Crooks & Liars has come up with a neologism worth keeping IMO – “Psakisplaiing”
politicsrus
Now This News – if you thought you needed a hanky yesterday …
VoteVets – Longest War
Robert Reich – not the one that disppeared, but very sound.
Armageddon Update – singing my song.
Founders Sing (with ALbert Einstein)
Beau – I don’t want to terrify our California readers, but I do want you to be safe, and you will need to know this.
The Lincoln Project – Rally Recap
Crooks & Liars – “Socialist” CEO gets last laugh
Really American – Sadly needs to be said.
Frankly, I cannot see John Cornyn having the ability to even find this article. A staffer must have found it. Did the staffer tell him it was satirical? There are multiple scenarios possible here, none of which looks good for Cornyn. (Ms. Clarke has been nominated to head the DOJ Civil Rights Division.)
Now This News (personally, I needed a hanky)
This is your brain on kittens
Beau – I don’ want to spoil it, but you might want a hanky handy.
Sorry to be so late. I could tell from what was up last night that there was more coming … and then I overslept. Oh well, most people save it till evening anyway.
Sam Addresses the Murder of Daunte Wright
Attacks on the Asian American Community Pt 1and Part 2
Hollywood’s Walk of Shame: The History of Asian Stereotypes in Pop Culture
“Some people think what happens in Hollywood doesn’t matter” – Ouch. That really hits a nerve for me. Too many people think that what happens in art – any kind of art – drama, literature, painteing and sculpture – doesn’t matter But I am haunted to this day by just one story from an early issue of Ms. magazine. A little girl whose mother was a doctor was asked what she wanted to be when she grew up. “A nurse,” she said. “Not a doctor?” “Girls can’t be doctors.” You know she did not get that idea at home.
On which to hang comments separate from video comments.
Here’s the latest:
We have the computer up and running again, but due to a significant amount of pain and discomfort I will not be online today. May take me a few days to be up and running again. I will be back online as soon as I can. Hopefully within 3 or 4 days.
Good news that everything is in place. Helpful to know we must not expect new posts from TC too soon – and that we must not panic.
Cartoon:
Blast form the Past – Yes, I know this would not be till tomorrow anyway, and this year it’s not for another month plus a couple of days, but you didn’t really think I was going to play “My Heart Will Go On,” did you?
As I type, it is only about 10:30 am in Portland – which would have been more than enough time for TC to have posted normally, but quite possibly not enough time for a computer tech to have arrived, or, having arrived, to have finished. I’m going to put up the video thread early and wait before putting up a placeholder.
I know I’ve been kind of pushing Glenn Kirschner, and his videos run longish (this one is 9 minutes), but he is so articulate and really knows the Constitution, I find every second I spend with him is educational and profitable. The Fourth Amendment, people.
Really American – “Teen Love”
Liberal Redneck J&J vaccine
John Fugelsang is really on a roll! “The Matt Gaetz Prison Podcast”
Parody Project (and TFT) respond to YouTube taking down their video not too long ago. Brilliant. Also, a link to a new location!
Beau – President Biden is nominating many extremely qualified people, including some whose credentials are not exactly expected (spoiler: and probably better than the usual.) This pick is a case in point.
Justice Matters – This is long – 11 minutes – but passionate and, I believe, important.
Really American on Gosar
Meidas Touch – I have to admit this scares me.
Robert Reich – The Week Ahead (7 1/2 minutes but multiple topics)—Dang, it was good when I saw it. Maybe he’ll put it up again.
The Freedom Toast for the Parody Project – this is from January, but I don’t remember seeing it.
