Thursday Stuff

Lawrence O’Donnell gives us more great work discussing the media double standard of blowing off the “garbage man” Gropenfuhrer’s ridiculous and utterly childish behavior but coming down with a case of the vapors if President Biden says anything that could be remotely twisted into meaning something similar...and yeah, it looks like J.P. Mandel (I guess that’s what Couch Boy used to be called...more on him later) was the only candidate running for higher office to refer to the leader of Cult 45 as Hitler...surprised?...also not shocked unfortunately by the obscenity of another woman dying in Texas for the “crime” of needing abortion for a miscarriage...



Update 1: How apropos that Dementia J. Trump is unable to open a garbage truck door on the first try..but Biden was the only candidate with a motor skill deficit and cognitive issues...sure he was (here).

...and this clip from The Lincoln Project does another good job of demonstrating the difference of the vision for this country represented by Our Ochre Abomination versus that of Kamala Harris...I’m not 100 percent sure why the DNC doesn’t follow suit with similar messaging (if they are, I have to admit that I can’t find any example of it), but even though the Lincoln Project is composed of yesterday and probably tomorrow’s “Never Trump” Republicans, they continue to do great work in this campaign...



...and Robert Reich informs us that Mango Mussolini will try to exploit something called the “red mirage” when election returns start coming in next Tuesday; we have to be on guard not to fall for more of his typical BS...



...and on the subject of election nonsense, Farron Cousins lets us know that PA Repug committee person Valerie Biancanello in Delaware County was taken out in handcuffs for allegedly harassing people waiting in line to vote (more here)...



...and Leeja Miller tells us about a Mother Jones article linking “Couch Boy” J.D. Vance to these “TheoBros” in this country, led by some character named Doug Wilson, who want to “purify” the U.S. in accordance with their typically twisted vision, claiming that, if you oppose racism and want to be respectful of our country’s mistreatment of marginalized groups and work towards a more just and inclusive society, then you actually hate America...and of course, they want to utterly grind women under their heel...sick bastards, the lot of them...



Update 2: Gee guys, to me, it sounds like the message is simple...don’t be assh*les (here).

...and we know this is the season for political monsters, witches and goblins, if you will, but all the same, I hope you manage to have a Happy Halloween.

Wednesday Stuff

Kyle Kulinski tells us that our allegedly dutiful corporate media mostly ignored the proposal from Kamala Harris that would expand Medicare to cover in-home health care for 15 million seniors...yep, par for the course all right – there are times when I definitely disagree with Kyle, but he’s spot-on here when it comes to our beyond-awful “fourth estate” refusing to cover policy, as opposed to their nonstop infatuation with the “horserace”...and I’ll have to add the term “narrative humpers” to my lexicon, I see (NSFW/H)...



Update: And what a fine, upstanding "Christian" man "MAGA Mike" Johnson is...in a pig's eye (here).

...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ brings us this item about MAGA assclowns in Missouri getting busted for stealing Harris-Walz signs...and indeed, it is a felony to steal election campaign signs if the theft exceeds a dollar value, which in this case appears to be $200...I know that there are places in Bucks County, PA, for example, where there WERE Harris/Walz, Bob Casey and Ashley Ehasz signs that were taken and in some cases replaced (here), but unfortunately I don’t have enough information to try and bring charges against anybody...Shuster also discusses the revelations from John Kelly about A Certain Treasonous Orange Pestilence liking Hitler (a charge which, by the way, I have not heard a denial of from Cantaloupe Capone)...and I knew this Scott Jennings fool on CNN was bad, but man oh man, did he screw the metaphorical pooch with his response to Kelly...



...and I know this clip from the Lincoln Project is a rehash of stuff we already knew about when it comes to Bronzer Beelzebub, but we can’t become numb to this garbage...powerful people and institutions are apparently loathe to hold Our Ochre Abomination to account, so it is indeed up to us to do that six days from now...



...and RIP Teri Garr...she shone in so many memorable roles, displaying a deft comedic touch...definitely enjoyable to watch her do the talk show thing with Letterman and Carson back in the day...as TV legend has it, Gene Roddenberry was trying to launch a spinoff from “Stark Trek” which I believe was to be titled “Assignment: Earth,” with Garr and Robert Lansing...the pilot for the show was never made; would have been interesting to see how that would have turned out...



...and happy 85th birthday to the one and only Grace Slick...



...and here is another seasonal selection.

