Chris Williamson of Rebel HQ brings us the news of wingnuts cheering (of course) when police and ICE do all they can to prevent non-violent protests in LA, totally ignoring the fact that ICE and a ramped-up police presence is doing more to make conditions worse than anything else...looks like Charlie Kirk, Rachel Campos Duffy, Laura Ingraham, Matt Walsh, Meth Head Bannon and some other numbskull are leading the media charge, which isn’t surprising I realize...and oh yeah, as long as we’re playing the “golden oldies,” let’s hear the “great replacement theory” BS once more from Ingraham...
...and in a related item, I would say this mirrors reality a bit too closely, unfortunately...
...and John and Jayar of The Damage Report brings us the unfortunate news that, aww, Our Widdle Orange Baby’s poll numbers are dropping – c’est dommage...sooo, it looks like he’s going to be a “strong deport people we don’t like” guy and a “strong farmer” guy too? Aren’t you proud of yourselves, all you idiots who made sure we got stuck with this assclown for four more years...
...and I thought this was a particularly good commentary from Belle of the Ranch about Cantaloupe Capone and the Iran attack...”countries don’t have friends, they have interests” for sure...great point about Russia, China and North Korea not jumping to Iran’s side after the bombing; I swear, the Gropenfuhrer must be the damn luckiest head of a government (allegedly) that I’ve ever seen (though I don’t suppose we’re going to find out what the actual aftermath of that attack turns out to be...and the T-shirt is apropos for sure)...
...and Ronny Chieng of The Daily Show tells us about more tariff threats from “President TACO”...”Dear Mr. Japan,” huh? Naah, Our Ochre Abomination isn’t sunsetting...not much he isn’t...
Farron Cousins informs us of Bronzer Beelzebub pardoning the 1/6 rioters, including Jared L. Wise who was brought on as a DOJ advisor, and OF COURSE Wise will serve with Ed Martin, who somehow ends up in the middle of a lot of particularly seamy stuff with this regime...and I don’t think it’s too convoluted on the part of Cousins to say that, yeah, the legal double standard for Cantaloupe Capone here is indeed racist as hell (NSFW/H)...
...and David Doel tells us about Canadian-born U.S. citizen Cynthia Olivera who supported Trump and apparently will now be deported...she went to a meeting that she thought had to do with getting her green card, but she received a rather rude surprise (and she was granted a permit from Biden allowing her to work here, but look who she voted for instead last year)...and yes, we’re all responsible for our actions and this lady is too, but the right-wing media environment in this country is indeed a factor...and soo, Olivera was trying to leave legally, but ICE is detaining her anyway? Try lying to me one more time and say that the garbage from our ruling gang of thugs ISN’T about punishment first and foremost (and oh yeah, the waste of money too from this regime to exact all of this revenge)...
...and continuing from the annals of “I voted for the leopards eating faces and OMIGOD THEY ATE MY FACE AND THEY WEREN’T SUPPOSED TO!”, Kyle Kulinski tells us that, apparently, young men realize they f’d up by supporting Our Ochre Abomination (the “strength of his persona”?? Well, that tells you how good Repugs are at hoodwinking voters...they “voted on vibes” indeed, but to be fair, a lot of others did also)...I don’t believe Dems will win this entire generational cohort of younger voters going forward (love to be wrong...at least, not without a hell of a lot better of an outreach effort than they’ve mustered so far), but they need to find a way to peel off enough of this demographic to win in the future...and here is that disgusting quote from Steve Scalise about 35-year-old gamers in their mother’s basements or something playing video games – this era’s equivalent of “welfare queens” from The Sainted Ronnie R...and by the way, the House version of the Big Beautiful Generational Wealth Transfer would have cut health care for 10.9 million people as we see in the clip, so when Bri-Fi says that the House version of the bill kept Medicaid in intact, he is LYYYY-IIINNNG (NSFW/H also)...
...and when even Fix Noise (with screeching harpie Maria Bartiromo) can’t even sugar coat the coming Trump-cession, which will be made worse by that wretched Big Beautiful You-Know-What, you KNOW there is a problem (so OF COURSE Bartiromo, knowing how utterly awful the data is for Our Sweaty Orange Boy, immediately tries flipping the script to “THAT COMMUNIST MAMDANI IN NEW YORK!!”)...I know I'm a little behind on this, but I wanted to make sure it was mentioned...
...and I realize the main topic of this bit really isn’t funny, but aside from marching and fighting these bastards in court, humor of a sort is the only other weapon we have at the moment...
...and I don’t see any Philly dates for these guys, but it appears they’ll be coming to Baltimore and Red Bank, NJ in October – should be good shows (and I’m sure they’ll perform this newer tune).
David Pakman pretty much tells us that Combover Caligula and Apartheid Clyde have blood on their hands over the DOGE cuts and the flooding in Texas...damn right (God almighty, now the body count is about 104)...and yeah, it’s typically repugnant for the MAGA knuckle draggers (who, as far as I’m concerned, are just the latest incarnation of what the Repug Party is at their core anyway) to accuse our side of cheering on this tragedy....and as far as “MAGA Mike” Johnson’s request that we “pray,” I know I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again; I was taught that the Lord helps those who help themselves – besides, any presumed religiosity from that disgusting fraud acting as U.S. House Speaker might as well be porn, which he knows something about, let’s not forget, as noted here (more here and here...if you can help, please click here)...
Update 7/10/25: And why am I not surprised by this?
