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Friday Stuff

Fri, 13 Nov 2026 17:43:19 +0000

Farron Cousins tells us that some in the Trump Party on Capitol Hill are irate (apparently) about Cheetoh Hitler saddling them with Stephen Miller as the new White House Chief of Staff, though nobody is going on the record of course since they want to protect their jobs for as long as they can...I have to admit that I’m a bit torn on this also; yes, I want to see our country straightened out ASAP, but if Pee Wee German is going to be the instrument of the “R” team’s destruction, then I’m at least partly on board for that also...

...and Kyle Kulinski has more on that interview Ross Douthat of the Bari-Weiss-and-David-Ellison-approved “60 Minutes” conducted with Mango Mussolini, including parts that were apparently edited out to try and make #47 not look like quite so much of a demented lunatic (full disclosure: I didn’t see the interview because I have a life and I refuse to do anything in support of that formerly great program, so I can’t provide expert commentary on it)...Kyle makes a helluva point IMO that Spray Tan Satan sued the former “Tiffany Network” over allegedly editing a “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris to put her in a better light, or something...yeah, I’m REALLY sure that meeting with Putin and Zelenskyy took place on Saturday, and Sunday, and Monday, and Tuesday...and “great disrespect shown to Russia”; gag me with a spoonful of borscht (NSFW/H)...

...and Sam Seder of The Majority Report has more wailing and gnashing of teeth from Jesse Watters of Fix Noise about the elections, though the latter is correct in saying that that trash network is all about “identity politics” for white people, with that nematode Watters as one of “the cleverest of the jackal pack,” to use a phrase from ancient history...I hate to admit that Watters may be correct about the “party of Lincoln” pretty much locking up the white vote overall since 1964, because of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act as noted...I’m not going to try and decipher Watters’s idiot musings about anything else here; I don’t know what the hell Scott Colom winning in Mississippi has to do with some fantasy Repug winning in Hawaii either...”the country became single?” My brain is already hurting...

...and Thom Hartmann discusses why historians are warning about the next eight weeks for #47 until the new Congress is sworn in (tied to “late stage radicalization”); author Ruth Ben-Ghiat is cited here, along with Dr. Bandy Lee...I give Thom credit for so much, including his ability to cite his experience working with abused kids/spouses and abusive families to draw parallels to the behavior of our ruling regime...looks like Cantaloupe Capone may send his consigliere Todd Blanche after Dem U.S. House Rep Robert Garcia and Senator Elissa Slotkin (typical behavior I know), along with Baby Goebbels trying to perpetuate the “iron fist strategy,” as Thom puts it...also, among its many other duties, this incoming Congress must find a way to push back against NSPM-7...”the strongman’s playbook has no chapter on how to lose,” as Ben-Ghiat so correctly points out...

...and I wanted to try and wrap up the week with this clip of Jon Stewart talking with Rachel Maddow...absolutely love her clear-eyed commentary on where we are after the midterms and what can and should be done in response by the incoming Dem congressional majority...also glad to hear her emphasize the importance of Dem wins on the state level and what that can mean for restoring health insurance coverage for folks and (possibly) Medicaid expansion (and I would call this a positive related development)...

...and here's a newer number as a counterpoint to some of my recent "moldy oldies" :-)

Thursday Stuff

Thu, 12 Nov 2026 21:30:03 +0000

Alicia Menendez of MSNOW tells us about the latest lies from Combover Caligula about our veterans and the wars #47 has supposedly won...and we’re also reminded about that ridiculous Arch De Trump he plans to build at Memorial Circle on the way to Arlington...nine members of the family of JFK have joined a lawsuit to try and stop this monstrosity...and oh yeah, SecDef Kegseth and his crew dishonored the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with a selfie and laughing for some idiotic reason...Menendez is joined by Iraq war vet Paul Rieckhoff along with former DOJ special counsel Brendan Ballou...slightly NSFW/H for Rieckhoff completely speaking the truth about Kegseth (and I would definitely call this a CYA move, though it was the right call I have to admit for sure)...

...and while we’re on the subject, Brian Tyler Cohen informs us that it looks like the attempt to impeach SecDef Kegseth from outgoing Repug U.S. House Rep Thomas Massie was shot down primarily by the “R” team, acting like the typical Trumpist cowards that they are, but I believe it was still worth the effort to bring it to the floor...however, as Cohen notes, 11 Dems didn’t vote on this, including the utterly wretched Haley Stevens and Nancy (“We Need A Strong Republican Party” ) Pelosi, which is definitely NOT a good look for our side (NSFW/H)...

...and U.S. House Dem Jim McGovern of Massachusetts provides a response to “MAGA Mike” Johnson saying voters “made the wrong choice” on Election Day last week...McGovern is right to hold these idiots to account, but he is even MORE correct in saying that Dems need to use the power they will hold to make a difference in our everyday lives...

...and Jesse Dollemore informs us that the “R” team hasn’t learned anything based on the election results, apparently, echoing the prior clip a bit (as well as the Cohen clip)...oh, and “MAGA Mike” Johnson will now be obfuscating and obstructing for Dear Leader on his own time and no longer as a member of the U.S. House, so now, Gym Jordan will be wrestling with the duty of Minority Leader, as it were (and I know Mr. Newberger already alluded to that)...sounds like “that’s life” is going to be the mantra of these lickspittles; all I can say is to keep it up and see what continues to happen to your electoral fortunes...”I’ve never heard the president tell a lie,” huh? Obviously, because you chose not to listen, Gym (NSFW/H also)...

...and as we know, Combover Caligula is nothing but a ridiculous crybaby, but he demonstrated that again at that press conference, deciding he didn’t want to answer the question from the MS NOW reporter...funny to hear all of the pearl clutching, including from Jesse (“WHITES!!!”) Watters...nice job on the wall posters also (and regardless of what Our Ochre Abomination is doing, you can indeed be sure that Natalie isn’t far behind...Steve Harness and Nick Reynolds of Really American tell us about it)...yet another NSFW/H clip...

...and on this day in 1966, The Monkees' self-titled debut album reached the top spot of the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart, including this number.

Wednesday Stuff

Wed, 11 Nov 2026 14:31:11 +0000

David Pakman gives us more details on how Apartheid Clyde lost and is going away, hopefully (setting about $474 mil on fire for the “R” team; MANY arguments for getting rid of Citizens United, but that is the biggest one I've yet heard)...oh, and Musk had enough of a hissy fit to delete election-related posts, huh? Not surprising...and absolutely, all of the DOGE garbage should be looked at from top to bottom, as well as the details on King Elon getting awarded government contracts, as well as the stuff about Musk not enabling Starlink to help Ukraine launch an attack on Russia in Crimea as noted here (I think I got that right)...

...and Sam and Emma of The Majority Report bring us Dem U.S. Senator-Elect Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota and that great speech after winning her seat (“We Will Rip ICE Apart” – awesome; hopefully that will take place)...good for Emma to remind everyone about the role Bernie Sanders has played, along with (once more) Elon spending crazy dough in the Wisconsin judiciary contest in ’25 and losing on that also...

...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ lets us know that more votes are coming in for Dems, including maybe up to 259 U.S. House seats, and potentially 56 U.S. Senate seats (including Scott Colom over Cindy Hyde “Pick Another Protein” Smith, and hopefully Mary Peltola also in Alaska)...shouldn’t forget about Repug losses in state legislatures in Flori-DUUH, Texas and Georgia as we learn...victories were by decisive margins for the most part...also shouldn’t discount PO’ed minority voters in Mississippi getting questioned about their voting status...didn’t know an “affidavit” ballot in that state is the same as a provisional ballot (learn something new every day)...also didn’t know that state doesn’t have a recount law (Wonder why? On second thought, maybe I don't need to ask)...

...and I’ll admit that this is kind of a long, wonky clip, but Bernie Sanders lays out a pretty clear policy agenda IMO here...I think the wealth tax of 7% (start with that for negotiation and likely end up at 5%) should be the first item on the agenda since that will be the toughest fight, and it will provide the biggest across-the-board benefit I believe...

...and in case we were expecting an improvement from Don The Con given the midterm results...well, I don’t think we should be expecting a change in behavior, sadly, based on what Mr. Newberger presents here...

...and today would have been the 80th birthday of Chris Dreja of The Yardbirds.

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 10 Nov 2026 21:31:12 +0000

Brian Tyler Cohen tells us that it looks like Bo-Bo Boebert has officially lost her race for re-election in CO-04 according to CNN...sounds like she was trying to “thread the needle” on her boss’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran (in response to the question from Kyle Clark) and her constituents weren’t having it, fortunately...and oh yeah, articles of impeachment against “No Malarkey Joe” because Boebert had hurt fee fees over Afghanistan, huh? Can anyone make this make sense please?...I didn’t know she also voted against legislation having to do with bone marrow and cord blood replacement, as well as baby formula...

...and Chris Hayes has more on “swagger assh*lery rejected” about a week ago...just another reminder that Susie Wiles is out as WH Chief of Staff, in favor of Baby Goebbels, with the typical encouragement from our “low T” Secretary of WOOOAAAARRRR Kegseth (“tore down the sacred cows...of the deep state??” What the everlasting f*ck is he talking about?? Also, his boss didn’t do such a hot job of defending this country against domestic enemies on 1/6/21, amirite?)...additionally, as noted here, outgoing Repug U.S. House Rep Thomas Massie has indeed filed articles of impeachment against Kegseth...oh, and about the elections, Bo-Bo Boebert is done as well as previously noted, and things look bleak also for Virginia (“SHUUUT UUUUPPP!!”) Foxx...good to see Vivek and Max Miller get shown the door also (glad Amy Acton told Vivek to "talk to the hand" over that beyond disgusting campaign ad)...bye bye to that utterly wretched Harmeet Dhillon too...also, “Couch Boy” can try to pivot away from being a sycophant for his boss, but somehow I don’t think that’s going to work...finally, c’est dommage about Elon and his precious cybertruck – way too funny...

...and Brittany Page has more on the “party of Lincoln” scrambling to rebuild after getting nuked in the midterms...cool to see the intra-party squabbling and all the stuff about separating from MAGA or whatever (especially from this Dade Phelan guy in Texas), assuming that’s even possible...pass the popcorn...”how long have we been waiting for this?” indeed – they could have sh*tcanned this bunch of Trumpist grifters and frauds at around the time of the Mueller Report, and the “R” team would have been so much better off (but please don’t think for a minute that I give a rat’s ass about them – like you I’m sure, I care about this country instead)...and again, SecDef Kegseth got hit with Massie’s articles of impeachment, and for more unintentional humor, I give you outgoing Flori-DUUH Guv #DeathSantis trying to distance himself from that electoral butt-kicking...glad to see Page bring back that clip of Pelosi saying that about needing a strong “R” team, or whatever – yeah, I’m sure they all remembered that while their simpatico online scum did their happy dance over her husband nearly getting beaten to death during a home invasion...I think Page is right to be concerned about the just-mentioned online nematodes looking to make hay out of this political slaughter (Nick Fuentes, Tim Pool, Joel Webbon, The Swanson TV Dinner Heir, etc.)...NSFW/H...

...and this New York Times report gives us more on how ICE raids drove a historic shift to Dems in Kansas, profiling the aptly-named town of Liberal in that state; great voting news to be sure (a 52-point shift? Man oh man), but what a damn shame that this is what it took...amazing voter registration work that should serve as a template for organizing throughout the entire country...and Adam Hamilton is the first Dem U.S. Senator elected in about 100 years, believe it or not (I knew it had been a while, but THAT long? Wow)...

