Monday, August 24, 2026

Monday Stuff


This is your occasional reminder that our PA-01 Repug U.S. House Rep Brian Fitzpatrick still refuses to stick his head out of his shell and agree to debate Dem challenger Bob Harvie.

To begin, David Pakman lets us know that it looks like Darline Graham (Repug nominee for U.S. Senator in South Carolina) can’t stop setting on that metaphorical rake...after her cosmic “duuuh” moment on the question about Taiwan and the South China Sea in that debate before she invoked her dead brother Huckleberry and her dad (and again, consider what would have happened if an answer like that had come from the mouth of a Democrat), she goes on Sean Inanity and goes all “oh, I HATE BOYS IN GIRLS’ SPORTS, so it’s all good” (like that’s an actual thing...spoiler alert: IT FREAKING ISN”T because her state, in their utter stoo-pidity, already bans trans athletes)...and again, she talks about her constituents concerned about making ends meet or whatever...REMIND ME AGAIN WHICH POLITICAL PARTY HAS COMPLETE CONTROL OF OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!!!...and I know Pakman makes a good point about Graham likely being right about what Repug South Carolinians truly care about, which is a more damning indictment of those life forms than anything I can come up with...



...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ informs us that it looks like the AI bubble is about to burst, according to Michael Burry, the investor profiled in “The Big Short” (terrific)...didn’t know that tech stocks account for a third of the S&P credit ratings – yep, not feeling warm and fuzzy about valuations of companies like NVIDIA that are taking off basically due to speculation (over-leveraged to the hilt)...have to admit that “Human Capital Stock” Kevin Hassett does a better job of plastering that insipid smile on his face in order to lie and cover up bad news that anybody else I’ve ever seen...



...and Brittany Page takes a look at the typically cruel and ridiculous plan by Bronzer Beelzebub to keep the poor from college, beginning with a discussion of the “caste” system in India, which our ruling oligarchy very much wants to impose here also...Don The Con wants to only “comp” college students for loans based on how much money they would make in a chosen field, which has to be illegal AF, but since laws apparently don’t apply anymore, who the hell knows?...Page is spot-on to point out that the Trumpers are doing the EXACT OPPOSITE of what they SHOULD be doing, which is making education more affordable...speaking only for myself, I was once in a situation where I was between jobs and I worked part time at a bookstore; well then, since that was definitely below the projected earnings for the degree I graduated with, then would I have been ineligible for a student loan??? And oh yeah, our plutocrats in power are also changing the amount of loans that can be taken out (usurious as our student loan process is anyway) based on the course of study...and leaving off advanced nursing programs since they apparently aren’t considered as a “professional” degree? Who the hell is going to take care of the ever-aging population of this country? A CPA (and no disrespect to that profession)???...



...and checking out political stuff “across the pond,” Jonathan Pie gives a typically spot-on commentary on how our ruling gaggle of idiots plays the “blame Canada” card at every opportunity when things aren’t going well, which is all the time any more basically...what I would give for our beyond useless corporate media to say straight up that Cantaloupe Capone makes bank out of the chaos he creates (and again, that’s one of the reasons #47 hates renewable energy so much, because he can’t game the market, unless he cancels fully funded projects such as wind turbines of course)...Pie once again hits the nail on the head when it comes to the gut-churning corruption of our ruling gangster regime (NSFW/H)...



...and harking back to the Pakman clip, I give you the following from Mr. Newberger...



...and here is another seasonal selection.