Friday Stuff

(For anybody keeping score at home, I know it’s been awhile since I’ve posted for all 5 days a week, and that will continue for a bit longer at a minimum, and the next week or so will be pretty problematic for posting also – I just don’t know yet.)

This clip from CBC News discusses the “booze ban” by our northern neighbor...between ’24 and ’25, wine exports to Canada fell by $343 million...wine, distilled spirts and beer combined took a similar nosedive, from $744 mil to $208 mil...oh, so Claudia Tenney of the Trump Party goes and whines to Maria Bartiromo about it; cry me a freaking river...I have no gifted insight into this business, so it’s entirely possible that it will turn around, but all of this could have been goddamn avoided of course if it weren’t for the Gropenfuhrer’s hostile attitude towards our ally and his tariff madness, as we know...also, I cannot fathom how ANY of this will make it possible to reach an agreement with Canada on minerals (as well as the nonsense from this), but stranger things have happened I guess...



...and Pat Ford sitting in for David Pakman lets us know about Laura Ingraham of Fix Noise “reading the room,” you might say, realizing what’s likely to come...she gets no credit from me because she didn’t speak out against this Iran madness and decry the humanitarian brutality until it became crystal clear how it’s about to bite the “R” team in the metaphorical butt this fall...and I would agree that a 29 percent approval rating for our Iran lunacy is definitely way too damn high, but then again, about 30 percent of this country is certifiable sadly...also, it looks like Maria Bartiromo is looking to “jump ship” on this also, though I don’t give her any credit either because she’s doing this for the same reason as Ingraham...and this Rob Spalding guy can “sit and spin” – just because our other damn forever wars in the Mideast took an eternity doesn’t mean that this has to also, especially since the case for waging it in the first place was never made by this regime of lowlifes...I didn’t know about this Bryson DeChambeau guy, and if you’ll excuse me, I’ll choose not to trouble my beautiful mind with him (snark)...



...and hey, don’t look now, but it appears that the Houthis, with the backing of Iran, aren’t letting Saudi Arabia use their main shipping route via the Red Sea for transport of oil of course, what with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz also (a response to the Saudis apparently bombing in Lebanon)...yep, we indeed are looking at gas shortages all over the globe, all because of this decrepit, flatulent orange madman and yet another potential forever war...I was pretty young for the oil shortages of the ‘70s, but yeah, I remember them also...I didn’t know #47 had tapped out the strategic reserve, but that figures also...with all due respect to Farron Cousins, I really don’t care what Saagar Enjeti has to say because he was one of the cheerleaders who helped make sure we were stuck with this demented loon in charge...



...and Kenny Hesse of Really American brings us a clip of someone making fun of Our Ochre Abomination at one of #47’s hate-fests (this guy had better be careful because I’m sure the great unwashed followers of our Cult Leader In Chief will be out for him – love to be wrong)...oh, and Dem U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff didn’t look like “Pinky Herman” (ugh!) when he was handing this Trumpist stooge his lunch recently (here)...glad to see Ossoff’s national profile rising, though we have a loooong way to go when it comes to determining who the Dem prez nominee for ’28 will be...and “no tax on Social Security”?? Um, yeah...let’s find out how that flies when I don’t take out any withholding and I get DESTROYED next April 15th....and oh, this ballroom, in addition to being an underground bunker too, is now also a “MILITARY FACILITY?” I guess it will also have sharks with lasers, huh...and I realize it’s not possible for this clueless orange meat sack to realize that calling his war of choice a “skirmish” is insulting beyond belief to those who have died or suffered traumatic injury...what a sweating, pitiable, bulbous old fool (I apologize for subjecting you to so much of this, but occasionally I think attention must be paid)... NSFW/H...



...and The Lincoln Project offers their take on “Communism” under Dear Leader...I can’t believe these incompetent bumblef*cks actually think this attack line will work (the “R” Party, I mean)...



