This is the last day of comparative national sanity in the US, and it is my prayer that we all will have survived to celebrate together on the day it returns. As I see it, the earliest possibility is four years from now, because even if the Perverted Puppet is impeached on Monday, the Pensive pseudo-Christian Psycho is no better. Tomorrow, Politics Plus will have a day of mourning. I will post a graphic announcing it and will spend the rest of the day isolated from political affairs. It’s bad enough that I have to suffer through another Republican Reich. I’ll be damned if I’m going to sit and watch that vile pile of excrement rub our noses in it.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:42 (average 4:12). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (GQ Channel): Trump’s Devious Plan to Destroy the White House Press Corps | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann
Isn’t it interesting that Keith and Robert Reich are mirroring each other. RESIST!!
From YouTube (Full Frontal Channel): Swamp Dwellers
That’s not just Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten. It’s how all Republicans "drain" swamps. RESIST!!
From The New Yorker: Moving vans arrived at the White House on Wednesday to remove all traces of competence and dignity.
Working around the clock, movers started clearing out the optimism and progress that had accumulated during the past eight years.
“Once we’ve packed up that stuff, we’ll start moving out the wisdom and maturity,” one of the movers said. “The guy who’s moving in wants all of that gone.”
After the movers complete their work, a cleaning crew will come in and scrub the White House of every last speck of compassion.
That’s more straight news from Andy. RESIST!!
Cartoon:
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4:15 Looks cold. Brrrr.
We are probably all planning something a little different from our usual for this weekend.
YT/GQ – You could put the two together and get a lesson on good teaching. Both are saying the same thing, yes, but each phrases it differently and puts emphasis a little differently. If one doesn't make it crystal clear, the other should, and certainly the two together should do the trick.
YT/FFC – Even some Trump voters are starting to see it. I see that Orrin Hatch is not allowing people who were foreclosed on to testify. Well, that's special. (I also saw the section in which she nails Kellyanne Conway, the spokescobra. I won't ruin it for anyone who hasn't seen it yet.)
TNY – Straight news indeed. (Sigh)
Cartoon – I'm sort of looking at cremation myself. (P.S. Matt Bors cartoon is much like yours – not plargiarism-like, just great-minds-in-the-same-ditch. http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/18/1621634/-Cartoon-Trump-s-health-care-plan)
That is about right, Andy! There is NO chance for any of it to survive once the new regime is in!
I have felt a sense of dread and depression since the election. I didn't know why until now. Tomorrow I will be in DEEP mourning. I don't know if I will even get on the phone to look at anything, let alone online!
I'm hoping to head down to KCMO Union Station, where there's supposed to be some gathering of like-minded mourners.
I too, will do ABSOLUTELY nothing tomorrow. And wearing Black too, thanks for the reminder, Animae.
A lot of teachers are being 'Sick Out' tomorrow, and we have a local NO BUY too.
I'm with you in Mourning tomorrow. RESIST!!!!
Thanks, Tom.
A day of mourning indeed. I will be joining you in that, TomCat: no watching of the commencement of the new Reich, no politics. Just acknowledging a black day in American history. Anyone on the streets tomorrow in Washington should have their backs turned to Drumpf and his cronies.
YT(GQC): Keith Olbermann and Robert Reich, and no doubt many others, see the writing on the wall and know that will be the last bit of honest journalism coming out of Drumpf's corner. I wish decent journalists have the guts to either boycott Drumpf's "press conferences" and refuse to play the game or dare to report on what questions were ignored, or not answered, dare to fact check anything put forward and dare to print the truth instead of the lies fed to them. There's no news-worthiness to any Drumpf press conference, only propaganda, so there's no need to beat a deadline, only a need to
RESIST!
YT(FFC): Yup, Drumpf is certainly draining the swamp…so he can nominate those he finds at the very bottom of it to his cabinet. Let's hope he keeps all of them at close quarters to his germophobe self, because the stink coming of this dreg of the cess pool is toxic to anyone who's not been wallowing in it from birth.
RESIST!
TNY: I don't think we've ever seen Andy as bleak as this before. This is almost too painful to read. Please bounce back soon, Andy and
RESIST!
Cartoon: Republicare will be too little to live on and too little to die on; there will be nothing left to pay for a funeral. It'll be a pauper's grave, I'm afraid.
YTGQ: Just ONE MORE piece of staged bullshit. And, his followers, watching the spectacle, on T.V., will seriously come in their pants/skirts watching it.
Semantha Bee: Mnuchin is exactly what Rumpy sees in his mirror, asnale in pig's clothing. He can't see himself because he is EMPTY!
That should be "…a snake in pig's clothing." How do I kill the damned spell check, which seems to be on LSD, anyway?
Nope, sorry, my boo-boo!
I will be working tomorrow, not watching TV. I am of two minds about watching, were I tohave the opportunity: WILL NOT WATCH THE TRANSITION TO POLITICAL DARKNESS! Might watch for the presumed pleasure of seeing how EMPTY the whole thing will be. Not!
Puzzle — 3:19 Take me away!
YouTube — Call it what you want, but the Trump treatment of the press is abysmal. His explanation, and those of his flunkies like Priebus, of the reasons for the changes is pure bull puckey! This isn't about freedom of the press, it is about the silence of the press.
Resist!!!
YouTube — I'm with Vivian. The more time that passes and the closer to inauguration day we get, the more anxiety I feel for you guys especially, but also for the world. Sam does a great job of telling it like it is.
Resist!!!
The New Yorker — That is straight reporting again Andy.
Resist!!!
Cartoon — That looks like the future that they are burying.
Resist!!!
My condolences to you all. There is absolutely no way that I will watch that circus with its head clown, Drumpfenfarten, tomorrow. I can say there will be a protest march here in Vancouver which is supposed to end at the Trump Tower — protest against Trump, but also in support of the Women's March. The jackass is not well thought of here except by a very few Conservatives, including Herr Harper.
Oh my poor friends, how I feel for you today! I shall not be watching anything to do with today's inauguration either.
AVAAZ says
"Avaaz.org – The World in Action
The day after Trump becomes President, far right leaders from around Europe will meet in a remote German town to discuss how they can make sure Trump's brand of hateful politics sweeps the continent.
This is hate building its movement.
They are strong and gaining momentum. Starting today, we need to build our own movement to match them — before it's too late. Our future, our children's future, our planet's future is on the line.
Don't think it can happen where you live? Everyone thought Trump was a joke. Now he's a nightmare with nuclear codes.
Avaaz.org – The World in Action
Racist French Presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, a friend of Putin, just tried to secretly meet with Trump. Now she'll head to the summit of hate to talk about launching a Europe-wide united far right, sights set on elections in France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, and beyond.
It's going to take action of epic proportion to stop them. We are the largest global online movement in history — we can do it like no one else.
We have achieved so much together already. We've changed the game on climate change, saved the internet from multiple threats, defeated corporate giants like Monsanto, protected vast tracts of our oceans and forests. But what we face now is an old human enemy, perhaps our oldest. To defeat it, or better, transform it, we must become more."
Granted AVAAZ want people to sign up to give to them and I can't afford to, but the main point of this remains true – the Far Right is uniting – what about the centre and left …?
Thanks all Hugs!!