Friday Stuff

Kyle Kulinski tells us about the crew of Fix and Fiends taking a moment to pray to Jesus...yes, I believe prayer is very important (that’s just how I roll – not proselytizing, I wish to emphasize), but it sounds hollow and self-serving and absolutely nothing more from those frauds, particularly when they’re trying to plug something called the “Hallow” app for a few bucks (and doing this during Lent is indeed the cherry on the icing of this sh*t sundae)...



...and Mike Figueredo informs us that outraged forced birthers are turning on Repugs for supporting IVF...and it’s hard to believe that Nancy Mace is actually this dumb to not know what her “Life at Conception” Act does to IVF, but maybe she truly is this much of a dim bulb...and when even Alabama Repugs reverse course on trying to ban IVF...well, you KNOW that they REALLY stepped into the doo-doo on this...more on AZ Sen. Eva Burch is here (NSFW/H)...



...and turning to Our Treasonous Orange Pestilence, this clip of Republican Voters Against Trump presents Paul Smith of Orlando, FL, who voted for Tangerine Palpatine in ’16 and states categorically that he’ll never do so again...welcome to the fight (of course, it would be nice if he’d support Biden, but at least it’s a step in the right direction...slightly NSFW/H)...



...and Farron Cousins echoes those sentiments a bit when he tells us how folks are shocked and disgusted by the recent “bloodbath” comment from Our Ochre Abomination, as well as his dehumanizing language about immigrants of course...



...oh, and don’t look now, but some wingnut Repug from Colorado Springs named Joe Oltmann called for killing President Biden... sounds like somebody needs a visit from the Secret Service (and let’s not forget that Colorado Springs, in addition to inflicting us with Bo-Bo Boebert, is generally the epicenter of wingnut fundamentalism in this country...Jesse is absolutely right when he says that this garbage shouldn’t be ignored)...



...and here’s kind of a dreamy newer tune to help us close out the week...another Nordic wonder IMO, with some help from Little Steven.

Thursday Stuff

John and Brett Erlich of The Damage Report discuss some Fix Noise hairdo named Hillary Vaughn, who argues with Bernie Sanders about the VT senator’s proposal for a 32-hour work week (“oooh, corporate America will suffer! How dare you, you dastardly lib!”...and great point about productivity gains going to investors and shareholders as opposed to, y’know, THE DAMN WORKERS WHO ACTUALLY PRODUCE THE DAMN GAINS IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!)...



...and in this video from “The Classroom” at More Perfect Union (with Brooke Shuman), we learn about how corporate greed is killing your hospital emergency room...and yeah, if you guessed that private equity is at the heart of this disgusting scenario...well, then you get a complimentary bedpan and emesis basin (offer is good for a limited time only of course...yep, PE taking over community medical centers, experienced staff are being replaced by workers in a “pool” who may or may not be as good, there are longer wait times for patients along with higher bills, and all of this leads to the inevitable lawsuits...we know the story, don’t we?)...



...and David Pakman discusses this Guy Reschenthaler assclown who asks the equally nutzoid Maria Bartiromo why you shouldn’t need a photo ID to vote if you need one for a driver’s license (great points by Pakman about driving as a privilege, as opposed to the constitutional right of voting...I mean, the poll workers make you sign a form if voting in person in order to check your signature, but I realize facts and logic don’t really apply here...and no, for the zillionth goddamn time, illegal immigrants CAN’T FREAKING VOTE, YOU MORONS!)...



...and Thom Hartmann tells us about chlormequat, a pesticide linked to reproductive and developmental issues in animals that is supposed to be used only on decorative plants and isn’t supposed to be used in our food, though it’s managed to infiltrate oat products (big surprise...not, along with a typically ridiculous update on the efforts to ban IVF in Alabama...more here)...



...and in an effort to conclude this post on a bit of an upbeat note, I thought I’d add this clip of Beau telling us about China proposing a nuclear treaty of sorts...I’m old enough to recall a time when we used to do stuff like this, but it’s still good news as long as SOMEBODY is putting this idea forward...



...and happy recent 80th birthday to John Sebastian.

Tuesday Stuff

Jesse Dollemore informs us that Mango Mussolini recently predicted a “bloodbath” if he isn’t elected preznit again this fall...and yes, that is what he meant, and no, he wasn’t talking about freaking auto imports! (and I gave Ryan Grim more credit on this stuff, but ANYBODY in our corporate media appears to be contractually obligated to play this game of “well, Trump is nuts and he tried to destroy our democracy, but he’s good for ratings and JOE BIDEN IS SOOO OLD”)...beyond pathetic...and as I watched that utterly vile second clip, I was hoping I could locate the EPA dome from the Simpsons movie and drop it right over that damn Bundt rally in Dayton, particularly during that horrible narration about the 1/6 “hostages,” implying that these treasonous bastards are somehow “patriots” (more here)...



Update 3/30/24: More spot-on analysis from the guy who's too good at his job to have his own show on that "liberal" TV network (here).

