Saturday, March 05, 2022

Saturday Stuff

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#Happy Curtsy Day! Yeah, today marks the one-year anniversary of this incredibly tone-deaf action from Arizona’s U.S. senatorial mistake (here)...

...and David Doel discusses Elie Mystal’s appearance on The View partly in response to Biden’s State of the Union address (and yeah, this is another example of Dems having to try and educate voters and not fall into the conservative BS narratives related to the most newsworthy issues...we actually used to have the Constitution amended on a fairly frequent basis until the ruinous right-wing ascendancy pretty much captured our government...and I have a feeling that tweet from Michael Ian Black was meant to be tongue-in-cheek)...



...and John and Viviana Vigil of The Damage Report tell us about Texas and Greg Abbott going after parents of trans kids, saying that those kids receiving gender-affirming treatment are victims of child abuse (but oh, the Repugs are against “big gumint”...yeah, tell me another one...the ACLU is fighting back to their credit)...



...and with all of the stories out there on corporate pricing driving inflation as noted here (and the “I” word, by the way, is an issue all over the world as we get restarted post-COVID...and hopefully we’re done with variants), I thought it would be a good idea to bring us a bit of a history lesson; President Kennedy spoke out against U.S. Steel when they pulled a similar trick just about 60 years ago as noted in this clip (sorry the video quality is a little off - more here)...



Update 3/6/22: Uh huh (and more here).


...and Chris Hayes brings us a history lesson on how we got to where we currently are regarding Russia’s incursion into Ukraine, including the three “prongs,” if you will, from Putin that he was able to apply successfully (including the not-insignificant role played by Paul Manafort and his own odious political history)...



...and the German network DW brings us “Conflict Zone” with Sarah Kelly, on the matter of Vlad The Butcher potentially extending his deadly incursion from Ukraine to Poland and the Baltic states (with Latvian Defense Minister Artis Pabriks)...



...and while Vlad The Butcher continues waging war, this tune has remained very much on my mind (for this reason also - more here).

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