It's been a minute. I hope that all of you field hands are doing well and thriving while doing your best to survive in this moment that we are living in. These are crazy times. America, as we have come to know her, is no more. And that my friends, is not hyperbole.
Personally, I have never believed that this is such a perfect union, and I have always suspected that the American experiment is flawed. But I always hoped that the American people were so proud of their country and the idea of its ideals, that they would not allow dark and sinister forces to hijack the perception of the world's greatest democracy. My hope is fading. Amend that. It has faded. I didn't see America becoming the Republic of Gilead from the Handmaid's Tale.
What really brought it home to me was the knowledge that a Justice on the Supreme Court of America was willing to openly declare that he is a Christofascist who endorsed the actions of the January 6th insurrectionists. Now I am not naive enough to believe that judges aren't political, they all are. They are appointed by presidents who check their political loyalties before selecting them. But in the past they would at least pretend to be impartial and do their best to follow the law, even if they would twist it to suit their own political ideology. No more. The actions of Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas should scare us all. We should have seen this coming when Alito gave his bitter, resentful, and grievance filled speech to the Federalist Society in November of 2020. As one writer put it: " Alito's speech is marked by the sense of bitter resentment and grievance of white Christian men that runs through the whole Trumpist fascist movement." Now, emboldened by the actions of Trump and his allies, the push for a Christofascist takeover is in full effect. Roe v. Wade was just a start. The legislature in Louisiana, for instance, just passed a bill to make abortion pills a controlled substance. Let that sink in for a minute. Soon, there will be laws banning the teachings of certain things in schools and pushing a far-right version of Christianity down the throats of school children. Wait.. they are already doing that. I see you Texas and Florida.
There will be more to come. America will keep going deeper down this right-wing rabbit hole, and when we realize what we have become it will be too late. We will be living out a dystopian Handmaid's Tale, and only mega church preachers and white nationalists will be happy. It's almost here. Google Project 2025 when you get a chance, and make yourself a stiff drink before you read it, you will need one. America will need a dictatorship style form of government and leader in order to make the new Christian white nationalist nation a reality. And here is the shocker: almost fifty percent of the voters seem to be cool with that.
It's scary to think that the only thing standing in the way of all this happening is a shaky 81 year old man with a woman of color on his ticket. (Nothing against Kamala, but no one wants to talk about the elephant in the room: the thought that Uncle Joe could check out at any minute and his successor would be a...gasp! Black woman.) Throw in the fact that I have zero confidence in the DNC and their so called campaign experts, and you see where this is going. Project 2025 could well become a reality.
The perfect storm is brewing. Pack your rain gear and batten down the hatches. We are in for a rough ride.
186 comments:
Thank goodness you are hanging in there, Mr. Field.
Before Hamas embarked on a terrorist attack and hostage mission in Israel, America was already on shaky ground with some confidence of turning the ship around domestically, while assisting NATO allies with Ukraine. That was October 2023.
Now here we are within six months of the general election, and it's beyond disheartening that outside of the 50% who will welcome a dictatorship, another segment of the electorate (if they vote at all) are okay with burning the house down, so to speak.
I greatly sympathize with folks, especially the young voters, who believe the DNC mostly interacts with urban and rural communities during major elections. Not to mention, the lingering question as to why cities run by democrats for decades seem to endure more economic and environmental hardship.
And the other reality is democracy does not pay for the ever increasing grocery, insurance, and utility bills. The artist Cardi B told her millions of followers she does not agree with the United States sending funds to assist Ukraine in fighting Russian agression. She's not alone in the belief the aid to Ukraine should have been allocated to struggling communities.
So any outreach to disengaged or disenchanted voters must avoid tone deafness, including the agony so many of us feel about the humanity crisis impacting the Palestinian people.
With a congress and senate aligned with the Biden-Harris Administration, there's already a framework to allocate economic resources to U.S. communities first, protect the border, and advocate for allies abroad.
Though a registered democrat, I don't want a U.S. without conservative perspectives or the chance to embrace other policy insights in the form of a third party option. This is why the American experiment still has so much promise. Our nation excels at talking and chewing at the same time despite multiple diverse dishes at the table.
Wishing all a safe, healthy, and joyous Memorial Day ~ Faith & Fairness
By the way, don't understand why I am unable to post under my blogger profile - Faith & Fairness. Help!
Who could have guessed that fucking Harriet Miers would look so good in hindsight. Be careful that your realism isn't based too heavily on optimism: it not only can get worse, but probably already is worse.
Whatever America is left after the right wing war on it will be the America we not only fought for, but won the fight. That sounds scary, but it was true of the original United States of America as well, so just look at this as our turn at the defense finally coming around in earnest.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
drumpf and magats incessant taxcuts for billionaires would have been better spent aiding the least among us.
My hope is that women will turn out in force on election day and put a stop to this madness. It won't be easy to undo what has been done, but we could draw a line in the sand. Of course, like global warming, women's rights will crash under a Trump administration.
“America will need a dictatorship style form of government and leader in order to make the new Christian white nationalist nation a reality. And here is the shocker: almost fifty percent of the voters seem to be cool with that.”
This is where I don’t agree with you. It’s not almost 50% who are fascist MAGA trash that are dreaming of dictatorship. They’re a much smaller piece of the pie. But the 2016 and 2020 elections revealed a horrifying truth: There is a depressingly large number of people who have not been paying attention, so they just don’t understand the stakes. They don’t get that Trump is a threat, or that he tried to illegally undo the last election. They don’t get that Biden didn’t cause the post-COVID inflation spike, or that it is basically over.
They don’t have and real basis upon which to know how to vote because they don’t read/watch news — ANY news. It’s wrong to describe them as low-information voters — they’re ZERO information voters, and they vote based on vibes rather than facts. They’re like football spectators who don’t understand the rules of the game that is in progress in front of them, and are blindly rooting for for whichever team has the cooler logo on their helmets and looking to rest of the crowd to determine if a play might have happened so they know when to stand up and cheer.
I find myself turning into HL Mencken, the arch-cynic who once said, “No one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” Democracy cannot work when so much of the public is so uninformed, disengaged, and frankly politically dumb. The extremely consequential matter of selecting our nation’s leadership is reduced to nothing but a crapshoot. The fall election is going to be a nail-biter.
Fergus was booed and heckled at the Libertarian Convention, showing that he doesn't even have the batshit crazy vote locked down.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
No Field, they will not understand it until the literally and personally feel the "wrath" from it. That is the way some human brains work. They have to experience it before they "GET IT."
Reminder(s):
1) It has been said that many of the self hating "Stepin-Fetchits" will sell
themselves out in a minute if they think it will get the slave master to love
them and give them a seat at the table.
... YES, "Divide and Conquer" still works very well.
2) Supremacy and privilege will always "trump" democracy simply because when the
constitution was written they never expected to be forced to have to share it
with non Europeans.
