(I know this pic doesn’t directly complement the first video in the manner that I usually go for, but I thought the quote from Joe Kennedy III was too good not to include here.)
To begin, Farron Cousins tells us that the Trumpsters are actually right to scream about fake news, but not in the way they would ever imagine - NSFW…
…and gosh, Fix Noise has a new lady CEO who is suddenly concerned about “inappropriate remarks” – must…stifle…uproarious…LAUGHTER!!! (and I’m sorry, I know Cenk has an axe to grind about MSNBC, and I can’t say I totally blame him, but to immediately pivot to that network instead of the US Pravda network at about 2:34 here is really silly, though Cenk is absolutely right of course about the role that profit plays in this for everybody)…
…and yeah, when all else fails, it’s just a matter of stoking the fears and prejudices of their beloved “base” when it comes to the Party of Lincoln, as Kyle K. points out (NSFW again)…
…and here’s a newer tune with some summer-looking stuff going on, even though the video is a bit edgy I guess.
(Note: I’ll be featuring signs from yesterday's immigration protests for a few days, and this was one of my favorites.)
And with the pic in mind, what follows is a clip of some of yesterday’s marches (and while marching is great, registering to vote and ACTUALLY VOTING is what matters, people)…
Also, I have a message for the Scott Wallace campaign:
I’ve been visiting a family member in the hospital for the last few days, and I have seen this idiotic commercial in a steady rotation claiming that Wallace supports the BDS movement to divest from Israel (he doesn’t), as well as something about a home in Maryland and flying back and forth from South Africa, or some such nonsense, claiming that Wallace is supposedly “too extreme” for Bucks and Montco.
Yes, this is horseshit. However, this is forcing the media narrative and making Wallace play defense (and I’ve checked and I’ve seen nary a trace of a response from the Wallace campaign).
For the benefit of the alleged political/media geniuses running the Wallace campaign, I’d like to point out at least two things. 1) You need to bleeping respond to this because you’re getting hammered, and 2) You want a REAL issue? How about the fact that, according to Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight (here), Brian Fitzpatrick has voted with Trump 83 percent of the time?
No wonder our side gets creamed so often, particularly in the mid-terms – now, to change the subject somewhat, I give you this from Farron Cousins (slightly NSFW, but how true!)…
...and RIP acclaimed sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison (I once read a collection of stories called "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream" - yeah, trippy, but good stuff...remembered mostly for this...and Ellison hated the TV adaptation, by the way...pretty sure the gum-chewing guy is Richard Harris)...
…and there was a time when I featured this song at this site a lot, especially around elections, but even though yesterday’s show of force against the Gropenfuhrer’s horrible immigration policy was great, I think I need to feature it again.
(And yes, that is indeed a picture of "Top Step Shill", who is just fine with the T-shirt of course.)
Cenk and Ana of TYT give us an update on the latest mass shooting in this country, this time in Annapolis at the Capitol Gazette newspaper (here) – yep, totally a surprise that the Gropenfuhrer screams about fake news and attacks the media with impunity, and then something like this happens…yes, I realize this apparently was kind of a “lone wolf” thing with a guy who thought he was done dirty by the paper (Update 7/2...though I think we need to remember this also), though that definitely does not appear to be the case, but adding to this toxic stew of right-wing domestic violence the way our Treasonous, Tiny-Handed Orange Wannabe Dictator does by egging on his lizard-brained minions doesn’t help in any way…
…and yeah, speaking of “lizard-brained minions,” Generalissimo Trump presided over another gathering of the brown shirts in North Dakota recently, as noted by Stephen Colbert (yep, let me kick in $15 for the “Pancho 2020” PAC)…
…and switching gears a bit, Mike Lux is here to tell us what we need to do to help Dems win in November…
…and returning to our stumbling, demented child-king, Farron Cousins tells us more about the temper tantrum he threw at the G7 Summit, this time over NATO (yep, if it walks like a duckski, talks like a duckski and quacks like a duckski…)…
…and as noted here by Bill Maher, there isn’t anything he could say or do about our present state that could be worse than something that our pretender taking up space in An Oval Office is likely to actually do himself (NSFW)…
…and it definitely isn’t summer as far as I’m concerned without this song.
