Tuesday Stuff

Ben Gleib of Rebel HQ tells us about MAGA “Christians” worshiping their demented god-king...and once more, here comes mush mouth Tom Homan threatening to arrest more people indiscriminately...to me, freedom “from” religion is at least as important as freedom “of” religion, maybe more so for these sorry times...and kudos to Dem U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock for putting some of these charlatans in their place, albeit with kid gloves...



...and Jesse Dollemore tells us more on the Gropenfuhrer’s “Distractapalooza 2025” including changing back racist sports team names and the "arresting Obama" clip (definitely some AI slop) – you can tell Our Treasonous Orange Pestilence is indeed trying to change the narrative, as it were, but I seriously don’t think it will work for the Epstein story...once more, heckuva job, all of you numbskulls who could have spared us of this last year but were apparently too afraid of the “DEI brown lady” to cast your ballot for her...



Update 1: And speaking of distractions, there is also this.

Update 2: And my admittedly non-fearless prediciton is that this stunt won't work either.

...and John and Brian Unger of The Damage Report inform us of more lies from Combover Caligula on prices...I haven’t seen gas at $1.99 a gallon since I was carded when I went to New Jersey to buy beer because I wasn’t 21 yet (and I’ll take the trade of NOT having to live in Mississippi with its overall rotten quality of life and pay more at the pump instead)...and oh yeah, inflation is getting worse again, which we all knew (and I haven’t said anything about the “autopen” business because I thought it was yet another idiotic distraction, mainly to take our attention away from this stuff)...



...and this video from More Perfect Union discusses the role of Wall Street in an energy crisis for a Montana town...reporter goes to the “Treasure State” to find out about an energy power plant (from an outfit called NorthWestern Energy) built in the most populated area of the state, and you can imagine what that’s doing for the quality of life (and once more, God forbid something doesn’t turn a profit in this country)...report tells us once more about the pernicious influence of private equity, including BlackRock and Vanguard (and it sounds like the allowed profits for these utility investments are WAAY out of whack, given that they should be around 5-6 percent but are actually around 9 percent as we learn in the report, with customers paying at both ends, if you will)...if we had a government that wasn’t locked up by the one percent, there would be some serious restrictions on investor-owned utilities, assuming they were even allowed at all (NSFW/H)...



...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 7/21/13...as we know, it’s hard to keep up with all of the destruction from our ruling regime of grifters and bottom feeders, but something that may get lost a bit in the midst of everything is that premiums are going to spike next year for anyone getting coverage under the Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as Obamacare of course (and actually, it should be called Romney-care since the model came from the era when “The Mittster” was governor of Massachusetts)...credits for ACA coverage were of course gutted by Republicans in that recently-passed awful bill, so more healthy people will likely opt out of coverage, which means insurers will charge more because the pool of patients remaining will be more “high risk” (here)...the following video takes a commercial from 12 years ago brought to us by Chuckie Koch and his late brother, with an actual physician responding to the BS talking points in the ad...I realize there isn’t a lot we can do about the ACA at the moment, but if nothing else, shoring it up by reinstituting the just-removed credits should be one of the many rallying points for Democrats in the midterms next year (yeah, I know...we’ll see)...and speaking of the ACA, one of the biggest right-wing nut jobs complaining about it was Edwin J. Feulner, a co-founder of The Heritage Foundation, who recently died...I could probably write a humongous post about all the ways that Feulner was an utter liar on this and other issues, but I think it would be another case of not being able to reach anyone on the right drinking the Kool Aid and not needing to explain Feulner to anyone on our side since it’s obviously that Feulner was nothing but a shameless shill and propagandist...



Update 3: More here, and from the usual corporate media suspects.

...and happy belated 77th birthday to the former Cat Stevens.

Monday Stuff

Emma Vigeland of The Majority Report tells us of congressional Repugs (in the dead of night befitting a criminal, of course) passing a bill to defund public broadcasting (using this “recission” garbage again in the Senate – didn’t know the Gropenfuhrer tried that and failed in his last term)...and before anybody decides to give Bri-Fi credit for voting No in the House in defense of public broadcasting (no doubt given cover to do that by MAGA Mike Johnson), it should be noted that Fitzpatrick SPOKE NOT ONE WORD PUBLICLY to discourage this typically wrong-headed move, which will cripple WRTI-FM and WXPN-FM in these parts, to say nothing of WHYY-TV also...and kudos to Patty Murray for getting after Russell Vought of OMB, the main architect of Project 2025...yep, it sounds like Vought is going to violate the plain text of the law when he feels like it – typical for these Trumpist bastards...also, Dem U.S. House Rep Morgan McGarvey speaks on MSNBC about the critical need for public broadcasting in his commonwealth of Kentucky...”voting to immiserate (Repugs) own constituents because of a cult of personality at the top” indeed...also, $8 billion clawed back for foreign aid is worth fighting to protect also (it sounds like PEPFAR was saved, though that’s a tiny blip of funding versus what is going to be destroyed overall)...and yep, all of this recission garbage does indeed go back to Tricky Dick Nixon (and speaking of Trump f'ing over his supporters, there is also this...and also, "why" indeed as noted here)...



...and David Pakman presents a clip of Jessica Tarlov on Fix Noise with polling data pointing out how unpopular #47 is on immigration in particular (which is supposed to be the “go to” issue for Our Ochre Abomination...I won't mention Murphy-Lankford again because I guesss our corporate media has given that the "memory hole" treatment)...and if you want proof that Fix Noise is a propaganda operation as opposed to a “news” organization, pay particular attention to the gonzo chyrons onscreen...good point that Cantaloupe Capone is actually deporting half the number of people Obama deported; our ruling regime instead wants to lock up and punish people they don’t like because the cruelty is a feature, not a bug (another example is here)...



