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Monday Stuff

Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:07:58 +0000

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

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

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

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

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

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

...and here is another seasonal selection.

Friday Stuff

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:25:25 +0000

Josh Gay of Ring of Fire informs us that there’s a backlog of about 121K applications for Canadian citizenship, with a surge fueled by folks in this country (big surprise), many of whom have been able to trace their ancestry back to our northern neighbor...looks like it could take two years to sift through the applications at this point...”never bet against Americans fleeing a problem we created” indeed...1,500 record requests in Quebec in a month versus 43 in the same month a year ago (I don’t think we’re going to hear another ridiculous “sir” story over THAT one...and by the way, I think Tim Horton’s coffee is really good)...

...and here’s a story on CBC News that you likely won’t find on our bought-and-paid-for corporate media, and it’s that of Loui Ridi, a Palestinian American man who returned home to defend his property from attack by Jewish settlers on the occupied West Bank, with our “ally” “Bibi” encouraging settler violence...shocked to hear Mike Huckabee refusing to rush in and defend All Things Israel, but yeah, good luck trying to put measures into place to try and prevent attacks such as those described in this clip...

...and returning to this country, Robert Reich asks “Who’s The World’s Worst Billionaire” (lots of competition here), and the nod goes to Jeff Bezos – so many reasons I know, but one is Amazon punishing other websites such as Walmart or Target by forcing them to raise prices to ensure Amazon’s competitiveness for the same product (Price Fixing 101)...we’re also reminded of Bezos contributing $1 mil to the inauguration of Cheetoh Hitler 2.0 while shelling out $75 mil for that ridiculous “Melania” alleged documentary...Bezos, along with other plutocrats of course, has chipped in on that ridiculous ballroom and emasculated the once proud WaPo...I didn’t know Bezos had also picked up $65 mil from our regime of grifters and bottom feeders for AWS, but that tracks also unfortunately...and 30K job cuts since last October, huh? Also typical...didn’t know about the man who went into cardiac arrest and died while the manager told other Amazon warehouse employees to keep working (allegedly)...I had heard about the $26 mil spent on union-busting consultants, though...

...and Jesse Dollemore brings us more polling data from CNN’s Harry Enten to indicate just how much Our Ochre Abomination is sinking among the electorate – 31 points underwater at this moment, and 47 points down with independent voters (I admit that I get steamed at the latter group from time to time because I think their voting judgment is basically “feels over reals,” if you will, but the undeniable fact is that they decide our elections)...also, when it comes to the “I” word, yes, I think you need to follow where the facts go (again, assuming Dems are in charge, and we need to work to ensure that outcome), but there is SO MUCH CORRUPTION that needs to be winnowed through that we can’t get totally bogged down in it – a tough task to be sure (and once again, thanks to idiot voters in ’24 who saw to it that we were stuck with all of this)...

...and with everything doing the “big swirl in the hopper,” you might say, the true face of MAGA and the Repug Party is showing itself, meaning that it is a hate movement above all else (in case we didn’t somehow know that already) aimed at liberals, leftists and minorities first and foremost...and right on cue, we have Joel Webbon joining the fray once more, telling “modern feminist pagan women” that they need to starve (I can recall an era when Mel Brooks would make jokes about this, but tragically, this really is the worst timeline we’re living through)...God, what a mental and emotional sewer this Webbon guy must be living in to throw out all of this judgmental garbage...I must have missed the reading in sacred Scripture where Our Lord told the destitute “you starve, glory be to God”...and oh yeah, let’s bring settler colonialism back to Africa while we’re at it, and if you oppose it, we’ll kill you...yep, using what they imagine to be Christianity to fuel their own hatred for sure...also, let’s not forget the racism and intolerance of anyone whose skin is too brown for Webbon’s liking (won’t defend Vivek R. for any other reason, I hasten to add...I hate to acknowledge that Webbon is correct about how Ramaswamy “made bank,” but he is...and “suicidal empathy”; I have to admit that that’s a new one)...Kyle Kulinski tells us about it (NSFW/H)...

...and I need to catch up a bit on my summer selections, and I definitely didn’t want to forget this one.

Thursday Stuff

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:30:57 +0000

I was actually going to pass on the whole Darline Graham matter where she said foreign policy wasn’t her thing, or whatever, in that debate (and started wrapping herself around the memory of her dead brother, who was no great shakes either IMO, and her dad), but I thought Brian Tyler Cohen’s take on that was pretty important...as he says, this fits into the typical pattern of the Gropenfuhrer surrounding himself with people as dumb as #47 is (good commentary towards the end by Katie Porter on CNN...and once more, the corporate media double standard is on display here – does anyone seriously believe that a Dem would have received the “kid gloves” treatment if they had stepped into it like Graham did here?)...

...and speaking of double standards, David Pakman lets us know here that “President Deals” was caught using the same “cheat sheet” that Biden apparently once used (leading to weeks of ridicule for #46, but of course, since our current *preznit has “the magic R” after his name, it’s time for our corporate media to go into snooze mode)...I know Pakman knows that it’s not possible for anyone associated with Not Your Father’s Republican Party to actually be embarrassed about a damn thing, and this is more evidence of that (as if we needed it, I know)...I may look into Pakman’s book – probably an interesting read...

...and the “Logical Leftist” tells us that it looks like the typical DNC Beltway centrist election losers are back to pretend to be the adults in the room, or something, over Abdul El-Sayed’s Dem U.S. Senate primary win in Michigan, to the point where they’re actually backing a Trump Repug (including this Michael Horowitz character)??...beyond belief (well, maybe not really) that AIPAC spent $32 million to try and defeat El-Sayed (once more, love and kisses to the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR for Citizens United)...oh, and Horowitz (along with others I’m sure) objects to El-Sayed’s endorsement from Hasan Piker (the outrage against Piker has elevated his profile more than he could ever do on his own)...glad to hear Jeff Waldorf bring up 2016 and how we more or less held our noses and “voted for Hillz” even though we supported Bernie Sanders in the Dem primary...the double standard on display here from the supposedly elite political insider class is enough to make me retch (and I seem to recall Carville saying there was no room for both him and Piker in the party or something, but if Carville has come around to supporting El-Sayed, then good for him)...hard to overstate how important it is that we hold Michigan; no chance on getting the Senate if we don’t (a related item is here)...

...and speaking of corporate insider Dems, Tennessee Brando (definitely not him) tells us about that utter train wreck of an appearance on “Meet The Press” by Hakeem Jeffries where he repeatedly said that Medicare For All isn’t a priority for him, with M4A supported by – gee, I dunno – ABOUT 65 FREAKING PERCENT OF THIS COUNTRY!!! Brando is right for sure about everyone needing to be unified against Our Ochre Abomination, especially since our corporate media will be inflicting all of their “Dems In Disarray” narratives whether they’re actually warranted or not...if somehow the projected “blue wave” turns into a “blue trickle,” though, it will be because of garbage like this from Jeffries...this tells us that Jeffries has received about roughly $1.4 million in donations from health care-related companies and individuals – yet another reason to get damn dirty corporate money out of politics, as if we needed another one (nice ROI from Jeffries to make his bundlers happy, though)...Brando gets revved up at about 7:30, and he’s about 150 percent correct (NSFW/H)...

...and with the Brian Tyler Cohen clip in mind, I give you this from Mr. Newberger...

...and the weather is going to be a bit dreary in these parts, so I thought I’d include this seasonal tune as a bit of a pick-me-up.

Wednesday Stuff

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:53:32 +0000

Gee, I’m old enough to remember when a Senate Majority Leader would find out if a senior member of that body from his party EVEN STILL HAD A PULSE – I’m also old enough to remember the old “Saturday Night Live” joke that Generalissimo Francisco Franco was still dead (the joke being that the guy held on for months and the reporting centered around that with nothing new until Franco finally croaked – the same definitely applies to Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao as far as yours truly is concerned)...Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear is asked to comment (and yes, this is my periodic reminder that our “Weekend At Bernie’s” senator still shares this mortal space on earth, allegedly)...

...and Sam at The Majority Report informs us that #47 wants ICE to intimidate midterm voters at polling places, based on comments from his consigliere and AG Todd Blanche...Sam cites the two U.S. laws prohibiting harassment of voters at polling places (above), which Blanche obviously doesn’t know or care about (the whole “keeping illegals from voting” being the harassment excuse of course)...GREAT point by Matt Lech that the Trumpers supposedly caring about “election integrity” is rich given that THEY TRIED TO OVERTURN THE 2020 ELECTION!!...I wish Sam hadn’t included that clip at the end of Don The Con, but I suppose attention must be paid (oh, but first he says he won’t mention a country, but you can see, given the immature child he is, that he REALLY DOES want to mention a country, so OF COURSE he blurts out “Somalia”)...

...and Farron Cousins lets us know that Cantaloupe Capone’s insanity is triggering supply chain shortages, including food banks in red states...also, the strategic petroleum reserve is at its lowest level in 45 years, with fuel released to artificially keep gas prices from soaring through the roof; are you tired of the winning yet?...and oh yeah, as Cousins says, our utterly cowed Fourth Estate refuses to hold Our Demented Toddler of a *preznit to account on his deadline for supposedly wrapping up his Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran...

..and Mike Figueredo of The Humanist Report discusses DSA member Angie Nixon winning her primary in Flori-DUUH over Alex Vindman to challenge Repug Ashley Moody for Moody’s U.S. Senate seat...a couple of big caveats here; 1) Corpora-Dems Jared Moskowitz and Debbie Wasserman Schultz won also, and 2) We’re talking Flori-DUUH, people – we need to keep that in mind...also, this tells us more about the Repug primary for the 6th Congressional district in that state, which truly was a race to the bottom as noted between the incumbent (the utterly misnamed Randy Fine) and the challenger, Daniel Bilzerian, who allegedly isn’t a neo-Nazi, but walks and talks like one...sounds like FL-06 Repugs had a choice between an anti-Muslim nut (Fine) and an anti-Jewish one (Bilzerian), so of course they went with the anti-Muslim one...sounds like Oliver Larkin, running in the primary against Moskowitz, put up a good fight, but there are all kinds of cautionary political lessons out there of candidates losing the first time but then coming back and getting it done (NSFW/H)...

...and leave it to Mr. Newberger to give us another musical response to our current nightmare (NSFW/H also)...

...and RIP drummer Frank Beard of ZZ Top.

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:32:53 +0000

Belle of the Ranch gives us her take on how Combover Caligula blew it with his Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran...good point about how the stoo-pidity of using precision guided munitions all the way through instead of to finish off the opponent undercut the mission (and no, I’m not a war expert), which further enforces my belief that #47 and SecDef Kegseth thought this would be over quick...I mean, I’m glad they really didn’t send in ground forces, but they never should have engaged our military AT ALL...”there comes a point where you’re just making the rubble bounce” indeed...particularly good job on the shirt, btw...

...and this clip from TYT with Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian tells us about military families ripping Combover Caligula on his aformentioned Iran debacle (and I know I already included that clip of him next to the jet saying that our military personnel on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln hadn’t been deployed long enough)...I applaud the family member saying that Bronzer Beelzebub needs to redeem himself, but sadly, that ship has sailed, no pun intended...we also hear from the family of the 13-year vet who tried to jump ship, literally...and of course, leave it to Fix Noise to give cover for our utterly incompetent ruling regime, quoting people like Repug U.S. House Rep Pat Fallon and SecDef Kegseth of course (and retired General Jack Keane)...and oh yeah, here comes the leader of Cult 45 again with another of his idiotic “sir” stories (yet another lying “tell”)...I’m loathe to give credit to these two hosts to be honest, but to be fair, Ana makes a good point that the criminal neglect of our carriers isn’t just limited to the Abraham Lincoln...good catch by Cenk I have to admit also on Keane wearing both the U.S. AND Israeli flags on Keane’s jacket lapel (and nice to get in another shot at the completely execrable Mark Levin)...I start to lose Ana at about 15:28; yes, there are plenty of Dem sellouts on Israel, but tell me what chance in hell there is of Repugs actually supporting someone like Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan (Section 224 of the ’27 NDAA needs to be utterly destroyed, which relates to this)...didn’t see the connection here with potentially more ruin in Gaza with Wonder Boy Jared Kushner– ugh (and I wonder how many days/weeks of Repug and corporate media outrage there would have been if a DEMOCRAT had actually met with Hamas)...I detest Kushner of course, but calling him “the new Epstein” is a typical stretch for these two...I will give Ana credit for adding the historical context on prior naval deployments...and the “populist right”?? Cenk, WHAT PLANET DO YOU LIVE ON???...otherwise, I think there’s a lot of good commentary in this clip...

