Friday Stuff

I guess it was only a matter of time before Pumpkin Pol Pot overturned the Obama-era rule regulating six greenhouse gases burned from oil, gas and coal that contribute to climate change (the so-called “endangerment finding” from 2009), removing emissions standards for cars, trucks and other vehicles along with reporting requirements for various affected industries (here)...oh, supposedly, Former President Hopey Changey “overstated” the risk and “underplayed the benefits of increased carbon pollution”? When it comes to the assault on climate science from our ruling regime, this may be game, set and match, tragically...hope all of you nitwits who thought Biden needed to go because of an admittedly bad debate (opening the door for our cretin-in-chief) are proud of yourselves...I realize there’s so much to say about this, how it’s a big, sloppy wet kiss from the Tangerine Toddler to his fossil fuel buds and campaign donors, how it’s a way to say “F.U.” to Obama, who #47 will apparently NEVER stop hating, how it’s a sop to voters too dumb to realize that oil and gas are on the decline as energy sources (even though we may always need them unfortunately) and coal is pretty much dead, etc...Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! speaks with Gretchen Goldman, president and CEO of the Union of Concerned Scientists...”we’re really seeing the abdication of U.S. leadership on climate” indeed, which will be yet another win for China, which is kicking our metaphorical butt when it comes to scientific and technological developments in combatting the climate crisis...as good as this segment is, I wish Goodman and Goldman had touched on the health effects of worsening climate for at-risk populations, including premature infants, immune-compromised individuals including the elderly, etc. (here)...



...and a lot of stuff I put up here features folks worthy of ridicule and I’ll admit that I try to have sarcastic fun with them because I think they deserve it, but this story is not humorous in any way...according to her boyfriend, apparently in January 2025, a man in Texas (allegedly) killed his daughter over an argument about Don The Con; the fact that she was British plays into this because, while Texas wanted to charge the father with manslaughter (with the man apparently free pending a trial date), Great Britain decided to do their own investigation, and we’ll see what comes of that...Farron Cousins discusses this awful item...



...and Kyle Kulinski lets us know that, apparently, there was a “March for Billionaires” in San Francisco last weekend according to Rupert The Pirate’s Vanity Rag...and yeah, aside even from the preposterous statement about billionaires supposedly building prosperity (spoiler alert: they build wealth for themselves and that’s about it), the fact that all of these ultra-rich guttersnipes are in the Epstein files is probably the least surprising fact you’re likely to learn about for years...it makes total sense that this idiocy started in response to the completely reasonable proposal for a 5% wealth tax in the “golden state”...I think it’s appropriate for Kyle to use 1974 as the measure of sorts for when wealth inequality started to explode for real in this country...Kyle harps on the fact that the moneyed bastards in this country keep trying to perpetuate their “divide and conquer” nonsense with LGBTQ plus individuals and immigrants as the scapegoats (among others), and nothing will ever truly change in this country until an overwhelming majority sees this for the scam that it truly is...”you can have billionaires or you can have democracy” indeed (definitely NSFW/H)...



...and Chris Hayes discusses Mush Mouth Tom Homan saying ICE is done terrorizing Minnesota, and I have at least 2 reactions: 1) I’ll believe it when I see it, and 2) What was the point, then, of all of the chaos, destruction, and murder of at least 2 people?...I totally accept Hayes’s premise that our ruling cabal of grifters and lowlifes expected to be politically rewarded, but fortunately we know what happened instead...one of Hayes’s good points is that the cost of this Trumpist carnage on an American city will indeed be impossible to calculate...didn’t realize that schools in Minnesota may lose funding because of the drop in attendance from parents afraid to send their kids to school, with attendance being the metric to determine state and federal funding...when all of the sh*t from our cretinous ruling regime gets overwhelming at times, I would recommend watching this video to find solace and inspiration...