3) Why is anyone surprised by any of this. "You Know Who" has given them the green
light to "show their true colors."
4) One side wants slave labor and to keep millionaires and billionaires tax free.
And the other side wants votes.
At the end of the day the people will have to choose the
"lesser of the two evils."
If there was any interest in helping struggling communities then there wouldn't still be struggling communities.
It's a careful and deliberate construct that's been going on for 400 years with NO signs of changing. If anything, things are headed BACKWARDS.
"As long as "THEY" remain poor, uneducated, uninformed, inarticulate, and illiterate...they won't be able to compete and we won't lose too many of our women to them."
"If there was any interest in helping struggling communities then there wouldn't still be struggling communities."
There is loads of interest in helping struggling communities. But there is also loads of interest in NOT helping struggling communities, and the people with this mindset, who refer to themselves as "Republicans," manage to win enough elections to prevent much help from being delivered.
It is now being reported that the Alito household have flown not one, but two different insurrectionist flags. This would appear to blow to pieces the feeble excuse that Mrs. Alito didn't know the crazy MAGA symbolism of the first flag and only flew it because she was mad at a neighbor, who had allegedly called her a See You Next Tuesday. LOL.
So I'm thinking the real explanation is, I dunno, maybe, possibly that the Alitos did, in fact, believe that there was a Steal that needed to be Stopped, and that Trump was the rightful winner of the 2020 election? Alito actually being a Trump-worshipping, raving wackadoodle should really surprise no one. Look at the insane things he actually says in public! Look at the awful legal opinions he authors! The dude should just get it over with and start wearing his MAGA hat in court.
Nice to hear from you Faith and Fairness. Well-considered thoughts.
Anon at 10:13 PM
Focus brother
Biden is not evil
The people that voted for him are not afraid of an African-American VP
What is "it" that the American people will never understand?
Step'n'Fetchit. Is that how you truly choose to express yourself?
Oops, he did it again.... Netanscrewloose bombed another refugee camp and killed at least 40 civilians. Delibertely bombing men, omen and children is something Jews in Israelo whine about all the time, especially when it is the Jews dying.
Netanscrewloose, like drumpf, is not a decent human being.
I refuse to believe that Alito is stupid enough to believe that there was a steal that needed to be stopped. He just didn't like the resistance to the goddamn Reagan revolution that is his life's work and the impediments to its enaction, and drunk on his own power, sought to avoid such inconveniences.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
For anyone who is mad at Biden over his support for Israel as it pummels Gaza, and is somehow foolish enough to believe things couldn’t possibly be worse on this issue under a Trump presidency, I regret to inform you: Yes, absolutely they can.
Trump told donors he will crush pro-Palestinian protests, deport demonstrators
The Biden campaign needs to be shouting that from the rooftops 24/7 until his numbers with Muslims and Arab Americans stabilize. I don't care what it is, Fergus will make it worse if we let him.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
"The Biden campaign needs to be shouting that from the rooftops 24/7 until his numbers with Muslims and Arab Americans stabilize. I don't care what it is, Fergus will make it worse if we let him."
I'm not sure Biden can sell this himself. "I'm not going to fix this problem, but the other guy will make it even worse" is not a great look. But this is a factual statement, so somebody should damn well be making that case.
In the short term, there isn't really any electable presidential candidate that will help Gazans, upsetting though that may be to some voters. There very much is an option to wreck the United States, however, by refusing to vote for Biden and letting Trump back in, so anyone with a conscience should avoid doing that.
Greatly appreciate you, Flying Junior👍👍 ~FAITH
Nice
Doug,
I can't understand the cognitive dissonance of this asinine trope about the election being stolen either. Of course, nobody is that stupid. Yet it persists as a universally held belief in a certain group of people. It's mostly like a religion. People don't usually go to church to explore their agnostic tendencies. People in church expect everybody there to be open to the possibility of a higher power that they choose to call their God. But in this instance, instead of having faith in a deity that hears our prayers they place that same measure of faith in the false idol of their orange god-emperor. He was apparently sent by God, who also really, really likes Tump, to save his people from the dystopian world that has been created by the children of the 1960s cultural revolution and restore their country to its former glory before there were so many people that they can't understand. To them Tump's words are infallible. He an do no wrong. At least that's what I think is happenning. That's more or less it.
That and the same old s*it about communism.
Extensive investigation into dumbass dubya's failed Afghanistan war. Wonder if the end will be both sides(magats and Dems) are equally to blame?
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/05/26/afghanistan-war-commission-jackson-chaudhary-00159761
Former head of Mossad apparently threatened ICJ investigator over planned investigation into war crimes by Netanscrewwloose and other Israelis.
Back to normal in drumpf fantasy land.....
https://www.salon.com/2024/05/28/e-jean-carrol-attorney-says-all-options-are-on-the-table-after-posts-human-scum-rant/?in_brief=true
Will drumpf get sued a third time for defamation of E Jean Carroll?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ek5yse0gLNo
I recall Ms Ginsburg uttering nasty things about a president, but that president was one you don't like, so you said nothing.......
Worshiping one party is as awful as worshiping one god.
Ha-ha. Trump is starting to feel the financial pain.
Trump sells off $10m jet to major megadonor as he owes millions in legal fees and judgements
So about that clever plan for the US military to circumvent Israel's spiteful blockade in order to deliver food to Gaza ...
US aid to Gaza stalls after temporary pier breaks apart in heavy seas
Fergus hijacked their faith by appealing to their baser nature. That was his master stroke, to understand the rot at the root of evangelical Christianity.
He told them that their ignorance was noble and their bigotry was patriotic, and now they are more loyal to him than any random junkie is to their main source, because, really, where else are they going to get that kind of validation of their lives and worldviews?
Minor details like the outcomes of elections and the future of democracy are nothing compared to that for them.
And by the way, they are our real problem, not Fergus. I called it a master stroke, but it is really not beyond any run of the mill huckster with no respect for society or governing institutions.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
RFK Junior has come out in opposition to removing Confederate statues, which looks to me like he's going after the racist redneck Trump voters. The MAGA crowd are actually a good fit for RFK Junior, since a lot of them hate science, and so does he. If he does manage to pull away more of Trump's voters than Biden's, I guess I will have to thank him.
Won't change the fact that he is an idiot, though.
Texas cheat 'em:
Texas GOP Would Lock Democrats Out of Statewide Office
May 28, 2024 at 9:55 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 224 Comments
“Republican Party of Texas delegates voted Saturday on a platform that called for new laws to require the Bible to be taught in public schools and a constitutional amendment that would require statewide elected leaders to win the popular vote in a majority of Texas counties,” the Texas Tribune reports.
“Under current voting patterns, in which Republicans routinely win in the state’s rural counties, such a requirement would effectively end Democrats’ chances of winning statewide office.”
