Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Tuesday Stuff


Yasmin Khan of Rebel HQ informs us here that our prior ruling cabal under Dementia J. Trump went through A LOT of drugs apparently, about $750K worth, including a lot of name brands at the expense of generic substitutes...I’m actually a little sympathetic to the argument that some of these are needed on a moment’s notice for travel purposes, for example, but I’m even MORE sympathetic to the argument that there should be oversight because we’re paying for this stuff, to say nothing of pharmacologic purposes (and I’m sure this happens regardless of which party is running An Oval Office, but it happens to be more egregious under the Gropenfuhrer)...



...and given the subject of this More Perfect Union report, that makes me even less sympathetic of what is described in the prior clip...this MPU video is titled “Why Going to the Pharmacy Sucks Now”...yep, blame “vertical integration,” short staffing of pharmacists and technicians at the chains, driving the “mom and pops” out of business, etc. – looks like we need another “pharma-geddon” nationwide, to say nothing of more unionization...



...and Sam and Emma of The Majority Report bring us this clip of Rula Daoud of Standing Together speaking out for peace on both sides of the border when it comes to Israel’s Gaza incursion...I know I’ve gone on the record when it comes to what I think of “Bibi,” but the murdering Hamas butchers also need to make a full accounting for all of their captives seized on October 7th...I wouldn’t mind seeing Netanyahu standing in a docket in The Hague along with everyone associated with Hamas who launched their cowardly, despicable attack...I’m sure one day someone will write a book researching everything that went into planning that atrocity, and I definitely will read it eventually...



...and David Doel discusses the recent mass layoffs in the video gaming industry...unionized workers apparently were protected while Microsoft laid off 1,900 non-union employees in one of their gaming divisions, combined with layoffs all over the place at other gaming companies (and yes, more people should follow the courageous example of Saturo Iwata of Nintendo...yeah I know, good luck with that...everybody should commit to memory that line graph Doel presents at about 13:40)...



...and John and Daniel Franzese of The Damage Report bring us some Gen Z demographics...to me, the takeaway is that the “D” team needs to pay more attention to the issues that are important to this ascendant demographic, as opposed to trying to win over some wavering independent boomer voters in a suburban midwestern diner somewhere...”the more woke you get, the more annoying it is to go to sleep” indeed...



...and I'm probably a little early for Valentine's Day with this one, but here it is anyway.

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