ImpeachBush

Thursday Stuff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wednesday Stuff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(From Ailes’ days as a political consultant):

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday Stuff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Monday Stuff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Saturday Stuff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thursday Stuff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wednesday Stuff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday Stuff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Monday Stuff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friday Stuff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wednesday Stuff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday Stuff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Monday Stuff

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:22:47 +0000

This video from Public Citizen features lawyer Nicolas Sansone of that group and Vietnam vet Jon Gundersen taking legal action against the very latest monstrosity from Bronzer Beelzebub, which is his 250-foot vanity arch on the way to Arlington National Cemetery; it's illegal of course for the reasons noted...as Sansone says, any monuments in D.C. need to comply with the Commemorative Works Act and receive a buy-in from all affected constituencies, notably Congress...”a vainglorious monument to a person” indeed, as Gundersen says (and as Gundersen also points out, this thing, in addition to being an eyesore, would also monumentally screw up D.C. traffic)...

...and Sam and Emma of The Majority Report tell us that Couch Boy was recently sent to Pakistan to negotiate with Iran to try and end our latest Republican pre-emptive war...good point by Sam that “Mr. Hillbilly Elegy” wants to find a way to wrap this up through negotiation and use that to try and propel himself as the ’28 Repug frontrunner for *preznit, which is a horrifying possibility; picture MAGA Trumpism but at the hands of someone who would actually know how to control the levers of power (or at least, be TOLD what to do by Peter Thiel and that foul ilk), and “Little Marco” would barely be any better...and I realize it’s typical for this bunch to pointlessly dump on Biden once again, which Emma does at about 2:17 (yes, #46 indeed was “dog-walked” by “Bibi”...whaddaya say that we turn the damn record over, OK, and what the hell does Kamala Harris going to the border HAVE ONE DAMN THING TO DO WITH THE WAR WITH IRAN??!!)...however, I will grant Emma’s good point about Iran trading with Russia over the Caspian Sea, so the latter country can refuel and resupply and continue this stalemate indefinitely (and once more, Harry Enten brings some pretty damning poll numbers for the “R” team)...

...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ tells us about Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent getting grilled by Steve Douchebag on the effect of the Iran war on gas prices; when even Fix Noise isn’t buying your BS any more, I would say that you have a problem...yeah, let’s blame the owners of gas stations (which would be Big Oil of course) for the up-and-down price at the pump, not Cheetoh Benito’s war of choice in the Middle East...oh, and Ainsley Earhardt is realizing ONLY NOW that “it’s expensive” to raise kids, with those chuckleheads Kilmeade and Lawrence Jones sitting on the couch alongside her with their big sh*t-eating grins (and I think $300K to raise a child is actually a low-ball estimate)...anybody with a brain knows that energy prices have a multiplying effect across our economy when calculating costs for damn near everything, so energy is the LAST issue where you want to see costs getting out of control...

...and Sean Morrow of More Perfect Union “turns over a lot of rocks,” as it were, to let us know how deeply embedded Jeffrey Epstein and his influence was across government, industry, and other institutions, and in a bipartisan way as it turns out...the report focuses on five individuals who bought into what Epstein was all about, and it seems that they looked the other way, you might say, when it came to Epstein’s “hobbies”...report focuses first on Leon Black, who apparently went to Epstein for ideas on how high net worth folks can shelter their dough, helping Black avoid about a billion in taxes through purchases of art and establishing a network of LLC firms...lawyer Kathy Ruemmler is also included; hard to get my head around anybody hanging out with Epstein given what he was all about, especially a woman (and Ruemmler worked in the Obama Administration, which does indeed make this mess bipartisan), though the fact that she came from Goldman Sachs and shows such contempt for overweight folks definitely fits the scumbag profile...let’s not forget Boris Nikolic also, who used the Gates Foundation to hide dough and direct untraceable donations, including in donor-advised funds, which apparently was a frequently-used vehicle by Epstein for sheltering dough...it seems that Epstein also had a pretty sophisticated PR network to try and publicize himself as an “education philanthropist”...Reid Hoffman of Linkedin and (drumroll) the aforementioned Peter Thiel show up also, with Thiel giving Epstein investment advice about not investing, as it turns out, in Spotify and Palantir...and oh yeah, Epstein had his sex-abusing hands in OpenAI also, as it turns out...the big takeaway for yours truly from this is that, as awful and depraved as “the Epstein network” was (and is still, actually), it also represents the global class of oligarchs who have figured out how to rig the political and corporate game in perpetuity at our ongoing expense...in fewer words, as awful as the sexual depravity is (and it is for sure), it’s only the cherry on the icing on this sh*t sundae when you look at all of the ways that these cretins truly control our lives...it also figures that Reid Hoffman is spending typically obscene dough to oppose progressive candidates (once again, love and kisses to the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR for Citizens United)...

...and the Onion News Network informs us that, with the ongoing strife in Iran, gas drinkers are having an especially tough time (heh)...

...and I hope this puts a little “pep in your step” for a not-quite-spring-yet Monday in these parts (maybe this selection will inspire the Phillies and the Sixers, but I’m not getting my hopes up).

Friday Stuff

Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:09:42 +0000

Brittany Page discusses reporting from the independent publication Western Edge (here) about an Amazon employee who died on the job while the assembly line boss told employees who tried to help to get back to work...that’s what happened to someone at a warehouse on April 6th; someone got badly hurt and the manager at the “fulfillment center” told everyone to turn around and make sure the packages kept getting put together and loaded for delivery...sounds like somebody is looking at a criminal prosecution...we knew about the Kimberly-Clark warehouse fire of course, but I didn’t know about what looks like an attempt at the life of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (allegedly of course)...oh, but “look over there” while “The Old Gray Lady” runs some groveling puff piece on Jeff Bezos’s new wife...and oh yeah, as Page says, apparently these Amazon employees weren’t even paid for a full shift when they were so traumatized by what happened that they had to be sent home – but let’s focus instead on the newest pleasure palace for the Bezoses on some trendy island retreat (“billionaire bunker” indeed)...”this is theft” for sure...mildly NSFW/H...

...and on the topic of exploitation, this CBS local news report informs us of the Tangerine Toddler’s decision to cut $11 million from Catholic Charities in Miami because of his snit with Pope Leo (here)...oh, but between #47 and the last “prez” who actually was a practicing Catholic, which one gets the support of the fundie nut jobs? And yes, I know I’ve beaten that talking point to death by now...