...and Jesse Dollemore brings us his take on CBS deciding to end “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert”...I don’t think it takes a genius to point out what has already been said elsewhere, and that is the definite possibility (certainty, really) that Colbert was axed to appease Dear Orange Leader in an effort to get the CBS/Paramount merger approved...that being said, I think there’s merit to the argument that broadcast networks are getting their metaphorical clocks cleaned by the streaming services, mainly because of the quality of programming (with Colbert being a notable exception on the broadcast side)...I’d be shocked if Colbert and his crew don’t end up with some kind of deal with Netflix, Hulu or another service when all of this is done (more here...and once again, kudos to Ground News)...



...and Hunter Avallone of Occupy Democrats includes a clip of Dem U.S. House Rep Dan Goldman pointing out the idiocy of turning over grand jury testimony in the Jeffrey Epstein case (as if that exonerates Our Treasonous Orange Meat Sack, which it doesn’t for the reasons Goldman explains)...Teresa Helm from the National Center on Sexual Exploitation talks to Amy Goodman of Democracy Now on this also...oh, and it sounds like Scarborough and his crew are after #47 also on this (and Pumpkin Pol Pot will appoint a special prosecutor on the Epstein case when pigs fly)...



...and Lawrence O’Donnell tells us about #47’s lawsuit against the Murdoch Street Journal over the alleged birthday letter Our Sweaty Orange Boy sent to the aformentioned Jeffrey Epstein, and our course our *preznit is backpedaling furiously (and it’s almost funny to hear Couch Boy stir things up again in as clueless a manner as you can guess)...this takes a heavy turn at around 13:30 or so, but for a very important reason; kudos to O’Donnell for putting this awful story in the context it deserves...



...and RIP songwriter Alan Bergman, who co-authored English lyrics with his wife Marilyn (who passed in ’22) on this tune composed by Michel Legrand for the film The Thomas Crown Affair in 1968 (here).

Friday Stuff

Kyle Kulinski brings us the godawful story of Generalissimo Trump deciding to incinerate 500 metric tons of food meant to feed at least 1.5 million malnourished children – oh, but the “party of Lincoln” SOO loves the kids, don’t they?...and just as a reminder, it should be noted (as Kyle adds) that this was contractually agreed to between Biden and Congress more or less, but because US AID was gutted by DOGE, it became impossible to deliver this food to the people who desperately needed it...Kyle is dead-on when he says it’s an indictment on MAGA that, apparently, they were fine with the DOGE garbage including this, but it took the Jeffrey Epstein stuff for them to wake the hell up at last...and Kyle is also correct to point out that China is going to fill the void that we stoo-pidly created with horror shows like this...and if you’re looking for outrage from the “D” team on this, U.S. Senator Brian Schatz “stepped up to the plate” here...more here and here (NSFW/H)...



...and Belle reminds us here that Cantaloupe Capone and his accomplices on the SCOTUS are going to end up pretty much destroying the Department of Education...this latest insanity from our theocrats in robes has to do with letting #47 dismantle the DOE, even though functions of this agency were determined by Congress...and kudos to Sonia Sotomayor for her 19-page dissent on this latest utterly mad ruling (I mean, it’s not like silly little matters like, y’know, precedent and statutes make a difference to the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR)...Belle’s tone is pretty strident here, and she’s absolutely right to be that way; the regime of the Gropenfuhrer has managed to construct so many slow-motion train wrecks in their ruinous term that it’s hard to keep track of all of them (and that’s completely by design), but the consequences will be felt for decades (and I’m glad to hear Belle lay all of this at the feet of the billionaires, where the blame truly belongs...sorry to be relentlessly negative with this stuff, but I don’t know how else to present it)...



...and Brittany Page, sitting in for Jesse Dollemore, tells us about Greg Gutfeld and this Kennedy person on Fix Noise admitting they’re Nazis while making “N”-word jokes...yeah, Gutfeld is another of these loud-mouthed cowards who call for utter misery to be inflicted on people they don’t like even though he personally will never get his hands dirty doing that of course...all this madness begins with the story of the Cal state professor who stood up to ICE during one of their jackbooted raids in which a migrant farm worked died as Page explains...oh, and leave it to this Kennedy person to call the professor who tried to toss aside a tear gas cannister as a “trans Borat,” as if that’s a fair and impartial way to set up this story; I realize that network of cackling hyenas doesn’t care about that, but I thought I should mention it anyway...and when Gutfeld says, “the blacks,” that sure as hell is a “tell” on his racism...clip also provides more important context on “Alligator Alcatraz”...and as I’ve said before, my father and thousands (millions probably) of other men of draft age fought against Nazis for real, which is something that callow assh*les like Gutfeld will never care about or respect...



...and Mike Figueredo brings us the tale of some insufferable New York Times pundit named David Litt (God only knows how our corporate media manages to find these people); Litt thinks he has the right to lecture leftists, saying that it’s time to stop disowning MAGA family members (and all because this Litt guy had a pleasant surfing experience or something)...I won’t kid you; this is a tricky subject for your humble narrator since it does indeed hit close to home, but here is what always gets me about this discussion, namely that Dems/liberals/progressives ALWAYS must assume the burden of trying to move to the right, while the other side NEVER has to do anything in return, which is one of the reasons why I think talking points like the ones espoused by Litt are ridiculous...also, I think the fact that Litt’s column was published by Bari Weiss kind of gives the game away a bit in that Litt is trying to push his contrarian schtick against what you could call verifiable truth and reality (Weiss being a preachy lib who loves talking down to “the rabble” a la Bill Maher, and is looking for related input on that)...and I’ve definitely checked out when it comes to TYT and Cenk Uygur/Ana Kasparian...the payoff for me comes at about 13:56-14:26 (NSFW/H also)...



