It’s a painful day here in the CatBox. Stowing the groceries yesterday was difficult. Tomorrow please expect no more than a Personal Update. WWWendy is coming in the morning. Have a great day, and TGIF!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:20 (average 6:51). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Short Takes:
From The New Yorker: Calling it “the best news I’ve had in months,” Donald J. Trump has excitedly accepted congressional Democrats’ offer to star in a new, nationally broadcast television show.
Trump boasted to reporters about his new TV opportunity, which was presented to him, on Thursday, by Representative Jamie Raskin.
“It’s going to be similar to ‘The Apprentice,’ because I’ll be sitting behind a table, but it will also be a little different,” Trump explained. “Instead of me asking a lot of questions, people will be asking me the questions. That should spice things up.”
The former President said that the “most amazing” aspect of his new show would be the number of networks broadcasting it.
Dang, Andy!! Hopefully the follow up will a show about the Orange Pervert** broadcast from prison cell. It will be called: Orange** is the New Red! RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From Daily Kos: On Tuesday, the body of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who was killed by pro-Trump insurrectionists during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, was laid in honor in the Capitol Rotunda. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrived that evening to pay their respects. Americans were able to watch the ceremony on multiple news channels—but not on Fox News. On Fox News, Sicknick’s ceremony was barely mentioned.
Instead, Fox News’ ever-frothing opinion hosts did what they do best: stoke audience panic over all number of bizarre side issues, from a barrage of far-right conspiracy theories promoted by the fascist Laura Ingraham to Sean Hannity’s important report that somebody got ejected from a Lakers game “FOR HECKLING LEBRON.”
Fox’s attempt to mostly pretend Sicknick’s ceremony was not happening did not go without notice. In fact, it seems pretty much everybody noticed it, to the point that both blasting and mocking Fox for their silence became the evening’s hot Twitter pastime.
Most of the criticism noted that Fox News had long pretended that “Blue Lives Matter,” only to have it not matter at all when it came to an officer murdered by a Trump-devoted mob. The Washington Post even put some numbers to it with an analysis of how often the network even bothered to mention Sicknick compared to competing networks, even after the network ran “thousands” of segments about other police deaths during the previous four years.
Accusing Fox News of hypocrisy over the death of police officers, however, is giving them far too much credit. Fox News is not minimizing the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick because they wish to downplay the violence of Trump supporters toward police. Fox News is minimizing Sicknick’s death because they are accessories to his death. [emphasis added]
Click through! This author (Hunter) could not be more spot on! RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): No Apology From Greene As House Removes Her From Committees
Thanks to the 11 Republican Representatives that voted for America and against the Nazi Republican Reich. But the sad fact that there were so few of them is ample evidence to show which side the Republican Party is on. RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): Dust in the Wind
For me, this seems particularly appropriate at the moment. Ah… the memories! RESIST the Republican Reich!!
Build the Future. It Belongs to YOU!!
7 Responses to “Open Thread – 2/5/2021”
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Cartoon: Yep, pretty much says it all, doesn’t it? ugh!
NYer: Like you mentioned, a prison cell would do him just fine.
DK: re: Faux’s news: Pretty sickening and sad behavior. I agree, they are accessories to his death.
MSNBC: Glad that she’s been ejected from committees. Have R’s ever apologized for their acts/comments?
BFTP: Didn’t listen much to Kansas, but I do like this song.
Hi, Wendy! Glad that you get your groceries stowed, but sad to read that you are in lots of pain. Hope that you get some much needed rest, a nap and relax time in. Take good care, and Thanks, Tom.
*This just in: “dt to testify at his impeachment trial – “He doesn’t know how NOT TO LIE. This will be epic!” ~J.H.~ (will be on C-Span.) 2. “This is interesting because Raskin put in his letter that they will consider his refusal to attend as an adverse inference of his guilt. I love it!” ~Bev H.~
3. ‘Mitch McConnell has fallen ill with #GOP Amnesia, while lamenting unity in the Senate while forgetting he said in Obama’s first term that their goal was to make Obama a “one-term president.” ~ Steve. S. ~
4. “Oooh, just read Smartmatic ( the voting technology company) is suing Fox News and co hosts for $2.7 billion over election fraud claims. Lawsuit against Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Fox News. That’s gonna tickle!” ~ Gerrit H. ~
5. “R’s – dead behind their eyes – Adrenal exhaustion from constant need to fabricate alternative reality.”~ Harri W. ~ 6. “Nancy Mace, New House Republican (SC) – It was just a matter of time before she showed her Qspots.”
~ Tina F. ~
TJI #5 – I’m sure they are exhausted, adrenally and otherwise. But I suspect the dead behind the eyes is just their natural state.
TJI #6 – You know if Q came forward and openly stated that it was all a hoax and none of it was true, they wuld find ways to believe it all anyway.
I hope you can rest all the rest of the day. The CoViD-19 relief package went through with Kamala’s tie-breaking vote, so there’s that.
Cartoon – They think it’s already there.
Andy – You don’t think that if they had actually phrased it that way, he would have agreed, do you? I didn’t think so.
Hunter – Fox has been rabble-rousing for years and getting away with it on the grounds that they are not news but entertainment. Guess they didn’t find this death so entertaining.
MTG – Steny Hoyer’s full speech will be featured in today’s Video Thread. No CC. but a link to a full transcript.
Blast – Even the earth and sky only last forever from our perspective. We think it’s forever because we won’t see the end. But the end will come nonetheless.
Cartoon: Sick minded rotten R’s.
TNY: I agree with you TC, he deserves a leading role straight into prison.
DK: F newscasters are despicable and heartless. Their ignorance/down playing of the killing of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, real mistake on their part. Feel they’ll pay for that one way or another.
MSNBC: Happy to hear that the bi*ch has been ejected from committees. She’s bragging now, that she’s free.
BFTP: Good song by Kansas.
Sorry you’re still suffering with pain. Hopefully you got some rest today and will sleep tonight.
Tell Wendy “Hello” tomorrow.
Take care. Thanks TomCat
It looks like there will come a time in which you will have to leave the stowing away of non-perishables to WWWendy when she comes in, TomCat. I hope you have enough room for a day, or two, to leave boxes, bottles and cans on the counter because it sounds like the pain from putting it all away is becoming unmanageable.
4:18 Saved you from eating that spikey plant.
Cartoon: They aren’t going to change their ways any time soon, are they?
TNY: Send Trump your version of the trial and explain what opportunity it would be for him, Andy. He might reconsider and accept the Dem’s request to testify. Not that he needs to, he’ll be acquitted anyway.
DK: Faux news can’t handle guilt very well, can they? You’d think they would have had enough practice by now and it has become crystal-clear that Faux News is incapable of guilt or shame, just like their orange former leader.
MSNBC: Greene’s apology was made in the great Trumpian tradition of beading the next lie onto the string of previous lies. And the fact that 119 GOP Representatives stood with her, and only 11 dared to join the Dems, once again tells the story of a Trumpian party over which Mitch McConnell has lost his influence. The question is what Congress is going to do now Greene has kicked off both commissions and has all the time to pursue her biggest hobby there: amplifying anything QAnon comes up with. Are they going to throw her out? I don’t think so.
BFTP: Lovely song. But you have never been and never will be just dust in the wind, TomCat. You’ve touched the lives of too many people in a positive way to be just that. You’ll always be with us and all the boys you worked with in prison.
Thank you for saying that so well.
THanks and 🤮 Hugs to all!