...and leave it to "Cancun Cruz" to do what he does best at times of crisis for his state (here...more here)...
...and Belle give us the latest on hospitals closing from the Big Beautiful Atrocity...great point that a lot of people on Medicaid don’t know it because the state they live in calls it something else (e.g., Heritage Health in Frontier County, Nebraska)...Oklahoma may be next on the list for closures also...oh, and it looks like 33 medical centers in Louisiana are facing that fate as well (gee, didn’t “MAGA Mike” Johnson just say that reports of hospital closures in his state due to Medicaid cuts were “nonsense”?)...more here...
...and Chris Hayes “brings the receipts” on just how unpopular the “Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck” is, according to Georgetown University political scientist Christoper Warshaw...Hayes speaks with data scientist G. Elliott Morris for more info (good point that the Repugs know how unpopular the Medicaid cuts are, so that’s why they’re time-delayed...a typically deceitful move by these cretins)...a “prioritization of the elites” most definitely (and another clumsy cut from MSNBC at the end)...
...and Jesse Dollemore talks with Michigan State Senate Majority Whip Mallory McMorrow, running for the Dem nomination for the U.S. Senate from Michigan...I was impressed by her in previous clips giving it right back to Repugs, and credit to her also for being one of the few Dems I could see that ACTUALLY PAID ATTENTION to Project 2025 last year as Jesse points out...and she’s absolutely right about having a plan on Day One, or else she and the Dems won’t get anywhere (are you paying attention, @DNC?)...mildly NSFW/H...
...and Brian Tyler Cohen says that it looks like there’s “nothing to see here” on the Jeffrey Epstein file and he offed himself (allegedly), so let’s move along, OK? – gee, how con-veee-nient given all of the powerful people who were part of that clique, huh? And I honestly didn’t know about all of the wingnut “influencers” at the White House who were supposedly there for an Epstein file “reveal” or something...color me suspicious, but somehow I think a certain orange individual is up to his flabby, jowly neck in all of those misdeeds...
...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 7/7/15...did you ever wonder how OAN, Real America’s Voice and the other competitors to Fix Noise could have been influenced in their programming decisions? Well, wonder no more – here is the ”One Percent News” (more here...and yes, this is tongue-in-cheek)...
Brian Tyler Cohen brings us a clip of U.S. House Repugs chanting “U-S-A! U-S-A!” like it’s a high-school pep rally of course while they gut Medicaid, SNAP and all other manner of government assistance...yeah, those U.S. House Repug lowlifes are just SO PROUD OF THEMSELVES for passing Bronzer Beelzebub’s “Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck”...oh, and here comes Bri-Fi to plead that he didn’t think Medicaid would be cut; again, he’s either naïve or stoo-pid, or both (the last CBO estimate had 10.9 million losing coverage in the House version)...and oh yeah, isn’t it interesting to see how Tim Burchett was for the CBO budget estimates before he was against them...and yeah, I knew Huckleberry Graham was a servile lickspittle, but wow, does that anecdote about the wings and a T-shirt prove it...and not to be outdone, Drunken Van Orden of Wisconsin also fell for the Gropenfuhrer’s “charm offensive,” apparently, when it comes to cutting Medicaid funding for rural hospitals...
...and Sam of The Majority Report brings us the clip of Dem U.S. House Rep Joe Neguse talking about a “whaler tax cut” that bought around Lisa Murkowski, apparently, on this horrible budget bill (and Jim McGovern chimes in also in a snarky but appropriate manner IMO)...and yeah, Brave Sir Josh Hawley did indeed cave on the Big Beautiful Atrocity before he presumably ran away again...and I totally get Sam’s snarky comment about Dem U.S. Senate “leader” Chuck Schumer – again, I can’t think of a word to describe how pathetic it is that he actually took the job once held by Harry Reid, who would have dragged Schumer’s sorry butt all over the place...the fact that Schumer didn’t tell every Senate Dem to get up and walk out immediately after the way Sen. Padilla was attacked is typical...
...and I’m going to digress a bit here and remind us all about the genocide Israel is committing in Gaza (and yes, it is in fact a “genocide” according to the UN and Amnesty International as noted here), bombing a popular seaside café frequented by Palestinians about a week ago...American neurosurgeon Dr. Abdul Basit Khan in Gaza speaks with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzales of Democracy Now!; Khan said the collective carnage in that area is “the worst thing he’s ever seen” (and just in time for this)...
...and venturing into the theater of the absurd in this country, David Pakman (not him) tells us that State Department spokes-person Tammy Bruce thanks God for Trump (and #47 cares absolutely nothing about Palestinians in Gaza of course; if he does, it’s only to see them wiped out)...”the total collapse of honest political discourse” indeed...in a weird way, Bruce is actually right about “the middle east changing forever,” but DEFINITELY NOT in a way favorable to us or basic humanity (see prior clip)...and oh yeah, let’s hear once more about what the Gropenfuhrer has “given up and sacrificed” to be *preznit (here)...and sooo, Bruce knows absolutely nothing apparently about #47’s plans (and he probably doesn’t either), but she “knows to trust him”; Bruce is giving “Baghdad Bob” a run for his money (the language of a cult indeed)...and in case you’re wondering how #47 found Bruce, I think this gives you a hint...
