Monday Stuff

This is your periodic reminder that our PA-01 U.S. House Rep Brian Fitzpatrick won’t stick his head out of his shell and debate Dem nominee Bob Harvie. In a weird way, that makes a bit of sense since Bri-Fi refuses to hold in-person town halls also.

I know I said I’d be careful about clips from TYT, but I thought this was a good one from Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discussing gas prices continuing to skyrocket, with oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz pretty much shut down at this point, with the lowest amount of traffic since May (I would call 4.9 million barrels per day versus 21.6 million quite the dropoff)...as AAA tells us, gas had never been about $4 a gallon on Labor Day, but IT IS NOW, TRUMPERS (so much winning!)...and it looks like Trumpist DOE Secretary Chris Wright can’t even spin the propaganda correctly, blaming governors in “Democrat”-run states for keeping prices up...wrong, you asshat - as Ana Kasparian points out, energy futures are NOT going down according to a benchmark for that, despite Wright’s lying about it...also, I’m not mad at Ana for saying Ukraine attacking Russia’s oil infrastructure is contributing to this; I think anyone who’s sane understands why Ukraine needs to do that, but it’s just a fact, and now the Houthis (no doubt with Iran’s help) are ratcheting everything up in that area of the world also, which could have been foreseen by any adult with an actual brain...additionally, Iran’s ballistic missile capability is concerning for sure, and since there are no actual adults in this administration, I KNOW they’re not prepared for the economic shock of ever-increasing prices combined with Canada’s retaliatory tariffs (and not blaming Canada, but just mentioning a fact...I’m not surprised to hear Cenk go off on Israel, but guess what? I think HE’S ABSOLUTELY GODDAMN RIGHT...and I have to admit that I can do without the T-shirt promo for Hasan Piker, but I’m not going to get too bent out of shape over it)...



...and related to that, Belle discusses #47 pushing Iran to get a nuke...important to note that, based on our intelligence (which has probably been degraded to some degree by virtue of the knuckleheads we have in this administration in critical roles related to this, like Crazy Eyes Kash Patel), it doesn’t look like Iran is looking to get a nuke at this time (which makes this ridiculous war even more unjustifiable), but we can’t rule that out 100 percent of course, especially with Combover Caligula basically telling Iran to build a nuke to be taken more seriously (SMDH)...



...and Farron Cousins brings us the story of ICE taking over a Maryland town for a couple of days and beating up protestors (tracking someone to a neighborhood called Tasker’s Chance) – so a guy flees an ICE stop (not good, but I don’t completely blame the person either), and the ICE goons descend en masse on this neighborhood, and some charge the house and others beat up protestors I guess because it’s a day of the week with a “y” in it...oh, and no arrests, since apparently the main goal here was for a bunch of rednecks to pretend to be actual law enforcement and bust heads...yep, just because TikTok is probably using an AI to decide which videos to upload (and keeping out anything it thinks is controversial), that doesn’t mean ICE’s garbage isn’t still going on...



..and former 60 Minutes Managing Editor Guy Campanile decided to “spills the beans” on what that program has become under Bari Weiss...oh, and Campanile had worked at the network for 34 freaking years...as John Iadarola says, there’s definitely a plan behind “the Epstein class” buying up the media, and that goes for social networks also; Lord knows they have the money to do it, absent any kind of government intervention (and normally I wouldn’t automatically say that we need that, but I think that’s unavoidable here)...as one example, this tells us what Hungary is doing to dismantle the apparatus set up by Viktor Orban to control the media in that country...we need to pass meaningful reform when it comes to corporate ownership of our media (e.g., if you own a TV station, you can’t own a newspaper or radio station either) that includes devoting an approximate amount of time/space to opposing/minority points of view, as well as consulting with media representatives for other reforms...basically, we need to replace the “guardrails” that were abolished under The Sainted Ronnie R (equal time rule, the Fairness Doctrine), and I realize there is zero appetite from the frauds and charlatans in charge now for that...



