I would call this an effective ad (keep calling 202-224-3121…we’re not there yet, people.)…
…and Kyle K. is absolutely right when he sez that, while last year’s Dem presidential nominee is promoting her book (which she’s allowed to do, I realize), Bernie is doing this…
Tell your friends: Trumpcare is back. We need to educate, organize and fight back pic.twitter.com/M38GoPZRzd
…and oh yeah, I left a message with this thoroughly compromised charlatan about Graham-Cassidy, and of course you know how he intends to vote (the time to do something about Toomey came and went last year, sadly, and now we’re stuck with him until 2022 at a minimum – heckuva job)…
…and sticking with health care, I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 9/24/13 (yeah, why the hell would the Kochs be in favor of a trans-vaginal probe anyway...utterly sick, twisted bastards - here)…
…and I know I’m a little behind on my Seth Meyers videos, but I still thought this was a good one (hard to keep up with the outrages, I know)…
…and I guess this selection is inspired a bit by the first video in this post.
…and former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich reminds us just how awful Cassidy/Graham is also, and more importantly, what to do about it…
This is an emergency notice. The Affordable Care Act is in grave danger. Tell your Senators that you oppose Graham-Cassidy: (202) 224-3121 pic.twitter.com/YxmJaySnSy
…and Cenk and Ana discuss that puke Bill Cassidy, and Kilmeade too of course, in light of recent commendable comments by Jimmy Kimmel (and boy, is Cenk right about the Dems and the media not doing their jobs on explaining how horrible Cassidy/Graham is - I think from about 9:01 to 10:05 of this are particularly noteworthy about Dems not fighting, sadly - there have been signs of that getting better under the Gropenfuhrer, but it needs to change ONCE AND FOR ALL - and by the way, I would say once more that karma is a bitch based on this)...
…and Chris Hayes tells us how HHS Secretary Tom Price is pissing away our precious tax dollars on private jets, like the rest of this outlaw regime (and Hayes is absolutely right in his comments about commuting between DC and Philly)…
…and Rachel Maddow reminds us that, in certain cases, campaign funds are to be used for campaign funds only, as in the case of former Idaho Repug Sen. Larry “Wide Stance” Craig, and also in the case of Generalissimo Trump and his family (although, after talking with Craig Holman of Public Citizen in this thought-provoking discussion IMHO, it looks like we have a lot of places where we need to tighten things up on how campaign donations are spent; as Bill Maher said, you can never assume anything with the Trumpsters – have to get it in writing)…
…and Kyle tells us that Sen. Bernie Sanders’s claim about tuition-free college weren’t as “pie in the sky” as his detractors claimed (and yeah, another profile in cowardice by the Democratic Party on this issue – NSFW)…
…and TMR & Sam Seder tell us about the conservative writer who said the Trump was elected because liberal women refused to have sex with conservative men (and Charles Murray, to me, is the very embodiment of an elitist right-wing scumbag)…
…and tomorrow marks what would have been the 91st birthday of legendary jazz saxophonist (and one-time Philly resident) John Coltrane; this year also marked the 50th anniversary of his passing on July 17th.
Yeah, I would say that Dem Sen. Kamala Harris of CA understands what’s going on here (and spare me the noise that “oooh, she’s a ‘Corporate Dem’! – I agree with what Kyle said yesterday, but still, can we please put the purity tests on hold for now?)…
'Calling...tweeting...writing...marching'—@KamalaHarris wants you to do anything & everything to help stop the GOP from repealing Obamacare pic.twitter.com/4fngmbWE1z
…and yeah, perpetually playing the victim sure is a tactic of right-wing demagogues all right, as K.O. notes (and yep, nothing is EVER the fault of Generalissimo Trump, is it? - here)…
…and I remember when we used to do stuff like this in our own country (and in a somewhat related story, I give you this)…
…and Seth Meyers gives us a wrap-up of recent news, including that Disney-esque pink dress (and I don’t mean that in a good way) that Melania Trump wore recently (wonder if she was cleared for takeoff? And I respect John Kerry also, but I’m afraid the proverbial ship has sailed for him also)…
…and heh, “All Lives Splatter,” huh? What a “laff riot” – NOT (updates are here and here)…
…and I haven’t featured a song from 1967 for a little while now, so I now give you the following (Bowie once sang a great cover of this tune - once saw "Waterloo Sunset" or thereabouts almost 14 months ago).
It seems that there are many voices rising up in response to the Graham/Cassidy atrocity that the U.S. Senate Repugs are trying to foist on us in one last effort to destroy the dreaded “Obamacare” once and for all (to resist, click here and here – more here and here).
Here’s what’s really going on here, people: the Repugs and their Koch/Club for Growth/Americans for Prosperity, etc. puppet masters want to destroy Medicaid by “block granting” it to the states. With that done, the strategy is for private insurers to gobble up the remaining subscribers (assuming they could pay the premiums, which they probably won’t be able to given that 32 million people are projected to lose insurance according to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services).
And we should no longer be fooled, assuming we have all wised up by now; this latest horror from this bunch should prove that such a thing as a “moderate” Republican is as extinct as the brontosaurus (please prove me wrong, Sens. Collins, Murkowski and Capito – not holding my breath on “Regular Order” McCain either).