...and I’m loathe to attack the “D” team, especially now, but I need to include this from Jon Stewart; definitely not the biggest fan of Hakeem Jeffries, and you can say that cubed against Chuck (“What Do The Bailey’s Think?”) Schumer; I’ve seen a hell of a lot from people I respect (including Jennifer Welch) indicating that Schumer kneecapped Angie Nixon in Flori-DUUH, likely because Nixon didn’t march in lockstep in supporting “Bibi” and Israel...I think Jackson White of Rebel HQ is correct in saying that we’re basically stuck with Schumer and Jeffries for at least the next two years, but credit to Annie Andrews and Peggy Flanagan IMO for standing up on this in support of new leadership...also, any serious person should give zero credence to what Dana Perino or any of those idiots on “The Five” (minus Jessica Tarlov) have to say - NSFW/H also...

...and RIP Richard Lloyd of Television.

Monday Stuff

Mon, 09 Nov 2026 16:32:49 +0000

I realize this CBC News report was filmed before last Tuesday’s elections, but I still think it contains some cautionary information about what Democratic U.S. House and Senate majorities can and can’t do in response to Mango Mussolini (yep...great that Dems will have congressional control, but I’m sure we can now expect a festival of executive orders also in response, unfortunately)...

...and Tennessee Brando lets us know that the blame game has begun, though Secretary of WOOOAAARRR Kegseth wasn’t the first to get canned in the wake of Tuesday’s blue tsunami; that would be Susie Wiles (and before we think Our Treasonous Orange Pustule is actually mad at Baby Goebbels because of something Melania supposedly said, I should note that he got Wiles’s job as White House Chief of Staff)...I think Brando is right that #47 will never face incarceration either, sadly, though Kegseth should for certain because of the wanton murder of those men on the boats near Ecuador (here) as Brando points out (thought I don’t mean to absolve Cantaloupe Capone for that), along with those Iranian schoolgirls...great that we have Dem governors in every swing state, and I read that every single Repug U.S. House Rep representing a district Kamala Harris won in ’24 (including Bri-Fi) lost last Tuesday...and I can’t tell you how utterly sweet it is to hear the words “John Fetterman no longer matters”...I agree with Brando’s take that impeachment for Don The Con could actually backfire and the “one by one” approach towards going after the cretins in Trumpworld might be the better way to go (NSFW/H)...

...and Farron Cousins lets us know that a big part of MAGA doesn’t seem to get what happened last Tuesday...yes, the Iran war is a big part of this, but there are PLENTY of other reasons, including the economy (along with the stinking tariffs) and the corruption (and indeed, hold that lickspittle Mark Levin up for ridicule for shilling for #47’s Not-So-Excellent Iranian adventure, along with Baby Ben Shapiro)...I think Cousins is basically right about foreign policy never being the #1 issue in a campaign, though it’s pretty high on the list...didn’t know the exact number of jobs lost under Trump 2.0, but 1.1 million is pretty damn bad for sure...

...and Josh Gay of Ring of Fire tells us that Plano, Texas just rejected a bid for public financing to the tune of $700 million for a new arena for the Dallas Stars NHL hockey club and owner Tom Gaglardi (and I definitely share his opinion of Fenway Park FWIW)...also, about $250 million has been diverted from schools for this, which is even more disgusting IMO (corporate welfare indeed)...I honestly don’t know if the Stars hockey team is publicly financed in any way (I suspect they aren’t; one example of a publicly financed team is the Green Bay Packers), but any sports franchise that takes public dough should be structured in such a way that fans could be part owners – they should reap that benefit if their money is part of the deal...

...and the Onion News Network asks Why Hasn’t Abdul El-Sayed achieved any of his campaign goals after winning two minutes ago...I’m not laughing too much over this (even though I definitely get the point) because this is pretty close to what Fix Noise, OAN, America’s Voice and wingnut media generally might end up saying anyway in all seriousness...

...and I haven’t seen any U.S. tour dates for this guy in this area including Philly or NYC (focusing on the UK and the EU for now it seems), but I’ll update this post if I find out anything on that.

Friday Stuff

Fri, 06 Nov 2026 14:58:17 +0000

As long as the dust has settled a bit on the elections for the most part (not completely with some contests in the U.S. House I know, along with the vote count that’s ongoing in the U.S. Senate elections in Alaska and Mississippi), I’d like to say a thing or two about this guy.

My intent here is not to dance on the political grave of Brian Fitzpatrick (besides, the way this stuff generally works, he’ll likely be back for another try at this). As much as I hate to point this out, he has been a canny and resilient political adversary. You don’t manage to last 10 years in office, dispatching a variety of Dem opponents, unless you have some well-honed political instincts. Also (and here’s something else I don’t want to note, but I should), the Republican political organization in this U.S. House district and in Bucks County, PA generally is formidable (our folks work heroically and make all manner of sacrifices, but the “R” team more often than not has their act together on this stuff for sure...I mean, the policies and legislation they support stinks to high heaven, but that's another discussion).

In addition to the reality we all know too well about how badly everything has gone in this country with this wretched Trump 2.0 term (which could have been foreseen by anyone with their eyes open), there have been other reasons why this election cycle was different for sure from those in the past (aging/declining Republican core voter base, a younger and more racially/ethnically diverse voting block that is ascendant, to say nothing of LBGTQ folks and women-single-parent households, all of whom inherently lean to the “D” side for the most part). I wasn’t close enough to the Bob Harvie campaign to know exactly what was going on (unlike in prior years where I was more involved with other candidates – long story there), but they obviously were successful. I also have a feeling that, given the state of things overall with the economy, the Iran war, the corruption and other factors, we’re going to find out that a lot of Republican voters stayed home (no disrespect to the Harvie campaign in saying that).

My main point is that, for a Republican Party that generally knows what they’re doing, they showed an astonishing inability to “read the room” this time around (generally representative of the “Trump Party” overall I admit). We know their policies are utterly indefensible, but Fitzpatrick (as nearly as I could tell) did virtually nothing to try and tout whatever accomplishments he’s managed over the last two years (and again, we’re not talking about much I know). His strategy seemed to be to run and hide (which I tried to point out with those dippy cartoons) while his GOP-aligned front group stuck these ridiculous signs all over the place trying to make Bob Harvie look like a criminal, saying “Release The Bob Harvie Files” (more on that here...Harvie was never the target of an FBI investigation or ever charged with a crime) and “Bob Harvie Voted Himself A Pay Raise” (and again, assuming that’s even true, it’s laughable to think that no other politician has ever done that, including Bri-Fi). It is incomprehensible to me to think that anyone on the other side believed that that could be a winning strategy.

Fortunately, though, everything worked out well and the PA-01 U.S. House seat will be safely represented by our team for at least the next two years.

(Also, when it comes to "not reading the room," I give you this.)

Now to the videos...Kyle Kulinski talks about Michigan Dem Senator-Elect Abdul El-Sayed’s victory speech calling out his utterly rancid opponent Mike Rogers, along with Couch Boy (oh, and “Haley Who”? Whatsername again?)...I would agree with Kyle’s assessment that millennial politics has finally arrived...”a battle between the money and the many” — nice turn of phrase!...NSFW/H...

..and Belle of the Ranch talks about what Dems can and can’t do...yep, #47 is indeed a lame duck now, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t still pretty damn dangerous, unfortunately...great that the Dems will truly have the “power of the purse” now, in addition to other political weapons they could bring to bear (and I agree with Belle’s take that they should force #47 to use that veto pen as much as he wishes to do so)...and oh yeah, oversight will be a big time factor also, along with subpoena power...the ability to block another potential wingnut SCOTUS justice is definitely important also...

...and Farron Cousins lets us know that an international law professor named Jamie Rowen thinks #47 may try to flee the country at the end of his term if the heat gets too much for him, like Flavio Bolsonaro did, maybe to the UAE or Saudi Arabia, trying possibly to stay a step ahead of the ICC (assuming we got involved again with that body I know) - interesting...

...and leave it to Jesse Welles to give us a typically pithy look at what unfolded earlier this week (also NSFW/H)...

...and Seth Meyers gives us A Closer Look...yes, I don’t think it hurts at this point to still do a victory lap, though the much harder work lies ahead of course...still hard for yours truly to get my head around all of the Dem wins, and I don’t think it exactly makes me an expert to point out that that came out of utter disgust with the “party of Lincoln” (and #47) more than anything else...hard to describe the utter delusion of Cantaloupe Capone to be whining about the damn reflecting pool on the eve of last Tuesday’s wipeout (wonder how many on the “R” team wish now that they’d put Don The Con in his place years ago, which they could have done during one of the impeachments? Ooopsie)...and Uday Jr. tells everyone the Dems want to make Ohio a state (#facepalm)...”The emotional palate of a badger” – good one...I know I already had that clip of Our Sweaty Bronzer Boy whining about Fix Noise polling, and here it is again...and leave it to Sean Inanity, who’s spent literally decades propagandizing about Democrats, to say that “the hatred against (Trump) is unprecedented” – pot, meet kettle...and “helicopters on the roof,” huh? Exactly what is front of mind for voters dealing with our awful, non-DOW-and-NASDAQ economy, the Iran war, the stinking tariffs, the unending corruption, ICE, hiding the Epstein files, loss of health care (which is due to kick in even more in January from the Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck), and on and on...

...and I know I’m a day behind on this tune in light of this, but better late than never I guess.

Wednesday Stuff

Wed, 04 Nov 2026 22:30:42 +0000

(I'll let Markos Moulitsas give his take on last night's historic results here.)

To begin, I give you an NBC 10 report on Bob Harvie’s win in the PA-01 U.S. House contest with Bri-Fi last night (I can't tell you what it means to say that at last)...Josh Shapiro was returned as PA guv also...Bob Brooks also defeated Ryan Mackenzie (another U.S. House win for the “D” team)...so awesome also that that turncoat Jeff Van Drew was sent packing in NJ as well...

...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ gives us more...kind of tells you how epic last night’s results were, so much so that Rupert The Pirate’s vanity rag couldn’t even spin them in a favorable light...great stuff in particular with returning Dem Georgia U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff and Senator-Elect Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, along with Senator-Elect Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota...and oh yeah, let’s blame Susie Wiles for everything last night (#facepalm)...and former Trumpette spokes-liar Karoline Leavitt blames dumb voters and the media – wingnut tears truly taste delicious...oh, and Spray Tan Satan actually thinks he WASN’T on the ballot?? Way too damn funny...I know Ossoff’s political instincts are pretty good and I’m sure his victory speech played pretty well overall, but it sounded a little too “middle of the road” for yours truly to be honest...I think we should put that clip of MAGA Mike Johnson saying he’ll be the speaker in the next Congress in a time capsule – more Republican entitlement on display...

...and Jesse Dollemore continues our coverage, you might say; looks like Cantaloupe Capone lost what’s left of his mind over last night’s results...yep, Greg Abbott is OUT in The Lone Star State; #47 sent out some tweet that was all sweetness and light, and then Don The Con turned on him when results started to go badly (and Bret Baier allows Mango Mussolini to tell another one of his lying “sir” stories because of course)...looks like one of the few blemishes I’ve found so far are assclown Alabama voters electing Tommy Tuberville governor, which isn’t a surprise I know, sadly...Pete Ricketts won in Nebraska, BTW...and I honestly don’t know what that orange dipsh*t is talking about when it comes to the World Trade Center – if he’s talking about 9/11, the Trump Party ended up taking over in the 2002 U.S. Congressional elections (Dennis Hastert became Majority Leader in the House and Bill Frist in the Senate)...also, #47’s approval within his own party is at about 74%, last I checked...Jesse is also completely spot-on to say this fight needs to continue, and it anything, get amped up even more... way beyond awesome that Bo-Bo Boebert may get politically kicked to the curb also...NSFW/H...

