This Democracy Now! clip is a little under five months old, but it tells the story of a certain Democratic U.S. senator from West Virginia and his role in basically not doing a damn thing when drug maker Viatris shed a whole bunch of jobs in Morgantown (and yeah, if you want to blame a certain 46th president also named Joe for not doing more, be my guest...just a reminder that Viatris was formed by the merger of Pfizer and Mylan, with the latter being the previous company at the Morgantown plant) ...yeah, I know politicians have limited options, BUT AT LEAST MAKE SOME DAMN NOISE ABOUT IT, PEOPLE! (revealing anecdote about Heather Bresch – I’ve never heard of anybody getting their MBA basically getting taken back – also, an interesting note about how the pharma plant in Tennessee for another company managed to get saved, by an Australian who apparently knows our laws better than our politicians do...and it looks like Gail Manchin, Joe’s wife, is in on the grift too...EVERYTHING about Manchin should be fair game now in light of killing BBB)...
...and Ali Velshi speaks with Juanita Tolliver and Matthew Dowd about the 1/6 Commission taking a long, hard look at the thoroughly odious U.S. House wingnut Scott Perry from our beloved commonwealth of PA (a completely predictable update is here)...
...and it’s time to arrest that POS Jesse Watters for calling for somebody to kill Dr. Fauci – enough of this shit; David Shuster tells us more...I've read people I respect saying that, though they despise Watters, they think he was only speaking metaphorically - uh huh...let me know when AOC takes the stage at a progressive gathering, for example, calls for a "kill shot" against Mehmet ("CALL ME DOCTOR, DAMMIT!") Oz, and the wingnuts extend us a courtesy like that, OK?... ...
...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 12/21/16, with Chris Hayes telling us about Debo Adegbile, who was previously nominated by the Obama Administration to serve as the Assistant Attorney General for the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, but he fell short of U.S. Senate confirmation when he didn’t receive the 7 Democratic votes mentioned in the clip, including one from a certain senator from West Virginia referred to previously; yes, Mumia Abu-Jamal should be worm food as far as I’m concerned, but even he is entitled to a vigorous defense, and my big issue with him are the facts at trial, not what happened during the penalty phase (where Adegbile successfully made his case that the jury was prejudiced against Abu-Jamal)...
...and here are more seasonal selections.
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