...and Brian Tyler Cohen presents “Another Day”...it looks like Trumpette spokes-liar Karoline Leavitt is “throwing down” a bit for her boss against Senate Majority Leader John Thune to try and get the garbage SAVE Act passed...we're also reminded about Cantaloupe Capone refusing to sign the housing bill passed by Congress because of his typical hissy fit over the aforementioned SAVE Act...and it also looks like Glenn Beck is slathering on the same amount of bronzer as Our Treasonous Orange Pustule...and I have a news flash for you-know-who; Senate Repugs HAVE ALREADY BLOWN UP THE FILIBUSTER as noted here...also, the only reason I care about whether or not he cries is because he’s already a pathetic excuse for a human being, and I don’t need further proof of that...”stop placating the arsonist with more matches” indeed...slightly NSFW/H also...



...and Seth Meyers presents “A Closer Look”...I haven’t seen “The Odyssey” but I plan to at some point, and I’m sure Christopher Nolan is laughing his ass off at everybody losing their sh*t over the casting of Elliot Page, who is trans, in the role of Achilles, along with Apartheid Clyde setting more money on fire to make HIS version of the story...also, Lupita Nyong'o plays Helen of Troy, something else which matters to me not one bit one way or the other...and in terms of this bimbo saying “no one is going to see this ‘woke’ movie,” ummm, I’d reconsider that, $264 million later...also, we get a rundown of all of the ways that our ruling regime and their media flunkies have been COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY WRONG about our Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran...and I can hardly wait to discover what that “present” was that Cheetoh Benito got from Iran; this delusional old man is likely to concoct ANYTHING to try and puff himself up...I realize I haven’t had much on Jon Ossoff going after cretins like SecDef Kegseth, but big time kudos to the Dem Georgia senator for not taking any mess (and echoing the Really American clip I know, we’re reminded of the idiocy from Dementia J. Trump at that Bund rally of his)...



...and I think this newer tune kicks butt – hope it starts off a nice summer weekend for us all.

Wednesday Stuff

Yasmin Khan and Jayar Jackson of Rebel HQ bring us the latest on Our Ochre Abomination and Iran...3 more of our soldiers were killed because of Cantaloupe Capone’s completely unnecessary war of choice, and of course our *preznit marked this tragic loss in the most solemn way possible...yeah, maybe in an alternate version of reality...to be honest, I’m really at a point where I don’t believe a damn thing from this criminal administration, and with all due respect to the fine men and women in our military, that goes for US CENTCOM also (remember all those senior military leaders who were fired by this bunch of bottom feeders? Likely they were replaced by Trumpist sycophants)...unfortunately, though, I DO believe them when they claim to want a “wider war”...good point by Jayar that our “allies” in the region aren’t doing anything because they know what a mess we’re in (here) and they’re not going to lift a little finger to help us...



...and Jesse Dollemore gives us more on the ongoing saga of the George Washington slavery signs that were illegally taken down around our first president's home in Philadelphia...I guess it hurts the fragile fee fees of our man-child of a chief executive to point out that #1 owned people in bondage...a federal court ruled against our ruling regime and said the signs need to be put back, but it appears that Our Treasonous Orange Pestilence replaced the signs with Trumpist propaganda...”painting a picture of a white ethno-state” indeed...so it looks like the Third Circuit said that #47 could replace the signs/panels, which proved to be the opening that they needed to do this sickening deed...and yeah, doing this in the dead of night is a typically sleazy move...and one of the panels says that Washington allowed slaves to attend the theater, with our first president buying the tickets – what a guy! – as if that’s supposed to make up for the fact that HIS TEETH CAME FROM AT LEAST ONE SLAVE...I would say that attorney Michael Coard definitely gets what’s going on here (NSFW/H)...



...and Chris Hayes informs us that extreme weather tied to climate change is the “new normal,” which I guess anybody who’s paying attention to this already knows (and I don’t know anybody else in the media who’s on top of this like Hayes, to his credit)...I know this is a little behind the news cycle, but I think it matters to keep beating this metaphorical drum...and oh yeah, let’s blame Canada, even though one of that country’s brave firefighters perished helping to control a fire in Colorado (here)...failing to address this goes right back to DOGE/Elon and Project 2025 under Russell Vought, and both of them should be brought up on charges IMO (for this and myriad other reasons, including the destruction of US AID)...



