Friday Stuff

Josh Gay of Ring of Fire informs us that there’s a backlog of about 121K applications for Canadian citizenship, with a surge fueled by folks in this country (big surprise), many of whom have been able to trace their ancestry back to our northern neighbor...looks like it could take two years to sift through the applications at this point...”never bet against Americans fleeing a problem we created” indeed...1,500 record requests in Quebec in a month versus 43 in the same month a year ago (I don’t think we’re going to hear another ridiculous “sir” story over THAT one...and by the way, I think Tim Horton’s coffee is really good)...



...and here’s a story on CBC News that you likely won’t find on our bought-and-paid-for corporate media, and it’s that of Loui Ridi, a Palestinian American man who returned home to defend his property from attack by Jewish settlers on the occupied West Bank, with our “ally” “Bibi” encouraging settler violence...shocked to hear Mike Huckabee refusing to rush in and defend All Things Israel, but yeah, good luck trying to put measures into place to try and prevent attacks such as those described in this clip...



...and returning to this country, Robert Reich asks “Who’s The World’s Worst Billionaire” (lots of competition here), and the nod goes to Jeff Bezos – so many reasons I know, but one is Amazon punishing other websites such as Walmart or Target by forcing them to raise prices to ensure Amazon’s competitiveness for the same product (Price Fixing 101)...we’re also reminded of Bezos contributing $1 mil to the inauguration of Cheetoh Hitler 2.0 while shelling out $75 mil for that ridiculous “Melania” alleged documentary...Bezos, along with other plutocrats of course, has chipped in on that ridiculous ballroom and emasculated the once proud WaPo...I didn’t know Bezos had also picked up $65 mil from our regime of grifters and bottom feeders for AWS, but that tracks also unfortunately...and 30K job cuts since last October, huh? Also typical...didn’t know about the man who went into cardiac arrest and died while the manager told other Amazon warehouse employees to keep working (allegedly)...I had heard about the $26 mil spent on union-busting consultants, though...



...and Jesse Dollemore brings us more polling data from CNN’s Harry Enten to indicate just how much Our Ochre Abomination is sinking among the electorate – 31 points underwater at this moment, and 47 points down with independent voters (I admit that I get steamed at the latter group from time to time because I think their voting judgment is basically “feels over reals,” if you will, but the undeniable fact is that they decide our elections)...also, when it comes to the “I” word, yes, I think you need to follow where the facts go (again, assuming Dems are in charge, and we need to work to ensure that outcome), but there is SO MUCH CORRUPTION that needs to be winnowed through that we can’t get totally bogged down in it – a tough task to be sure (and once again, thanks to idiot voters in ’24 who saw to it that we were stuck with all of this)...



...and with everything doing the “big swirl in the hopper,” you might say, the true face of MAGA and the Repug Party is showing itself, meaning that it is a hate movement above all else (in case we didn’t somehow know that already) aimed at liberals, leftists and minorities first and foremost...and right on cue, we have Joel Webbon joining the fray once more, telling “modern feminist pagan women” that they need to starve (I can recall an era when Mel Brooks would make jokes about this, but tragically, this really is the worst timeline we’re living through)...God, what a mental and emotional sewer this Webbon guy must be living in to throw out all of this judgmental garbage...I must have missed the reading in sacred Scripture where Our Lord told the destitute “you starve, glory be to God”...and oh yeah, let’s bring settler colonialism back to Africa while we’re at it, and if you oppose it, we’ll kill you...yep, using what they imagine to be Christianity to fuel their own hatred for sure...also, let’s not forget the racism and intolerance of anyone whose skin is too brown for Webbon’s liking (won’t defend Vivek R. for any other reason, I hasten to add...I hate to acknowledge that Webbon is correct about how Ramaswamy “made bank,” but he is...and “suicidal empathy”; I have to admit that that’s a new one)...Kyle Kulinski tells us about it (NSFW/H)...



...and I need to catch up a bit on my summer selections, and I definitely didn’t want to forget this one.

