Video Thread 10/1/2020

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 1:56 pm Politics

Oct 012020

Last month was one of the longest years of my life Welcome to October.

Meidas Touch (Rudy)

Robert Reich on the SCOTUS

Barack Obama from “The Shade Room” (I tried to add CC but it requires going through Google)

Really American – “Lindsey for Biden” – very cleverly done

Just for fun – the lyrics are in the score and I doubt CC could keep up with them.

Here is a link to a page where you can select your state and bring up a summary of state law on unauthorized private militias (and what to do if you run into one while voting.)

Video Thread 9/30/2020

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 3:40 pm Politics

Sep 302020

Most of these are debate related. I have more which aren’t. I’ll eventually get them in without drowning us in them, I promise.

American Bridge

The Lincoln Project

Republican Voters Against Trump

Robert Reich (almost 10 minutes)

This is from September 23, so I am late posting it. But that doesn’t really matter.

Video Thread 9/29/2020

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 3:55 pm Politics

Sep 292020

Very busy video day, and one is long.

American Bridge (There are also 2 shorter versiona0

Meidas Touch with Bette Midler

Sound and Fury Messaging for the Democratic Coalition

VoteVets in cooperaton with LincolnProject – Sully

This is from the BBC and it is 22 minutes long, but it the complete reposrt on one huge aspect of the facebook wars from 2016. One way too successful aspect.

Beau is usually very careful – sometimes IMO too careful – not to castigate an entire specific party. That’s gone here, and good job.

Petitions update –
Congressional Black Caucus
Daily Kos (if you have one or more Dem Senators)

Video Thread for 9/28/2020

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 2:09 pm Politics

Sep 282020

American Bridge – With all the attention on taxes, I’m glad someone remembers the Court.

Don Winslow – Good take on taxes

Really American – It would be news to the Brits if we were actually speaking English, as opposed to American “English.”

The Lincoln Project has a Spanish-language ad up on CoViD-19 here.

Beau is dripping with irony in this one, and it’s very funny – or would be if it weren’t such a serious issue.

Supreme Court petitions – we are now getting the ones whoch name the nominee.

Stop Republicans
Fight for Reform

Open Thread – 9/22/2020

Posted by TomCat at 11:26 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Sep 222020

It’s become a hectic week here in the CatBox. Diana was late yesterday, but when she got here, she built a fire under my Oncologist’s office and the Stent surgeon’s office. Becky met WWWendy when she arrived at the hospital to pick up my patches, and changed me from 25 mg Fentanyl patches to 50 mg. My pain level is much lower. The stent surgeon’s office called and scheduled me for a video conference with the doctor at 7:30 AM tomorrow. They will determine whether they want to to do a dilation or a stent and schedule the procedure ASAP. If that isn’t crazy enough, WWWendy and I forgot that she scheduled an appointment to go to DMV to renew my Oregon ID at 4:30 on Thursday. We won’t even start the shower and gooping until we get back. On top of everything else, my AC is acting up again. This is my only article today, and I’ll have to play the rest of the week by ear. Tuesday is flush your Republicans day.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:04 (average 4:38). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

Click for interactive maps and charts

US Cases: 7,047,643
US Deaths: 204,577
Plus thousands of Trump’s* GOP plague murders Republicans are hiding from us

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): LAZIN’ ON A COVID AFTERNOON

Wonderful piece, Don! The one thing even more deadly than Trump* virus is Trump’s* Republican Reich! RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Democrats Make SCOTUS A National Issue Beyond Republicans Gaming Senate Rule

Listen to Liz! She is spot on! If the Reich confirm another to SCROTUS (Republican anti-Constitutional Venereal Disease), America will become a permanent National Socialist, theocratic, plutocratic dictatorship. RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast of past protest): The Animals – We Gotta Get Out Of This Place

Ah… the memories! Protest like the 60s! To update, make it “We Gotta Get Out Of This Reich”! RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

Open Thread – 9/21/2020

Posted by TomCat at 10:04 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Sep 212020

It’s another tired painful day here in the CatBox. I still have no news on getting my stent. I wanted to do more today, but I overslept, and I’m just not feeling up to it. I’m afraid you guys may be carrying the ball until I get my stent and recover more of my strength. Tonight is a WWWendy night. Oh God, it’s Monday!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:53 (average 4:21). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

0921TrumpVirusMap

Click for interactive maps

US Cases: 7,011,463
US Deaths: 204,167
Plus thousands of Trump’s* GOP plague murders Republicans are hiding from us

Short Takes:

From Crooks and Liars: MAGA Nutjobs Block Entrance To Voting Site In Fairfax, Virginia

These Trumpanzee idiots are protesting IN-PERSON voting, now. Blocking entry to polling places is a felony, by the way.

