Monday Stuff

Brian Tyler Cohen tells us about Dark Brandon calling out Repugs who are now crowing about the infrastructure bill they once voted against, originally calling it...wait for it!...”socialism” (OF COOUURSE!, as Cenk would say...more here)...



...well, if you want to learn about socialism for real, this Second Thought video presents another contrast with capitalism in a clip with the somewhat cheeky title of “Do Socialists Just Want To Take Your Stuff?” (spoiler alert: they don’t)...



...and Farron Cousins tells us about another Republican caught tampering with a voting system (trying to either read, upload or otherwise corrupt data with a flash drive, apparently), this time in Michigan related to the primary last August (and this person apparently was included in an alternate slate of electors on behalf of Mango Mussolini...more here)...



...and I know we’ll be entering the season of ghouls, goblins and witches soon, but when it comes to running for the U.S. Senate from our beloved commonwealth, Mehmet Oz is a monster for real (video mentions his exceedingly cruel experiments on animals including puppies – in response, to help John Fetterman, click here)...



Update: And apparently Oz is a Medicare Advantage fraudster too (here).

...and heading south to “the land of the yellow rose,” this clip from More Perfect Union tells us about Rochelle Garza running against Ken Paxton for Texas AG (more here...the video mentions the Feb ’21 energy crisis - $10.5 billion dollars of “financial wreckage”...ugh!)...



...and this DW clip tells us about the recent attack on the bridge in Crimea that remains an important supply route for Vlad The Butcher, still waging his war of choice in Ukraine (with reporter Mathias Bolinger and military analyst Frank Ledwidge...don’t know who the anchor is)...



...and Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report tells us that, apparently, women AREN’T flocking to this brand new right-wing dating app...shocking! (uh, not really...NSFW/H...that pic at about 14:00 is pretty damn funny I have to admit)...



...and as noted here, today is the 50th anniversary of “the hardest working man in show business” deciding to throw his support behind Tricky Dick Nixon in his run for a second term as president (hey, nobody’s perfect).



And with that, I now take my leave for about a week or so for a break, which I definitely need. I'll look to start this up again around the 20th or the 21st.

Courage.

Sunday Stuff

Trevor Noah of The Daily Show gives us his take on the Herschel Walker stuff (hard to keep track of all of his girlfriends/abortions at this point, and what a defense from Baby Newton Leroy...I believe that we’re all going to have to make an accounting for ourselves one day, including yours truly, and that counts for “deep commitment to Christ” Newt also...who, let’s not forget, divorced two of his wives, one of whom was ill with uterine cancer at the time as noted here)...



...and going from the ridiculous to the even more ridiculous, I give you this ad for Repug Michigan gubernatorial nominee Tudor Dixon...I’m not sure I’ve come across a more extreme version of elderly white boomer entitlement than this...so much nonsense to clap back against, but here is one observation; yes, Dem Governor Gretchen Whitmer kept the kids out of school BECAUSE NOBODY WANTED THEM TO FREAKING DIE FROM THE COVID PANDEMIC WHEN A VACCINE WASN’T READY FOR THEM YET!!! (and to help Whitmer, click here)...



...and yeah, I guess I’ll take a bit of comic relief however I can get it (to do something about Boebert, click here, and to do something about Marjorie Traitor Greene, click here)...



...and David Doel tells us that the wingnuts are upset that Velma of “Scooby Doo” is apparently queer...and you mean you never caught onto this until now? Rut-row (and we’re talking about a goddamn cartoon, people...mildly NSFW/H)...



...and I’m going to flip the order a bit of how I usually do posts on this day and note that John Lennon would have been 82...



...and happy birthday also to Jackson Browne.

Friday Stuff

It looks like FLA Guv Ron #DeathSantis is getting his MVY stunt thrown back at him in this video as noted here (and to do something about the utterly ruinous head of The Sunshine State, who is running for re-election let’s not forget, click here)...



...and it also looks like the identity of “Perla” has been discovered also (re, the person who lured the migrants onto the planes...kind of amazing that she didn’t even think of using an alias), as Farron Cousins tells us...



Update 3/3/23: Usually the best response is to act with humanity in response to the demagoguery from #DeathSantis and his fellow cretins (here).

...and when it comes to the destruction of Hurricane Ian in #DeathSantis land, Ali Velshi speaks with residents who pretty much lost everything (more on the relief effort is here, taking you to a page of information and a place to make a donation)...



...but the big story on Action News, you might say, is Dark Brandon unleashing again to decriminalize pot and, in all likelihood, remove it as a Schedule 1 drug at a minimum – in addition to making sense from a legal perspective of actually NOT ruining people’s lives over pot busts for possession, it also makes good political sense since decriminalization and legalization poll so well (David Doel explains– more background is here)...



...and I haven’t paid much attention to what’s going on in Ukraine for a little while I’ll admit, but it sounds like Vlad The Butcher is trying to move around some nukes on trucks or something (here)...and I’m sure The Swanson TV Dinner Heir will continue to cheer on Putin’s every move, as The Lincoln Project reminds us (more here)...



