Monday, November 22, 2021

Monday Stuff


John Fugelsang brings us what I think is a pretty apropos idea about how to deal with Manchinema (paying them out in terms they understand, being the utterly bought-and-paid-for frauds that they are...funny stuff, but sorry - I still think the dude needs a haircut)...



...and I believe this is Trymaine Lee on “The Reid Out” with Malcolm Nance and Dean Obeidallah discussing the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict and its aftermath (Update 11/27/21: Actually, I guees this is Jason Johnson)...



...and to me, you don’t have to draw much of a line from Rittenhouse to Republican looney tunes particularly in Congress; by default, Marjorie Taylor Greene is at the top of that utterly sorry list, but Lauren Boebert is a very close second...to his great credit, local Denver journalist Kyle Clark took Boebert to task here (Rachel Maddow also had a feature on this last week)...



...and speaking of nutty Republicans, we learn in this clip that a third of them think Mango Mussolini is going to be reinstated (prior to ’24 I mean, and God willing not at that time either) – a sizeable portion of this country is certifiably nuts IMO...Ben Carollo of Rebel HQ tells us about it...



...oh, and did you hear the news? The economy under Biden is doing better overall than our corporate media is telling us...of course, that won’t stop our allegedly august members of the fourth estate from writing screeds with headlines like “Oh, there are some positive signs, BUT DEMOCRATS CAN STILL BE BLAMED IF EVERYTHING ISN’T AS PERFECT AS REPUBLICANS SAY,” with quotes from Repug operatives in paragraphs 1 through 6 or 7, but waaay down in paragraph 20, we learn that voters are going to blame Dems or Repugs based on their party preference as we suspected to begin with, and things aren’t that bad anyway...everything, regardless of what it is, is good news for Republicans as far as our media is concerned (Chris Hayes tells us more)...



Update 1 11/23/21: Uh, yep (and this too)...and I thought this was a pretty interesting related thread.

Update 2 11/23/21: More here and here.

...and when it comes to the economy, the system of apportioning credit in the US has a lot to do with consolidating existing wealth and shutting out a larger and larger percentage of this country from prosperity, as yet another great Second Thought clip tells us (and the narrator does a GREAT JOB here of establishing the link between a potentially bad credit score and high medical costs...and as he says, what the #@$! does that have to do with “personal responsibility”?)...



...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” from 11/22/17, in which our 35th president offers us more sage, timeless words, to commemorate in remembrance of this anniversary...



...and the first clip in this post was a bit tongue-in-cheek, and I guess this is also.

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