Rachel Maddow informs us of what Crazy Eyes Kash Patel is doing in response to heightened threats against this country given that we’re in a brand spanking new Mideast war brought to us by another Repug *preznit...I’m sure you’ll see how I’m DEFINITELY NOT CONVINCED that he knows what he's doing given that Crazy Kash just fired a dozen members of an elite counter espionage unit that specialized in Iran, with potentially more firings according to reporting from Carol Leonnig, losing “centuries” worth of intel and expertise to protect us, as Leonnig says (and I believe her), which, as far as I’m concerned, is an impeachable offense for Kash's boss all by itself...
...and Chris Hayes brings as much commendable outrage as he’s allowed to convey I'm sure about Our Bright Shiny New Mideast War...”glibness” indeed from Our Treasonous Orange Pustule on this (“yeah, we’re blowing up this country which has been a dreaded enemy and killing hundreds of people...BUT LOOK AT OUR GOLD DRAPES!”)...and yeah, it sure tracks that a wingnut podcaster overheard talk about the war before Congress...also, I don’t know if I’ve ever heard an explanation before like the one from Little Marco about “well, Israel was going to attack Iran, but even though we weren’t going to be part of that, we figured Iran would attack us anyway, so we decided to join in”...so THAT is the rationale for blowing the Middle East apart, again???!!!...and oh boy, Whiskey Pete Kegseth sure talks brave now that he’s no longer in harm’s way, doesn’t he?...and great work from Hayes to call this disgusting escapade what it is, and that’s an excuse to try and placate “Bibi” and his bloodlust...
...and Jesse Dollemore lets us know about the insidious, alleged forces of spirituality underpinning our administration of grifters and frauds...why am I not in the least bit surprised to see white “Christian” nationalism rear its ugly head in the Gropenfuhrer’s shiny new Mideast debacle?...journalist Jonathan Larsen informs us that our troops are being told that “this is a religious war” (every time I actually think this can’t get worse, it does)..and 110 similar complaints about this nonsense? Yeah, I would call that a trend all right...oh, and this alleged pastor that SecDef Kegseth supports thinks we should repeal the 19th Amendment? Yeah, let’s just get rid of women’s suffrage as long as we’re burning down the rest of our government (somewhat NSFW/H)...
...and I’ve been meaning to get to this clip for the last few days, but with the world going to hell I’ve been putting it off, but no longer...this BBC report from Katty Kay lets us know that the U.S. is running out of teenagers...wow, just smack my butt and call me a pointy headed lib, but are you surprised when we make it as economically difficult as possible to birth and raise kids and do everything we can to limit their economic opportunity (as opposed to, y’know, stinking tax cuts for people who don’t need them)? Ya’ think?...looks like we started having fewer kids around the ’08 financial crisis, which makes sense...half a million fewer 18-year-olds by 2040, huh? Hmmm...interview with Professor Nathan Grawe of Carleton College...parents sending their kids to college in this “brave new world” will indeed have to weight the best offer, including tuition w/student loans and/or scholarships factored in, against what a particular school has to offer – should result in cost savings, though it could hurt quality of education also...
...and Michael Kosta of The Daily Show gives us an update on our regularly scheduled carnage...and apparently, MAGA is splitting off into factions facing off against each other as a result of our brand new Iranian hellscape (here)...and as Kosta says, it definitely doesn’t follow the plot of a Schwarzenegger action movie to tell stranded Americans to take a tour bus to escape – what, are you planning to drop them off at the commissary?...and nice job to give a bit of a shout out to Vlad The Butcher to draw the parallel with the messaging from all of those Trumpist lickspittles (mildly NSFW/H)...
...and today is the 60th anniversary, believe it or not, of John Lennon’s interview with British journalist Maureen Cleave in which Lennon said that The Beatles were “more popular than Jesus” (here)...as he explained later, Lennon was talking about kids in Britain who were Beatles’ fans...as we know, though, word got out to this country that Lennon said that and people went nuts, smashing and burning Beatle records, which was a hysterical overreaction to put it mildly...I think this tune from Lennon’s solo catalog is probably apt for this occasion.
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