This clip from David Pakman includes one of the best discussions about the debit versus the deficit that I’ve heard in a long time; as I and others have pointed out many times before, this issue is something the Repugs use as a cudgel to go after Dems, but when the “party of Lincoln” has any control of government at all…crickets (story has to do with the Gropenfuhrer exploding the deficit to $1 trillion, an amount that is way beyond sinful as far as I’m concerned…not saying Dems are totally innocent on this stuff either, but as Pakman notes, Obama made some progress in cutting the debt down a bit before he was done)…
…and I would say that “something broke” for me too concerning the North Carolina hate fest last week with Adolf Twitler – Farron Cousins explains (and kudos to Benjamin Dixon also)…
…and it looks like some life forms are getting rich over keeping kids in cages, believe it or not, as Kyle K. tells us (and why exactly are these entities considered “non-profit” if they’re pulling in this kind of dough, as Kyle asks?)…
…and it looks like vets in the weed industry have been denied home loans that were supposed to be guaranteed by the VA; I’m not all the way there yet on legalization for recreational use, but I’m there on everything else when it comes to pot, and this Repug/Trumpian policy is typical garbage (and kudos to Dem U.S. House Rep Katherine Clark of MA for fighting it)…
…and a hat tip goes out to David Corn on Twitter for reminding us that yesterday would have been the 75th birthday of legendary Dem U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone of Minnesota; this clip features a tribute from former Dem Senator Al Franken, and yes, I know he has been in the news today (here); I know there were multiple allegations against Franken, and that’s definitely not good, but I know that Franken asked for a Senate ethics committee investigation, but he was denied of that, and that’s not good either…
…and I think we’re going to get some heavy weather in these parts that will break up the heat a bit – hope everyone takes all the needed precautions and can find a cool place to ride things out for a while.
Yeah, Our Treasonous Orange Pustule sure has a way with the ladies, doesn’t he? Of course, it’s no “way” that anyone with any decency would ever want to imitate in any manner whatsoever, as Thom Hartmann explains (and that goes for his sidekick from Indiana also – more here and here, plummeting to new depths every day as per usual)…
…and Stephanie Ruhle tells us how the Gropenfuhrer’s nonsense is playing “outside the Beltway”; I for one don’t appreciate Ruhle’s “far left” framing in that question, but I realize we’re talking about The Comcast Network here…and “abide by the law – work with ICE?”WTF??!! ICE is breaking the law with their warrantless garbage for “detention cities” as opposed to “sanctuary cities”…what BS (more here)! And boy, is Mayor Lightfoot right at the very end about Dems having to present themselves as an alternative…
…and Farron Cousins tells us that you-know-who’s tweets can be introduced in evidence in court…yep, Dems can’t take anything for granted, but 45 can’t win without depressing Dem turnout, though I’m sure the other side and our bought-and-paid-for corporate media will launch more “BUT HER EMAILS!!!” garbage or something similar I’m sure, so our side needs to be ready.
(And by the way, here’s what concerns me – well, ONE of the things anyway: the Dem U.S. House majority is composed of the 43 seats in very swingy districts that could easily flip back to Team R, unfortunately…I hope Pelosi and company are savvy enough to show AOC and “the squad” partnering with other more middle-of-the-road Dems…for lack of a better way to put it…to neutralize the wingnut attacks about how Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar are supposedly so extreme (sure)…the task next year isn’t just to beat Trump, but at a minimum, to hold onto the House, and dare we wish for the Senate?…yeah, Kyle, TYT and others will scream about how the four freshman Dems may be “selling out” – let them scream; purity tests don’t mean a damn thing if we lose elections)…
…and I feel like a owe people a bit of an apology for treating Rand Paul as merely an idiot; after watching this clip, I realize what a f*cking cowardly monster this guy truly is – he SERIOUSLY THINKS HE SHOULD BE APPLAUDED FOR DENYING HEALTH CARE TO 9/11 FIRST RESPONDERS…it’s pretty plain what Paul is from this video, but anyone in Kentucky who votes for him or supports him with these hateful remarks now in the public domain is as reprehensible as he is (Brian Tyler Cohen also tells us about Paul’s other lies, specifically on tax cuts raising revenue, which WILL NEVER, EVER HAPPEN!).
Update 7/26/19: Yep, definitely positive news here, but I'll celebrate when that Orange Pustule actually signs it into law.
…and I’m sure Elijah Cummings is speaking for nearly all of us here – kudos big time for this; still silence from this guy, though…
…and on the subject of race, I couldn’t let the week go by without this item from our illustrious Repug U.S. House rep from the commonwealth of PA (well, one of them – and yes, I’m definitely being tongue-in-cheek here), and that would be Mike Kelly, who considers himself “colored” also (here)…no word on whether or not Kelly will ever have to sit in the back of a bus if he takes mass transit…made me recall this item from the archives…
…and tomorrow marks the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong’s walk on the moon, along with Buzz Aldrin (here and here); I thought this was an interesting clip about the portrayal of outer space in the movies…
…and this selection is probably predictable, but all the same, here’s a tune for the occasion.