...and with the prior clip in mind, I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” from 7/22/16...here is a climate change ad from Friends of the Earth Action that Fix Noise refused to air – better to keep their sheep-like audience fearful or angry, or both if possible, as long as no one is thinking constructively, in a manner befitting an adult with a lick of common sense (here)...



...and yesterday marked what would have been the 75th birthday for Robin Williams (NSFW/H also, but hilarious...I cannot possibly imagine what he would make of all of this raging out of control at this moment)...



...and RIP also saxophonist Plas Johnson, who played so memorably in the “Pink Panther” theme written by Henry Mancini.

Tuesday Stuff

(And in case anyone thinks this meme is an exaggeration, I offer this.)

Lawrence O’Donnell talks about Repug U.S. Senator “Disappointed” Susan Collins doing nothing in response to the recent ICE murder in her state (more here)...actually, she DID do something, but it was to green light ICE’s budget (casting the deciding vote) allowing for the killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero to take place...oh, but Collins DID hold a hearing about increased security for SCOTUS justices (those testifying were Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Island Baby Barrett)...here’s a pro tip: with respect to Kagan, if you’re looking for ways to increase the safety of SCOTUS justices (and I don’t advocate violence or anything illegal), maybe you ought to consider NOT ISSUING DECISIONS THAT SCREW OVER THE MAJORITY OF THIS COUNTRY, OFTEN UNDER THE GUISE OF THE “SHADOW DOCKET” WHICH SHOULD ONLY BE USED WHEN A QUICK RULING IS NECESSARY!!!...and oh yeah, Bronzer Beelzebub told ICE to halt vehicle stops in an effort to try and get everyone to forget about the ICE Gestapo up to Election Day...typical...and oh yeah, once more, the excuse of a vehicle supposedly fleeing the scene is used as an excuse to commit murder, which makes it pretty damn clear that the Trump gang has no understanding of legal police procedure whatsoever...



...and Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh of “Demcoracy Now” tell us of Bronzer Beelzebub getting sued over a language change in the Endangered Species Act to now include extraction and drilling for oil in previously protected habitats...once more, heckuva job, all you numbskulls who voted for Our Treasonous Orange Pestilence because inflation had risen to the ungodly rate of 3 percent and you were afraid to cast your ballot for the scary DEI brown lady (snark mode off)...attorney Ben Levitan for Earth Justice is interviewed – sounds like, in true Trumpist fashion, none of this destruction constitutes “harm” somehow, as far as our ruling gaggle of bottom feeders is concerned...



...and Thom Hartmann tells us about How The 1% Won While We Lost Healthcare...we’re a year into the Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck, and we now have data to prove how ruinous it is, according to the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy...the richest 1% will get $117 billion in tax cuts, more than what the bottom 60% got, which was basically nothing anyway, while the law also had the largest cuts to federal health care funding in the history of this country ($1 trillion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act)...Medicaid and CHIP enrollment fell by 3.8 million...increase in ACA premiums caused 4.2 million to drop coverage entirely...8 million people lost health care coverage over the year from July ’25 to July ’26...by the way, “The Jungle” was written by Upton Sinclair (minor point, I know)...Thom also talks about how FoodNet, a collaborative program among the CDC, USDA, FDA, and 10 state health departments to track infections by eight known food pathogens, was gutted to now track only 2 of those pathogens...so sorry to hear about what happened to Thom’s niece...