...and returning to stuff in this country, Trae Crowder gives us his rather wise perspective IMO when it comes to gas prices and OPEC (“the cost of the go-go juice in the boom-boom wagon” - uh, yep)......



...and I now give you the latest installment of “The Day In Doomsy History” from 10/7/15...if anybody out there still has any questions about what the Repugs would do if, God forbid, they’re returned to power in either congressional chamber, consider this clip to be fair warning...this ad from the Hillary Clinton for President campaign tells us about Kevin MaCarthy praising the BENGHAZI!!! special committee and how that brought down her poll numbers (more here – the ”R” party in control means it would be all Hunter Biden’s laptop all the freaking time, and the December 2017 tax scam will return with a vengeance)...



...and I’ve been trying to determine exactly what the Republican Party platform is, and I think this tune sums it up pretty well.

Thursday Stuff (updates)

David Pakman tells us about more abortion denials for raped pregnant minors in Ohio...and as far as I’m concerned, the “end game” is for the High Court to completely and utterly destroy the right to privacy in this country, and the SCOTUS of “Strip Search Sammy” Alito, “I Like Beer” Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Island Baby Barrett is ready and willing to do just that (not for a second, though, am I trying to discount how truly monstrous these stories are about these women – I guess it shouldn’t surprise me in the least, sadly, that we have come to this point...more than anyone else, I believe the people we should “thank” are white elderly conservative suburban boomers who will always consider the Repugs the “daddy” party and the Dems the “mommy” party...hard to get my head around that much of a denial of reality I’ll admit)...



Update 11/17/22: I'm sure Alito and his Federalist Society pals will have a laugh over this.

...and I really like these commentaries from Texas Paul of Meidas Touch because I think he makes a lot of sense, and yes, I would say the same thing if he were calling out bad behavior by Democrats...Dana Loesch pretty much goes “mask off” here and says that she doesn’t care how many abortions Herschel Walker has paid for; she just wants control of the U.S. Senate (the latest reprehensible behavior from Walker is noted here)...



...and I apologize for being a little late with noting the protests in Iran over the killing of Mahsa Amini (David Doel tells us more)...kudos to these brave women facing the hellish treatment they’ve encountered and no doubt continue to face as they stand up for their rights (I’m sure the Philistines on our SCOTUS are taking notes and probably saying “Hey, why didn’t WE think of that?”)...



...and Sam Seder of The Majority Report notes that the U.N. has asked Fed Chief Jerome Powell (and heads of other similar global institutions in developed countries) to not raise interest rates because of the damage that does to developing countries and their infrastructure...I’m a little mystified by Sam’s remark that, if you send $$ to the IRS, they just “burn it”...I definitely don’t agree, though, to be fair, I think Sam also makes a great argument to support the fact that our inflation is based on supply issues and not demand issues – and let’s not forget that Powell is a holdover from #45...there’s also a reference to the clip with Kyle Kulinski about the CEO of Iron Mountain praying – preying? – for inflation...”we’re all Keynesians now, and then we weren’t” indeed...

...and Thom Hartmann tells us Why Republicans Can’t Save The Economy (yet another failure of Dem messaging at this point if ANYBODY out there STILL thinks that the “party of Lincoln” doesn’t want to do anything with our economy besides drive the car straight off the metaphorical cliff...the “D” team can’t rely on our useless corporate media to communicate that message...this thing with Jerome Powell is starting to remind me of how Paul Volcker screwed over Jimmy Carter as Treasury Secretary so Volcker could help his friend The Sainted Ronnie R...”if you take out the three tax cuts under Reagan and Dubya and two wars, we have no national debt”...incredible!)...



(Update 1 10/7/22)...and focusing on world stuff again, I present this video once more as a "tribute" to Vlad The Butcher on his birthday...I was wondering if ANYBODY was going to hold our world leaders to account for sucking up to Putin, and this New York Times clip from earlier in the summer does exactly that...hard to properly describe the unbelievable failure of world leadership on this score...there were plenty of warnings that were completely ignored...



Update 2 10/7/22: And speaking of warnings, I apologize for neglecting this heroic journalist who was murdered on Putin's birthday (wink, wink)...I know 5 were convicted in her killing as noted here, and 2 of the 5 ended up receiving life sentences.

Update 11/14/23: One of those murdering bastards was pardoned by Vlad the Butcher, who obviously believes that the reason for his original conviction has been forgotten by now; hope I'm wrong about that (here).

...and Beau gives us his take on where Russia stands in Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine (basically, Beau’s argument is that any political goal will not be achieved, and prospects for achieving some kind of a military goal looks problematic too...and yeah, I think “imperialism” pretty much says it)...



...and speaking of birthdays, happy belated 75th to Jim Fielder of Blood, Sweat and Tears.