...but boy, if there’s something the “party of Lincoln” IS gung ho about, it’s that they sure want more pregnant white teenagers, though OF COURSE they’re not going to spend an extra dime for services to support them such as for expanded maternal health care, early and pre-K development and nutritional funding, etc...leave it to Fix Noise and Dr. Mark Siegel to give their demented spin on this topic...yeah, “Dr. Mark,” kids are in part waiting until they’re financially secure before they have kids, which in this wretched economy likely will NEVER HAPPEN because EVERYONE is dealing with staggering debt of one type or another (or more than one type – John of The Damage Report discusses this with Loren Piretra, who I think also cuts through the BS on this pretty well)...

...and Robert Reich and former Biden CFPB head Rohit Chopra discuss the “buy now, pay later” trend...90 million of us made this type of a purchase last year (mainly during the holidays on Black Friday and Cyber Monday to the tune of about $2 billion, and supported by all kinds of payment providers, and companies like the previously-mentioned Amazon of course), and it can indeed put you on a treadmill of unsustainable debt...having to do this for gas, groceries, and healthcare, among other vital needs, is a sign of an economy doing the “big swirl in the hopper” as far as yours truly is concerned (with consumers getting socked by late fees that, in some cases, are as high as 25 percent, as we learn from Chopra)...we also need regulation on all of the “geo targeting” from these lenders who use our devices to target us for advertising purposes...as noted in the clip, the Biden Administration made “buy now, pay later” lenders comply with the same requirements as loan issuers, but along came Dementia J. Trump and his gang to overturn all of those needed protections...some states are stepping up to fill the void created by our ruling regime on this, it should be noted...

...and by the way, I know about the accusations against this guy...”innocent and proven guilty” and all that, but these charges are truly monstrous...I honestly try to avoid “police blotter” stuff because I don’t want to say anything that could somehow be even remotely prejudicial in a trial, but he should be charged and prosecuted as much as the law allows, and he should serve whatever sentence may be meted out...shocking to think about what people we support can be truly capable of, but it just goes to show how much people in Swalwell’s orbit are removed from the rest of us, and how risky it can be to put our trust in their hands (and this also includes all the sympathy I can muster for the victims in these allegations of course).

...and Ronny Chieng of The Daily Show gives us the latest...yeah, I know “No Malarkey Joe” didn’t exactly have a shining moment at that address, apparently thinking that gentleman was “President Hopey Changey,” but at least he isn’t tweeting or whatever in the middle of the night trying to be “Doctor Jesus,” and #46 is a private citizen now, so as far as I’m concerned, he has “carte blanche”...oh, and here’s “Dr. Crudité” thinking that Bronzer Beelzebub drinks diet soda because it kills cancer cells; about what you can expect from a guy who won’t exercise because he says it runs down his battery, or something (Pumpkin Pol Pot I mean)...and oh yeah, it also looks like Diaper Donnie is going to try a new scam to get Gen Z voters to swing his way (with Couch Boy taking the lead on that)...yeah, “take our country back”...from your own regime? Sounds like a plan to me!...also, is it just me, or did it sound like Vance cranked up the volume on that mic of his to try and drown out hecklers at TPUSA?...I honestly didn’t know about Bronzer Beelzebub’s latest Jesus pic – the guttural trash from that asshat truly never ends (with Grace Kuhlenschmidt and Jordan Klepper)...

...and I think the title of this newer tune is pretty emblematic for our current times (I almost always feel like I’m staggering to the end of a week any more from dealing with this political pestilence, and I don’t think I’m alone on that).

Thursday Stuff

Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:04:44 +0000

Farron Cousins informs us that #47 just tricked TSA employees into thinking they’re getting paid; hard to believe that these folks have been working basically for free for a couple of months...nope, Combover Caligula can’t just put out a screed on Truth Septic or whatever and these folks will get comped as a result – if Our Treasonous Orange Meat Sack had the foggiest idea of how our government worked, HE WOULD FREAKING KNOW THAT!!! (I mean, assuming he DID know and wasn’t just straight-up lying anyway, which is definitely a possibility)...

...and for more ridiculous nonsense from this trash fire of a presidential administration, Jesse Dollemore reports in Sec Def Kegseth reciting the alleged Book of Ezekiel from “Pulp Fiction”...uh, yep...well, for starters, this is YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE of our ruling cabal of grifting liars and idiots violating the separation of church and state documented in our Constitution by proselytizing before our armed services personnel, and since we’re talking about the Trump gang, they have to do so in the most stoo-pid possible way...I mean, really, to utter that quote AND NOT EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE THE DAMN MOVIE??!! (NSFW/H)...

...and when it comes to still more criminality from this bunch, JT Cestkowski of Status Coup News tells us that it looks like Apartheid Clyde’s merry band of DOGE incels used an unauthorized server to access our previously secure Social Security data, and they then shared that data with a group looking to overturn elections...this was apparently admitted by the DOJ of Pumpkin Pol Pot, and now a federal appeals court is involved...I’d forgotten about King Elon playing with turning off Starlink when he felt like it, so OF COURSE he’s going to act arbitrarily and in a capricious way when it comes to sensitive data...and it figures that a lower court stopped DOGE from getting to that data, but the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR decided to allow it...sounds like the record of our courts overall, however, is spotty at best when it comes to trying to rein in our cretinous ruling regime...it truly is up to us, people...

..and for still more madness (sorry to do this to you, but we have no choice but to bear witness as far as I’m concerned), Thom Hartmann says that it sounds like the Gropenfuhrer may try to add mifepristone to the contaminant list for monitoring and regulating by the EPA, at least if these Students For Life crazies have their way, claiming that abortion pills and fetal remains are poisoning our groundwater...yep, I know they’re wackadoodles, but unfortunately they have a receptive audience with our ruling bunch of bottom feeders...and I’ll let Thom describe the “catch kit” barbarity in this discussion – not a damn thing to do with women’s health care, but EVERYTHING to do with control and humiliation...oh, but the tiny presence of mifepristone in our water (as opposed to all of the other damn chemicals in our lives) is supposedly the reason for low sperm counts in men according to Bobby Brainworms – trying to break the stoo-pid meter again...oh, and by the way, these dirtbags want to screen also for medications involved in gender affirming care because of course...

