(By the way, you can consider this pic my response to this story.)
Robert Reich tells us about the latest tax scam by the “party of Lincoln” (here)…
Watch your wallets! Republicans are pushing a corporate tax plan that will cost you a bundle. Watch our latest video, and spread the word. pic.twitter.com/2rI004wupr
…and this clip from Rachel Maddow aired last week and is a little late I’ll admit, but I still think it should be shown anyway – a lady from South Carolina protesting Tim Scott and Huckleberry (Long Overdue) Graham’s failure to hold a town hall (and dick move by Scott to piggy-back off "Appalachian Trail" Sanford's town hall with not enough notice for her to get there in time)...
…and gosh, it looks like Generalissimo Trump finally made some utterances about anti-Semitism that any human being with a pulse should know to do by instinct (and good for Ben Jealous to go right after Steve Bannon, where all of this garbage starts as far as I’m concerned, not just against Jews but any other group based on race, ethnicity or gender preference)…
…and here is another attempt to keep my musical selections reasonably new and relevant (kind of a nice, poppy little tune).
Once more, Rachel Maddow connects the dots on stuff concerning Russia and President Fergus Laing (drip, drip, drip – “this is a test” indeed…don't forget Felix Sater either, by the way)…
…and Ari Melber speaks with a panel about Generalissimo Trump’s ongoing battles with, really, everything that isn’t Number 45 or his beloved base at this point (And comparisons to Nixon already? SAD! And another ridiculously stupid video cut by MSNBC…do they have toddlers doing this stuff?)…
…continuing, this tells us about the “Not My President” protests yesterday…
…and this tells us about the recent immigrant protests in These United States and those who were fired for doing so (including the “I Don’t Care Bar and Grill” in Oklahoma somewhere)…
Over 100 people were reportedly fired for participating in the 'A Day Without Immigrants' protests pic.twitter.com/MgAWBRbCrW
…and by the way, did you hear about the two guys in Texas who shot each other and blamed it on illegal immigrants (along with that idiot pol on Facebook who apparently needs a Comp 50 class)? John and Ana explain…
Speaking of presidents (though I know this day is mainly for Numbers 1 and 16), Rachel Maddow brings us a clip of JFK talking about what should be the role of the press in our country, and often it is, though there are always exceptions (kind of a clumsy cut to the video at the end)…
…and you can agree or disagree with whether or not Jeremy Scahill should have bailed on “Real Time” over the presence of Milo Yiannopoulos, but I think Maher made up for that a bit with this great “New Rule" (NSFW)...
By the way, I basically side with Scahill. Yes, there is a principled argument to be made about Scahill appearing and confronting all of the garbage from this latest wingnut, made by Kyle Kulunski among others…and apparently, in response to Scahill not appearing, Maher said something about liberals continuing to lose elections unless they face up to radical Islam, or something, which to me is horseshit…but here’s the thing: it won’t matter one damn bit to Yiannopoulos or anyone of that ilk. Sorry to go “meta” on this, but speaking only for myself, I spent YEARS going to The Weakly Standard, Irrational Spew, clonwhall.com, AEI, and of course Fix Noise and the WSJ to find garbage from their sites that I refuted as best I could, and it didn’t matter ONE DAMN BIT how much I tried to blow up their idiotic and frequently insane talking points with the actual facts…they just came back a few weeks later with another wingnut spouting the same wingnut garbage over and over.
So good for Scahill (and by the way, with the focus on Yiannopoulos, it’s easy to overlook how Maher keeps bringing back people like former GA U.S. House Rep Jack Kingston, a pal of Number 45 and someone who has spouted garbage on that show for years but keeps getting booked anyway)…
Update 2/22/17: And after reading this, I'm even MORE convinced that Scahill was right.
…and continuing, Chris Hayes tells us about Oklahoma AG Scott Pruitt, the new head of the EPA who is definitely NOT OK, as the song goes (and this is typical)…
…and speaking of that senatorial waste of space from Kentucky, here’s wishing the worst possible 75th birthday to Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao…
Update 2/21/17: He does KY proud once again here...
