I watched almost the entire inauguration yesterday, and I enjoyed it thoroughly, except for one thing. When Joe was walking down the street, it scared the Republicans out of me! I feared that a sniper might kill him. I war relieved when he made it inside. Here us the the the complete video, so you can move around in it for parts you haven’t seen or want to see again.
The inauguration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris – 1/20 (FULL LIVE STREAM)
I promised TC I would say “AMEN” here, and so I am.
This is the full event for anyone who missed it. I won’t be hurt if no one watches it, but I thought it should be in our files.
Now This News – No CC because no words – just pictures worth a thousand each.
The Protest Films 
Founders Sing
Beau – and AMEN. Again.
I am not expecting to hear from Keith today, but I doubt he is through. We have a “transition” to get through. I think, first, he will stay with us through then, and second, he will tell us when he does the last broadcast he intends to do. But we shall see.
Amendment petitions
Care2
Medicare for All
Petition to Trump* to concede
Care2
Count the Vote petition
California Dems
It’s a busy, tired, painful day, here in the CatBox. My infusion yesterday went well, and I’ve had no side-effects, so far. However, except for an hour in the infusion recliner, I had to be in my wheelchair from 9:30 AM until 8:30 PM, and that’s so hard on my back that maximum pain killers barely takes the edge off the pain. Store to Door delivered groceries today so I had to unpack them and put them away. In addition, I spent over an hour on the phone on medical mayhem. JD, would you please cover Sam Bee, as I’m doing something else. Have a great day, everyone!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:18 (average 6:24). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Update:
US Cases: 5,702,837
US Deaths: 176,396
Plus all the GOP plague murder victims Republicans are hiding from us.
Long Take:
Watch: Democratic National Convention: Day 3
Kamala was magnificent. Barack Obama actually called criminal Fuhrer Trump* a threat to democracy. Such a statement by a former precedent. That and the nomination of the first African American and Asian American for VP make this a historic event! RESIST!!
Short Takes:
From Daily Kos: Sen. Susan Collins has, of course, expressed her concern about the sabotage of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) at the hands of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. What Collins doesn’t want all of her constituents—the people for whom she calls the USPS “a lifeline,” the “seniors, veterans, and those in rural areas who are depending on reliable mail delivery for essential goods and services”—to find out is that she’s the person most responsible for this mess.
DeJoy can say he’s making all of the cuts to services because of the dire financial situation of the USPS. Yes, we know he’s doing it to try to right the election for Trump, but the financial crisis at the post office has given him the opportunity to do so. And Collins, more than anyone else, is responsible for that. She’s the one who engineered this crisis. In 2005, Collins introduced the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA), which required the USPS to prepay the next 50 years’ worth of health and retirement benefits for every postal service employee. It is the only federal agency that is saddled with this requirement. At the time, she was the chair of the Senate government oversight panel, and she got the bill through her committee and onto the floor in 2006. It passed on a voice vote on Dec. 20, 2006 in the lame duck session before Democrats took back control of the Senate.
What the legislation required of the USPS was to calculate the entirety of its pension costs for the next three-quarters of a century—75 years—and spend the next decade putting away enough money to cover the majority of them. Which is insane. And has accounted for nearly 90% of the service’s red ink in the past decade. Right now, the USPS is $160.9 billion in debt for what it owes to prepay retirees, and has years’ worth of operating deficits because it can’t generate revenue under the restrictions placed by the law.
Collins is great at pretending she’s a center-left moderate, but she’s more like Goose Step Gordon Smith, the Senator I worked to help Jeff Merkley [D-OR] defeat. She’s always with us, when we don’t need her, but against us, when we do. RESIST!!
From YouTube (Raw Story Channel): Sandra Smith grills Kayleigh McEnany about Trump’s praise of QAnon
Once again Kayleigh Lie-a-Lot proves she is a Republican with a PhD (piled higher and deeper) in Bullshitology. RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast of protest): Family Guy – Republican Town Song
Is this great satire or what? Kudos to left-wing protestors! RESIST!!
It’s a busy day here in the CatBox. Diana, my palliative care nurse will be here shortly for my routine weekly visit. The same stories still dominate the news, so my research took an extra long time. It’s a relatively cool day: only 95° 
. Oh God, it’s Monday!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:48 (average 4:24). To do it, click here. Hoe did you do?
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Update:
Click here for interactive map.
US Cases: 5,569,520
US Deaths: 173,143
Plus all the many GOP plague murder victims Republicans are hiding from us.
Short Takes:
From Euro-News (Hat-Tip Lona): CLIMATE JUSTICE
This is where Kamala Harris comes into her own. While she was district attorney of San Francisco, 15 years ago, Harris created an environmental justice unit, which specifically existed to deal with cases of environmental crime.
Harris identified that “crimes against the environment are crimes against communities, people who are often poor and disenfranchised,” as she said to the San Francisco Chronicle in 2005.
The nexus between socio-economic disadvantage and environmental damage is something Harris has sought to address consistently – long before terms like ‘intersectional environmentalism’ even existed.
More recently, Harris has sued major oil companies after they violated environmental legislation, and after the devastating Refugio oil spill in 2015, the company responsible (Plains All American Pipeline) were indicted on 46 criminal charges.
The following year, after Volkswagen was found to have cheated on its diesel emissions, Harris secured a €73m settlement from the car manufacturer for the state of California.
Although many so called progressives, aka regressives, have whined incessantly that Harris is a “corporate Democrat”, her track record on the environment is quite good. RESIST!!
From YouTube (Raw Story Channel): Trump claims ‘dogs’ are getting mail-in ballots
Barf Bag Alert!!
