Friday Stuff

Leeja Miller discusses Mango Mussolini going after “sanctuary cities,” along with mush mouth Tom Homan threating Dem governor Tony Evers of Wisconsin (great background on how competitive the political landscape is in Wisconsin; the “R” party has been after Wisconsin for-freaking-evah because it pretty much was the birthplace of progressivism in this country)...good point about the Gropenfuhrer saying “I don’t know” when asked whether or not he needs to uphold the Constitution or whatever; yes, it’s bad, but typical for a demented sociopath like him...not surprising to hear about the “pro bono” stuff approved by Combover Caligula in return for him NOT suing law firms – what a profile in cowardice...these “EOs” about sanctuary cities from #47 are all going to end up challenged in court, by the way, and yeah, this ties back to Project 2025 also...and “MAGA Mike” Johnson wants to abolish district courts? Try telling me we AREN’T living in a dystopian nightmare...and Miller is indeed right that our side needs to “flood the zone” also and she has a ton of good advice here (NSFW/H)...



...and according to Brian Tyler Cohen, it looks like Yambo has tapped Judge Winebox for the role of DC U.S. Attorney in charge of federal prosecutors to replace the thoroughly-compromised-beyond-belief Ed Martin (he who defended the 1/6ers)...good point by Cohen to note the oversight role performed by this D.C. attorney position not just for D.C. cases but those in other jurisdictions, which makes Pirro even less qualified (NSFW/H)...



...and I admit that I’m definitely not a life sciences professional and I’m not qualified to make a diagnosis about anyone’s mental state, and I don’t know if Our Treasonous Orange Pustule is sunsetting or not (I have a feeling he is, but again, that call is “out of my lane”) concerning his typically ridiculous comments about Alcatraz; I think it’s just more evidence that we’re talking about someone who plainly has never cracked open a textbook in his life...and of course I don’t believe anyone among this cabal of grifters and liars, and that goes for Pam Bondi also when she claims that 21 million lives have allegedly been saved from seizing fentanyl pills...oh, but that number was revised up to 258 million lives saved? Do I hear 300 million? Just make it the whole damn country if you’re going to lie so outrageously (David Shuster of Rebel HQ tells us about it)...



...and I happened to come across this clip courtesy of Bill Madden on Xitter; the former Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost, just installed as Pope Leo XIV, had this to say about service...

Before becoming Pope, listen to what Cardinal Prevos had to say about service. It's too bad fascist despots like Trump and Vance don't take this message to heart. Sadly, instead of serving the American people, they only serve their own avarice and greed. pic.twitter.com/cUO7MByzYF

— Bill Madden (@maddenifico) May 8, 2025

...and concerning the new Pontiff, Tennessee Brando tells us that it looks like MAGA is all POed over Pope Leo XIV, especially that nutcase Laura Loomer – break out the world’s tiniest violin...one of Brando’s good points has to do with the actual damage MAGA has done to Christianity...full disclosure: yes, I’m Catholic, but don’t for a millisecond think that I could ever have a meeting of minds with MAGA troglodytes like Loomer (NSFW/H also)...



...and Jordan Klepper of The Daily Show interviews four active duty military members to go over the latest trans insanity in our services, and by that I mean wingnut reaction to trans service people and definitely not our brave service people themselves...”interesting to hear that we’re too strong for sports but too weak for the military” indeed...



...and RIP retired SCOTUS Justice David Souter, who sided with the Dems on Bush v. Gore in 2000 of course (even though he was appointed to the High Court under Poppy Bush), as well as favoring abortion rights in 1992 along with opposing school prayer and supporting affirmative action...his common sense approach when it came to respecting precedents and his sound judgment IMO inspired the cry “No More Souters” among the wingnut commentariat (typified by what I think was a dumb remark by Susan Page at the end about Souter being an “object lesson in the negative”; why? Because Souter exercised sound and independent judgment?)...



...and I hope you're in the mood for a little Friday funk, because here it is.

Thursday Stuff

Sam and Emma of The Majority Report bring us the story of wingnut U.S. House Repug Harriet Hageman of Wyoming getting geography wrong, thinking San Diego is in the Gulf of Mexico (and yes, I'm sticking with that correct name)...and yeah, isn’t it rich to hear Hageman accuse Mexico of pollution given that the head of Hageman’s party wants to gut environmental regs as noted here (and the Gropenfuhrer is up to his eyeballs in Project 2025, his pleadings to the contrary notwithstanding)...and just remember, Hageman’s state of Wyoming voted out Liz Cheney because she wasn’t conservative enough...



