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Bigotry of a Mental Defective

Posted by TomCat at 9:56 am Politics

Aug 222019

Please consider this hypothetical situation. When I was in the hospital Tuesday for my Cat Scan, I could have insisted that I am the King of Israel and that I am God’s Chosen One. I didn’t. How do you know? If I had, they would have thrown a net over over me and tossed me behind a locked door. Well, that’s exactly what Resident Donald Trump, Fuhrer of the Republican Reich did, while demeaning Jews by repeating anti-Semitic claims from racist and conspiracy theorist Wayne Allyn Root.

President Trump on Wednesday tweeted a fawning quote from a non-Jewish conservative radio host who described Trump as the “King of Israel” and who said, without evidence, that Israeli Jews “love him like he is the second coming of God.”

Trump’s tweets cited Wayne Allyn Root, who described himself in a 2016 Townhall column as a “Jew turned evangelical Christian” and has promoted several conspiracy theories in the past, including that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States and that he is gay.

“The Jewish people in Israel love him like he’s the King of Israel,” Trump quoted Root as saying. “They love him like he is the second coming of God…But American Jews don’t know him or like him. They don’t even know what they’re doing or saying anymore.”…

…Trump’s tweets made “King of Israel” the leading trending topic of the day on Twitter, generating many baffled and outraged responses. Later Wednesday, Trump said “I am the chosen one” to fix the U.S. trade imbalance with China, as he looked to the sky. [emphasis added]

Inserted from <Washington Post>

MSNBC shared a couple videos on this. The first focuses on Trumps bigotry, and the second, on his lack of sanity.

Trump Doubles His Controversial Message To Jewish Americans ‘King Of The Jews’

Psychiatrist On ‘The Essential Emptiness Of President Donald Trump’

On the subject of gun control, Trump keeps claiming that the problem is taking guns from mentally ill people. While universal background checks will help a lot more, I do agree that mentally ill people, who act it out as hatred or violence, should not have access to firearms. Assuming that is true, how much more true is it that such people should not have access to nuclear footballs?

RESIST!!

Open Thread – 8/22/2019

Posted by TomCat at 9:54 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Aug 222019

It’s another busy day here in the shiny new CatBox. Later, Store to Door delivers groceries, which I get to put away. Cherry season is over. Now the cherries I get can be found in Garcia. This evening, WWWendy comes to destink the TomCat and do chores. Yesterday, the power chair tech diagnosed shot bearings in both front wheels. The rear wheels are the drive wheels. They had to order the parts and will return as soon as they come in. I thought the chair was about to fall apart, but it’s just so noisy that it even bothers neighbors on the way to the elevator. Squeaky Hugs!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:27 (average 8:58). To do it, click here. How did you do?

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From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): ACT NATURALLY – A Parody

Barf Bag Alert!!

Dang, Don! When you assault us with a grotesque image like that, don’t we deserve a Barf Bag Alert!!? RESIST!!

From YouTube (Full Frontal Channel): Full Frontal Rewind: Gun Control (36 min.)

Sam could not be more spot-on! RESIST!!

From Daily Kos: It’s unclear exactly how big the Log Cabin Republicans group is, but it’s now down by a couple following the resignation of two members over the gay conservative group’s pathetic endorsement of Trump 2020. “It saddens me greatly to say that today, I am ending my association with Log Cabin Republicans, an organization I’ve been heavily involved with for the last decade—including serving as president of the D.C. chapter for three years,” Robert Turner wrote in a Facebook post.

“But for me, there’s no more fight left,” he continued. “The national board’s endorsement of Trump, and their subsequent and hollow WaPo op-ed, is a step too far. And this leaves me sad.” There’s a lot about this that’s sad, but it’s all self-inflicted, because the group didn’t have to endorse Trump, or anyone for that matter. The group sat out 2016 and could have decided to do the same again in 2020, but jumped on the Trump Train even though the car plainly reads “no gays allowed” on the outside.

Turner wasn’t alone either, following the resignation of another member, Jennifer Horn, over the group’s endorsement. “There is no world where I can sit down at the dining room table and explain to my children that I just endorsed Donald Trump for president,” she told The Washington Post. “It is contrary to everything that I have ever taught them about what it means to be a good, decent, principled member of society.”

