Video Thread 9/18/2023

 Posted by at 12:03 pm  Open Thread, Politics
Sep 182023
 

Glenn Kirschner – Jack Smith seeks gag order to STOP Trump’s dangerous disinformation & jury-pool-poisoning lies

The Lincoln Project – Trump’s Charges

MSNBC – S***’s about to hit the fan’: Nicolle reacts to Jack Smith pushing a ‘gag order’ on Trump

Patrick Fitzgerald – Vape Ho

Clingy Cat Goes Everywhere With Mom

Beau – Let’s talk about Biden, Iran, and $6 billion….

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Open Thread September 14, 2023

 Posted by at 5:59 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Sep 142023
 

Yesterday, the sun shone, and the temperature barely broke 70, so the yard got done. Mitt Romney announced he will not run for re-election. Liz Cheney had some choice words for what she calls “the Putin wing of the Republican Party” (AKA the Sedition Caucus.) In Pennsylvania, they found and captured the escaped prisoner. And I picked two ery different short takes from very different sources, and – surprise, surprise! – They’re both on Substack. So crank up your mouse to click on “continue reading.” Everyone on Substack whom I have seen talk about it is very happy to be there – it’s easy for authors to use, and it saves them a lot of money compared to other venues. So I don’t see any of them moving away from it any time soon.

In case you noticed Nameless missing a few days, he’s healthy, but tied up with taxes, in his own state and in the state in which a relative lived from whom he received an inheritance. He’s on an extension, but the date for that is getting closer faster than he would like

Cartoon – On 14 September 1867 —

Short Takes –

Robert Reich – Who’s most responsible for the monopolization of America?
Quote – Yet the federal courts have been reluctant to do anything about this and are pushing back against the Biden administration’s efforts. Why? Because of a man named Robert Bork…. I first met Bork in September 1971, when I took his class on antitrust at Yale Law School. I recall him as a large, imposing man, with a red beard and a perpetual scowl…. We kept challenging his view that the only legitimate purpose of antitrust law was to lower consumer prices…. Even in our mid-20s, we knew this was bullshit.
Click through for history. If you didn’t already know, you will learn why “borked” is now a synonym for “inoperable,” chaotic,” or even “SNAFU.”

Wonkette – Lauren Boebert Kicked Out Of Theater For Acting Too Lauren Boebert-y
Quote – U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert was escorted out of a Sunday night performance of the “Beetlejuice” musical in downtown Denver, accused by venue officials of vaping, singing, recording and “causing a disturbance” during the performance. VAPING. The woman was VAPING. The paper says they got warned during intermission that others around them were complaining (LMAO), so clearly it was time to shape up and sit nicely with our hands folded in front of us, even though it is a fun show like Beetlejuice. We can go to Chuck E. Cheese afterward, OK? The incident report states that after receiving the intermission warning, about five minutes into the second act security officials received “another complaint about the patrons being loud and at the time (they) were recording.” Taking pictures or recording is not permitted at shows. Tacky.
Click through to read embarrassing details and see optional surveillance footage. The part in italics is direct quotes from the Denver Post.

Food For Thought

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There’s Not a “Colonel” of Truth in What Lauren Boebert Says

 Posted by at 1:52 pm  Politics
Apr 242022
 

[EDITOR’S NOTE: Hang in there, Joanne – it closes with your promised “surprise”.]

You probably remember that during Pres. Biden’s SOTU speech, the Bobbsey Bimbos, MTG Greene and Lauren Boebert, stood up and heckled him while talking about his dead son, Beau.  (And Speaker Pelosi did tell them to “Shut Up!”)

Boebert subsequently claimed to have received a message from a military Mom praising her antics.  But in posting her Tweet, Boebert (R-Idiot-Brigade) decided to invent the entirely new military rank of “Lieutenant Corporal”.

This set the Twitterverse into action, with popular poster Ron Filipkowski setting the record straight WRT imaginary rank:

It also prompted one of America’s most recent heroes, who testified against TFG, LTC Alexander S. Vindman (USA Ret.), to respond:

And others soon jumping in to join the fun:

 

Some even went so far as to provide Boebert some military defense, with one tying it in with MTG Greene’s recent display of her total lack of knowledge between the Nazi’s Gestapo and the delicious soup Gazpacho:

But this is my favorite military rejoinder:

 

 

JOANNE’S PROMISED OPERA SURPRISE

But leave it to John Fugelsang to take it to another level with a mocking parody of the Major-General’s song “I Am the Very Model” from the Gilbert and Sullivan 1880 opera, The Pirates of Penzance.

I was fortunate enough to have seen it on Broadway back when I still had my hearing in the very early 1980s – but if you’re not familiar with it, here’s the English National Opera version:

And Fugelsang’s fantastic three-verse parody mocking Boebert:

 

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Rep. Lauren Boebert Proves That Grammar Can Be FUN!

 Posted by at 1:13 pm  Politics
Mar 112022
 

The Equality Act bill to prevent discrimination against LGBT+ people passed the House a year ago.  And since then, Rep. Lauren Boebert has insisted on calling it the “Supremacy of Gays, Lesbians and Transvestites Act”.

She has since waged an ongoing battle against folks in the LGBT+ community who elect to select their own appropriate pronoun for themselves.  Apparently, the fact that a gay Democrat (Alex Walker) recently announced his candidacy against Boebert in Colorado (with a rather … ahhh … hmmm … unique ad) has rekindled her old battle against pronoun-selections that flared up last year when Boebert brazenly announced that her pronoun is “Patriot”.

Naturally, the Twitterverse wasn’t going to let this flagrant grade-school level grammar error pass without passing out a few corrective red check marks.  So let’s revisit some of the better grammar “lessons”.

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