Wednesday Stuff

Farron Cousins tells us that Repug U.S. House Rep Matt Gaetz of FLA wants to abolish the VA and privatize it of course, with Cousins showing what I believe is a commendable level of outrage aimed at ex-military in his district who will vote for Gaetz anyway because he has “the magic R” after his last name...I still think it stinks to high heaven that those charges against Gaetz of sex trafficking with a minor seemed to disappear somehow, but again, we’re talking about Flori-DUUH!, so anything can happen I guess...



...and Jayar and Jessica Burbank discuss Sen. Foghorn Leghorn’s “crack head” ad...and again, Kennedy opposed $350 billion in police funding, so his ridiculous ad is even MORE hypocritical...I wish Dem Luke Mixon had sourced that claim a little better, though I’m sure he’s right – even though we need to keep fighting, I have to be honest about the chances of Kennedy actually losing since he checks all the boxes, you might say, for elderly white conservative Trumper wingnuts in Louisiana (and when it comes to Sen. Cornpone and RoJo, let's not forget this)...



...and speaking of Wisconsin’s U.S. Senatorial mistake, Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report tells us about RoJo squirming in response to questions from a local reporter about the text that either he or his chief of staff forwarded to Mike Pence, apparently, and presumably about seating fake electors, despite Johnson’s claims of innocence (NSFW/H)...



...and turning to the U.S. Senate race in our beloved commonwealth of PA, David Doel tells us about another attack ad from John Fetterman against Oz vis-a-vis The Simpsons and Dr. Nick, including the dog stuff with Oz, as well as torture of other animals (Oz is indeed a monster – more here...and to help Fetterman, click here)...



...and heading even further to the northeast, Cenk and Ana tell us about Tina Forte, running against AOC for the latter’s NY-14 U.S. House seat...and yeah, I guess, to know crime, you need to be a criminal yourself (meaning Forte of course...and I wish we would all keep hammering home the fact that THE DEMS SUPPORTED POLICE FUNDING THROUGH THE COVID RELIEF BILL, WHICH NO REPUG VOTED FOR!!! - I have a feeling that that's where the claim against Kennedy came from, as noted earlier, but I'm not positive at the moment)...



...and Jesse Dollemore gives us his take on the Herschel Walker stuff...and yeah, paying for abortions for at least one of these women is bad enough, but the hypocrisy is what’s particularly hard to take here from someone representing the party of “family values” (and as repugnant as Dana Loesch is, in a weird way, I have to give her credit for the honesty behind this utterly “mask off” remark)...



...and I know it’s taken a little while for me to get around to this great ad for Val Demings from Don Winslow (she’s running for the U.S. Senate against Marco Rubio in Florida), but I definitely didn’t want to let it slip through the proverbial cracks (to help Demings, click here)...



..and speaking of courageous women, RIP Loretta Lynn, a true American icon.

Tuesday Stuff

Brittany Page takes over for Jesse Dollemore and discusses Ohio’s awful abortion law, though there are other states with awful anti-abortion laws also including Nebraska and their wingnut governor Pete Ricketts, who is interviewed by Dana Bash and basically says that minors who are raped have to birth their rapist’s babies...typical for someone who will never have to undergo that horror...all the best to Jesse on his procedure today, by the way...



...and it’s time to hop onboard the wingnut crazy train, starting with Repug gubernatorial nominee Tudor Dixon joking about Dem Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s kidnapping, where God knows what would have happened to her if it had actually succeeded (Emma V. of The Majority Report tells us about it)...



...and Farron Cousins tells us that Marjorie Traitor Greene recently proclaimed that Dems are hunting Republicans...in response, we learn that, apparently, the right-winger killed apparently provoked the person allegedly responsible...not saying that’s a justification, but only that that’s a missing detail based on what Cousins tells us...and the second story about the 83-year-old woman shot on someone’s lawn was made up out of whole cloth at this point...and by the way, in addition to the right-wing violence Cousins point out, let’s not forget about this vicitm and this guttersnipe also...



...and John, Cenk and Max Burns of TYT tell us about Adam Hageman, Trumper from the Commerce Dept. with ties to Charlie Kirk, who was arrested and jailed over child porn charges (Cenk’s point about Charlie Kirk and outreach to young people is well taken IMO; Kirk is more to blame for not vetting this guy than anyone else...and yeah, I’d love to blame “Dr.” Gorka on this also, Matt Walsh and other wingnut pundits, but in good conscience, I can’t...echoing John a bit, though I think Cenk is also absolutely right about the Qanon lunatics being mostly responsible for the pedo garbage)...



...oh, and remember how, after every single mass shooting in this country, the “party of Lincoln” screeches that we need more mental health funding instead of common sense gun laws? Well, they recently had a chance to vote for added mental health funding, and I think you can guess the result, as Jeff Waldorf explains (and it’s true that Bri-Fi voted Yes, but he also supports gun reciprocity, so he’s at best a mixed bag on this issue)...



