Saturday Stuff

(Remember when nurses actually had to face off with these idiots protesting stay-at-home orders, such as noted here? Gee, I wonder if we'd have turned the corner instead of dealing with the horror that we currently face from this plague If these protesting fools had behaved like, y’know, ACTUAL GODDAMN ADULTS INSTEAD??!!)

Rachel Maddow brings us this clip of Nebraska ICU nurse Nikki Tomlinson and what she and her co-workers continually encounter in response to the COVID-19 pandemic - gives us still more insight into the lethality of this plague (and all the best to Maddow and her partner Susan on what they’ve been dealing with in particular on this; a little late on this I realize, but I’m glad Susan is getting better...I’ll say a prayer)...



...and Chris Hayes brought us this recent segment of Trumpster Scott Atlas telling everybody to pretty much go out and get infected this Thanksgiving with Erin Banco of The Daily Beast – yeah, it probably really will be the final Thanksgiving for a few of these people if they take Atlas seriously (but hopefully not); Atlas, let’s not forget, is a radiologist – not trying to impugn that profession, but only saying that a person with that background is all wrong for being in charge of this type of policy, though it makes perfect lack of sense for Trumpworld...



...and speaking of lack of sense, Farron Cousins tells us about Mango Mussolini’s crazed minions making death threats against election officials, law enforcement, etc., harking back to the pic at the top of this post (“Courts need evidence, cults do not,” indeed)...



...and this Now This clip tells us about our Soon-To-Be-Departing (whether he likes it or not) Orange Pustule in An Oval Office pledging to unite everybody in ’16, but after that, not so much (love the music choices here)...



...and sort of playing into that, David Pakman gives us this OAN report about the alternate reality in which Number 45 actually won 410 electoral votes – uh, sure...



...and happy upcoming 70th birthday to Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads and the Tom Tom Club (from "Stop Making Sense" - not related to a couple of videos in this post I wish to emphasize).

Friday Stuff

Brian Williams tells us about that thoroughly nutty press conference yesterday with “flop sweat hair dye Rudy” concocting all kinds of crazy conspiracy garbage about the recently conducted election...given the almost complete silence in response from the “party of Lincoln” (and barely a peep also in response to this – more garbage to try and overthrow an election that was conducted as well as we could have hoped for given the fact that Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao in the Senate didn't do a damn thing to ensure that our elections are conducted more securely, especially given ‘rona and the increase of mail-in voting)...given all of that, why the hell should we treat the “loyal opposition” with anything but scorn and contempt?

No, we shouldn’t merely laugh this off. Mango Mussolini and his minions are trying to find SOME WAY to cast the entire election into doubt and take it to the Supreme Court, where the conservative majority, including the “Christian handmaiden” and “I Like Beer” Brett, will try to find SOME WAY to illegally award it to 45 (and yeah, remember this?)...



...and John I. and Dan Evans of “The Damage Report” tell us more on the Wayne County, Michigan nonsense (good job by John to draw the line back to Reagan, then to Dubya and Trump...and GREAT point by Dan Evans about how much blowing up ACORN hurt Dem organizing)...



...and David Pakman talks with Cristobal Alex, senior advisor for the Biden campaign, on the Latino vote in the 2020 election (and yes, give Latinos credit for Arizona, but also Native Americans too...I thought this was a pretty good interview; work to be done for sure, but I think the Biden people know that - hope so anyway...sounds like Pakman does a Spanish broadcast also; nice work)...



...and David Doel tells us about Cori Bush responding to CNN’s Erin Burnett when asked about Bush’s Breonna Taylor mask and also about the push back from conserva-Dems Conor Lamb and Abigail Spanberger...this is the first opportunity I’ve had to hear Bush, and I’m impressed – I also remain steadfast in my belief that “defund the police” is a terrible slogan, but I appreciate the clarification in this clip...



...and in similar fashion as John I. and Dan Evans did in the prior clip, Thom Hartmann draws a line of Repug infamy from The Sainted Ronnie R to Dubya to the Gropenfuhrer when discussing "freedom" for the one percent, and absolutely no one else (and this is what Thom was talking about concerning Reagan, by the way)...



...and I give you this selection for World Children's Day (to help, click here).

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).

Wednesday Stuff

I’d like to see the U.S. House pass a resolution saying that our departing Orange Pustule-In-Chief isn’t allowed to do a damn thing in the time he has left in office, which to me is an appropriate clap-back at his refusal thus far to concede...I say that also because, like many of us I know, I remain greatly concerned about the havoc he could still wreak on the world stage...I agree with Cenk in this clip when it comes to offering praise, to a point, in response to what sounds like his desire to draw down in Iraq and Afghanistan, but it concerns me because I don’t know if another metaphorical shoe will drop after that (and I was shocked to hear Ana’s remark about the alleged Russian bounties on our troops, but based on this, she may be exactly right)...



...and this Meidas Touch video brings us more on Emily Murphy of the GSA, who apparently still is not allowing the agency she allegedly manages to work with the Biden team on the transition (and rooftop sex parties, huh? Nice.)...



...and speaking of malfeasance, this clip takes incumbent GA Repug U.S. Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue to task (to help Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, running against them in that state’s especial elections coming up in January, click here...and apparently Loeffler is up to some new tricks based on this)...



