Friday Stuff

I thought Chris Hayes did a pretty thorough job here of backing up his claims on how well the economy is doing under Biden with actual data...so of course the winguts have to kind of blow that off and start screeching about OMIGOD MIGRANT CARAVANS COMING TO DESTROY US!! instead...



...and David Pakman made similar points here, letting us know about more good financial news that Fix Noise is forced to report, including Larry Kudlow...but of course, what REALLY matters to these cretins is that his interview with Marjorie Traitor Greene is only moments away, as well as the impeachment idiocy with DHS Secretary Mayorkas...



Update: More here.

...and Farron Cousins tells us about the recent closed-door testimony (because, as Cousins correctly points out, God forbid U.S. House Repugs in particular would want to conduct business in the cold light of day) of someone named Rob Walker, who makes it abundantly clear that attacks by “the party of Lincoln” in the lower chamber on the Bidens constitute a FREAKING NOTHINGBURGER LIKE WE’VE BEEN SAYING ALL ALONG!!...



...and I don’t know much about Colin Cowherd, except that he’s got his sports TV show on a lot when I’m going in and out of restaurants and food places of one type or another, but Brian Tyler Cohen brings us Cowherd’s recent commentary on OMIGOD I’M GOING TO TALK ABOUT HER YET AGAIN I KNOW!!! – no chance of me becoming a “Swiftie,” but man oh man, does Cowherd nail it about Travis Kelce’s girlfriend and the NFL and the overall misogyny in sports (and 18 minutes out of a 3 ½ hour NFL broadcast is actual football as opposed to other BS? Not surprised)...



...and Jesse Dollemore discusses a recent Lincoln Project ad calling out white “Christian” nationalism, giving these crazies the treatment they truly deserve (mildly NSFW/H)...



...and Beau discusses the utterly awful story of the PA guy who (allegedly) decapitated his father (nice, and in a ‘burb not far from that of your humble narrator) and made a video online, it seems, because it’s 2024 and why the hell not I suppose; Beau uses this to lead into a pretty well done IMO commentary on the border stuff...the “Hee-Haw Hezbollah” – that’s why Beau is who he is (I don’t completely understand Beau’s comment about Abbott in Texas doing what the SCOTUS is allowing, but maybe that wretched governor found some legal wiggle room somewhere)...



...and I’m really trying to be careful with videos from The Young Turks, but I thought this clip was pretty good...Ana and Cenk inform us that Maria Bartiromo recently scraped the proverbial bottom of the barrel once again, blaming DEI for the recent deaths of three of our military in Jordan...I believe they were three reservists...and of course this Texas congressman assumes Biden hasn’t responded to attacks on our military in the region (uh, no)...



...and it’s taken me a little while to get around to this recent tune, but here it is finally – hope the weather dries out where you are and you have a nice, sunny weekend.

Wednesday Stuff

Farron Cousins informs us that the recent Repug primary candidates’ debate for the CO-04 seat didn’t go very well for anyone really, but in particular for Bo-Bo Boebert, who came in fifth out of nine in a straw poll (and 6 of the 9 candidates have criminal records, huh? Terrific - one way to respond is to click here)...



...and Jesse Dollemore tells us about the recent antics of Marjorie Train Wreck Greene, who gave some kind of rally speech in New Hampshire before the “victory” from Tangerine Palpatine...I have to admit that I didn’t know anything about the “Abraham Accords” (which obviously didn’t do a damn thing to prevent October 7th), and after this clip, I care even less ...and Greene is way too much of a dim bulb to realize that she alternately gives Biden credit and blames him at the same time (very mildly NSFW/H at end...more here)...



...and given the prior lunacy of the “party of Lincoln,” I think that’s a good transition into this clip from Robert Reich about the “chaos agenda,” not just for Our Treasonous Tiny-Handed Former *Preznit, but his entire stinking party (I’m detecting more urgency from Reich on this stuff, which is definitely welcome, though it’s not like he’s been a slouch or anything...far from it)...



