Wednesday Stuff

Oh well, it looks like our glorious commonwealth of “Pennsyltucky” found a way to plummet to new depths in Hanover, York County, with some troglodytes proclaiming “this is a MAGA town” after allegedly beating a woman over her ethnicity (African American and Puerto Rican combined)...reporter Andrew Klein asks folks in Hanover if that’s true, and he gets a decidedly mixed response fortunately...I would like to know what charges exactly will be brought against the suspects (if that has been decided yet, including anything related to civil rights), and whether or not the victim is still receiving medical attention or if she’s been treated and released (I’d also like to know the name of the club where this happened, though the owners likely don’t want the name of their establishment in this story; I can’t blame them for feeling that way, but I think that should have been noted in the report also...the suspects should have been named if police released that information, and it's possible that they haven't I know)...



...and Rachel Maddow reminds us that “keeping the pressure on...is never more important than when they’re wobbling” (indeed)...Kristi Noem sez her DHS thugs will start wearing body cameras – actually, they need to GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR CITIES!!!...and c’est dommage that “Eagle Eye” Ed Martin just had the metaphorical legs cut out from under him and his “weaponization” team at DOJ...oh, and Our Treasonous Orange Pustule sez the “R” party should “take over” voting in the elections this fall – tell me how THAT isn’t impeachable all by itself? Oh, and don’t look now, but 8 more federal prosecutors in Minnesota just walked rather than bend to the will of Combover Caligula...also, good for Harvard for telling #47 to pound sand with his extortion demand...



...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ brings us this clip of Joe Scar commendably losing it in response to our ICE criminals CONTINUING to approach innocent civilians with guns drawn, recorded for posterity on someone’s phone...this took place about 35 miles from Minneapolis, near St. Peter, and the woman recording the video was following these ICE mongrels, which is COMPLETELY NOT ILLEGAL IN ANY WAY (recording, I mean)...and I really give Dem U.S. Senator Chris Murphy credit for going on that trash “news” network and trying to talk some reality to those journalistic frauds on this...oh, and contrary to prior reports, it looks like “Melania” was a box office flop – color me NOT shocked (slightly NSFW/H)...



...well, at least Dem U.S. House Rep Jim McDermott realizes that the regime of Our Treasonous Orange Pustule is truly demented, particularly when it comes to “ICE Barbie” and her criminal garbage...



...and Seth Meyers gives us “A Closer Look” on the latest nonsense from Cantaloupe Capone...despite the fact that it’s a piece of celluloid crap, it looks like the “Melania” doc grossed $7 million last weekend, likely from the MAGA die-hards and probably nobody else (and how stoo-pid is Jeff Bezos for forking over $40 million for it)...and oh yeah, director Brett Ratner (emphasis on “rat”) looks like he’s buds with Jeffrey Epstein also...and I knew about the crypto scam with the Saudis and giving them NVIDIA chips in return, disgusting as that is...oh, and our family of grifters is suing the IRS for unauthorized tax information disclosure? The phrase “unauthorized disclosure” is rich coming from a bunch that allowed “Phony Stark” (hat tip to Atrios for that) and his DOGE incels to ransack the Social Security Administration and do God-only-knows-what with our sensitive personal data (and #47 files another nuisance lawsuit like this while raking in UAE dough to boot)...and listen, I’m definitely not the “sharpest knife in the drawer” on this stuff, but EVEN I knew that “Tokyo Rose” Gabbard was a fraud from the word “go,” so don’t expect me to act surprised that she’s doing the dirty work for Don The Con with the voting stuff in Fulton County, GA...and nice work to catch that tweet from Couch Boy about 4 ½ years ago over his now-boss and Jeffrey Epstein...great finish by Seth here...



...and given that part of this post has to do with ICE and its vermin masquerading as law enforcement, I think this tune is timely.

Tuesday Stuff

David Doel tells us about a Dem named Taylor Rehmet winning a Texas state senate seat that had been held by Repugs for 50 years (more here)...Mango Mussolini endorsed Rehmet’s opponent, Repug Leigh Wambsganss (and no, I don’t know how to pronounce her name either), and that pretty much did in the “R” party candidate...and $2.4 mil for a state senate race? Once again, love and kisses to the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR for Citizens United (oh, and check out this from Repug U.S. House Rep Pete Sessions – yeah, Rehmet won this historic victory because of the bad weather...just keep telling yourself that, you knucklehead)...



