Wednesday Stuff

Apparently, Mehmet (“CALL ME DOCTOR, DAMMIT!”) Oz got a little weird in the supermarket produce aisle recently while he tried to complete a veggie tray for the missus, as David Doel tells us (very mildly NSFW/H...and yes, I can verify the fact that there indeed is a Redner’s or a Wegman’s... a few, actually...but definitely NOT a Wegner’s, and who the hell goes shopping without a basket or a cart, as somebody on Twitter correctly pointed out...to help John Fetterman, click here)...



...but the big story yesterday on Action News, you might say, was President Biden signing into law the infrastructure reconciliation bill – I’m presenting Biden’s words on this from CNN (rightfully calling out the Repugs...and yeah, a lot was made over Biden giving the pen to Manchin that he used to sign the law, which I interpret as an “FU, we got this done anyway in spite of you” gesture).

(I started to watch the TYT clip on this, but I turned it off...there are plenty of other reasons to bitch about Biden and corporate Democrats and plenty of other occasions for that which are justified...but as far as I’m concerned, not today. Yes, this bill falls short in a lot of ways, but IT ALSO DOES A HELL OF A LOT TOWARDS INVESTING IN RENEWABLE ENERGY AND OTHER GOALS! And let's not forget that, if ONE U.S. SENATE SEAT had gone to the Repugs instead, there is no way any of this would have happened)...

Also (In a totally predictable development), Liz Cheney lost her U.S. House seat in a Wyoming primary congressional election yesterday (meaning that she’ll serve out her term and that will be it of course). And yes, Cheney stood up against Our Ochre Abomination and deserves credit for that, but she was a wackadoodle Repug IN EVERY OTHER WAY. And what does it tell you about what a bunch of gun-humping Trumpist maniacs her party is now that EVEN SHE was no longer crazy enough for them?

...and returning to the “party of Lincoln” and CNN once more, Brianna Keilar interviews Repug U.S. House Rep Mike Turner about AG Merrick Garland’s investigation into Combover Caligula’s abuse of secret documents (probably related to nukes) by sneaking them off to Mar-a-Lago (and yeah, as always, the deflection and obfuscation is the point, and I say that with all of the “BUT HER EMAILS!” BS in mind...Brian Tyler Cohen gives us his well-founded analysis)...



...and don’t look now, but It seems that Lauren Boebert’s husband ran over the mailbox of his neighbor...family values – riiiight! (and yeah, good point about how every little thing Paul Pelosi, Speaker Nancy’s husband of course, allegedly did or didn’t do should now be under a microscope, but Boebert’s nematode husband gets to keep this “on the QT” somehow, except for this video of course...John and Francesca of The Damage Report tell us more)...



...and I’m not sure who this caller is on The Majority Report, but she makes a lot of sense on the issue of the wingnuts on the SCOTUS overturning Roe and why their foot soldiers are so quiet about it (with Sam and Emma)...I detest these people (the zealots behind overturning Roe I mean), but they know how to play “the long game,” and our side needs to learn that too (and I feel like I need to communicate this utterly sickening related development)...



...and I'm in the mood for a summer tune for yet another sunny day in these parts - this should suffice.