I’m going to ask that you take a bit of a trip down memory lane with me...it’s now December 2020, and both Dem U.S. Senators Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock won their special elections in Georgia, giving Senate control to the Democrats. After that, we were treated to years of the antics of now-departed Dem Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema (and yes, I know Sinema became an independent at the end), and their biggest priority was the preservation of the God-almighty filibuster, meaning that 60 votes were needed for passage for any bill not going through the reconciliation process (here). Around that time, I said something along the lines of “if the Dems ever lose the Senate, the Repugs will sh*tcan the filibuster, and our corporate media, aside from coming down with a case of the vapors if Dems did that, will just act like it’s another day with a “y” in it since it was done by the "R" party.”
Well, with that in mind, I give you this.
Now, to get to the videos...Brian Tyler Cohen tells us about U.S. House Repugs taking a victory lap over passing the Gropenfuhrer’s “Big, Beautiful Act” (it is called literally that in the Congressional record, BTW) in the dead of night, despite what that idiot from Missouri says...and by the way, this monstrosity blows up Medicaid and Medicare and steals from SNAP for kids, among its myriad other faults...oh, but it includes funding for crypto (which benefits criminals more than anyone else) and a tax break for gun silencers, believe it or not (NSFW/H)...
...and Thom Hartmann tells us about United Healthcare managers reportedly pressing nurse practitioners to change resuscitation orders of Medicare Advantage patients to DNR (as in “do not resuscitate”) to pad bonuses to nursing homes for refusing care...gee, I’m old enough to remember a certain half-term governor of Alaska screeching about “death panels” during the whole runup to passing the ACA; wonder what Caribou Barbie has to say about this? (reported by The Guardian)...and oh yeah, U.S. taxpayers were apparently overbilled for M.A. plans by $185 billion as Thom says...again, what Luigi Mangione did (allegedly!) was wrong, but I understand why he did it...
...and I know I’m a little behind on the news cycle on this, but I didn’t want to overlook it...Sam and Emma of The Majority Report discuss kids’ TV host Miss Rachel expressing support for children in Gaza, and earning wingnut wrath as a result of course, from “Canary Mission” and similar assclowns (Miss Rachel is interviewed by Mehdi Hasan on his Zeteo program)...they start B.S.-ing around 3:20, but that’s OK; didn’t know Emma had a connection to Lehigh Valley...
...and John Oliver had a recent segment on Cantaloupe Capone and the media...aside from the typical toddler tirades from our *preznit, the clip also looks at Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong of the LA Times letting #47 have his way with them...in addition to the toadies and sycophants now taking up space in the White House press room (including the woman posing as a reporter who is “overwhelmed by how well everything is going”), we also hear FCC head Brendan Carr saying straight up that he’s going to be a mouthpiece for Our Ochre Abomination, period full stop, along with the fact that this garbage administration plans to hold up media mergers and acquisitions for any network that’s not Fix Noise...I knew Pumpkin Pol Pot’s hissy fit with CBS was nonsense (more here), but the segment does a good job of pointing that out (particularly concerning #47’s typically ridiculous tirade against “60 Minutes” over the Kamala Harris interview), as well as the double standard when Bronzer Beelzebub is asked about Jeffrey Epstein...and I hadn’t paid much attention to Shari Redstone either, but it looks like she deserves her own concentric circle of hell as well...kudos to Oliver for looking at the ridiculous fights the FCC is picking with local news outlets also (NSFW/H)...
...and once again, The Lincoln Project makes a clip that those squeamish election losers at the @DNC refuse to make themselves (i.e., standing up to Bully #47, a lying, bitter old man who wants power and financial reward for himself and absolutely nothing for anyone else)...
...and here is a recent tune to get the holiday weekend going; for the record, I ask myself this question not quite every day, but close.
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