...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ informs us that Texas Republicans are not shy about sharing their dislike of Ken Paxton...gee, what’s not to like? The marital infidelity, the kickbacks to support AI data centers in locations Paxton doesn’t live, and speaking of which, there’s Paxton’s 15 houses on his six-figure-a-year salary...yep, it definitely paints a contrasting image between 20,000 pounds of food to be donated and the $20-$25K minimum for the “have mores” to be included to attend the “Trump-a-palooza” last week...and yes, I give James Talarico props for handling that question about gender too, but for future reference, do you know how you handle that? You say there are two genders but multiple gender identities, because that’s how corporations look at it (to say nothing of the fact that it’s ridiculous to be preoccupied with that with another forever war vs. Iran and a cratering economy, and a continually warming planet also)...and I suppose you need to present that speech excerpt from the hero of The Great Unwashed, though I wanted to vomit in my mouth as I watched it (another “sir” story, the damn accordion hands...jumping Judas H. Priest on a pogo stick!)...



...and happy belated 80th birthday to Dennis Tufano of The Buckinghams.

Friday Stuff

Jimmy Kimmel explains why his interview with Dem U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico of Texas had to go right to YouTube and could not be aired on TV (referencing that BS "convention" that just ended also - more here)...seems that a certain rotund, sweaty orange sack of trans fats and his FCC minion objected and Kimmel didn’t want to cause problems for any ABC affiliates in “the land of the yellow rose,” as Kimmel tells us...wonder if Our Ochre Abomination will go crying to Natalie over it?...



...and Robert Reich explains How Trump Made America Expensive Again...the damn Iran war, his stinking tariffs, the Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck which gutted health care among its other travesties, cuts to renewable energy which will increase out utility bills, trying to cram these disgusting AI data centers down our throats, and all the while, the “pay no price, bear no burden” bunch continues to “live large” at our expense...



...and Jordan Chariton of Status Coup informs us that a Trumpist federal court judge recently ruled that the residents of Jackson, Mississippi don’t have a constitutional right to clean drinking water (oh, and they don’t have a right to reliable information from public officials either)...Jackson residents have apparently been boiling their water for some time to protect themselves, some for 10-15 years believe it or not...the numbskull responsible for this ruling is Judge Kurt Engelhardt...for background, it should be noted the suit had to do with the “bodily autonomy” of the residents, who pretty much have been poisoned for decades by the city of Jackson, which has not upgraded its water infrastructure (and did I mention that the population of Jackson is majority black?)...sounds like Engelhardt was definitely splitting legal hairs here, saying that the statute in question applied to cases of sexual assault but not poisoned drinking water (imagine being in a position where you have to rely on bottled water and somebody tells you “you have too much water”)...I honestly don’t know the latest on the Flint water crisis; Gretchen Whitmer inherited it from Rick Snyder, but if the water is indeed still messed up after all this time, she owns that now by default (NSFW/H)...



...and I realize I’m a little late with this next item, but I wanted to get to it anyway...Steve Harness of Really American informs us that the Spider-Man guy who tried to keep wingnuts from attacking peaceful protestors in Minneapolis is going to be prosecuted, while Jake Lang who started all the trouble with his idiocy is going to walk away...looks like counter protestors siding with Lang drove their vehicles onto the sidewalk in protest...my spider sense is telling me some wingnut asshats got some hurt fee-fees, because nothing says you want to peacefully resolve differences more than trying to ram someone with about 2,000 pounds of steel, right?...I have to admit that “prior communication” between Lang’s goons and the cops is an interesting excuse to let Lang off...whoever this Lubuc guy with the Minneapolis cops is should end up permanently behind a desk, since he doesn’t belong interacting with the public (fist bump emoji)...NSFW/H also...



...and these next two clips are timely for this day also of course - hard to imagine it's been 25 years (I once expounded on this topic here long ago, for what it's worth...related items are here and here...oh, and this is typical for Our Orange Pustule-In-Chief also...and I thought this was also a timely reminder).





Update 1: More here.

Update 2: In the immortal words of David Huddleston in "Blazing Saddles," "Now who can argue with that?" (here).

