Monday Stuff

This is good news people, but’s let’s have no illusions; this campaign is going to be a fight until the very end, so let's keep up our efforts (and to help Bob Harvie, click here).

To begin, Kyle Kulinski tells us that it looks like “pastor” Kenneth Copeland is big mad at Dems again, invoking more hellfire and damnation over all those babies the “D” team allegedly murdered, as if the Clintons, Obama and Biden invented abortion (I guess I shouldn’t snark on that too badly because I’m sure that’s what a lot of folks actually believe)...I don’t know anybody else besides Kyle calling out our disgusting war crimes with our “ally” “Bibi” that we conducted against Iran (and yes, I know Iran are bad actors overall, but that doesn’t excuse our pre-emptive war either)...I would only add on top of Kyle’s great (though profane of course) response the following question: is Our Lord going to have the likely million names read to Republican voters of everyone sentenced to death (mainly kids) in sub-Saharan Africa from King Elon I destroying US AID? Also, I know Kyle misspoke a bit; we are WAAAY past the primaries, dawg (definitely NSFW/H)...



...and Brittany Page discusses the role of corporate media and some Dems in bringing us to the sorry point in our politics where we are at the moment, with the Gropenfuhrer calling the shots from An Oval Office, and I realize that Dementia J. Trump is just going to keep mispronouncing the name of the Dem U.S. Senate candidate from Michigan up to and including Election Day (“Mohammed El Allah Akbar Jihadi El-Sayed,” or other idiotic variations)...and I’ll give David Axelrod a measure of credit for playing the role he did in getting President Obama elected twice, but Axelrod also was lucky enough to land with a charismatic and skilled candidate, to be fair...I think some of the CNN panel observations are kind of moronic, actually; sooo, just let Trump and Mike Rogers spout these lies about El-Sayed, and the Dem should just let them get away with it??? That has a lot to do with why people don’t have much to do with the “D” team, to be honest...I’m glad Page also gets into the BS with Jan Crawford of the formerly highly respectable CBS News and the fact that Crawford went waaaay out of her way to attack El-Sayed, showing that Crawford is merely a political actor supported by Bari Weiss as opposed to a legitimate news professional...I didn’t know about Crawford’s softball “interview” with Strip Search Sammy, but that tracks also sadly...and let’s bring David Brooks to the party also and his take against Jon Ossoff for quite rightly calling out the white nationalist garbage concerning Ossoff’s opponent Mike Collins; what discussion of faux media equivalency is complete without BoBo, I wonder...mildly NSFW/H...



...and Farron Cousins discusses Repugs in Michigan telling #47 to stay away; so many reasons why, but Our Ochre Abomination’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran and those beyond stoo-pid tariffs are the biggest culprits, you might say...it looks like #47 went ahead with his little Bund rally anyway, and with a typical bit of misogyny of course...



...and this CBC News report informs us of the backlash to data centers and the problem for the Repugs, particularly in Ohio...glad to see people of different political allegiances working together to fight against the encroachment of these monstrosities consuming precious resources, driving up costs and ruining folks’ quality of life, but it should not have come to this point...don’t know much about that Alan (“data centers have been around forever”) Sturm guy, but he’s definitely part of the problem also...and oh yeah, it’s really rich for Jon Husted in Ohio to blame Democrats on the issue of data centers – WHO THE HELL IS IN CHARGE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGAIN, SPARKY??!!...more on this is here, and to help Sherrod Brown, click here...



...and speaking of Husted (and harking back to the Nicki Minaj stuff also), I’ll give you a little insight into how the “sausage gets made” again...I honestly deliberate and weigh the pros and cons of the videos I put up here and try to evaluate how much they could impact voters’ perceptions and people’s involvement in the political process...oh, WTF – I’m just kidding...I saw this clip from Mr. Newberger and took about 10 seconds to decide based on this...



...and I definitely like this newer number, though it kind of wraps up quick (and I thought about Bri-Fi on the title for sure).

