The Incredible Shrinking Party
Adrastos on the transformation of the GOP into the POT. Continue reading The Incredible Shrinking Party
Month: August 2018
Friday Catblogging: The Purser
Cats like bags of all types and materials, but Paul Drake is purse obsessed. He’s also big on sticking his head through bag handles. He’s an original. Continue reading Friday Catblogging: The Purser
Stupid Watergate’s Stupid Enemies List
Rachel Maddow opened her show last night with a segment about Nixon’s enemies list and the day John Dean spilled the beans about it. Nixon was a sneaky bastard who had the good sense to keep his enemies list secret. Donald Trump is a fucking moron who has the poor judgment to reveal his enemies list in public. It shouldn’t matter what one thinks of John Brennan or any of the other members of Trump’s enemies list. Trump is attempting to curb the free speech rights of American citizens because they have the temerity to oppose Trumpberius’ inept attempts to bring … Continue reading Stupid Watergate’s Stupid Enemies List
Aretha Franklin, R.I.P.
I grew up listening to soul music. I even remember preachers complaining about its mix of the sacred and profane aka gospel and blues. The greatest soul singer of them all was a preacher’s daughter from Detroit, Aretha Franklin. The … Continue reading Aretha Franklin, R.I.P.
Tweet Of The Day: Fractured Wingnut History Edition
Unlike the Insult Comedian, I don’t watch Fox & Friends. Unlike the people on Fox & Friends, I know something about history: Ainsley Earhardt proudly remembers the time that the United States "defeated communist Japan," proving we are truly a Great country. pic.twitter.com/xFMHWtuQ8v — Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) August 16, 2018 It reminds me of when socialist Germany bombed Pearl Harbor. Hey, at least she knows we won the war. The last word goes to Bluto Blutarsky: https://okeducationtruths.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/germans-pearl-harbor.gif?w=595 Continue reading Tweet Of The Day: Fractured Wingnut History Edition
Pulp Fiction Thursday: The Glitter and the Greed
This book is NOT about the Trump administration but someone should use the title for a book that is. Continue reading Pulp Fiction Thursday: The Glitter and the Greed
Dark Stone Of The Moon Redux
Our old pal, Roger Stone, is back in the news. As usual, it’s not for anything good. Roger the Ratfucker posted, then deleted this ode to the Space Farce and the swastika on Instagram: One would think that someone who … Continue reading Dark Stone Of The Moon Redux
Album Cover Art Wednesday: Honkey Blues
Doug Sahm was a musical force of nature. He was one of the creators of the Austin music scene and one of the most respected musicians to emerge from the 1960’s. His eclecticism prevented him from being a big star. … Continue reading Album Cover Art Wednesday: Honkey Blues
Tuesday Catblogging: Them Idiots
Ada figured out how to open the doors to Mr. A’s office closet and the other night, looking for them, I found them both filed under F for FER CHRISSAKES HOW DID YOU GET IN THERE: A. Continue reading Tuesday Catblogging: Them Idiots
No Excuses
God, THIS: This new racist is cast as sympathetic, an inevitable byproduct of a culture of white supremacy in the South or a remote homogenous life that has left him ill-prepared for this terrifying new world where people speak Spanish sometimes, or where she’s the only white person in the room. They aren’t heroes. But, the Times and the Post tell us, they’re people with compelling backstories that forced them to be like they are. They were raised to it, or maybe they’re just poor. It is paternalistic infantilizing nonsense. Poverty doesn’t make you racist. It’s more that the exhaustion … Continue reading No Excuses
Family Smackdown Day
We all have relatives whose politics we dislike. These family ties have become increasingly strained with the advent of the crude dictator wannabe, Trumpberius aka the Kaiser of Chaos. There seems to be something in the air today that led two men I’d never heard of go after two relatives that we know and loathe. First, Stephen Miller’s uncle Dr. David Glosser wrote a scathing article about his nephew for Politico. It may be the best thing I’ve ever read in that deservedly ridiculed online publication. After detailing their family history, Uncle David let his hypocritical nephew have it: I … Continue reading Family Smackdown Day
The Ego Has Landed: Why Not Me Avenatti 2020?