...and Jordan Klepper of The Daily Show tells us that, if you’re looking for something uplifting from the Winter Olympics, well, maybe you need to keep looking (last I checked, we were third in the medals totals, which is fine – not going to get worked up over it one way or the other)...looks like this dude from Norway was guilty of a little TMI for the cameras and now his dating life is going to be hampered a bit, shall we say...also, this French woman skier was guilty of identify theft? Well, I heard someone say that sports reflects real life, so I guess that fits too...and oh yeah, Klepper revisits the Pam “Blondi” fiasco and the idiocy from Dementia J. Trump over the Gordie Howe Bridge (didn’t know one of #47’s donors took umbrage over the new bridge, but given the bottomless corruption of this administration, that’s not surprising...wasn’t expecting the bridge troll, but that’s OK)...



...and apparently, there’s an “ICE Out” event tomorrow in Maplewood, NJ (here)...I think this is a fitting tune for the occasion.

Thursday Stuff

(Including this pic doesn't mean I want to bring back guillotines, I hasten to note.)

Robert Reich discusses what we can do to defeat big money in our politics, taking a look at NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani...GREAT point about NYC’s public financing of elections playing a role to limit corporate money in political campaigns...30 state and local governments have some type of public financing for elections (should be nationwide, though I’m sure our wretched SCOTUS would blow that up if given the chance)...and the fact that our plutocrats in this country basically set $55 million on fire to try and stop Mamdani and failed warms my heart, to be honest...we probably would need a Constitutional amendment in this country to mandate public financing of elections, and good luck making that happen I know...



...and sticking with money matters, Rachel Maddow tells us that the Gropenfuhrer was acting defensive about the econ data before it was even released...over 108K layoffs in January of this year alone, the largest number since 2009 when we were coming out of “the great recession” from the subprime mortgage crisis, and only about 5K were hired, which is an almost microscopic number in the scheme of things, also the lowest since ’09, and open job listings are at their lowest level in five years (since COVID), and all of this data comes from private companies since the regime of Mango Mussolini is so bad with that kind of reporting...more on the Wednesday econ numbers is here (only slightly better than the numbers Maddow reported...still awful)...and I’m sure those 108K folks who lost jobs last month will be happy to hear that “don’t be a panican” nonsense...



...and Jesse Dollemore tells us about the small Idaho locality of Canyon County seeing 300 kids rounded up by ICE with the aid of Trumpist lackey and dead-eyed psychopath Sheriff Kieran Donahue; 5 were eventually arrested on gambling charges...so not only is this a cruel and random abuse of law enforcement, but it’s inefficient also since it didn’t generate arrests of people who actually posed a threat...and when even Mr. Katy Tur calls this out for what it is on the New And Awful CBS News Under Bari Weiss, then you KNOW we have a problem (a 14-year-old girl was zip tied...I’m old enough to recall when we would protest OTHER countries that did stuff like this...NSFW/H)...



...and Sam and Emma of The Majority Report bring us more on the threat to society posed by our beyond incompetent HHS Secretary RFK Jr...looks like our goofball Kennedy scion now says that we can get rid of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder by adapting a keto diet as noted here (huh?)...video kind of takes a turn towards criticizing Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton, which I’m not opposed to in principle, but maybe a little more in-depth commentary on the harms inflicted by Bobby Brainworms would have been more germane here (and I can only imagine how far ahead of this country on infrastructure and medical care AIPAC is; light years I’m sure)...



...and Jimmy Kimmel tells us about Cantaloupe Capone winning some “coal champion” BS award (yep, just give Cheetoh Benito some gold bauble and he’s yours I suppose), and yeah, add his name to the Epstein files for sure...didn’t know that Pumpkin Pol Pot contacted the Palm Beach police and supposedly thanked them for trying to stop Epstein, but yeah, tell me again how Diaper Donnie wasn’t best buds with the guy – uh huh...and oh yeah, apparently Pam “Blondi” really outdid herself at that U.S. House hearing yesterday – I can never recall an attorney general reminding anyone at a hearing how much the DJIA has supposedly increased since a presidential administration was sworn in...”even the redactions (of the files) are racist” since some are white instead of black – good one (and I don’t know what got into Thomas Massie, and I know he’s a bedrock conservative in most ways, but he has stood tall when it comes to the Epstein files)...and Jumpin’ Judas H. Priest On A Pogo Stick, Marjorie Train Wreck Greene and Bo-Bo Boebert ARE ACTUALLY SAYING THE RIGHT THING!! Am I living in an alternate universe or something?...oh, but along comes Greg Kelly of Newsmax to remind us of the wingnut version of reality...I know I alluded to the fact that the EU is taking this Epstein criminal garbage seriously in a way that we’re not in this country (among the “R” party, anyway), and Kimmel provides more proof here (nice Brit parody about P*rnhub at the end)...