...and Tennessee Brando tells us about MAGA tipping their hand a bit with some “Christian nationalist” pastor saying that only “Christian nationalist” men can be in charge (the guy looks like Matt Walsh a bit)...yep, you can always count on the wingnuts to peel off the mask of supposed moderation the first chance they get...glad to hear Brando draw a link between the Obama “Kenyan Muslim” garbage and attacks against Zohran Mamdani, which to me are two peas in the same disgusting pod...and I’m a fan of Sturgill Simpson too, by the way (mildly NSFW/H)...
...and even though dumb Americans (for the most part, barring Apartheid Clyde and the Palantir shenanigans) elected Pumpkin Pol Pot and not a deity, I still find myself wanting to hear this tune.
I realize that the “Big Beautiful Gutting Of Our Government Services And Our Economy” will soon be in the grubby, ketchup-stained hands of Our Ochre Abomination, but I’m going to keep including clips on how ruinous it truly is...this clip form More Perfect Union tells us How “BBB” Transfers Trillions From Workers To Wall Street...the rate of CEO-to-worker pay has absolutely gone bonkers, starting around year 2000 or so...and yes, this is another horror story about how stock buybacks used to be illegal, but The Sainted Ronnie R just smiled and said, “Oh, it’s ‘Morning In America,’ so everything is fine,” and it magically became legal, and of course, this ruinous piece of garbage legislation is going to supercharge all of this mess (and I’d actually forgotten about the role the 2017 Tax Scam from Cantaloupe Capone has played in all of this by slashing the corporate tax rate from 35 to 21 percent)...video takes a look at Lowe’s, but to be fair, what that company has done has pretty much been replicated across a vast array of other industries...and I have to admit that I didn’t have “Little Marco Rubio Trying To Control Stock Buybacks” on my Bingo card – of course, he immediately fell back into line when the “pay no price, bear no burden” bunch got their collective shorts in a knot (and who else but “No Corporate Tax” Pat Toomey shows up to shill for the one percent, amirite?)...and yeah, that guy with the “These Colors Don’t Run” shirt sure is proud of himself for not voting last year – about the kind of political engagement you’d expect that has led to our current calamity...
...and this clip form Robert Reich and More Perfect Union features former Biden FTC head Lina Khan telling us How Monopolies Steal Your Freedom...terrific analysis of what monopolies do to the industries they take over and how that affects us as consumers, including depressing wages, along with ridiculous non-compete clauses for all kinds of industries to prevent workers from getting better jobs...and no, you can’t just say “oh, that’s just capitalism, you pointy-headed lib”...this is predatory, rapacious greed, pure and simple, which (and I don’t mean to shock anybody) has NOT ONE DAMN THING TO DO with pure market competition...
...and Sam and the crew of The Majority Report bring us this item about Dem U.S. House Rep Jim McGovern pushing back on some U.S. House Repug named Brett Guthrie of Kentucky (of course); Guthrie apparently thinks his constituents on Medicaid are all freeloaders (and once again, I give you this from the Kaiser Family Foundation which explains that work requirements will drive people off Medicaid...18K people in Arkansas lost coverage without increasing employment due to work requirements...as Sam says, the overwhelming number of people on Medicaid ALREADY ARE EMPLOYED!)...
...and I realize that it’s hard to find humor at the moment, but I think this is apropos from Mr. Newberger...sometimes the only way we have to fight these cretins is to heap ridicule upon them (and a related item is here)...
...and as long as we’re talking about Flori-DUUH!, I give you this clip from Tennessee Brando timed for the release of the concentration camp in the Everglades, with Ron #DeathSantis starting a question with a lie about Zohran Mamdani in New York, accusing him of being a “communist” (please)...and of course, Our Ochre Abomination takes that softball and does what he always does, and that’s add lies and propaganda on top of that...and I think Brando is absolutely right; the racism and islamophobia aimed at Mamdani is going to be so far off the charts that it will likely be impossible to keep track of all of it...(NSFW/H)...
...and I now give you the latest installment of "This Day In Doomsy History" from 7/4/19: “Why America Is Just OK” from the New York Times...kind of an interesting curio given all of the MAGA insanity currently running amok, but if nothing else, this is an important reminder of what this country still is (despite Repug Party efforts doing their worst) and how far we still have to go...
...and part of me wants to fly an upside-down flag in front of Le Manse Doomsy, but I reconsidered and will present the following tunes for the holiday instead.
(By the way, I know the House is inching closer to a final vote on the Big Beautiful Bullsh*t Bill , but I’m going to keep putting up videos attacking it for a little while longer.)
David Pakman gives us the clip of Repug Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska giving her “death stare” to reporter Ryan Nobles who had the affrontery (as far as Murkowski is concerned) to call her out over her sellout vote on Trump’s trash bill to reward his campaign contributors and stick the rest of us with the residue...I wonder if Murkowski will be so brave to Rand (Fake Ophthalmologist) Paul who said the words in the first place?...
Update 7/5/25: Speaking of Alaska, I think this pretty much says it.
...and AOC cuts right to the heart of the matter on the Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck...”you should be ashamed”...and yes, she’s right, but the other side has proved that they’re not capable of shame, so...and I knew the whole “no taxes on tips” thing was a joke, and as far as I’m concerned, the cap of $25 grand is more or less throwing money at you when the john calls the cab and tells you to get the hell out...
...and Kyle Kulinski goes down the whole laundry list of cuts from DOGE as well as everything that will be destroyed because of the “BBB,” including scientific and medical research...and oh yeah, as a result of Our Ochre Abomination’s immigration roundup of college students in particular, we will indeed suffer a “brain drain” in this country...of course, that doesn’t diminish the cruelty inflicted on other workers who pretty much make our economy run on a daily basis (NSFW/H)...