Tuesday Stuff

Leeja Miller’s latest video reminds us that, yes for certain, Combover Caligula is a fascist...clip does a compare and contrast exercise in the matter of Former President Drumpf and a certain maniacal Austrian failed art student (wonder what would have happened if his old man had just let him paint postcards or something?)...important history on the rise of the Nazis in Germany, and yes, it isn’t hyperbole to say there are comparisons to what we’re facing at the moment, especially when Miller goes down her four-point checklist at the end...wonder if any of this stuff occurs to the life forms sticking up their beyond-obnoxious Trump/Vance signs everywhere? Probably not (and I’m glad to see that she worked in the Kochs, including Davey, who may be doing somersaults in hell at this moment...and kudos to Miller also for working in Project 2025), and as far as I'm concerned, that recent MSG hatefest was a nod to this...



...and in keeping with Miller’s video, Lawrence O’Donnell opines that reporters must ask Bronzer Beelzebub what good things Hitler did (more important history here on WWII, and I was also glad to hear about the Taft family endorsement of Sherrrod Brown for U.S. Senate; Brown is a great Dem and deserves all the support we can provide, along with PA’s Bob Casey)...



...and David Pakman informs us about MAGA a**holes booing a reporter’s question about #45’s running mate Couch Boy accepting the ’24 election results...and again, these minions (along with the “tech bros” VP pic) keep pushing the insane lie that the ’20 election was fraudulent, no matter how many f*cking times you try to explain logically to these nematodes that BIDEN WON FAIR AND SQUARE AND OUR OCHRE ABOMINATION LOST!!! And yeah, leave it to this Ohio assclown to encourage an alternate slate of electors, which is ELECTION FRAUD FOR REAL!!!...



...and I guess I’m a little late with this, so apologies...David Doel discusses Tim Walz calling Elon Musk a dipshit, which is spot-on IMO...GREAT point about how ridiculous it is to, in essence, argue that we’re a “center-right” country politically when progressive policies poll so well...I honestly think Doel is overdoing it a bit with his criticism of the Harris campaign for allegedly moving to the center ideologically at the behest of some Biden folks working for her, but he does offer spirited support of economic policies from Harris/Walz, particularly regarding school lunches and raising our Dickensian federal minimum wage...



...and John Russell of More Perfect Union tells the story of fracking waste stored in an Ohio town by a company called Austin Master Services, and yeah, this goes back to fracking in “Frackalachia” (hadn’t heard that term before, but maybe I should have I’ll admit), and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources wasn’t much help here, until the folks at Martin’s Ferry dragged them kicking and screaming to make Austin Master Services clean up their mess, which should have happened before the parent company declared bankruptcy...you can chalk this up to corporate exploitation of the fact that people in this region and elsewhere need good paying jobs to survive in our end stage extraction economy, where every damn thing in the world is monetized, and you can also chalk it up to brave activism by the folks in Martin’s Ferry...



...and I think it's about time to get into some selections for "All Hallows Eve" with this number.

Monday Stuff

Thom Hartmann asks what will happen to the Repug Party if Combover Caligula loses (rest assured, however; this will be a fight to the end, and we have to keep giving it all we’ve got...I’ve been all over southeast PA, and if this campaign in PA were based solely on the sign proliferation, it would be close as hell...I saw a headline that Repugs in Montco got rid of “hundreds” of Harris/Walz signs, which is typically lowdown for that bunch)...Thom gives another important history lesson, this time on former SCOTUS Justice Lewis Powell and the beyond wretched Bellotti decision in 1978, which indeed pushed open the door for money to corrupt our politics, with that door being nearly blown off its metaphorical hinges by Citizens United...Thom also mentions the Anderson case, which has to do with Colorado’s attempt to exclude you-know-who from the presidential ballot because of his incitement to insurrection, citing Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, and the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR made up more legal nonsense out of whole cloth again to argue that that state doesn't have the right to do that in the case of Bronzer Beelzebub...yeah, right...



...and Miss Beau informs us of the recent rally at MSG for Our Ochre Abomination where some conservative “comedian” named Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage (here)...yeah, that stuff will REALLY play with independent voters, especially in PA, as Miss Beau says...keep it up; you’re doing great...



...and Capitol Police Officer Daniel Hodges gives us some of the reality perspective on what happened on 1/6/21, as a cautionary reminder for anybody out there contemplating a vote for Our Treasonous Orange Pestilence, who cheered on the near catastrophe of that day (though it was plenty bad enough as it was...clip is more good work from The Lincoln Project)...



...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less), and this time we’re taking a quick trip around the corner pretty much back to 10/26/23, in which Robert Reich informs us of the utter con behind “No Labels,” which Bri-Fi has championed with typical deceit, as noted here (and to do something about our wet noodle PA-01 U.S. House rep, please click here)...



...and “tomorrow is too late” indeed; this clip from Eleven Films pretty much puts the stakes of the election into utterly clear focus (for the White House for sure, but Congress also really), as if somehow we needed to be reminded at this point...



...and RIP Phil Lesh of The Grateful Dead.