Wednesday Stuff

Did you hear the latest? Generalissimo Trump is claiming that he’s more popular than his predecessor based on a garbage Rasmussen poll – too funny (here)…



…and Ali Velshi breaks down the latest Trumpian garbage on DACA here (hey DNC? You want to stop playing patty cake with this cabal of outlaws and crooks and try messaging like this? You know – actually show a freaking spine for once! Try doing something besides putting the bite on me for $$ every other day!)…



…and I have no idea who Jess Phoenix is, but I’d damn well vote for her if I could based on this great ad (NSFW)…

Tired of what's going on in government? Me too.

Let's end the bullshit. It's time to roll up our sleeves & clean up Washington. Send me to Congress.

Donate now: https://t.co/C9HggzVQ9c#nomorebs #Jess2018 #RiseUp pic.twitter.com/943csz9eex

— Jess Phoenix (@jessphoenix2018) March 29, 2018

...and how could I NOT include this tune for today's commemoration?

Tuesday Stuff

Seth Meyers brings us an Easter-related update on the latest nonsense from the ruinous Trumpster regime (I think the look on the face of the Easter Bunny, that of utter shock, is perhaps the most apropos for what our country as a whole feels as these methaphorical train wrecks continue to unfold)…



…and I guess I’m not supposed to consider this “low-hanging fruit,” as it were (related somewhat to the pic), but maybe it is (Francis Faxwell is absolutely right about the double standard of hiding boobs vs. hiding guns)…



…and Chris Hayes tells us the latest on the striking teachers in Oklahoma and Kentucky (good job by Pedro Noguera in particular to link depressed teacher salaries and education budgets to “right to work” states as well as the ruinous austerity measures inflicted by Repug legislatures – this report could have run on for a least a few more minutes IMHO)…



…and yeah, color me NOT shocked to find out that the latest Repug tax scam meant bupkes in terms of actual money kicked towards the Doomsy household among millions of others in this country (I hope Farron Cousins is right about voters paying attention)…



…and it looks like Little Tommy Friedman poked his head out of his hidey hole here to say something else stupid recently; Sam Seder reminds us why Friedman shouldn’t be taken seriously – if anything, Friedman should be treated as a pariah – in this clip from 2014…



...and Marvin Gaye died 34 years ago yesterday (today would have been his 79th birthday).

Monday Stuff

So I want to get this straight – President Fergus Laing kills DACA, started under President Obama of course, then walks away from a deal the Democrats in the Senate stupidly offered him which included his stinking wall (here)…but somehow it’s still the Dems fault that he no longer wants to do something about DACA (more here and here)?

The bottom line is that Generalissimo Trump and congressional Repugs will NEVER agree to DACA funding without making taxpayers pay for his stupid $21 billion “wall” (might not agree to DACA even with wall funding), primarily because DACA came from Obama, and aside from the wall, all they care about is doing everything they can to avoid further legitimizing ANYTHING from Number 44.

I know this is not front-page news, but it still bears repeating – Number 45 is a lying, delusional idiot - makes me recall this Trevor Noah clip…



...and Ana and Mark Thompson of TYT give us the latest on Scott Pruitt (yep, take the "P" out of EPA under this guy - Thompson's "garage" metaphor at about 7:08 is perfectly apt; an update is here)...



...and Chris Hayes tells us about the woman on probation who voted in Texas and didn't know she wasn't supposed to do that and was sent back to prison for 5 more years (here…yep – pretty damn appalling all right; yes, she did wrong as Hayes notes, but how about a little perspective?)...



...and I couldn’t resist bringing this one back (SNL w/ Melissa McCarthy last Easter as you-know-who)...



…and speaking of TV, RIP Steven Bochco; watching “Hill Street Blues” used to be an event – never had a desire to watch another cop show after that one because I don’t know how it possibly could be topped…



…and happy belated 70th birthday to Jimmy Cliff; despite it all, I think there will always be a place for this song.

Happy Easter 2018

A little late I know, but may you all have a happy and blessed Easter. If you don't observe anything, may you have a happy and blessed long weekend.