...and Jordan Klepper of The Daily Show tells us about the latest demented ramblings from Bronzer Beelzebub...sooo, we go from Uncle John Trump (who didn’t have 3 degrees from MIT) who supposedly taught the Unabomber (which never happened) to Jeffrey Epstein again (who was never a factor “in terms of life”...or something...suuuure)...oh, and Bo-Bo Boebert wants Big Stupid Head Matt Gaetz to be the “special counsel” looking into Epstein? Well, I guess Gaetz is a subject matter expert in that area (and speaking of late night comedy shows, I’ll likely have more to say about this ridiculous development later...mildly NSFW/H as well)...



...and I don’t know if it was the intent of Steve Miller to draw attention to the climate crisis by cancelling his outdoor concerts because of extreme weather, but if it was, I give him credit...apparently Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders voiced similar sentiments...maybe if more public figures take a stand like this, we’ll do a better job as a nation of giving this most important issue the serious attention it deserves.

Thursday Stuff

Rachel Maddow brings us a NEWS FLASH, that is, that FEMA head David Richardson FINALLY showed up at the site of the disastrous flooding in Texas...she uses this moment as an opportunity to take a stroll down memory sewer, as it were, with “heckuva job” Mike Brown as FEMA head under Dubya and the Katrina devastation from 20 years ago, believe it or not (and I know we’ve been over the “fired FEMA call center people” story, but it deserves to be pointed out over and over)...



...and as a bit of a counterpoint to yesterday’s clip with religious huckster Paula White, I present this Rebel HQ segment with Sharon Reed telling us about the Rev. Caleb J. Lines calling out Our Ochre Abomination for his Big Beautiful Atrocity...nice work to contrast what Lines is preaching with these “prosperity gospel” frauds; I believe we’re all going to have to make an accounting for ourselves one day, and while I’ll admit that I need to get my own house in order as it were, I wouldn’t want to be in the shoes of people who claim that Jesus wanted them to have a million dollar private jet with all the amenities...



...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” from 7/17/19, in which Robert Reich brings us the true cost of what you could call “corporate welfare”...so many ways that the “one percent” and their pals game the system as Reich notes, by being able to claim all kinds of deductions that the rest of us can’t, and that lost revenue is often made up by US when we pay more for assistance to people who need food, health care, child care, etc., stuff that the allegedly “greatest nation on earth” is supposed to provide via shared sacrifice from EVERYONE...I realize there’s nothing much that’s new here, but if nothing else, this serves as an important reminder of who wins and who loses in our end-stage capitalist economy...



...and I happened to come across this CBC interview with Finland President Alexander Stubb giving us his take on relations with his nation and Our Demented Toddler-In-Chief (this clip is going to be Canada-centric, which is fine with me)...did Stubb actually say we need to go “the full monty”? That’s kind of hip in a way, even though the Ukraine war is nothing but tragic of course...I have to admit that I didn’t consider the Iran attack as part of the entire global picture – of course, that’s how actual statemen and leaders look at it, as opposed to the bunch in charge on our shores...I didn’t know we’d signed an agreement with Canada and Finland to build ice-breaking ships; kind of sad actually that that seems to be a technological growth area...



...oh, and we have yet another breaking story from the Onion News Network...it looks like the White House “trans alert system” was breached recently, though fortunately the damage was minimal and everyone survived with their heterosexuality in check (better keep an eye on “Couch Boy” though, just to make sure)...



...and here's another seasonal number to enjoy in an effort to preserve our sanity.

Wednesday Stuff

David Shuster of Rebel HQ informs us that, gosh, Dementia Donnie’s poll numbers on immigration are going down in a big way...who would have thought that turning ICE into jackbooted thugs and carrying out raids indiscriminately would be so wildly unpopular, huh (Harry Enten provides the gory details)...and leave it to mush mouth Tom Homan from this regime of liars to spread more untruths about racial profiling on Fix Noise...and wow, what a hard-hitting “interview” with Lara Trump...spare me...and I knew at some point Greg Abbott was going to get around to blaming the victims of the flooding disaster in his state, and true to his wretched form, he did so, comparing the death of over 100 people (and many others missing) to a damn football game...



...and Jesse Dollemore brings us the sorry tale of well-off MAGA “Christians” laughing over Vlad The Butcher bombing a Ukraine nursing home during some White House gathering, and of course Paula White is smack dab in the middle of this mess...she’s actually right about this regime accomplishing more in the last five months than the past several decades, but there is NOT ONE DAMN THING to be proud of about that...and once again, tell me which recent U.S. president actually attended worship services and who didn’t – go ahead, I’ll wait while you look that up...I actually apologize for including any video at all of this clueless orange meat sack spouting his gibberish, but attention must be paid at some point, unfortunately...mildly NSFW/H...

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...and Sam and Emma and the crew of The Majority Report give us an update on “Alligator Alcatraz” – maybe “Alligator Auschwitz” is more apropos...kudos to the Miami Herald for their reporting on this travesty...hundreds detained with no criminal charges...and “vicious and deranged psychopaths,” huh? Show me some proof...and hundreds with “pending” charges? Suuuure...just leave it to our ruling gang of cretins to make up something at some point I guess...and once more, Dem U.S. House Rep Max Frost stands tall...and yeah, the trucking company involved in transporting detainees to this torture chamber is putting duct tape over their logo to keep people from finding out who they are...”proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free,” right?...



...and David Pakman brings us the latest on “the list” from Jeffrey Epstein that apparently either doesn’t exist after all or, if it does, then it was created by “Crooked Hillary,” “Sleepy Joe” and Obama, and don’t you DARE even imagine that Bronzer Beelzebub is on it, you godless commie lib...and by the way, it looks like Ghislaine Maxwell is getting ready to spill the proverbial beans; I hope her life insurance is paid up (don’t wish anything negative, I hasten to add)...



...and the prior item is a bit of a lead-in to this number from Mr. Newberger...