Rachel Maddow talks with Cecile Richards, formerly of Planned Parenthood, about the most recent developments with The Supremes – uh huh, I would say it’s time to “break the glass” too…
…and Lawrence O’Donnell reminds us how Trump and the Repugs are exploding the debt with that horrible tax bill, which Bri-Fi voted for, let’s not forget (to say nothing of what the Gropenfuhrer’s wretched tariffs are doing also – I feel like I want to throw up…once more, heckuva job, Trump voters, Jill Stein/Gary Johnson supporters and the “Bernie or bust” crowd, as well as everyone who didn’t bother to vote at all – to hold our PA-01 rep to account for bad behavior, click here)…
…and this is just too precious - David Bossie sez that Joel Payne, a Dem strategist, is out of his “cotton picking” mind (I’ll let you, dear reader, determine the problem…yeah, Bossie sure knows what is “disgusting,” all right – try looking in the mirror…more on Bossie is here, and apparently Bossie was suspended by Fix Noise)…
…and Hasan Piker tells us about yet another Trump supporter yelling at a Mexican – typically pathetic…lather, rinse, repeat…
…and Cenk and Ana of TYT tell us about the Dem primary victory of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez in NYC (all you have to do to be considered an elite pundit in polite corporate media Beltway society is utter two words – “both sides”…and the last I heard from Steve Schmidt, he said he was now a “Democrat” – tee hee…Schmidt has actually made some sense in the past, but definitely not now…I know I criticized what I considered to be the “piling on” against Joe Crowley – yeah, he f’d up in voting for Dubya’s war in Mesopotamia, but so did a lot of others – but I didn’t intend to diminish Ocasio-Cortez’s victory in any way)…
…and at long last, I now give you a tune from this century (like the fuzzy background too).
Yeah, there goes the Supreme Court of Hangin’ Judge JR just “calling balls and strikes” again (what a load of bullpuckey, as Rachel Maddow might say, THAT was from Roberts’s confirmation hearing)…the story has to do with the decision to try and deal a death blow to union organizing (here)…yeah, it looks pretty bad, but again, this shouldn’t be a surprise for the reasons noted by NBC legal reporter Pete Williams...take a bow, all you fools who have ever voted for Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao..
…and some hairdo at CNN interviews Keith Ellison (apparently upset by Ellison’s “uncivility”) on the Muslim ban ruling (more on Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent is here)…
…and speaking of Maddow, she interviews Anthony Romero of the ACLU on the Muslim ban (by the way, I would’ve included her “A” block on the Korematsu ruling along with Sotomayor’s dissent, but the whole clip wouldn’t play on MSNBC’s still-utterly-wretched web site)…
…and Pete Williams is back with more Supreme Court news, this one on the retirement of Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy (here) – I don’t think Kennedy was nearly as benign as the reporting here indicates, but yeah, this is still good news for the Gropenfuhrer unfortunately and rotten news for everyone else – yeah, the Repugs just can’t wait to cement the court the way they want, otherwise Kennedy would’ve waited until a new justice is confirmed…once again, rules apply only to Democrats but never to Repugs (and I definitely agree with this)…
…and while the wingnuts further consolidate their power, leaving what damn well better be a blue congressional tidal wave in November as the only recourse we have left, what is our side doing? Why, we’re engaging in circular firing squads of course…yes, the primary process worked on behalf of progressives and that process needs to work without anyone’s thumbs on the figurative scales, I know, and when it works that’s a good thing (here), but I’m just saying that I heard a lot of braying and carping about how Joe Crowley was nothing but a CORPORATE DEM CORPORATE DEM CORPORATE DEM CORPORATE DEM CORPORATE DEM CORPORATE DEM CORPORATE DEM BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD!!!! so he HAD TO BE DEFEATED…well, when I think of Crowley, I think of this video from a few years ago in particular (and let’s not forget this too)…
…and I know I’m way overdue for a more recent tune here, but that will have to wait given that today is also the 50th anniversary of Elvis’s comeback TV special (here) – I know I put up this tune an awful lot, but if there was ever a day to hear it again, I think this is it.
