WWWendy will be here shortly, so I’m in a big hurry. Please join me in sharing condolences for Jewish victims of Republican Nazi terrorism in California.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:11 (average 4:16). To do it, click here. How did you do?
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From YouTube (Full Frontal Channel): Not The White House Correspondents’ Dinner: The Roast of Donald Trump
They did not offer the full video of the event. Visit the Full Frontal Channel for several more shorter clips. RESIST!!
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It’s a chilly, but muggy, day here in the CatBox. Tomorrow I plan to post only a Personal Update, with no links messages on Care2. Tomorrow is a WWWendy day, but it’s messed up. She might come at her normal early morning time, or she might be unable to come before mid-afternoon. My Broncos drafted Drew Locke, a QB from Ohio State. I hope you are enjoying your weekend.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:30 (average 4:28). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): President Donald Trump: Charlottesville Comments Were ‘Answered Perfectly’
Could Trump be any more full of BS? His favorite general is Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler. RESIST!!
From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): DUMB DOWN – Parody
That’s why so many Republican Sheeple voted for Drumpfenfarten. Sheeple are dumb. RESIST!!
From Think Progress: On Friday evening, the University of Virginia men’s basketball team announced that it would not be visiting the White House to celebrate its national championship.
“We have received inquiries about a visit to the White House. With several players either pursuing pro opportunities or moving on from UVA, it would be difficult, if not impossible to get everyone back together,” head coach Tony Bennett said in a statement. “We would have to respectfully decline an invitation.”
The university is located in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a deadly white supremacist rally took place two summers ago. President Donald Trump infamously responded to that rally by saying that there had been “very fine people on both sides” — drawing an equivalence between the group wielding torches and screaming “Jews will not replace us,” and the people there protesting the hateful slogans.
While Bennett did not mention the president or politics in his statement, it was released just hours after Trump once again defended his comments on Charlottesville.
If you believe the coach’s explanation, contact me to buy the glacier I own near New Orleans. RESIST!!
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I’d rather have that idiot than this idiot.
I’m tired, because I stayed up late last night to watch the draft, and because it was a hot, muggy night. My Broncos drafted Noah Fant (TE-Iowa). That surprised me, but we certainly need help at that position.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:19 (average 5:49). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (Full Frontal Channel): Historians Roast Trump
Should historians ‘roast’ Trump? Isn’t ‘flush’ the appropriate verb? RESIST!!
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Facebook Is Facing A Fine Of Up To $5 Billion, The Largest Ever
By Facebook standards, that fine is tiny! Fuckerberg is dancing all the way to the bank. The Republican Reich is helping him screw YOU! UNPLUG!! With Facebook, the only way to win is not to play. RESIST!!
From NY Times: A panel of three federal judges ruled on Thursday that 34 congressional and state legislative districts in Michigan are extreme partisan gerrymanders and unconstitutional. The judges ordered state lawmakers to redraw maps in time for elections in 2020.
The panel wrote that it was joining “the growing chorus of federal courts” that have held that drawing districts to unfairly favor the party in power is unconstitutional. The judges said the maps violated Democratic voters’ constitutional rights.
But the impact of the ruling ultimately will turn on an opinion by the Supreme Court, which is weighing decisions in two other partisan gerrymander cases involving congressional districts in North Carolina and Maryland. The justices’ decision in those cases, expected by the end of June, could reinforce the Michigan ruling, force alterations to it, or even overrule it entirely.
The judges clearly did the right thing, but I have no faith that the Injustices of SCROTUS (Republican anti-Constitutional VD) will rule Constitutionally. RESIST!!
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It’s a chilly morning here in the CatBox, but it promises to be hot late this afternoon and this evening. It’s a Holy Day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb. On the Day of Acolytes, Teams pick Orb worshippers from college to meditate with them. My Broncos pick 10th.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:59 (average 4:04). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (CNN Channel): 1998 interview comes back to haunt William Barr
Barrf has not changed. The difference is that Ken Starr was investigating a Democrat. Barrf is Barrf forever. RESIST!!
From YouTube (Jesse Dollemore Channel): Trump Wants Supreme Court to Intervene if Democrats Vote to Impeach. (THAT’S NOT HOW THAT WORKS!)
What an idiot! SCROTUS (Republican anti-Constitutional VD) can’t save him. His best bet is Bought Bitch Mitch and Lindsey Poo. RESIST!!
From The New Yorker: Donald J. Trump was reportedly “furious” on Wednesday morning after a purge of right-wing bots by Twitter left him with a total of fourteen remaining followers, aides have confirmed.
Rising at 3 a.m. to engage in one of his trademark early-morning tweetstorms, Trump was incensed to discover that his Twitter following had plummeted from more than forty-eight million to a little more than a dozen.
At Twitter headquarters, in San Francisco, a company spokesman confirmed that Trump had indeed lost 48,076,920 followers in the bot purge. “It turned out that over forty-six million of the President’s followers came from a single troll farm in Macedonia,” the spokesman said.
As of Wednesday, Trump’s fourteen remaining Twitter followers included his daughter Ivanka; his sons Eric and Donald, Jr.; several White House aides; and someone named Heinrich Himmler III.
Dang, Andy! Isn’t that fourteen too many? RESIST!!
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It’s a chilly morning, here in the CatBox, and a very busy day. Store to Door is delivering groceries, and I’ll have to unpack and put them away. This evening, WWWendy is coming to destink the putrid TomCat. I think I’ll share my chili with her to make a stereo green cloud.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:42 (average 4:38). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (Trae Crowder Channel): Trae Crowder – Californians
LOL! Trae Californicated Californians. RESIST!!