...and sticking with global matters, Joe Scar gives us his take on Dementia J. Trump deciding to cut off military exercises with South Korea...calling our *preznit’s policy on this “jagged,” IMO, is typical corporate media understatement...I would say “insane, delusional, dangerous,” etc.; try connecting the dots here – there’s a reason why Our Tiny Handed Would-Be Dictator is tearing down everything built after WWII, and that’s because that’s exactly what his Russian operative in charge wants...with reporter David Rohde...

...and returning to matters in this country, Sam and Emma of The Majority Report comment on someone named Lydia Moynihan at Rupert The Pirate’s vanity rag, who is apparently shocked at the increased popularity on NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani...I mean, I get it that NYC is an enclave unto itself, you might say, but how about giving Mamdani a speck of credit for seeing which way the political wind is blowing? And oh yeah, Moynihan is in charge of “business” for that scandal sheet, or something...”charisma doesn’t matter if you’re not delivering on your promises” indeed, though I agree with Emma’s assessment that voters will respond to you if they see you fighting for them even if you fall short (also agree with Sam’s take that our corporate media views anyone working government successfully as a threat)...

...and I should probably include more tunes here from Jesse Welles, but I thought it was time to feature one now (NSFW/H, I guess)...

...and The Doors signed with Elektra Records on this day in 1966 – this is a tune from their debut release.

Monday Stuff

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:55:35 +0000

Oh, gee...Cadet Bone Spurs doesn’t think our sailors and personnel on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln have been deployed long enough (here and a related utterly brainless, and costly, idea is here)...

...and Kenny Hesse of Really American gives us the latest on the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool BS, among other f*ckups from our “Justice” Department under the Gropenfuhrer...looks like Judge Winebox couldn’t make a case against this David Hearn guy after all – womp womp...I definitely did not grow up on Scooby Doo cartoons, but I thought that wasn’t too bad of a parody...John Oliver’s clip of the sandwich thrower is funny in a Stanley Kubrick “Dr. Strangelove” kind of way I think (NSFW/H)...

...and Brian Tyler Cohen gives us some current polling numbers on the U.S. Senate contests...tells you something that the info cited here is from Fix Noise, but take nothing for granted here, people; I guarantee you that these contests will tighten up in the fall...it looks like this bad data for the “R” team got the attention of Meth Head Bannon, as well as that pissant Jesse Watters (in the case of Ken Paxton, who’s lucky that #47 is as big of a crook as he is, because otherwise, that title would go to “Mr. 9 Million and 15 Homes On a $153K-A-Year Salary”)...

...and Dan Lieberman of More Perfect Union tells us how much data centers in the west are soaking up precious water...and no, I don’t trust a word on this subject from Microsoft’s Satya Nadella...meanwhile, individuals like pecan farmer Roberto Roque in New Mexico wonders how the hell he's going to make a living under these conditions, and he definitely isn't alone...also, this Project Jupiter monstrosity beckons also (“who meters their water” indeed)...ok, so the shareholders are told “don’t worry, be happy,” but meanwhile, residents such as those in El Paso (where Meta is building a data center) have seen water rate increases for 11 straight years, including a double-digit one this year (funny, but when this issue comes up, I don’t hear any wingnut chest thumping over how great it is to move from one of those supposedly awful blue states to “the land of the yellow rose”)...so indirect water usage could be ten times higher than direct usage, according to an individual who has studied this issue? Peachy...as we learn, eight states have introduced bills requiring water use reporting – that should be the standard across this country (get these thieving corporate bastards on the record FWIW)...

...and with all of the completely predictable madness reigning at the moment, Mr. Newberger tells us what’s most important to Our Ochre Abomination...

...and I think the title of this newer tune is an appropriate response (his name that is, not the building itself).

Friday Stuff

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:25:11 +0000

(For what it's worth, I was able to post for all five days this week, but that will probably be the exception going forward and not the rule.)

Lawrence O’Donnell informs us that Trumpette short-time spokes-liar Karoline Leavitt is at it again, telling us to ignore reality and give her boss credit for our supposedly booming economy (sorry to mention her on consecutive days)...according to a USA Today survey in June, 30 percent of those polled said they use a credit card to pay for groceries and other essentials, and if that isn’t a blaring siren, I don’t know what is (along with the destruction of needed services such as Medicare/Medicaid, SNAP, etc.)...I know Nicholas Kristof is kind of hit-and-miss when it comes to reporting, but when he’s on the mark he really nails it IMO, as he does here meeting with people victimized by our end stage capitalist economy, including Latoya Foster in Pine Bluff, Arkansas...more on “The Other America” by Michael Harrington is here...

...and I’ll turn to TYT once more for the story of sailors on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln deployed in the Gulf apparently trying to throw themselves overboard...in addition to the ridiculous over-extension of the deployment of our military, some are also racked with guilt over the bombing of civilians; wonder when we’re going to hear about this on Fix Noise? I would guess at half past never...I realize Cenk Uygur is being tongue-in-cheek asking why Israel doesn’t help out our military, but even though there’s likely no practical way to do that, he has a point (oh, riiiight – I forgot about this)...I didn’t know about the suicides by our cyber personnel, on top of all of this misery...I would respectfully remind everyone that one of the first things our utterly lawless regime did when they seized power in ’25 was to fire scores of our senior military officers overseeing our service branches, which rated hardly a mention in our beyond useless corporate media, and I would argue that we now get sucking up to Israel at the expense of our own safety as a result...I remembered the ’83 bombing of our Marine barracks in Beirut (which we responded to by attacking Grenada), but I’d forgotten about Israel bombing the U.S.S. Liberty...good commentary IMO from Elliot Morgan also...additionally, the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln was where Dubya had his “Mission Accomplished” moment – a bit tangential I know, but just pointing that out...

...and in today’s chapter of “gee, how can our rotten regime find a new way to piss off another one of our allies?”, this report from CBC News lets us know that 60,000 Canadians have signed a petition to expel Pete Hoekstra as U.S. ambassador to Canada...maybe it wasn’t a good idea for Hoekstra to retweet that “51st State” garbage, huh?...

...and I stumbled across this clip a day or so ago...it looks like Arkansas farmers are having a particularly tough time along with farmers across the country...energy costs from #47’s war of choice in Iran along with Ukraine/Russia are ultimately eating into whatever profitability they’re eking out (not much it seems), along with impact from those stinking tariffs...I would also include the effects of the climate crisis as a factor affecting how successful a season our farmers have (though I’m not an expert on farm policy I admit)...I realize no political party is blameless on this issue, but I cannot imagine why anybody would think Republicans, particularly in Arkansas, give a damn about them...more here (and you KNOW how they voted two years ago, right?)...

...and speaking of hard labor, Mr. Newberger gives Not Your Father’s Republican Party the shot they deserve over their obedience to Our Ochre Abomination...

...and here’s some good news – we’ve got a fall recording to look forward to from this guy ("Hippies, Thugs and Heroes")...here is the first single.

Thursday Stuff

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:59:13 +0000

Kenny Hesse of Really American gives us the latest on Mango Mussolini’s plane switch– OK, so I want to make sure I have this right...so the Gropenfuhrer was due to leave a summit in Turkey last month on AF One, but ended up escaping with the aid of a catering cart and taking a secret plane instead, with the press assigned to cover him being potentially exposed to attack from Iran if that country decided to take a shot at the presidential jet (which I definitely DO NOT condone of course)...and oh yeah, that Laura Loomer bit is funny for all of the wrong reasons of course...also, I don’t know if that Lego video came from Iran or not, but if it did, I definitely have to give them props for turning around so fast on this (though I really don’t want to, but I guess I have to)...former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall weighs in also; Kendall indeed has sued our outlaw administration to restore his security clearance...glad Hesse ends this clip with a comment on that ridiculous statement from #47 about Communism...more here (looks like Little Marco ended up not making the cut and was exposed on AF One to a potential attack along with everyone else – normally I would just be snarky about this, but even though I detest these people, I won’t make a joke about endangering people’s safety...more here)...NSFW/H...

...and Brittany Page talks about all the ways Cheetoh Hitler is screwing over kids, starting with proposed cuts to SNAP causing more of them to go hungry, with the dough used to fund yet another forever Mideast war and cover monuments in D.C. with gold leaf...lines grow ever longer at food banks with more and more families having to choose between food and medications in what purports to be the richest country on earth...oh, and it looks like #47 will skate on a proposed IRS penalty of $100 million...and did I mention that Dementia J. Trump is going after Head Start also (taking a page out of Project 2025, yet another reason to excoriate that contemptible Russell Vought)...glad that Page went through the proposed awful changes from the Trump gang – with all of the outrages from these cretins, I temporarily forgot about trying to withhold Medicaid payments to blue states...“Nazi sh*t” indeed...slightly NSFW/H also...

...and John of The Damage Report discusses the proliferation of Flock cameras, gathering all kinds of data whether we want them to or not...looks like those fine words about unnecessary surveillance were spoken by a gentleman at a town hall meeting in Findley, MN...and 90K cameras across 6K communities, huh? I must have missed the robust public debate that preceded this grotesque invasion of our privacy...apparently, Flock is turning over info to government and law enforcement, leading to misidentification of people and subsequent arrest – I’m sure there will be lawsuits aplenty over this madness...oh yeah, it looks like cops have also been using Flock cameras to track their former relationship partners, just for sh*ts and giggles I guess...also, this leads back to the plague of VC investment run amok (to the tune of $1 billon), which shouldn’t surprise anybody either...fortunately, it looks like 60 municipalities have forced their local governments to cancel Flock contracts – just need to keep up the fight here...

...and when even Sen. Foghorn Leghorn of Louisiana says that the scam SAVE Act is dead, I think you can believe it (though the Gropenfuhrer will continue to play his stoo-pid games up until and after the election of course...and leave it to some Fix Noise hairdo to laughably call it “an election integrity bill”)...and I realize characters like Sean Inanity don’t give a damn about the hardship this creates for workers at the polls, who FREAKING CHECK TO MAKE SURE YOU’RE REGISTERED ANYWAY BY YOUR SIGNATURE (at least, that’s the way it works in Doomsy-land)...as David Shuster of Rebel HQ says, non-citizen voting is extremely rare and is caught by the poll workers (along with the fact that those trying to game the system this way are usually Republicans – one example is here)... and “Manhood Meltdown” when referring to James Talarico at the Roger Ailes BS Factory? Yeah, that attack line will work...SMDH...

...and I’m not sure how I missed this from Jimmy Kimmel, but I’ll add it now (YouTube seems to have an issue with Kimmel’s clips for some reason – I’ll see if this gets some kind of TOS violation also)...

...and here is another seasonal number.