...and Thom Hartmann provides more proof that Our Sweaty Bronzer Boy was indeed on the ballot yesterday as already noted, despite his ravings to the contrary, and sitting at a 38 percent approval number...anybody who actually thinks the inhabitant in An Oval Office will work with Democrats must believe in candy cotton ponies and sugar plumb fairies also...of all the U.S. Senate races, aside from Michigan, I was also particularly concerned about New Hampshire, but nice work by Chris Pappas to pull off a win...

...and leave it to Mr. Newberger to give us a catchy tune for us all to dance to...

...and if you want to take or leave the inherently spiritual message of this song, I get it, but I still think it fits for this joyous occasion.

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 03 Nov 2026 14:01:47 +0000

Today is indeed the day to elect Bob Harvie, all you PA-01 folks out there (along with Steve Santarsiero for PA's 10th Senate district, as well as Perry Warren for PA's 31st House district)...

...and Chris Hayes goes over the collection of “cretins, flunkies and psychos” from the “R” team on the ballot...yes, Ken Paxton is truly awful, and Darline Graham really is that clueless as we know, and abuser (allegedly) Max Miller in Ohio is still on the ballot for the U.S. House...oh, and we also learn about this Brandon Herrera U.S. House sociopath in Texas, along with Victor (“Does It Matter If I Killed People As An Adult”) Marx, the evangelical running for Colorado governor who apparently can also perform exorcisms over the phone – uh huh...and there’s also David (“Stolen Valor”) Flippo, along with Trumper Anthony Constantino in New York who’s a big-time data center booster...”a wretched hive of scum and villany” indeed...

...and John and Brett Erlich of The Damage Report inform us on “America Next,” some wingnut Astroturf outfit...sooo, “liberals are the new racists,” huh? Nice job of cranking out AI slop I would say from a Repug org founded for former Repug Louisiana guv Bobby (“Don’t Call Me Piyush”) Jindal, of all people...and yes, the way this outfit is set up, we don’t get to find out who’s actually funding it – nice...

...and this New York Times clip tells us Why Kansas Ranchers Are Turning On Trump, mainly because of the import of “mystery meat” from Argentina earlier this year which ended up costing our cattle ranchers thousands of dollars without making much of a difference in the supermarket price...yes, I know I’ve gone down this road with stories like this in the past and “R” party voters ended up falling in line as usual, but I guess we’ll see if that holds true this time also...

...and Farron Cousins lets us know that someone running a Repug-voter focus group was apparently shocked to find out that those voters actually don’t like billionaires; I would ask that you remember this the next time you hear a corporate media pundit sound off on the left-wing echo chamber, and yes, that is a bit of thing, but there’s NO EQUIVALENCY with how dominant that is on the other side, and I would argue that this is more proof of that...hopefully these disillusioned folks will just sit out this election – I mean, it would be awesome if they voted for Team D, but I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for that (and I agree with Cousins’ assessment about breaking up our two-party duopoly near the end of this clip FWIW)...

...and I think this is a timely tune for today, written by Little Steven of course.

Monday Stuff

Mon, 02 Nov 2026 22:49:24 +0000

Brittany Page talks about King Elon I trying to roll the “party of Lincoln” given the fact that he’s funding a good bit of their last-minute campaign BS, to the tune of about $400 million, an utterly ungodly sum...that $366 million comparison to $32 of household income is indeed pretty damning...good point by Page about the corporate media double standard of not holding Apartheid Clyde accountable for the garbage he reposts on a regular basis versus coming down with a case of the vapors over Abdul El-Sayed supposedly not condemning the Muslim Brotherhood hard or fast enough...

...and Kyle Kulinski brings us the tale of turncoat Michigan Dem Haley Stevens officially stabbing her party’s U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in the back and endorsing Repug Mike Rogers...looks like Stevens’s husband says that no Democrat should vote El-Sayed because he’s supposedly anti-Israel, or some such garbage...so Stevens’s husband follows Ron #DeathSantis on the bad X app, along with Libs of TikTok, which kind of gives away the game for yours truly (here)...NSFW/H...

Update: And speaking of nonsense against Dem U.S. Senate candidates, there is also this.

...and David Pakman tells us about Fix Noise’s ratings decline in the highly coveted 25-54 age demographic (its biggest drop in 25 years)...I think this is interesting, but we also need to see if these numbers are borne out past the election...I also think Pakman makes a good point about what could be an enthusiasm gap, you might say, in this particular election cycle as far as the wingnuts are concerned...almost funny to hear the Gropenfuhrer complain NOW about The Roger Ailes BS Factory when that trash network was the biggest cheerleader for Dementia J. Trump for years (here)...

...and I have to admit that the political ads I’ve seen this cycle are kind of hit and miss, and I know this isn’t a recent one from Sherrod Brown, but I still thought it was good...

...and Mr. Newberger tries to make sense of the Haley Stevens debacle...lotsa luck on that one I know (and I'm not surprised by this, and I think this is kind of spot-on also)...

...and I thought this was a cool newer upbeat tune - don't blink or you'll miss it.

Friday Stuff

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 14:42:06 +0000

Brian Tyler Cohen presents a clip of Former President Hopey Changey lighting up a rally in Georgia for Jon Ossoff and Keisha Lance Bottoms, focusing on that “cheesecake factory” remark about what Mango Mussolini has done to the “people’s house”...I realize #44 is preaching to the faithful and this likely won’t move the needle much for anyone who doesn’t support him anyway, but standing up and calling out the madness from the regime of the Gropenfuhrer is still the right call, and as Cohen says, the outrage over what an African American president recently said is just another damn distraction anyway (NSFW/H)...

...and John Iadarola gives us more evidence of some one-time Trump voters getting fed up with affordability as a big issue, the stinking corruption, the Iran war, the explosion of data centers, Islamophobia, the Epstein files, culture war nonsense, etc., all while our quality of life gets worse every day (and Harry Enten is back with more positive numbers, but we have to see this thing through to the end next Tuesday of course...I have a feeling that some of these interviews are old, but this is a recent video)...

...and this clip from Natasha Del Toro of More Perfect Union looks at health care in rural Flori-DUUH (Putnam County) where they went in big time for the Gropenfuhrer of course...450K folks lost their ACA coverage this year (including Medicaid), the most of any state as we learn...so sorry to hear about the man with testicular cancer and the fight he’s going through with “the best health care money can buy,” along with the lady fighting multiple myeloma...looks like Dem U.S. Senate Rep Angie Nixon stood tall again here in meeting with affected residents (typical horror stories from some of the brave folks speaking here)...M4A continues to be the answer, and I know that will be a heavy lift particularly in that state, but I honestly don’t see any other option...and I realize we have to present the crazy point of view, so along comes Ashley Moody, appointed to her job in the U.S. Senate by Guv #DeathSantis, trying to run and hide from supporting cuts to Medicaid and gutting ACA credits...”we shouldn’t have to fight to just stay alive” indeed...

...and RIP Sir Patrick Stewart...so many great performances that I don’t think it’s possible to catalog all of them (including Lenin in "Fall of Eagles" and Lucius Aelius Sejanus in "I, Claudius"), and I believe he did his best to show a face of humanity to the world in the process, including in this clip...

...and the Onion News Network asks the question that most every wingnut is asking, I would imagine, and that is “should food cost more?” (if it enhances Dear Leader in any way whatsoever, I would imagine...slightly NSFW/H also)...

...and I hope everyone has a Happy Halloween tomorrow.

Wednesday Stuff

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:42:48 +0000

David Pakman discusses the impact of the ruinous economic policies of the Tangerine Toddler, in particular on our farmers...yep, #47 creates a problem (the tariffs and the war with Iran, driving up the price of fuel including diesel, and messing up their ability for farmers to trade their goods), then worsens the problem, then concocts a taxpayer-funded bailout and demands that everyone thank him for it...

...and as a bit of a follow-up, John and Jayar of The Damage Report ask if rural voters in this country are FINALLY getting the message on the “party of Lincoln”? I won’t hold my breath, but we’ll see...this definitely is echoed in my own family circle, you might say; some folks would NEVER imagine voting for a Dem, so it’s a “win,” more or less, if they just sit out, but as John says, that’s not the best circumstance either...I know John is being tongue in cheek at the end about these troglodyte Repug voters and politicians and guns, and he’s right, but that bit still made a little uncomfortable, I have to say...

...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ informs us that it looks like Flavio Bolsonaro lost the most recent election in Brazil to incumbent president Luiz Inácio Lula (Flavio is the son of the convicted former preznit Jair Bolsonaro, who went to the joint for his role in an insurrection in that country; apparently, Brazil is a nation that holds its leaders accountable)...looks like Lula responded to our idiotic tariffs against his country with some of his own...oh, and it also looks like Meta meddled in this contest also; in a country where the rule of law is actually respected, I would say that that’s something that should be investigated...didn’t know that Meta suspended its “No Kings” page in the middle of the protests, but that doesn’t surprise me – ooopsie!...oh, and OF COURSE Bolsonaro is yelling about a “rigged election,” just like you-know-who (an update is here, and I can’t help but think that somewhere, Michael Brooks is smiling)...

...and Tennessee Brando gives us his rundown on elections elsewhere in the world...I knew about the populist win in Brazil of course as well as Hungary, but I have to admit that I didn’t know about Serbia (and apparently “Bibi” is up for a vote also – I know pretty much nothing on Israeli politics I have to admit, but it sure would be nice is he got the boot, to say nothing of standing in a docket at the Hague)...definitely NSFW/H...

...and Desi Lydic takes a look at folks online who could potentially be influencing your vote...yeah, there are all those journos out there who actually went to the time, trouble and expense to get educated and build up a track record of reporting (well, some of them anyway) and maybe even write a book or two that could be watched/listened to, but instead, too damn many people learned about a candidate for office from some online goodball while checking out cat videos or a recipe for carbonara (and with all due respect to Ed Markey, I think he needs to sit it out the next time he gets a chance to appear online like that)...

...and RIP Donnie Iris.

Monday Stuff

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:11:36 +0000

This is good news people, but’s let’s have no illusions; this campaign is going to be a fight until the very end, so let's keep up our efforts (and to help Bob Harvie, click here).

To begin, Kyle Kulinski tells us that it looks like “pastor” Kenneth Copeland is big mad at Dems again, invoking more hellfire and damnation over all those babies the “D” team allegedly murdered, as if the Clintons, Obama and Biden invented abortion (I guess I shouldn’t snark on that too badly because I’m sure that’s what a lot of folks actually believe)...I don’t know anybody else besides Kyle calling out our disgusting war crimes with our “ally” “Bibi” that we conducted against Iran (and yes, I know Iran are bad actors overall, but that doesn’t excuse our pre-emptive war either)...I would only add on top of Kyle’s great (though profane of course) response the following question: is Our Lord going to have the likely million names read to Republican voters of everyone sentenced to death (mainly kids) in sub-Saharan Africa from King Elon I destroying US AID? Also, I know Kyle misspoke a bit; we are WAAAY past the primaries, dawg (definitely NSFW/H)...

