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Tuesday Stuff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friday Stuff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thursday Stuff

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

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

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

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

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

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

...and here is another seasonal number.

Tuesday Stuff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Monday Stuff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friday Stuff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wednesday Stuff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday Stuff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Monday Stuff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friday Stuff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thursday Stuff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:48:35 +0000

Brittany Page presents Baby Goebbels producing what is basically a eugenics memo, trying to institutionalize people with disabilities (I’m going to get to a clip later about something giving us intestinal distress, but watching that disgusting guttural puke laugh about displacing health care workers is enough to give my dry heaves at a minimum...I’m sure it stirs what passes for Miller’s manhood)...I have to admit that I hadn’t heard of the “Olmstead Mandate” before now, which called for the advancement of people with disabilities and which also served as an impetus for disabled folks to find housing...Page would be the first to say that this country not doing whatever we can justly do to improve the lives of those less fortunate is a policy choice, and she’s right...and like with most odious garbage like this, you can count on The Cicero Institute to be right in the middle of it...

...oh, and it looks like ICE killed someone else, this time in Biddeford, Maine (here)...those from the Dem U.S. delegation (and those vying to run for the U.S. Senate) quite rightly spoke out, which is what they should do at a minimum, with “Disappointed” Susan Collins basically saying “I’ve been apprised of the situation and an investigation is ongoing,” which is the exact sort of bland, milquetoast BS you can expect from this utterly soulless cipher...if you’re not yelling for ICE to get the hell out and also calling for an independent investigation, then you’re not doing you f*cking job!...

...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ discusses an increase in explosive diarrhea thanks to Trump budget cuts...yep, the metaphors truly write themselves at times...the issue is a microscopic parasite (cyclosporiasis) that, apparently, the CDC isn’t even bothering to investigate, presumably because Bobby Brainworms is too obsessed with food dyes and swimming with his grandkids in creeks full of sludge...also, no specific grower has been linked to this outbreak so far, though apparently it has been traced to raspberries, lettuce and other produce (and concentrated in Michigan more than anywhere else)...looks like the regime of the Gropenfuhrer will only monitor two of the toxic pathogens that are out there, e coli and salmonella, and we’re on our own I guess for the others – heckuva job, all you numbskulls who made sure we’d be stuck with this in November ’24 (and I think any sentient life form knows what a lying weasel Scott Jennings is)...slightly NSFW/H...

...and in this segment of “Indisputable” with Dr. Rashad Richey, we learn about pastors Loran Livingston and Rob Fuquay (especially the latter going after “Christian” nationalism), speaking the truth about this country and its rather twisted notion of spirituality...I know I’ve dumped on alleged faith leaders plenty of times, so I’m definitely glad to present two individuals doing the right thing...

...and I’m glad to see Mr. Newberger getting to the heart of the controversy involving Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao – heh...

...and today is the 80th anniversary of the publication of “The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care” by Dr. Benjamin Spock (here), which revolutionized parenting in this country (essentially in a good way as far as yours truly is concerned)...here is a tune for the occasion.

Monday Stuff

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:14:34 +0000

So it now looks like we are engaged in the ritual courtesy of our political/media/industrial complex of redeeming a controversial individual (he was at least to me anyway) who has recently passed, and this time around, we’re talking about Huckleberry Graham, who has departed after a brief illness (here)...to begin, I’d like to ask if we can please dispense with the fiction that Graham was some kind of a military expert? Yes, he served in the JAG office, and that’s better than I did I admit, but then again, I never passed myself as an elite warmongering Beltway insider either...Graham never met a war he didn’t like, being continuously generous with the blood of other people’s kids...switching topics a bit, in this clip from TMR, Graham tried to get his own anti-abortion bill passed, which pretty much blew up in his face...interesting how quickly a “state’s rights” issue morphed into a “human rights” issue as far as Graham was concerned...as Sam Seder says, it was a typical lie from Graham to claim that 47 of 50 European nations ban abortion at 15 weeks...oh, and did you know that California and Oregon were adopting a “Chinese” abortion policy? Nothing like a little xenophobia from Graham on top of the sexism, is there (Graham segment ends at about 5:25, and then they go to Ronna Romney McDaniel, who’s just as bad, maybe worse)...””due date abortion” isn’t an actual thing, and neither is “gender selection abortion,” at least not in the U.S...and I know the Repugs will be screeching about “DEMS ARE SOFT ON CRIME!!!” heading into the fall, but they’re really going to end up twisting themselves into knots if they try to make this election about Trump’s wretched economy...

...and John and Aida Rodriguez of The Damage Report discuss the killing (in all likelihood) of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by ICE...oh, this man was trying to use his vehicle to hurt an ICE thug (where have we heard this before? And with not a shred of evidence of course)...as we learn, Araujo had picked up some co- workers and was on his way to a job site when the shooting took place... John and Aida’s barely controlled rage and disgust is commendable; would that we all felt that way...

...and as we learn in the following clip, these “Freedom Fuel” gas stations are apparently popping up in PA...the last guy interviewed is nuts IMO, but I thought the other two were pretty clear-headed...I definitely would like to know how the cheaper gas is subsidized also (maybe if, God and the voters willing, we have a Democratic House and/or Congress, then maybe they could investigate with subpoena power)...and the fact that this is happening a few months before the election should tell you just how much of a play for suckers this really is...

...and Farron Cousins informs us that the “party of Lincoln” is collectively freaking out because they don’t have enough money for campaigning, supposedly (barring that sweet, sweet dark dough that always seems to arrive at the last minute courtesy of Hangin’ Judge JR and Citizens United)...however, they could seriously be looking at a money issue this election cycle, and it couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch...those crocodile tears from this Repug strategist are unintentionally hilarious, I have to say (but the “D” team had still better be prepared for the inevitable wingnut BS of, “oh, the Dems are soft on crime and they want open borders and transgender for everyone...and oh yeah, high taxes also”...more here)...