Thursday Stuff

I was actually going to pass on the whole Darline Graham matter where she said foreign policy wasn’t her thing, or whatever, in that debate (and started wrapping herself around the memory of her dead brother, who was no great shakes either IMO, and her dad), but I thought Brian Tyler Cohen’s take on that was pretty important...as he says, this fits into the typical pattern of the Gropenfuhrer surrounding himself with people as dumb as #47 is (good commentary towards the end by Katie Porter on CNN...and once more, the corporate media double standard is on display here – does anyone seriously believe that a Dem would have received the “kid gloves” treatment if they had stepped into it like Graham did here?)...



...and speaking of double standards, David Pakman lets us know here that “President Deals” was caught using the same “cheat sheet” that Biden apparently once used (leading to weeks of ridicule for #46, but of course, since our current *preznit has “the magic R” after his name, it’s time for our corporate media to go into snooze mode)...I know Pakman knows that it’s not possible for anyone associated with Not Your Father’s Republican Party to actually be embarrassed about a damn thing, and this is more evidence of that (as if we needed it, I know)...I may look into Pakman’s book – probably an interesting read...



...and the “Logical Leftist” tells us that it looks like the typical DNC Beltway centrist election losers are back to pretend to be the adults in the room, or something, over Abdul El-Sayed’s Dem U.S. Senate primary win in Michigan, to the point where they’re actually backing a Trump Repug (including this Michael Horowitz character)??...beyond belief (well, maybe not really) that AIPAC spent $32 million to try and defeat El-Sayed (once more, love and kisses to the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR for Citizens United)...oh, and Horowitz (along with others I’m sure) objects to El-Sayed’s endorsement from Hasan Piker (the outrage against Piker has elevated his profile more than he could ever do on his own)...glad to hear Jeff Waldorf bring up 2016 and how we more or less held our noses and “voted for Hillz” even though we supported Bernie Sanders in the Dem primary...the double standard on display here from the supposedly elite political insider class is enough to make me retch (and I seem to recall Carville saying there was no room for both him and Piker in the party or something, but if Carville has come around to supporting El-Sayed, then good for him)...hard to overstate how important it is that we hold Michigan; no chance on getting the Senate if we don’t (a related item is here)...



...and speaking of corporate insider Dems, Tennessee Brando (definitely not him) tells us about that utter train wreck of an appearance on “Meet The Press” by Hakeem Jeffries where he repeatedly said that Medicare For All isn’t a priority for him, with M4A supported by – gee, I dunno – ABOUT 65 FREAKING PERCENT OF THIS COUNTRY!!! Brando is right for sure about everyone needing to be unified against Our Ochre Abomination, especially since our corporate media will be inflicting all of their “Dems In Disarray” narratives whether they’re actually warranted or not...if somehow the projected “blue wave” turns into a “blue trickle,” though, it will be because of garbage like this from Jeffries...this tells us that Jeffries has received about roughly $1.4 million in donations from health care-related companies and individuals – yet another reason to get damn dirty corporate money out of politics, as if we needed another one (nice ROI from Jeffries to make his bundlers happy, though)...Brando gets revved up at about 7:30, and he’s about 150 percent correct (NSFW/H)...



Update 8/21/26: Jeffries should read this to find a clue on this issue.

...and with the Brian Tyler Cohen clip in mind, I give you this from Mr. Newberger...



...and the weather is going to be a bit dreary in these parts, so I thought I’d include this seasonal tune as a bit of a pick-me-up.

Wednesday Stuff

Gee, I’m old enough to remember when a Senate Majority Leader would find out if a senior member of that body from his party EVEN STILL HAD A PULSE – I’m also old enough to remember the old “Saturday Night Live” joke that Generalissimo Francisco Franco was still dead (the joke being that the guy held on for months and the reporting centered around that with nothing new until Franco finally croaked – the same definitely applies to Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao as far as yours truly is concerned)...Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is asked to comment (and yes, this is my periodic reminder that our “Weekend At Bernie’s” senator still shares this mortal space on earth, allegedly)...