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“Texas GOP Would Lock Democrats Out of Statewide Office”
There is a mountain of evidence, at this point. Republicans are the anti-democracy party.
Blogger dodahman @1:06pm said,
"I recall Ms Ginsburg uttering nasty things about a president, but that president was one you don't like, so you said nothing....... Worshiping one party is as awful as worshiping one god."
================
Though taking a political stance, quite a stretch characterizing the concerns espoused by the late associate justice as nasty. And nothing may not have been said in this forum because Ruth Bader Ginsburg apologized for bashing then GOP presidential nominee, Donald Trump.
From Politifact... "Update: On July 14, 2016, Justice Ginsburg apologized for her remarks, saying they were 'ill-advised.'
https://www.politifact.com/article/2016/jul/13/what-ruth-bader-ginsburg-said-about-donald-trump/
~FAITH & FAIRNESS
After a smidgen of investigation, it has been proven both Alitos lied about upsde down flag, when it occurred and who said naughty things to the Alitos. Typical magat behavior.
Nikki Haley went to Israel to do a photo-op, which involved her writing “finish them” on an Israeli bomb. Classy.
Her stand against authoritarianism, which lasted five minutes, is now over, and she is back to groveling to Trump and generally being trash.
She was probably jealous of all the attention Kristi Noem was getting, and figured she had to out-monster her somehow. Well, mission accomplished.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Yippee!!!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X_ZT9nz9mLs&pp=ygUkdGhlIHdpeiBjYW4geW91IGZlZWwgYSBicmFuZCBuZXcgZGF5
Damn. Trump convicted on all counts of fudging his business records.
I still feel like better attorneys could have gotten him off. But Trump doesn’t prioritize legal aptitude when choosing his attorneys, but rather willingness to sign on to his wacky conspiracy theories. (As well as hotness, in the case of Alina Habba.)
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'MMMM !!!!
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED !!!!
Donald J. Trump
The J stands for JAIL
Lol!
How America’s news media are reporting on today’s events.
GUILTY, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Randy Rainbow strikes again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il57mgVOQF8
-Doug in Sugar Pine
It's a great day to be a socialist. All of you should go get a covid booster.
“It's a great day to be a socialist. All of you should go get a covid booster.”
Thanks, but I’ll just celebrate by burning a Trump effigy.
RIP Marian Robinson.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Sooooo much food will be hitting the wall in the Trump household.
"No Field, they will not understand it until the literally and personally feel the "wrath" from it. That is the way some human brains work. They have to experience it before they "GET IT."
Sadly, you may be right. I have been listening to, and watching these right-wingnuts lose their minds since their boy was found guilty by a jury of his peers, and it's frightening. FN
"Thanks, but I’ll just celebrate by burning a Trump effigy."
I have lighter right here if you need one.
Hi F & F, checking on that blogger glitch for you.
Nice to see your post.
That goes for all of you field hands who have been hanging with me for all these years.
Nothing but love for all of you.
Same to you, Field. This is worth a giggle:
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjX5k2k4keE3youbkq4jjFWFEPtFM8Bgfwg8MuHaF2OAqvSPIdEULsJ64l9vReDmBd4EjOHofI8XhOyD6x6-nvffvfsmbZyk9LTIx4nOdkF5-Nl-FXlPhB1_AXQv9Lb_7H-_bazTw-zTV7R8q1CumB9UHlIy6jDAFX37cQEgOGhuZvB99aJ5t2U0WC6ivc/s750/IMG_5126.webp
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Thanks Doug. :)
Eastern iowa, aka West Virginia, sinator and coal magnate Manchin has officially left Dem party and is now a wholly owned subsidiary of magats are us. Like rizona traitor, Cinema, he is now an extreme right wing independuhnt.
As part of an apparent defamation settlement, the publisher of "2000 Mules" has apologized and removed the film from all of its platforms. There was money involved, also.
https://crooksandliars.com/2024/06/publisher-2000-mules-apologizes-yanks-film
-Doug in Sugar Pine
So many questions, if he wins can he pass a background check for a secret clearance, will he have to stay at the WH wearing an ankle bracelet, will he get swole and wear cornrows, will Melania touch the glass as they talk, who will his parole officer be???
“As part of an apparent defamation settlement, the publisher of ‘2000 Mules’ has apologized and removed the film from all of its platforms. There was money involved, also”
Ugh, Dinesh D’Souza. Another professional slanderer. In the same league with James O’Keefe.
I’m a pretty strong advocate of free speech rights, but our country’s high tolerance for defamatory speech goes way beyond what should be allowed. It shouldn’t be legally possible to make a career out of slimy behavior like D’Souza’s. (Not to mention, there shouldn’t be “news” media that promote such flagrant lying as D’Souza engages in, even when it’s not defamatory.)
PX, he’ll probably get nothing close to what you joke about. That’s what feels dangerous about this prosecution: It will energize his followers, but probably not send him to prison. It’s a tragedy that Trump’s minions on the Supreme Court have helped him delay the federal cases that are more likely to put him in a cell.
One of the jurors in Fergus' recent trial told the court that his only news sources were X and Truth Social, and he still voted to convict.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
For all the handwringing about "political divisiveness," the Democrats and Republicans are actually wonderful promoters of bipartisanship.
The Democrats and Republicans are united in bipartisan support for America's arming, bankrolling, and sponsorship of the Israeli Gaza Genocide as well as its political repression of anti-genocide protestors in the USA.
It is not a coincidence that both Democrats and Republicans alike demanded that Columbia University terminate the protests of students on its campus.
And both Joe Biden and Donald Trump praised New York City (and the NYPD) for ultimately ending the student encampment at Columbia.
Or Democrat Richie Torres (D-NY) is working hand-in-hand with Republican Mike Lawler (R-NY) to push through the imposition of Orwellian "anti-Semitism monitors" on American colleges.
Meanwhile, in "blue state" California, the deployment of police against anti-genocide protestors throughout the University of California system has been executed under Democratic Party dominated cities, UC Board of Regents, state legislature, and governorship.
So Donald Trump will not be instituting fascism to the USA.
He will only continue America's fascist "democracy" that already exists--albeit in more naked form.
The Democrats are not opposed to this fascist democracy per se. They only want to disguise it in a more palatable form--as opposed to the Republicans, who are more open about their authoritarianism.
Biden’s campus crackdown: The Democratic Party bares its fangs, again
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/27/ktft-a27.html
"He will only continue America's fascist 'democracy' that already exists--albeit in more naked form.
The Democrats are not opposed to this fascist democracy per se. They only want to disguise it in a more palatable form--as opposed to the Republicans, who are more open about their authoritarianism."
Nice try, but the imperfect form of democracy we have right now isn't some subtle difference from what Republicans want and are working towards, which is ZERO democracy.