...and I haven’t checked in with Trae Crowder for a little while, so here he is on Combover Caligula’s beef with Pope Leo, and I thought this was a pretty good take on the whole “oh, I’m not Jesus – I’m really a doctor, and I JUST HAPPEN to have F-15’s flying in formation in silhouette behind me” mess...Crowder gets more into the whole “MAGA civil war” thing in his extension of the clip, though, in response, I would only point out all of the year of garbage and lies from Our Treasonous Orange Pustule that these people were apparently OK with up until now...and as Crowder says near the end, a lot of these people claiming to be PO’ed now will likely fall in line come November, which is EXACTLY what the “party of Lincoln” is counting on (NSFW/H also)...

...and happy belated 75th bithday to drummer Max Weinberg of the E Street Band.

Wednesday Stuff

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:29:58 +0000

Rachel Maddow tells us about a recent surprise inspection of an ICE prison in Mesa, AZ, made to house a max of 157 people, though apparently 274 were crammed in, according to reporting from the Arizona Daily Mirror, and OF COURSE the number of detainees in the facility shrunk when Dem members of the U.S. House were scheduled to visit, and the number of detainees went back up after the inspection...well, that didn’t work out so well because they were BUSTED when Dem congress reps Greg Stanton and Yassamin Ansari returned to the facility for an unscheduled visit and brought Adelita Grijalva along with them and saw what was really going on (Grijalva is interviewed – you may remember that “MAGA Mike” Johnson did everything he could not to seat Grijalva in the House, and I submit that that was because he knew how good she would be at her job)...if this report isn’t one hell of a good argument for totally abolishing private prisons, I don’t know what is..

...and this report from CBC The National gives us a warning from history about a potential Kharg Island invasion by our military...and oh yeah, we have war cheerleader Huckleberry (“Send In The Troops!”) Graham – on the one hand, Graham has a lengthy military record which is better than anything from your humble narrator I know, but by Graham’s own admission, he “never deployed” and served in the Judge Advocate General’s office, rising to the rank of colonel; to act like Graham is somehow some battle-hardened vet is a joke, and I think he’s been getting waaay too much of a pass for years as some kind of military “expert” without that missing context...and oh yeah, saying that since the Marines captured Iwo Jima, they can also invade Kharg Island is cosmically stoo-pid as far as yours truly is concerned (and to call Khe Sanh a horror show during the Vietnam War is speaking euphemistically for sure)...and let’s not forget Fallujah in Iraq either...report is from Terence McKenna; this is exactly the sort of coverage that we SHOULD get from our beyond useless corporate media in this country, but good luck with that I know...personally, I think (and hope and pray) that the lunatics behind this ridiculous war have learned their lesson and will dispense with this “boots on the ground” madness...everyone responsible for starting this war should be brought before a docket in The Hague as far as yours truly is concerned...

...and Belle of the Ranch lets us know that Commander Bone Spurs is going to try and institute automatic selective service registration (barring a court challenge, that is) – OK, so we can automatically register young men in the event that this country tries to bring back a draft as part of the NDAA that the Gopenfuhrer signed into law last December, but we can’t automatically register people to vote as Belle says? And oh yeah, this “blanket draft” includes asylum seekers and undocumented folks, the individuals this wretched administration is trying to deport – sooo, they can fight, get maimed and possibly die for this country, but they can’t live here? Is there a universe in which any of this actually makes sense (interesting observation that the DoD is actually anti-draft now)...

...and David Pakman lets us know that Dems have officially filed H Res 1155, introduced by House Dem John Larson of Connecticut, calling for another impeachment of Spray-Tan Satan...charges include militarizing domestic law enforcement, unlawful detention and deportation, targeting political opponents, abusing the pardon power, etc...I agree with Pakman’s assessment that you need to get as much of #47’s garbage on the record as you can; whatever may or may not happen as a result is another matter entirely...

...and Nick Offerman of The Daily Show discusses the Tangerine Toddler turning the 250th into another grift for himself of course, including his mug on commemorative coins and on passes to our national parks (John Oliver recently had a great bit about the latter)...as far as I'm concerned, the “Arch De Trump” is an automatic excuse for the 25th Amendment (slightly NSFW/H)...

...and I hope you made out OK with your returns for the prior year – we ended up doing all right, so I’ll take it and not complain.

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:05:17 +0000

Jesse Dollemore lets us know that it looks like the Gropenfuhrer is in a snit with Pope Leo based on that typically bonkers rant from our *preznit on Truth Septic; yeah, I’m sure #47 will come out on top in that one...”weak on borders, weak on crime,” yadda yadda; the usual lying horsesh*t from Our Treasonous Orange Pestilence...and what would more madness with Pumpkin Pol Pot be without another utterly insane online meme, this time with you-know-who as Our Lord...and I know Bri-Fi came up with this statement in opposition, which to me is still weak sauce because our wet noodle PA-01 rep HAS SAID AND DONE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO OPPOSE HIS BOSS UP TO NOW...besides, I’m not aware of ANY REPUBLICAN who criticized the Tangerine Toddler when he referred to the Holy Eucharist as “my little cracker” here...and I’m not going to try and unpackage the utter madness of claiming that religious leaders were arrested for not social distancing during COVID, but I AM going to mention that this orange yutz has NO RIGHT WHATSOEVER to tell those in charge of congregations how to manage their duties since our gnat-brain-on-meth chief executive tried to remove sanctuary status from those places of worship as noted here (NSFW/H)...

...and turning to the economy, David Doel informs us that a worker in Ontario, California filmed himself setting fire to the Kimberly-Clark warehouse where he was employed which contained what appears to be toilet paper, complaining about how he was underpaid...I don’t encourage violence or destruction to people and/or property, but I think it’s actually surprising that stuff like this doesn’t happen more often, to be honest...that video by the TikTok guy at about 5:24 should be required viewing for everyone in this country, and that includes every damn politician...oh, and CEOs are making 281 times as much as the average for a salaried worker in that same company (and as Doel says, we’re just talking about income, not wealth)...and for truly dark satire, we also get CNBC’s Sara (“How Does An Investor Process The Potential End Of A Civilization”?) Eisen, one of the dimmer of the dim bulbs in corporate media it appears...by the way, as a side note, Kimberly-Clark is the company where ruthless corporate raider “Chainsaw Al” Dunlap got his start (NSFW/H also)...