...and this Now This clip tells us about Hannah Stargel defending herself against the anti-trans and anti-reproductive rights policies from her father (a judge) and her mother (a state senator)...apparently both lost re-election, so hopefully they’ll rethink their positions, but probably not; the video also profiles Maddie Block in New Mexico waging a similar battle against her conservative father Jay Block who is also a state legislator (I wish all the best to these two courageous women and others in similar circumstances)...



...and RIP Sacheen Littlefeather, who of course turned down Marlon Brando’s Oscar for “The Godfather” in 1973 (at his direction, of course)...I was glad to see the apology from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to Littlefeather earlier this year...I always thought that she got caught up in one of Tinseltown’s most notorious dramas for reasons that weren’t her fault...Brando had to know what would have happened, but of course he ultimately didn’t care – to say he was a complex, convoluted character is a huge understatement (this great book shines a lot of light on that)...Brando did lend his fame and notoriety, as well as his money, to social justice causes to be fair, so there’s that on his side, and it would be nice if an apology or statement of reconciliation were forthcoming from Clint Eastwood, but I know we can forget about that...



...and RIP also to drummer John Hartman of The Doobie Brothers.

Monday Stuff

Comedy filmmaker Adam McKay brings us this snarky little item about Chevron and our dirty energy criminals doing all they can on behalf of perpetuating climate change...I think this pretty much says it (NSFW/H)...



...and Jayar, Cenk and Ben Carollo of TYT tell us about Repug U.S. House candidate J.R. Majewski, running against Dem incumbent Marcy Kaptur in a redistricted seat; yes, Majewski did serve, but I guess it’s too much trouble to be honest about it (more here)...



...oh, and Farron Cousins says that, recently, “Strip Search Sammy” Alito said that you can’t criticize the SCOTUS...I have many responses to that disgusting, self-entitled comment, and one of them is here from “the old gray lady”...



...and I haven’t checked in with Kyle Kulinski in a while, but I thought this was a good segment on Iron Mountain CEO William Meaney saying he’s “praying for inflation” to jack up prices – reporting by Jon Schwarz and Ken Klippenstein...and yeah, “very strong pricing power” by Iron Mountain’s CFO is corporate-speak for price gouging; I wish I could disagree with Kyle’s economic analysis heading into the mid-terms, but I can’t at the moment (briefly NSFW/H)...



...and sticking with the economy, the latest from Second Thought asks “Why Is Everything Turning Into Uber?,” and the answer is that the so-called “gig” economy is growing because workers are always on call, they don’t get benefits, and they get paid lousy wages...what’s not for a corporatist greed head CEO to love?...



...and I really haven't had a "relationship" song/video in a little while, so I hope this newer tune will suffice.

Friday Stuff

John and Caroline Johnson discuss the latest MAGA insanity related to January 6th, and that is the clip of the insurrectionist nuts trying to cover the cops with that tarp/Trump flag, or whatever that madness was...as far as I’m concerned, just prosecuting those responsible isn’t enough – we need to find out everything on how this was all bankrolled, who paid for transportation for these lunatics (including Bri-Fi pal Jim Worthington as noted here)...EVERY SINGLE DETAIL on all of this should be found out, and if we can’t prosecute everyone responsible, they need to be held up for public ridicule at a minimum (maybe cold comfort I know)...



...and speaking of the treasonous events against our government, it's pretty hard IMO to take issue with this Don Winslow clip on Ginni Thomas in light of this - one set of rules for the rich and powerful, and another set for everyone else of course...



...and when it comes to people who think rules don't apply to them, Mike Figueredo (not him) of The Humanist Report tells us about some wingnut lawyer at the Pacific Legal Foundation (of course) based in Indiana, who claims to have standing, bringing a suit against Biden’s student debt cancellation initiative (yep, the whole damn program is means tested and voluntary, so I don't know what else Biden is supposed to do – and I think “selfish prick” says it pretty well...NSFW/H)...



...and Brian Tyler Cohen discusses the recent remarks in the U.S. House from Dem Rep Elissa Slotkin concerning the typical GOP pig-headed intransigence over a veterans funding bill...and I know it’s a shock to find out that it’s over ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION ABORTION and ABORTION (yeah, not really I know)...



...and this More Perfect union clip tells us about Dem auto shop owner Marie G. Perez running against wingnut Joe Kent in Washington’s 3rd U.S. Congressional District...I don’t buy into her framing 100 percent that Dems have blown off rural America, but I give her credit for trying to make a difference, and she’s right on the issues of course...and Matt Gaetz is one of the VERY LAST people I would seek an endorsement from – actually, I’d tell him to get lost if he tried to give me one (and I thought this was interesting...and to help Perez, click here – slightly NSFW/H)...



Update 10/25/22: And why am I not surprised by this?

Update 11/13/22: CONGRATULATIONS!

...and Thom Hartmann asks if Big Oil is price-gouging to try and screw over Democrats; as far as I’m concerned, if you have to ask a question like that, you basically already know the answer...



