Saturday Stuff

We know you-know-who is going to have that rally in Tulsa, OK today, which is insane on so many levels. With that in mind, I want to present this video of health care workers fighting the battle against COVID-19 at Stony Brook University, and everything they do to treat their patients and keep them connected with families as best they can.

(Also, there’s currently a post out there of a 20-year-old girl who came down with COVID and underwent a double lung transplant. If you come across the picture of her COVID-inflected lungs and have a chance to see the truly horrific damage she suffered, I guarantee that, were you so inclined to begin with, you would never complain about wearing a mask again.)…



(Also in consideration of that Tulsa mess, I give you this and this – I saw a tweet earlier where a rally attendee was quoted saying, “Well, a friend of mine died and his son was sick for a time with it, but I don’t know who to believe, so I’m not wearing a mask,” and I thought that, somewhere, from some deep, dark pit of hell, Roger Ailes smiles and thinks to himself, “Mission Accomplished.”)...

Update: Yeah, this was it, and Sheila Buck is my latest heroine for this.

…and Thom Hartmann tells us about Repugs attacking – and in some cases apparently, actually killing – African Americans and Black Lives Matter protesters (and yeah, as Thom says, nothing but crickets from the GOP in response…wonder if The Lincoln Project is going to go after these life forms in a video? Maybe they will.)…



…and I thought this was an interesting take by Chris Hayes on 45’s true relationship with China…among other things, Our Orange Nightmare blew off COVID-19 in pursuit of some kind of trade maneuver that he thought would help him get re-elected (the country be damned, referring to us of course)…



…and on the subject of our ruling regime doing the bidding of foreign powers and corporations, I give you this New York Times video where workers at Tyson chicken processing plants are trying to slow down the assembly line – good question posed at the very end: how can they feed America if workers at these plants keep getting sick? I hope the two courageous souls profiled in this clip don't face a reprisal for this...



…and David Pakman tells us that 1.5 million people have been hit by the economic downturn – absolutely staggering job losses overall from this pandemic, about 25% of the overall workforce…and yeah, a few people have found new jobs, and that’s good, but if anybody thinks we’re on our way out of either the pandemic or this recession any time soon, then I have a bridge to one of the five New York boroughs to sell to you (and here is more food for thought on that subject)…



…and Kyle Kulinksi tells us that 63 % of those polled are "proud to be an American," down about 30 points from 2003 – anybody else besides me starting to see a trend here?…



…and taking what I think (and hope) is this trend even further, Farron Cousins tells us that Repug strategists are fearing an electoral “wipeout” – GOOD! Let’s all go make it happen, people (interesting "macarena" analogy for independent voters - kind of fits)…



...and in light of this great tweet from Mr. Peter Frampton, I feel duly obligated to include this song.