...and Farron Cousins informs us that Trump’s “Big Beautiful Giveaway To The Rich” will kill 51K people a year; health experts signed onto a letter earlier this year saying as much...with the focus on gutting Medicaid, it’s easy to look past all of the other myriad monstrous ways this disgusting bill could ruin our lives, such as heating and cooling assistance as Cousins points out...
...oh, and in the likely event that this horrible legislative monstrosity passes and gets signed into law, what is next on the checklist for Dementia Donnie? Why, rounding up and deporting U.S. citizens, which #47 says is his “next job”...more lies and BS from this delusional narcissist and clueless egomaniac (Jesse Dollemore tells us about it)...
...and I guess, for better or worse, I had this newer tune in mind when I read about this (there were, and are, worse evangelical characters than Swaggart IMO, but as far as I’m concerned, he was emblematic of the moral rot of that band of zealots all the same).
Update: To be fair, here is Bri-Fi’s statement in opposition to the “Big, Beautiful Generational Ripoff” (Thomas Massie was the other No vote on the "R" side...more here).
So Bri-Fi says he opposed Medicaid cuts in the Senate version of the bill, and that’s why he voted No on the final version. My question is this; how the hell else did he think making that beyond wretched 2017 giveaway permanent would be paid for (an earlier vote in favor is here)?
If Bri-Fi cared so much about Medicaid cuts, then why was he NOT one of the 12 U.S. House Reps who opposed them in this letter to House Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson? Oh, riiight...Bri-Fi can’t go against his leadership, or else MAGA will primary him – got it.
If Bri-Fi seriously thought that gutting the social safety net was NOT how this garbage bill would be paid for, then he truly is an idiot and/or a liar. I mean, the “Freedumb” Caucus is nuts of course, but at least they’re showing their craziness and deceit out in the open.
John and Jayar of The Damage Report inform us of Dementia Donnie blowing off the funeral for Dem state rep Melissa Hortman and her husband...I realize it isn’t exactly front-page news to point out that Cantaloupe Capone is a heartless, narcissistic monster, but part of the reason I’m mentioning this is because everything pertaining to this Vance Boelter person (the alleged assassin) has somehow fallen off the media radar, as nearly as I can tell anyway, particularly given the fact that this guy had a weapons cache and a bunch of other Dems he was apparently targeting...gee, you’d think that would be worth a few more stories at least, along with the possibility that he might have had an accomplice or two...??...with all of his myriad outrages, I’d forgotten that Our Ochre Abomination didn’t even issue a statement in response to the shootings of the Hortmans, along with John Hoffman and his wife (and apparently Boelter may or may not be on a suicide watch as noted here – don’t look for a speck of sympathy from me)...
...and Thom Hartmann tells us that almost a quarter of those polled according to yougov think we’re already in a dictatorship...peachy...Thom says that if you intimidate a couple of people in certain jobs/industries, you can intimidate other people in those jobs/industries, and he may be right...and once again, it’s a comment to how dark a place we’re at when someone like Thomas Massie stands as a voice of reason, but that’s the case for now, so OF COURSE a Super PAC now arises to take down Massie in Kentucky, and Thom is correct about Chris LaCivita and the Swift Boat Lying Liars from about 20 years ago (more on the War Powers resolution with Ro Khanna and Massie is here)...
...and Farron Cousins tells us how underwater Our Treasonous Orange Pustule is when it comes to his approval rating, which is only bound to get worse after the passage of his Big Beautiful Obscenity, with 53% of those polled saying we’re going in the wrong direction; I know the BBB number was bad, but only 35 percent approval? Yeah, that’s a pretty subterranean polling number...
...and Sam and the crew from The Majority Report tell us that it looks like Dem U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff recently tried to get Repug Doug Collins to explain exactly what is proposed to be cut by $17-18 billion in the VA budget, though it appears to be a reduction in headcount, which will no doubt mean a reduction in services for our veterans (typical Trumpist move to stonewall anyone conducting oversight)...figures for this bunch...and apparently it was too much trouble for Collins to properly prepare for the hearing even though all he had to go over was a 26-slide Power Point presentation...”the dog ate my homework” indeed from Collins...
...and I think this clip puts Trumpist spokes-liar Karoline Leavitt in the context she truly deserves...
...and here is another seasonal tune.
Update 1: Damn straight (about the "Big Beautiful Atrocity")...
Update 2: Don't give Bri-Fi a moment's peace over this...
(One more time, click here to contact your U.S. senator and tell them to vote NO on the "Big Beautiful Atrocity"...more here).
Richard Ojeda of Rebel HQ brings us more voter remorse over #47, including the woman laughing about the “Trump mobile” scam (ummm...I wouldn’t be laughing if I knew how hard I got utterly played, but that’s just me I guess)... I have to admit that I get a little fed up with how Joe Rogan is taken seriously as some kind of a political prognosticator, but I guess that’s just the reality...and Thomas Massie definitely isn’t a “profile in courage” by any means, but at least he can “read the room”...and yeah, the “four dipsh*ts of the apocalypse” are indeed saddling up (NSFW/H)...
