Yasmin Khan of Rebel HQ informs us that Jessica Tarlov of Fix Noise laid a bit of a “truth bomb” on the other knuckleheads of her network who were spinning furiously to try and come up with some bad news on #46 (didn’t know about this “doom loop” tour, which is typically disgusting for those characters...saying she knows of a small town notable for “Jesus and meth” is sadly typical I’m sure)...
...and speaking of media idiocy, Kyle Kulinski is here to tell us that our beloved ”fourth estate” is basically zeroing out any mention of climate change in their reporting of the Hawaii wildfires (Media Matters did an analysis and found that 4 percent of the coverage mentioned the climate crisis, which is basically nothing...un-freaking-believable!)...
...and Jayar Jackson and Aida Rodriguez of The Damage Report tell us about Louisiana AG candidate Liz Murril (you can guess the political party I’m sure), who says that anything you can buy illegally online contains fentanyl, or something, including abortion bills which, last I checked, weren’t illegal...yet – hopefully that won’t change, but we’ll see with some of these goofball judges...also, I’m not going to try and verify what Murril is talking about here because I’m sure these words are intended for wingnut consumption and pretty much nothing else...Rodriguez paints with a pretty broad brush here IMO, but I find it hard to argue with her...
...and the latest video from Second Thought tells us about America’s Forgotten Socialist History...yeah, it all started with those damn Native Americans and their collective ownership (tongue-in-cheek here of course)...the clip mentions the organized labor movement from the 1820s to the 1860s, including the Knights of Labor (started in 1889, which grew to 700K members by 1886, the same year as the Haymarket Massacre in Chicago, which took place on 5/1...that was the day of strikes across the U.S. to demand the 8-hour workday)...I think he’s wrong about the origins of policing in this country, though; it really goes back to landowners trying to keep their workers in line...and yeah, I’m talking about slavery on southern plantations basically...also discusses the 1894 Pullman strike...nice work to show how much socialists were part of the history of the ”red scares” and the movement towards racial equality in this country...I’d mention fighting the push for child labor, but unfortunately, that’s coming back in this country, which supposedly “loves the kids”...tell me another one...
...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 8/20/15...it looks like the “party of Lincoln” is going to try and stage a presidential candidates’ debate tomorrow night (or their version of a legitimate debate), with one rather large orange omission as noted here, and with that in mind, I bring you the following, which I thought was amusing (and with at least one of the candidates in this clip slated to make a return appearance tomorrow)...
...and I’m continuing to work my way down the list of summer selections with this tune.
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