Politics Plus

I’m running late, as I overslept and had several chores  to complete. Next week will be so busy that I will probably have only a Personal Update Monday though Wednesday.  Monday is a WWWendy day, a day late, and we have lots to do.  Tuesday I have an Oncologist appointment to interpret my Cat Scan.  Wednesday I have a power chair repairman coming.  I suspect a bad wheel bearing as my chair screeches whenever I’m on the move.  TGIF Hugs!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:02 (average 4:40).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Donald Trump Nominates Advocate Of ‘Ethnonationalism’ For Judgeship

How did Bought Bitch Moscow Mitch know to hold all those judgeships open for Trump, when most thought Hillary would cream Trump. Bought Bitch Moscow Mitch must have already known Putin was stealing the government for the Republican Reich. Can anyone guess which ethnic group that Republican racist Menashi favors? RESIST!!

From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): HALLELUJAH FOR THE NRA!

Don retreaded this, but with Republican Ammosexual terrorists on a killing spree, he could not have picked a more appropriate time to bring it back. RESIST!!

From Daily Kos: Sen. Susan Collins took time out of her busy schedule of being extremely disappointedthat people expect her to do something about gun violence to attend a fundraiser on Friday. A fundraiser on her behalf. Held by Leonard Leo, Donald Trump’s “judge whisperer.”

Remember all that hand-wringing we saw from Collins last fall over her vote for Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court? It was kabuki. The fix had been in for a long time, with Collins reportedly giving Mitch McConnell the green light for her vote on this nomination before it happened. Now that she’s hobnobbing with Federalist Society executive vice president Leonard Leo—and he’s raising buckets of money for her—the quid pro quo is staring us in the face.

She’s already received the maximum contribution from Leo, $2,800. So now he’s opened the doors of his $4 million mansion for Collins and all his rich friends—who got a big tax break thanks to Collins’ vote on that Trump tax scam—to say thanks. Leo has become increasingly high-profile since Trump got installed in the Oval Office, even taking a leave from his job at the Federalist Society to specifically get Kavanaugh on the court. He has unprecedented sway and say over Trump in judicial nominations, ensuring that the courts get packed with young judges who have extreme anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ rights, and anti-voting rights records.

There are two kinds of Republicans in office: open goose-steppers and secret goose-steppers. RESIST!!

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My Windows 10 installation is still somewhat buggy, after the update from hell, but I just don’t have time to waste another day dealing with their horrid customer support.  Today is a WWWendy day.  From force of habit, I keep thinking it’s a grocery day too, but grocery day is Thursday in the shiny new CatBox.  I slept poorly last night.  I had to get up for an Alka-Seltzer.  That hiatal hernia has been acting up, and I feel tired.  Hump Day Hugs to all!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:56 (average 5:27)(mouse still flaky).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Robert Reich: Is America Becoming a Third World Country?

Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. If the Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, has their way, we will become a fourth world country. RESIST!!

From YouTube (Trae Crowder Channel): Do What Now – ICEcapades in the Mississippi Heat

Trae is spot-on, but it makes me sick to compare this racist Republican hatred to the gorgeous production on ice that thrilled me so, when I was a child. RESIST!!

From The New Yorker: One day after the White House took steps to weaken the Endangered Species Act, an irate polar bear has demanded a face-to-face meeting with Donald J. Trump.

The bear, who was described as “livid” by his spokesperson, has already begun his journey from the Arctic to Washington to express his deep dissatisfaction with Trump.

“He has been ravenously hungry because of the destruction of his habitat,” the bear’s spokesperson said. “The latest news about the Endangered Species Act has not improved his mood.”

Dang, Andy! How could the poor creature possibly bear such a vile encounter? RESIST!!

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I don’t know why, but I feel very tired today.  My mouse stopped tracking evenly, and it’s driving me nuts!  ARGH!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 7:29 (average 4:37).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (a blast from the past): The Beatles – Strawberry Fields Forever

Ah… the memories!! RESIST!!

From Huffington Post: Fox News and host Tucker Carlson are losing more advertisers.

Long John Silver’s will no longer advertise on Fox News, as confirmed to Media Matters’ Angelo Carusone. 

Nestlé and HelloFresh, which have advertised on Carlson’s show in the past, told The Hollywood Reporter they were no longer running ads on the show. Nestlé said it had no plans to do so in the future.