Adrastos on Why Not Me-ism. Continue reading The Ego Has Landed: Why Not Me Avenatti 2020?
Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with his back – pins and needles edition
Wish me luck folks. Even as you’re reading this, I’m under general anesthesia while they do a thoracic intercostal nerve block to try and kill the horrible back pain I’ve been dealing with since January, when Paul Severe made his famous ambulance ride.
What happened?
All will be revealed below…
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The Center Can’t Hold if You Don’t Know Where It Is
When people say “I’m a centrist” they are basically just jerking off: It is reasonably clear that Bernie Sanders and his distinct movement (joined on the campaign trail by the new Democratic Socialist megastar from New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez), had a rough night on Tuesday, when candidates they had backed in person, Michigan gubernatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed and Kansas congressional aspirant Brent Welder, both lost races many expected them to win, against (respectively) Gretchen Whitmer and Sharice Davids. But were those defeats for “progressivism” or victories for “centrism”? That depends on whom you ask. Yeah, because we’ve somehow defined “centrist” to mean … Continue reading The Center Can’t Hold if You Don’t Know Where It Is
Saturday Odds & Sods: The Calling
Summer colds are the worst. I’ve been laid low by one. Achoo. My nose looks as if it belongs to Rudolph and I sound like Froggy in The Little Rascals. Shorter Adrastos: I’m going to keep this introduction concise lest writing it winds me. Hopefully, the rest of the post will make sense: I’m blogging hurt. Make that wheezy. Jeez, that sounds like an episode of The Jeffersons.
This week’s theme song is the stirring album opener from 1994’s Talk by Yes. Like many other fans, I call the Trevor Rabin-era band, Yes West. They moved their base of operation to Southern California in the 1980’s, and had a different sound than classic Yes; pop-prog as opposed to pure prog. Hence Yes West. The Calling was written by Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, and Chris Squire and it rocks like crazy.
We have two versions for your entertainment. First, a video featuring a goofy cosmic introduction by Jon Anderson. Second, a live version from the Talk tour that commences with an instrumental Perpetual Change.
While we’re on the subject of Yes, the featured image is Roger Dean’s cover of Tales from Topographic Oceans without the lettering.
Now that I’ve gone all art rocky on your asses, let’s jump to the break.
Friday Catblogging: Loose Screw
This week’s entry features a big ass Allen screw in the foreground of the picture. It came to us via Eddie Couvillion, the man I post about every Memorial Day. He was a salesman for Allen back in the day … Continue reading Friday Catblogging: Loose Screw
Judge Ellis Is Not Sui Generis
The MSM is gobsmacked by TS Ellis, the judge in the Manafort case. The political reporters among them are convinced that he’s one-of-a-kind and that federal judges are Olympian figures who don’t say things like this: “I am a Caesar in my own Rome,” he said at one point, discussing why he refused to allow defendants to plead no contest instead of guilty. “It’s a pretty small Rome,” he added. What Judges like Ellis do is bring the Socratic Method to the courtroom. He just happens to be a bit stricter and considerably funnier than most judges. He’s not sui … Continue reading Judge Ellis Is Not Sui Generis
Pulp Fiction Thursday: The Last Hurrah
The Last Hurrah is the story of Frank Skeffington an Irish pol based on Massachusetts legend, James Michael Curley. It’s about his last campaign, which took place in the teevee era thereby dooming a dinosaur like Skeffington. It was made … Continue reading Pulp Fiction Thursday: The Last Hurrah
GOP SCOTUS SOP
I really hadn’t planned a sequel to Monday’s GOP SOP post but it’s time for another acronym fest. The GOP SCOTUS SOP is what could be called the “nice guy narrative.” We’ve seen it many times over the years as … Continue reading GOP SCOTUS SOP
There Is ONLY ONE Q
My colleague Tommy T wrote extensively the other day about the low IQ Q conspiracy. It’s a new one on me. I can’t keep up with all the tin foil hatters on the extreme right so I let Tommy do … Continue reading There Is ONLY ONE Q
