Video Thread 10/17/2020

 Posted by at 2:06 pm  Open Thread, Politics
Oct 172020
 


These two tweets from the Biden campaign are both adorable, in diferent ways.

Meidas Touch

From America’s Voice

Sound and Fury for the Democratic Coalition (from Thursday)

Beau on Amy Wild Hare Barrett

Beau on the soggy laptop. Link to his prior video

SCOTUS petitions update
Daily Kos 

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Video Thread 10/11/2020

 Posted by at 2:47 pm  Open Thread, Politics
Oct 112020
 


The Deomcratic Coaliton

I would say the black mayors in this Joe Boden ad are really singing my song – but the truth is, it is I who try to sing theirs as loudly as I can.

An object lesson in comparing and contrasting.

Now This News – The flannel moth caterpillar is finally going viral (no CC because no sound). If you actually see one of these, don’t touch it – their defense mechanism is a chemical which causes skin irritation.

Glad Beau is addressing this, though it’s only one form of topsy-turvydom which is modern Republicanism. I would say, instead of “the Constitution failed,” I would say “we failed our Constitution” when imbalance happens … as it has and will again.

Supreme Court petition updates
Daily Kos (Immigration)

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Open Thread – 10/11/2020

 Posted by at 11:29 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Oct 112020
 

It’s still a tired day here in the CatBox, even though I feel much better after some much needed rest.  I had an egg burrito for breakfast with apple juice and yogurt.  Today is also a Holy Day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.  I’ll be on light-meditation, as my Broncos have a bye week.  Tomorrow please expect no more than a Personal  Update.  It’s a morning WWWendy Day, complete with TomCat de-stinking and semi-gooping.  Have a fine Sunday.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me  4:26 (average 5:51).  To do click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Republicans suck Koch, dead or alive!

Trump* Virus Update:

1011TrumpVirusMap

Click for several interactive maps and charts

US Cases: 7,947,549
US Deaths: 219,296
Plus all the Trump*/GOP murders Republicans are hiding from us

Short Takes:

From Alternet: On Friday night, Republican South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham debated his Democratic challenger Jamie Harrison virtually because Graham refused to submit to a COVID-19 test.

As a result, both Graham and Harrison were separately asked debate questions. And on a question about whether he’d met with leaders of the Black Lives Matter Movement, Graham said in part, “I care about everybody. If you’re a young African-American, an immigrant, you can go anywhere in this state, you just need to be conservative, not liberal.”

The context of Graham’s horrid sound bite was that anyone can have a safe and secure political career in the state regardless of skin color as long as they’re conservative. “You can be an African-American and go to the Senate, you just have to share the values of our state,” he said earlier in his response, but his aforementioned closing line seemed to make the Black female moderator stammer as she moved onto the next question.

Like his Fuhrer, Lindsey Poo just loves those darkies, as long as they hold their porch lamps and call him, “Massa!”  RESIST!!

From YouTube (SNL Channel): VP Fly Debate Cold Open

 

I afraid they lost all credibility when Vise Resident pseudo-sphincter said, “I yield the balance of my time.” Hell! Pence wouldn’t even yield the balance of Kamala’s time to Kamala!  RESIST!!

From From YouTube (just a blast): The Hunts – Start Again

 

I just heard this and liked it.  Protest like the 60s!  RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

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Video Thread 10/10/2020

 Posted by at 2:23 pm  Politics
Oct 102020
 


Lawrence discusses the CNN story you covered, Squatch, on the connection between experimental drugs and abortion.

Meidas Touch – new episode of Quaranteenies

RVAT

Sound and Fury Messaging – Two – both for the Democratic Coalition

The Lincoln Project – Yes, we can see through it, but it’s not aimed at us. It’s aimed at giving ideologues an excuse to leave.

Keith promised us a new vlog every weekday, so we must be in withdrawal till Monday.