On Friday, Stein Mart confirmed that it is no longer running ads on Carlson’s show.

A spokesperson for SoFi, a personal finance company that had recently been running ads with Carlson, told HuffPost that the company buys “programmatic advertising and [does] not purchase directly through the sponsorship of any shows.” Additionally, SoFi said it had “made sure our ads will no longer air during this program.”

Earlier this week, Carlson claimed on his show “Tucker Carlson Tonight” that there is no white supremacy problem in the United States, and that it’s a “hoax” proliferated by the media.

Wonderful! Our voices matter enough to punch the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, right in the wallet! RESIST!!

From Daily Kos: When I spotted this tiny, dark booth, I surveilled it for a while, feigning to study the map of the fairgrounds for bearings on my phone. Minutes passed, and then a few more, and all the while this forlorn booth had no guests. Literally not a single one.

It wasn’t for lack of potential visitors. Friday was a perfect day for the popular fair – warm but not hot, and as comfortably cloudy as it was sometimes sunny. Ohio’s capital city of Columbus is centrally located – in the Heart of it All of the Heart of it All – which makes for only a few hours’ drive to its location from just about anywhere in this quite populous state. Understandably, the fair was crowded. Just about every booth got their fair (sic.) share of attention this day, but for that one – sparse, and sporting an overly tiny identifying sign – which seemed patently unable to buy a break…

…Now Ohio is a purple state, but even though the fair takes place in the big city (Columbus is Ohio’s largest), the fair is a rural-themed park which attracts more than its share of the red team. That pretty much holds true for both booth denizens as well as fairgoers, but the marketplace’s desire to make the sale puts a damper on risky political banter. That’s why I was surprised when I saw the undersized sign on the back of the lonely booth:

T R U M P

P E N C E

Make America Great Again

The two twenty-something booth caretakers were bored. Very bored.

FOMCROTFPIMPLMAO! RESIST!!

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Here in the shiny new CatBox, I’m running late because I slept poorly, overslept, and still feel groggy.  I read the results of the Cat Scan.  I have a hiatal hernia.  I also have two tiny nodes in my left lung (5 mm and 1 mm).  I have a routine appt. with my Oncologist to interpret the Cat Scan in 10 days, so I won’t panic until I know I have cause.  Tomorrow is a busy WWWendy day, but I’ll try to stay in the saddle, because it’s the last full day of Care2 News.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:44 (average 4:38).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Victims Of White Nationalist Terror Fight Back (And Win) In Court

That’s good! Also, Resident Donald Trump, the Tangerine Terrorist, Bought Bitch Moscow Mitch, and many other Republicans should have to pay millions in punitive damages. RESIST!!

From Common Dreams: Disgraced American billionaire and political insider Jeffrey Epstein was reported dead on Saturday morning from an apparent suicide in a New York City jail.

The New York Times reports:

Mr. Epstein hanged himself and his body was found this morning at Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan at roughly 7:30.

Manhattan federal prosecutors last month charged Mr. Epstein, 66, with sex trafficking of girls as young as 14, and details of his behavior have been emerging for years.

Mr. Epstein, a financier with opulent homes, a private jet and access to elite circles, had been dogged for decades by accusations that he had paid dozens of girls for sexual acts in Florida.

It makes no sense that Epstein had been removed from suicide watch.  I suspect that Epstein’s death may have been a Republicide, not a suicide. He had lots of  detailed dirt on a pants-load of super-rich Republican perverts, and he had an incentive to give it up. RESIST!!

From Think Progress: The signature promise of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign was that he would build a massive wall along the nation’s southern border and that not a penny of it would be charged to the American taxpayer. He repeatedly boasted that he would get Mexico to pay for it.

But now that this lie has been all but abandoned, Senate Republicans reportedly plan to divert billions of dollars from health and education to make up the difference.

Roll Call reported on Thursday that Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard Shelby (R-AL) has written a Fiscal Year 2020 Labor-HHS-Education spending bill allocation “that is about $5 billion lower than it would have been to provide funding for the wall.” If this proposal gets the 60 votes required for passage in the Senate, it would still need to be negotiated with the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives.

Shelby has to know this will be shit-canned in conference committee. He’s just grandstanding to make the deplorable Republican Sheeple say BAAA-A-A-A-A!! RESIST!!

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