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Wednesday Stuff

Wed, 27 May 2026 22:19:06 +0000

Ali Velshi brings us the important question, “To whom does this democracy actually belong?,” which is something I think all of us need to be asking, especially now...also, apparently Hawaii is fighting back against Citizens United; have to admit that I’m shocked to hear that a Repug state rep on the island, Kainani Sousa, is the one leading the charge in getting a bipartisan bill passed banning corporate spending in their state’s elections, and in the process, redefining what a corporation actually is (and kudos to Dem state senator Karl Rhoads also)...I think Tom Moore is a damn genius for coming up with a way for states to regulate corporations and pull an end-run pretty much around that tragic and despicable SCOTUS ruling...I know I touched on a similar effort in Montana previously, and kudos to those folks also...

...and keeping with domestic politics, Belle lets us know that the “party of Jim Crow 2.0” tag bothers the GOP – cue the world’s smallest violin...and why am I not the least bit surprised to find out that one of the individuals taking umbrage is the thoroughly vile Repug U.S. Senator Mike Lee of Utah?...oh, but there are 4 African American Repug U.S. House reps, so Hangin’ Judge JR is right when he says racism is dead I guess (SMDH)...Belle is right that four, against a 200-member caucus, is nothing to brag about, especially since none of those mentioned are running for re-election (those knuckleheads in Flori-DUUH will probably make Byron Donalds the next governor)...it would be freaking hilarious if the “party of Lincoln” ends up diluting the makeup of their previously “safe” districts with these gerrymanders to get rid of black representation to the point of putting MANY MORE seats in play than those that they expected...oh, and speaking of idiocy from the “daddy party” (give me a break!), John Cornyn could have walked right back to the Senate for another term, but with the thoroughly odious Ken Paxton at the nominee from the “all hat, no cattle” state, that puts that election somewhat in play for the “D” team...I mean, yeah, it’s Texas, and I have no illusions about how long the odds are, but it’s possible as of now (here)...

...and Farron Cousins brings us the latest on the wingnut consolidation of the media landscape...looks like James Murdoch (son of Rupert The Pirate) just spent $300 million to purchase Vox Media, which has truly been an important outlet as Cousins points out...and yes, as Cousins says, all of this consolidation is truly right out of the fascist playbook; not at all hard to see the direction this is going – for yours truly, the beginning of the end of this came when media organizations became more preoccupied with “balance” to keep wingnut goofballs happy than to report on verifiable truth and reality (and speaking of wingnut media idiocy, there is this – I’m sure Sharyn Alfonsi expected that for her courageous segment on CECOT, but it’s still a pretty damn putrid way to treat a skilled, seasoned employee)...NSFW/H...

...and turning to our regularly scheduled pre-emptive Middle East war, Lawrence O’Donnell tells us that Cantaloupe Capone apparently is too busy to explain to us what’s going on (yeah...like he actually knows)...I’ve had issues with Seth Moulton in the past, but he did a pretty damn good job of trying to untangle this mess (and why do I have a feeling that Cheetoh Hitler is going to pull the same tactic of “we have a cease fire, but bomb them anyway” over and over like our *preznit’s best bud “Bibi”?)...we revisit that great quote form John Kerry in his Senate testimony in 1971 about asking the last man to die in Vietnam for a mistake...commenting on military matters is above my pay grade a bit, but I would only suggest that though Admiral Cooper handled himself capably IMO in the hearing, it’s obvious that he was left holding the metaphorical bag by our regime of grifters and frauds, and I DEFINTELY don’t have a problem with Moulton’s incisive line of questioning; when all we get are lies, half-truth and evasions, EVERYONE from this regime should feel like they have massive targets on their backs, for political fallout I mean, and that goes for Admiral Cooper also...

...and as a bit of a follow-up to O’Donnell, Kyle Kulinski lets us know that even Fix Noise can’t defend the Gropenfuhrer and his Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran, saying that Our Sweaty Orange Bronzer Boy needs to open the Strait of Hormuz AND keep Iran from enriching uranium (and yeah, I know, we had a deal under Obama, blah blah blah)...not sure if that generic hairdo in this segment is Tomi Lahren or not...good point by Kyle that there WAS a deal for Iran not to enrich uranium before the U.S. and Israel decided to bomb them, including that girls’ school where over 100 people were killed...I have a feeling that Kyle is right when he says that the “price tag,” if you will, on this wretched war of choice has yet to arrive, but it’s coming for sure...NSFW/H also...

...and RIP Sonny Rollins.

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 26 May 2026 20:28:41 +0000

John and Jayar of The Damage Report let us know that it looks like Our Ochre Abomination is doing his best to cover up his doctor’s visits again (if Don The Con is supposed to be so damn healthy, then why does he have that horrible hand bruise in this pic?)...didn’t know the National Trust for Preservation sued to halt construction of that stinking ballroom; good for them...so OF COURSE #47’s consigliere Todd Blanche is all “oh, we have to have the stinking ballroom to protect my boss and all future presidents, but the National Trust wants to see all the presidents get shot, instead” or some such idiocy...oh, and we find out NOW that, in addition to that damn bunker, the Gropenfuhrer wants medical facilities under that damn ballroom too? He’s doing all he can to prevent EVER HAVING TO LEAVE THE WHITE HOUSE, PEOPLE!!!...good point by Jayar about the double standard of the Tangerine Toddler wanting all this secret stuff, but he apparently has no issue whatsoever with going to one of his damn golf courses in full public view...and how con-vee-nient that the damn ballroom is supposed to be built by September 2028...

...and Thom Hartmann echoes that quote from LBJ that “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you,” and Thom lets us know about a study from Delaware that pretty much confirms that, with whites turning against the social safety net when they think it benefits non-whites...”white resentment beats white self-interest every time” – if you want just one example of that, look at Kentucky; they just voted out Thomas Massie, who, imperfect as he was, was nonetheless trying to hold Cantaloupe Capone to account, with the latter responsible for utterly decimating the bourbon industry in that state (mainly trading with Canada) because of those beyond ridiculous tariffs...oh, and ICE apparently is trying to build crematoriums inside their detention facilities; didn’t we fight a war against a nation that once tried to do that?...Thom interviews author George Koch about the latter’s book “Bullies, Parasites and Slaves: Replacing Exploitation with Mutual Care”...”Our hard work goes to subsidize their excess” indeed, referring to the “one percent” I’m sure, and that supermarket example is likely apt also...

...also, don’t be too shocked, but apparently we had a SCOTUS victory on continuing to allow Medicare to negotiate on drug prices, according to Peter Maybarduk of Public Citizen, despite the pharma industry litigating this and misleading the public for about 20 years and spending “tens of millions” trying to defeat it...and oh yeah, there was an $8 billion handout in the Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck to drug firms to try and gut price negotiations...if the national Democratic Party had any brains, they would be combing through that godawful legislation line by line (and also doing that concerning the terrible DOGE cuts from King Elon and Russell Vought) and crafting attack ads for EVERY DEM CANDIDATE based on that, but I’m definitely not getting overconfident on that one...

...and Dan Lieberman of More Perfect Union brings us the story of the “party of Lincoln” under Dear Orange Leader trying to find a new way to steal your Social Security...report is focused on Iowa, featuring a lady named Susan Ludeking, among others including former Decorah Mayor Lorraine Borowski...a big culprit in all of this mess is the aforementioned DOGE cuts last year that forced out thousands of employees from the Social Security Administration, as well as former SSA employee Jessica LaPointe...glad to see this report lay the blame squarely at the feet of The Sainted Ronnie R, who IMO is more responsible for the unraveling of this agency than anyone else, though successive Repug politicians have been after this vitally important agency ever since, and now it’s in the unsightly bruised hands of Combover Caligula...”grow some balls” to save Social Security indeed...

...and Mr. Newberger gives us the following on the “Trump Mobile Phone”...always a scam or grift by our ruling regime to bilk gullible rubes...

...and happy belated 85th birthday to Bob Dylan.

Monday Stuff

Mon, 25 May 2026 14:16:10 +0000

Brian Tyler Cohen speaks with former Capitol police officer Harry Dunn who, along with fellow officer Daniel Hodges, is suing #47 over his $1.8 bil insurrectionist slush fund (Dunn is running for the Dem nomination for the MD-05 seat about to be given up by Steny Hoyer)...good point by Cohen that, by in essence trying to make all of these scumwaffles millionaires, the Gropenfuhrer is trying to incentivize them to pull more garbage like they did on 1/6...I have issues with Bri-Fi for sure, mainly because he didn’t have a damn thing to say about the DOGE wreckage, and I’ll NEVER believe his naïve explanation that he thought Medicare/Medicaid wouldn’t be hit by the Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck, but in the matter of this payoff to the treasonous insurrectionists, Fitzpatrick is on the right side, albeit with the bar set pretty low...and Dunn is spot-on IMO in saying we need to elect the RIGHT democrats, not just someone who’s going to bring the metaphorical water pistol to a Howitzer fight (NSFW/H)...

...and sticking with the theme of mainly Repug toadies giving Our Ochre Abomination everything he wants, John and Brett Erlich of The Damage Report let us know that “MAGA Mike” Johnson cancelled a vote on the bill to implement the War Powers Resolution and sent everybody home instead (the bill passed the Senate when Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who no longer has anything to lose politically, commendably flipped his No vote to Yes)...here comes my obligatory announcement once more that WE HAD A F*CKING NUKE DEAL WITH IRAN UNDER OBAMA THAT DEMENTIA J. TRUMP WADDLED AWAY FROM, CANKLES AND ALL...and yeah, the “accordion hands” are back too...I’d forgotten that this indeed is the same tactic as the one to prevent the disclosure of the Trumpstein files...and why do I have a feeling that that Raul Castro indictment is going to be the alleged excuse for still more military madness in Cuba...

...and Sam Seder of The Majority Report gives us his rundown on the Senate reconciliation bill that apparently is stuck because Pumpkin Pol Pot wants to stick his previously noted $1.8 bil slush fund for the 1/6 insurrectionists in it (which was called “stupid on stilts” by departing Repug senator Thom Tillis of N.C.)...the failure to introduce the resolution was commendably called out by Dem rep Jim McGovern of MA, as we see in the clip....by the way, the missing Repug U.S. House Rep is Tom Kean Jr. of NJ...

...and I know I spend the majority of my time here cataloging nonsense from the “party of Lincoln,” but here is an example of a Dem utterly caving, and that’s Colorado governor Jared Polis, who made the cowardly and ridiculous decision to grant clemency to election denier Tina Peters (good catch by Kyle Clark of 9NEWS to find that paragraph in his clemency letter that was omitted by Polis)...if it were any other Trumpist knucklehead, maybe – maybe – clemency COULD make sense...however, Peters, being an election official, knew EXACTLY how to mess up the voting apparatus in order to help Our Treasonous Orange Pustule, so what she did was a particular kind of evil above and beyond what we’ve come to know and despise from this regime of bottom feeders (and I would call this a completely deserved response to Polis)...

...and I thought this was a well-done Lincoln Project video with today’s holiday in mind...

...and here is an apropos selection for our annual observance.

Friday Stuff

Fri, 22 May 2026 16:33:56 +0000

David Doel tells us of Jeff Bezos appearing on CNBC with Andrew Ross Sorkin, with the Amazon plutocrat and “death by a thousand cuts” owner of the WaPo praising Cantaloupe Capone...and Bezos thinks #47 is “calmer”?? By wrecking this country and starting an unprovoked war with Iran? In what universe does THAT make sense? And boy, is Doel ever right about all kinds of business networks but NOT A SINGLE UNION OR WORKERS’ NETWORK...that graph from the Economic Policy Institute does indeed tell a sobering story...I have to admit that that utterly disgusting story about permanent tax audit immunity for Cheetoh Hitler and his failsons was something I just learned about, and coming on the heels of that $1.8 billion slush fund for the 1/6 insurrectionists...and oh yeah, we get that line from Bezos that “you can double the taxes I pay and it won’t help that teacher in Queens”...you wanna bet??...I don’t know that I’d go so far as to say that billionaires shouldn’t exist, but they sure as hell should be taxed on their wealth like we used to do in this country...Bezos raking in $18 billion but still claiming a tax loss to the point of qualifying for a 4K credit truly is galling...and I’m sure Tom Steyer is making nice noises because he’s running for governor in CA, but I still wouldn’t trust him to be honest...mildly NSFW/H...

...and in a somewhat related item, Brittany Page informs us that, according to some conservative douchebag, saying “tax the rich” is worse than saying the “N” word, supposedly...oh, and leave it to “Both Sides Smerky” to be all over it on CNN...“but I’m not sure that (some rich corporate grifter) is entirely wrong (about the phrase being a slur),” huh? That’s about on brand for Smerky...as Page says, this is in response to NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani saying he would indeed tax the rich, so OF COURSE King Elmo, “Zuck,” the aforementioned Bezos, etc. have to go crying to their corporate media cousins about it...awww, what a shame that these spoiled little brats have to pay a tax on their second homes worth $5 million or more (break out the crying towels)...sooo Steve Roth is going to take his business to Flori-DUUUH now? Good luck hiring skilled people from a whole other candidate pool...good for Page for digging into this Roth guy and finding out that he made bank by basically killing a lot of “mom and pop” businesses in neighborhoods to build strip malls, throwing a lot of people out of their jobs in the process (while wrapping himself in the “just world” hypothesis)...glad to hear Page point out that it’s likely extremely rare to find someone who is truly self-made and didn’t get to prosperity without some help or inflicting pain on someone else, either intentionally or not...

...and Farron Cousins lets us know that Congressional Dems are trying to figure out how much people paid to get pardons from Our Ochre Abomination...I’d be surprised if the Dems get much of a response from these nutzoids they sent letters to, asking them how much they paid off the Gropenfuhrer, but it’s certainly worth a try...pretty despicable that the law allows a lobbyist to get paid so they can pay off our crime boss-in-chief (allegedly!) to get that golden “Get Out Of Jail Free” card...kudos to Dem reps Dave Min and Raul Ruiz and Dem Senator Peter Welch...and that means that folks who were owed $2 BILLION in restitution won’t get paid now?? This is YET ANOTHER story that would have gotten the 24/7/365 treatment if it were ANYBODY ELSE (and CERTAINLY a DEM, which would be deserved actually), but since it involves Dementia J. Trump, it will likely be treated with a shrug by our fourth estate stenographers...I agree with Cousins that the Dems are smart to be doing the legwork on all of this staggering corruption now as opposed to later...

