Friday Stuff (update)

I thought this NowThis video was a fitting response to all of the “ammo-sexuals” out there who told doctors to “stay in their lane” recently on the issue of common-sense gun reform (more here)…



…and nothing to see here, move along…just the Repugs trying to steal more elections in Flori-DUUH!, particularly for Ron DeSantis against Andrew Gillum and for Rick Scott against Bill Nelson (I swear, we need UN election monitors in that state, and probably Georgia too among other places)…



…and Kyle of “Secular Talk” tells us about Ro Khanna (who continues to impress me, for what it’s worth) speaking out against the Repugs in the U.S. House blocking our efforts to try and end our involvement in the Saudi incursion against Yemen (NSFW - about 9:30-10:30 is particularly important about Sunnis vs. Shia IMHO)...



…and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 11/18/09, and it is a preview of “16 Deaths Per Day” from Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films about people getting killed on the job…don’t know if that figure has gone up or down since then, and this is a sadly predictable related development…among the many ways that our corporate media fell down in the last election is the fact that this issue didn’t receive the attention it deserved, assuming it somehow received any attention at all (more here)…



…and it looks like we’re close to the gift-giving season, now that this has appeared…what do you give to the wingnut who has less than nothing, possibly not even a clean undershirt? (heh)…



…and happy 65th birthday to Philly-born David Ricketts of David and David.



And once again, given this story...

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And let's not forget that, for the Repugs, disenfranchising voters is a feature, not a bug (here).

Update: So let me get this straight – Smith makes a remark about a public hanging, but Cory Booker is the "extremist" (here)? Suuuuure…

And I guess I'm just a snotty liberal for saying this, but I have to - that ad included in the tweet I linked to is truly ridiculous. Literally, it is nothing but a list of Democratic politicians with the word LIBERAL LIBERAL LIBERAL LIBERAL LIBERAL all over the place!

You want to talk REAL issues? How about the fact that Mississippi is rated Number 48 for child well-being (moving up from last – yaaay! And yes, I’m being sarcastic.) but still the highest poverty rate among all states, as noted here? Also, the lowest income rate, as noted here. Also, lagging behind in developmental screenings for kids, as noted here. And the nation’s highest cardiovascular death rate in 2017 and the second-highest rate of cancer deaths (here). Also, syphilis is apparently making a comeback too (here).

(By the way, this was pretty much a cursory Google glance, if you will. If I did more digging, I'm sure I'd find more indicators of that state's misery.)

This is what happens when, year after year, decade after decade, generation upon generation, you do NOTHING but elect Republicans who give you NOTHING but tax cuts for the one percent and war without end!

And to me, I can’t think of anything more “extremist” than that!

Thursday Stuff

Stephanie Ruhle tells us about our military being used for that ridiculous PR stunt along the Mexico border, and apparently, they can forget about Thanksgiving with their families, and potentially Christmas too – heckuva job, all you Trumpsters and anyone who did anything whatsoever to make sure this idiocy took place…what a way to completely piss away about $220 million…I’d be sputtering with rage too if I had to report something as cruel and STOO-PID as this…



…and Rachel Maddow tells us about the Alabama ”poop train,” otherwise known as the Trey Glenn story…and yes, there is a connection back to the regime of Our Tiny-Handed Orange Dictator, referring to Ryan Zinke in particular (didn’t see the follow-up report on why the “Hail Mary” play from the Gropenfuhrer probably won’t work)…



…and it looks like Number 45 and French President Macron are no longer ”buds,” given the latest Twitter fit from you-know-who, as Cenk and Ana tell us (the reality of Franco-American relations, as many thinking adults know, is a bit more complicated, as noted here)…



…and Seth Meyers brings us another “Closer Look” segment with recent (and typically absurd) news developments…Rachel Maddow already mentioned the thing with John Kelly I know…



…and I have to admit sharing Farron Cousins’s singular disgust with the Kansas City Health Department for this story…and GREAT timing to do something like this close to the Thanksgiving holiday, you nitwits…



…and I know I’ve been overdoing it with the “message” musical selections this week, but in light of the last video, I couldn’t help but include this also.



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Update: Wow, she sure is a prize, isn't she? (here).

