Monday, August 25, 2025

Monday Stuff


Chris Hayes discusses CA governor Gavin Newsom doing a pretty expert job of trolling Cantaloupe Capone...I can’t think of a word (ironic may be it) to describe how apt the advice from Dana Perino of Fix Noise is CONSIDERING THAT IT SHOULD BE AIMED DIRECTLY AT #47 INSTEAD!...



...and Emma V. and the crew from The Majority Report tell us that DHS Secretary Kristi (“Unsafe At Any Speed”) Noem recently went to the southwest border to paint the wall, thinking that will be a deterrent to immigrants...”Build Black Better” – good one...I personally subscribe to the theory in the clip that Sherwin-Williams gave a massive campaign donation...the Majority Report clips often aren’t bad, but as far as I’m concerned, they go on for way too long with barely any production values and include a lot of extraneous remarks...and I realize the tune by the Rolling Sones would be too easy of a selection here (NSFW/H)...



...and in what I would call a bit of a related item, it appears that Transportation Secretary and former Fix Noise personality (and I know that covers a lot of people in this gaggle of idiots and charlatans) Sean Duffy ordered the rainbow crosswalk in Orlando near the Pulse nightclub (where, at the time, the worst mass shooting in U.S. history took place) to be painted over (a very happy update is here)...



...and Leeja Miller discusses the very real possibility that the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR could take up a case next term that could gut Obergefell, with nutball Kim Davis right in the middle of this mess (Miller gives probably the best takedown of Davis that I’ve ever seen, and it most definitely is deserved)...typically good explanation of how the concepts of “liberty” and “privacy” have gone together in court rulings, basically saying you can’t have one without the other...and yeah, I think the whole “this should be handled by the states” argument is BS, particularly because of the sordid history of states persecuting same-sex couples with their own pernicious laws...of course, our SCOTUS has no problem taking a metaphorical wrecking ball to rulings that assumed the right to privacy that are mentioned in this clip...didn’t know there were 800K same-sex couples in the U.S. – gives you an idea of the impact if the Supremes try to do anything to Obergefell (and I know Miller knows the law on this, but as far as I’m concerned, going after Obergefell would most definitely impact current same sex marriages)...interesting discussion of rights v. burdens also...and yeah, isn’t it just peachy to read the dissent at about 18:00 from Almost Silent Clarence Thomas that pretty much cheers on Davis’s bigoted antics...”everything is on the table with this conservative supermajority” on the SCOTUS indeed...(NSFW/H also)..



...and I realize that, when you’re talking about humor, sometimes you have to dance a bit on the razor’s edge, you might say, and I think Mr. Newberger does that here concerning the Cracker Barrel logo thing...



...and temps in this area should be pretty seasonal with nice weather, but the heat can still get to you if you’re not careful, so please take any precautions (especially if you’re in Flori-DUUH! or “the land of the yellow rose”).

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