...and Sam at The Majority Report informs us that #47 wants ICE to intimidate midterm voters at polling places, based on comments from his consigliere and AG Todd Blanche...Sam cites the two U.S. laws prohibiting harassment of voters at polling places (above), which Blanche obviously doesn’t know or care about (the whole “keeping illegals from voting” being the harassment excuse of course)...GREAT point by Matt Lech that the Trumpers supposedly caring about “election integrity” is rich given that THEY TRIED TO OVERTURN THE 2020 ELECTION!!...I wish Sam hadn’t included that clip at the end of Don The Con, but I suppose attention must be paid (oh, but first he says he won’t mention a country, but you can see, given the immature child he is, that he REALLY DOES want to mention a country, so OF COURSE he blurts out “Somalia”)...



...and Farron Cousins lets us know that Cantaloupe Capone’s insanity is triggering supply chain shortages, including food banks in red states...also, the strategic petroleum reserve is at its lowest level in 45 years, with fuel released to artificially keep gas prices from soaring through the roof; are you tired of the winning yet?...and oh yeah, as Cousins says, our utterly cowed Fourth Estate refuses to hold Our Demented Toddler of a *preznit to account on his deadline for supposedly wrapping up his Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran...



..and Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report discusses DSA member Angie Nixon winning her primary in Flori-DUUH over Alex Vindman to challenge Repug Ashley Moody for Moody’s U.S. Senate seat...a couple of big caveats here; 1) Corpora-Dems Jared Moskowitz and Debbie Wasserman Schultz won also, and 2) We’re talking Flori-DUUH, people – we need to keep that in mind...also, this tells us more about the Repug primary for the 6th Congressional district in that state, which truly was a race to the bottom as noted between the incumbent (the utterly misnamed Randy Fine) and the challenger, Daniel Bilzerian, who allegedly isn’t a neo-Nazi, but walks and talks like one...sounds like FL-06 Repugs had a choice between an anti-Muslim nut (Fine) and an anti-Jewish one (Bilzerian), so of course they went with the anti-Muslim one...sounds like Oliver Larkin, running in the primary against Moskowitz, put up a good fight, but there are all kinds of cautionary political lessons out there of candidates losing the first time but then coming back and getting it done (NSFW/H)...



Update 8/20/26: “Oh, but it wasn’t MEEEE rifling through that constituent’s mailbox, but my dastardly evil twin”...suuuure (SMDH – here).

...and leave it to Mr. Newberger to give us another musical response to our current nightmare (NSFW/H also)...



...and RIP drummer Frank Beard of ZZ Top.

Tuesday Stuff

Belle of the Ranch gives us her take on how Combover Caligula blew it with his Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran...good point about how the stoo-pidity of using precision guided munitions all the way through instead of to finish off the opponent undercut the mission (and no, I’m not a war expert), which further enforces my belief that #47 and SecDef Kegseth thought this would be over quick...I mean, I’m glad they really didn’t send in ground forces, but they never should have engaged our military AT ALL...”there comes a point where you’re just making the rubble bounce” indeed...particularly good job on the shirt, btw...