...and I think this tune is apropos for the individuals mentioned in the second video (and I don't mean Jesse).

Tuesday Stuff

David Doel informs us of Republican dumbasses in Wisconsin and Minnesota blaming Canada for wildfire smoke entering our country, which (as noted in the clip) is ridiculous partly b/c Canada helped us when we had wildfires...and oh yes, only Americans enjoy summer and want to create lasting good memories or something, whereas Canadians...oh, I don’t know...yearn for a constant 32 degrees Fahrenheit or something? And a “smoky” one at that? And OF COURSE Tom Tiffany is right smack in the middle of this, along with Glenn Grothman, Pete Stauber, Tom Emmer and other knuckleheads...oh, and by the way, when it comes to China and their response to the climate crisis (in response to that assclown Grothman), I give you this; “more wind turbines and solar panels were installed (in China) last year than in the rest of the world combined”...slightly NSFW/H...



...and Chris Hayes tells us that, indeed, there are times when things need to be politicized (referring to the recent devastating flood in Texas and the sorely lacking response...more here, which probably covers some familiar ground, but I think it needs to be mentioned over and over and over)...



...and as a bit of a follow-up, David Pakman tells us that DHS Secretary Kristi (“Unsafe At Any Speed”) Noem apparently thanked God that MORE people weren’t killed in the flood...Noem’s feeble words about faith sound like utter garbage (and no David, I don’t think you’re missing anything)...mildly NSFW/H also...



...and Rachel Maddow lets us know that Our Ochre Abomination and his cohorts are trying to be scary, but in reality, they’re awful and weird...and oh yeah, CA needs its National Guard troops back to prepare for wildfire season, but Mango Mussolini says nuuuh-uuuuh – I need them to roust legal immigrants at Home Depot, work sites and restaurants instead...and oh yeah, let’s fan out across MacArthur Park for no good reason, apparently because someone left a cake out in the rain (sorry...couldn’t resist)...



...and I realize our ruling cabal of idiots and bottom feeders keep perpetuating their own twisted mythology in all kinds of disgusting ways, and here is another one, as Jesse Dollemore tells us...the official White House account on Nazi Twitter posted a meme comparing Cantaloupe Capone to Superman...y’know, I wonder if anybody is going to break the news to Our Demented Toddler-In-Chief that Superman is an alien who relies on solar energy – kind of defeats their idiocy I would say (mildly NSFW/H as well)...



...and I need a summer tune to decompress a bit, and I always thought this was a good number for that, so here it is.

Monday Stuff

Belle of the Ranch gives us a commentary on MAGA throwing a fit over the Gropenfuhrer deciding to sh*tcan the Epstein client list (oh, I’m sorry...I mean “Pam Blondi” instead, as if the latter would act without the direction of the former)...and did anybody seriously think that list would be released EVER?? I mean, I know MAGA collectively are idiot rubes, but boy does this take the proverbial cake (and if you supported Combover Caligula because of the Epstein thing only, then you’re too damn stoo-pid for words)...



...and Thom Hartmann gives us data to indicate that we may be heading for a depression in this country (I guess we’d better stock up on canned goods and gold futures...peachy), with consumer spending down .9 percent for May...all kinds of other indicators going down also...I honestly didn’t know the business with the debt ceiling went back to Woodrow Wilson and World War I, but I DID know that the debt ceiling became an issue when Baby Newton Leroy Gingrich was House Speaker...also, I’m pretty sure the so-called “Gephardt Rule” automatically raised the debt ceiling when a budget was passed, but it was repealed by Republicans of course...and yeah, capping the so-called SALT deduction at $10K was indeed a Trumpster move to screw over blue states as Thom says, and I knew blue states contributed more economically to our country than red states, but I didn’t know by just how much until I saw this (at a minimum, I think we’re looking at stagflation in the third quarter...love to be wrong)...



...and Caleb Cunningham and Farron Cousins tell us about Bronzer Beelzebub/DOGE cancelling about 1,653 scientific research programs that will put us DECADES behind the rest of the world when it comes to advancements in all kinds of ways to improve our lives...oh, but one day, #47 will bring down the price of eggs and everything will be good, right?...and yes, there was definitely a push-back in 2004 against research funding, but Repug animosity towards higher education really goes back to Tricky Dick Nixon, and probably even before that...I’m a little unnerved with Cunningham’s remark about “not being competent enough to have a minimum wage job”; maybe true, but that rhetoric doesn’t help anybody...good argument about how ridiculous it is for Louisiana to keep feeding the prison-industrial complex, as well as the fact that the return on scientific investment should be “above the fold,” as it were...



...and Lawrence O’Donnell brings us the newest wretched developments of Pumpkin Pol Pot’s war on civil liberties, with the haunting words “they can do that to anyone”...I never imagined that we’d be at a point in this country where I need to carry a passport card, but then again, I never imagined A LOT of things we’re currently dealing with from our ruling cabal of bottom feeders and guttural lowlifes...and yes, it definitely figures that the Gropenfuhrer would try to get his criminal defense lawyer, Emil Bove, installed on the Supreme Court (and kudos to Erez Reuveni for standing up and speaking out)...oh, and by the way, a federal judge in New Hampshire appointed by Dubya issued a nationwide injunction to stop Our Ochre Abomination from trying to deny birthright citizenship...have to keep fighting in the courts and wherever else we’re able to at this point...



...and John and Brett Erlich of The Damage Report do a good job IMO of pointing out just how petty and small Our Treasonous Orange Pustule truly is by going after PBS (and Sesame Street, because of “Donald Grump”) and NPR...



Update 7/15/25: Heeding their master's voice again - way beyond pathetic (here).

...and I like this newer tune, and I think the message (inasmuch as there IS one) speaks for itself.

