Tuesday Stuff

Brian Tyler Cohen and election lawyer extraordinaire Marc Elias bring us the story of Not Your Father’s Republican Party trying to get the SCOTUS to make sure PA voters don’t get the chance to cast provisional ballots in person on Election Day if those voters had accidentally cast “naked” mail-in ballots previously without the privacy envelope, which wouldn't count...the SCOTUS decision on this is pending at the moment, but I think we all know which direction this is likely to go unfortunately (especially since it looks like “Strip Search Sammy” Alito will get this)...and oh yeah, PA Repugs are trying to work in this “Independent State Legislature” BS theory again (here)...and Cohen and Elias are right about PA’s antiquated voting laws that “Pennsyltucky” refuses to change; anytime Dems try to modernize voting laws in our beloved commonwealth, the “R” party starts bellowing “OH YEAH? THEN PASS VOTER ID!,” which continues to be a “solution” in search of an actual problem...and boy oh boy, is Elias ever right about voting blue up and down the ballot!...



...and David Pakman tells us that the “R” team is panicking over the racism displayed by conservative “comedian” Tony Hinchcliffe during that recent MSG rally...oh yeah, Brian Kilmeade of Fix and Fiends sez, “Well, Hinchcliffe said this stuff two hours before Trump came on stage,” as if somehow that absolves Our Big Sweaty Orange Cheetoh of any responsibility for vetting these characters appearing at his own damn rally...and oh yeah, that line about the Harris supporter masquerading as a NY Times reporter or something like that was just precious, wasn’t it?...



...and Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report informs us of “black” Trump supporters outed as white...first, some assclown named Dean Browning, and now some “black insurrectionist” named Jason Palmer...amazes me that these numbskulls think they can pull off this stuff and somehow NOT get caught eventually (NSFW/H)...

...and Ali Velshi introduces this segment with Rachel Maddow discussing the loss of abortion rights, bringing us the gut-wrenching stories of women becoming critically ill and dying in many cases because they were unable to benefit from a “D and C” procedure, which was standard under Roe, but is no longer in Repug-run states all over this country, but in particular in “the land of the yellow rose,” where Kate Cox had to flee the state to get the court-allowed abortion she needed (here)...one of Maddow’s many great points is how abortion bans also effect post-partum care after women give birth...also, we’re reminded about Deborah Dorbert, forced to carry a non-viable fetus for months in Flori-DUUUH! because of that state’s anti-abortion law...and oh yeah, South Carolina JAILED a woman for a miscarriage – what the f*ck country am I living in again??!!...and Maddow is exactly right that the Catholic Church didn’t care about this until the late 1800s...and I have to admit that I didn’t have “Tricky Dick supporting abortion for mixed race kids” on my Bingo card...



...and Emma Vigeland of The Majority Report lets us know that Baby Newton Leroy Gingrich and Sean Inanity recently had a toddler fit about women voting, referring to an ad from Julia Roberts that I have to admit that I didn’t see (even for the disgraced former speaker, the hypocrisy here is stunning for the reasons noted here)...



...and Farron Cousins lets us know that the Las Vegas Sun newspaper pretty much tore apart the Gropenfuhrer...and yeah, I think “cognitively crippled” says it pretty well (and based on this, I would say that even "the faithful" have had enough at long last)...



...and there's still more we can do if you're able, believe it or not (drive folks to the polls, remind friends and family to cast ballots, make phone calls)...I would ask that you keep that in mind while we watch the final clip during this election cycle from The Lincoln Project, featuring actors from the TV show "The West Wing"...

...and this is the tune that I probably include more than any other on Election Day in order to get us revved up to get to the polls, though I don’t think I need to do that too much this time around; in addition to doing the right thing for our country and ourselves, we need to negate the votes of the life forms such as the asshat driving the vehicle with this disgusting decal that I first spotted almost a year ago...let’s finish this off the right way, folks!

