And I'd like to thank all for the sincere good wishes, presents, surprise party & so forth. It's so wonderful to have friends! (Who will cheerfully call the fucking police on me because I was righteously angry. W/ friends like that ...)
One classic & a tolerably stupid Todd Rundgren production, recently & often heard over & over & over in truncated &/or covered forms in adverts on the telly.
NB: Hank Snow (The Singing Ranger) is Canadian, b. 1914 in Brooklyn, Nova Scotia. He penned both the above classic* & "I'm Movin' On", which were enough for a lifetime career. Go Canada!!Still don't get it. Are ancient tunes less expensive, or are ad agency music directors admitting that today's music sucks may not even be up to yesterday's drivel?*Originally from an Australian number. Hank changed the locations.
These deluded buffoons live in a sad fantasy world.
Lies? As Long As They "Resonate", It's Fine
Axios: House GOP's top messenger: Socialism attack line “doesn't really resonate” — House Republicans' top messenger has three pieces of advice for candidates trying to survive the midterms: Call Democrats “communists,” don't gaslight voters on inflation — and trust your district if it tells you to deviate from President Trump.
French has begun to direct his venom Rosenthal’s way. Texas Monthly’s Robert Downen, the foremost chronicler of French’s rise and the Texas far-right, recently reported on a fundraising email from the campaign that accused Rosenthal, who is Jewish, of “mocking Christianity” and compared him to the Bolsheviks who killed Russia’s ruling Romanov family—a trope with a deep antisemitic history.
“Democratic consultants are privately encouraging their battleground candidates to avoid talking about artificial intelligence regulations out of fear that powerful tech groups will unleash a tidal wave of spending against them ahead of November,” Politico reports.
Even more imminent than the robot danger is filthy rich tech group Nazis screwing things up w/ their lying advertising & propaganda. No more private financing of elections, dammit!!
The Mother Jones item has more hot poop on Bo French:
In 2025, around the same time the Tarrant GOP demanded Texas leaders acknowledge new Islamic centers as an “invasion” and “dangerous threat,” French polled his X followers: “Who is a bigger threat to America?” The two choices: “Muslims” and “Jews.”
Of course he's astoundingly ignorant:
To the extent that his candidacy is focused on the Texas Railroad Commission at all, it is because French believes the oil industry, too, must be purged of “the influence of radical Islam.” French, who did not respond to a request for comment, referred to Jim Wright, the Republican commissioner he defeated, as “Jihadi Jim” and alleged that Wright’s ties to a Saudi-owned company’s petrochemical facility had allowed “Islamic values and laws” to infiltrate the commission.
Bo's 90+ yrs. late on that. And RNS looks at football as religion & identity in Texas.
Count in one hand & crap in the other; see which piles up sooner: Shit, or Fat Donnie's bribe money. Cultist cretins & suckers. It'd be funny if any of the chumps figured it out. They couldn't be any denser.
Jamelle Bouie has an important piece in the NY Times today (gift link) about the GOP’s Nazi problem, and it is a problem. He points out that there is a whole generation of younger staffers, some of whom have been exposed during this campaign and others who are actually working in the top reaches of the government under Trump. His administration is crawling with white supremacists and neo-Nazis. But he also provides some important historical context to show how we got here.
How did we get here? It is a mystery. Just guessing, but a long tradition of white supremacy, Yankee religiosity, chattel slavery, & the Confederacy might have somethnig to do w/ it.
People are tired of taking crap. Block those roads, & whack a copper for me!
What initially started as a peaceful demonstration at Victoria Square later descended into chaos as protest participants clashed with security forces and tried to block surrounding roads. (AP Video and Production by Nicolae Dumitrache)
Th' hell's the Romanian gummint doing to Romanian farmers? Doesn't the power structure like to eat?
Finally realized my problem was from constipation, so cleansed the colon, then slept for about 10 hrs. Still yawning, however, because humanity & all its works are still unspeakably dull, inane, boring & mind-numbing (image above) except, of course, for the parts where you horrid pieces of murderous shit are trying to kill anyone in your way.
He [Trump] believed it because conservatives believe stupid, simplistic things about how the capitalist economy works. They believe that if you just let the free market do its thing, wonders will arise and all will be well. They believe this first and foremost because their big-money donors tell them to believe it. But they also believe it because the economists—or more precisely, the economists they prefer to listen to—say so, and they must know what they’re talking about.