Friday Stuff

Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report tells us about Marjorie Traitor Greene and other wingnuts who think Dems can control weather; actually, what had more to do with anything else in the day camp disaster in Kerr County was the complete and total failure of local government officials to do all they could to keep the kids and camp counselors safe...and yes, it’s hard not to feel like other people’s stoo-pidity is indeed sucking the life out of you, but we must find a way to overcome that of course...and kudos to meteorologist Matthew Cappucci for trying to bring sanity to all of this...I could actually feel brain cells dying as I listened to that numbskull Kandiss Taylor...and “fascist conspiratorial death cult” is kind of what I had in mind also...and the craziness has infected the highest levels of our government as noted here (and once again, this video makes me recall this post...NSFW/H)...

Update 7/13/25: Yeah, this sure figures, doesn't it?

...and Farron Cousins tells us that the IRS under our ruling regime had told churches they can now endorse political candidates...and why am I not a bit surprised to find out that the lawsuit that initiated that moronic decision from the Trump gang originated in Texas...and I’m sure Cousins is right to point out that, on top of this, corporations will now be able to deduct contributions to those orgs that previously weren’t allowed to make any official endorsement (though I can recall campaign signs for “No Corporate Tax” Pat Toomey that just happened to be on the grounds of the golf course near my church, and those signs could be viewed easily upon driving out of the parking lot)...I don’t think Cousins is being melodramatic at all, unfortunately, and speaking only for myself, I can’t tell you how important my faith is, but if I EVER hear a religious figure endorsing a candidate (and seriously, what party would receive such an endorsement?), I’m going to have a very hard decision to make (the most outrageous example I can think of that came just short of endorsing a candidate, barely, was something I posted about here)...



...and I thought this guy on TikTok provided some important context in light of “Juneteenth,” which was a couple of weeks ago I know...yes, once Republicans under Lincoln were libs and Dems were pro-business conservatives, but that script has definitely flipped for the reasons noted in the clip (mildly NSFW/H also)...

Here is some very important American history for the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet, Trump supporters. 😳👇 pic.twitter.com/ITHMLPfRWp

— Bill Madden (@maddenifico) July 10, 2025

...and Sam Black of More Perfect Union brings us an electrician in Maine who voted for Trump, and it cost him his job, with billions cut from the Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck that would have gone to clean energy development...so many ways that last year’s election absolutely f’d this country, but though this doesn’t get a lot of attention, it is definitely a big one also (and maybe if our glorious fourth estate had decided to give a fraction of coverage to the Inflation Reduction Act, the infrastructure bill and the CHIPS Act as opposed to “Hunter Biden’s laptop,” we’d be in a very different place than the one we’re in now, and I’m definitely not letting the @DNC off the hook for doing a piss poor job of NOT selling the good works from “No Malarkey Joe” also)...and yes, we all knew about the immigration con (and for the zillionth time, Trump told U.S. Senate Repugs to kill the Murphy-Lankford bill), but it’s telling to me to see that what happened with the Palestinians in Gaza also resonated with the Maine man interviewed here...I’m not sure I can communicate how truly depressing it is to watch this (slightly NSFW/H as well)...



...and for a wholly other take on the utterly ruinous bill Cantaloupe Capone just signed into law, Michael Kosta of The Daily Show tells us that it looks like gamblers will have to pay taxes on losses...oh, and it will be easier to get gun silencers – just goes to show what happens when you put arguably the world’s most powerful economy (though AsiaPAC is ascendant of course) in the hands of a demented, narcissistic toddler...



...and Lawrence O’Donnell brings us the latest on Bronzer Beelzebub trying to distract The Great Unwashed from what was supposedly going to be the “big story” about the Epstein files (as if #47 would EVER let something like that get out)...party of me wants to laugh at Alex Jones, but part of me is cringing also, and oh yeah, let’s let The Swanson TV Dinner Heir have his say as well...and yeah, the “investigations” into John Brennan and James Comey are worth about as much as you can expect for the reasons O’Donnell notes (part of me is happy to see Comey go through the wringer because of the “BUT HER EMAILS!!!” garbage from 2016, but NOT to serve the whims of our contemptible Liar-In-Chief)...also, I don’t know anybody who goes after corporate media who actually works in corporate media like O’Donnell, and he deserves special credit for that (and Lawrence DEFINITELY is talking about this idiot without mentioning his name)...



...and kids, I’ll let Mr. Newberger have the last word for now...I’m not sure what kind of a musical someone could make out of Pumpkin Pol Pot 2.0 – at this point, I’d be willing to let John Waters take a shot if he were up to it...



...and I don’t know about you, but I need something to take me to another place, and this number from the "prog rock" era should do the trick.

Thursday Stuff

Chris Williamson of Rebel HQ brings us the news of wingnuts cheering (of course) when police and ICE do all they can to prevent non-violent protests in LA, totally ignoring the fact that ICE and a ramped-up police presence is doing more to make conditions worse than anything else...looks like Charlie Kirk, Rachel Campos Duffy, Laura Ingraham, Matt Walsh, Meth Head Bannon and some other numbskull are leading the media charge, which isn’t surprising I realize...and oh yeah, as long as we’re playing the “golden oldies,” let’s hear the “great replacement theory” BS once more from Ingraham...



...and in a related item, I would say this mirrors reality a bit too closely, unfortunately...



...and John and Jayar of The Damage Report brings us the unfortunate news that, aww, Our Widdle Orange Baby’s poll numbers are dropping – c’est dommage...sooo, it looks like he’s going to be a “strong deport people we don’t like” guy and a “strong farmer” guy too? Aren’t you proud of yourselves, all you idiots who made sure we got stuck with this assclown for four more years...