Lawrence O’Donnell gives us some history on the Harley Davidson motorcycle company, and why the trade war started by the Gropenfuhrer is so ruinous so far for its U.S. employees (more here)…
…and David Pakman tells us that Sinclair is trying to push the child torture propaganda from Generalissimo Trump and his minions (more here – our Sinclair station in this area is WPHL, sadly…to find the Sinclair station in your area, click here)…
…and with the prior clip in mind, I give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 6/24/12 – see, before all of this hand-wringing about “civility” was going on (long before Sarah Huckabilly Sanders was denied her chicken-fried steak or whatever…and by the way, Dean Baquet can eat shit), there used to be a commentator on MSNBC named Martin Bashir, who gave us news/editorial segments like the one that follows…of course, he was impertinent enough to make somewhat of an off-color remark about a certain former half-term governor of Alaska for which he apologized, but was forced off the air for anyway - yep, more than anything, this clip is my response to this…
Update 6/29/18: Actually, as long as I’m talking about Willard Mitt, I should note Bain Capital’s greasy fingerprints all over the demise of Toys 'R’ Us, as noted here.
…and speaking of The Old Gray Lady, Farron Cousins reports on a Trump supporter mentioned in the Times (George Skarich, pictured above) who now wants the Democrats to help him after seeing what the ruinous tariffs from our Tiny-Handed, Treasonous Orange Egomaniac have done to his business, and I’d like to provide the following well-reasoned response…HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! YOU MORON!!!...
…and part of what I try to do here, in my admittedly imperfect way, is provide what I think is an important history lesson from time to time, and today represents one of those occasions since it marks the 70th anniversary of The Berlin Airlift, which we performed with Great Britain (here)…and nobody went on TV to yell about whether or not it should be left up to the states or if it was “big gumint” overreach or some dastardly liberal plot…everybody pretty much shut up and did the right thing, the way we used to in this country before the utterly ruinous conservative ascendancy…
…and since I led off this post with an item about motorcycles (and just featured a video with our brave Brit buds), I think this tune is definitely appropriate.
Ari Melber discusses Rep. Ted Lieu’s playing of the tape of the kids crying at the detention centers (with Michael Beschloss – oh, and you just keep talking about your “red wave,” Generalissimo Trump – just keep talking about it)…
…and gosh, what’s a young Trumpster to do when it comes to the D.C. social scene? Well, maybe NOT be a young Trumpster, for starters…
…and Michael Brooks tells us more about disgusting Trump supporters, in Arizona in particular (very NSFW…and I don’t think this is too harsh, given what they definitely would do and have done to people of the political persuasion shared by yours truly, among others)…
…and John and Cenk of TYT talk about falling wages (and concerning Cenk’s promo before the video, Jimmy Dore can kiss my big white butt)…
…and what a shame – Sarah Huckabilly Sanders was refused service at the Red Hen restaurant in Virginia…cue the wingnut umbrage (overheard someone at a Wendy’s in Langhorne complaining about “liberals” on this – yep, elderly white conservative, and I’ll bet you $10 that he voted for our Treasonous, Tiny-Handed Orange Dictator Wannabe…of course, they’re fine with Teh Gays not getting their wedding cakes, and I’m sure they were cool with this too)…
…and speaking of elderly white conservatives, it looks like the Bucks County Courier Times put its editorial foot in its utterly right-wing mouth again (here), which, in this case, was particularly stupid given the firing of Rob Rogers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for penning anti-Trump cartoons...of course, either one of the utterly odious McCoy brothers will never have to worry about missing a paycheck – oh, and let’s never forget that, as far as conservatives are concerned, Democrats invented abortion in 1973 with the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision – of course, this admittedly not-desirable-in-any-way practice has been going on since bipeds first walked upright on this earth, but why should facts actually get in the way of ideology as far as the wingnuts are concerned?
