Personal Update – 1/30/2021

Posted by TomCat at 10:44 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

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?

Cartoons:

Short Takes:

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!

Bill Maher from 1/29/2021

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 10:18 pm Politics

Jan 292021

Monologue: Frazzledrip

Heather Heying & Bret Weinstein: The Lab Theory

New Rule: The Baldy Awards

Video Thread 1/29/2021

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 3:58 pm Open Thread, Politics

Jan 292021

Meidas Touch – Rubio

The Lincoln Project – “One of the people who organized this is well known for having worked with The Lincoln Project in the past. So – let’s have trial by combat!”

Now This News – AOC on present GOP House caucus

Really American

Puppet Regime

From Twitter (The 11th hour) No CC and I hate to spolt the punch line – I’ll email you, Nameless.

Give Brian Williams and his producers at the @11thHour an Emmy….🤣💀 pic.twitter.com/36FjWPqAyI

— Icculus The Brave (@FirenzeMike) January 29, 2021

Beau on Biden and national security. It’s related to controlling the conversation (remember from the Alt-Right playbook a few days ago?)

Video Thread 1/28/2021

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 3:17 pm Open Thread, Politics

Jan 282021

Meidas Touch

Really American – The one I posted yesterday had no CC when I posted it. I went back later in the evening to get a transcript, and then it did have CC. So my advice on this one is to wait 6 or so hours and then view it on YouTube.

Now This News – the GameStop affair – explained simply

Robert Reich – very short and very accurate.

Mrs. Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian

A Philip Markle parody

Beau on how the impeachment trial “should” go. He makes excellent points. ACCOUNTABILITY

Keith from Tuesday

Samantha Bee from 1/27/2021

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 11:22 pm Politics

Jan 272021

Vaccinating America: Biden Cleans Up Trump’s Mess

Here’s Why Giuliani Needs To Be Disbarred

Space Force’s Greatest Hits

F*ck The Pandas: Ugly Animals Deserve Your Attention Too

That link is SamanthaBee.com/TakeAction. It’s real, all right. But Google won’t find it for you, and I assume other search engines won’t either, so if yu want the calendar, take note.

Video Thread 1/27/2021

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 4:18 pm Open Thread, Politics

Jan 272021

Yes, this is 53+ minutes. Bookmark it to watch when you have time. It is the PBS Frontline documentary “American Carnage” about the Trump** regime and how it ultimately led to the insurrection. No, Ken Burns didn’t make it, but the Frontline team is that good too.

Meidas Touch

Now This News – Holocaust Remembrance Day (possible trigger)

Really American “The Eunuchs” – limited CC, I’ll try to get a transcript

Savage Attack – by kitten – on Golden retriever. (no dialog)

Beau on Climate Change – and Yesterday’s Drew video is pertinent here – (“invest in the American Death Machine!”)

Video Thread 1/26/2021

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 3:46 pm Open Thread, Politics

Jan 262021

Meidas Touch – (Debra Messing also wants Trump** in prison, BTW)

Now This news – All is not well even though Trump** is out of office.

Really American – Marjorie Taylor Greene

The Alt-Right Playbook – Control the Conversation

Drew from WellRED

Beau on Bernie and the budget.

Beau on impeachment procedures (ACCOUNTABILITY)

Video Thread 1/25/2021

Posted by Joanne Dixon at 2:47 pm Open Thread, Politics

Jan 252021

Meidas Touch has been featuring Beto on their podcasts lately. This is an excerpt

Now This News – Biden, Seamus Heaney, and “Phloctetes”

VoteVets makes me very proud with this ad. (I fear they will get a lot of pushback, and they know it, but it’s the right thing to do.)

Budweiser
Over the past year, we’ve seen America’s collective resilience. We’ve seen everyday people turn isolation into connection, and strength into hope. We made our new Super Bowl ad – “Bigger Picture” narrated by Rashida Jones – to champion those stories and honor the ordinary people of America doing extraordinary things.

Has anyone else ever looked at “Bad Lip Reading” videos? IMO they’re not uniformly good … but this one is hilarious.

Beau on what intelligence people and agencies need – and don’t need.

Possibly the least obvious, most misunderstood civil rights song ever.

Lyrics: “Blackbird singing in the dead of night/Take these broken wings and learn to fly./All your life you were only waiting for this moment to arise./Blackbird singing in the dead of night/Take these sunken eyes and learn to see/All your life you were only waiting for this moment to be free.||:Blackbird, fly:||”

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