...and this clip from TYT with Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian tells us about military families ripping Combover Caligula on his aformentioned Iran debacle (and I know I already included that clip of him next to the jet saying that our military personnel on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln hadn’t been deployed long enough)...I applaud the family member saying that Bronzer Beelzebub needs to redeem himself, but sadly, that ship has sailed, no pun intended...we also hear from the family of the 13-year vet who tried to jump ship, literally...and of course, leave it to Fix Noise to give cover for our utterly incompetent ruling regime, quoting people like Repug U.S. House Rep Pat Fallon and SecDef Kegseth of course (and retired General Jack Keane)...and oh yeah, here comes the leader of Cult 45 again with another of his idiotic “sir” stories (yet another lying “tell”)...I’m loathe to give credit to these two hosts to be honest, but to be fair, Ana makes a good point that the criminal neglect of our carriers isn’t just limited to the Abraham Lincoln...good catch by Cenk I have to admit also on Keane wearing both the U.S. AND Israeli flags on Keane’s jacket lapel (and nice to get in another shot at the completely execrable Mark Levin)...I start to lose Ana at about 15:28; yes, there are plenty of Dem sellouts on Israel, but tell me what chance in hell there is of Repugs actually supporting someone like Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan (Section 224 of the ’27 NDAA needs to be utterly destroyed, which relates to this)...didn’t see the connection here with potentially more ruin in Gaza with Wonder Boy Jared Kushner– ugh (and I wonder how many days/weeks of Repug and corporate media outrage there would have been if a DEMOCRAT had actually met with Hamas)...I detest Kushner of course, but calling him “the new Epstein” is a typical stretch for these two...I will give Ana credit for adding the historical context on prior naval deployments...and the “populist right”?? Cenk, WHAT PLANET DO YOU LIVE ON???...otherwise, I think there’s a lot of good commentary in this clip...



...and sticking with global matters, Joe Scar gives us his take on Dementia J. Trump deciding to cut off military exercises with South Korea...calling our *preznit’s policy on this “jagged,” IMO, is typical corporate media understatement...I would say “insane, delusional, dangerous,” etc.; try connecting the dots here – there’s a reason why Our Tiny Handed Would-Be Dictator is tearing down everything built after WWII, and that’s because that’s exactly what his Russian operative in charge wants...with reporter David Rohde...



...and returning to matters in this country, Sam and Emma of The Majority Report comment on someone named Lydia Moynihan at Rupert The Pirate’s vanity rag, who is apparently shocked at the increased popularity on NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani...I mean, I get it that NYC is an enclave unto itself, you might say, but how about giving Mamdani a speck of credit for seeing which way the political wind is blowing? And oh yeah, Moynihan is in charge of “business” for that scandal sheet, or something...”charisma doesn’t matter if you’re not delivering on your promises” indeed, though I agree with Emma’s assessment that voters will respond to you if they see you fighting for them even if you fall short (also agree with Sam’s take that our corporate media views anyone working government successfully as a threat)...



...and I should probably include more tunes here from Jesse Welles, but I thought it was time to feature one now (NSFW/H, I guess)...



...and The Doors signed with Elektra Records on this day in 1966 – this is a tune from their debut release.

Monday Stuff

Oh, gee...Cadet Bone Spurs doesn’t think our sailors and personnel on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln have been deployed long enough (here and a related utterly brainless, and costly, idea is here)...



...and Kenny Hesse of Really American gives us the latest on the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool BS, among other f*ckups from our “Justice” Department under the Gropenfuhrer...looks like Judge Winebox couldn’t make a case against this David Hearn guy after all – womp womp...I definitely did not grow up on Scooby Doo cartoons, but I thought that wasn’t too bad of a parody...John Oliver’s clip of the sandwich thrower is funny in a Stanley Kubrick “Dr. Strangelove” kind of way I think (NSFW/H)...



...and Brian Tyler Cohen gives us some current polling numbers on the U.S. Senate contests...tells you something that the info cited here is from Fix Noise, but take nothing for granted here, people; I guarantee you that these contests will tighten up in the fall...it looks like this bad data for the “R” team got the attention of Meth Head Bannon, as well as that pissant Jesse Watters (in the case of Ken Paxton, who’s lucky that #47 is as big of a crook as he is, because otherwise, that title would go to “Mr. 9 Million and 15 Homes On a $153K-A-Year Salary”)...