Monday Stuff

Mike Figueredo lets us know here that MAGA influencers are apparently freaking out over women exceeding men in early voting...and leave it to that nematode Jesse Watters to say that his wife voting for Harris is the same thing as if she had an affair; part of me wishes she would do both to fix his self-entitled ass...and please spare me the indignation of “Maniac Megyn” Kelly of all goddamn people; gee, maybe actually NOT TREATING WOMEN LIKE SH*T WHEN IT COMES TO ACTUAL GODDAMN POLICY is more important than the admittedly ridiculous and insulting posturing of a bunch of Trump bros who were too dumb to NOT utterly give away the game in front of thousands of people...a “celebration of Trump,” huh? I guess Kelly means a “celebration” of deceit, thievery, stupidity, malignant narcissism, treason and misogyny (NSFW/H)...

...and Chris Hayes provides new details of what would happen if, God forbid, Cantaloupe Capone manages to pull it off on Tuesday, including letting King Elon I cut spending for the peasants and RFK Jr. in charge of public health spending and administration...and yeah, I think the comparison to “a malevolent child romping around a nuclear plant” is pretty damn spot-on, unfortunately...



...and as we know, Combover Caligula has a pretty damn strange definition of “success,” as The Lincoln Project reminds us of the ruinous four years of the leader of Cult 45, when compared to the positive, democracy-respecting alternative who wants to continue building this country and supporting people, families and communities...



...and David Doel presents a couple of ads aimed at keeping Republicans out of your bedroom...and yeah, these freaked out Philistines in robes, including Almost Silent Clarence Thomas, really do want to come after Griswold, people, and probably more than just that...

...but not Loving...hmmm, wonder why?...



...and YouTuber @Xanderhal tells us that Our Ochre Abomination is suing my beloved Bucks County, saying they’re turning away voters...and yeah, it sounds to me like Our Treasonous Tiny Handed Orange Dumpster Fire thinks the “L” is coming, so he’s trying to gin up his lizard-brained followers into thinking that the fix is in...here’s a news flash for probably only Sweaty Bronzer Boy and absolutely no one else: 1) Long lines of voters is a GOOD thing because that means turnout is off the charts, which, again, traditionally has helped Dems, and 2) If voters are, in essence, deciding not to stand in line or unable to access on-demand mail ballots, HOW THE HELL DOES COMBOVER CALIGULA KNOW WHICH PARTY THOSE VOTERS BELONG TO?...and actually, I think the Trumpers won a case when they filed their beyond ridiculous legal challenges in ’20, and it had to do with discarding mail-in ballots with writing on the yellow privacy envelopes, but they indeed lost every other damn legal challenge...and yeah, I’d heard about the Amish voter fraud for real thing in Lancaster County also (NSFW/H)...



...and I should point out that, since voting districts were redrawn in our commonwealth of PA with 50 Percent Less Gerrymandering (or something like that), PA-08 became PA-01, but otherwise, this ad against Bri-Fi is pretty spot on (and to help Fitzpatrick’s Dem opponent Ashley Ehasz, click here)...



...and we also need to re-elect PA’s Dem U.S. Senator Bob Casey against carpetbagger Dave McCormick (here), as we’re reminded of in this clip...



...and let’s keep doing all we can to make sure that the title of this tune becomes an epitaph for the utterly abominable campaign of Dementia J. Trump and Couch Boy.

Thursday Stuff

Lawrence O’Donnell gives us more great work discussing the media double standard of blowing off the “garbage man” Gropenfuhrer’s ridiculous and utterly childish behavior but coming down with a case of the vapors if President Biden says anything that could be remotely twisted into meaning something similar...and yeah, it looks like J.P. Mandel (I guess that’s what Couch Boy used to be called...more on him later) was the only candidate running for higher office to refer to the leader of Cult 45 as Hitler...surprised?...also not shocked unfortunately by the obscenity of another woman dying in Texas for the “crime” of needing abortion for a miscarriage...



Update 1: How apropos that Dementia J. Trump is unable to open a garbage truck door on the first try..but Biden was the only candidate with a motor skill deficit and cognitive issues...sure he was (here).

...and this clip from The Lincoln Project does another good job of demonstrating the difference of the vision for this country represented by Our Ochre Abomination versus that of Kamala Harris...I’m not 100 percent sure why the DNC doesn’t follow suit with similar messaging (if they are, I have to admit that I can’t find any example of it), but even though the Lincoln Project is composed of yesterday and probably tomorrow’s “Never Trump” Republicans, they continue to do great work in this campaign...



