Republicans on Parade -9/21/2018

Posted by TomCat at 1:04 pm Politics

Sep 212018

Here is the one hundred thirty-fifth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s honoree is Republican White Supremacist media star and honey trap for miscreant misogynists, Lana Lokteff. She is so honored for her public Republican race hatred and gender treason.

…One of those [Alt-Right] women was Lana Lokteff, a Russian-American from Oregon who co-runs Red Ice, an alt-right media company, with her Swedish husband, Henrik Palmgren.

The couple decided to make this their cause around 2012, Darby says, when they say they saw a lot of "anti-white sentiment." Around the time of several high-profile police shootings of young, black men, Lokteff "felt that Black Lives Matter and these other reactive forces were being unfair to white people and that then sort of spun into a conspiracy about how the establishment, so to speak, is out to oppress, minimize and silence white people."

Lokteff, who promotes alt-right ideologies on the couple’s YouTube channel, has been persistently trolled by the men of the movement. Darby wanted to understand what attracts women to a movement that is often hostile to them.

In her piece, she quotes Andrew Anglin, who runs the (now blacklisted) neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer as saying the white woman’s womb "belongs to the males of society." And alt-right pioneer Richard Spencer [Hail Trump!], who acknowledges that women make up a small percentage of the movement, believes women are not suited for some roles in government, reports Mother Jones: "Women should never be allowed to make foreign policy," he tweeted during the first presidential debate. "It’s not that they’re ‘weak.’ To the contrary, their vindictiveness knows no bounds."… [emphasis added]

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In the following clip she talks about discrimination against white men.

Barf Bag Alert!!

If she thinks white men can’t get a fair break, she should look at Putin’s Pussy Grabber, Pervert Kava-Nazi, and Judge Roy Moore.

But is she really a Republican?

Barf Bag Alert!!

She brags that Steve King [R-IA] re-tweeted her and acknowledges allegiance to Richard Spencer, who celebrated his Fuhrer’s inauguration with "Hail Trump"!

RESIST!!

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Open Thread – 9/21/2018

Posted by TomCat at 1:03 pm Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Sep 212018

I’m still quite busy. It’s a warmer muggy day today. I get two cool days, starting tomorrow, followed by four in the 80°s. TGIF!!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:14 (average 6:17). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Robert Reich Network): Robert Reich: Another Tax Scam for the Rich

The Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. When they keep adding weigh to the capstone of the financial pyramid, it becomes so heavy that it crushes everything below it. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (CNN Channel): GOP woman on Kavanaugh: What boy hasn’t done this in high school?

We sure know who wears the pants in their families! For women to channel abuse is almost as bad as the abuse! That is not normal behavior for teenage boys. Most boys in my day were ham handed, but we stopped when we encountered resistance. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From The New Yorker: Saying that “it’s time to face the consequences of my actions,” Judge Merrick Garland admitted on Thursday that he cheated at Scrabble one time, in 2003.

Garland, who recently informed the Senate Judiciary Committee that he was “still available” to be confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice, choked back tears as he confessed to the “disgraceful” Scrabble incident.

“In late 2003, I was playing a game of Scrabble with my wife and Googled a word while she was off using the bathroom,” Garland said. “I deeply regret my behavior, which was reprehensible and inexcusable.”

Garland revealed that the word he Googled, “muzjiks,” all but sealed his victory in the Scrabble contest.

Damn, Andy! How Awful! No wonder the Republicans refused him! They are far too moral to entrust our country to a monster like Garland… Have I filled the room with shit, yet? RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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Can anyone spare a torpedo?

Samantha Bee from 9/19

Posted by TomCat at 1:10 pm Politics

Sep 202018

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

Brett Kavanaugh: No More Nineties Reboots, Please – Act 1

Whether or not someone should be denied advancement for a drunken act committed as a teenager depends on whether or not they have taken responsibility for the behavior, addressed and corrected the character defects that made the abuse possible, and attempted to make amends. Since, Kavanaugh has not done these things, he is in denial, and the character defects he still has disqualify him.

The Case for Universal Health Care – Act 2 Part 1

What care causes 45,000+ deaths a year? RepubliCare!

The Case for Even More Universal Health Care – Act 2 Part 2

Republicans hate single payer, because they want our health care payments to finance corporate welfare, not health care.

Chuck Jones Will Kick Your Ass – Act 3

Kudos to Chuck Jones, the next Wayne County Township Trustee!