Beau on what CEOs are doing, why they are doing it, how this may help Democrats
WWWendy posted it as a comment in yesterday’s Video Thread, but I am copying it here because not everyone looks there:
HI EVERYONE, WENDY HERE – WANTED TO GIVE AN UPDATE ON TOM. WE SURVIVED THE MOVE ON SATURDAY TO THE NEW FACILITY. VERY LONG DAY FOR US BOTH. TOM IS ADJUSTING WELL, GETTING USED TO HIS NEW ENVIRONMENT AND RESTING UP THE BEST HE CAN. UNFORTUNATELY, THERE WERE SOME COMPUTER COMPLICATIONS AND WE HAVE A REPAIR MAN COMING ON WEDNESDAY. I TOLD TOM THAT I WOULD POST AN UPDATE – THE MOVE CAUSED A LOT OF DISCOMFORT AND PAIN FOR HIM AND HE IS VERY EXHAUSTED – HAS BEEN IN BED RESTING SINCE SATURDAY AND HOPEFULLY WILL BE UP AND ABOUT WITH A COMPUTER BY WEDNESDAY IF EVERYTHING GOES AS PLANNED. NEW PLACE IS TREATING HIM WELL {WITH MY SUPERVISION OF COURSE – LOL}. I THINK IN THE LONG RUN, THIS WILL BE A GOOD MOVE TO PROVIDE HIM WITH 24 HOUR COMFORT AND CARE.
BEST REGARDS TO EVERYONE – THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED CARE AND SUPPORT OF TOM AND i.
The emphasis is mine – our guesses were actually spot on (although we didn’t mention the exhaustion, I feel sure it was always there in our minds. And Wednesday is tomorrow!
I was already feeling much better today and this just puts frosting on that.
The Lincoln Project “Trump’s Big Lie”
Really American – Sad.
Now This News – Aaaaaaw! Watch these firefighters carefully free a poor squirrel who got its head stuck in the knothole of a tree. Once freed, the little guy scampers off like nothing happened 🐿
John Fugelsang – “Tucker Carlson’s Baffled Bitch Face” – CC in Portuguese – too good not to share – had to delay a day to get a full transcript.
Hello, I’m Tucker Carlson, titan of journalism, beloved by millions, and chances are your grandma already likes me more than she likes you. Got a question. Has this ever happened to you? You’re at your job and you’re debating some virtue signaling human rights activist on your highly rated prime time cable news show, and your very well intentioned snowflake guest is talking about marginalized peoples (that’s their way of calling you racist.) So you counter back by saying that shifting demographics is causing economic anxiety among traditional Americans, which is your way of saying, fuck you who cares if I am. What if I told you there was a way to shut your opponent’s entire narrative down without presenting any counter argument or even any facts. Well, I’m proud to present a brand new online workshop where you can learn my patented, trademarked secrets of Tucker Carlson’s Baffled Bitch Face. That slack-jawed, lipless, mouth agape look of constipated befuddlement that I have mastered, which has made me the hero to millions of guys around the world, who’d like to own the libs, but don’t have time to learn shit. In my new online workshop. I will teach you how to pull focus away from whoever’s speaking by using my trademark, lipless concern troll stare. It looks like a simple doughy grimace, but what you’re really doing is conveying to your entire audience. I don’t know what you’re talking about! I’m trying to understand you, but I don’t like the things you’re saying! I don’t want to understand you! I’m going to make this face until the elderly demo hate you (Inarticulate howls) “Let Dancing With The Stars veteran Tucker Carlson show you how to relax your chin into your neck and find your douche in the headlights gaze!” I think I think I think you’ll find in the early days. It helps to verbalize when you’re practicing the face. Go ahead and make the sounds that match the look (inarticulate wails) “All new exercises!” Wait a second – taxing people who can afford to pay a lot more. A little more can help offset the deficit? [Boinggg] Wait a minute – I should treat trans people like they’re people? [Drumbeat] Once you’ve mastered my dismayed, crypto fascist, misogynist scowl, your enemies will run away faster than my own advertisers! [party horn] Tucker Carlson’s Baffled Bitch Face – Release your smug!
Beau follows up on yesterday’s predictions with amplification and advice.