Friday Stuff

(I know my posting has been a bit off recently. I’m hoping to rectify that probably by next week.)

Farron Cousins tells us that Our Ochre Abomination has called for cuts to Medicare and Social Security, which is right out of his party’s wretched playbook I realize and definitely should NOT earn him bonus points with his party’s base of support – we’ll see of course (more here)...



...and Jesse Dollemore discusses the back-and-forth between Trumpist hack Robert Hur and U.S. House Dems Adam Schiff and Eric Swalwell in a recent U.S. House hearing over President Biden’s alleged mental lapses in Hur’s joke of a report...



...and Kyle Kulinski tells us about Jon Stewart’s recent commentary where Stewart went after “MAGA authoritarians” (and I realize that Kyle is NEVER going to get it through his head that, YES, THE RUSSIA STUFF WITH #45 WAS GODDAMN REAL!) (NSFW/H)...



...and kudos to Chris Hayes for presenting the difference between the administration of “Dark Brandon” and that of his ruinous predecessor in 21 charts – excellent work...



Update 4/5/24: More great stuff on Biden and the economy here; story has to do with fast food workers in California getting a much-deserved raise.

...and Faiz Shakir of More Perfect Union interviews the man corporate America is most afraid of, and that would be Jonathan Kanter of the DOJ’s antitrust division, for going after some of the people rigging the casino of our economy (including Agri Stats, an “intermediary” company impacting the meat processing industry, and if you’ve never heard of Agri Stats either, then that makes at least two of us...and I’d also never heard the term “choke point economy” either, and as far as I’m concerned, a non-compete agreement for a McDonald’s worker is absolutely ridiculous)...



...and this is sure a punch in the gut to end the week, sadly; RIP Karl Wallinger of World Party.

Wednesday Stuff

Well, since (as we know), the “party of Lincoln” has no desire to perform actual governance, particularly in the U.S. House, they apparently brought back this Robert Hur guy to testify to the alleged mental decline of President Biden...fortunately, Jerry Nadler of New York “brought the receipts” on that score for Tangerine Palpatine...



...and for a bit of emphasis, Farron Cousins discusses an ad from the Republican Accountability PAC about Our Ochre Abomination’s insanely fragile ego (more here)...



...and John and Francesca of The Damage Report tell us about the response from the woman behind Katie Britt’s incredibly inaccurate human trafficking story... Karla Jacinto Romero does her best to put the record straight (and I love Francesca’s tongue-in-cheek comment about Britt at the very end...more here)...



...and Thom Hartmann tells us about the insidious connection between alleged “do gooder” lobbyists and the typical deep-pocketed, well-funded bastards who want everything for themselves and seek to destroy what remains of our quality of life in this country in the process (clip focuses on New York state, but as Thom says, this is probably true throughout the country, unfortunately)...



Update 3/14/24: More here.

...and Mike Figueredo presents what might be the dumbest attack on Biden we’ve yet seen (and that’s saying something), and this comes from Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach over replacing lead pipes, which, to be honest, I thought we’d done already...shows what I know I guess...of course, the “unfunded mandate” part is a lie as usual, and the work to replace the pipes (which, again, ARE FREAKING LEAD!) would take place over a 10-year period...and Figueredo is spot-on to note that the Repugs will find a way to attack the EPA over this regardless of whether or not that attack actually makes any sense (NSFW/H)...



...and because I think we should keep a lookout for international stuff also, especially when it’s close to our shores, I give you this from Beau about the most recent unrest in Haiti...typical spot-on commentary, especially when it comes to letting that country choose who governs them apart from any outside influence, including from the U.S (and yes, Ariel Henry has already bailed as Beau mentioned)...



...and RIP Eric Carmen – this is another case where I kept going back and forth between two videos, but in the end, I said screw it and decided to include both of them.

Monday Stuff

I guess I went back on my word again when it comes to the State of the Union address from President Biden since I ended up paying attention to it after all – David Pakman brings us some highlights (didn’t see his follow-up video)...



...and for the opposing point of view, David Doel tells us about that borderline looney tune response from Alabama state senator Katie Britt (wonder if she thought she was auditioning for “High School Musical?”...more here, here and here)...



...and because pop culture imitation is the sincerest form of flattery (or ridicule I suppose), Mrs. Colin Jost of SNL (aka Scarlett Johansson) gives us this bit from the show the other night, which I have to confess was kind of funny IMO...guess I missed the joke with the teacup...



...and trying to keep things upbeat I guess, I give you this clip from Michael Kosta of The Daily Show on the REAL invasion at Eagle Pass, according to residents...yep, it’s from all of the damn National Guard people who were sent there by idiot politicians, though that “wetbacks” comment from the local Repug poobah rankles for sure...



...and in this Rebel HQ clip, Ben Gleib tells us about Repugs turning on Trump and allegedly supporting Nikki Haley, which is a problem for these folks with Haley now out of it...and yeah, aren’t those two testimonials against Haley from the MAGA crowd – the one man and the one woman – just so precious?...



...and congrats to all of last night’s winners at the Oscars, including Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey, Jr. (the only pic I ended up seeing was “Oppenheimer,” I must confess), as well as Temple’s own Da’Vine Joy Randolph for “The Holdovers,” which I will get to (here)...here is a tune for the occasion.