Way to go, Sam!

RESIST!!

VOTE BLUE!!

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Open Thread – 9/20/2018

Posted by TomCat at 1:09 pm Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Sep 202018

It’s another busy day here in the CatBox, so I’m trying to hurry along. It’s muggy and warmer. I’m enjoying the fresh air, while I can, but I’ll need to button up and go to A/C soon. WWWendy sent greetings.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:14 (average 4:59). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Trae Crowder Channel): Liberal Redneck – Climate Change the Game

The people causing of those insane and terrifying political scandals are the same ones causing this insane and terrifying climate change: the Republican Reich and their corporate financiers. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): "It Struck Me As True" – Christine Blasey Ford Friend

The Republican Reich would just love to teach women that speaking-out against rich predators, like Perverts Kava-Nazi, Trump, and Roy Moore, is only a guarantee of more abuse without justice. But it appears that their abuse has not scared Christine away. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Nation of Change: Hundreds of thousands of Americans drive for Uber. And the company is looking for many more. It runs ads on Facebook that say, for example: “Driving toward something? Make extra money when it works for you and get there faster.” Another touts: “Earn $1,100 in Nashville for your first 200 Trips. Limited time guarantee! Terms apply.”

There’s just one catch: Many of those ads are not visible to women.

A ProPublica review of Facebook ads found that many purchased by Drive with Uber [Facebook delinked], the company’s recruiting arm, targeted only men in more than a dozen cities across the U.S. Our survey of 91 Uber ads found just one targeting only women; three did not target a specific sex.

Click through for other examples. With Facebook, the only way to win is not to play. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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Rachel and Hillary

Posted by TomCat at 1:06 pm Politics

Sep 192018

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Last night Rachel Maddow interviewed Hillary Clinton on a wide variety of subjects, and you deserve to see it. I found the complete interview, but it is not from MSNBC, so, in case it is removed, I’m also sharing three shorter clips that are from MSNBC. If the first is still there, you can ignore the rest.

Rachel Maddow, full interview with Hilary Clinton 18th September

Clinton: Donald Trump Will ‘Wholesale Fire People’ After 2018 Election

Clinton: W.H. Should Ask FBI To Reopen Brett Kavanaugh Background Check

Hillary Rodham Clinton Envisions Packed Agenda If Democrats Retake Congress

I never have been a big Hillary Clinton fan, but I so wish that she was President!

RESIST!!

VOTE BLUE!!

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Open Thread – 9/19/2018

Posted by TomCat at 1:05 pm Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Sep 192018

I’m waiting for Store to Door to deliver my groceries, and they are running late. When they arrive, I’ll have to break to unpack them, put them away, and eat lunch. WWWendy comes this evening to destink the TomCat and do chores.

Groceries done.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:20 (average 4:43). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MoveOn Channel): Black, Queer, Feminist — and Unapologetic

I agree. We’re all in the same basket, except the people who control the Republican Reich. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Chuck Grassley Responds To Brett Kavanaugh Accuser’s Request For FBI Probe

The Republican Party Operatives that attacked Christine need to wear jump suits, as orange as their Fuhrer’s ass! The Republicans on the committee should be tied under their Fuhrer’s Russian Hookers. Lindsey Poo should bare his butt to Putin, like his Fuhrer does. I fully believe, agree with, and support Christine. Late Update: Republicans are refusing to budge. I guess Republicans think that what happens at Georgetown Prep should stay at Georgetown Prep, to quote an infamous pervert. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From TPM: Just under 600 women alumnae of the high school that Christine Blasey Ford attended in Bethesda, Maryland have signed an open letter indicating their support for the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of attempted rape in high school, Vox News reported.

While the women said they did not know anything about the specific allegations that Blasey Ford has made against Kavanaugh, they called her experience “all too consistent with stories we heard and lived” while attending Holton-Arms High School. The signees are students who attended the private girls school between 1962 and 2018, according to Vox.

“As far as Dr. Ford’s specific allegations, it is inconsequential/irrelevant to us whether anyone has heard them before, and in no way affects our belief that she is telling the truth,” Kate Gold, a class of 2005 graduate who was part of the group that first circulated the letter, told Vox. “What we are referring to in our letter is the nearly ubiquitous experience of high school girls as they try to navigate coming of age in a society dominated by toxic masculinity.”

