Rachel Maddow lets us know that it appears that the Repugs didn’t foresee the push-back against their gerrymandering BS...looking at South Carolina first, where they tried to eliminate the seat of Dem U.S. House Rep James Clyburn, though it seems like minority voters in that state commendably pushed back, forcing the “R” team to scrap their awful plan... apparently this scene was also played out in Georgia, where Repug governor Brian Kemp tried to disenfranchise minority voters, but folks in the peach state commendably rose up there as well...they actually went through with this garbage in Tennessee, however, despite folks in the sole black district in that state commendably going to work to try and prevent it (phone calls, knocking on doors, and other means to coalesce folks to protest this)...Maddow speaks with the Rev. Earle Fisher of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Memphis, who was one of the leaders of the mobilization effort to protest the Tennessee redistricting scam (sounds like the odds are long for Justin Pearson to retain his seat, but it’s better to “die on our feet than live on our knees,” figuratively speaking, you might say)...I realize Maddow believes she needs to be a little polite about criticizing the national Dem political establishment about not getting involved with this fight in Tennessee, but I feel no such obligation about softening my rhetoric towards those clueless bunch of election losers in our political/media/industrial complex...”the antidote to despair is action” indeed...
...and Ali Velshi takes a look at a ballot measure in Missouri that fortunately didn’t pass; it would have made it harder to pass future ballot measures (Amendment #4), since Heaven knows that Not Your Father’s Republican Party doesn’t want to hear a damn thing from the rabble they allegedly represent (segment aired on 8/5)...easy to focus on Michigan, and yeah, that deserves to be looked at I realize, but it’s important to keep the “big picture” across the country in mind also...oh, but somehow Repug-sponsored ballot measures would have been just dandy in “Mizzou,” huh? Funny thing, that...sounds like a similar BS amendment about forcing judges to run for election (and yes, on balance, I think that’s bad) failed in Kansas fortunately (and yep, the thoroughly odious Kris Kobach was right in the middle of that one)...Velshi takes a look at the latest insane speech from Our Ochre Abomination on the economy (and God almighty, the freaking accordion hands again!), but to his credit, Velshi responds a bit to that madness (more feedback on that is here)...Velshi speaks with Congresswoman Debbie Dingell...
...and it looks like FCC chairman and human thumb Brendan Carr managed to get some screed published on Breitbart recently about restoring “balance” (code to squashing voices of dastardly lefties) in TV news (not sure who this gentleman is who’s presenting)...also, apparently there was a vote on August 6th to eliminate the nationwide ownership cap saying a broadcaster cannot reach more than 39 percent of U.S. households (here), which will likely lead to even greater media concentration (cough, Nexstar, Sinclair, cough) than we have already, and if you think that’s good news for lefties and progressives, then you must also believe in cotton candy elves and the Easter bunny...the 39 percent cap had been in place since 2004, and of course there was no logical reason to mess with it except to further consolidate the conservative voice of Big Brother...
...and Logical Leftist Jeff Waldorf brings us the tale of a guy named John Gannon who voted for Bronzer Beelzebub to “get the criminals out,” but ooopsie!... ICE took his fiancée instead (Yasmin Carolina Suarez Reyes)...oh, and it took EIGHT allegedly manly men to apprehend this lady, who apparently was “guilty” only of having too dark of a skin color...she applied to have her visa renewed two days before it was to expire in ’24, and thus far hasn’t received word on her status, so the Trump gang automatically assumed she was somehow here illegally – typical...oh, and she was pursuing a particular type of visa for someone who had aided law enforcement, which makes this even MORE appalling somehow...and yeah, the immigration court also didn’t set a bond in her case because they apparently thought they didn’t have the authority to do that...and 20-40 people a day getting detained at airports by ICE thugs? Sounds about “white”...
...and Mr. Newberger gives Max Miller the treatment he deserves at a minimum IMO...gee, it looks like the Repugs are stuck with this lunatic; I’m old enough to recall all of the pearl clutching about Graham Platner and forcing him to exit the U.S. Senate contest in Maine (still waiting for charges to be filed against him), which needed to happen I realize, but as far as Miller is concerned (who’s accused of stuff definitely worse), IOKIYAR...
...and it looks like Tom Waits is going to release a commemorative 50th anniversary vinyl LP of his recording “Small Change” based on this, including this timeless number.
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