Tuesday Stuff

Mike Figueredo talks about Fix Noise and the wingnutosphere trying to gin up fear and outrage over supporting Israel amidst their slaughter in Gaza...and that weirdness with those two alleged Hamas-sympathizing kids was cringe all right, but not in the intended way (and yeah, isn’t Sean Inanity just great to give his speech saying, “I’m hearing Nazi slogans in the halls of Congress” – proof? – “and on those college campuses, and this reminds me of Nazi Germany...you have 30 seconds to respond” as if somehow that would be enough to argue the point, which of course Inanity wouldn’t allow anyway...and GREAT point by Figueredo to mention the Charlottesville tiki torch neo-Nazis and wonder if Inanity was living under a rock during all of that...and I also think this is a spot-on related post; when you find yourself losing the guy responsible for this, yeah, that's pretty damn bad...NSFW/H).

(And oh yeah, if Inanity really cared about comparisons to the Nazis, which he doesn’t of course, he might have a word or two to say about this.)...



...and related to the carnage in Gaza, Jesse Dollemore discusses Dem State Rep Angie Nixon of Flord-DUUH! giving an impassioned speech on behalf of innocent Palestinians (and yes, there ARE innocent Palestinians – quite a lot, actually), asking how many must die, and this ghoul named Michelle Salzman says “all of them”...and listen, I haven’t forgotten about the Israeli victims of that concert as well as releasing the hostages (and making a FULL accounting for those hostages likely killed) and bringing the Hamas cowardly murderers to justice, but I also don’t think that means that the IDF can say “Oh, Hamas is using human shields at a hospital, so that means we can bomb that hospital to ashes and the people inside too”...it’s going to require a pretty huge degree of leadership on our side to stake out a position in this that gives Hamas the warranted treatment IMO but also slaps down Israel as well, and I have to tell you that I’m not optimistic about that)...



...and John and Francesca of The Damage Report bring us the news of “MAGA Mike” Johnson’s proposed budget, which separates Israel and Ukraine funding (I think Ukraine should get what it needs and Israel shouldn’t get a dime, but I understand that that runs directly in opposition to the political reality)...and yeah, Chip Roy and Marjori Traitor Greene are psychos and we knew that, but once again, there are people who vote for these sociopaths, and they need to be ridiculed also IMO...can’t find the words to communicate my disgust with the fact that we’re dealing with this beyond ridiculous budget brinksmanship again from the “party of Lincoln”...JUST FUND THE DAMN GOVERNMENT AND ALL THAT ENTAILS FOR THE COMING YEAR AND BE DONE WITH IT, YOU IDIOTS!! Apparently, though, Johnson is willing to maintain current funding levels as noted here, which (again) should be a given, but with this bunch running the House, nothing is certain I know...



...and speaking of money matters, Farron Cousins tells us that it seems that a certain Treasonous Tiny-Handed Orange Pustule of a former *president is having trouble running his businesses, which of course may end up going down the drain anyway given all of the legal stuff going on... couldn’t happen to a more deserving scumbag...



...and David Pakman tells us about a Texas Republican city council candidate named Brad Benson who was charged in a child porn-related case hours before an election...yes, innocent until proven guilty and all that, but why is it that this stuff keeps happening with those associated with the political party screaming the loudest about “groomers” on our side?...



...and I had a bit of a women’s empowerment theme going yesterday so maybe I should have included this video at that time, but better late than never I guess (and don't try this at home, kids).