...and John and Sharon Reed of The Damage Report bring us the news that, apparently, the alleged head of CBS News Bari Weiss held another “town hall” to get more in touch with CBS’s dwindling viewership...sooo, this person who has never managed anything related to journalism has the unmitigated gall to criticize the staff of her own network and hire a bunch of wingnuts to supposedly make everything right somehow...”it’s just been right wing DEI (with Weiss) from the beginning” indeed...and as far as Tony Dokoupil is concerned, I would just call him Mr. Katy Tur because that’s easier to pronounce...



...and Ali Velshi tells us about corporations supporting ICE...Velshi nails it IMO when he lists all the different types of private companies behind ICE and the CBP, and how those outfits enable the ongoing horrors on our TV, computer, phone screens, etc., to be honest (and great job by Velshi to give us a much-needed-I-believe history lesson on the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott)...one current example is Avelo Airlines being forced to participate in ICE kidnapping flights to send immigrants to CECOT or God knows where...and I thought that was a mealy-mouthed non-answer from the Home Depot spokeswoman about federal law enforcement not required to produce a warrant to enter their parking lots and/or stores...the issue is DETAINING CONTRACTORS WITHOUT A WARRANT – try reading the freaking room!...I knew Apple had removed the app tracking ICE agents, but I didn’t know Google had also done that – typically spineless (and if ICE enforcement is a “vulnerable group,” and I don’t think they are, then what the hell does that make US???!!)...



...and Sam and the crew from The Majority Report give us the awful news of a supporter for the Gropenfuhrer in Nebraska running over a high school classmate protesting ICE...oh yes, please tell me about equivalence from the left (and yes, I heard about the pepper spray incident, which was wrong but definitely not the same thing)...Matt Lech mentions the chasm between Gen Z men and women on this stuff, and I don’t think there is NEARLY ENOUGH attention paid to that; as far as I’m concerned, it’s up to the guys to stop acting like idiots and get invested in their own future, and yes, that’s my simplistic boomer “take” on the whole thing...



...and Mr. Newberger gives us an example of how our fourth estate SHOULD treat the Tangerine Toddler (NSFW/H)...



Update 2/4/26: This clip is timely IMO in light of this (and good for Kaitlan Collins).

...and I’d known about this for about a week, but to be honest, I was too gutted to say much of anything about it...we knew Dan and his family and crossed paths from time to time, and you simply won’t meet better people...this gives a pretty good accounting of Dan’s accomplishments; kind of mind boggling to realize just how much he managed to get done in his all-too-brief time in our midst (and his father was a longtime fixture at the Philadelphia Daily News also)...the service is Thursday, and I can think of no more apropos tune than this one (and I'm wearing sneakers as I type this).

Monday Stuff

Chris Hayes gives us the gory details on how Combover Caligula is building a police state...thousands of brave folks are protesting across the country against Mango Mussolini in support of the courageous souls in Minneapolis (I know there were a few pundits out there wondering when people in this country would rise up against Dementia J. Trump, and I think that question has been answered)...didn’t know ICE was using facial recognition applications and social media tools to identify people protesting, but that definitely makes sense in a typically twisted way, and OF COURSE Palantir is behind this madness...Hayes notes the arrest of former CNN correspondent Don Lemon, who was released; also, ICE thugs showed up at the door of journalist Georgia Fort in the early morning hours to hold her captive also...whoever this “ICE pastor” in Minneapolis is needs to lose his job, at a minimum...good point by Hayes in particular about Todd Blanche’s attempted whitewash on the Epstein files (and I know I touched on the raid of the election offices in Fulton County, GA already)...



...and Jen Psaki of MS NOW discusses children imprisoned by ICE becoming a flash point, especially for those protesting outside of Dilley, Texas, particularly in response to the capture of 5-year-old Liam Ramos (and once more, as Rep. Joaquin Castro points out, Liam and his father went through the immigration process seeking asylum the right way, but we know what happened despite that)...1100 people are housed (using the term loosely) who didn’t commit a crime – what country am I living in again?...an update on Ramos is here (and I know I’ve included more videos from MS NOW lately as opposed to individual creators such as David Pakman, Farron Cousins, etc., and that’s because I think MS NOW is doing a better job of covering these issues at the moment, though no disrespect is meant towards those other folks)...