...and this report from More Perfect Union lets us know Why Flori-DUUH! Doesn’t Care If You Live There Anymore (hosted by Natasha Del Toro)...this includes a profile of the inaptly-named Indian Creek, where the richest people in the country live (contrasted with folks including a business owner profiled who are just trying to survive at this point)...and yeah, the uber-wealthy include Bezos, Sergey Brin, hedge fund manager Ken Griffin, and the usual corporate suspects who are driving out those who aren’t obscenely wealthy like they are...report focuses on COVID and the aftermath, in which the “have mores” (from California, New York and elsewhere) flocked to the Sunshine State and competed with housing supply against existing residents, to the point where the state has the least affordable housing in the country, and that goes for renters as well...and yeah, Lex Luthor Scott is making noise like he cares about this, but let me know if and when that concern turns into actual legislation/policy that makes a difference, OK?...54 percent of the population in the state is “house burdened,” meaning that 30 percent or more of their earnings go into paying for shelter...and forgive me if I don’t give a fig that the state’s GDP has gone from $1 trillion to $1.7 trillion if most of the people living there are left behind, also because of the state’s regressive damn tax structure...and oh yeah, Griffin is a big-time “rainmaker” for the Trump Party, which shouldn’t be surprising I know...and it’s actually written into the state’s constitution that a wealth tax can’t be passed? I knew Repug governance was awful, but that’s an almost subterranean level of evil...nice wrap-up with the “boat” metaphor, BTW...



...and Seth Meyers brings us “A Closer Look” on our *preznit getting the treatment he deserved from the crowd at the FIFA World Cup final game while his pre-emptive war in Iran falls apart and his speech full of election delusions gets universally panned...and as far as that pic of Trump with the G7 leaders is concerned, I KNOW there’s a photo of Dubya getting the similar treatment probably 20 years ago, FWIW...and I’m sure Spain thinks very highly of Don The Con also, though that didn’t bar him from appearing on stage with that country’s soccer team after they won (SMDH)...interesting montage of all the boos, I have to say (and props once again to Charles Barkley)...and it also looks like the Trump Curse (if you want to call it that) is getting to Maria Bartiromo, who looks like her human form is devolving more and more whenever I see her...



...and I now give you another seasonal selection.

Monday Stuff

David Shuster of Rebel HQ tells us that it looks like Jesse Watters of Fix Noise made a "joke" about our service men acting like animals towards women, apparently up to and including r*pe (as if that could EVER be funny) in a segment where Watters of course endorsed the plan of SecDef Kegseth to screen for low testosterone in our military...and was Watters SERIOUSLY trying to argue that we “haven’t been hit” in this Iran debacle? I’m sure the families and friends of the 18 (at least) members of our military killed and the 430 (at least) who’ve suffered traumatic injury would argue with that (and God bless Jessica Tarlov – I don’t know how she remains sane dealing with those hyenas)...also, it appears that Crazy Eyes Kash Patel is “in the soup,” you might say – of course, Patel “skated” over that snorkeling business at the U.S.S. Arizona, which is yet another disgusting episode from an administration that provides them on a daily basis...mildly NSFW/H for a completely apt description of Watters (more here)...



...and John Iadarola of The Damage Report gives us more on the donors to #47’s ballroom, which is going to cost at least $600 million, which, given who were talking about here, means that it will likely cost triple that amount at least...with every story about Trumpist graft and borderline criminality, it seems that we learn about some new individual trying to curry favor, and this time it’s Konstantin Sokolov, a Russian-born private equity investor in Chicago who was one of 36 donors, including 21 corporations and 15 individuals and family foundations, who contributed over $350m to this ballroom project...so this Sokolov guy will oversee the TRIPP trade corridor project (something ELSE named after Our Treasonous Orange Pustule)...oh, and 2/3rds of those who donated have gotten government contracts (I guess our corporate media only cares about “pay to play” when a Democrat is involved...I suppose I should know that by now)...



...and Steve Harness of Really American brings us the tale of our “low T” Secretary of WOOOOAAAARRR ordering a “Blue Angels” flyover at a public beach in Pensacola, FL that violated all kinds of protocols and totally messed up the beach experience for families, and likely gave little kids and adults earaches in the process...proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free...NSFW/H...



