Friday Stuff

I realize I’m playing catch up on a lot of this stuff because the week got away from me a bit, but here it is anyway...Kyle Kulinski tells us about John Oliver’s recent bit on paying Clarence “I Want To Be Rich” Thomas $1 million a year along with throwing in a $2.4 mil RV if he’d get his mangy ass off the Supreme Court (as is so often a case anymore, we need a comedian to lead the way into informed discourse)...



...and staying with the High Court of Hangin' Judge JR, Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report tells us about “Strip Search Sammy” Alito acting like he wants to overturn Obergefell, which Thomas has already signaled he wants to do also, with Alito’s alleged reasoning being that extending basic human rights and protections to same-sex couples somehow offends the delicate sensibilities of alleged “Christians” like Alito...and these Philistines actually wonder why church attendance is down in this country (no controlling these freaks except to try and pack the court, which Biden won’t do of course)...



....and going from intolerance in court to intolerance in state government, MSNBC’s Katy Tur interviews an Alabama couple directly impacted by their state’s recent ruling on frozen embryos that may necessitate shutting down that state's IVF clinic (more here...and on this, I give you another example of Political Opportunism 101 here...more on the nutzoid behind this barbarity is here)...



...and Beau tells us that the “party of Lincoln” assclowns in the U.S. House apparently got ahold of some intel about Russia SOMETHING SOMETHING SATELLITE SOMETHING SOMETHING NUCLEAR and proceeded to lose their damn minds, though they decided to take their two-week vacation anyway...more to come on this I’m sure, but considering the source, I’m definitely not convinced of anything (not a knock on Beau, I wish to emphasize)...



...and if we’re talking about the alleged loyal opposition, we have to devote some time to the story of their alleged source on the alleged world-shattering Biden corruption, Alexander Smirnov, who turned out to be a Russian agent, and now these bottom feeders are scrambling to get rid of any mention of Smirnov, as well as acting like “oh, him? Why, we didn’t know anything about him. Who is he again?”...utterly wretched...and isn’t it just too precious to see that disgusting harpie and alleged “news” person Harris Faulkner casually ask if Christopher Wray should go to prison, which would be repulsive even if the Smirnov stuff did NOT turn out to be utter BS...and oh yeah, let’s not forget “Cancun” Ted (“PODCAST!”) Cruz also (Jesse Dollemore tells us about it...more here)...NSFW/H...



...and this newer tune has a bit of a dark twist to it, but it’s still a pretty cool rocker to help us get ready for the weekend...hope it’s a good one for one and all.

Wednesday Stuff

OK, I hope everyone who lost their damn minds last week over Jon Stewart have managed to calm down enough to appreciate him once again for taking The Swanson TV Dinner Heir to task over his recent fawning treatment of Russia and Vlad The Butcher...and yeah, the stuff about Tuckums and the grocery carts allegedly being stolen by homeless people and his total lack of push back against Putin claiming that Poland was responsible for Hitler’s invasion truly were lowlights for sure...and nicely done by Stewart to work in the intrigue surrounding the death of Alexei Navalny also...



...and Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins tell us that the merger of the Kroger and Albertsons food chains have exposed the former company’s ties to human trafficking – “proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free” - snark...



...and Miranda Scholl of Rebel HQ brings us the tales of the latest Trumpist grifter named C.J. Pearson, who seems to be trying to pass himself off as some kind of faux religious cause celebre...it looks like Pearson is running for the Georgia state house...anti-LGBTQ, anti-DEI, anti-“critical race theory,” 2020 election denier, “Democrat” Party...yeah, Pearson checks all the boxes all right...



...and Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report discusses Big Hair Blackburn’s Internet censorship bill, something called KOSA (with Richard Blumenthal as a co-signer apparently, and OF COURSE Schumer supports it too, and Chris Murphy should know better IMO...ugh...I get it that this was driven by the recent Senate hearing about how kids are allegedly being groomed online...I’m sure there’s all kinds of disgusting stuff out there, but politicians generally like to take the exception and turn it into the rule, especially the “party of Lincoln”...definitely don’t like where this bill is going...NSFW/H)...



...and Emma of TMR tells us that Mara Liasson of NPR recently proclaimed that the 16-week abortion ban supported by Bronzer Beelzebub is somehow “centrist”...while our oh-so-august-in-their-imaginations members of the media/political/industrial complex like Liasson issue their proclamations that so-and-so is “playing the game” successfully by caving to the wingnuts and having it appear as a well-reasoned and calculated policy decision (see any post from Atrios about “centrist dipshits”), the lives of real people are going to be ruined in the meantime (I guess those are the folks underneath the “fly by” for Liasson and her buddies who are basically invisible to elitist “smart” media, which of course also includes Fix Noise, despite their protestations to the contrary...NSFW/H)...



...and happy 75th birthday to Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads.

Tuesday Stuff

John I. and Trae Crowder of The Damage Report discuss racist Emails from the border patrol that have recently surfaced...but since they were caught they promise to clean up their act – I’ll believe that when I see it (and a “tonk,” huh? From the sound of a migrant getting clubbed, apparently? Wonder what it sounds like for one of these cretins to get the same treatment they readily inflict on others?)...



...and speaking of the border, Farron Cousins tells us that impeaching DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas may bite Repugs in the ass, mainly because...gee, I dunno... THEY DIDN’T LIST ANY FREAKING CHARGES AGAINST THE GUY!! And their idiocy is going to be on display FOR THE WHOLE WORLD TO SEE in “the world’s greatest deliberative body” as Cousins says (with Marjorie Train Wreck Greene, who has zero legal training as Cousins notes, trying to argue the case...pass the popcorn)...



...and Beau tells us that President Biden is taking another shot at student debt relief, which he has already provided on a pretty big scale already as Beau says (about 3.5 million folks), though the screws were put to #46’s plan by Repug-appointed SCOTUS justices as noted here...



...and Ana and Cenk of TYT discuss the case of Dinesh D’Felon, who was recently forced to testify in front of a Georgia judge that – big surprise! – he has no stinking proof of voter fraud in the 2020 election (looks like “True The Vote” is shown up for lying frauds once again...more here)...



...and here’s a recurring public service announcement emphasizing the fact that we continue to live in a country with a grave issue to our health and well being that we possess barely any political will at all to try and resolve (here)...



...and I recently read that Carl Palmer has put together an AI tour of sorts for Emerson, Lake and Palmer, which is necessary because of the passing of his two former bandmates (here); I’ll reserve judgment until I learn more about it, but in the meantime, here is probably the band’s biggest hit.



Update 2/21/24: I think there’s something going on with Google Chrome and the way it’s playing these videos. I haven’t found this to be an issue with other browsers/operating systems. I may ping Blogger on this to find out if there’s anything I can do to get this fixed.