...and Jordan Klepper of The Daily Show gives us an update on what AI is doing to our political campaign ads (I know I had that Sean Astin clip a few days ago, but this is of course a more humorous take)...boy, this Mark Coester sure sounds like a prize, running to replace great Dem U.S. House Rep Becca Balint in “Varmont”...the prize for the stoo-pidest AI slop, though, has to go to Repugs in “the land of the yellow rose” for that James Talarico/”Sound of Music” mess...also, that Julia Letlow flip flop ad, weird as it is, was apparently featured in a Repug primary contest for Letlow’s Louisiana seat in Congress...

...and this great newer number should help us all ease into the week, highlighted by the MLB All-Star Game in these parts tomorrow – wonder if a certain Ochre Abomination will make an appearance? Hopefully not, because that will automatically mean that the NL will lose...we’ll see.

Friday Stuff

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:19:03 +0000

When last we checked with Big Hair Blackburn in Tennessee, it appeared that she was running for governor, which tracks pretty much for that state, unfortunately...sooo, cranking the xenophobia up to 11, she’s trying to present herself as a dedicated ally of Bronzer Beelzebub...I didn’t know fortune cookies were made in this country (but more so Japan as it turns out, and DEFINITELY NOT in China), probably because my brain was hurting too much from viewing this idiocy to take an impartial look at this whole thing – Jesse Dollemore gives us his report (more here)...slightly NSFW/H...

...and Thom Hartmann informs us of our FDA rejecting limits on forever chemicals in food...gee, maybe when Bri-Fi isn’t trying to run scare ads about Bob Harvie as supposedly the subject of an FBI investigation (despite a cease and desist order requested by the Harvie campaign), our wet noodle PA-01 rep could show a bit of a spine and ask his boss why #47 is flipping off this country about doing something about this garbage (the chemicals I mean – more here)...our FDA used to look for PFAS in food since they’re linked to various diseases, and as Thom says, there was a petition in ’23 to get the FDA to look at 30 of these compounds – there are about 16,000 of them apparently, but three guesses what happened to the petition, and the first two don’t count...sewage sludge is apparently used as plant fertilizer, and these garbage chemicals are apparently getting into our food THAT way also...we also get an update on Combover Caligula’s war of choice against Iran with “Bibi,” our “ally” – I didn’t make the connection between SecDef Kegseth and our ruling regime potentially using Grok (from King Elon) to plan that attack that blew up that Iranian girls school, but that tracks also, tragically...I’m sorry I don’t know how to sugarcoat this unbelievable torrent of bad news except to present it and let us all make of it what we will...

...and this More Perfect Union report from Alzo Slade discusses “waste, fraud and abuse,” as in the type associated with school vouchers...this focuses on Arizona, but it could definitely apply elsewhere also as we learn, with vouchers “cannibalizing” the money that should be spent on public schools (including the ones forced to close in that state)...sounds like “other educational expenses” need to be monitored for sure, including $30K on Legos as well as a harp (I realize there could be an educational application for perhaps some of this stuff, but that justification needs to be made for sure)...this Tom Horne character looks like an idiot as far as I’m concerned...”oh, we can’t audit everything” – WHY THE HELL NOT??!!!...oh, and Flori-DUUUH also apparently can’t track $270 million in voucher funds...as with other school districts around the country, tuition rates are getting “jacked up” as the “other educational expenses” from ESAs continue to rise...also, as spending increases for vouchers, special needs students are getting hurt, which is probably part of this insidious plan also, especially since private schools don’t have to take those types of students...and why am I not surprised to see that Milton Friedman figures into this somehow (also, in the economic world, I know Alan Greenspan shed his mortal coil recently, and as far as I’m concerned, he was partly to blame for this whole mentality of “oh, let the ‘magic of the marketplace’ take care of society’s ills” also)...Friedman’s supposedly brilliant idea of school vouchers were used for “segregation academies,” as we learn, though they ended up losing in court, causing the whole voucher idea to get the inevitable rebrand...also, I know Dubya just had his 80th birthday, and I could write multiple posts of his screwups if I had time and if I could control my gag reflex, but I can’t tell you all the times I heard him utter the phrase “failing public schools” – one of the reasons it nauseates me to see that he skated right into the “ex-presidents club” with no problem whatsoever...glad to see this get traced back to the usual wingnut suspects (Chucky Koch, Betsy DeVos, Jeff Yass, etc.)...

...and I know I’m behind on some stuff, and one of those items is this clip timed for a week ago from Robert Reich drawing a parallel between Bronzer Beelzebub and the last king of America, citing how the grievances listed in the Declaration of Independence echo our present calamity, which, again, was totally self-inflicted by idiot voters...

...and speaking of Great Britain, Jonathan Pie tells us about wingnut Nigel Farage facing off against a trash can (yes, I’m serious) in a bi-election for the district of Clackton, apparently (here)...so Farage resigned, but he didn’t???....oh, but he’s “against the establishment”...suuuurrre (definitely NSFW/H)...

...and this isn’t the most recent “Daily Show” clip with Ronny Chieng, but I wanted to include it all the same...we learn more on what went down on the 250th and AI apparently is coming for our toilets, which to me is apropos...and of course, leave it to you-know-who to turn the demagoguery up to 11 at least for the holiday...oh, and we’re also reminded of the dustup with the US soccer team, which ended up being all for naught of course...can’t think of a word for the irony of Folarin Balogun, who basically was naturalized by default by being born here, being defended by Cantaloupe Capone, of all people (and nice job by the winning Belgian soccer team to mock Bronzer Beelzebub with that stoo-pid YMCA dance)...mildly NSFW/H also...

...and it only seems like a week or so ago when I wished Bonnie Tyler a happy birthday, but sadly she has now left us (here)...this is definitely “against the grain” I know, but I honestly thought “Total Eclipse Of The Heart” was over the top; personally, I preferred some of her less-over-produced tunes like this one, but that’s just me I know...RIP...

...and here’s a newer tune to help us glide a bit into the weekend – should be nice weather in these parts, and hopefully for you also.