...and Dan Lieberman of More Perfect Union tells us how much data centers in the west are soaking up precious water...and no, I don’t trust a word on this subject from Microsoft’s Satya Nadella...meanwhile, individuals like pecan farmer Roberto Roque in New Mexico wonders how the hell he's going to make a living under these conditions, and he definitely isn't alone...also, this Project Jupiter monstrosity beckons also (“who meters their water” indeed)...ok, so the shareholders are told “don’t worry, be happy,” but meanwhile, residents such as those in El Paso (where Meta is building a data center) have seen water rate increases for 11 straight years, including a double-digit one this year (funny, but when this issue comes up, I don’t hear any wingnut chest thumping over how great it is to move from one of those supposedly awful blue states to “the land of the yellow rose”)...so indirect water usage could be ten times higher than direct usage, according to an individual who has studied this issue? Peachy...as we learn, eight states have introduced bills requiring water use reporting – that should be the standard across this country (get these thieving corporate bastards on the record FWIW)...



Update 8/18/26: And for the corporatist point of view on this subject, I give you this (Bluesky link).

...and with all of the completely predictable madness reigning at the moment, Mr. Newberger tells us what’s most important to Our Ochre Abomination...



...and I think the title of this newer tune is an appropriate response (his name that is, not the building itself).

Friday Stuff

(For what it's worth, I was able to post for all five days this week, but that will probably be the exception going forward and not the rule.)

Lawrence O’Donnell informs us that Trumpette short-time spokes-liar Karoline Leavitt is at it again, telling us to ignore reality and give her boss credit for our supposedly booming economy (sorry to mention her on consecutive days)...according to a USA Today survey in June, 30 percent of those polled said they use a credit card to pay for groceries and other essentials, and if that isn’t a blaring siren, I don’t know what is (along with the destruction of needed services such as Medicare/Medicaid, SNAP, etc.)...I know Nicholas Kristof is kind of hit-and-miss when it comes to reporting, but when he’s on the mark he really nails it IMO, as he does here meeting with people victimized by our end stage capitalist economy, including Latoya Foster in Pine Bluff, Arkansas...more on “The Other America” by Michael Harrington is here...



...and I’ll turn to TYT once more for the story of sailors on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln deployed in the Gulf apparently trying to throw themselves overboard...in addition to the ridiculous over-extension of the deployment of our military, some are also racked with guilt over the bombing of civilians; wonder when we’re going to hear about this on Fix Noise? I would guess at half past never...I realize Cenk Uygur is being tongue-in-cheek asking why Israel doesn’t help out our military, but even though there’s likely no practical way to do that, he has a point (oh, riiiight – I forgot about this)...I didn’t know about the suicides by our cyber personnel, on top of all of this misery...I would respectfully remind everyone that one of the first things our utterly lawless regime did when they seized power in ’25 was to fire scores of our senior military officers overseeing our service branches, which rated hardly a mention in our beyond useless corporate media, and I would argue that we now get sucking up to Israel at the expense of our own safety as a result...I remembered the ’83 bombing of our Marine barracks in Beirut (which we responded to by attacking Grenada), but I’d forgotten about Israel bombing the U.S.S. Liberty...good commentary IMO from Elliot Morgan also...additionally, the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln was where Dubya had his “Mission Accomplished” moment – a bit tangential I know, but just pointing that out...



...and in today’s chapter of “gee, how can our rotten regime find a new way to piss off another one of our allies?”, this report from CBC News lets us know that 60,000 Canadians have signed a petition to expel Pete Hoekstra as U.S. ambassador to Canada...maybe it wasn’t a good idea for Hoekstra to retweet that “51st State” garbage, huh?...



...and I stumbled across this clip a day or so ago...it looks like Arkansas farmers are having a particularly tough time along with farmers across the country...energy costs from #47’s war of choice in Iran along with Ukraine/Russia are ultimately eating into whatever profitability they’re eking out (not much it seems), along with impact from those stinking tariffs...I would also include the effects of the climate crisis as a factor affecting how successful a season our farmers have (though I’m not an expert on farm policy I admit)...I realize no political party is blameless on this issue, but I cannot imagine why anybody would think Republicans, particularly in Arkansas, give a damn about them...more here (and you KNOW how they voted two years ago, right?)...



...and speaking of hard labor, Mr. Newberger gives Not Your Father’s Republican Party the shot they deserve over their obedience to Our Ochre Abomination...



