Thursday Stuff

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



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



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



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



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



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

Wednesday Stuff

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



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



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



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



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



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

Tuesday Stuff

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



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



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



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



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



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

Monday Stuff

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

Update 1: More here.

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



Update 2: Uh huh...

Update 3: And in response to these two numbskulls, I would only ask which political party was behind the murders of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis.

Also, I continue to be dumbfounded I must admit by the fact that Lex Luthor Scott is still taken seriously by ANYONE since he was behind the largest Medicare fraud in history as noted here.

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



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



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



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

Friday Stuff

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



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



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



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



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



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



...and I know I mentioned what would have been Glen Campbell’s recent 90th birthday, and yesterday was the same milestone for Roy Orbison (I think the guitarist performing the solo was James Burton)...



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

Wednesday Stuff

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



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



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



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



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



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

Tuesday Stuff

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



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



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



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



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



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