Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Tuesday Stuff


(Posting may get a little iffy as we approach the holiday...I’m not sure yet.)

Joy Reid and Ali Velshi give us a history lesson of sorts on the “party of Lincoln” and demonizing poor people, going back to Reagan, Rudy! and that alleged Christian Newt...on SNAP and Medicaid, timed for all this debt ceiling nonsense of course (and I thought this was timely information also)...



...and John, Cenk and Max Burns tell us about this J’Den McAdory nut in Maryland strolling around a school bus stop with an AK-47, protesting a gun law signed by Dem governor Wes Moore...this lunatic should be strapped to a chair and made to look at photos of the dead kids in Uvalde and elsewhere (I’m picturing something like “Clockwork Orange” with his eyelids pulled open; I don’t say that lightly, but I for one am getting fed up with these life forms, and I’m sure I have a lot of company)...



...and I know I got into that ridiculous RFK Jr. interview yesterday ("argle bargle, free market, argle bargle"), but here is more from the crew of The Majority Report, including Emma V. and Matt Binder (taking another look at Jr.’s vanity run for prez in ’24, the “winner of the gene pool” as Mike Figueredo put it yesterday...Jr. is also pretty lowdown for his lawsuit against Daily Kos...NSFW/H...and it was indeed Teddy Kennedy, God rest him, who tried to put the brakes on Cape Wind because it would block his view from the MA coastline; I think Cape Wind had other negative issues, truth be told, but I also don’t think the Kennedy thing by itself was a reason to shoot it down, which I think happened in 2017)...



...and kudos to Chris Hayes for going after turncoat-former-Dem Tricia Cotham, the North Carolina state rep, who helped the Repugs get a supermajority with that move...so OF COURSE they immediately instituted a 12-week abortion ban, overriding Dem governor Roy Cooper’s veto... somehow Cotham sleeps at night I suppose, though I can’t imagine how...



...and Hayes discussed yesterday the planetary danger of going over 1.5 degrees Celsius, and Beau echoes that again here...can’t say that enough, and to say we need a “whole of government” approach to this (to say nothing of our glorious private sector) is a huge understatement...part of me wishes Biden could pull a “Wag the Dog” or “Capricorn One” thing to convince everybody that the planet is heating because of a terrorist Islamist death ray or something, and then the money spigot would open and never shut off...



...so what is the outrage du jour for the Repug party instead of an issue that actually matters (as previously noted)? Well, Farron Cousins tells us here that Texas guv Greg Abbott is big mad at Dominion Voting Systems for getting The Swanson TV Dinner Heir fired...Abbott should be happy anyway that, despite it all, Dominion may go out of business as noted here...



...and Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report discusses Marjorie Trailer Park Greene and her boyfriend (right-wing broadcaster Brian Glenn) in drag – after she said drag queens were domestic terrorists...well, that’s about par for the nutty course with this disgusting harpie (mildly NSFW/H)...



...and happy belated 75th birthday to Leo Sayer.

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