Brian Tyler Cohen tells us here that that corrupt, cowardly fool Rand Paul, Repug U.S. Senator from Kentucky of course, has blocked the bill to re-authorize the 9/11 health care fund for the first responders; Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao didn’t stand in the way of reauthorization by all appearances, but among other things, this shows once again that he can’t control his caucus (more here)…
…and if I were to take not that wild of a guess, I’m sure that a few voters who felt the way these life forms do as shown in this video managed to vote for Paul (and are getting ready to do the same for McTurtle next year as well, to say nothing of the Gropenfuhrer himself...yeah, he sure brings back the "many people" lying "tell" at the drop of the proverbial hat, doesn't he?)…
…and in a similar vein, I agree wholeheartedly with Farron Cousins for what it’s worth; this may be one of his best clips…
…and I think Sam Seder is spot-on here – Our Treasonous, Tiny-Handed Orange Dictator Wannabe is just going to keep stoking his base like there’s no tomorrow, and hopefully for him, there won’t be, electorally speaking (and on the matter of how well the stock market is supposedly doing, I give you this)…
…and with all this dreck in mind, I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” from 7/18/16; just taking a relatively short trip this time – don’t think I need to add much to this, except to say that it may be even more true now than it was when the HRC campaign first put it together and aired it…
...and please be careful with the heat, people (in particular for anyone in these parts).
It looks like Huckleberry Graham needed to retreat to his “safe space” on Fix Noise to tell us that everything is just fine with the migrant detention facilities; we also get to see VP Mike Pence feigning interest (and gee, here’s a thought – eventually, one way or another, I’m sure most of these people will get out; wonder how long it will take for them to be radicalized, assuming they aren’t already? Ana Kasparian, Brooke Thomas, and Jayar Jackson discuss…good point by Ana at the end about us giving up civil liberties under Bushco, sadly)…
…and Stephen Colbert tells us about the Gropenfuhrer vs. “the squad”; it seems like the gambit for our ruling cabal of criminals, frauds and idiots is to try and drive a wedge between the U.S. House Dem “frosh” class and the middle-of-the-road bunch that calls the shots in the House – yep, as Jeff Daniels said, time to press that race button again to try and bring independents over to the “party of Lincoln”; God willing it won’t work – as noted earlier, it’s all about revving up their base first and foremost – but we have about 15 months to find out, and more importantly, to do something in response…
…and I thought this was a pretty cogent analysis of the voting electorate in this country from Thom Hartmann (including more disgusting immigration games from Mango Mussolini…if, God forbid, our Treasonous, Tiny-Handed Orange Dictator – God forbid – manages to pull off re-election next year, the blame indeed will fall directly at the feet of “boomer” white males, which is the generational cohort for yours truly)…
…and Robert Reich tells us about the pain inflicted by corporate welfare (hopefully I won’t have any more issues with putting up Reich’s great videos)…
…and RIP Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens – Rachel Maddow talks with Cliff Sloan, a former clerk for the acclaimed SCOTUS justice…
…and this may be my new favorite song (will be getting back to the summer tunes again soon).
Ana and the “Young Turks” crew tell us about the congressional testimony from AOC and the other Dem U.S. House freshman members after their trip to the border (good “collective mind” point made by Aida Rodriguez)…
…and of course, this led to the inevitable meltdown from “Mango Mussolini” (though there was some mild Repug push-back, if you can call it that, as noted here, but nothing so far from this guy…slightly NSFW)…
Update 7/18/19: Fitzpatrick may be poising himself on a glide path for re-election next year with votes like this; he still votes with Trump about 70 percent of the time on other stuff, but he's canny enough to know how to neutralize avenues where he could be challenged by a Dem...hate to admit this stuff, but it's true, and he's doing the right thing again.
…and Kyle mentions the Gropenfuhrer winning (for now) on an emoluments clause case (this is why Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao and his minions care more about packing the courts with right-wing nutjobs than anything else…commendable by Kyle not to drop any "F" bombs here; not sure I would have been able to restrain myself)…
...and happy 70th birthday to Trevor Horn of The Buggles (and Yes also - clip ends at about 3:32).
Brian Tyler Cohen presents this clip of AOC standing tall once again on the issue of what you could call “self-rationing” of health care; I detected an awful lot of empty seats at that hearing, and I’m sure you did also…maybe there was a good reason for that, I don’t know, but I’m just sayin’...
