Post by M Kfivethousandi have to relearn how to watch the news and the new terms they are using
I was up at six listened to a little news and fell back asleep
What part i caught was Trump's usual list of aggrandizements like any rally
Thin cheers at each nutty claim
Feel I probably caught too much missed nothing
All he had to do wAs any rally vid on screen and pretend like it was live
He did sound teary
They did say he did not use a teleprompter
mk5000
One time, M.O.P. (Oh, oh, oh, oh)
Two times, uh, Bumpy Knuckles (Oh, oh, oh, oh)
Now the world is in trouble, come on (Oh, oh)
Yo, you're number one on the charts! (You're a masquerade!)--"Masquerade" lyrics
Wyclef Jean
think this is from esquire
This Would Be a Neat Epitaph for the Entire Trump Era
A shadowy LLC through which the campaign allegedly funneled hundreds of
millions, run by a Trump family member?
By Charles P. Pierce
Dec 18, 2020
(Permanent Musical Accompaniment To The Last Post Of The Week From The
Blog's Favourite Living Canadian)
Lindsey Graham is absolutely right. We need a special prosecutor to look
into the families of the politically famous. From the New York Times:
Lara Trump, President Trump’s daughter-in-law and a senior campaign
adviser, served on the board of a limited liability company through which
the Trump political operation has spent more than $700 million since 2019,
according to documents reviewed by The New York Times. She was also named
on drafts of the company’s incorporation papers...The president has spent
millions of campaign dollars on his own family businesses in the last five
years. But the newly disclosed records show an even more intricate
intermingling of Mr. Trump’s political and familial interests than was
previously known.
If there's a hot stove in the White House, I'd put an armed group of U.S.
Marshals around it until this family of brigands clears out. And the
family Pence makes an appearance in the middle of this scam.
One of the other board members and signatories in the draft papers of
the L.L.C., American Made Media Consultants, was John Pence, the nephew of
Vice President Mike Pence and a senior Trump adviser. The L.L.C. has been
criticized for purposefully obscuring the ultimate destination of hundreds
of millions of dollars of spending...A spokesman for the president, Tim
Murtaugh, said that neither Ms. Trump nor Mr. Pence were compensated by
American Made Media Consultants for their service as board members.
That's a nice little epitaph for this whole plague-ridden era, and this
greed-soaked family that is god's everlasting curse on us for our apathy
and disengagement from the obligations of self-government. To paraphrase
Jon Ossoff, it's not just that they're crooks, it's that they're such
cheap and obvious crooks. And they've found a universe of sheep to fleece,
over and over again. Put a piggy bank in front of these people and they'll
fight over the hammer.
If the absurd pantomime of a Senate hearing over which Senator Ron (Shreds
of Freedom) Johnson presided this week didn't mark him as that body's
preeminent blockhead, then certainly his performance on Friday did. He
will hold this title until Tommy Tuberville joins the Senate in January.
Then we'll have a battle for the ages. From The Hill:
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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) tried to get consent, which requires the
cooperation of every senator, to pass his bill that would provide $1,200
for individuals who make up to $75,000 — the exact same language that
Congress passed as part of the CARES Act in March. But Johnson objected.
Under the Senate's rules any one senator can request to pass a bill but
any other senator can object and block it. "I completely support some kind
of program targeted for small businesses. ... So what I fear we're going
to do with this bipartisan package and what the senator from Missouri is
talking about is the same thing, is a shotgun approach."
Look, I believe Hawley's whole "conservative populist" shtick is a shuck,
but dammit, he's right here. (Hell, if the Washington Post is to be
believed, the president* is on the right side of this issue.) And to have
Ron Johnson, the living embodiment of the fact that you don't have to be
smart to be rich, stiffing millions of terrified working people is to call
the whole idea of representative government into question. Of course,
Johnson is also doing great favors for Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock
down in Georgia, so there's that.
President Donald Trump is still trying to advance “patriotic
education,” announcing 33 days before his departure from office his intent
to appoint members of a 1776 Commission...Along with Arnn, others to be
appointed to the 18-member panel include activist Charlie Kirk, who
founded the conservative campus group Turning Point USA; Mississippi Gov.
Phil Bryant, who has declared his state “Trump Country;” Silicon Valley
CEO and Trump fundraiser Scott McNealy; Brooke Rollins, Trump’s domestic
policy adviser; and Mike Gonzalez, a Heritage Foundation senior fellow.
Not to be harsh, but if one of President Biden's first acts isn't to
completely dissolve this festival for the otherwise unemployable, I may
demand his immediate impeachment. Charlie Kirk overseeing education? I'd
rather take lessons from a chicken.
Weekly WWOZ Pick To Click: "Saturday Night Before Christmas" (Smokey
Greenwell): Yeah, I still pretty much love New Orleans.
Weekly Visit To The Pathe Archives: Speaking of sedition—and somebody,
somewhere was, I'm sure—here's General Edwin Walker, who would've fit
right into this president*'s cabinet, coming home to Dallas after
committing sedition at the University of Mississippi in 1962. If you get a
minute, google Walker. He was a real prize, that one, and Lee Harvey
Oswald supposedly took a potshot at him before Dealey Plaza, although the
evidence there is seriously murky. He also was the model for General Jack
D. Ripper in Dr. Strangelove. This may be the only positive contribution
he ever made to society, especially since he later turned out to be a bad
fella, indeed.
From The Sports Page: On Saturday, Mayo will play the insufferable Dubs in
the GAA All-Ireland Irish football final. This is a particularly resonant
All Ireland since this marks the 100th year of Bloody Sunday, when British
auxiliaries and Royal Irish Constabulary officers opened fire at a
football match in Croke Park. My rooting interest died in the Munster
final when Kerry went down on a freakish last-second goal. But Mayo hasn't
won this thing since 1951, and they're playing the Dubs, so that's where
my heart is this weekend.
Is it a good day for dinosaur news, Reuters? It's always a good day for
dinosaur news!
This dinosaur, called Ubirajara jubatus, possessed a mane of hair-like
structures while also boasting two utterly unique, stiff, ribbon-like
features probably made of keratin - the same substance that makes up hair
and fingernails - protruding from its shoulders. “There are plenty of
other strange dinosaurs, but this one is unlike any of them,” said
paleobiology professor David Martill of the University of Portsmouth in
England, who helped lead the study published in the journal Cretaceous
Research.
You have to love any dinosaur weird enough to freak out scientists 110
million years later. Lord, I am happy now that Ubirajara lived back then.
I'll be back on Monday with whatever happens next. Be well and play nice,
ya bastids. Stay above the snake line, wear the damn mask, and if they
want to give you the vaccine, for the love of god, take it.