...and Richard Ojeda of Rebel HQ tells us about Eric Bolling lamenting how the electoral fortunes are looking for Repugs in November; of course, we can take absolutely nothing for granted and need to keep working to make the “blue wave” happen, but I must tell you that wingnut tears are delicious...and again, the percentage points in favor of Dems in polling is undeniable, particularly in Wisconsin, where the “D” team expanded their majority on the state supreme court (and I would guess that’s part of the reason why that idiot RoJo has been all over the place on Fix Noise lately)...also included is a clip of Rachel Maddow discussing with Dem Senator Mark Warner how the Gropenfuhrer may try declaring another bogus “national emergency,” claiming foreign interference in the ’20 election (how con-vee-nient) as an excuse to try and take over the vote this fall...

...and I try to do my part to get the word out on “Team D” for a lot of reasons, chief of which is because the other side is totally nuts, but that doesn’t mean that we can forget about getting our own political house in order, as it were – this man on X (courtesy of Bill Madden) has some cautionary advice on that subject (NSFW/H as well)...

Every Democrat in congress and every Democrat planning to run for congress needs to listen to this message.

Monday Stuff

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:20:57 +0000

This report from the German news service DW gives us the details on Viktor Orban’s recent election loss in Hungary to Peter Magyar, and it looks like Magyar’s party also won big – none of this “oh, divided government will save us” BS like we have in this country; electing a head of a party as *preznit but putting the oppo party in charge of Congress is a recipe for gridlock; we’re all done with the ‘90s and “The West Wing” by Aaron Sorkin (and yes, that comment definitely assumes putting the “D” team in charge, in case that wasn’t obvious...report by correspondents Ferenc Gaal and Fanny Facsar...a lot still to be sorted out in that country, but definitely good news as of this moment)...

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...and this CBS News story details how a priest in Oakland Park (near Miami) named Father Bob Caudill is facing half a million dollars in fines for feeding the homeless in an area that apparently wasn’t “zoned” for it; didn’t know there was “zoning” involved when it comes to acts of decency and compassion...I know this story is a month old and I’m sorry I’m a little late here, but I didn’t want to let this slip through the cracks (and it sounds like the church isn’t affiliated with the Archdiocese of Miami, though they should reach out to Fr. Bob on that IMO)...

...and I know I said I’d keep these folks on a “short leash,” but I now present this clip of Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian of TYT with some testimony from one of our soldiers who survived the Iranian drone attack on our base in Kuwait...color me (not) shocked, but It looks like SecDef Kegseth has been lying through his teeth, again (taking a break from sneering at reporters)...I don’t see any proof for Cenk’s charge that we were protecting Israel instead of our men and women in the military (though the awful results of the drone attack speak for themselves), but that statement definitely tracks with the wretched policies of our “clown car” of a presidential administration...I honestly don’t have any insight into the so-called “rescue operation” of our personnel in the F-15 that was shot down so I can’t argue with the official story, but it wouldn’t surprise me if that turned out to be yet another lie also...

...and this recent “I Doubt It” podcast with Jesse Dollemore and Brittany Page tells us more on Riley Podleski, who apparently is SecDef Kegseth’s little Trumpette propaganda princess (and typical move by the Gropenfuhrer to have the plane engine roaring in the background while the reporters were asking questions, which was staged as far as I’m concerned – the engine sound I mean...The Sainted Ronnie R used to pretend he couldn’t hear reporters over the whirring of the blades of the helicopter transporting him to Camp David)...and yes, while it’s encouraging that our two downed airmen were rescued inside Iran and those accomplishing this heroic mission should receive all the praise and possibly awards due to them, I don’t want to hear about how we’ve supposedly degraded Iran’s air and defense capability; if we’d done that to the full extent of what is claimed by this regime of liars and cowards, then our two airmen wouldn’t have been shot down in the first place, as Jesse points out...I know I said for the TYT clip that I didn’t automatically believe the official story, and I still don’t, but it’s possible the gang from our ruling cabal may (and I emphasize MAY) be telling the truth (and I’m sure a lot of those comments praising Dementia J. Trump on that propaganda clip were from bots, but my guess is that Jesse and Brittany know that)...mildly NSFW/H...

...well, given these segments on Combover Caligula’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran, I think it’s apropos to present the following response from Mr. Newberger...

...and I know I had a tune to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Phil Ochs last Friday, but I’m in the mood for another one (probably with the CBS story in mind here I’ll admit).

Friday Stuff

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:04:14 +0000

What's up first is a clip from JT Cestkowski of Status Coup News...it appears that the Charleston Post and Courier is reporting that a young woman who was underage at the time apparently has a corroborating witness to her story of alleged sexual abuse/assault from the Gropenfuhrer...correct to note that a local newspaper is doing the fine work here that our bought-and-paid-for corporate media should ALSO be doing (looks like the Epstein horror show was going on near Hilton Head, which is how South Carolina ended up in this godawful mix)...also appears that summaries of the accuser’s testimony were released by the DOJ, but they were heavily redacted of course (and not the so-called “302 summaries” from the FBI/DOJ)...bottom line is that there are notes of more interactions between #47 and this young woman (an underage girl at the time) that should be made public at a minimum, possibly leading to further legal action (NSFW/H)...

...and San Seder of The Majority Report speaks with Iddo Elam, contributor to a Hebrew news site in Tel Aviv I believe...Israel is now occupying southern Lebanon as noted in the clip, and of course, since we’re talking about the IDF, that means there’s a denial of aid to folks getting attacked...Sam asks where the Israeli public lines up on this, and it sounds like they were pretty on-board with the war in the beginning though not quite as much now, with some protests across the country (along with air raid sirens because the “iron dome” isn’t impenetrable of course, and I’m not surprised to hear that “Bibi” is censoring reporting of missiles getting through and causing damage to people and property)...didn’t know that many Israelis have bomb shelters, but that figures I suppose...probably difficult in that area of the world to parse the conflicts in the West Bank, Lebanon and Iran, though all three to one degree or another are at least in part a product of Israel’s intransigence IMO (sounds like Iran is a more accepted conflict in terms of Israeli public approval than Lebanon)...