...and Robert Reich informs us that Mango Mussolini will try to exploit something called the “red mirage” when election returns start coming in next Tuesday; we have to be on guard not to fall for more of his typical BS...



...and on the subject of election nonsense, Farron Cousins lets us know that PA Repug committee person Valerie Biancanello in Delaware County was taken out in handcuffs for allegedly harassing people waiting in line to vote (more here)...



...and Leeja Miller tells us about a Mother Jones article linking “Couch Boy” J.D. Vance to these “TheoBros” in this country, led by some character named Doug Wilson, who want to “purify” the U.S. in accordance with their typically twisted vision, claiming that, if you oppose racism and want to be respectful of our country’s mistreatment of marginalized groups and work towards a more just and inclusive society, then you actually hate America...and of course, they want to utterly grind women under their heel...sick bastards, the lot of them...



Update 2: Gee guys, to me, it sounds like the message is simple...don’t be assh*les (here).

...and we know this is the season for political monsters, witches and goblins, if you will, but all the same, I hope you manage to have a Happy Halloween.

Wednesday Stuff

Kyle Kulinski tells us that our allegedly dutiful corporate media mostly ignored the proposal from Kamala Harris that would expand Medicare to cover in-home health care for 15 million seniors...yep, par for the course all right – there are times when I definitely disagree with Kyle, but he’s spot-on here when it comes to our beyond-awful “fourth estate” refusing to cover policy, as opposed to their nonstop infatuation with the “horserace”...and I’ll have to add the term “narrative humpers” to my lexicon, I see (NSFW/H)...



Update: And what a fine, upstanding "Christian" man "MAGA Mike" Johnson is...in a pig's eye (here).

...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ brings us this item about MAGA assclowns in Missouri getting busted for stealing Harris-Walz signs...and indeed, it is a felony to steal election campaign signs if the theft exceeds a dollar value, which in this case appears to be $200...I know that there are places in Bucks County, PA, for example, where there WERE Harris/Walz, Bob Casey and Ashley Ehasz signs that were taken and in some cases replaced (here), but unfortunately I don’t have enough information to try and bring charges against anybody...Shuster also discusses the revelations from John Kelly about A Certain Treasonous Orange Pestilence liking Hitler (a charge which, by the way, I have not heard a denial of from Cantaloupe Capone)...and I knew this Scott Jennings fool on CNN was bad, but man oh man, did he screw the metaphorical pooch with his response to Kelly...



...and I know this clip from the Lincoln Project is a rehash of stuff we already knew about when it comes to Bronzer Beelzebub, but we can’t become numb to this garbage...powerful people and institutions are apparently loathe to hold Our Ochre Abomination to account, so it is indeed up to us to do that six days from now...



...and RIP Teri Garr...she shone in so many memorable roles, displaying a deft comedic touch...definitely enjoyable to watch her do the talk show thing with Letterman and Carson back in the day...as TV legend has it, Gene Roddenberry was trying to launch a spinoff from “Stark Trek” which I believe was to be titled “Assignment: Earth,” with Garr and Robert Lansing...the pilot for the show was never made; would have been interesting to see how that would have turned out...



...and happy 85th birthday to the one and only Grace Slick...



...and here is another seasonal selection.

Tuesday Stuff

Leeja Miller’s latest video reminds us that, yes for certain, Combover Caligula is a fascist...clip does a compare and contrast exercise in the matter of Former President Drumpf and a certain maniacal Austrian failed art student (wonder what would have happened if his old man had just let him paint postcards or something?)...important history on the rise of the Nazis in Germany, and yes, it isn’t hyperbole to say there are comparisons to what we’re facing at the moment, especially when Miller goes down her four-point checklist at the end...wonder if any of this stuff occurs to the life forms sticking up their beyond-obnoxious Trump/Vance signs everywhere? Probably not (and I’m glad to see that she worked in the Kochs, including Davey, who may be doing somersaults in hell at this moment...and kudos to Miller also for working in Project 2025), and as far as I'm concerned, that recent MSG hatefest was a nod to this...



