point)...I’m not a legal professional in any way whatsoever, but what does it tell you about our regime that they thought they could prosecute based on indictments that weren’t even presented to a full grand jury?...(mildly NSFW/H)...



...and harking back to the first clip a bit, Mr. Newberger gives us the “Epstein-O-Matic” (laughing through clenched teeth a bit on this one I realize)...



...and RIP Jimmy Cliff.

Monday Stuff

Leave it to our awful ruling regime under the guise of fake Education Secretary Linda McMahon to decertify nursing as a professional degree, limiting access to funding for those who want to pursue nursing as a college course of study...this report informs us of a student in rural Kentucky who commendably is trying to continue her education as a nurse practitioner in light of this boneheaded policy (more here and here...and this gaggle of idiots is likely coming for liberal arts also in 3,2,1)...



...also, Cheetoh Benito removed references to dead Native Americans getting kidnapped and murdered in a report that was mandated by Congress as part of a bill signed into law under the first awful Trump administration (and here’s a shocker – it truly was bipartisan legislation, supported by Senate Dem Catherine Cortez Masto and Repug Markwayne Mullin)...of course, Our Treasonous Orange Meat Sack claimed the report is “DEI,” so the report got sh*tcanned (Farron Cousins tells us about it)...



...and this report from Sam Black at More Perfect Union informs us that farm bankruptcies in Arkansas (especially soybeans, but also affecting cotton, corn and rice) have doubled, and to be fair, this is a problem that has been brewing since before Cantaloupe Capone 2.0 took over given that we’ve been importing so much of our food for a good while, and those damn mergers and acquisitions are part of the problem also, including Bayer and Monsanto which actually was completed in 2018 under Our Treasonous Orange Pestilence 1.0 (and $560 billion in farm debt this year? God almighty...our farmers need help with paying for materials to run their businesses as well as trying to level the market for them somehow)...there HAS TO BE A WAY for the dough promised by our politicians to get into the hands of our farmers instead of into the pockets of the people they owe...watching the gentleman driving through that gutted and deserted Arkansas town makes me realize how folks could give up hope and turn to a politician peddling easy answers to complex issues (losing 300k farms since 1997...just no words at a certain point, except to also blame those stinking “free” trade deals, and both of our political parties are culpable on that...I knew that Scott Bessent, a former hedge fund manager, owned a lot of farm land, though I would except that he has never picked a single crop in his life)...at a minimum, we need to repair our obviously broken supply management system, though of course “Big Ag” will fight that with all they have...

...and I guess I’m supposed to feel some sympathy for Marjorie Train Wreck Greene, now that she’s leaving the U.S. House after falling out of favor with the Tangerine Toddler...well, I don’t; this clip with Nina Turner from about two years ago brings us Greene pushing back against a battery plant in her district (more here...”we’re the Bible belt, not the battery belt”...OWWW, THE STOO-PID!!! IT BURNS US!)...and for all of those out there thinking, “oh, she’s so courageous to stand up to Mango Mussolini,” I would ask that you keep in mind the following: 1) Just wait until she resurfaces at some point on a podcast with The Swanson TV Dinner Heir and/or Nick Fuentes, and 2) This is more proof that the political violence in this country is coming from the right and not the left; does anyone seriously think Greene would do this if, say, Jasmine Crockett or Ilhan Omar had said something borderline threatening, which I don’t think they’d do anyway?...



...and I think Mr. Newberger has come up with another appropriate response here...



...and RIP drummer Gilson Lavis of Squeeze.