Saturday Stuff (updates)

Brian Tyler Cohen tells us about the unsealed multiple count indictment against Our Ochre Abomination for his mishandling (to put it mildly at this point) of classified docs (God almighty, in bathrooms, storage closets, and on and on)..and yeah, when you’ve lost Jonathan Turley, who emerged as a Trump apologist, then when it comes to legal punditry, you’re pretty much toast...



Update 1: Et tu, Rachel? (here).

Update 2: Actually, in a weird way, the Gropenfuhrer is right here, but the tears were from laughter over what a big, dumb, traitorous lummox he is.

Update 3: Yeah, I think this says it.

Update 6/11/23: At this point, I'm tempted to ask what need we have of a trial (here).

...and Thom Hartmann tells us more on the same subject, including the fact that #45 admitted on one of his stinking golf courses that he had classified intel, despite his claim that he thought he declassified the docs, which he can’t do anyway (a claim he made during that Sean Inanity interview included in the Cohen clip)... and I’m not surprised that our energy criminals knew the dangers to the climate in 1949, but it is still shocking...



Update 6/13/23: Actually, I think Thom was wrong about the year; according to this, it was 1959.

...and speaking of climate matters, David Doel discusses Marjorie Trailer Park Greene, who strikes again on the Canadian wildfires, blaming “climate cult Canada” which wants to extract 173 billion barrels of oil according to Justin Trudeau, since that country is so “green” on energy of course, though we don’t have room to be snippy on that subject either (and I know the GW Bridge footage is a couple of days old)...mildly NSFW/H...



...and sticking with that train wreck from Georgia, Sam and Emma of The Majority Report tell us that the GA-14 rep also doesn’t know about Glass Steagall, which (as Sam points out) was a Depression-era law separating commercial and investment banks, and it also created the FDIC (more is here on how Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin led the repeal of the law in 1998 and was rewarded with a plumb job at Citigroup, through there were multiple attempts to kill G-S, including plenty from the other side of the aisle..oh, and I guess Greene doesn’t know about a whole bunch of stuff that happened in this country before 1974, then, including this...mildly NSFW/H also)...



...and when it comes to know-nothing Repugs, we really can’t leave Bo-Bo Boebert out of the discussion, now can we...Jesse Dollemore tells us how Vote Vets is commendably going after her (to help Boebert’s opponent next year, Adam Frisch, who almost knocked her off last year, click here)...



Update 6/11/23: More here.

...and Ana and Cenk of TYT tell us that it looks like Merck’s CEO is butt hurt over Medicare being able to negotiate prices for some prescription drugs as of 2026...I have a feeling that part of the reason for the wingnut outrage here is that our side is taking a page from their playbook and trying to push open the pro-consumer, anti-capitalist “door,” if you will, only slightly, but the corporatist stooges at Merck and their fellow travelers expect that we’ll do what they always do when they get a bit of a break, and that is to indeed make a whole lot of somethin’ based on a tiny bit of “not much” (kicking that slightly ajar door wide open, to overwork the metaphor I guess)...as I watched this, I found myself wondering once more how much goddamn taxpayer $$$ went into “Operation Warp Speed” over COVID under Mango Mussolini and gritting my teeth again over our beyond-paid-off corporate media not doing a damn thing to find that out - and yes, on that subject, CNBC is pretty much pro-corporatist trash and not much else...



...and Kyle Kulinski tells us that, apparently, this Doug Burgum person (who seems to be the governor of North Dakota) is running for the Repug nomination for preznit (and yeah, the guy does indeed act like an “AI,” and he also has roughly the same shot at the job as Tim Scott, Nikki Haley, etc. – and of course, he has to make that throwaway remark about “woke,” as if that will actually help him to get 2-3 percent of the vote...way too damn funny)...



...and RIP Chicago jazzman “Redd” Holt; his band proved to be a one-hit wonder way back when with this tune.

Thursday Stuff

As it must for all of us one day, apparently Pat Robertson has now been called to some other plane that we can only speculate about; like you I’m sure, I believe in justice and tolerance in the afterlife for doing good works, so I have no idea what that means for Robertson...in this TYT clip, we get a particularly bonkers take from Robertson on Putin and Ukraine, and how this “man of God” and his ilk see all of this as a way to hasten the “end times”...



Update: And here is someone else who apparently just passed who definitely will not be lamented (didn't know James Watt still drew breath actually...a shame he probably wasn't made to ingest the air today at the George Washington Bridge).

Update 6/17/23: I forgot about Robertson and the "gays caused 911" garbage (here).

