Thursday Stuff

The “Morning Joe” crew (which, basically here, is Joe Scarborough) discusses Generalissimo Trump’s firing of Chris Krebs, the cybersecurity expert tasked with maintaining the integrity of our elections who apparently got canned because he disputed Trump's claims of election fraud (Krebs had a job I wouldn’t want for all the $$ in the world even if I were qualified - here)...nice job by MSNBC to clip the video so we didn’t hear a response to another of Joe Scar’s interminable soliloquies masquerading as an actual question (yeah, I’m sure “Mitch” will acknowledge election fraud...I’m also sure sunshine, lollipops and rainbows will now magically appears before my eyes too)...

Update: More of the clipped video can be viewed here (and yeah, basically, it's a case of not upsetting Our Orange Pustule-In-Chief because the Repugs don't want to alienate 45's base, particularly with the GA special elections coming up, and also, they don't want to deal with an angry tweet...God, how pathetic).

...and with the theme of media idiocy in mind, I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” from 11/19/16, in which Carlos Maza tells us about how the wingnutosphere, with the not-so-subtle prodding of Fix Noise, continually tries to outdo each other for clicks and eyeballs to their sites, you might say, with more and more outrageous nonsense...



...and David Pakman tells us about the recent “million MAGA march,” with commentary by The Roger Ailes BS Factory (Pakman, to his credit, does a “deeper dive” here, and yeah, that sign was pretty damn disgusting all right)...



...and this New York Times clip tells us about cops often looking the other way in response to threats of (or actual) right-wing violence, stoked by the some of the “usual suspects” mentioned by Carlos Maza...



...but of course (and returning to the theme of media nonsense), leave it to Bill Maher (who ceased being relevant a while ago as far as I’m concerned) to take exactly the wrong lessons from the recent 2020 elections – at the end of the day, it looks like Maher is just another well-off boomer who wants his stinking tax cuts ...I think this is one of the best commentaries from Kyle in a looooong time (as far as I’m concerned, Conor Lamb and Abigail Spanberger ought to get the words “economic populism” tattooed on their foreheads – NSFW/H)...



...and belated happy 70th birthday wishes to Graham Parker (and when it comes to media insanity and right-wing lunatics, I think this tune is appropriate...and I missed the passing of comedian Jack Burns this year who gives the intro...RIP).