...and I guess you could say that this is a bit of a wonky clip from Vox on Western U.S. water usage, and how much of that precious resource is used by consumers vs. the agriculture industry (overwhelmingly, it’s by the latter, and I’m sure we’ve already passed the tipping point where we need a new strategy)...



...and happy 47th birthday to David Geraghty of Bell X1 (the band, that is).

Thursday Stuff

Farron Cousins tells us here that Kellyanne ConJob is trying to make the argument that opioid deaths have doubled in PA under John Fetterman as Lt. Governor, which (and I know this is a shock for this woman - #sarcasm) ISN’T GODDAMN TRUE! – to help Fetterman, click here...



...and Jessica Burbank and Cenk tell us that Texas AG Ken Paxton fled his home, like a coward, to avoid a subpoena (and boy, if this isn’t the best justice money can buy, as noted in the video, I don’t know what is...at times like this, I remember how often The Eternal Molly Ivins would point out that Texas was pretty much the breeding ground of bad government)...



...and when it comes to self-promoting, opportunistic Republicans, J.D. Vance (running for the U.S. Senate from Ohio) is high on that list as well; this clip from “The Classroom” with Brian Tyler Cohen and More Perfect Union tells us more, particularly about how Vance is bankrolled by the thoroughly odious Peter Thiel...to help Vance’s opponent, Dem Tim Ryan, click here...



...and Jesse Dollemore tells us about STILL ANOTHER fraud from the “party of Lincoln,” and that is Tina Forte, running against AOC for the latter’s NY-14 U.S. House seat...yeah, and Forte’s really got that “New Yaaawk” accent going, but nothing else, sadly...we also learn that Mango Mussolini entertained the thought of bombing drug labs in Mexico...and yet again, this apparently came out in a book because somebody in our “fourth estate” didn’t think that was something important enough to tell us at the time it was first known (slightly NSFW/H)...



...and I know this is totally in (lack of) character for Doug Mastriano (the fifth member of his party in this little “rogues gallery” post), but it turns out that he said that murder charges should be filed against women who have undergone abortions in a 2019 radio interview – Sam and Emma of The Majority Report give us the gory details (and despite the way some of these races are trending as noted in the clip, I’m not sold on the idea of Dems spending $$ or trying to influence Republican campaigns to get the craziest candidates to be nominated...in response to Mastriano, click here to help Josh Shapiro)...



...and RIP Nashville guitarist Ray Edenton, who played on this hit among many others (for Patsy Cline, The Everly Brothers, Elvis, The Beach Boys – a pretty big list of artists actually).

Wednesday Stuff

David Shuster speaks with some Trump-supporting life forms in North Carolina (I believe), with Shuster reminding these bipeds that Congress can’t deny or promote a religion...actually, some of these people were a little docile when compared with other “Cult 45” lunatics, so I guess that counts as progress somewhat (and listening to that guy spouting about religion while wearing his Flush Limbore T-shirt is straight out of a Stanley Kubrick movie as far as I'm concerned)...

...and when it comes to folks “drinking the Kool Aid,” David Pakman tells us about Charlie Kirk and his ilk normalizing the disturbing electoral win in Italy of neo-fascist ultra-nationalists, including Giorgia Meloni (and I’m surprised Boebert actually got the spelling right in her typically nutty tweet, which was better than MTG...and unfortunately, the refugee crisis from Putin’s war of choice in Ukraine is helping to create the instability that has led to this and what’s going on in Sweden of all places)...



...and speaking of Vlad The Butcher and his war of choice in Ukraine, John and Francesca discuss Russia going nuts over Putin’s draft, including bombing a recruiting station (and Francesca is right of course about the Vietnam draft protests...there was a time when lefties were violent for sure, and I’m not condoning that, but it was in response to Vietnam and the draft; I would argue that lefties overall have definitely left political violence behind related to the other side – no excuse when anybody engages in that stuff I know)...



...and returning to this country, this clip from The States Project tells us about the effort to get Democrats elected in down-ballot races, which are critically important especially in an election cycle where Dems typically don’t do well, though we’re trying to change that of course...



...and I know it’s been a looong time since I had one of these segments, but I think now is the time to bring it back a bit, and I’m referring to the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History”...and I have a real “oldie buy goodie” for you – on this day in 2012 (approximately...maybe closer to 9/18), Willard Mitt Romney, who was at the time the Repug presidential nominee, brought us his behind-closed-doors quote about 47 percent of this country allegedly being “entitled” to having government do everything for them (including provide Social Security and Medicare, which we pay into and...make no mistake...would be on the proverbial chopping block if, God forbid, Repugs take control of the federal government again)...the difference between then and now, of course, is that the “party of Lincoln” says stuff like this out in the open, and usually coming from The Roger Ailes BS Factory...



...and Miles Davis died on this day 31 years ago.

