Saturday Stuff (update)

Farron Cousins tells us that Mango Mussolini’s attacks on Joe Biden’s mental health aren’t working – yeah, the former VP has slipped a bit for sure, but he’s still got enough on the ball to do the job as far ar as I’m concerned, and he isn’t a narcissistic sociopath like the current occupant of An Oval Office…



…and I suppose the best way I can pay tribute to the late, great Michael Brooks is by continuing to shine light on the causes for which he advocated, and one of them was genuine democratic reform in Brazil…as I’ve said, I’m definitely not an expert in Brazilian politics, but I DO know, like a lot of others I realize, that our government has been interfering in Latin America on behalf of U.S. business conglomerates for decades, and only a fool would argue otherwise, going back to John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles staging a coup in Guatemala on behalf of the United Fruit company in 1954 (here) – not hard to connect the dots from the present until now, and as Brooks alluded to, such interference really is a bipartisan political offense…



…and I came across another homemade video about the so-called TRUST Act from Willard Mitt Romney, the latest ridiculously named effort to gut Social Security…yes, it’s bipartisan – Joe Manchin is going along with it because of course he is, and wish Doug Jones wouldn’t, but he’s truly in a political dogfight and he’s got to head off Tuberville and the Repugs every way he can…the mystery to me, though, is Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, who, as far as I’m concerned, may be the biggest Dem congressional disappointment of them all...to view a list of the contested U.S. Senate races, please click here…



…and this summer tune is actually 50 years old today – wicked sideburns, dude!



Update 7/26/20: And for no reason in particular, I give you this (very NSFW/H, but for a good reason).

Wow!!! I love George Carlin. This from the grave may be his most important and timeless rant ever.

Whatever you do don’t make it go viral! #AmericaWakeUp pic.twitter.com/dmYTqJ1I5V

— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) July 26, 2020

Friday Stuff

I totally get it that, at times, we get exhausted with what I guess you could call “scandal fatigue” concerning Our Pumpkin Pestilence, but even by his guttural standards (for lack of a better word), I think leaning on the Brits to get a major golf tournament at one of his resorts is pretty despicable, to say nothing of cartoonish, as Rachel Maddow explains (hmmm…wasn’t he impeached by the U.S. House for trying to do the same thing with Ukraine? Hard to keep track with the cesspool of grift and incompetence)…



..and I know there are people, including this bunch, having fun with that five-word test that Mango Mussolini is bragging about (which is used to test dementia…and this orange pustule has the nuclear codes…), but I thought this was a much more spot-on ad, sadly…



…and as I watch this, I have a feeling that I should brush up on the last days of the Weimar Republic (apropos use of The Sainted Ronne R. also, I must say)…



…and this Meidas Touch video is probably a bit repetitive, but still very important IMHO (I’m including it partly because it mentions the Ghislaine Maxwell comment, which some, including Ana Kasparian and Dana Bash, have called a signal to Maxwell meaning that Trump will take care of her if she keeps her mouth shut, which I think is correct given the fact that 45 is basically a mobster anyway and that’s how they seem to operate...I'd like to see comparable ads from the Dems, by the way, saying what they would do if they were returned to power, an outcome we all have to work for this November)…



…and Farron Cousins tells us how our utterly useless corporate media is suddenly in love with the “new tone” of the Gropenfuhrer (pardon me while I retch)…



…and Thom Hartmann tells us about Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao playing games with people’s lives again, among other notes about the monstrous dereliction of legislative duty from the “party of Lincoln,” to say nothing of the insanity in Repug-run states (yep, more reasons for M4A...and to do something about the Senate Majority Leader, click here)…



…and I think it’s safe to say that, at the moment, Dem U.S. House Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is pretty much owning the news cycle for her takedown of Repug U.S. House Rep Ted Yoho and his ridiculous attempt at an apology for his contemptible words and actions – all of this is definitely overdue against Yoho and those of his ilk…Charlie Pierce said on Twitter that this reminded him a bit of Michael Jordan at UNC perfecting his game before he got to the pros, and I thought that was a pretty damn spot-on analogy…whether or not Nancy Pelosi likes it, AOC is becoming the face of the congressional Democratic Party, and maybe the party overall eventually, and if Pelosi had any brains, she would just let it happen and get out of the way…the Dem U.S. House Speaker, by the way, should continue to feel like an utter fool for that “glass of water” remark she made about AOC awhile back…clip is briefly NSFW/H, but for a very good reason…somehow I think it’s going to be a loooong time before Yoho or any of his other Repug playmates engage in an action like this ever again, because they know exactly what will happen if they do…



…and since it’s a summer Friday, I think it’s time for a brainless but fun little tune.

