Open Thread – 3/9/2021

 Posted by at 10:08 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Mar 092021
 

It’s a very tired day here in the CatBox.  WWWendy and I finished our chores last night, and it should be fairly calm until Thursday.  With both a shower aide and grocery delivery day, I’ll be spending a lot of time in my chair that day.  I’m not looking forward to it.  Tuesday is a Flush you Republicans Day, but so far, I haven’t had any to flush.  Have a great day!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:58 (average 4:36).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Short Takes:

From NY Times: One sunny day last spring, Bridgette Craighead was dancing the Electric Slide with three police officers in the grass next to the farmers’ market. It was the first Black Lives Matter protest this rural Virginia county had ever had, and Ms. Craighead, a 29-year-old hairdresser, had organized it.

She had not known what to expect. But when the officers arrived, they were friendly. They held her signs high, and stood next to her, smiling. Later an officer brought pizzas and McDonald’s Happy Meals. They even politely ignored her cousin’s expired license plate.

This, she thought, was the best of America. Police officers and Black Lives Matter activists laughing and dancing together. They were proving that, in some small way, their Southern county with its painful past was changing. They had gotten beyond the racist ways of older people. This made her feel proud. In a photograph from that day, Sgt. Thomas Robertson is smiling, and Ms. Craighead is standing behind him, her face tilted toward the sun and her fist held high.

She did not see the officers around Rocky Mount much after that. But in early January, someone sent her a photograph. It showed Officer Jacob Fracker and Sergeant Robertson posing inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, the day the building was stormed by Donald J. Trump’s most fervent supporters.

At first, she did not believe it. Not her officers. But there they were, Officer Fracker giving the camera his middle finger. She confronted them on Facebook and they did not deny it. On the contrary, they were proud.

On a hate and hypocrisy scale of 1 to 10, Repuglicans rate a 50!  RESIST the Republican Reich!!

From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): SCHNOZZOLA – A Parody of Lola | Don Caron

Don always has a knack for lambasting Republicans!  RESIST the Republican Reich!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Let the Good Times Roll – Harry Nilsson

Ah… the memories!  RESIST the Republican Reich!!

Don’t Let Republicans Steal YOUR Future!!

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Video Thread 3/8/2021

 Posted by at 1:33 pm  Open Thread, Politics
Mar 082021
 

The Damage Report – Long-ish (under 6 minutes) but an important topic – and Ro Khanna.

Extremist military and veterans. I do apologize for no CC.

This is only a partial transcript.
Whoever coined the phrase “Once a Marine, always a Marine” did not have this in mind: A Marine Corps veteran using the Marine Corps flag to attack a Capitol police officer. Thomas Webster is one of more than 30 who have served in the military now charged with crimes at the Capitol.
“It doesn’t take an army to do what happened; it takes people with some skill set to lead those others,” said former FBI Agent Tom O’Connor, who spent two decades investigating extremists.
“Extremist elements in the United States have long tried to recruit former military and former law enforcement into their ranks for their skill set.”
And for the mindset of a culture trained to resort to violence when all else fails.
Army veteran Stewart Rhodes founded a group called Oath Keepers in 2009. “All you veterans out there, you’ve got to stand up,” he said in a video on the conspiracy theory-spreading website InfoWars. “Lead your local community in watching over their own backyards, over their own neighborhoods, and over their own towns.”

Now This News – The kids are all right.

Robert Reich on Guaranteed Income. (You know, the “work ethic” is really overrated. I have felt for decades that people who have wealth but choose to work just take jobs away from more needy – and often more competent – people.)

Trae on royalty. For a different take on the interview, check out this.  Though neither seems to be aware that royals, particularly those in the direct line, do work, and do pay taxes.

The quote to be carved in stone on the exterior of the Obama Presidential Library has been chosen.

Is someone in the Biden administration watching Beau’s videos?

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Video Thread 3/7/2021

 Posted by at 5:17 pm  Open Thread, Politics
Mar 072021
 

Now This News — Something Nice

Now This News – Something interesting (sounds expensive, but at least not invasive.

Justice Matters – Glenn Kirschner – Derek Chauvin Trial (12 and a half minutes but it’s an important case)

Ring of Fire – Yeah, I know it’s Trump**, but it’s kind of promising. And better then looking at Jared, isn’t it?

KAREN blocks road to man’s driveway and slaps his phone away (with bonus intro)

Cole and Marmalade – Cat Logic 3

Beau on questions about Black History Month

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Video Thread 3/1/2021

 Posted by at 1:50 pm  Open Thread, Politics
Mar 012021
 

Yesterday El Condor Pass. Today, El Condor Non Pasa. El condor returns to visit man who saved it as a nestling (and apparently does so fairly frequently.)

Meidas Touch on CPAC – not the attendees, we know about them, but the hotel.

Justice Matters – Glenn Kirschner -a short one, under 5 minutes.

Meidas Touch – Confirmations

You can actually watch Kansas Republicans gerrymandering in this video.

Beau on the filibuster – as I said yesterday, gerrymandering is the only reason not to ditch it completely. I like his prediction for what would happen if they make it speaking only/must stay on topic.

Cole and Marmalade – Cat Logic 2

A 45 minute documentary on the HUAC, made at the time, CC added. I realize most won’t ba able to watch it. but if you do, it will likely bring back memories (and some echoes of now.)

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Video Thread 2/22/2021

 Posted by at 4:37 pm  Open Thread, Politics
Feb 222021
 

Don Winslow Films – anther lie from Lindsey

Really American – Ron Johnson – OMG

Now This News – Florida – Hey, I canfeel where they are coming from – but they are still wrong (not that Florida’s government officials have any moral high ground here. They don’t.)

Now This News – Fighting back against substandard medical care based on race.

Robert Reich – Unrigging the GOP’s Minority Rule

Jesse Dollmore – This is long and a bit repetetive, but it is also the first I have heard of any suggestion – at least any sworn suggestion – that the Secret Service was involved in the January 6 insurrection.

Beau – Forecasting for the GOP with at least one interesting takeaway

This is a petition to Missouri, but you don’t have to live there to sign it. It happily took my signature with my real address.

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Video Thread 2/18/2021

 Posted by at 2:04 pm  Open Thread, Politics
Feb 182021
 

Meidas Touch – Ted Cruz

Also Meidas Touch

Lincoln Project – “Oath”

Now This News – Mayor of Austin, TX (Yours, Pat?)

Now This News – Cori Bush

John Pavlovitz on “Cancel Culture.” It’s a big story in the world of cable, so it’s likely worth being aware of.

The Alt-Right Playbook – How to Radicalize a Normie – This is about 3x as long as the others – for good reason just alerting you.

Well, alrighty, then. “Q-Anon Anonymous” – a meeting.

Beau on Trump**’s “Love Letter” to McConnell – He can hardly keep a straight face. If you saw this yesterday, sorry. I bumped it (or tried to) to today in favor of one about staying alive in freezing weather with no power. But it was up for a while Again, sorry.

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