If you don't like the Democrats' stance on Israel, you can work through activism and the party system to change it. There is already a sizeable number of left-wing Democrats in Congress who oppose unconditional support for Israel; more can be added, if you can build public support for this.
Under a future Republican dictatorship, you won't be able to organize or vote to change anything. Violent revolution will be the only future option to alter government policy.
Conflicting reports today as to whether Israel will accept Biden's three point plan to end the war in Gaza. One says that the plan was a pressure move to exploit Benny Gantz's deadline for an exit plan, and another says that Netanyahu will never back down, despite assurances from his top aides that he will accept what they term as a "bad deal."
Not ready to believe any of it quite yet, but it does seem promising.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
It’s hard for me to believe that anything will motivate Netanyahu to stop, other than the US taking away his weapons supply. If he voluntarily stops pursuing Hamas, his farthest-right coalition partners will pull out of his coalition, and then he is cooked. An election will be held, Netanyahu will lose, and then he will go to prison for prior corruption offenses.
I don’t have a crystal ball, though, so we shall see what happens.
It's a nice plan. But it still doesn't include statehood for Palestine.
“It's a nice plan. But it still doesn't include statehood for Palestine.”
A plan for Palestinian statehood is a fantasy anyway, in the near term. Both because getting to a Palestinian state will require extensive negotiations, and because it will require a change of Israeli leadership. This will never, ever happen with Netanyahu in charge.
A ceasefire, or at least a change of Israeli military strategy (i.e., make an effort not to bomb civilians or starve them to death) would be a realistic starting point.
"Under a future Republican dictatorship, you won't be able to organize or vote to change anything. Violent revolution will be the only future option to alter government policy."
In case anyone thinks I was kidding, here's are the latest antics of the insane, fascistic Republican Party:
Kansas Constitution does not include a right to vote, state Supreme Court majority says
Noar crimnal sctivity by the most hated, crooked,compromised POS ever to disgrace the White House is comng to light through ProPublica investigations.
https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-criminal-cases-witnesses-financial-benefits
Former aides have been given he,mty raises and other perks for testiying in drumpf's favor.
Get your hands on the May 27th issue Of Time Magazine and read the extensive interview with Trump. Gilead is only one of the horrors he and his minions plan for this country. Border walls, immigration detention camps, pulling out of NATO, and extension of his ruinous tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, are facing us. We must stop him! We must stop all Republicans!
This is depressing news. After becoming a punching bag for right-wingers over failing to stop abuse of the asylum system (even as congressional Republicans block legal reform bills intended to do just that), Biden has thrown in the towel and is trying, by executive order, to “temporarily” end the right for anyone to apply for asylum at the border.
I understand Biden wants to get re-elected, and that voters are mad that asylum abuse is happening, and that many of those voters are too dumb to understand WHY that abuse is happening and don’t even care about HOW it gets stopped. But boy, this executive order is a disaster.
For starters, it is illegal. The US has treaty obligations to grant asylum to people fleeing political persecution and war in other countries. When Trump tried the exact same thing, SCOTUS shut him down. But that was a few years ago, and since then, Trump has packed the court with lunatics who might just sign off on illegal policies, as long as they are ones that harm oppressed people and/or foreigners.
If Biden succeeds in shutting down the entire asylum process, in the name of stopping economic migration, there is a strong likelihood this will not be a temporarily change. And that will be a win for the racists.
So now we know what the X was all about.
MTG wants to "defund" New York, doesn't realize that it's the other way around with New York funding all of her states in "real America"...
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Do you folks ever think about anything outside your echo chamber?
The US is already in a "soft" world war. Sooner or later it will become "hot" and that will be bad for all of us.
Could you and your neocon friends please stop with the escalation. I see you Victoria Nuland. I think there's been enough death and war crimes.
“Could you and your neocon friends please stop with the escalation. I see you Victoria Nuland. I think there's been enough death and war crimes.”
¿Qué?
“MTG wants to ‘defund’ New York, doesn't realize that it's the other way around with New York funding all of her states in ‘real America’...”
Defund Marjorie’s mouth.
Bill Maher Election Prediction Shocks Everyone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbXqq-tQ6YA&t=69s
It looks like Biden’s executive order is not as bad as originally described, but still quite bad. It wouldn’t shut down asylum applications indefinitely, only shut them down during periods when the number of applications is too high.
The massive problem with this is that if you establish this as a power that the president can use, what do you think Republican presidents will do with it? To a President Trump, the threshold for “too many” asylum seekers will be one asylum seeker.
Biden says Netanyahu is prolonging the war in Gaza for personal political gain.
Sounds about right.
"Could you and your neocon friends please stop with the escalation."
Fergus plans to replace military leaders who won't publicly kiss his ass with MAGA loyalists if he is elected.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Where is the Epoch Times getting all of that money, anyway? (from CNBC via Steve Benen at the Maddow Blog):
The chief financial officer of conservative global news outlet The Epoch Times has been arrested and charged with leading a yearslong scheme to launder at least $67 million in illicit funds, federal prosecutors said Monday. The scheme — which involved cryptocurrency, tens of thousands of prepaid debit cards, fraudulently obtained unemployment insurance benefits and stolen personal information — fueled a massive increase in The Epoch Times’ reported annual revenue, prosecutors alleged.
-Doug i9n Sugar Pine
"Where is the Epoch Times getting all of that money, anyway? (from CNBC via Steve Benen at the Maddow Blog):"
Conspiracy-theory peddler the Epoch Times is targeted at readers from the MAGA hat crowd. I wonder how many of these racist hillbillies would be upset to learn that the Epoch Times is a Chinese publication. I mean, they're a bunch of wacky Falun Gong dissidents who hate the Chinese government ... but they're still Chinese.
Didn't write anything about Trump.
Chicago couple brutally assaulted by black teens while on date, pregnant wife loses baby after attack
Chris Pandolfo
Tue, June 4, 2024 at 1:34 PM CDT·2 min read
771
https://www.yahoo.com/news/chicago-couple-brutally-assaulted-teens-183414830.html
Today is eighty years since a major milestone in a previous attempt to kick fascist ass. Guess it's our turn now.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Republican voters sound off on trump's conviction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vylIk3KGM8
https://abc7ny.com/post/donald-trumps-new-york-gun-permit-revoked-conviction/14915953/
Sure Doug, be sure to change your diaper first.
Totally normal party. No fascism here, guys …
Colorado GOP calls for burning of Pride flags
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/steve-bannon-sentence-prison-contempt-of-congress/
“https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/steve-bannon-sentence-prison-contempt-of-congress/”
He’ll get out of prison just in time to go on trial for fraud. :-)
You know, for pocketing all the money that the clueless Trump Chumps sent him, which was supposed to be used to build a border wall that Bannon never had any power to actually build.