From NY Times: In the months before Kirstjen Nielsen was forced to resign, she tried to focus the White House on one of her highest priorities as homeland security secretary: preparing for new and different Russian forms of interference in the 2020 election.
President Trump’s chief of staff told her not to bring it up in front of the president.
Ms. Nielsen left the Department of Homeland Security early this month after a tumultuous 16-month tenure and tensions with the White House. Officials said she had become increasingly concerned about Russia’s continued activity in the United States during and after the 2018 midterm elections — ranging from its search for new techniques to divide Americans using social media, to experiments by hackers, to rerouting internet traffic and infiltrating power grids.
But in a meeting this year, Mick Mulvaney, the White House chief of staff, made it clear that Mr. Trump still equated any public discussion of malign Russian election activity with questions about the legitimacy of his victory. According to one senior administration official, Mr. Mulvaney said it “wasn’t a great subject and should be kept below his level.”
The Republican Reich is the place where organized crime and narcissism join forces. RESIST!!
From Alternet: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has vowed to block Democratic proposals like the “Green New Deal” and “Medicare for All” after the 2020 elections.
McConnell told constituents in Owensboro, Kentucky, that none of the proposals would come to pass if he is still in power in 2021.
What’s the best solution for Bought Bitch Mitch’s promise. Any ideas? 😉 RESIST!!
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It’s another busy day here in the CatBox, and last night was so muggy that I slept poorly. Have a great day.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:29 (average 5:50). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (Trey Crowder Channel): GOT’damn with Trae Crowder
This is still way over my head, but do they really day ‘Dayyum’ in the crypt? RESIST!!
From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Robert Reich: America Has Already Fired Trump
Is the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, right? I agree, but only up to a point. The Fuhrer of the Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, is still capable of inflicting considerable harm on America and the world. RESIST!!
From NY Times: Before the F.B.I. arrested Larry Hopkins, the leader of the right-wing militia that detained migrant families in the New Mexico desert, he’d had so many run-ins with the law that his police record stretched across much of the United States…
…Mr. Hopkins finally came under the scrutiny of federal authorities in 2017, after the F.B.I. received reports that his group was “training” to assassinate Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and George Soros, according to documents unsealed Monday in federal court. [emphasis added]
Dang! When I wrote about him yesterday, I knew he was an Ammosexual Republican, bit he’s even more Republican than I thought. RESIST!!
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It’s hard to believe that Politics Plus existed (on Blogger) before YouTube did.
It’s a full day here in the CatBox, and a hectic weekend, I feel very tired. OGIM!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:54 (average 4:58). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (Last Week Tonight Channel): Mueller Report: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
If a pigeon really did poo in Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten’s mouth, kudos to the bird. RESIST!!
From Washington Post: The leader of an armed militia that scours the southern border for undocumented migrants was arrested by the FBI on Saturday, days after a video of the group holding migrants against their will sparked outrage.
Larry Mitchell Hopkins, 69, was arrested in the New Mexico border city of Sunland Park on charges of being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition, the FBI said.
He is expected to appear Monday in federal court.
Hopkins leads the United Constitutional Patriots, or UCP, one of several militias that have taken to patrolling the border.
These racists are NOT patriots. They are Ammosexual Republican criminals. RESIST!!
From NY Times: President Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, insisted on Sunday that it was acceptable for a political campaign to use hacked information about its opponent obtained from a foreign adversary — though he personally would have advised against it.
“There’s nothing wrong with taking information from Russians,” Mr. Giuliani said on CNN’s “State of the Union,” adding that he would have argued against using it, “out of excess of caution.”
He used to be Rudy 9/11. Now he’s Rudy Bullshit. RESIST!!
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A Republican paradise.
Here in the CatBox, I began my Easter celebration by oversleeping for 90 minutes, so I’m way behind schedule. WWWendy will be soon here, and I’ll try to finish everything during breaks in our work. I hope the Easter Kitten brought you lots of eggs.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:48 (average 4:54). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): McGahn: Details “Accurately Described” In Mueller Report
McGahn’s testimony alone is grounds for impeachment. RESIST!!
From Alternet: Below are 10 examples of “European exceptionalism” and areas in which Europe is way ahead of the United States.
1. Lower Incarceration Rates
Benjamin Franklin famously said that those who are willing to sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither, and the U.S. is more dangerous than most of Europe (especially in terms of homicide) even though it is becoming more and more of a police state. The U.S. incarcerates, per capita, more people than any other country in the world: in 2012, the U.S.’ incarceration rate, according to the International Centre for Prison Studies, was 707 per 100,000 people compared to only 60 per 100,000 in Sweden, 72 per 100,000 in Norway, 78 per 100,000 in Germany, 75 per 100,000 in the Netherlands, 87 per 100,000 in Switzerland, 99 per 100,000 in Italy, 103 per 100,000 in France, and 144 per 100,000 in Spain. Certainly, the failed War on Drugs and the Prison/Industrial Complex are major factors in the U.S.’ appallingly high incarceration rate, and unless the U.S. seriously reforms its draconian drug laws, it will continue to lock up a lot more of its people than Europe.
Could it be because Europe has fewer Republicans? I shared the first of ten. Click through for the other nine. RESIST!!
From NY Times: …Interviews with several dozen Democratic voters around the country show how the party, which enjoyed victories in 2018 that were powered by female and nonwhite candidates, is now grappling with two complicated questions about race, gender and politics in the Trump era.
Is a white man the best face for an increasingly diverse Democratic Party in 2020?
No candidate should be nominated or excluded from nomination on the basis of race, gender, or sexual identity. However, orangeness is a valid reason for incarceration/ RESIST!!
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