...and I liked the change of pace from this newer tune (I watch this and I miss MVY sooo bad, especially this time of year).

Wednesday Stuff

Ali Velshi of MS NOW lets us know about the DHS of our *preznit using administrative subpoenas to spy on and retaliate against dissenters, with such subpoenas generated by administrative agencies without a court order or a grand jury, based on WaPo reporting (commendable they can still report on anything of consequence after having been eviscerated by layoffs)...I honestly don’t know who “John” is in this story, but this person is a hero as far as yours truly is concerned, so OF COURSE our DHS thugs decided to go after him...and why am I not surprised that Google and Meta have received record numbers of subpoenas since the Gropenfuhrer was stoo-pidly returned to An Oval Office? Yeah, I’ll bet Tricia McLaughlin and other stooges from our regime just feel so high and mighty about rattling the metaphorical cage of a guy trying to do the right and decent thing ("John" I mean)...Velshi is joined by Joseph Menn and Melissa Murray – important background by Murray on how administrative subpoenas are SUPPOSED to be used...”the process is the punishment” indeed, meant to squash any dissent by our ruling thuggish regime...good idea from Menn to check the Electronic Frontier Foundation for guidelines on how to conduct oneself online in our current age...



...and Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report brings us the latest on kids in ICE concentration camps “distraught” and “horribly sick” due to inhumane conditions...I think I mentioned this before, but I’ll say it again; just 14 percent of those captured by our thuggish ruling regime have criminal records...we also learn that ICE is buying up warehouses across the country that they plan to convert to mega-concentration camps, including the one in Dilley, Texas (and thank God Liam Ramos is home, though God knows how long he’ll be dealing with the trauma inflicted on him)...kids (and everyone else) are being fed food contaminated with worms and mold and lousy water in these camps also, and oh yeah, there were also two confirmed cases of measles...and it should also come as no surprise that these kids are practicing self-harm and have suicidal thoughts, which may follow them for the rest of their lives (and the kids are being used by the ICE Gestapo as pawns to get their parents to abandon legal asylum claims, including the Vargas family which Figueredo discusses)...and Todd Blanche is just another monster from our ruling crew of psychopaths (and Laura Ingraham is merely another cheerleader – still another whited sepulcher)...didn’t know about Mango Mussolini’s fuel embargo against Cuba – I guess we don’t have enough reporters any more to cover stories like that since they’ve all been let go by their respective orgs (NSFW/H)...



...and Chris Hayes gives us the latest on another failed attempt at a prosecution from Judge Winebox, making her 0-6 in that department...a D.C. grand jury decided not to indict the 6 Dem lawmakers who told our active duty military that they should refuse illegal orders, which is definitely the right call by all concerned...I remember in pre-Trump days when a grand jury would return an indictment against a ham sandwich, as the expression goes (as Hayes notes, the last time there was an attempt to charge members of Congress like this, there was a case involving “the Bug Man,” and Jack Smith was ALSO involved in that, strangely enough)...with Carol Leonnig...



...and this report from the CBC (The National) tells us about Combover Caligula doing what he can to block the opening of the Gordie Howe Bridge linking Ontario, Canada and Detroit, even though the U.S. didn’t pay dime one towards the bridge’s creation; it was totally financed by our neighbors to the north... unintentionally funny to hear Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens call Trump’s post “insane,” which it truly is, while also saying we shouldn’t overreact...



...and sticking with matters outside our border, Jonathan Pie lets us know that, apparently, our friends “across the pond” are getting fed up with British PM Keir Starmer in charge, with everyone from the housing minister to Peter Mandelson held up for ridicule for associating with Jeffrey Epstein...also, this Morgan McSweeney sounds like no great prize either, though I will say that it’s refreshing to see people in power in the U.K. paying a political price for associating with a known pedophile, unlike this country so far as noted here (NSFW/H also)...



