Jesse Dollemore tells us that some nematode named Brooks Potteiger (a follower of SecDef Pete Kegseth’s “pastor” Doug Wilson), is apparently praying for the death of Texas Dem U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico (here)...what a POS this Potteiger guy is...as usual, Jesse is spot-on about the Constitution and prohibition of a particular religion sponsored by our government, and I don’t know anybody else who’s saying that “Christian” nationalism in this country is our equivalent to the Taliban (including this William Wolfe charlatan), but Jesse is right about that also IMO, with Potteiger et al oppressing folks of all kinds of other faiths in the process...also, this Michael Cloud life form thinks “the left” only knows about Matthew:25; well, speaking only for myself, I’m familiar also with the letters of St. Paul and the Sermon on the Mount, though I definitely AM NOT a “holy roller” by any means, though I WILL say that the common theme is helping the poor and caring for your neighbor, and I definitely think Cloud doesn’t get that despite what he says...and of course, leave it to a Repug like Cloud to suddenly care about THE DEBT THE DEBT THE DEBT!!! when it comes to spending for something besides war and doling out tax cuts for the rich, proving Jude Wanniski and his “Two Santa Claus” theory once again (NSFW/H)...
...oh, and before we get all misty eyed over the departure of Chuck Norris into, presumably, some karate studio in the great beyond, let’s not forget that he and his wife issued this beyond ridiculous pronouncement about what was at that time the potential for a second term under President Barack Obama...I had to “set the wayback” on this clip from David Pakman to tell us about it...
...to be fair to Norris, he definitely didn’t come across as a strident “true believer” of a movement conservative to his credit, though I definitely cannot say that about another wingnut who just left us, and that would be former NRA head David Keene...he and fellow scumwaffle John Lott ended up giving a commencement address to a whole bunch of empty chairs, each representing a student killed from gun violence who would never see graduation (here)...still can’t get my head around the fact that important statements like this (the chairs I mean) will NEVER shame soulless right-wing cretins like these two into doing the right thing, though I of course applaud this then as now by Manuel and Patricia Oliver, whose son Joaquin “Guac” was killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in 2018 (a link to the group "Change The Ref" that they founded is here)...Keene and Lott were told the address would be filmed, but the two found out later that the whole thing was staged (as noted in the clip, if they’d actually checked, they would have found out that James Madison Academy, the school allegedly filmming their address, didn’t exist).
Oh, and as noted here, Keene helped mobilize a coalition of Repug senators to block a bill to expand background checks on gun purchases, because of course...Keene also opposed a United Nations Arms Treaty, wrongly saying it was a plot by the Obama Administration against the 2nd Amendment...Keene also alleged that Obama would impose “radical limits on the 2nd Amendment” after the gun massacre at Sandy Hook (if only).
Here’s the “empty chairs” clip (and I believe the phrase “rest in piss” is apropos)...
...and Sam Seder of The Majority Report explains why trying to shut down Kharg Island (presumably to bomb it, given this idiotic crew) could severely hurt Iran’s oil exports...good point that this might be not too awful of a strategy for fighting a war, but assuming you somehow win and you’re responsible to repair the damage, you’ll be screwed...pretty pathetic that we’re lifting sanctions on Iranian oil to do SOMETHING to keep the price under $200 a barrel – I mean, if you’re going to fight the damn war, is it asking too damn much to be consistent in your strategy? And yes, as Sam also points out, Obama and Biden were unfreezing Iranian assets that were originally frozen after the Shah was deposed in 1979 – no, those two weren’t “giving Iran money”...ugh...and oh yeah, along comes Our Sweaty Orange Meat Sack to give us his utterly demented version of how his war is proceeding (oh, sorry...I’m supposed to call it a “little excursion,” like he’s taking a detour of a flight to Mar-a-Lago)...and of course, that bit about another president saying he wanted to do what #47 did in attacking Iran is still another lie...and just when you thought all of this couldn’t get more bizarre and disgusting, along comes Couch Boy to turn the stoo-pid up to 11, you might say (and when it comes to the alleged green energy “scam,” allow me to present this; I’ll admit that Denmark may have soured on solar, but they’re into wind big time, and last I checked, that country didn’t choose to fight any wars for oil...and yeah, one NATO member country had to prepare for a potential invasion from another NATO member country by getting ready to blow up some airfields – just add that to the pile of sick generated on a daily basis from this wretched bunch)...
...and Jordan Klepper of The Daily Show tells us that SecDef Kegseth wants another $200 bil for our war of choice in Iran, but of course, this country can’t find the dough for universal pre-K, extending ACA credits, funding Medicaid including community hospitals, helping our farmers by creating new markets for their crops, supporting debt-free college, universal basic income, community broadband access, affordable housing, funding clean energy initiatives, rebuilding our infrastructure including repairing our power grids, and on and on (and we revisit Our Blundering Orange Fool’s utterly inappropriate remark about Pearl Harbor)...I know I just had a clip of Klepper a couple of days ago, but I absolutely had to include this one also because of Afroman’s court victory; glad I can wrap up the week with SOME good news...
...and I started this week with a newer tune, so I’ll likely end it with another recent selection (and with the first video of this post in mind).
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