...and Kyle Kulinski informs us that it looks like the WHO has declared an Ebola outbreak in the Congo with 80-plus deaths so far...oh, and did I mention that Bobby Brainworms and his boss have taken this country out of the WHO?...also, as Kyle says, Apartheid Clyde and DOGE utterly wrecked the CDC and US AID, so there’s no response coming from those critically important agencies...I would say that Jeremy Konyndyk has summed this up pretty well in a pretty damn terrifying series of tweets, and how much do you want to bet that China finds a way into this mess since we stoo-pidly abandoned our responsibilities on the world stage, further diminishing our prestige? (NSFW/H)...

...and Stephen Colbert delivers his final “Late Show” monologue, with some cameos...it looks like our alleged Hantavirus response is being led by a penile implant specialist and vaccine skeptic; definitely don’t feel “warm and fuzzy” about that (tied to the prior clip a bit)...and a scandal involving a Rome “sexy priest calendar”? Feel free to insert your snark here...and it looks like some dancing Chinese robot is trying to “bust a move” but it didn’t quite work out (still making my way through all of the clips from the last show)... I’m sure whatever nonsense Byron Allen manages to come up with starting next week in Colbert’s slot will merely be a bad joke in response...

...and nothing like an upbeat newer number to take us into a holiday weekend, is there (and from a local band too).

Wednesday Stuff

Wed, 20 May 2026 21:44:31 +0000

Belle of the Ranch reminds us that the Tangerine Toddler has destroyed half of Canadian tourist visits with all of his “51st state” BS and “Governor Carney” garbage, losing revenue to the tune of $4 billion per year...looks like Myrtle Beach got hit the worst according to Belle, based partly on cell phone data...good point by Belle that, when our Canadian neighbors get used to a new travel routine away from this country, it’s not like you can just magically flick a switch and everyone will come back; trying to repair this damage in particular, along with EVERYTHING ELSE destroyed by this regime, is going to take time and work, and money...

...and sticking with our northern neighbors, this report from CBC News: The National lets us know that our spiteful, petulant egomaniac in An Oval Office just pulled this country out of a joint defense initiative with Canada – God only knows why (maybe because Daddy Vlad told him to??)...and I think John McKay’s analysis of “stupid foolishness” is about right...Canada has “failed to make credible progress on its defense commitments,” huh? And that’s even though PM Mark Carney said Canada had fulfilled its pledge to spend 2% on defense (as opposed to the insane amount that WE spend, as opposed to other vital needs?)...oh, and did I mention that this joint U.S./Canada initiative goes back to World War II?...

...returning to our shores, Jordan Chariton of Status Coup News reports on 3 NJ congressional representatives (Dems Rob Menendez, LaMonica McIver and Analilia Mejia) who visited an ICE prison in Delaney Hall, where we learn that those detained are being served food with live worms in it (also, green sausages and chunky milk)...oh, and apparently a pregnant woman was detained and she ended up losing the pregnancy in part at least because she wasn’t given medical treatment...also, let’s include a man with an untreated head wound in all of this and let HIM suffer without assistance also...oh, but GEO Group made $254 mil in profit, so it’s all good (all done in our name, people!)...

...and RIP Barney Frank...so many reasons to pay tribute to him IMO, mainly for the Dodd-Frank financial reforms passed in 2010 after the “banksters” blew up the “big casino” in 2008, and also because Frank took absolutely no mess, as shown in this clip during those beyond-ridiculous Teahadist town halls that spring up against the Affordable Care Act due to the efforts mainly of deep-pocketed donors like “Americans for Prosperity” (again, the timeframe on that was around 2009-2010)...

...and Rachel Maddow discusses the group “secret handshake,” which apparently is behind the Trump/Epstein statues on the National Mall and the “golden toilet”...well, now they came up with “Operation Epic Furious,” which definitely looks like an old school arcade game as Maddow says, stationed at the War Memorial...the group also made an online version of this game so you can indeed play at home as if you are #47 and you can wage war against Iran in the game (or burn more Epstein files if you wish)...as far as the group behind this is concerned, “long may they wave” indeed...

...and happy 80th birthday to Cher.

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 19 May 2026 17:02:35 +0000

This clip from TYT Investigates brings us ER physician Dr. Megan L. Ranney, who is my latest heroine for presenting facts about gun violence, an issue she knows well, unfortunately...oh, and along comes “Cornpone” Kennedy, the Oxford senator pretending he’s from the South, trying to confront her over her logical arguments, including some snarky nonsense about fried foods...it’s actually quietly enraging to see Kennedy act like such a bumpkin – the idiots who sent him to the Senate in Louisiana probably have a total amount of functioning brain synapses that you can count on one hand and have fingers left over...yep, another “low turnout, Republican wins” election (damn fools, the lot of them...oh, and based on this, it looks like it’s time not to politicize gun violence again – I think you can still Google “John Oliver Song of the Summer,” by the way)...

...and oh yeah, I realize wingnuts like Kennedy just LOVE to mention gun violence in Chicago because that to them is an example of a place with strict gun laws but persistent high crime, even though a sizeable percentage of gun violence in Illinois is committed with weapons brought in from Wisconsin and Indiana, which has looser gun laws by comparison (about 6 in 10 guns as noted here).

...and Ben Meiselas of the Meidas Touch Network lets us know that Cheetoh Hitler apparently returned from his China trip with absolutely nothing, and now Putin will go to China and he and Xi may end up signing about 40 different agreements; looks like “President Deals,” and this country, got played yet again...China and Russia will apparently come up with some proclamation on a “multi-polar world”; we’ll see what comes of that of course...oh, and in another “win” for the Gropenfuhrer, it looks like Iran is going to institute something called the Persian Gulf Strait Authority, for managing the passage of ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz (and just remember, before all of this madness in Iran started, ships could proceed through the Strait unencumbered and world economies could operate without worrying about what would happen to their energy...so much winning!)...I know Meiselas has to acknowledge that social media post, but I don’t take one syllable of what Our Treasonous Orange Pustule says seriously (I’m surprised he didn’t end that rant with “Thank you for your attention to this matter.”)...I’d never heard of Barak Ravid before, but it does indeed look like he’s Pumpkin Pol Pot’s stenographer...and this Elbridge Colby character sounds like another Trumpist lickspittle; if anyone from this regime would actually pay attention to Canadian media, they would see how we’re getting laughed at by our “neighbor to the north” also...as Meiselas says, when #47 gets humiliated as he just did by Xi, Combover Caligula’s go-to move is to beat up comparatively smaller countries like Greenland...and oh yeah, inflation is back at about 5 percent...and Our Lunatic-In-Chief also wants to add a helipad to the White House lawn, which would destroy the area even more...the cherry on the icing of this sh*t sundae for yours truly, though, is this taxpayer-financed “lawfare” fund to reward the 1/6 insurrectionists, to the tune of 1 billion and 776 million dollars...any Republican politician want to criticize any of this, including this guy? Bueller???)...

...and I don’t think I’ve included anything from one-time Capitol policeman Michael Fanone before (who was injured during the 1/6 insurrection as we know), but here, he comments on PA U.S. Senator John Fetterman getting ~~bribed~~ ~~potentially paid off~~ leaned on by Repug megadonors to get him to join the “R” team...Fanone is spot-on in saying that Fetterman should have told these characters to pound sand when they approached him, but noooo – Big John decides to try and lecture the rest of us instead...I thought this was a pretty thorough takedown on all of the Trumpian garbage going on; I realize it’s not possible to cover all of the ruin of this regime, but let’s not forget DOGE (tied to Project 2025 of course) and the destruction of US AID, which will ultimately kill over a million people in the developing world (mostly kids) and also screw over our farmers who would have shipped food to those places...also, I think this was recorded before Fetterman’s 50-49 vote in favor of the Iran war as noted here (the 7th time the Senate has tried to rein in Cantaloupe Capone on this)...

... and Ali Velshi informs us of state courts rebutting ICE practices...in addition to the fact that the Trumpist gulag mentality doesn’t work for the stated purpose of allegedly keeping us safer, it’s also extremely unpopular, as we’ve surmised by now but Velshi emphasizes here...11,600 lawsuits filed by detainees against ICE between last July and now according to an analysis by Kyle Cheney of Politico...looks like the Gropenfuhrer has only won about 1,200 of those cases, which is about 10 percent as we learn...good point by Velshi that this expanded detainment under Trumpist Todd Lyons was definitely NOT the way we had done things previously while an immigrant was awaiting a hearing on whether or not they could enter legally (and oh yeah, as Velshi and the courts tell us, NOBODY CAN JUST FREAKING MAKE UP NEW LAWS BECAUSE THEY FEEL LIKE IT!!! – that goes for Lyons and any other psychopath in our ruling regime)...I realize there really isn’t much in the way of new stuff here, except that someone has brought some numbers to this discussion of Trumpist cruelty to quantify things a bit (to say nothing of the ridiculous taxpayer expense for prosecuting all of these cases that got tossed)...

...and Mr. Newberger gives us a pretty spot-on IMO parody based on a story in the headlines (which I touched on previously)...gee, I guess only wingnut “humor” is allowed, since he’s been demonetized – what a joke, literally...

...and RIP Beverley Martyn, performing here with her one-time husband John, who sadly was an abusive jerk...despite her travails, she managed to etch out a notable career, though she didn’t break open like her peers including Judy Collins, Laura Nyro, etc., which is a shame I think.

Monday Stuff

Mon, 18 May 2026 14:35:59 +0000

Robert Reich discusses the fight against the media takeover by billionaires...and Don The Con just approved a merger in which one of these scumwad outfits, Nexstar, would control 80 percent of what we see and hear (these are the idiots who tried to get Jimmy Kimmel fired)...we also get more on the destruction at “The Tiffany Network” due to the Ellisons (and it looks like CNN may be next for the chopping block – at least Ted Turner won’t be around to see the destruction of his once-proud channel...also, the Ellisons are ready to bring the proverbial hammer down on TikTok, which I'm sure will lead to decreased ICE surveillance among other negative impacts (kind of sad that 1 in 5 Americans get their “news” from TikTok, but that’s where we are unfortunately)...

...and Sam and Emma of The Majority Report discuss Repug U.S. Senator (for now) Bill Cassidy of Louisiana holding “Bobby Brainworms” to account, with our utter joke of an HHS secretary deciding to cherry pick data on upgraded sewer treatment plans supposedly providing better health outcomes than vaccines...suuuure...also, I have to admit that I’m not the biggest fan of math also, but dealing with it is part of living in the world of reality...and I also have to admit that the contrast in COVID fatalities between Taiwan and Flori-DUUH is pretty damn stunning (and by the way, heckuva job, all you methane dispensing biped life forms in Louisiana who just voted Cassidy out of office as noted here...I had problems with the guy for sure, but he voted for the Gropenfuhrer’s impeachment, and I guess that was the proverbial bridge too far for you Trumpist numbskulls...have fun watching your quality of life disintegrate even further by rewarding politicians who will do absolutely nothing for you)...

...and as a bit of a compare-and-contrast exercise between the Kennedy scion and someone who actually knows what’s going on in this country when it comes to medical issues generally, I give you Thom Hartmann speaking with epidemiologist Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding on the Hantavirus threat issued by the WHO (which the Tangerine Toddler pulled this country out of)...so, it looks like there is now a “person to person” mutation, which is this so-called Andes strain of the virus...also, it looks like you can be positive with the virus even before you show symptoms – oh, peachy...luckily, this seems to be confined to cruise ships, but hopefully that will continue to be the case...20K workers including scientists were canned at HHS/CDC to pay for more stinking billionaire tax cuts...oh, and by the way (as Dr. Feigl-Ding points out), Bobby Brainworms isn’t going to approve more COVID boosters, putting us all at risk even more...the Bird Flu stuff (the potential anyway) sounds pretty nightmarish also...nice work, all you assclowns who made sure in ’24 that we were stuck with these characters (the Trumpers I mean of course)...

...and for more news from “across the pond,” Jonathan Pie informs us that the “Labour bloodbath” is underway, with the possibility of Keir Starmer being replaced as PM by Wes Streeting (who?)...Pie calls this potential move going “from beige to opaque”...great stuff...typically spot-on knife comparison between the current ruling party and what “reform” would have in mind...”When you offer no solutions, people begin to believe the lies of the right” for sure...(NSFW/H)...

...and this “cold open” from Saturday Night Live gives us Will Ferrell as Jeffrey Epstein, with appropriate shots taken at Cantaloupe Capone, Crazy Eyes Ka$h Patel, SecDef Kegseth and “Dog Killer” Noem...and "Couch Boy" too)...

...and RIP Clarence Carter.

Saturday Stuff

Sat, 16 May 2026 21:20:10 +0000

(For those of you keeping score at home, it’s not your imagination – posting has been a little goofed up lately, and it may remain that way for a little while – I’ll let you know if and when that changes.)

To begin, Jesse Dollemore informs us that the AP reports that Crazy Eyes Kash Patel participated in some “VIP snorkeling” event around the U.S.S. Arizona at Pearl Harbor last year apparently, which, as Dollemore correctly points out, is hallowed ground...another ridiculous and insulting escapade from our ruling regime of grifters and bottom feeders...Patel should never have been confirmed to his position as FBI director, but short of that, he definitely should have been canned long ago, and that should happen PDQ as a result of this...not just Patel, but anyone else in a government position who participated in this disgusting event should be FIRED!!! (NSFW/H)...

...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ tells us about another Trumpist numbskull, and that would be Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who apparently had no idea that renewable energy could be stored in batteries, which is particularly STOO-PID since North Dakota, the state Burgum comes from, now generates about 40 percent of its energy from renewables... Burgum’s “come to Jesus” moment is brought to us courtesy of Dem U.S. House Reps Seth Magaziner of Rhode Island and Dave Min of California (and I believe the rep asking about that madness with the Lincoln Monument reflecting pool was Joe Neguse of Colorado) ...glad to hear Burgum getting hammered by his boss paying companies making wind farms a BILLION DOLLARS to stop a wind farm project already underway (and it sounds like Burgum was trying to blame Biden for supposedly not fixing water fountains in D.C., or some such nonsense)...oh, and when you’ve got Big Time Teahadist Rick Santelli railing against inflation on the Trump Business News Channel, then I would say that you have a problem...

