Saturday Stuff

(The pic with this post is offered as a seasonal meditation.)

Cenk, Ana and Rayy Vana of TYT talk about more lies from this George Santos individual who was just elected to the U.S. House from New York, including Santos allegedly being gay to pose as some kind of centrist Republican, as if life forms like that actually still exist...and by the way, if you want to blame the media for not catching up on this guy, that's fine, but where the hell are the alleged political geniuses at the DCCC and that idiot Sean Patrick Maloney in all of this? Would it have been so damn difficult to actually uncover some of this stuff during the election with some oppo research?...

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...and David Doel tells us about a leaked memo that made its way to The Daily Beast concerning an alleged 37-page (!) document listing the dos and don’ts of working as a staffer for “Curtsy Kyrsten”...so I guess you can call her Kyrsten as long as you’re speaking directly to her during one of her three-minute constituent meetings and if it doesn’t interrupt her weekly hour-long massage or her scheduled dinner between 5:00 and 6:30 PM (presumably that’s EST)...beyond belief...



...and Farron Cousins tells us that, according to the Federal Reserve, we’re experiencing a worker shortage in this country of about 3 ½ million people because of Repug anti-immigrant garbage, including all of the nonsense from the Gropenfuhrer during his ruinous reign...once more, this points to our need for serious immigration reform including a path to citizenship for people who do the dirty jobs that apparently not too many people in this country want to do...



...and as long as we’re blaming Our Ochre Abomination, let’s not forget this contrast between #45 and President Biden on Ukraine and the matter of providing assistance to President Zelenskyy (from The Lincoln Project...and once more, I know what they are, but they continue to do good work)...



...and we're nearing the end of the seasonal selections, but I think these deserve to be included also (and this is timely once more for the first number).

Friday Stuff

Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report tells us of a Catholic priest in Louisiana named Travis Clark who was caught having sex on the altar with dominatrices (I think that’s the correct spelling)...let us prey – and maybe Clark didn’t do anything legally actionable since everything was consensual, but to say this was a betrayal of his vows is a huge understatement... and yeah, PA has its own issues as the video notes with priests and abuse – as far as I’m concerned, if you do the crime, then you do the time, and if somebody shivs you in prison for it, well, that’s unfortunate, but what can you expect? (more here – NSFW/H)...



...and Thom Hartmann draws a pretty clear line from the Repugs screaming OPENBORDER OPENBORDEROPENBORDEROPENBORDEROPENBORDER!!!! to immigrants in Mexico and central America deciding to make the trek north because they’re getting this nonsense on their cell phones and social media feeds (yes, they have the same technology the rest of us do...have to check on Neeva....and it’s great that Martha Raddatz did what she did with that total swine Greg Abbott, but she should be THE RULE, not THE EXCEPTION!)...



...and David Pakman tells us that even the Murdoch Street Journal has figured out that the incoming clown-car caucus in the U.S. House is too stoo-pid to wield power...of course, that rag could have said this during the election when it actually mattered, which I guess is waaay too much to ask...



...and speaking of information gatekeepers, if you will, this clip from Second Thought discusses Why the U.S. Media is Becoming More Right Wing (and one of the many great points here has to do with how CNN is indeed “mainstreaming” the far right even more...”It’s not simply the case that media outlets frame stories the way they do, with the kind of villainization we’ve seen with the (rail) strike. It’s that they decide what counts for a story in the first place.”...uh, yep...video does a great job of explaining how the wingnuts manage to tilt the media landscape in their direction)...



...and I'm winding down with the seasonal selections as we near the big day, but I have to incldue these also.

Thursday Stuff

(Just a reminder that the whole "Fox News Christmas Tree Attacked By Homeless Guy" thing was last year, in case that needed to be pointed out.)

Retired U.S. Army Maj. Richard Ojeda of Rebel HQ tells us about that nematode Jesse Watters doing something he’s good at, and that’s demonizing people far less fortunate than he is...as Ojeda points out, the programs attacked by Watters will be extremely limited in scope (and gee, call me crazy, but aren’t we currently in the season where we’re supposed to, y’know, ACTUALLY BE CHARITABLE TO THOSE IN NEED??!! AS OPPOSED TO THE REST OF THE YEAR, WHERE WE SHOULD BE THAT WAY TOO??!!)...