And I thought Guy Petroziello’s comment about trying to find conservative balance on the Op-Ed page was particularly hilarious. Yeah, this is the same newspaper that once published a Letter to the Editor called “Dogs and Democrats,” and the letter was as stupid as you could guess from the title.
Well, since we’re talking about Bucks County’s conservative scandal sheet, I’m duly obligated to put up this video.
David Pakman tells us aboot our trade problems with Canada in particular (good points about the “Trump slump” in travel)…
…and I do not in any way share Mike Malloy’s “deep respect” for New York Times columnist Frank Bruni, who as far as I’m concerned had more to do with pushing the “regular guy you want to have a beer with” narrative about Dubya in 2000 than anyone else, but I have to grudgingly admit that Bruni is absolutely right in the column Malloy discusses for the reasons Malloy notes (though I have a kinder view of Bill Clinton than Malloy does)…
…and Kyle of Secular Talk gives us his take on Steve Schmidt leaving the Republican Party (NSFW…and by the way, let’s not forget that Schmidt helped bring us “Caribou Barbie,” as Kyle reminds us…also, a recent comment by Kyle stating that Rachel Maddow is the left wing version of Glenn Beck was one of the stupidest comments I’ve ever heard – it was related to Maddow’s recent crying episode on air, which shows commendable humanity on Maddow’s part as far as I’m concerned)…
…and kudos to Stephanie Ruhle for this (Nail. Hammer. Head.)…
…and Farron Cousins has more to say on Melania Trump and that ridiculous jacket of hers (and news flash, people – she was a fashion model; she knew EXACTLY what she was doing, as Cousins reminds us)…
…and happy 70th (!) birthday to Upper Darby’s own Todd Rundgren (wonder if he gets tired of being reminded about that?) – I went back and forth on a few selections, but settled on this one.
(OK, three responses right off the bat: 1) The billboard was eventually taken down, 2) With the possible exception of Austin and/or Corpus Christi, I wouldn’t want to get caught dead in your ass backward state anyway, and 3) I try to keep the language on this site as clean as I can except when I believe an exception is warranted, so I’m not going to tell you what to do with your stinking yellow rose.)
To begin, I think Seth Meyers is getting a little fatigued from trying to lampoon Generalissimo Trump – can’t say I blame him (and “Vanilla Spock” – awesome!...and GREAT point at the very end about voting, people!)…
…and Cenk and Ana of TYT tell us that the U.S. is withdrawing from the UN Human Rights Council because of perceived bias against Israel; yeah, I would say that we’re through the looking glass at this point (and I would also say that our enemies are ecstatic as well)…
…and I was wondering what our Wet Noodle 2.0 U.S. House rep for PA-01 had to say about the crisis of separating kids on our border, and while he criticized what was going on, he pretty much echoed the RNC and Fix Noise talking points, blaming failed immigration policy instead of our Tiny Handed Orange Dictator Wannabe (here) – kind of what you would expect from the individual who did this about two years ago (and to do something about it, click here)…
…and here’s a tune for the official beginning of summer (probably showing my age a bit with this one, but as far as I'm concerned, you can never go wrong with Nat "King" Cole).
This CBC report is following the news cycle I know given that the Gropenfuhrer has apparently bowed to pressure on the whole “incarcerating children” thing (and I think we should keep this and this in mind on this also), but let’s not forget this as well…don’t give Number 45 and his disgusting minions credit for a damn thing - we were warned about ALL OF THIS during the 2016 campaign…
…but of course, Laura Ingraham said that Trump’s detention centers are “summer camps” – good; I’m sure she’ll have no trouble living in one of them, then…
…and as far as I’m concerned, this vintage film (from what was once the War Department I believe) is a fitting response to Ingraham and her ilk (here)…
…and I know I’m just a pointy-headed liberal, but given all of this, I felt like hearing this song.
Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich reminds us once more about the awful ripple effects of our gluttonous defense spending in this country (definitely a periodic cautionary reminder)…
…and it looks like Domino’s Pizza is finally good for something – I realize they’re not talking about actually filling the potholes with their product, but they might as well be as far as I’m concerned…
…and Kyle reminds us once more how easy it is for Repugs to use the Bible to justify their hateful behavior, though they remain utterly unable to do that for anything favored by Democrats of course (how con-vee-nient - NSFW)…
…and wow, color me shocked…I knew absolutely nothing about “June-teenth” (more here) – here is a tune for the occasion.
I get it that this commentary from Lawrence O’Donnell on the Gropenfuhrer was timed more for the recent North Korean episode of “Celebrity Apprentice President,” but I think it’s important to keep in mind not only now, but every moment that this treasonous fraud continues to take up space in An Oval Office…
…and I’m sure Barletta and the other troglodytes in his party are perfectly happy with this (and probably don’t care much about this either – the last 3:00 of this should be committed to memory by every voter in this country)…
…and here is today’s regional weather forecast (a little late, I know).
Yeah, I give you more lies from the Gropenfuhrer – imagine the crowing on Fix Noise if a Democratic president somehow had to have a freaking JOB FAIR to fill White House vacancies (maybe they could host a cruise – heh)…
…and Cenk and Ana of TYT tell us about a detention center for kids – GREAT point by Ana about the $$ this bunch of miscreants called Southwest Key is supposedly making (screw anything approximating human rights - it's all about the almighty buck, of course)…
…and it looks like Joseph DeVito of Staten Island is unhappy with one of his heroes – Michael Brooks of The Majority Report explains (NSFW) – I think he means Jimmy Conway from “Goodfellas”…
…and here’s kind of a trippy video to begin your weekend.
Kyle Kulinski tells us about cartoonist Rob Rogers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, whose work has recently been censored by the paper’s new wingnut conservative publisher (NSFW – GREAT point about Breitbart and The Daily Tucker)…
Update 6/15/18: What a bunch of shit - I hope Rogers sues their asses off (here).
…and Rachel Maddow report on papers getting torn up by the Gropenfuhrer, with Annie Karni of Politico (destroying evidence, huh? Please try to explain to me one more time how this ISN’T how a mobster acts, or, at any rate, somebody trying to hide something)…
…and Francis Maxwell of TYT tells us how Betsy DeVos won’t look into gun violence as part of her supposed commission or whatever on trying to keep kids safe in schools…
…and Farron Cousins tells us about the ongoing big grift of Jared and Ivanka (the day that the entire Trump regime ends up in the gray bar hotel should be declared a national holiday)…
…and David Pakman provides what I would call some clear-headed analysis on the Trump-North Korea scam (yeah, wouldn’t surprise me if Generalissimo Trump lifted sanctions for nothing either)…
…and this song has never been more true for the teenaged one than it is today - congrats to him and the rest of his graduating class.
(A program note – posting may drop off towards week's end…don't know yet…)
Here is some analysis on today’s episode of “Celebrity Apprentice President” in North Korea, with Wendy Sherman and other panelists on MSNBC (Chris Hill puts the kibosh on this, as it were, right away, just one of the panel who I all consider to be SMEs on this – all atmospherics between President Fergus Laing and “Rocket Man”…an utter joke to think our Treasonous, Tiny-Handed Orange Dictator will see this through…good points also by Richard Haass in particular…Joe Scar sounds like he could use a shot of caffeine…more here...don't feel confident about this either)…
…and Seth Meyers tells us about Trump vs. Canada (yeah, he’s a “traitor” all right – there are all kinds of repellent video out there with the Gropenfuhrer, and kudos to Meyers for reminding us, as sickening as it is…wasn’t laughing at the end because, unfortunately, the scenario isn’t as far-fetched as it used to be)…
…and in other world news, this tells us about Arkady Babchenko on staging his own "death" from NowThis (great point at about 5:02 about trying to destroy what you could call established norms in a country, which parallels Trump as far as I'm concerned – really sucks that I can’t embed their videos any more from Twitter, by the way)...
