John and Brett Erlich of The Damage Report discuss some Fix Noise hairdo named Hillary Vaughn, who argues with Bernie Sanders about the VT senator’s proposal for a 32-hour work week (“oooh, corporate America will suffer! How dare you, you dastardly lib!”...and great point about productivity gains going to investors and shareholders as opposed to, y’know, THE DAMN WORKERS WHO ACTUALLY PRODUCE THE DAMN GAINS IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!)...
...and in this video from “The Classroom” at More Perfect Union (with Brooke Shuman), we learn about how corporate greed is killing your hospital emergency room...and yeah, if you guessed that private equity is at the heart of this disgusting scenario...well, then you get a complimentary bedpan and emesis basin (offer is good for a limited time only of course...yep, PE taking over community medical centers, experienced staff are being replaced by workers in a “pool” who may or may not be as good, there are longer wait times for patients along with higher bills, and all of this leads to the inevitable lawsuits...we know the story, don’t we?)...
...and David Pakman discusses this Guy Reschenthaler assclown who asks the equally nutzoid Maria Bartiromo why you shouldn’t need a photo ID to vote if you need one for a driver’s license (great points by Pakman about driving as a privilege, as opposed to the constitutional right of voting...I mean, the poll workers make you sign a form if voting in person in order to check your signature, but I realize facts and logic don’t really apply here...and no, for the zillionth goddamn time, illegal immigrants CAN’T FREAKING VOTE, YOU MORONS!)...
...and Thom Hartmann tells us about chlormequat, a pesticide linked to reproductive and developmental issues in animals that is supposed to be used only on decorative plants and isn’t supposed to be used in our food, though it’s managed to infiltrate oat products (big surprise...not, along with a typically ridiculous update on the efforts to ban IVF in Alabama...more here)...
...and in an effort to conclude this post on a bit of an upbeat note, I thought I’d add this clip of Beau telling us about China proposing a nuclear treaty of sorts...I’m old enough to recall a time when we used to do stuff like this, but it’s still good news as long as SOMEBODY is putting this idea forward...
...and happy recent 80th birthday to John Sebastian.
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