Am I the only one not surprised? Nevertheless, ‘Trumpanzee’ is an insult to the apes! RESIST!!

From Alternet:

Aprominent [sic] psychiatrist who spent years studying Nazi Germany has called for mental health professionals to speak out about President Trump’s “falsification of reality” ahead of the election, warning that his attacks on the truth echo those of the Nazis.

Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, distinguished professor emeritus at John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a leading psychohistorian who has written extensively about doctors who aided Nazi war crimes, has long called for mental health experts to defy warnings from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and speak out about Trump’s mental health. Lifton recently published a book entitled “Losing Reality: On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry” and was one of the 27 mental health experts featured in “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” the bestseller edited by Yale psychiatrist Dr. Bandy X. Lee in which mental health professionals assessed the president.

Lifton told Salon that the book and a Yale conference on the topic began the movement of “psychologists and psychiatrists speaking out against Trump.”

“I spoke about what I called malignant normality that was being imposed on us, and the need to be witnessing professionals who told the truth and oppose the malignant normality,” he said in an interview last week.

Lifton said that Trump’s supporters and enablers exhibit the same “cult-like behavior” that he has studied, adding that the current administration has “Trumpified” every part of the federal government, in much the same way that the German government was “Nazified” under Adolf Hitler.

What other pattern would Republicans follow? I called GW Bush, aka Nincompoop Nazi, the Fuhrer of the 4th Reich. Republicans planned to make him permanent, but when their policies caused the economy to collapse, they abandoned Bush to let Obama inherit their damage and blame him for it. Now they have chosen Trump* as Fuhrer. That he’s a Nazi goes without saying. Being a Nazi a prerequisite to become Fuhrer of the Republican Reich! RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast of past protest): Crosby Stills Nash – Carry On / Questions

Love that guitar in Questions! Ah… the memories! Protest like the 60s! RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

Bill Maher from 9/18/2020

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 9:40 pm Politics

Sep 182020

Monologue – The level of crazy has really gotten to the point where there is not much a satirist can do. He did the best he could with what he had.

Passing of RBG – Bill and Panel – Of course they are in shock, as I was and am. But there are people seriously working on what to do.

Michael Cohen – There was a moment – before he went into court the first time as a person of interest rather than as an attorney – cameras (video) caught him on the street outside, there were some tables, and there were some people, and, I don’t know, does anyone else remember this picture? – that I felt from his face and body language that he knew it was over, and that he really understood the enormity of what he had done, and hated it, and was ready to not lie. Interestingly, I have not seen anything since which caused me to rethink that impression. I almost feel sorry for him.

New Rule – You can be liberal and still be blinded by privilege. IMO Hollywood is all of that. Of course, I also happen to know what black people thought of “The Green Book.” I don’t think those rules are too stringent at all. Fact: Good intentions are never enough. You have to have vision. (BTW, this is less like being told what to put in paintings and more like being told what paints to use. How much toxic paint is acceptable?)

I did look for CC and enabled it where I found it – sadly, that was only on the Cohen one.

Video Thread 9/18/2020

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 2:13 pm Politics

Sep 182020

Yesterday was Constitution Day, and POGO has prepared a quiz on “How well do you know the Constitution?” It has some tricks in it, but that is educational. No one is looking at your score but you.

This is one of Doug Jones’s own ads.

Meidas Touch – This may be too much truth for MAGAts to stomach.

Nuestro PAC – new to me, and added to the list to check.

RVAT – Olivia Troye

The Lincoln Project – the second one may need a hanky.

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