Saturday Stuff

This is just a reminder that our PA-01 rep Bri-Fi has served our *preznit faithfully over the last two years – not so much for PA-01 overall I would argue (here)...oh, but now Fitzpatrick is claiming here that says town halls are funded by “dark money,” or some such nonsense (i.e., the reason why he chickens out on them...not nearly good enough as far as yours truly is concerned).

Brian Tyler Cohen discusses an utter raging trash fire of a political campaign, and that would be Vivek Ramaswamy’s quest to be governor of Ohio...we learn about Vivek’s typically disgusting attack ad against his Dem gubernatorial opponent Amy Acton...sooo, thanks to Vivek’s garbage, we learn that Acton and her brother were removed from their mother’s custody when she was 12 because the mother’s sick, disgusting boyfriend was accused of statuary r*pe of the now-Dem gubernatorial candidate in Ohio, a rare case of BOTH sides ganging up on the failed off-patent drug salesman, who (as we see) confessed to being responsible for this vile, hateful crap...and leave it to Couch Boy to say Vivek’s horror show isn’t his concern, or whatever (and I definitely don’t want to contemplate Vance’s web browser history, at least not on a full stomach, as long as we’re on the subject)...more on this here...NSFW/H...



...and Sam and Emma of The Majority Report let us know that it looks like Repugs are getting some resistance in Flori-DUUH to the typical “communism” and “socialism” BS even thought that’s pretty much baked in to the political DNA as Sam points out because of Cuban and Venezuelan expats; looks like these people have wised up a bit to the fact that #47’s ICE Gestapo will go after them too, though again, this is the Sunshine State and it’s not as if they’re all going to magically turn into tree-hugging libs...Repug Ashley Moody, running to hold her appointed U.S. Senate seat against Dem Angie Nixon, may be getting some blowback on that...I’d forgotten about Moody’s involvement in laundering (allegedly) dough intended for a kids’ charity into a political PAC for Guv #DeathSantis (and how typical is it for Fix Noise to lead into a “news” segment with “yeah, but Moody is innocent of laundering campaign funds”)...good explanation here from Emma about how those funds from a settlement (to be distributed to sick kids by #DeathSantis’s wife) ended up going to a PAC to defeat cannabis legalization instead...



...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” from 10/24/20, in which we learn more about “Disappointed” Susan Collins falling down on the job as Maine senator – what’s past is prologue, I’d say (and I’ll withhold comment for now on the props handed out here to Olympia Snowe and Bill Cohen)...an update is here; to do something about Collins, click here...



...and Robert Reich and MoveOn discuss a potential AI dystopia...yep, we’re being sold more patently ridiculous BS on AI and related technology, while these data center monstrosities blight our landscapes, consume resources, drive up utility prices and generally ruin our quality of life (and I definitely DO NOT take Apartheid Clyde seriously when he says he favors UBI)...I knew that Alaskans receive dividends from oil and mining businesses, which sounds like a damn good idea to yours truly (and I didn’t know about “surveillance pricing,” yet another dirty trick by our “pay no price, bear no burden” oligarchs)...



...and speaking of the Gropenfuhrer’s mini-me, we get more nonsense about J.D. (“Tell Me What You’re Good At”) Vance from Ronny Chieng of The Daily Show...and I’ll be honest; we’re so hip deep in Trumpian corruption that it is indeed difficult to keep up with it all (and I realize that that’s the point from these cretins)... and I’m pretty sure I already noted that SecDef Kegseth’s boss said “no dice” on live streaming the execution of Nidal Hasan by firing squad, but here is another mention of that (and apparently, televising the state-sponsored murder of a guy in a wheelchair is “a bridge too far” for this regime – got it)...mildly NSFW/H...



...and I thought this was a pretty cool newer number for the weekend – hope it’s a good one for one and all.