...and Farron Cousins discusses the fact that, as it turned out, CRT as an alleged issue flopped big time in the just-concluded electoral cycle (according to research from the NEA)...yeah, parents care about education, to the extent that they want their kids to be protected from flu, RSV, COVID, etc. as well as not being slaughtered by some lunatic with a gun, but when it comes to made-up issues like CRT and alleged “grooming” or indoctrination...well, the wingnuts overplayed their hand as usual...



...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” from 12/22/15, and I know I’m doing this less frequently than I have in the past because, to be honest, I think this concept is getting a little old by now, but we’ll see...with all of the news about Combover Caligula and his tax returns turned over to congressional Democrats (here) as well as the previously mentioned 4 criminal referrals against him (here), I think it’s appropriate to point out once more how the leader of Cult 45 professed his bromance for Vlad The Butcher long before the Ukraine carnage...and yeah, it’s pretty pathetic to see Joe Scar handing Our Gelatinous Orange Pustule a lifeline with that question about Putin killing journalists and political opponents – I’m bringing this back because I have a feeling our corporate media will try to “memory hole” this stuff to hype some GOP presidential primary battle between #45 and #DeathSantis (with John, Cenk, and Ben M. - not sure who the other guy is)...



...and speaking of the war, this report from the German news service DW tells us that it’s been 300 days since Putin’s illegal incursion in Ukraine began; this segment also talks about Vlad The Butcher’s illegal annexation of the Donetsk, Kherson, and Luhansk regions while battle rages in Bakhmut, and it looks like Moldova could be involved next...and 700 strikes on Ukraine’s health care facilities since February – God almighty...with Katherine Lawlor (though there was an attempt at a holiday celebration for the kids...and this is typically disgusting behavior from the usual Republican cretins during President Zelenskyy’s speech last night)...



Update: And speaking of Zelenskyy's speech, here is a brief excerpt (including the presentation of the flags)...



...and RIP Terry Hall of The Specials...



...and here are more seasonal selections (working my way down the list).

Wednesday Stuff

Ana, Cenk and Rayy Vana tell us about a pastor who took $8.5 million of PPP dough to buy a $3.7 million mansion at Disneyworld...yeah, the corruption is pretty damn brazen all right, but to me, the big issue here is the lax oversight behind the original distribution of PPP funds from wannabe Bond villain and former Trump Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin (pictured...see also the PPP $$ that Tampa Bay quarterback Tom Brady managed to get that he used to buy a yacht as noted here, and let's not forget this too)...



...and Max Burns of Rebel HQ tells us about cops breaking into a couple’s home without showing a warrant (and of course, as luck would have it, the couple have a baby...not sure where this took place), followed by a clip of David Shuster letting us know about cops confronting someone handing out leaflets in front of a Smithfield Foods plant in Utah (the guy handing out leaflets is on a public sidewalk, but that’s not good enough for the cops of course)...



...and Farron Cousins tells us that Roger Stone (another aspiring comic book villain) recently said that he has seen a “demonic portal” above the White House – I think someone is hitting the MD 2020 a little too hard...



...and Thom Hartmann tells us about the U.S. House passing the PRESS Act to protect journalists by unanimous consent (and how often does THAT happen?), but of course Sen. “Militarize Our Cities” in “the world’s greatest deliberative body” decided to oppose it without a reason – I guess he’d rather be able to use journalists as scapegoats than ensure that the people of this country have a right to be informed on the issues...



...and I now give you more seasonal selections (and with regard to the first video, it looks like Pearl Bailey has her own type of financial transaction in mind :-).

Tuesday Stuff

Brian Tyler Cohen tells us about the 1/6 Committee making 4 criminal referrals to the Justice Department against Our Ochre Abomination and his pals...at long last! (Jamie Raskin more than anyone else on that panel is a freaking hero...the 4 members referred to the House Ethics Committee for ignoring subpoenas are Kevin McCarthy, Scott Perry, Jim Jordan and Andy Biggs...good point by Cohen about Trump declaring his presidential run early so that, now, he can do what he always does and complain that he’s being persecuted...what a whining, treasonous, delusional narcissist he truly is)...