...and Logical Leftist Jeff Waldorf tells us about rancher Mark Pieper of Hay Springs, Nebraska, who says, “I guess I’ll just die” because of the Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck passed by Congress (and signed by you-know-who) that cut about $900 billion for Medicaid over the next 10 years and ended up closing Pieper’s dialysis unit at Chadron Hospital where he sought treatment (cuts affect 41K Nebraskans)...hospital was 90 miles away and Pieper drove there 3x a week, but now, the alternative is 200 freaking miles away...oh, and only about 15 percent of some bogus “transition fund” set up in that wretched bill goes for patient care, and the amount is miniscule compared to what was removed for tax cuts for the stinking rich (typical for the “party of Lincoln”)...and as if all of this couldn’t get worse, somehow it does since Nebraska has now implemented Medicaid work requirements (80 hours per month, the first state in the country to do that)...oh, and leave it to this Brooke Rollins character to call 34 million Medicaid recipients “lazy”...”racism and hatred – they are expensive” indeed...446 hospitals in this country are at risk from Medicaid cuts, 83 in California alone as we learn in this clip...

...and with his time running down, Stephen Colbert (with the help of David Letterman) gives “The Late Show” the sendoff it deserves (the cake made a spectacular impact I think...I don’t know about you, but I could use a good laugh over wanton destruction that doesn’t affect anybody)...

...and Seth Meyers gives us “A Closer Look” – apparently, Chinese social media is having fun at Pumpkin Pol Pot’s expense given that #47 is in their country at the moment...and raking in $4 billion? I realize our corporate media isn’t going to be impolite enough to mention THE DAMN EMOLUMENTS CLAUSE OF THE CONSTITUTION, but it looks like, in terms of the reality-based community, that is definitely in play here for our ruling regime...well, at least there won’t be a Trump Tower in “the land down under” (kudos to the Aussies for that)...also, I can just imagine the BS excuse for allowing Eric to join the entourage overseas (and good point about the double standard if, say, “No Malarkey Joe” had brought along Hunter)...and man, I think Apartheid Clyde’s mind is out where the buses don’t run somewhere...also, I know I’ve said a million times already that we already had a freaking deal under Obama to keep Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, but I guess I’ll have to keep repeating that as long as life forms like Huckleberry Graham refuse to point that out...and I know #47 has no core convictions about anything except getting paid and keeping out of prison, so I take absolutely nothing that he says at face value...

...and here’s a newer number for the kids to enjoy this weekend, hopefully.

Thursday Stuff

Fri, 15 May 2026 03:10:24 +0000

Luke Beasley lets us know that it looks like that fossil Virginia Foxx got put in her place for writing a pretty damn snarky letter to a kid in elementary school (and by the way, the “shut up” moment from Foxx had to do with ABC’s Rachel Scott asking “MAGA Mike” Johnson about his efforts in trying overturn the results of the ’20 election...more here)...apparently, a 10-year-old commendably wrote a letter to Foxx asking her to reinstate the EV credit that Foxx and her party stoo-pidly got rid of (at the behest of the Tangerine Toddler) as a classroom assignment, and Foxx replied in a typically nasty way, even though “fourth grade” was marked on the return address (and of course Foxx cites Fix Noise and the Murdoch Street Journal in her response to the young man as “sources”...and Foxx attacks the kid’s teacher also?? Again, typical)...

...and Jesse Dollemore talks about Pumpkin Pol Pot threatening to “map opponents at home” in some ridiculous “strategy document,” where his minions lump in “transgender ideology” with the legitimate threats to this country from ISIS and al Qaeda – what utter fools in our ruling regime...and yet again, they’re blaming Biden and “Democrat” administrations for allegedly allowing terrorist organizations or whatever to enter this country, and all without a single spec of legitimate proof...and oh yeah, they’re also blaming the killing of Charlie Kirk on an “extreme transgender ideology” (one response is here)...mildly NSFW/H...

...and don’t look now, but the WaPo committed an actual act of journalism recently and discovered that former DHS head Kristi “Dog Killer” Noem blocked FEMA funds to blue states last year, as you might expect (but OF COURSE red states got everything they were entitled to in that department)...basically, as Cousins points out, $91 million a month of FEMA assistance dropped down to about $3 million per month on average for blue states...I don’t know if there’s any legal recourse available, but at a minimum, they should decide not to send federal funds to Washington as a response; let some of these red states that take in more federal dough than they pay out try to live with the consequences...

...and Steve Harness of Really American tells us that, apparently, Trump pal and “reality TV” guy Kevin O’Leary (from “Shark Tank”) wants to build some mega data center in Utah, and to say the residents aren’t happy is an understatement...oh, but O’Leary accuses the protesting residents of being “Chinese operatives”? In freaking Utah??...also, I’m not sure of the legality here of “Mr. Wonderful” basically doxxing a couple of folks legitimately protesting another one of these water-draining, temperature-raising, environmentally destructive data centers (and O’Leary wearing flip-flops through all of this is pretty gonzo, I must say)...”behind every terrible man is a carboard cutout of that same man” is freaking hilarious!...and yes, I know that Utah overall is a pretty damn red state sadly, but that doesn’t mean we should discourage fine folks trying to do the right thing (more from Elevate Utah is here)...NSFW/H...

...and I would call this one of the more imaginative undertakings from Mr. Newberger – it’s been awhile since I saw that pic, but I would call this a pretty spot-on parody...

...and today would have been the 90th birthday of Bobby Darin.

Wednesday Stuff

Wed, 13 May 2026 21:51:19 +0000

John of The Damage Report tells us of the latest grift from our ruling regime of bottom feeders, and that’s this idiocy with the reflecting pool at the Lincoln Memorial...Dementia J. Trump wants to color it blue at an initial projected cost of $1.5 to $2 million (something exactly NO ONE has asked for), though the actual cost ended up being about $13 million, in part because the fraudsters in our executive branch bypassed the competitive bid process by declaring this job to be some kind of a national emergency...oh, but the Tangerine Toddler wants the pool to be blue by July 4th, huh, in time for the 250th? So of course WE THE PEOPLE end up paying for this mess (with Yasmin Khan...I think her “breakfast nook” example is apt, and if this damn pool is going to now be blue...and again, NOBODY asked for this...then the pool will no longer be “reflecting” anything as Khan says...more here)...

...and Rachel Maddow informs us that Louisiana Repug guv Jeff Landry is suddenly all “Hey, don’t blame lil’ ol’ me for trashing the primary election that’s underway – it’s all the fault of that danged Supreme Court for ruling the way they did in Callais!,” an explanation that will be believable at exactly half past FREAKING NEVER!...I know I’ve been beating the drum on this a lot lately, but I think it’s warranted...glad to see a Landry recall effort is underway; it will be hard sledding I know in that state, but it’s a battle worth fighting – zero percentage in lying down and taking this Repug garbage, and kudos to the brave folks in Alabama and Tennessee also...Maddow speaks with Kristen Clarke, general counsel for the NAACP (not a lot of tools in the toolbox, you might say, but whatever we have need to be used for sure, such as massive blue turnout as Clarke says, battling in the courts and the media, shaming these bad political actors on this wretched SCOTUS any way possible, etc.)...

...and Brittany Page tells us that it appears that the Philistines on the SCOTUS will let women have mail-order abortion pills (mifepristone) until tomorrow 5/14 – how generous of them (snark)...no problem with sending a gun through the mail, though...”proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free”...medication abortions now make up about 63 percent of the total, and I think it bears repeating that, if you ban medications used for abortion (which is wrong merely for that reason), you’re hurting the ability of women to access these medications for potential life-threatening reasons, such as managing miscarriages...speaking of life-threatening, we learn here that medication abortion is less deadly than childbirth, with higher rates for African Americans...also, it looks like misoprostol can be effective on its own, as we learn here, so OF COURSE Louisiana passed a bill stating that that was “a dangerous controlled substance” also (between this and the prior clip, I wonder if something is "in the water" in "The Pelican State"?)...

...and Kyle Kulinski says he believes that an alliance is taking place between liberals and leftists against Mango Mussolini and his minions; I hope Kyle is right, but I’m not going to concede that one way or the other...if I take out a policy position, I’m not going to care when Michelle Goldberg or Nicholas Kristof give me some “tut-tut, you loony leftist” screed on the pages of The Old Gray Lady, which is likely to happen (and that goes for this “ContraPoints” person too)...Kyle presents a clip of David Sirota interviewing Graham Platner, with the latter saying we should be done with neoliberalism...that policy worked during the presidency of Bill Clinton, allowing him to get back to the White House (and we hadn’t had a Dem there for 12 YEARS, people!), but those days are looooong gone...I think Platner is spot-on, to be honest, in saying that the Dems need to be all about populism and supporting labor to the maximum extent possible; also, there was a recent dustup with Platner saying we should lower or get rid of the gasoline tax and fix our infrastructure with a fund paid into by the rich – Platner is absolutely right that funding our infrastructure (to the extent that we actually do it) by a gas tax is regressive, and I think he’s correct on this also, though I’ll admit that the political reality is a whole other matter...also, the ascendancy of Pumpkin Pol Pot was more than anything else a “whitelash,” as Kyle aptly puts it, and Kyle is right also that we need to be as united as possible to go after the Trumpist life forms who would subjugate all of us (NSFW/H)...

...and Stephen Colbert of The Late Show lets us know that Combover Caligula’s war of choice in Iran has pushed inflation to its highest rate in three years (and the bit about #47 saying “I don’t think about anybody’s financial situation – I don’t think about anybody” should indeed be played on a continuous loop in EVERY CAMPAIGN COMMERCIAL BY ANY DEMOCRAT RUNNING FOR OFFICE ANYWHERE THIS YEAR)...well, at least Pumpkin Pol Pot has flown to China – would that he would leave this country for good (and can’t the Secret Service just take gramps’s cell phone away from him at a certain point? Posting 55 times in 3 hours when he should be freaking asleep)...oh, and I’d actually forgotten about “Trump Mobile,” but of course that turned out to be yet another scam (and the ranting of that pinhead who got rooked into ordering four of these alleged phones is pretty funny, I have to admit...and to be scammed by Uday and Qusay and not even the “big man”? Sad)...and this Hantavirus scare isn’t amusing in any way I realize, especially since Bobby Brainworms and his boss have pulled this country out of the WHO...

...and this song was released on this day 60 years ago...also, I believe that Bob Spitz is working on a bio of the group, which will likely be good – Spitz’s tome on Led Zeppelin is the definitive literary work on the band IMO.

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 12 May 2026 15:19:34 +0000

Awww, it looks like John Roberts haz a sad over the response to the recently awful SCOTUS ruling in Callais invalidating Section 2 of the VRA, as Mike Figueredo tells us...gee, Judge “balls and strikes,” maybe nobody is buying your bullsh*t anymore because, as Figueredo correctly says, you’re coming up with BS arguments to blow up precedents, some of which have been set by YOUR OWN FREAKING HIGH COURT!!!...and I realize our wretched SCOTUS doesn’t have ethical guidelines to follow (one of the MANY aspects of this situation that needs to be remedied), but I would say that it’s the appearance of a conflict of interest at a minimum to have Neil Gorsuch appear on Fix Noise and other wingnut media hawking his kids’ book...I didn’t know that our awful High Court waived the 32-day requirement to let other parties petition for a rehearing in order to let Louisiana redraw its maps and stop a primary election already in progress – naaah, The Nine aren’t “political actors”...not freaking much (more here)...I didn’t know that Trumper Steve Wynn is trying to find a way to overturn New York Times v. Sullivan, which indeed is a landmark decision insuring First Amendment protections for journalists, raising the bar for a plaintiff to win a defamation charge against a media organization, as well as anybody else, actually (NSFW/H)...

...and one consequence of the awful Callais ruling is state legislatures rushing out racist gerrymandered maps as mentioned, trying to have them ready for congressional elections this fall, and in the case of Tennessee, that most definitely means erasing minority representation, as Jesse Dollemore puts it so accurately (and by the way, destroying the VRA is something John Roberts has been planning to do for decades since he worked as Associated Counsel under The Sainted Ronnie R)...sooo, Tennessee decides to get rid of the ONLY district in the state with African American representation, since one measly district is apparently too much in a state where blacks comprise about 17 percent of the population...great work by Garrison Hayes on this, as well as Justin Pearson...also, good work by Jesse to keep driving home the point that our utterly wretched SCOTUS can pretty much be broken up and put back together again to negate (to some degree anyway) its corruption at the hands of Leonard Leo and The Federalist Society...long overdue to institute ethics rules for “the nine” also (which, as Jesse says, should really be 13 at a minimum...mildly NSFW/H also)...

...and Kyle Kulinski brings us more numbers from CNN’s Harry Enten, who calls that damn ballroom “the shot heard ‘round the world,” and definitely not in a good way...actually, I’m a little surprised that 56 percent disapproval number isn’t actually higher, but I guess we can write that off at least in part to suburban boomers who aren’t affected enough by this story to actually care (more fool them)...at least it’s nice to see that the whole WHCD almost-shooting thing didn’t move the needle on this one bit, but man, that damn ballroom is polling worse than ghosts or telepathy – ROFLMAO (NSFW/H as well)...

...and Logical Leftist Jeff Waldorf informs us that Cheetoh Benito just killed a $500 million federal credit for Nissan to build EVs, with the plant located in Canton, Mississippi, shifting instead now to building hybrids (which is OK I guess) and pickup trucks – so much for the future of the planet (here)...BTW, the Magnolia State voted for the Lyin’ King by 60 percent in ’24 of course...womp womp...glad to hear Waldorf mention the federal EV tax credit of $7500 that was part of the Build Back Better bill from “No Malarkey Joe,” which is ancient history now tragically...good job also by Waldorf to discuss the negative ripple impact of such a typically boneheaded decision by Cantaloupe Capone...

...and Troy Iwata of The Daily Show asks what we could put into a time capsule to preserve our nation’s 250th anniversary (or if it’s worth preserving at this point)...kind of laughing through clenched teeth a bit, I have to admit (another NSFW/H clip)...

...and happy 85th birthday to Eric Burdon (of The Animals and War of course).