Friday Stuff

Farron Cousins lets us know that Our Sweaty Orange Bronzer Boy is totally cool with Vlad The Butcher’s ongoing terror campaign against the brave people of Ukraine, and King Elon I is playing games with Starlink to hurt that country standing up to Russian aggression...and yeah, I have to admit that our PA-01 U.S. House rep is making some good noises on this, but I’ve seen this movie before (i.e., when the media shifts its focus to something else, so does Bri-Fi, but we’ll see, and particularly given that this is an election year of course and Apartheid Clyde is throwing truly stoo-pid money at the “R” team as Cousins points out)...



Update: More here.

...and this New York Times video informs us in the matter of a fight over fish in Alaska that could flip that state’s U.S. Senate seat...looks like larger fishing operations in their trawlers are picking up the salmon that smaller businesses would get to maintain their operations...also sounds like Repug Dan Sullivan wants to limit trawling, but Dem Mary Peltola wants to ban it outright, even though climate change is a bigger issue as we learn...I’m sure there’s more to this story, but this is the sort of thing that interests yours truly as opposed to whatever crazy thing Don The Con just said or did over the last news cycle...



...and I honestly try not to attack “team D” and participate in a circular firing squad, but I absolutely have to over the latest nonsense from James Carville, going on Bill Kristol’s podcast to say that Carville would rather see Republicans keep control in the U.S. House by 5 seats instead of the Dems taking over because if the Dems win the House by 5, then Hakeem Jeffries will be held hostage by the DSA as Carville sees it (and the DSA only has 7 members as Gay tells us); assuming Carville is actually right, please explain how that’s a bad thing...another reason why I could care less about Carville is that I honestly can’t recall him showing similar concerns when you had President Manchin and “Curtsy Kyrsten” holding the Senate hostage when the Dems had a slim majority in THAT body...Carville, among his other offenses, is one of these characters who often fires off texts and Emails yelling at yours truly to give him money – he also represents boomer entitlement big time and is one of the reasons for the divide between his demographic cohort (and mine, to be fair) and “Gen Z” and what will hopefully be the Dem voters of today and the future...the “raging Cajun” (who hasn’t won an election in over 30 years) can go on Bill Maher and carry on and pout in that space while we continue with the business of trying to win elections...mildly NSFW/H...



...and I admit that this is an unsettling ad, but please try to explain to me how this ISN’T based in reality, sadly (here)...



Update: And while we’re on the subject of heavy stuff, let’s not forget the anniversary of this tragedy and always keep the men and women of our military in our thoughts and prayers for real (and The Sainted Ronnie R responded by invading Grenada – you can look it up).

...and after something as heavy as the prior video, I’d like to now present something a little more upbeat...Steve Harness of Really American now gives us a lot of anti-Trump AI slop (including some neat little tunes and a Star Wars “I’m your father, Luke” takeoff), with about two weeks to go until Election Day...and oh yeah, Our Ochre Abomination struck a deal with Daddy Vlad to buy diesel and screw over Ukraine again, because of course (NSFW/H)...



...and happy 70th birthday to Dwight Yoakam – always liked this Grateful Dead cover.

Tuesday Stuff

This is your periodic reminder that our PA-01 U.S. House Rep Brian Fitzpatrick won’t come out of hiding and debate his Democratic challenger Bob Harvie running in this fall’s election.

Thom Hartmann tells us about Amendment 82 in Colorado (pushed by yet another dark money group called Advance Colorado), which apparently would strip local pollution regs and lock in fossil fuel dependence (peachy)...as Thom says, if somehow this passes (God forbid), we can expect similar legislation to pop up across the country...of course, there is definitely an alternative in renewables (I’d also like to get in a commercial of sorts for the great state of Vermont that we recently visited, where there were solar panels all over place and it definitely didn’t blight the glorious landscape)...great discussion here on the Germany Rooftop Solar Plan that Thom mentions; also didn’t know that Nebraska has managed to keep a for-profit utility company out of the state for about 80 years (BTW, it looks like about $600 billon in green energy investment from Biden managed to get allocated despite the efforts of Dementia J. Trump to wipe it out as noted here)...