...and I had a newer tune last week for Renee Good, so I think it’s only right that I have a newer selection for Alex Pretti also.

Tuesday Stuff

Brian Tyler Cohen tells us about the typically petulant whining from our *preznit about the Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show, since, as we know, he obviously doesn’t have enough to do as leader of the free world, for now anyway (full disclosure – I didn’t see the performance either because I don’t generally pay a lot of attention to the Super Bowl anyway, even last year when the Iggles were in it to be honest...maybe heretical on my part to admit that I guess)...apparently, Bad Bunny’s performance was a celebration of diversity, which is awesome IMO, partly because that puts you-know-who’s drawers in the proverbial knot as Cohen tells us...and great point by Cohen that the counter programming by TPUSA (must be nice to have so much dough that you can waste it on THAT) was so bad that even Mango Mussolini blew it off...I have to admit that those are staggering numbers from Harry Enten of CNN when it comes to #47 losing Gen Z support...hey @DNC, just imagine how much better even those numbers could be if you CRAFTED ACTUAL POLICY FOR THAT GROUP TO SUPPORT!!!...I hope that Cohen is right when he says that this country is getting tired of the hate pretty much from one side, because I have to admit that I am too and I’ve felt that way for longer than I care to admit...and congratulations to the Seahawks, by the way (NSFW/H)...



...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ brings us the sorry tale of Cheetoh Hitler tanking the job market, causing econ crash indicators to intensify – terrific...the Challenger report is out for January, and it’s an economic train wreck (Challenger being a business consulting company looking at economic trends)...layoffs last month were the highest since 2009, and I honestly don’t think I’ve ever seen a 205 percent increase in ANYTHING before...and it looks like the cuts to Medicare and Medicaid from last summer (vis-a-vis the Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck) are wreaking havoc also; health care is usually a pretty reliable sector when it comes to jobs mainly because people will always be sick, but when even THAT is getting clobbered, well, it might be time “go to the mattresses,” and I don’t mean to sleep...”economic and labor force weakness” are factors, along with about 10K people a day retiring (I heard about that anecdotally, and no, I can’t back that up with evidence at the moment...sorry)...glad Shuster brings up Steven Rattner to refute today’s lies from Combover Caligula...you’d have to be a total pinhead to believe that companies will magically onshore their overseas supply chains again under the tariff threat from Pumpkin Pol Pot, but yeah, that’s what too damn many people in this country voted for in ’24...good for Rattner to mention the CHIPS Act from President Biden which did indeed spur development in this country, as opposed to what we have now...I think the minions around Dear Leader just make up those number for him to read, knowing that Dementia J. Trump will just parrot them without hesitation...



...and you know, I’m not going to get my hopes up too much because we have a long way to go until November, but I really do need to point out that there was ANOTHER off-cycle Dem electoral win in an area the Gropenfuhrer won in ’24 by double digits (here), as Belle of the Ranch tells us (sounds like we have a trend, but again, keeping my fingers crossed)...Louisiana Democrat Chasity Verret Martinez beat her Repug opponent Brad Daigle in a state legislative race; also, as you might expect, Verret Martinez was outspent big time by the Repugs, but fortunately, it didn’t matter...she focused on public education and affordability, giving those clueless election losers at the @DNC a template to follow this fall (and yes, as Belle says, this district has voted for Dems before, but the swing over to the “D” side is what’s noteworthy here IMO)...



...and John Iadarola gives us his “garbage person of the week” from Friday, and that would be this dumbass Jake Lang (another pardoned 1/6 insurrectionist as John points out) who vandalized an anti-ICE exhibit...it’s kind of the “chef’s kiss” that the sculpture Lang ruined was put up by actual veterans...good one by Brett Erlich wondering if Lang is mad at the sculpture because of what it stands for or maybe because Lang can’t read it...



...and speaking of ICE (sort of), I thought I’d present another number from Mr. Newberger dealing with ”Maniac Megyn” Kelly...



Update: More here.

...and RIP bassist Fred Smith of the band Television.