…and it’s safe to say that our elected representatives in our beloved commonwealth are definitely acting like towers of Jello during this week when they’re supposed to be meeting with constituents, and that goes for Repug U.S. House Rep Brian “No, I’m Not My Brother Mike, Honest” Fitzpatrick and “No Corporate Tax” Pat Toomey of the same party, which makes me recall this less-than-courageous Fitzpatrick moment last year (to find out about a Resistance event in your area, click here)…
(Oh, I’m sorry…”Bri-Fi” no doubt will hold a “tele” town hall where he and his campaign people can screen out people they don’t want to talk to on the phone. You know, the same ruse his brother used, and the same thing “Mikey the Beloved” criticized former rep Patrick Murphy for when Murphy held the position.)
…and I know I put up a Supertramp song last week, but here’s another one for the occasion for Toomey and “Bri-Fi” (and with the McConnell turtle metaphor in mind too).
K.O. is out with #35 (kind of chilling a bit the way he links drug abuse at the end to votes for you-know-who, but the evidence doesn't lie)...
…and Samantha Bee gives Repug U.S. House Rep (and NOT Senator, Sam!) Mr.-Puppy-Dog-Eyes-With-The-Shiv the treatment he deserves here (NSFW)…
…and Rachel Maddow gives us an update on Dems allegedly competing in state and congressional races, with David Nir of Daily Kos also talking about the contest to fill the GA U.S. House seat of sleazeball Tom Price (more here - the “cliff hanger” had to do with the owner of the Miami Marlins baseball team being named ambassador to France if he sold his team to Jared Kushner, who of course is Generalissimo Trump’s son-in-law – the whole thing was put on hold, apparently…nah, no “conflict of interest” here…move along)…
…and it looks like both chambers of Congress have now rolled back that pesky Obama-era regulation of not letting mentally ill people buy guns, as noted here (and yes, I’m definitely being tongue-in-cheek – and the ACLU doesn't usually put its foot in it as far as I'm concerned, but they sure did this time)...
...and I thought this was a great ad by Moveon.org given everything that's going on...
I thought this was an excellent analysis of President Big Orange Cheetoh’s typically surreal press conference yesterday; I give all of the reporters credit here including Shep Smith, who continues to stand tall, but here is MY question – what made ANY of you think any of this would be any different from how he presented himself on the campaign trail in ’15 and ’16? Did any of you SERIOUSLY think that he would pivot somehow to a sane, rational perspective, when the tiny-handed egomaniac plainly doesn’t know of such a thing?...
...and I give you yet another installment of "This Day In Doomsy History" from 2/17/15 (FBI Director James Comey gave an enlightened speech on race and law enforcement, timed a bit for Black History Month...as I watch this, I wonder if he wasn't just trolling us in the end given his despicable behavior last year timed for the presidential election, particularly timely in light of this also)...
…and K.O. is here to tells us about the effects of Generalissimo Trump’s deportation orders (“U-S-A! U-S-A!”)…
…and I would call this democracy in action (from yesterday)…
…and Thom Hartmann speaks with Eve Ensler about a new organization to end violence against women, as a spring board to other related protests (good call by Thom for saying that it isn't just Trump, and I'm not talking just against violence against women - the "party of Lincoln" dances to their corporatist masters exclusively and acts like "The Handmaid's Tale" is a documentary...might be a tad late with this, but there's no "expiration date" on the message)…
…and I have to admit that Republican lawmakers in Tennessee have come up with a novel way to respond to peaceful protestors; just run them down with your car (oh, but the Teahadists protesting against the Affordable Care law were good protesters, and they deserved to be covered 24/7/365 on CNN, but those damn tree-hugging hippies trying to make sure they don’t lose their health care, their jobs, their savings…just go commit vehicular homicide, and it’s all good - and this gives you insight into their coal black hearts also)…
…and gosh, could Fergus Laing actually be getting bored with his new job? We’ll see (“President Von Munchausen” – good one by Rick Wilson, I have to admit)…
…and nothing like a little Delbert McClinton to help put us in the mood for the holiday weekend, is there (a long one for everybody, I hope).