Wednesday Stuff

This video is a couple of weeks old, but I think it's still timely, especially with the upcoming deadline for the latest round of COVID-related support...in it, Robert Reich lays out pretty clearly why another round of properly targeted economic stimulus is needed, including the HEROES Act…



…and John I. and Adrienne Lawrence of The Damage Report tell us about those insulting remarks from Repug FL U.S. House Rep Ted Yoho directed at AOC (as note here, Yoho, by the way, voted against the Emmett Till anti-lynching bill)…also, Yoho’s same-party playmate, U.S. House Rep Roger Williams of Texas, was apparently in on the “fun” also – Yoho’s seat looks pretty safe, unfortunately…I couldn’t find anyone running against him (what the hell is wrong with the people in FLA who support this clown?), and I don’t know about Williams either, but he has an opponent in this year’s election named Julie Oliver – to help her, click here…



Update: So Yoho “apologizes” if some people misunderstood him, or whatever (here)? God, what a WATB! Man up and apologize the RIGHT way, you scumbag!

…and the only very minor criticism I have of this clip is that it doesn’t show Navy veteran Christopher David giving the finger to the jackbooted thugs who attacked him in Portland, which he had every right to do as far as I’m concerned…



…and yep, we definitely know how this ends, if we don’t do something about it of course (and, for the time being, I’ll put aside the fact that a lot of the characters in this group worked on behalf of Repugs like Reagan and Dubya who led us down this sorry path, since they’re doing good for now)…



…and I heard about the 15-year-old in Michigan referred to as “Grace” who has been incarcerated since May, and like many other people I suppose, I felt absolutely enraged…yes, she did wrong with the two prior assaults, but keeping her locked up all this time, especially when she has expressed remorse, is an abomination – I read somewhere that there’s some kind of ADHD going on with her, though I’m definitely not a clinician and I can’t speak to that with authority…and I have a question for this lunatic judge; OK, if she’s not in jail for missing a homework assignment (considered to be a parole violation) and she’s said she misses her mom and she’s learned what her mistakes were apparently, WHY THE HELL IS SHE BEING DETAINED??!! (I should note that we had the “Kids for Cash” scandal in our beloved commonwealth previously, and though that apparently isn’t going on here, I recall a video about how traumatic it was for kids of this age to be essentially behind bars – I honestly don’t know how much of this is racial versus this judge simply being out of her mind)…



…and I hope you’re in the mood for an uplifting new tune, because I definitely am (proceeds for purchase of the song go to Civil Rights Advocacy and Color of Change).

Tuesday Stuff

(Uh huh, there indeed really is always a tweet, people.)

Emma Vigeland and Cenk Uygur talk about Repug Governor Larry Hogan of Maryland and his criticism of the Gropenfuhrer over the bungling of the federal gov't response to the COVID-19 pandemic – yeah, I’ve had issues with Hogan in the past, and maybe there’s a bit of political opportunism going on, but for now, Hogan is doing the right thing…



Update 7/27/20: Note to self - no more giving credit to Larry Hogan (here)...

…and David Pakman tells us about the Rachel Maddow/Mary Trump interview over the latter’s book…at this point, I have to laugh over the feigned shock over Number 45 acting inappropriately – HOW MUCH MORE FREAKING PROOF DO YOU NEED THAT THE GUY IS A STONE RACIST, AMONG OTHER THINGS??!! And I agree with Pakman’s take that the book, by itself, really isn’t going to change anything ideologically one way or the other (though apparently it’s selling like nuts – wish she’d written it BEFORE the election, but we are where we are)…



…and Thom Hartmann tells us the latest on the Portland stuff, along with Adolf Twitler’s jackbooted army possibly coming to a city near you (sync is a little off again…some of his nightmare scenarios here particularly about November are scary, but not beyond the realm of possibility unfortunately)…



