Tuesday Stuff (updates)

Brian Tyler Cohen tells us here about Shep Smith of Fix Noise showing some commendable humanity (as much as he's allowed to given that we’re talking about the Roger Ailes Network, which it will be forever even though the founder has “rung up the curtain and joined the choir invisible” you might say) on the subject of that supposedly godly man Mike Pence and his response to questioning from Jake Tapper about our treatment of migrant children…

…oh, and as long as we’re talking about supposedly godly men, I went to the web site of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia (here) to find any response to this, and I found an utterly banal and toothless statement about “the lack of a truly humanitarian reception for our brother migrants,” even though, when you go to the “Archbishop Chaput’s column” portion of the site, there’s of course the typical flotsam about the supposed “transfer of our real loyalties and convictions from the old Church of our baptism to the new ‘Church’ of our ambitions and appetites,” and if you guessed that it’s all about HATING TEH GAY and of course ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION and (in case you didn’t already get the message) ABORTION, then you win a free download of the PA Diocese Abuse Victims Grand Jury Report (oh, but Chaput mentions Anthony Kennedy along with Biden, Pelosi and Tim Kaine, so “both sides,” right?)…

Update: And of course, this will NEVER give us yet another metaphorical "black eye" on the world stage, will it?

Update 6/27/19: More completely unsurprising context is here (as well as this).

Update 6/26/19: Here is an example of how to do this, and Chaput doesn't even have to go on Hugh Hewitt again to complain about why people don't genuflect, if you will, before Our Treasonous, Tiny-Handed Orange Dictator (here).

Update 7/2/19: And even when the USCCB does something right, they STILL manage to shoot themselves in the foot with the following quote from here (about the horrific pic above):

“This image silences politics.”

OH REALLY???!!! Wow, how con-vee-nient for you to concoct an utterly cowardly cop-out like that to resist blaming the party responsible for this monstrous cruelty (here).

They honestly would have been better off if they had said nothing at all.

Update 7/3/19: Thank you, Father Martin! (here).

Update 7/19/19: Yep, this is more like it (here).

Update 7/31/19: Mark Sumner of Daily Kos makes some insightful observations on this here.

Update 8/5/19: I guess, at this point, "only a fool" would take you seriously on much of anything, huh "Charlie Chuckles"? (here).

…and this “NowThis” clip tells us about the games the Trump regime is trying to play with the 2020 Census (and I couldn’t find anything at Chaput’s site about that either, though there was this...and of course, Wilbur Ross is just another liar from our cabal of liars)…



…and I came across this item involving a certain Willard Mitt Romney, who of course is now the Repug senator from Utah, and I figured it wouldn’t be difficult to provide this is response, and it wasn’t; kind of an appropriate tie-in for the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 6/24/2012, featuring Martin Bashir, who made the unpardonable mistake of communicating an admittedly gross reference involving former half-term Alaska governor Caribou Barbie…even though he apologized later, that wasn’t good enough to prevent eternal banishment of course for offending a conservative…



…and Ari Melber gives us this report on Trump’s “head fakes” (given the alternative to what this lunatic could actually do, maybe, in a twisted way, this is better than it could be…I realize this is “Trump 101” stuff, but it needs to be pointed out…also, I hate to give David Frum credit for a damn thing, but I thought his commentary was spot-on – I don’t think he’s correct to dismiss the threat of violence against emigres to this country the way he does, however, but I thought Mara Gay rebutted that well enough)…



…and Seth Meyers gives us a similar take here, though with the appropriate level of sarcasm I believe (and kudos to Bernie Sanders for pushing back on that CBS hairdo – and to a point, I understand this thing about presidents not criticizing their successors, but even though he doesn’t owe anybody anything at this point, I’m waiting for Number 44 to say the hell with protocol and tear Trump’s faux-orange-haired head off over the steady spew of his disgusting lies)…



…and Michael Jackson died 10 years ago today (here) – no, I haven’t forgotten about the antics with the kids and the hush money payouts and all the weird/sordid stuff, but for a time he really was the “king of pop,” and I think this tune is apropos, all things considered.