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Samantha Bee From 6/17

Posted by TomCat at 10:50 am Politics

Jun 182020

It’s that time of week again, and here are five fine video clips from Sam’s show last night. Enjoy!!

Pandemic Video Diaries Episode 3 How to Make A Late Night Show in Quarantine

For my late night show, I’d have a bank of video cameras recording criminal Fuhrer Trump* quarantined in his jail cell.

Live From Sam’s Shed…It’s Dirty Projectors!

I like it!

Who Runs The World? Apparently This Guy. Meet Reference Man

I agree with their complaint. In designing products, especially safety products, all genders, ages and body types must be included.

The Republican Campaign of Voter Suppression Pt. 1

In the Republican Reich, voting while Black, Brown, Yellow or Red is a criminal offense.

The Republican Campaign of Voter Suppression Pt. 2

Way back before the Dixiecrats became the Racist Republican base, the KKK was a nationwide powerhouse. The parties have now switched places, but we have come full circle. Republicans plan their Reich to be a place where elections exist for show only, because Republicans decide who gets to vote, and the outcomes are predetermined.

RESIST!!

Open Thread–6/18/2020

Posted by TomCat at 10:49 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Jun 182020

It’s a busy day here in the CatBox. Store to Door will be delivering groceries, and I need to unpack and put them away. May your goop be better than mine.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:08 (average 4:45). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

0618TrumpVirusMap

Cases: 2,235,678
Deaths: 119,955
Recovered: 918,796

Short Takes:

From The New Yorker: White House staffers are seething with envy after Dr. Anthony Fauci revealed that he has not spoken to Donald J. Trump in two weeks, envious staffers have confirmed.

News of the break in communication between the two men sent shockwaves through the White House, with scores of staffers demanding to know whether Fauci had a secret trick that they could employ to similar effect.

“Two freaking weeks?” Jared Kushner was overheard muttering. “I’d settle for one hour.”

Fauci said that there was no secret to getting Trump to stop talking to him, but suggested, “Generally speaking, if you pepper your sentences with facts, that’s usually enough to do it.”

Dang Andy! I spout facts as often as Republicans spout lies, but it doesn’t mute criminal Fuhrer Trump* on my TV. I’m mad at Fauci! How does he rate? This just isn’t fair! RESIST!!

From YouTube (CNN Channel): Joe Biden blasts Trump’s Covid response

That is the thinking, heart, and voice of a President. Isn’t it time to flush our traitor Resident, criminal Fuhrer Trump*? RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby (From “Yellow Submarine”)

Ah… the memories! RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

Republicans on Parade–6/17/2020

Posted by TomCat at 10:53 am Politics

Jun 172020

Here is the one hundred seventy-seventh article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s winner is an unknown racist Republican terrorist. She is so honored for torching an Atlanta Wendy’s, as a Republican false flag after Republican police murdered Rayshard Brooks there.

Video footage appears to show a masked white woman setting fire to a Wendy’s restaurant near where a black man was shot dead by police, as authorities offer a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of arsonists.

The fast-food outlet was torched late on Saturday during demonstrations that erupted over the killing of 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks by police officers on Friday.

A video clip filmed by a protester that appeared to show a woman fanning the flames.

Police also posted photos on social media of the white woman ‘attempting to hide her identity’, wearing a black baseball cap and face mask…

Inserted from <The Daily Mail>

Verifying videos of arson suspect accused of burning down Atlanta Wendy’s

What we have here is clearly a racist Republican false flag terrorist attack, perpetrated by a MAGA maniac. The intent was to make the Black protestors appear criminal and give criminal Republican police an excuse to murder more Black people for criminal Fuhrer Trump* and the Republican Reich. May she march in her parade behind bars!

RESIST!!