…and speaking of health care, yes, this is wonderful news…unfortunately, Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao may “table” it in the Senate, and please believe me when I tell you I want to be wrong (I trust McConnell on absolutely nothing...more here)…
…and I apologize for presenting this somewhat extended clip of lying from The Gropenfuhrer, this time on the environment, but it’s necessary to do so to show some commendable push-back from Shep Smith of Fix Noise (Cenk and Ana explain...more here)…
…and here’s a sentence I didn’t think I’d ever write – it looks like former Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest is going to get a commemoration today (here)…
…and yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the carnage from Disco Demolition Night in Comiskey Park in Chicago (here; yeah, I’m inclined to look at it a bit as a “cultural event” also)…
…and I guess, as far as the Repugs and providing comprehensive health care to the vast majority of this country is concerned (referencing the first clip), the title of this tune says it all.
Rachel Maddow and Jacob Soboroff brought us this recent report about punishment and sexual assault against immigrants crossing over to this country from Mexico at a detention facility in Yuma, AZ ("alleged," let's not forget; more here - uh huh...don't hold your breath waiting for the USCCB to say anything about this too…and yes, I looked and I couldn’t find anything…this is all happening in our name, people!)...
…and I know I touched on this a bit on Wednesday also, but I don’t think it hurts to do it again…the “crotch couch” at Fix Noise is apparently thrilled that people in this country have to work multiple jobs – yeah, that sure figures, doesn’t it…love to see what kind of swag Hegseth and co. pull in annually (David Pakman tells us more…I would ask that you pay particular attention to this clip from about 4:00 to about 5:00)...
…and Farron Cousins tells us about the Gropenfuhrer auctioning off strippers as a golf promotion that’s supposed to benefit a children’s charity; the charity got wind of it and quite properly bailed (yeah, imagine what would happen if Trump didn’t have the magic “R” after his name…I still can’t believe that I’m talking about a sitting President of the United States here)…
…and John I. and Jayar Jackson of “The Damage Report” tell us about Dem U.S. House Rep Ilhan Omar responding to Swanson TV Dinner Fortune Heir Tucker Carlson and his racist insults…sadly, I’m afraid John and Jayar may be correct; one of these days, some numbskull is likely to take a shot at her or someone in our courageous Dem class of U.S. House reps (and please keep them in mind for the next clip also)…you don’t know how much I want to be completely wrong about that…
…and it’s time once more for another installment of “This Day in Doomsy History” (more or less) from 7/10/08. But before I go to the clip, I think I need to set this up a bit.
Yes, I’ve recently defended House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the question of impeaching Adolf Twitler in An Oval Office (here). Even with public support moving solidly in their favor (here, among Dems anyway), I still think you need to slow-walk this somewhat to try and avoid the inevitable pitfalls (also, I think this would prolong the media exposure, which could be beneficial if Dem candidates present a solid alternative to the voters also and not just run on “I’m Not Trump”).
However, as far as I’m concerned, I’m not seeing much “fire” from the people in charge of “Team D” in Washington, D.C. Yes, I realize that there are SO MANY OUTRAGES from Our Clueless, Tiny-Handed Treasonous Orange Meat Sack that’s it’s hard to determine which ones to take on first, but I think I need to point out that the other side has NO PROBLEM WHATSOEVER blasting away at whatever real or imagined “target” they want. As usual, I see the Dems, as a party, being led on standing up to President Fergus Laing instead of leading the charge themselves. Worse, when some from the commendable U.S. House freshman class DO STAND UP, such as AOC, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib or Ayanna Pressley, they are at best ignored and at worst vilified by Pelosi, Schumer, Hoyer, etc.
Much has been made of the role of the Teahadists in taking over Congress in 2010 (and as far as I’m concerned, there was nothing “spontaneous” about them, including the rant by that clown Rick Santelli that allegedly brought that wretched group into being). I would argue that two factors that loomed at least as large as the role of the tea heads was the congressional Dem cave-in on FISA (here) as well as the attacks on ACORN that eventually led to the group’s demise. The ACORN stuff was Repug Playbook 101 – when they’re out of power, focus on an “issue” which is actually inconsequential bullshit to rile their base (and also muck up the process of anything approximating good government). We know what eventually happened on FISA, and I don’t recall a spirited, unified party response on ACORN either (though a defense of ACORN is noted here).
And I guarantee you that one person who understood everything I just pointed out was Dem U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, which is why he was so thoroughly vilified (like Bill Clinton, the worst personal stuff he did came from his own hand, you might say, instead of something from “the other side”). Even when this man had a freaking brain tumor, he still roared like the “liberal lion” he truly was. This clip is Kennedy speaking out against the NSA and warrantless surveillance; this is how the U.S. congressional Dem “leadership” should be reacting to the Trumpian outrages that seemingly inflict us without end (and once more, the truly sad part about this is that the U.S. Congress, including the Dems of course, gave Bushco what they wanted anyway despite Kennedy’s commendable push-back).