The leaders of the Log Cabin Republicans are as nuts as their Fuhrer. the members should move their cabin out of the Republican Party. RESIST!!

Vote Blue!!

Open Thread – 8/21/2019

Posted by TomCat at 9:19 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Aug 212019

It’s another busy day here in the shiny new CatBox. The power chair repairman is due in about an hour to fix my chair. I have no idea how long it will take. Yesterday my Oncologist’s PA explained that the nodes in my lungs are so tiny that they are impossible to biopsy, and that they are probably just scar tissue from my COPD. Therefore, they’ll do another Cat Scan in three months, to make sure they undergo no sudden growth. This is my only article today, but starting tomorrow, I should be back in the saddle until Sunday.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:44 (average 6:24). To do it, click here. How did you do?

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From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): 2020 Animated By ‘Fear Of Trump’

This is great. Unfortunately, this attitude also tends to steer voters toward Joe Biden and against Democratic competitors, who are both more cogent and more competent. Assuming that we win in 2020, an administration that gives Republicans license to screw America in a the misguided pursuit of bipartisanship will guarantee a quick Republican return to power. RESIST!!

From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Robert Reich: The 5-Step CEO Pay Scam

The Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. The Reich on the Right, the Republican Reich, has two kinds of policies: scams and bigger scams. Robert’s plan is spot-on! RESIST!!

From The New Yorker: A man with no identifiable skills is deeply worried that a recession could cause him to lose his job, people close to the man have confirmed.

The man, who has barely clung to his job for the past two and a half years, is justified in believing that an economic downturn would result in his unemployment, experts said.

“When the economy is good, it’s possible for someone like him to hold down a job for which he is woefully unqualified,” Harland Dorrinson, a human-resources specialist, said. “But when the economy goes south, look out.”

Dorrinson said that the unskilled man’s résumé, which lists six bankruptcies and multiple business failures, could come under scrutiny in the event of a recession.

“His employers might find themselves asking, ‘How did he get this job in the first place?’ ” Dorrinson said.

Andy, he got the job by repeating ‘Spasibo, tovarishch Putin’ over and over. RESIST!!

Vote Blue!!

Personal Update – 8/20/2019

Posted by TomCat at 8:11 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Aug 202019

I’m in a hurry to prepare for my Oncologist appointment to review my Cat Scan. Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update, because I have wheelchair repair coming. This is my only article today.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:27 (average 5:03). To do it, click here. How did you do?

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From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Iceland Mourns Loss Of Glacier Destroyed By Climate Change

Someone needs to shove a glacier up the butt of every climate change denying Republican politician and staffer, while we still can. Sadly, we’ll run out of glaciers long before we run out of Republicans. RESIST!!

Open Thread – 8/19/2019

Posted by TomCat at 7:20 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Aug 192019

It’s a busy day here in the shiny new CatBox. WWWendy is coming in an hour and we have lots of chores to do. I’m sure I won’t have time to post this until after she leaves. This is my only article today. Tomorrow, please expect only a Personal Update. I have an appointment with my Oncologist to go over the results of my Cat Scan. Update: She’ll be late.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:54 (average 5:05). To do it, click here. How did you do?

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Short Takes:

From YouTube (a blast from the past): America – A horse with no name (clip HQ)

Ah… the memories! RESIST!!

From YouTube (Elizabeth Warren Channel): Dream Big, Fight Hard

I just love that woman! RESIST!!

From Media Matters: One day after a rally put on by the violent far-right group was met with protests by anti-fascist activists, Fox & Friends Sunday ran two segments fearmongering about anti-fascist activists (“antifa”).

In these two segments, Fox News correspondent Griff Jenkins downplayed the death of Heather Heyer and claimed that Heyer was affiliated with antifa; Jenkins would go on to suggest that new laws were needed in order to prosecute such anti-fascist protesters in Oregon as domestic terrorists.

What pure, despicable, Nazi bullshit from the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise. RESIST!!