Update 9/12/22: Important related info is here.

Update 9/12/23: And this needs to be remembered also.

Update 9/13/24: As we know, there is truly no bottom with this treasonous egomaniac (here).

Update 1 9/11/26: Yeah, tell that Muslim mayor to stay away – what does he know about what this day means? Plenty, based on this clip (which is pitch perfect, IMO).



Update 2 9/11/96: I wish The Rude Pundit was wrong, but I know he isn't (here...here also).

Update 3 9/11/96: This is also the last year for Paulie's Push - God bless that man (here)...Paul Veneto was scheduled to work as a flight attendant on United Flight 175, but he was off on 9/11 and has been dealing with survivor’s guilt over it...pushing his cart has been a way to cope with what he’s dealt with and try to heal himself and others who suffered from the terror attacks, which is probably most of the people in this country to one degree or another.

Thursday Stuff

Lawrence O’Donnell talks about that ridiculous mini “Trump-a-Looza” convention, or whatever that was, which mainly wasn’t attended by a few incumbents of the Trump Party, though there were exceptions (two of them from PA will be noted in a minute)...oh yeah, oil prices are going to be “tumbling downward” right after the election, huh? And his cruel and stoo-pid war of choice versus Iran will end also after November 3rd? Says the failed casino owner, real estate developer, steak and vodka salesman, crypto boss, and on and on and on...Alaska Repug U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan, in a race with Dem Mary Peltola, didn’t attend Trump’s little party because Sullivan knows what the numbers are and he’s not an idiot (though he likely is a crook)...and “the Hormone Strait”?? God, what a delusional nut case Our Sweaty Orange Boy truly is...



...and Dem U.S. House Rep Madeleine Dean is interviewed here on C-SPAN responding to that traitor John Fetterman’s recorded speech at that sham “convention”...good for Dean to point out not only Fetterman’s ridiculous words, but his actions by rubber stamping the wretched nominees from Mango Mussolini to cabinet positions and heading government departments...the two Repug U.S. House Reps from PA who Dean is referring to are Ryan Mackenzie and Rob Bresnahan (and of course, pretend “moderate” Bri-Fi passed on showing up, though he would have been right at home if he did)...apparently, Fetterman praised #47 for supposedly helping steelworkers (uh, no)...



...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ points out how Cantaloupe Capone is sinking GOP candidates nationwide, including Texas, with #47 having the worst record on inflation ever recorded by an incumbent prez...and yeah, the Charlie Cook stuff is good news, but what matters is what happens on November 3rd; rosy forecasts have gone wrong before as we know...didn’t know Dems hadn’t won a statewide election in “the land of the yellow rose” in 38 years, but with all of the voting games that go on down there (what The Eternal Molly Ivins once called “the national laboratory for bad government”), I’m not totally surprised (disgusting that the political punditry on elections centers around money, but once more, love and kisses to the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR for Citizens United...and what a big spender Bronzer Beelzebub is to fork over $10 million to Ken Paxton; maybe Paxton won’t have to steal any pens for a little while)...and yeah, we know what Turd Blossom is, but I hate to admit it; he knows how to win elections, and I trust his explanation on how far the Super PAC dough goes versus the spending by a candidate’s campaign...