...and Jesse Dollemore brings us the video of Dem U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan putting that Repug operative in his place over that beyond ridiculous Muslim brotherhood question at a recent town hall (something that, again it should be noted, Bri-Fi refuses to participate in)...and oh yeah, the next time you hear a Repug whine about “paid protestors,” I would ask that you keep in mind the $200 to be comped to college students making imbeciles out of themselves while they attempt to make Dems look bad (that amount does indeed buy a lot of Ramen)...telling that all “Tommy” could do is sneak out like a coward after he got a dose of reality (mildly NSFW/H)...



...and Belle of the Ranch informs us that the Consumer Price Index released by the BLS climbed 0.6 percent in September, as we learn, up from 0.4 percent in August, so inflation is not only going up, but at a faster rate...the biggest factor behind this is gas price increases (9.1 percent in September) due to #47’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran...housing costs also rose 0.4 percent from last month, as we also learn...average hourly pay fell 0.5 percent in September, which is another headline...”slowing inflation doesn’t mean prices go back to where they were; it just means that they rise more slowly” indeed...



...and Yasmin Khan of Rebel HQ talks about younger voters and what appears to be a 50-plus point swing in a direction away from #47 from two years ago...not hard to see why for the reasons Khan points out, namely affordability overall, the cost of education, the crappy job market, wrecking government agencies where they could potentially be employed, etc...and a 91 percent disapproval with the Gropenfuhrer on inflation?? Jumpin’ Judas H. Priest on a pogo stick!...and if the Dems are returned to power in Congress, they’re going to have their hands full to be sure, but they should allocate some time to investigate taxpayer dough Our Ochre Abomination has used for political propaganda...and I’m trying really hard not to dump on at least one of those younger voters in that clip, partly because what they say is the result of endless wingnut indoctrination to the exclusion of any perspective related to actual common sense (this Bluesky link provides further info for college loan borrowers, and when it comes to "Team D" and younger voters, let's keep this in mind please)...



...and the Onion News Network informs us that SecDef Kegseth has a bold plan to “kill everyone” by 2028...as usual, dancing on that razor’s edge between satire and reality...



...and we recently observed what would have been the 100th birthday of Chuck Berry – here’s a little number for the occasion.

Monday Stuff

What follows are clips from last Saturday’s No Kings protests in various locations across the country – we begin with a trip around Buffalo, NY and the Great Lakes, including Williamsville...



...next, we go across the country to Alameda, Oakland and San Francisco (nice job to make that beach sign, by the way...interview with former SF supervisor Gordon Mar)...



...there was also a protest in Mississippi (smaller crowd I’ll admit, but it all matters) – kind of sad that that state doesn’t have early voting...



...folks also came out in Little Rock, Arkansas...echoing similar themes of early voting and making a plan to vote on Election Day...



...and across North Texas also...



...next up is Salt Lake City, sharing similar themes of protecting democracy for future generations...



...also, Boise, Idaho (good idea also to volunteer for campaigns; even though it’s a little late for that, it’s not too late to make a plan to get folks to the polls and maybe do some last-minute phone banking or door knocking...just a thought)...



...Seattle as well (also with an emphasis on voting early...good job also to honor victims of ICE)...



...along with Portland, Oregon (about 4K folks protesting according to police...showing up to protest the Iran war, the rotten economy, rampant corruption including attack on LGBTQ rights, and on and on)...



...and Greenville, South Carolina (hundreds, again, with an emphasis on protecting the right to vote)...



...Albuquerque, New Mexico (good job by Dem U.S. House rep Melanie Stansbury, as opposed to that Repug woman running against her – “failed policies,” huh? Which party is it that’s in change of D.C. again?)...



...Chicago also, echoing similar themes (on behalf of both national and local issues)...



...next up are the twin cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul...