...and in news of a less extreme but still dramatic departure, wunderkind Chris Licht is OUTTA HERE at “The Most Trusted Name In News”...interesting revelations in the Tim Alberta piece about the degree of Licht’s megalomania, including the “can Jeff Zucker do this?” thing with the weightlifting...I think it was just a case of Licht sucking up to network boss John Malone at the expense of the people who really made the network’s basically good name, all snark aside...I mean, they could actually “read the room” and see that the media future is progressive since that’s where the “Gen Z” dollars will go, (what $$ they DO have that is), but I just run this dumb little blog, so what the hell do I know?...

...but the big story on Action News, you might say, is the announcement that a certain Treasonous Tiny- Handed Former Preznit was indicted on charges related to his mishandling of those pesky, top secret, classified docs at Mar-a-Lago (here); Beau tells us more about it...



...and Farron Cousins tells us that a Texas sheriff is investigating the first migrant flights from Governor Pudding Fingers, acting as a halfway point from “the land of the yellow rose” to Martha's Vineyard and other points north I believe, to see if laws were broken so he can issue an arrest warrant to Flori-DUUH! guv Ron #DeathSantis (who, as things stand now, remains the runner-up to Combover Caligula for the Repug prez nod next year)...as nice as that would be (to see #DeathSantis do a "perp walk"), I’m not going to get my hopes up, but you never know...



...and Sam and Emma of The Majority Report give us a bit of a follow-up to the Alex Wagner clip from yesterday...sounds like immigrants are leaving Flori-DUUH! because of #DeathSantis and these idiot state reps supporting SB-1718, a pointlessly cruel anti-immigration measure...these Repug poobahs are apparently now backpedaling, probably because they’re getting heat from agribusinesses and other corporations over losing cheap labor (not that they actually give a damn about the migrants of course...and I know this observation is a bit tangential, and Brian Tyler Cohen is trying to address it, but it tells you something about the incompetence of the national Democratic Party that the Repugs have no problem sending out bilingual messages advertising their garbage like this, but the national Dems seem to constantly slip on metaphorical banana peels when they have to do the same thing...and yes, I understand that the Cuban Latino mindset in that state is entirely different from what you would call the more generic Latino mindset which is a hell of a lot more tolerant...mildly NSFW/H)...



...and there’s a few more minutes left in this time zone for World Oceans Day (impacted by climate change, the Canada fires and the smoky skies of course), so please allow me to present the following tune with that in mind (posting is an issue on Thursdays for a variety of reasons, some of which I may discuss one day).

Wednesday Stuff

Alex Wagner of MSNBC tells us about more #DeathSantis cruelty, this time about a bill criminalizing the transport of undocumented immigrants, which will lead to jobs going unfilled in Flori-DUUUH!, and requiring hospitals to check the immigration status of patients in that state (State Rep. Anna Eskamani is pretty much “on the beam” here IMO...more pointless #DeathSantis garbage is here; and some long-awaited push-back is here)...

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...and sticking with the state of #DeathSantis-stan, Ana and Cenk of TYT discuss “Mr. Pudding Fingers” signing some law exploiting renters by having them pay recurring “junk fees” if they can’t pay the first month’s rent and the security deposit up front, and the recurring fees aren’t refundable at the end of the lease of course, unlike the security deposit...yep, once more, the cruelty is the point...



...and Jayar and Jessica Burbank of Rebel HQ tell us about Andy Hartzler’s video of his mom getting some guy to try and exorcize demons from Hartzler’s room (or something) that were allegedly making Hartzler gay (Hartzler’s aunt Vicki gave that crying speech in the U.S. House about gays getting married...last minute or so of this in particular is Nail. Hammer. Head time)...



...and Sam and Emma talk about how a Biden ruling could help unions (and boy, do we ever know about the mess with Hahnemann University Hospital)...looks like the SEIU has filed an antitrust complaint with the DOJ against the hospital network that Hahnemann was part of – the UPMC network I believe...I honestly didn’t know what a “monopsony” was until I watched this clip...and a “Do Not Hire” blacklist, huh? Nice (and good job by “No Malarkey Joe” to change antitrust enforcement, if that indeed is going to transpire...and I think they may have stumbled onto something with that board game idea)...



...and turning to labor news, this video from More Perfect Union tells us why Barnes & Noble workers are standing up for their rights...



...and we’re currently under a big, smoky cloud cover in these parts due to wildfires burning in Canada (more here and here)...maybe we ought to do something about this climate change thing, huh?

Tuesday Stuff

(Pic comes from this, by the way.)

Jesse Dollemore tells us about Bo-Bo Boebert missing the debt ceiling vote and then trying to spin it as some idiotic revolt against Washington spending, or something; of course, as is usually the case for these cretins, they end up BUSTED by the evidence that, once more, they’re totally unconscionable liars...