Wednesday Stuff

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:18:26 +0000

Rachel Maddow lets us know that it appears that the Repugs didn’t foresee the push-back against their gerrymandering BS...looking at South Carolina first, where they tried to eliminate the seat of Dem U.S. House Rep James Clyburn, though it seems like minority voters in that state commendably pushed back, forcing the “R” team to scrap their awful plan... apparently this scene was also played out in Georgia, where Repug governor Brian Kemp tried to disenfranchise minority voters, but folks in the peach state commendably rose up there as well...they actually went through with this garbage in Tennessee, however, despite folks in the sole black district in that state commendably going to work to try and prevent it (phone calls, knocking on doors, and other means to coalesce folks to protest this)...Maddow speaks with the Rev. Earle Fisher of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Memphis, who was one of the leaders of the mobilization effort to protest the Tennessee redistricting scam (sounds like the odds are long for Justin Pearson to retain his seat, but it’s better to “die on our feet than live on our knees,” figuratively speaking, you might say)...I realize Maddow believes she needs to be a little polite about criticizing the national Dem political establishment about not getting involved with this fight in Tennessee, but I feel no such obligation about softening my rhetoric towards those clueless bunch of election losers in our political/media/industrial complex...”the antidote to despair is action” indeed...

...and Ali Velshi takes a look at a ballot measure in Missouri that fortunately didn’t pass; it would have made it harder to pass future ballot measures (Amendment #4), since Heaven knows that Not Your Father’s Republican Party doesn’t want to hear a damn thing from the rabble they allegedly represent (segment aired on 8/5)...easy to focus on Michigan, and yeah, that deserves to be looked at I realize, but it’s important to keep the “big picture” across the country in mind also...oh, but somehow Repug-sponsored ballot measures would have been just dandy in “Mizzou,” huh? Funny thing, that...sounds like a similar BS amendment about forcing judges to run for election (and yes, on balance, I think that’s bad) failed in Kansas fortunately (and yep, the thoroughly odious Kris Kobach was right in the middle of that one)...Velshi takes a look at the latest insane speech from Our Ochre Abomination on the economy (and God almighty, the freaking accordion hands again!), but to his credit, Velshi responds a bit to that madness (more feedback on that is here)...Velshi speaks with Congresswoman Debbie Dingell...

...and it looks like FCC chairman and human thumb Brendan Carr managed to get some screed published on Breitbart recently about restoring “balance” (code to squashing voices of dastardly lefties) in TV news (not sure who this gentleman is who’s presenting)...also, apparently there was a vote on August 6th to eliminate the nationwide ownership cap saying a broadcaster cannot reach more than 39 percent of U.S. households (here), which will likely lead to even greater media concentration (cough, Nexstar, Sinclair, cough) than we have already, and if you think that’s good news for lefties and progressives, then you must also believe in cotton candy elves and the Easter bunny...the 39 percent cap had been in place since 2004, and of course there was no logical reason to mess with it except to further consolidate the conservative voice of Big Brother...

...and Logical Leftist Jeff Waldorf brings us the tale of a guy named John Gannon who voted for Bronzer Beelzebub to “get the criminals out,” but ooopsie!... ICE took his fiancée instead (Yasmin Carolina Suarez Reyes)...oh, and it took EIGHT allegedly manly men to apprehend this lady, who apparently was “guilty” only of having too dark of a skin color...she applied to have her visa renewed two days before it was to expire in ’24, and thus far hasn’t received word on her status, so the Trump gang automatically assumed she was somehow here illegally – typical...oh, and she was pursuing a particular type of visa for someone who had aided law enforcement, which makes this even MORE appalling somehow...and yeah, the immigration court also didn’t set a bond in her case because they apparently thought they didn’t have the authority to do that...and 20-40 people a day getting detained at airports by ICE thugs? Sounds about “white”...

...and Mr. Newberger gives Max Miller the treatment he deserves at a minimum IMO...gee, it looks like the Repugs are stuck with this lunatic; I’m old enough to recall all of the pearl clutching about Graham Platner and forcing him to exit the U.S. Senate contest in Maine (still waiting for charges to be filed against him), which needed to happen I realize, but as far as Miller is concerned (who’s accused of stuff definitely worse), IOKIYAR...

...and it looks like Tom Waits is going to release a commemorative 50th anniversary vinyl LP of his recording “Small Change” based on this, including this timeless number.

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:07:55 +0000

This news report informs us that, apparently, Cantaloupe Capone wants to post signs outside of the Smithsonian saying anyone entering that there is “inaccurate history,” as if Our Bulbous Orange Fool of a *preznit would have any clue whatsoever about that...

...and Farron Cousins lets us know, in case we had any doubt, that King Elon lied about everything concerning DOGE, according to a GAO congressional watchdog...I definitely get Cousins’s point about so damn much corruption from our cretinous regime of bottom feeders that would have to be investigated by a Dem U.S. House (if, God willing, we end up with that), but Apartheid Clyde would most definitely deserve his “time in the barrel” also (along with Russell Vought)...

...and speaking of people in this regime trying constantly to peddle BS, it looks like Don The Con is LYING AGAIN, this time about guns and drugs allegedly coming into this country from our northern neighbor, according to this report from CBC News...truth be told, about 90 percent of the guns used in crime in Ontario come from the U.S., and there’s heavy drug traffic from this country into Canada also...

...and keeping with our northern neighbors, John of The Damage Report tells us that Canadians support a “dollar for dollar” tariff response to Our Globulus Orange Maniac...and oh yeah, they made 10 million fewer trips to this country over the last year, with us losing out on $4.5 billion in revenue and 140K jobs lost in hospitality...”none of this needs to be happening” indeed...

...and returning to this country, leave it to Lewis Black to give us a singular take on Texas politics, reading some online fan comments...nice to know there are some sane folks in that part of the world...

...and two days ago marked the 40th anniversary of Queen playing what would be their final live concert at Knebworth Park, Stevenage, England in front of 120,000 fans, building from the momentum of their legendary performance at Live Aid the year before...I would say that their legacy continues to endure.

Monday Stuff

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:53:49 +0000

I honestly don’t know who the alleged Republican messaging genius was who came up with this bit about saying Democrats and their supporters are “Communists” and they’re supposedly worse than World Wars I and II and 9/11, but this is truly the most idiotic attack line from the “R” team that I’ve ever heard, and believe me when I tell you that I’ve heard just about all of them at one time or another (David Shuster of Rebel HQ tells us about it)...of course, being Republicans, all they know to do is keep repeating this idiocy over and over...good for Mike Barnicle to pick up the challenge and throw it right back at Our Ochre Abomination...I’m not familiar with Michigan Dem U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed’s prior comments or positions, though I’m QUITE sure Not Your Father’s Republican Party will be focusing on them ad nauseum since they have NOTHING ELSE to run on, in Michigan or anywhere else; what matters to me is what El-Sayed says and does now...I’m sure El-Sayed has an uphill fight in terms of electability in Michigan, but a lot of candidates have faced that in the past and overcome it; I don’t have any intel “on the ground” in that state, but El-Sayed must have known what he was doing to get this far – we’ll see...

...and Jesse Dollemore informs us that #47 has been dropping more hints (the latest in an interview with Punchbowl News) that he doesn’t plan to ever leave and will indeed have to be dragged kicking and screaming out of “the people’s house,” maybe trying to run in ’28, which, as Jesse notes, is a violation of the Constitution Our Treasonous Orange Pustule took an oath to “preserve, protect and defend,” though, as noted previously, he didn’t put his hand on the Bible when he did that...and yeah, it does tell you something that Andy Ogles lost his primary, though in that area of what purports to be civilization, the sheeple will likely just send back some other doofus from the “R” party instead to Congress...oh, and by the way Cantaloupe Capone, you won “Pennsyltucky” in ’24 by about 120K votes as noted here (and while running against the “B” team to be honest, with Biden out of it); you didn’t win “easily”...also, the issue of the US competing against China for the computer chip market (mainly for AI) is a complicated one (more information here...one reason why is because we keep trying to find ways to deny China our technology (though they’ll likely get it anyway through the Saudis), but China is playing the long game on this as they do with just about everything else, so we’d be smart not to but heads with that country quite so much on this (not saying to “give away the store,” though...as I say, this is a complicated issue – if anybody thinks the Gropenfuhrer grasps this, then you need counseling)...kind of unnerving to hear the vision of unreality from these jackals (“Oh, manufacturing hasn’t been this good in years!”) – once more, heckuva job, all you numbskulls who made sure we’d be stuck with these cretins by wasting your vote in November ’24 (slightly NSFW/H)...

...and this video from Status Coup informs us of ICE prisoners served food with “worm-like creatures” in it and other refuse in the water (along with a foul odor) at the Adelanto (CA) Detention Center, courtesy of GEO Group (testimony from detainee Richard Parias based on a discovery by someone in his unit at Adelanto), according to immigration attorney Margaret Hellerstein...report by Michelle Dao...the food is apparently contaminated also...there’s also the issue of Parias not getting the treatment he needs for his wounded arm...ICE targeted Parias because he was recording their activity, which doesn’t make ICE any less culpable IMO...and yeah, as far as even having a need at all for ICE detention, the cruelty truly is the point...

...and gee, it appears that Our Ochre Abomination is actually lying again, this time about data centers – color me (not) shocked...and when even Greg Abbott, of all people, can read how mad people are about these monstrosities, that tells you how wrong anyone is who may support these quality-of-life-destroying behemoths (witness the myriad health ailments linked to these places, as we find out about)...negative polling is up 21 percent on this issue over last year, as we also learn, which is pretty damn dramatic (John and Sharon Reed of The Damage Report tell us about it...I know I pick on Reed a bit at times and it definitely isn’t personal, but I don’t know how else to say it; she really doesn’t bring much to these videos)...

...and Tennessee Brando brings us the news that it looks like our alleged Democratic senator from PA is at it again, bashing the DSA and helping to create a divide between them and these mainstream corporate DNC ELECTION LOSERS who seem to have no other response but “I would’ve gotten away with it if it weren’t for those meddling kids”...and OF COURSE John Fetterman, in a recent interview with Jon Stewart, basically said, yeah, let’s let “Bibi” and Israel do whatever they want, which 1) Is disgusting in humanitarian terms, and 2) Flies in the face of where the rank-and-file of the political party he allegedly supports stands...I liked Brando’s tale of his mean dog Samson and drawing the equivalency with Fetterman, Carville and the completely-beyond-useless Bill Maher (somewhat NSFW/H)...

...and here is another seasonal tune.

Friday Stuff

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:30:05 +0000

Chris Hayes brings us the story of outgoing Repug U.S. Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis caving over the nomination of Trump fixer Todd Blanche as Attorney General...looks like Blanche came up with two memos which were pretty much fig leafs without much substance in the matter of Our Treasonous Orange Pustule suing the IRS for $10 billion for some alleged defamation (which exists only in the calcified cranium of #47 and not in the real world in any way whatsoever), and also, this $1.8 billion insurrectionist slush fund is apparently not happening, maybe (though payouts are going to 1/6ers as Hayes notes), and it looks like that was enough for Cornyn and Tills to abdicate any responsibility whatsoever...oh, and did I mention retroactive immunity for Trump, his family/sons and his business, which was part of this disgusting deal also? (pretty much drowning in corruption at this point)...”it’s not just Trump – the whole party is rotten” indeed (an important update is here)...

...and this clip is a little behind the news cycle I’ll admit, but I think it needs to be mentioned – as we learn in this Ring of Fire segment, #47 endorsed Amir Hassan for the Repug nomination in the contest for Michigan’s 8th district U.S. House seat; Hassan probably had some political baggage if he got the nod from the Gropenfuhrer, but Hassan apparently raised about $750K, which isn’t chump change, and Hassan also served our country in the U.S. Navy (he's also a self-professed Christian)...none of that was apparently good enough for Repug voters, however, who let their intolerant freak flag fly a couple of days ago and voted in a guy who had dropped out of the contest weeks earlier, proving once more that racism and hatred of brown-skinned people, for the most part, is truly the factor that animates Republican voters more than anything else (here and here)...