They should all be called to testify. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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The Latest Pervert News

Posted by TomCat at 2:27 pm Politics

Sep 182018

Not too much has changed in the status of Trump’s fellow pervert, Kava-Nazi. He and Blasey are scheduled for a hearing on Monday. “Judge”, the pervert’s friend, should be called as a witness, since Blasey says he was there. Since the pervert claims he was not even at the party, other attendees should be located to see if any remember him being there. Blasey’s therapist and husband should be called to testify that she has been feeling the effects of the attempted rape for years. However, Upchuck Snake in the Grassley [R-IA] is doing none of these things. Republicans want to make it a “he said-she said” like Anita Hill’s hearing about Pervert Thomas. Here’s the perspective of people who specialize in sexual assault.

Soon after Christine Blasey Ford was revealed as the author of a letter alleging that Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her decades ago, the responses ran along predictable lines. While some argued that she should be heard, others questioned how much of her memory can be trusted.

Amid a spate of speculation, The Washington Post published an exclusive account of the assault Saturday evening, identifying Ford. Kavanaugh issued a statement Sunday denying the accusations, but after heated pushback from politicians and the public, Kavanaugh agreed to questioning by the Senate panel Monday. A second hearing, where Kavanaugh and Ford will both testify publicly, is scheduled for next week. The results threaten to thwart his confirmation.

Critics of Ford have taken to calling into question whether it’s possible for a 30-year-old memory to be credible.

Sex crimes prosecutors across the country forge ahead on “he-said-she-said” cases regularly.

“I stand to believe there’s no such thing as a ‘he-said-she-said’ case,” Linda Fairstein, former chief of the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s Sex Crimes Bureau, told The Post. “As a prosecutor, it’s your job to break down every minute of the encounter so that details on one side pushes the facts over the edge.”

Prosecutors do that regularly, in large part by parsing what’s reasonable and what’s believable through corroboration, details that have the ring of truth and inconvenient facts that are subtle signs of credibility.

Ford’s account is credible, even though she can’t remember several details.

There’s no criminal trial, but Kavanaugh still has the presumption of innocence, said attorney Douglas Wigdor, a former prosecutor who now represents victims in sexual harassment and sexual assault cases against high-profile men… [emphasis original]

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I disagree with one point. The presumption of innocence is particular to criminal proceedings and conformation is not a criminal matter. A seat on the Supreme Court should require the highest standard of blamelessness, not the highest standard of guilt. A Supreme Court appointee must be above reproach. Even the slightest hint of reprobate behavior must disqualify.

On a final note, there should be more FBI investigation. When Feinstein referred the letter to the FBI, they had already closed the investigation. They could only reopen it, if the White House requested it. That’s why they just appended it and passed it on. It’s also why they can’t do it now. The White House refuses to make the request, because they know what the FBI would find. More to come…

RESIST!!

VOTE BLUE!!

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Open Thread – 9/18/2018

Posted by TomCat at 2:26 pm Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Sep 182018

It’s another temperate sunny day, which means I’ll need A/C in a couple hours. I slept well last night and for two more hours this morning. I must have needed it, because I feel ready for more.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:46 (average 5:02). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Fantasy Football Report:

Here’s the latest from our own fantasy football league.

Scores:

Congrats to Pam, Patty Monster, and Squatch.

Standings:

2Standings

Kudos to Pam and Patty Monster for leading the league undefeated.

Short Takes:

From YouTube (SNL Channel): SNL Season 44 is Almost Here!

Woooo Hoooo!! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (Media Matters Channel): Conservatives dismiss Christine Blasey Ford’s report that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her

Barf Bag Alert!!

Everything Republicans say about this is foul enough to meet their standards for eleventh-hour love of their own perverts. It would be different, if a Democrat had jaywalked or farted in public. Oh, My! Imagine the horror! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From The New Yorker: Saying that he would like to help the Senate Judiciary Committee “in any way I can,” Judge Merrick Garland announced on Monday that he is “still available” to be confirmed as a United States Supreme Court Justice.

“I haven’t heard from anyone on the Judiciary Committee,” Garland said. “But I just want to let them know that I’ve let bygones be bygones if they’d like to confirm me now.”

The judge said that he was “not surprised” that no one from the White House has called about his availability for the Supreme Court job. “I’ve been reading that Woodward book,” he said. “It sounds like things can get pretty hectic over there.”

Andy, I agree that Garland is being most considerate, but if Trump can’t get fellow pervert Kavanookie, his next choice as nominee will be fellow pervert Judge Roy Moore. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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