Farron Cousins tells us that Repug U.S. Senator Tom Cotton has been bitching about the so-called “first step” act allegedly leading to more crime and how awful the Dems are for supposedly creating it, when in reality it was signed into law by Generalissimo Trump with the Repugs in control of Congress...and I have to admit that I don’t know what a “slap chop” is, but yeah, it’s pretty damning that these “criminals” are stealing milk, baby formula, diapers, etc. – tell me one more time about “American exceptionalism,” OK?...
...and Richard Ojeda of Rebel HQ tells us about the Trumper Marine Corps reservist (!) making fake COVID vaccination cards (more here)...you know, I’m going to “back up” just a bit here and point out that, many, many moons ago when I started this blog thing for better or worse, my goal was to promote informed dialogue across the political spectrum...try not to laugh too hard, OK? However, that has morphed into cataloging the utter insanity of the other side almost non-stop...and yes, I am aware of that, though I’ll foreshadow things a bit here and say that there was a bit of a misstep recently from Team D that I’ll discuss shortly...
...and I can’t tell you how depressing it is to learn about what’s been going on with the Hershey corporation because I have so many happy memories associated with Hershey, Pa. while I was growing up; this More Perfect Union video gets into the thoroughly obnoxious details (yeah, yet another CEO blathering on a Zoom call about how great her workforce is, when in reality she’s treating them like dog crap)...
...and Emma Vigeland of The Majority Report tells us more about the “misstep” I referred to earlier, and that is Dem U.S. Senator Bob Menendez saying that New Jersey is a “maker” state and PA is a “moocher” one...ummm, I’m pretty sure that, as they note in the clip, Menendex was taking a shot at “No Corporate Tax” Pat Toomey (who can’t be gone from the Senate soon enough), but see, here’s the problem...we have an election coming up for Toomey’s happily-soon-to-be-vacant seat, and we don’t need Menendez putting his foot in it and amping things up for the other side and hurting Dem turnout...quite simply, along with Di-Fi, Menendez needs to announce his retirement...the only reason he's still in the Senate is because the Repugs ran the utterly awful Bob Hugin against him last time, and I’m afraid they won’t make that mistake again (and Vigeland sure is right about NJ and pharma...NSFW/H at the very end)...
...and Alex Wagner, sitting in for Rachel Maddow, talks to media critic David Folkenflik about The Swanson TV Dinner Heir’s bromance with Our Former Ol’ Buddy Vlad Putin (and the subsequent effect of Republican political candidates in primary contests who apparently are tripping over themselves to curry Carlson’s favor – hard to truly describe how utterly disgusting this is, especially given the powder keg that Ukraine has turned into and the threat of more military madness from the crazed Russian calling the shots)...
...and I have a bit of a melancholy two-fer; first, RIP Gary Brooker of Procal Harum (here), and also, RIP Martha’s Vineyard mainstay Everett Poole (here)...never truly a visit to the island without stopping by Mr. Poole’s chandlery in Menemsha...his shop hours were pretty much whenever you saw the Ford pickup in the driveway, and to say he’d earned the right to call his own shots is an understatement...I can think of no more apt tune for these occasions than this one...fair winds and following seas.
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