Saturday, October 29, 2022

Saturday Stuff


Gee, I can’t possibly imagine why some deranged person would get so upset with Nancy Pelosi that they would invade the home of her and her husband (allegedly...don’t want to say anything to prejudice the trial of this lowlife) and allegedly smack Paul Pelosi in the head with a hammer to the point where he needs brain surgery before the attacker was apprehended by police...I mean, it’s soooo out of character for the calm and deliberate state of our politics, isn’t it? (#sarcasm).

And by the way, I’ve seen a smattering of Republicans out there criticizing the attack, which is meeting a very low bar as far as I’m concerned (and mostly from candidates running for re-election where I guess they think they need independent voters, and that’s why they’re acting sane in this instance). Well, until you’re ready to smack down the guy who, despite it all, is STILL the leader of your party for his own repeated threats of violence, you can spare me your faux indignation (story with Katy Tur is in this clip - more here, here, here and here...and yeah, this sure figures, doesn't it?)...



Update 1: Maybe this explains why Watters acts like he lacks an adequate brain capacity.

Update 2: And add this and this to the sordid mix also.

...and Rachel Maddow discusses the scammy robocall in Detroit about mail-in voting involving Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman (here), which would actually be hilariously bad if it weren’t for the potential consequences (giving your information “to the man”? I don’t think I’ve heard that expression since I saw my last “blaxploitation” flick in the ‘70s...also includes a follow-up to the “Clean Elections USA” garbage in Arizona; a disgusting update involving a Trumpster judge is here)...



...and Ben Carollo shows us Dem U.S. House Rep Katie Porter using her white board once again to show how we’re getting utterly price-gouged in this country (more from Porter is here)...



...and Thom Hartmann reminds us that corporations aren’t people (more on the Santa Clara County scam ruling in 1886 about corporations and the lying headnote from John Bancroft Davis is documented in Adam Winkler’s great book “We The Corporations”) and the Repugs having NO PLAN for ANYTHING despite all of their screeching about inflation; actually, they could end inflation by utterly crashing the economy, again, as Thom notes, which would be far worse than anything we’re dealing with now...



...and Ana and Cenk of TYT let us know that Rojo (running for another term as Wisconsin’s U.S. Senatorial Republican mistake) apparently doesn’t understand our economy and the aforementioned role of price gouging...GREAT analysis on the impact of corporations and their rapacious efforts to bleed us dry in this country - to help Johnson's Dem opponent Mandela Barnes, click here...



...and let’s all bid farewell to “The Killer,” Jerry Lee Lewis (here)...speaking of books, this fine work tells us how Sam Phillips founded Sun Records and sold the rights of Elvis Presley to RCA and Colonel Tom Parker (which Phillips always defended, for what it’s worth), and it also tells us that Phillips basically started promoting Lewis as the next big “find” after Elvis, and everything was going great until Lewis married his cousin, which basically set his career on fire, and not in a good way...RIP.

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