Emma V. and Matt Lech of The Majority Report inform us that Daily Wire nematode Michael Knowles wants to celebrate Trump’s mass deportations because he’s a sick, twisted SOB...I have to admit that I’ve never heard of anybody smiling and laughing when discussing the “trail of tears” before...and by the way, about that, who were the emigres? WE WERE! THE NATIVE AMERICANS WERE ALREADY HERE!!! (and yes, there I go with the ”all caps” again I know)...interesting, but sad, history, mentioning also the “Palmer raids,” “Operation Wetback” and Japanese internment during World War II (very mildly NSFW/H)...
...and changing the mood a bit here, Seth Meyers brings us up to speed on the Gropenfuhrer and his little hissy fit with Denmark/Colombia and purging the government watchdogs...and gosh, I never knew that trees were “wet” (#facepalm)...
Here is the Meyers clip...
...and someone named Allan Piper brings us a list of Trump’s broken “day one” promises (hmmm...wonder if our utterly bought-and-paid-for courtier media would try putting together a report like this? And yes, I think I already know the answer)...I know it’s hard to wade through all of the nonsense from this numbskull (referring to #47 of course), but I honestly don’t think he has the authority to ban “sanctuary cities,” though that won’t stop him from trying of course...
Time for a Mad King Don broken promise summary and we’re only 3 days in. pic.twitter.com/zWh6xZlYrq
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...and echoing the Meyers clip a bit, Brian Tyler Cohen tells us about Trump getting put in his place by a Danish politician...I didn’t know that Lisa Murkowski co-authored the statement about Greenland, but it makes sense; I’ve had lots of disagreements with Murkowski, but she comes from a family of political fighters and she’s nobody’s fool, unlike #47...and yeah, all of Cantaloupe Capone’s chaos is a distraction for the benefit mainly of our lapdog corporate media and his lemming followers while he rewards himself and the “pay no price, bear no burden” bunch...
Oh, and by the way, this may be a good time for a public service announcement.
I vaguely recall hearing about an alleged opposition political party in this country that has a storied history of standing up for the majority of people by providing relative income and health security in old age, support of human rights, investments in 21st-century technology, ensuring women’s right to bodily autonomy, advocating for common sense gun laws, paying some degree of attention to the climate crisis, trying to enact a measure of student loan relief...you know, stuff like that. I think the first letter of that party is a “D,” I believe. I think it’s necessary to remind people of the existence of this party because they sure have been freaking quiet lately (with the commendable exceptions of Rashida Tlaib and Jasmine Crockett). Gee, it sure would be nice if they would say or try to do something to push back against all of this insanity, wouldn’t it (here)?
(OK, to be fair, this is progress, but I have to admit that I don’t know what’s worse: Fetterman siding with the Repugs against the ICC to burnish the PA senator’s “everything Israel does is right” bona fides, or the fact that Manchinema may actually have been right after all to preserve the filibuster.)
...and well, at least SOMEBODY ELSE is showing a spine (and in our corporate media no less), and as luck would have it, he’s likely going to be leaving us for at least a little while, and that’s Jim Acosta of CNN, who decided that enough was enough (you can also include Professor Krugman, and I realize I didn’t mention anything about him washing his hands, you might say, of “the old gray lady”)...as we learn from here, Acosta was basically assigned to the graveyard shift for his anti-Trump advocacy, and in response, he walked (Ben Meiselas of the Meidas Touch Network tells us about it)...
...and I’ve kind of punted on this clip over the last few days from VoteVets, reminding a certain orange *preznit to do right by the Afghan interpreters who helped our troops during the war and who, as a result, risked their lives and continue to face reprisal in their war-torn country...
...and Monday marked Holocaust Remembrance Day, the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Allies during World War II...sorry I neglected to mention that earlier (here)...an elderly lady recalls the horrors of the Nazis from her experience...she also discusses details getting published in the media based on eyewitness accounts of escaping survivors near the end of that war...I don’t really have anything to add except to take note of this tragic lesson of history (more here)...
...and yesterday 1/28 marked the 40th anniversary of the recording of “We Are The World,” which raised about $80 million for African famine relief...maybe it was all a little “self congratulatory” I’ll admit, but I think we should take to heart the overall positive accomplishment of the whole thing (as opposed to now I suppose, where online trolls would be tempted to utterly denigrate such an effort if it took place today...I’d love to be wrong about that).
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