…and Lawrence O’Donnell speaks with a descendant of Edmund Pettus, Caroline Randall Williams, who calls for the bridge where civil rights workers marched to be renamed for John Lewis, and also for passage of the updated Voting Rights Act, to fix what was wrecked by The High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR (and of course, the fix is stuck on the desk of Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao – to do something about that, click here…lip synch is off again, like with the Hartmann video)…



…and the tributes to Michael Brooks have quite rightly been pouring in, you might say, and I thought this one by Kyle Kulinski was pretty heartfelt and spot-on, to say nothing of concise – I know they all passed for different reasons, but God, we’ve lost Terry Jones, John Prine and now Brooks this year (I think the common denominator between the three is that they all were passionate and incisive in their commentary and observations about the world, and with a touch of humor too of course… why do I have a feeling that the first person to greet Brooks in the afterlife was John Lewis? Also, I know there's a pic out there of Brooks with Lula of Brazil, and some took the opportunity to criticize the former leader of that country, and here is my response; yes, I'm definitely not an expert in Brazilian politics, but given that they're now dealing with Bolsonaro, you cannot possibly be serious)...



…and, regrettably, I forgot to note that last Sunday was National Ice Cream Day, so here is a belated tune for the occasion.

Monday Stuff

Michael Brooks, Jamie Peck and Matt Lech of “The Majority Report” tell us about the jackbooted Trumpian insanity going on in Portland at the moment (updates are here and here)…

Update: At first, I thought this was a really horrible bad joke, but it definitely isn’t a joke even though it’s still horrible. I’m just too damn numb to say much of anything that makes sense, expect to say that I wish to extend my deepest sympathies to his family and friends. Aside from personal considerations which are paramount of course, the loss to the side of progressive commentary is enormous. This utter hellscape of a year trudges on.

…and Brian Tyler Cohen tells us about Chris Wallace calling out the Gropenfuhrer for his latest lie about Biden wanting to defund the police (and yeah, keep using “Democrat” as a adjective instead of the noun which it is to try and stoke your beloved base, Mango Mussolini…well, unless Biden dribbles all over himself in the debates, you’re toast with independents and have no clear path to re-election short of fraud, you sociopathic meat sack)…



…and this scurrilous move by Repug Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (namely, trying to prevent Dem Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms from implementing and enforcing a mask ordinance) is quite literally going to get people killed – and yeah, it has everything to do with that visit from Our Traitorous Orange Pustule…



…and related to COVID-19, John Iadarola and Francesca Fiorentini tell us about all of the wingnut fetishism in response to President Fergus Laing deciding to wear a mask at long last…



…and I’m glad to see Jayar Jackson and Cenk call out that Trumpian goon Mike Pompeo for his recent speech attacking the New York Times and their “1619 Project”; Pompeo might as well have a Koch Industries logo tattooed on his ample forehead (more here)…



…and yeah, on the one hand, the Lincoln Project is full of people who carried water, you might say, for the individuals who represented the intolerance John Lewis protested against (The Sainted Ronnie R, Dubya, etc.), but on the other hand, this ad is really well done, and credit where it’s due…



…and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less), and this time we’re taking a short trip back to 7/19/19…we quite rightly are honoring the passing of John Lewis, but as noted here, another recently departed African American congressman (and another giant in our midst) was somewhat clumsily invoked recently, and with that in mind, I give you Elijah Cummings facing off with Kevin McAleenan, the former acting Homeland Security secretary, over conditions at our detention facilities on the southwest border (more here…McAleenan was succeeded by John P. Sanders)…



...and I now give you today's regional forecast (an update related to the video is here).

Saturday Stuff

Yeah, cupcake, we hope you and your family of criminals manages to “find something new” after November 3rd of this year (an orange jumpsuit would be a good look as far as I’m concerned...and yeah, this sure fits the profile, doesn't it?)…



…and Kyle tells us how the wingnuts are trying to load up the next round of relief funding for those in our current crisis with more giveaways for the “pay no price, bear no burden” bunch…the Dems have some issues overall, but I can’t think of a word for the idiocy of someone who still believes that both of our major political parties are the same at this point…and yeah, I think the Naomi Klein parallel fits…



…and with #midnightmoscowmitch in mind (the guy who’s concocting the ruinous legislation Kyle just talked about, and who is sitting on the HEROES Act), I give you this clip of Dem U.S. Senate candidate Amy McGrath speaking with MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace in response to the Russians-putting-bounties-on-our-troops story which, shockingly, seems to be fading from the news cycle (even in our current political/media/industrial complex insider hellscape, there is still some stuff that should be beyond the pale, and this fits…to help McGrath, click here)…