Wednesday Stuff (updates)

I wonder what kind of wingnut and corporate media caterwauling we would have had to endure if somehow a Democratic president had travelled overseas and essentially spit on our veterans and come home and done the same thing (which would be justified, I might add)? Farron Cousins explains…



…and when it comes to the last election, I think there was a little more going on in North Dakota, for example, with Heidi Heitkamp (namely, that nonsense with the Indians with PO boxes at their residences not being allowed to vote), but Kyle and David Dayen otherwise make some good points here (NSFW…and I think Yucca Mountain had a lot more to do with Dean Heller losing than this story…too complicated to pigeon-hole what happened in the Senate IMHO, which of course was NOT a net benefit, though NV and AZ were positive of course, and as always, we'll see about Florida, which should have UN monitors…irritating to me that the Repugs could somehow “crack that code” to knock off Heitkamp, Donnelly and McCaskill but we couldn’t do that to save them…Kyle is exactly right, though, about the typical corporate media response to the bipartisan banking “reform” bill)…



…and Cenk and Ana of TYT tell us about the black security guard killed by cops, despite, apparently, everyone in the ENTIRE BAR where the incident occurred warning the cops that the security guard WASN’T THE PROBLEM…



…and whenever a Repug politician does or says something crass, insensitive and/or stupid (or all of the above), particularly when it comes to race, leave it to one of their minions to come back with “Oh yeah? Well, ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION and, by the way, ABORTION,” in response, as noted here (to do something about this, click here)…



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…and Robert Reich tells us about just how much we in the blue states help those in the red states, as it turns out…



...which makes me recall this tune (frequent use of the "N" word, just to warn you).

Tuesday Stuff

So it appears that a certain Former President Highest Disapproval Rating In Gallup Poll History was in Philly to receive the Liberty Medal (here), apparently for his service to veterans (and presented by ultimate Beltway insider Joe Biden – love and kisses again for the bankruptcy bill, Joe!).

I know the political/media/industrial complex is constantly trying to perpetrate a con on us, but sometimes it's sickening beyond words.

Somehow I don’t think that squares with the fact that Dubya engaged those veterans he now claims to serve in a war against a country that had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks. But what do I know, right?

As far as I’m concerned, the only thing Former Commander Codpiece should receive is a date to report to a federal prison to serve a sentence for violating the Constitution and committing crimes against humanity – makes me recall this clip…



...and this also - easy to forget when Dubya and Abu Gonzales got rid of all of the DOJ lawyers...



…and how sad is it that the Gropenfuhrer is actually RIGHT about Dubya? NSFW (and of course the Russia stuff isn’t “nonsense”…I think Kyle has “evolved” on that issue, you might say)...



…and returning a little more to the present, Seth Meyers tells us about the criminal enterprises of Our Tiny-Handed, Delusional Orange Dictator as well as his efforts to stop the Florida recount (the rerun of this farce isn’t any better than the original, which of course ended up benefitting Number 43)…



…and I don’t think a political party should receive all of the credit when the market does well and all of the blame when it does poorly, but inasmuch as I know of these things…well, somewhat…the markets (particularly the bond markets) seem to respond negatively to fiscal instability such as – oh, I don’t know – maybe utterly STOO-PID trade wars, tariffs, and fiscally irresponsible tax cuts (though, so far, it has rebounded a bit today)…



…and happy belated 73rd birthday to Neil Young, with a tune that’s perfectly aligned with much of this post – very sorry to hear about his home, however (hell of a birthday present)…to help anyone affected by the fires in California, click here (more here from Neil).

Monday Stuff

I thought this was a great segment by Ari Melber basically showing that, when it comes to the Gropenfuhrer in particular (and probably everything else also), Huckleberry Graham has no core principles whatsoever…



…and it’s apparently humorous to these life forms at Fix Noise, including that slug Bill Hemmer, that Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez can’t afford an apartment in DC until she’s sworn into office…”Gosh, you mean she’s actually NOT a millionaire like us?” And good for Michael Brooks for calling out Iraq war liar Judith Miller (NSFW - the last minute of this from Sam Seder about "Deadeye Dick" is particularly noteworthy IMHO)...



…and sticking with our “state TV” network, which has always been nothing but the media apparatus of the Republican Party, Kyle tell us how Steve Douchebag totally ignores, as Kyle says, a REAL person with a REAL issue...namely, a lady who lost her husband because of a lack of health care (NSFW, and boy, is Kyle right about how serious the stakes are)...



…and Mike Papantonio and Peter Mougey tell us about Chiquita Brands basically paying off terrorists to keep their workers in line, regardless of the cost (I seem to recall posting about this during the years of Bushco…I guess what’s old is truly what’s new also)…



...and RIP Stan Lee, who probably deserves more credit for Marvel Comics than anybody else, but never forget Jack Kirby also...



...and happy belated 65th birthday to Marshall Crenshaw, burning it up here with longtime Elvis (the U.S. one) guitarist James Burton.