Petition in support of Gov. Whitmer

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Open Thread – 10/7/2020

 Posted by at 12:05 pm  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Oct 072020
 

It’s a very tired day, here in the CatBox.  WWWendy and I got home safely last night, after my infusion.  We are scheduling another infusion, which we may cancel.  In around three weeks I’ll have a CAT-Scan or a PET-Scan to judge whether the immunotherapy is working and go from there.  I did research early this morning and took a long nap.  I’m ready to go back to bed.  Tomorrow is a grocery delivery day.  This evening I plan to try to stay up to watch the slaughter.  You guys had better do so too, in case I don’t make it.  Happy Hump Day!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:31 (average 5:29).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

1007TrumpVirusMap

Click for interactive maps and charts

US Cases: 7,726,635
US Deaths: 215,915
Plus all the Trump*/GOP plague murders Republicans are hiding from us

Short Takes:

From The New Yorker: Mike Pence said that he was “extremely grateful” that the organizers of Wednesday night’s Vice-Presidential debate would be providing a plexiglass shield to protect him from a woman.

Speaking to reporters, Pence said that the Commission on Presidential Debates had taken “appropriate measures” to shield him from exposure to a female during the Salt Lake City face-off.

“I’ve read all the relevant literature, and from what I’ve learned a plexiglass shield provides adequate protection from a woman,” he said. “Knowing that this barrier exists between me and a member of the opposite sex, I feel comfortable about moving forward with the debate.”

Dang, Andy! Nothing can protect that lying Nazi pseudo-Christian! Kamala is going to tear Mr. Karen a new sphincter!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): List Of Positive Covid Cases At White House Grows At Alarming Rate

 

I know I don’t need to ask, but who is the super-spreader?  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Pink Floyd – Another Brick In The Wall (HQ)

 

Ah… the memories! We want schools to teach kids HOW to think! Republicans want schools to teach kids WHAT to think! Protest like the 60s!   RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

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Open Thread – 9/14/2020

 Posted by at 11:30 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Sep 142020
 

It’s a busy day, here in the CatBox, and I feel very tired.  I overslept.  The goop experiment I suggested to WWWendy Saturday was a total failure, and the resulting tumor-clog irritated the hell out of my esophagus, so the last two days have been painful.  I thoroughly enjoyed my zoom meeting with my volunteer friends and some of my guys that have been released.  I had a hard time recognizing them in street clothes, as I’ve never seen then in anything but prison blue and orange.  My meeting with Diana was routine. The heat wave is over, and I have 10 days in the 70s and some 60s.  Tonight my Broncos meditate on the Holy Ellipsoid Orb on Monday Night Football.  I shall be in fervent prayer.  Oh God!  It’s Monday!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:42 (average 5:33).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

0914TrumpVirusMap

Click for several interactive maps

US Cases: 6,715,194
US Deaths: 198,614
Plus thousands of Trump’s* plague murder victims Republicans are hiding from us

Short Takes:

From The New Yorker: Questions arose after the P.A. system at a Trump rally in Nevada accidentally blasted excerpts from Bob Woodward’s interviews with the President.

As supporters streamed into the rally, the customary sounds of such classic rock songs as “Fortunate Son” and “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” were supplanted by audio of Trump acknowledging that the coronavirus was far deadlier than a flu.

After Trump was heard revealing the details of a previously secret weapons program, campaign aides frantically disconnected the P.A. system and started scrambling for an explanation.

LOL, Andy! Obviously this didn’t really happen, but just the thought of it happening is sufficient to provoke wet dreams!  RESIST!!

From Crooks and Liars: Fresh on the heels of spreading hoax rumors about “antifa buses” coming to rural towns to create mayhem, right-wing conspiracists eager to spread the narrative about the supposed existential threat posed by black-clad antifascist activists have a hot new fraud for their armies of gullible social-media followers: The forest fires raging along the West Coast from California to Washington are an antifa plot!

The rumors—spread first by far-right activists, then parroted by followers living in areas where the fires are raging—claim that a handful of arrests for arson in unrelated fires are proof that the fires are being coordinated by leftists intending harm to befall rural Trump-supporting regions. “It’s the antifa burning EVERYTHING down!” shrieked one QAnon believer who chimed in on Twitter.

Among the leading spreaders of the false rumors is a right-wing online publication catering to police officers, Law Enforcement Today, which posted an article claiming that the “wildfires on the West Coast may be a ‘coordinated and planned’ attack.”