...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ tells us that Trumpster Matt Whitaker recently went on Fix Noise and tried to spout this BS that we’re negotiating with Iran – uh, no; there apparently are negotiations going on with Oman, though...CNN’s Harry Enten brings us more polling data on how unpopular Dementia Donnie’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran is (minus 40 at the moment)...also, the numbers are somehow even worse when you compare this mess to the last forever Mideast war under Dubya in Iraq...good point about our current economic stagnation also...on top of that, apparently the global gas supply is running dangerously low also, with gas potentially hitting $7 a gallon – are you tired of the winning yet? Oh, and Rand Paul sounds a bit logical on this issue, as opposed to the caterwauling lunatic he acted like at that mess of a hearing with Dr. Fauci...we’re also reminded once more what a lying weasel “Human Capital Stock” Kevin Hassett is (4% growth imagined versus 1.5% actual growth, which is barely anything), as if we didn’t know that already...

...and Farron Cousins informs us about red state food shortages tied to the Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck and even more strict work requirements for SNAP benefits, which were already at the Dickensian level of about a couple of hundred bucks a month...all of this has made it harder for food pantries, funded by the states and the feds (particularly in West Virginia), with that awful bill cutting the amount of food going to these places as Cousins points out...another “miracle” of Repug governance, people...

...and Luke Beasley brings us this video of Stephanie Penn, communications director for Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao, running away from and stonewalling a reporter when Penn was asked about “Weekend at Bernie’s” McConnell’s health (maybe Penn thought she was trying to perform a Jedi mind trick or something...”this is not the Kentucky Republican senator you’re looking for”)...oh, but McConnell just released a statement saying he's heading home, huh? Well, I'll believe it when I see it...

...and Tennessee Brando gives us his take on that numbskull James Carville carrying on about not being in the same political party as Hasan Piker, or something, and I know I touched on this already but I wanted to hear Brando’s take on it...1) Carville spouts this nonsense on Fix Noise, which checks a big box for conservative “moderate” suburban boomers of course, and 2) If Carville seriously thinks that the DSA wants to seize the means of production or whatever nonsense he comes up with, then he needs to reserve his place in an old age home right now...I forgot about Carville pushing out David Hogg from party leadership, which on balance is another mark against Carville IMO...and oh yeah, Laura Ingraham of all people cares SO MUCH about the future of the “Democrat” Party, doesn’t she (SMDH)...NSFW/H...

...and as we know, our ruling cabal has no problem whatsoever throwing its female cabinet members under the proverbial bus, and it looks like Judge Winebox may have her turn coming up soon – with that in mind, Mr. Newberger gives us the following...

...and I think we should likely bring the week to a close with a newer and more positive musical number (about a year old) – I hope you agree.

Wednesday Stuff

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:17:49 +0000

Tennessee Brando gives us a commentary of how “trickle-down economics destroyed my hometown”...yep, the minimum wage at “the buckle of the Bible belt,” as Brando puts it, is $7.25 an hour...I didn’t know that James Talarico said that trickle-down “isn’t a theory, it’s a theft”; damn straight!...”if they let you get ahead in this world, they’ll cut you down to size to stop you from getting ahead in this world” – hard to argue with that...interesting Ali/Frazier story also IMO (NSFW/H)...

...and Farron Cousins discusses “Dr. Crudite” deciding to increase the monthly cost of Medicare health and drug coverage for seniors by getting rid of subsidies for Part D...I thought this was a pretty good analysis by Cousins about why, even though we do indeed hate insurance companies, we’re stuck with them until the blessed day comes when we have single payer at the point of service for health care (and yeah, I know it’s a pipe dream, but we need to keep beating that metaphorical drum for it anyway)...

...and Rachel Maddow tells us that the Consumer Product Safety Commission under the leader of Cult 45 wants our ER records now.; what a mental patient this guy is...clip starts with an overview of the importance of the CPSC, so now, our ruling regime is going to take the commendable mission of that important government agency and twist it to suit their nefarious ends...

...and I know we’re focused on elections in this country now, and rightly so (and congratulations to Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, and get ready for a never-ending onslaught of garbage like this now), but this report from ABC News in Australia presents a profile of the British bi-election in Clacton-On-Sea between Nigel Farage and Count Binface (definitely reminds yours truly of that old Monty Python bit)...looks like the Count would have to “un-bin” himself were he to actually win, however...I know I had this yesterday, but I pulled it for the Damage Report clip on El-Sayed and Haley Stevens...

...and Steve Harness of Really American informs us that some protest art against Our Ochre Abomination is making an impact globally, including an image in horse manure (the “Don of Dung,” which sold for about $1,800...spot-on)...also, there are what look like blow-up figures of #47 and his Russian benefactor, among MANY others works lampooning Cheetoh Benito (NSFW/H also)...

...and here is another seasonal selection.

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:22:59 +0000

This recent news report describes the “muted” celebration in Detroit over the opening (at last!) of the Gordie Howe Bridge (quite another story in Windsor, Ontario of course)...exasperation has to do with the typical antics from Our Treasonous Orange Pustule over this...GREAT job by the Michiganders and that sign of apology...and by the way, here is more context on this supposed great deal on the bridge from the Gropenfuhrer (among other things, it should be pointed out that Canada apparently paid ALL of the upfront $6 billon or so cost for bridge construction, so it would make sense for them to get a better deal initially...a related item is here)...

...and Brian Tyler Cohen talks about Brave Sir Mike Collins of Georgia, campaigning for the Senate against Jon Ossoff, doing his very best RUN AWAY RUN AWAY RUN AWAY!! bit before a press conference in which journos tried to ask Collins about his son-in-law’s online activity (some creep named David Alan Scheer II), which included sharing anti-Semitic and white nationalist stuff because of course...and the era prior to the Holocaust supposedly wasn’t so bad? Yeah, I must have missed out on that Nazi musical where the Third Reich launched a jaunty song-and-dance number after the “Night of Broken Glass” (and I realize I’m venturing into territory best lampooned by Mel Brooks)...oh, and leave it to Collins to wrap himself in the flag of Israel in Fetterman-esque fashion when asked about his odious relative, which is kind of a non-answer, actually...and oh yeah, let’s also not forget about that corrupt Repug man-baby (no, the other one), and that would be Ken Paxton, refusing to answer a reporter’s question about Paxton having millions of dollars of property spread out all over the place...we’re reminded once again about Max Miller of Ohio, who’s a freaking maniac (allegedly!), and leave it to Gym Jordan to “wrestle,” with Miller’s situation, if you will (I realize we don’t have bragging rights in PA, but what the f*ck is up with “The Buckeye State”??)...NSFW/H...

...and Kyle Kulinski brings us some updated polling numbers courtesy of Harry Enten of CNN, starting at about 2:15...yes, somehow, Repugs being trusted on #47’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran AT ALL is very concerning, though two points in any direction is not a reason to “go to the mattresses”...however, that being said, what matters are the trend lines over time, and yes, this is indeed what happens when THE OPPOSITION PARTY REFUSES TO ACT LIKE AN OPPOSITION PARTY, though they’re NEVER shy about putting the bite on yours truly for a donation (especially at the end of the month/quarter), and I know this is very definitely a recording...good for Kyle to mention once more the JCPOA under Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry...that minus 24 number, however, is a blaring red siren for yours truly; if this projected blue wave turns into a trickle somehow, don’t say we weren’t warned (I definitely hope Kyle is right about the collapse in MAGA support more than offsetting this)...I’d much rather fill up this space with commercials for the “D” team if possible, but I think a little “tough love” is warranted from time to time also...NSFW/H also...

...and speaking of elections, this report from ABC News in Australia presents a profile of the British bi-election in Clacton-On-Sea between Nigel Farage and Count Binface (definitely reminds yours truly of that old Monty Python bit)...looks like the Count would have to “un-bin” himself were he to actually win, however...

...and Mr. Newberger gives us his response to last week’s insane U.S. Senate nonsense against the guy who kept millions safe during the COVID plague...

...and yesterday marked what would have been the 100th birthday of the incomparable Tony Bennett.

Will Bri-Fi Withstand a "Blue Wave" in '26?

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:40:25 +0000

With the fall mid-term elections coming up, it’s time once more to engage in my bi-yearly ritual of taking a look at the voting record of our PA-01 U.S. House Rep Brian Fitzpatrick. So, without further ado, I give you the following:

Here, Fitzpatrick voted for a bill to let Generalissimo Trump arbitarrily decide whether or not nonprofit groups would lose their tax-exempt status, giving them 90 days to fight this (which means the affected groups would likely lose since they would have to expend massive amounts of dough for a court fight they’d probably lose...think Planned Parenthood probably, under the guise of fighting “terrorism” of course). This also includes any group supporting DEI or the BDS movement against Israel as well as supporting Palestine (and yes, I know 52 alleged “Democrats” voted for this mess also). I believe this needed unanimous consent the first time it was introduced, which is why it failed (here), though it was reintroduced and Bri-Fi voted Yes again (more here, here and here).

Also, Fitzpatrick supported the Social Security Fairness Act to repeal the so-called Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) Provision, which, according to Bri-Fi, “unfairly reduced (Social Security) benefits for our retired firefighters, police officers, teachers, and other public servants” (vote is here).

Hmmm, public servants...you mean, like Bri-Fi himself? And yes, this is particularly ridiculous when you find out how Bri-Fi puffs himself up by saying “Oh, I voted against pay raises.” What the hell do you call this, then?

And I’ll admit that you have to be a real Grinch, you might say, to criticize this (supported in overwhelming bipartisan numbers in the House...71 Repugs opposed it). But here’s the thing...this is expected to cost about $196 billion, and there’s no “pay-for” provision to this. And this affects a relatively small number of Social Security recipients.

Also, there were 4 Dems who opposed it, including John Larson of Connecticut (here), who said...
"While I am glad to see the House take up the issue of Social Security, we need to take comprehensive action to enhance benefits and extend the program's solvency, something the United States Congress has not done in more than 50 years," Larson said in a statement.
So you know what, Bri-Fi? Get back to me when you and your pals come up with legislation to FULLY FUND SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE (preferably removing the cap on earning subject to S.S. withholding, which is about $176K) and which also prohibits privatizing it, or making it “discretionary spending,” or turning it into some kind of a ”block grant” program or some such nonsense, OK?

Also, do you remember that infamous showdown between Don The Con and Couch Boy on one side, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine over funding that nation’s brave battle against Vlad The Butcher (where our “accordion hands” *preznit kept telling Zelenskyy “you haven’t got the cards” among other insults)?

Here is the obsequious, cowardly response from our PA-01 rep:

"It was heartbreaking to witness the turn of events that transpired in today's meeting regarding Ukraine's future. It is time to put understandable emotions aside and come back to the negotiation table."
If you want any further proof that Bri-Fi does the bidding of the leader of his party at all costs, there you have it.

Bri-Fi also voted for that garbage Republican budget to extend tax cuts at the expense of cutting Medicare/Medicaid 217-215 (here)...all Repugs voted Yes (except Thomas Massie of KY...Massie would end up paying for courageous votes like this, as well as keeping up the drumbeat on the Trumpstein files)...and just for good measure, Fitzpatrick voted for it again here.

Here, Bri-Fi voted for cuts to Medicaid and school lunches, a move which will undoubtedly hurt kids and cost lives and will likely lead to the closure of community hospitals and facilities for elder care (more here and here).

And just for good measure, Bri-Fi was NOT one of the 12 U.S. House reps who opposed Medicaid cuts in a letter to MAGA Mike Johnson here.

Bri-Fi also voted for the utterly wretched SAVE Act here (along with four alleged “Democrats”), which is a “solution” in search of an actual problem – as I and MANY others have pointed out, actual voter fraud takes place on a truly microscopic level (and often committed by Republicans), and when it DOES occur, it’s caught by election officials. The purpose of the SAVE Act is to disenfranchise individuals (including out-of-state students, married women, and anyone without a valid passport, which covers about 146 million people as noted here) who often vote for Democrats.

He also voted for the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” because of course (here)...among the MANY cruelties in this bill, it guts Medicaid and takes billions from Medicare also and hammers SNAP benefits, though it DOES include a tax break for...wait for it!...gun silencers, and in the process of rewarding the “pay no price, bear no burden” bunch once more, it blows up the debt by at least $3.8 trillion...to be fair, Bri-Fi, along with Thomas Massie, voted No on the final version of the BBB on 7/3/25, but as far as I’m concerned, the damage was already done since he voted Yes for EVERY PROCEDURAL VOTE leading up to that (and Bri-Fi says the House version never would have cut Medicaid – uh, no).