Monday Stuff

Mon, 11 May 2026 15:32:12 +0000

Brian Tyler Cohen tells us about a gold statue of you-know-who unveiled at Mar-a-Lago...naah, #47 doesn’t see himself as some imagined deity ruling over us all, does he? Not much...and I apologize for inflicting Cheetoh Hitler’s lying verbal flatulence on you once more, especially about the Iran war (and I’m SO GLAD to hear Cohen remind everyone that WE HAVE A STINKING NUKE DEAL WITH IRAN ALREADY UNDER OBAMA THAT THE LYIN’ KING WALKED AWAY FROM!!!)...oh, and #47’s “all about the Gospel,” huh? Which one(s), I wonder? Saint Luke, Chapters 6, 16 and 19 maybe? The ones teaching that wealth can hinder faith, while the poor are often blessed? And nice job by Cohen to remind everyone at the end that worshipping false idols really isn’t too cool if you profess to living a life of faith (seem to recall that the “good book” has something to say about THAT for sure)...

...and Farron Cousins reminds us that #47 wants to “serve” a third term, which is prohibited by the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution...I agree with what Cousins is saying, but I heard that the Gropenfuhrer is planning to build a bunker under that stinking ballroom, which tells me that he’s going to have to get dragged kicking and screaming out of the White House when his reign is mercifully over at last...and this “100 percent tax write-off” for business is still more corruption from this stinking cesspool of a *presidency (and good point by Cousins about businesses not being able to apply the same write-off from this tax year in the future, so they are indeed “cutting off their nose to spite their face,” you might say)...

...and sticking with money matters, Belle of the Ranch lets us know about “Human Capital Stock” Kevin Hassett thinking it’s a sign of a growing economy when we’re piling on more credit card debt just to live our lives with basic necessities...this pea brain Hassett with his perpetual sh*t-eating grin basically admits that, yeah, everything costs more...and somehow that’s a GOOD thing? And I know Gavin Newsom, who’s pretty much the presumptive Dem presidential nominee as near I can see, has issues I know (mainly with LGBTQ folks), but good for him for jumping on Hassett’s BS, along with Bernie Sanders...

...and we now get more AI slop videos making fun of the Gropenfuhrer and his Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran...that first Lego video is pretty damn cool, and if that’s something else from Iran, then I have to say that they’re bringing their “A” game to this mess...the Flock of Seagulls parody isn’t bad either (Steve Harness of Really American tells us about it)...

...and speaking of humor, this “cold open” from SNL gives us Colin Jost as SecDef Kegseth, Aziz Ansari as Crazy Eyes Kash Patel, and Matt Damon as “I Like Beer” Brett Kavanaugh (great stuff)...

...and here’s a newer tune for “mellow music Monday” – hope you enjoy.

Friday Stuff

Fri, 08 May 2026 18:51:30 +0000

Thom Hartmann reminds us that the infamous “We Will Bury You” remark from former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev is something that Vlad The Butcher is trying to enact for real...so the Tangerine Toddler talks to the Moscow munchkin and, next thing you know, #47 pulls out 5K troops from Germany, and that’s on top of removing sanctions on Russian oil while continuing to block US weapons to Ukraine as Thom says...Thom recounts the utter horror show of the cabinet appointees in this wretched administration...didn’t know that Kari Lake was at the Voice of America – only the very worst individuals...haven’t paid much attention to the utterly awful Chris Wright also at the DOE; only so much time in the day to catalogue this madness...I think Thom is spot-on to call this list of all of the malign Trumpist actors he goes over an “operational blueprint” to wreck our country...

...and speaking of some of the bottom feeders in our ruling cabal, David Pakman informs us that Trumpist lackey Lee Zeldin went on Fix Noise, got asked a tough question from Liz Claman about his agency allowing more natural gas flaring (which, in addition to looking nightmarish, is also utterly toxic), and Zeldin then went all “humuna humuna humana” as a result...sooo, Zeldin starts yammering about increasing water quality standards across the Delaware River basin (which I don’t believe) even though the damn question was about air quality, and then Zeldin starts running his mouth about environmental regs WHICH HIS BOSS IGNORES AND WANTS TO ABOLISH...

...and when it comes to bad actors running agencies under our ruling regime, you really need to include RFK Jr., who announces again here that he’s going after SSRIs (antidepressants, basically)...leave it to the clueless Kennedy scion to get this issue exactly wrong, though, as Page says, it’s not like we didn’t know that this was something he’d try to do...as she points out, all of this is pretty damn enraging all the same, with all of the cuts and layoffs at HHS affecting mental health services, including those provided for our veterans...so many attacks against us and the way we live our lives are laid out here, including deciding not to study food insecurity, which definitely contributes to mental health...also, I don’t give a damn about the heroin withdrawal experienced by “Bobby Brainworms”; he comes from a family that definitely can afford the very best care, which is not true of course for the vast majority of this country...good point by Page to brings up erectile dysfunction medications and the potential side effects and how that is glossed over by the ethically compromised individuals supposedly “calling the shots” for Our Clueless Orange Meat Sack of a *preznit...

...and Steve Harness and Nick Reynolds of Really American tell us about Mango Mussolini dumping a bunch of toxic soil (likely with lead and asbestos) from his stinking ballroom project on a public golf course...and oh yeah, it looks like Cheetoh Hitler bought the course recently kind of “on the QT” – the grift never ends with our ruling regime...didn’t know that golfers are prone to higher cancer rates; genuinely sorry to hear that...and once more, taxpayers are going to be on the hook for a billion over that ridiculous ballroom, courtesy of Sen. Chuck Grasshole of Iowa (vote out every POS responsible for this, people!)...NSFW/H...

...and Jimmy Kimmel lets us know that “Little Marco” was sent off to meet with Pope Leo at the Vatican, and I’m sure Rubio wore his Florsheim big boy shoes on the orders of Cantaloupe Capone...and of course the big topic was our *preznit’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran (“Operation Trust Me Bro”? Looks like Iran is winning the trolling war too)...and in true Putin-esque fashion, it’s not a “war” as far as Cheetoh Benito is concerned; it’s an “excursion”...in other news, FBI Director Ka$h Patel took a break from alcoholic binges (allegedly!) to sue The Atlantic for reports of his drinking (love the bottle joke also; audience Mother’s Day skit is clever too...interesting “person in the street getting interviewed” bit as well)...

...and happy 75th birthday to drummer Chris Frantz of Talking Heads and the Tom Tom Club.

Thursday Stuff

Thu, 07 May 2026 21:50:17 +0000

Chris Hayes talks about Dementia J. Trump’s war in Iran maybe creating an oil shock that COULD lead to a green future (about freaking time)...sounds like Combover Caligula’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran is going over like the proverbial lead balloon for about 59 percent (at least) of this country...oh, but ExxonMobil and Chevron are raking in the dough hand over fist, so it’s all good, right?...we get another reminder that the Tangerine Toddler is using hundreds of millions of our taxpayer dollars to cancel wind farm projects already in development...meanwhile, more EVs are sold in Europe than gas vehicles (I’ll have to look into the BYD vehicles, not that I automatically want to support China, but it looks like they’re on the cutting edge with this stuff - more here)...not too many people in the media beat the drum over environmental issues like Hayes does, to his credit, and EVERYONE ELSE should follow suit...Hayes speaks with writer Robinson Meyer...glad to hear Meyer mention the Inflation Reduction Act under Biden that could have put us on a better footing when it comes to renewables...”it’s totally insane to architect a world where you are reliant on (the Strait of Hormuz and other “choke points” to support dirty energy)” – absolutely for sure (more here)...

...and RIP Ted Turner...I know he has a bit of a complicated legacy you might say, but as far as I could tell, he worked his butt off to get where he ended up, and he sure was spot-on in discussing energy is this clip referencing what I believe was the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico...he also supported film preservation, which makes his aces in my book to be honest (and I wouldn't wish lewy body dementia on anybody)...

...and I’d like to do something I don’t do too often, and that’s include two clips on the same topic; the first is an Indiana local news station report on last Tuesday’s Republican primary...I’ll admit that I don’t know a damn thing about what transpired on the ground in that locality in terms of political campaigns, but I DO know that a bunch of state senators for the “R” team commendably opposed the off-cycle redistricting scam from Cheetoh Hitler, and apparently all but one was voted out of office for it...sounds like the gene pool in that state needs a lifeguard...

...and this Damage Report clip gives us a bit of a backstory on what took place (yep, those pissants at the Club for Growth figured in this too)...looks like reps in Tennessee also got the boot since #47 wants to redistrict there too, as noted here (and more on the thoroughly odious Jim Banks is here)...yep, breaking up a historically black voting district ISN’T ABOUT RACE, YOU DASTARDLY LIB! SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP!!!...and I don’t think it’s John’s imagination – this very definitely is the ongoing backlash to Reconstruction, hyper-charged by wingnut media and politicians (with Sharon Reed)...

...well, for everyone in the mood for something uplifting, Tennessee Brando informs us that The Onion has taken over Infowars, and it looks like they’ve truly turned it around in the best way...”Turn your piss into gold,” huh? Brilliant!...and yes, to be serious, don’t EVER think you can go too far ridiculing Alex Jones considering what he did to the parents and families of the Sandy Hook victims, who (and this can’t be mentioned enough IMO), were CHILDREN!!!...and I agree with Brando – I want to see EVERY CONSERVATIVE pundit and politician ruthlessly mocked instead of harmed in any way, despite what they want to do to us; as I’ve said before, the only person I ever advocated violence against at this site was Osama bin Laden, and I want to keep that intact...the person Brando mentioned who’d appear on Howard Stern’s show was Daniel Carver, by the way...

...and yesterday was the first day of National Nurse’s Week, and with that in mind, I present the following tune.

Wednesday Stuff

Wed, 06 May 2026 16:06:51 +0000

According to Rachel Maddow, the Tangerine Toddler is terrible at everything except this one thing...we’re reminded of the “ape memes” of the Obamas that our disgusting, flatulent orange meat sack of a *preznit posted at Truth Septic, along with #47’s “sh*thole countries” remarks...I give Maddow so much credit for facing the gut-churning racism of our ruling regime and not trying to “sane wash” it with some ridiculous language about this being the “new normal” or something, which it NEVER SHOULD BE...Maddow mentions the DOGE garbage from King Elon I’s merry band of incels and how the antics of this bunch in charge echoes the Woodrow Wilson administration, which definitely isn’t good when it comes to race...Maddow also mentions #47 rescinding EO #11246 Sec. 202 on his first full day in office, a move aimed right at people of color, along with removing the “Prohibition of Segregated Facilities”...oh, and the “Fair Housing Act”? Looks like that’s going the way of the dodo also because of this hateful bunch...black unemployment is spiking also because of course...all of this is put in the context of the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR putting the last nail in the proverbial coffin of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which Roberts has been itching to do for decades...

...and as a bit of a companion piece to the Maddow segment, Brittany Page gives us the following...I guess, with all of the utter madness going on, it’s easy to overlook the fact that our corporate news orgs, for some perverse reason, are trying to rehabilitate the image of The Swanson TV Dinner Heir, trying to obfuscate the fact that “Tuckums” is indeed a gutter racist, as Page so correctly points out...”a clean-cut Nazi is still a Nazi” indeed...the thought of Carlson having ’28 aspirations, sadly, has a lunatic logic to it, and leave it to our fourth estate to go into unquestioning stenography mode on this as they do with any other Repug who gives them their precious “access” so these well-sinecured lickspittles can crank out their opinion pieces and on-air commentaries and then hob-knob with the “smart set” of the political/media/industrial complex...

...and switching to the graft and patronage by the coterie of hangers-on for #47, John of The Damage Report (definitely NOT him) lets us know that the private prison outfit GEO Group is giving $1 million to a Trump-aligned group for the midterms, after about $426 mil in new ICE contracts to that company were frozen – yet another shakedown by our criminal regime (and yet another reason why private prisons should be illegal)...weird that, as John points out, our ruling gaggle of idiots is apparently looking at GEO Group to cut costs to the taxpayer for some reason when they PLAINLY don’t care about anyone else doing that...oh, but GEO funneled the $$ to Bronzer Beelzebub through a subsidiary that didn’t collect any government dough, so that makes everything A-OK somehow...still stinks to high heaven...

...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ brings us the tale of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy getting hit for rising gas prices (I just spent about $52 to fill up the Honda Accord...thanks Trump!)...and we get faux concern on this by Stuart Varney of Fix Noise, who does his best to employ his English accent in the most studious way possible here...and PERFECT timing for all of this, with the summer travel season right around the corner...and are you assured by Duffy acting like it’s only a matter of time until the Strait of Hormuz is opened? Because I’m not (and “strong leadership” by #47? Looks like Duffy is trying to give Baghdad Bob a run for his money)...and that ABC/Ipsos/WaPo poll confirms for me that about 37 percent of this country is effectively brain dead...we’re reminded again of Spirit Airlines going belly up, and Duffy uses the same BS excuse for it that Scott Bessent used in the Majority Report clip; well, when the Spirit CEO blame high energy prices, I don’t know what kind of spin you can legitimately put on that (though I’m sure the Trumpers will keep trying)...and I know I’ll probably keep saying this maybe for the rest of my life (again, in response to Duffy, and this John Rose nematode), but once again, WE HAD A NUKE DEAL WITH IRAN UNDER OBAMA THAT PUMPKIN POL POT WADDLED AWAY FROM!!!...also, anyone with a brain knows about the ripple effects across our economy from higher energy prices, which are also now hitting agriculture and other food products, notably beef...oh, and when it comes to wildfires not just in rural America but everywhere, maybe somebody ought to try reading this to Brooke Rollins (in response to her ridiculing climate change, which is typical for this bunch I know...I have to admit, though, that the “screw worm” border excuse is a new one, for me anyway)...I also have to admit that I’m shocked that Joe Kernen of CNBC actually called out Steve Scalise for the latter’s lies on this subject...

...and Stephen Colbert of The Late Show (whose time is winding down, sadly) gives us the latest...I never got a kick out of Cinco de Mayo, BTW...also, if you can figure out what the hell is going on with the Strait of Hormuz, lemme know, OK?...on top of that, I think it should be a crime for Pumpkin Pol Pot to appear in ANY venue near kids given that he’s all over the place in those files that this outlaw regime doesn’t want to discuss...and “in hockey, they say ‘uncle’”...??? What – is that what happens before the shootout at the end of a regular season game, or does that happen if a team gets called for offsides too many times? What a mental patient...and “kamikaze dolphins?” I’ll tell you what – I’m going to go buy a bottle of Boone’s Farm Apple Wine and chug down a bunch of Valium, and assuming I make it through that, please wake me up when this nightmare is over...and I care less than nothing about the Met Gala to be honest (also didn't quite get the Delta Airlines joke, but that's OK)...