…and this Meidas Touch video tells us how Our Orange Pustule and his sycophants are trying to force kids back to school, regardless of how much COVID-19 is currently raging…



…and Mika, Willie Geist and the “Morning Joe” crew talk about how Governor Brian Kemp of GA is fighting with Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms over masks (another single-day record for coronavirus cases, with particularly bad stuff going on in Florida...and yeah, looks like our former ol' buddy Vlad Putin is trying to steal research into a COVID-19 vaccine; not surprising to hear crickets from Our Treasonous, Tiny-Handed Head of State in response)…



…and RIP civil rights icon and Dem U.S. Congressman John Lewis, here speaking with Gayle King of CBS This Morning from last month about the protests in response to the death of George Floyd – under normal circumstances, this video would absolutely appear first in this post (more here)…



…and I suppose it’s cold comfort to know that Generalissimo Trump isn’t Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, though as far as I’m concerned, it’s hard to tell who is worse, and it’s no coincidence at all that our two countries have the worst response to COVID-19 while the rest of the world is coming to grips with the pandemic…



…and believe me when I tell you that I need a tune that represents some summer escapism, and I hope this works for you also.

Friday Stuff

This Now This video presents a couple of doctors who, quite rightly, are pretty fed up with the bitching and whining from people opposed to wearing masks; if we had all done that as a nation when we should have along with the social distancing and shelter-in-place stuff, we’d be starting to see our way out of this mess by now…



…and Farron Cousins tells us that the anti-maskers may be heading for a reckoning starting next week – about freaking time (including this life form...slightly NSFW/H)…



…and David Doel tells us about a NYT story about Our Orange Pustule trying to prevent the CDC from coordinating data on coronavirus and instead having that information go to a “federal database”…kind of unintentionally funny to hear that proposed when the wingnuts howl day and night when that same approach is suggested for the purposes of common-sense gun regulation…



…and this clip from Thom Hartmann is a couple of weeks old I know, but it’s still pretty current sadly…wrapup of how the rest of the world is handling the pandemic aside from us and Brazil – will this country recover from the right-wing billionaires’ war against us? I honestly don’t know…



…and I have to admit that I don’t know what the hell is going on in Portland, Oregon at this moment either, but yeah, I would say that’s it’s definitely a preview to the dystopian hellscape of a (God help us) potential second term under the Gropenfuhrer (more here)…



Update: Yeah, this figures,

…and I realize it doesn’t take much to defeat the bombast of mouth-breathers like Fix Noise’s Brian Kilmeade, but when BoBo and Bedbug Bret depart from “The Old Gray Lady,” then you can try to lay this whole “liberal purge” thing on me, and I probably still won’t believe you (Sam and Michael Brooks talk about all the nonsense with Bari Weiss this week…more here, and Sam was talking about this, by the way)…



…and I thought this was a pretty nice video from Christina Finello, running to unseat Repug Brian Fitzpatrick in the PA-01 U.S. House race (to help, click here...and this is typical for the fawning pro-Repug media coverage in these parts)…



…and RIP Judy Dyble, formerly of Fairport Convention before she was replaced by Sandy Denny.

Wednesday Stuff

Mika and the “Morning Joe” crew meet with actual, bona fide medical experts to talk about the ridiculous and deadly hissy fit Generalissimo Trump is carrying on with Dr. Anthony Fauci (with Fauci, typically to his credit, not taking the bait)…

…and Farron Cousins tells us about the CDC trying to get the word out that it would be an UTTER DISASTER for schools to reopen, while being undercut by our ruling regime of liars and frauds as per usual (mildly NSFW/H)…



…and Kyle K. tells us that the richest 1 percent is responsible for 70% of unpaid taxes (about $381 bil - and yeah, there goes that "socialist" Bernie Sanders doing the right thing again), and if these deadbeats would just pay up, it could fund a whole lot of good stuff, like debt-free college, UBI, etc. (”The system is going to collapse under the weight of its own hypocrisy” indeed)…



…and John I. speaks with author Mario Alejandro Ariza about climate change and its potential (likely?) impact on Miami (the racial aspect of this is deplorable all right, but it definitely looks like a case of the “chickens coming home to roost”)…



…and I see a report like this from “The Sunshine State,” and I’m sorry, but I see no hope at all (and yes, I know Miami Dade has a mask ordinance which apparently many people are observing, but at this point, “many people” isn’t good enough - "maskless cheese eaters"...heh)…



…and I realize that I forgot to acknowledge Bastille Day yesterday; my bad – hopefully I can make amends somewhat with this tune.