Bri-Fi also voted for the so-called GENIUS Act here, which legalized a lot of the crypto nonsense that, among other things, helped enrich #47 by putting this damn “stablecoin” token into a black box where it will ultimately go right into Dementia Donnie’s pocket with no oversight (and I know a lot of Dems voted for this mess also, probably because they saw the role the crypto industry played in sinking the re-election campaigns of Sherrod Brown and Jon Tester as noted here).

Along with every other U.S. House Republican, he voted against releasing the Trumpstein files (here).

Fitzpatrick also voted in favor of HR 4371, the so-called Kayla Hamilton Act (here – more from the ACLU is here and here).

From what I read about this, it appears that the Kayla Hamilton Act is a version of the Laken Riley bill, meaning that the R team has chosen to exploit an awful tragedy to pass just-as-awful (and-maybe-worse) legislation that, among other things, subjects immigrant kids to body cavity searches (Stephen Miller will get his jollies over this for sure). It would also subject immigrant children to prolonged detention instead of unification with families in this country while their legal case proceeds (especially if the children pose a “flight risk” or present themselves with “gang tattoos” as determined by our cretinous ruling cabal...and did I fail to mention that we’re talking about children??!!).

Bri-Fi also voted to fund the government for fiscal year ending 9/26 (here), which sounds benign except for the fact that that includes still more funding for the ICE Gestapo. Let’s not forget, though, that Fitzpatrick said that ICE agents should be unmasked (here)...instead, how about DOING AWAY WITH ICE ENTIRELY SINCE THEY’RE A ROGUE AGENCY AND PUNISHING EVERYONE IN THAT BUNCH GUILTY OF A CRIME???!!!

He also voted in favor of a bill that would have blocked legislation challenging those beyond ridiculous Trump tariffs (here)...fortunately, the bill failed because every Dem voted against it along with 3 Repugs; Thomas Massie, Kevn Kiley and Don Bacon (but not Bri-Fi...I would ask that you keep this in mind the next time you hear Bri-Fi trying to sell himself as a moderate problem solver, or some such nonsense...our wet noodle PA-01 rep was willing to cede tariff power, which rightfully belongs to Congress, to our ruling criminal cabal).

However, to be fair, “Both Sides Brian” also voted for a bill to “disapprove” of #47’s tariffs with Canada here (I guess, since the head of the “R” party is in the White House, a “disapprove” resolution is the best we can get from MAGA Mike Johnson and his minions).

Maybe the worst of Bri Fi’s nonsense is his being utterly mute during the worst excesses of the Trump regime, including the destruction of US AID, DOGE and Project 2025 in general wrecking our government, along with the previously mentioned ICE horror show, in particular the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, to say nothing of all of the kids captured and held by ICE, some of whom have died, that stinking ballroom and the “Arch De Trump” on the way to Arlington, DHS/FEMA playing games with disaster aid to blue states, those horrible tariffs (and I know he opposed Canada’s as noted, but I mean the others too), turning our backs on Ukraine, blowing up the South American fishing boats, unilaterally declaring war on Iran and Venezuela, antagonizing our trade partners including Canada and Denmark/Greenland, etc. (here and here)

Also, I couldn’t find any response from Fitzpatrick concerning the “VIP snorkeling” event around the U.S.S. Arizona that FBI head Kash Patel participated in (here). I mean, Bri-Fi was once an FBI agent – you would THINK he’d have something to say about that.

Oh, and for the record, Bri-Fi was also mute when Cantaloupe Capone said he didn’t care about people’s finances or his previously noted war of choice against Iran (here).

Also, Bri-Fi has actually tried to legislate about getting PFAS chemicals out of our environment, though the head of his party couldn’t give a fig about the danger from PFAS of course (here). However, to be fair, Fitzpatrick has pushed back on that, somewhat (here – I won’t give Bri-Fi credit for much, but I will for that).

Also, Bri-Fi and Tom Suozzi in the House introduced a bill to keep Bronzer Beelzebub from paying off the 1/6 insurrectionists #47 pardoned from this “anti-weaponization” fund BS (another point in his favor – here).

It should also be noted that Bri-Fi said that a War Powers Resolution over Iran must be brought to Congress if the 60-day limit from the date of declaring hostilities is reached (here)...true, but that’s a pretty milquetoast response as per usual to the insane, delusional demagoguery from The Orange Demon *preznit Who Must Not Be Named (and I’m sure you can imagine what the response was from Cheetoh Hitler to THAT).

By the way, I know Bri-Fi was endorsed by the Pennsylvania State Education Association, the largest PA union representing teachers and support staff (here)...

“We value the relationships you have built with the public school employees throughout the district and your efforts to support policies that strengthen public education and protect the rights of working people,” wrote Aaron F. Chapin, the president of PSEA, which is also the largest labor union in Pennsylvania (in explaining the endorsement).
I wonder if Chapin is aware of the fact that, by voting for the Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck, Bri-Fi helped kick-start what is in essence a national school voucher program, with the impact not scheduled to hit until January ’27 based on this (how con-vee-nient)...

“What is clear, is that in any state that wants to do so, the program can be used to support private school choice, and that's what makes it significant,” (Professor Martin) West says. “It really does have the potential to turbocharge the movement to expand private school choice in the United States, which already had significant momentum at the state level.”
I also would SERIOUSLY like to know what the rank-and-file of Chapin’s union thinks of this endorsement. It’s possible that they may go along with this, but somehow I doubt it.

Also, here is something else from Our Demented Orange Lunatic of a *preznit (this corrupt-as-hell nuclear deal with the Saudis) that Bri-Fi has been absolutely mute about.

Fitzpatrick has also voted against the right to contraception for his PA-01 constituents, along with voting against codifying Roe v. Wade protections, as well as supporting a nationwide abortion ban and so-called “crisis pregnancy centers” which “manipulate women seeking care with unproven and dangerous medical misinformation.” He has also voted against capping the cost of prescription drugs, failing to support extension of Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits, and supported cuts to common-sense energy tax credits (that and MUCH more is here).

With each passing year, it becomes more and more obvious to yours truly that Brian Fitzpatrick, having perfected the art of the meaningless gesture (in terms of improving the quality of life for those he ostensibly represents), will never provide anything more than half-based “solutions” to the important needs that require the skill and commitment of a U.S. House rep committed to his constituents.

So, given all of this, what kind of campaign is Bri-Fi running against his Dem opponent Bob Harvie? Well, given that Fitzpatrick has made the beyond sleazy charge that Harvie is the target of an FBI investigation (which even the Huffington Post says is nonsense here), that should tell you that Fitzpatrick has dragged this campaign directly to the gutter in a truly vile manner (which, again, isn’t surprising given Fitzpatrick’s failure to make substantive accomplishments over the years of his representation in Congress).

Oh, and Bri-Fi has frequently tried to criticize Harvie as a “career politician.” Given that Fitzpatrick has held his seat for 10 YEARS, what the hell does that make him?

To vote for new representation at long last, click here to support Bob Harvie, so Brian Fitzpatrick can continue his servile fealty to Donald Trump and launch mud-slinging attacks at Democrats merely as a private citizen instead of an elected representative to the U.S. Congress.

Friday Stuff

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:55:59 +0000

Brittany Page discusses Apartheid Clyde filing a lawsuit against a Minnesota law combatting apps creating nude images of kids, aimed at Grok on X (in something called “spicy mode”), because the ketamine addict is a disgusting pervert of course...the law Musk is fighting allows for those portrayed in these images to file a civil lawsuit and seek damages...oh, and Musk believes it’s his First Amendment right to publish nude pics of kids...clip mentions ways that Grok has been used to generate deepfake p*rn images of kids and, in one case, a British citizen...kudos to MN state senator Erin Maye Quade for leading the fight against this garbage in her state (also, Gov. Tim Walz – remember him?)...Page is also right to point out that the best time to leave X was yesterday...

...and I know I already had a video about what an utter assclown that quitting college football coach Tommy Tuberville is, but I’m also including this from Jesse Dollemore in light of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s recent appearance before that U.S. Senate kangaroo court, led by Rand “Aqua Buddha” Paul and assorted other Senate lowlifes...as far as I’m concerned, Dr. Fauci is a hero, and without his dedication and hard work, thousands more would have likely died during the COVID pandemic (here)...hard for me to say which is the worse clip of Tuberville, but the one from Fix Noise is measurably more ridiculous (and yeah, let’s blame Obama while we’re at it, who had NOT A DAMN THING TO DO with COVID, with Biden cleaning up the many messes he inherited from #45, this being but one)...oh, and as far as the claim from this U.S. Senate moron that Alabama had the highest number of COVID cases, that is not borne out in any way, shape or form based on this...and oh yeah, hearing “Dr.” Tubs claim “gain of function” (parroting Paul of course) as his excuse for Fauci allegedly killing 9 million people would be laughable if it weren’t so pathetic...and Jesse may be right about Tuberville ending up as Alabama governor, but if you want a sane alternative, click here...NSFW/H...

...meanwhile, for the reality point of view on this subject, we get the following from Mika Brzezinski, cataloging all of the beyond disgusting failures from the first ruinous administration of Our Ochre Abomination, in response to the “R Party” nonsense presented in the prior clip from Jesse...I’m kind of surprised to see such a good response here form Mrs. Scar, but credit where it’s due...

...and maybe subconsciously I’ve been avoiding dealing with PA U.S. Senator John Fetterman, but I guess I have to at a certain point...here, Fetterman lays into Drop Site News reporter Julian Andreone, making the accusation du jour that if you protest the IDF murdering doctors and journalists and blowing up little kids into pieces and annexing Palestinian land, then you love Hamas and Hezbollah...as I’ve said, before, I try to be pretty careful about including TYT videos because I think their “takes” on stories are often pretty off-base, but I’ll allow this clip from Ana Kasparian...I think she kind of wanders a bit starting at about 5:20, though she’s 100 percent correct for sure about getting the damn dirty money out of politics (once again, love and kisses to the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR for Citizens United)...and oh yeah, about Fetterman, there is also this...

...and man, did Jimmy Kimmel hit it out of the park in this commentary about “Sleepy Don” and the funeral for Huckleberry Graham...”this administration does not explain reality, it files a complaint against it” indeed...I didn’t know President Zelenskyy of Ukraine flew in for the Graham service, which was the politically expedient thing to do I suppose (props as always to Zelenskyy, the one foreign leader for whom war isn’t an abstraction or merely a policy choice)...so many good points here in Kimmel’s commentary, one of which is that “strongman politics cannot handle human moments,” and another is that it’s “amazing how empathy arrives after it proves to be useful to Republicans”...

...and RIP Glen Hansard – may the road rise up to meet you, with God holding you in His hand.

Thursday Stuff

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:43:51 +0000

Chris Hayes discusses the latest news on Repugs Behaving Badly, and this focuses on GOP U.S. House Rep Max Miller’s alleged awful behavior – we’ll see if our corporate media handles Miller’s violent insanity (alleged) in much the same manner as they did with Graham Platner’s failed U.S. Senate candidacy (and I think it should be pointed out that, to date, no charges have been filed against Platner, though I acknowledge that his situation was pretty bad in its own right)...court filings mention drug use, misogyny, verbal abuse, and violent behavior towards multiple women from Miller, including ex-wife Emily Moreno, as well as the possibility that he may have broken the collarbone of his 2-year-old daughter, who was taken to the ER (Miller denies this)...he also threw hot water on the child and put a gun to her head, allegedly of course...oh, and Miller had a prior relationship with Stephanie Grisham in the Trump 1.0 White House, which ended because of a violent attack against her, as we learn (and Miller counter-suing doesn’t really help his case here IMO)...and of course, leave it to that insufferable toad MAGA Mike Johnson to blow this off (and I forgot about Cory Mills also)...Hayes speaks with Rolling Stone reporter Nikki McCann Ramirez (more here)...