...and Chris Hayes tells us about Yambo being hell bent on destroying the U.S. economy, and though I’m definitely not a financial expert, I do detect a bit of a “sugar high” in how the markets are performing; when we start seeing empty shelves in a few weeks, I’m afraid it will be a much different story...and though I definitely don’t believe a word coming out of the mouth of Our Treasonous Orange Pestilence, he does seem to have gone “around the bend” in a big way with his “shop keeper of America” nonsense...



...and sticking with economic stuff, particularly food, Robert Reich tells us about potato processors in the US (allegedly) engaging in price fixing, with 47% increases while manufacturing costs dropped; I have a feeling that stuff like this will only increase with companies trying to squeeze out every penny before the economic downturn hits for real (love to be wrong on that)...



...and turning to legal matters, John and Brett Erlich of The Damage Report tell us that it looks like this Harmeet Dhillon at Trump’s DOJ ended up causing a mass exodus of the civil rights division (losing about 70 percent of the workforce by terminations or resignations) by saying something along the lines of priorities changing, or words to that effect, which is Trumpist-speak for Dhillion wanting the DOJ to be the consiglieres for Cantaloupe Capone, the Constitution and will of the people be damned...and I totally believe John at the end about the MAGA lunatics being happy about all the “Ls” they’re going to end up taking on their retirement, jobs, overall quality of life, etc. to say nothing of their kids, as long as a “trannie” somewhere isn’t allowed to swim or play field hockey...the four horsemen must be saddling up at this point...



...and Brian Tyler Cohen and Marc Elias tell us about the district court judge who ruled in favor of Dem state supreme court judge Allison Riggs, and that would be Richard Myers, appointed by Our Ochre Abomination in 2019...this case was all about cherry-picking some voters in order to remove their votes from the 4 majority Dem districts in that state, which of course is overwhelmingly Repug, with the effect being to illegally put Repug Jefferson Griffin into the role instead of Riggs... and of course, this is a typical Repug hissy fit over not getting their way (as Elias notes, the Repugs in that state found a way to strip power from the Dem governor/administration and give the authority to compose the election board to a lower-level Repug official, the state auditor...and yep, as Elias says, all these lunatics need is one win in court somewhere to act as a rallying point for more voting mischief in other states)...

...and as someone very much “in the faith,” I would say that this is great news...that being said, we’ll find out more about the new Pope in the coming days and weeks (I'm taking a bit of a "wait and see" attitude); apparently, he’s not big on ordaining women, unfortunately, but he deserves the benefit of the doubt for now...for the time being, I think this tune is appropriate.

Wednesday Stuff

Farron Cousins gives us a bit of a deeper dive into the recent “Bleat The Press” interview with Our Ochre Abomination...soooooo, the “good” parts of the economy are Trump’s (spoiler alert: as Cousins says, there ARE NO GOOD PARTS), and the “bad” parts of the economy are somehow Biden’s fault...I’m still waiting for a formal statement of apology from the Wharton Business School for actually giving a degree to this clueless orange meat sack...



...and Kyle Kulinski tells us about the LA Port head issuing a warning of economic collapse, with trade from China cut by a third in just a week...”global trade coming to a standstill”...and yeah, I’m longing right now for that supposedly awful 4 percent inflation under Biden, which (and let’s all say this together) was because of PRICE GOUGING AND SUPPLY CHAIN DISRUPTIONS COMING OUT OF COVID!!!...and I like Kyle’s idea to basically just tell “Donnie Two Scoops” that, yeah dawg, we really collected the tariffs, but really we just don’t and don’t tell him since he’ll never know the difference...Kyle also makes good points about the ripple effects of this madness (NSFW/H)...



...and Jesse Dollemore tells us that an air traffic controller recently warned people to avoid Newark Airport at all costs, which is frightening and also a shame because we’ve flown out of Newark, and as airports go, I think it’s a good one...and I definitely don’t feel assured with Trump DOT idiot Sean Duffy in charge...just creating chaos for the sake of creating chaos, people’s well-being be damned, staring with Elmo and his demented band of DOGE incels...part of me wonders if this is just a case of someone at Newark going public and the same issues are taking place at other airports we just don’t know about...hope to God I’m wrong (slightly NSFW/H also)...



