Friday Stuff

(By the way, I typically don’t watch the State of the Union address regardless of who’s giving it, but based on preliminary indications, it looks like Biden acquitted himself pretty well, so good for him...and of course, the usual idiots acted the way we would expect. I’ll keep an eye out for further videos on this and I may include them later.)

Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report lets us know that Mango Mussolini recently said that Israel should “finish the problem” concerning Gaza (and Andy Ogles definitely didn’t “cover himself in glory” either...yes, it’s true that I don’t agree with Biden’s handling on this also, but would you actually be willing to trust Dementia J. Trump on this matter instead, or anything else?)...



...and Jesse Dollemore tells us about Bill Hemmer of Fix Noise whining that CNN and MSNBC won’t let Tangerine Palpatine get away with lying in his gonzo speeches after the recent primaries...and as far as Harris Faulkner goes on being “fair” to Biden, I give you this (NSFW/H)...



...and on the subject of insane Republicans, Ronny Chieng of The Daily Show tells us about this Trumpist goofball Mark Robinson, running for guv in North Carolina, because of course (mildly NSFW/H)...



...and Brian Tyler Cohen tells us that the wingnuts are losing what’s left of their minds over Taylor Swift encouraging people to vote again...good for her (clip includes a little more background on Swift’s commendable opposition to Big Hair Blackburn in her home state)...



...and Sean Morrow of More Perfect Union tells us about the company buying up Subway and the rest of our favorite chains, with 1.4 million employees total (yep, it’s Roark Capital, another one of these private equity vultures, run by Neal Aronson...and I guess the “chef’s kiss” in this is the ridiculous homage to Ayn Rand’s character in “The Fountainhead,” on top of low wages and wage theft...charming...interesting history on advances with the NLRB under Obama that were gutted by Our Treasonous Orange Pustule, though “Dark Brandon” is trying to fix that mess with President Manchin running interference to preserve the odious status quo)...



...and happy International Women's Day.

Wednesday Stuff

Beau provides some info on the air drops of food into Gaza from President Biden – stopping arms shipments to Israel and calling for a cease fire is best IMO, but this is somewhat positive also (I like Beau’s snarky tone, which I think is apropos for some of the questions)...

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...and Sam and Emma of The Majority Report bring us the news of “Curtsy Kyrsten” deciding to leave the U.S. Senate and (as mentioned in the clip) likely to head to some type of ceremonial figurehead role where she can cash in without having to do any work (as opposed to the bare minimum she already did...and my God, am I SICK AND TIRED of listening to this wretched woman blaming “partisanship” for leaving “the world’s greatest deliberative body”...what about opposing a federal $15 minimum wage? Fighting for the carried interest loophole? That paid wine internship, of all things? Ugh...)...



...and I know I’m a little late on this, but Jesse Dollemore informs us of our thoroughly compromised SCOTUS deciding to keep Our Ochre Abomination on the ballot, in response to Colorado quite rightly trying to boot him for trying to overturn the '20 election (though they don’t say #45 is not an insurrectionist...SOME justice anyway...more here)...



...and it looks like Nikki Haley is packing it in even though she won the Washington, D.C. primary as well as Vermont’s...whatever it takes to peel off votes from Dementia J. Trump, but yeah, the odds of her winning were daunting from the start (though there were a bunch of issues with Haley’s candidacy anyway on policy reasons alone...Farron Cousins tells us more, including the inevitable meltdown from you-know-who on Truth Septic)...



...and Retired Army Maj. Richard Ojeda tells us about actor Ed O’Neill’s story of a Trump plaque on one of his golf courses about a battle having to do with the “river of blood” on the Potomac...yeah, #45 is lying yet again (and kudos to O’Neill for deciding to return his honorary degree from Youngstown State as noted here)...



...and I need a bit of a newer tune as a pick-me-up to get over the “hump day,” and I think this does that nicely.

Monday Stuff

John of The Damage Report tells us that it looks like there’s some “good news, bad news” stuff for Bo-Bo Boebert in some recent polling (I said I’d lay off her kid, but definitely not the U.S. House mistake from CO-03, for now)...looks like her name recognition is helping a little, but not enough to overcome her unfavorable stuff it seems (great point IMO by John wondering if anybody is going to help Boebert...wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for that, though you’d think they would for the reasons John mentions...to do something about her, click here)...



...and God bless those brave Russians who turned out for the funeral of Alexei Navalny, putting themselves in danger for the reasons noted in the clip...Navalny’s widow should be allowed to come to this country and address a joint session of Congress (with Ben Gleib, Cenk and Mark Thompson)...



...and David Doel discusses the IDF opening fire on starving Palestinians because those seeking food made the soldiers feel “unsafe”...and oh yeah, apparently the UNRWA allegations that broke around the time of the ICJ ruling of a genocide in Gaza were BS also (the UNRWA stuff I mean)...at first I blamed “Bibi” pretty much exclusively for this, but after reading that quote from Israel’s national defense minister...well, let’s just say that I wanted to smash my keyboard into about a hundred pieces...yes, I know that’s pointless, but it’s about as meaningful as anything the IDF can come up with based on what we’re finding out in these videos (and 17K WCNSFs – dear God)...NSFW/H...



...and related to the slaughter in Gaza, this TMR clip with Emma and Matt Binder is about 37:00, but it’s important IMO...the “paper of record” was busted based on reporting in The Intercept by Ryan Grim, Jeremy Scahill and Daniel Boguslaw...the report by the three has to do with the Times’s in-depth piece by Anat Schwartz last December about Hamas using sexual violence in the 10/7 attack; I’m sure that happened, and those bastards need to be held to account for that, but you wouldn’t know that for certain based on the Times’s alleged “reporting”... Schwartz sounds like she’s qualified for OAN but not much else (and maybe I should blame Jeffrey Gettleman also, but I don’t...I think Schwartz was way out of her depth here)...



...and I know there are folks out there with their drawers all twisted in knots over the latest polling having to do with #46 (I think some of this is the fault of Team Biden, but overwhelmingly, our allegedly august corporate media is to blame also IMO, obsessing over Biden’s age when #45 IS ONLY THREE YEARS YOUNGER, IS SUNSETTING AND WANTS TO DESTROY OUR DEMOCRACY!!!)...well, David Pakman gives us a clip of Gavin Newsom tearing it up in defense of “Dark Brandon”...



...and I had to admit that I got a bit of a kick out of this item...it looks like the RNC is trying to prevent the Gropenfuhrer from cleaning out the funds of that morally bankrupt organization in order to pay his legal costs (Farron Cousins brings us more info)...



...and Chris Hayes tells us about The Roger Ailes BS Factory beating the drum on “migrant crime” because they literally have nothing else to attack Biden over – what a pathetic bunch that network of lying frauds truly is...



...and on this day 40 years ago, The Police played the last date of their Synchronicity tour in Melbourne, Australia...they wouldn’t reunite until 2007.