...and Brittany Page reminds us that it looks like “Dr. Crudité” wants us to keep working until we’re just about ready to die all for the sake of growing the economy his idiot boss is doing his best to utterly wreck, which would suit the purposes of the “R” party pretty well actually...when I listen to this fraud speak about what he thinks is best for our end-stage capitalist economy, I wonder what his definition of “work” truly is...I mean, it can’t be someone trying to cobble a living together working two or more crappy service jobs including gig work like Grub Hub or Door Dash deliveries on top of Walmart and/or Amazon, for example; I would imagine anyone doing that is trying to hang on until they can somehow retire early, which at this stage they can’t do unless they’re about 62..oh, but if someone can somehow endure that for an additional year, Oz thinks that could help contribute an extra trillion dollars (and as Page says, despicable frauds like Oz NEVER say that about SNAP benefits, ACA credits, extending the child tax credit, or other stuff that would actually do some good)...good discussion IMO from Page about what you could call the multiplier benefit of funding SNAP and how that helps local businesses providing food assistance and how those using that benefit can use their savings to aid our economy in other ways, with every dollar spent on SNAP resulting in $2 of economic activity (something Trumpist wingnuts will never understand)...you would think Repugs would embrace something that increases GDP with a great return on investment, but you’d be wrong of course because the punishment is the point (and I LOVE his Philly health care worker example, which I think is a damn lie anyway; see my earlier comment about someone working in a gig economy job in addition to another service job, with this example in health care...and no, I don’t condone criminal behavior either, again, assuming that even happened...tripe like that is nothing but a sop to the suburban conservative boomer audience watching that business channel...”it’s those damn minorities stealing from hard working white people again, Gertrude!”)...also, I think it’s particularly rich for Oz to site COVID as an example of people running scams, since companies in which he owned stock received forgivable PPP loans, as noted here (and why the hell should he be allowed to receive earnings from those companies while those loans are outstanding, then?)...



...and what would a Trumpist enterprise be without yet another lying scam? I’ll let Jonathan Pie take a shot at answering that (NSFW/H of course)...



...and I guess it's about time for this tune, with autumn closing in, as the other song goes.

Wednesday Stuff

This is your occasional reminder that our PA-01 U.S. House Rep Brian Fitzpatrick still refuses to debate Dem challenger Bob Harvie, along with the fact that Bri-Fi hasn’t held a face-to-face town hall with constituents for-freaking-evah.

To begin, Thom Hartmann speaks with Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films about How Billionaires Are Controlling All Of Our Media...apparently, Greenwald has a new production called “Murdering 60 Minutes,” which actually mimics the format of the show before it was trashed by Bari Weiss...Greenwald draws the line from the Ellisons (David in charge of CBS, and trying to acquire CNN) right to the IDF, which for my money is a terror organization in its own right...we learn that 12 state Attorneys General have filed suit to prevent Paramount/Skydance from taking over Warner Brothers, with a March court date coming up...sounds like the Ellisons over-leveraged themselves to try and make this awful acquisition, and yeah, that means that still more people will lose jobs to try and make up for that...and as Greenwald says, social media is by no means immune from the pressure of oligarchs who want only their message to get out...



...and Jesse Dollemore lets us know that Cantaloupe Capone and SecDef Kegseth intend to steal $$ from the NIH for the Iran War...yeah, who needs research into studying allergies and infectious diseases when it’s time to kill brown-skilled people on the other side of the world?...Rosa DeLauro is frequently the target of wingnut umbrage, mainly because she doesn’t take any sh*t, and she demonstrates that again here...good point that, given the obscene funding of the DoD, imagine what kind of mismanagement is going on that apparently the Trumpers think it’s necessary to steal dough from elsewhere in our government to wage yet another damn pre-emptive war launched by a Repug *preznit...



...and Logical Leftist Jeff Waldorf tells us about another judge blocking #47’s birthright citizenship order, the latest in a series of legal smackdowns on this issue...even the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR said, “naaah...this violates the 14th Amendment of the Constitution,” so Combover Caligula ignored that and tried again, and Judge Deborah Boardman (judge for the U.S. District Court of Maryland) blocked it again, citing the SCOTUS ruling...leave it to this gaggle of idiots to come up with the term “birth tourism,” as if an expectant mother risks her life to come here to book a cruise on Royal Caribbean...as Waldorf says, it’s so far beyond pathetic that this wretched administration keeps wasting time and money on losing causes like this while ignoring the issues that matter most to the majority of this country...



...and Farron Cousins brings us some data to tell us that Gen Z voters are done with Trump...31 percent of those who supported him now regret it, with 28 percent of millennials feeling that way also, along with 20 percent of Gen X’ers and 10 percent of boomers, which is still way too low for that latter cohort IMO...also, 93 percent of Gen Z’ers (about 49 million) plan to vote in the election (you paying attention, Dems? You plan to give these folks a reason to support you??)...