...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ gives us an update on what’s going on in in our latest Mideast forever war...gee, looks to me like Iran is very definitely fighting back against Cheetoh Hitler’s recent wave of attacks, despite #47’s profane claim that we’re winning (and I know bad language is kind of low-hanging fruit when it comes to Don The Con, but it’s still telling to me that he gets yet another corporate media pass on bad behavior that any other *preznit would NEVER get)...oh, and by the way, all of this completely unnecessary madness is DEFINITELY affecting the global oil supply, with prices of just about everything rising commensurate to that...also, I believe Farron Cousins pointed out that the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is running out, and this report emphasizes that also...and potentially $8 a barrel, huh (and the subsequent economic collapse)? Gee, where’s everybody NOW losing their collective sh*t about 3 percent inflation under Biden?...

...and Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! interviews Palestinian journalist Mariam Barghouti about the Israeli Defense Force combining with settlers to torch Palestinian settlements on the West Bank... looks like 86 Palestinians on the West Bank have been killed in the latest episode of violence along with hundreds wounded; Barghouti claims that a thousand have been killed in the last two years...and 250 journalists killed in the last year? You would think that would matter as far as our corporate media cousins in THIS country are concerned, but you would be wrong of course (and I believe “Bibi” is in town so Our Treasonous Orange Pustule can do his bidding once more)...I’m not going to pretend to be an expert on the violence in that area of the world because I’m not, but it just appears to yours truly that the overwhelming amount of coverage on this issue is pro-Israel, and if anyone speaks up for Palestinians, they automatically get shouted down with “YOU LOVE HAMAS! YOU’RE A TERRORIST!,” and I’m not going to dignify that idiocy by commenting on it...I also believe this is noteworthy because the majority of this country is wise to what Israel is doing (as noted by this), even if our political/media/industrial complex hasn’t caught up yet...

...and as a bit of comic relief I guess, Rachel Maddow flags the weirdest candidates running in this election cycle, including the MyPillow guy (and election-denying-lawsuit-losing) Mike Lindell running for Minnesota governor (a state he isn’t even registered to vote in), though he apparently may be guilty of scamming creditors in MN, so there’s that...also, in Colorado, there’s “self-taught exorcist” Victor Marx also running for governor, who apparently can’t recall how many people he’s killed (also allegedly!)...however, “the land of the yellow rose” looks like the most wacky of this bunch, with a poll from Texas Repugs asking “Who is a bigger threat – Jews or Muslims?,” with the person behind that garbage poll (Bo French) now running for statewide office...oh, and French linked his Dem opponent to the murder of the last Russian czar and his family, which would be a neat trick since that occurred over a century ago...French also wants to kick out Native Americans because of course...at the top of this slag heap, though, is Ken Paxton, who somehow has accumulated nearly $9 million in real estate (15 homes) on a salary of about $150K a year...

...and I don’t believe I need to add much of any commentary to this little number from Mr. Newberger – again, 8/3 is the date after which Mitch (“Weekend at Bernie’s”) McConnell’s seat must stay open until the November election...

...and here is another seasonal number.

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:39:26 +0000

Farron Cousins brings us the sorry story of a Repug state lawmaker in West Virginia named David Elliott Pritt, who is quite rightly facing calls for resignation after using Snapchat and the Roblox platform to seduce a15-year-old girl...oh, and did I mention that this guy built his name around allegedly protecting children? Yep, another case of child endangerment having nothing to do with puberty blockers or drag queen story hour...”it’s always the ones who speak out the loudest” indeed, and I honestly cannot recall a case of a Dem doing something this heinous, partly because if that had happened, we would NEVER hear the end of it from our corporate media (nor should we I know), while an awful story like this will probably be swept under the metaphorical rug and forgotten...

...and Belle of the Ranch discusses what is likely to be one of the October surprises coming from Cantaloupe Capone this fall, and that is the alleged reduction of inflation (but again, since he canned the folks at the BLS who actually knew what they were doing and replaced them with Trumpist flunkies, I don’t expect that they’ll be telling us the truth)...

...and Logical Leftist Jeff Waldorf lets us know about Bronzer Beelzebub trying to drag NYT reporters in front of a grand jury over a story about the Gropenfuhrer’s new Qatari jet, going after a journo’s mom and other reporters’ spouses...geez oh man, at least the mob knows to leave family members out of stuff like this; what does THAT say about our ruling regime? At least the judge got PO’ed enough to force our knuckleheads in charge to pull the subpoenas in open court...and leave it to the Trump gang to try and obtain phone records for a July story DATING BACK TO JANUARY – kind of the definition of a “fishing expedition”...mildly NSFW/H, but for a good reason IMO...

...and the theme of this commentary from Thom Hartmann is “They made you fear and hate your neighbor so they could rob your future.”...Thom recalls some of President Eisenhower’s address upon leaving the White House about this country rising above petty grievances and intolerance and joining a community of nations based on mutual trust and respect more or less; would that we had pursued that course the way we should...Thom discusses that Lloyd’s survey where 1 in 10 of us say politics is the biggest risk we face, which definitely should NOT take on outsized importance like that...he also once more links the political decline of this country back to The Sainted Ronnie R; grievance has been part of our politics for probably as long as we’ve existed, but it was raised to an art form IMO under #40...I know we can always count on a history lesson from Thom on how we got to this point and he provides that again, and that definitely matters even though it’s mind-numbingly depressing I know...

...and Desi Lydic of The Daily Show brings us up to speed on the latest nonsense from our Trump Party overlords...I swear, how soon is it going to be before Dementia Donnie starts answering reporters’ questions with “I’m paper and you’re glue – nothing sticks to me, but only you,” which is on a par with “you know something I don’t know?” I would say THE ENTIRE CIVILIZED FREAKING WORLD knows stuff that you don’t know...oh, but Cantaloupe Capone is #1 on “Tic Tac”...sooo, does that mean that he’s cornering the market on breath mints??? (mildly NSFW/H also)...

...and I thought this was a cool newer tune from Carly Simon...sorry to hear about her health issues – wishing for all the best.

Monday Stuff

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:41:07 +0000

Jesse Dollemore tells us about that quitter “Coach Tubs” calling for the arrest of NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani, on what looks like the podcast of that execrable toad Benny Johnson...I honestly didn’t know Tuberville’s dad wore the uniform (props to him and his courageous sacrifice), which makes this even more unbelievable as far as I’m concerned...so let me get this straight – Russian agent Johnson thinks that Mamdani lied on his immigration form because the latter didn’t declare himself a communist (destroying the irony meter here)? Once again, I know this is going to be the wingnut talking point du jour heading into the fall elections because the “party of Lincoln” has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ELSE to run on, and I can’t believe they think that the political “C” word is a winner here... NSFW/H partly for Jesse working in the other “C” word (referring to female anatomy), which is probably apt sadly (and to do something in response, click here)...

...and Brittany Page gives us a Fix Noise “reporter” mocking homeless people on TV – looks like this Johnny Belisario is doing for Jesse Watters what Watters once did for Billo The Clown...and oh yeah, catch the “Mayor Mamdani’s New York City” reference (echoing the prior clip a bit) as if that scene isn’t replicated elsewhere in this country under both Democratic and Republican political leadership...I would guess that some of these folks are living outdoors because of bad circumstances visited upon them, some because of bad life choices, but also others because we generally don’t address the issue of housing for those who need it the way we should...growing up in a pretty-much-lily-white suburb of Philly, I can tell you that there was no issue that lit a flame under voters quite like Section 8 housing, so, sadly, I’m sure this Belisario clown will find a baked-in audience for his antics...mildly NSFW/H also...

...and John and Brett Erlich of The Damage Report tell us about Our Ochre Abomination getting $63 billion from our “friends” the Saudis, in exchange for a deal with them for nukes...I’ve long since given up on the “R” team holding Cantaloupe Capone to any kind of account, but it would be nice if the opposition could mount a daily drumbeat against this criminality the way the other side does over nothing – we’ll see (there have been stories recently of the DNC being short on dough – well, maybe if this bunch of professional election losers would mount the full-throated outcry required to save our democracy, then maybe their fortunes would change)...story reported on by CNN’s Erin Burnett...I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; I firmly believe that it will eventually come out that Trump launched his Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran because that was the condition under which the U.S. would be allowed to take over Gaza if and when (God help us) everything and everyone are “glassed” by Israel – that’s my story until somebody proves me wrong...

Update: Want to know a big reason why the Dems are apparently having trouble fundraising (and I don’t enjoy pointing that out)? It’s because of listening too much to people like this Hillary Rosen numbskull (here).

...also, I don’t often turn to CNN I know, but I thought this was a good segment overall based on this story, which, to me, is more proof that that wretched guttural slug (and Project 2025 author) Russell Vought needs to be wearing an orange jumpsuit for illegally impounding congressional funds...Kasie Hunt hosts a panel discussion about withholding billions for energy projects targeted for blue states, with those funds cancelled because those states didn’t vote for you-know-who... oh, and this is “a partial list of an ongoing process,” according to Energy Secretary Chris Wright, proving that he’s as shameless of a liar as anyone else in our ruling cabal (forced to tell the truth when legal stuff enters the picture of course)...with Lulu Garcia-Navarro, Kate Bedingfield, and Michele Goodwin (I give Goodwin credit in particular for pointing out that this isn’t something to be considered as a “one-off,” but part of an overall pattern from our ruling regime)...I know Kristen Soltis Anderson is the token wingnut, having caught her act plenty of times when I used to watch Bill Maher, and Alyssa Farah Griffin is the “both sides” person...I honestly could do without the panel discussion even though good points are made, but if it draws attention to this story, I realize that’s a net positive overall...

...and Mr. Newberger gives us his take on another insert-foot-in-mouth moment from the Trump Party based on this (I wouldn’t say Steve Scalise is the stoo-pidest member of the U.S. House, but he’s right up there for sure)...

...and two days ago on 7/25 marked the 60th anniversary of the recording of the song “Last Train To Clarksville” by The Monkees, which eventually landed at #1 on the Billboard 100 and launched the career of the group, which started out as a creation for TV only but ended up as an actual working band...the musicians playing on the tune were kind of a grab bag of folks from the Wrecking Crew and others, but they ended up making music history.

Friday Stuff

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:53:49 +0000

(For anybody keeping score at home, I know it’s been awhile since I’ve posted for all 5 days a week, and that will continue for a bit longer at a minimum, and the next week or so will be pretty problematic for posting also – I just don’t know yet.)

This clip from CBC News discusses the “booze ban” by our northern neighbor...between ’24 and ’25, wine exports to Canada fell by $343 million...wine, distilled spirts and beer combined took a similar nosedive, from $744 mil to $208 mil...oh, so Claudia Tenney of the Trump Party goes and whines to Maria Bartiromo about it; cry me a freaking river...I have no gifted insight into this business, so it’s entirely possible that it will turn around, but all of this could have been goddamn avoided of course if it weren’t for the Gropenfuhrer’s hostile attitude towards our ally and his tariff madness, as we know...also, I cannot fathom how ANY of this will make it possible to reach an agreement with Canada on minerals (as well as the nonsense from this), but stranger things have happened I guess...

...and Pat Ford sitting in for David Pakman lets us know about Laura Ingraham of Fix Noise “reading the room,” you might say, realizing what’s likely to come...she gets no credit from me because she didn’t speak out against this Iran madness and decry the humanitarian brutality until it became crystal clear how it’s about to bite the “R” team in the metaphorical butt this fall...and I would agree that a 29 percent approval rating for our Iran lunacy is definitely way too damn high, but then again, about 30 percent of this country is certifiable sadly...also, it looks like Maria Bartiromo is looking to “jump ship” on this also, though I don’t give her any credit either because she’s doing this for the same reason as Ingraham...and this Rob Spalding guy can “sit and spin” – just because our other damn forever wars in the Mideast took an eternity doesn’t mean that this has to also, especially since the case for waging it in the first place was never made by this regime of lowlifes...I didn’t know about this Bryson DeChambeau guy, and if you’ll excuse me, I’ll choose not to trouble my beautiful mind with him (snark)...