...and Brittany Page discusses the role of corporate media and some Dems in bringing us to the sorry point in our politics where we are at the moment, with the Gropenfuhrer calling the shots from An Oval Office, and I realize that Dementia J. Trump is just going to keep mispronouncing the name of the Dem U.S. Senate candidate from Michigan up to and including Election Day (“Mohammed El Allah Akbar Jihadi El-Sayed,” or other idiotic variations)...and I’ll give David Axelrod a measure of credit for playing the role he did in getting President Obama elected twice, but Axelrod also was lucky enough to land with a charismatic and skilled candidate, to be fair...I think some of the CNN panel observations are kind of moronic, actually; sooo, just let Trump and Mike Rogers spout these lies about El-Sayed, and the Dem should just let them get away with it??? That has a lot to do with why people don’t have much to do with the “D” team, to be honest...I’m glad Page also gets into the BS with Jan Crawford of the formerly highly respectable CBS News and the fact that Crawford went waaaay out of her way to attack El-Sayed, showing that Crawford is merely a political actor supported by Bari Weiss as opposed to a legitimate news professional...I didn’t know about Crawford’s softball “interview” with Strip Search Sammy, but that tracks also sadly...and let’s bring David Brooks to the party also and his take against Jon Ossoff for quite rightly calling out the white nationalist garbage concerning Ossoff’s opponent Mike Collins; what discussion of faux media equivalency is complete without BoBo, I wonder...mildly NSFW/H...

...and Farron Cousins discusses Repugs in Michigan telling #47 to stay away; so many reasons why, but Our Ochre Abomination’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran and those beyond stoo-pid tariffs are the biggest culprits, you might say...it looks like #47 went ahead with his little Bund rally anyway, and with a typical bit of misogyny of course...

...and this CBC News report informs us of the backlash to data centers and the problem for the Repugs, particularly in Ohio...glad to see people of different political allegiances working together to fight against the encroachment of these monstrosities consuming precious resources, driving up costs and ruining folks’ quality of life, but it should not have come to this point...don’t know much about that Alan (“date centers have been around forever”) Sturm guy, but he’s definitely part of the problem also...and oh yeah, it’s really rich for Jon Husted in Ohio to blame Democrats on the issue of data centers – WHO THE HELL IS IN CHARGE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGAIN, SPARKY??!!...more on this is here, and to help Sherrod Brown, click here...

...and speaking of Husted (and harking back to the Nicki Minaj stuff also), I’ll give you a little insight into how the “sausage gets made” again...I honestly deliberate and weigh the pros and cons of the videos I put up here and try to evaluate how much they could impact voters’ perceptions and people’s involvement in the political process...oh, WTF – I’m just kidding...I saw this clip from Mr. Newberger and took about 10 seconds to decide based on this...

...and I definitely like this newer number, though it kind of wraps up quick (and I thought about Bri-Fi on the title for sure).

Saturday Stuff

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:06:12 +0000

This is just a reminder that our PA-01 rep Bri-Fi has served our *preznit faithfully over the last two years – not so much for PA-01 overall I would argue (here)...oh, but now Fitzpatrick is claiming here that says town halls are funded by “dark money,” or some such nonsense (i.e., the reason why he chickens out on them...not nearly good enough as far as yours truly is concerned).

Brian Tyler Cohen discusses an utter raging trash fire of a political campaign, and that would be Vivek Ramaswamy’s quest to be governor of Ohio...we learn about Vivek’s typically disgusting attack ad against his Dem gubernatorial opponent Amy Acton...sooo, thanks to Vivek’s garbage, we learn that Acton and her brother were removed from their mother’s custody when she was 12 because the mother’s sick, disgusting boyfriend was accused of statuary r*pe of the now-Dem gubernatorial candidate in Ohio, a rare case of BOTH sides ganging up on the failed off-patent drug salesman, who (as we see) confessed to being responsible for this vile, hateful crap...and leave it to Couch Boy to say Vivek’s horror show isn’t his concern, or whatever (and I definitely don’t want to contemplate Vance’s web browser history, at least not on a full stomach, as long as we’re on the subject)...more on this here...NSFW/H...

...and Sam and Emma of The Majority Report let us know that it looks like Repugs are getting some resistance in Flori-DUUH to the typical “communism” and “socialism” BS even thought that’s pretty much baked in to the political DNA as Sam points out because of Cuban and Venezuelan expats; looks like these people have wised up a bit to the fact that #47’s ICE Gestapo will go after them too, though again, this is the Sunshine State and it’s not as if they’re all going to magically turn into tree-hugging libs...Repug Ashley Moody, running to hold her appointed U.S. Senate seat against Dem Angie Nixon, may be getting some blowback on that...I’d forgotten about Moody’s involvement in laundering (allegedly) dough intended for a kids’ charity into a political PAC for Guv #DeathSantis (and how typical is it for Fix Noise to lead into a “news” segment with “yeah, but Moody is innocent of laundering campaign funds”)...good explanation here from Emma about how those funds from a settlement (to be distributed to sick kids by #DeathSantis’s wife) ended up going to a PAC to defeat cannabis legalization instead...

...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” from 10/24/20, in which we learn more about “Disappointed” Susan Collins falling down on the job as Maine senator – what’s past is prologue, I’d say (and I’ll withhold comment for now on the props handed out here to Olympia Snowe and Bill Cohen)...an update is here; to do something about Collins, click here...

...and Robert Reich and MoveOn discuss a potential AI dystopia...yep, we’re being sold more patently ridiculous BS on AI and related technology, while these data center monstrosities blight our landscapes, consume resources, drive up utility prices and generally ruin our quality of life (and I definitely DO NOT take Apartheid Clyde seriously when he says he favors UBI)...I knew that Alaskans receive dividends from oil and mining businesses, which sounds like a damn good idea to yours truly (and I didn’t know about “surveillance pricing,” yet another dirty trick by our “pay no price, bear no burden” oligarchs)...

...and speaking of the Gropenfuhrer’s mini-me, we get more nonsense about J.D. (“Tell Me What You’re Good At”) Vance from Ronny Chieng of The Daily Show...and I’ll be honest; we’re so hip deep in Trumpian corruption that it is indeed difficult to keep up with it all (and I realize that that’s the point from these cretins)... and I’m pretty sure I already noted that SecDef Kegseth’s boss said “no dice” on live streaming the execution of Nidal Hasan by firing squad, but here is another mention of that (and apparently, televising the state-sponsored murder of a guy in a wheelchair is “a bridge too far” for this regime – got it)...mildly NSFW/H...

...and I thought this was a pretty cool newer number for the weekend – hope it’s a good one for one and all.

Friday Stuff

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:27:20 +0000

Farron Cousins lets us know that Our Sweaty Orange Bronzer Boy is totally cool with Vlad The Butcher’s ongoing terror campaign against the brave people of Ukraine, and King Elon I is playing games with Starlink to hurt that country standing up to Russian aggression...and yeah, I have to admit that our PA-01 U.S. House rep is making some good noises on this, but I’ve seen this movie before (i.e., when the media shifts its focus to something else, so does Bri-Fi, but we’ll see, and particularly given that this is an election year of course and Apartheid Clyde is throwing truly stoo-pid money at the “R” team as Cousins points out)...

...and this New York Times video informs on in the matter of a fight over fish in Alaska that could flip that state’s U.S. Senate seat...looks like larger fishing operations in their trawlers are picking up the salmon that smaller businesses would get to maintain their operations...also sounds like Repug Dan Sullivan wants to limit trawling, but Dem Mary Peltola wants to ban it outright, even though climate change is a bigger issue as we learn...I’m sure there’s more to this story, but this is the sort of thing that interests yours truly as opposed to whatever crazy thing Don The Con just said or did over the last news cycle...

...and I honestly try not to attack “team D” and participate in a circular firing squad, but I absolutely have to over the latest nonsense from James Carville, going on Bill Kristol’s podcast to say that Carville would rather see Republicans keep control in the U.S. House by 5 seats instead of the Dems taking over because if the Dems win the House by 5, then Hakeem Jeffries will be held hostage by the DSA as Carville sees it (and the DSA only has 7 members as Gay tells us); assuming Carville is actually right, please explain how that’s a bad thing...another reason why I could care less about Carville is that I honestly can’t recall him showing similar concerns when you had President Manchin and “Curtsy Kyrsten” holding the Senate hostage when the Dems had a slim majority in THAT body...Carville, among his other offenses, is one of these characters who often fires off texts and Emails yelling at yours truly to give him money – he also represents boomer entitlement big time and is one of the reasons for the divide between his demographic cohort (and mine, to be fair) and “Gen Z” and what will hopefully be the Dem voters of today and the future...the “raging Cajun” (who hasn’t won an election in over 30 years) can go on Bill Maher and carry on and pout in that space while we continue with the business of trying to win elections...mildly NSFW/H...

...and I admit that this is an unsettling ad, but please try to explain to me how this ISN’T based in reality, sadly (here)...

...and after something as heavy as that, I’d like to now present something a little more upbeat...Steve Harness of Really American now gives us a lot of anti-Trump AI slop (including some neat little tunes and a Star Wars “I’m your father, Luke” takeoff), with about two weeks to go until Election Day...and oh year, Our Ochre Abomination struck a deal with Daddy Vlad to buy diesel and screw over Ukraine again, because of course (NSFW/H)...

...and happy 70th birthday to Dwight Yoakam – always liked this Grateful Dead cover.

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 21:08:04 +0000

This is your periodic reminder that our PA-01 U.S. House Rep Brian Fitzpatrick won’t come out of hiding and debate his Democratic challenger Bob Harvie running in this fall’s election.

Thom Hartmann tells us about Amendment 82 in Colorado (pushed by yet another dark money group called Advance Colorado), which apparently would strip local pollution regs and lock in fossil fuel dependence (peachy)...as Thom says, if somehow this passes (God forbid), we can expect similar legislation to pop up across the country...of course, there is definitely an alternative in renewables (I’d also like to get in a commercial of sorts for the great state of Vermont that we recently visited, where there were solar panels all over place and it definitely didn’t blight the glorious landscape)...great discussion here on the Germany Rooftop Solar Plan that Thom mentions; also didn’t know that Nebraska has managed to keep a for-profit utility company out of the state for about 80 years (BTW, it looks like about $600 billon in green energy investment from Biden managed to get allocated despite the efforts of Dementia J. Trump to wipe it out as noted here)...

...and Jesse Dollemore brings us the video of Dem U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan putting that Repug operative in his place over that beyond ridiculous Muslim brotherhood question at a recent town hall (something that, again it should be noted, Bri-Fi refuses to participate in)...and oh yeah, the next time you hear a Repug whine about “paid protestors,” I would ask that you keep in mind the $200 to be comped to college students making imbeciles out of themselves while they attempt to make Dems look bad (that amount does indeed buy a lot of Ramen)...telling that all “Tommy” could do is sneak out like a coward after he got a dose of reality (mildly NSFW/H)...

...and Belle of the Ranch informs us that the Consumer Price Index released by the BLS climbed 0.6 percent in September, as we learn, up from 0.4 percent in August, so inflation is not only going up, but at a faster rate...the biggest factor behind this is gas price increases (9.1 percent in September) due to #47’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure in Iran...housing costs also rose 0.4 percent from last month, as we also learn...average hourly pay fell 0.5 percent in September, which is another headline...”slowing inflation doesn’t mean prices go back to where they were; it just means that they rise more slowly” indeed...