...and heading “across the pond,” Jonathan Pie presents the latest on The Reform Witch Hunt, with Nigel Farage and “loose pub talk”...looks like Farage got a bare minimum of scrutiny and then started crying like a little bitch over what the UK “Reform” party is up to (more here) – sound familiar??...NSFW/H...



..and I think the title of this song should be our mantra as we move ever closer to November 3rd.

Tuesday Stuff

(The individual who took this Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of a returning POW during the Vietnam War passed away a short time ago as we learn here, and as wonderful as the moment is that he captured...well, let’s just say there was more to the story, and I’ll leave that there.)

To start, Josh Gay of Ring of Fire tell us that the Department of Labor for Mango Mussolini is eliminating a report/spreadsheet used to investigate potential hiring discrimination based on race and sex, because of course...”whoever controls that data controls what you can prove” indeed, and Trumpette Andrea Lucas, chair of the EEOC, decided to stop collecting the data...oh, but Lucas is apparently running a case against Nike, saying the company discriminates against white employees (and if you believe that, I have a bridge to one of the five New York boroughs to sell to you)...I didn’t know this came from that accursed Project 2025, but that tracks too, I have to say...also didn’t know the EEOC processed 88K worker complaints, winning $660 million for over 17K workers (and when it comes to Labor Day and the Trumpers, this isn’t surprising I know)...



...and John and Yasmin Khan of The Damage Report inform us that a Canadian pollster has found that there’s push back not only against #47, but other Repugs running for Congress, with Dem U.S. Senate candidates leading in 4 of 5 races, and yes, I know this is just one poll...the only one where a Repug is up is in South Carolina, where Darline (“Don’t Know Much About Foreign Policy”) Graham is ahead...and once again, it’s independent voters pushing back the hardest in this poll...God bless the Canadians in that poll who still have a favorable opinion about this country (around 74 percent) despite all the Trumpist bullsh*t (and by the way, the Canadian tariffs are due to kick in today)...



...and sticking with our neighbors to the north, David Shuster of Rebel HQ tells us that it looks like Don The Con’s name change of Lake Ontario to Lake America was every bit the mistake you can imagine it to be with the “MAGA faithful”...and oh yeah, that goes for the stinking tariffs also (63 percent opposed according to the poll cited here, separate from the one in the Damage Report clip I believe)...and oh yeah, Apple Maps and Google Maps (which went along with this idiotic name change) have been deleted by “hundreds of thousands” – serves them right...and the inverse applies to MapQuest IMO...good job in this report to show the economic impact to this typical idiocy from Bronzer Beelzebub on both sides of the border (and I sincerely hope that Canadian town renames the streets and gets rid of the New York references because we deserve it)...



...and this is another typically well-done IMO report from More Perfect Union, this time from Salwa Shameem who tells us what’s really going on with this “Board of Peace” grift, led by Wonder Boy Jared Kushner...looks like they want to glass Gaza and the people and turn it into another playground for the ultra-rich...oh, and the World Bank Fund that was supposed to contain funds for Gaza’s reconstruction is completely tapped out, with some of the dough going to J.P. Morgan...oh, and it also looks like the U.N. Security Council is another rubber stamp on behalf of the corporations trying to make bank out of all of this despicable suffering (author Casey Michel is interviewed)...additionally, it looks like every member country trying to join this board has to pay a billion up front (and as luck would have it, the board was approved before the charter was finalized, which is NOT how this stuff is supposed to work, to my knowledge)...also, Our Treasonous Orange Pustule remains as chairman of the board even after he no longer resides in An Oval Office (so many levels of grift going on here...someone, or a group of folks, are going to have to try and investigate this at some point, including hidden bank accounts)...no mention of Gaza in the charter, as we also learn...and apparently, Kushner’s “Affinity Partners” is the group making inroads overseas to other shadowy outfits for funding (and it links back to those damn West Bank settlements)...one of my questions is what kind of military involvement this country may get roped into to preserve this scam operation (I don’t think private contractors by themselves will “cut it,” at least not without help); if anybody thinks there WON’T be some kind of “intifada” in response, then you haven’t been paying attention...also, “Little Marco” is trying to dismantle the ICC, which could hold all of the miscreants mentioned here accountable (I can’t help but recall how much our supposedly august members in “the world’s greatest deliberative body” were in such a rush to confirm Rubio as Secretary of State because they thought he was “in the club”...the phrase ”so-called international law” is another typical F-U from the Trump regime)...”war will always be a money maker” – sadly, I think that’s about right...