Tuesday Stuff

Here’s something I’m not sure that I’ve ever done, and that is to lead in with a CNN video featuring Erin Burnett, and she pretty thoroughly explains the idiocy of Generalissimo Trump’s attacks on Dr. Anthony Fauci, with Dr. Sanjay Gupta and others…



…and Chris Hayes speaks with Dem U.S. Senator Doug Jones of Alabama about a bipartisan bill he’s co-sponsoring to seek additional funding that would allow schools to reopen nationwide…I’m sure there are a lot of good people in Alabama, and I would respectfully ask that they PLEASE re-elect Jones this fall – I know the odds are long because the state traditionally is pretty red, but though I haven’t seen Jones speak too often, whenever I do he makes a lot of sense and he’s doing his job for sure (to help, click here – another strange edit to an MSNBC video that ran for a little bit longer but was clipped for some reason, probably because Jones quite rightly pointed out that #midnightmoscowmitch is sitting on The HEROES Act and I guess The Comcast Network didn’t want anyone to know that)…



…and I think this is another good Lincoln Project video about courage (and in some cases, the lack thereof)…



…and I think Kyle is being a little kinder here to The Swanson TV Dinner Heir than I would be, though I cede Kyle’s points, but yeah, claiming that Biden wants to get rid of the suburbs is pretty gonzo even for Carlson (NSFW/H…I hope Kyle’s forecast at the end is right, but we’ll see of course)…



…and Seth Meyers brings us “A Closer Look,” featuring about as much of Cruela De Vos and the Gropenfuhrer as I can stand (and DeSantis in Florida gets a dishonorable mention for sure – yeah, we don’t see any chest-pounding against the media from this numbskull now, do we?)…



...and I know I need to catch up on my summer selections, and I definitely have to include this one.

Monday Stuff

Thom Hartmann tells us all about the Trump regime’s desire for us all to “die for the Dow” – utter monsters…and I know that we went over the "Corona virus" party story before, which is an awful tragedy of course; another example of this country’s utterly failed leadership on this as far as I’m concerned (the “measles party” thing was a little before my time)...



…and once more, I know a lot of the people in this group supported Dubya and other ruinous Republicans, but they definitely are standing tall now, to their credit (again, not hearing a whole lot from the Democratic congressional “leadership” in a similar vein, though they never have a problem with hitting me up to beg for a donation)…



…and this Meidas Touch ad is also excellent in a similar vein; at this point, it’s not just a matter of throwing out Mango Mussolini in November, but punishing EVERY REPUBLICAN WHO HAS ENABLED HIM also…



…and Farron Cousins tells us that former KKK leader David Duke has endorsed the Gropenfuhrer for another term, but this time, with the Swanson TV Dinner Heir on the ticket as veep instead of “Onward Christian Soldiers” Mike Pence (mildly NSFW/H)...



…and gee, maybe we ought to do something about this climate change thing, huh (yet another reason to support Biden)…



…and man, is this a hell of an ad – I don’t need to add a word (more appropriate for July 4th or Memorial Day, but it works any other day also)…



…and happy belated birthday to Greg Kihn – hope it was a good one...



…and I can’t believe that today is the 35th anniversary of Live Aid, but it is – here IMHO is a memorable Philly performance.

Saturday Stuff

Rachel Maddow reminds us of the role Roger Stone played in the Russian government’s election interference in 2016 to aid the Trump campaign; as I’m sure we all know by now, Stone had his sentenced commuted by the Gropenfuhrer as a reward for keeping his mouth shut (typical for a criminal despotic regime like this one - more here)…



…and speaking of criminal despots, this ad draws a line from our ruling cabal of frauds and lowlifes to our “good friends” the Saudis; I’m not happy that the ad includes Fix Noise personalities including the Swanson TV Dinner heir, but it makes good points, and it contains images of 9/11 that may be distressing (and speaking of what turned out to be an iconic image, I was sorry to hear about this)…to be fair, politicians of both parties have been tripping over themselves to curry favor with the Saudis, but of course 45 is doing that on steroids, you might say…