Wednesday Stuff

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:50:42 +0000

David Pakman reports here that, according to his source, Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao has been unconscious for three weeks since he was admitted to the hospital...obviously, this hasn’t been confirmed by anyone so take that for what it’s worth, but it only backs up my suspicion...and I’m sorry (well, not really), but I don’t believe characters like Thune and Barrasso one bit when they say, “Oh, I just had a 20-minute conversation with him”...there’s a REALLY EASY way to confirm that, and that of course is to SIMPLY TELL THE DAMN TRUTH and have McConnell appear onscreen to end all of this speculation...personally, I think we’ve got a “Weekend at Bernie’s” thing going on here because Kentucky Repugs don’t want Dem Governor Andy Beshear to try and appoint a Dem to take McConnell’s place (which I don’t think he can do anyway, since that state passed a law tying Beshear’s hands on this) and want to run out the clock as much as possible to get to a special election where they have an advantage (I’m admittedly neither an expert on Kentucky politics nor am I one on medical practice)...and boy, is Pakman ever right to point out how sketchy this is since the “R” team lost their collective sh*t over Joe Biden’s medical issues (and Laura Loomer is certifiable as far as yours truly is concerned)...

...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ tells us that it looks like actor Patrick Dempsey might (?) declare himself as a candidate to succeed Graham Platner as the Dem U.S. Senate nominee to run against Susan Collins in Maine (and Dempsey is right about men’s health screenings – women’s also...I also wouldn’t blame Dempsey if he stayed away from this, to be honest)...I don’t know exactly what Platner is up to at this moment, but for him to still be hanging on reflects equal parts egomania and masochism – beating Collins was going to be difficult anyway, and unfortunately it will be damn near impossible now with all of this...also, it looks like, though Vlad The Butcher has been dealing lethal blows to the brave people of Ukraine, he’s getting more than a taste of his own deadly medicine – good!...

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...and John of The Damage Report lets us know that guv #DeathSantis in Flori-DUUH! got slapped down by a US Court of Appeals in the effort to ban teaching of race and gender in that state’s public schools (and the “chef’s kiss” is that one of the judges ruling against him was appointed by the Gropenfuhrer)...echoing John’s point a bit, I think #DeathSantis is indeed going to take another shot at the big chair in ’28 and try riding his “anti-woke” hobby horse, so to speak, but I have no doubt that that will lead to the same result as before (though God knows who will get the nod instead – possibly “Couch Boy” I guess, which would also be horrific)...

...next, I give you actor Sean Astin’s wonderful speech before Congress about the NO FAKES Act (more here)..as is so often the case, we plunge forward with technology without having the robust public debate that we need about the costs as well as the benefits...

...and on this day in 1976, Richard Nixon became the first president to be disbarred over his involvement in the Watergate scandal – makes me recall this novelty number from awhile back (and that’s John Denver in the middle before he rose to fame)...

...and here is another seasonal selection.

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:41:37 +0000

Jen Psaki takes a look at #47’s “sketchy” profiting from his presidency...looks like the Gropenfuhrer made 327 stock purchases after he made the announcement of his tariff “liberation day” and tanked the market (buy low, sell high of course), so OF COURSE he cleaned up when the market rallied...and oh yeah, the “First Family” has made $2.3 billion in crypto while the other investors in World Liberty Financial have been left holding the metaphorical bag by approximately the same amount...Psaki also discusses that scammy crypto business with Uday Jr. and the UAE...nice finish by Psaki here IMO...

...and Kyle Kulinski discusses the most recent allegation against Graham Platner, which does indeed sound bad...he pretty much has to drop out at this point while this claim of sexual assault gets sorted out...I agree with what Kyle says about pearl-clutching Repugs along with Neera Tanden (I also agree with Kyle’s genocide take at the end)... (NSFW/H)...

...and Belle lets us know that the “red scare” rhetoric from the “R” team isn’t really landing with younger voters; everything that bunch does is meant to scare their Fix-Noise-watching core boomer demographic...among other things, it tells you how utterly bereft of any ideas the “party of Lincoln” is for them to think that accusations of “communism” would mean anything to a younger voting demographic...important history here on the “socialism” dog whistle used by the wingnuts ad nauseum...Belle is right of course about the polarization on the part of people who don’t think that the other side are “real Americans,” and as far as I’m concerned, that all got turbocharged after Obama was elected, which of course was an utterly stoo-pid attitude (Lord knows I have plenty of disagreements with the wingnuts, but I wouldn’t say that they’re not “real Americans” unless – possibly – if they’re convicted of doing something illegal, such as Jonathan Ross, who, in a sane world, should stand trial one day for the murder of Renee Good)...I agree with Belle that the Gen Z-ers and millennials should have their say on whatever the next economic system is, because rapacious predatory greed-head capitalism sure isn’t cutting it these days...

...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ lets us know that it looks like Ken Paxton was caught with his mistress or something related, flying out of the U.S. on July 4th presumably to have sexy time in Iceland, since nothing screams “I Love America” like an extramarital affair on our nation’s 250th birthday (as Shuster notes, divorce proceedings are underway, to present more of the whole story)...and man, does James Talarico know what to do with stuff like this!...”a lot of crazy things going on in Texas,” but to be fair, that’s replicated across the country too (if Dems are returned to power from the hard work of people trying to make that happen, voters have to remember who broke everything in the first place and stay the course with the “D” team come hell or high water)...

...and what a shame that the FIFA U.S. men’s soccer team didn’t learn the lesson that Everything That Trump Touches Dies, as noted here (when was the only time the Knicks lost a game during their NBA championship run? When you-know-who attended)...this item from Mr. Newberger includes the usual political suspects intervening in that red card business for the American soccer player (Folarin Balogun) during the tournament...I guess this is the only way that the Gropenfuhrer would give a damn about a person of color who wasn’t a Republican (as far as I know anyway)...

...and here's a mellow newer number to help us cope with the summer humidity settling in once more, which forces everything to slow down a bit (which is a good thing, basically).

