Saturday, March 26, 2022

Saturday Stuff (updates)


(Thanks to @JamesTate121 on Twitter for the pic.)

David Doel tells us all about the reporting (I hesitate to use the word “bombshell,” but in this case I think it applies) on Ginni Thomas texting Mark Meadows to overturn the election and potentially imprison Joe Biden off GITMO (which is turning the cray-cray meter up to 11 as far as yours truly is concerned)...as a result, congressional Dems should look at EVERY RULING affecting the Trump White House in which Almost Silent Clarence Thomas was involved and, if there’s enough of a body of evidence in which Thomas sided with the Gropenfuhrer, call for Thomas’s impeachment on grounds of conflict of interest (and yeah, I know what the realistic probability is of that actually happening...and once more, Ilhan Omar shows some guts on a vitally important issue)...



Update 3/28/22: Another GREAT history lesson from Thom Hartmann very much related to this matter (here)...

Update 3/29/22: If Abe Fortas could be driven from the High Court over an alleged financial impropriety in the amount of $15K, then Thomas should get the same treatment for this.

...and John and Adrienne Lawrence discuss AOC calling out #MaseratiManchin and the Dems and others who coddle him (good luck not flying into the air and landing on your back after you try kicking the football but miss because it’s yanked away from you, John...and I'm not going to trust Manchin to vote Yes on confirming Ketanji Brown Jackson to the SCOTUS either until Manchin actually does it)...



...and Ana of TYT wonders (along with a hell of a lot of other people) why Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg dropped charges against Former President Fergus Laing, who is guilty of multiple felonies according to a Manhattan prosecutor under Bragg who resigned (Ana killing it going solo again)...



...and longtime climate activist Bill McKibben tells us what’s really going on with higher gas prices (really interesting stuff about the smarmy relationship between Putin and international dirty energy industry executives; these people are irredeemable scum IMO, particularly for their ridiculous stock buybacks and refusal to lower gas prices and drill on leases that have already been approved, but I wouldn’t go so far as McKibben seems to do here and blame these criminals for the war in UIkraine...that’s on Vlad the Butcher and nobody else)...



...and the latest Second Thought video tells us how fascists are taking advantage of climate change...among the many great points in this clip is the discussion of the intersection of eco-fascism by people like Marine Le Pen (“yeah, I’m ‘green’ all right, but that means that I want to keep out the scary ‘other’ to maintain my imaginary environmental ‘cred’”) and eco-nationalism (“Build That Wall”) – the last 4 minutes or so of this about the failure of neoliberalism to respond to the climate crisis should be viewed by everyone and used as an excuse to try and effect meaningful political change, as admittedly hard as that is...



...and happy belated 75th birthday to Reginald Kenneth Dwight – hope it was a good one ("Rocketman" was a terrific biopic, by the way).

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