The opera last night was “Marnie” – based on the same bool as the Hitchcock movie. It premiered in 2019 to good reviews and good audience response too. So it’s very new. (I’m a fan of the mezzo-soprano for whom it was written, Isabel Leonard, and was lucky enough to get to see her in person in another new opera, “Cold Mountain,” when it premiered in Santa Fe.) I’m sure the movie left out things that were in the book, and the opera has left out things from both, but it’s still a plenty twisted story.
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Short Takes –
The New Yorker – Out-of-Practice Trump Forgets to Strand Rally Crowd in Parking Lot
Quote – “People have come to expect that, at the conclusion of one of our rallies, they will be marooned in the middle of nowhere for hours, often in inclement weather,” Harland Dorrinson, a Trump aide, said. “On Saturday night, we didn’t get it done.” Dorrinson said that the entire Trump team would be conducting a postmortem of the rally to find out why attendees were able to leave the event without incident.
Click through for details. Andy, it’s harder to strand a crowd when it’s small to begin with and much of it gets boored and leaves early.
Daily Beast – YouTube Permanently Bans Right Wing Watch, a Media Watchdog Devoted to Exposing Right-Wing Conspiracies
Quote – “What are we going to do?” he asked. Launched in 2007, Right Wing Watch has posted thousands of clips of prominent right-wing figures making controversial comments, perhaps most famously including televangelist Pat Robertson and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. In fact, Right Wing Watch’s exposure of Jones’ false and conspiratorial rhetoric was key to YouTube and other social-media platforms eventually removing his channel InfoWars from their sites. Notably, many of the right-wing outlets and personalities that Right Wing Watch chronicles are not currently suspended or banned from posting content to YouTube, while RWW has been booted for merely exposing their comments and content—something Mantyla noted as being particularly ironic.
Click through for full story. This is NOT good news. They are still on Vimeo, at least.
Independent – GOP senator says roads and bridges are ‘a woman’s problem’ because women ‘do the shopping’
Quote – “My wife says that roads and bridges are a woman’s problem if you will,” said Mr Cassidy. “Because oftentimes it is the woman – aside from commuting to work – who’s also taking children to schools or doing the shopping…. And the more time that she spends on that road, the less time she spends doing things of higher value,” he added.
Click through for absolutely not satire. Yes, Senator, women are human beings, and human beings need roads and bridges. (And your wife sounds brainwashed.)
Food for Thought
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Trumpkins leaving Donnie’s boring rally early:
Good to learn Right-Wing Watch got reinstated by YouTube.
“A Woman’s Problem”?!? Good to learn the 1950s are still strong w/ Cassidy.
Yes, the support for RWW was overwhelming. Great minds.
Cartoon: I did not know that! Go figure…lol
NYer: omg. This is hilarious!!!!! LOL, Andy!
DB: Sadly…there are folks out there (and beyond) who listen and act out on what they say. It’s scary, to say
the least !!
Independent: WOW! Sure blame your wife. What an jerk. And..as-.
FFT: Well said.
Glad that we’re getting rain here, after all, it’s Texas. I always worry about ‘the fires’, every year…but we are not dry as in past summers. I do hope that Colleen and Carrie are doing well/good too. One month ago today, our beloved ‘Guardian Angel’ (TC), got on the Stairs to go to Heaven. I miss him. (me waving to the sky..).
This Just In: “Mitt Romney nails Trump to the wall by asking for his sources of information that the election was stolen. He said that Trump’s sources aren’t the DOJ and intel community, but Rudy Guiliani and the ‘MyPillow Guy’. Romney argues for ignoring Trump and moving on.” ~ Sarah Jones ~
2. “Thousands of Texans have banded together and hired an attorney to file suit to block Gov. Greg Abbott from ending emergency federal unemployment benefits before the programs expire in September.”