(Oh, and on a somewhat related note, I give you this and this. I think Cenk, Ana, Kyle K. and company kind of go overboard at times with their purity tests against corporate Democrats, but I agree with Cenk’s analysis over Amy McGrath and whether or not she supports “Schlitz” Kavanaugh. This one isn’t difficult, people – a “D” should not support Kavanaugh for ANY reason, and I don’t care if you’re talking about a red, purple, blue or whatever state. I’m inclined to agree that McGrath is getting crappy consulting on this one, and yeah, I blame Schumer too…kind of disgusting to see Pelosi get over-analyzed at every opportunity, while Schumer gets a pass by comparison for goofs like this.)
So with that admittedly boring setup out of the way, I now present Kennedy speaking out against warrantless surveillance…
...and happy belated 60th birthday to Suzanne Vega.
Actually, based on this, McConnell isn’t anywhere near 33 percent, though I’m sure that number will tighten up as the election goes forward (it also tells me, among other things, that it’s definitely time for Bob Menendez to declare that this will be his last term in the U.S. Senate…as I’ve said before, the Repugs ran that total stiff Bob Hugin against him last time, and they won’t make that mistake again)…and to help Dem U.S. Senate candidate Amy McGrath, click here (again, I’m not sold on reparations I admit, but my family never owned slaves or “redlined” anyone out of the housing they wanted either)…
…and Al Jazeera tells us about U.S. UK Ambassador Kim Darroch quitting; yeah “Mango Mussolini” (hat tip to Aliza Worthington at C&L for that one – heh) deserves a lot of blame here, but according to the report, let’s not forget Boris Johnson’s role in this too (Johnson may end up as the next British PM, which would make Trump and Putin happy of course)…
…and NowThis tells us about the arrest of that alleged monster Jeffrey Epstein (and Trump Labor Secretary Alex Acosta should have already been fired over it, but again, we're talking about someone working for the Gropenfuhrer)…
…and I know I’ve already spent waay too much time on that Fix Noise fathead Jesse Watters, but yeah, “many people” sure is a “tell,” isn’t it? (Sam Seder and the TMR crew explain)…
…and sticking with the network that remains The Demon Spawn of Roger Ailes, I realize it would be messed up to advocate violence, and I’m definitely not doing that, but if I did, I might be motivated to hope for someone to “go medieval” on Donald Luskin’s punk ass after watching this (that statistic on CEO earnings made me want to puke…and I think Luskin once said “I Am John Galt”…self-entitled prick)…
…and I feel like I need a bit of a “palate cleanser” of a musical selection after that clip, so here it is.
It appears that Fix Noise wasn’t able to “control the narrative,” you might say, on the occasion of the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team winning yet another World Cup – kudos; Brian Tyler Cohen gives us his analysis…
…and Kyle tells us about Ro Khanna standing tall once again against Maria Bartiromo and her typical wingnut talking points against Bernie Sanders; I have to admit that the pro-Bernie folks are apt to overdo it at times as far as I’m concerned, but it kind of cracks me up a bit that he’s the only one of the current field who ran in ’16, which makes him the contender by default by my estimation, but all I keep hearing about from our corporate media is Biden and MAYOR PETE! – “oh, and by the way, Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris (both worthy IMHO) are tied for third”…
…and I give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 7/5/12; given that Dem state senator Katie Muth of our beloved commonwealth recently went viral reading the letter from constituent John Boyd who was able to work his way back from poverty (and reading it over that fathead Jake Corman who continually tried to yell over her), I thought it would be a good idea to revisit this clip from columnist Gil Smart, very much in a similar vein (and I was sorry to hear about this – hope Smart is OK).
(And by the way, I think it’s worth it to mention for about the thousandth time or so, that, to be honest, the example of Boyd is something that you would think Repugs would be happy about because it shows someone trying to be self-sufficient…I mean, you would think so, except for the fact that the Repugs just want to punish anyone who likely won’t vote for them of course, along with the fact that they HATE IT when government does anything constructive at all.)…
…and I also have to admit that I didn’t think Bruce with a pedal steel guitar would work for me, but it does.
Ana and Cenk of TYT tell us all about the unholy alliance between Turning Point USA and Geo Group and how Candace Owens is doing the hustle, you might say, for these criminals (to paraphrase Churchill, we’ve pretty much established what Owens is – all we’re negotiating over at this point is her price)…
…and Thom Hartmann gives us some potential reasons why, according Gallup, a majority of Americans are unhappy with the state of things right now (yeah, as Thom more or less says, take your pick)…
…and just when we need “the usual gang of idiots” more than ever – ugh…
...and I now give you today's regional weather forecast.
Yep, it looks like Generalissimo Trump broke the stoo-pid meter once again (here, and more unintended fun is here)...
Update: Hat tip to Daily Kos for this - I don't think we really need to add words to these pictures, do we? Well, maybe except to point out that we used to actually FIGHT regimes like these once.
Update 2: Truly, the memes will never die (here)...and of course, he also messed up the reference to the War of 1812.