Monday Stuff

Chris Jansing of MS NOW moderates a discussion on the latest vile anti-Obama stuff from #47 that Dear Leader shared on Truth Septic (sorry I’m a little late with this)...yes it is plenty disgusting, but I thought Symone Sanders Townsend and Eugene Daniels brought some important context to this latest mess, and Daniels is right to just say that this is who Don The Con truly is (oh, but it was a “staffer” that made the post...riiiight - more on that a little later), and I’m old enough to remember the Teahadist racist crap from all over the place around ’08-’09 when Obama was first elected, exemplified by the pic (pointing out that Cantaloupe Capone is a hateful bigot isn’t exactly “man bites dog” stuff unfortunately...great point by Townsend that there are no apes in “The Lion King,” so Trumpette spokes-liar Karoline Leavitt is out of her depth once again)...also, I don’t give Tim Scott credit for a damn thing since he’s done the bidding of this administration at every turn...our ruling regime is doing everything it can to embrace the basic fact that this country is racist and sexist to its core, and I see nothing whatsoever to indicate that that will ever change (and I forgot for a moment that this is happening during Black History Month; I have a problem with that concept only because contributions to this country from African Americans should be celebrated EVERY month and not just during the shortest duration month on the calendar).

(By the way, about the pic above from the Teahadist rallies against President Obama from about 16 years ago...this is a cautionary reminder that racism and sexism are baked in to Not Your Father’s Republican Party; I heard NOT ONE WORD of reprisal from ANY Repug politician for all of the unbelievably racist signs and rotten behavior during the period between Obama winning the White House and the 2010 midterm elections, when the “Kochtopus” took control of the “R” team once and for all.).

Here is the MS NOW clip...



...and Alex Witt interviews Dem U.S. House Rep Sara Jacobs on how the Tangerine Toddler and his minions are planning to mess up the fall elections in their favor (Dem U.S. Senator Mark Warner of Virginia is pretty centrist IMO, but credit where it’s due to him for calling out the threat posed by Our Treasonous Orange Pustule)....Witt touches on the SAVE Act, which is part and parcel of the Repugs trying to scuttle voting across the country with pointless roadblocks in an effort to discourage turnout (here, including making married women provide documentation for their name change)...Witt comes perilously close to corporate media both sidesing here as far as I’m concerned, though she does ask a good question about what Dems plan to do if, God willing, they retake the House, and I thought Jacobs gave a good answer...



...and Kyle Kulinski tells us that Judge Winebox in D.C. has come out against the Second Amendment, which I thought was absolutely sacrosanct to wingnuts...so NOW, allegedly, Repugs are against “right to bear arms”? Not after scores of dead bodies, including congregants in synagogues, gay and trans people in a disco and kids in elementary school? Now, because of Alex Pretti?? What a vile piece of garbage that woman is (NSFW/H)...



...and Julia Pagé of CBC’s The National goes on patrol with the Black Panthers in Philly led by Paul Birdsong (the name of the group was changed as a result of some type of internal dustup with the chapter’s founder)...I have no reason to believe that the Panthers have started or will start anything; at this time, I’ll take them at their word that they’re all about self-defense, especially with ICE running amok on the orders of Dog Killer Noem and Pee Wee German...I’m presenting this clip for its newsworthiness more than anything else (maybe as a counterpart to the first clip)...I have to admit that I didn’t know that open carry was legal in most places in Philly (also NSFW/H)...



...and I thought this was a timely selection from Mr. Newberger (somewhat NSFW/H as well)...



...and The Doors released Morrison Hotel on this day in 1970, featuring this tune (the location the cover was based on burned to the ground sadly in December of '24).

Friday Stuff

Farron Cousins informs us that there was a recent U.S. Senate hearing about Netflix potentially merging with Warner Brothers-Discovery and whether or not that merger violates antitrust laws, but instead of focusing on the applicable statute, Senate Repugs beat up Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos about gays and trannies in that network’s programming, including Running Man Josh Hawley who said such shows violate his personal beliefs, or something...as Cousins says, nobody is putting a gun at Hawley’s head and TELLING him to watch Netflix content; just unsubscribe or turn off the damn TV if Hawley wants to exercise parental control, which is his right...didn’t know that the highest ratings for transgender adult films are in red states and that the Grindr app is such a big deal in those locations also, but that figures in a twisted way I’ll admit (twisted in terms of the hypocrisy I mean...mildly NSFW/H)...