...and Tennessee Brando informs us that “Couch Boy” is in Hungary to try and prop up Viktor Orban as his boss falls apart (#47 of course - more here)...I definitely agree with Brando that Vance could potentially be worse than Cantaloupe Capone because Vance is truly beholden to the elites who have put him where he is, notably Peter Thiel, The Heritage Foundation and the other monsters behind Project 2025, whereas #47 feels loyalty towards absolutely no one, which, given the utterly crazed, loathsome state of our politics overall, might actually be preferable (the latter I mean, notwithstanding the horrible geopolitical chaos unfolding, which Vance would also be leading)...I can easily picture Vance supercharging efforts to criminalize women seeking reproductive health services as well as LGBTQ individuals of course along with the poor and minorities merely for existing (and doing everything we can imagine to clamp down on any forms of protest at all), only with Vance being more methodical about it than his boss who focuses on issues like a gnat on meth...and yeah, Mr. “Hillbilly Elegy” is indeed threatening to use nukes on Iran, and I firmly believe he would have done that by now if he had already parked his butt behind the Resolute Desk...and I think Brando is spot-on to say that Vance will try to flip the script on his boss in a heartbeat...and I never imagined The Swanson TV Dinner Heir as a Repug *preznit nominee, but in a “through the looking glass” way, I can envision it, sadly (mildly NSFW/H)...

...and I know this is a long-ass description of the next clip, but I believe it matters...Liz Scheltens of More Perfect Union tells us what those affected don’t want you to know about a wealth tax, focused on the movement to tax stinkin’ billionaires in California, including Sergey ($245 bil) Brin of Google...looks like CA is proposing a one-time 5% tax on their worldwide assets of about $100 billion or more as we learn in the clip...it’s pretty damn plain that Gavin Newsom has his eye on “the big chair” in Washington, and that’s fine (hard to be worse than what we have now), but to be honest, I think he looks weak on this issue as well as LGBTQ rights (just look who his funders are I guess, though at the end of the clip we learn that Newsom is open to the idea of a federal wealth tax)...and I think taxing millionaires in MA by 4% so kids can have two free meals at school (helping parents with food costs and kids with damn near everything else) is a good trade (also including transportation costs)...pretty funny to me that, as opposed to the rich leaving “Tax-a-chusetts” in response to the millionaires tax, the number of ultra-wealthy people grew by 40 percent...so OF COURSE Fix Noise is leading the charge against trying to replicate this in CA, but oh, that trash network is big into “family values,” right? GMAFB!...as we learn, the CA initiative would tax wealth, not income, and it would apply to a smaller group of folks...yep, it definitely tracks that wealth inequality has worsened, to put it mildly, over the last 50 years...also, we’re reminded of the “Big, Beautiful Clusterf*ck” directing billions from Medicaid (patients, hospitals, etc.) to billionaires (and I remember Bri-Fi in PA-01 swearing up and down that Medicaid wouldn’t be touched by that awful giveaway of a bill...he’s either a liar or an idiot, or both)...according to what one health care provider in CA tells us, keeping this awful status quo in place would turn health care into what we experienced during the worst of COVID, but this time it would be permanent...Dave Regan, the president of the SEIU, is interviewed...I know this is a broken record, but I need to keep saying that it used to be illegal for CEOs and people running companies to hold stock shares as part of their compensation, but that changed because of The Sainted Ronnie R, which has a lot to do with the explosion of billionaires (and subsequent decrease in tax payments by these folks)...obviously, I think these billionaire crybabies need to “grow a pair,” especially since we’re talking about a FREAKING ONE-TIME ONLY TAX...I keep hearing about how awful the homeless problem is in San Francisco, for example; well, if you REALLY WANT TO FIX IT, then you need targeted funding from something like this to promote “housing first” or a model of some type to get people into shelter, since they really can’t do much of anything else with their lives without it...and kudos to Jensen Huang of NVIDIA for standing out the right way here...

...and Stephen Colbert on The Late Show gives us his take on our two-week cease fire with Iran, though in that area of the world, it’s hard to tell whether or not the bombing will ever truly stop (I wish it would, but I know better, especially since our “ally” Bibi is also bombing Lebanon as noted...are we ever going to get to the point where we just say that Netanyahu is as freaking nuts as Combover Caligula??!!)...oh, and our alleged geopolitical geniuses have now given Iran yet another victory in that that nation can say, “we’re not reopening the damn Strait of Hormuz unless the bombing in Lebanon stops”...is it just me, or does it look like Iran has gamed out every possible scenario under which they can come out on top in this insane conflict? And yeah, we get Stephen’s take on the Orban/Vance “bromance” as alluded to previously...

...and yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of the death of folksinger Phil Ochs, who took his own life by hanging; he had suffered from bipolar disorder and alcoholism...we all need help from time to time, so please reach out if dealing with everything is too overwhelming, especially now.

Wednesday Stuff

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:44:09 +0000

Ayman Mohyeldin sitting in for Chris Hayes reports on Spray-Tan Satan deciding not to end Iranian civilization for another two weeks...so, I guess Cheetoh Hitler has a chapter in “The Art Of The Deal” about giving Iran an excuse to now extort $2 million from every ship passing through the Strait of Hormuz – what a financial genius! No wonder just about all of his businesses have gone bankrupt...kudos to the 70 U.S. House Dems in particular calling for the removal of this genocidal lunatic, as well as Ed Markey in the Senate...good job by Ayman to revisit all of the times TACO Trump bailed on his self-imposed deadlines to inflict global carnage; I mean, yeah, it’s a good thing his threats weren’t realized, but he shouldn’t be in a position to issue those threats in the first place (and I never thought we’d be in a circumstance where we needed to thank Pakistan for preventing Armageddon, but I never thought we’d be in a position for a lot of this insanity)...Ayman speaks with reporter David Rohde, and I would also say that we have a marriage, so to speak, of “infinite immorality with infinite power” as Robert Malley correctly puts it...and by the way, the fact that he called off this threat to extinguish Iran "civilization" doesn't mean that #47 still shouldn't be impeached, because HE FREAKING STILL SHOULD!! (more on trying to remove him is next)...

...and David Pakman lets us know that, indeed, more folks are calling for the 25th Amendment aimed at the Tangerine Toddler, including Illinois guv J.B. Pritzker, along with Ro Khanna (and as Pakman says, there is zero chance that will happen with this cabinet, and about the same possibility that anyone from the “R” team will call for that)...and yeah, I know some of this is political posturing by folks looking for the Dem nomination for prez in ’28...but can you seriously blame them??!! You can also add the NAACP to the folks calling for #47 to toddle off to Mar-a-Lago once and for all so he can stage his hissy fits while watching Fix Noise and chowing down on a happy meal so there’s no chance that he could actually blow up the world...