…and Farron Cousins makes the case for letting Our Treasonous, Tiny-Handed Dictator Wannabe continue to live in his Fix-Noise-inflated bubble…
…and oh yeah, the tax bill that every single stinking congressional Repug voted for in December 2017 was nothing but a fraud (we knew that too I realize, but as Robert Reich tells us, now we have data to support that)…
…and I had this tune in mind after the Gropenfuhrer’s latest malaprop (oh, but it’s NEVER his fault of course).
Oh well, it looks like Generalissimo Trump is going to have his military parade, with all the appropriate trappings for a tin-pot dictator – wonder if this story has anything to do with this?...
…and the crew from “The Majority Report” tell us how some world leaders, notably Christine Lagarde, threw some serious shade at Lucretia Bourgeois, as Eric Idle calls her, at the recent G20 summit (and in a related story, I thought some of this was hilarious)…
…and c’est dommage (speaking of Lagarde)…it looks like Dana Loesch and NRA-TV got shot down, you might say – thoughts and prayers (more here)…
...and even though this is slightly NSFW I believe, this is an unusually restrained clip from Mike Molloy, though still an effective one I think, in which he notes the recent comments from former President Carter about the Gropenfuhrer...
…and Thom Hartmann “goes there,” you might say, on just how “in the tank” for Our Treasonous, Tiny-Handed Orange Dictator the “party of Lincoln” has gone since he parked his ample butt in that big chair in An Oval Office (and Thom mentioned the census – God only knows what that orange pustule is trying to do with that wretched citizenship question…I honestly don’t know what to do about the thorny, and quite well described, problem he sums up at the end, besides to keep fighting, that is)…
Rachel Maddow tells us about the protests against the immigrant detention in concentration camps on our border, as well as the DHS inspector general’s report on the utterly atrocious conditions in which these folks, including many children, are housed (trying not to vomit in my mouth as I watch this)…
…and John I. of The Damage Report tells us about AOC at the camps and her reaction, as well as that of others in the Dem congressional delegation, with the predictable wingnut caterwauling trying to drown them out (good point about how CBP is supposed to be better than ICE – yeah, you would think – oh, but once again, according to the USCCB, the images of the drowned Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and daughter Valeria after trying to cross the Rio Grande “silences politics”...yeah, maybe in the thoroughly compromised imaginations of these “faith leaders” it does…)…
…oh, but instead of our humanitarian “ticking time bomb” crisis at our border, what DO conservatives care about instead? How about a pair of shoes, as Farron Cousins tells us (more here)…
…and I guess communicating my sense of moral indignation gets tiresome at times, but please allow me to do so again once more anyway.
(Here is some important information on the pic from Canadian cartoonist Michael De Adder; as usual, it doesn’t matter how factually wrong you may be, but DON’T YOU DARE EVER OFFEND A CONSERVATIVE!)
(Of course, the real joke here is the notion that the Gropenfuhrer has any ideological fealty whatsoever to ANYTHING besides his own wallet, but I digress.)
To begin, Brian Tyler Cohen tells us about Shep Smith of Fix Noise showing commendable humanity on the issue of the pic of the drowned Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his daughter Valeria (of course, Smith makes it sound like one side is engaged in a reasonable discussion with the other on this issue as opposed to the utter lunacy of the “party of Lincoln,” but we’re talking about Fox, so it’s all about baby steps…and in a related story…what country am I living in again?)…
…and speaking of The Roger Ailes Network, it looks like one of its displaced alums, none other than Billo The Clown, weighed in on the issue of reparations recently with typically comic results as noted here (and no, I'm also not sold on the idea of reparations to be honest, but then again, I'm not going to lay this whole lack of "personal responsibility" crap on anyone over it either)...makes me want to bring back this item from 6/30/15 in which O’Reilly’s lackey Jesse Watters did his trolling best to ridicule people down on their luck for whatever reason…and yeah, you guessed it – time once more for “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less)…
Update: I went back and watched this segment again and I forgot how rancid it truly was (I think that comment about “plush homeless shelters” from that fathead Watters is what set me off all over again).
Here is a response from the time the clip originally aired, and here is a bit of an update. Yes, Mayor de Blasio and Governor Cuomo have a lot more to do about this problem, but I think you can safely forget about any assistance of any worth whatsoever from O’Reilly and Watters, who, then as now I’m sure, only want to try to score cheap “culture war” points over people genuinely in need of at least some measure of help.
Update 7/2/19: Truly he finds a new "bottom" every single day, and I mean Number 45 of course, though Tucker isn't far off either I'll admit (here).
Update 7/6/19: If Watters wants to "detoxify" anyone, he should start with himself (here).