…and Chris Hayes tells us all about Repug non-governance in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, though of course there have been exceptions such as the ones noted, along with Governor Larry Hogan of Maryland…



…and gee, it looks like Kayleigh McEnany, this week’s Trump Administration Press Secretary, isn’t feeling any shame over the “handout” her family took for their construction business, as Farron Cousins tells us (more here)…



…and this may be the very lowest of this week’s “low-hanging fruit”…Trumpster and Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams thinks conservatives will be hunted under a potential Joe Biden administration (sounds a little like Ted Nugent saying he would be dead or in jail if Obama won a second term…I guess, to paraphrase Laura Ingraham, my response would be “shut up and draw”)…



...and I'm in the mood for another summer tune, and I had to dig a bit deeper than usual for this one (and no, I wouldn't buy a used car from any of these people).

Friday Stuff

I thought Kyle’s take on the Supreme Court decision regarding #45 was pretty spot-on…a bit of a “half a loaf” ruling from the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR (so the Feds should get the Gropenfuhrer’s tax returns, but not Congress until after the election at the earliest – though, once again, Kyle is utterly wrong to trivialize “Russia gate”)…



…and as long as we’re talking about Our Pumpkin Pestilence, I should note that, even though this gang supported Republicans up until now, this is still a pretty ballin’ ad (and when it comes to sycophants for Mango Mussolini, let’s not forget this guy too)…



…and yeah, “where did all the money go” indeed (another reason for this as far as I’m concerned)…



…and turning once more to our regularly scheduled plague, this is a compilation of anti-maskers flipping out…



…and this New York Times report tells us how ICE is spreading COVID-19…not sure I can find the words to truly communicate my rage and disgust over someone who has lived in this country for 20 years suddenly being seized by ICE and separated from his autistic son – it may take decades to undo the utter wreckage from the Trump regime…



…and David Doel tells us that a teen died after her mother took her to a “Covid party”…just horrible in probably every way you can imagine...



…and John and Ana of TYT tell us about Harvard and MIT pushing back against ICE and the Trump DHS for trying to get foreign students booted out of this country when they take courses online (I swear, it’s a wonder ANY college students still want to come to this now-sh*thole of a country to study)…



…and I know I’m overdue for a good new tune again, and I think this makes the grade.

Wednesday Stuff

I don’t often put up a clip from Mrs. Greenspan, but I thought I should call out this particularly brazen and stupid lie from Generalissimo Trump, about 99 percent of COVID cases supposedly being harmless… for God’s sake, what is it going to take for our corporate media to just say flat out that TRUMP IS LYING???!!!…

…and here is “Costco Ken” having a meltdown; NSFW/H – an update is here…serves him right (and spare me this garbage about “oh, I’m asthmatic, and I can’t breathe through the mask”)…



…and Ana and Cenk tell us that the Gropenfuhrer just wants us all to live with the virus…or perhaps, die with the virus, since it makes no difference to him either way…



…and I came across another homemade-looking video on a subject that I hope will get more attention in the news sooner than later (tied to the pandemic)…



…and sticking with #midnightmoscowmitch, Farron Cousins tells us that Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao is trying to tank the economy to own the libs, or something – to respond to this garbage, click here…



…and RIP film composer Ennio Morricone, known perhaps for this theme above all others.

Tuesday Stuff

I thought this was a pretty good analysis of the media landscape from Thom Hartmann, including the Swanson TV Dinner heir of course - yeah, "Tucker in '24" huh? Stranger things have happened I guess (interesting history lesson on the Missouri Compromise and how that led to the Civil War and trying to bring slavery throughout the North…I hope Thom is right about the racist a-holes shrinking in numbers)…

Update 7/8/20: Between questioning the patriotism of Dem U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth, who lost most of her legs during Iraq War II (here) and this, the Swanson TV Dinner Heir is having quite the week - utterly craven and spineless POS.