Monday Stuff

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:14:46 +0000

CBC News: The National lets us know that Bronzer Beelzebub has refused to extend our CUSMA agreement with Canada and Mexico...it looks like CUSMA will continue for a good while yet, but Our Treasonous Orange Overlord wants to abolish it of course (which Daddy Vlad would like to see also I’m sure), though other members of our regime want to modify CUSMA because it would make business happy, as opposed to everyday Americans who this regime most definitely couldn’t give a fig about...commentary by correspondent Peter Armstrong...

...and apologies for being a little late with this clip timed for July 4th, but I wanted to include it anyway...this CBS Sunday Morning segment features historian and author Douglas Brinkley discussing all of the challenges this country has faced in the past as a bit of an inspiration for dealing with our present misery...

...and this MS NOW clip talks about white nationalists marching in D.C. over the recent holiday; the legacy of this country is indeed in full view, more or less...with Eddie Glaude, Jr., along with Michele Norris...clip discusses that Reuters pic of the black girl on the D.C. metro surrounded by the racist clowns who are too afraid to show their faces...good for Glaude to mention both David Duke and “Uber Alles” Buchanan...also including Jonathan Capehart and Eugene Daniels (don’t know the other correspondent)...good point also by Norris to point out that these racist pukes will go back to their lives, take off their cowardly masks and melt back into our workplaces, our communities, etc...and leave it to Couch Boy to hold up his own mirror of sorts which reflects everyone and everything else but the utterly wretched presidential administration of which he is a HUUUUGE part...also good for Glaude to make the association between Vance’s ridiculous words and the “blood and soil” rhetoric of Dementia J. Trump...I honestly wish they wouldn’t show a second of the latter’s ridiculous blatherings, but I suppose attention must be paid sadly (every f*cking word out of his treasonous orange maw reflects grievance and virtually nothing else...good for Norris for not wanting to give it any credence)...

...and this report from Sean Morrow of More Perfect Union discusses the movement by tech elites to replace governments with corporations (bringing the original intent of the Powell Memo to its truly hideous end result)...that would be ”privatized societies run by CEOs”...we know this is the neocon wet dream courtesy of DOGE and Palantir, but sadly, it may be closer to realization than we realize (and I didn’t know the plans for a “New Gaza” were underway...yeah, let’s just glass everything including the people so we can build another Trump Tower)...this madness dates to 2008 with Peter Thiel as the originator because of course...this is the first I’ve heard of the Seasteading Institute run by Patri Friedman (grandson of neoliberal icon Milton), but I HAVE heard of Joe Lonsdale, FWIW...author Gil Duran (who has also been following this stuff) is interviewed also...and oh look, Ghislaine Maxwell has popped up in all of this also...and I have to admit that I have no desire to visit Sandy Springs, Georgia, especially because I’m sure their municipal services that are fully privatized are awful (though credit to them also for un-privatizing)...it seems that these localities run by corps are popping up all over the country, sadly...”tech instead of politics” are four words that should scare the fertilizer out of everyone...I also had a feeling that we’d get around to The Cicero Institute attacking the homeless and forcing them into hard labor (which Thiel and his ilk should be experiencing instead IMO)...in a related story, I know San Francisco has a homeless problem, but unless you’re talking about Housing First, then you really don’t have a desire to address the issue...looks like the reach of these cretins is indeed global, with Patri Friedman investing in Honduras as we learn, as well as Lonsdale traveling to the Philippines (and it looks like he was responsible for Diaper Donnie’s idiot musings about Greenland)...and again, we can’t forget about Couch Boy’s role in all of this, as much as we’d like to I’m sure...and “privatized foreign aid” with our tax dollars is also part of this wretched scam (slightly NSFW/H for a moment)...

...and Stephanie Ruhle of MS NOW interviews Ben Collins, who is overseeing the transition of Infowars into The Onion, with Alex Jones FINALLY forced to pay some of the dough owed to the Sandy Hook families...not surprised that it’s taken Collins 18 months of wrangling with Jones to get to the point where the families attacked by Jones and his minions will start to get what’s owed to them...

...and here is another seasonal selection.

Friday Stuff

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:47:54 +0000

Brittany Page discusses Apartheid Clyde threatening to sue and jail anyone (including Dem U.S. House rep Ro Khanna) talking about the “many millions of deaths,” particularly kids, because of the beyond-heartless decision of the Ketamine addict to destroy US AID (about 14 million by 2030, as we learn)...oh, and he thinks that MacKenzie Scott giving away $26 billion “makes the world a worse place” – truly a subterranean level of evil here (and not from Scott of course)...of course, it’s apparently beyond the capability of THE WORLD’S FIRST FREAKING TRILLIONAIRE to ACTUALLY GO VISIT THE PEOPLE IMPACTED BY HIS HORRIBLE CUTS if he’s looking for FREAKING EVIDENCE!!! (this too)...and I know I kind of blew off Dubya’s positive impact with PEPFAR in the past, which was definitely my mistake...apologies (slightly NSFW/H)...

...and Jesse Dollemore tells us that, when it comes to Repug greed and stoo-pidity, Troy Nehls definitely deserves a place of infamy, telling voters to shut up and work harder, like Nehls supposedly (for $175K a year on our dime, let’s not forget)...oh, and Nehls may end up handing off his congressional seat to his identical twin brother (from the “land of the yellow rose”)...and once more, for the zillionth time, Iran DIDN’T HAVE A GODDAMN NUCLEAR WEAPON BECAUSE OF THE OBAMA/JOHN KERRY DEAL!!!...oh, and Diaper Donnie is the “second coming”? Wow, that Trumpist Kool-Aid sure has a hell of a kick to it, doesn’t it? (and one day, I hope and pray that we’re all done with the bleeping accordion hands, along with everything else)...oh, and the stock market is up 85 percent? In his slimy, s*xually abusing dreams (the reality perspective is here...NSFW/H also)...