...and in keeping with Miller’s video, Lawrence O’Donnell opines that reporters must ask Bronzer Beelzebub what good things Hitler did (more important history here on WWII, and I was also glad to hear about the Taft family endorsement of Sherrrod Brown for U.S. Senate; Brown is a great Dem and deserves all the support we can provide, along with PA’s Bob Casey)...



...and David Pakman informs us about MAGA a**holes booing a reporter’s question about #45’s running mate Couch Boy accepting the ’24 election results...and again, these minions (along with the “tech bros” VP pic) keep pushing the insane lie that the ’20 election was fraudulent, no matter how many f*cking times you try to explain logically to these nematodes that BIDEN WON FAIR AND SQUARE AND OUR OCHRE ABOMINATION LOST!!! And yeah, leave it to this Ohio assclown to encourage an alternate slate of electors, which is ELECTION FRAUD FOR REAL!!!...



...and I guess I’m a little late with this, so apologies...David Doel discusses Tim Walz calling Elon Musk a dipshit, which is spot-on IMO...GREAT point about how ridiculous it is to, in essence, argue that we’re a “center-right” country politically when progressive policies poll so well...I honestly think Doel is overdoing it a bit with his criticism of the Harris campaign for allegedly moving to the center ideologically at the behest of some Biden folks working for her, but he does offer spirited support of economic policies from Harris/Walz, particularly regarding school lunches and raising our Dickensian federal minimum wage...



...and John Russell of More Perfect Union tells the story of fracking waste stored in an Ohio town by a company called Austin Master Services, and yeah, this goes back to fracking in “Frackalachia” (hadn’t heard that term before, but maybe I should have I’ll admit), and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources wasn’t much help here, until the folks at Martin’s Ferry dragged them kicking and screaming to make Austin Master Services clean up their mess, which should have happened before the parent company declared bankruptcy...you can chalk this up to corporate exploitation of the fact that people in this region and elsewhere need good paying jobs to survive in our end stage extraction economy, where every damn thing in the world is monetized, and you can also chalk it up to brave activism by the folks in Martin’s Ferry...



...and I think it's about time to get into some selections for "All Hallows Eve" with this number.

Monday Stuff

Thom Hartmann asks what will happen to the Repug Party if Combover Caligula loses (rest assured, however; this will be a fight to the end, and we have to keep giving it all we’ve got...I’ve been all over southeast PA, and if this campaign in PA were based solely on the sign proliferation, it would be close as hell...I saw a headline that Repugs in Montco got rid of “hundreds” of Harris/Walz signs, which is typically lowdown for that bunch)...Thom gives another important history lesson, this time on former SCOTUS Justice Lewis Powell and the beyond wretched Bellotti decision in 1978, which indeed pushed open the door for money to corrupt our politics, with that door being nearly blown off its metaphorical hinges by Citizens United...Thom also mentions the Anderson case, which has to do with Colorado’s attempt to exclude you-know-who from the presidential ballot because of his incitement to insurrection, citing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, and the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR made up more legal nonsense out of whole cloth again to argue that that state doesn't have the right to do that in the case of Bronzer Beelzebub...yeah, right...



...and Miss Beau informs us of the recent rally at MSG for Our Ochre Abomination where some conservative “comedian” named Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage (here)...yeah, that stuff will REALLY play with independent voters, especially in PA, as Miss Beau says...keep it up; you’re doing great...



...and Capitol Police Officer Daniel Hodges gives us some of the reality perspective on what happened on 1/6/21, as a cautionary reminder for anybody out there contemplating a vote for Our Treasonous Orange Pestilence, who cheered on the near catastrophe of that day (though it was plenty bad enough as it was...clip is more good work from The Lincoln Project)...



...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less), and this time we’re taking a quick trip around the corner pretty much back to 10/26/23, in which Robert Reich informs us of the utter con behind “No Labels,” which Bri-Fi has championed with typical deceit, as noted here (and to do something about our wet noodle PA-01 U.S. House rep, please click here)...