...and I don’t want to shock anybody out there, but there are actually signs of life from “Team D” in “the world’s greatest deliberative body” against the ICE Gestapo: Colorado U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper tells us that this criminal rogue outfit doing the bidding of Cantaloupe Capone and Pee Wee German are leaving “death cards” on automobiles where U.S. citizens have been seized...naaah, this isn’t a rogue, out-of-control bunch of thugs, is it? Not much...”cruelty for the sake of cruelty” indeed... Hickenlooper mentions Pumpkin Pol Pot going after law firms, universities and colleges, and our media of course, if they don’t tow the autocratic line... Hickenlooper is also right about “no accountability without transparency,” and I give him credit for that, though personally I think we’ve gone WAAAY past that point...



...and hmmm, death cards, huh? I wonder where our ICE criminals got THAT idea from (NSFW/H)?...



...and RIP Catherine O’Hara, beloved for so many roles, particularly when it comes to SCTV as far as your humble narrator is concerned (for my money, Lola Heatherton is a work of comic genius)...I included this clip previously when Joe Flaherty passed, but I think it works for O’Hara also...



...and happy belated 75th birthday to Phil Collins – wishing him good luck with his own health issues.

Friday Stuff

Jesse Dollemore lets us know that Melania Trump is definitely going all in on appearances on Fix Noise to hype her trash “documentary,” with multiple interviews that are about as hard hitting as cotton candy...I realize we’re just going to keep hearing lies from these jackals about damn near everything, including #47 “closing the border,” but it doesn’t make their garbage any less repugnant...and oh yeah, the opposition to her wretched husband is the problem, not the fact that, as Jesse points out, the Gropenfuhrer was held civilly liable in a New York Court on a charge of “sexual abuse,” which is r*pe without using that word (NSFW/H)...



...and speaking of the Tangerine Toddler, it looks like he’s laser focused on the issues that matter only to him as usual; we learn that the FBI under Crazy Eyes Kash Patel has seized all kinds of machinery, documentation etc. in Fulton Country, Georgia related to the ’20 election results, continuing his beyond-ridiculous witch hunt once more – kudos to Daniel Koh for pointing out that, ultimately, this is another idiotic distraction from Don The Con (and to take focus off those pedo files that #47 is trying to make us forget about)...”lying is the litmus test for loyalty in this administration” indeed...host Stephanie Ruhle speaks with Jason Johnson, Koh, Peter Goodman, and John Avlon...



...and this clip with Mrs. Scar lets us know that measles cases have hit their highest totals in about 30 years, including 789 cases in South Carolina, and as nearly as I can tell, the fundie nut jobs are more responsible than anyone else for refusing to get vaxxed in this country, which is typical selfishness from those people as far as I’m concerned; Mrs. Scar and Willie Geist speak with Dr. Vin Gupta...and why am I not one bit surprised that the Gropenfuhrer has eliminated the CDC office for smoking and health, leading to an increase in that vile habit which will be followed eventually by more fatalities and shorter life spans? Oh, and the U.S. also withdrew from the WHO...I’m sure all of the conservative boomers in Bucks County bedroom communities continue to feel proud of themselves for voting against the scary DEI black lady in ’24 which hastened all of this misery (and no, I’m not going to stop beating that drum)...



...and John of The Damage Report tells us about another Trump vanity project, which is this “board of peace” nonsense, with a related event blowing up in #47’s bronzer-covered mug...and I seriously would like to know how many of those 20 companies who signed onto this sketchy project were paid off to do it (my guess is that all of them were)...looks like Combover Caligula had his own “please clap” moment with spokes-liar Karoline Leavitt (love it)...and God, how lazy is it to NOT EVEN COME UP WITH YOUR OWN FREAKING LOGO, but to basically steal the one from the U.N...ugh! (with Tehran Von Ghasri)...



