All Bets Are Off – CC enabled but set to Italian. Sometimes I can change that, but this didnt allow any settings except “Italian” and “off.”
Environmental Racism: How It Started vs. How It’s Going
Feb 042021
Feb 032021
Really American
Now This News – I don’t know why people can’t grasped that he WAS IMPEACHED WHILE IN OFFICE and the a TRIAL NEEDS TO FOLLOW and that has nothing to do with whether he is still in office.
The Damage Report – The headline is an oversell, but there is good info.
A tweet just for fun
he crashed his bike pic.twitter.com/Z1jF3vVkLb
— The Feel Good Page ❤️ (@akkitwts) February 3, 2021
Puppet Regime
Rocky Mountain Mike (be nice if he’d do Boebert also)
Beau – I’ve been sitting on this one for a while, to give us some breathing time – but it needs to be seen sooner or later. Especially by younger people.
Feb 022021
It’s another painful/tired day here in the CatBox. I’ve had several trips to the throne room, and while it’s not Republicosis per se, the twisting, pushing and straining is really hard on my back. Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update. WWWendy is coming in the morning and we have lots of chores to do.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:15 (average 4:48). To do it, click here. How did you do?
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From Daily Kos: Republicans who want to distinguish themselves from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene or the insurrectionists who attacked the U.S. Capitol should understand something: They’re going to need to distinguish themselves from the Republican Party itself. Because in the wake of Donald Trump’s time in the White House, Republicans had a decision to make. They could have tried to revert to being the party they were in 2015 and 2016—far right, ragingly hypocritical, and ruthlessly committed to partisan power, but with some basic allegiance to reality—and instead they have chosen to stay on the Trumpy road with the conspiracy theorists and the flagrant racists.
In recent weeks, Republicans have provided a long list of examples of how extremist the party is going to be going forward. Oregon Republicans passed a resolution saying that the attack on the Capitol was a “false flag” by leftists trying to make Trump supporters look bad. Arizona Republicans censured Gov. Doug Ducey, former Sen. Jeff Flake, and Cindy McCain for insufficient loyalty to Trump and for defending the integrity of the state’s election. Rep. Matt Gaetz went to Wyoming to rally support against Rep. Liz Cheney, the third-ranking Republican in the House, for having voted to impeach Trump for inciting the insurrection. Don Jr. is also engaged in the attacks on Cheney.
The party’s treatment of Greene is another key example. It’s not hard to find a Republican who will say they oppose Greene’s conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook or Parkland school shootings, or her repeated expressions of interest in assassinating Democratic political leaders. But far from being marginalized over it, she is on the House Education and Labor Committee, which House Republican leadership would have had to agree to. In other words, it’s a repeat of “responsible” Republican responses when Trump would say or do something especially outrageous—they’d claim to be appalled, but go right on embracing him in every way that mattered. And Greene won her primary in Georgia with the backing of Rep. Jim Jordan and Debbie Meadows, the wife of former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.
At this point, as never-Trump Republican Bill Kristol put it, House Minority Leader “Kevin McCarthy has been more critical of Liz Cheney than he has been of Marjorie Taylor Greene.” Kristol claims to be astonished by that, but he shouldn’t be. This is the Republican Party right now.
I hoped the party might split between old style Republicans and the Trump** party. It looks like that won’t happen. It appears the KKK, Nazi, TEABuggery branch has won the day. RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From The New Yorker: In what is being hailed as an amazing act of canine heroism, President Joe Biden’s two German shepherds have dug up Donald J. Trump’s tax returns on the South Lawn of the White House.
According to sources, shortly after the President let Champ and Major out to play in the snow, they started sniffing one small patch of the lawn and digging intently.
Within minutes, the two White House pooches had unearthed twenty years’ worth of Trump’s federal tax returns, which they eagerly deposited on the Oval Office carpet for their master’s perusal.
Dang Andy, those dawgs need to take a vacation to Mar-a Lago, where they can pee on Trump**! RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Democrats Nurse Fresh Memories Of Bad Faith Republican ‘Bipartisanship’
The Republican Reich has not changed. Rachel is saying the same things I said yesterday. She knows what Republicans mean when they say bipartisanship.
RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): Creedence Clearwater Revival – Green River (Official Lyric Video)
Ah… the memories! RESIST the Republican Reich!!
Build the Future. It Belongs to YOU!!
Feb 012021
It’s a tired/painful day here in the CatBox. Yesterday, WWWendy and I got all our chores done. I feel very tired. Tomorrow, I expect to be be back in the saddle again. Oh God, it’s Monday!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:13 (average 5:11). To do it, click here. How did you do?
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From The New Yorker: Donald J. Trump will act as his own defense attorney at his impeachment trial after receiving a law degree from Trump University.
Trump bestowed the degree upon himself in his capacity as the dean of the Trump University School of Law, where he graduated first in his class.
