Video Thread 9/10/2020

 Posted by at 2:37 pm  Politics
Sep 102020
 

American Bridge has four ads, aimed at Senators in four states – Arizona, North Carolina, Iowa, and Georgia. Freya’s in Georgia, so I’m using that one.

Meidas Touch – More on “playing it down”

Really American – “Trump Doesn’t Care” – speaks for itself.

RVAT – This is long – over eleven minutes – but it’s also pretty comprehensive. Most of their videos feature one person each.

Sound and Fury for the Democratic Coalition – Of all Trump*’s issues, I wouldn’t have picked football as the hill to die on – but obviously, some people would.

Beau has a lot to say about Woodward and what he has exposed – four or five videos just on that -and I think this gem is in danger of not getting the attention it deserves.

“My boat sank in Lake Travis” – Brent is actually a satirist, making fun of MAGAts. He does it so well it can be tough to tell. (The boat was the “SS MAGAritaville,” which might be a clue.)

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Open Thread – 9/10/2020

 Posted by at 11:07 am  Monthly Report, Open Thread, Politics
Sep 102020
 

It’s a busy, exhausted day here in the CatBox.  Yesterday’s test infusion went as exspected.  However, I did get some news that may be good.  I had thought that my difficulty eating was a sign that my esophageal cancer is getting worse.  That may be true.  However, if my immune system is attacking the tumor, which is how this drug is supposed to work, it could cause the tumor to swell, just as any wound swells when one’s immune system is healing it.  So my trouble eating could also be a sign that the drug is working.  Time will tell.  Either way, if if the tumor closes to the extent that I cannot eat, I’ll have to get a stent quickly.  Tomorrow Deborah is coming for my routine doctor visit.  What I do tomorrow will depend on how long that takes and how I feel.  This is my only article today.  Have a fine day.  JD, would you please cover Sam?

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:06 (average 6:31).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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US Cases: 6,550,984
US Deaths: 195,259
Plus thousands of Trump’s* GOP murder victims Republicans are hiding from us

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Oregonian Channel): Oregon wildfire evacuees describe devastation from state’s largest wildfire

 

Last night on the way home from my cancer treatment my eyes stung, and the sky was orange-brown. I could look directly at the sun, and it was red. WWWendy was worried that she might have to evacuate. She had been notified that her house is in a Level 1 area. Thank God she didn’t have to go!  I can see from my window that we still have heavy smoke, but the wind has abated, so that will help the firefighters.  The extreme severity of the wildfires this year is a result of how the Republican Reich ignores climate change and opposes green energy.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (CNN Channel): Trump says he knew Covid-19 was deadly even though he downplayed it

 

All Trump* cared about was getting reelected. Because he was running on the economy, he gambled on keeping the stock market high. We lost. Every American that Trump* virus has killed is Donald Trump’s* personal murder victim. And what does criminal Fuhrer Trump* have to say about these statements recorded in his own words? “It’s a political hit job!” May that dirty lying bastard rot in hell, since we are all rotting in the hell he has made!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast of past protest): Jefferson Airplane – Volunteers (with Lyric)

 

Ah… the memories! Protest like the 60s! RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

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Video Thread 9/8/2020

 Posted by at 1:04 pm  Politics
Sep 082020
 

Obviously advertisers spent the weekend getting ready to release a s***storm today. So I added a couple of upbeat ones.

American Bridge – As he says, you don’t have to like him. But I wish every American could hear this.

Meidas Touch – Oh, I think he has it. I’m not convinced he “suffers” from it.

Really American is coming a bit late to the party, but that may help us not to forget.

Sound and Fury Messaging for The Democratic Coalition – This ad references Breonna Taylor. It’s a bit different from the ones which cover broad issues, but IMO that’s a good thing.

The Lincoln Project – “Radicalize” So glad they are addressing this!

Vote Vets – POW – This one from the Pacific Theatre of World War II.

OK, this is fun. So little is fun lately. (No CC – but then, no narration either. This is at the St. Louis Aquarium.)

The comment was made, “When members of your base jump up and down and cry because your running mate’s car drove by, it’s really time for people to stop asking “where’s the enthusiasm”?

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Trump’s* Wonderful Economic Recovery

 Posted by at 11:52 am  Politics
Sep 082020
 

Almost every time I see criminal Fuhrer Trump*, aka Nincompoop Nero, he crows about his wonderful economic recovery, calling it the best recovery in US history.  He also claims that if Joe Biden becomes President, he will destroy the economy.  In truth, Nincompoop Nero fiddled while America burned.

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MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough was astonished by a detailed analysis of the economic pain suffered by many American workers — but not all of them.

“Morning Joe” contributor Steve Rattner, a former economic adviser to President Barack Obama, brought charts to fact check claims by President Donald Trump and his advisers about the recovery since the coronavirus pandemic destroyed the U.S. economy.