Update: What a numbskull - Duffy is as bad as his boss (here).

Update 5/10/25: And why does this not surprise me in any way?

...and I’m a little behind with this I know, but I didn’t want to forget it...this SNL Weekend Update clip with Colin Jost and Michael Che gives us kind of a grab bag of idiocy from Pumpkin Pol Pot, including the doctored Pope pic and a promise to bring back Columbus Day...didn’t know it went anywhere, actually...



...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 5/6/11...yes, I remember that AOC primaried and defeated corpora-Dem Joe Crowley, but to me, this was a shining moment from Crowley timed for another “100 days” which took place at the beginning of the 112th Congress, with “Man Tan” Boehner in charge in the House (I guess you could say “past is prologue” here)...



...and happy 75th birthday to drummer Prairie Prince of The Tubes.

Tuesday Stuff

Jesse Dollemore brings us the sordid business of Trumpist demonic apparition Stephen Miller lying as per usual at a recent White House press briefing...so much idiotic nonsense that it’s truly hard to unpackage it to point out how ridiculous it is, which is completely by design of course...Miller is trying to recreate his own demented version of the Hitler Jugend, in case we hadn’t somehow picked up on that already...and in one breath, Miller says states must teach his brown shirt version of history while also saying that this ruinous regime wants to shut down the DOE...and as Jesse says, Miller really needs to re-learn how to “catapult the propaganda” since Communism is pretty much dead in the developed world...and as always, this garbage is dressed up in the guise of ”safety” and “security”...also, I know Miller can’t provide an example of conservatives and “people of faith” being targeted because IT’S ISN’T FREAKING HAPPENING, VAMPIRE BOY! (and I agree with Jesse; show me ONE FREAKING PERSON in our ruling cabal of grifters and lowlifes who has ANY ACTUAL MERIT WHATSOEVER – slightly NSFW/H)...



...and “The Daily Show” offers the following take on Miller, otherwise known as “Grossferatu” (slightly NSFW/H)...



...and David Pakman tells us about Miller’s boss threatening to use the Insurrection Act to send troops to the southern border at a particularly unhinged cabinet briefing in which he took questions from the press (and no, he cannot do that either...”if this isn’t authoritarianism, I don’t know what is” indeed)...



...and this report from the CBC tells us about that particularly stoo-pid 25% tariff going into effect for Canada, but apparently most Canadian auto parts are exempt as well as those under the CUSMA...I think the whole point of this idiocy is to make people give up trying to figure out what’s going on – typical shell game for a con man like Our Ochre Abomination...



...and sticking with money matters, Jayar Jackson of Rebel HQ discusses the MAGA response to rising prices, particularly on eggs with Screechy Maria Bartiromo...darkly funny in a way for this farmer to talk about being supported by the Inflation Reduction Act, but OF COURSE he doesn’t give any credit to the president who was responsible for getting the act signed into law; I hope he doesn’t lose his farm, but when you support Pumpkin Pol Pot, what the hell else can you expect?...and maybe I’m a mean person, and if so I’m sorry, but at a certain point, I run out of patience with people regretting their vote for Our Treasonous Orange Nightmare; you had AMPLE OPPORTUNITY to study the issues by reading accounts from impartial sources, or both left and right if you wanted, to say nothing of hearing about Project 2025, and you STILL voted for this assclown because he promised to oppress people WHO WEREN’T YOU, or so you thought...and by the way, more idiocy with Jason Smith is here (and I’m not the least bit surprised to hear more Repug double-talk on prices now that last year’s elections are done)...



...and there are a few musical 80th birthdays I want to get to this month, and I’ll start with this one for Bob Seger...hope it’s a good one (I saw him at the Spectrum forever ago, and he killed it).

Monday Stuff

Chris Hayes tells us about Our Ochre Abomination and his party coming after NPR and the CPB/PBS again, just like they have as long as these entities have existed (a testimony to the integrity of President Ford that his was the only Repug administration that didn’t try to do this...great point by Hayes about Repug political cowardice on Capitol Hill that’s letting Combover Caligula to, in essence, steal the “power of the purse” from the legislative branch, while those contemptible assclowns in the House and the Senate act like “hey, blame Trump, not us for gutting all of this stuff”)...