...and Kyle Kulinski informs us that it looks like those MAGA-t sympathizers on CNN are getting a heaping helping of STFU from the lefty panelists on that network...kudos to Charles Blow for “bringing the heat”...I didn’t know 742 hospitals were going to close as a result of the Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck (which this guy supported, let’s not forget...and yes, he cast plenty of YES votes while it worked its way through the House); I knew the health care facility closure situation was bad (including Chandler Hall in Bucks County, PA) but I didn’t know it was THAT bad...I really don’t know anything about “Politics Girl” either, but good on her for naming the “elephant in the room,” which of course is the fact that we should have told “Bibi” and Israel to step the f*ck off decades ago...kudos to Kyle also for this whole clip, and I would ask if IDF snipers targeting journalists and doctors (and kids of course) is considered “tactical” also...better preserve clips like this in case somehow David Ellison gets his grimy hands on the brainchild of Ted Turner and turns it into the same blazing trash fire that is now CBS under Bari Weiss (very NSFW/H also)...

...and the stock of Truth Septic continues to collapse since the invasion of Iran...stock was worth $33 a share when #47 was sworn in, and it’s now worth about a quarter of that as we learn from John Iadarola...the net worth of Cantaloupe Capone’s outfit continues to plummet as he keeps trying to reinvent it, which is typical for a scammy grifter like Our Ochre Abomination...also, the aforementioned King Elon’s Tesla stock is going down also, though not as badly as Dementia J. Trump’s...I also think there’s quite a bit of room for Tesla’s stock to fall – we’ll see...

...and this clip from the German news service DW talks about how the U.S. shapes the world over 250 years of power and policy (commentary by scholar Sidita Kushi on just how “isolationist” the U.S. truly is, as well as political scientist Calvin Thrall)...clip take a look at the total number of U.S. military interventions, which currently stands at about 500...according to data, the only year we DIDN’T have a military intervention was 1974...there could probably be a whole other clip by itself on our LATAM interventions on behalf of United Fruit...to be fair, clip also discusses U.S. diplomatic efforts, though we’ve definitely fallen down on that lately while China has ascended, on that front as well as others...

...and for the upcoming holiday, I’d like to present this clip once more, which is a bit dated by now I know, but I really haven’t seen anything to refute much of what is said here...

...and I hope everyone has a happy, relaxing and fun-filled Fourth, and please be careful in the heat.

Wednesday Stuff

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:13:19 +0000

Farron Cousins lets us know here about Anna Paulina Luna-tic using Claude AI to write an amendment to legislation, presumably because doing the work she was elected to do (along with her staffers) was apparently too much of a hardship...the giveaway was leaving the AI prompt used by Claude in the draft of the legislation – just say “oops” and get out (and I LOVE the completely grown-up explanation of “Oh yeah? Well, EVERYBODY ELSE is doing it,” which I also don’t believe along with Cousins)...oh, and the amendment she either did or didn’t use Claude to draft had to do with sending our military to the southern border, so there’s that level of idiocy also...

...and on that subject, J.T. Cestkowski of Status Coup tells us that Ford was forced to hire back 300 engineers who were fired to make room for AI, which failed to match quality checks (the rehired engineers will “train up” AI and younger workers)...looks like Ford workers were forced to accept the same wage they would get for slinging burgers based on that on-the-ground interview...”AI will leave a lot of white-collar people behind,” according to Ford’s CEO, revealing the dirty little secret no one in corporate leadership wants to acknowledge...not surprised to hear that Ford had to issue the most recalls of all carmakers; I once owned a Ford, and I’ll never make that mistake again...

...and I guess these first three clips have a bit of a theme, and in keeping with that, John Iadarola tells us about more and more opposition to data centers, including in Virginia...I could probably include clips on this subject every day if I wanted to...looks like our oh-so-august-in-their-imaginations tech overlords are starting to get a hint on how fed up people are with these monstrosities...part of me wonders what the hell some of these damn Republican voters were thinking when they cast their ballots for Cheetoh Hitler and the “R” team, but on the other hand, it’s more important to find a way to work together with these folks and try to bring an end to this “divide and conquer” BS from the one percent...and I don’t know who this Texas knucklehead is who’s prattling on about “drone warfare,” but if he thinks that’s a plausible reason to sink people’s retirement funds into these damn data centers, then he’s got more than a single screw loose (and “tech extremism” is indeed right out of the idiotic Trumpist playbook, assuming anybody knows what that actually means)...

...also, the “Logical Leftist” Jeff Waldorf gives us an update on Target killing their DEI initiatives to try and placate Combover Caligula, and by at least one measure, it ended up costing the company about $12 billion...also, the NY state pension fund (which held Target shares for its pensioners) issued a no confidence vote against former Target CEO Brian Cornell in response (a boycott by Georgia pastor Jamaal Bryant was the primary push-back against getting rid of the DEI initiatives)...I have to admit that I’ve never heard the term “rainbow capitalism” before...I thought this breakdown was pretty good in talking about how the shareholders treated the DEI matter versus how the customers treated it (mattered to the latter group but not the former, which is why gutting the initiatives blew up in Target’s metaphorical face)...

...and Trae Crowder gives us an update on the madness with the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool – I hadn’t seen that pic of the guy whose job it was to clean the pool, but he does indeed look like he just walked off a soundstage with Mumbles, Flat Top and Tess Trueheart (Dick Tracy refs, BTW)...also, I really could care less about the FIFA World Cup, partly because the head of that org has sucked up to Cheetoh Benito so shamelessly (though I agree with Crowder’s sentiment that the overall World Cup experience has been positive for this country because our *preznit has decided to keep his tiny, ketchup-stained hands out of it, so far)...I’d also heard about the infatuation with ranch dressing by those World Cup fans arriving on our shores, as well as the Scottish fans drinking Boston pubs dry except for Bud Light, which is pretty damn funny IMO (NSFW/H)...

...and I now give you today's regional weather forecast.