...and Yasmin Khan of Rebel HQ talks about younger voters and what appears to be a 50-plus point swing in a direction away from #47 from two years ago...not hard to see why for the reasons Khan points out, namely affordability overall, the cost of education, the crappy job market, wrecking government agencies where they could potentially be employed, etc...and a 91 percent disapproval with the Gropenfuhrer on inflation?? Jumpin’ Judas H. Priest on a pogo stick!...and if the Dems are returned to power in Congress, they’re going to have their hands full to be sure, but they should allocate some time to investigate taxpayer dough Our Ochre Abomination has used for political propaganda...and I’m trying really hard not to dump on at least one of those younger voters in that clip, partly because what they say is the result of endless wingnut indoctrination to the exclusion of any perspective related to actual common sense (this Bluesky link provides further info for college loan borrowers, and when it comes to "Team D" and younger voters, let's keep this in mind please)...

...and the Onion News Network informs us that SecDef Kegseth has a bold plan to “kill everyone” by 2028...as usual, dancing on that razor’s edge between satire and reality...

...and we recently observed what would have been the 100th birthday of Chuck Berry – here’s a little number for the occasion.

Monday Stuff

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:16:01 +0000

What follows are clips from last Saturday’s No Kings protests in various locations across the country – we begin with a trip around Buffalo, NY and the Great Lakes, including Williamsville...

...next, we go across the country to Alameda, Oakland and San Francisco (nice job to make that beach sign, by the way...interview with former SF supervisor Gordon Mar)...

...there was also a protest in Mississippi (smaller crowd I’ll admit, but it all matters) – kind of sad that that state doesn’t have early voting...

...folks also came out in Little Rock, Arkansas...echoing similar themes of early voting and making a plan to vote on Election Day...

...and across North Texas also...

...next up is Salt Lake City, sharing similar themes of protecting democracy for future generations...

...also, Boise, Idaho (good idea also to volunteer for campaigns; even though it’s a little late for that, it’s not too late to make a plan to get folks to the polls and maybe do some last-minute phone banking or door knocking...just a thought)...

...Seattle as well (also with an emphasis on voting early...good job also to honor victims of ICE)...

...along with Portland, Oregon (about 4K folks protesting according to police...showing up to protest the Iran war, the rotten economy, rampant corruption including attack on LGBTQ rights, and on and on)...

...and Greenville, South Carolina (hundreds, again, with an emphasis on protecting the right to vote)...

...Albuquerque, New Mexico (good job by Dem U.S. House rep Melanie Stansbury, as opposed to that Repug woman running against her – “failed policies,” huh? Which party is it that’s in change of D.C. again?)...

...Chicago also, echoing similar themes (on behalf of both national and local issues)...

...next up are the twin cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul...

...Grand Rapids, Michigan...

...Plattsburgh, NY...

...also, folks in Chesapeake, VA braving the weather, including Navy vet Rick Bush...

...with similar concerns echoed in Asheville and elsewhere in North Carolina...

...Louisville, Kentucky and southern Indiana also, echoing similar themes (lower gas prices, protection for basic rights, etc.)...kudos to Morgan McGarvey also; no excuse whatsoever for any Democrat to not show up to one of these events...

...Madison, Wisconsin also...protestor “Sariah” mentions #47 saying he’ll let his lawyers worry about “Constitutionality,” or something to that effect (heightened a bit by the fact that Trumpist numbskull Tom Tiffany is running for governor in that state...and that Wisconsin GOP statement at the end is about as nutty as you would expect)...

...Vermont as well (Monkton I believe, and probably other towns including Burlington)...

...and Philly of course (kind of shocked to see the clip of Combover Caligula spewing more lies as usual, but I guess they need to present the crazy point of view for “balance,” though I think he’s actually right in a typically weird way...we SHOULD pretend he’s on the ballot - info on drop box locations in Bucks County, PA is here)...

...and if you're looking for a tune for the occasion, I'd like to offer the following.

Friday Stuff

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:01:47 +0000

Josh Gay of Ring of Fire tells us about PA Dem Senator John Fetterman sending out a fundraising Email to Repug donors, saying he’ll “reject socialism” and that he apparently is working with his best bud Dave McCormick on behalf of Mango Mussolini; at this point, Fetterman should probably just make it official, especially since he doesn’t appear to have a war chest anymore as Gay tells us...contrast that with Fetterman raising $10.5 mil in just three months when he opposed Dr. Crudite in ’22, as opposed to raising just $21K now, which is a microscopic amount of dough (and yeah, I know it shouldn’t be about the money, but it is unfortunately)...and 75 percent of the donation may go to some shadowy group behind the fundraiser and not to the candidate (and Fetterman gets a MAGA donor list?) God, what a mess our campaign financing is (once more, love and kisses to the High Court of Hangin’ Judge JR for Citizens United)...also, at this point, I don’t see how Fetterman has an excuse any longer to at least bother to dress like an actual U.S. Senator and get rid of the hoodie and sweat pants...

...and Brian Tyler Cohen tells us about some Fix Noise hairdo trying to attack Pete Buttigieg; actually, she’s right that inflation was 9 percent in June ’22 under “No Malarkey Joe,” with all of the post COVID supply chain disruption and energy price surges, but as “Mayor Pete” notes, it was 3 percent when Biden left office (and as BTC points out, it’s currently 3.7 percent under Dementia J. “I Love The Inflation” Trump)...and “1.7 – 1.8 inflation over the last three months”?? Looks like gramps is sundowning again...also, I could put up that quote form former Ambassador Michael McFaul again about how Obama prevented Iran from getting a nuke and didn’t totally f-up the Strait of Hormuz to do it, but I think you get the picture (and I could also remind everyone again about #47 killing the Murphy-Lankford bill that would have addressed immigration, but yeah, I know that gets repetitive also)...

...and Jesse Dollemore informs us of Cantaloupe Capone sending out his DHS goons at the direction of former plumber Markwayne Mullin to try and intimidate Ilhan Omar (I would ask if Fetterman feels like an idiot for endorsing Mullin, but I’m sure I already know the answer)...and I swear, it’s always the same utterly stoo-pid pattern; some idiot online influencer puts out a garbage meme (Trumpist lickspittle Benny Johnson in this case), then a Trumpist lackey promotes it or acts on it, and then Dear Leader gets the glazing he wants over it...and I’m not the least bit surprised that Fix Noise was the only alleged news org involved in this...so the supposed excuse for this is citizenship paperwork allegedly filled out by Omar’s father??? Yep, doesn’t even come close to passing the “smell” test (NSFW/H)...

..and Sam and Emma of The Majority Report tell us that it looks like Freedom Caucus head Andy Harris in Maryland flipped out because he got laughed at for claiming that “environmental regulation” is the reason diesel prices have gone up (and yeah, as Sam says, the First Amendment to the Constitution doesn’t disallow getting laughed at...Harris is truly a numbskull)...and oh, Harris continues with his wankery in the second of two clips here, attacking reporters for recording him as a PUBLIC PERSON in a PUBLIC SPACE, as noted (which, again, is protected by that pesky First Amendment...a “Bulworth moment” indeed)...mildly NSFW/H also...

...and it looks like Bronzer Beelzebub has decided not to televise the firing squad execution of Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan, so we won’t necessarily be in league with Iran, North Korea and other despotic regimes for the moment (here) – Jesse Welles still came up with a typically pithy little number over it, though...

...and here’s a tune for tomorrow’s “No Kings” protest to help us get into the mood to stand up against our fascist regime.

Wednesday Stuff

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:10:20 +0000

This is your periodic reminder that our PA-01 U.S. House Rep Brian Fitzpatrick has refused to debate his Dem challenger Bob Harvie, which is in keeping with Fitzpatrick’s pattern of avoidance in that he refuses to hold in-person town halls also.

To begin, this clip from CBC News discusses the beyond idiotic anti-Canada rhetoric from the Gropenfuhrer and his utterly pointless trade war with that nation and the economic impact that we’re dealing with over it...we revisit the NAFTA debate between Poppy Bush, Bill Clinton and Ross Perot, featuring the “giant sucking sound” quote from Perot about jobs going to Mexico, which turned out to be prescient...

...and this TYT segment takes a look at #47’s immigration crackdown hitting red states pretty hard – c’est dommage...report discusses #47’s declining support among Latinos, particularly in Texas and businesses along the border including agriculture and construction...not familiar with the concept of “elite over production,” but I have to admit that it makes sense unfortunately...also, though it appears that enrollment in trade schools did decline, it looks like enrollment is rebounding fortunately based on this...glad to hear that the typically disgusting gerrymandering by Texas Repugs might bite them in the ass...I honestly don’t know what the hell Ana Kasparian means by “unmitigated immigration,” but otherwise I think she makes some good points here (I also wish she’d mentioned the Murphy-Lankford Senate immigration bill and how that got killed to help Don The Con two years ago)...

...and Farron Cousins gives us more on the decision to live stream the firing squad execution of Fort Hood killer Nidal Hasan...yep, the Trumpist regime is acting like terrorist outlaws because 1) They can, and 2) That is what they are...Cousins is right that this will encourage further nut jobs who want to publicize themselves while they go out in a “blaze of glory,” and it will ALSO give those who would do us harm an excuse to do this to OUR OWN MILITARY, if, God forbid, any of them are captured – I realize this didn’t occur to any of the alleged adults running our government, but I definitely think it needs to be mentioned...

...and John and Jayar of The Damage Report tell us that it looks like Our Sweaty Orange Bronzer Boy is going to his Russian benefactor to help with gas prices...typical...I have to admit that I didn’t have Brian Kilmeade actually making sense on my Bingo card (and Rachel Campos Duffy is about as “out to lunch” on this as you can expect)...as noted here, those supposedly great numbers on the amount of diesel fuel Don The Con says we’ll get from Vlad The Butcher doesn’t even cover a day of the actual demand for the stuff – more like 12 hours, unfortunately...four Repug U.S. Senators and two Dems actually found spines on this and stood up to Mango Mussolini, which, given that our *preznit certainly won’t listen, is merely a symbolic gesture, though admittedly it is still important...

...and the Onion News Network presents “In The Know” with Dwight Richmond, concerning the matter of #47 running as a “mid-term *preznit” (as usual, messing with us with satire, though probably not by much versus actual reality)...

...and happy 80th birthday to Justin Hayward, the last surviving member of the Moody Blues.

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:57:10 +0000

This is an update to the “Daisy” ad from LBJ way back when, which only ran once, though its impact on the ’64 presidential election was for sure undeniable; the difference this time around is that, sadly, it’s based on a literal quote from our *preznit (I think you could argue that Barry Goldwater, the subject of the original ad, though he was a big-time wingnut, knew where to draw the line partly because he served our country, something Cantaloupe Capone ridicules of course)...

...and Logical Leftist Jeff Waldorf informs us that it looks like ICE is deporting the father-in-law of the son of Paul LePage, former awful governor of Maine and now a congressional candidate (oh, but DHS says a work permit doesn’t give legal status, huh? Gee, karma sure is a bee-yaa-tch, isn’t it?)...LePage has called for the Maine cops to work with the ICE Gestapo to get rid of all of those baaad criminal illegals, no matter which innocent folks get swept up in the mayhem...I’d forgotten that “little Marco” Rubio voted against his own immigration bill, and of course they also scuttled the Murphy-Lankford bill that would have addressed the issues they’ve been caterwauling about, but the “party of Lincoln” doesn’t actually want to solve any issues, as we know - I realize this clip/story is a little old, but I didn't want to ignore it...

