“It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.” – George Carlin
Monday, June 02, 2025
Monday Stuff
Brian Tyler Cohen gives us the latest on Iowa Repug Senator Joni (“We All Are Going To Die”) Ernst after that episode of talking down to her constituents at a town hall; it looks like, now, she filmed some TikTok clip or something with her apparently at a cemetery, mentioning “the tooth fairy” and telling people to embrace Our Lord...God almighty, what planet does this woman live on?? (here). And I continue to be impressed by James Talarico every time I see him speak (NSFW/H)...
Update: Cause, meet effect (here).
...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ informs us that the markets win when Mango Mussolini loses, in this case with the federal court ruling Trump’s tariffs are “contrary to law”...so OF COURSE Cantaloupe Capone goes running to the SCOTUS to get what he wants...and oh yeah, Our Treasonous Orange Pustule is costing American tourism at least $12 billion, and I have a feeling that’s a low-ball estimate...
...oh, and speaking of Cantaloupe Capone and the courts, it looks like there’s a bit of a wingnut “food fight” going on with Bronzer Beelzebub and Leonard Leo (here)...hard to root for a winner in that contest; I’d love to see each of them take the other down somehow...
...and I realize there are so many ways the utterly ruinous reign of this *preznit is making us less safe and our lives more dangerous and it’s really difficult to cover them all (which is completely by design for this bunch), but on the public health front, it looks like “Bobby Brainworms” is playing the role you would expect in undermining public health, citing made-up “sources” in some “MAHA” report (ugh), as Brittany Page explains here (one of her great points is the fact that Jr.’s garbage about not covering the COVID vaccine for some groups, after Jr. lied in his confirmation hearing about that of course, now creates an opening for insurance company bastards to weasel their way out of covering certain groups for the vax...oh, and Jr. is going to stop publishing in the New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet because “they’re all corrupt”? And where exactly did Jr. get HIS medical degree again? And as you might expect, Jr. is coming after mifepristone...hope everyone who wanted Pumpkin Pol Pot to win last year is happy about this)...
...and RIP Loretta Swit, who of course played Maj. Margaret Houlihan on the M.A.S.H TV show...she basically took a character used for gags from Robert Altman’s great movie and gave her a hell of a lot of humanity; I honestly didn’t know she won two Emmys for playing Margaret, but I’m not surprised...
...and happy 85th birthday to drummer Earl Young of the Trammps; their big hit of course was “Disco Inferno,” but Young also played on some timeless Philly International recordings, including this one.
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