Friday Stuff

(Next week might be a little dicey for posting...I don’t completely know yet.)

I realize The Lincoln Project probably can’t come right out and tell people to vote for Democrats because that might have certain implications for their fundraising, but I wish they would...this NSFW/H clip reminds us of what led up to the completely treasonous exercise on January 6th, 2021 (and after these hearings from the 1/6 commission are finished, #45 and Ginni Thomas, among others, should be arrested and “perp walked” in front of the Capitol building for everyone to see...and others smarter than your humble narrator have pointed out how tragic and disgusting it would be if the voters of this country returned these cretins to power because they were irritated over a shortage of baby formula or having to pay a few cents extra for a gallon of gas, with legislation to combat both of these issues fought tooth-and-nail by Republicans...I think this is a related cautionary message...this is hopefuly anyway)...

And by the way, I disagree with Liz Cheney easily about 96-97 percent of the time, but she's really "on the beam" here (and, as noted previously, will likely be voted out of office for it, though I'd love to be wrong)...



...and Trae Crowder, the “Liberal Redneck,” tells us that the people who REALLY need to watch the hearings are the one who likely will choose to ingest more propaganda from The Roger Ailes BS Factory instead (also NSFW/H...and yeah, I think “chimpanzees” is about right...and yeah, isn't this just too precious?)...



...and yes, going after “I Like Beer” Kavanaugh and his family is bad for all of the reasons Cenk points out here (and call me crazy, but based on the description, this character doesn’t sound like a “lib” to me), but it speaks volumes of course that that death eater Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao jumped to it to help Kavanaugh but of course won’t do a damn thing in the matter of gun carnage affecting the non-elites...



...and sticking with guns, David Doel does a little “compare and contrast” with U.S. House Democrats and Republicans (mildly NSFW/H...Raskin v. Gohmert, Porter v. Scalise, and AOC v. MTG...and yeah, that Texas numbskull gave up his seat to run for attorney general of that state and lost, so he’ll be completely out of politics as far as I know in a few months...womp womp...I know the Katie Porter clip is a bit of a repeat, but that definitely works for me)...



...and kudos to 13-yearold Naiara Tamminga for giving it here to a Grand Rapids, MI city commission board over the extra-judicial killing of Patrick Lyoya, who emigrated to the U.S. from the Republic of Congo to escape violence in that country (according to Lyoya’s father)...the irony here is disgusting beyond belief of course (more here)...



...and I just need something to help me decompress heading into the weekend – hope you're able to enjoy some time off also.

Thursday Stuff

Chris Hayes gives us a bit of an overview of tonight’s prime time January 6th Committee hearings in the U.S. House, along with reminding us why Fix Noise doesn’t want to go anywhere near these hearings with the proverbial 10-foot pole, in no small part because their prime time personalities were involved in correspondence with the Trump White House while the insurrection took place...intersting historical context with the Watergate and Army-McCarthy hearings...

...and John of The Damage Report speaks with Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works, linking the “great replacement” BS from Fix Noise with the gun carnage from Anders Breivik and Christchurch in New Zealand (unfortunately, with the epidemic of gun violence, it isn't hard to forget what happned in Buffalo, though we shouldn't of course, and I include myself when I say that)...



...and when it comes to justifying the existence of AR-15 assault rifles for civilian use, the latest excuse from South Dakota Republican U.S. Senator John Thune is particularly ridiculous (Thune said they should be used for hunting prairie dogs...sorry if this sounds mean, but if it’s a choice between a prairie dog and a child, the prairie dog loses)...



...and Brian Tyler Cohen brings us another clip of Katie Porter giving it to some deserving flak for another corrupt industry, this one being the gun manufacturers of course, in the matter of the total lack of liability protection when comparing guns to just about any other product that could hurt or kill us...



...and David Doel tells us about the ads from John Fetterman pretty much introducing himself to us for the general election for the U.S. Senate seat from our beloved commonwealth, taking some veiled shots at Mehmet (“CALL ME DOCTOR, DAMMIT!”) Oz, who apparently is trying to vote in both NJ and PA as noted here, from the party that screeches the loudest about “voter fraud” (mildly NSFW/H...and yeah, I can relate about raising a young child...all the best)...



...and happy belated 80th birthday to Chuck Negron of Three Dog Night; this tune goes out to everyone who opposes the 1/6 Commission and still claims to love this country.

Wednesday Stuff (updates)

Brian Tyler Cohen talks about the recent White House speech by actor (and Uvalde, TX resident) Matthew McConaughey about trying to get “the world’s greatest deliberative body” to pull its goddamn thumb out and FREAKING DO SOMETHING! about guns...and yes, I’m blaming Not Your Father’s Republican Party for all the reasons Cohen points out (and apparently some Newsmax idiot asked if it was a stunt, as noted here...typical for those guttersnipes)...



