Tuesday Stuff

John and Francesca of The Damage Report tell us of Bernie Sanders getting noise from gazillionaire Elon Musk, the latter being a total dick of course (and I don't care how many times he hosts SNL), with the latest reason being that Musk sent a tweet wishing questioning whether or not Bernie was dead (and speaking of Vermont senators, kudos to Dem Patrick Leahy for all of his good work upon the news that he won’t seek another term, as noted here...and by the way, to show how utterly clueless the national Democratic Party is, this issue was teed up for them, but it looks like a Republican is going to steal their thunder on it)...



...and this Rebel HQ video with Alyssa Bernadino and David Shuster tells us more about how the rich, including Musk, are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, in particular as a result of COVID (and I know she has a good point, but I still think Krystal Ball is a twit).

And I’m sorry, but I have to go “meta” again over this.

Am I mad as hell at Manchinema for doing EXACTLY what Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao wants them to do and that is to tie Biden’s hands any way they possibly can? You’re damn right I am. And am I mad at Biden over not delivering what he promised (thus far anyway). Uh, yeah I am.

But can we step back and look at what he HAS delivered? Like COVID relief and the corporate infrastructure bill, OK (which is “half a loaf” I know)? Are we supposed to pretend that that’s NOTHING? Do you HONESTLY think Republicans would have delivered anything close to that, as opposed to STILL MORE tax cuts for the rich, anti-abortion laws, gutting renewable energy development and other utterly performative BS? And oh yeah, they were OVERWHELMINGLY the political party that benefitted from that little incident on January 6th (which was a lot more thought out than originally believed, people – we were closer to losing our democracy than we knew at the time).

And do you SERIOUSLY think they WON’T try to finish the job and install Our Treasonous Orange Pustule or someone else from that foul, hateful circle as Dear Leader once and for all, completely gutting our democratic institutions in the process?

I’m more than a little disgusted with the conventional wisdom that 2022 is going to be an electoral bloodbath for the Dems. Yes, there’s a lot that could look a whole lot better and there are worrisome signs to be sure (particularly the wave of Republican-sponsored bills in statehouses across this country to approve more ridiculous gerrymandering, which would be undone by the For The People Act, which Manchinema continue to block), BUT FOR GOD’S SAKE, CAN WE PLEASE TRY TO REMEMBER WHICH POLITICAL PARTY IS OVERWHELMINGLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS THOROUGHLY PUTRID STATE OF AFFAIRS???!!!

Are you mad at Democrats? Good! Then for the love of God, make sure you remain angry at the bad ones only (as opposed to the many, many good ones) and DON’T VOTE FOR REPUBLICANS! Elect MORE Democrats to negate the bad ones blocking what matters!...



...and speaking of Republicans and performative BS, Farron Cousins tells us about RoJo getting his YouTube account suspended for spreading more COVID-related lies about the vaccine...



...and David Pakman tells us about the latest grift from Bari Weiss and some other bad actors, something called the University of Austin, which apparently isn’t accredited and doesn’t offer degrees – in addition to Weiss, yeah, David Mamet, Larry Summers, and Tyler Cowen are involved, among others – and sorry David, but I definitely disagree with you on Cowen – yeah, my “griftometer” is going nuts too...



...and Chris Hayes tells us about Alex Jones losing all of his lawsuits against the Sandy Hook families – couldn’t happen to a more deserving guttersnipe (and can you imagine how rancid the docs are that he was required to turn over, but instead decided not to and accept the default judgment against him?)...



...and I thought this tune had a cool groove with a pretty minimal sound – nicely done.