...and Thom Hartmann tells us that ICE has imprisoned 70K people in 225 detention centers housing people not convicted of a criminal offense (immigration violations real or imagined are civil, not criminal)...this basically makes these centers “concentration camps” according to Merriam Webster...didn’t know the death count in ICE’s concentration camps was up to 35 (and good point about Hitler’s camps outside of Germany, similar to the fact that CECOT for our ruling regime is in El Salvador)...and OF COURSE private prison companies (benefactors primarily of Repugs – don’t know if any Dems take their dirty money) are having a heyday right now...



...and Chris Hayes reminds us that Mango Mussolini is reassembling the crew from ’20 to try and mess with ’26 elections...yeah Bronzer Boy, you’re damn right your sorry ass is going to get impeached again if Dems take control of Congress, and this time you’ll be convicted...Hayes revisits Dem Taylor Rehmet’s win in Texas (a state senate seat in a district #47 won in ’24 by 17 points)...I disagree with Hayes’s statement that Dems do better in low-turnout elections; the data doesn’t back that up...and yes, the ridiculous gerrymandering was Plan A, and Plan B is to just outright try and take over the elections, with the dirty work being done by all of these disgusting life forms like Roger Stone who were involved in the attempted coup (once again, love and kisses to Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland for dragging his feet so atrociously and not getting convictions for all of these guttersnipes – for all the good Biden did, getting played by Israel was his biggest mistake IMO, but putting Garland where he did was #2 on that list)...I realize Hayes has to include a clip of Pumpkin Pol Pot lying about elections once again, but that doesn’t make it any less vile...so OF COURSE Repugs rush out a bill in Congress to give Cantaloupe Capone what he wants, with restrictions on voting by mail and voting registration drives and mandating voter ID, with the latter being a “solution” in search of a problem...and MAGA Mike Johnson should just STFU and go watch p*rn with his son...also, Pam “Blondi” is trying to blackmail states into giving up sensitive voting data with the promise of removing ICE from their streets...when we have the equivalent of Nuremberg trials for these disgusting Trumpist life forms, I’m going to watch every minute of every proceeding if I can...

...and turning to global matters, this report from the German news service DW tells us that Our Cretinous Ruling Regime angered Denmark again by removing Danish flags at the U.S. embassy in Copenhagen that were there to honor that country’s soldiers killed in Afghanistan, and the 44 flags were replaced by scores more, to the Danes’ credit (more utterly pointless and stoo-pid confrontational BS from our thuggish criminals in charge, with the net result being that the kingdom of Denmark will align itself more closely with the EU and against the Gropenfuhrer...report by Jakob Illeborg)...



...and Stephen Colbert of The Late Show brings us up to date on the latest nonsense from our D.C. ruling regime...boy, would I like to see the National Prayer Breakfast relegated to the political dustbin, and to be fair, politicos of both parties have attended...and of course, we’re treated to another “sir” story from Our Treasonous Orange Pustule, giving us insight into the meanderings in #47’s increasingly foggy noggin...I almost spit out my coffee watching the Paula White-whatever her name is clip with the livestock...and “speaking of Minneapolis, what did you learn?” Gee, on the scale of softball questions to the Tangerine Toddler from one to infinity, I’d give that a grade of about an Armageddon and a half...and one day, after Mango Mussolini is LONG GONE, I expect to still have nightmares about those damn accordion hands!...oh, and he named a new weapon we used in Venezuela, huh? The “discombobulator”? I’m surprised he didn’t call it the Trump doohickey and then try to fundraise off of it...and Jeffrey Epstein is the LAST person I would take a muffin from, but we are where we are (and speaking only for myself, I won’t miss Pizza Hut – anything that helps local vendors as opposed to the chains is fine with me)...



...and RIP Chuck Negron of Three Dog Night – his life was kind of a riches to rags and back-to-riches-sort-of story...he was responsible for the soaring vocals on all of the band’s biggest hits, including this one.