...and Desi Lydic of The Daily Show tells us more about what’s “in the news” (wow, I wonder if Schumer got approval from The Baileys before he decided to swear on TV, and why is it a bit “on the nose” for Jeffries to sound off on ICE while his mike is muted?)...we’re treated to more on the “Melania” sort-of-documentary-masquerading-as-a-vanity-project...oh, and two-thirds of the New York crew that worked on “Melania” asked not to be credited; I would definitely call that “damage control”...with Ronny Chieng and Michael Kosta...



...and I hope you enjoy this brand new number to help us wind down another week of unmitigated chaos.

Thursday Stuff

(The pic reference is to this, in case that wasn't already apparent.)

David Pakman tells us about the right wing nutter who sprayed liquid on Ilhan Omar, pointing out that “this is how it escalates”...and OF COURSE the Gropenfuhrer found a way to blame Omar instead of this life form who assaulted her (actually, it probably counts as battery more than anything else); I can’t believe we could be looking at three more years of this disgusting pig of a flatulent biped residing in the White House (heckuva job, you idiot voters in PA, MI and WI in ’24...remind me once again why we deserve this because Biden looked bad in a debate)...I thought this was a pretty good discussion by Pakman about how our ruling regime exacerbates threats of violence against those who oppose it...we should have had a law passed ages ago against attacks on public officials and judges when Gabby Giffords was shot, and also when Sen. Alex Padilla was manhandled at an ICE hearing...apparently the substance sprayed on Omar was apple cider vinegar; thankfully it was no worse than that...



...and Kyle Kulinski tells us about Jesse Watters of Fix Noise praising ICE concentration camps; apparently, Billo The Clown’s one-time flunky thinks that ICE detention centers are hotels or something – fine...try spending a night there, then...and boy, is Kyle ever right about the wingnuts falling in line with their stoo-pid talking points regardless of what happens...yep, those detained by ICE are deprived of needed medicine and basic health care, to the point where 40 people have died in ICE custody...and yeah, detaining and basically torturing kids sure is a way to make this country safer, amirite? And I’m sure 5-year-old Liam Ramos is now apparently critically ill because his accommodations are so comfortable...uh huh (here...NSFW/H)...



...and Jesse Dollemore informs us of the wife of a MAGA business owner who endorses murdering protestors in Minneapolis and elsewhere (actually, she may be the co-owner with her husband); she deserves whatever comes next (and no, I’m not endorsing violence)...culprit is named Joy Elizabeth Berggren, and they own Furniture Connection in Clarksville, Tennessee, and, as Jesse says, it appears that the wife is now trying to remove any clue of her online existence...and I guess I should give Dave Berggren a pass for his lame ass apology, which he ONLY MAKES HERE TO PROTECT HIS BUSINESS...not a word of support for the Minneapolis protests of course, but only “oh please don’t hurt my employees because they’re innocent” (and referring to his wife as "someone" - sounds like an oh-so-happy household...what a f*cking joke!) (NSFW/H)...



Update 1/31/26: I see Jesse took down the video - more is here.

...and this is a few days old, and I was meaning to get to this before now, but here it is...Brittany Page gives us the latest on the tone deaf Trumpers in our ruling regime, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who isn’t quite a billionaire but is damn close...Page tells us about an interview with Maria Bartiromo where Bessent said that the “average American” owns 10-12 homes to pay for their retirement (Bessent said he supposedly doesn’t want institutional investors buying up homes, which actually gets to the heart of the matter, shockingly enough, even though I trust Bessent NOT ONE BIT to actually follow through on that)...I honestly don’t know what’s more absurd about what Bessent said, though, the number of homes or the actual notion of “retirement” in this end stage capitalist economy...”it is impossible to save for the future when you can’t even afford the present” indeed (oh, and please allow me to break out the world’s smallest violin for “Bongo” – cry me a freaking river...and “microwaved fish”? That’s a new one, I have to admit... NSFW/H also – I think Page has the right to swear in response to this idiocy)...