...and this report from Status Coup tells us about the protest in NYC against Palantir’s push into health care, overseeing Mt. Sinai and their CEO Dr. Brendan Carr...it should definitely set off all kinds of alarms to realize that AI will likely be used to make health care-related recommendations, to say nothing of potentially deciding to deny coverage... more on Palantir supporting the Israeli military and the ongoing Gaza carnage is here, along with Palantir supporting ICE and their ongoing thuggery (here)...

...and David Shuster of Rebel HQ lets us know about Professor Paul Krugman calling out Trumpist Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (definitely miss Krugman’s columns in the NYT, but I also understand why he walked away from writing them)...interest rates and borrowing costs (including the 30-year treasury yield) are increasing according to Steven Rattner and some other folks who actually know what they’re talking about on this stuff, reaching their highest levels in 24 years...oh, and #47’s policies are “non-inflationary,” huh? I don’t think so (here)...

...and Mr. Newberger gives us another pithy little sendup of Cheetoh Hitler based on today’s headlines...

...and the first “Bridge” school benefit concert was held by Neil Young on 10/13/86 for the institution he played a major role in founding and developing (here) – his involvement stemmed partly from the fact that Young’s sons were born with cerebral palsy, with one profoundly affected (here)...hard to find the words of appreciation for the courage of everyone involved with trying to overcome an obstacle like that.

Monday Stuff

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:58:22 +0000

Lawrence O’Donnell tells us here that there are 3 reasons why Generalissimo Trump spouts off his crazy nonsense: 1) Pathological lying, 2) Stupidity, or 3) Dementia, or some combination of the three...more evidence to support this is presented in an interview #47 gave with Time Magazine...I realize our *preznit is allergic to actual facts and data and I know it’s tiresome to mention that anything he doesn’t like is automatically branded as “fake,” but alas, it does need to be pointed out...I also get it that there’s not much new stuff here, but I believe the case needs to be made periodically that Combover Caligula is a demented lunatic...O’Donnell tells us about some of the “enemies of ours” who have been paid back for the Gropenfuhrer’s illegal (and utterly ruinous) tariffs, including Walmart, Apple, Target, and Amazon; of course, by association, since we’ve paid those stinking tariffs as O’Donnell points out, that “enemies of ours” line by default also applies to everyone else in this country...

...and Jesse Dollemore lets us know that ICE thugs recently shot a man named Oscar Belgal during an attempted arrest on the border of Manhattan and the Bronx; Belgal survived with a neck wound, while his 5-year-old son in the vehicle was uninjured – oh, and this ICE lunatic was apparently masquerading as a construction worker...NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood tall IMO with his response, as opposed to professional dipsh*t Markwayne Mullin (as Jesse correctly puts it IMO) and those soulless humanoids flanking Mullin (mildly NSFW/H)...

...and I know I haven’t had anything from The Lincoln Project for a little while, and I also realize that they’re mainly yesterday’s (and probably tomorrow’s) Republicans, but when they do good work, I think they need to get props for it (clip is very slightly NSFW/H...and when it comes to Repugs supporting Dementia J. Trump, let’s not forget about Bri-Fi, and to do something about him, click here)...

...and Brian Tyler Cohen tells us more on Roger Marshall in Kansas going after his patients for unpaid medical debt, and for some truly piddling amounts in some cases (like $100), with Marshall charging 18 percent interest, which is higher than some credit card APRs (also, it looks like Marshall FINALLY got around to comping that family baker who made cookies for Marshall)...glad to see Dem Adam Hamilton making an issue out of all of this (definitely NSFW/H)...

...and Jonathan Pie tells us about the live streaming of the execution of Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Hasan, as announced by SecDef Kegseth (here)...didn’t know the latest nonsense about Zuckerberg, Bezos, Peter Thiel and King Elong I getting access to military intel, but yeah, what could go wrong with THAT I wonder...NSFW/H also...

...and I thought that was a bit of “goth” animation for this newer tune which is apropos for this month I suppose.

Friday Stuff

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:33:55 +0000

This is your periodic reminder that our PA-01 U.S. House Rep Brian Fitzpatrick still refuses to stick his head out of his shell and debate his Dem challenger Bob Harvie; I realize at this point that isn’t likely to change, but I also believe it’s important to keep reminding everyone about that.

David Shuster of Rebel HQ lets us know about another Trump voter (Ronald from West Virginia) apologizing on CSPAN, and it looks like a three-time Trump voter in MA, of all places (points for being contrarian I guess) also now has regrets...but oh, Spray Tan Satan is planning to give seniors 90 WHOLE DOLLARS to help with health insurance premium costs? What a guy! I guess that promise is about as reliable as his claim to give everybody $5K if the Repugs hang onto power next month (more here)...

...and I now give you the latest installment of “This Day In Doomsy History” (more or less) from 10/10/18, with John Iadarola and Jayar Jackson talking about the FBI report on “I Like Beer” Brett Kavanaugh and how the “investigation” was rigged to not ask questions that would put the then-SCOTUS nominee in a negative light, as well as not bothering to investigate claims from Deborah Ramirez, one of the women who accused Kavanaugh of s*xual abuse (looks like “Disappointed” Collins got a nice payday for playing along as noted here, and to do something about her, click here)...

...and David Pakman informs us that the “party of Lincoln” collectively had a nightmare evening with recent candidate debates, including Susan Collins and Troy Jackson in Maine (yeah, as far as I know, a reduction in the cost of road salt won’t do a damn thing to help with health insurance coverage or the cost of groceries)...also, Dem Governor Wes Moore of Maryland apparently had a good night against his Repug opponent Dan Cox, specifically on the question of the SNAP error rate, as in incarcerated folks getting SNAP who should be disqualified (Moore is kind of a mixed bag for yours truly I’ll admit, but credit where it’s due)...additionally, we go to the Michigan governor’s race between Dem Jocelyn Benson and Repug John James...finally, we get Georgia Republican Rick (“Gas Stores”) Jackson flailing around in his gubernatorial debate versus Dem Keisha Lance Bottoms (and Jackson is a healthcare company CEO, by the way)...

...and Thom Hartmann speaks with Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works, about the increasing popularity of Medicare for All (I may look into that book by Nancy Altman)...I would tend to agree with Lawson’s claim that the neoliberal experiment, if you will, has failed, and extracting whatever profit out of people for the sake of a few oligarchs is indeed the driver behind unaffordability...a study from Yale University tells us that M4A will save 100K lives (and $1 trillion) a year – works for me...I also agree with Thom about St. Jude Hospital as well as these stories about people starting Go Fund Me pages to pay for medical treatment – yes, those are heart-warming tales, but THE POINT IS THAT IT SHOULDN’T BE NECESSARY TO DO THAT!!!...health care in this country is indeed a “rich care” system...

...and Chris Hayes discusses Bronzer Beelzebub’s taxpayer funded PSAs – yeah, right (am I the only one who can whiff out yet another scam from Cantaloupe Capone? Somehow I don’t think so)...and these ads cost $10 million, huh? Figures (and again, the whole thing with the background noise forcing reporters to shout questions was a trick perfected by The Sainted Ronnie R)...Hayes speaks with Dem U.S. House Rep Jamie Raskin about the illegality of #47 coordinating with his Super PAC; I’ll grant you that our campaign finance law in this country is a joke, but at least there are SOME restraints at the moment, which Don The Con doesn’t care about of course...I’m glad to hear what Raskin is saying about red states including Flori-DUUH, but I definitely won’t count our chickens before they hatch, you might say...

...and since I try to keep the content as timely and relevant as possible here, I think it’s apropos to give us the latest from Lewis Black – don’t quite share his apparent desire to transcend to the afterlife, but that doesn’t mean that we can’t have a laugh over our mortality either...

...and I know I just included a tune from Jackson Browne, but since today is his birthday, I’ll add this as well...hope it’s a good one...

...and The Eternal John Lennon would have been 86 today.

Wednesday Stuff

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:31:03 +0000

Tennessee Brando points out here that Dementia J. Trump just spoke publicly about bombing Los Angeles and San Diego – I totally agree with Brando that that means that Cantaloupe Capone needs to be carted out of the White House and put in a cell a la CECOT or something comparable RIGHT FREAKING NOW (and I don’t know where the hell he uttered those vile words, but it looks like the “MAGA faithful” just pretended it was another day with a ‘y’ in it based on their reaction)...”a depraved bunch of lunatics being led by a lunatic” indeed (referring to those attending that Bund rally of course...and I think it’s also correct to say we’re being “governed” by an unhinged maniac and his death cult - NSFW/H)...

...and Robert Reich tells us How To Eat Healthy in Trump era, and apparently the answer is to barely eat anything at all since the FDA under our ruling cabal has been derelict in ensuring the safety of our food and medicines, with Bobby Brainworm deciding not to monitor cyclospora (explosive diarrhea) and other pathogens...and this Dr. Heidi Overton who has been nominated to run the agency looks like she’ll be another cipher for her boss – terrific...didn’t know that the Gropenfuhrer got $2 mil from Taylor Farms after delaying implementation of a traceability requirement that could have proactively taken care of the diarrhea outbreak before it struck (slightly NSFW/H)...

...and Brittany Page informs us of a Christian Nationalist audience cheering “Running Man” Josh Hawley’s call to restrict access to the mifepristone abortion pill...important to note the comparative safety of abortion pills versus other medications like Viagra as well as carrying a pregnancy to the full term (as I and others have said, if men got pregnant, there would be abortion rooms at every Lowe’s and Home Depot right next to the aisle selling power tools)...IMO, the “D” team is at fault on this issue for its failure to overturn the utterly wretched 1873 Comstock Act that provides the flimsiest of excuses to try and ban the distribution of abortion pills (which Hawley and his other anti-choice zealots are using as a rationale for their cruel position against women’s bodily autonomy)...and Tony Perkins is indeed a cretinous right-wing hack on the abortion issue as well as LGBTQ rights...Page also gives us more on Heidi Overton, who apparently thinks an IUD is used for abortions (Overton I mean of course...can’t think of a word to describe how pathetic it is that that belief is out there in this day and age, and by an alleged medical professional also)...NSFW/H also...

...and I’d like to mention a couple of milestones...first, today is the 20th anniversary of the murder of acclaimed Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was one of the people from way back warning us of just how bad Vlad The Butcher truly was...I realize not many folks besides yours truly may think it’s worth it to keep reminding everyone about this, but I do because I believe it still matters...three people were convicted in 2014 for her murder, though the person who ordered the killing has to date not been identified (though I’m sure you can imagine what kind of speculation has been ongoing given this awful crime, considering what has happened also to Alexei Navalny and others opposing the Russian warmonger)...

...also, today is truly a date that could live in infamy, you might say, because it’s also the 30th anniversary of Fix Noise going on the air (here)...Carlos Maza discusses the impact of that accursed network...I could probably fill up this post with about a hundred examples at least of The Roger Ailes BS Factory choosing to manufacture a “scandal” that gets picked up by our beyond useless corporate media, but one example is how the Obama Administration and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton supposedly played a role in the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya (including Ambassador Christopher Stevens) while choosing to completely ignore this...and oh yeah, we’re also reminded about the outrage over Dem U.S. House Rep Ilhan Omar’s remark related to 9/11, saying “some people did something” as if Omar was trying to trivialize the attacks (she wasn’t of course)...NSFW/H as well...

...and I suppose this newer number is apropos given the prior clip in particular...hope you agree.