…and Farron Cousins tells us about our Treasonous, Tiny-Handed Orange Dictator trying to discourage other world leaders from doing anything about climate change…
…and kudos to Emma Vigeland of TYT for this; as I’ve said, you couldn’t pay me enough money to live in Florida – putting aside the wingnut insanity, the whole damn state will be underwater barring consequential future action (and by the way, on the subject of wingnut climate-related insanity, I also give you this)…
…and I’m going to put aside for a moment the idiocy of a whiteboard presentation indicating that “opinion” and “option” have the same spelling…aside from that, I thought this was about as good of an analysis on Medicare vs. Medicare Advantage as our corporate media can present (M.A. to me was always a Trojan Horse meant to ultimately abolish traditional Medicare for ideological reasons)…yes, we should ultimately enact Medicare for All, but it should be phased in, and yes, I know that means all kinds of lefty caterwauling out there, but the battles over the ACA will be nothing compared to what will happen when trying to pass MFA – if it happens at all, it definitely will not happen anytime soon; nobody is going to just throw a switch and voila!, we’ve done it – the usual corporate suspects will typically spend stupid money on campaigns of OMIGOD! THOSE DASTARDLY LIBERALS AOC AND ILHAN OMAR AREN’T JUST SATISFIED WITH TAKING YOUR MEAT AND AIRPLANES! THEY'RE BRINGING BACK DEATH PANELS! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!…
…and as long as we’re focused on North America, I think we should extend best wishes to our neighbor to the north (here); here is a tune from a Canadian icon (another one besides Michael De Adder, that is).
Stephen Colbert gives us his take of sorts on the Gropenfuhrer and the border insanity as well as all of the antics with Iran – as I’ve said before, anyone who had anything whatsoever to do with getting this orange pustule elected should be put in a stockade and pelted with remnants of “Trump Steaks”…
…and Brian Tyler Cohen tells us about U.S. House Dems going after Kellyanne Conjob for her Hatch Act violations…
…oh, and the Dems are also trying to keep Generalissimo Trump from making money for his businesses while in office (and no, this wasn’t an actual “thing” before Number 45, as Kyle explains – NSFW)…
…and turning to our beloved commonwealth…sadly, it’s called “Pennsyl-tucky” for a reason, and I’m definitely not referring to Katie Muth here (more here)…
Seth Meyers brings us a news update, leading off with you-know-who (and no, I didn’t watch the Dem candidates debate last night because, as far as I’m concerned, it’s waaay too damn early for this stuff…to me, it’s between Bernie, Biden, Harris, Warren and maybe Booker – though I’d like to be able to add Jay Inslee also – and everyone else needs to go get lost)…
…and Cenk and Ana of TYT tell us about the Gropenfuhrer trying to find a new SecDef, and the guy he wants is apparently married to a Defense industry lobbyist – how con-vee-nient…
..and I know I’m a bit behind on this, but Farron Cousins tells us about George Will lamenting the state of his party (um, yeah…Will can pound sand for this and many other reasons, and I think Cousins is exactly right on Will’s take about younger voters…slightly NSFW for an “F” bomb)…
...and here comes a great and relatively new tune - don't blink or you'll miss it.
Brian Tyler Cohen tells us here about Shep Smith of Fix Noise showing some commendable humanity (as much as he's allowed to given that we’re talking about the Roger Ailes Network, which it will be forever even though the founder has “rung up the curtain and joined the choir invisible” you might say) on the subject of that supposedly godly man Mike Pence and his response to questioning from Jake Tapper about our treatment of migrant children…
…oh, and as long as we’re talking about supposedly godly men, I went to the web site of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia (here) to find any response to this, and I found an utterly banal and toothless statement about “the lack of a truly humanitarian reception for our brother migrants,” even though, when you go to the “Archbishop Chaput’s column” portion of the site, there’s of course the typical flotsam about the supposed “transfer of our real loyalties and convictions from the old Church of our baptism to the new ‘Church’ of our ambitions and appetites,” and if you guessed that it’s all about HATING TEH GAY and of course ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION and (in case you didn’t already get the message) ABORTION, then you win a free download of the PA Diocese Abuse Victims Grand Jury Report (oh, but Chaput mentions Anthony Kennedy along with Biden, Pelosi and Tim Kaine, so “both sides,” right?)…
Update: And of course, this will NEVER give us yet another metaphorical "black eye" on the world stage, will it?
Update 6/27/19: More completely unsurprising context is here (as well as this).
Update 6/26/19: Here is an example of how to do this, and Chaput doesn't even have to go on Hugh Hewitt again to complain about why people don't genuflect, if you will, before Our Treasonous, Tiny-Handed Orange Dictator (here).
Update 7/2/19: And even when the USCCB does something right, they STILL manage to shoot themselves in the foot with the following quote from here (about the horrific pic above):
“This image silences politics.”
OH REALLY???!!! Wow, how con-vee-nient for you to concoct an utterly cowardly cop-out like that to resist blaming the party responsible for this monstrous cruelty (here).
They honestly would have been better off if they had said nothing at all.