...Grand Rapids, Michigan...



...Plattsburgh, NY...



...also, folks in Chesapeake, VA braving the weather, including Navy vet Rick Bush...



...with similar concerns echoed in Asheville and elsewhere in North Carolina...



...Louisville, Kentucky and southern Indiana also, echoing similar themes (lower gas prices, protection for basic rights, etc.)...kudos to Morgan McGarvey also; no excuse whatsoever for any Democrat to not show up to one of these events...



...Madison, Wisconsin also...protestor “Sariah” mentions #47 saying he’ll let his lawyers worry about “Constitutionality,” or something to that effect (heightened a bit by the fact that Trumpist numbskull Tom Tiffany is running for governor in that state...and that Wisconsin GOP statement at the end is about as nutty as you would expect)...



...Vermont as well (Monkton I believe, and probably other towns including Burlington)...



...and Philly of course (kind of shocked to see the clip of Combover Caligula spewing more lies as usual, but I guess they need to present the crazy point of view for “balance,” though I think he’s actually right in a typically weird way...we SHOULD pretend he’s on the ballot - info on drop box locations in Bucks County, PA is here)...



...and if you're looking for a tune for the occasion, I'd like to offer the following.

Friday Stuff

Josh Gay of Ring of Fire tells us about PA Dem Senator John Fetterman sending out a fundraising Email to Repug donors, saying he’ll “reject socialism” and that he apparently is working with his best bud Dave McCormick on behalf of Mango Mussolini; at this point, Fetterman should probably just make it official, especially since he doesn’t appear to have a war chest anymore as Gay tells us...contrast that with Fetterman raising $10.5 mil in just three months when he opposed Dr. Crudite in ’22, as opposed to raising just $21K now, which is a microscopic amount of dough (and yeah, I know it shouldn’t be about the money, but it is unfortunately)...and 75 percent of the donation may go to some shadowy group behind the fundraiser and not to the candidate (and Fetterman gets a MAGA donor list?) God, what a mess our campaign financing is (once more, love and kisses to the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR for Citizens United)...also, at this point, I don’t see how Fetterman has an excuse any longer to at least bother to dress like an actual U.S. Senator and get rid of the hoodie and sweat pants...



...and Brian Tyler Cohen tells us about some Fix Noise hairdo trying to attack Pete Buttigieg; actually, she’s right that inflation was 9 percent in June ’22 under “No Malarkey Joe,” with all of the post COVID supply chain disruption and energy price surges, but as “Mayor Pete” notes, it was 3 percent when Biden left office (and as BTC points out, it’s currently 3.7 percent under Dementia J. “I Love The Inflation” Trump)...and “1.7 – 1.8 inflation over the last three months”?? Looks like gramps is sundowning again...also, I could put up that quote form former Ambassador Michael McFaul again about how Obama prevented Iran from getting a nuke and didn’t totally f-up the Strait of Hormuz to do it, but I think you get the picture (and I could also remind everyone again about #47 killing the Murphy-Lankford bill that would have addressed immigration, but yeah, I know that gets repetitive also)...



...and Jesse Dollemore informs us of Cantaloupe Capone sending out his DHS goons at the direction of former plumber Markwayne Mullin to try and intimidate Ilhan Omar (I would ask if Fetterman feels like an idiot for endorsing Mullin, but I’m sure I already know the answer)...and I swear, it’s always the same utterly stoo-pid pattern; some idiot online influencer puts out a garbage meme (Trumpist lickspittle Benny Johnson in this case), then a Trumpist lackey promotes it or acts on it, and then Dear Leader gets the glazing he wants over it...and I’m not the least bit surprised that Fix Noise was the only alleged news org involved in this...so the supposed excuse for this is citizenship paperwork allegedly filled out by Omar’s father??? Yep, doesn’t even come close to passing the “smell” test (NSFW/H)...



Update: Offered without further comment...