...and hey, don’t look now, but it appears that the Houthis, with the backing of Iran, aren’t letting Saudi Arabia use their main shipping route via the Red Sea for transport of oil of course, what with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz also (a response to the Saudis apparently bombing in Lebanon)...yep, we indeed are looking at gas shortages all over the globe, all because of this decrepit, flatulent orange madman and yet another potential forever war...I was pretty young for the oil shortages of the ‘70s, but yeah, I remember them also...I didn’t know #47 had tapped out the strategic reserve, but that figures also...with all due respect to Farron Cousins, I really don’t care what Saagar Enjeti has to say because he was one of the cheerleaders who helped make sure we were stuck with this demented loon in charge...

...and Kenny Hesse of Really American brings us a clip of someone making fun of Our Ochre Abomination at one of #47’s hate-fests (this guy had better be careful because I’m sure the great unwashed followers of our Cult Leader In Chief will be out for him – love to be wrong)...oh, and Dem U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff didn’t look like “Pinky Herman” (ugh!) when he was handing this Trumpist stooge his lunch recently (here)...glad to see Ossoff’s national profile rising, though we have a loooong way to go when it comes to determining who the Dem prez nominee for ’28 will be...and “no tax on Social Security”?? Um, yeah...let’s find out how that flies when I don’t take out any withholding and I get DESTROYED next April 15th....and oh, this ballroom, in addition to being an underground bunker too, is now also a “MILITARY FACILITY?” I guess it will also have sharks with lasers, huh...and I realize it’s not possible for this clueless orange meat sack to realize that calling his war of choice a “skirmish” is insulting beyond belief to those who have died or suffered traumatic injury...what a sweating, pitiable, bulbous old fool (I apologize for subjecting you to so much of this, but occasionally I think attention must be paid)... NSFW/H...

...and The Lincoln Project offers their take on “Communism” under Dear Leader...I can’t believe these incompetent bumblef*cks actually think this attack line will work (the “R” Party, I mean)...

...and Brian Tyler Cohen presents “Another Day”...it looks like Trumpette spokes-liar Karoline Leavitt is “throwing down” a bit for her boss against Senate Majority Leader John Thune to try and get the garbage SAVE Act passed...we're also reminded about Cantaloupe Capone refusing to sign the housing bill passed by Congress because of his typical hissy fit over the aforementioned SAVE Act...and it also looks like Glenn Beck is slathering on the same amount of bronzer as Our Treasonous Orange Pustule...and I have a news flash for you-know-who; Senate Repugs HAVE ALREADY BLOWN UP THE FILIBUSTER as noted here...also, the only reason I care about whether or not he cries is because he’s already a pathetic excuse for a human being, and I don’t need further proof of that...”stop placating the arsonist with more matches” indeed...slightly NSFW/H also...

...and Seth Meyers presents “A Closer Look”...I haven’t seen “The Odyssey” but I plan to at some point, and I’m sure Christopher Nolan is laughing his ass off at everybody losing their sh*t over the casting of Elliot Page, who is trans, in the role of Achilles, along with Apartheid Clyde setting more money on fire to make HIS version of the story...also, Lupita Nyong'o plays Helen of Troy, something else which matters to me not one bit one way or the other...and in terms of this bimbo saying “no one is going to see this ‘woke’ movie,” ummm, I’d reconsider that, $264 million later...also, we get a rundown of all of the ways that our ruling regime and their media flunkies have been COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY WRONG about our Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran...and I can hardly wait to discover what that “present” was that Cheetoh Benito got from Iran; this delusional old man is likely to concoct ANYTHING to try and puff himself up...I realize I haven’t had much on Jon Ossoff going after cretins like SecDef Kegseth, but big time kudos to the Dem Georgia senator for not taking any mess (and echoing the Really American clip I know, we’re reminded of the idiocy from Dementia J. Trump at that Bund rally of his)...

...and I think this newer tune kicks butt – hope it starts off a nice summer weekend for us all.

Wednesday Stuff

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:13:34 +0000

Yasmin Khan and Jayar Jackson of Rebel HQ bring us the latest on Our Ochre Abomination and Iran...3 more of our soldiers were killed because of Cantaloupe Capone’s completely unnecessary war of choice, and of course our *preznit marked this tragic loss in the most solemn way possible...yeah, maybe in an alternate version of reality...to be honest, I’m really at a point where I don’t believe a damn thing from this criminal administration, and with all due respect to the fine men and women in our military, that goes for US CENTCOM also (remember all those senior military leaders who were fired by this bunch of bottom feeders? Likely they were replaced by Trumpist sycophants)...unfortunately, though, I DO believe them when they claim to want a “wider war”...good point by Jayar that our “allies” in the region aren’t doing anything because they know what a mess we’re in (here) and they’re not going to lift a little finger to help us...

...and Jesse Dollemore gives us more on the ongoing saga of the George Washington slavery signs that were illegally taken down around our first president's home in Philadelphia...I guess it hurts the fragile fee fees of our man-child of a chief executive to point out that #1 owned people in bondage...a federal court ruled against our ruling regime and said the signs need to be put back, but it appears that Our Treasonous Orange Pestilence replaced the signs with Trumpist propaganda...”painting a picture of a white ethno-state” indeed...so it looks like the Third Circuit said that #47 could replace the signs/panels, which proved to be the opening that they needed to do this sickening deed...and yeah, doing this in the dead of night is a typically sleazy move...and one of the panels says that Washington allowed slaves to attend the theater, with our first president buying the tickets – what a guy! – as if that’s supposed to make up for the fact that HIS TEETH CAME FROM AT LEAST ONE SLAVE...I would say that attorney Michael Coard definitely gets what’s going on here (NSFW/H)...

...and Chris Hayes informs us that extreme weather tied to climate change is the “new normal,” which I guess anybody who’s paying attention to this already knows (and I don’t know anybody else in the media who’s on top of this like Hayes, to his credit)...I know this is a little behind the news cycle, but I think it matters to keep beating this metaphorical drum...and oh yeah, let’s blame Canada, even though one of that country’s brave firefighters perished helping to control a fire in Colorado (here)...failing to address this goes right back to DOGE/Elon and Project 2025 under Russell Vought, and both of them should be brought up on charges IMO (for this and myriad other reasons, including the destruction of US AID)...

...and with the prior clip in mind, I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” from 7/22/16...here is a climate change ad from Friends of the Earth Action that Fix Noise refused to air – better to keep their sheep-like audience fearful or angry, or both if possible, as long as no one is thinking constructively, in a manner befitting an adult with a lick of common sense (here)...

...and yesterday marked what would have been the 75th birthday for Robin Williams (NSFW/H also, but hilarious...I cannot possibly imagine what he would make of all of this raging out of control at this moment)...

...and RIP also saxophonist Plas Johnson, who played so memorably in the “Pink Panther” theme written by Henry Mancini.

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:39:33 +0000

(And in case anyone thinks this meme is an exaggeration, I offer this.)

Lawrence O’Donnell talks about Repug U.S. Senator “Disappointed” Susan Collins doing nothing in response to the recent ICE murder in her state (more here)...actually, she DID do something, but it was to green light ICE’s budget (casting the deciding vote) allowing for the killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero to take place...oh, but Collins DID hold a hearing about increased security for SCOTUS justices (those testifying were Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Island Baby Barrett)...here’s a pro tip: with respect to Kagan, if you’re looking for ways to increase the safety of SCOTUS justices (and I don’t advocate violence or anything illegal), maybe you ought to consider NOT ISSUING DECISIONS THAT SCREW OVER THE MAJORITY OF THIS COUNTRY, OFTEN UNDER THE GUISE OF THE “SHADOW DOCKET” WHICH SHOULD ONLY BE USED WHEN A QUICK RULING IS NECESSARY!!!...and oh yeah, Bronzer Beelzebub told ICE to halt vehicle stops in an effort to try and get everyone to forget about the ICE Gestapo up to Election Day...typical...and oh yeah, once more, the excuse of a vehicle supposedly fleeing the scene is used as an excuse to commit murder, which makes it pretty damn clear that the Trump gang has no understanding of legal police procedure whatsoever...

...and Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh of “Demcoracy Now” tell us of Bronzer Beelzebub getting sued over a language change in the Endangered Species Act to now include extraction and drilling for oil in previously protected habitats...once more, heckuva job, all you numbskulls who voted for Our Treasonous Orange Pestilence because inflation had risen to the ungodly rate of 3 percent and you were afraid to cast your ballot for the scary DEI brown lady (snark mode off)...attorney Ben Levitan for Earth Justice is interviewed – sounds like, in true Trumpist fashion, none of this destruction constitutes “harm” somehow, as far as our ruling gaggle of bottom feeders is concerned...

...and Thom Hartmann tells us about How The 1% Won While We Lost Healthcare...we’re a year into the Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck, and we now have data to prove how ruinous it is, according to the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy...the richest 1% will get $117 billion in tax cuts, more than what the bottom 60% got, which was basically nothing anyway, while the law also had the largest cuts to federal health care funding in the history of this country ($1 trillion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act)...Medicaid and CHIP enrollment fell by 3.8 million...increase in ACA premiums caused 4.2 million to drop coverage entirely...8 million people lost health care coverage over the year from July ’25 to July ’26...by the way, “The Jungle” was written by Upton Sinclair (minor point, I know)...Thom also talks about how FoodNet, a collaborative program among the CDC, USDA, FDA, and 10 state health departments to track infections by eight known food pathogens, was gutted to now track only 2 of those pathogens...so sorry to hear about what happened to Thom’s niece...

...and this report from More Perfect Union lets us know Why Flori-DUUH! Doesn’t Care If You Live There Anymore (hosted by Natasha Del Toro)...this includes a profile of the inaptly-named Indian Creek, where the richest people in the country live (contrasted with folks including a business owner profiled who are just trying to survive at this point)...and yeah, the uber-wealthy include Bezos, Sergey Brin, hedge fund manager Ken Griffin, and the usual corporate suspects who are driving out those who aren’t obscenely wealthy like they are...report focuses on COVID and the aftermath, in which the “have mores” (from California, New York and elsewhere) flocked to the Sunshine State and competed with housing supply against existing residents, to the point where the state has the least affordable housing in the country, and that goes for renters as well...and yeah, Lex Luthor Scott is making noise like he cares about this, but let me know if and when that concern turns into actual legislation/policy that makes a difference, OK?...54 percent of the population in the state is “house burdened,” meaning that 30 percent or more of their earnings go into paying for shelter...and forgive me if I don’t give a fig that the state’s GDP has gone from $1 trillion to $1.7 trillion if most of the people living there are left behind, also because of the state’s regressive damn tax structure...and oh yeah, Griffin is a big-time “rainmaker” for the Trump Party, which shouldn’t be surprising I know...and it’s actually written into the state’s constitution that a wealth tax can’t be passed? I knew Repug governance was awful, but that’s an almost subterranean level of evil...nice wrap-up with the “boat” metaphor, BTW...

...and Seth Meyers brings us “A Closer Look” on our *preznit getting the treatment he deserved from the crowd at the FIFA World Cup final game while his pre-emptive war in Iran falls apart and his speech full of election delusions gets universally panned...and as far as that pic of Trump with the G7 leaders is concerned, I KNOW there’s a photo of Dubya getting the similar treatment probably 20 years ago, FWIW...and I’m sure Spain thinks very highly of Don The Con also, though that didn’t bar him from appearing on stage with that country’s soccer team after they won (SMDH)...interesting montage of all the boos, I have to say (and props once again to Charles Barkley)...and it also looks like the Trump Curse (if you want to call it that) is getting to Maria Bartiromo, who looks like her human form is devolving more and more whenever I see her...