...and David Doel tells us that King Elon I will now have to give up the bird app if he truly acts in accordance with the results of his own online poll...good point by Doel about a possible back story here with Wonder Boy Jared Kushner and our dear friends the Saudis, along with the possibility that this will force Musk to focus on Tesla instead...



...and Beau tells us that “the land of the yellow rose” wants to remove teens from social media – yeah, good luck with that (“this would be devastating to what passes for education in Texas” indeed...and good point about creating a surveillance apparatus, which is all Greg Abbott and his buddies care about anyway)...



...and Chris Hayes interviews journalist Annie Vainshtein of the San Francisco Chronicle, who was in the courtroom for the recent hearing against the individual accused in the Paul Pelosi attack...footage shown at the trial puts the lie to more BS from #45, “Tuckums,” Watters, etc. about the violence that occurred...



...and here are more seasonal selections.

Monday Stuff

Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report discusses the testimony before Congress of some of the Club Q shooting survivors, providing some truly harrowing testimony calling out the scumbags responsible for targeting these people (I have to admit that I hadn’t paid much attention to Matt Walsh until recently, but he is truly pond scum)...yeah, tragically, hearings like these will go away soon when the clown car caucus takes over the House...heckuva job, Sean Patrick Maloney and Andrew Cuomo, as well as #DeathSantis along with all of his lizard-brained followers who cast ballots for him in Flori-DUUUH!; the U.S. House Repug majority is 7 seats, and you can literally trace that back to the antics in the Empire State and the Sunshine State...



...and concerning the fallout from King Elon’s Twitter hissy fit, Ali Velshi speaks with author Roger McNamee, who is completely correct about standing up to oppose this garbage (and apparently Musk has now suspended journalist Taylor Lorenz, who, conveniently, is also a favorite target of the wingnuts...and I would call this an interesting appearance of a conflict of interest at a minimum)...



...and Chris Hayes (in a clip that’s a few days old now) tells us that the 1/6 Committee will be making criminal referrals any day now apparently...and it looks like Germany and Peru are responding to their coup attempts more vigorously than we are (I didn’t see the Adam Schiff interview...and yeah, blame Our Treasonous Orange Pustule, but be sure to save a heaping share of blame once more for every voter in a McMansion bedroom community or a rural area of this country who sees no threat to our government whatsoever and insists on voting for the “R” party to protect their privilege)...



...and “Jonathan Pie” gives us his take on a British rail strike (more here)...boy, does this sound familiar (when it comes to blaming rank-and-file workers as opposed to the moneyed vested interests who want no share of blame whatsoever...NSFW/H)...



...and here are more seasonal selections.

Sunday Stuff

John and Jayar of The Damage Report tell us that the NOAA has updated its “Arctic Report Card” to reflect our worsening climate, and as John says, sea rise and temperature change won’t just affect our coastlines, but inland areas also, to say nothing of the effects of populations forced to move away from water and the strain on locations facing an influx of people...what a shame that this country can’t manufacture a crisis of sorts by saying that climate change is caused by middle eastern terrorists, because then we’d never have to worry about funding for remediation again...



...and David Shuster gives us the latest on “Apartheid Clyde,” as K.O. calls King Elon I, and the tale of all of the journalists who were suspended from Twitter, and apparently all were reinstated even though there’s some question about Olbermann (a summary is here – apparently, all of this had to do with someone on the bird app who tweeted about Musk’s airline travel, and in response, Musk freaked out and suspended his account and all other accounts who linked to the travel guy, even though the travel information was a matter of public record)...



...and Farron Cousins tells us that departing Repug U.S. House Rep Adam Kinzinger blasted his party on his way out the door recently...let’s be real, though; as Cousins notes, Kinzinger voted with his party about 90-something percent of the time...and by the way, when it comes to not using fear or whatever and Poppy Bush, let’s not “memory hole” the Lee Atwater/Willie Horton stuff, OK?...



...and kudos to the funniest math professor of all time for this...



...and here are more seasonal selections (including a tune for everyone celebrating the festival of lights, which began today).