Tuesday Stuff

I realize there’s nothing even remotely funny about what Louie Gohmert recently did concerning the COVID-19 bill in the U.S. House (here), but I’m including this clip from Stephen Colbert because we need to keep up our morale, even if it is just to laugh at another imbecile from Texas (as I’ve said before, “Goober” Gohmert is ridiculous enough, but what’s REALLY scary to me are the life forms who actually vote for him)…



…and speaking of Republican idiocy, House Rep Devin Nunes (R-Cow) recently told Maria Bartiromo that people should pretty much ignore this whole COVID-19 thing and go to restaurants anyway (typical)…



…and when we talk about COVID-19, I know that pretty much leads us back to Mango Mussolini’s incompetence, as documented in this clip…



…and I think that Farron Cousins is a little hard on the Democrats here, especially since they got a bill together in the House that the stupidest individual in the entire universe has held up as noted in the first clip (never mind...as C&L tells us in the update, Gohmert caved), as well as the righteous outrage from Sherrod Brown here, but yeah, as a party in unison, I’d like to see some more outrage also (I’m pretty sure I saw something from Elizabeth Warren which, typically, presented some good ideas on paid sick leave and UBI also, which will probably get ignored as per usual...Cotton and Romney are making nice-sounding noises because they can see how bad the polling data currently is for the "party of Lincoln")…



…and Robert Reich has some typically good ideas about what we can do in response to our current public health crisis…



…and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” from 3/17/09 (as Reich said, our corporate overlords are going to find a way to exploit this crisis for their benefit, and here’s some recent history on what they’ve already done on that score)…



…and speaking of the "banksters," this Now This clip features Dem U.S. House Rep Katie Porter doing her job again, this time grilling the CEO of Wells Fargo on so-called “gap” overcharges, which sounds like debt insurance the consumer is still being charged for even though the loan was paid off…nice little racket there (yes, there actually is other stuff not related to COVID-19 going on out there)…



…and in tune with the day on the calendar (for the “wearin’ of the green” of course) what do you say to a little old-fashioned escapism given the nutty times in which we currently live?