“Law enforcement throughout the west coast is reportedly being put on alert to look out for ‘opportunists’ and those who may have more sinister motives,” the article claimed. It then went on to list six arson incidents either related to the fires or in their general vicinity, but offered no evidence that they were coordinated in any fashion.

Of course there is no evidence that this is true and ample evidence that lightning strikes ignited the fires. The biggest danger to spreading garbage like this is that it will inspire a few QPoop wing-nuts to light fires and blame them on the left.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast for JD): Luciano Pavarotti sings “Nessun dorma” from Turandot (The Three Tenors in Concert 1994)

 

There is a voice as beautiful as Trump’s* is ugly!  Protest like Pavarotti sings!  RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

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Open Thread – 9/5/2020

 Posted by at 12:10 pm  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Sep 052020
 

It’s a hectic Saturday here in the CatBox.  I got up a half an hour early this morning, so I could get a head start and a longer morning map.  So much for the best laid plans of mice and men…, and far too often, of Puddy Tats.  A hacker must have broken into the Bluehost server and hacked the email PW of the PP admin email account.  I know it could not have come from my computer, because I have never sent email from admin.  Incoming admin email auto-forwards to my tomcat PP email account.  The hacker then set up a SPAM bot to to send Republican propaganda from PP.  It quickly started failing due to our 250/hour sent-email limit, so for each failed piece of SPAM, admin forwarded a mailer-daemon notice to my tomcat account.  I woke up to find over 4,500 notices in my inbox.  I fixed the problem by changing the admin PW, but between figuring that out and cleaning up the mess, it took me over two hours.  Instead of a long nap, I got a very short nap, and I’m still quite a bit late.  If you sent me email that got lost in the mess, please resend it. Tomorrow is a WWWendy in the morning day, so please expect no more than a Personal Update from me.  Please stay safe in holiday traffic.  Have a great weekend.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:35 (average 5:41).  To so it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

0905TrumpVirusMap

US Cases: 6,392,303
US Deaths: 192,168
Plus thousands of GOP plague murder victims Republicans are hiding from us

Short Takes:

From TPM: White supremacists pose the most serious terror threat to the United States, according to a draft report from the Department of Homeland Security.

Three different drafts of the report obtained by Politico characterize the threat from white supremacists as the deadliest domestic terror threat in the United States.

All three documents also report that 2019 was the deadliest year for domestic violent extremists since the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995.

The documents indicate that “lone offenders” and “small cells of individuals” are increasingly joining up with people who share their ideologies and “will pose the primary terrorist threat to the United States.” 

“Among these groups, we assess that white supremacist extremists – who increasingly are networking with likeminded persons abroad – will pose the most persistent and lethal threat,” the report indicates.

Here, we already know that, but far to many don’t. TELL THEM!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (Liberal Redneck Channel): Liberal Redneck – QAnonsense

 

I have to disagree with Trae. Calling Republican QAnon conspiracy believers “dumb shits” is far too insulting to dumb shits.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast of protest): Creedence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son

 

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

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

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Bill Maher from 8/28

 Posted by at 10:22 am  Politics
Aug 292020
 

It’s that time of week again, so here are three good video clips, from Bill’s show last night. Enjoy!

Monologue: American Carnage

 

Three fact checkers taken into concussion protocols? I’m amazed they weren’t taken into funeral homes! Bill painted the convention hypocrisy perfectly. The last time Kimberly had an orgasm, folks thought the fire department was on the way.

Wynton Marsalis: The Ever Fonky Lowdown

 

While some people on both sides think like Wynton and Bill say they do, I tend to disagree. Many on the left are open minded. While far fewer on the right are, because of their identification with authoritarianism, I do know right wing people with whom I can hold respectful conversations in which we agree to disagree.  However I have to admit they are not thrilled with Trump*

New Rule: Think Like a True QAnon

 

I heard on the news this morning that Republicans are exporting QAnon to other countries. That makes the Republican Party an international terrorist organization. I bet a buck that Jo Rae Perkins will NOT defeat Jeff Merkley [D-OR]!

And for once JD gets her dose of culture this weekend, without me bugging her to post this! 😉

RESIST!!

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