Open Thread–6/17/2020

Posted by TomCat at 10:53 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Jun 172020

It’s a tired day, here in the CatBox, as yesterday’s activity wore me out. My Oncologist visit went very well. I emailed a copy of my PET Scan results to a doctor, who shall remain Nameless. I trust he can explain it better than I. In short, all my tumors are smaller and considerably less intense than they were before treatment began. They could not find my liver tumors to biopsy, but it turns out that there is enough material from the original biopsy of my esophageal tumor to analyze. I misunderstood the treatment they want to do. They will analyze the mutations of my cancer cells. There are many mutagenic drugs that have been developed for cancer with different mutations, and if one of them matches mine, we can use it. If not, it’s back to the drawing board. My next appointment is on 7/7, and I’ll know then. They also prescribed 12.5 mg Fentanyl patches for pain, which I should have by the weekend. Happy Hump Day to all.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:27 (average 4:53). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

0617TrumpVirusMap

Cases: 2,209,231
Deaths: 119,158
Recovered: 903,136

Short Takes:

From The New Yorker: One day after it issued decisions on L.G.B.T.Q. rights and the Second Amendment that provoked his ire, Donald J. Trump said that he would overrule the Supreme Court by creating a “Supremer Court.”

“Right now, if the Supreme Court makes a bad decision, quite frankly, you’re screwed,” he said. “The Supremer Court fixes that.”

Trump said that his Supremer Court would be a “beautiful, perfect court” that would make the Supreme Court “look like exactly what it is—a sad bunch of losers.”

Trump said that the Supremer Court would be housed in a “giant, gleaming building” overlooking the Supreme Court, enabling the Supremer Court Justices to “look down at those pathetic little Supreme Court jerks and laugh.”

Dang, Andy! Did you read Criminal Fuhrer Trump’s* mind? We know he would, if he could! RESIST!!

From Daily Kos: Last week, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals denied immunity to Martinsburg, WV police officers who shot a “secured” and “incapacitated” black man 22 times.

From the judicial opinion (which is well worth reading in its entirety).

In 2013, Wayne Jones, a black man experiencing homelessness, was stopped by law enforcement in Martinsburg, West Virginia for walking alongside, rather than on, the sidewalk. By the end of this encounter, Jones would be dead. Armed only with a knife tucked into his sleeve, he was tased four times, hit in the brachial plexus, kicked, and placed in a choke hold. In his final moments, he lay on the ground between a stone wall and a wall of five police officers, who collectively fired 22 bullets.

According to the Police Union and the Republican Reich, that was a sad case of suicide. RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Bob Dylan – Mr. Tambourine Man (Audio)

Ah… the memories! RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

Personal Update–6/16/2020

Posted by TomCat at 5:26 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Jun 162020

It’s a very busy day, here at the CatBox. WWWendy and I are going tp the hospital to meet with my Oncologist, my Palliative Care team, my Nutritionist, and my Social Worker. I’ll try to check in when I return this afternoon with a “home safe” comment. Have a great day!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:51 (average 5:11). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Cartoon:

RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

A BIG Win for LGBTQ

Posted by TomCat at 10:55 am Politics

Jun 152020

When I learned that the Supreme Court, dominated by the five Injustices of SCROTUS (Republican anti-Constitutional VD) would be deciding the legality of discriminating against LGBTQ citizens in the workplace, I was sure of the outcome. Much to my surprise, the decision was a big win for LGBTQ!

Gay and transgender employees cannot be fired from their jobs solely because of their LGBT status, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday.

The court found for the first time that federal civil rights law prohibiting workplace discrimination on the basis of sex also protects employees based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.

“An employer who discriminates against homosexual or transgender employees necessarily and intentionally applies sex-based rules,” the court found.

The 6-to-3 ruling, led by Justice Neil Gorsuch, largely turned on the meaning of the word “sex” within Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which makes it unlawful for an employer to “discriminate against any individual” because of their sex.

There was little dispute that Congress did not intend to protect LGBT employees when it passed that landmark civil rights-era legislation. But over 50 years later, lawyers at the hight [sic] court tussled over whether sex-based protections must include protections for sexual orientation and gender identity by consequence.

The Trump administration intervened in the case with a brief arguing that terminating gay or lesbian employees wouldn’t constitute discrimination under Title VII because affected workers of both genders “would be similarly situated—and they would be treated the same.”…

Inserted from <Newsweek>

Please click through. The article is well worth the read.