...and I thought this was a particularly good commentary from Belle of the Ranch about Cantaloupe Capone and the Iran attack...”countries don’t have friends, they have interests” for sure...great point about Russia, China and North Korea not jumping to Iran’s side after the bombing; I swear, the Gropenfuhrer must be the damn luckiest head of a government (allegedly) that I’ve ever seen (though I don’t suppose we’re going to find out what the actual aftermath of that attack turns out to be...and the T-shirt is apropos for sure)...



...and Ronny Chieng of The Daily Show tells us about more tariff threats from “President TACO”...”Dear Mr. Japan,” huh? Naah, Our Ochre Abomination isn’t sunsetting...not much he isn’t...



...and here is another seasonal tune.

Wednesday Stuff

Farron Cousins informs us of Bronzer Beelzebub pardoning the 1/6 rioters, including Jared L. Wise who was brought on as a DOJ advisor, and OF COURSE Wise will serve with Ed Martin, who somehow ends up in the middle of a lot of particularly seamy stuff with this regime...and I don’t think it’s too convoluted on the part of Cousins to say that, yeah, the legal double standard for Cantaloupe Capone here is indeed racist as hell (NSFW/H)...



...and David Doel tells us about Canadian-born U.S. citizen Cynthia Olivera who supported Trump and apparently will now be deported...she went to a meeting that she thought had to do with getting her green card, but she received a rather rude surprise (and she was granted a permit from Biden allowing her to work here, but look who she voted for instead last year)...and yes, we’re all responsible for our actions and this lady is too, but the right-wing media environment in this country is indeed a factor...and soo, Olivera was trying to leave legally, but ICE is detaining her anyway? Try lying to me one more time and say that the garbage from our ruling gang of thugs ISN’T about punishment first and foremost (and oh yeah, the waste of money too from this regime to exact all of this revenge)...



...and continuing from the annals of “I voted for the leopards eating faces and OMIGOD THEY ATE MY FACE AND THEY WEREN’T SUPPOSED TO!”, Kyle Kulinski tells us that, apparently, young men realize they f’d up by supporting Our Ochre Abomination (the “strength of his persona”?? Well, that tells you how good Repugs are at hoodwinking voters...they “voted on vibes” indeed, but to be fair, a lot of others did also)...I don’t believe Dems will win this entire generational cohort of younger voters going forward (love to be wrong...at least, not without a hell of a lot better of an outreach effort than they’ve mustered so far), but they need to find a way to peel off enough of this demographic to win in the future...and here is that disgusting quote from Steve Scalise about 35-year-old gamers in their mother’s basements or something playing video games – this era’s equivalent of “welfare queens” from The Sainted Ronnie R...and by the way, the House version of the Big Beautiful Generational Wealth Transfer would have cut health care for 10.9 million people as we see in the clip, so when Bri-Fi says that the House version of the bill kept Medicaid in intact, he is LYYYY-IIINNNG (NSFW/H also)...



...and when even Fix Noise (with screeching harpie Maria Bartiromo) can’t even sugar coat the coming Trump-cession, which will be made worse by that wretched Big Beautiful You-Know-What, you KNOW there is a problem (so OF COURSE Bartiromo, knowing how utterly awful the data is for Our Sweaty Orange Boy, immediately tries flipping the script to “THAT COMMUNIST MAMDANI IN NEW YORK!!”)...I know I'm a little behind on this, but I wanted to make sure it was mentioned...



...and I realize the main topic of this bit really isn’t funny, but aside from marching and fighting these bastards in court, humor of a sort is the only other weapon we have at the moment...



...and I don’t see any Philly dates for these guys, but it appears they’ll be coming to Baltimore and Red Bank, NJ in October – should be good shows (and I’m sure they’ll perform this newer tune).

Tuesday Stuff

David Pakman pretty much tells us that Combover Caligula and Apartheid Clyde have blood on their hands over the DOGE cuts and the flooding in Texas...damn right (God almighty, now the body count is about 104)...and yeah, it’s typically repugnant for the MAGA knuckle draggers (who, as far as I’m concerned, are just the latest incarnation of what the Repug Party is at their core anyway) to accuse our side of cheering on this tragedy....and as far as “MAGA Mike” Johnson’s request that we “pray,” I know I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again; I was taught that the Lord helps those who help themselves – besides, any presumed religiosity from that disgusting fraud acting as U.S. House Speaker might as well be porn, which he knows something about, let’s not forget, as noted here (more here and here...if you can help, please click here)...



Update 7/10/25: And why am I not surprised by this?

...and leave it to "Cancun Cruz" to do what he does best at times of crisis for his state (here...more here)...



...and Belle give us the latest on hospitals closing from the Big Beautiful Atrocity...great point that a lot of people on Medicaid don’t know it because the state they live in calls it something else (e.g., Heritage Health in Frontier County, Nebraska)...Oklahoma may be next on the list for closures also...oh, and it looks like 33 medical centers in Louisiana are facing that fate as well (gee, didn’t “MAGA Mike” Johnson just say that reports of hospital closures in his state due to Medicaid cuts were “nonsense”?)...more here...



...and Chris Hayes “brings the receipts” on just how unpopular the “Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck” is, according to Georgetown University political scientist Christoper Warshaw...Hayes speaks with data scientist G. Elliott Morris for more info (good point that the Repugs know how unpopular the Medicaid cuts are, so that’s why they’re time-delayed...a typically deceitful move by these cretins)...a “prioritization of the elites” most definitely (and another clumsy cut from MSNBC at the end)...



...and Jesse Dollemore talks with Michigan State Senate Majority Whip Mallory McMorrow, running for the Dem nomination for the U.S. Senate from Michigan...I was impressed by her in previous clips giving it right back to Repugs, and credit to her also for being one of the few Dems I could see that ACTUALLY PAID ATTENTION to Project 2025 last year as Jesse points out...and she’s absolutely right about having a plan on Day One, or else she and the Dems won’t get anywhere (are you paying attention, @DNC?)...mildly NSFW/H...



