Friday, April 02, 2021

Friday Stuff


It appears that additional body cam footage was recently released in the trial of Ofc. Derek Chauvin concerning the death of George Floyd, which makes it look even more like Floyd was executed, but I don’t want to say anything prejudicial – innocent until proven guilty and all that; John I. discusses with some really good commentary from Charles F. Coleman Jr...



...and I was tempted to totally ignore this week’s death of Watergate criminal G. Gordon Liddy because I didn’t want to give him any more attention than he deserved, but then I came across this 2009 clip of Cenk Uygur talking about Liddy’s despicable reaction to this (forgot Liddy was a conservative media loudmouth for a time also)...



...and Ana and Aida R. of TYT discuss “vaccine passports,” so of course that utter loon Marjorie Taylor Greene lost what’s left of her mind over it (which the EU apparently uses also based on this)...



...and the prior clip alluded to Amazon’s abysmal work practices (and the next clip does too, truth be told), and this from David Doel is in a similar theme about Amazon using fake online accounts to talk about how allegedly wonderful they are (luckily, as smart as Jeff Bezos is about becoming a gazillionaire, he’s apparently pretty dumb when it comes to this stuff)...



...and Kyle Kulinski tells us about Stuart Varney wanting Bezos to conduct a smear campaign against Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren (figures...don’t often agree with Kyle a lot these days, but he’s right about the WaPo going after Bernie...not sure why Varney doesn’t get pilloried in quite the same way as Ingraham, Sean Inanity and The Swanson TV Dinner Heir; maybe it’s because he’s on TV earlier in the day and he has an English accent – mildly NSFW/H)...



...and speaking of plutocrats, Robert Reich tells us about all the ways we can tax the rich and begin to address the whole host of issues we face as a nation...



...and I know The Lincoln Project has gotten a lot of press along the lines of “oh, those people are typical Republicans except they oppose Trump...what can you expect them to be but grifters also?” and there may be more than a bit of truth there, but as I’ve said a few times, they keep making good ads, including this one about all the Repug voter suppression garbage out there, with a focus this time in Michigan (this is the best response)...



...and it looks like Paul Simon is now the latest member in the “I sold my catalog to a multinational entertainment corporation for a stupid amount of $$” club (here); not saying he doesn’t have the right to do that, but I can’t help but be a little disappointed (I hope he took care of Art Garfunkel).

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