Tuesday Stuff (updates)

Emma V. and company at The Majority Report tell us about Tuckums on Fix Noise going off on teachers allegedly sexualizing children...but The Swanson TV Dinner Heir is apparently OK with 15-year-old boys getting lap dances with a teacher’s face in the boy’s groin? I knew Carlson was sick and twisted, but I honestly didn’t know he was this far gone (I’m not exactly sure where that quote form Bill Russell ended, but it was pretty good...slightly NSFW/H)...



...and sticking with the prime time host from that abattoir of a TV network, Jeff Waldorf tells us about John Fetterman giving it back to the host of the White Power Hour over the PA Dem U.S. Senate candidate’s tattoos (and boy, it sure is FREAKING HILARIOUS for The Swanson TV Dinner Heir to imply that Fetterman was a rich kid sponging off his family...to help Fetterman, click here)...



Update: I give you this recent development concerning the Oz campaign (in the vicinity of Le Manse Doomsy).

I mean, I don’t condone or advocate vandalism, but it is pretty funny!

And before anybody clutches their pearls or looks for the fainting couch over those dastardly libs and their wanton acts of destruction, I should note that I’ve heard reports about Ashley Ehasz road signs near the intersection of Rts. 332 and 413 that disappeared or were ripped out and tossed over to the side of the road. And that intersection is pretty close to Bri-Fi pal Jim Worthington’s Newtown Athletic Club (and yes, apples and oranges...).

Coincidence? I think not.

Update 10/3/22: I swear, the more metaphorical rocks you turn over with Oz, the seamier he looks (here).

...and Jesse Dollemore and Brittany Page tell us that former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre not only wanted PPP funds for speeches he never gave, but he also wanted prison labor to build a volleyball gym for his daughter...and Favre knew it was illegal of course (smiley face - more here)...and all the best to Dollemore with his health issues...



Update 9/30/22: What a self-entitled POS Favre is turning out to be (here...and funneling $$ earmarked for fighting cancer for his personal use...who does that remind me of? Thinking...).

Update 10/3/22: Birds of a feather, you might say (here)...

via GIPHY

...and after hearing about the latest nonsense with Curtsy Kyrsten, I had to figuratively pour my white-hot rage into a teacup, but it was so profanity-laden that I have to cool it in the saucer of this admittedly dumb blog afterwards...if you don’t know what the hell I’m talking about, it’s in reference to this Brian Tyler Cohen clip of Sinema giving a speech in front of The McConnell Center, or wherever that mess was...if I actually received a compliment from Moscow Mitch over ANYTHING, I would immediately rethink the full purpose and scope of my entire life...this clip has the quote from Sinema about not giving the child everything he/she wants (more here)...I don’t know what is worse about this woman: her condescension, her corruption, or her stupidity (And by the way, a TYT clip on this basically told us that she’s gotten about $3 mil in donations for her antics, which is CHUMP CHANGE when you’re talking about the dark $$$$ poisoning our politics...mildly NSFW/H...also, Cohen mentioned the U.S. Senate races, but I didn’t hear anything about Ohio...to help Dem Tim Ryan, click here)...



...and if you want an example of how a Democrat is SUPPOSED to act, David Pakman tells us about CA guv Gavin Newsom giving it back to Greg Abbott of Texas and Ron #DeathSantis of FLA; I agree with Pakman...you don’t have to be the biggest fan of Newsom to completely respect what he’s doing here...



...and notwithstanding the whole “eye of Sauron” think going on (well, maybe not really), if I could, I would blare this song through the doors of Sinema’s offices every single freaking day!

Monday Stuff

Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report gives us a brief look at the many ways that the “party of Lincoln” has obstructed Congress, including in response to a bill to codify election procedure (i.e., not allowing VPs to overturn elections), which received only 9 U.S. House Repug votes, and all from reps who were leaving, so of course Bri-Fi voted No also – to do something about that, click here...



...and turning to the U.S. Senate race in our beloved commonwealth of PA, it looks like one of Mehmet (“CALL ME DOCTOR, DAMMIT!”) Oz’s highest profile backers, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, has turned on his former pal for mocking John Fetterman over the latter’s stroke – to help Fetterman, click here...



...and it looks like Oz’s family had to pay the largest ICE fine in history (against the Asplundh tree cutting company...they’re all over the place in this area by the way), and of course, Oz crows about “illegal immigration” (the hypocrisy is the point of course...segment goes to about 5:30, then leads into a discussion about 58% of Republicans believing in “white replacement theory”...with Ana and Cenk)...



...and Chris Hayes speaks with Bernie Sanders about the popularity of Biden’s loan forgiveness and the response to the concentration of corporate wealth vis-a-vis the increased unionization efforts in this country (and of course, Cancun Cruz and his pals will try to fight student loan forgiveness because that’s what they do...yeah, numbers look good for now, but we should all work for campaigns as if we’re 20 points down, partly because – unfortunately – dark money swooping in at the 11th hour with a blitz of negative ads often still works in campaigns more than it should, though I honestly believe the tide is turning on that...will that hold be broken in this cycle? I don’t know, and we should assume NOTHING...this clip is a few days old and it took me a little while to get to it, I know...David Doel also had a good recent segment on this piece)...