Not Everything Sucks: Hey Luc At Me Now
Since so much bad shit happens on the tweeter tube, I reckoned I should share some rare good news about everyone’s favorite French Star Fleet Captain with a Yorkshire accent: All you need to know as @SirPatStew gets ready to … Continue reading Not Everything Sucks: Hey Luc At Me Now
Album Cover Art Wednesday: Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get
The Dramatics are an anomalous soul group for their time and place. They came out of Detroit but had to go to Memphis based Volt records to hit it big. The title track of this 1971 album put them over … Continue reading Album Cover Art Wednesday: Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get
The One Constant of the Trump Administration
Is that they are all very bad at doing crimes: Over several months, in speaking with 21 people who know Ross, Forbes uncovered a pattern: many of those who worked directly with him claim that Ross wrongly siphoned or outright stole a few million here and a few million there, huge amounts for most but not necessarily for the commerce secretary. At least if you consider them individually. But all told, these allegations—which sparked lawsuits, reimbursements, and an S.E.C. fine—come to more than $120 million. If even half of the accusations are legitimate, the current United States secretary of commerce could rank … Continue reading The One Constant of the Trump Administration
Want to Save Journalism? Do It Yourselves.
For serious, nobody’s gonna save you: Even before it was officially announced, The Daily Memphian had become an open secret within an increasingly small coterie of Memphis print journalists. For the first time in years, high profile reporters were leaving the Commercial Appeal, not because of layoffs, which had become semi-regular events at the Gannett-owned paper. They were just walking away: food writer Jennifer Biggs, sports columnist Geoff Calkins, popular blogger Chris Herrington. Others followed; the mystery of their departures a source of growing speculation. They left for a new web-based newsroom now being built from scratch by a nonprofit funded by philanthropists, … Continue reading Want to Save Journalism? Do It Yourselves.
GOP SOP
It’s human nature to want to think the best of people. Hell, even I give *most* people the benefit of the doubt, and I was first called a curmudgeon in my teens. But I don’t think this presumption should be extended to Republican politicians and anyone with the last name Trump. Since the president* is on “holiday” at his golf club in Jersey, he’s had an itchy twitter finger. He’s made several admissions against legal interest and also slammed two high-profile African-American gents: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1025586524782559232 I thought the Kaiser of Chaos never watched “fake news” CNN. Guess he’s lying about that. … Continue reading GOP SOP
Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – It’s the New Q Review!
Take it away, Pepe The Frog!!
(Sarah Huckabee Hippo’s got some moves, don’t she?)
Well, I saw CNN’s “How a right-wing conspiracy theory is going mainstream” article last Thursday morning, I knew I’d better get over to Freeperville tout suite’!
Trump base latches onto ‘Q’ internet conspiracy cult
The Seattle Times ^ | August 2, 2018 | Marc Fisher and Isaac Stanley-BeckerPosted on 8/2/2018, 11:37:19 PM by 2ndDivisionVet
Energized by the internet persona Q’s complex web of conspiracy notions about the forces aligned against President Donald Trump, Q’s followers have spread virally online and now, in real life too, forming a movement known as QAnon.
From somewhere in the vast and mysterious “deep state,” a dissident agent rises up to give the people cryptic clues about how their heroic president will push back the forces of evil and make America great again. The renegade informant is known only as “Q,” and if he actually exists, it’s not as a character in a movie, but somewhere in the Washington, D.C., bureaucracy.
Energized by Q’s complex web of conspiracy notions about the forces aligned against President Donald Trump, Q’s followers have spread virally online and now, in real life too, forming a movement known as QAnon that is making itself visible at Trump’s rallies and other public gatherings.
