Friday Stuff

I haven’t checked in with Seth Meyers in a little while for no particular reason, and I’m glad I did so here – we know what the Gropenfuhrer is by now, and we also know what his propaganda channel is all about (and leave it to Gramps Grasshole to dutifully tow the line also of course...also, check out the changing book titles)…

Update 5/21/20: Oh, and with garbage like this (outlined in red) appearing on my video screen, please tell me why I'm supposed to play nice with these scumbags (with that perpetually stupid and confused look on the face of the Swanson TV Dinner heir).

…and why do I have an utterly sick feeling that Dr. Rick Bright’s words about what it coming will turn out to be prescient? And believe me when I tell you that I want desperately to be wrong (and yeah, I think this just about says it…and why am I not surprised by this from Markwayne Mullin? More on this nematode is here)…



…and yeah, I think Chris Hayes is pretty spot-on here with his assessment of Mango Mussolini’s cavalier, criminal indifference to suffering from the COVID-19 plague (voicing probably as much disgust as is allowed by his Comcast handlers)…



…and Farron Cousins opines here that Our Pumpkin Pestilence is mad at Former President Hopey Changey because of #44’s popularity (he may be right about personal reasons for disliking Obama, but I think it has more to do with Trump trying to play off the “birther” garbage that made him popular with a particularly demented segment of our voters…well, that plainly ain’t gonna happen again, at least not in the numbers he needs for, God help us, a second term)…



…and I’m going to look the other way for now on Kyle’s snark about “Russia-gate,” which very definitely was NOT a “fake scandal,” and instead present this clip which focuses on the ongoing food crisis in this country from our economic collapse…



Update: And by the way, in the matter of COVID-19-related relief legislation currently pending in the House, I have to admit that I got a thoroughly-not-intended-I’m-sure laugh out of these excerpts (an AP story from here)…

Democratic leaders were pressing ahead despite grumbling from party moderates leery of the measure’s massive price tag and liberals who wanted bolder steps, like money to cover workers’ salaries. The measure cleared an early procedural hurdle 207-199 with 14 Democrats voting in opposition, an unusually high number of “no” votes but small enough to suggest that leadership had things under control.

For the love of God, you’d damn well better find a way to work “divided Dems” into your corporate media reporting, or it’s back to general assignment reporting of 3 AM traffic accidents and zoning board meetings.

Also…

In a scene that’s become uncomfortably familiar since the virus took hold, the sparsely populated House chamber was dotted with members and aides wearing protective masks, though some Republicans were not.

There were few clusters of chatting lawmakers and Pelosi edged away from anyone who stepped near her.

And why on earth for the love of all that’s holy am I supposed to give a flying coitus if Nancy Pelosi breathed on anybody?

And finally...

The bill would flush almost $1 trillion to state and local governments and provide more money for virus testing and to pay front-line emergency workers.

“Flush”? Gee, that’s a rather curious and thoroughly non-judgmental way to put it, right?

I retrieved this dreck from philly.com, home of the Inquirer, to which I continue to no longer subscribe.

…and I’ll give this “Republicans for the Rule of Law” group some credit for speaking out now, but I’d honestly like to know where the hell they were when we attacked Iraq in response to 9/11 and New Orleans drowned from Hurricane Katrina…for the time being, though, this is a good ad (and this guy should open his Club-for-Growth-owned pie hole and speak out for mail-in ballots for everybody also…and to do something about Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao at long last, click here...for more on mail-in ballots, click here)…



Update: More McConnell garbage is here - and once more, here is a way to fight back.

…and I’m including what may be my favorite cover of a Little Richard tune here to indicate his influence on legions of rock n’ rollers…



…and of all of his huge hits, this may be the biggest of all (maybe the most covered too).