..and this DW report from Anthony Howard gives us more on this White House using religious references, and how Pope Leo pushes back...clip includes those “whited sepulchers” laying hands on Pumpkin Pol Pot...hearing SecDef Kegseth making religious references makes me want to puke in my mouth...didn’t know His Holiness was a registered Repug at one time, though I’m sure he would reconsider that now (if I may venture a guess here)...the fact that Meth Head Bannon spoke out against the Pope definitely counts favorably towards the latter as far as I’m concerned (Vatican authority Massimo Faggioli is interviewed)...I agree that, given that Leo has come from a strife-torn region in this hemisphere, he’s not likely to back down against the murderous rantings of Mango Mussolini...

...well, seeing as how it appears that Our Orange Lunatic isn’t talking about “the big funny” lately, maybe I can now focus on some domestic stuff...I’ve been meaning to get to this item from Kyle Kulinski where the CEO of Five Guys gave out $1.5 million in bonuses because he didn’t want anyone to go all Luigi Mangione on his ass (allegedly!)...I mean, yeah, good behavior by the Five Guys head but for questionable reasons I guess (and I also think the guy in charge was nodding off a bit if he thought his site wouldn’t get crashed over the free burger promotion)...and no, about Mangione, I don’t condone violence against anybody – GMAFB! (NSFW/H)...

...and Robert Reich tells us about a ballot referendum to end Citizens United in Montana, believe it or not – I’m pretty sure I noted that in the post about the “No Kings” protests on 3/28, but more on that is here...looks like the folks in “big sky country” are trying to curb corporate spending, commendably enough...good point that corporations are indeed created by the states in which they are chartered and can be regulated by the states in which they operate (incorporated usually in Delaware, since laws for that there are relatively easier than elsewhere)...

...and after this recent madness, I’m more in need of another tune this week to mellow out a bit (and posting may get goofed up again, just to let you know).

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:12:32 +0000

Rachel Maddow discusses the lies of the Gropenfuhrer about the Iran war, to say nothing of the slapdash approach by the command individuals in our military, including not notifying Kuwait about the activity of our fighter jets, allowing three of them to be shot down by that country (not blaming the brave rank-and-file folks serving our country, but I only mean to point out that this is the result of all of the firings of command leaders in our services by our ruling regime, namely, that you end up with incompetents taking their places and leaving our military exposed...oh, and SecDef Kegseth just also fired the Army chief of staff in the middle of this Iranian escapade)...one of the awful consequences of this disastrous war is the fact that our military personnel have to be shunted to hotels and elsewhere since their bases are no longer secure...didn’t know that the flunkies in #47’s cabinet were getting the housing from all of the military leaders who were told to “hit the bricks” by our ruling regime of frauds and pretenders...and more than 10K vets lost their homes to foreclosure because our ruling bunch of idiots wrecked a rescue provision in the VA home loan program...I’d heard about the wife of Staff Sgt. Matthew Blank getting detained and sent to an immigrant prison (as well as ICE goons threatening to arrest family members attending ceremonies for basic training graduates) – the depravity and corruption of our ruling regime is truly bottomless (“internal communication failure” on the detentions my ass)...

...and Mike Figueredo lets us know what we’ve likely already guessed, and that is that GOP policy makers are more detached from reality than ever before...Trump is definitely the dumbest *preznit; ”power and stoo-pidity is a deadly combination” indeed...and I’d heard about the business with FEMA’s Gregg Phillips claiming he was teleported (or similar wording) to a Waffle House...and boy, does it ever fit the profile that Phillips is an election denier from not just ’20, but ’16 also (an election that his boss actually won, in terms of the electoral vote anyway, as much as it pains me to admit that)...and it looks like Devin “Don’t Have A Cow” Nunes is apparently blocking Phillips on Truth Septic – pass the popcorn...also, I don’t share Figueredo’s comments about Catholicism, but I have to admit that idiots like Phillips make that topic fair game...more on “flat earther” Kandiss Taylor is here, BTW (“this would be a globe if I were a normal person” for sure)...oh, and I’d forgotten about Big Stupid Head Matt Gaetz, but unfortunately he’s back claiming that humans are having sex with aliens, and as far as I know, none of the aliens are underage (looks like somebody has been “getting his beak wet” in the Absinthe)...and it also looks like the “migrant caravans” are back, because why the hell not as long as we’re replaying Diaper Donnie’s Greatest Hits...next on our hit parade is Nancy Mace, running for governor of South Carolina (and I actually share Figueredo’s sentiment about getting her out of Congress...I know there are nice spots in SC, but overall, the quality of life in that state is utterly awful)...looks like Mace would try to ban “chemtrails”...(uuumm, O-kaaay)...I must’ve missed the memo on the apparently mortal threat from water vapor and ice crystals, but I guess as far as Mace is concerned, the calamitous effects of climate change (including the vanishing Colorado River) as well as pollution in our air, food and groundwater is a-OK...and no report on Repug wackadoodles would be complete without Paula White comparing Dementia J. Trump to Our Lord, and just in time for Easter (and believe me when I tell you that I am indeed offended by White and her garbage)...(NSFW/H)...

...and John and Jayar of The Damage Report given us more fallout from Combover Caligula’s profanity-laden Easter message...when you’ve got Alex Jones, of all people, telling you to “dial it back,” I would say you’ve gone too far even for Our Treasonous Orange Pestilence...yep, just tell our brave men and women in the military to commit war crimes; just turn up the goddamn Lee Greenwood soundtrack louder to drown out voices of dissent I guess...and I know there are great people of all political stripes who marched on No Kings Day about 10 days ago, and credit to them, but I’ve given up on expecting sanity and rationality from the “party of Lincoln” overall when it comes to the Tangerine Toddler...

...and Farron Cousins informs us that, according to a story in Politico, Repug canvassers across the country are “hating their lives right now”; I wish I could feel sorry for them, but I don’t...pretty bad, though, that they’re getting attacked by their own voters...sounds like Craig Berland and Todd Gillman truly are masters of the obvious when it comes to the issues rightly dragging down their party, to say nothing of the rest of the country...

...and Mr. Newberger presents this item about Pam (“The Dow Is At 50K!”) Bondi and Kristi (“Unsafe At Any Speed”) Noem, both of whom are currently out of a job...yeah, I think the treatment is deserved here (and it’s more than a little telling that, in all likelihood, the replacements for both will likely be “upward fail son” white men)...

