Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Wednesday Stuff


Sam and Emma of The Majority Report talk about Dem U.S. Senator Dick Durbin giving Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson a chance to respond to that beyond ridiculous tweet thread from Josh Hawley that he vomited out alleging the Repug evergreen charge that the judge is somehow “soft on crime”...GREAT point to contrast the way Judge Jackson is being treated with the antics of “I Like Beer” Kavanaugh...and here is my reminder that this DEFINITELY WOULD NOT EVEN BE HAPPENING if it weren’t for the people of Georgia who voted out their Republican senators, which of course is why the “party of Lincoln” is working soooo hard to take away the franchise from voters who would use it to make a difference, in a good way I mean...



..and Chris Hayes speaks with Elie Mystal and Melissa Murray on the nonsensical GOP line of questioning/attacks on Judge Brown Jackson (including Cancun Cruz and that kids’s pop-up book, or whatever that idiocy was)...



Update 3/31/22: Yeah, you go for it on Judge Brown Jackson, wingnuts - the country is united behind you in opposition...suuuure (here).

...and isn’t it funny how the “party of Lincoln” is so up in arms when they think kids are getting indoctrinated into an ideology the wingnuts don’t like, but are so willing to do it to further their own agenda (yeah I know – water wet, sky blue...)...



...and on the subject of the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine, Mehdi Hasan calls out media bias here in favor of MOOAAARRR WAAAARRRR...this is a little tricky because, though I think there is a pro-war bias on “the cables,” I’m not sure that there are good peaceful options with Vlad The Butcher, though believe me when I tell you that I want to be wrong (good job by David Doel to bring up the Phil Donahue MSNBC garbage while Bushco was ramping up for Iraq War II in ’03...that network hated liberals/progressives until they started making $$$ off K.O., Rachel Maddow, etc.)...



...and in a related vein, David Pakman discusses the recent beyond-bonkers Lara Logan interview spouting pro-Putin apologia basically (wacky for all of the reasons Pakman notes here...yes, I think Logan needs help and what happened to her was awful, but that doesn’t excuse such through-the-looking-glass commentary)...



...and Farron Cousins tells us that Repugs have filed about 240 anti-LGBTQ bills so far in under 3 months (and 670 since 2018...as usual, it’s “jobs, jobs, jobs” for Not Your Father’s Republican Party...and yes, this is nothing but a ploy to drive 2022 turnout later this year as Cousins says, and if a few trans kids get harmed in the process later...well, that’s just a big “meh” as far the “R” party is concerned...more here)...



...and some Daily Wire idiot calls out Greta Thunberg on Tucker’s Fox Nation show in this clip, blaming Thunberg’s Asperger’s condition for her climate activism (with Ana and Cenk...awesome for Ana to “follow the money”...yeah, such big strong “men” to attack a teenage girl...what LARPing soy sad sack clowns Tuckums and this other numbskull both are)...



...and speaking of the water and the environment, yesterday was World Water Day (hat tip to our awesome PA state rep Perry Warren for that piece of info...made me recall this tune).

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