He'll go to prison 11 days before Fergus' sentencing, so he won't be able to cry like a baby on his podcast over it. Let the buggery begin.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Israel went full Putin, and created social media accounts of fake American citizens to promote the war on Gaza. Why are we still allied with this country, again?
Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War
"Why are we still allied with this country, again?"
Republicans. The same ones who really love them some Putin. And Jesus freaks who believe they need Israel to bring on the end of the world.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
"Sure Doug, be sure to change your diaper first."
Doug isn't a trumper.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFllwx_Qk50&t=386s
Jared has a new project:
Jared Kushner Is Building a Monument to ‘Victims’ of U.S. Military Action Against, Uh, Slobodan Milosevic
So Alex Jones is being forced to liquidate his assets to pay the Sandy Hook families to whom he owes a billion dollars. His company is already being overseen by a trustee, so he hasn't been running it for a while.
I almost don't want to know who would buy such a company, but I'll probably find out and it will probably be just as awful as it seems like it would.
There is no shortage of filthy rich monsters in these here United States of America.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
" I almost don't want to know who would buy such a company, but I'll probably find out and it will probably be just as awful as it seems like it would."
I'm not sure it will be worth anything. The company has no product, other than Jones and his lies. And nothing would force Jones to stay on, once he no longer owns the company, so this would seem to me to be an extremely bad investment.
Maybe they will sell off the computers and office chairs, and then the court will move on to seizing Jones' personal assets.
Excuse me, make that more than one and a half billion dollars he owes them.
Yeah, it would make no sense as a business investment, but as propaganda support, money might be found for it. Maybe Elon will want it on X...
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“Yeah, it would make no sense as a business investment, but as propaganda support, money might be found for it. Maybe Elon will want it on X...”
Yeah. If you just want a piece of the profits Jones makes from spewing nonsense, it would probably be cheaper to just let him go broke and then hire him as an employee once he’s financially desperate.
The only reason for blowing money on saving Jones’ company is out of principle. You know, the deeply held moral principle that people should be rewarded for defaming parents who are in mourning after their children have been murdered. That moral principle.
We were so lucky that Trump didn't create the fascist state the first time around. Much to our benefit and relief, lo and behold! He didn't have any idea how to govern! I have often marvelled at what might have happened if he wasn't such a complete idiot.
Biden polling higher after verdict.
But Uncle Sam is stilled pissed off at the fascists. "I thought we got rid of you guys in 1945!"
Jones judgment restores my faith in the system. The rest of his miserable life. Every dollar he ever makes with his crooked, lying schemes, gone faster than he earns it. As it should be, the devil.
I heard about Trump having to give up his guns from some right-wing kooks that were indignant.
Kick in the pants, huh?
FBI Witness Confirms in Court: No Tampering Occurred with Hunter Biden’s Laptop
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/06/05/fbi-witness-confirms-court-no-tampering-occurred-hunter-bidens-laptop/
Trumps poll numbers continue to climb, and joe bidet continues to sink!!
“FBI Witness Confirms in Court: No Tampering Occurred with Hunter Biden’s Laptop”
No tampering, but plenty of privacy-invading, on the part of the Trump cultist IT guy who trolled through files of Hunter Biden’s he wasn’t entitled to, which is what got these prosecutions going.
Also, plenty of lying about the computer’s contents, on the part of basically every Republican politician and media figure in America.
"Nice try, but the imperfect form of democracy we have right now isn't some subtle difference from what Republicans want and are working towards, which is ZERO democracy.
If you don't like the Democrats' stance on Israel, you can work through activism and the party system to change it. There is already a sizeable number of left-wing Democrats in Congress who oppose unconditional support for Israel; more can be added, if you can build public support for this.
Under a future Republican dictatorship, you won't be able to organize or vote to change anything. Violent revolution will be the only future option to alter government policy."
2:38 PM
This is the scam that the Democrats always push: We are the Lesser Evil compared to the Republicans. We are NOT Trump and NOT Republican.
No.
The Democrats play the role of Good Cop to the Republican Bad Cop.
The Democrat game is act as political sheepdogs to shepherd grassroots progressives into supporting "left wing Democrats" or working within the Democratic Party--but only in order to politically neuter and coopt these groups.
These so-called "Left Wing" Democrats (like Bernie Sanders, the Fraud Squad, or the Progressive Caucus) are about as sincere as Nancy Pelosi and Chuckie Schumer donning kente cloth and taking a knee in the US Capitol during the 2020 protests triggered by the murder of George Floyd.
These Democrats may spout a lot of virtue signal rhetoric or gestures "opposing" American sponsorship of the Gaza Genocide, but when push comes to shove they will support Genocide Joe Biden.
This is how America operates by design: Democratic Party Gaza Genociders vs. Republican Gaza Genociders vs. “independent party” Gaza Genociders (like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.)
Whomever you vote for, you get a White House war criminal.
'Biden, We Are Your Red Line,' say pro-Palestinian protesters surrounding White House
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/biden-we-are-your-red-line-say-pro-palestinian-protesters-surrounding-white-house/3244454
“Whomever you vote for, you get a White House war criminal.”
But only if you vote Republican do you get an actual convicted felon!
And also a potential dictator. But that’s just a minor detail, I guess.
The Democrats still know how to govern, the goddamn Republicans gave that up years ago. If you want there to ever be a chance that things can get better, you have to vote for Democrats, policy faults and all, because to do anything else is to enable the fascist takeover of the government. This is not speculation. Read their policy platform, such as it is, "Project 2025" where they spell it all out.
Just as Fergus has enabled the maga morons to be even more out and proud bigots and imbeciles, he has enabled the very worst of the very worst in his party to try and bugger the government past anything you would want to live around, by being an easily manipulated narcissist who only cares about adulation and revenge.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
TRUMP 2024!!
CHICAGO CRIME
Over 30 people shot, 5 fatally, across Chicago in weekend violence
by: Courtney Spinelli
Posted: Jun 9, 2024 / 06:18 PM CDT
Updated: Jun 9, 2024 / 06:18 PM CDT
https://wgntv.com/news/chicagocrime/over-30-people-shot-5-fatally-across-chicago-in-weekend-violence/
dead Breibart and magat fbi witnessess are extremely reliable (wink wink) witnessess, by golly.
I was going to vote for Trump anyway, you don't have to convince me.
Notice how 'Cool Joe" Biden did not interfere in any way with Hunter's trial on gun charges and even after his convicxion, Biden took the high road and never questioned the intgrity of the procssess, never impugned Judge, jurors, or any court personnel?
Yep. It's called a show trial. Both of them...you ignorant fascist.
He said he wouldn't pardon him
“He said he wouldn't pardon him”
It remains to be seen whether he really keeps that promise in the unlikely event Hunter receives a big prison sentence for either his gun or tax charges. It would be easy enough to pardon him (or commute his sentences) after Joe’s no longer facing re-election and would face no personal repercussions for doing so.