I knew I would eventually have a problem trying to keep up with all of the scandals from President Fergus Laing, and that kind of bit me in a butt a bit with Andrew Puzder, who quite appropriately bailed as Labor Secretary Nominee before I could put up this video from Rachel Maddow – here it is anyway, notable if for no other reason than to point out the serf-like treatment Puzder gave to his employees (“oh, but it’s the franchise owners, not Puzder” – my ass; I worked in fast food many moons ago, people – anyone protesting for a livable wage in that bidness automatically has my respect)…
...well, regardless of what happens with the Trumpsters, I'm sure that pleases this life form...
...who I'm sure believes every word of this clip...
…and K.O. brings us some sage words on Number 45’s recklessness on national security (particularly galling given the way he acted on this during the campaign of course, lying on this like he does with everything else)…
…and given this recent typical idiocy from Steve “Calves The Size of Cantaloupes” King, I’m duly obligated to provide this clip once more (don’t want to contemplate the clueless meat sacks in Iowa who keep sending King back to Congress every two years)…
…and Kyle K. tells us that the Saudis just won some kind of counter-terrorism award; yep, I guess we’re officially “through the looking glass” now (NSFW)…
...and here's a somewhat retro new tune that the kids seem to like, so here it is (a little NSFW).
Yeah, Rachel Maddow tells us about the collusion between at least 4 members of the regime of Generalissimo Trump and our ol' buddy Vlad Putin...
…and who exactly is this demonic entity named Stephen Miller anyway? David Pakman tells us more…
…and Seth Meyers gives us a pretty informed take on the administrative implosion of our 45th president…
…and Chris Hayes talks with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson of what the rest of the world thinks of all of this insanity…
…and Cenk and Ana weigh in (and “No Corporate Tax” Pat Toomey criticized the leaks as opposed to the actual collusion between the “Trumpsters” and Putin – typical)…
…and happy birthday to Gary Clark, Jr. (yeah, definitely the news is on my mind with this selection, from the Grammys the other night – could have gone on with this one for about 10 more minutes, but it’s great for what it is).
This is a little behind the news curve given this, but I still think this is spot-on commentary by K.O…
…and Seth Meyers makes some similar points with humor here, though I’ll admit that the “Trumpster” stuff is less and less funny with each passing day…
…and even though the Bucks County Courier Times and Philadelphia’s conservative newspaper of record in these parts have a lot to answer for also, I nonetheless think Bill Maher’s comments about knowledge here are spot-on…
In terms of the stuff that Fix Noise propagandizes about on a daily basis, this is comparatively low-hanging fruit as far as I’m concerned (only because you’d truly have to be an imbecile to argue it – again, it’s Fix Noise I know), but for the record, Rev. Al is absolutely right of course…
..and Rachel Maddow talks with Dem Congressman Adam Schiff about the latest on “Trumpster” Michael Flynn and the latter’s talks with Russia before the election, and referencing their influence in helping to elect Fergus Laing…
...and Kyle K. tells us that Iran's "Supreme Leader" thanked Trump for showing the true face of the USA, or something (NSFW - one of the most intelligent analyses of all of the Middle East stuff I've heard in awhile)...
…and RIP Al Jarreau (something more apropos for tomorrow I guess).
I hope all of you who did whatever it was that you did to help elect President Big Orange Cheetoh continue to be proud of yourselves (here)…
...and yes, keep hitting the “Gropenfuhrer” where it hurts, but just remember one thing; when it comes to Number 45, we’re not talking about a sane, rational individual (I'm probably the only person in the country who hasn't seen the Melissa McCarthy bit yet; again, not saying don’t ridicule him, but just don’t be too shocked if he goes off his nut and tries to lob a missile somewhere, in which case impeachment should be automatic…love to be wrong - after this, Alec Baldwin MUST do Trump in drag!)…
Update 2/13/17: Finally saw Melissa McCarthy including last weekend - funny indeed (as was Kate McKinnon as Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III).