...and I now give you another seasonal selection.

Monday Stuff

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:30:28 +0000

David Shuster of Rebel HQ tells us that it looks like Jesse Watters of Fix Noise made a "joke" about our service men acting like animals towards women, apparently up to and including r*pe (as if that could EVER be funny) in a segment where Watters of course endorsed the plan of SecDef Kegseth to screen for low testosterone in our military...and was Watters SERIOUSLY trying to argue that we “haven’t been hit” in this Iran debacle? I’m sure the families and friends of the 18 (at least) members of our military killed and the 430 (at least) who’ve suffered traumatic injury would argue with that (and God bless Jessica Tarlov – I don’t know how she remains sane dealing with those hyenas)...also, it appears that Crazy Eyes Kash Patel is “in the soup,” you might say – of course, Patel “skated” over that snorkeling business at the U.S.S. Arizona, which is yet another disgusting episode from an administration that provides them on a daily basis...mildly NSFW/H for a completely apt description of Watters (more here)...

...and John Iadarola of The Damage Report gives us more on the donors to #47’s ballroom, which is going to cost at least $600 million, which, given who were talking about here, means that it will likely cost triple that amount at least...with every story about Trumpist graft and borderline criminality, it seems that we learn about some new individual trying to curry favor, and this time it’s Konstantin Sokolov, a Russian-born private equity investor in Chicago who was one of 36 donors, including 21 corporations and 15 individuals and family foundations, who contributed over $350m to this ballroom project...so this Sokolov guy will oversee the TRIPP trade corridor project (something ELSE named after Our Treasonous Orange Pustule)...oh, and 2/3rds of those who donated have gotten government contracts (I guess our corporate media only cares about “pay to play” when a Democrat is involved...I suppose I should know that by now)...

...and Steve Harness of Really American brings us the tale of our “low T” Secretary of WOOOOAAAARRR ordering a “Blue Angels” flyover at a public beach in Pensacola, FL that violated all kinds of protocols and totally messed up the beach experience for families, and likely gave little kids and adults earaches in the process...proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free...NSFW/H...

...and Emma Vigeland and Matt Lech of The Majority Report let us know that #47’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran is causing a crisis in our food supply because the cost of nitrogen fertilizers for our farmers has skyrocketed, and we also send that overseas to underdeveloped nations, specifically in Africa and south Asia...another negative consequence is smaller family farms in this country (do we even have any left?) going under and being gobbled up by agribusinesses (who likely donated to the Gropenfuhrer – see how this all works?)...a family farmer is profiled in a local news report – part of me wonders if this guy voted for Cantaloupe Capone (and if he did, what the hell was he thinking?), but more than anything I’m sorry for his circumstance...I don’t know who that guy was who made that statement about allegedly investigating collusion in the “free market” in response to that reporter’s good question, but he should be hounded day and night IMO until he produces results on behalf of our farmers totally getting hosed by this racket...glad to hear an analysis of the bind the Biden Administration was put in by price gouging corporate bastards – not that that does any good now of course (and oh yeah, Koch Industries figures into this somehow)...Emma is about 150 percent right about Biden FTC Commissioner Lina Khan, and she’s arguably right also about what happened after Ron Klain left the Biden inner circle...

...oh, and I meant to get to this last week, but it got pushed aside for other stuff, so please allow me to present this now (some of our most notable leaders having their say on our current circumstance – briefly NSFW/H also)...

...and RIP Joe Melson, who collaborated with Roy Orbison on some of the latter’s biggest hits, including this one where Melson appeared as a backup singer.

Friday Stuff

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:54:09 +0000

Jesse Dollemore tells us about Laura Ingraham propagandizing as per usual about a survey that found that the 10 worst states to live in are places won by Trump in ’24...and yeah, Ingraham truly is a dim bulb if she’s trying to persuade anyone that CBNC is run by a bunch of tree-hugging libs...and yep, it’s typically disingenuous for Ingraham to conflate two different categories in the same survey (best for business/worst for everyone else), but that’s par for the course with her...shocked to hear about Sarah Huckabilly Sanders signing that bill for breakfast in schools, which is commendable actually...oh, and “the land of the yellow rose” has the highest percentage of residents without health insurance at about 16 percent, which is a big reason why they get an overall failing grade when it comes to quality of life...tough luck for everyone moving there for a better job...

...and David Doel gives us an update on the Canadian wildfires, which are affecting the air quality in the northeast and across the U.S. – and by the way, I’m not including this to beat up our neighbors to the north since we in the “great 48” have pretty thoroughly dropped the ball as a nation when it comes to addressing climate issues (here)...as of now, Toronto has the worst air quality on the planet (Detroit is doing pretty badly too)...that train footage of the fires is genuinely scary, as well as the pics from Collins, Ontario; hope everyone ended up OK...I wouldn’t call Canada’s Doug Ford a Trumper, but he’s pretty awful in his own right, as evidenced by his cuts in climate emergency preparedness (and this report doesn’t put Mark Carney in a positive light either, and that goes for Pierre Poilievre also...we’ll see how funny Poilievre thinks it is when species start dying off due to the climate crisis, and for anybody to think humans won’t ultimately be affected is dunderheaded stoo-pidity worthy of MAGA, and if that isn’t an insult, I don’t know what is)...mildly NSFW/H...

...and I really wanted to ignore the latest ravings from Dementia J. Trump last night, but I suppose attention must be paid, and Brian Tyler Cohen analyzes the latest ridiculous nonsense from Our Ochre Abomination about how our elections were somehow weaponized against him (here); one response is here pertaining to former Senate Majority Leader Mitch (“Weekend at Bernie’s”) McConnell refusing to support election security legislation 10 years ago...and oh yeah, did you catch that speech from Our Treasonous Orange Pustule before his “great unwashed” followers and notice the guy with Trump’s name on his hat backwards? Somehow I don’t think MENSA is going to be beating a path to HIS door...and oh yeah, let’s pay tribute to that noted champion of democracy (snark) Huckleberry Graham and pass the SAVE (For Repugs) Act – lies upon lies upon lies upon more lies...mildly NSFW/H...

...and Logical Leftist Jeff Waldorf discuses a gay Republican running for congress in Wyoming (Reid Rasner) suing his party b/c they called him a pedo, leading to death threats...um, have you been paying attention, bucko? Oh, riiiight...Rasner apparently had NO PROBLEM WHATSOEVER with calling for the ultimate punishment for those his party didn’t like, but when the script was flipped on him, then NOW Rasner has to cry “oh, woe is me!”...apparently one of Rasner’s garbage beliefs (and again, typical for the “R” team) is that parents transitioning their kids should lose parental rights...this clip just adds to my belief that the Log Cabin Republicans are the most clueless bunch of political neophytes in existence...

...and Michael Kosta of The Daily Show gives us a rundown on the latest madness...and even #47’s teleprompter operator is in on the grift – typical for this regime of bottom feeders...and in a related item, it looks like Couch Boy is trying puff himself up on Joe Rogan, which I guess isn’t surprising since those two are kind of like two flies inhabiting the same rancid garbage peel, if you will (and eating corn dogs is somehow a “kink” for Vance? Probably TMI on that one...and Mike Rowe isn’t any better)...and let’s not forget SecDef “Low T” Kegseth, as much as we’d like to, I know...mildly NSFW/H also...

...and earlier this week I noted one literary milestone, and I’d now like to point out another; yesterday marked the 75th anniversary of the publication of The Catcher In The Rye, which, as far as I’m concerned, is a bit of a cultural milestone having to do with a book that was definitely overinflated in terms of literary importance as far as yours truly is concerned...the main character is pretentious and full of himself IMO, not unlike the book’s author; I once watched a doc on J.D. Salinger which was a bit of an eye opener, and not in a good way...assorted hangers-on and at least one murderous nutjob have gravitated towards this book, and I know that’s not Salinger’s fault...here is a tune for the occasion.

Thursday Stuff

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:47:33 +0000

Rachel Maddow informs us that the Gropenfuhrer has scrapped about three dozen regulations pertaining to guns, because of course..he repealed the rule preventing selling firearms to the mentally ill when he got in the first time in 2017; that’s something he apparently has just restored – ahhh, smell the “free-dumb,” my fellow prisoners...one of the many levels of awfulness here is that it will apparently make it easier for mail-order gun sales without in-person verification of any type prior to purchasing a firearm...Maddow speaks with Mirianna Mitchem, former associate assistant director at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (from an era when our federal government actually operated efficiently on our behalf)...

...and Belle of the Ranch gives us the latest on “Trump accounts”...I wouldn’t trust anything with Our Ochre Abomination’s name on it, but as Belle says, talk to a financial advisor if you’re looking to set up some kind of a savings vehicle for your son/daughter and if you’re in the position to do that of course...Belle mentions 529 accounts, which may be a better option for saving for college...higher contribution limits are attractive, along with potentially rolling over the account into a Roth IRA (I’ve gone back and forth on Roth IRAs myself vs. a traditional IRA, but the up-front taxation feature for Roth could be attractive based on your needs/situation)...as Belle says, it’s projected that, with a Trump account, if you get $1K and do nothing with it, it will be worth $6K by the time the child reaches 18 which 1) Is a guess based on anticipated market performance , and 2) Represents a sum that is truly miniscule against the overall cost for a 2-to4-year college, depending on the major...

...and Kyle Kulinski brings us the tale of Dem congressman Ro Khanna visiting the West Bank and getting detained for about 90 minutes by IDF gangsters, in an experience which I’m sure was pretty damn scary (and once more, to prove Kyle’s point about Israel killing Americans, just Google “Rachel Corrie and the bulldozer” and prepare yourself for some horrific results of your search)...I give Khanna credit for going on Fix Noise – I wouldn’t bother with that trash network – so OF COURSE he gets attacked again on this by some soulless, AIPAC-shilling harpie who criticizes Khanna for saying that this Michael Leiter person (apparently our rep to Israel??) is lying, when in fact LEITER IS F*CKING LYING INDEED!!!!! All this Fix Noise news mannequin has to do is ROLL THE DAMN BODYCAM VIDEO LIKE KHANNA SAYS!!!...I agree that ”boomer slop” is probably a pretty spot-on description for this (and I definitely see parallels to the “People’s Temple” madness also)...if I ruled the world, I would have cut off military aid to Israel long ago not just for their carnage in Gaza, but as an act of protest against a country where hard line Jews routinely kick Christian priests and nuns to the curb, literally, and spit on them (and the congressman referred to by Kyle who was killed for investigating the Guyana/Jim Jones cult was Leo Ryan...also, Section 224 mentioned here is that garbage provision in the NDAA that the pro-Israel hawks in Congress are trying to enshrine into law)...NSFW/H...

...and Steve Harness of Really American discusses #47 getting a new “participation trophy” for his Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran; it just appeared near the MLK exhibit on the mall in D.C...and yes, this is another production courtesy of Secret Handshake...I think encouraging other folks to drop off their trophies also is another spot-on level of absurdity...and oh yeah, what the hell is going on with those columns around the White House? And I think topping those columns with mushroom-type fixtures is probably pretty “on the nose,” you might say...NSFW/H also...

...and Seth Meyers catches up on about three weeks’ worth of madness in this “Closer Look” bit, including #47 telling Jake Tapper what questions he’s supposed to ask, and at this point, we really shouldn’t be surprised by behavior like that...and this is just a reminder that Bronzer Beelzebub made at least $2 billion as *preznit last year...oh, but Uday Jr. is managing all that apparently (as if he could manage anything without daddy), and Cantaloupe Capone supposedly has no involvement...all politicians lie, but some tell white lies with some slight truth shading and some tell lies that are so far beyond belief that the liar believes that you’re a damn idiot, and Our Ochre Abomination is definitely guilty of the latter...

...and today is the 45th anniversary of the loss of Harry Chapin.

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Apparently, Fascism is Back in Fashion

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

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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