...and it looks like FLA Guv Ron #DeathSantis is getting sued by the migrants he tricked into flying to Martha’s Vineyard, and of course he doubles down on his BS because that’s all he knows how to do...Brian Tyler Cohen tells us about it...



...and Beau tells us about the call that allegedly came from inside the White House to somebody at the Capitol on 1/6 based on the “60 Minutes” interview with Denver Riggleman (here)...it should be plainly obvious to anyone with at least a double-digit IQ by now that Not Your Father’s Republican Party hates representative democracy and demonstrates that at every opportunity...



...and Caroline Johnson of Rebel HQ discusses the “trickle-down effect,” if you will, when wingnut preachers try to cram their version of morality down everyone’s throats (I’m honestly not sure which one of those two guys in NYC is supposed to be the goofball; maybe the guy in the cap is supposed to be normal?)...



...and RIP Jim Post of the ‘60s one-hit-wonder duo Friend and Lover, with their signature tune.

Saturday Stuff

Robert Reich gives us another one of his periodic reminders that the “self-made billionaire” BS is truly a myth, starting with Musk, Bezos, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, etc...



...and Chris Hayes gives us a preview of what would happen if (God forbid) Republicans capture any of the two legislative bodies on Capitol Hill, to say nothing of the White House also in 2024 (more motivation for us to do what we can to get Dems elected, as if we didn’t know how important that is already)...Medicare and Social Security ABSOLUTELY will be on the chopping block, and we can expect a federal 15-week abortion ban and more stinking tax cuts (and this J.R. Majewski clown really put his foot in it with his alleged military service, didn’t he...update is here...and what the hell is it with Repugs who actually think they can rap?...and I thought this was a hoot also)...



...and Trae Crowder tells us about Repugs losing what’s left of their minds over the Stacey Abrams quote about the lack of a six-week fetal heartbeat, which was verified by medical science (which Repugs don’t believe in, I know)...



...and John and Brett Erlich of The Damage Report tells us that protestors of Vlad The Butcher’s war of choice in Ukraine have automatically been drafted into service (and yeah, as they say, what kind of message does it send to your existing forces to conscript people WHO DON’T EVEN WANT TO BE THERE??!!)...



...and Brittany Page joins Jesse Dollemore on The Dollermore Daily to talk about Mississippi, first on the water in Jackson – and also what a doctrinaire Repug fathead Tate Reeves is – and second, having to do with the Brett Favre funds misappropriation stuff (mildly NSFW/H)...



...and it’s “up, up and away” with this neat newer tune (make sure you hang around until the end :-).

Friday Stuff

Jesse Dollemore tells us that Our Treasonous Tiny Handed Former Dictator is BIG MAD that #DeathSantis apparently stole his awful immigrant kidnapping idea, and of course leave it to #45 to add his particularly heinous twist to all of this of shipping actual violent criminals to blue states, and except for Cheney and Kinzinger, NOT A DAMN ONE OF THEM IN HIS PARTY WILL SAY ANYTHING TO OPPOSE HIM!!! And by the way, all the best to Dollemore on his health issues...



...and this clip from The Lincoln Project tells us about Doug Mastriano and the connection between his campaign and the utterly awful and depraved Gab anti-Semitic web site; to help Josh Shapiro, the Dem running for PA governor, click here...



...and uh oh, it looks like Mr. Crudite himself, Mehmet (“CALL ME DOCTOR, DAMMIT!”) Oz went to Kensington to (allegedly) help drug addicts shoot up to film a campaign video...and yeah, I’d like to know how many of those people in that vehicle made it to drug rehab also...this is a serious problem that deserves a MUCH BETTER treatment than a drive-by photo-op...that crowd Oz spoke to later (“See? I actually went to Democrat cities! I’m not just a Hollywood celebrity!”) was about as “diverse” as a jar of mayonnaise...I think this segment goes off the rails a bit in the last minute over the George Floyd stuff to be honest, though the fundamental point about performative stuff from the “R” party (and the Dems to a lesser extent) is true, I have to admit (in response, to help John Fetterman, click here)...



...and here’s a backgrounder on Ashley Ehasz, the Dem running to unseat Brian Fitzpatrick as PA-01 U.S. House rep; to help the campaign, click here (and more on Bri-Fi is here)...



...and Thom Hartmann tells us about more anti-abortion garbage in Georgia, West Virginia, Texas and Utah...and refusing to treat miscarriages? Looks like some of our states below that Mason-Dixon line are being run by some of the most enlightened minds of the 13th century...



...well, one way to try and fix that is to vote for Dems like Beto O’Rourke, running for Texas governor against the thoroughly despicable Greg Abbott – to help, click here (I keep waiting for elderly white conservative boomers to start loving their kids and embracing climate justice, economic reform and sane policies concerning women’s reproductive health more than they viscerally hate Democrats, and I’m sure I’ll keep waiting...clip is briefly NSFW/H, but for a good reason)...