...and nice work by the people of Romania here (re, protests...and nice to tie it to DAPL and Net Neutrality - a few days old; sorry)...
...and here's an upbeat little tune (tongue-in-cheek), maybe a little early for Halloween, but here it is anyway.
I thought Stephen Colbert had a nice take here on the little dustup between the "Trumpsters" and Nordstrom's (and can someone remind me again how all of this is supposed to be legal - here)...
...and Rachel Maddow brings us the latest PPP results on Fergus Laing (boy, are Trump supporters stoo-pid! Not a headline at this point, though, I know...and in a related story as they say, Mark Sumner makes a great point here)...
…and the “Gropenfuhrer” is so bad that he’s also affecting non-human life forms, as K.O. points out…
…and our bridges are crumbling and our infrastructure overall is a mess, we still need funding for pre-K and early childhood education, we need to retool our beloved commonwealth to a renewable energy economy…but instead, this is the nonsense those numbskulls in Harrisburg are preoccupying themselves with (as always, it’s “jobs, jobs, jobs” for Not Your Father’s Republican Party – an update is here)…
…and I guess you could say that Repug South Carolina Senator Huckleberry Graham is “showing a little leg” again in his ultra-sexist remarks about Dem U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of MA, as Sam Seder tells us (more here)…
Update 2/11/17: Looking good indeed, Montana (here).
…and I’m pretty sure today is the 80th birthday of legendary singer Roberta Flack, even though that seems to be contested a bit at some places online – anyway, that gives me an excuse for this great song.
K.O. tells us about the travesties committed in our name, particularly against kids, by Generalissimo Trump…
…and I give you another installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” from 2/9/10, which marks the 67th anniversary of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy’s speech alleging that more than 200 employees of the U.S. State Department were members of the Communist Party; to note the 60th anniversary, I included the following clip from “Good Night And Good Luck” with David Strathairn channeling Edward R. Murrow; the comments were aimed right at McCarthy, but they can just as easily be directed at Number 45 right now…
...meanwhile, Kyle K.tells us about Trump token Sheriff David Clarke of Milwaukee County and his ad against Dem U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (typical - NSFW)...
…and Rachel Maddow reminds us that, when it comes to the Repugs and racism, it’s a feature, not a bug (recalling in particular the ’00 campaign in South Carolina – great job of connecting the dots between The Sainted Ronnie R, Former Commander Codpiece, Jeff Sessions, Chuck Cooper, etc. – the last two minutes of this should be viewed by every American)…
Update: Some justice, you might say (here - h/t Rachel Maddow)...
…which, if nothing else, is the perfect transition to this song.
Kyle K. brings plenty of potty-mouth outrage, all deserved, aimed primarily at Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao (more here, here and here - NSFW of course)...
…meanwhile, Rachel Maddow reads excerpts from Coretta Scott King’s letter against Jeff Sessions in 1986 (so f-you, Senate Repugs)…
…and Thom Hartmann talks about a terror trial ignored by President Tiny Hands because the accused perpetrator isn’t a dark-skinned person (and yeah, that’s about par for the proverbial course for “clownhall.com” – one of the many reasons why I don’t read that nonsense anymore; and yeah, spooky to compare the Trumpian garbage with the propaganda from the goose-stepping former Austrian painter)…
…and here’s a tune for Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
Update 1: The fight most certainly will go on (here), and nice work here.
Update 2: Oh, and by the way, I have an observation – yes, it’s great to see “The Resistance” to Trump and his kleptocratic cabal of criminals and lunatics, but I’d like to ask a question:
WHERE THE HELL WAS ALL OF THIS DAMN OUTRAGE LAST YEAR WHEN IT ACTUALLY COULD HAVE MATTERED AND WE COULD HAVE DONE SOMETHING ABOUT THESE LIFE FORMS WHO DO NOTHING BUT STEAL FROM US AND WHO NOW CURRENTLY HOLD POWER???!!!