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:37:09 +0000

Steve Harness of Really American tells us that the Great American State Fair is going like gangbusters...actually, no, it really isn’t...oh, but we do have the Confederate rag on display at the North Carolina exhibit of course, because, as Harness says, what would a Trump-sponsored event be without a heaping helping of straight-up racism?...and look at the crowds! Why, I bet there’s actually tens of people there! And oh yeah, there is this too – the sarcasm writes itself, truly (NSFW/H)...

...and Robert Reich lets us know how Cantaloupe Capone’s gerrymandering plot could backfire...Repugs lost 40 U.S. House seats in the ’18 midterms during Combover Caligula’s wretched first term, and are poised to have a result at least that bad in a few months (though the aforementioned gerrymandering might take a chunk out of that)...a bit of a timely IMO history lesson on our disgusting SCOTUS tilting the scales once more for the “R” team by pretty much blowing up all of the VRA...I have tons of respect for Reich, but as far as I’m concerned, the “D” team should be pressing every conceivable advantage; more than “seat for seat,” we should be looking at ways to out-game the “party of Lincoln” to the fullest extent possible...only one political party supports the John Lewis For The People Act, and until that is eventually passed, I don’t care how dirty our side needs to fight when it comes to outsized voter representation...John Oliver had another good segment on this that I’ll try to get to, worth mentioning if for no other reason than for the laughably racist moment with outgoing Flori-DUUUH! guv #DeathSantis (cringingly awful, I mean)...

...and Belle of the Ranch lets us know that the “party of Lincoln” is continuing its attack on Social Security, to the point where funds are drying up faster than anticipated, with a reckoning potentially coming in six years...yep, looks like the usual political suspects are going to do their worst to ensure this vitally important program is privatized by 2032...at this point in our history, well into the beyond-awful second term under Our Treaasonous Orange Pustule that voters, in their dunderheaded stoo-pidity, awarded to #47, I cannot imagine why any sentient life form would trust ANYTHING with the Trump name attached to it (re, Trump Accounts)...Belle is spot-on when she says that you’re not supposed to get stinking rich on Social Security, but it IS supposed to be a safety net against the ups and downs from the Big Casino run by the banksters...being the filthy, unkempt liberal blogger that I am, I’m going to keep pointing out that the main fix here is to get rid of the cap on earnings subject to Social Security withholding, and I’m sure that suggestion will go continue to go nowhere (love to be wrong)...

...and David Pakman presents Dem Sen. Richard Blumenthal stumping another Trumpist judicial nominee, and that would be another Federalist Society flunky named Matthew Byrne...as we can see, Blumenthal is asking if Biden won the ’20 election and if the Capitol was attacked on 1/6/21, which a third grader should be able to answer with a Yes...and oh yeah, #47’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran is supposedly winding down or something, but he still wants $87 billion even though millions in this country have lost their health insurance and health care facilities are closing without Medicare/Medicaid reimbursements...oh, and Meta is releasing its own AI-powered prediction market app – just what we all need according to exactly no one, amirite?...

...and ripped from recent headlines, I give you the following from Mr. Newberger (can't think of a word to describe the utterly pathetic behavior from Our Ochre Abomination)...

...and Sir Paul truly is a marvel for continuing to crank out good new music, including this tune.

Monday Stuff

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:24:25 +0000

John Iadarola of The Damage Report discusses the fact that the firing of Stephen Colbert by CBS has apparently blown up in the metaphorical face of “The Tiffany Network”...looks like, according to Nielsen data, two-thirds of Colbert’s audience has evaporated...wow, you mean Byron Allen’s “Comics Unleashed” isn’t a ratings dynamo? Color me (not) shocked...oh, and it looks like they’re trying to revert a Bari Weiss firing involving Draggan Mihailovich, without success apparently, while also trying to keep another producer from resigning...and as noted previously, Nick Bilton is another one of “Bari’s kids” who is in WAAY TOO DEEP here...

...and as a bit of a follow-up, Yasmin Khan of Rebel HQ informs us that it looks like CBS is going to get hit with a fine b/c Stephen Colbert played a song on his final show that he wasn’t supposed to (the “Linus and Lucy” theme) – good job!...looks like the money the network will have to pay for illegal use of the music will go to World Central Kitchen, which I think is a nice touch (as Khan says, it wouldn’t be surprising if Colbert and Lee Mendelson, who owns the copyright for the music, were in on this)...some of this is probably also covered in the “Damage Report” clip I know...

...and Jesse Dollemore gives us Pee Wee German leaning into still more of his unending torrent of utterly racist garbage...yes, I know there’s not much in the way of new stuff here, but I don’t think that means that the architect of the human rights abuses from this cabal of guttural lowlifes should get a pass either...oh, and Will Cain of Fix Noise is indeed a “dipsh*t” as Jesse points out, just sitting there letting Miller’s poison flow uninterrupted...as you listen to Miller’s verbal diarrhea (and I apologize for inflicting this on you), I would ask that you keep in mind that folks in red states (the largest audience for this crap) take in MUCH MORE from the federal government than folks in blue states do, so let’s dispense with this fiction that poor whites are better at service jobs and contributing to our economy than folks emigrating to this country and living in blue states...take a look at who is overwhelmingly employed at hospitals, assisted living and memory care facilities, etc...it’s not Billy Joe Jim Bob or Betty Jean Dupree or their neighbors in the trailer park, but people holding multiple jobs who’ve emigrated from the countries Miller despises...and by the way, pre-colonial Africa was a vast continent of diverse civilizations, characterized by powerful empires, advanced trade networks, and rich cultural traditions; far from isolated, these societies flourished through innovation, complex governance, and bustling trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean commerce centuries before formal European colonization began...more of Miller's garbage is here, and Cain's "Team America" reference is unintentionally hilarious (NSFW/H)...

...and this clip from the New York Times lets us know about Georgia residents who have had their property seized to extend power lines...the official story is that this is happening for both business and residential users, but unofficially, this is happening to build more damn data centers which are going to consume more and more damn energy...personally, I don’t believe that statistic that using eminent domain to seize the land outright is used only 1 percent of the time, as that spokeswoman for a utility tells us...at least one resident was able to negotiate a better deal so that he could possibly move, but anyone else who owns any property at all could be looking at the same fate as these folks, especially if you live in a red state...