...and Belle of the Ranch gives us more background on Combover Caligula’s Medicaid cuts, and she commendably blows up some of the rhetoric on BBB...the CBO has released their numbers, cutting Medicaid, Medicare and the ACA by $1.1, mostly out of Medicaid...also, 11.8 million people losing health insurance by 2034, all for massive tax cuts for the “pay no price, bear no burden” bunch...also, $325 million to create an additional bureaucracy and paperwork hurdles to require constant tracking of people receiving Medicaid, and possibly Medicare too to make sure they remain eligible...and yes, the Senate version is actually worse when it comes to work requirements and proof of attending school...and of course, the Repugs are saying this will only affect undocumented workers, which (and you’d better fetch the fainting couch when you hear this) is a BIG FAT LIE; “non-verified citizenship” only affects 1 in 10 of those who will be kicked off Medicaid...I have a feeling that passing this bill will truly be the reckoning for the utter stoo-pidity of anybody who voted for Cantaloupe Capone, as well as the rest of us who will pretty much be collateral damage...and oh yes, it’s time to dump on LGBTQ individuals again; for the umpteenth freaking time, KIDS AREN’T GETTING BOTTOM SURGERY! THEY’RE GETTING REVERSIBLE PUBERTY BLOCKERS, WHICH MOST OF THEM WANT BECAUSE THEY’RE SERIOUS ABOUT TRANSITIONING!!! And as Belle says, we’re only talking about 13K surgeries per year in a country with about 330 million people...and by the way, every freaking bit of this mess was completely predictable, and individuals like yours truly, filthy unkempt liberal blogger that I am, were yelling as loud as we could to warn everybody...
...and Tennessee Brando brings us Repug U.S. Senator form North Carolina Thom Tills going scorched earth on BBB...of course, Tillis is on his way out the door, but credit where it’s due I guess...and oh yeah, let’s pillory Obama again for saying “if you like your doctor, you can keep him,” which admittedly was a mistake, while also not counting the DAILY TORRENT OF LIES from the “party of Lincoln”...imperfect as the ACA was (and still is), it still covered millions who would have otherwise been left to fend for themselves...and with respect to Brando, work requirements in Medicaid would cause the largest increase in the number of people without health insurance; the Kaiser Family Foundation breaks that down here, so Tillis is wrong on that score...also with respect to Brando, Clinton, Obama and Dubya were right to ignore Our Treasonous Orange Egomaniac (NSFW/H also)...
Update 1: I suppose this was inevitable given the election results last year, but the fight was still worth it.
And by the way, don’t give “Fake Ophthalmologist” Rand Paul and “Disappointed” Collins any credit. Their opposition was political theater; the result was predetermined (and yeah, Lisa Murkowski sure reached for the "chicken switch" also...and even though he was a commendable No vote, now John Fetterman can begin his vacation down the shore).
Also, here’s a message for those clueless election losers at the @DNC...this is a golden opportunity to put into place your thus-far-nonexistent social media strategy. It shouldn’t be up to a British-sounding comedian to explain to this country how monumentally awful this legislative atrocity truly is.
Update 2: A LOT more like this (as far as I'm concerned, Warren should be the Dem Senate leader for real).
And now, for no particular reason, I’d like to step back and “go meta” a bit and discuss “how the sausage gets made” around here.
I happened to come across a couple of Rebel HQ clips in which they presented Marjorie Trailer Park Greene getting called out by Dem Rep Melanie Stansbury as well as another clip with another Repug numbskull named John McGuire getting the same commendable treatment from AOC. I actually tried to listen to Greene and her “Democrat colleague” this and “Democrat colleague” that, as well as this guy McGuire peddling his garbage in front of Dem governors J.B. Pritzker and Tim Walz. I actually stopped watching both clips after a few seconds, even though I’m sure Stansbury and AOC did indeed respond effectively. Here is why...Greene and McGuire proved that they are both stupendous liars, and even though I give Rebel HQ credit for putting up the clips with AOC and Stansbury, I refuse to give bandwidth to people who plainly are trying to cram as much disinformation as they can in a limited space (referring to Greene and McGuire of course). Given that they don’t know or don’t care about verifiable truth and reality, Greene and McGuire simply do not deserve to be taken seriously on any topic as far as I’m concerned (makes me recall this post).
(Of course, putting Greene in charge of ANYTHING, let alone a House subcommittee, is a great big middle-finger-raised-on-high from Not Your Father’s Republican Party aimed right at our democratic form of government, but that’s a whole other discussion I know.)
Now back to the videos...I suppose this item makes the following relevant again...
...and RIP Lalo Schifrin, who composed this memorable theme among many others...
...and this may be the longest “moving” song I’ve ever heard, but it’s kind of a badass tune IMO, notwithstanding “AI Melania” on guitar :-).
Hunter Avallone of Occupy Democrats brings us the tale of the Norwegian tourist who was stopped at Newark Airport and sent home over an ant-Trump meme (oh, but DHS says that’s wrong as noted here)...and when you’ve lost a bulb as dim as Joe Rogan, I would definitely say that you’ve gone WAAAY too far...and of course, Pam “Blondi” figures into this mess somehow, because of course (and kudos to Dem U.S. House Rep Madeleine Dean for giving it right back to this clueless bimbo)...and Avallone is right; it makes you wonder who ICE is really looking out for if they’re preoccupied with trying to nail people who don’t genuflect properly before the altar of Cantaloupe Capone (and apologies for scaring anyone with that pic)...
...and Farron Cousins tells us that the “Sunshine State” is proposing a new migrant detention center based in the Everglades, an “Alligator Alcatraz,” if you will, which of course would utterly destroy the ecosystem of that area (I mean, I realize it’s not as if any Repug actually cares about that I know), in addition to representing still more cruelty and barbarism from Our Ochre Abomination and the “party of Lincoln”; apparently the alleged genius who came up with this sadistic idea was Flori-DUUH! Attorney General James Uthmeier...(more here and here – also here and here...NSFW/H)...