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But longer term, the Democrats need to do much more. It would be great if they nominated a presidential candidate in 2028 who had the guts and the rhetorical skill to indict not just Trump but conservatism and traditional economics more generally. It’s not an accident that the last three (now four) GOP presidents have wrecked the economy: Bush, Bush, Trump, and Trump. It’s not a coincidence that the last five recessions, and seven of the last eight, going all the way back to Richard Nixon, have hit during Republican presidencies. Republicans screw up the economy, and they screw it up because they believe in economic fairy tales that fit on a bumper sticker and sound plausible to most people but that ignore the world’s deep complexity and irrationality, and the constancy of the reality that no one, not even a president of the United States, has perfect information.
And you know the fucking sheep will elect another retarded Republican soon enough & you'll be screwed again. (Hope it's not too soon; & that I won't be here when it does happen.)
Note that everything is reduced to a "Stunt", "Unhinged Anti-Israel Tirades", "anti-Israel rants", "Washed-Up Rapper Dropped From Ed Sheeran Tour After Pro-Islamic Terrorist Rant", "Anti-Israel, Anti-ICE Rant", yada. Apparently Macklemore couldn't possibly be sincere. Screw alla these fake news dilrods & prostitute-user Bob Kraft, each one of whom is a lying sack of crap.
Also, Ed Sheeran is a boring hack. Who let his Limey ass in here? Furriners raus!!!
I know Lindsay Graham is dead, but where'd all the others go?Every one of these lying bitches & sons-of-bitches will tell you to your face that they are big Xians, even as they ignore every one of the Ten Commandments.
In The New Republic, retired Federal Judge Michael Luttig clearly illustrates the possibility of "Moses" Johnson & House Republicans not seating elected Democrats come January.
Judicial review of the House’s decision not to seat Democratic representatives-elect in the 120th Congress would take weeks, if not months, during which time the United States would be in the throes of a paralyzing constitutional crisis, helplessly vulnerable to all the world’s evil, as it would have been in January 2021 had Mike Pence not thwarted Donald Trump’s plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
It is not difficult to imagine the many possibilities, some of the most critical being entirely realistic. It would be the ideal moment for China to move against Taiwan, by way of military blockade, attack, or even invasion. It would be the perfect moment for Vladimir Putin to complete his conquest of Ukraine, and perhaps even to move militarily against Estonia. Every passing day could bring a deepening economic crisis, worsened by our angry allies around the world who would welcome the opportunity to requite Donald Trump for his belittling mockery of their countries and presidents. Without the Congress, the United States would be powerless to respond to any of these crises.
What? The "Dep't. of War" can't defend us w/o Congress?
He may be just a bit too optimistic here.
I don’t intend to be overly sanguine about this Supreme Court. This is the court that shattered the one constitutional truth in the U.S. since 1789 that “no man is above the law” and placed Donald Trump of all presidents above the law in Trump v. United States. This is the court that betrayed the Constitution by refusing even to decide whether Trump was disqualified from the presidency under the Fourteenth Amendment because of his insurrection against the Constitution, which he clearly was. This is also the court that has cynically authorized Trump’s lawlessness for the past two years through its aptly named “shadow docket,” without so much as briefing, argument, or written opinion.
But surely by now this court must understand what it has wrought for the U.S. and the Constitution, and is aghast as we all are, even if it is not penitent. Surely, surely, it will understand the signal moment in American constitutional history that would be presented, and this time understand its supreme obligation to the nation.
"Wish in one hand, crap in the other. See which piles up first."
The judge (surprise) is legalistic & lengthy; Heather Cox Richardson summarized it, included some newer developments
As if to illustrate Luttig’s warning, House speaker Johnson told attendees at Trump’s convention in Dallas on Thursday: “We cannot and will not allow them to take the majority in the Congress. We’re not gonna do it.”
Daniel Hampton / Raw Story:
Lauren Boebert accused of sex with three staffers in complaint alleging $200K hush payment — An explosive sworn complaint filed with the House Ethics Committee alleges Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) carried on a sexual relationship with her district director in the officeTMZ.com: LAUREN BOEBERT REJECTS ETHICS COMPLAINT ... Accusing Her of Affairs with Staff, Hush Money PaymentJim Hᴏft / The Gateway Pundit: Lauren Boebert Strongly Denies Sworn Ethics Complaint Alleging Affairs With Two Female Staffers and One Male Staffer — Matt Gaetz Responds After His Name Is Dragged Into Allegations