…and Kyle K. opines on the “anti-Semitism awareness act” (NSFW)…
…and yes, ICE is still horrible, as Hasan Piker reminds us…
…and Kendrick Lamar was in the area recently, which gives me an excuse to push the musical envelope again (very NSFW)...sure it was a good show – haven’t heard anything yet.
Farron Cousins gives us the gory details of the farce orchestrated by Generalissimo Trump and his minions at the recent G7 summit (I predict more memes from the pic above than Governor Bully and the beach chair, by the way)…
…and in a related story, TYT reports on Canada's tariffs against us (love Josh Fox's comment aboot the "South Park" movie - I think they're beating the "Corporate Democrats" thing to death...not saying they don't have a bit of a point, though...one more thing - when it comes to this country and trade, let's keep this in mind, OK?)...
…and last Friday night on “Real Time,” Bill Maher, in his closing “New Rule,” pointed out that Dems, as far as he’s concerned, are more interested in winning the “culture war” than trying to come up with a responsible approach to governance (should they ever get the opportunity to run Congress, at a minimum, ever again, to say nothing of other branches of government). And today, as if to put an exclamation point on that a bit, we have the story of Robert DeNiro saying “f*ck you” to Trump at the Tony Awards, alongside the story of the Supreme Court ruling, by a 5-4 margin as you might have guessed, that it’s OK for the state of Ohio to continue conducting its voter purges (I know Breyer and Sotomayor dissented, and I’m guessing Ginsburg and Kagan were the other two, but I don’t have a confirmation on that yet).
My point is this – the DeNiro story will probably get more traction, but the voter purge story is one of infinitely greater importance and much more of a threat to the institution of voting in this country. And this suits the Repugs just fine; they can continue pulling this garbage while we continue to distract ourselves as far as they’re concerned (and yes, I know the right-wing outrage machine would have cranked up no matter what DeNiro had said, but something more articulate would have been better all around).
The Repugs know, of course, how to connive themselves into power by playing the voters of this country like the proverbial fiddle with their typical “red meat,” dog whistle BS, and they sure as hell know what to do with that power when they have it (the stolen Merrick Garland Supreme Court seat now occupied by movement right-wing ideologue Neil Gorsuch will be a haunting legacy probably for decades). Oh, but DeNiro sure burned Trump at the Tony Awards, didn’t he?
I think too many on our side assume that, if we keep beating up Trump for voters without articulating as clearly as we can how we are substantially better than the “party of Lincoln,” voters will say, “Oh, I now know how much Trump stinks (in case they hadn’t figured that out already), so I’ll vote Democratic now.” Well, in reality, what happens when we don’t campaign the way we should (and if you’re a Dem and you’re NOT running on the economy, why are you running at all?) is that voters will say instead, “Oh, I now know how much Trump stinks…so I won’t bother to show up on Election Day.” As a case study, all you need to do is look to the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016 (notwithstanding the other garbage from Comey, Russia and the “Bernie or bust” crowd, among other culprits).
I know our side is mobilizing for the fall, and we need to keep doing that and redouble our efforts. All I’m saying is that we should all be on the same page when it comes to policy and articulating why we’re infinitely better than the Tiny-Handed, Treasonous Orange Egomaniac currently residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And though I respect the hell out of DeNiro, I’m not sure that an F-blast on world-wide TV helps our cause all that much.
So OK, with that admittedly long-winded preamble out of the way, here is what Maher said (NSFW)…
…and Kyle gives us his take on the aforementioned SCOTUS ruling about Ohio (more here – slightly NSFW)…
…and Sam Seder tells us about Mariah Parker, sworn into office as a Athens – Clarke County, Georgia commissioner on a copy of “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” which of course caused the heads of wingnuts to automatically explode…
...and RIP Danny Kirwan of Fleetwood Mac (the original version of the band, that is).