...and John and Brett Erlich of The Damage Report let us know that, while they were on their way out the door to begin their vacations, our wretched SCOTUS under Hangin’ Judge JR allowed Mango Mussolini to determine whether or not birthright citizenship applies to residents born in this country to parents here temporarily or under protected status, which kind of flies in the face of...wait, let me think for a second...oh yeah, THE 14TH FREAKING AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION!! And for now, this garbage decision only applies to 28 states, but just wait until cases start popping up in other localities currently not affected that will enshrine this dictatorial insanity there also...one of John’s great points is that our joke of a SCOTUS isn’t even defending actual laws, but merely decrees from Bronzer Beelzebub which may or may not stand up in other courts, which is probably as pathetically servile as you can get...also, good for John for mentioning the INSANE inconsistency in this SCOTUS doing all it could to destroy Biden’s attempt to forgive student loan debt on the one hand, but on the other hand, giving Our Treasonous Orange Demagogue EVERYTHING he wants here, and in other decisions...
...and RIP former Dem U.S. House Rep Caroyln McCarthy, who got into politics when her husband was murdered and son critically injured by the Long Island subway gunman (here)... powerful testimony about her career to combat gun violence (she doesn’t mention fighting the NRA in this clip, though that definitely was part of her courageous profile)...
...and here’s a new hit tune that we can sing along to while our economy does the “big swirl in the hopper”...
...and I would say that it’s time for another seasonal selection.
Kyle Kulinski brings us the latest polling on Bronzer Beelzebub’s bombing of Iran...the good news is #47’s overall awful numbers as brought to us by Harry Enten of CNN, but the bad (but not surprising) news is the rock-solid support Our Treasonous Orange Pestilence still enjoys from his party...and boy, is Kyle ever right about Dubya’s administration spending two years beating us over the head with “IRAQ HAS WMD! WE WILL BE GREETED AS LIBERATORS!!,” etc., etc, prior to launching his illegal war...and I pretty much gave up hope on any Repug when it comes to this or any other issue that matters in my life, to be honest (NSFW/H)...
..and with the prior clip in mind, Jesse Dollemore brings us the gory details about “Whiskey Pete” Hegseth’s freak out in front of the media, especially to Fix Noise reporter Jennifer Griffin (I honestly didn’t know that network actually paid attention to news for real)...GREAT point by Jesse that every single word of that rant from Our Completely Out Of His Depth SecDef was written in advance...oh, and speaking of “leaking classified information,” let’s not forget this...and once more (and here I go again I know), we had a deal with Iran to keep them from enriching uranium that was achieved under President Obama principally by former Secretary of State John Kerry, and Iran abided by that deal, but Trump walked away from it (by the way, I cannot POSSIBLY imagine why MSNBC decided to make the Chris Hayes video "private"...what utter morons!)...
...and Brian Tyler Cohen and Glenn Kirschner give us another “Legal Breakdown” episode...the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals just issued a ruling about another immigrant snatched by our ruling regime and transported to El Salvador by the name of Jordin Melgar-Salmeron, saying that the gangsters in charge of the executive branch must return Melgar-Salmeron to this country “as soon as possible”...sounds like, if the Trumpsters had just left this guy alone and let justice run its course, he would have been deported anyway, but of course they didn’t do that and this guy was denied his “reasonable fear” hearing as Kirschner explains (NSFW/H)...
...and Yasmin Khan of Rebel HQ lets us know about #47’s pick for director of the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships within DHS (think counter-terrorism), and it looks like it’s a 22-year-old Repug named Thomas Fugate (you can tell how seriously this nematode takes his job from his pic) – Rachel Maddow rightly calls out this guttersnipe...Khan goes over other news stories and comes back to the Maddow clip at about 4:26...soooo, what exactly are this guy Fugate’s “qualifications”? Well, he apparently mowed lawns and worked as a supermarket clerk – ah, smell the “free-dumb,” my fellow prisoners...and oh yeah, he also had an internship at The Heritage Foundation and is a big time fluffer for Our Sweaty Orange Boy, and in MAGA world, that apparently is all you need...
...and Tim Miller and Sam Stein of The Bulwark discuss “Grim Reaper” McConnell’s “They’ll get over it” remark on Medicaid (story originated from Punchbowl News)...yep, Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao just wants to push through his stinking tax cut, and it doesn’t matter to him how many dead bodies he racks up as a result...maybe not quite as bad as Joni “We’re all going to die one day” Ernst, but right up there all the same...and let’s not forget that that death eater from Kentucky has one foot out the door, as it were, as noted in the clip (more fool the people of his state commonwealth who kept sending this decrepit fossil back to D.C. every six years)...and I can just imagine what kind of lies the Trump Super PAC is spreading about the “Big Beautiful Act” in ruby red Louisiana...I didn’t know that North Carolina could end up losing the most Medicaid funds; no wonder Thom Tillis wants McConnell to STFU, and I know “Running Man” Josh Hawley is at least pretending to be concerned also (mildly NSFW/H)...
