Friday Stuff

It appears that additional body cam footage was recently released in the trial of Ofc. Derek Chauvin concerning the death of George Floyd, which makes it look even more like Floyd was executed, but I don’t want to say anything prejudicial – innocent until proven guilty and all that; John I. discusses with some really good commentary from Charles F. Coleman Jr...



...and I was tempted to totally ignore this week’s death of Watergate criminal G. Gordon Liddy because I didn’t want to give him any more attention than he deserved, but then I came across this 2009 clip of Cenk Uygur talking about Liddy’s despicable reaction to this (forgot Liddy was a conservative media loudmouth for a time also)...



...and Ana and Aida R. of TYT discuss “vaccine passports,” so of course that utter loon Marjorie Taylor Greene lost what’s left of her mind over it (which the EU apparently uses also based on this)...



...and the prior clip alluded to Amazon’s abysmal work practices (and the next clip does too, truth be told), and this from David Doel is in a similar theme about Amazon using fake online accounts to talk about how allegedly wonderful they are (luckily, as smart as Jeff Bezos is about becoming a gazillionaire, he’s apparently pretty dumb when it comes to this stuff)...



...and Kyle Kulinski tells us about Stuart Varney wanting Bezos to conduct a smear campaign against Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren (figures...don’t often agree with Kyle a lot these days, but he’s right about the WaPo going after Bernie...not sure why Varney doesn’t get pilloried in quite the same way as Ingraham, Sean Inanity and The Swanson TV Dinner Heir; maybe it’s because he’s on TV earlier in the day and he has an English accent – mildly NSFW/H)...



...and speaking of plutocrats, Robert Reich tells us about all the ways we can tax the rich and begin to address the whole host of issues we face as a nation...



...and I know The Lincoln Project has gotten a lot of press along the lines of “oh, those people are typical Republicans except they oppose Trump...what can you expect them to be but grifters also?” and there may be more than a bit of truth there, but as I’ve said a few times, they keep making good ads, including this one about all the Repug voter suppression garbage out there, with a focus this time in Michigan (this is the best response)...



...and it looks like Paul Simon is now the latest member in the “I sold my catalog to a multinational entertainment corporation for a stupid amount of $$” club (here); not saying he doesn’t have the right to do that, but I can’t help but be a little disappointed (I hope he took care of Art Garfunkel).

Thursday Stuff

Ana and John I. talk about Trumpers “dunking” on Matt Gaetz given the recent legal issues of “Florida Man” Jr. (not surprising, since there is truly no honor among thieves and lowlifes...interesting to speculate whether or not there is actual substance to the dislike of Gaetz or it’s just a personality thing as Ana notes...and in case you think the pic is harsh, remember this)...



Update: Glub, glub, glub...

Update 4/2/21: What a pig - beyond disgusting (here).

...and Rachel Maddow speaks with the NAACP’s Sherrilyn Ifill on Coke and Delta speaking out against GA voting laws (and great idea to use that as leverage to try and get them to support the For The People Act)...



...and turning from the legislative to the judiciary, Lawrence O’Donnell interviews Dahlia Lithwick and Prof. Allison Harris of Yale about President Biden’s federal court nominees and the pressure on SCOTUS justice Stephen Breyer to step down (which probably would be a good idea as things stand now)...



...and Beau of the Fifth Column tells us about Trump getting sued by Capitol police officers for 1/6 (good advice to be mindful and continue watching all of the lunatics out there who, as Beau says, want to undermine what this country stands for...and yeah, not that I care a lot about messaging to other Republicans, but he’s also right that they need to watch out too)...



...and speaking of lawsuits, Farron Cousins tells us about Dominion and whether or not they decide to sue Mango Mussolini for the 1/6 insurrection (as Cousins says, it sounds pretty much like a slam dunk to me too – don’t know what else there is to think about)...



...and Marvin Gaye was shot to death 37 years ago today.