~ Rebecca Carbello ~
3. “I don’t understand this Brittney Spears conservatorship argument. We let someone completely unstable run the country for 4 years. I think we can let her have a credit card.” ~ Bill Maher ~
4. “Follow your Dream and make it a reality” except these students will never be able to do that.” 3044 High School students died from gun violence. 3044 empty chairs in the stadium for the kids who were killed by gun violence instead of graduating this year. This former NRA president got tricked into giving a graduation speech in front of 3,000+ empty chairs, each one representing a child lost to gun violence.
The Lost Class of 2021.” ~ Sarah Betancourt ~ * Absolutely heartbreaking. *pb*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs-3XnbqCys
5. “This administration does not take cues from Republican criticism, nor from the former potus. We have said over a number of different occasions that Ms. Harris would go to the border. She has been before and would go again. Vice President Harris took her first trip to El Paso, Texas, last Friday.” ~ Symone Sanders ~
TJI#1: Uh, Oh! One is not supposed to question the Orange Empty, and Mitt is toying with dynamite! TOT might barf on him. Mitt can handle it, though. Lindell, reportedly, gave TOT the imbecilic reinstatement idea.
TJI#2: Interfering with Abbott’s drive for the presidency, are they?
TJI#3: Faux News was devoting a lot of time to her story, and the marchers supporting her, the other day,while Rome burned!
TJI#4: I saw that video, find it hard to believe that the fool kept to his speech. Nothing personal, jackass, but what if your grandchild’ life had been among those erased?
TJI#5: The “optics” did not look that way, or maybe it was the way the optics were set up.
TJI #1 – Romney has always had moments of sanity. Not enough, and not often enough, but certainly as far back as “Romneycare.”
TJI #2 – Good. Nail him.
TJI #3 So Bill doesn’t see the very obvious difference?
TJI #4 Great minds. (Posted last Friday here.)
TJI #5 – Jen Psaki has said mny times that “This administration does not take cues from Republican criticism, nor from the former POTUS.” Yet they keep saying and implying that he does, or should (both would be ridiculous.)
TJI #2: How can a governor block federal help to his state? Is he going to pocket the money or something?
Opera need s more people like you!
‘Toon: Reamed out his brain, did they?
New Yorker: If/when will they learn that he’s a Johnny-One-Note, with nothing new to say? When he gets indicted, he’ll still be doing the “Poor me,” thing. But it is good to learn that people who are still dumb enough to want to attend his rallies, can see that they hold no particular, if any, value.
DB: There has been a change in regard to the situation, with RWW back, at least for now: “Right Wing Watch also confirmed that YouTube informed the site on Monday afternoon that their channel was back online.”
Inderpendent: Louisiana, what more can one expect, than one dumb-ass after another?
FFT: I’m liking this new feature. The issue almost sounds like TOT might have competition if they get here.
Opera needs a lot more people a lot younger than I am! Otherwise, yeah. One of my greatest moments was when I know the answer to an Opera Quiz question that literally no one on the panel had any idea of.
Thank you, Joanne for your comment re: ‘The Lost Class of 2021’.
Glad to hear that you can enjoy so many operas these days, Joanne. Though my musical taste has always been very eclectic and has slowly expanded into most classical music, I’ve never managed the step into opera or modern classical music and certainly not the combination of both. But I have some of Maria Callas’ renowned recordings and can certainly appreciate where your love of opera stems from.
Cartoon: I can’t remember, or forget, what I never knew.
TNY: What crowd, Andy? I’m looking forward to the day when there are more losers on stage at the former guy’s rallies than in front of it.
DB: YouTube seems to be heading very much in the wrong direction. It’s time for those who took Facebook’s overt predisposition to the Right down a notch to focus their attention on YouTube too.
Independent: Finally, a Republican senator stands up who will vote for this bill and then he comes up with this inane argumentation to support it. He sounded like he knew what he was talking about when praising the good points of this bipartisan bill and then he comes up with this ludicrous “selling point”.
FFT: Didn’t Americans in this category used to be called “white trash”?
I don’t know how I manages to get so deeply into contemporary stuff. I didn’t set out to do it – it just happened. Looking back, I think “Oscar” by Theo Morison may have been a turning point. That was iin 2013.