Tuesday Stuff

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:49:44 +0000

Ali Velshi of MS NOW takes a look at the impact of the Big Beautiful Clusterf*ck on Arizona’s 6th U.S. congressional district, where the Dem candidate (and U.S. Marine vet) Joanne Mendoza is trying to unseat Trumper Juan Ciscomani...apparently the district is more than a quarter Latino in terms of population; looks like, based on the Repug and Dem candidate votes, it’s a pretty “purple” district (R for U.S. House and prez and D for U.S. Senate)...Ciscomani’s vote for that legislative atrocity is getting called out by Mendoza (interviewed by Velshi), which is as it should be, since the SNAP cuts are particularly ruinous in this district apparently...and I realize wingnuts like Ciscomani will be blaming Former President Biden for whatever they can for at least the next couple of years and maybe longer (and I'll have something related to SecDef Kegseth shortly)

...also, it seems that s*xual predator (and former Repug U.S. House Speaker) Dennis Hastert recently died...this TYT segment from awhile back includes a discussion of what likely were payments from Hastert to at least one victim...I get the point here that investigating what were likely hush money payments sounds a bit illogical, though I don't think those payments should have escaped scrutiny either (clip also includes John Iadarola, Ben Mankiewicz, and the beyond ridiculous Jimmy Dore...NSFW/H)...

...and Sam Seder of The Majority Report talks about a local news station in Iowa calmly taking apart the typical propaganda from the Gropenfuhrer on a proposed $10 billion steel plant in that state...”they’ve already started building” – maybe in the fever dreams of Dementia Donnie, but not so much in the real world...no permits issued, no plans for surrounding infrastructure that would be needed, etc....I also hadn’t realized that Janet Mills in Maine has not endorsed Troy Jackson in the latter’s U.S. Senate contest against “Disappointed” Susan Collins; kind of wondering why the hell not...also, speaking of Maine, I keep waiting for charges to be filed against Graham Platner for those allegedly awful actions that forced him to leave the race; if that happens, I’ll acknowledge it of course...

...oh, and speaking of SecDef Kegseth, it seems that he’s trying to institute an Office of Religious Affairs at the Pentagon, something else that has not a damn thing to do with helping our military escape the Iran quagmire created by this awful regime (Mr. Newberger gives that the treatment it deserves IMO here)...

...for another take on matters tied to spirituality a bit, however, I give you this from Rachel Maddow on why protest matters...Maddow discusses the cumulative impact from a mass movement even when those protesting may be impacted to varying degrees, and I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that ties into a faith tradition since that also has to do with belief and a lack of empirical evidence...I have to admit that I’m not familiar with the latest protests in Ireland, so I can’t comment on that...also didn’t know about the protest march against ICE in California; props to them for that, nor did I know about the upcoming anti-ICE march in Seattle led by Japanese Americans and their descendants who were victimized during World War II, as well as a similar protest outside Tucson, Arizona against opening another ICE concentration camp...additionally, there was an anti-ICE protest in Williston, Vermont led by clergy trying to shut down an ICE surveillance center...anti-ICE protests are ongoing in Alexandira, Louisiana also as we learn...props also to the Interfaith Alliance, trying to register people to vote on moral grounds...there is also resistance to the Trumpist jackbooted tactics also in Utah, where Repug Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson is getting pressured to turn over voting data to our criminal ruling cabal...there will be additional reminders here about the next “No Kings” protest on October 17th also FWIW...

...additionally, I should point out that yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the Iran-Contra scandal, with Eugene Hasenfus getting shot down in a plane carrying military supplies for the Contras fighting an insurrection against the Nicaraguan government under the Sandinistas, which was in violation of U.S. law (doing my best here to make sure that that appalling episode under The Sainted Ronnie R doesn’t get the “memory hole” treatment)...makes me recall this tune.

Monday Stuff

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:45:03 +0000

Here is another reminder that our PA-01 U.S. House Rep Bri-Fi still refuses to come out of hiding and debate his Dem challenger Bob Harvie, which fits the profile for the incumbent who still refuses to hold in-person town halls...

...also, last Friday marked the 20th anniversary of the Nickel Mines schoolhouse shooting in Lancaster Country, which killed 5 Amish girls (the gunman took his own life)...I can still remember how that crime pretty much shocked the conscience of our entire area as well as elsewhere in this country and the world...this is an unfortunate recent update (for the city of Lancaster, that is)...

...and Rachel Maddow, Symone Sanders Townsend and Eugene Daniels inform us that “Team D” needs to let everybody know what they plan to do if (crossing fingers and toes) they’re returned to power this fall (and saying nothing of the fact that we need to keep up our efforts to make that happen as much as possible)...I don’t think saying we’re going to need a “second Reconstruction” is hyperbole, but again, we need leaders on the blue side willing to meet that moment...also, I’m definitely OK with referring to what’s described here as a “spiritual” movement, since the notion of spirituality can be defined all kinds of ways IMO...

...and Tennessee Brando gives us his take on the awful Cornell story...I definitely give Brando credit for taking the time to process this tragic crime before saying anything; I generally try to hold back also until I opine on something as well, FWIW...I also totally believe his anecdote about listening to women’s horror stories in bars, which is disgusting and repugnant of course; no excuse for that kind of treatment from alleged men (and OF COURSE MAGA “influencers” are trying to find a way to justify this monstrosity)...NSFW/H...

...and usually I get a laugh or two out of these clips from Mr. Newberger, but that’s definitely not the case here, and for a good reason I believe (sorry to be such a downer with these clips)...

...and RIP Peter Byrne of the band Naked Eyes.

Saturday Stuff

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:54:57 +0000

OK, I’m going to try and get this thing going again, though that may happen in fits and starts, you might say...to begin, I give you this ad from Bob Harvie, running against Bri-Fi for the incumbent’s PA-01 U.S. House seat of course...

...and when it comes to the completely unnecessary economic battle waged by Bronzer Beelzebub against our longtime trade partners, Elliott Morgan of Rebel HQ discusses Canada’s tariffs strategically targeting U.S. industries in battleground states in the upcoming elections...pretty damn smart move IMO in response to this “51st state” and ”Governor Carney” garbage also...I’d honestly forgotten about this getting replayed from the stinking tariff nonsense in 2018 from the first ruinous Trump term...and leave it to Dementia Donnie to find a way to make Canadian Premier of Ontario Doug Ford actually look smart...and it was so nice not to have to endure another somnambulant and idiotic “sir” story from Our Treasonous Orange Pustule for the last few days...can’t think of a word for the stoo-pidity of the 11 percent of those polled who apparently think they’re going to get a $5K check if they reward the grifters and frauds who have brought all of this ruin upon us...I’m also down with Morgan’s snark about #47 at the end, BTW...

...and Chris Hayes talks about #47's attempt to ban media outlets from the White House, including MS NOW, CNN and Politico (I know I’m late on this story in particular, but I didn’t want it to slip by)...there are times when I’ll admit that I don’t have a tear to shed for our corporate media cousins, but I also acknowledge that there’s a larger principle involved here, namely the First Amendment of the Constitution...and yes, I realize that 29 percent approval rating for Our Ochre Abomination could indeed be an outlier, but given everything going on, are you really surprised?...oh, and apparently, Natalie Harp was the bearer of the bad news that recent sent Our Demented Toddler of a *preznit over the edge...I’m loathe to give Fix Noise credit for anything, and admittedly the bar is set pretty low, but props to them for taking a stand in solidarity with the other boycotted news orgs, along with everyone else in the press pool who pushed back over this latest nonsense (an update is here)...

...and while we escaped to our blue state paradise (with solar panels everywhere in sight, perfectly complimenting the breathtaking natural scenery), it appears that cases of measles in our beloved commonwealth spiked up again, and Our Treasonous Orange Pustule and his HHS lackey Bobby Brainworm are having a harder time trying to deny the outbreak on their watch...oh, and for the record, 4 people in PA who were fully vaxxed managed to come down with measles out of 1,000 total cases...also, David Pakman tells us that about 300K kindergartners are now susceptible to measles; once you get a conspiracy theory going, it is indeed hard to suddenly shut it off as Pakman notes...also, I heard about the botched execution of the woman in Tennessee (here) – I don’t have a particularly brilliant “hot take” on that; from what I read, what she did was particularly monstrous and horrible on the one hand, but on the other hand, I realize that doesn’t automatically justify capital punishment either...typical hand-wringing lib I know...

...and Seth Meyers gives us “A Closer Look” on the latest political nonsense (looks like Ken Paxton in “the land of the yellow rose” is telling Cheetoh Hitler “thanks but no thanks” on campaign advertising...I don’t give Paxton credit for anything, but I don’t totally blame him on this either)...and oh, NOW Repug U.S. Senate candidates Mike Rogers and Ashley Hinson want the Iran war to end, since it’s hurting them politically? Maybe you should have actually DEFIED you Orange Overlord on this in the first place (yes, I can dream, can’t I?)...and oh yeah, that “liquified natural gas pipeline” in Alaska that’s due to be completed in three years sure is going to be a game changer for the elections, amirite?...also, when it comes to who actually watched that midterm convention mess from about a month ago, I give you this...and oh yeah, Cantaloupe Capone is running an ad promoting “the spirit of the country,” so it MUST be legal? Looks like that last lonely synapse in his noggin is flickering on and off again...

...and I thought this was a pretty cool newer tune with a big-time weekend party vibe – I’ll probably return to “moldy oldies” shortly after this one :-).

Dueling Grumpy Cats!

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 03:24:00 +0000

A little "Calling it a Night", mood music! - Sam Smith - "Stay With Me"

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 03:07:09 +0000

Nightly News in a Minute!

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 02:59:16 +0000

Hillary and Bill Clinton in Iowa, "We are Back!", just not officially running for president yet. Unofficially, game on!

Powerful, "Hurricane Odile", looming for a direct hit on Mexico's resorts region!

Team USA slam dunks home a epic win, with a rout of Serbia, winning the Basketball World Cup Championship!

White House, we are ready to arm Syrian rebels like yesterday, Congress, please vote, so we can spend more money we don't have!

Scottish aid worker David Haines beheaded by ISIS, brother Mike Haines mourns, condemns continued evil and vile acts of murder and violence!

The Queen of England, "Think very carefully about the future!", Kind of sounds like a thin veiled threat aimed squarely at the Scottish people voting for independence!

The "Real Truth" about Kanye West's wheelchair rant? Does this guy like to cause his own pain? Seriously?

YouTube video of the Kanye West wheelchair incident!

You are living under a rock if you haven't noticed Hillary Clinton is the Queen Incarnate or President-Elect frontrunner if she chooses to run!

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 03:23:20 +0000

Hillary is once again putting her name and face out in the public's eye. The (non) candidate (cough, cough) was welcomed to a mixed reception of DNC loyalists.

Bill and Hillary Clinton were the keynote speakers at the final Harkin Steak Fry on the hot-air balloon grounds outside Indianola, south of Des Moines. The event served as an emotional commemoration of Harkin's 40 years in Congress and a rallying cry for Democrats in the 2014 midterm elections.

Hillary Clinton has not been in Iowa since her 2008 caucus loss to now-President Barack Obama. Harkin dubbed the Clintons the "comeback couple," though he has not said if he would endorse Clinton if she runs, saying he wants her to make her decision first.

Clinton played coy on her 2016 plans, telling the crowd, "I am thinking about it." She concluded by saying, "It's really great to be back, let's not let another seven years go by."

Politically-wise, I really wish she would come out in the open and say what is really on her mind.

She's going to run, and the whole world expects this.

She's a Clinton, a political mastermind, a pitbull that stood face to face with moronic tools on Congress who tried to embarrass her in well-staged, choreographed congressional inquiries, and she held her ground and embarrassed every Congressional RNC windbag that tried to come after her.

