Friday Stuff

The “Morning Joe” crew bring us the tale of RFK Jr. and the dead bear cub that he kept in his car, apparently, while he went to eat at Peter Luger's Steak House (one response to this is why the hell Kennedy didn’t bother to contact someone in New York at the SPCA, or at least reach out to law enforcement who might put him in touch with the Humane Society...so Kennedy thought it would be funny to make it look like the bear was hit by a biker near Central Park? God, what disgusting entitlement on display here).

Oh, and just for the hell of it, I found this link to the New York statute on aggravated cruelty to animals, just to point out that Kennedy, on top of acting like a self-aggrandizing jerk, also may have broken the law...



...and that's probably the best lead-in I could ask for to this John Oliver clip on the Kennedy scion...I didn’t know about RFK Jr.’s influence in keeping people in Samoa from getting vaxxed against COVID, as well as the cruelty behind using that boy in Michigan who died from a malformed blood vessel in his brain in that book about COVID deaths...and that line about all of the likely skeletons in his closet making him king is still another blaring siren warning us to NOT HAVE ONE DAMN THING TO DO WITH HIM EVER (NSFW/H)...



Update 1 8/12/24: Maybe Junior should have bothered to check on his legal NY residence before he started bloviating with Roseanne Barr (here).

Update 8/15/24: So Junior makes it official here that he supports Our Orange Menace - good to know.

...and Miss Beau acknowledges the latest insane presser from Our Treasonous Orange Pestilence, which no doubt will kick off another round of corporate media hand-wringing...#45 is a delusional, lying sociopath who should be ignored and vilified and not taken seriously that’s it the end...



Update: I actually heard some of that mess, and he was doing the "accordion hands" bit and ranting about "gas propelled cars"...WHAAAA????

...and speaking of wingnuts in need of an intervention, I guess this is what Joe Buck would have turned into after pimping in NYC and working as a bellboy at a luxury Miami hotel (I think that’s how “Midnight Cowboy” ended)...anyway, Jon Voight is warning us that “the left” is going to take away your kids and presumably make them trans, or something (with Cenk and Yasmin Khan)...one of the reasons I have almost nothing to do with TYT any more is because of their perpetual inaccuracies and biases that get in the way of presenting stories as accurately as they think they are presenting them, and with that in mind, I’d like to point out that KIDS AREN’T GETTING FREAKING BOTTOM SURGERY, CENK! HOW MANY GODDAMN TIMES DO WE HAVE TO POINT THAT OUT??! And sorry for using all caps a lot, but I think the emphasis is needed...



...and Leeja Miller tells us that supporting Combover Caligula was just the beginning for the tech billionaires...clip is all about J.D. Vance, and I’m not surprised to find that that’s not exactly his real name – yeah, it’s the fault of “learned helplessness” in Appalachia, whatever that means, isn’t it? And OF COURRSSE that stinking Leonard Leo managed to show up somehow in Vance’s bio, right? And as far as Miller’s take on Catholicism goes, she backs up her claims with data to her credit, and she’s right about the evangelical overlap, you might say, between Catholicism and the fundie nut jobs, but there are also a lot of progressive, leftist Catholics out there too; I just thought it would be appropriate to mention that...as I watched that ridiculous “Star Trek” quote from Peter Thiel, all I could think of was that I was glad Thiel wasn’t around when JFK said we’re going to go to the moon, because Thiel would have been one of the first people to shoot that down, so to speak, because we couldn’t do it right away; Thiel would probably want to build lasers to shoot at the lunch counter protestors from that era like John Lewis, or something...and yeah, Vance does just ooze “pick me” energy...and I definitely didn’t know about this “New Right” garbage and this life form named Curtis Yarvin until I saw this clip (more here, here and here)...(NSFW/H also)...



Update 2 8/12/24: Vance continues to be "the gift that keeps on giving" as shown here.

...and speaking of lawyers, Marc Elias of Democracy Docket speaks with Brian Tyler Cohen about Almost Silent Clarence Thomas getting referred to the DOJ...I honestly don’t believe charges will be filed against Thomas either, though they should be, but I can see this as something leading to a stricter ethics code for the SCOTUS from the U.S. Senate Dems, which the Repugs will kill of course, led by Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao (and yeah, that threat from Gorsuch is examined once more...Cohen makes a great comment at the end IMO about the pervasive influence of the wingnuts from the High Court all the way down to county boards of elections)...



...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 8/11/17...I have to tell you that I’ve largely given up on Bill Maher for a variety of reasons, mainly because of his dismissive attitude towards Gen Z-ers and millennials, but here, from back in the day, I thought he did a good job of pointing out the disgusting hypocrisy of Trump supporters blaming Former President Hopey Changey for saying words and acting in ways that earned nothing but scorn from the wingnuts, even though their hero Bronzer Beelzebub said and did things FAR WORSE; I’m putting this up partly to extend best wishes to former President Obama belatedly on his birthday - I’ve said before and I’ll say again that, if everyone who vilified him had taken the time to read “The Audacity of Hope,” they would have truly understood where he was coming from (another NSFW/H clip)...



...and here’s an upbeat little number to bring us into the weekend – weather-wise, it should be a good one for this locality.