They are trying to kill us to make a profit, people. The stakes are literally life and death; I don’t know how else to lay this out (and Dem U.S. Senator Brian Schatz does so commendably here)…
We have 10 days to save millions of Americans from this cruel GOP repeal bill. Tell your senators to save health care now! (855) 999-1663 pic.twitter.com/T7Fv67l7r5
…and the U of P study cited by Farron Cousins here yields some truly depressing results about our civic ignorance as a country (not saying that people such as your humble narrator is smarter than a Trump voter, though at the risk of being snarky that may be true, and I’m definitely not trying to say I’m a better person since I don’t have the right to try and make a claim like that, nor does anyone else…I’m just agreeing with Cousins that, at some point, we need to learn how our government works and who the government REALLY IS, and that would be US! If we don’t, we’re bound to lose it all)…
…and yeah, I heard what Fran Leibowitz said on “Real Time” recently, and after that, I think she should just go away (I give Salman Rushdie a bit more credit) – hey Dems, Bernie had the momentum last year! If those supposed DNC geniuses had known what was going on, they could have tried to “out-Bernie Bernie” (assuming that could be done) and, as Kyle has said before, “go to the left”…but of course, HRC decided instead to have a party onstage with LeBron James while she was losing the state of Ohio (and yes, there are times when I get sick of the “Corporate Dem” caterwauling, but bashing Bernie feeds that narrative I’ll admit…incredibly NSFW; this is the angriest I’ve ever seen Kyle, and I think he definitely has a good reason for that – makes a whole bunch of good, sobering points)…
…and turning to the Gropenfuhrer, Chris Hayes reminds us that, of all of the inauguration $$ received, our ruling cabal of idiots and crooks committing high treason basically haven’t given a dime of it to charity as they said they would (big surprise, I know)…
…and hey, all you MAGA saps – Rachel Maddow tells us that all the money you forked over for merch is going right to Generalissimo Trump’s lawyers (“Lordy, there might be tapes” indeed)…
…and nothing against Peter Gabriel & co., but why do I have a feeling that this song is on the Big Orange Maniac's playlist?
Want to know why the Repugs keep coming back OVER AND OVER AND OVER to try and kill the Affordable Care Law, which has been upheld by not one but two Supreme Court rulings, to say nothing of loud voiciferous protests ALL OVER THE COUNTRY telling these Congressional bottom feeders to LEAVE IT THE HELL ALONE (more here)?
Because of human stains like this Anthem Blue Cross guy who Elizabeth Warren is questioning here, who represents the true “base” of the party; yeah, that was his canned answer and Warren didn’t really speak to it, probably because she rightly IMHO realized it was utter nonsense.
(Oh, and don’t listen to Warren according to that idiot Jimmy Dore, because Warren is a “corporate Dem” who has fought more battles in the public area for us that Dore ever will in his entire life.)...
…and K.O., for my money, connects a hell of a lot of dots here in terms of just what happened in last year’s presidential election; what I’d like to know is Mark Zuckerberg’s reaction to all of this given that the Facebook genius got utterly played here by Russia and the Repugs…
…and for the love of God, somebody get this lunatic out of the White House somehow before he blows up the whole goddamn world already (and I don’t think the Gropenfuhrer has the foggiest idea of what is in the Iran nuclear deal, by the way – more here)…
ICYMI: President Trump threatened to annihilate an entire country at his speech to the UN today pic.twitter.com/ykC07ZpyqU
…and for a bit of much-needed comic relief, Cenk tells us that the wingnuts are now mad at “The Man of Steel” (way too damn funny)…
...and I'm a little behind on this latest clip from Sam Bee, but here it is anyway (NSFW I think)...
We missed a lot on our summer break. Let's ease back in with Trump's blind side, Ted Cruz’s Twitter kink, and two huge hurricanes. pic.twitter.com/47YIdfPc36
…and happy 70th birthday to Lol Crème of 10 C.C. (yep, I agree with You Tube commenter Sam R; this indeed should be the theme for Our Tiny-Handed, Warmongering, Impulse-Control-Issue Chief Executive).
(Yeah, "Photoshop"-ed I know, but it still works for me.)
While Generalissimo Trump was engaged in this typically childish crap yesterday, the person who won the popular vote in last year’s presidential election by about 3 million was doing this (related to this)…
…and gosh, could it be that the “Gropenfuhrer” is finally getting the memo? Don’t hold your breath...
…and Kyle K. tells us that Congressional Repugs are trying to destroy “Obama-care” AGAIN (here) – looks like we have to fight these idiots on this YET AGAIN (no wonder this bill is called “Screw Blue”…NSFW - more here)…
…and it’s hard for me to tell here which ones are truly the clowns (nah – actually, it really isn’t…and pardon me while I wipe my butt with the “flag of St. Andrew”...more here)…
…and RIP Harry Dean Stanton (Frank Vincent also – BTW, the Emmys are even more ridiculous IMHO for forgetting to note the passing of these two as well as Dick Gregory…clip is from “Repo Man”: NSFW)…
…and I know yesterday was a day for worship, but that doesn’t mean we still can’t go to “church” (the title of this song is my mantra every single day).