Particularly keeping in mind there is zero chance Hunter would have faced any of these charges if his dad weren’t president. Prosecutors wouldn’t have heard a single piece of evidence against Hunter in the first place if a Trump-fan IT guy and conservative activists hadn’t (unethically and possibly illegally) violated his privacy. If you’re his dad, you’ve got to feel at least a tiny bit guilty for your career contributing to putting him in this situation, though not for the fact he broke the law.
Also, while Hunter’s tax evasion does constitute an act most people would find objectionable, the gun laws Hunter broke are fucking dumb, and probably shouldn’t be on the books in the first place.
Only magats can dom show trials since they can't investigate and see a crime any magat ever committed.
anymoose, isn't it tick breediong season in moosie brains?
From their peak in the final year of the Fergus administration:
Violent Crime Rate Falls Sharply
June 12, 2024 at 9:50 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 71 Comments
“Violent crime fell in the first quarter of 2024 by more than 15%, continuing its postpandemic decline nationwide,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Homicides and reported rapes both declined about 26% in the first three months of 2024 compared with a year earlier, data from the FBI’s quarterly uniform crime report showed. Robberies were down about 18% and aggravated assault fell by about 13%, the FBI said. Reported property crime declined about 15%.”
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“From their peak in the final year of the Fergus administration:
Violent Crime Rate Falls Sharply”
In reality:
The pandemic caused an inflation and crime spike, but things are nearly back to normal now.
In Republican fantasy world:
BIDEN RUINED EVERYTHING AND EVERYTHING IS STILL BAD!!!
What is horrifying is the number of people who do not consume any real news, and therefore believe the idiotic propaganda.
Hey, everybody, it seems Twitter/X will now make all “likes” anonymous. No more getting cancelled when your coworkers see that you have “liked” tweets saying that George Soros is secretly importing brown people to ruin America to fulfill some inscrutable “globalist” agenda.
Gosh, I wonder why Elon would make this change …
Consumers of wingnut media will literally never hear about this:
Grocery prices fall for fourth straight month
MSNBC and Slate are not news, real or otherwise.
Nor teagan slothgard.
So no kids were around them to get slaughtered this time (via the Palm Beach Post):
A school district employee participating in armed "guardian" certification accidentally shot themselves at the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office gun range on Monday, June 10, according to the Palm Beach County School District and sheriff's office.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
A senate committee investigating Uncle Clarence's reporte/non reported luxury trips paid for by Harlan Crow has discovered three more not reported as taxable income.
twenty strikes AND IT IS About time to call UC out!
Clarence Thomas responding to questions about his numerous “gifts” from suspiciously generous donors.
Hey Martha Ann, break out the BBQ, it's flag day!
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Slate is a good source dfor accurate news reporting and has two of the most knowlegeable Supreme Court reporters to be found anywhere.
As a gauge of just how far down in the shitter the goddamn Republican party is at this moment in history, just try to imagine the blank looks on the faces of Ron Johnson, Ted Cruz, Jim Jordan or MTG if someone pulled a Joseph Welch on them and asked them "At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Democratic guv of Maryland pardons 175k pot users.
Here come the SCOTUS dishwasher wars. Some bullshit wingnut organization has filed suit in U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk's Amarillo Texas court to try and block the Biden administration's appliance energy efficiency standards.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
So where are all of the bikers now that Fergus has shit all over Milwaukee? That's like biker Mecca, it's where Harley the fuck Davidson is. What does he have to do to finally piss them off, say their dicks are tiny and their crank has been stepped on?
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Nashville Shooter’s Manifesto Released Despite FBI Resistance
COMMENTARY
By John R. Lott Jr
https://realclearwire.com/articles/2024/06/14/nashville_shooters_manifesto_released_despite_fbi_resistance_151105.html
“Here come the SCOTUS dishwasher wars. Some bullshit wingnut organization has filed suit in U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk's Amarillo Texas court to try and block the Biden administration's appliance energy efficiency standards.”
Dumbest hill ever to die on. It has the stink of Trump all over it, too. “Make Dishwashers Great Again.”
The media constantly reminds us that Biden is old, but seems not to have noticed that Trump is also old. And there is no more obvious symptom of his geezerhood than his constant whining that technology is no good anymore.
*Eyeroll* No, Grandpa, you just don’t know how to operate it anymore.
The dishwasher nonsense comes from the canard that eco-friendly appliances don’t function as well as the older, more wasteful ones. But this is generally untrue. There may be a few examples where the first generation of more efficient appliances had “teething problems” — I’m thinking of low-flow toilets that required double flushes, or compact fluorescent bulbs that were slow to light up — but these defects have inevitably gone away once engineers worked out the kinks in the new technology.
In Trumpworld, everything is broken. Toilets won’t flush, lights won’t switch on, and dishwashers won’t wash your dishes. What a nightmare! How can we cope? Meanwhile, back in the reality-based community, everything is pretty much works just fine.
The Biggest Company In Chicago Is About TO LEAVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76rAfFnDVhg&t=11s
Yeah, the reality-based community. That phrase uttered by Karl Rove laid the MAGA foundation. He was claiming that since the US under the W administration was now an "empire", they created their own reality, and while everyone came to grips with it, they would create another for them to have to come to grips with.
Very much like the Gish-gallop firehose of horrible Fergus has relied upon to keep the institutional press off balance and for the most part out of his ugly hair.
The problem, of course, was the lie it was built upon. They didn't create their own reality, they created stories that their fans may have believed, like the infinitely reprogrammable meatbags that they they were, but their beliefs had almost no effect on say, hurricanes, planes crashing into buildings, or whether Iraq had WMDs or not.
Or, as we came to find out, viruses, their spread, prevention, cure or effects on the country.
And now that bird flu has infected dairy herds and a few people, how do they react? By cheerleading for the deregulation of raw milk.
We don't yet know whether raw milk can transmit the bird flu virus, but wouldn't it be a good idea to find that out for sure before advocating for it's use? I mean, I grew up with a milk cow, so raw milk doesn't freak me out, but we did make sure that she was healthy and we didn't sell any of the milk, you know, just common sense stuff, that you would sort of expect from a reality-based community.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Doug, are you up to date on your injections?
You will need to get the bird flu injections too, so don't delay.
Time is of the essence. Maybe you could get double injections. It's worth a try and you can't be too safe.
