Friday, September 24, 2021

Friday Stuff

Robert Reich reminds us that the U.S. Senate Dems have to get rid of the filibuster to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act (and whatever mess Manchin has come up with – ugh!...and if you want more ways to bug the crap out of "curtsy Kyrsten," click here)...



...and Francesca and Caroline Johnson of The Damage Report tell us about Mango Mussolini’s latest lawsuit, this time against Mary Trump and three New York Times reporters (usually I ignore this nonsense, but I guess you have to pay attention to it once in awhile...and concerning our former First Family, isn’t this just too precious?)...



...and Thom Hartmann speaks with Dem U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse about the FBI basically blowing off its investigation into “I Like Beer” Kavanaugh (lots of interesting stuff including Whitehouse’s discussion of Leonard Leo and The Federalist Society)...



...and Sam and Emma V. talk about the latest with former Dem U.S. House Rep Tulsi Gabbard, breathing life into “9/11, 9/11” again, timed for the anniversary I guess, when in reality, if you want to get to the source of the monsters behind that, you’d have to rattle your metaphorical saber at our “dear friends” the Saudis, and good luck with that...interesting to see Gabbard defending her pals Assad in Syria and Sisi in Egypt, and Modi in India of course, all noted here, when they all have skeletons in their closets too, you might say...the biggest factor that energizes the forces Gabbard cites as our enemies is our military presence in many of the countries in the Middle East and Asia, and as Gabbard basically says towards the end of the clip, she just wants MOOOAAAARRR WAAAAARRRRR (and great point by Emma that HRC supported much of the interventionist foreign policy Gabbard has supported, but DON’T YOU DARE say that in front of The Swanson TV Dinner Heir...cul de sacky??!!)...



...and David Shuster tells us about Kara Bell of Texas (of course), who apparently was triggered by a book passage that alluded to anal sex (and Bell is a repeat offender it seems... as far as I’m concerned, the bigger issue is book censorship, which of course is fine for “y’all Qaeda”)...



...and in yet another great Second Thought video, we learn how conservatives co-opted Christianity (a lot of good historical information, but you cannot truly calculate the impact of Roe v. Wade in splitting Catholicism between conservatives and progressives...not arguing against the ruling, but just stating the political reality)...



...and Ana and Cenk tell us about the U.S. House passing the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, but it looks like Senate Republicans are just going to kill it, with “qualified immunity” for the cops being the sticking point – with Cenk and Ana...and as far as I’m concerned, their outrage is completely called for (”ooh, those Republicans are going to run their attack ads saying we Dems are soft on crime!! We’re sooo scared!!!”...I hate to break the news to you “chicken littles,” but THEY’RE GOING TO DO THAT ANYWAY EVEN IF IT’S NOT TRUE!! And besides, the House has passed COVID relief and the ARP which included funding for public sector workers, and COPS are public sector workers...the bills passed with 0 Republican votes, so YOU tell ME who’s “defunding the police” and who isn’t!)...



Update 9/27/21: Lather, rinse, repeat...

...and a belated happy birthday to The Boss!

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