Update 1: Call me crazy, but I didn't have "wingnuts blame smartphones for mass gun slaughter of children" on my bingo card (here).

Update 2: After reading this, I have to admit that I’m pretty goddamn furious at Jon Tester.

So Tester doesn’t think that now is the right time to talk about raising the age to buy a military-grade assault rifle, though (about a sentence or two after his makes that idiotic claim), he also says, “The problem is not going to go away.”

No shit, Sherlock!

Tester (along with former Montana Gov. Steve Bullock) are reliably some of the first people to whine about “the Dems writing off rural voters.” Yes, the Dems do indeed have some work to do on that score (and for the zillionth time, paging @harrisonjaime), but what is INFINITELY more destructive to Dem turnout is people like Tester utterly caving on issues where there is a broad consensus of support (to get an idea of the work that Tester’s state needs to do on this urgent issue, please click here). Of course, Tester and Bullock will be the first to blame “the squad” when there’s a whiff of a negative opinion in our media against Democrats, when those two have done more than their part to completely turn off Democratic voters.

And Tester is hardly a first offender when it comes to bailing on issues that the Dems could use to build a broad consensus of support. As noted here, Tester was one of the turncoats who shot down the $15-an-hour federal minimum wage.

I agree with “Curtsy Kyrsten” on virtually nothing, but she once said that there were Democrats hiding behind her skirt, or words to that effect, when it comes to torpedoing popular bills in the Senate. I think, in the manner of a stopped clock being right twice a day, Sinema was correct. She was talking about Coons and Carper for sure, and maybe even Maggie Hassan. But I KNOW she was talking about Tester too.

...and speaking of media idiots (in the prior clip), Sam and Emma point out that we recently observed the 19th anniversary of “Suck On This” day from The Moustache of Understanding (here), tying back to Tom Friedman’s latest whining about Biden’s alleged bloated spending or whatever, which is even more ridiculous given what happened to BBB...yeah, I have a feeling that that will be the corporate media narrative heading into the fall, cheered on by treasonous Republican insurrectionists, that we’re dealing with inflation because that commie socialist Sleepy Joe Biden gave way too much money to “the poors” as part of COVID relief, with our fourth estate frauds betting that people (including allegedly oh-so-august-in-their-imaginations independent voters) will completely forget that THE CHOICE AT THE TIME WAS TO STAY HOME AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR KIDS OR GO TO A JOB WHERE YOU WOULD LIKELY DIE FROM COVID B/C WE WERE FULLY IN THE MIDDLE OF A WAVE OF CONTAGION!

Will that be a winning bet? God, I hope not, but we’ll see (and kudos to Sam for giving Friedman a dose of his own medicine, as it were)...



...and Thom Hartmann reminds us of the total scam that, in fact, is Medicare Advantage (sooo, apparently based on the report Thom discusses, M.A. will deny 1/4 of the recommended procedures, therapies, etc. from your health care provider...what a bunch of f*cking criminals, and I’m definitely not talking about the provider...and good job by Thom to remind us that M.A. was spawned under Former President Highest Disapproval Rating In Gallup Poll History)...



...and Farron Cousins tells us about this Blake Masters idiot in Arizona (here), who basically said the quiet part out loud and straight up blamed African Americans for gun violence; Masters might as well be wearing a white hood (and I just want to say THANK YOU to Cousins for somebody FINALLY refuting that utter BS wingnut talking point that Chicago is somehow the epicenter of all gun violence in this country...yeah, that city has issues, but primarily from guns brought in from Indiana, which, last I checked, had a Republican governor)...



...and this More Perfect Union clip tells us about Starbucks workers facing reprisals for their union-related activities (yep, Howard Schultz is just another corporatist tool as noted here, but we knew that of course)...



...and RIP James Seals – I might have included this tune regardless of the season since it’s probably more closely identified with Seals and Crofts than any other.

Tuesday Stuff

This CBS News report features Uvalde, TX mom Angeli Gomez speaking with reporter Lilia Luciano; Gomez showed incredible bravery running into the school to save her two kids, despite the very WORST efforts of the beyond-useless Uvalde, TX cops (and threatened with a probation violation as noted here - Judas H. Priest)...



...and speaking of Cops Behaving Very Badly, John and Francesca of The Damage Report tell us about two Arizona officers who (allegedly) watched a man drown and did nothing in response...yeah, I think “glorified bouncers for society” is a spot-on take (more here)...