“The pace of job recovery is actually slowing fairly dramatically,” Rattner said. “One other small point, the 8.4 percent unemployment rate is really 9.1 percent — the Department of Labor said there was a misclassification error, so that number isn’t as good either. Let’s turn to this question whether we’re dealing with a broad-based recovery of jobs or something more narrow. What you can see on the next chart are the disparities in how different Americans have fared. This is because the pandemic or the economic crisis didn’t hit every industry equally, travel, recreation, restaurants, so on, where people of color, lower income, women work and it was hit disproportionately hard.”

“If you are a Black person, 11.2 percent of Blacks lost their jobs, compared to 6.4 percent of whites,” he added. “If you have less than a high school diploma, almost 19 percent of those folks lost their jobs. If you have a college degree, you probably didn’t lose your job at all, because virtually none of them lost their jobs since this started.”…

Inserted from <Alternet>

Here’s the included video.

 

As you can see, Trump* and the Republican Reich* have destroyed the economy, and the recovery is both too slow and decreasing over time.  If Biden becomes President, he needs to shut down at once, support those who do, perform extensive testing and contact tracing, and wait till it’s safe to re-open.  That will allow a rapid recovery.  I’d like to say it will be a complete recovery, but many of the jobs Republicans destroyed are gone and will never come back.  To fully recover we need major investments in infrastructure and green energy to put America to work.  If Trump* had shut down properly, Trump* virus would be behind us already.  So we can’t blame Biden for the short term effects of doing what Trump* should have done.

RESIST!!

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Open Thread – 9/8/2020

 Posted by at 11:51 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Sep 082020
 

It’s a hectic day here in the CatBox.  I have the AC working, but I have to babysit it.  I lost the washer in my portable O2 unit, and Providence Medical Equipment will deliver one this moaning.  I’ll be scarce for the next few days. Please expect no more than a daily Personal Update before Monday.  Tomorrow I have to take the TriMet Lift Bus to to the hospital for my second infusion in 90°+ weather.  Because of WWWendy’s work schedule, I had to schedule the appointment for 3:20 PM.  I’ll nap during the morning. WWWendy will pick me up at 5:30.  When we get home at around 6:00 PM, we still have a whole normal WWWendy day to do.  I’ll be exhausted and will get to bed way late.  I may be too worn out to do more Thursday.  Friday Deborah, the Providence Home Health doctor is coming for a routine visit.  Saturday is a morning WWWendy day.  Sunday I’m meeting with several prison volunteer coworkers and former prisoners on Zoom.  If I can do more, I will, but I’ll be busier than a long-tail TomCat in a rocking chair showroom.  Tuesday is flush your Republicans day.  Flush fast.  They’re sneaky as hell.  Oh God, it’s Tuesday!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:12 (average 5:17).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoons:

Trump* Virus Update:

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Click for interactive map

US Cases: 6,486,426
US Deaths: 193,587
Plus thousands of GOP plague murder victims Republicans are hiding from us

Short Takes:

From NY Times: Just before hundreds of far-right activists recently tried to storm the German Parliament, one of their leaders revved up the crowd by conjuring President Trump.

“Trump is in Berlin!” the woman shouted from a small stage, as if to dedicate the imminent charge to him.

She was so convincing that several groups of far-right activists later showed up at the American Embassy and demanded an audience with Mr. Trump. “We know he’s in there!” they insisted.

Mr. Trump was neither in the embassy nor in Germany that day — and yet there he was. His face was emblazoned on banners, T-shirts and even on Germany’s pre-1918 imperial flag, popular with neo-Nazis in the crowd of 50,000 who had come to protest Germany’s pandemic restrictions. His name was invoked by many with messianic zeal.

It was only the latest evidence that Mr. Trump is emerging as a kind of cult figure in Germany’s increasingly varied far-right scene.

As much as the Republican Reich tries to claim that Trump* is not a Nazi, even foreign Nazis know who their Fuhrer is! RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Study: 93% Of Protests In The U.S. This Summer Were Peaceful

 

Left wing protests are generally more peaceful than those of Republican Ammosexuals. Nevertheless, I agree that there are violent wing nuts on both sides. The difference is that that the lefties reject our wing nuts and condemn their violence. The Republican Reich love and accept their wing nuts and applaud, encourage, and cultivate their violence.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast of protest): I Approve This Message

 

“Change comes from here.” Amen! I am a dying activist, and I approve this message. Protest like the 60s!  RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

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Open Thread – 9/7/2020

 Posted by at 11:04 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Sep 072020
 

It’s a relatively lazy holiday  here in the CatBox.  My esophageal tumor is making eating more painful and difficult.  I’ll talk to Evelyn about that, when I go in Wednesday.  My AC is acting up intermittently.  When I woke up, this morning, it was pumping out heat and the inside temp was 89°.  It wouldn’t power down, so I flipped the circuit breaker.  Then I coaxed it into working again, for now.  I’m babying it until Maintenance Dept. gets here.  Of course this has to happen on a 3 day weekend.  If you’re driving, please stay safe.  Thank God it’s Monday.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:48 (average 4:24).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

0907TrumpVirusMap

Click for interactive map

US Cases: 6,462,189
US Deaths: 193,259
Plus thousands of GOP plague murder victims Republicans are hiding from us.