...and usually I’m pretty diligent about remembering the anniversary of the Kent State massacre, but for some reason I forgot this year – however, I’d like to make amends for that now.

And by the way, let's not forget the role played by the late but hardly lamented Roger Ailes in this tragedy, as Gabriel Sherman discusses in The Loudest Voice In The Room, pgs. 69-70:

(From Ailes’ days as a political consultant):

In the spring of 1970, Ailes was in the middle of another contentious GOP primary race for an open Senate seat in Ohio, one that would have spillover effects for (the Richard Nixon presidency) and the country. Ailes was advising the Ohio congressman Robert Taft Jr. against the “law and order” candidate, Governor James Rhodes, who had been considered as a possible Nixon running mate in 1968. The race was pushing Rhodes even further to the right.

When Taft debated Rhodes in Akron in late April, Ailes walked onstage thirty seconds before airtime and handed Taft a note with one word written on it: “Kill.”

“Rhodes got shook up,” Ailes bragged afterward to a Boston Globe reporter. “I gave Taft the note, partly facetious, partly for a laugh – just to try to get Bob to be a little tougher in his answers.”

The gambit worked: the Toledo Blade noted that “the usually placid Mr. Taft accused the governor of lying about his record and told him he should be ashamed of himself.” A few days after the debate, Rhodes flew to Kent State University, which was engulfed in student unrest. At a press conference on the morning of May 3rd, Rhodes lashed into protestors who had burned the ROTC building the previous night and declaimed that the demonstrators were “worst than the Brown Shirts and the Communist element.”

Rhodes’s inflammatory speech intensified the conflict at Kent. In the chaos, National Guardsmen fired into a group of marchers. The volley of more than 60 shots in 13 seconds left four dead and nine wounded. Kent State, (Nixon Chief of Staff) Bob Haldeman later wrote in his book The Ends of Power, “marked a turning point for Nixon, a beginning of his downward slide towards Watergate.”

For the record, we’re coming up on the ninth anniversary of Ailes’s death on May 18th, and tragically, his influence still reigns at that trash network he founded, continuing to pollute informed discourse and utterly trashing well-reasoned opinions in favor of shameless propaganda, all in the service of a morally bankrupt corporate agenda that is doing all it can to drag this country backwards into the mire of xenophobia, racism and misogyny. And the harm that this has done to this country is something that I don’t think can ever be truly calculated, though I believe the weight of that burden will be carried for untold generations.... anybody who thinks that won’t affect the quality of the lives of the people of this country far into the future are truly living in a fantasy.

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 05 May 2026 15:50:46 +0000

Ali Velshi points out that telling the truth about Cheetoh Hitler isn’t automatically an incitement to violence...I think we all know by now that any news account that Combover Caligula doesn’t like is automatically derided as “fake news,” but as Velshi points out, everyone in this sorry, disgusting cabal is now using that same tactic also pretty much, including Trumpette spokes-liar Karoline Leavitt...I’d actually forgotten about that actual thug Greg Gianforte assaulting the reporter from The Guardian, and of course Gianforte ended up getting elected as governor of Montana...same with the murders of those five reporters in Annapolis, MD...and I definitely have issues with former FBI Director James Comey for the whole Hillary Clinton Email thing a month before the vote in 2016, but the whole “86 47 alleged threat” seashell thing on the beach is utter nonsense...

...and with the Velshi clip in mind, I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 5/3/17...this “Resistance” commentary from Keith Olbermann pertains to the words of Reince Priebus, the chief of staff during the first sorry reign of the Gropenfuhrer, and the threat of a Constitutional amendment to basically try and overturn the First Amendment in order to toughen our libel laws, all in the service of Dear Leader Mango Mussolini...as Olbermann puts it so directly, any such attempt to mess with our First Amendment freedoms would first and foremost be aimed at you and me, and in all likelihood, this humble blog would cease to exist (it’s been pretty well documented about all the ways our “fourth estate” is trying to curry favor with our disgusting ruling collection of bottom feeders)...revisiting Olbermann’s outrage is refreshing I have to admit; I don’t subscribe to his podcast, though I probably should to get more of this sort of thing I suppose...

...and Sam Seder, Emma Vigeland and the crew from The Majority Report bring us the tale of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent lying and blaming Biden/Elizabeth Warren/Pete Buttigieg for not allowing Jet Blue to merge with Spirit Airlines and using that as the excuse for Spirit going under (that merger was apparently disallowed by a Reagan-appointed judge as Sam says, and the increase in the price of jet fuel hammered Spirit also since they apparently had no operating margins to get back to profitability)...and leave it to that shrieking harpie Maria Bartiromo to just go “uh huuum” because, as Sam says, she knows what Bessent is saying is BS...sounds like both airlines were carrying so much goddamn debt that it didn’t matter who merged with who; at least one of them would have gone under...airline story ends at about 5:12 and then they look at farm bankruptcies; maybe I’m being unkind, but I pretty much have no sympathy for our farmers because, as a block, they voted for Bronzer Beelzebub because I guess they bought into the utter fiction that the Repugs are better for the economy...that bar graph at about 5:47 tells the pretty damning story (and as they note in the clip, the increased farm bankruptcies benefit “Big Ag” for sure)...also, we get that clip of Don The Con making those remarks about affordability at “The Villages” in Flori-DUUH (in front of the ”pay no price, bear no burden” one percent wannabes), which, indeed, should be played on a loop in an ad for every Dem candidate in existence...Emma also mentions the stupendous idiocy of Todd Blanche saying you need voter ID for a restaurant (I mean, unless Blanche’s idea of a “restaurant” is a place where ladies perform while you stack dollar bills on the bar – heh)....NSFW/H for the Gropenfuhrer’s potty mouth...

...and speaking of planes, Belle of the Ranch discusses Canada and Sweden making out when it comes to defense spending by the EU...interesting history IMO on AWACS radar planes supplied to NATO and how they’ve been built by Boeing since forever (the E7 Wedgetail), but because of the antics of Our Demented Orange Toddler of a *preznit cutting spending about a year ago, it looks like the Swedish “Global Eye” powered by SAAB is going to end up as the plane of choice for NATO on this instead (Swedish tech in a Canadian plane, basically, with the US losing out on about $600 million per unit, potentially $6 billion overall – are you tired of the winning yet?)...

...and Mr. Newberger gives Repug mouthpiece Scott Jennings the treatment he deserves here (based on this)...

...and I don’t know if she’s coming to this area in the fall (in Europe this summer), but I’ll definitely be on the lookout for tickets – I’ll get in a plug here if I learn more about that.

Monday Stuff

Mon, 04 May 2026 14:35:53 +0000

Brian Tyler Cohen and attorney Marc Elias inform us that, with the SCOTUS’s latest wretched ruling on Section 2 of the VRA, Repug-run states mainly in the deep south are going to “move heaven and earth” to try and redraw their maps for this election cycle, and all of this is completely by design...kind of makes me wonder why Dems as a party haven’t made SCOTUS reform a higher priority all this time (some notable exceptions here are Dem Senator Sheldon Whithouse of Rhode Island) - beyond infuriating to see the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR just continue to take away our rights year after year while all we hear from the national Dem organization is a “tut tut” in response (and I think Dem governors should have tried to create some kind of a “consortium” or something like that long ago to come up with a joint strategy against voting nonsense like this, and likely for other reasons also, including standing up to the jackbooted ICE neanderthals)...looks like Louisiana is up first with their redistricting nonsense (this too), followed closely by Alabama, and then after that, it’s a “grab bag” of states taking their turns, as Elias puts it...Cohen and Elias are about 150 percent right when they say that Dem states need to step up, and I believe NJ Dem guv Mikie Sherrill “got that memo” as noted here...

...and awwww...Melania has hurt fee fees about Jimmy Kimmel making a joke about her old man potentially croaking on us, as Mike Figueredo tells us...good job by Zeteo to produce the clip of all of the hateful garbage from this pestilence of a ruling regime...and OF COURSE the FCC under human thumb Brendan Carr is going to use this moment to review ABC’s broadcast license, or something...and don’t expect much (or likely, any) corporate media outrage over this, since they’ve been effectively cowed by this godawful administration...nice to see the rantings of Cancun Cruz and Big Hair Blackburn (another southern state Repug who will probably skate into the governor’s mansion, along with “Coach Quitter” Tuberville) get called out here...nice job by Figueredo to remind us again about the bullsh*t DOJ inquisition into the SPLC...didn’t know about the YEAR-LONG detention of Columbia student Leqaa Kordia for protesting on behalf of the Palestinians...Democrats “need to be the threats that Republicans said they were” indeed, again, if we manage to take back power, and we need to keep working towards that goal (very NSFW/H)...

...and sticking with media stuff, Kyle Kulinski tells us that it looks like there was some stuff left out of the Gropenfuhrer’s recent “60 Minutes” interview, and as Kyle says, #47 screamed all over the place about editing of Kamala Harris’s interview by that program/network (which was likely just standard for what they did for ANY guest to squeeze the interview into the allotted time period), but as always, when it comes to yelling about “liberal bias,” working the refs and all the typical conservative horsesh*t, IOKIYAR...and as Kyle says, the SPLC funds informants to right-wing groups to get intel on these groups, and the SPLC turns over whatever information they get to law enforcement, but leave it to Cheetoh Hitler to get that EXACTLY WRONG...and by the way, one thing to do in response to this lying madness is to make a donation to the SPLC, and you can do that from here (NSFW also)...

...and this item form Melissa Chan of the German news service DW tells us about Japan, South Korea and Taiwan dealing with the unpredictability of the closure/non-closure of the Strait of Hormuz...as the report says, there’s a lot more of an emphasis on military spending by these countries now, and given the madness reigning politically here, who can blame them?...and yeah, the phrase “both alone and with the US” as stated by correspondent Rik Glauert is indeed more than a bit of a “tell” (and we know Japan is an industrial power now in itself and is nothing like what it was 80-90 years ago, but the thought of nationalism potentially taking over there again is discomforting to say the least)...as the report says, the biggest threat hanging over all of this is China’s potential invasion of Taiwan, which would be terrible both militarily and economically, and arguably, that has been made more of a possibility by our weakened military posture because of this latest Mideast madness in Iran...of all the ways that Bronzer Beelzebub has ruined the prestige this country once enjoyed, destroying alliances with our longtime allies (and this story is part of that IMO) is part of that for sure (doing the bidding of Vlad The Butcher once again like the Russian operative #47 truly is)...

...and this “cold open” from SNL recently brings us Colin Jost as SecDef Kegseth and Aziz Ansari as Kash Patel – when all else fails, there is always ridicule available in response to these cretins...

...and RIP Nedra Talley Ross, the last surviving member of The Ronettes.

Saturday Stuff

Sat, 02 May 2026 15:04:48 +0000

Farron Cousins tells us that the verdict appears to be in on the reign of Bari Weiss at CBS News, and it’s about what you would expect...the Nielsen ratings agency says it looks like the CBS Evening News hasn’t hit 4 million viewers a night, which I suppose is the ratings benchmark against which the prime time newscasts are measured...Cousins is spot-on in saying that, in a world where a shameless flak like Weiss isn’t in charge of what was once a prestigious TV news organization, that person would have been canned by now with ratings like these (NSFW/H)...

...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ lets us know that California has enough signatures to get the billionaires tax on the ballot (this bunch would be taxed at 5 percent on all of their assets, and it would be a one-time tax), and leave it to Bernie Sanders to keep fighting for economic justice with the rest of us...of course, leave it also to plutocrats like Sergey Brin and his pals to have a collective hissy fit over it (not that we heard a word of protest from these characters of course over the Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck from last summer – hell, they made out like bandits, so OF COURSE they kept quiet over it)...but awwww, it looks like Peter Thiel and that foul ilk are still on the hook for the tax if it passes because they would have had to have left the state in January – womp womp...and yes, the ONE-TIME tax would go for nutrition and health care benefits that the regime of the Gropenfuhrer destroyed by the aforementioned bill (and I’m not going to dignify the typical indignant bullsh*t of our *preznit who, let’s not forget, was found civilly liable by a New York jury on a charge of sexual abuse, which is basically r*pe without the actual word - here)...

...and Dan Lieberman of More Perfect Union tells us that it looks like Corpus Christi, Texas may be the first US city to officially run out of water, with giant oil, gas, and petrochemical companies gobbling up precious resources (according to the report, businesses use about 60 percent of the water)...the residents have to rely on city, state and federal lawmakers, and I would guess that a few of them have already been paid off since that’s usually how this stuff plays out...and if you guessed that a historically black community is impacted the most here, then you win an exemption from water over-usage charges during a drought, which apparently is fine and dandy for businesses in the “All Hat, No Cattle” state (apparently, water exemptions were promised to businesses to get them to relocate to Corpus Christi, which has “bad idea” written all over it)...it looks like they reached a tipping point over a desalination plant to try and address the drought, according to councilman Jim Klein...I think it’s plain that this Roland Barrera guy is pretty much a business shill who doesn’t give a damn about the residents...kudos to civil engineer John Michael fighting what must be a lonely fight to drill emergency wells...I just don’t know about this Bob Paulison guy; I’m inclined to think he’s in on the grift too, but I’d love to be wrong, and this Peter Zanoni doesn’t sound impressive on this either as far as I can tell...

...and taking another trip over to the UK for a minute or two, Jonathan Pie discusses the “dodgy donations” of Nigel Farage, including a 5 million pound gift by someone in Thailand...didn’t know the extent of Farage’s grift, but it Is indeed a growth industry to fly around the world telling conservatives what they want to hear...Pie really nails it on crypto in particular here; there should be a full-throated corporate media outcry against it because it’s used primarily by criminals, but good luck expecting THAT to happen (very NSFW/H, but funny IMO)...

...and I wanted to conclude things for the week with this item – in our current Trumpist BS era there is so much hateful nonsense going on with the people who allegedly represent us (though we know the reality of course) and so much overall idiocy that I wanted to provide this item as a bit of a “palate cleanser”...before a recent Stanley Cup playoff game in Buffalo (where they commendably play both the American and Canadian national anthems), the microphone for the singer performing “O Canada” went out, so the U.S. fans finished singing the anthem instead...props to the great Buffalo Sabres fans for this moment, and congrats to the team for moving on in the playoffs (and to the “Fly Guys” also of course)...