Update 11/20/20: More garbage on Perdue and his insider trading is here.

...and speaking of Georgia, John I. and Jason Carter tell us about Huckleberry Graham’s call to the Secretary of State about verifying signatures on election ballots...OK, two questions 1) Why the hell does Graham care about GA? Oh, because of control of the U.S. Senate...riiiiight...and 2) Why would you be asking about signatures on ballots unless you were trying to find a way to throw out those ballots?

I sincerely hope the incoming Biden AG takes a look into this, but to be honest, I’m not holding my breath (and this update tells us that Mango Mussolini basically depressed the turnout of his base in that state by talking smack about mail-in voting...heh)...



...and kudos to Ned Staebler who called out Monica Palmer and William Hartmann here for originally refusing to certify the results of the recent election in Wayne County, Michigan, including Detroit which is predominantly African American of course (and gee, Hartmann’s Facebook page sure is interesting, isn’t it? Brian Tyler Cohen explains)...



...and happy belated 90th birthday to composer David Amram, who gave us the score for the 1962 version of “The Manchurian Candidate” among his many other accomplishments...time once more for a bit of culture.

Tuesday Stuff

Thom Hartmann tells us about the nurse in South Dakota who tells us that there are people who somehow still don’t believe that COVID-19 is a threat to them (more on this brave individual, who I’m sure will now be hounded and persecuted to speaking truth to stoo-pid..and I’d love to be wrong about that...is here...oh, and speaking of South Dakota and stoo-pid, I give you this)...



...and Brian Tyler Cohen tells us what that idiot Scott Atlas has been telling us about ‘rona – we’re going to have to deal with the deadly idiocy of the Trumpsters to the bitter end next January, won’t we? Love and kisses to the approximately 70 million POS’s who are allowing this to happen (I can tell Biden is going out of his way to reach out to some Repugs, which is smart, and I hope it buys him something, but to be honest I'm not hopeful)...



...and Lawrence O’Donnell really let Emily Murphy of the GSA have it last night over her failure to help the incoming Biden-Harris team with the transition...



...and Ali Velshi brings us “a tale of two lines”...and in another dumb edit to an MSNBC video, we don’t get to see the discussion Velshi had with economic advisor Jared Bernstein...and boy is Biden ever right about the HEROES Act...



...and Farron Cousins tells us that the incoming Biden Administration is considering an office of climate change in the White House (I think Cousins is absolutely wrong on John Kerry – who was pivotal in the Paris Climate Accords for this country – though I will cede Cousins’ point about a scientist being better for the job...I’m hearing this guy’s name being floated, which is interesting, and I agree with Cousins that John Podesta really shouldn’t be in the running either – a guy who got tricked by a phishing scam into compromising the online presence of the Hillary Clinton campaign is definitely the wrong fit for this role IMHO)...



...and I thought this was an interesting “Damage Report” clip with John and Dave Levinthal on why the Gropenfuhrer is still trying to raise $$$...

...and speaking of the Gropenfuhrer, K.O. makes a good argument here I believe as to why he should be banned from Twitter (mildly NSFW/H – more here)...



...and RIP Lynn Kellogg, who starred in the original production of “Hair” and sang the tune in this clip that of course became a hit for Three Dog Night...apparently she had been diagnosed with a non-life threatening form of leukemia...making her more susceptible to you-know-what...and recently appeared in Branson, MO, at an event where people weren’t masked, and I’m sure you can guess what happened next, tragically (see pic at the top of this post again).

Monday Stuff

(And I actually saw a tweet from a well-meaning person I respect asking if we should forgive Trump...heh).

This video from MSNBC tells us about the “million moron march” last Saturday in D.C.- OK, so the election was rigged supposedly, but not where Republicans won...uh huh...



..and this TYT clip with Ana and Ben Dixon tells us that the Trump kids are apparently split on whether or not 45 should act like an adult at long last and acknowledge the reality that HE'S A LOSER (again, while I cede Ana’s point that Russia probably didn’t alter vote counts in the 2016 election...but since our auditing is so spotty overall, we never really will know, will we?...there was a hell of a lot that they did do with the Repugs to float garbage in social media, as well as prop up that fraud Jill Stein, so yeah, from that angle, the Dems were right to harp on it)...



...and David Doel tells us that the head of the NYC sergeants union is mad about AOC listening to her constituents (typical misogynist condescension from this a-hole Ed Mullins – more here...oh, and not that I would expect Fix Noise to be accurate in any way, but I didn’t actually hear the words “defund the police” from AOC herself, despite their “reporting”)...



...and this Meidas Touch ad really “brings the receipts” on incumbent Repug U.S. Senator Kelly Loeffler of Georgia (to help Raphael Warnock running against Loeffler in one of the 2 GA special elections, click here...shocking to agree with "wine Karen Pirro," but I guess that stopped clock realy is correct twice a day)...



...and Chris Hayes speaks here with Jon Ossoff, running against that chicken David Perdue in the other GA special election (and yeah, not to rain on Ossoff’s parade or anything – his point are all well made – but this runoff is happening also because the libertarian candidate in the race kept Perdue from getting to 50% of the vote...to help Ossoff, click here)...



...and speaking of Georgia, last Tuesday marked what would have been the 70th birthday of Ronnie Hammond of the Atlanta Rhythm Section.