...and Desi Lydic of The Daily Show discusses “Little Marco” Rubio hiding under a blanket to escape Pumpkin Pol Pot (such a mature bunch of adults in charge...ugh); also, it looks like Greg Bovino has been “reassigned” to somewhere where he can persecute immigrants away from the media spotlight...and Kilmeade thinks Tom Homan would settle down everything; at a minimum, I would suggest elocution lessons for Mush Mouth Homan first...and I think it’s pretty humorous that Repugs are allegedly in favor of doing something, whatever that is, about ICE; as soon as the media spotlight focuses somewhere else, they’ll forget all about claiming to do the right thing...and yeah, Newsmax and Greg Kelly pretty much destroy the stoo-pid meter here (with Troy Iwata...slightly NSFW/H as well)...



...and I think The Boss really nailed it with this new tune (more here).

Wednesday Stuff

Rachel Maddow discusses Pumpkin Pol Pot in retreat as his anti-immigrant program becomes a political catastrophe (well, really, it’s that of Pee Wee German, but the proverbial buck stops with #47)...and I don’t want to hear one f*cking word of reprisal from Not Your Father’s Republican Party, since they had NO PROBLEM with kids, women, and people of another complexion getting terrorized by the ICE Gestapo, but as soon as a white male doctor was blown to pieces (and yes, that was also horrible), then apparently that was the proverbial bridge too far...and I’m definitely not of a mind to vote for a Repug ever again, and I can’t in Minnesota of course, but respect to former gubernatorial candidate Chris Madel for his stand...utterly shocked to hear Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma joining the “enough is enough” chorus...oh, and Greg Abbott says Bronzer Beelzebub needs to “recalibrate”; that waste of protoplasm would have been better off saying nothing...and I know Senate Dems have said they won’t fund DHS/ICE, and I hope they stick to their guns so to speak, but they’ve folded before (and this guy continues to be an embarrassment on this issue in particular)...also, I think Kristi Noem needs to update her resume, at a minimum...and oh yeah, those 7 U.S. House Dems who voted to fund DHS last week are now furiously backpedaling, which figures also...I love Maddow’s snark about our allegedly august business leaders, who were more “behind the curve” on this than anyone else...



...and taking a trip “across the pond,” Jonathan Pie opines on Terror in America (I was late with one of his recent clips, but I’m on time with this one)...boy, do I share his utter exasperation with this country and guns...I honestly didn’t know Alex Pretti had been shot TEN FREAKING TIMES!!!...as I’ve said before, we consider our politics to be “rough and tumble” in this country, but it’s a whole other matter for our friends on that “emerald isle”; they have no hesitation whatsoever about getting in someone’s face if they think the issue warrants it (NSFW/H)...



...and I know I haven’t done this in a good while, but I’d like to bring back “This Day In Doomsy History” from 1/28/17...sticking with UK-related stuff, I should point out that the acclaimed actor John Hurt passed away on 1/25/17, and this clip from “V for Vendetta” was offered as a tribute...if anyone wants a look at unadulterated, unobstructed MAGA Trumpism, I think Hurt demonstrates that pretty well here...



...and Tony Hinderman of Really American brings us the news that, apparently, more artists are bailing on Kid Rock and his MAGA music festival nonsense (another reason for yours truly to dump on what country music has become)...this includes Carter Faith and Morgan Wade, whoever they are (and I didn’t much care about Jason Aldean anyway, and he’s pretty much dead to me now), and Shinedown also really showed their butt on this one...also, kudos to the guy speaking out against school shootings (and once again, Jon Stewart completely nails it) (NSFW/H also)...



...and Stephen Colbert on The Late Show offers a thoughtful commentary on the execution of Alex Pretti, including the news orgs that contradicted the BS line from our ruling regime...and I know I haven’t said much about Gregory Bovino, who apparently is now one of the people who are going to be quite rightly left hung out to dry over this utter horror (I may have more on him later)...and good for Colbert to make his important points with humor, and believe me, you DO NOT WANT to piss off health care workers in particular, especially nurses...I have to admit I got a little choked up hearing those brave Minnesotans singing in that church, along with the clip of Pretti speaking about our veterans at the end...



...and as long as I took note of musicians telling Kid Rock and Cantaloupe Capone what they can do with their MAGA music festival, I think I should include a tune from someone else who stood up to our pathological ruling regime (here), and that would be Rhiannon Giddens (sorry I’m a little delinquent on this, but better late than never I guess).