...and here’s some good news – we’ve got a fall recording to look forward to from this guy ("Hippies, Thugs and Heroes")...here is the first single.

Thursday Stuff

Kenny Hesse of Really American gives us the latest on Mango Mussolini’s plane switch– OK, so I want to make sure I have this right...so the Gropenfuhrer was due to leave a summit in Turkey last month on AF One, but ended up escaping with the aid of a catering cart and taking a secret plane instead, with the press assigned to cover him being potentially exposed to attack from Iran if that country decided to take a shot at the presidential jet (which I definitely DO NOT condone of course)...and oh yeah, that Laura Loomer bit is funny for all of the wrong reasons of course...also, I don’t know if that Lego video came from Iran or not, but if it did, I definitely have to give them props for turning around so fast on this (though I really don’t want to, but I guess I have to)...former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall weighs in also; Kendall indeed has sued our outlaw administration to restore his security clearance...glad Hesse ends this clip with a comment on that ridiculous statement from #47 about Communism...more here (looks like Little Marco ended up not making the cut and was exposed on AF One to a potential attack along with everyone else – normally I would just be snarky about this, but even though I detest these people, I won’t make a joke about endangering people’s safety...more here)...NSFW/H...



...and Brittany Page talks about all the ways Cheetoh Hitler is screwing over kids, starting with proposed cuts to SNAP causing more of them to go hungry, with the dough used to fund yet another forever Mideast war and cover monuments in D.C. with gold leaf...lines grow ever longer at food banks with more and more families having to choose between food and medications in what purports to be the richest country on earth...oh, and it looks like #47 will skate on a proposed IRS penalty of $100 million...and did I mention that Dementia J. Trump is going after Head Start also (taking a page out of Project 2025, yet another reason to excoriate that contemptible Russell Vought)...glad that Page went through the proposed awful changes from the Trump gang – with all of the outrages from these cretins, I temporarily forgot about trying to withhold Medicaid payments to blue states...“Nazi sh*t” indeed...slightly NSFW/H also...



...and John of The Damage Report discusses the proliferation of Flock cameras, gathering all kinds of data whether we want them to or not...looks like those fine words about unnecessary surveillance were spoken by a gentleman at a town hall meeting in Findley, MN...and 90K cameras across 6K communities, huh? I must have missed the robust public debate that preceded this grotesque invasion of our privacy...apparently, Flock is turning over info to government and law enforcement, leading to misidentification of people and subsequent arrest – I’m sure there will be lawsuits aplenty over this madness...oh yeah, it looks like cops have also been using Flock cameras to track their former relationship partners, just for sh*ts and giggles I guess...also, this leads back to the plague of VC investment run amok (to the tune of $1 billon), which shouldn’t surprise anybody either...fortunately, it looks like 60 municipalities have forced their local governments to cancel Flock contracts – just need to keep up the fight here...



Update: More here.

...and when even Sen. Foghorn Leghorn of Louisiana says that the scam SAVE Act is dead, I think you can believe it (though the Gropenfuhrer will continue to play his stoo-pid games up until and after the election of course...and leave it to some Fix Noise hairdo to laughably call it “an election integrity bill”)...and I realize characters like Sean Inanity don’t give a damn about the hardship this creates for workers at the polls, who FREAKING CHECK TO MAKE SURE YOU’RE REGISTERED ANYWAY BY YOUR SIGNATURE (at least, that’s the way it works in Doomsy-land)...as David Shuster of Rebel HQ says, non-citizen voting is extremely rare and is caught by the poll workers (along with the fact that those trying to game the system this way are usually Republicans – one example is here)... and “Manhood Meltdown” when referring to James Talarico at the Roger Ailes BS Factory? Yeah, that attack line will work...SMDH...



Update 8/15/26: Oh look - more Stoo-pid Republican Voting Tricks (here).

...and I’m not sure how I missed this from Jimmy Kimmel, but I’ll add it now (YouTube seems to have an issue with Kimmel’s clips for some reason – I’ll see if this gets some kind of TOS violation also)...



...and here is another seasonal number.