Friday Stuff

(And by the way, happy recent 75th birthday to Tommy Lee Jones.)

Emma V. and the crew from The Majority Report tell us about this Grant Stinchfield character utterly losing it when one of our vets helping to get people out of Afghanistan shows the temerity to actually criticize Dear Leader Trump on this issue – God, is Stinchfield a snowflake or what ("lost his Stinch" - heh)...



...and maybe with Stinchfield and characters like him in mind, Beau gave us this great commentary on the media and people in entertainment (comedians mainly) voicing their opinions, with Beau pointing out that NOBODY is truly objective (“It’s hard to maintain objectivity and profitability” – damn straight!)...



...and this Now This clip tells us that the fencing has gone back up around the U.S. Capitol building in anticipation of another treasonous insurrection tomorrow (and one of these days, Mango Mussolini will be in jail for real I firmly believe, and that day can’t come soon enough, and this is one of a multitude of reasons why)...



Update 9/18/21: Too damn funny...

...and Thom Hartmann brings us an interesting lesson on why health care isn’t a right in the U.S. and how that’s pretty much been “baked in,” if you will, since the 1940s (and leave it to the Germans to figure out why that’s wrong – I say that because the EU and Nordic countries overall pay more attention to quality-of-life stuff like this than we do in this country...the video is a little choppy...I’m pretty sure what Thom said was “12 former slave states refused to extend Medicaid”...more on Frederick Hoffman, who Thom discusses, is here, and this is a related topic)...



...and in a sane country, where people responsible for the deaths of thousands would be incarcerated, FL governor #DeathSantis might be housed somewhere with Combover Caligula while actual adults with brains would go about the business of fixing the COVID messes created by these two cretins, but alas, we are where we are...



...and in the latest Second Thought video, we learn more about how conservative our major political parties actually are (and the “ratchet effect”...not quite as despairing of the Dems as the narrator, and he doesn’t take into account the hold Trumpism now has on the ”party of Lincoln,” but he does make a lot of good points...I realize he’s coming at this as a Democratic socialist, which I think is fine, but as infuriating as the Dems are at times, they’re our best shot in this rigged political game)...



...and turning to sports, this More Perfect Union video tells us about minor league baseball players treated not much better than cattle – I’m sure the answer is a union, but good luck with that in our COVID-wracked economy...



Update 9/18/21: A related item is here (including our home team).

...and I’ve been hanging onto this selection since including it means that summer is all done for yours truly (sniff), but with the autumnal equinox coming up next week, I guess it’s time to move on until next year – c’est la vie.