Tuesday Stuff

Trevor Hayes of More Perfect Union brings us the sordid, seamy tale of companies bribing Mango Mussolini, featuring a $130K gold bar along with a gold Rolex desk clock on the resolute desk; you know, the one used by presidents who were actually legitimate...and oh yeah, a host of other businesses are also included when it comes to paying off the Gropenfuhrer, including a meat packing plant, plastic bottlers, and humongous tech companies, among others (and oh yeah, those stinking tariffs figure into this also)...and I guess it’s unintentionally hilarious in a Stanley Kubrick kind of way that a company named Pilgrim’s Pride figures into this, though they apparently were bought out by a foreign conglomerate called JBS...not exactly sure why the latter outfit needed permission from Cantaloupe Capone to go public, but given the seamy activities of this company, I guess it’s a case of “birds of a feather,” you might say, including that MAGA-aligned lobbying firm that figures into this, leading to dropping the stinking tariff on Brazilian beef...oh, and we also learn that Ford and GM got some kind of a tariff break because they were major donors to the inaugural for #47 (another reason not to buy their vehicles as far as I’m concerned)...one point made clear to yours truly is that we’re going to have to do something about this “inaugural fund” stuff, which is pretty much a “slush fund” for the Tangerine Toddler and may have been that for prior presidents also; one idea is to have that dough regulated by Congress, which actually has the “power of the purse”...so many examples of pay-to-play here that your head will spin...we learn yet again how soybean farmers were destroyed by Cheetoh Hitler’s stinking tariffs with China refusing to purchase them from our farmers, yet another tale met with a shrug by our corporate media as nearly as I can tell...



...and something that got a little lost with the ongoing ICE horror show is the fact that former special counsel Jack Smith recently testified before the House about the criminal investigations into Bronzer Beelzebub (which seems almost quaint now I guess), with Smith basically laying out the case that, were he not residing in An Oval Office, #47 would likely be in a Club Fed somewhere...Rachel Maddow brings us this recent exchange between Smith and Dem U.S. House Rep Becca Balint of Vermont concerning Our Treasonous Orange Pustule of a *preznit and #47’s petty, childish, ridiculous threats against Smith (I don’t think it needs to be pointed out what a hero Smith is for his courageous work as well as that of his staff in investigating the crimes of our ruling regime)...panel discussion includes Nicolle Wallace (who correctly, and tragically, points out how the DOJ has been eviscerated) along with Chris Hayes (I think his phrase “click-tatorship” is apt, sadly), and I know Lawrence O’Donnell brings kind of a “West Wing” mentality here, which makes sense because he worked in the U.S. Senate during that era (and I make that observation with respect, and he makes a TERRIFIC point that there could be no Trump without his party’s meatheads in Congress)...also, I think Ari Melber’s perspective is particularly important here since he has a law degree...



...and Brian Tyler Cohen discusses Maria Bartiromo of Fix Noise starting off with what appears to be feigned outrage over the murder of Alex Pretti, and then she proceeds to let Repug U.S. House Rep James Comer start spewing a torrent of utter bullsh*t in response to this tragedy; about 61 percent of this country overall believes that ICE has gone way too damn far according to recent polling....to be honest (and I mean no disrespect to Cohen), I really could care less what the right-wing fever swamps say on this, including Joe Rogan (NSFW/H).

Oh, and as far as #47 supposedly reducing crime in D.C. with a greater ICE presence, I offer the following from here...

Though Trump has taken credit for reducing overall crime in 2025, rates were already declining before he returned to office last January, and experts say it’s at best too soon to tell if his Administration has played a notable role in the drop—and that it could be outright false to attribute the change to his crackdown.

And oh yeah, as far as Comer’s nonsense about “white liberal agitators” encouraging ICE protests, I give you this.

Here's the Cohen clip...



...and sometimes I think it's best just to let the folks who actually live in the affected area make their own case for themselves (doesn't sound like a white "liberal agitator" to me)...

This woman speaks for the majority of Americans. 🙌🙏🫶👇 pic.twitter.com/IIBzSHHVAQ

— Bill Madden (@maddenifico) January 25, 2026

...and I thought this was a good take by Mr. Newberger...



...and happy 75th birthday to Seth Justman of the J. Geils Band.