What follows is our corporate media glossing over the thoroughly indefensible (but totally typical) act of the Trumpsters to not defend the ACA in a court suit against the individual mandate (I mean, the ACA has been upheld by 2 Supreme Court rulings, but screw the rule of law as far as Generalissimo Trump is concerned) – more of a real-world perspective on this is here (And remember how Alan Grayson was once ridiculed over his “die quickly” remark? I would say that looks eerily prescient now)…
…and RIP Anthony Bourdain; I give him credit for exposing not just different types of food but other cultures also, to say nothing of sustainability and smart food choices (and people, if you feel like you need help, please find a way to get it – we all need to do that from time to time)…
...also, Lawrence O'Donnell tells us that the UN is condemning this country for putting kids in cages - as Atrios would say, we do so love our children (with Maria Teresa Kumar - GREAT point about having to pass comprehensive immigration reform - uh, Democrats? You DNC centrist Beltway LOSERS! Are you paying attention? Maybe you could actually BITCH OUT LOUD ABOUT THIS! Rock-a-bye baby...)...
…and as a bit of a follow-up item, Sam Seder and Michael Brooks present a security border patrol officer fronting for the Gropenfuhrer on Fix and Fiends - sure, like everything else, blame Obama for actually being a decent human being...
...also, Farron Cousins tells us about the woman who apparently said that talking to Trump was like talking to a toddler; I think that’s pretty insulting to toddlers, actually (the stuff on the teacher lockdown drill at the end was particularly powerful, by the way)...
…and I realize that there’s a lot of heavy stuff in this post, and here’s another similar item – Prince would have been 60 yesterday.
I’m taking a break from the usual back-and-forth in the news to observe the 50th anniversary of the death of Robert F. Kennedy – here is a Pathe report on his funeral…
…and here is the report from ABC News, including a portion of Ted Kennedy’s eulogy, repeating the quote from Shaw noted in the clip above (which, I think, DESERVES repeating)…
…and on the PBS Newshour, Judy Woodruff speaks with Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and filmmaker Dawn Porter about Robert Kennedy’s legacy…
…and I know she wrote this song for Dylan, but whenever I hear it, I think of RFK also.
CNN and Anderson Cooper tell us about the Gropenfuhrer deciding to uninvite your Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles to the White House, with Jim Acosta, David Gergen and Marc Lamont Hill (I thought Gergen was shockingly sensible in this segment)…
…and with the prior clip in mind, I give you Jason Kelce’s very NSFW response from the parade…
…also, Farron Cousins tells us Trumpian lackey Paul Manafort now faces accusations of witness tampering – typical for this bunch of crooks…
…and kudos to Dem U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley for trying to figure out what’s going on with this “resettlement center” for kids in Brownsville, TX (and keeping kids in cages, huh? God almighty, what kind of a nightmare are we living in?)…
…and Kyle K. brings us the story of the murdered Palestinian medical aid worker…more here (NSFW of course)…
…and with the lead story in mind, I give you this tune which I didn’t get to when I did my “green” selections earlier this year (and in a bit of a related item, I'll eventually finish this good book).
Kyle K. discusses our treasonous, tiny-handed orange dictator saying he can pardon himself – NSFW (I’m not sure what constitutional crisis we suffered under Obama, but I’m willing to listen to intelligent arguments on that)…
…and Rachel Maddow introduces us to North Korean Gen. Kim Yong-Chol, who, for my money, is one of the scariest people on earth based on this report, which tells us why (not surprising that the Gropenfuhrer tends to gravitate towards tyrants given his behavior…and for what it’s worth, I thought “The Interview” was hilarious)…
…and Chris Hayes reminds us that Generalissimo Trump’s Mar-a-Lago visits cost more than the Mueller probe – just sayin’…
…and I can’t really explain it, but I just felt like hearing this song (maybe based on the news).