...and continuing under the heading of U.S. House Republican idiocy, I need to present the following...I don’t know anything about reporter Jim DeFede in Flori-DUUH!, but boy, does he do yeoman work here holding congresswoman Maria Salazar’s feet to the proverbial fire on Salazar taking credit for $$ brought to her district from bills she voted against (and kudos to Brian Tyler Cohen for pointing out that USPS “cluster” where their pensions need to be funded 75 years into the future in an effort to bankrupt the postal service...yeah, exactly NO ORGANIZATION ON EARTH has to deal with a pension burden like that! – more here)...



...well, for a contrast, I’d like to offer the following, and that is Dem U. S. House Rep Dan Goldman speaking out against the impeachment of DHS Secretary Mayorkas in this video from Daily Kos...I think this clip sums up the typical wingnut nonsense on this issue pretty well...



...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” from 1/31/18, in which Kyle Kulinski tells us about an article in The Guardian that asks “Why does it cost $32,093 to give birth in the U.S.,” and I’m sure the cost has only increased from that over the last 6 years...important to remember when you hear the wingnuts screeching about the declining white birth rate in this country...NSFW/H...



...and I thought it was great to hear that Jon Stewart is coming back to “The Daily Show,” but I have a feeling that he’ll be toned down a bit from what is displayed in the following clip...still, though, Stewart on a part-time basis and in a bit of a modified form is still a very welcome development...we’ll see (more here)...



...and six of the nine Repug candidates for the CO-04 seat have criminal records, huh? That sounds like a good excuse for this tune.

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.

Monday Stuff

Jesse Dollemore discusses the $83.3 million verdict against Our Ochre Abomination in the latest E. Jean Carroll defamation suit... it really is unbelievable when you consider that all #45 had to do was shut his vile orange maw and not keep spouting BS at Carroll, but even that was too much to ask...also, this clip pretty much shows up Alina Habba for being the clueless legal neophyte that she is (she thinks she can "fake being smart"...uh, no - more here)...



...and I thought Farron Cousins did a pretty good job here of analyzing how Biden should handle Texas guv Greg Abbott basically saying “F.U.” to the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR and continuing to put up the barbed wire in the Rio Grande river to kill migrants trying to enter this country...I think Biden ought to wake up Merrick Garland and tell him to go petition the Supremes to try and get an arrest warrant against Abbott if he continues...I would love to see Biden federalize the Texas National Guard also, but that would be handing an issue gift-wrapped to the wingnuts at a time when they’re sinking because of the millstone around their necks in the distinct corpulent form of Combover Caligula...



...and under the heading of crazy Republicans, John and David Shuster (not them of course) discuss U.S. House Rep Nancy Mace apparently wishing to get punched in the face during the 1/6 insurrection...in addition to the great points raised here (especially Mace’s BS towards AOC, with Mace getting put out because the Dem NY rep faced trauma for real, as opposed to the South Carolina rep imagining it apparently), I’m kind of wondering also if Mace believed the nonsense that the insurrectionists weren’t just Dems in disguise and sought combat for that reason as well...



...and we shouldn’t ignore Repug insanity on the state level also as opposed to federally...this Joel Kitchens character of the assembly in Wisconsin sez that he’s an abortion expert because he knows about breeding livestock...just say “oops” and get out (with Sharon Reed and Rayyvana – I think Reed needs to work on her presentation, to be honest...either that, or let Rayyvana take the lead instead...more here)...



...and I’m glad to hear Beau blow up some political clichés here, in particular about getting more conservative as you get older...one of the better analyses IMO on what constitutes the mindset of a Repug voter...and yeah, looks like the boomers are heading for the last electoral roundup as opposed to the Gen Zers and millennials, including LGBTQ folk of course...cry me a freaking river...



..and RIP '60s hipster Melanie Safka.