...and “tomorrow is too late” indeed; this clip from Eleven Films pretty much puts the stakes of the election into utterly clear focus (for the White House for sure, but Congress also really), as if somehow we needed to be reminded at this point...



...and RIP Phil Lesh of The Grateful Dead.

Friday Stuff

Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report gives us some polling results from some group called the Public Religion Research institute, in which we find that 47% of those polled want to round up undocumented immigrants and stick them into camps; I definitely hope and pray that that poll skews towards the wingnuts to begin with, or else we really are fried as a country...and if I were to come across someone from that 22 percent Democratic group that supposedly supports this madness, I would be sorely tempted to try and inflict bodily harm on this person...I mean, it’s wrong for Repugs and independents to feel that way of course, but I’m not totally surprised by those numbers, sadly...and Figueredo is right IMO about the supine acquiescence by Dems on this issue; when the “D” team didn’t bother to push back against the “sanctuary city” demagoguery by “No Corporate Tax” Pat Toomey among others, that was the beginning of the downward slide as far as yours truly is concerned...oh, and has it occurred to the individuals polled that such Gestapo-like tactics described here would be the tip of the metaphorical spear when it comes to trying to implement Project 2025? (NSFW/H)...



...and as I contemplate what passes for the thought process displayed in the polling results in the prior clip, I cannot help but recall this moment from this great pic (and stage play) where similar fear and paranoia was also on display about 100 years ago...



...and when it comes to madness, fear and demagoguery, I can’t think of an individual who embodies that more than Bronzer Beelzebub (though Couch Boy isn’t far behind I’ll admit)...Chris Hayes brings us more on 45 wanting to be a dictator and use the military, and the completely called for response from VP Kamala Harris, with Sherrilyn Ifill, former president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund...and good point to recall Special Counsel Robert Mueller and how Bill Barr ran interference for the Gropenfuhrer to make sure the latter basically didn’t get touched, ensuring that Combover Caligula would hang around politically to plague us up to this moment, and hopefully not beyond (also a good point to note that Our Ochre Abomination has been learning how to wield power if, God forbid, he gets another crack at it)...



...and Jesse Dollemore points out that Our Treasonous Tiny-Handed Sweaty Orange Demagogue broke his word (of course) to a military family about paying for a murdered soldier’s funeral; that would be PFC Vanessa Guillén; every time you think it can’t possibly get any worse with this monster, it does somehow (also NSFW/H)...



...oh, and believe it or not, another woman has come forward with tales of being groped by Cantaloupe Capone, and this time, the incident is tied to Jeffrey Epstein also (John and Trae Crowder discuss)...and yeah, it’s insane to me also that the Repug candidate for *preznit is anywhere near 50 percent in the polls, but that is where we are, unfortunately (and the “Macaca” guy was former Repug U.S. Senator George Allen of Virginia)...



...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 10/28/16, in which Keith Olbermann gives us one of his “The Closer” segments he did for GQ during that year’s presidential election, addressing women voters contemplating casting their vote for Our Ochre Abomination with Olbermann’s completely apt IMO “doesn’t it bother you? questions (and oh yeah, since this aired, Our Former Felon-In-Chief was found liable for sexual abuse in the E. Jean Carroll case, to say nothing of the fact that he got 3 SCOTUS justices confirmed who made the difference in killing Roe and stripping women of the ability to make their own health care decisions...and by the way, Kelly Preston died in 2020...and I apologize actually for spending so much time calling out this delusional maniac, meaning our former occupant of An Oval Office, but I believe it’s necessary)...



...well, at least Jim Acosta of CNN finally said enough of all of this garbage concerning Our Human Trash Fire polluting our discourse, and I’m sure Acosta was held to account for it by management from “the most trusted name in news,” as Farron Cousins discusses...and boy, is Cousins right to wonder why the hell that nonsense from Mango Mussolini wasn’t just outright ignored in the first place...



...and I don’t know about you, but speaking only for myself, I admit that I need a bit of a musical palate cleanser, if you will, and I think this will suffice...hope it leads us all into a nice weekend (and not much more time for political/election-related stuff, so let’s all do what we can, OK?).