Jon Stewart gives us an update on the California wildfires...I honestly didn’t know about President Zelenskyy of Ukraine making an offer to send first responders; I can’t think of a word for that kind of compassion, with his country getting wracked all over the place by Vlad The Butcher...and yeah, “Coach Tubs” proves to be only a slightly bigger asshat than, collectively, the numbskull voters who decided that he belonged in the U.S. Senate in the first place (and again, voting out a terrific populist Democrat like Doug Jones)...I hadn’t realized how much I missed Stewart until I saw this clip...kind of dizzying to keep up with the wingnut BS getting spread all over the place, which is completely by design I know...and OMIGOD, IT’S ALL THE FAULT OF THE LESBIAN DEI FIREFIGHTERS WHO WON’T ‘SEED’ OUR CLOUDS TO MAKE MORE RAIN!! HAAAALP!!! (somewhat NSFW/H)...
...and Brian Tyler Cohen informs us of the train wreck that was the Pete Hegseth confirmation hearing...clip includes questions from Sens. Tim Kaine, Elizabeth Warren, and in particular Tammy Duckworth (I honestly didn’t know about ASEAN either, but then again, I haven’t been nominated for Secretary of Defense)...and yes, Jim Banks really is that big of a Trumpist lickspittle, and I’m surprised Markwayne Mullin didn’t challenge a Dem on the Senate Armed Services Committee to a fist fight, since that seems to be what Mullin does best (and I don’t know what the f*ck is wrong with the state of Montana...I don’t care if it’s “God’s country” or not; what kind of a mental defective do you have to be to vote out Jon Tester in favor of a craven, lying opportunist like Tim Sheehy?)...I hope everyone who ignored the pleas of Gen. Mark Milley and also John Kelly to not re-elect #45/47 are proud of themselves; I’m sure they are...
...and Richard Ojeda of Rebel HQ lets us know about Repug U.S. House Rep Mike Lawler giving Huckleberry Graham a bit of a reality check on the dough blue states send to red state money pits like South Carolina, all over the so-called “SALT deduction”...and isn’t it just too precious to see Graham pivot to “we’re a low tax state,” which is wingnut code for “our quality of life sucks, but we’re not going to admit that” (and gee, wouldn’t it be nice if one of our two major political parties showed some kind of backbone and pushed back on Graham over this instead of waiting for some intra-party infighting?)...”it’s not about governance, it’s about grift” indeed...
...and Farron Cousins brings us the tale of our incoming regime having trouble hiring staffers because of the insane loyalty demands to Bronzer Beelzebub according to a CBS News report...serves these idiots right (not CBS News of course)...
...and Sam Black of More Perfect Union tells us about “Made in America” manufacturers like John Deere moving jobs overseas, mainly to Mexico (interview in Ottumwa, Iowa with former Deere employee Chris Laursen...and yep, Deere made about $10 billion in profit and used it for stock buybacks and dividends, and instituting “tiers” among the workforce was more of the “divide and conquer” strategy used by Deere and other employers, including CASE...stop me if you’ve heard all of this before)...and yep, this horror show started in the ‘90s after NAFTA; more fool me for once supporting that awful agreement, a mistake I will NEVER make again (and how unsurprising is it that CASE closed its Iowa plant right after the election; you can tell how seriously they cared about Trump’s tariff threat, which the company wouldn’t ultimately pay for anyway)...and I’m sorry I don’t know what the Mexican gentleman is saying, but yeah, getting fired right after winning the union vote is par for the course all right, for Caterpillar and other corporate predators...and once again, Biden did the right thing to crack down on corporate labor abuses by enforcing the USMCA, one of the MANY accomplishments for which he received ZERO CREDIT...I don’t mean to be glib about this, but it’s utterly a fool’s errand to expect Cantaloupe Capone to do the right thing, especially since he intends to gut the manufacturing gains made under Biden...
...and today is the 60th anniversary of the release of “I Can’t Explain,” the first single from The Who, which reached #93 on the U.S. music charts, right smack in the middle of the hippy dippy ‘60s...and if you listen closely, you may hear Yardbird and session musician Jimmy Page on rhythm guitar...striking to see how young everyone once was I know.
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