...and America’s Finest News Source is on the beat again with another timely clip (just kidding...this is a repeat, but I think it’s pretty spot-on for now)...



...and happy belated 75th birthday to Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders...this tune was the lead-in to Flush Limbore’s radio show and he used it without permission of course, so Hynde quite rightly took him to court...I believe the terms of the settlement were that he could continue to use it as long as it didn’t include Hynde’s vocals and Limbaugh made a contribution to PETA (a favored Hynde charity), which I though was a good way to take care of the matter FWIW.

Monday Stuff

Here is a clip reminding us of the importance of today's holiday, as well as of the labor movement overall (more here , here, here, here, and a true relic is here...and as noted here, the beat goes on, you might say)…



...also, this story tells us about the Chicago Labor Day March, with the theme of workers over billionaires (rallying at Haymarket, which is a storied location in the history of organized labor, as noted in the first video)...



...and this tells us about the nurses’ protests at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, highlighted by a one-day strike followed by a four-day lockout by management in July...the core issues are wages and cost-of-living adjustments along with nurse/patient staffing ratios and charges of unfair labor practices...my understanding is that negotiations are ongoing...more here...



And as long as I’m including a clip about vitally important health care workers, I have to add something.

A very dear and beloved family member works in health care (taking care of an elderly population), and it is an absolute horror show at her employer, who generally is good (and this scenario is replaying itself with other facilities of this type). The reason is the cut in Medicare/Medicaid funding from The Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck; all of these places are scrambling to make up the lost revenue (and that’s why situations occur where LPNs show up for work and they’re definitely needed for the type of adult population which is prone to accidents such as slips and falls, but these LPNs are told to go home because there’s no funding for them). Oh, and facilities of this type are cited by the state which regulates this business (oh, excuse me...in PA, it’s the “commonwealth”), so there’s added pressure to comply if they fall short (and again, they’re falling short for staffing reasons because the reimbursement from the government was cut out). I sincerely hope you don’t have a family member receiving care at one of these places that is experiencing issues of this type, but if they are, I likely just stated the reason.

If you’re reading this, I realize you’re not likely to vote for a Republican. But if somehow you’re inclined to do so, because of that horrible bill alone (which is catastrophic for health care for all of us and just rewards the ”pay no price, bear no burden” bunch yet again), I just have one question: Are you out of your f*cking mind???!!!!

...and here is a report on the Long Island Railroad workers strike last May...a tentative agreement was reached after three days...



...and Robert Reich tells us about 5 ways to strengthen labor and the middle class of this country...video is 13 years old, but it still has some good points about leveling the playing field, you might say, for workers...and I’m pretty sure the minimum wage adjusted for productivity and inflation is around $15 an hour now (what the federal minimum wage should be, I mean)...good idea about increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit also (and let's not forget this, by the way)...



Update 9/2/24: Well said.

...and here is a tune for the holiday.