...and nothing against Mike Figueredo, but I guess we need to go through this ridiculous parsing exercise with Tangerine Palpatine since his mental faculties are so sketchy (“What did he REALLY say?” Was he REALLY calling for violence?”), but these words are from a guy who openly advocated for the destruction of our government on 1/6/21 and basic did nothing for hours while the subsequent riot unfolded...I think this whole mess in Dayton, Ohio the other day was a very thinly veiled call to arms to “the great unwashed,” and to treat it as anything other than that is dangerously short sighted (NSFW/H)...



...and Ali Velshi discusses Combover Caligula’s recent antics with Susan Glasser of The New Yorker...yes, I know it’s tiresome to keep pointing out this stuff, but I believe that attention must be paid also, particularly when it comes to the lies on top of the lies on top of the lies from this delusional, craven, narcissistic, treasonous orange meat sack...



...and stepping back from Dementia J. Trump for a minute, Farron Cousins gives us a follow up on the Kris Kobach thing in Kansas where Kobach is big mad at that commie socialist Biden for wanting to replace lead pipes...looks like Mayor Pete injected some reality into the discussion...oh, but of course, wingnut Kobach is going to keep flogging this anyway since I guess he thinks it’s an election winner of a policy to associate Republicans with FREAKING LEAD POISONING, PEOPLE, along with the fact that the “party of Lincoln” in the U.S. House slashed the funds from the Biden budget to fix the problem (which Kobach knows and ignores of course)...



...and this More Perfect Union clip tells us about a disabled vet in Pearce, AZ, who bought a home and property only to see an agribusiness come in (some outfit called Riverview) and buy up all of the water (along with some other corporate miscreants because of the state’s lax water management policy...kind of reminds me of the plot of the James Bond flick “Quantum of Solace”...so sorry to hear about what this man and others are going through, and I hope they’re able to fix the problem, though I know it will be a tough fight to do it)...



...and I know I haven’t had much to say about Bibi the Butcher and his incursion into Gaza, but it looks like we’re dealing with a Biblical scale of catastrophe, as Beau informs us (dear God)...



...all of which is cheered on by Our Treasonous Orange Pustule, as David Doel tells us (along with Wonder Boy Jared Kushner looking to profit off the dead bodies of Palestinians)...and I realize that trying to parse common sense out of our demented toddler of a former *preznit is a fool’s exercise that this point, but the Iran nuclear deal HAS NOT ONE FREAKING THING ON EARTH TO DO WITH WHAT IS HAPPENING IN GAZA!!!!...



...and here’s a newer tune that comes and goes in a bit of a hurry...hopefully Bronzer Beelzebub will do the same thing after we vanquish him this fall (yeah, I can dream, can’t I?).

Monday Stuff

Looks like the Trumpers have settled on the whole “are you better off now than 4 years ago” thing from “Saint Reagan,” which is a typically preposterous campaign strategy IMO; Chris Hayes gives us more details (great mashup of Dementia J. Trump’s typically idiotic ramblings vs. the actual reality we were dealing with in 2020)...



...oh, and when it comes to COVID-19, let’s not forget #45’s handling of the pandemic, which was every bit the catastrophe we could have expected, as this WaPo clip reminds us...



...and in this “I Doubt It” clip with Jesse Dollemore and Brittany Page, we’re informed that MAGA nutjobs are trying to take over social media before election, including King Elon I acting like a typical spoiled nepo baby hardass in an interview with Don Lemon on “X,” to the point where he pulled the plug on the Lemon interview, along with aspiring James Bond villain Steve Mnuchin trying to buy Tik Tok...more here and here (NSFW/H)...



...and Sam and Emma of The Majority Report discuss the narrative that retail theft is supposedly on the rise, propagated by wingnuts and corporate media (and business trade organizations), which falls apart big time under analysis in the “cold light of day”...in reality, chains decide to close stores for business reasons (making more $$ at other locations and closing stores that don’t make as much $$, as well as price gouging of course...that “Politics of Everything” clip about the profile of someone who shoplifts was interesting, I thought; God forbid we do anything at all to try and address root cause issues here, primarily drug addiction)...



...and that’s probably a good transition, sadly, into this Leeja Miller clip on homelessness...interesting background on the Grants Pass v. Johnson case due to come before the SCOTUS...and a 12 percent increase in homelessness between 2022 and 2023? 653K people? Ugh...”The way that we treat people experiencing homelessness is inhumane” indeed...I had a feeling that the exacerbation of the homeless problem in this country was going to fall right into the goddamn lap of The Sainted Ronnie R, and color me shocked when it turned out that I was right...not surprised that we’re so low when it comes to public restrooms per population; yeah, just pick yourselves up by your damn bootstraps and find a porta-potty, you slackers (snark mode off)...didn’t know about the design of public benches meant to discourage unhoused people from sleeping on them; I also didn’t know about “charitable feeding ordinances” to prevent helping out those who are destitute and in need of food...and it sure figures that the National Association of Realtors is trying so hard to preserve the wretched status quo, along with conservative “think tanks”...terrible in particular to see what has happened to HUD over time, and I’m not surprised also to find that the little $$ they DO get goes to vouchers for Section 8 housing...I admire the work that Miller puts into these videos, and what she says is important, but it does take a while to digest it all I’ll admit (NSFW/H)...



...and happy belated 70th birthday to Nancy Wilson of Heart.