QAnon is the latest in a string of conspiracy ideas that take hold of the public’s imagination in times of social stress and technological change. And QAnon is something new, a leaderless popular movement made up of people who believe in no one and therefore are willing to believe almost anything.
To believers, Q is a pseudonym for a well-placed U.S. government agent who is posting online distress messages and bits of intel, known as “breadcrumbs,” in an effort to save the country — and Trump — from hostile forces within the government. Q’s missives started appearing last October on 4chan, the mostly anonymous website where fringe ideas incubate and blossom….
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How did you think the media was going to cover this once they were forced to?
First post :
To: 2ndDivisionVet
No, I’m Spartacus!
Second post :
To: 2ndDivisionVetAs I’ve written before, this crackpot conspiracy BS is going to bite people. I won’t be surprised if it doesn’t turn out to be some kid in his parent’s basement. Or, worse, some Never Trumper or Democrat playing people. Either way, anonymous sources and authors is bad news and often lead to bad results: Fake News.
3 posted on 8/2/2018, 11:44:10 PM by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
Was that as good for you as it was for me?
To: 2ndDivisionVet
To: Reno89519
Sorry, I vehemently disagree. I believe Q is military intelligence preparing America for some bad s—t.
11 posted on 8/3/2018, 12:03:47 AM by Extremely Extreme Extremist (GOAT POTUS TRUMP)
I think America is already aware that there’s a sociopathic moron with his finger on the nuclear trigger, thank you very much.
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Military intelligence? In one of its first droppings
Heh.
it said Hillary would be arrested at a certain time and date. It never happened. That’s a source?
38 posted on 8/3/2018, 12:58:36 AM by JonPreston
To: Extremely Extreme ExtremistThen Q needs to speak clearly, or not speak at all. This indecipherable crap just makes us look like lunatics for paying attention to it
14 posted on 8/3/2018, 12:09:07 AM by j.havenfarm ( 1,000 Posts as of 8/11/17! Still not shutting up after all these years!)
You say that like it’s a BAD thing.
To: 2ndDivisionVet“How did you think the media was going to cover this once they were forced to?”Pretty much like this, but perhaps with a false flag attempt or two involving “Q” shirt wearing perps thrown in, to bolster the coordinated “stupid, crazy, violent, dangerous” narrative.
When that doesn’t set us all against each other,
More Q-y chewy goodness at the “read more”…
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Happy Birthday Adrastos!
Adrastos is a relentlessly kind and generous human being who is a great blog partner. And it’s his BIRFDAY so we wish him a happy one! A. Continue reading Happy Birthday Adrastos!
This Isn’t About Manners
Bruni interviews a Republican governor in a blue state (Maryland) and listens to him talk about how he doesn’t really feel the need to speak out about anything Trump does other than, you know, the whole “tweeting” thing: You said, regarding Trump, “I don’t want anything to do with this.” Anything to do with what? He wasn’t the type of guy who I thought should be president. I didn’t like the tone during the campaign. There were a lot of people running, and I didn’t think he was the most qualified. I didn’t think he was going to win, either. I’ll … Continue reading This Isn’t About Manners
Sunday Catblogging: And Thank You!
You all were amazing with the fundraiser this week, have some Slade toesies. Every year we try to raise what we need to pay our hosting fees, whatever wear and tear there is on our laptops, sometimes a project or two, and every year I think well, this is it, they’re all gonna tell me to fuck off and they don’t care anymore and it’s time to shut this pop stand down and go do whatever it is people do when they’re not glued to the news. And every year, every ask, every project, you all come right through. For … Continue reading Sunday Catblogging: And Thank You!
Sunday Morning Video: The Doors Live At The Hollywood Bowl
Doors week continues with this 1968 concert. The good news is that Jim Morrison neither exposes himself nor gets arrested. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: The Doors Live At The Hollywood Bowl