Wednesday Stuff

(Pic is a reference to the online game Minecraft for the uninitiated...)

Lawrence O’Donnell opines on Our Ochre Abomination, calling him straight up the stupidest and most cowardly president who always chickens out, according to the Financial Times of London, which introduces the acronym TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out)...sounds like they figured out #47, which isn’t hard I’ll admit...we get more background on the Gropenfuhrer’s typically idiotic war with Harvard...and it’s darkly humorous I’ll admit to see wealth managers and other knowledgeable people in other countries realizing that Cantaloupe Capone is going to cave on his tariff nonsense and basically factoring that into their decision making...not sure why July 9th was decided as the day when Our Treasonous Orange Pustule decided to (maybe) reinstitute his beyond ridiculous EU tariffs, but we are where we are, you might say...and why am I not surprised to see Kevin (“Human Capital Stock”) Hassett with his sh*t-eating grin trying to justify this madness? And kudos in particular to O’Donnell for connecting this job-killing tariff bedlam and the U.S. House Repug budget that steals health care from workers who may end up losing their jobs (hopefully not)...also, GREAT example of the Bivo water bottle company getting it in the neck over this tariff clusterf*ck (I mean, I’m sorry for the company, but it’s an illustrative lesson)...



Update: HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

...and this Rebel HQ clip with Ben Gleib and Daria Rose tells us about Pete Buttigieg talking about how Dems need to reconnect with voters on policy and why voters’ circumstances would be markedly improved economically if they supported Dems (and good for Pete for doing this “bro podcast” thing...he may be the best Dem of the lot when it comes to going to hostile spaces and constructively making good points, though Ro Khanna is right up there too)...



...and David Pakman brings us a clip of Dem U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts going right after this Billy Long guy, nominated to be head of the IRS under Pumpkin Pol Pot...yeah, Long tries his “good ol’ boy” schtick here, but Warren quite rightly IMO expects Long to say that it’s illegal for our *preznit to use the IRS as a weapon to go after people and entities he doesn’t like (and revoking non-profit status), which Long won’t do of course because he knows that his boss will start flinging ketchup all over the room if #47 sees something on the TV he doesn’t like...and I have absolutely no information on the Justice Department looking into Andrew Cuomo, but yeah, a targeted political persecution would be right out of the playbook for off-brand Erdogan (and other presidents too, to be honest)...



...and RIP longtime Dem U.S. House Rep Charlie Rangel...admittedly, he was a difficult figure to pigeonhole from another political era, though unlike too many people in government now, he did serve our country as an Army staff sergeant...in the following clip, I seem to recall that the resolution he spoke in support of was to try and get Dubya to draw down from “the surge” as part of #43’s No-So-Excellent Adventure in Iraq...



...and Ben Meiselas of the Meidas Touch Network discuses King Chuck from “across the pond” journeying to our northern neighbor to restate that which is obvious to any sentient life form (discounting you-know-who of course) and that is the fact that Canada is a free, sovereign nation – pathetic that we’re at a point where that needs to be restated I know...and of course, leave it to a leader on the world stage who’s actually competent to talk about climate health and sustainability and respecting indigenous people...definitely a crafty move by Chuck and Canada, and I’d do the same thing if I were in their shoes...in our epochal, dunderheaded stoo-pidity, we let Bronzer Boy run amok, leaving us wide open to something like this...



...and happy 80th birthday to John Fogerty.