...and this week ten years ago, 15 albums by Prince reappeared on the UK charts in response to the musician’s death on 4/21/16...kind of puts me in a mood to hear this number once again.

Thursday Stuff

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:48:54 +0000

Brittany Page sits in for Jesse Dollemore and discusses questions coming out about the official story of the attempted shooting of Combover Caligula at the WHCD...looks like the WaPo is doing an analysis of the facts that we know at the moment...the timeline of events here seems a little weird to me in that, based on the excerpted photos, it is hard to tell if the alleged shooter discharged his weapon before the cops fired on him multiple times...I’m not saying the cops should have let him run into the hall without firing on him if the alleged shooter didn’t obey orders to stop (which likely were issued to him), but I don’t understand why we’re not hearing a step-by-step analysis of what took place...I mean, did the alleged shooter fire or didn’t he (but then again, we’re talking about Mango Mussolini's henchmen here, so anything is possible)...

...and Chris Hayes informs us that the The High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR just threw out a voting map in Louisiana that was redrawn on the basis of that state’s population (one majority black district was added to one already existing black district), but our bought-and-paid-for SCOTUS blew that up in favor of a map that goes back to only one black majority district even though that isn’t representative of Louisiana’s population, and in the process, this guts Section 2 of the VRA because, according to Roberts and the SCOTUS conservatives, racism doesn’t exist anymore...and as Hayes says, Roberts has been after the VRA since he worked in the Reagan White House...and of course, Flori-DUUUH! jumped into the fray right after this horrible ruling to get a more gerrymandered voting map passed...Hayes speaks with Sherrilyn Ifill (the data presented on those two line graphs is undeniable)...our ruling regime and the “R” party in general want Apartheid America, and tragically, we’re on the way to that...GREAT point by Ifill that, once again, our renegade SCOTUS ran roughshod over its own precedents to pursue a plainly ideological goal...

...and sticking with legal stuff, Robert Reich and David Sirota discuss two upcoming SCOTUS cases that could destroy what’s left of our anemic campaign finance laws in the wake of Citizens United...and yes, that ruling meant that labor groups could spend like crazy also, but if you look at what has transpired since 2010, corporate spending has so far exceeded that spent by worker advocacy groups that it’s not even funny...didn’t know about Snyder v. United States, in which a “bribe” was somehow endowed with the legal fiction that such payment is instead a “gratuity”...we also learn about the NRSC v. FEC case, which would get rid of the limit on coordinated spending by political parties for candidates (with Couch Boy taking the lead on that one), and Sittenfeld v. US dealing with federal anti-bribery laws; P.G. Sittenfeld was convicted of accepting $20 in bribes (oh, excuse me...”campaign contributions”) in exchange for supporting a local development project; his “defense,” if you can call it that, is that “pay to play” is so widespread in our politics that it should no longer even be considered a crime...kind of makes me sick that Sittenfeld is a Dem, and naturally he was pardoned by Our Sweaty Orange Bronzer Boy...in response, we can indeed push for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, and also, the fine folks in Montana need to enact the law not allowing corporations to spend in elections (watch Strip Search Sammy Alito and Almost Silent Clarence Thomas lose their minds over that)...

...and this clip from Thom Hartmann harks back a bit to Citizens United also as well as other SCOTUS rulings...sounds like Thom has had a contest more or less for about 20 years for anybody to name a major piece of Republican legislation that has helped the average person of this country over the last 45 years, and nobody can name anything (I could’ve told you that, but that’s OK)...didn’t know that families in this country spend, on average, $5K more than families in Canada, but that sure tracks, I have to admit...I’m not the least bit surprised to hear about all of the negative ads coming our way from the “party of Lincoln” this fall (here come the “migrant caravans” again bringing more drugs and crime, along with bathroom bills and “protecting women’s sports”) since the “R” team has NOT ONE DAMN THING TO OFFER THAT’S ANY GOOD, AND DEFINITELY NOTHING ELSE TO RUN ON...by the way, Lewis Powell ruled in the affirmative on Buckley v. Valeo and First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, and Powell was a Democrat, albeit a very conservative one...

...and I know we must all find it in our hearts to extend whatever compassion we can to everyone who endured the near-tragedy at the WHCD a few days ago, so I’m going to provide what I consider to be an appropriate commentary from Triumph the Insult Comic Dog...

...and happy 85th birthday (I believe he’s still with us) to Johnny Farina of the duo Santo and Johnny, who had a big hit with this tune from back in the day.

Wednesday Stuff

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:47:00 +0000

Brian Tyler Cohen gives us an update on King Charles visiting our shores and acting like a head of state is supposed to in his speech before a joint session of Congress, citing all of the ways our legal tradition intersects with that of the U.K., along with that important reminder that, yeah, there are “checks and balances” against Mango Musoslini, and I think Cohen’s analysis of Dems rising to applaud and then Repugs is spot-on...I think the same analysis applies to the King’s remark about Ukraine...to say I personally have been ambivalent towards the monarchy is an understatement, but I have to admit that it was nice to see how a REAL head of state is supposed to (again) act for a change...

...and in a bit of a related theme (i.e., our country on the world stage), Kyle Kulinski brings us the all-time-awful world approval numbers on Combover Caligula (anybody surprised by that?)...I think that plus-11 number is in Hungary; kind of embarrassed to be honest that my geography knowledge isn’t better on that...apparently, #47’s antics over Greenland have done the worst damage to our reputation, though I’m sure his idiocy over Ukraine hasn’t helped one bit either...I hate to agree with Kyle’s analysis that we’re defaulting to the Chinese century as he puts it, but I don’t see any way around that painful conclusion (NSFW/H)...

...and continuing a bit with global matters, Dina Doll of the Meidas Touch Network discusses a report from Drop Site News; apparently, our ruling regime is torturing survivors of the boat attacks near Ecuador (blindfolded and held hostage for eight days)...we’re talking broken bones and, in one case, a foot sliced open so badly that the boat filled with blood (all of this is done by our cretinous ruling regime in our name, people)... Ecuadorian fishermen were captured and transferred to the El Salvadorian coast guard, though the fishermen were eventually sent back to Ecuador because of pressure from their families...didn’t know that, apparently, the Trump gang has allegedly killed 174 people from these boat attacks...good point that the fact that these boats were sunk as opposed to boarded for collecting evidence tells you that this was basically an execution at sea of people who were likely completely innocent...we’re reminded once more of SecDef Kegseth’s claim that we bombed an alleged Ecuadorian drug compound which was actually a dairy farm...another good point is that this madness is taking place while Kegseth canned the Secretary of the Navy during #47’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran (here)...we’re reminded once more of Kegseth’s little rally about “the warrior ethos” while our military starves from being fed meals that you probably wouldn’t inflict on your pet (here)...important reminder that torture by our service personnel does indeed violate their own documented guidelines...

...and returning to domestic matters that are no less awful, Tennessee Brando lets us know that it looks like Ghislaine Maxwell is getting close to a full pardon...I mean, we’re talking about the Trump Crime Syndicate, so what seriously is going to stop them? Also, I’m not familiar with Scott MacFarlane, but it looks like he’s doing a good job with this story...also, good work by Madeleine Dean of our beloved commonwealth, trying to get that scumbag Howard Lutnick on the record over this horror show...and by the way, I think we just observed the one-year anniversary of the death of Virginia Guiffre, just to let you know (NSFW/H also)...

...and Josh Johnson of The Daily Show gives us another “Let Them Eat Ballroom” bit...yeah, let’s just speed up development of the Gropenfuhrer’s vanity palace/bunker while our economy goes down the drain along with our international prestige (and leave it to Huckleberry Graham to take the lead on THAT)...and gee, I wonder how many hospitals and doctors could continue to operate along with providing all of the VA services our vets need if that $400 million was used for THAT instead?...and I know I’ve said it before, and at the risk of repeating myself I’ll say it again; why the hell anybody with a brain would watch Fix Noise is something I’ll NEVER understand...and yep, John Fetterman gets lit up here, and he deserves all of it, sadly (with Jordan Klepper)...

...and if I'm going to include this tune for the month of April, I know I'd better hurry up, so here it is.

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:28:08 +0000

Leave it to that worm “MAGA Mike” Johson to say that “Democrat” leaders are the ones that need to “turn down the rhetoric” or whatever, so of course we need that stinking $400 million ballroom to protect Dear Leader and God Emperor Trump (and Fetterman gets name dropped because he’s the one who made a mess on this issue for the “D” team)...and when it comes to “turning down the rhetoric,” there is also this of course (and even Joe Scar thinks that the recent call to fire Jimmy Kimmel is ridiculous as noted here...I probably wouldn’t have made that joke, but it certainly didn’t advocate violence)...

...and speaking of that damn ballroom, this clip from Public Citizen informs us that that organization sued to get the contractual agreement, and they won...we learn more about this mess, including the fact that donors can remain anonymous and exempts the White House from conflict-of-interest safeguards (Erin Burnett interviews P.C.’s Jon Golinger)...and let’s have no illusions that we the taxpayer aren’t paying for this mess, because we are through inflated contracts from the people bankrolling this idiocy, and that’s just one way that we’re on the hook (and I think the “underground bunker” part of all of this deserves a hell of a lot of scrutiny also...big time “quid pro quo” stuff going on here)...

...meanwhile, David Pakman gives us a clip that the “R” team doesn’t want circulating before the midterm election (a reminder of all of the times in ’24 that the Gropenfuhrer said he was going to bring down prices)...kind of got a perverse kick out of him making the ridiculous promise of “cutting your energy bills in half” and then saying in the next breath “you can get very angry at me if I don’t do it”...

...and Brittany Page tells us about Louisiana’s “convict leasing” bill that brings back the worst of Jim Crow, trying to criminalize homelessness in that state and forcing people into unpaid work (and this state rep Debbie Villio who introduced this bill HB 211 is truly a monster)...”connect them to service providers,” huh? I think all that's missing here is Strother Martin yelling, “What we have here is failure to communicate.”...and it sounds like incarceration is going to happen whether or not someone is convicted of a first or second offense, when In reality that should be an ABSOLUTE LAST RESORT...oh, and related to this, it looks like the Trump gang is building a homeless gulag on the outskirts in Utah, just to push the madness on this even further...apparently there is a provision in the so-called “Streets to Success” Act from this Debbie Villio person to get medical treatment, but of course, if you can’t pay the ridiculously high treatment cost (and once again, we’re talking about the HOMELESS), then you’re put to work – typical for a Repug (and great point by Dem rep Lesli Harris in response regarding what this will do to the criminal justice system in that state, namely overcrowding the already-overburdened courts with many more new cases...Harris also mentions that state’s “housing first” model, which is a MUCH BETTER way to go than that proposed by Villio, and it’s actually cheaper than to force a homeless person into an ER and/or jail; I keep wondering if the cost argument on stuff like this will ever register with wingnuts, but I don’t think it will – love to be wrong about that)...didn’t know about the Housing Not Handcuffs group – kudos (and more on the SCOTUS Grant’s Pass ruling is here)...

...and I haven’t had a Jesse Welles tune for a little while, so I thought I’d include this (John Oliver recently had a good segment on this topic)...

...and I don’t see any east coast tour dates for this band including Philly, but if I find out about more on that, I’ll make sure to update this post with that information.

Monday Stuff

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:42:37 +0000

Chris Hayes talks to Dem U.S. House Rep Robert Garcia of California on the all-time grifting of our “First Family,” starting with nepo baby Eric landing a $24 million contract from Cantaloupe Capone’s DoD, all going to Eric’s outfit called Foundation Future Industries that builds robotics...the whole thing was cheered on by Maria Bartiromo of course (gee, I’m old enough to remember wingnuts losing what left of their minds over Hunter Biden and Burisma and how “No Malarkey Joe” allegedly intervened on behalf of his son, which never happened)...Garcia puts this nonsense in its place IMO...oh, and I guess for sh*ts and giggles, Uday and Qusay have some drone interceptor company that they’re selling to the gulf states while this war with Iran ~~that we’re winning~~ ~~well not so much~~ ~~we already took out their air defense capability~~ ~~no, their ability to retaliate remains~~ ~~we took out Iran's nukes last summer~~ ~~no, we have to bomb them to keep them from making nukes~~ ~~we’re reopening the Strait of Hormuz~~ ~~no we’re closing the Strait again~~ ~~NATO should offer to help~~ ~~no, NATO isn’t involved but China is now~~ ~~peace talks are ongoing in Pakistan~~ ~~no suddenly they’re not~~ goes on...Hayes is correct for sure when he basically says that our corporate media needs to do a MUCH BETTER job of reporting on this illegal garbage...

...and speaking of corporate media, Kyle Kulinski gives us a “hot take” on the WHCD shooting incident...I thought D.C. was safer now because of Bronzer Beelzebub’s ICE raids, or something...glad no one was hurt of course and apparently D.C. police got the suspected shooter...sorry, but I'm suspicious of all of this given the fact that we also had that incident in Butler, PA where #47 was allegedly shot in the ear, but he healed pretty quickly from that given that he's a 79-year-old man in poor condition living an utterly unhealthy lifestyle (NSFW/H)...

...and Farron Cousins informs us that the “R” party knows that their redistricting scam for the fall elections may very well blow up in their faces (and yes, I know a wingnut judge in Virginia has put the Dem redistricting on hold in that commonwealth – case will likely go to the SCOTUS, and God only knows what that will lead to)...and gee, Ari Ari Bobari Fleischer from Dubya’s sorry reign thinks his party screwed the metaphorical pooch on this redistricting nonsense, huh? Pass the popcorn...and sooo, it looks like the “party of Lincoln” was going to run on “tax cuts for everybody” (another fiction), but they’re blaming the war with Iran for messing that up? Did Don Jr. and Eric Trump become the co-heads of the RNC and I missed that memo (while “making bank” as noted above)?? This is a whole new level of clueless idiocy (NSFW/H also)...

...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 4/24/13...clip is a tribute to Dem one-time U.S. House Rep Bob Edgar...to say we need more folks in public service with his dedication is an understatement (and somehow I think that, if he were still with us, he would be leading the fight against the proliferation of data centers and lax government regulation of the type that led to the East Palestine, Ohio rail disaster, among other worthy causes)...

...and taking a jaunt “across the pond,” Jonathan Pie gives us a typically understated analysis of the performance of British PM Keir Starmer to date...I’m definitely joking (very NSFW/H as well)...

