This video from Public Citizen features lawyer Nicolas Sansone of that group and Vietnam vet Jon Gundersen taking legal action against the very latest monstrosity from Bronzer Beelzebub, which is his 250-foot vanity arch on the way to Arlington National Cemetery; it's illegal of course for the reasons noted...as Sansone says, any monuments in D.C. need to comply with the Commemorative Works Act and receive a buy-in from all affected constituencies, notably Congress...”a vainglorious monument to a person” indeed, as Gundersen says (and as Gundersen also points out, this thing, in addition to being an eyesore, would also monumentally screw up D.C. traffic)...
...and Sam and Emma of The Majority Report tell us that Couch Boy was recently sent to Pakistan to negotiate with Iran to try and end our latest Republican pre-emptive war...good point by Sam that “Mr. Hillbilly Elegy” wants to find a way to wrap this up through negotiation and use that to try and propel himself as the ’28 Repug frontrunner for *preznit, which is a horrifying possibility; picture MAGA Trumpism but at the hands of someone who would actually know how to control the levers of power (or at least, be TOLD what to do by Peter Thiel and that foul ilk), and “Little Marco” would barely be any better...and I realize it’s typical for this bunch to pointlessly dump on Biden once again, which Emma does at about 2:17 (yes, #46 indeed was “dog-walked” by “Bibi”...whaddaya say that we turn the damn record over, OK, and what the hell does Kamala Harris going to the border HAVE ONE DAMN THING TO DO WITH THE WAR WITH IRAN??!!)...however, I will grant Emma’s good point about Iran trading with Russia over the Caspian Sea, so the latter country can refuel and resupply and continue this stalemate indefinitely (and once more, Harry Enten brings some pretty damning poll numbers for the “R” team)...
...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ tells us about Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent getting grilled by Steve Douchebag on the effect of the Iran war on gas prices; when even Fix Noise isn’t buying your BS any more, I would say that you have a problem...yeah, let’s blame the owners of gas stations (which would be Big Oil of course) for the up-and-down price at the pump, not Cheetoh Benito’s war of choice in the Middle East...oh, and Ainsley Earhardt is realizing ONLY NOW that “it’s expensive” to raise kids, with those chuckleheads Kilmeade and Lawrence Jones sitting on the couch alongside her with their big sh*t-eating grins (and I think $300K to raise a child is actually a low-ball estimate)...anybody with a brain knows that energy prices have a multiplying effect across our economy when calculating costs for damn near everything, so energy is the LAST issue where you want to see costs getting out of control...
...and Sean Morrow of More Perfect Union “turns over a lot of rocks,” as it were, to let us know how deeply embedded Jeffrey Epstein and his influence was across government, industry, and other institutions, and in a bipartisan way as it turns out...the report focuses on five individuals who bought into what Epstein was all about, and it seems that they looked the other way, you might say, when it came to Epstein’s “hobbies”...report focuses first on Leon Black, who apparently went to Epstein for ideas on how high net worth folks can shelter their dough, helping Black avoid about a billion in taxes through purchases of art and establishing a network of LLC firms...lawyer Kathy Ruemmler is also included; hard to get my head around anybody hanging out with Epstein given what he was all about, especially a woman (and Ruemmler worked in the Obama Administration, which does indeed make this mess bipartisan), though the fact that she came from Goldman Sachs and shows such contempt for overweight folks definitely fits the scumbag profile...let’s not forget Boris Nikolic also, who used the Gates Foundation to hide dough and direct untraceable donations, including in donor-advised funds, which apparently was a frequently-used vehicle by Epstein for sheltering dough...it seems that Epstein also had a pretty sophisticated PR network to try and publicize himself as an “education philanthropist”...Reid Hoffman of Linkedin and (drumroll) the aforementioned Peter Thiel show up also, with Thiel giving Epstein investment advice about not investing, as it turns out, in Spotify and Palantir...and oh yeah, Epstein had his sex-abusing hands in OpenAI also, as it turns out...the big takeaway for yours truly from this is that, as awful and depraved as “the Epstein network” was (and is still, actually), it also represents the global class of oligarchs who have figured out how to rig the political and corporate game in perpetuity at our ongoing expense...in fewer words, as awful as the sexual depravity is (and it is for sure), it’s only the cherry on the icing on this sh*t sundae when you look at all of the ways that these cretins truly control our lives...it also figures that Reid Hoffman is spending typically obscene dough to oppose progressive candidates (once again, love and kisses to the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR for Citizens United)...
...and the Onion News Network informs us that, with the ongoing strife in Iran, gas drinkers are having an especially tough time (heh)...
Update: Terrific accidental timing for this.
...and I hope this puts a little “pep in your step” for a not-quite-spring-yet Monday in these parts (maybe this selection will inspire the Phillies and the Sixers, but I’m not getting my hopes up).