...and Emma Vigeland and Matt Lech of The Majority Report let us know that #47’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran is causing a crisis in our food supply because the cost of nitrogen fertilizers for our farmers has skyrocketed, and we also send that overseas to underdeveloped nations, specifically in Africa and south Asia...another negative consequence is smaller family farms in this country (do we even have any left?) going under and being gobbled up by agribusinesses (who likely donated to the Gropenfuhrer – see how this all works?)...a family farmer is profiled in a local news report – part of me wonders if this guy voted for Cantaloupe Capone (and if he did, what the hell was he thinking?), but more than anything I’m sorry for his circumstance...I don’t know who that guy was who made that statement about allegedly investigating collusion in the “free market” in response to that reporter’s good question, but he should be hounded day and night IMO until he produces results on behalf of our farmers totally getting hosed by this racket...glad to hear an analysis of the bind the Biden Administration was put in by price gouging corporate bastards – not that that does any good now of course (and oh yeah, Koch Industries figures into this somehow)...Emma is about 150 percent right about Biden FTC Commissioner Lina Khan, and she’s arguably right also about what happened after Ron Klain left the Biden inner circle...



...oh, and I meant to get to this last week, but it got pushed aside for other stuff, so please allow me to present this now (some of our most notable leaders having their say on our current circumstance – briefly NSFW/H also)...



...and RIP Joe Melson, who collaborated with Roy Orbison on some of the latter’s biggest hits, including this one where Melson appeared as a backup singer.

Friday Stuff

Jesse Dollemore tells us about Laura Ingraham propagandizing as per usual about a survey that found that the 10 worst states to live in are places won by Trump in ’24...and yeah, Ingraham truly is a dim bulb if she’s trying to persuade anyone that CBNC is run by a bunch of tree-hugging libs...and yep, it’s typically disingenuous for Ingraham to conflate two different categories in the same survey (best for business/worst for everyone else), but that’s par for the course with her...shocked to hear about Sarah Huckabilly Sanders signing that bill for breakfast in schools, which is commendable actually...oh, and “the land of the yellow rose” has the highest percentage of residents without health insurance at about 16 percent, which is a big reason why they get an overall failing grade when it comes to quality of life...tough luck for everyone moving there for a better job...



...and David Doel gives us an update on the Canadian wildfires, which are affecting the air quality in the northeast and across the U.S. – and by the way, I’m not including this to beat up our neighbors to the north since we in the “great 48” have pretty thoroughly dropped the ball as a nation when it comes to addressing climate issues (here)...as of now, Toronto has the worst air quality on the planet (Detroit is doing pretty badly too)...that train footage of the fires is genuinely scary, as well as the pics from Collins, Ontario; hope everyone ended up OK...I wouldn’t call Canada’s Doug Ford a Trumper, but he’s pretty awful in his own right, as evidenced by his cuts in climate emergency preparedness (and this report doesn’t put Mark Carney in a positive light either, and that goes for Pierre Poilievre also...we’ll see how funny Poilievre thinks it is when species start dying off due to the climate crisis, and for anybody to think humans won’t ultimately be affected is dunderheaded stoo-pidity worthy of MAGA, and if that isn’t an insult, I don’t know what is)...mildly NSFW/H...



...and I really wanted to ignore the latest ravings from Dementia J. Trump last night, but I suppose attention must be paid, and Brian Tyler Cohen analyzes the latest ridiculous nonsense from Our Ochre Abomination about how our elections were somehow weaponized against him (here); one response is here pertaining to former Senate Majority Leader Mitch (“Weekend at Bernie’s”) McConnell refusing to support election security legislation 10 years ago...and oh yeah, did you catch that speech from Our Treasonous Orange Pustule before his “great unwashed” followers and notice the guy with Trump’s name on his hat backwards? Somehow I don’t think MENSA is going to be beating a path to HIS door...and oh yeah, let’s pay tribute to that noted champion of democracy (snark) Huckleberry Graham and pass the SAVE (For Repugs) Act – lies upon lies upon lies upon more lies...mildly NSFW/H...



...and Logical Leftist Jeff Waldorf discuses a gay Republican running for congress in Wyoming (Reid Rasner) suing his party b/c they called him a pedo, leading to death threats...um, have you been paying attention, bucko? Oh, riiiight...Rasner apparently had NO PROBLEM WHATSOEVER with calling for the ultimate punishment for those his party didn’t like, but when the script was flipped on him, then NOW Rasner has to cry “oh, woe is me!”...apparently one of Rasner’s garbage beliefs (and again, typical for the “R” team) is that parents transitioning their kids should lose parental rights...this clip just adds to my belief that the Log Cabin Republicans are the most clueless bunch of political neophytes in existence...