...and Sam and Emma of The Majority Report tell us that it looks like Freedom Caucus head Andy Harris in Maryland flipped out because he got laughed at for claiming that “environmental regulation” is the reason diesel prices have gone up (and yeah, as Sam says, the First Amendment to the Constitution doesn’t disallow getting laughed at...Harris is truly a numbskull)...and oh, Harris continues with his wankery in the second of two clips here, attacking reporters for recording him as a PUBLIC PERSON in a PUBLIC SPACE, as noted (which, again, is protected by that pesky First Amendment...a “Bulworth moment” indeed)...mildly NSFW/H also...



...and it looks like Bronzer Beelzebub has decided not to televise the firing squad execution of Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan, so we won’t necessarily be in league with Iran, North Korea and other despotic regimes for the moment (here) – Jesse Welles still came up with a typically pithy little number over it, though...



...and here’s a tune for tomorrow’s “No Kings” protest to help us get into the mood to stand up against our fascist regime.

Wednesday Stuff

This is your periodic reminder that our PA-01 U.S. House Rep Brian Fitzpatrick has refused to debate his Dem challenger Bob Harvie, which is in keeping with Fitzpatrick’s pattern of avoidance in that he refuses to hold in-person town halls also.

Update 10/15/26: And Bri-Fi is getting help from Apartheid Clyde? Figures (here).

To begin, this clip from CBC News discusses the beyond idiotic anti-Canada rhetoric from the Gropenfuhrer and his utterly pointless trade war with that nation and the economic impact that we’re dealing with over it...we revisit the NAFTA debate between Poppy Bush, Bill Clinton and Ross Perot, featuring the “giant sucking sound” quote from Perot about jobs going to Mexico, which turned out to be prescient...



...and this TYT segment takes a look at #47’s immigration crackdown hitting red states pretty hard – c’est dommage...report discusses #47’s declining support among Latinos, particularly in Texas and businesses along the border including agriculture and construction...not familiar with the concept of “elite over production,” but I have to admit that it makes sense unfortunately...also, though it appears that enrollment in trade schools did decline, it looks like enrollment is rebounding fortunately based on this...glad to hear that the typically disgusting gerrymandering by Texas Repugs might bite them in the ass...I honestly don’t know what the hell Ana Kasparian means by “unmitigated immigration,” but otherwise I think she makes some good points here (I also wish she’d mentioned the Murphy-Lankford Senate immigration bill and how that got killed to help Don The Con two years ago)...



...and Farron Cousins gives us more on the decision to live stream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan...yep, the Trumpist regime is acting like terrorist outlaws because 1) They can, and 2) That is what they are...Cousins is right that this will encourage further nut jobs who want to publicize themselves while they go out in a “blaze of glory,” and it will ALSO give those who would do us harm an excuse to do this to OUR OWN MILITARY, if, God forbid, any of them are captured – I realize this didn’t occur to any of the alleged adults running our government, but I definitely think it needs to be mentioned...



...and John and Jayar of The Damage Report tell us that it looks like Our Sweaty Orange Bronzer Boy is going to his Russian benefactor to help with gas prices...typical...I have to admit that I didn’t have Brian Kilmeade actually making sense on my Bingo card (and Rachel Campos Duffy is about as “out to lunch” on this as you can expect)...as noted here, those supposedly great numbers on the amount of diesel fuel Don The Con says we’ll get from Vlad The Butcher doesn’t even cover a day of the actual demand for the stuff – more like 12 hours, unfortunately...four Repug U.S. Senators and two Dems actually found spines on this and stood up to Mango Mussolini, which, given that our *preznit certainly won’t listen, is merely a symbolic gesture, though admittedly it is still important...



...and the Onion News Network presents “In The Know” with Dwight Richmond, concerning the matter of #47 running as a “mid-term *preznit” (as usual, messing with us with satire, though probably not by much versus actual reality)...



...and happy 80th birthday to Justin Hayward, the last surviving member of the Moody Blues.