...and sticking with the theme of law enforcement, Farron Cousins tells us that Fix Noise news mannequin Rachel Campos-Duffy encouraged a friend of hers to illegally cross the southern U.S. border (again, “allegedly,” and of course it was to try and make President Biden look bad, as indeed is the goal of EVERYTHING from that trash network)...



...and Jayar, Cenk and Amy Vilela of TYT tell us about the wingnuts flipping out at Pizza Hut for encouraging reading LGBTQ-pride-themed books – still never an excuse to buy franchise pizza as far as I’m concerned, but I’d definitely make Pizza Hut an exception for this (interesting take by Cenk on the projection going on here too; I definitely tend to believe that)...



...and I apologize for finding out about this video a little late...I was wondering if ANYBODY was going to hold our world leaders to account for sucking up to Our Former Ol’ Buddy Vlad Putin, and this New York Times clip from about a couple of weeks ago does exactly that...hard to properly describe the unbelievable failure of world leadership on this score...there were plenty of warnings that were completely ignored...



Update 10/7/22: And I apologize for neglecting this heroic journalist who was murdered on Putin's birthday (wink, wink)...I know 5 were convicted in her killing as noted here, and 2 of the 5 ended up receiving life sentences.

...and this tune was No. 1 on the hit parade for WXYZ in Detroit 56 years ago yesterday as noted here.

Monday Stuff

Ana and Cenk of TYT bring us a survey indicating that 51 percent favor arming teachers while 37 percent oppose...I’d like to know more about the sampling of this poll and how the questions were worded, though sadly this may be legit...God, I hope not (and this poll once more confirms my belief that, overwhelmingly, independent voters are goddamn idiots, and yes, I agree with the assessment that more – how can I put this? – strident Dem messaging is missing as usual, and that indeed is feeding a perception of “Screw it, let’s do something” regardless of how dumb it may be...however, I think it’s pretty crappy for Cenk to take shots, if you will, at Chris Murphy...HE DOESN’T HAVE ANY GODDAMN LEVERAGE! WHAT THE HELL ELSE DO YOU EXPECT HIM TO DO??!!)...



...and yeah, as far as the “party of Lincoln” is concerned, let’s just let our teachers and kids be sacrificial lambs, if you will, to the altar of “GUNS, GUNS, GUNS” (and how apropos to end the clip with that death eater Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao)...



...and Mehdi Hasan gives us a follow-up on the Uvalde gun slaughter, telling us (among other things) that that Arredondo dude (or whatever his name is) who I guess was the police chief apparently wasn’t even carrying a police radio while the massacre in that school was taking place (Hasan also mentions Chris Murphy trying to get a bill passed in the Senate; yeah, good luck there –Hasan interviews Manuel Oliver of Change The Ref...condolences to Oliver for his tragic loss)...



...and oh look, it’s “Dr. New Jersey” trying to skate into the U.S. Senate, running a similar grifting scam as the head of his party (and this stuff about not giving up his Turkish citizenship unless he's elected, as noted here and in the video, is complete horseshit) – to help John Fetterman, click here...



...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 6/5/14, in which a whole bunch of “I’m Not A Scientist” Repugs say that climate change doesn’t exist, including Rand “Fake Ophthalmologist” Paul and “No Corporate Tax” Pat Toomey...their complete and utter failure to act on this most urgent of all urgent issues is important to remember when you consider this...



Update: Good points here.

...and here’s something a little more upbeat given the beautiful day in the location near Le Manse Doomsy – hope it’s a nice day for you also.

Sunday Stuff

I knew it was only a matter of time until mass gun slaughter came to my ‘burb, if you will, and it did last night with a mass shooting that took place on South Street in Philadelphia, leaving 3 dead and 14 wounded, at last count (this is indeed a developing story)...



Update: It may get to the point where this dumb little blog will only have time to post about gun violence, though I hope not of course (here - and wasn't Chattanooga already hit with an attack?).

Update 6/6/22: I may never leave the house again without a flak jacket (here).

Update 9/29/22: And by the way, the next time you hear Repugs braying about more $$ for mental health, remember this (Bri-Fi was the only Repug who supported it, but he also supports gun reciprocity, so meh).

...and this report tells us that the rest of the world thinks we’ve lost our damn minds on this issue (in the wake of the Uvalde slaughter...I know we already knew that, but it bears repeating)...



...and this related video is aimed right at Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao, you might say (NSFW/H, but for a good reason - and this sure fits their wretched profile, doesn't it? And of course I'm referring to the "party of Lincoln.")...



...and yeah, here's another damn anti-gun tune.