...and Michael Kosta of The Daily Show gives us a rundown on the latest madness...and even #47’s teleprompter operator is in on the grift – typical for this regime of bottom feeders...and in a related item, it looks like Couch Boy is trying to puff himself up on Joe Rogan, which I guess isn’t surprising since those two are kind of like two flies inhabiting the same rancid garbage peel, if you will (and eating corn dogs is somehow a “kink” for Vance? Probably TMI on that one...and Mike Rowe isn’t any better)...and let’s not forget SecDef “Low T” Kegseth, as much as we’d like to, I know...mildly NSFW/H also...



...and earlier this week I noted one literary milestone, and I’d now like to point out another; yesterday marked the 75th anniversary of the publication of The Catcher In The Rye, which, as far as I’m concerned, is a bit of a cultural milestone having to do with a book that was definitely overinflated in terms of literary importance as far as yours truly is concerned...the main character is pretentious and full of himself IMO, not unlike the book’s author; I once watched a doc on J.D. Salinger which was a bit of an eye opener, and not in a good way...assorted hangers-on and at least one murderous nutjob have gravitated towards this book, and I know that’s not Salinger’s fault...here is a tune for the occasion.

Thursday Stuff

Rachel Maddow informs us that the Gropenfuhrer has scrapped about three dozen regulations pertaining to guns, because of course..he repealed the rule preventing selling firearms to the mentally ill when he got in the first time in 2017; that’s something he apparently has just restored – ahhh, smell the “free-dumb,” my fellow prisoners...one of the many levels of awfulness here is that it will apparently make it easier for mail-order gun sales without in-person verification of any type prior to purchasing a firearm...Maddow speaks with Mirianna Mitchem, former associate assistant director at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (from an era when our federal government actually operated efficiently on our behalf)...



...and Belle of the Ranch gives us the latest on “Trump accounts”...I wouldn’t trust anything with Our Ochre Abomination’s name on it, but as Belle says, talk to a financial advisor if you’re looking to set up some kind of a savings vehicle for your son/daughter and if you’re in the position to do that of course...Belle mentions 529 accounts, which may be a better option for saving for college...higher contribution limits are attractive, along with potentially rolling over the account into a Roth IRA (I’ve gone back and forth on Roth IRAs myself vs. a traditional IRA, but the up-front taxation feature for Roth could be attractive based on your needs/situation)...as Belle says, it’s projected that, with a Trump account, if you get $1K and do nothing with it, it will be worth $6K by the time the child reaches 18 which 1) Is a guess based on anticipated market performance, and 2) Represents a sum that is truly miniscule against the overall cost for a 2-to4-year college, depending on the major...



...and Kyle Kulinski brings us the tale of Dem congressman Ro Khanna visiting the West Bank and getting detained for about 90 minutes by IDF gangsters, in an experience which I’m sure was pretty damn scary (and once more, to prove Kyle’s point about Israel killing Americans, just Google “Rachel Corrie and the bulldozer” and prepare yourself for some horrific results of your search)...I give Khanna credit for going on Fix Noise – I wouldn’t bother with that trash network – so OF COURSE he gets attacked again on this by some soulless, AIPAC-shilling harpie who criticizes Khanna for saying that this Michael Leiter person (apparently our rep to Israel??) is lying, when in fact LEITER IS F*CKING LYING INDEED!!!!! All this Fix Noise news mannequin has to do is ROLL THE DAMN BODYCAM VIDEO LIKE KHANNA SAYS!!!...I agree that ”boomer slop” is probably a pretty spot-on description for this (and I definitely see parallels to the “People’s Temple” madness also)...if I ruled the world, I would have cut off military aid to Israel long ago not just for their carnage in Gaza, but as an act of protest against a country where hard line Jews routinely kick Christian priests and nuns to the curb, literally, and spit on them (and the congressman referred to by Kyle who was killed for investigating the Guyana/Jim Jones cult was Leo Ryan...also, Section 224 mentioned here is that garbage provision in the NDAA that the pro-Israel hawks in Congress are trying to enshrine into law)...NSFW/H...