Wednesday Stuff

Normally I guess it’s wrong to take pleasure from someone else’s misfortune, but in the case of Repug U.S. House Rep (and big-headed white guy) Matt Gaetz, it is kind of amusing to see him flopping around like a carp in the sun freshly dumped into a fishing boat (yeah, try falling back on your presumed privilege when all else fails, you knucklehead – and I’m not trying to trivialize his alleged conduct with the underaged girl here, which of course is completely serious and should be treated as such...Ana and Aida R. tell us more)...



Update: Too funny.

...and Rachel Maddow brings us the recording of the Koch flunky explaining to his puppet masters that, gee, I’m sooo sorry, but it turns out that the people of this country DON’T WANT plutocrats like Chucky Koch laying waste to our government and way of life so he can get whatever the hell he wants (recording from Jane Mayer of The New Yorker...this has to do with the John Lewis “For The People” Act in the Senate)...

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...and gosh, color me shocked – it looks like Dem U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema’s approval rating has taken a total nose dive...I can’t imagine why (removing my tongue from my cheek...David Doel explains...and by the way, I know it’s taken as gospel, you might say, in some lefty circles that Biden/Harris didn’t push hard enough for the $15-an-hour minimum wage to get Sinema and Manchin to move on it, but as far as I can tell, that is all supposition at this point that has yet to be proven, and it may never be)...



...and Emma of The Majority Report tells us about idiot Repug U.S. House Rep John Joyce of our beloved commonwealth of PA going on Dana Perino’s Fix Noise show to unveil a law to protect Dr. Seuss, apparently; yeah, taxpayer dollars won’t go to states that ban books (I’m sure that somewhere, in the great beyond, Mr. Geisel is laughing his ass off over this...you can cut the stoo-pid here with a knife, just about).

Seriously, though – I’m trying to unpackage Joyce’s idiocy here (probably spending more time on this that it deserves)...sooo, he’s ostensibly opposing “cancel culture,” but by denying federal funds to libraries that make a decision to take books off the shelves for whatever reason, to say nothing of the Seuss estate and the publisher who also quite rightly have a hand in this, isn’t he “cancelling” the libraries too? NSFW/H (And I think the show they were trying to think of was “The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy” – and yeah, that show was pretty “woke” for a kids program, and don’t ask me how I know that.)...



...and Thom Hartmann tells us that, according to a study form The Brookings Institution, 400K Americans would still be alive if Trump had given a crap about COVID (and spare me about “Operation Warp Speed”...all good questions at the end by Thom, and I don’t have a clue as to an answer)...



...and yesterday marked what would have been the 71st birthday of guitarist Dave Ball of Procol Harum (never realized just how dark a song this was until I paid attention to the lyrics).

Tuesday Stuff

Farron Cousins tells us that the ARP was written in such a way that you can’t put $$ in the general fund of a state or commonwealth to cut taxes, so OF COURSE 21 Republican legislatures are SUING over it...as actor Bradley Whitford said forever ago about the Repugs, tax cuts are their Jesus...



...and speaking of idiotic Republican state legislatures, Rachel Maddow tells us how those culprits in Missouri are trying to block Medicaid expansion...



...and MSNBC’s Alex Wagner speaks with Jacob Soboroff on Dems and Repugs at our southwest border and who is trying to do some good and who is looking for photo-ops (yeah, I’m sure you know who’s who on that score, right?)...



...and speaking of illegal immigration, it looks like Repug Montana U.S. Senator Steve Daines recently lamented over homegrown meth, apparently, versus what is coming over the border (is Daines a subject matter expert here, I wonder? Mildly NSFW from David Doel – paging Walter White)...



...and I don’t know much about Dr. Naomi Wolf, but it looks like she got owned on Twitter by Ken Klippenstein for trying to spread some anti-COVID-vax nonsense (John I. and Francesca explain)...



...and today marks the 40th anniversary of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan and the shooting of three others, including Press Secretary James Brady, by John Hinckley, Jr. (here - I realize Hinckley used a .22-caliber revolver and not a .38 which this tune is about, which is fortunate – sorry anyone was shot at all, but all four people probably would have been killed – but even though I know I’ve been overdoing it with the gun songs, I thought the occasion called for this one...and speaking of guns, there is this).