Friday Stuff

Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian of TYT bring us up to date on the latest nonsense with this “Freedom Fuel” scam from Dementia Donnie (and yes, I realize Ana knows Philadelphia isn’t a state, so I’ll overlook that for now)...also, I have no issue with her snark about Israel because I think she’s right...and the price of gas at these shyster outfits has gone back to the market rate, huh? Figures...sooo, according to the inevitable-in-this-case lawsuit, somebody named Syed Kazmi and his brother purchased $4 million in fuel and then his company, KRSM, proceeded to stiff the outfit he bought the gas from (Mansfield Energy), allegedly of course; hard to root for anybody here I’ll admit...an “accounting dispute” over misplaced invoices, huh? Interesting euphemism for theft I’ll admit (again, allegedly)...I think Cenk goes off the rails a bit here when talking about the Kochs (more on what he’s talking about is here), though I’m sure he has a point in another context...also, the Kazmis have a history of pulling stuff like this, as we learn (whoopsie!)...

via GIPHY

...and when it comes to financial nonsense from the “party of Lincoln,” Repug U.S. Senator Ashley Moody of Flori-DUUH! was caught skimming about $10 mil from a children’s health fund (here) – also allegedly of course...maybe I’m more sympathetic than I should be towards the grand jury that found so much damn corruption between Moody and outgoing governor #DeathSantis and his wife that they couldn’t sort through all of it to file charges; what a goddamn cesspool!...but oh, “Governor Fancy White Boots” predictably shows his ire towards the leaker of the report to the grand jury, as opposed to admit getting caught red handed (yeah, a naïve thought on my part I’ll admit about #DeathSantis showing anything approximating contrition)...definitely an opportunity to get a word in here for Angie Nixon, and yeah, I know it’s Flori-DUUH!, but we need to fight as best we can anyway...



...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ brings us more sordid tales of financial mismanagement from the regime of Bronzer Beelzebub – it’s really a shame that we apparently don’t have actual, honest-to-goodness adults in this administration who know what the hell to do about the bond market (here)...definitely above my pay grade, but as noted, higher bond yields make lending/borrowing more difficult (in response to inflation and debt, by both countries and corporations...and oh yeah, Our Tiny-Handed Egomaniac’s war of choice versus Iran isn’t helping either)...oh, but the stock market is doing great, so everything is fine, except for the fact that the stock market is riding the ”sugar high,” if you will, of the AI bubble, and when that pops, it will be everyone for themselves...also no insight on whether or not Vlad The Butcher will try to nuke Ukraine, God forbid, which would also impact neighboring countries covered under NATO’s Article V...is it time to start drinking heavily yet?...



...and Josh Gay of Ring of Fire tells us that there’s nothing to see here, just the Gropenfuhrer’s DOE posting a video equating Our Ochre Abomination with a certain German Nazi guy from the 1930s and 40s (from that Gary Oldman move about Churchill); of course, since we’re talking about the regime of Our Treasonous Orange Pestilence, they were too dumb and/or too arrogant to care...I’d forgotten that the ruinous plan for the DOE was to shut down the whole damn agency (yeah, who needs an educated and trained workforce to compete for jobs in the 21st century, amirite?)...



...and David Doel tells us that it looks like Fix Noise shill Maria Bartiromo is out of a job, though I have no doubt that our cretinous ruling regime will find a spot for her somewhere...well, at least Mike Huckabee has praise for him/her (???)...and I guess we need to revisit Our Sweaty Orange Bronzer Boy whining for the zillionth time about the 2020 election – God willing, one day we won’t have to be inflicted with this nonsense any more...looks like Oliver Darcy got the lowdown on all of this; regardless of who you are, you can’t violate the policy of your employer as Bartiromo did in sharing internal information, especially with THIS White House (slightly NSFW/H)...



Update 1: More here.

Update 2: Ummmm....o-kaaay I guess (here).

...and RIP Gloria Steinem; Willie Geist hosts a look back at her life and career...among her many accomplishments was advocacy for the Equal Rights Amendment, which guaranteed equal legal rights regardless of sex (will always remember how that privileged, insulting harpie...and I could think of worse names for her...Phyllis Schlafly sabotaged it)...with Susan Page, Eugene Robinson and Jonathan Lemire (good point about the ridicule Steinem endured from the usual wingnut suspects, and I’m sure they’ll still have the “knives out” even though Steinem has passed)...



...and I have to admit that I’m liking these little musical numbers from Jesse Welles more and more...



...and since we’re heading into the Labor Day weekend, it’s time once more for some “Friday with Frank.”