If criminal Fuhrer Trump gets any more full of shit, we’ll have to paint a crescent moon on his forehead. Obviously it is my feline proclivity to be biased against dawgs, but if they could vote, they would be far more responsible than Republican Sheeple. RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast of protest): ANTI-REPUBLICAN FUNNY SONG
This song is ten years old. It was spot-on then, and the Republican Reich is so much worse now! Kudos to left-wing protestors! RESIST!!
Introducing the next President and VP of the United States of America!
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris Hold First Joint 2020 Campaign Event
Magnificent! Isn’t time we had an Administration instead of a Reich?
Yesterday, Joe Biden announced that he has selected Kamala Harris to be his running mate against Resident Donald Trump, criminal Fuhrer of the Nazi Republican Fifth Reich, and Vice-Resident Mike Pence, homophobic, misogynous, pseudo-Christian Hate Monger. I’m sure we’ll have much more about her as time passes.
Who is Kamala Harris?
55 years old
Born in Oakland, Calif.; lives in San Francisco and Washington
Elected to the Senate in 2016
Former attorney general of California; former San Francisco district attorney
Harris’s signature issues
In her presidential campaign last year, Kamala Harris pitched herself as a history-making candidate who could appeal to both progressives and moderates. Rather than trying to upend the economy, her policies sought incremental, targeted results, particularly focusing on historically marginalized groups like women, people of color and low-income Americans. Her sharp debate skills and affable personality made her a top-tier contender in the early stages of the primary race. But her oscillations between policy positions resulted in damaging news cycles, and she dropped out of the race as her campaign ran out of money. In naming Ms. Harris as his running mate, Joseph R. Biden Jr. made a groundbreaking decision, picking a woman of color to be vice president. But he was also elevating a senator who shares his center-left politics at a time of progressive change in the party…
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Click through for more information and links that provide more detailed analysis. Personally, I think that she is flexible enough to accommodate progressives on most issues, and her retail campaigning skills are fantastic.
Trump Now Headed For 2020 Loss With Kamala Harris On Ticket, Dems Say
Wow! I almost feel sorry for that hateful pseudo-Christian hypocrite, Pence. At the VP debate Kamala is going to beat him up, take his lunch money, chew him up, spit him out, and make him cry for his mama!
Congrats and Kudos to Kamala!
It’s a super-tired day here in the CatBox. I have no idea why, but, after sleeping just a couple hours last night, I woke up and could not fall asleep again. Tonight is a WWWendy night. After de-stinking the rancid TomCat, we’ll be gooping. Happy Hump Day to all.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:16 (average 4:48). To do it, click here. Hoe did you do?
Cartoon:
I made this cartoon eight years ago. Republicans are still at it, but worse.
Trump* Virus Update:
Short Takes:
From YouTube (Raw Story Channel): Kamala Harris grills DNI nominee John Ratcliffe on Trump’s COVID-19 response [emphasis added]
That lying, goose-stepping, Republican Nazi Sycophant needs to change his name. As it stands, it’s an insult to Rats. RESIST!!
From YouTube (Daily Kos Channel): Essential Workers Deserve a Bill of Rights
While I fully agree that essential workers are heroes that need and deserve a Bill of Rights, I would take it one step further and cover ALL workers with a Bill of Rights! RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): Wooden Ships – Crosby Stills Nash and Young
Ah… the memories! RESIST!!
It’s a barfy day here in the CatBox. I’ve been throwing up most of last night and this morning. I think something got caught in my tumor. I feel VERY tired. TGIF!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:09 (average 4:46). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Update:
Cases: 245,442
Deaths: 6,098
Recovered: 10,411
Short Takes:
From Crooks and Liars: Welcome to the COVID-19 Games, where the tributes are governors fighting for the scraps of critical protective gear still available, and where success still depends on kissing Trump’s ass.
Last week Trump was playing quid pro quo with Americans lives, telling governors “it’s a two-way street. They have to treat us well.” The result of not doing so is not getting help. Take New York, which requested 30,000 ventilators and got 4,400. And is being outbid by FEMA on the private market, where the state has been trying to procure more. “What sense does this make?” Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters Tuesday. “The federal government, FEMA, should have been the purchasing agent. Buy everything, and then allocate it by need to the states.” Wisconsin’s Democratic Gov. Tony Evers asked for 190,000 nonsurgical masks from FEMA last week, and has struggled to find ventilators. He has no idea where the masks are.
On the other hand, Oklahoma asked for 16,000 face shields and got 120,000. It had received about 84,000 N95 masks by the end of last week, “more than twice its original request.” Then there’s Florida, which is expecting its third shipment from the feds. It got 100% of what Trump’s good buddy Gov. Ron DeSantis asked for in the first two shipments. Kentucky has gotten more than it requested. Illinois, Massachusetts, and Maine have only gotten part of what they’ve requested. (There you go, Sen. Susan Collins, more lessons learned for you.)
For governors to save their people, being just sycophants isn’t enough. They have to become suckophants too! RESIST!!
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Sen. Harris On Trump’s Virus Response: ‘This Guy Doesn’t Understand His Job’
Unfortunately, I must disagree. Criminal Fuhrer Trump* does understand his job , and it has two foci: 1. Take the wealth of lower and middle class Americans and use it to provide welfare for billionaires and corporate criminals. 2. Establish a permanent, National Socialist, plutocratic Republican Reich in which elections have predetermined outcomes and exist for show only. RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): Neil Young – Heart of Gold/Lyrics (Full HD)
Ah… the memories! RESIST!!
