Yeah, Repug U.S. House Rep Matt Gaetz really is that big of a MAGA tool, as Brian Tyler Cohen explains; nice to see this numbskull get the ridicule and the treatment he truly deserves…
…and John I. and Brett Erlich of “The Damage Report” tell us about AOC and Trump/Iran (and I keep trying to give Nancy Pelosi the benefit of the doubt, and she keeps saying and doing stupid crap like John points out at the end - sigh)...
…and speaking of Ilhan Omar, as far as I’m concerned, she ROCKS! (as I’ve said before, kind of interesting in a way that we don’t hear more outrage like this from our alleged “faith leaders,” including this guy…actually, to me, it’s kind of sickening)…
…and kudos big time also to David Gilmour of Pink Floyd for this.
Sam Seder and The Majority Report tell us about what I could call the pretty clear-headed reasoning from Dem U.S. House Rep Katie Porter of California on the question of impeachment…
…and I thought this was a pretty even-handed report by the New York Times on the oil tanker episode (attack?) in the Gulf of Oman recently (and we know the Iranians are bad actors overall, but I have zero trust in Pompeo or anyone else in the Trump regime concerning their claims of Iranian involvement – at a minimum, we need to wait and see...and of course, as noted here, Huckleberry Graham will yell about a war that he will never have to worry about fighting, as well as that smug, insufferable, traitorous, lying orange POS of a “president”…and there are a few takeaways here as far as I'm concerned, and one of them is that our "friend" Bibi continues to be a cheerleader for trying to sucker us into another war in the Mideast)…
…and as far as I’m concerned, a lot of this garbage from our elected leaders stems from the fact that we should have murdered the AUMF in about a hundred different ways by now, but of course, we can continue to thank the Bush gang for “the gift that keeps on giving,” though, as Dem U.S. House Rep Barbara Lee points out to Ari Melber (with former Repug U.S. House Rep Tom Coleman), President Hopey Changey isn’t innocent here either…
…and as long as we’re harking back to Bushco a bit here, I give you Liz Cheney trying to claim a particle of moral high ground against AOC over the latter’s “concentration camp” remark (more here - and my God, is Chuck Todd a TOOL for this...and check out the roaring silence from many, but not all, faith groups in response …”terror is baked into the DNA of the policy we’re seeing right now” indeed)…
…and I’m sorry I’m a little late with this video on the significance of “June-teenth” (here)…
…and the Philly jazz community is mourning the loss of WRTI radio host Jeff Duperon (here), who brought all kinds of interesting new music and artists to our attention, and who shared his love of this music freely with his listeners…deepest sympathies to family and friends (here is a tune for the occasion).
So Mike Pompeo thinks it’s a “Washington piece of silliness” for a sitting U.S. president to solicit campaign dirt from foreign entities; uh, no – actually, it’s a felony...but I guess what else can we expect from a Koch Industries-engineered fraud like Pompeo – Brian Tyler Cohen tells us more…
…and Farron Cousins tells us that the Gropenfuhrer’s latest hissy fit has to do with firing his pollsters since, as of now, his re-election prospects look bad, but after 2016, I assume absolutely NOTHING – still, though, this is typical egomaniacal behavior…
…and move along, nothing to see here – just purple tap water; just shut up and keep watching Fox News…U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A! (NSFW…by the way, there’s a reason why I haven’t featured much from Kyle lately, and that’s because I’m tired of hearing his completely “in the tank” commentary for Bernie and Tulsi Gabbard, of all people – he’s definitely right about infrastructure, but trying to find a way to drag Elizabeth Warren into this somehow is REALLY a stretch)...
…and Pete Williams of MSNBC reports on the Supremes upholding VA’s fight against gerrymandering (color me shocked…sounds like the ruling, though, had to do with the fact that one-half of the VA “lege” by itself couldn’t sue – not sure the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR and “Schlitz” Kavanaugh would have ruled this way if the whole legislature had sued in response to the common-sense redraw of the districts)…
…and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 6/19/09, about the Obama Administration triggering all of the white crazies out there who ended up being completely and utterly played by “Adolf Twitler” – I originally put this up as somewhat of a commemoration of the murder of Denver radio talk show host Alan Berg, which is coming up on its 35th anniversary, believe it or not…Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! speaks with journalist Jim Ridgeway…
…and speaking of race, I can’t believe it’s actually been 25 years since this fiasco (and I’m a little uncomfortable with the reporter and anchor here treating the slow-motion chase as simply some kind of a media curiosity and smiling over it…yeah, I guess it was to a degree, but it sprung from a CAPITAL MURDER case in which Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were SLAUGHTERED...and what could go wrong here, I wonder?)…
…and John I., Cenk and Ashlee Marie Preston bring us the story of a gun getting pulled on a family whose 4-year-old little girl apparently made off with a Barbie, believe it or not; yes, this is thoroughly unacceptable behavior, but the answer isn’t to go back to our respective corners…having a hard-ass conversation between the cops and folks like this is hard to imagine, but that’s what we need at a bare minimum, but good luck with that happening with Our Treasonous, Tiny-Handed Orange Dictator (if charges can be brought against these cops, then that needs to happen)…
…and apparently he’s going to be at The Locks at Sona in these parts on Wednesday; I’m sure it will be a good show.