...and yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which was the subject of a terrific short HBO series; I think that calls for an anti-nuke tune, don’t you?

Friday Stuff

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:12:45 +0000

Yasmin Khan of Rebel HQ tells us that Pumpkin Pol Pot has been ranting against windmills again, and as Khan says, this goes back once more to his hissy fit over windmills on Spray-Tan Satan’s golf course in Scotland...and yes, this also ties into his boneheaded attacks on the U.K. and drilling in the North Sea because EVERY DAMN THING HE DOES is transactional somehow; he can’t do anything to drive up the price of renewable energy, which is why he hates it so damn much (among other reasons I know), but he CAN drive up the price of dirty energy for sure...

..and Jesse Dollemore lets us know that Combover Caligula sent his DOJ goon Todd Blanche after the Southern Poverty Law Center, and if anybody out there somehow disagrees with Jesse’s assessment that the Repug Party is racist to its core (and moves like this show that), then you must also believe in cotton candy ponies and Jesus riding the dinosaurs (and I respectfully disagree with Jesse on Graham Platner, but I understand Jesse’s principled opposition – I think Platner made a dumb, youthful mistake, but I don’t think getting a Nazi tattoo then represents the type of person he is now, and Platner got rid of the tattoo)...and I would comment on the merits of the indictment against the SPLC if there WERE any merits in the indictment...and I would LOVE to know the racial and gender makeup of the grand jury that returned this indictment in Alabama, the state that sent that lummox Tommy Tuberville to the U.S. Senate (and MAY elect him as governor)...interesting background from Jesse about his time serving on a grand jury...

...and Thom Hartmann brings us the sorry tale of Texas and other southern states forcing public schools to post the Ten Commandments (here), according to the Fifth Circuit U.S. Appeals Court, destroying a SCOTUS precedent from 1980 (trying to extinguish the memory of Madalyn Murray O’Hair once and for all)...I didn’t know SecDef Kegseth was trashing Catholics, but that’s in line with the general behavior of our ruling regime of grifters and frauds...this also is the first I’ve heard of Cantaloupe Capone blowing up the Afghan resettlement program and dumping everyone in the Congo, but that figures also – yeah, good luck expecting anyone living in conflict areas to actually assist our military or diplomats ever again...and family members of our U.S. service members too??!! Including 400 kids??!!...

...and the Logical Leftist Jeff Waldorf gives us more details on PA’s U.S. Senator John Fetterman voting with Repugs to defeat a Senate war powers resolution requiring the Gropenfuhrer to seek congressional approval before conducting military operations against Iran (didn’t know the resolution had been introduced four times, with Fetterman opposing each time)...oh, and Fetterman also went on Fox Business to call the Dems’ response on the war “very disappointing”...oh, and OF COURSE there are now parallels between Fetterman and “Curtsy Kyrsten” Sinema, and except for Joe Manchin, I can’t think of a lower insult to hurl against a Senate Dem...I also knew that Conor Lamb has all but declared to primary Fetterman, but I didn’t know that Susan Wild may end up in that mix also...

...and I guess we couldn’t truly plummet to absurd new depths this week without this story about Alan Deshowitz; Kyle Kulinski informs us that “Dersh” has officially joined the “R” team...wonder what took him so long? Gee, I guess this means nobody on the Vineyard will sell him pierogies any more for certain...as Kyle sez, Dershowitz was one of Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyers...and given that Dershowitz actually wrote a column alleging that the age of consent laws are supposedly too HIGH, well, I would call that more than a bit of a “tell”...don’t let the door hit you, buddy (NSFW/H)...

...and Stephen Colbert of The Late Show lets us know that Don The Con will be attending the “nerd prom” tomorrow...apparently he’s going to hang around the WHCD just to give another hissy fit, make another speech full of lies and then leave like the petulant man-baby he truly is...not usually a cheerleader for the Murdoch Street Journal, but glad to see they’re going to get some kind of special mentions for the story about our *preznit’s “pube doodle” and that pic of him standing like a wooden Indian while somebody had a seizure in the Oval...and regarding the war with Iran, it sounds like each side is trying to close the Strait of Hormuz; I mean, that’s if you ACTUALLY BELIEVE the BS from our ruling regime, which I definitely don’t (this mess would be amusing if it weren’t for the fact that our military and other innocent lives are involved...and “shoot and kill any boat” – are there ANY ACTUAL ADULTS in this administration?)...and why the hell are we bailing out Spirit Airlines anyway?...also, l I tried to avoid the story about Bobby Brainworms slicing off a dead raccoon’s penis, but sadly I was unable to do that...and oh yeah, “I’ve never been anti-vax,” huh? And I’ve never been a Caucasian either (#facepalm)...and “coked-out salmon” too? (And nice Biden bit as well)...

...and I know I mentioned what would have been Glen Campbell’s recent 90th birthday, and yesterday was the same milestone for Roy Orbison...

...and RIP Dave Mason, who had great music careers with Traffic and as a solo artist.

Wednesday Stuff

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:22:13 +0000

I know Tax Day was a week ago, but Leeja Miller provides what I would still call a timely update...88 of the largest corps in the US paid an effective tax rate of 0…average tax rate in the country for everyone else is 14.5%...one of those companes is Live Nation Entertainment, so I would ask that you remember that the next time you get price gouged if you want to buy tickets for a show at the WTF/Xfinity place (I guess that’s what it’s called now) or the Mann Music Center in these parts…probably comes as no shock whatsoever that the Feds now have zero interest in antitrust enforcement, so some states are continuing the fight…and in News For Plutocrats, it looks like David Ellison is hosting a dinner in honor of Combover Caligula while Ellison just happens to be awaiting news on a merger with Warner/Discovery – how con-vee-nient…didn’t know the top oil and gas companies are planning to make $234 bil over #47’s illegal war of choice…hard to control my gag reflex when I read those numbers from the Working Families Party…and BTW, the notion of a horribly regressive “flat tax” continues to be an utterly awful idea for the reasons Miller mentions…GREAT tax rate discussion about the person making $663K a year vs the person making $50K…and yes, the top-end tax rate under Eisenhower/Kennedy was indeed about 90 percent…important info on the tax resistance movement at about 13:40…also, important historical info on Henry David Thoreau’s tax resistance and how that spurred on non-violent protest in this country…interesting info as well on legal and non-legal tax resistance (NSFW/H)...

...and Brian Tyler Cohen discusses a Murdoch Street Journal report in which we learn that the team for Our Treasonous Orange Pustule kept him away from the Situation Room during the rescue of one of our airmen in Iran because “they believed his impatience wouldn’t be helpful”...and no, as we learn, this episode wasn’t a “one-off” by any means...also included is a clip of shrieking harpie Maria Bartiromo asking Cheetoh Hitler if he wants to take back his lunatic remark that “a whole civilization will die tonight,” and OF COURSE he says NFW – and for more dark comedy, along comes Couch Boy to try and clean up this latest presidential mess, and Trumpette spokes-liar Karoline Leavitt also ignores the question from the NBC reporter to try and puff up her boss once more (who indeed is guilty of advocating for war crimes against Iran, meaning Spray-Tan Satan of course)...

...well, for a bit of good news, last night Virginia voters decided to redistrict their voting maps in a way that favors Dems, and for anybody who says, “Hey! That party is playing the same lowdown game as the ‘R’ Party!”, my response is “Damn right we are”...the one dark cloud is that this vote may get overturned by the Virginia supreme court, but hopefully not – we’ll see (and I don’t often turn to Steve Kornacki, but I will for now)...I know I didn’t pay attention to this contest over the last few months – apologies – but fortunately, it didn’t matter in the vote outcome...

...and Michael Kosta of The Daily Show gives us another episode of “The Worst Wing”...looks like Crazy Eyes Kash Patel is re-enacting his own version of “The Lost Weekend,” only it’s ongoing in his case, along with a lawsuit against The Atlantic of a quarter bil for reporting the truth...and a frequent guest of “The Poodle Room,” at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Las Vegas, huh? And on the taxpayer dime of course (kind of picturing Al Pacino in “Scarface” with his head buried in a pile of coke)...oh, and you were locked out on your workstation? I guess it didn’t occur to Patel to call tech support...and gee, it looks like we barely knew DOL Secretary Lori Chavez-Deremer; I wish we could say that about the rest of the motley Trumpist regime...I guess she was trying to beat a retreat, you might say, over multiple scandals and investigations; apparently, she was drinking on the job also, though considering who her boss was, I can’t totally blame her (good joke in particular from Kosta about going through workplace harassment training here)...and I can’t believe Chavez-Deremer’s husband was accused of sexual harassment at his wife’s workplace (this confirms my suspicion that any members of this administration have to take an IQ test, and if they pass, they’re disqualified...and that apparently goes for her dad also)...with Ronny Chieng...

...and today would have been the 90th birthday of Glen Campbell...

...and Happy Earth Day, everyone (for a few more hours anyway).

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:46:01 +0000

Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report discusses U.S. allies watching in confusion as America self-immolates...yes, I know The Guardian is a center-left publication for sure (or maybe more left than that), but I have a hard time disagreeing with what Rebecca Solnit has to say...I think it’s irrefutable that #47 is a Russian operative since every damn thing that he ever does helps Putin, among other dictators...as Figueredo says, there’s a difference between what you could call the typical lies of a politician versus the outright hallucinations of the Tangerine Toddler (if this were an earlier era, I would expect Rod Serling to appear from a background and tell us that we were all in The Twilight Zone, but tragically, this is reality)...and that goes for Trumpette spokes-liar Karoline Leavitt also...and I’ll tell you what; I would suggest not listening to that fathead U.S. Senator Roger Marshall when it comes to Cantaloupe Capone vs. Biden on prices and would look to this instead, which looks like a wash overall at best for Dementia Donnie...and I don’t know who these people are who are getting a $1K-$1,500 rebate, but if you find anybody who qualifies, please let me know...and I have a feeling that I’ll be repeating this for-ev-ah, but BRONER BEELZEBUB WALKED AWAY FROM THE IRANIAN NUKE DEAL UNDER OBAMA, WHICH HAS A LOT TO DO WITH WHY WE’RE IN THIS MESS...I didn’t know that five doctors wrote to Congress and told those in charge to DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS NUTBALL!!...”The monkeys have taken over the zoo” sounds about right (and leave it to “Dr. Crudité” to let his boss off the hook over that beyond ridiculous “diet soda cures cancer” claim)...and damn right that the bipedal life forms who decided to give this pudding-brained buffoon another term in An Oval Office share culpability with this mess...and when it comes to Cheetoh Hitler and exporting energy (in response to Tim Scott), I would ask that you take a look at this (NSFW/H)...

...and continuing the theme of global instability caused by #47, Belle of the Ranch tells us about Canadian PM Mark Carney calling U.S. ties a “weakness”...Carney isn’t wrong about Mango Mussolini’s stinking tariffs and the last time they were raised to the level they are now (as in the Great Depression – Google Smoot-Hawley)...the Canadian PM also correctly says that the ruinous economic policies of Spray-Tan Satan are causing “uncertainty hanging over all of us” (and as Belle says, the markets HATE uncertainty, as do the rest of us)...I definitely give Belle points for her plain speaking in this particular clip, though she’s spot on that way in her others also...

...and sticking with global matters, Ana Kasparian of TYT talks about Naftali Bennett of Israel giving some speech saying, “Turkey is the new Iran” (and Bennett is supposed to be a “moderate”?)...what will it take for this country to proclaim Israel as a pariah state and cut off all support (maybe making an exception for humanitarian funding)...and yes, I know from a practical perspective what a monumentally heavy political “lift” that is, but that’s the direction where all of this is going...as Ana says, Israel is still butt-hurt over Turkey’s response to the Hamas attacks on Israel in October 2023 (suspending trade with Israel and denying Turkey’s air space to that country), so “Bibi” decides to pick a fight with Turkey, and that country responds by calling Netanyahu “the Hitler of our time,” and from where I sit, Turkey isn’t wrong (though I’ll admit that Turkey has indeed been awful to the Kurds, seeing as how Turkey believes the Kurds are responsible for “a decades-long insurgency”)...I’ll grant you that this is a complicated story, but when you’ve got two parties drowning in the blood of slaughtered populations, nobody has the moral high ground...

...and turning to domestic politics, Farron Cousins informs us that Repug politicians in the House and Senate are freaking out over the fact that their voters are nuts; I mean, that’s not a news flash to yours truly or likely you if you’re reading this I know...now that their political butts are on the line, it looks like some in the “party of Lincoln” are realizing that, damn, we have to actually deliver something to the people who voted for us instead of trying to arrest women trying to get abortions or making the lives of LGBTQ plus folks generally miserable (NSFW/H also)...

...and Jesse Dollemore talks about Don The Con pocketing $63 mil intended for his “library”...apparently, Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal (along with Dem U.S. House Rep Melanie Stansbury) have written a letter to the companies (ABC, Paramount, Meta and X) that supposedly donated to this slush fund for the Gropenfuhrer (and for a “library” that also doubles as a hotel...a “typical Trumpian twist” indeed)...the four companies in question responded as noted in the clip, but they didn’t get into details about the ~~shakedowns~~ ~~bribes~~ payouts...Jesse is spot-on IMO about the fact that, if this happened with, say, a Dem president, it would dominate the news cycle, as it should (mildly NSFW/H also)...

...and RIP Moya Brennan of the Irish folk group Clannad, performing “I Will Find You” from “The Last Of The Mohicans” (a terrific film).

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Apparently, Fascism is Back in Fashion

Thu, 20 Nov 2025 03:17:49 +0000

Think Prissy went feral on Instagram? Nope, its not the original Prissy who owns this blog. No idea who that is...ok, a few ideas. But nope, not this blogs owner. The current 2025 post heading says it all.

Is Impeachment Really Off the Table (Part 2)?

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 04:21:27 +0000

Is impeachment really off the table?

OpEdNews asks the question, HERE.

Doctor's Orders?

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:40:40 +0000

Republicans claim that the new law says the government will tell physicians what procedures can and can't be performed. It doesn't.

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Syrian president consults with country's leadership on Mideast peace talks and Lebanon

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 07:13:10 +0000

: President Bashar Assad convened a meeting of Syria's leading Monday to discourse regional developments — Associate in Nursing evident mention to a U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace conference and the presidential election crisis in neighbour Lebanon.

