Wednesday Stuff

I know that, at this site as well as many others, we ridicule Republicans (quite rightly as far as I’m concerned) when we think they deserve it, which is just about (but not quite) all the time…sometimes they actually AREN’T horrible, such as the one time out of at least 10 (closer to 20) when Brian Fitzpatrick actually does the right thing. And of course that includes our Treasonous, Tiny Handed Orange Dictator, though I haven’t had a reason to give him credit for ANYTHING and I don’t expect that I ever will. And a lot of that has to do with the typical political/media/Beltway insider BS that passes for so much of our political dialogue.

However, it’s a very different story as far as I’m concerned when stuff in the news isn’t the typical idiotic fodder (such as our supposedly elite opinion-makers bloviating as usual), but matters pertaining to genuine human misery and actual life and death.

And yes, I’m talking about Trump’s veto of the honest-to-goodness bipartisan Congressional resolution (and truth be told, when does THAT happen anymore?) to end our involvement in the slaughter in Yemen (here).

It should be obvious to even the most casual observer what kind of a monster truly resides in An Oval Office these days (oh, and by the way, don’t think he’ll be a pushover with fundraising numbers like this unfortunately). And it is just as apparent that there are waaay too many life forms out there all too eager to let our Deatheater-In-Chief have his way (under the guise of religion, hatred of “the other,” whatever Fix Noise tells them…or any and all of the above). So for that reason, I’m planning to include pictures of the children Trump has sentenced to an all-too-short life of pain and misery with these posts as opposed to snarky cartoons and other memes.

John Iadarola and Alex Emmons of The Intercept give their commentary (and yes, unfortunately a lot of presidents might do this, but we know who is responsible)…



…and here’s further embarrassment from Number 45, this time on his typical idiocy about fighting the Notre Dame blaze with flying water tankers or something (oh, but he’s SO GODLY according to those evangelical sheep, waiting to be led to the proverbial slaughter)…



…well, maybe this is the version of Him who those supporting the Gropenfuhrer truly worship (and about the Vote part, let’s not forget the primaries in many locations next month, including our beloved commonwealth)…



…and yeah, leave it to the “land of the yellow rose” to come up with some wackadoodle who is so pro-life that he’ll kill people for it, as Kyle K. tells us (NSFW - more here)…



…and Seth Meyers somehow finds comedy from this and related nonsense concerning our Russian Operative chief of state…



…and I now give you what I would call a rather interesting piece of musical trivia; on this day in 1971, all four members of The Beatles had a single on the UK chart as solo artists…”It Don’t Come Easy” by Ringo, “My Sweet Lord” by George Harrison, “Another Day” by Sir Paul, and this tune (as true now as ever).