Supreme Court says federal law protects LGBTQ workers from discrimination

Although I used to be straight, before I forgot how and became a never-sexual, I could not be more pleased for the LGBTQ community. I’m surprised that Injustice Whoresuch wrote the decision. Of course, Injustices Thomas, Scalito, and KavaNazi opposed. Nevertheless, it is imperative to take back both the White House and the Senate and keep them long term. As it it, it will take decades to transform SCROTUS (Republican ant-Constitutional VD) back to SCOTUS.

RESIST!!

Open Thread–6/15/2020

Posted by TomCat at 10:54 am Open Thread, Politics

Jun 152020

It’s a crazy day here in the CatBox. My main nurse from Providence Home Health just called and will be here momentarily. She just left, so I missed my morning nap. Tomorrow is my big appointment with my oncologist and that team, so please expect no more than a very brief Personal Update, as I leave at 7:30 AM. Oh God, it’s Monday, AGAIN!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:03 (average 5:46). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Cartoon:

Remember what Bloody Bullseye Barbie (Sarah Palin) and the Republican Reich did to Gabby Giffords!

Trump* Virus Update:

0615TrumpVirusMap

Cases: 2,162,896
Deaths: 117,865
Recovered: 870,077

Short Takes:

From NY Times: Representative Denver Riggleman, a freshman Republican from Virginia, lost a bitterly contested primary race decided in an unusual drive-through state convention, weighed down by outrage among party activists that he officiated at a same-sex wedding.

In a result announced early Sunday, Bob Good, a former athletics official at Jerry Falwell Jr.’s Liberty University who describes himself as a “biblical conservative,” ousted Mr. Riggleman, a distillery owner and former Air Force intelligence officer with a libertarian streak. Mr. Good captured 58 percent of the vote in a convention held Saturday that was decided by roughly 2,400 party delegates, according to party officials.

Mr. Riggleman, as well as outside observers, denounced the setup — enabled by state laws that allow local party officials to choose congressional nominees by conventions instead of traditional primary elections — which has tended to benefit hard-line candidates.

This is why every Republican must go. Any time individual Republicans do something decent and proper, they get kicked out of the Reich. RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Autopsy Reveals Rayshard Brooks Death Ruled A Homicide

Of course shooting a Black man in the back by a racist Republican pig was a murder. To the Republican Reich, Black Lives don’t matter. RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Gerry & The Pacemakers – You’ll Never Walk Alone [Official Video]

Ah… the memories! RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

Republicans on Parade–6/14/2020

Posted by TomCat at 11:19 am Politics

Jun 142020

Here is the one hundred seventy-sixth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s winner is Garrett Rolfe, a Republican police officer in Atlanta. He is so honored for murdering yet another unarmed Black man, by shooting him in the back as he fled.

Less than 24 hours after a white police officer shot and killed an African-American man outside a fast-food restaurant, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms of Atlanta announced on Saturday that the city’s police chief had resigned.

Early on Sunday morning, Sgt. John Chafee, a spokesman for the Atlanta Police Department, said the officer who shot the man had been fired…

…The authorities said the man, Rayshard Brooks, 27, had run from the police on Friday night after failing a sobriety test and grabbing a Taser from an officer during a struggle with him. Ms. Bottoms said that security footage appeared to show that Mr. Brooks had fired the Taser toward the officer, who was chasing him before he was killed, but that she did not consider that a justification for the shooting…

Inserted from <NY Times>

Warning: the following video contains graphic footage of a Republican murder.

Body cam footage of Rayshard Brooks’ death shows calm, then chaos

To be fair, I have to say that Brooks’ conduct was far from acceptable. Police and Republicans are claiming that Rolfe was in fear for his life, because Brooks fired the TASER at him. However, police and “expert witnesses” have testified in court the use of TASERs by police is justified in crowd control, because it is a non lethal weapon. Therefore, Rolfe could not have feared for his life from a non-lethal weapon. Furthermore, once the TASER had been fired and missed, it could not be fired again and was no threat to Rolfe. For Rolfe to shoot an unarmed fleeing Brooks in the back is a racist Republican murder.

RESIST!!

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