Thursday Stuff

Jen Psaki tells us about Mango Mussolini plummeting to new depths in the polls...and oh yeah, he casually says that “something else needs to happen” if the votes this fall don’t turn out the way he wants, including hinting at some kind of a federal takeover of state elections (gee, I remember when the Repugs were the party that supposedly hated “big gumint”...how the proverbial worm has turned)...and yeah, Bronzer Beelzebub is polling in the 30s on every issue that matters (according to Quinnipiac), which is bad news for him and his gang regardless of how he cuts it...and good point by Psaki about the Gropenfuhrer doing all he can to cut off reliable information about what exactly it is that he and his bunch are up to... and I’m sorry about the WaPo layoffs, which were cruel and ridiculous, especially considering Jeff Bezos’s beyond-obscene wealth; as someone who has gone through that, I can tell you that, when companies do that and tell you some BS about trying to maximize profitability and/or the ”bottom line,” that’s pretty much a lie...if it’s a public company, it’s probably because the almighty share price has lost a few cents, and that also happens to settle scores at both private and public companies, which is what layoffs are about more than anything else as far as I’m concerned...



...and as far as Chris Hayes is concerned, he’s never dealt with a federal agency lying so consistently and aggressively as DHS/ICE...it’s all I can do to listen to these blatant untruths from dog killer Kristi Noem and Baby Goebbels and NOT vomit in my mouth...I wasn’t familiar with the case of Marimar Martinez (getting shot multiple times by DHS with the agent bragging about it online of course), but that’s part of this utterly despicable track record from this bunch too I know...Hayes also revisits that beyond depraved ICE raid of that Chicago apartment building in the middle of the night where people were forced to stand outside in freezing cold, including kids, all to supposedly hunt down Tren de Aragua members, which was still another falsehood (and the report finishes with the fabricator-in-chief, who for my money barely knows the world is going on around him)...



...and Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report tells us about ICE agents’ families saying they’re “low IQ” and “racist” losers...yep, some of these subreddit posts do indeed tell a sorry story...I thought the one example of the guy who got radicalized in favor of the ICE Gestapo during the COVID lockdown was a bit of a cautionary tale...”you don’t get to commit terrorism because you are impoverished” indeed...the sister of someone who tried to join ICE but wasn’t allowed because she was “too empathetic” is another black mark against that wretched outfit as far as yours truly is concerned...I don’t think the gang running our federal government has much of a clue about anything, but I DO believe they’re cratering our economy partly to gin up enlistment in ICE and the military, which other Repugs administrations have done to be fair (and I’ll remind us of another pretty infamous one shortly)...also, it looks like Cantaloupe Capone is treating ICE agents the same way he treats Mar-a-Lago contractors, meaning that they’re not getting paid or entitled to bennies either – LOL (NSFW/H)...



...and Brian Tyler Cohen informs us that James Comer of Kentucky and his Oversight Committee just set a precedent for having U.S. presidents testify before Congress that will be used eventually against Don The Con when the time comes (with both Clintons for some reason called to testify about Jeffrey Epstein...I mean, yeah, maybe there’s some feeble reason for #42 to do that, but HRC also? GMAFB!)...and good job by Cohen to remind us that that death eater also from Kentucky Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao (what the $#@! is wrong with voters in that commonwealth??!!) created some bogus SCOTUS confirmation guideline for Merrick Garland that he immediately trashed for Amy Coney Island Baby Barrett...



...and Jordan Klepper spoke to all kinds of vacuous Trumpist cognoscenti about what they expect to get out of the experience of this celluloid piffle about Melania Trump...kind of an instructive look at the miscreants who are really cheering on this administration of borderline (and actual, IMO) criminals...definitely a richer bunch than you would think and not even remotely “populist”...

...and when I referred to a pretty infamous Repug administration above (pertaining to the Figueredo clip), this is what I meant, meaning the reign of Dubya and “Deadeye Dick”...today is the 23rd anniversary of Colin Powell’s speech to the U.N. about Iraq’s alleged WMDs where (as pictured) he showed the vial supposedly full of anthrax, though in actuality it contained baking soda...while our 43rd president is able to wind down his days painting his watercolors of all of the members of our military whose lives he helped ruin (while members of his administration slowly die off), he should be ever mindful of dragging down the reputation of others including Powell, who served our country with distinction...given all of that, I think this tune is appropriate.