...and RIP Bill Moyers...I always thought he was a pretty straight-shooting news/editorial pro on the issues that mattered...the New York Times obit described him as the opposite of a self-promoting blowhard, and I think that’s a pretty correct observation...Moyers IMO was responsible for a lot of quality journalism, especially on TV...many years ago, I saw him interview Joseph Campbell in that series about “the power of myths”; interesting, albeit a little highbrow...this clip is a commentary about a US drone attack in the Middle East which no doubt drove those we were trying to win over right to the cause of terrorists seeking to do us harm...and don’t be too shocked to realize that this commentary is aimed right at President Hopey Changey...yes, I supported Obama and still do, but he’s not infallible; no one is of course...
...and I’m glad FEMA head David Richardson (the guy who didn’t know there was a hurricane season) seems to have “righted the ship,” to a degree, as noted here, but it looks like he now has a brand new scandal – heh (NSFW/H as well)...
...and happy upcoming 80th birthday to bassist David Knights of Procal Harum.
This clip from More Perfect Union tells us about a 32-year Pharma rep named Lisa Pratta who spills the beans on some of the ways people in her business comped doctors...if you can imagine it, then it was probably used as an incentive to get the drugs in circulation; this clip discusses the pressure to over-prescribe Acthar made by Questcor for MS patients...as is often the case, Questcor was bought up in a merger, this time with a company called Mallinckrodt, which subsequently paid $15 million to make claims of wrongdoing against Questcor go away...just keep telling yourself that this country has the greatest health care system in the world...sure we do...
...and Robert Reich revisits the question of “Should America Be Run Like A Business?” (presumably the government of course, to which the correct answer is “Hell freaking no!”)...and as Reich points out, that’s code language anyway for privatizing the hell out of everything so only those with the most dough can benefit, which basically is the story of this country over the last 40 years or so...”the purpose of government is not to show a profit” indeed...
...and John Iadarola of The Damage Report tells us that Trumpist numbskull Sean Duffy recently said that states that don’t let ICE goons in to seize people illegally won’t get infrastructure funding, a move that no doubt is illegal as hell and will be ruled as such by a court (with Elex Michaelson)...
...and David Doel brings us the story of Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the Dem NYC mayoral primary...and of course, it tells you what kind of an inside-out world Fix Noise inhabits where they put up that pic saying, among other things, that Mamdani will combat ICE...and their audience is supposed to think that’s a BAD thing? And yeah, that graphic showing the amount of dough that the DNC centrist establishment basically set on fire for Andrew Cuomo is an eye-opener all right (and kudos to David Hogg for playing his part in this)...and yes, Mamdani bringing out new voters is HUUUUGE! And yeah, kind of a ballsy comment about Cuomo from Brad Lander IMO, though not undeserved, and kudos to Lander for helping Mamdani...not sure it really does any good to resurrect what happened with India Walton, but whatever (NSFW/H)...
...and Seth Meyers brings us “A Closer Look” on Our Ochre Abomination dropping an “F” bomb when Israel and Iran break a ceasefire...and oh yeah, Combover Caligula thinks he should get the Nobel Peace Prize; only someone with the gnat-on-meth brain of Our Treasonous Orange Pustule could bomb another country and then somehow claim that he’s a “peacemaker” (although, to be fair, I give you this)...
...and I know I'm definitely overdue for a new tune - I hope this will suffice.
Rachel Maddow tells us of opposition to Cantaloupe Capone growing as he betrays immigrant family members of service personnel; particularly timely given Iran’s retaliatory strike at our base in Qatar (hopefully there were no injuries or fatalities; there are none that I know of so far)...and it looks like ICE goons beat on the father of two active duty Marines and one who is retired...”proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free,” right?...and I apologize for being a little “behind the curve” on the protests from last Saturday, but Maddow commendably brings us an update here...
...and David Pakman pretty much busts our ruling regime of lying grifters and frauds on using fake protest images, trying to create and perpetuate the myth that Los Angeles has been on fire for weeks and #47 had no choice but to send the National Guard and the Marines...oh, and speaking of the Gropenfuhrer, apparently our allegedly august corporate media will focus more on the impoliteness of this moment, as opposed to the bald-faced stoo-pidity of what Cantaloupe Capone actually said...
...and Brittany Page informs us of U.S. Senate Repugs doubling down on the cruelty in the “Big, Beautiful Act,” which, again, represents the largest wealth transfer in our country’s history...yep, our task is to get the word out about this garbage, and as I’ve said before, any member of the Democratic Party (besides AOC I mean) should be YELLING THEIR HEAD OFF about this on social media...tens of millions of people losing health care coverage, including medications and life-saving treatments, according to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities...as far as I’m concerned, you have to be a stone-cold moron to trust Repug politicians on this (and as pointed out previously, the head of the CBO is a Repug named Phillip L. Swagel, definitely not some pointy headed lib, but someone who, apparently, sticks to the numbers)...and once more, to contact the Senate and tell them what you think of this garbage bill, click here (and to contact the House, click here)...