...and Brian Tyler Cohen says that it looks like there’s “nothing to see here” on the Jeffrey Epstein file and he offed himself (allegedly), so let’s move along, OK? – gee, how con-veee-nient given all of the powerful people who were part of that clique, huh? And I honestly didn’t know about all of the wingnut “influencers” at the White House who were supposedly there for an Epstein file “reveal” or something...color me suspicious, but somehow I think a certain orange individual is up to his flabby, jowly neck in all of those misdeeds...



...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 7/7/15...did you ever wonder how OAN, Real America’s Voice and the other competitors to Fix Noise could have been influenced in their programming decisions? Well, wonder no more – here is the ”One Percent News” (more here...and yes, this is tongue-in-cheek)...



...and happy belated 85th birthday to Sir Richard Starkey.

Monday Stuff

Brian Tyler Cohen brings us a clip of U.S. House Repugs chanting “U-S-A! U-S-A!” like it’s a high-school pep rally of course while they gut Medicaid, SNAP and all other manner of government assistance...yeah, those U.S. House Repug lowlifes are just SO PROUD OF THEMSELVES for passing Bronzer Beelzebub’s “Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck”...oh, and here comes Bri-Fi to plead that he didn’t think Medicaid would be cut; again, he’s either naïve or stoo-pid, or both (the last CBO estimate had 10.9 million losing coverage in the House version)...and oh yeah, isn’t it interesting to see how Tim Burchett was for the CBO budget estimates before he was against them...and yeah, I knew Huckleberry Graham was a servile lickspittle, but wow, does that anecdote about the wings and a T-shirt prove it...and not to be outdone, Drunken Van Orden of Wisconsin also fell for the Gropenfuhrer’s “charm offensive,” apparently, when it comes to cutting Medicaid funding for rural hospitals...



...and Sam of The Majority Report brings us the clip of Dem U.S. House Rep Joe Neguse talking about a “whaler tax cut” that bought around Lisa Murkowski, apparently, on this horrible budget bill (and Jim McGovern chimes in also in a snarky but appropriate manner IMO)...and yeah, Brave Sir Josh Hawley did indeed cave on the Big Beautiful Atrocity before he presumably ran away again...and I totally get Sam’s snarky comment about Dem U.S. Senate “leader” Chuck Schumer – again, I can’t think of a word to describe how pathetic it is that he actually took the job once held by Harry Reid, who would have dragged Schumer’s sorry butt all over the place...the fact that Schumer didn’t tell every Senate Dem to get up and walk out immediately after the way Sen. Padilla was attacked is typical...



...and I’m going to digress a bit here and remind us all about the genocide Israel is committing in Gaza (and yes, it is in fact a “genocide” according to the UN and Amnesty International as noted here), bombing a popular seaside café frequented by Palestinians about a week ago...American neurosurgeon Dr. Abdul Basit Khan in Gaza speaks with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales of Democracy Now!; Khan said the collective carnage in that area is “the worst thing he’s ever seen” (and just in time for this)...



...and venturing into the theater of the absurd in this country, David Pakman (not him) tells us that State Department spokes-person Tammy Bruce thanks God for Trump (and #47 cares absolutely nothing about Palestinians in Gaza of course; if he does, it’s only to see them wiped out)...”the total collapse of honest political discourse” indeed...in a weird way, Bruce is actually right about “the middle east changing forever,” but DEFINITELY NOT in a way favorable to us or basic humanity (see prior clip)...and oh yeah, let’s hear once more about what the Gropenfuhrer has “given up and sacrificed” to be *preznit (here)...and sooo, Bruce knows absolutely nothing apparently about #47’s plans (and he probably doesn’t either), but she “knows to trust him”; Bruce is giving “Baghdad Bob” a run for his money (the language of a cult indeed)...and in case you’re wondering how #47 found Bruce, I think this gives you a hint...



...and Tennessee Brando tells us about MAGA tipping their hand a bit with some “Christian nationalist” pastor saying that only “Christian nationalist” men can be in charge (the guy looks like Matt Walsh a bit)...yep, you can always count on the wingnuts to peel off the mask of supposed moderation the first chance they get...glad to hear Brando draw a link between the Obama “Kenyan Muslim” garbage and attacks against Zohran Mamdani, which to me are two peas in the same disgusting pod...and I’m a fan of Sturgill Simpson too, by the way (mildly NSFW/H)...



...and even though dumb Americans (for the most part, barring Apartheid Clyde and the Palantir shenanigans) elected Pumpkin Pol Pot and not a deity, I still find myself wanting to hear this tune.

Friday Stuff

I realize that the “Big Beautiful Gutting Of Our Government Services And Our Economy” will soon be in the grubby, ketchup-stained hands of Our Ochre Abomination, but I’m going to keep including clips on how ruinous it truly is...this clip form More Perfect Union tells us How “BBB” Transfers Trillions From Workers To Wall Street...the rate of CEO-to-worker pay has absolutely gone bonkers, starting around year 2000 or so...and yes, this is another horror story about how stock buybacks used to be illegal, but The Sainted Ronnie R just smiled and said, “Oh, it’s ‘Morning In America,’ so everything is fine,” and it magically became legal, and of course, this ruinous piece of garbage legislation is going to supercharge all of this mess (and I’d actually forgotten about the role the 2017 Tax Scam from Cantaloupe Capone has played in all of this by slashing the corporate tax rate from 35 to 21 percent)...video takes a look at Lowe’s, but to be fair, what that company has done has pretty much been replicated across a vast array of other industries...and I have to admit that I didn’t have “Little Marco Rubio Trying To Control Stock Buybacks” on my Bingo card – of course, he immediately fell back into line when the “pay no price, bear no burden” bunch got their collective shorts in a knot (and who else but “No Corporate Tax” Pat Toomey shows up to shill for the one percent, amirite?)...and yeah, that guy with the “These Colors Don’t Run” shirt sure is proud of himself for not voting last year – about the kind of political engagement you’d expect that has led to our current calamity...



