Friday Stuff

Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich reminds us that Mango Mussolini will try to take credit for the Biden economy, because of course...can’t tell you how exasperating it is to view all of this data and know that Biden still lost; tells you how insidious and omnipresent right-wing BS is in our media and what passes for political discourse...also, I would blame the absolute, cruel failure to give Biden credit for anything whatsoever on the economy, which depressed turnout and aided in registering Republican voters, which was off the charts last year in our beloved commonwealth, sadly...if you want to take #46 to task for Israel, fine, but that’s another discussion (and I’ve already spent a lot of time haranguing the Dems for finding a way to lose to our bulbous orange demagogue, so I’ll hold off on that for now)...



..and Jesse Dollemore gives us the latest on the utterly terrible D.C. helicopter/plane crash, which killed 67 people...I still can’t believe that we’re going to be looking at four more years of preposterous bullsh*t from this utterly lazy POS – yeah, Big Orange Cheetoh, the FAA was recruiting mentally disabled people or whatever under Biden, which is why THERE WERE EXACTLY NO HORRIBLE INCIDENTS OF THIS TYPE UNDER YOUR PREDECESSOR!!!...and yeah, if you have “common sense,” then I’m a freaking summa cum laude Ph.D. (and I definitely am NOT, for the record)...and this clueless meat sack said he wanted to rebuild the FAA, but he lost the election?? God, I’m already done with this ochre turd!! (slightly NSFW/H).

And by the way, as an astute YouTube commenter noted:

January 20 – Trump fires the head of the Federal Aviation Administration, the department in charge of flight safety
January 21 – Trump freezes hiring for air traffic controllers
January 22 – Trump disbands the Aviation Safety Advisory Committee
January 28 – Trump sends out a buyout/retirement demand to existing employees, removing experienced safety staff
January 29 – First American mid-air collision in 16 years.

Here is the Dollemore clip...



...and David Doel gives us more on issues with the FAA that led to this tragedy...and yes, this goes back to Biden and before, but really, it’s the fault of Congressional underfunding...and good job by Doel to point out YET AGAIN how our corporate media gives Our Treasonous Orange Pestilence cover, this time over #47’s ridiculous DEI charge...and I almost feel like I need to apologize for including more clips from this lying orange abomination (this report echoes info in the above list I know)...and suuure, privatization is supposedly the answer for air traffic controllers, right? Dear God (and that story about the San Carlos airport should be front page news everywhere)...again, if standards for air traffic controllers were allegedly so low under Obama and Biden, then HOW COME THERE WERE NO AIR DISASTERS UNTIL #47 CAME ALONG???!!! (NSFW/H)...



...given all this, what do we have in response from the “opposition” party? Well, Sam of The Majority Report gives us the latest on that (and by the way, “leader” Jeffries in the U.S. House, I was always taught that God helps those who help themselves)...and I don’t want to get started on Schumer, though part of me wants to...how about a little “fire in the belly,” Chuck?? And yeah, leading with “We didn’t defund the police”?? WHY ARE YOU STILL ECHOING BS REPUG TALKING POINTS???!!! TIME TO GO ON OFFENSE, YOU FREAKING COWARD!! At least J.B. Pritzker in Illinois is doing what he’s supposed to (NSFW/H also, though Sam’s outrage is commendable IMO)....



...and Farron Cousins of Ring of Fire tells us here about how, basically, the world is laughing at Cantaloupe Capone, still over his first administration (Cousins recorded this before the deadly air crash, it should be noted)...can’t possibly imagine what will be the result of this next ruinous term (and yeah, I also can’t imagine the tidal wave of garbage from Combover Caligula that has managed to get the “memory hole” treatment, and it is indeed curious that this is coming out only now as Cousins says...good to get in a plug for Ground News - media literacy should be taught in every school in this nation)...



...and RIP Marianne Faithfull, a true rock n’ roll survivor who was once linked romantically with Mick Jagger (I always thought the Rolling Stones tune “Wild Horses” was about Jagger and Faithfull, but apparently, I was wrong about that...it happens, what can I say?).