In his first official statement as the lead attorney of his defense team, Trump vowed not to quit the team “like those other losers.”
Andy, what a wonderful idea! Trump** will get the quality of representation he deserves! RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From Crooks and Liars: Tucker Carlson rants about anyone in the media that has dared to call out Fox for it’s dangerous rhetoric egging on white supremacists, and attacks AOC as a “tool of corporate power” for saying there are white supremacist sympathizers in Congress.
Barf Bag Alert!!
AOC is a tool of corporate power. The Pope is Jewish. And bears never, ever shit in the woods! RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From Daily Kos: A counterproposal by ten supposedly “moderate” Republican senators that would reduce COVID-19 pandemic emergency funding to a fraction of what’s being proposed by Democrats is landing with a wet thud today, despite the ten Republicans framing their effort around alleged “bipartisan” cooperation. That’s not a surprise; it’s difficult to believe the proposal, led by the perpetually concerned Sen. Susan Collins and including Sens. Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski, Bill Cassidy, Thom Tillis, and Rob Portman, was meant as genuine proposal. And Democrats, to their credit, seem appropriately skeptical about its earnestness.
The proposal sketched out by the ten Republicans in a letter to President Joe Biden on Sunday is most notable for its slashing of proposed pandemic funding. Biden and Democrats are moving towards a $1.9 trillion plan; the Republican senators are instead proposing just $600 billion, less than a third of that amount. It would reduce proposed survival checks from $1400 to $1000, and cut them off for Americans earning over $50,000 a year or families earning $100,000.
It also cuts school pandemic funding, with Bill Cassidy telling Fox News Sunday that the “real problem” is not ongoing pandemic dangers but “teachers’ unions telling their teachers not to go to work.”
The ten Republicans are attempting to sell the fractional measure as bipartisanship, and major news outlets are predictably gobbling those claims, with The Washington Post musing that “the GOP offer presents a challenge for Biden, who campaigned on promises to unify Congress and the country” and Reuters framing the measure and its supporters with the much-cherished “moderate” label. (It should go without saying that the nine of ten Republican senators who voted to nullify consequences for Trump attempting to extort a foreign leader for personal gain cannot be sensibly called “moderate.”) Of special note, the Republicans are framing their proposal as a way to dodge the partisanship of Democrats passing the Biden-backed proposal using reconciliation rules, rather than caving to Republican filibuster.
Well, you know what Republicans mean when they say “bipartisan”.
RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): New Kid in Town (2013 Remaster)
Ah… the memories. RESIST the Republican Reich!!
Build the Future. It Belongs to YOU!
Jan 312021
The Lincoln Project
Robert Reich – Corporations as guardians of democracy?
Corey from WellRed, playing a press secretary, with Brent Terhune asking questions (Brent did those MAGAt parodies that were so real many people thought he was a MAGAt.)
SNL – Blue Georgia
And you thought you’d seen every possible take on Bernie’s mittens.
Beau – This could be funny if weren’t so true. “Travesty” is the word, all right.
Jan 302021
Meidas Touch – They’re not conservatives
Now This News – everything you wanted to know about the filibuster but were afraid to ask.
The Lincoln Project – Josh Hawley
Tweet from Corey (who, you may remember is one of Trae’s partners in WellRED Comedy)
I’m from Marjorie Taylor Greene’s District and I would like to say something pic.twitter.com/ktnVp9vexg
— Corey “The Buttercream Dream” Forrester (@CoreyRForrester) January 29, 2021
The Alt-Right Playbook – Mainstreaming
Cats in Therapy
Beau “Let’s talk about Biden and oil jobs….” Some hard truth, suck it up information for those who should know better but often don’t
Jan 302021
Yesterday I told you I’d be in the saddle today barring unforeseen circumstances. I did not foresee that Mark would be tied up at the hospital and could not make it until today. Nevertheless, I was up waiting long enough to exacerbate my back pain. He just left and the chair is fixed. Tomorrow is a WWWendy day, so please expect no more than a Personal Update. Have a great weekend.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:50 (average 5:54). To do it, click here. How did you do?
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From The New Yorker: In a potential stumbling block for his Presidential ambitions, a new study indicates that the average American can stand only four seconds of exposure to Senator Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican.
The study, conducted by University of Minnesota researchers during Tuesday night’s Republican debate, required subjects to be connected to electrodes to measure their tolerance for the senator.
Within four seconds of watching Cruz, the majority of participants begged to be released from the experiment, researchers reported.
Dang, Andy! I guess that makes me way below average! RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): In My Life (Remastered 2009)
Ah… the memories! RESIST the Republican Reich!!
Build the Future. It Belongs to YOU!
Jan 292021
Monologue: Frazzledrip
Heather Heying & Bret Weinstein: The Lab Theory
New Rule: The Baldy Awards