...and happy belated 100th (!) birthday to the incomparable Melvin Kaminsky...

...and here is another summer selection.

Friday Stuff

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:41:01 +0000

Alicia Menendez of MSNBC anchors a discussion with Melissa Murray, Andrea Flores, Amanda Carpenter, and Leah Litman on the latest legal atrocity from our bought-and-paid-for SCOTUS, denying legal protections to Haitian and Syrian refugees at our border...and oh yeah, our theocrats in robes also struck down a Hawaii gun law and said that, if you get cancer from Roundup, you can’t sue (more here)...as Murray says about the TPS nightmare, these hideous rulings make our existing statutes “parchment promises”...Murray also mentions this case of the Rastafarian man who had his dreadlocks shaved and sued, but he was told that, because his jailers didn’t consent to the man’s religious practices in advance, the claimant couldn’t bring an action; somehow I think the ruling would have been markedly different if that man had been a Christian...looks like our Philistines on the High Court are intent on whittling away temporary protected status to those coming from every location except a Nordic country and South Africa (if you’re white, that is)...aside from the human cost of revoking TPS, there’s also the economic impact, which no Repug seems to care about either...I think Menendez is right about our gaggle of conservatives Neanderthals “hiding behind judicial review,” and I’m not a lawyer either...”The largest de-legalization effort in the modern era” is sadly apt also...GREAT point about how these people targeted by Cantaloupe Capone and his foul ilk (including Pee Wee German) often hold jobs as caregivers in our communities...also spot-on to note that this ruling will step up harassment against those here with TPS, who likely have been here for awhile...

...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 6/24/14, in which former President Hopey Changey makes high-minded remarks about our beyond-wretched SCOTUS respecting existing precedent, which is almost quaint to consider after all this time (oh, and Repug Sen. Chuck Grasshole stands up for aggrieved white people everywhere to decry our former Kenyan Muslim socialist president – bad joke at this point I know)...I realize Obama was all about taking the high road, and I respect that, but I guess I’m including this to show how far we’ve fallen if for no other reason...also, I know I didn’t say anything about the opening of #44’s presidential library, which looks like an absolutely stunning facility, but that’s only because I wanted to comment on other stuff instead...definitely miss the voice of Ed Schultz, especially these days...

...and this clip from J.T. Cestkowski of Status Coup informs us that companies are reining in their AI spending, according to the Financial Times...yep, our august captains of industry promised AI to be a magical elixir to both raise productivity AND cut costs, but as usual, this mirage is slowly disappearing, with OpenAI and Anthropic facing the proverbial music here...usage caps on AI tokens is the first sign of “trouble in paradise,” with Uber and Amazon beating the retreat...next comes a chip shortage, which is yet another cost multiplier buffeting our economy (and data centers are indeed an ecological plague on this country – if we end up in something similar to the Great Recession of ’08, the collapse of the AI bubble will be a huge factor)...

...and this week also saw the exit of Labour’s Keir Starmer as Britian’s PM, their sixth Prime Minister in 10 years, as noted by Andrew Chang of the CBC (‘the charisma of frozen peas” – gotta love those zany Brits)...naming Peter Mandelson as Britain’s U.S. ambassador was definitely an unforced error on Starmer’s part, given Mandelson’s connection to Jeffrey Epstein...clip discusses Labour getting electorally creamed under Jeremy Corbyn in 2019 and how it at least temporarily revived itself, up to now...Labour never really had what you could call a mandate, dating back to ’24...as I watch this, I can’t help but draw a parallel to former president Biden, who did indeed deliver positive change, but not as quickly as expected (accompanied by the usual utter failure of the “D” team to communicate its accomplishments to the voters)...didn’t know about Our Treasonous Orange Pustule’s idiocy on Truth Septic announcing that Starmer would step down before it happened, but that definitely tracks also...all of this is good news for Andy Burnham, but now, he has to try and deliver also, in a nation still recovering from years of economic pillaging by the Tories...

...and just in time for summer (which is official as of last Sunday), Lewis Black is here for more on the latest exercise trends (wonder what “sword yoga” would be like mixed with ample doses of alcohol? Might lead to misdemeanor charges in a court of law I guess)...and oh yeah, “pistols and Pilates” – can’t wait for the screaming headlines about mass carnage on THAT one either...

...and RIP David Clayton-Thomas of Blood, Sweat & Tears...probably too easy of a call on this selection, I know.

Thursday Stuff

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:13:17 +0000

Chris Hayes brings us the tale of Dementia J. Trump torpedoing the bipartisan Senate housing bill as noted here (with Elizabeth Warren as one of the architects) to try and strongarm senators into passing his garbage SAVE Act, which, once again, is a “solution” in search of a problem – actually, the bill does nothing but screw over core Dem constituencies, which is the true objective of course...also, all 3 congressional candidates endorsed by Mamdani won in New York on Tuesday, leading corpora-Dems into a fit (led by this idiot, Carville I mean)...and oh yeah, Trump’s postmaster general wants to restrict mail-in ballots to blue states unless they hand over the voting rolls to the Gropenfuhrer – so many levels of illegality here that it’s truly hard to count them all...”he would rather cheat than win” indeed...

...and this report from the PBS Newshour discusses the incredibly-over-the-top sentencing of anti-ICE protestors to 30 to 100 years in prison, definitely longer than the sentences of the treasonous 1/6 insurrectionists as noted...I can just about guarantee you that these sentences will be knocked down on appeal, but the point of course is to utterly stifle dissent...and yes, I realize a police officer was shot which makes the protest a hell of a lot more serious of a matter, but these sentences are still ridiculously excessive...with correspondent Ali Rogin and federal prosecutor Paul Butler...big surprise that this prosecution is based in Texas I know...the legal fig leaf here is that the government has labeled Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, even though there is no political organization known as Antifa in this country (here)...and I suppose it fits in a typically demented way that those accused of belonging to Antifa denied it on the witness stand, but only confessed to belonging to a book group (once more, an unbelievable waste of taxpayer dollars from our idiot ruling regime)...we’re reminded once more of Presidential Memo 7 passed after the Charlie Kirk murder aimed basically at any person/organization Our Ochre Abomination doesn’t like, even though lefties had nothing to do with Kirk’s killing (it also fits that our ruling regime wants to punish people for “anti-capitalist views” – what a typical disgrace)...