…and Kyle K. tells us about the North Carolina city banning a protest against a Confederate monument, leading into a broader free speech discussion…



…and it looks like Generalissimo Trump is PO’ed at NYC and Mayor de Blasio for a BLM mural on Fifth Avenue; of course, Our Orange Pestilence has to do whatever he can to promote symbols of hate…well, not really, but he does anyway as we know (John I. and Ana discuss)…



…and speaking of Our Traitorous Russian Operative in the White House, I don’t know what else needs to be said beyond this…



…and gee, it looks like Mango Mussolini can’t crow about the economy any more, can he (and I thought this was a timely related post)…



…and happy 80th birthday to Mr. Starkey – we’ll be recognizing the 80th of another Beatle later this year.

Monday Stuff

Gee, I hope everyone had a nice Fourth – video loops all over again (based on this)...



…and sticking with the Sunshine State…talk about a Mickey Mouse idea...heh - and yeah, I know it really isn't funny at all (Ana and Cenk explain)...



…and Brian Tyler Cohen tells us about Repug U.S. Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa basically saying that Obama bungled Ebola (where only 2 people died), but Mango Mussolini is showing great leadership, or something, on COVID-19 (where we’ve lost about 130,000 so far...to do something about Ernst, please click here)…



…and Sam and the TMR crew weigh in on the statues debate, taking a look at the one where Lincoln is depicted freeing a slave at Lincoln’s feet – aside from any scatological implications you might draw, my own take on it…for as much as my take actually matters, I know…is that the statue, well intentioned as it is, reflects probably a fifth-grade understanding of the issue with a sensibility that’s about 100 years old at least…no issue at all with taking it down…



…and speaking of history, I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again – why the hell can’t the Democrats show enough of a spine to come up with ads like this??!!...



…and it looks like Our Treasonous Orange Dictator is ripping off another well-known artist (here) – I took a look outside the window and thought immediately of this tune.

Sunday Stuff (update)

Gee, maybe we ought to do something about this climate change thing, huh? Farron Cousins explains…



…and David Doel discusses the cop in Massachusetts who was fired over supporting BLM (actually, she was supporting a family member and apologized, but that wasn’t good enough, as almost always seems to be the case)…



…and I happened to come across this homemade (looks like) video in my content search about an item recently in the news, so I thought I’d share it here…



Update 7/6/20: Oh, and by the way...

Courtesy of your local Jimmy Johns pic.twitter.com/WP0y9Un2Nu

— 🖕🏻Aunt Crabby calls Bullshit 🖕🏻 (@DearAuntCrabby) July 6, 2020

…and here’s a nice little summer tune – hopefully, this will provide a bit of a respite before we face what will likely be more insanity this week (love to be wrong).

Saturday Stuff

I’m going to try and keep this post as upbeat as I can in the spirit of the holiday and try to provide as much of a respite as possible for the 4th, though I admit that you-know-who is in the following clip for a second…



…and I guess this counts as another “This Day In Doomsy History” entry, since I first put it up a year ago…



…and here are two holiday songs that I don’t believe I’ve ever shown before for some reason (the second features the late, great Danny Federici on accordion).

Friday Stuff

Chris Hayes demonstrates what for yours truly is the plainly obvious fact that this country is a “national laughing stock” before the whole world on COVID-19 of course…



…and to give you an example of how we ended up in this sorry state, Brian Tyler Cohen gives us this clip of Neil Cavuto talking with Repug U.S. House Rep Andy Biggs, basically laughing off all of the COVID-19 devastation in his home state of Arizona, to the point when even Cavuto gets fed up (oh, and ha ha, here is more “hilarity”)…



…and in a related vein (when it comes to the person chiefly responsible for this mess, who actually said this also - typical for him, though), this clip is slightly NSFW/H, but I still think it’s a great ad…



…and no, I’m not happy that Amy McGrath won and Charles Booker lost in the Dem KY U.S. Senate primary, but we are where we are, as Cenk and Ana of TYT tell us (and we need to support McGrath now of course) – one aspect of this that worries me for the fall is that McGrath, despite the ridiculous spending advantage she had as well as media coverage, still lost the two biggest counties in the commonwealth of Kentucky, and that would be Jefferson and Fayette, which of course are predominantly African American and voted for Booker…it’s going to take some imagination and a decided swing to the left to bring the Booker voters onboard, and I just don’t see the Dem “axis of fail” (referring to the Beltway corporate media/political insiders who do a very effective job of LOSING elections for Democrats, favored by Schumer and Pelosi of course) being able to pull that off…I have a feeling that they’re wetting themselves over the prospect of attacks of being “too liberal” coming from Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao, which will happen anyway regardless (and believe me when I tell you that I’d love to be wrong about all this – would be nice to get some GOOD news on this stuff for a change)…



…and RIP Hugh Downs, another longtime icon of TV who recently passed (Downs apparently favored legalizing recreational weed also, which I thought was interesting)…



…and speaking of “grass” of another type, I feel like I need upbeat tunes more and more with all of the raging insanity, and I think the time is right for this one.