...and this clip form Robert Reich and More Perfect Union features former Biden FTC head Lina Khan telling us How Monopolies Steal Your Freedom...terrific analysis of what monopolies do to the industries they take over and how that affects us as consumers, including depressing wages, along with ridiculous non-compete clauses for all kinds of industries to prevent workers from getting better jobs...and no, you can’t just say “oh, that’s just capitalism, you pointy-headed lib”...this is predatory, rapacious greed, pure and simple, which (and I don’t mean to shock anybody) has NOT ONE DAMN THING TO DO with pure market competition...



...and Sam and the crew of The Majority Report bring us this item about Dem U.S. House Rep Jim McGovern pushing back on some U.S. House Repug named Brett Guthrie of Kentucky (of course); Guthrie apparently thinks his constituents on Medicaid are all freeloaders (and once again, I give you this from the Kaiser Family Foundation which explains that work requirements will drive people off Medicaid...18K people in Arkansas lost coverage without increasing employment due to work requirements...as Sam says, the overwhelming number of people on Medicaid ALREADY ARE EMPLOYED!)...



...and I realize that it’s hard to find humor at the moment, but I think this is apropos from Mr. Newberger...sometimes the only way we have to fight these cretins is to heap ridicule upon them (and a related item is here)...



...and as long as we’re talking about Flori-DUUH!, I give you this clip from Tennessee Brando timed for the release of the concentration camp in the Everglades, with Ron #DeathSantis starting a question with a lie about Zohran Mamdani in New York, accusing him of being a “communist” (please)...and of course, Our Ochre Abomination takes that softball and does what he always does, and that’s add lies and propaganda on top of that...and I think Brando is absolutely right; the racism and islamophobia aimed at Mamdani is going to be so far off the charts that it will likely be impossible to keep track of all of it...(NSFW/H)...



...and I now give you the latest installment of "This Day In Doomsy History" from 7/4/19: “Why America Is Just OK” from the New York Times...kind of an interesting curio given all of the MAGA insanity currently running amok, but if nothing else, this is an important reminder of what this country still is (despite Repug Party efforts doing their worst) and how far we still have to go...

...and part of me wants to fly an upside-down flag in front of Le Manse Doomsy, but I reconsidered and will present the following tunes for the holiday instead.

Thursday Stuff (updates)

(By the way, I know the House is inching closer to a final vote on the Big Beautiful Bullsh*t Bill , but I’m going to keep putting up videos attacking it for a little while longer.)

David Pakman gives us the clip of Repug Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska giving her “death stare” to reporter Ryan Nobles who had the affrontery (as far as Murkowski is concerned) to call her out over her sellout vote on Trump’s trash bill to reward his campaign contributors and stick the rest of us with the residue...I wonder if Murkowski will be so brave to Rand (Fake Ophthalmologist) Paul who said the words in the first place?...



Update 7/5/25: Speaking of Alaska, I think this pretty much says it.

...and AOC cuts right to the heart of the matter on the Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck...”you should be ashamed”...and yes, she’s right, but the other side has proved that they’re not capable of shame, so...and I knew the whole “no taxes on tips” thing was a joke, and as far as I’m concerned, the cap of $25 grand is more or less throwing money at you when the john calls the cab and tells you to get the hell out...



...and Kyle Kulinski goes down the whole laundry list of cuts from DOGE as well as everything that will be destroyed because of the “BBB,” including scientific and medical research...and oh yeah, as a result of Our Ochre Abomination’s immigration roundup of college students in particular, we will indeed suffer a “brain drain” in this country...of course, that doesn’t diminish the cruelty inflicted on other workers who pretty much make our economy run on a daily basis (NSFW/H)...



...and Farron Cousins informs us that Trump’s “Big Beautiful Giveaway To The Rich” will kill 51K people a year; health experts signed onto a letter earlier this year saying as much...with the focus on gutting Medicaid, it’s easy to look past all of the other myriad monstrous ways this disgusting bill could ruin our lives, such as heating and cooling assistance as Cousins points out...



...oh, and in the likely event that this horrible legislative monstrosity passes and gets signed into law, what is next on the checklist for Dementia Donnie? Why, rounding up and deporting U.S. citizens, which #47 says is his “next job”...more lies and BS from this delusional narcissist and clueless egomaniac (Jesse Dollemore tells us about it)...



...and I guess, for better or worse, I had this newer tune in mind when I read about this (there were, and are, worse evangelical characters than Swaggart IMO, but as far as I’m concerned, he was emblematic of the moral rot of that band of zealots all the same).

Update: To be fair, here is Bri-Fi’s statement in opposition to the “Big, Beautiful Generational Ripoff” (Thomas Massie was the other No vote on the "R" side...more here).

So Bri-Fi says he opposed Medicaid cuts in the Senate version of the bill, and that’s why he voted No on the final version. My question is this; how the hell else did he think making that beyond wretched 2017 giveaway permanent would be paid for (an earlier vote in favor is here)?

If Bri-Fi cared so much about Medicaid cuts, then why was he NOT one of the 12 U.S. House Reps who opposed them in this letter to House Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson? Oh, riiight...Bri-Fi can’t go against his leadership, or else MAGA will primary him – got it.

If Bri-Fi seriously thought that gutting the social safety net was NOT how this garbage bill would be paid for, then he truly is an idiot and/or a liar. I mean, the “Freedumb” Caucus is nuts of course, but at least they’re showing their craziness and deceit out in the open.

Oh, and by the way, the carnage has already begun.

Update 7/4/25: Rep. Robert Bresnahan (PA) should go to jail for insider trading for this.