Well, this is interesting. (at about 4 minutes, it goes to a promotion and you can cut it off.)
Really American – QNoShow
Meidas Touch parody
Meidas Touch – Ali Velshi (podcast)
Ring of Fire – essentially news – but you may not have seen it. (Facepalm.)
Puppet Regime
Beau’s message to Texas from “Florida Man”
Really American
And with Glenn Kirschner
Meidas Touch (probably too subtle for Qidiots to grasp.)
Now This News – and this from Chris Wray. As more Democrats get confirmed the truth can only get louder.
Now This News (from Oz) – Something positive (no sound)
Cole and Marmalade – 7 Signs That Cats Are Scientists
Beau on What can be learned from Cuomo. (SO refreshing to hear this from a man!)
Women, CoViD, and the Myth of Having It All
Cuomo Under Investigation Parts I and II
Meidas Touch – More from Eric Swalwell
Now This News – Sounds like a good idea to me. I hope it succeeds.
Endnote #4 (Stuff that wouldn’t fit into the long one – so also long)
Dolly got vaccinated!
Dolly gets a dose of her own medicine. @VUMChealth pic.twitter.com/38kJrDzLqC
— Dolly Parton (@DollyParton) March 2, 2021
Founders Sing
Beau – CPAC Part II
American Bridge
Meidas Touch – Yes, that’s Eric Swalwell. We’re not used to seeing him with facial hair.
Really American – Q Virus
Robert Reich on CoViD Relief
Corey (“The Buttercream Dream”) mocks CPAC
Beau on CPAC Part I (expect Part II tomorrow)
Now This News – I needed a hanky, but to me this is personal, so you may not.
Meidas Touch – Ted Cruz
Alt-Right Handbook – Endnote #3
Parody Project – Marge Greene
SNL Cold Open
Beau on the stimulus bill – I guess we now know Beau follows VoteVets on Twitter.
It’s a painful and exhausted day, here in the CatBox. The intake meeting with Providence Home Hospice was excellent, but it was long. I was sitting up and putting pressure on my spine from around 10:30 AM when Wendy arrived until about 5:30 PM when the intake nurse left. My meds will be delivered today. They are putting me on 5 mg methadone pills every eight hours plus up to 10 – 15 mg Oxycodone every 3 – 6 hours as needed for pain. No more patches. They will give me a shower a week and I’ll get 1 – 2 from WWWendy. I’ll receive a pants load of other services. I really like the way they are handling it, but recovering from that appointment will take a few days. Have a wonderful Sunday!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:36 (average 4:51). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Short Takes:
From The New Yorker: Donald J. Trump will use his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference this weekend to announce that he has won the 2024 Presidential election.
According to leaked text from his cpac speech, Trump will claim that he won the 2024 election in a landslide and “everybody knows it.”
Trump will further state that any attempt to allege that the year 2024 has not arrived yet and is, in fact, not scheduled to occur until three years from now is “a rigged hoax.”
Dang, Andy! We all knew Trump** would say that. Furthermore, we knew that every damn one of those idiotic CPUKE Sheeple would believe it. RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From Alternet: Though House Democrats in the end had the votes to assure final passage of a sweeping Covid-19 relief package overnight—securing approval with a final 219-212 tally—it was the Republican Party membership in total lockstep, joined by two lonely members of the majority party, that voted to deny struggling American families, frontline workers, state governments, local communities, small businesses, and the nation’s schools and public health system nearly $2 trillion in urgent assistance to stabilize the economy, beat back the pandemic, and ensure solid footing for a robust recovery.
The two Democrats who sided with the GOP were Rep. Jared Golden, who represents Maine’s 2nd District, and Rep. Kurt Shrader, who represents Oregon’s 5th District.
That one of these is an Oregon Congressional makes me want to scream. In 2020, I donated money to Shrader’s campaign in the general. He was running against Amy Ryan Courser, the epitome of everything about the Republican Reich that makes it evil. Amy is a Koch sucker. So I would support him again in the same circumstances, but before it comes to that, we need to primary his DINO ass out of there! RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): Simon & Garfunkel – El Condor Pasa (If I Could) (Audio)
Ah… the memories! RESIST the Republican Reich!!
I’m not sure what happened this morning. One possibility is that lightning struck the Bonneville Dam, a major source of hydro-power on the Columbia River, upstream of Portland, causing a massive flood at all points downriver. However, the volume was insufficient and did not stink. Therefore, I have to attribute it to the other possibility. I finally Republicated. I’m still exhausted, but I’m feeling much better. The week will still be a little crazy as I’m going to the hospital on Thursday for a CAT Scan to see dust how much worse my tumors are. OGIM! Have a great day!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:44 (average 5:27). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Short Takes:
From Crooks and Liars: …How do we keep this sense of Democratic unity in the all-important mission of getting important things done for regular people going?
Here are my guide posts:
1. Understand that Democrats hang together or we hang separately. That old line of Ben Franklin’s at the time the Declaration of Independence was signed was not meant as a joke or clever word play: it was quite literally true and deadly serious. Unfortunately, this moment in history finds us in a similar moment, as that gallows the insurrectionists were building at the Capitol are a deadly sign that the threat is real. We Democrats need to deliver real things for real people over the next two years, or we are going to lose control of the government to a political party which just overwhelmingly rejected the idea that a president who encouraged a coup should not be punished for it.
We need to work together to get anything done, and we need to get substantial things done in order to win in 2022. With the margins we have now, there is literally no choice in the matter. We all know that opportunities for compromise with the Republicans will be few and far between, but compromise between Democrats is mandatory if we want to get anything done. So for my progressive comrades, we need to get everything we can on every bill we can, and then compromise and move on to the next chance. If we can convince the last few swing votes on at least reforming the filibuster, that should work out reasonably well for us, and even if not, there should be a lot we can get into the second reconciliation bill as well as more executive action.
…Conclusion
Passing legislation with the narrow margins in the House and Senate is going to be an intense challenge, requiring Democrats to stay together and requiring everyone to compromise and work things out in good faith. Biden has started off in much stronger political shape than the last two Democratic presidents, and we are on the verge of passing the biggest and boldest recovery package in the history of the republic. We need to methodically get that done, and then build on the success with another reconciliation bill where we can do bigger long-term things.
I’ve included the first of four guide posts and part of the conclusion. I fully agree and strongly recommend that you click through for the rest. We need to overcome the urge to in-fight. RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): U.S. Reaches Grim Milestone of 500,000 Covid Deaths
What a sad day. Of course Trump** virus would have killed thousands, even if Republicans were not doing everything they to give welfare for billionaires precedence while fighting to evade spending to save American lives! RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): Mr. Bojangles – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – [With Lyrics]
Ah… the memories!! RESIST the Republican Reich!!