...and today would have been the 75th birthday for drummer Bruce Gary of The Knack.

Monday Stuff

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:30:24 +0000

Thom Hartmann discusses the news of EV cars selling out as gas prices skyrocket, according to the Financial Times...interesting comparison of the price of kilowatt hours vs. the cost of gasoline; kind of a financial no-brainer to move to a hybrid vehicle at a minimum (full disclosure: I haven’t done that yet, so shame on me)...didn’t know that Norway is basically going to ban internal combustion engines starting next year; the tide of garbage from our criminal ruling cabal is so relentless (and our corporate media coverage is so damn pathetic) that it’s hard to keep up with what the rest of the world is doing...I also remember the speech from Jimmy Carter widely ridiculed as the “malaise” speech (even though Carter never actually said that word), which was pretty damn prescient when it comes to moving towards renewables...he actually got an initial boost in terms of public opinion after he delivered the speech, but idiot Op-Ed writers started attacking him (as well as the usual Republican suspects) and the public mood changed...I don’t know what exactly is going on with Couch Boy, but that line about “fraud” sounds like an unintentional “tell,” I have to say...I think Thom is spot-on about blue state governors needing to get together to fight back against the utter madness of our kleptocratic D.C. regime...

...and Richard Ojeda of Rebel HQ brings us up to date on the latest madness from the lunatics trying to destroy our country...I know it’s not exactly “man bites dog” stuff to point out the mental/emotional development issues of Spray-Tan Satan, but I think that needs to be reconsidered given that we’re at freaking war with no end in sight...and I give The Good Liars credit for trying to have discussions with the wingnuts to make them see reality, which unfortunately might be the least productive possible exercise...”like a clown car of chaos” indeed, tragically, when it comes to our ruling cabal of bottom feeders and guttural lowlifes...

...and I thought this clip on X (yes, there is some good stuff there, but it’s rare) was a pretty good rundown on why the SAVE Act is so awful (mildly NSFW/H, but true)...

The Story of the SAVE Act to kill democracy in simple terms…

Happy Easter 2026

Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:05:57 +0000

I hope you all you all have a happy and blessed Easter (and happy Passover to all Jewish folk). If you don't observe anything, may you have a happy and blessed long weekend.

Friday Stuff

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:15:30 +0000

Brian Tyler Cohen tells us that Pam (“The Dow Is At 50K!”) Bondi just got the heave-ho as Attorney General; this is low-hanging fruit I’ll admit, but this regime really should learn about using grammar and capitalization correctly...yeah, I know, as if they’ll care (and “murders plummeting to their lowest level since 1900”? I’m reminded once more that there are white lies, kind of in-between lies, big lies, and Trumpian lies which are truly Olympian in scope)...I almost feel sorry for her, begging Our Treasonous Orange Pustule not to give her the boot...almost...and it looks like what did her in was actually trying to do a decent thing involving an investigation into Dem U.S. House Rep Eric Swalwell’s alleged relationship with a Chinese spy, notifying Swalwell about it (I think the irony of that speaks for itself...I'm pretty sure Swalwell denied that, though)...and yep, the AG protecting a pedo will indeed be her legacy...and I’m sorry, but I don’t have any faith that Hakeem Jeffires will follow through on holding Bondi to account on her perjured testimony...I could do without the Marjorie Train Wreck Greene clip because I still think she’s chasing clout and that’s about it, but I suppose she might as well be heard from also...”a woman scorned” and all that (NSFW/H)...

...and Belle of the Ranch gives us her insight into #47 apparently still not having a plan for the Iran war, based on whatever-that-supposed-address-was to the nation...I would take Belle’s word that some of the military objectives may have been accomplished, but I seem to recall similar hubris from a prior Repug administration over the initial weeks after Iraq War 2.0, and we know how that ended up (not criticizing Belle, I wish to emphasize)...good point to wonder just how enormous a mess you have created for your chief adversarial nation to come in and clean it up for you...”(Trump) is playing games while lives hang in the balance” indeed...

...and Jesse Dollemore informs us of another pinheaded moment from a blonde in Bronzer Beelzebub’s administration, and that would be the flippant response of Trumpette spokes-liar Karoline Leavitt on the question of war crimes that may have been committed by this regime...OK, so, as Jesse says, now we’re just straight-up murdering people we don’t like, and this disgusting little harpie appears to be proud of that (heckuva job, all you numbskulls who made sure we were inflicted with this in November of ’24)...and I’m sure I’m going to be pointing out for-ev-ah that we had a nuke treaty under Obama that Spray-Tan Satan abandoned, just like he did with the Murphy-Lankford immigration bill in the Senate...great point by Jesse that Mango Mussolini has never faced accountability for a damn thing, so OF COURSE he’s going to be emboldened...and leave to Leavitt to dish out word salad in response to the excellent question from NBC reporter Garrett Haake about targeting Iranian civilian infrastructure (NSFW/H also)...

...and turning to domestic political matters, Sam Seder of The Majority Report talks with David Bier, director of immigration studies at The Cato Institute (hmmm...) about “Kavanaugh stops”...ICE was initially caught red handed doing racial profiling as Bier says, and an injunction cut the profiling of Hispanics by about two-thirds (around LA I believe)...DHS goes to an appellate court which also rules against them, so they then appeal to the SCOTUS that grants an emergency order overturning the injunction, with “I Like Beer” Brett defending DHS (I definitely wouldn’t say that Kavanaugh had “courage,” but again, this Bier guy is from Cato, so I’m not surprised to hear him put it that way)...Kavanaugh called these “stops,” and said they weren’t a big deal, like a cop casing a bank or something (nice...hence the “Kavanaugh stops” term)...not surprised to hear that cops in Texas and Flori-DUUH are being trained to do this garbage...Bier makes a good point that it looks like the 2.0 version of this ICE Gestapo madness is going to be more “diffuse” and maybe a bit lower profile than what we’ve seen so far, but don’t expect anything to change in terms of policy...Sam also is correctly sadly about Apartheid Clyde, David Ellison, and other wingnuts with waaay too much damn money throttling all kinds of clips on social media that could hold these ICE cretins up to the scrutiny they deserve...also shocked to hear Cato defending social media in court; credit to them for that...