...and David Doel brings us this clip of Nikki Haley recycling the typical anti-trans BS from her party, with “The Most Trusted Name in News” hurrying up to provide a platform for this week’s Republican presidential nominee – I guess “G.W. Bridge beach chair guy” Christie is next...and by the way, though I’ve never raised a daughter, I know others who have, and the reason thoughts of “snuffing it” come into their heads is because of trying to live up to some idealized image of how young women are supposed to look and act, with these messages coming from our culture overall including mass entertainment and faith groups, and also the pernicious influence of social media in this regard...it has not one damn thing to do with whether or not a “tranny” is in the girls bathroom (mildly NSFW/H)...



Update: Simply vile stuff on guns from this idiot here...

Update 6/7/23: Yeah, this guy would know, wouldn't he?

...and speaking of Repug presidential wannabes, John and Brett Erlich of The Damage Report tell us about Flori-DUUH! guv Ron #DeathSantis, who recorded a video in ’20 praising Dr. Fauci, which is actually a decent, humane thing to do, though that may be disqualifying now for a Repug presidential primary as far as “the great unwashed” are concerned...



...and Mike Figueredo tells us about companies not cashing in on “rainbow capitalism” (NSFW/H also)...the goal of life forms like Matt Walsh is to make LGBTQ tolerance toxic, and unfortunately, as Figueredo says, they’ve been successful, and also unfortunately this lunacy has gone “across the pond” to the UK, where they’re getting their shorts all in a knot over a fish, which is apparently a real “playah”...uh, yep...



...and turning to actual policy from the “party of Lincoln” (though I didn’t say it was actual GOOD policy), it looks like “15 Votes for Speaker” Kevin McCarthy is basically going to bring back another “cat food commission” to cut Social Security and Medicare, on the heels of trying to expand the wretched December 2017 Trump tax cuts for the rich, as Farron Cousins tells us...



...and I can't remember the last time I included an instrumental tune here, and I thought this was kind of a dreamy summer number, so I thought this was as good a time as any to include it (it kicks up a bit at about 4:30, just to let you know).

Monday Stuff

Chris Hayes gives us some interesting theories IMO on why Mango Mussolini had a top secret doc on Iran in his tiny, grubby little hands, one being that it could have been 45’s way of getting back at Gen. Mark Milley for the latter making sure that Our Treasonous Orange Pustule didn’t end up starting a war with Iran on his way out of the door from An Oval Office...



...and Farron Cousins tells us that the Gropenfuhrer remains massively unpopular according to a Fix Noise poll, and I realize that “No Malarkey Joe” certainly can’t rest on his laurels either (I can’t believe we’re dealing with 2024 polls already, but too many people make too much $ off this circus I know so that’s why it’s getting revved up now); I should add that I completely agree with Cousins that the trend lines are what matter the most...



...and Emma and the Majority Report crew tell us about the recent SCOTUS case ruling against unions...one other way to tell that the fix was in is that the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR always hands down their most controversial rulings as they’re getting out of town at the end of the session...the case was Glacier v. Teamsters; as the panel notes, the fact that the High Court decided to hear this at all vs. letting the NLRB handle this was a pretty damn big signal as to the outcome, and as the panel points out, the only one on the SCOTUS who stood tall was KBJ...NSFW/H...and to say we need some kind of a liberal/progressive answer to ALEC, The Federalist Society, and other right-wing garbage organizations is a huge understatement...



...and Mike Figueredo gives us more insight on this alleged “grand bargain” from “Dark Brandon” on the whole debt ceiling mess; Figueredo is absolutely right about how this monstrosity could have been avoided, and there’s really no other conclusion to draw that the majority of U.S. House Dems were in league with “15 Votes for Speaker” McCarthy...and we know what Manchin and Sinema are, but from this point forward, I don’t want to hear one damn word from Jon Tester about “coastal elites” since he voted for the utterly pointless cruelty of inflicting massive student loan debt on borrowers, including retroactive payments (including interest) delayed because of COVID (also NSFW/H)...and yeah, we noted the Glacier decision and the betrayal of Kagan and Sotomayor in the Majority Report clip...I wish Figueredo luck in his fight against YouTube demonetization; if anything makes me say the hell with all of this one day, it would be something technical like that that stops me dead in my tracks (and by the way, don’t you know that Tester sent some Email fundraising spam to me? Maybe the fastest Email deletion I ever made)...



...and Jesse Dollemore tells us that, apparently, this wingnut “prophet” Lance Wallnau was saying that Dems would get killed in May, along with some Repugs, but – oopsie! – looks like it didn’t happen (and Jesse is definitely right about Right Wing Watch)...



...and RIP Cynthia Weil, who co-wrote a number of hits with spouse Barry Mann, including this one (another legendary songwriting duo, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, had a hand in this one also).