...and Brian Tyler Cohen discusses Yambo (who doesn’t know much about the oath he took to uphold his office based on this) wanting a military parade for his birthday, which, coincidentally, is the same day as Flag Day, so I guess that’s #47’s excuse to say he’s NOT going full authoritarian here (which he is of course)...”(Trump) wants to rule like a king, not govern like a president” indeed...



...oh, and I realize that only filthy, unkempt liberal blogger types like yours truly are allowed to point out that Bronzer Beelzebub is a stone cold racist (that’s too impolite for our fourth estate cousins, I realize), but to emphasize that, I bring you this clip of Jesse Dollemore telling us about #47 ending desegregation, trying to overturn one order at a time, apparently, from inside his “(In)Justice” Department, with a focus on the South of course, mainly in Louisiana for now...I realize the Gropenfuhrer doesn’t care about history especially that affecting non-whites, but the SCOTUS desegregation orders came because school districts (mainly, but not only, in the South) dragged their feet so much when it came to trying to comply with the High Court guidelines from the Brown v. Board rulings (slightly NSFW/H)...



...and Thom Hartmann says that a vote in the U.S. Senate to end the self-declared “emergency” by Our Treasonous Orange Pustule could come tomorrow (#47 used his “emergency” as an excuse to enact those utterly ruinous tariffs of his)...there could be at least 4 possible Repug defections (both from Kentucky, along with Lisa Murkowski in Alaska and “Disappointed” Collins in Maine, with all 3 states getting clobbered by Canada...in Kentucky the bourbon distillers are taking it on the chin, and I think tourism is the story for the other two)...I mean, we are talking about Republicans after all, so we shouldn’t get our hopes up too high...



...oh, and let it be known also that the “party of Lincoln” is refusing to stand up against the head of their party deporting U.S. citizens; apparently, Pramila Jayapal, to her credit, introduced this measure in the House and it was supported only by Dems – Farron Cousins tells us about it (more here)...



...and here’s a newer tune to help ease us into the week...hopefully there won’t be too much insanity, but I guess we have to expect that there probably will be for awhile yet (heckuva job, all you numbskulls who made sure we were stuck with this orange pestilence last year).

Friday Stuff

Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report brings us the tale of Trump supporters cheering the deportation of a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer (life forms that are completely and utterly beneath my contempt)...and oh yeah, Our Treasonous Orange Pestilence won’t support the Equal Credit Opportunity Act which has existed since the ‘70s, which in essence means that he’s willing to discriminate against women economically of course...and yeah, let’s not lose sight of the fact that Combover Caligula is thumbing his nose at the SCOTUS, which told #47 to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia in a 9-0 ruling; shocking that our SCOTUS did the right thing IMO (#47 ignoring that by itself is worthy of impeachment as far as yours truly is concerned, though you could add a lot of other illegality such as DOGE wrecking our government without authorization and other court decisions Trump has lost...and oh yeah, add the threat to arrest SCOTUS justices too – hard for me to defend Thomas and Alito and those other 4 miscreants, but there’s a larger principle here)...and yeah, even that judge Terry Doughty, a Trump appointee, knows how badly this lawless administration f*cked up by deporting the 2-year-old child and U.S. citizen without due process...and oh yeah, the mother and the child’s 11-year-old sister were also sent to Honduras without a hearing...and I’m pretty sure Tom Homan was selected for his job because he’s an utter mush mouth and his diction is terrible, which is another “FU” from our ruling cabal of liars, grifters and frauds (NSFW/H)...



...and Rachel Maddow informs us of the Gropenfuhrer telling U.S. citizen lawyers, teachers, etc. that they have a fixed amount of time to get out of the country (about 9 people so far apparently)...indeed, as Maddow says, we keep seeing stories about immigration in which U.S. citizens are involved, which is by design of course (echoes the Figueredo clip a bit)...”these guys don’t color inside the lines” indeed...and it looks like “I’ll Drink To That” Hegseth is just so pleased with himself for ending some “woke/DEI/divisive/whatever” Pentagon initiative allegedly from Biden, though it was in fact signed into law by Our Ochre Abomination and sponsored by DHS Secretary Kristi (“Unsafe At Any Speed”) Noem when she took up space in the U.S. House, and sponsored also by now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the Senate...and also there’s the matter of bringing back the Firefighters Cancer Registry that #47 sh*tcanned even though – oopsie! – he was responsible for it and bragged about it (of course) in his first term...also, there’s the matter of bringing back those at the CDC screening coal miners for black lung disease who were let go...I don’t know what’s worse: the cruelty or the stoo-pidity...