...and turning again to overseas news, MS NOW’s David Noreiga speaks with Chris Hayes about the ongoing violence from Israeli settlers against Palestinians on the West Bank, which ramped up after the October 7th terrorist attack and also accelerated with the beginning of the U.S. - Israel war vs. Iran (with Noriega having to flee an area of Palestinian land that the settlers and the IDF have basically taken over)...Noriega discusses the case of Seifullah Musallet, an American citizen and Palestinian beaten to death by Israelis (under the regime of the Tangerine Toddler, apparently, American citizens abroad don’t have any rights, especially in land contested by Israel...I guess this shouldn’t be surprising, but I think it still needs to be pointed out)...

...and with the prior story in mind a bit, this video from DRM News (not familiar much with them) tells us about a recent “barefoot march for peace” in Rome streets by Israeli and Palestinian mothers (if more women ruled, it certainly wouldn’t be perfect, but I firmly believe that most of the crap going on now wouldn’t be taking place)...

...and turning to something wholly other, Lewis Black of The Daily Show brings us up to date on the online gambling business, where it appears that you can bet on literally anything...I don’t know what the over-under is for the number of sarcastic nicknames I intend to use for our current president in this post, but I have every intention of “beating the spread” when mentioning Cheetoh Hitler (and yeah, I know Black makes a “Jesus joke” that kind of goes splat, and the timing for that is particularly bad given today especially, but it’s Lewis Black, so I’ll cut him some slack...that’s my ruling on that and I’m sticking with it – NSFW/H of course)...

...and tomorrow marks what would have been the 58th anniversary of this tragedy (and as I said last year, Our Sweaty Orange Bronzer Boy will likely say this is “DEI” and try to erase it from the history books, so we need to make sure it’s “front of mind” for everybody).

Thursday Stuff

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:06:08 +0000

Mr. and Mrs. Scar along with Willie Geist, Gabriel Sherman (I think that’s who it is) and David Ignatius discuss Mango Mussolini making more noise about taking the U.S. out of NATO, and if that isn’t a blaring red siren to the world that #$47 IS NOTHING BUT A PUTIN OPERATIVE, then I don’t freaking know what is...NATO has ensured the relative peace and stability in Europe for decades, helping to avoid large-scale ground wars in that region since World War II (in which my father fought along with millions of others)...and props to Former President Biden for signing the law saying that no president can take the U.S. out of NATO without congressional approval – I mean, not that Combover Caligula will care, but the legal stuff still matters in a big way of course (and funny, but I don’t hear any of the numbskulls carping about “Sleepy Joe” giving him credit for that, like this utter fool)...and by the way, “Mika’s Dad” was this guy; yes, he was a cold warrior in good and bad ways, but at least he knew who the enemy was...I would like to have seen some more full-throated outrage aimed at the “party of Lincoln” for babying our *preznit on this and everything else, but I guess a polite slap on the wrist is as far as that will go...

...and believe me when I tell you that, for the most part, I wouldn’t give CPAC the time of day, but I definitely thought it was noteworthy to see the crowd reaction to mentioning still another potential impeachment that may be inflicted on the Tangerine Toddler, as Jen Psaki tells us (and no, Matt Schlapp, you can’t treat the crowd the same way as when you groped a man at a Virginia bar, as noted here – allegedly!)...

...and Brian Tyler Cohen tells us that, in another sign that the “party of Lincoln” is bracing for an electoral whoopin’ this fall, Repug Sam Graves of Missouri won’t seek re-election in the House, and that brings the total for his party to 36 who are departing, with the most from the “R” team stepping down in about a century...some of those interviews might be repeats, but I have no problem with showing them again...”a party of either despots or cowards” indeed...

...and this New York Times clip discusses “Club America,” which is apparently the effort to install Turning Point USA chapters in high schools across the country (and as always for the other side, there is never a shortage of dough to bankroll this stuff)...I don’t know if it’s possible for Democrats/progressives to try and launch their own movement, or if they did what their message would be (and policies of course), but this describes the uphill battle we face with the current and next generation of voters (basically, just saying “orange man bad!” isn’t NEARLY good enough)...and by the way, I’m not trying to beat up some of the high schoolers in this clip, including the missionary son; I believe they’re misguided politically, but I would never say they don’t have the right to their opinion (despite the fact that the movement they support in both an actual and de facto way wants to utterly squash those voicing dissent, notably lefties/Dems/progressives)...

...and Stephen Colbert on “The Late Show” gives us a rundown on the news...yeah, I know Trumpty Dumpty gave a prime-time address on his war of choice in Iran (here), but unless he says “I resign,” I have no interest in hearing one damn word out of his lying mouth...and it’s “12 dimensional chess”? That’s an interesting euphemism for “I’m in waaaay over my head, I don’t know what the hell I’m doing and apparently nobody else can clean up my mess”...and awwww, it looks like his bought-and-paid-for SCOTUS isn’t going to end birthright citizenship for him – c’est dommage, so OF COURSE #47 had a great big hissy fit and stormed out of the hearing...and good luck to our great astronauts on the Artemis II mission to the moon...and if it were probably anybody else on the planet besides Karoline Leavitt, I would care about a photo being removed because it was “unflattering,” but as far as I’m concerned, that propaganda queen deserves what she gets...

...and I’m probably overdue with this newer selection which is timely just about every day...and by the way, I know I’m falling into the trap of covering all of the madness from our ruling regime and letting that crowd out other stuff like policy that could make a more direct impact on people’s lives, but if “Team D” would EVER provide those details, I would be more than happy to oblige them and publicize that stuff here (yeah I know, I can dream, can’t I?).

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Apparently, Fascism is Back in Fashion

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

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

Is Impeachment Really Off the Table (Part 2)?

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

Is impeachment really off the table?

OpEdNews asks the question, HERE.

Doctor's Orders?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'Low crime rate fuelling migration'

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

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

Consumers Of All Ages 'See Rise In Inflation'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Politico 44 President's Calendar

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

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

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

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

Before and After the NeoRepublican Makeover

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

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

the media -W beats Nixon !!!!

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

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

Sept 15th DC Protest Photos...Finally

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

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

Democracy or Dictatorship? & Do we care?

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

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

Pelosi slams anti-war protesters

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

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

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

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

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

Decision Time for GOP: Spit or Swallow

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

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

Insurgents for Bush

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

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

The Pear of 'Terrer' Quits!

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

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

Dubya and Dick Play Whack Iraq

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

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

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

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

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

Living in the Land of Confusion

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

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

The NeoRepublicans Point of No Return

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

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

The Boosh/Chainee Rain of Terra

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

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