Update: I saw on Twitter that the Houston Chronicle says that voters are breaking towards Abbott based on immigration and away from abortion; not taking issue with the paper, but this makes zero sense to me given that Abbott was responsible for this.

...and turning to entertainment, this week marked the passing of a guy who probably was the very last surviving male member of The Rat Pack, and that was longtime character actor Henry Silva – here he is in a truly great film that had trouble getting released for awhile because of the subject matter (re, an assassination)...



...and Silva made a living portraying villains, which brings to mind this tune (for me anyway, which is actually a cover of a Larry Williams song).

Thursday Stuff

I realize that we here in our beloved commonwealth of PA don’t have bragging rights when it comes to election corrupt idiot politicians (see “No Corporate Tax” Pat Toomey), but I have to admit that it is predictably discouraging to see voters in Wisconsin apparently trending towards RoJo – love to be wrong...here is a reminder of why Johnson most definitely does NOT deserve another term in the U.S. Senate from Texas Paul at Meidas Touch, with RoJo blaming “CRT” and “wokeness” for the Uvalde massacre (to help Johnson's opponent Mandela Barnes, click here...NSFW/H)...



Update: And how is this for a Freudian slip?

...and I thought this was a pretty well-done New York Times video with Johnny Harris (taking a break from bitching about NIMBY libs and real estate in Southern California) and Michelle Cottle about the most urgent threat to our elections...this is what happens when we coddle the Trumpsters including Bannon and Mango Mussolini himself, and this is also what happens when the John Lewis For The People Act gets stopped dead in its tracks in Congress by the “party of Lincoln” – Dems (and in this case, Liz Cheney also) have tried to pass laws to ensure election integrity (here), but as noted here, Bri-Fi (among others in his party) have opposed these efforts...to do something about that, click here (and let’s not forget the role of the John Eastman garbage in all of this as noted here)...



...and speaking of legal stuff, Farron Cousins tells us that the defamation lawsuit against Pillow Guy from Smartmatic will be allowed to proceed (and yeah, Dominion should follow with their suit also, and I’m sure they will)...



Update: More here (what a freak show).

...but as deserved as that is, the REAL topper came from the 11th Circuit Court hours ago against Our Ochre Abomination himself, in which the whole “special master” ruling from Trumpster flunky judge Aileen Cannon got the legal thrashing it deserved...Beau tells us more (more here)...



...and from Satan’s lips to his minions’ ears as far as I’m concerned; I think that’s the best way to summarize this next story, with MAGA lunatics flooding the suicide prevention hot line for our veterans to try and release the treasonous insurrectionist 1/6 criminals (Ana and Cenk of TYT tell us more)...



..and this tune was #1 on the Billboard pop charts on this day 55 years ago.

Wednesday Stuff

(This is just a reminder that the "kangaroo court" pictured above, including that smiling African American woman, are the ones - along with all other Republican politicians - who have decided that women in this country shouldn't be allowed to exercise their own bodily autonomy.)

Sam and Emma of The Majority Report tell us about Huckleberry Graham’s latest abortion stunt blowing up in his face, you might say...and yeah, Dems damn sure should run with what Graham says here in ads throwing it back at him, but we’ll see – more here...



...and for a bit of heartbreaking reality on this story, Ana and Cenk of TYT discuss a Texas woman named Kailee DeSpain, who apparently was passionately anti-abortion along with her husband; she had to travel out of state to get an abortion herself because of truly dire pregnancy complications (to New Mexico apparently)...and in case anyone thinks I’m going to be snarky about that, think again; I’m genuinely sorry for the heartbreak she and her husband have faced as a result of this horrific development concerning the in-utero life inside her, but I would only ask that they please try to understand that anyone who is pro-choice loves the life of the unborn also, even though I’m sure the DeSpains can probably see our side in a more tolerant light now, though I’m sorry it’s because of what has happened to them – and I think Cenk is referring to the Sandy Senn clip that I included a couple of days ago with Brian Tyler Cohen...



...and turning to other domestic political matters, it looks like Our Ochre Abomination is threatening civil war if he’s indicted...well, he’s on the way to that based on this, among many other reaons (Richard Ojeda has more on this...and here is more on Matt Whitaker, yet another Trumpist bottom feeder from our prior ruling cabal)...



...and it sounds like U.S. District Judge Raymond Dearie, Mango Mussolini’s handpicked “special master,” is all done with the games from #45 on the Mar-a-Lago docs mess (David Pakman gives us the details - love the face freeze)...



...and in case anyone has forgotten about Vlad The Butcher and his war of choice in Ukraine, Beau tells us about the latest Russian referendum and how it’s a propaganda stunt as a likely pretext to further conscription of young men of fighting age in that country to be sent off to “the meat grinder”...



...and since tomorrow is the first day of fall, it’s time to ring down the curtain on my summer selections until next year (sniff, though this is a great time of year also).