“Ooh, Hillary Clinton was too much of a Democratic insider and Beltway centrist and too cozy with Wall Street for me to support her” (yeah, she was that all right, but look what we ended up with). “You know, Jill Stein is actually an intriguing candidate” (umm…tell me when the mother ship actually lands, OK?). “And gosh, Donald Trump sounds more like a populist than a Republican” (check for a pulse).
Every election matters. EVERY STINKING ONE!! It sure as hell matters to Republicans who work so tirelessly to suppress the vote (do you honestly think they win on the strength of their ideas, more often than not?). And it should matter just as much to us who fight for that vote an inch at a time if necessary.
...and if I ever have a home improvement project, I'll think about getting what I need from 84 Lumber after this (though this is an interesting postscript; maybe I won't be so quick to buy there after all)...
…and when even our corporate media is wising up, then you know that Fergus Laing and his con are truly wearing thin (here - but I’m shocked! Didn’t “Third-Eye-Network” head Les Moonves once tell us infamously how great Trump was for ratings?)…
…and you know what? I saw both this clip and Kyle K. talking about Fergus Laing’s obligatory Super Bowl interview with Bill Orally, and yes, I understand what I know is the “knee jerk” response to criticizing Number 45 over his remark about us supposedly not being innocent, and how the commentator here as well as Kyle are criticizing that knee-jerk response.
And yes, we need a debate for real about drones, as well as “extraordinary rendition” and “enhanced interrogation techniques” and killing enemy combatants including kids…all of that, from both sides of the aisle (of course, that assumes we have a U.S. Congress made up of actual adults discussing policy without behaving like partisan, petulant children...and that comment is aimed mainly at the "party of Lincoln" of course).
However, the next time anyone argues that there’s some kind of equivalency between us and Russia on this stuff, I would ask the last time our government poisoned political enemies and basically murdered them. I would ask the last time our government annexed territory on its border basically for the sake of petro-dollars (or petro-rubles, if you will).
And I would also ask about the last time our government murdered a journalist in the dark stairwell of the run-down apartment where she lived, doing so on the birthday of the person who benefitted from that execution the most (here).
(Oh, and one more thing – in both Kyle’s clips and this one, everyone was so busy creating a somewhat-justified Democratic Party equivalency that they let President Tiny Hands Impulse Control Egomaniac get away with the lie that he told once more about always opposing the Iraq war.)…
…and it looks like “Sponge Bob Square Pants” might end up working in the FDA under the “Gropenfuhrer” based on this (“seasteading”??)…
…and in light of this thoroughly depressing but totally predictable development, I just felt like hearing this song (once more, heckuva job, all you idiots who voted for “No Corporate Tax” Pat Toomey, “Bri-Fi,” and everyone else from the Trump Party, including the Big Orange Cheetoh himself).
(I also posted here - also, the cartoon may be hard to read; the title of the book in red says "Mitch McConnell Partisan Obstruction Playbook"...good one).
Rachel Maddow tells us about one of the crackpot courses of treatment that Trumpian Education Secretary Nominee Betsy DeVos invested in and makes a lot of $$$ from (by the way, I’ve called “No Corporate Tax” Pat Toomey’s office repeatedly to tell him to vote No but his voice mailbox is full – how con-vee-nient – and of course, I didn’t hear any complaints from Richard Burr when the Teahadists were launching their “grass roots” attacks against the Affordable Care Law, of course - and I’m pretty sure the segment she led into next had to do with this)…
…and yeah, I’d say that this is the kick in the teeth that somebody deserves (here)…
…and apparently, this Jen Sloot person doesn’t know how to spell “controversial” either (and “Obamacare wasn’t perfect on day one either..???” At least IT WAS SOMETHING THAT ACTUALLY EXISTED, unlike the supposedly wonderful replacement plan the Repugs are allegedly concocting.)