2 killed in shooting at Juneteenth celebration amid weekend of gun violence that left dozens wounded
Doha Madani and Rebecca Cohen
Mon, June 17, 2024 at 6:17 PM CDT·5 min read
https://www.yahoo.com/news/2-killed-others-injured-shooting-191157608.html
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ezdRyYpHVBQ
We don't yet need bird flu vaccines, as it has only infected three people, and isn't spreading person to person yet. If it starts, there are two vaccines ready to be deployed, and as the estimated lethality of a community spread bird flu is an order of magnitude greater than that of the first wave of covid, I'll get it the second it's needed. I did get a shingles vaccine last week, though, and got 10% off of my grocery bill.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Well good. Keep us posted about your injections.
At least 6 large dairy operations in Obrien, Sioux and Plymouth cos in NW iowa have contracted bird flu in their cows.
https://www.salon.com/2024/06/18/another-evangelical-abuse-scandal-its-a-big-reason-why-they-worship/
From the alleged party of family values....crickets!
R.I.P. Willie Mays, perhaps the best damn baseball player we've ever had. When I was a little kid, my mom used to take her kitting out on the sun deck and knit while Lon Simmons called the Giants games on the radio.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“We don't yet need bird flu vaccines, as it has only infected three people, and isn't spreading person to person yet.”
It seems like the CDC should rethink this. It would be a good idea to at least vaccinate those workers who interact with live poultry or cattle. Just waiting for them to start dropping dead is playing with fire.
And at some point, they will have to start vaccinating the animals. Culling flocks of domesticated birds doesn’t work anymore as a containment method, now that bird flu is rampant in the wild bird population.
iowa doesn't require dairies to mandatorily test for bird flu. Those that have reported were voluntary.
“iowa doesn't require dairies to mandatorily test for bird flu. Those that have reported were voluntary.”
I saw a figure that said 20% of all milk nationwide tested positive for evidence of bird flu virus. So, clearly, bird flu infection in cattle is already very widespread.
Yeah, dairy workers and the cows they raise would be a great large scale case study on how well the vaccines work and what their side effects/drawbacks might be before a pandemic shows up. Which it most likely will. I guess now the question will be getting it funded.
So the Louisiana state government is gonna require that the ten fucking commandments be displayed in classrooms. I guess they just never learn.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“So the Louisiana state government is gonna require that the ten fucking commandments be displayed in classrooms. I guess they just never learn.”
To the contrary, they have learned. Specifically, they have learned that Trump packed the Supreme Court with maniacs, and they are hoping that the justices are now loony enough to ignore the Establishment Clause and greenlight theocracy. Given some recent wild judicial decisions, I’m not entirely confident they are wrong.
Happy Juneteenth everybody! One thing I miss about not being able to live in Oakland anymore is the massive Juneteenth celebrations they always had there.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
With all the talk of vaccines in this comments section, it seems like a good time to mention recent news that Trump probably killed even more people than previously understood, through his undermining confidence in COVID vaccines. Not only did he kill vast numbers of Americans by discouraging vaccine use among his followers, but he also arranged for the US military to deliberately spread disinformation about safety and efficacy of the Chinese Sinovac vaccine, thereby killing loads of foreigners, too.
I still cannot fathom how we are considering letting such a stupid, evil man become president again.
And he's on the stump saying over and over that he "won't give a penny to any school with a vaccine or mask mandate."
Now, rather than taking the bait and attempting to parse whether he means "covid vaccine and mask" or simply "vaccine and mask" I'll make a different point:
I'm not in a cult, so expertise out there in the world doesn't threaten the authority of some bullshit cult leader for me, freeing me to partake in the benefits of that expertise, such as safe and effective vaccines, which made the covid infection I got a couple of months ago resemble a moderate head cold instead of killing me or putting on a damn ventilator.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 2024
Stacy, You Ignorant @#$%
That she says this with a straight face is amazing. That people believe it is appalling:
The president of the Chicago Teachers Union claimed during a radio interview that aired Sunday that conservatives don’t want black children to learn how to read.
Stacy Davis Gates made an appearance on WBBM 780 AM to defend the union’s contract demands. Gates claimed that conservatives who expressed criticism of the demands “don’t even want black children to be able to read."
“Remember, these same conservatives are the conservatives who probably would have been championing black codes, you know, during reconstruction or thereafter,” she said. “So, forgive me again if conservatives pushing back on educating immigrant children, black children, children who live in poverty, doesn’t make my anxiety go up. That’s what they’re supposed to say. That is literally a part of the oath that they take to be right wing.”
Um, "black codes" were created by the Southern democrats who had just lost the Civil War where Republicans had freed their slaves. Jim Crow laws? Drafted by democrats. Keeping and enforcing segregation? Dems. Founders of the klan? Democrats again.
And just in case Stacy missed the Chicago news the past few years while living in South Bend - democrat mayor, democrat Cook County Board president, democrat chief judge, democrat states attorney, forty-seven of fifty dem aldercreatures. There's even a democrat super majority in Springfield meaning they don't even need a Republican defector to pass their entire agenda and get it signed by....a democrat governor.
So the fact that black children can't read (or do math) wouldn't have anything at all to do with conservatives, and hasn't for decades now. It's far more likely that democrats don't want black kids knowing how to read lest they find out that democrats have been oppressing them since before the Civil War and lying ever since. In that, they're doing a bang-up job.
Labels: city politics, un-fucking-believable
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Democrats stopped advocating for slavery in the 1960s, when Republicans took up that mantle, and carry it proudly to this day. But you know that. It was called the "Southern Strategy" for the location of the bigots and imbeciles the Republican party planned to win elections with. Now they have broken down the barricades and demand that their bigotry and imbecility be celebrated or else they'll pull up their pants and go home. That was the condition that Fergus found them in, and why he literally owns them now, in a twisted throwback to the chattel slavery once thrown off in this country. Hundreds of thousands of them actually died for their addiction to his self aggrandizing lies.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Hi Field...it's been a while.
I hope that all is well with you.
Please hurry back soon..
You are needed!
The deaf need to be taught to hear and the blind need to be taught how to see.
It took them going through 2 terms of JB before they realized that the very rich and the corporations are allowed to skate by without paying ANY taxes whatsoever . While the tax burden falls on the working middle class. And the middle class have been brainwashed into thinking that this is okay.
AND the culprits are hoping that if they keep the "racism" and the "those colored people are the reason that you are not rich" smokescreen in place that the middle class will NEVER realize who the real culprits are.
P.S. Also..side note, let's be clear illegal aliens are not taking jobs from black Americans or white Americans. Low wage, no benefits, and slave labor were jobs never held by whites and blacks were foced to do field work as slaves . These are jobs that Americans no longer want to do. And as soon as the migrants get on their feet very quickly, they start their own businesses, get educated and leave the migrant jobs. That is why both democrats and republican need a steady flow of illegals. Wake up open your eyes and clean your ears.
So now Louisiana state law says the ten commandments have to be displayed in all classrooms pre-k to college. Louisiana state law also forbids teachers from explaining what adultery is to students younger than seventh grade. What could possibly go wrong?