Update 7/31/19: Mark Sumner of Daily Kos makes some insightful observations on this here.
Update 8/5/19: I guess, at this point, "only a fool" would take you seriously on much of anything, huh "Charlie Chuckles"? (here).
…and this “NowThis” clip tells us about the games the Trump regime is trying to play with the 2020 Census (and I couldn’t find anything at Chaput’s site about that either, though there was this...and of course, Wilbur Ross is just another liar from our cabal of liars)…
…and I came across this item involving a certain Willard Mitt Romney, who of course is now the Repug senator from Utah, and I figured it wouldn’t be difficult to provide this is response, and it wasn’t; kind of an appropriate tie-in for the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 6/24/2012, featuring Martin Bashir, who made the unpardonable mistake of communicating an admittedly gross reference involving former half-term Alaska governor Caribou Barbie…even though he apologized later, that wasn’t good enough to prevent eternal banishment of course for offending a conservative…
…and Ari Melber gives us this report on Trump’s “head fakes” (given the alternative to what this lunatic could actually do, maybe, in a twisted way, this is better than it could be…I realize this is “Trump 101” stuff, but it needs to be pointed out…also, I hate to give David Frum credit for a damn thing, but I thought his commentary was spot-on – I don’t think he’s correct to dismiss the threat of violence against emigres to this country the way he does, however, but I thought Mara Gay rebutted that well enough)…
…and Seth Meyers gives us a similar take here, though with the appropriate level of sarcasm I believe (and kudos to Bernie Sanders for pushing back on that CBS hairdo – and to a point, I understand this thing about presidents not criticizing their successors, but even though he doesn’t owe anybody anything at this point, I’m waiting for Number 44 to say the hell with protocol and tear Trump’s faux-orange-haired head off over the steady spew of his disgusting lies)…
…and Michael Jackson died 10 years ago today (here) – no, I haven’t forgotten about the antics with the kids and the hush money payouts and all the weird/sordid stuff, but for a time he really was the “king of pop,” and I think this tune is apropos, all things considered.
I don't know who has or hasn't read the redacted Mueller Report (I can say that I haven't - yet - though it's not like I'm on the fence concerning Generalissimo Trump's involvement with the Russians either), but I think this is some important information related to that; all the same, this video needs to be viewed far and wide...
…and here’s another clip that I definitely think deserves a mass distribution (more info is here)…
…and in a related story as they say, this Trump-ette lawyer appears to be arguing that detained kids don’t need toothpaste and soap in order to be able to sleep…if another country pulled garbage like this against a predominantly white population of kids, you’d hear the howling from the Trump regime far and wide (here)…
…and Farron Cousins tells us that the utterly disgusting tax scam of December 2017 is, in a darkly perverse way, the gift that keeps on giving, you might say…
…and when it comes to crackpot economic nonsense, Chris Hayes tells us here that the Gropenfuhrer gave the Medal of Freedom recently to Arthur Laffer (Wharton must be oh-so-proud of this brainless lummox taking up space in An Oval Office)…
...and I guess I'd better work in some summer tunes, so here comes a personal favorite.
Yeah, Repug U.S. House Rep Matt Gaetz really is that big of a MAGA tool, as Brian Tyler Cohen explains; nice to see this numbskull get the ridicule and the treatment he truly deserves…
…and John I. and Brett Erlich of “The Damage Report” tell us about AOC and Trump/Iran (and I keep trying to give Nancy Pelosi the benefit of the doubt, and she keeps saying and doing stupid crap like John points out at the end - sigh)...
…and speaking of Ilhan Omar, as far as I’m concerned, she ROCKS! (as I’ve said before, kind of interesting in a way that we don’t hear more outrage like this from our alleged “faith leaders,” including this guy…actually, to me, it’s kind of sickening)…
…and kudos big time also to David Gilmour of Pink Floyd for this.
Sam Seder and The Majority Report tell us about what I could call the pretty clear-headed reasoning from Dem U.S. House Rep Katie Porter of California on the question of impeachment…
…and I thought this was a pretty even-handed report by the New York Times on the oil tanker episode (attack?) in the Gulf of Oman recently (and we know the Iranians are bad actors overall, but I have zero trust in Pompeo or anyone else in the Trump regime concerning their claims of Iranian involvement – at a minimum, we need to wait and see...and of course, as noted here, Huckleberry Graham will yell about a war that he will never have to worry about fighting, as well as that smug, insufferable, traitorous, lying orange POS of a “president”…and there are a few takeaways here as far as I'm concerned, and one of them is that our "friend" Bibi continues to be a cheerleader for trying to sucker us into another war in the Mideast)…
…and as far as I’m concerned, a lot of this garbage from our elected leaders stems from the fact that we should have murdered the AUMF in about a hundred different ways by now, but of course, we can continue to thank the Bush gang for “the gift that keeps on giving,” though, as Dem U.S. House Rep Barbara Lee points out to Ari Melber (with former Repug U.S. House Rep Tom Coleman), President Hopey Changey isn’t innocent here either…
…and as long as we’re harking back to Bushco a bit here, I give you Liz Cheney trying to claim a particle of moral high ground against AOC over the latter’s “concentration camp” remark (more here - and my God, is Chuck Todd a TOOL for this...and check out the roaring silence from many, but not all, faith groups in response …”terror is baked into the DNA of the policy we’re seeing right now” indeed)…
…and I’m sorry I’m a little late with this video on the significance of “June-teenth” (here)…
…and the Philly jazz community is mourning the loss of WRTI radio host Jeff Duperon (here), who brought all kinds of interesting new music and artists to our attention, and who shared his love of this music freely with his listeners…deepest sympathies to family and friends (here is a tune for the occasion).
