It has been awhile since I published. I have several ideas but I have not had the time to bring them to fruition. Hopefully I will be able to get them done before too long. In the mean time, here are 4 short takes and a Simon’s Cat video.
Short Takes
AlterNet — Donald Trump is either lying about tax cuts, in search of headlines to fool voters who saw through the first Republican tax bill …
Trump floated the idea on Saturday in Nevada and then insisted on it to reporters on Monday, saying “We’re putting in a resolution sometime in the next week, or week and a half, two weeks.” When reporters followed up on exactly how this was going to happen, with Congress out of session, Trump said “We won’t have time to do the vote. We’ll do the vote later,” specifically “after the election.” He does not appear to be talking about the tweaks to the previous tax plan that the House already passed but which is unlikely to get through the Senate.
I heard about this yesterday on the news while I was out and about. This is nothing more than a tax scam to woo middle class voters to vote for Republicans. Anyone who votes Republican on the basis of a middle class tax break being passed after the midterms is gullible and delusional. McTurtle has already committed to changing social security, Medicare and Medicaid so drastically that they will not be the same, if they even survive at all.
The Hill — The FBI says it was unable to locate any photos of former FBI Director James Comey and special counsel Robert Mueller “hugging and kissing” after President Trump claimed he could provide 100 such images.
BuzzFeed News reporter Jason Leopold on Tuesday shared the Justice Department’s response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request he filed with the bureau asking for photographs of Mueller and Comey “hugging and kissing each other.”
The FBI said in response that its search did not turn up any records corresponding with Leopold’s request.
Is there no end to the stupidity that is Donald J Trump aka Diaper Don? What passes for a brain is working at a fever pitch to discredit an investigation that he says will show no collusion. Yea right!!! (dripping with sarcasm) Now tell me something that I can believe because I certainly do NOT believe Diaper Don! If there was no collusion, then why is the moron so obsessed with the investigation? Please, somebody tell us!
Huffington Post — Actor and comedian Jim Carrey usually saves his political musings for Twitter or his latest painting. This weekend, though, he voiced his views while accepting the Charlie Chaplin Award for Excellence in Comedy from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in Los Angeles on Friday night. …
Much to the audience’s delight, Carrey then went full bore into a poignant, impassioned speech about the current political system.
“Almost half of America at this moment believes there is a sinister deep state diabolically plotting … to what?” Carrey asked. “Give them health care?”
He praised his comedy hero, actor Charlie Chaplin, for the ingenious, subversive political commentary in his films.
I am not normally known to watch award shows, and the BAFTA awards are no exception. However, when I read that Jim Carrey had received the Charlie Chaplin Award for Excellence in Comedy and that his acceptance speech was an impassioned speech about the state of the US right now, well I could not not watch this terrific Canadian comedian. BTW, Carrey has a new Trump painting which is shown in the article.
Raw Story — Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-KS) is in a tough fight for his seat in the suburbs of Kansas City, facing a challenge from Democrat Sharice Davids.
Yoder is now attacking Davids for not quitting an internship she served with the Department of Transportation, according to the Kansas City Star.
How does Kevin Yoder spell desperation . . . S-H-A-R-I-C-E-D-A-V-I-D-S!!! Go Sharice!!!
My Universe — I have not posted Simon’s Cat for some time so here are 6 short videos about Hallowe’en. I think I like ‘The Monster’ the best.
Remember VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO!!!
10 DAYS LEFT TO VOTE!!!
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Sharice Davids is running for Congress in the district next to mine, but across the border from me.
But I have donated to her (my district is a loss cause because it got Gerrymandered w/ a smidge of the KCMO Metro & the rest of it rural: Sam Graves) and Laura Kelly (running for Governor against Kris Kobach).
I’d love to see Kansas turn Blue … or at least Purple.
Well at least one Kansan is scared shitless that that could happen! From your keyboard to God’s ear!
Sam Graves . . . what an appropriate name for a “death by a thousand cuts” Republican!
I agree. He is just trying to trick fools into voting Nazi.
I wonder how many photos there are of Trump using yellow hair spray.
Chaplin used to do a great Hitler parody.
And we’ve endorsed Sharice.
CAT is where it’s AT!
Welcome back Squatch! Good one!
Thanks boss!!!
YVW, my friend.
The Hill: Anything to say to deflect from the real issues that we are facing today as citizens.
HP: Jim’s very moving words resonates how most of us are feeling since this ‘poutus’ came on board. Well said and Congratulations!!
RS: GO!!! Ms. Davids!!!
MU: All great, I like the Monster, and the Attic ones.
Thanks, Lynn for posting.
He IS the biggest political issue today!!! . . . he and every other Republican!!! Addressing other issues such as homelessness, poverty, education, healthcare, infrastructure etc would be easier without the GOP (Greedy Old Pharts) screwing the citizenry!!!
Glad to see a posting from Canada again, Lynn.
Alternet: Of course this is nothing more than a scam, a cheap hustle to get some more Republicans out to vote. Drumpf will have to do it by executive order if he can’t wait for a vote, and there’s probably nothing even resembling a bill in which it is bases, so this is as hollow a promise as he’s ever made. That won’t keep his base from voting for Republicans who’ll then take it away from them again, though.
TH: This one hadn’t reached the Aussie shores (yet), and probably never will. The rest of the world, including Canada, I assume, is getting a teeny weeny fatigued by the lies and confabulations Drumpf needs to perpetuate to fill the void in his head. The man is a sick, demented puppy and needs to be put out of its misery by impeachment. Until then people should stop taking his confabulations seriously and stop throwing completely useless FBI investigations at whatever Drumpf comes up with today. It’s beyond pathetic.
HP: I’m not a fan of the comedian Jim Carrey, to put it mildly, but a left-leaning political speech maker, he’s doing rather well, I think. I’ve seen a few Americans go into this “defence mode” whenever they’re abroad. It’s not that they are provoked into it, it appears more of a natural reflex to apologize for the state of their country. At least, for most educated Americans it is, and I tend to feel rather sorry for them unless they haven’t voted in 2016.
RS: My goodness, how I wish the midterms were over. I’m getting really bad cramps in the fingers and toes I’m keeping crossed for all those Democratic candidates, Sharice Davids being one of them. Yoder is toast.
MU: I thoroughly enjoyed Simon’s cat, as I always do. I still miss mine, though.
Jim Carrey, just to let you know is a product of Canada from Newmarket, Ontario which is just north of Toronto. So he was raised on Canadian social democracy. Personally, I am not a fan either but I did enjoy ‘Bruce Almighty’ with Morgan Freeman. His movies that contain a strong social message are the ones I enjoy because he exaggerates the message with the humour.
Thanks all!!!
Alternet: Sadly, there are tooooooo many fools in the U.S., but, in hindsight, it appears that even they did not get caught by this BS!
The Hill: He is not just stupid, he is a major mind-fu**ing force, phenomenally good at manipulation, perhaps the only thing he is good at. I do not know how many of his beloved “uneducated” bought this piece of crap…and I do not want to know.
Huff Post: Carrey says it so well!
Raw Story: Davids is the winner!