Syria have repeatedly said it would only go to the conference expected later this calendar month if treatments include the tax return of the Golan Heights, a strategical tableland State Of Israel captured from Syrian Arab Republic in the 1967 Center East war.

Although U.S. functionaries have got said the focusing of the conference will be the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Israeli Prime Curate Ehud Olmert said in recent years that he hoped Syrian Arab Republic would take part.

"The part is witnessing in the approaching time period political events," Syria's functionary news federal agency quoted Assad as saying. These issues "could have got sedate impact on the hereafter of the states and peoples if they are not dealt with in a logical manner that fulfills the involvements of the assorted political parties without taking sides," Assad said.

He did not elaborate, but his words were taken to intend the peace conference in the United States and the political crisis in Lebanese Republic — the two major regional events. Today in Africa & Center East

Lebanon's Parliament should pick a president by Friday, but political differences between U.S.-backed government and pro-Syrian opposition have held up understanding on a "consensus" president. Failure to elect a leader could further decline the political crisis.

Assad's convening of the meeting came ahead of a assemblage of Arabian foreign curates in Arab Republic Of Egypt later in the week. The functionaries are expected to come up up with a incorporate base on the peace conference scheduled for later this calendar month in Annapolis, Maryland.

'Low crime rate fuelling migration'

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:14:50 +0000

PUNE: Even as Pune's population is
projected to lift to 6.9 million by 2020, the city's continuing growing as an
infotech, manufacturing, services and educational hub have led to the two
distinct tendencies of migration into the city. Better educational facilities,
better occupation chances in industry and IT and low law-breaking charge per unit have got influenced
the volume of migration to Pune. While previously, Karnataka, Andhra
Pradesh, UP, Kerala, Gujerat and Rajasthan defined the order of migration into
Pune, the flowing is now led by Uattr Pradesh, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Unlike in the past when senior citizens preferred Pune "because it
was unagitated and pleasant, now little people are migrating to Pune driven by
educational demands and occupation opportunities," University of Pune research worker and
reader in geographics department, Vijaya Khairkar, said. According to
his study, 'Migration and Sociable Economics of Pune city, which was recently
released by Diamond Publications, the biggest form of migration into Pune was
during 1961-91 with "in-migration" (from within Maharashtra) accounting for 73
per cent followed by Mysore (6.37%), UP (3.21%), AP (2.58%), Rajasthan
(2.10%) and Kerala (2.07%). In footing of proportionality of migrators to
total population, Pune topped the listing of 12 Indian metropolises in 1981 with migrant
population accounting for 58.43%.

Consumers Of All Ages 'See Rise In Inflation'

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:21:35 +0000

Britons are witnessing a rise in fiscal pressures, a new set of figs have shown.

In research carried out by the Alliance Trust Research Centre, consumers from all age groupings saw an addition in rising prices over the course of study of September. Despite the functionary charge per unit remaining at 1.8 per cent, a rush in pecuniary strain may well see more than people battle to ran into demands for payment in numerous countries of their disbursement such as as public utility bills, loans and rent costs. And although rates of gas and electricity rising terms continued to fall during the month, nutrient prices have got surged by four per cent with this growing intimated as being driven by tramps in the cost of basic merchandises such as as milk, butter and vegetables.

Overall, the over-75s were shown to be secluded to the peak charge per unit of inflation, as they confront rises of 2.2 per cent - about a 5th higher than newspaper headline figures. Meanwhile, the under-30s are revealed as having the second-highest inflation costs as a consequence of increased rent and instruction costs - the latter of which have risen by some 14 per cent over the past 12 months. However, those between the ages of 65 and 74 could also be coming under furthered pressure level to do secured personal loan refunds as they have got seen the biggest addition in rising prices over the course of survey of September.

Commenting on the data, Shona Dobbie, caput of the Alliance Trust Research Centre, said: "Our study goes on to foreground the extent to which rising prices hits different age groups. Throughout the full course of study of our four-year study, the aged have got consistently suffered the peak degrees of inflation. Although the functionary newspaper headline charge per unit of rising prices remained unchanged at 1.8 per cent this month, our survey shows that the charge per unit of rising prices facing the aged have increased to a much higher charge per unit of rising prices of 2.2 per cent.

"More than four old age of higher-than-average inflation have eaten into pensioners' budgets and left them struggling to pay higher bills. We are also becoming concerned about the more than recent tendency of immature grownups also facing rising prices which is significantly higher than the newspaper headline rate, largely owed to higher rents and instruction costs, as well as the costs of basic goods."

She added that the research Centre "would not be surprised" if inflationary pressure levels get to lift in the future. Multiple Sclerosis Dobbie pointed out that as oil terms have got reached a record high, subsequently petrol and conveyance costs could also be put to increase. Meanwhile, the implosion therapy witnessed in United Kingdom and the heat-wave experienced on the continent in recent calendar months was putative to have got an impact on nutrient production levels, as terms are put to rise. It was suggested that such as as a move could have got the "biggest impact" on the over-75s who pass a big proportionality of their budget on such basic goods, which in bend could impinge upon their ability to do loan repayments.

Consequently, those concerned about their capacity to pull off their finances over the approaching calendar months may wish to see taking out a debt consolidation loan. By opting for such as a loan, borrowers could happen themselves with more than disposable income at the end of each calendar month as numerous debts are merged into one single low-rate monthly repayment. And with research conducted by Combined Insurance telling that 56 per cent of grownups faced a negative disbursement surprise in 2006, a figure of consumers were shown to be on a fiscal "edge" as experiencing such as an event may see them develop troubles in other disbursement areas, for case place loans and public utility bills.

There Is A 'Definite Need' For More Education On Finances

Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:41:35 +0000

Young people attending higher instruction demand more fiscal education, an industry expert have declared.

Becky Boden-Wilkes, interpreter for the National Debtline, claimed that those going to university for the first clip are becoming evermore used to a civilization of borrowing. With debt now "an expected manner of life" for those from the age of 18 onwards, owing money is something immature Britons are no longer panicky of, but instead see having a loan or overdraft as "acceptable". As a result, she reported that those completing university are put to go forth some 15,000 lbs in the red.

Overall, she claimed that attending higher instruction can be "very expensive" as a consequence of numerous disbursals such as as tuition fees and rent costs. "There are all those set up costs of moving out for the first time. There are tons of grounds why immature people are more than susceptible to debt," the representative commented.

However, she said: "It's not seen as anything to be worried about, because it's student debt and hopefully you're going to increase your earning potentiality in later life, but it acquires you used to being overdrawn." Despite this, Multiple Sclerosis Boden-Wilkes urged of the demand for greater fiscal consciousness to be promoted among students, especially those life away from place for the first time.

She reported that those just starting university may happen themselves under "difficult" pressure levels to pass high amounts of money. During freshers' week, the National Debtline representative claimed that the initial time period of higher instruction is all about going out, making friends and meeting new people. And although this may at first look fun, by consistently not keeping a path on their spending, undergrads could well see themselves struggling with their money direction both during and after university.

Consequently, it was stated that providing fiscal advice as they get higher instruction could help immature people in becoming more than proactive in handling their money. One peculiar method by which this could be done is in the drawing up of a budget which could see consumers set up how much disposable income they have got got at the end of each month, as they can see their degree of regular outgo in improver to what money they have coming in.

Ms Boden-Wilkes asserted: "There definitely necessitates to be more than talking about budgeting and people working out what they necessitate each week. Then you cognize what you can pass rather than disbursement it all in the first few hebdomads and not really having much to dwell on." As a result, it is possible that doing so may assist pupils take a more than responsible mental attitude towards paying back personal loans and service other countries of their finances in later life.

The news come ups after a study carried out by This is Money uncovers that the involvement charged on pupil loans have increased from 2.4 per cent to 4.8 per cent in the 12 calendar months leading up to March this year. Due to facing increased pupil loan costs upon graduation, consumers may see pressure level on their money management, for case paying off personal loans, rising. As a result, those people concerned about their ability to pull off their finances may wish to see taking out a debt consolidation loan as a agency of combining numerous debts into a single low-rate loan repayment.

Overall, some 12.7 million grownups have got opted for a personal loan as a agency of getting to clasps with their finances. However, Tim Moss, caput of loans and debt for the terms comparing website, warned those thought about getting a debt consolidation loan against going additional into debt, as some two-thirds of such as borrowers will eventually travel deeper into the red.

Politico 44 President's Calendar

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:41:25 +0000

Veterans Day Special or "How Many Does it Take to Stop a War?"

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:32:36 +0000

Sorry for the re-run Dearest Readers, Prissy has been so busy assisting soldiers...and it probably won't let up until Jan. Write to Prissy to contribute your own writings. To the Veterans reading today: Prissy thanks each one of you for being the ones willing to literally fight for her First Amendment rights, if it comes down to that...Long live the Constitution and all rights we Americans

Before and After the NeoRepublican Makeover

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:21:47 +0000

Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN) Then:AP Photo (A dirty looking-pp) Norm Coleman protests the Vietnam War as an undergraduate student at Hofstra University, in this 1970's black-and-white file photo. The Republican senator from Minnesota, who also attended the Woodstock music festival, voted in 2007 against spending $1 million for a museum that commemorates Woodstock. (AP Photo/Hofstra Chronicle,file)

the media -W beats Nixon !!!!

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:21:47 +0000

The "Good Old Days", aye, Dubya? Yesterday afternoon i see on Yahoo that W's approval rating has hit a new low. Only 23% of Americans polled approve of the job George W. Bush is doing as President. (This is down from 31%.) And keep in mind that Prissy and Iron Jawed Angel were not called for this survey or W's numbers would sink even lower!!! I went online a few hours later to email this info

Sept 15th DC Protest Photos...Finally

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:21:51 +0000

(Click any photo to enlarge) Dearest Readers, Prissy apologizes for being away so long. So long, in fact, a regular Dearest Reader has been blogging to get the message out. Thank you to her. Prissy is pleased to announce a new blogger Iron Jawed Angel to The Prissy PatriotShe teaches government-AMERICAN government. You can feel free to write to us with any questions you may have. Finally

Democracy or Dictatorship? & Do we care?

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:41:37 +0000

Hot Links Bush's Martial Law Plan Is So Shocking, Even Congress Can't See it . member of Homeland Security Committee barred from viewing post-terror attack provisions Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Monday, July 23, 2007 President Bush's post-terror attack martial law plan is so shocking that even sitting members of Congress and Homeland Security officials are barred from viewing it, another

Pelosi slams anti-war protesters

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:00:22 +0000

Poor Nancy Pelosihere is what she said in the washington post 10/10/07."Look," she said, the chicken breast on her plate untouched. "I had, for five months, people sitting outside my home, going into my garden in San Francisco, angering neighbors, hanging their clothes from trees, building all kinds of things -- Buddhas? I don't know what they were -- couches, sofas, chairs, permanent living

What Does Democracy Look Like? This is What Democracy Looks Like!

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:46:24 +0000

Click any photo to enlarge Dearest Readers, so sorry for the re-run from may 2006. Prissy has been on the run...and will be in Washington Sept 15, 2007 for the Noon march. We're bringing our own police, since we don't trust the DC cops. Shame on them for not upholding our Constitutional rights! Those are a Bill of Rights, ladies and gentlemen- not a Bill of Suggestions! Long live the First

Decision Time for GOP: Spit or Swallow

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:21:53 +0000

If Sen Craig isn't gay, how come he wasn't caught tapping his foot for sex in the ladies room? Hot LinksMaybe the GOP should hand these around the House and Senate Sen Craig's hometown paper, the Idaho Statesmen Sen. Larry Craig's job in doubt amid calls to resign U.S. Sen. Larry Craig's hold on his job is growing increasingly tenuous as he loses the confidence of fellow Republicans, from

Insurgents for Bush

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:21:54 +0000

They luv Boosh Dearest Readers, Tis the season and the war is the reason...Prissy is hard at work to help with a big push/shove to end the war. We need your protests to register to the bureaucrats in Washington. Call them, write and email if you cannot make it to Washington. Make an appointment with your senators local office and tell them you are fed up with how

The Pear of 'Terrer' Quits!

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:21:56 +0000

Karl Rove, the "Pear of Terror" Dearest Readers, this will be a short post. But you all know Prissy could not ignore this latest development! August 31st will be Rover's last day. Do you believe, now that his son is grown and going off to college, his Daddy Rover wants to spend more time with him? No? Prissy isn't buying it either... So why is Rover really calling it quits? He and Dubya have

Dubya and Dick Play Whack Iraq

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:21:57 +0000

Hot Links Cincinnati Enquirer FINALLY THIS IS FRONT PAGE 2004 ballots not preserved Result of presidential vote cannot be verified In a federal civil rights lawsuit, six groups representing mostly African-American, elderly, college-age and homeless voters alleged elections officials allowed fraudulent votes to be cast for Bush, double-counted some absentee ballots, suppressed votes that likely

Are You an Ameri-CAN or Are You an Ameri-CAN'T?

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:21:58 +0000

For our friends abroad, if we Americans have any left... Dubya and Cheney want more, more more...Prissy is convinced they could regulate our lives like a prison camp of KBR, and it still would not be enough control for them. Get to Washington this September. Call your representative and let them know you support military families opposed to the war. Don't let this be your next bumper sticker If

Living in the Land of Confusion

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:21:59 +0000

Happy Friday Dearest Readers. What is there to say about Arlen Spector? He's done this before-talk tough and then cave on the important issues. Word is that Arlen has a girlfriend-has had for 30 years. Right here in Ohio. (There's something about a gal from the Midwest...isn't that so, Senator Spector?) Ray McGovern told Prissy that he thinks Arlen just gets a "little reminder" from Bushco

The NeoRepublicans Point of No Return

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:22:01 +0000

Gonzo takes his oath before the Senate hearings? (Thanks to Dearest Reader Valerie for the picture) Dearest Readers, Gonzo will soon be gone. Prissy is hearing he will resign by September...either that, or he will certainly be looking at impeachment. Maybe even disbarment. One thing is for sure. He has lost all credibility within his own party. Spector isn't fooled or maybe he just

The Boosh/Chainee Rain of Terra

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:22:03 +0000

Any of you mates still left, have questions or concerns for Commander Crook? Hello Dearest Readers, can you believe all of this? His own party cannot keep him in line. See below: Bush Surprises Senate Aides With Unexpected Interruption of White House Meeting July 17, 2007 by Major Garrett and Trish Turner Fox News WASHINGTON — President Bush shocked Capitol Hill staffers and Republican leaders