Update 7/17/26: Is everybody else as tired of this garbage from the IDF as I am I wonder?

...and Steve Harness of Really American discusses #47 getting a new “participation trophy” for his Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran; it just appeared near the MLK exhibit on the mall in D.C...and yes, this is another production courtesy of Secret Handshake...I think encouraging other folks to drop off their trophies also is another spot-on level of absurdity...and oh yeah, what the hell is going on with those columns around the White House? And I think topping those columns with mushroom-type fixtures is probably pretty “on the nose,” you might say...NSFW/H also...



...and Seth Meyers catches up on about three weeks’ worth of madness in this “Closer Look” bit, including #47 telling Jake Tapper what questions he’s supposed to ask, and at this point, we really shouldn’t be surprised by behavior like that...and this is just a reminder that Bronzer Beelzebub made at least $2 billion as *preznit last year...oh, but Uday Jr. is managing all that apparently (as if he could manage anything without daddy), and Cantaloupe Capone supposedly has no involvement...all politicians lie, but some tell white lies with some slight truth shading and some tell lies that are so far beyond belief that the liar believes that you’re a damn idiot, and Our Ochre Abomination is definitely guilty of the latter...



...and today is the 45th anniversary of the loss of Harry Chapin.

Tuesday Stuff

Brittany Page presents Baby Goebbels producing what is basically a eugenics memo, trying to institutionalize people with disabilities (I’m going to get to a clip later about something giving us intestinal distress, but watching that disgusting guttural puke laugh about displacing health care workers is enough to give me dry heaves at a minimum...I’m sure it stirs what passes for Miller’s manhood)...I have to admit that I hadn’t heard of the “Olmstead Mandate” before now, which called for the advancement of people with disabilities and which also served as an impetus for disabled folks to find housing...Page would be the first to say that this country not doing whatever we can justly do to improve the lives of those less fortunate is a policy choice, and she’s right...and like with most odious garbage like this, you can count on The Cicero Institute to be right in the middle of it...



...oh, and it looks like ICE killed someone else, this time in Biddeford, Maine (here)...those from the Dem U.S. delegation (and those vying to run for the U.S. Senate) quite rightly spoke out, which is what they should do at a minimum, with “Disappointed” Susan Collins basically saying “I’ve been apprised of the situation and an investigation is ongoing,” which is the exact sort of bland, milquetoast BS you can expect from this utterly soulless cipher...if you’re not yelling for ICE to get the hell out and also calling for an independent investigation, then you’re not doing you f*cking job!...



Update: More here.

Update 7/17/26: And sadly, this isnn't surprising either.

...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ discusses an increase in explosive diarrhea thanks to Trump budget cuts...yep, the metaphors truly write themselves at times...the issue is a microscopic parasite (cyclosporiasis) that, apparently, the CDC isn’t even bothering to investigate, presumably because Bobby Brainworms is too obsessed with food dyes and swimming with his grandkids in creeks full of sludge...also, no specific grower has been linked to this outbreak so far, though apparently it has been traced to raspberries, lettuce and other produce (and concentrated in Michigan more than anywhere else)...looks like the regime of the Gropenfuhrer will only monitor two of the toxic pathogens that are out there, e coli and salmonella, and we’re on our own I guess for the others – heckuva job, all you numbskulls who made sure we’d be stuck with this in November ’24 (and I think any sentient life form knows what a lying weasel Scott Jennings is)...slightly NSFW/H...



...and in this segment of “Indisputable” with Dr. Rashad Richey, we learn about pastors Loran Livingston and Rob Fuquay (especially the latter going after “Christian” nationalism), speaking the truth about this country and its rather twisted notion of spirituality...I know I’ve dumped on alleged faith leaders plenty of times, so I’m definitely glad to present two individuals doing the right thing...



...and I’m glad to see Mr. Newberger getting to the heart of the controversy involving Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao – heh...



...and today is the 80th anniversary of the publication of “The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care” by Dr. Benjamin Spock (here), which revolutionized parenting in this country (essentially in a good way as far as yours truly is concerned)...here is a tune for the occasion.