Short Takes:

From Alternet: Warning of the very real chance of a “nightmare scenario” in which President Donald Trump misleads the American people over the results of the November election—or refuses to leave office voluntarily if voted out—Sen. Bernie Sanders is raising the alarm and mobilizing his army of supporters to be aware of just how dangerous a game the president is now playing.

In an interview with Politico and an email sent to his massive email list Friday, Sanders suggested that too many news organizations, social media companies, and lawmakers—in addition to the broader public—remain unaware of the manner in which Trump is laying the groundwork for a potentially devastating series of events.

“Trump is now using his lies and misinformation to sow confusion and chaos in the election process and undermine American democracy,” stated in the email, sent to millions of his supporters on Friday. “In other words, he does not intend to accept the results of the election if he loses and leave office voluntarily. This is not just a ‘constitutional crisis.’ This is a threat to everything this country stands for.”

Speaking with Politico earlier in the day, Sanders said one crucial thing to be done immediately is to educate people. “What we have got to do in the next two months is to alert the American people about what that nightmarish scenario might look like in order to prepare them for that possibility and talk about what we do if that happens,” he said… [emphasis added]

I fully agree with Bernie. The people of the US need to be fully informed about Trump’s* likely intent to overthrow the government of the US and how he is setting up an attempt to do so.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (CNN Channel): Schiff: Barr flat-out misled with a ‘blatantly false statement’

Barrf Bag Alert!!

 

If Russia, Trump* and the Republican Reich were not working together, their propaganda lies would not be identical. As for Barrf, he’ll never catch up to Trump*, his Fuhrer, in number of lies told, but he sure as hell is trying!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast of past protest): Phil Ochs Draft Dodger Rag

 

Ah… the memories! Protest like the 60s!  RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

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Video thread 9/4/2020

 Posted by at 11:59 am  Politics
Sep 042020
 

VoteVets – Explicit condemnation of Trump*s “suckers and losres” statement.

Really American – Speaks for itself.

RVAT – one more comment on Trump*s belittling of the military, especially those who lost their lives.

Lincoln Project Tweet – Don’t we all wish THIS were true!

Indian Visual Panet – not intended as an ad, but IMO very telling

Sometimes, as a former Marine, I forget that not everyone knows what Beau is talking about here. It’s worth remembering. (Sorry no CC. If you have a Google account, you may be able to enable it through Options.)

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Losers and Suckers

 Posted by at 11:02 am  Politics
Sep 042020
 

The military and I have often been on opposite sides over the years.  They have served in wars against which I have protested, and devious politicians have used them as weapons against protests that included me.  So one might think I have a low opinion of service people, but that is not true.  I consider them honorable people who have been used as cannon fodder for dishonest political ends in most of the conflicts in my lifetime.  I have always believed that protesters should hate the wars but love the warriors.  Except for one very tiny portion of heroes KIA, I would never consider them “Losers” and “Suckers”!

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When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn’t fly” and that the Secret Service wouldn’t drive him there. Neither claim was true.

Trump rejected the idea of the visit because he feared his hair would become disheveled in the rain, and because he did not believe it important to honor American war dead, according to four people with firsthand knowledge of the discussion that day. In a conversation with senior staff members on the morning of the scheduled visit, Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” In a separate conversation on the same trip, Trump referred to the more than 1,800 marines who lost their lives at Belleau Wood as “suckers” for getting killed.

Belleau Wood is a consequential battle in American history, and the ground on which it was fought is venerated by the Marine Corps. America and its allies stopped the German advance toward Paris there in the spring of 1918. But Trump, on that same trip, asked aides, “Who were the good guys in this war?” He also said that he didn’t understand why the United States would intervene on the side of the Allies…[emphasis added]

Inserted from <The Atlantic>
Photo credit: The Logical Indian

Because of Trump’s historical illiteracy, he may have been thinking of opposing the WWII allies.  His Fifth Reich today borrows so much from Hitler’s Third Reich, that I bet he wishes the US had joined the Axis.

Here are two videos that document this hatred of American heroes.

Trump Calls Fallen Soldiers “Losers” and “Suckers”

 

Outrage, But Not Surprise, At Reports That Trump Called Fallen Veterans ‘Suckers’, ‘Losers’

 

There are losers and suckers in military cemeteries. They are the ones who voted for Trump in 2016 before dying. But troops that vote for Trump* in 2020, after he said this and continued to support Putin [R-RU] after Putin paid bounties for dead US soldiers, are the biggest losers and suckers in US military history.

Speaking as a dying man, if Trump steals the 2020 election, I will consider death a blessing.

RESIST!!

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