And she’s HAPPY that the Gropenfuhrer is tweeting about utterly inconsequential BS at 3 and 4 in the morning? Well then, let me ask her a question; how well do you think Number 45 can actually function during the day when he’s barely had a decent night’s sleep, especially if he’s doing this stuff on a regular basis?
And I’m sorry this guy’s premium went up the way it did, but to blame the Affordable Care Law for this is utterly ridiculous. The Affordable Care Law DOESN’T SET PREMIUMS!! That’s up to the insurer! OMFG!!
Besides, did it occur to any of these people to contact an exchange and find out if they qualified for any kind of a credit?
(These life forms must watch nothing on TV but Fix Noise – here…)
…and I don’t know if this qualifies as a “message” song or not, but I like it, so here it is.
Kyle K. comments on Trump’s Yemen raid (NSFW - and don’t think this automatically absolves Obama completely, by the way – of course, it would have been NICE if we’d had an INTELLIGENT debate about drone attacks from those idiots in Congress, primarily Republican but some Democratic also…I will add a very slight qualifier for Trump in that I’m sure this plan was drawn up under Obama, but the buck stops you-know-where, as they say)…
…and Chris Hayes also responds on the Yemen attack, speaking with reporter Ken Dilanian and Congressman Adam Schiff (and no, I’m definitely not reassured either)…
…and Cenk and Ana tell us about the Trump voters’ family thrown out of the country from our beloved commonwealth (cue the world’s tiniest violin – how dumb could you be to vote for this guy and not expect this? And Cenk and Ana are right about PA making a difference the wrong way, sadly – I still think the fake news was a big factor; I can tell you right now that something on Facebook about the Pope supposedly supporting Trump would make an impact, and that was forwarded about 800,000 times before anybody knew what was going on)…
…and Thom Hartmann brings us the latest on Neil “Liberals Are Addicted To The Courtroom” Gorsuch, Fergus Laing’s nominee for the Supreme Court (and did you know Gorsuch was involved in Hobby Lobby? Well, he was)…
…and it’s time once more for another installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 2/6/10 – Repug Sens. Richard Shelby, Jon Kyl and Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao blocked the appointment of cabinet-level positions in the Pentagon under former President Obama, something to remember the next time you hear any of these oh-so-august-in-their-imaginations members of “the world’s greatest deliberative body” bitching about Dem tactics in response to the child with impulse control issues currently taking up space in An Oval Office…
…and Lawrence O’Donnell does a “Rewrite” segment on Harley Davidson and the “Gropenfuhrer” (is there ANYTHING Number 45 WON’T lie about)…
…and sometimes you really don’t need to say a hell of a lot to make a great point (here)…
(By the way, in response to “The Donald,” I propose a general strike in this country on Friday 2/10. And I mean EVERYBODY. Any takers?)
To begin, Rachel Maddow brings us the latest on the anti-Trump resistance – I get concerned and I hope the response to the Gropenfuhrer hasn’t peaked too early (as well as the Dems maintaining their collective spine), but somehow I think the fraud and pretender taking up space in An Oval Office will continually generate enough outrage via his utter stupidity and cruelty to continue fanning the metaphorical flames (and is it my imagination, but did I actually see “Holy Joe” Lieberman at DeVos’s hearing?)…
…and Chris Hayes talks with Dem Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island about the crowd’s protest over Whitehouse’s vote to confirm Mike Pompeo to head the C.I.A., though it turns at the end to Neil Gorsuch, nominated by Generalissimo Trump for the SCOTUS – not going to war, so to speak, with Whitehouse over this (though I’m certainly no fan of Pompeo, bought and paid for by the Kochs), but kudos to Whitehouse for endorsing the protests…he should, but it’s nice that he does (by the way, the show from 2/1 led off with great interviews with Steve Schmidt, Rep. Joaquin Castro and David Miliband, but good luck trying to find them on MSNBC’s perpetually wretched web site)…
…and nice work by K.O. to draw the line between Twitter Tantrum Baby and Former Commander Codpiece…
…and Kyle K. tells us about the latest on the Repugs waging economic war on working men and women in this country (something to remember in light of this – NSFW)…
…and Sam Bee does her thing on the Sally Yates firing and other Trumpian stupidity (here)…
…and, when deciding to protest or not to protest, always remember the title of this song.