Thursday Stuff

Farron Cousins tells us that, apparently, Senator “Aqua Buddha” Paul only wants good news when it comes to COVID-19 from Dr. Anthony Fauci – typical (for a dose of painful reality of how we fell on our metaphorical faces as a country on this, click here...and yeah, if you want to subject yourself to the entire Paul/Fauci exchange, click here)…



…and Sam and Michael Brooks of The Majority Report give us a report on Florida and Ron DeSantis, who is, in part, the inspiration for the pic at the top of this post (interesting take on NYC, and probably dead-on)…



…and turning to Texas, Ana and John I. tell us that, yes, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick truly is that big of a scumbag (yep, let’s let grammy and grandpop “die for the Dow” and blame those dastardly blue states again…and yeah, attacking Dr. Fauci again like that fool Rand Paul – like to see where Patrick got his medical degree)…



Update: Sometimes, there are just no words for "Bedbug Bret" and his idiocy (h/t Atrios).

…meanwhile, for the sane, adult point of view on this, I give you Dr. Peter Hotez speaking with Rachel Maddow on a potential COVID vaccine and the explosion of cases in Texas – “these are vertical curves at this point”…oh, sorry that isn’t more good news for Rand Paul and Dan Patrick in particular…



…and Brian Tyler Cohen shows us this clip of Biden being presidential again, to his credit (didn’t see much “cognitive decline” from Joe here – hopefully he can keep that up for as long as needed)…



…and apparently, some QAnon lunatic won a Republican U.S. congressional primary, this time in Colorado…just what we need in the midst of a global pandemic and a collapsed economy; a Sarah Palin reboot (here)…



…and I thought this was a pretty nice tribute to Carl Reiner from Lawrence O’Donnell, and yes, Reiner ended up in TV and movies after studying acting through the WPA before he was drafted to fight in World War II…yeah, there goes that bad “big gumint” actually doing something constructive to help people’s lives again (referring to the WPA, though I guess the military could help also in the right circumstance)…



…and sticking with entertainment, RIP to composer Johnny Mandel, with perhaps his most famous tune.

Wednesday Stuff

It looks like the EU isn’t allowing U.S. travelers in the wake of COVID-19; gee, who’s living in a “sh*thole” country now, I wonder?…and I don’t know who this news mannequin is (not referring to Richard Engel of course), but if he thinks mentioning Mango Mussolini is going to curry some favor, he is sadly mistaken…



…and speaking of Our Orange Pestilence, here is another blistering ad against the Gropenfuhrer over the bounty stuff, this time from The Lincoln Project (appropriately NSFW/H)…



…and I thought this was a pretty good report on voting by mail, with more untruths on the subject from our Liar-In-Chief (who, of course, votes by mail himself, along with most of his playmates...more here)…



…and I knew the story of what the Philly cops did in response to the June 1st protests that followed the death of George Floyd was bad, but I didn’t know HOW bad until I watched this video – I know people have been demoted and will likely be fired, but I think there should be criminal prosecutions against some of these cops who “penned” people up the hill from I-676 and didn’t give them a way out, and I don’t say that lightly…



…and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” from 7/1/10, in which former Repug U.S. House Speaker John “Man Tan” Boehner once called Wall Street reform in the wake of the ’08 financial crisis “trying to kill an ant with a nuclear weapon,” as noted in the clip…this video makes us recall (as far as I’m concerned) the fact that the “party of Lincoln” doesn’t give a damn about judicious oversight of spending (I wish we could kill the “zombie lie” stating otherwise once and for all), whether or not it’s our tax dollars or any kind of regulation concerning the “haves” at the expense of the “have nots” (more evidence in support of that argument is here)…



…and it looks like the Our Orange Dictator Wannabe is messing with songs without approval again, as noted here – would love to see what happened if these guys sued him, though I’m sure our Grifter-In-Chief would find a way to stiff them as he has with so many others.