...and Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report tells us about U.S. House Repug Rep in Flori-DUUUH! Kat Cammack who got pregnant, had an ectopic pregnancy, feared for her life and was able to get the help she needed because she’s a Repug woman with influence (and of course, since Florida’s ridiculous anti-abortion law wasn’t written by a doctor, there’s no attempt to define how an ectopic pregnancy is an exceptional circumstance that allows for treatment)...and somehow, she STILL blames Democrats for her ordeal??!!...despite her stoo-pidity, I wish her the best with her latest pregnancy...oh, and I’m sure it will come as absolutely no shock whatsoever that Cammack is NOTORIOUSLY anti-abortion, with a 100% rating from the Susan B. Anthony bunch of anti-choice zealots, voting against the DoD allowing service members to travel out-of-state for abortions (and this is from the “states’ rights” party of course); Cammack also voted to defund NGOs for women in developing countries who may need an abortion...she also voted to keep abortion drugs from being sent through the mail, and also supports the Hyde Amendment named after a serial philanderer to make sure federal funds aren’t used to cover abortions because of course (how the $#@! does Hyde still exist?)...and women in states in this country arrested for miscarriages? I would say that we’re devolving into a banana republic, but based on this, I think we’re already there...I most definitely am not a life sciences professional, but through a simple Google search I found this...do you want to know what basically isn’t dangerous in this country? Abortion. Do you want to know what IS? PREGNANCY! And as far as I’m concerned, the fact that this idiot Cammack goes right to GEORGE SOROS GEORGE SOROS GEORGE SOROS GEORGE SOROS GEORGE SOROS is PROOF POSITIVE that she is LYYYY-ING!!! (more here - NSFW/H)...
...oh, and let’s not forget how far-reaching the impact of Bronzer Beelzebub’s utterly ridiculous tariffs is – heh (based on this, let’s not forget)...
...and RIP guitarist Mick Ralphs of Bad Company and Mott the Hoople.
It appears that the L.A. Dodgers are not just champions of basball, but also of human rights - kudos; Hunter Avallone of Occupy Democrats tells us about ICE thugs getting turned around recently when they tried to invade Dodger Stadium...oh, so NOW ICE is claiming that wasn’t them at the ballpark? Gee, then who owned those vehicles with CBP markings?...
Update: I didn't really have this in mind for the pic, but it does seem to fit, so...
...and in a related item, Chris Hayes gives us the latest on Bronzer Beelzebub’s ICE goons and how they are gradually eroding the freedom we have enjoyed as a nation for all of these years to come and go as we please (“an assault on the idea of America itself” indeed)...
...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ discusses the anti-Trump statue on the national mall...report also covers other types of expression, such as the person complaining in a Trump baby costume (equipped with a diaper of course) outside of a D.C. courthouse, as well as the leering statue of the Gropenfuhrer in Philly...oh, and it looks like “Trump Mobile” is going to be yet another failed enterprise from this conniving bunch of grifters...
...and Kyle Kulinski brings us the story of the utterly awful polling on the “Big Beautiful Act”...a lot of times, I get PO’ed at Kyle for going out of his way to hit Dems, but not here; if, as a national party, the Dems knew what the hell they were doing with social media, our feeds would be FLOODED with ALL OF THE WAYS THAT THIS BILL IS A DISASTER...and once more, to contact the Senate and tell them what you think of this garbage bill, click here (and to contact the House, click here – NSFW/H)...
...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 6/23/21, in which Thom Hartmann informs us that elementary schools in Finland are teaching kids media literacy - great idea, and one which should be replicated in this country IMO, especially given the proliferation of right-wing BS in this country as Thom points out...by the way, the Fairness Doctrine and the equal-time requirement for presenting opposing points of view didn’t apply to cable TV and definitely didn’t apply to online sites, and they were overturned by a court anyway under The Sainted Ronnie R...and Thom is also correct to point out that the 1996 Telecommunication Act signed under Clinton would have to be revisited also...it took awhile for conservatives to lock up control of the media, and this is a big part of how they did it, and good luck trying to reverse it...”We need to educate Americans about how to spot propaganda” indeed - might have to adjust the volume a bit...
Belle of the Ranch gives us her analysis of Generalissimo Trump’s decision to bomb Iran...I have to admit that I’m a little skeeved to find myself on the same side once again with Thomas Massie, along with (and this is EVEN MORE of a shock) Marjorie Train Wreck Greene...and John Fetterman continues to prove to me that there is something medically wrong with him and he needs to resign...the one part of this awful story I definitely believe is that congressional Repugs were briefed in advance but Dems were not...the biggest concern to me are the “non-state actors scattered across the Middle East,” as Belle points out, who might now engage in an action on Iran’s behalf, with 40K U.S. troops in the region...
Update: And in a move that surprises virtually no one, I give you this - hopefully our personnel weren't harmed.
...and Tennessee Brando gives us his take on #47’s illegal pre-emptive strike on another nation, including Combover Caligula predicting that former President Obama would attack Iran...oh, and VP “Hillbilly Elegy” said we had “dumb” presidents over the last 25 years? And THAT is why the couch f*cker’s boss launched this dangerously ridiculous move? Gee, projection much, J.D.?...and Brando is spot-on to point out that our utterly wretched SCOTUS of Hangin’ Judge JR has their grubby fingerprints all over this too by giving this maniacal orange doofus a pass for “official acts” (and as usual, AOC is spot-on)...
...and of course, leave it to The Onion to send our esteemed legislative branch a timely message (and I’m sure Bri-Fi was included – heh)...
...and I don’t know who this gentleman is from Occupy Democrats, but doesn’t it give you a warm, cozy feeling, my fellow prisoners, to know that the person in charge of White House staffing may be a Russian agent?... when you’ve lost Rupert The Pirate’s vanity rag, I would say that you have a problem...and kudos to Brian Krebs for figuring this out, but if I were him, I’d stay clear of any open windows on upper levels of apartment buildings, and I’d probably hire a food tester too (here)...
...and RIP Gunilla Knutson, the Swedish model/actress featured in this ad from the hippy, trippy ‘60s...
...and from that era, the Electric Prunes had a big hit with this number, which I present as a tribute to band member James Lowe - RIP also.