So Mike Pompeo thinks it’s a “Washington piece of silliness” for a sitting U.S. president to solicit campaign dirt from foreign entities; uh, no – actually, it’s a felony...but I guess what else can we expect from a Koch Industries-engineered fraud like Pompeo – Brian Tyler Cohen tells us more…
…and Farron Cousins tells us that the Gropenfuhrer’s latest hissy fit has to do with firing his pollsters since, as of now, his re-election prospects look bad, but after 2016, I assume absolutely NOTHING – still, though, this is typical egomaniacal behavior…
…and move along, nothing to see here – just purple tap water; just shut up and keep watching Fox News…U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A! (NSFW…by the way, there’s a reason why I haven’t featured much from Kyle lately, and that’s because I’m tired of hearing his completely “in the tank” commentary for Bernie and Tulsi Gabbard, of all people – he’s definitely right about infrastructure, but trying to find a way to drag Elizabeth Warren into this somehow is REALLY a stretch)...
…and Pete Williams of MSNBC reports on the Supremes upholding VA’s fight against gerrymandering (color me shocked…sounds like the ruling, though, had to do with the fact that one-half of the VA “lege” by itself couldn’t sue – not sure the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR and “Schlitz” Kavanaugh would have ruled this way if the whole legislature had sued in response to the common-sense redraw of the districts)…
…and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 6/19/09, about the Obama Administration triggering all of the white crazies out there who ended up being completely and utterly played by “Adolf Twitler” – I originally put this up as somewhat of a commemoration of the murder of Denver radio talk show host Alan Berg, which is coming up on its 35th anniversary, believe it or not…Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! speaks with journalist Jim Ridgeway…
…and speaking of race, I can’t believe it’s actually been 25 years since this fiasco (and I’m a little uncomfortable with the reporter and anchor here treating the slow-motion chase as simply some kind of a media curiosity and smiling over it…yeah, I guess it was to a degree, but it sprung from a CAPITAL MURDER case in which Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were SLAUGHTERED...and what could go wrong here, I wonder?)…
…and John I., Cenk and Ashlee Marie Preston bring us the story of a gun getting pulled on a family whose 4-year-old little girl apparently made off with a Barbie, believe it or not; yes, this is thoroughly unacceptable behavior, but the answer isn’t to go back to our respective corners…having a hard-ass conversation between the cops and folks like this is hard to imagine, but that’s what we need at a bare minimum, but good luck with that happening with Our Treasonous, Tiny-Handed Orange Dictator (if charges can be brought against these cops, then that needs to happen)…
…and apparently he’s going to be at The Locks at Sona in these parts on Wednesday; I’m sure it will be a good show.
It looks like Sarah Huckabilly Sanders will now be able to lie with impunity in her spare time (here); I’m sure a gig at Fix Noise awaits…
…and yeah, it looks like the Gropenfuhrer just made about 2 years’ worth of investigating utterly unnecessary by admitting straight-up that he’d collude with a foreign hostile power to try and win an election (and I stand by what I said here, but maybe we still need to move things along a little faster…time to “cut the crap” indeed)…
…and Rachel Maddow tells us about the latest insanity involving the U.S. and Iran; I don’t trust Mike Pompeo as far as I can pee (and this is definitely important to keep in mind also)…
…and we know what kind of vermin the “alt-right” truly are, but I agree with Cenk – how brainless was it for Detroit to allow these creatures to come anywhere near a pride parade (and good point by Cenk about Skokie, IL – he and Ana of TYT explain)…
…and good job by AOC to bring the proverbial heat on what the regime of Generalissimo Trump is trying to do with the 2020 census and that stupid (and quite probably illegal) “citizenship” question…
…and congratulations to now Sir Michael Palin, and he may be right – he may end up as the only knighted member of Monty Python (here)…
…and for personal reasons, I failed to include a tune a few weeks ago for Mother’s Day, so I’ll try to make amends here (this is LOUD)…
…and happy Father’s Day (this tune has been on my mind lately...we're constantly reminded how precious the gift of time truly is...hope we're all able to make the most of it).