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“Louisiana state law also forbids teachers from explaining what adultery is to students younger than seventh grade.”
Really? Do they think they can keep kids from finding out what sex is until SEVENTH GRADE? Good luck with that.
Also, in my experience, the fundies are usually ultra-ultra eager to deliver copious warnings about God smiting sinners. They want to get started with that business as soon as a child can understand words.
I think Mel Brooks needs to start visiting Louisiana schools.
Bannon loses another appeal.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
"Bannon loses another appeal."
Can't wait for his ass to go to jail😂
Republicans are way too comfortable with racists
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/valentina-gomez-juneteenth-missouri-republican-b2565991.html
“Republicans are way too comfortable with racists”
Oh, the viral video chick who previously told everyone to not be “weak and gay,” and then waved a big gun around, for no apparent reason.
Another circus-freak candidate. She wants to be the Latina MTG.
South Duhkotuh guv, Knowem Nothing, sez drumpf needs a woman veep to protect women's rights. Women's rights to be forced to carry a fetus to term even if it is dead or malformed?
My home place has had 8 inches of rain in the past three days and over 2 feet in the last 30-35 days. Even county gravel roads and concrete bridges are flooding and being damaged.
Looks like plenty of corn/soyeans will get washed/flooded out. Many soybeans won't get planted at all.
"Oh, the viral video chick who previously told everyone to not be 'weak and gay,' and then waved a big gun around, for no apparent reason.
Another circus-freak candidate. She wants to be the Latina MTG."
I forgot. Valentina also burned a bunch of pro-gay books with a flamethrower.
Classy. Also Hitler-y.
I was just coming by to ask you if you were OK, because I saw some headlines about flooding in Iowa.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Onetime Democrat Tulsi Gabbard spoke at the religious nutter -- excuse me, Faith and Family -- forum recently, and a few weeks earlier said she'd like to be Trump's running mate. She's a Trump cultist now.
There is a section of what I call the "idiot left" who used to support her because, in their view, mainstream Democrats weren't left-wing enough but Tulsi was a true believer. Or something.
I wonder what they're thinking right about now. It was always obvious to me there was something seriously wrong with Tulsi.
I'm okay, Doug. I am still being trated for diabetic ulcers and hopefully that will end in another couple weeks. I am hAVIng unknown problems with white blood count. It goes up around 17k and then I have to spend a few days back in hospital on anti biotics. Spent 45 days in hospitals since Jan 12.
Fortunately most of the hospital and clinic bills were forgiven. Doc thinks it is time for mikey to look at assisted living or nursing home. I am pretty much condemned to using a walker to get around.
I know people who lost limbs from diabetic ulcers, so be careful. I sort of skipped the walker and went straight to a quad-cane sixteen years ago, and although I attempted to walk without it, I just never got good enough at walking to make that feasible. Now my right hand is feeling numb and tingly, which affects my walking a little, but also makes holding onto my guitar pick difficult.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Jason Whitlock ranted out one of his rantiest rants ever, describing the WNBA as a “lesbian sex cult” that doesn’t want hetero fans.
Michigan state congress pig was arrested aound 3 AM for chasing a stripper down the street and firing a hand gun. He allgedly sexually assaulted the woman before the chase. His name was Neil Frisk, recently changed to mud.
“Michigan state congress pig was arrested aound 3 AM for chasing a stripper down the street and firing a hand gun.”
Yee-haw! Now that’s a scandal! Going out in a blaze of infamy.
His name is Friske and he pronounces it "frisky"...
-Doug in Sugar Pine
“His name is Friske and he pronounces it ‘frisky’...”
His full, legal name is Kornelius Wolfram Friske Jr., which sounds like a character that would be played by Will Ferrell in a comedy.
Magat justices protecting other magat judges from accountability....
https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-supreme-court-republican-judges-violations
Who knew this could happen?
Statistics show a marked increase in Texas’ infant mortality rate, following that state’s abortion ban.
I’m going to go ahead and guess that this is a consequence of women with defective, doomed fetuses now being cruelly forced to carry their pregnancies to term and deliver dying or dead babies. Before the ban, the pregnancies would have ended in abortions, and would not have counted toward infant mortality statistics.
Link found in Texas between rising infant mortality and state’s abortion restrictions
So the trustee in Alex Jones bankruptcy case is moving to liquidate his media company rather than let him keep operating in order to raise money to keep paying off the 1.4 billion he owes the Sandy Hook families, apparently because of some less than legal attempts by Jones to hide some of his assets.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
South Duhkotuh guv Knoem Nothing says drumpf hasn't fully vetted her for veep spot. Consider her lucky as the vet would likely spay and neuter her tired ass.
Last vet visit the vet forgot to give her a rabies vaccination and distemper shot.
Scotus tells convicted child molester, Josh Duggar, to take his appeal and pound rocks.
Still possible that this could be overturned by SCOTUS, but for now, sanity prevails (might have been a different ruling if it were a Baptist school instead of a Catholic one):
An Oklahoma board’s approval of what would be the nation’s first publicly funded religious school is unconstitutional and must be rescinded, the state Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday. ... The ruling also says both the Oklahoma and U.S. constitutions, as well as state law, were violated.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
Gosh, no media bias at all here.
Ugh. The universe must hate us. Boebert survived her primary.
I had hoped her goose was cooked. She’d had to flee her old district because she was destined to eventually lose there to a Democrat, and I figured that surely some more competent Republican would defeat her in the new district.
Nope. No competent Republicans ever materialized. Never underestimate the ability of Republicans to turn out losers. All of her opponents were awful and they split the anti-Boebert, allowing her to escape unscathed.
So we’re in for yet another couple years of trashy mean-girl Lauren relentlessly lowering the tone, and the collective IQ, of Congress. May God have mercy on our souls.
*anti-Boebert vote
Finland is going to start vaccinating its agricultural workers against bird flu. I hope we soon follow them in doing so. We need to take proactive measures to prevent another pandemic from happening.
"No competent Republicans ever materialized."
You can say that again.
Agricultural workers and lab technicians. Perhaps some folks are actually learning.
-Doug in Sugar Pine
The strongest motivation for the republican crazy about owning any type of weapon unfettered by government regulation is...
The assassination of John F. Kennedy.
I finally heard Murder Most Foul by Bob Dylan. It was a very serious work and surely has affected many of us very deeply, including Mrs. Junior.
I didn't like it personally because I felt that all of the cultural tropes and memes from popular song and television and Americana just seemed really irrelevant to me. He joked about "Dallas Loves You," which as he knows was not the case. Hatespeech flyers were printed before his fateful visit to Dallas. But it hit me as empty and flippant. Lacking the dignity that would have been more proper.
First JFK. Then RFK, MLK, Malcolm and Medgar Evers. The Birmingham church bombing, Trayvon Martin, George Floyd and Dylann Roof.
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