...and here is a bit of a snippet of some of yesterday’s May Day protests across the U.S. and around the world (more here, here and here)...



...oh, and Bronzer Beelzebub and “Bobby Brainworms” are also getting rid of funding for life-saving overdose prevention programs, affecting Narcan in particular...I guess they feel like they have to make that body count spike somehow (Brittany Page gives us the gory details...the humanity she displays in this clip is commendable IMO)...



...and Richard Ojeda of Rebel HQ tells us about House Joint Resolution 73, introduced in the Missouri state house by this nutball rep Brian Seitz (from Branson, of course), and yep, it’s another ridiculous anti-abortion bill; to her credit, Dem Rep Raychel Proudie calls it out for what it is...it sounds like the bill is an attempt to overturn a voter referendum ensuring abortion rights...and yep, “culture of life” shouldn’t be wingnut code language, but it is...”it’s not just offensive, it’s deadly” indeed...



...and I think these guys are coming to town in a couple of weeks (I’ve been pretty mellow with my musical selections, but I thought I’d give that a break for today).

Thursday Stuff

Brian Tyler Cohen tells us how Bronzer Beelzebub helped make sure conservative Pierre Poilievre would lose in the Canadian PM election to a liberal, and that would be Mark Carney, and on top of that, Poilievre lost his parliament seat also...of course, the conservatives in Canada were predicted to win, but #47’s antics turned the tide in favor of Carney and the libs (I can’t tell you how depressing it is to hear Carney talk about the era of the U.S. anchoring global trade being over, but I don’t blame him; he and our neighbors to the north have to take the lead for their own self-interest...slightly NSFW/H)....



...and Hunter Avallone of Occupy Democrats tells us that #47 wants to be Pope, I guess because he’s bored of playing *preznit (and why the $#@! would he be asked about who he thinks would be a good pope anyway...and getting cheered on by Huckleberry Graham...of course, Yambo acted like a petulant little baby when he was called out on that MS-13 business with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, showing once again how utterly divorced from reality Our Treasonous Orange Pustule truly is)...and oh yeah, “MAGA Mike” Johnson just tells us “hey, there’s going to be bumps in the road” for a new administration; I guess he took a break from watching p*rn with his son to tell us that...



...and John and Viviana Vigil of The Damage Report give us a segment on Jon Stewart’s report on our ruinous first 100 days of Pumpkin Pol Pot and the tariff/trade insanity (and Scott Bessent is “roughly an LLC turned into barely human form” – nice one by John...and I want to disagree with Vigil’s whole “feels over reals” argument about politics, if you will, but in good conscience I can’t, which is a pathetic commentary on anybody who had anything to do with making sure we were inflicted with this contagion for four more years)...



...and I still find myself on Nazi Twitter from time to time for a brief period (partly so you don’t have to be there, dear reader), and while I was at that hellsite recently, I happened to come across this clip of a U.S. citizen living in Senegal who was trying to get passports for her and her son, which should have been pretty automatic, but in this Trumpist era, it definitely wasn’t, as she tells us (a cautionary lesson, sadly)...

These are the actions of a fascist authoritarian dictatorship. Something horrific is happening to American citizens. 😳👇 pic.twitter.com/mfI4fqhsTK

— Bill Madden (@maddenifico) April 27, 2025

...and oh yeah, this guy just passed on...I realize politics is full of stories of people who switched from one side to the other, usually from left to right (as in The Sainted Ronnie R), but David Horowitz was exceptionally bad IMO, as demonstrated in another really old TYT clip...you need to recall the whole “beer summit” thing under former President Obama to get the context of the discussion here, with Horowitz basically saying that blacks slit throats and get away with it, which is a particularly gonzo remark...Horowitz, back in the day, was, more than anyone else, the guy screaming “liberal bias” at college campuses whether it actually existed or not...I was always taught not to say anything bad about someone who has died, so I’ll just leave it at that...



...and I think this newer tune works also; sounds like a record for me too.