You’ll need to pack a lunch and a half for this, but if Sen. Elizabeth Warren can talk for an hour, the least we can do is watch it for that long – if you want to get a perspective on what Trump’s Muslim ban really means and how utterly ruinous and destructive it is (not just to those trying to get in, but to us overall as a nation), watch all of it…
…and I always believed FDR was our greatest president, and I feel that way even more after watching this clip from Thom Hartmann…
...and Seth Meyers weighs in on the recent stuff in the news concerning President Tiny Hands Big Orange Cheetoh...
…and Cenk and Ana talk about Neil Gorsuch, Fergus Laing’s Supreme Court nominee – I don’t know how nutty this guy is (though this isn’t a pedigree to be proud of as far as I’m concerned), but all I know is his name isn’t Merrick Garland, so…
…and Lee Camp, with humor, does his best to make the thoroughly serious point that the DAPL protests are still ongoing, despite what the tiny-handed, impulse-control-issues lunatic in An Oval Office tries to do…
…and RIP John Wetton of the “super group” Asia, among other “prog rock” bands (that smiling guy creeped me out a bit, and was that actually a Mickey Mouse watch? And thanks – I’m sure I’ll be seeing checkerboard wipes in my nightmares now).
(From here, and a typical wingnut response is here)...
We know K.O. has no trouble bringing the fire, as it were, in these commentaries, but I honestly believe there is some genuine sadness in what he says here, and of course I think he’s right.
There were a lot of reasons why we’re currently stuck with the petulant fraud of a pretender at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and we’ve rehashed them more than a few times already. But more than anyone else, the boomers (and that would include Olbermann and your humble narrator) have our metaphorical fingerprints all over this. And even though I fought this development as hard as I could, I also know that I’m partly responsible…
Update: And, inevitably perhaps, it has come to this.
...and as you might have guessed, Trump's ban wouldn't have done a damn thing about this (actually, you could argue that #45 maybe encouraged this behavior indirectly? - and uh, yep)...
Update: As an entity (with the notable exception of Shep Smith), that network is nothing but utterly unrepentant scum (here).
…and Chris Hayes talks to Sen. Sherrod Brown about the Dems filibustering Generalissimo Trump’s SCOTUS nominee (and by the way, I personally don’t have a problem revisiting the Merrick Garland nomination, even though it won’t happen of course...again, not a crime to be rich, but it's just a matter of what you do with it)…
…and given the recent firings, including this (perhaps the ONLY thing that the Gropenfuhrer can actually do well), isn't this interesting, particularly given the person asking the question...
I guess protesting the Gropenfuhrer every weekend is the new normal (this time over his utterly cruel and illegal Muslim ban)...so be it...
To start, John Iadarola of The Young Turks recorded this from LAX yesterday…
...and by the way, I think Rev. Al is spot-on here...
…and with the pic above in mind, here’s an ad that Generalissimo Trump doesn’t want you to see (more here - tomorrow is the sign-up deadline)…
…and there’s a veritable smorgasbord of garbage that comprises the nominees of President Big Orange Cheetoh, but while we quite rightly focus on Jeff Sessions, Betsy DeVos and Rick Perry (OMFG - as far as I'm concerned, trying to put that clown in charge of our nukes is an impeachable offense all by itself), let’s not forget about the character called out in this video too…
...and sticking with Rachel Maddow, here's a particularly important (IMHO) segment on the environment, punctuated somewhat by her "focus" comment at the very end (a few days late, but better than never)...
..and yesterday marked what would have been the 70th birthday of David Byron (nee David Garrick) of the ‘70s prog-rock band Uriah Heep (yeah, I guess this is a bit of a “message” song aimed at you-know-who and his pals; probably best to view this full screen – “this goes to 11,” by the way).