I think those like Karl Rove forget whom they are dealing with.

This woman smoothed the road for Bill Clinton's 1st and 2nd presidential races and electoral stints, even with a president-elect who could not keep his penis in his pants or stay away from Big Macs at McDonald's.

At one point, she had to do the political equivalent of the Hail Mary in saving Bill's legacy and ass, and she did it with the precision of a razor-sharp brain surgeon, quickly shutting down the whole Lewinsky debacle.

For every low blow or quick punch you sneak in, she has 5 lined up for the return blow, knocking you out, from her colleagues and closest allies.

She is very well-networked, and she has reach and influence expanding beyond our naturalized borders thanks to her stint as the "Secretary of State," or "President for dummies, foreign policy dry run" as I like to call it.

I truly believe it's not "will she run," but "when will she finally make the 'official' announcement," pushing her deep into the presidential race mode 24/7, and her losing the freedoms she enjoys as a private citizen doing high-priced speeches and helping lesser knowns, saving their political asses.

On a personal level, I don't have a horse in this race as I am a non-affiliated, independent voter that both sides will spend millions to woo, but at the end of the day, she is a Clinton, and that alone speaks volumes over what I could ever say.

I'm pretty confident that the term President-Elect Hillary Clinton could be spoken in the very near future, and I honestly feel very sorry for the sacrificial lamb the RNC totes out to be mangled and utterly destroyed.

It will be amazing and explosive political theater to watch, and I will enjoy my seat from the sidelines, taking it all in.

Again, I repeat this: she's a Clinton, enough said.

Do you really know what is going on? Do you really care? (Op-ed)

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 03:05:39 +0000

I really love the meaning of this quote and meme. There are so many important things going on this world that people don't either care to educate themselves about or speak up when they see something unethical or illegal going on. It's this lack of care or lack of using energy for things like activism and supporting an important cause that those with evil intentions feed off.

If the populace is going to keep happily living in the shadows, there is no need for those who purposely do nefarious things to ever worry about accountability or being outed in the public.

Quite simply, by lack of action, the masses are giving their seal of approval, supporting things they most likely wouldn't if they had all of the facts in front of them and knew how the deeds would be effecting them, be it short term or long term, good or bad.

One of my favorite REM songs kind of sums it up: "It's The End Of The World As We Know It." The lyrics kind of summarize what I'm saying here.

People are either scared, told that if they speak up or out they will be labelled terrorists in this post 9-11 era, or they are so involved in their vices -- alcohol, sex, tv, drugs, and technology -- that their attention is diverted from the crimes going on around them, that they don't even notice a travesty happening right in front of their noses.

It's by design, I believe.

If you are entranced in this digital age --Facebook, text messaging, YouTube, your favorite TV shows; all at the minimalist ground level -- you aren't being observant about your civil liberties, privacy, or the things in your bedroom that no one should legislate or have intimate knowledge of which are being violated, legislated, or actively being spied on (NSA).

I learned one thing a long time ago, that still rings true even today: perception is not always reality.

What if the perception you have has always been forcefed since birth, so the reality you believe that is real is just a forced reality that does not exist, but you are in too deeply conscious-wise to tell the difference?

Basically, what you read in the papers, what you see on the evening news, even what is tought in your pre-approved history books (remember, the victors always write history!) is almost all a complete mirage or mental pre-conditioning to breed a civil and controllable society.

You have this false notion that everything is hunky dory or just about as good as it will ever be, so you pretty much never question anything and by design, you are extremely controllable and subservient.

I tend to subscribe to the above theory.

Think about it; certain segments in our society growing up match up perfectly here.

You go to a public school, and the goal of the entire system is conformity and establishing the class system.

You are taught to be quiet and do your work, but stay with the flow and do your expected work.

You quickly are a part of the social circles; the wealthy, the athletes, the geeks, the goths, and the reclusive people (the loners) start to form.

You go to college or straight into the work force and those divisions and classifications further cement themselves.

You go to college, you get student loans, and you are stuck with $80,000 in student loans; debt that hangs over your head like a 100 pound weight.

You have to make every payment regardless of other needs, or the system designed to help you get into and pay for college will destroy you and your credit. No filing bankruptcy, no getting away from it; they practically come after you.

If you go the straight-to-work route, you are stuck in a menial food service/sales job or a factory job where you are living paycheck to paycheck, barely making ends meet, and the fact you need the job(s) to survive is held over your head like a guillotine. Fairness, decency, and even a living wage are denied to you, Joe Q. Public, with the thought by management that there are 10

other Joes there who are unemployed who would love your job.

You have an innate fear of being homeless, of losing your vehicle(s) you cannot really afford and the house that you are not upside down on because of several vulturous refinances of your loan by banks who are slowly killing you financially like a cancer, simply because of their greed.

It's all stacked up against you.

Remember, he who controls your debt, the ability to put you in debt or a moment of living crisis, controls you.

Please, repeat after me: I love my country, and I'm free?

What I'm saying is this: since birth, you have no way to really win in this life, and it is all done by design. Unless you went to school with a chauffeur dropping you off to a school system that is very private, only the world's best-off attend, you never had a chance.

It was that way on purpose, and it will always be that way.

You will always tread water in one way or another, while those with so much will laugh and mock you from their golden perches way above you, enjoying the sight of you struggling but never getting ahead.

You will be the butt of their jokes, the memes they pass around on their invite-only Facebook-like networks for them and their über-wealthy friends.

My final thought is this:

There is no American dream; the often famed story of that guy who was another "rags to riches story," who went from being penniless to an overnight millionaire.

This is the real, cold, harsh world, and that shit just doesn't happen here.

"By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return." - Genesis 3:19.

The above bible verse sums it up nicely.

You were poor, made from dust, and you will return to the ground poor, as dust once again. Never really had a chance, and when gone, you or your lineage moving forward won't either.

And like I said before, this is all by design.

You're welcome....

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Dennis Williams, a homeless friend, used and abused by a bad church!

Fri, 08 Aug 2014 02:11:58 +0000

A decent guy in my opinion and a guy possibly set up for a crime he did not commit was most likely used and abused by our former church, and then sent back to prison by the very same people that used him as a pawn in their evil schemes.

I first met Dennis during a cold early March drive to a food bank in New Albany, Graceland Baptist.
He was wearing a heavy coat, very quite and reserved as many homeless people I have met are and was a man kind of quiet and to himself.

As I later became more involved in church activities, and volunteer work, I got to meet and see Dennis more and more.

He wasn't a bad guy in my mind, just a guy who had made a ton of bad choices and no one really gave him a chance to get back on his feet.

He lived under a bridge by the #4 Clarksville exit of I65 and never really came around people other than hanging out at McDonald's, helping with church tasks going to Exit O stops for food or hanging around with me when I'd run places.

His biggest problem is the fact I think he tried to be a people please and please everyone. He was the atypical homeless guy, afraid to tick off those who were helping him, for they might cut him off or not help him get to the things he needed.

I guess he did a hard, long job search and people would use his criminal status against him. He would tell me over and over again about people being rude or abrasive telling him they don't hire his type there.

I guess his therapy group leader at his court ordered therapy would attack and threaten him and he'd hold the line and give it back.

The threat of sending him back to prison did nothing against a guy like Dennis who had been in the rotten system for 10 years. He would say, over an over again, that he'd rather go back than wear the stupid bracelet and deal with the constant harassment that comes along with it.

After I had came out of the hospital, I had heard that Dennis was now in prison, to serve out the remainder of his term.

I don't know 100% for sure, but I bet this is how his screw job unfolded.
They (Blair Birge or others involved) offered him help with staying out, maybe a guarantee and food, something of value or money in turn for his false testimonies.
He took there deal as he is a homeless guy with nothing often and it sounded like a win, win.

He was an active participant in the 3-4 deliberate false DCS complaints, backing up their already made up and evil lies, meant to hurt me and my family.

When they thought they had delivered the death blow and our world was going to end, so sad it didn't, they sent him packing to prison.
Who is going to believe the tales of a guy in prison trying to tell people how a supposedly great church put a loving family through Hell on purpose for speaking out?

I don't fault Dennis in all of this.
I fault Blair Birge

, any pastors or elders at the Southeast Indiana Campus,

a satellite church of Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, who had a hand in this evil scheme.

(http://www.southeastchristian.org/ , they worship Neo-conservative Republican Jesus there.)

I liken their motivations and lack of Christian values to the actions of the Pharisee's, scholars/ elders and Sudacee's who tried time and time again to lure Jesus into a trap with false witness and lies.

God knows my heart, the father of the victims family, the heart of my wife and our desire and willingness to serve and walk with the Lord.
We aren't going to stop being disciples or helping others because of the works of evil men, no, just the opposite, we are going to pick it up another notch.

We are going to warn the masses though about the hidden dangers of huge mega churches and what certain Hell does ensue if you do the right thing and speak out.

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Minority Report like FBI computer system is now a reality and out in the wild!

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 22:28:09 +0000

Minority Report was a sci-fi thriller that showed how future law enforcement would possible use precognition software to arrest people for future crimes and track citizens pretty much anywhere in the US or the world even, with a vast network of high tech cameras watching your every move.

It seems life has immitated art once again:

The FBI's Next Generation Identification (NGI) system is now fully operational, after more than three years of development. The bureau announced today that development on the project is complete, and it would be rolling out new features for ongoing criminal notifications as well as a controversial facial recognition feature called the Interstate Photo System, or IPS. IPS will serve as "an image-searching capability of photographs associated with criminal identities," according to the release.

The facial recognition system has come under fire from privacy groups for mixing traditional mug shot photos with non-criminal faces pulled from employment records and background check databases. The system is expected to collect as many as 52 million faces in total.

My only questions are these.
Who is watching the watchers and guaranteeing that the data and images collected are used properly and not abused for malicious purposes. (NSA)
And isn't the idea of being tracked from point A, to point B, to point C, not a democratic society ideal, but something more likened to Communists, Warlords or Dictaitors?
The possibilities and implications for abuse are just overwhelming and too numerious.

Google bring the Android One ultra-cheap smartphone to the developing world!

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 21:54:13 +0000

Google bridges the gap Android wise between the west, and the rest of the developing world...

Google has unveiled the first smartphones to run on its Android One platform, a standard designed to help push affordable smartphones in the developing world.

Android One devices will ship with support for more languages, including Hindi, and feature more local publications in Google Play Newsstand. Google is also making a special version of YouTube available which will allow Indian users to download videos and re-watch them multiple times without incurring excessive data charges. The first phones are expected to retail for 6399 rupees ($105).

I have to say that I am very impressed, and even though I'm sure profit motives are partially behind this push to reach into the mulit-million strong untapped market, many in the developing world will get to enjoy their first android phone expereince with a phone that actually has pretty good specs.

The initiative kicks off in India, where Micromax, Spice, and Karbonn are all selling phones with 4.5-inch screens, 1GB of RAM, 5-megapixel main and 2-megapixel front cameras,1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek processors, dual-SIM slots, microSD expandable storage, and FM radios.

The future smartphone wise is very bright for those in developing nations , and those users will even get to enjoy the much anticipated Android L operating system experience.
I'm very happy to see this push regardless the motivation, as knowledge truly is power, and those in these regions will now get a chance to view media and cultures they have been previously shut out from.

Nice, a win, win in my book....

Insulting, but funny!

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 03:26:34 +0000

I'm a religious guy, and I found this funny!

Mon, 15 Sep 2014 03:25:33 +0000