...and this report from CBC News informs us of AI bots taking over fast-food drive-thrus, which I guess isn’t surprising (with White Castle being first apparently)...looks like “Julia” is taking care of about 90 percent of the orders correctly (a little spooky that that’s a higher average than for a flesh-and-blood human)...great point by the Canadian labor rep that fast food employment is a “stepping stone” job, and if that goes away, what will come in its place, if anything?...

...and speaking of nourishment, Farron Cousins brings us the sorry tale of Our Ochre Abomination and his same-party pals threatening to starve kids and families in this country with SNAP cuts...I know saying Republicans hate children is kind of extreme, but how exactly is Cousins wrong here, especially when we find out about a study looking at SNAP benefit cuts and what that’s doing to this country...1.6 million kicked off that vitally important benefit program, including about 776,000 kids in 12 states (at a cost of about $6 a day, versus our utterly insane Pentagon budget)...Cousins also points out how the latest class warfare from these Trumpist numbskulls is indeed incentivizing states to kick more people off SNAP...and yep, if you guessed that the typical mantra here from Not Your Father’s Republican Party is “oh, we’re cracking down on waste, fraud and abuse,” then you win a commemorative photo of The Sainted Ronnie R giving a speech braying about “welfare queens” (which don’t exist and have NEVER existed, by the way)...NSFW/H...

...and I now give you the following from Mr. Newberger based on today’s headlines...

...and here's a newer tune to try and keep the musical selections here from lapsing into a collection of "moldy oldies," at least for the moment.

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:34:02 +0000

Kenny Hesse of Really American informs us that, apparently, it looks like the “bromance” between “Bibi” and our thuggish ruling regime (and that includes Couch Boy) has hit the rocks, given that Israel will likely continue to attack Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, and God knows where else, alleged “deal” from the Gropenfuhrer be damned...yep, “Diaper Donnie” got played by our “ally” again (and yes, I know “No Malarkey Joe” was guilty on that score too, along with just about every other presidential administration)...and when you’ve lost The Swanson TV Dinner Heir (trying to look rugged without a tie I guess), then you’re truly losing the die-hard mouth breathers in your base on this...actually, VP “Hillbilly Elegy” shockingly makes some sense at around 5:00-5:20 or so; kind of makes me wonder what parallel dimension I fell into...I realize I shouldn’t pay much attention to “Tuckums,” but that remark “that was the story anyway” about 9/11 is typical for this self-serving puke – we lost 17 people from Bucks County based on a “story” as far as Carlson is concerned I guess (NSFW/H)...

...and we now go “across the pond” to Jonathan Pie, discussing “Trump The Peacemaker”...I hadn’t heard anyone drawing a comparison between this alleged deal with Iran and the fiasco with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, but yeah, they’re both peas in the same awful pod, you might say...I’d forgotten about the $2.1 billion in oil trades placed just before the start of hostilities – don’t know how the hell that’s legal, because it probably isn’t...I could tell he was going to go off because he also went without a tie (NSFW/H also)...

...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ gives us more on Repugs revolting over #47’s capitulation in his war of choice against Iran, including Trey Gowdy, who ended up on Fix Noise after a career in the U.S. House as a wingnut lapdog...I don’t know what the hell happened to Mike Pompeo – seriously, I hope he’s not ill, even though I don’t agree with a damn thing he has to say...oh, and “missiles aren’t the problem,” Combover Caligula? Gee, what would happen if a warhead was unleashed in the direction of Flori-DUUH! (which I don’t want to see, I wish to emphasize)...and once more, Thom Tillis and Bill Cassidy are on their way out of the U.S. Senate, so they can actually speak truth to stoo-pid...there’s a lot of “doom and gloom” aimed at Not Your Father’s Republican Party at the moment, and justifiably so, but allow me to be a bit of a contrarian here and add that, likely starting just around Labor Day, there will be such a torrent of attack ad garbage on TV, online and everywhere aimed at the “D” team (who will likely be clueless to respond, if past is prologue) that that will likely cause the polling numbers to tighten up...believe me when I tell you that I want to be wrong about that, but I’ve seen this damn movie too many times before...

...and Thom Hartmann discusses “Tokyo Rose” Gabbard, on her way out as DNI, who apparently is endeavoring to come up with some devious new way to rig the fall midterms...her seat is currently occupied by Bill Pulte, whose Trumpist bona fides includes rifling through mortgage docs on #47’s political enemies as Thom points out...oh, and apparently there’s now a rift between the CIA and Gabbard/Pulte because the former doesn’t trust the latter two assclowns (don’t you feel safer already, my fellow prisoners?)...didn’t know that there was an ordinance in Philly saying that, if you’re in law enforcement and wear a mask and don’t identify yourself, you go to jail for 90 days and pay a fine – nicely done (and yep, the typical Trumpist goons reacted with “lawfare,” as they always do...definitely not the biggest fan of Larry Krasner, but props to him if he had anything to do with this)...didn’t know about that study involving deceased relatives, but I believe it to be honest...

...and by the way, in case anyone was wondering what the world’s first trillionaire was up to, I think this update from America’s Finest News Source answer that question (joke, but barely)...

...and here is today's regional weather forecast.

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Apparently, Fascism is Back in Fashion

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

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Is Impeachment Really Off the Table (Part 2)?

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

Is impeachment really off the table?

OpEdNews asks the question, HERE.

Doctor's Orders?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'Low crime rate fuelling migration'

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

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

Consumers Of All Ages 'See Rise In Inflation'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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