A Flash in the Pan

Posted by TomCat at 10:38 am Politics

Aug 182019

The picture (see below) is of Republican Nazis demonstrating at the Willamette River Waterfront in downtown Portland. They were just a few blocks south from directly across the river from me. I indicated the location of the shiny new CatBox with a blue arrow. I could not see the, as trees blocked my view. That’s OK. Trees look better than Republicans do anyway. The demonstrators moved South and West, away from the river. After all the hype, it was a flash in the pan.

Portland saw its largest far-right demonstration of the Trump era on Saturday, as 500 rightwingers traveled from around the country to march back and forth across the city’s bridges, and briefly occupy a patch of its waterfront.

By making extensive accommodations for the unpermitted rightwing protest, including close police escorts, concrete barriers, and reopening a bridge to allow them to leave the downtown area, Portland authorities succeeded in preventing head-on confrontations between it and a much larger counter-protest.

The far right “end domestic terrorism” protest, organized by leaders in the “western chauvinst” Proud Boys fraternity, saw Trump supporters rub shoulders with more radical groups, including Three Percenters, a “patriot movement” militia group, and American Guard, who the Anti-Defamation League described as “hardcore white supremacists”… [emphasis added]

Inserted from <The Guardian>

Here’s a video clip: Right-Wing Groups, Anti-Fascist Protesters Swarm Downtown Portland

It was the most peaceful protest Trump’s Nazi-Republican Proud Boys and Antifa, many of whom are Anarchist Nut-jobs, have ever had, thanks to good crowd management by the police.

RESIST!!

Open Thread – 8/18/2019

Posted by TomCat at 10:37 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Aug 182019

It’s a muggy day with 88% humidity. I feel itchy, as it’s shower time, but WWWendy will not return from her weekend party until late this evening, and will be here in the morning. Therefore, I will have only a Personal Update tomorrow.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:01 (average 4:24). To do it, click here. How did you do?

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From YouTube (a blast from the past): The Rolling Stones – (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction [Official Lyric Video]

Ah! The memories! RESIST!!

From CNN: Workers at the Pennsylvania petrochemical plant where President Donald Trump spoke Tuesday were told that if they didn’t attend the event, they either had to use paid time off or receive no pay for the day.

At least some of the workers who attended the speech were instructed not to protest the President, who told the crowd of workers at the Royal Dutch Shell plant he would be imploring their union leaders to support his reelection.

And the sleazy son of a bitch bragged about crowd size and adulation. What a crock! RESIST!!

From Think Progress: The U.S. Supreme Court in its upcoming session will hear arguments on whether anti-LGBTQ employment discrimination is sex discrimination.

The court will hear arguments on October 8 about whether LGBTQ workers are protected by the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

“This is a momentous occasion. It is a pivotal moment and the public should be paying attention,” Omar Gonzalez-Pagan, senior attorney at Lambda Legal, a civil rights organization focused on LGBTQ people, told ThinkProgress.

“These cases will affect the ability of LGBTQ people to be full members of society and to contribute to society by entering the workplace and be free of discrimination.”

I fear that Roberts, Scalito, Pervert Thomas, Whoresuch, and Pervert Kava-Nazi will gang up on the Constitution again. RESIST!!

Bill Maher from 8/16

Posted by TomCat at 10:17 am Politics

Aug 172019

It’s that time of week again, so here are four fine video clips from Bill’s show last night. Enjoy!

Monologue: Make America Atlantic City Again

Atlantic City (where I grew up) was a beautiful place, when it was a sleepy tourist town. When it became Vegas East, the beach (and virtually everything else) became filthy and polluted. America wouldn’t want to be Atlantic City anymore.

Michael “Killer Mike” Render

I had not heard of him before, but he’s a pretty funny guy!

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse

Whitehouse in the White House? 2028? Turn on the light in the Senate, and it’s the Republicans that scramble for cover. His point that Trump social extremism is so horrid that it distracts media and voters from Republican financial extremism is spot on.

New Rule: Armed and Lonely

The best description of an American mass shooter is just two words: Republican Ammosexual. Ladies who use vibrators designed by Mike Pence may be described in just 1 word: horny.

Those were good ones!

RESIST!!

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