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Day 801 Monday March 18, 2019
595 Days to the 2020 election and 673 Days to Inauguration Day
Lots of little disturbing things, little things, but disturbing none the less.
Fox News – yes, disturbing, but even more disturbing is 19% of people in this country get their news from Fox, which I wouldn’t mind if they were in the business of news, but they are not.
Fox leads the pack by a lot. NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN are all down in single digits, mid-range single digits. More disturbing than that is none of the Dems, except Eric Swalwell, go on Fox regularly. I’d like to see Omar and AOC go on there. I wonder if Tucker Carlson or Jeanine Pirro’s head would explode? You know when faced with facts and the women they’ve been lambasting and making insulting remarks about. It’s one thing to do it behind someone’s back; it’s another to do it to their face. As Trevor Noah said recently after going to an NBA game. He said he was used to yelling at the TV. He only did that once during the game and the ref turned to look at him with a “What did you say?” look. Yeah. It’s different.
In other disturbing tidbits there was the mass shooting in New Zealand. Terrible. Amazingly, right after that shooting their PM got on the airwaves and said that their gun laws were going to change. What? One mass shooting and they conclude that the gun laws have to change? Also, in Newtown the parents are suing Remington and the trial is set to go forward. Even though W signed a bill saying you can’t sue gun manufacturers just because their product kills people. What’s next? Hold the Sanger family responsible for their creating the opioid crisis in this country? Or the big pharma company that helped distribute the drugs?
Listen, if you believe in capitalism you gotta let a person make a buck. That’s tantamount, and – dare I say it? Trumps (get it? “Trumps”? Ha ha ha, I’m a riot.) everything else. I mean if you let government interfere that would be socialism wouldn’t it? and that’s bad. Right? Am I right? No one should have the right to tell me I can’t take pills, carry a gun and shoot people. That would be interfering with my right fuck people up.
And speaking with interfering with people’s rights, how about that guy, who is a government official, who is forcing children who have been raped to have their rapist’s babies? Who elected him god? God’s will? No, his will.
Hopefully, Australia will ban eggs. That after a kid, now known as “Egg Boy”, smacked one on the head of some idiot right wing Aussie politician trying to side with the shooter in New Zealand. He joins the hallowed halls of video fame along with “Wouldn’t You Like to Know Weather Boy,” and “I like turtles.” (cut and paste those lines in google and watch the vids.)
Hey, a big shout out to Donald Trump for promoting world wide white nationalist terrorism. Good job Donald. Yes, the shooter in NZ credited the Donald. Naturally, Donald being the shy retiring guy he is didn’t take credit. In a ploy of reverse psychology he said it was “terrible” and “very sad.” The shooter said he had acted to stop the “invaders” from coming into his country. Right after Donald made his remarks about the shooter he picked up a pen and signed a document which he said would help stop “invaders” from coming to our country. Hey, I see a similarity in the words that Donald used and the NZ shooter used, and what the right wing politicians in Europe use and the neo-Nazis use, and the right wing talk show hosts, like Tucker Carlson use.
I wonder, “Is there a connection?” Well shucks I dunno, according to David Brock who wrote this when Kavanaugh was getting confirmed:
Call it Kavanaugh’s cabal: There was his colleague on the Starr investigation, Alex Azar, now the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Mark Paoletta is now chief counsel to Vice President Mike Pence; House anti-Clinton gumshoe Barbara Comstock is now a Republican member of Congress. Future Fox News personalities Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson were there with Ann Coulter, now a best-selling author, and internet provocateur Matt Drudge.
From and article found in its entirety here:
So gee, all these right wing types know each other, have known each other for decades, and partied together. How does Brock, the founder of Media Matters know this? They partied at his DC row house.
David Duke and the head of the big Nazi website call Carlson their guy. Carlson has been saying racist stuff for decades. In fact, it got him kicked off two channels so far.
I’m not sure but I think Fox has had to apologize for his comments. I know they apologized for Pirro’s comments about Omar. Somehow, linking Omar to terrorists because she wears a hijab was a bridge too far for Fox.
The there is the uproar over Omar, and after hearing what she said I’m surprised that anyone took any action for this woman as a Congressional representative doing her job. Oh? What? She thought speaking her mind – like Carlson and Pirro do regularly – was part of her job as a Congressional representative? That actually bringing up issues that need to be discussed and voters should be aware of was important? I mean what would a refugee from Ethiopia know about the problems in the Middle East? Maybe give us a fresh perspective, or remind us of an old one that we had forgotten? Naw. Jeanine and Tucker know best. 19% of the country listens to their blatant racist, misogynistic, religious bigotry every day and we’ve got one guy who is going over to say, “hold on a second.”
What’s wrong with that picture?
So in really really important news Sofia Vergara’s husband told the story of how he knew “she was the one.”
If you don’t know who Sofia Vergara is – nevermind.
Joe Manganiello, Sofia’s husband, had been on the cover of People magazine as the world’s most eligible bachelor. (I guess he’s good looking, rich, and famous. I don’t know. Never heard of him.) He’s on his second date with SV. He knows she just got out of a long term relationship. He brings her the mag and says, Hey, I know you just got out of a long term relationship so if you don’t want to get too serious right away, I understand but I thought you might want to see this.
He hands her the magazine. She sees he’s on the cover – most eligible bachelor – she flips past his article. He asks what are you doing? You skipped over my article.
She replied, “I wanted to see who else was on the list.”
Meanwhile, I have to go to my niece’s wedding in New Orleans this Saturday and there’s a problem. I don’t get to say this often. (Well, I might say it often but never truthfully – until NOW!)
My jet is in the shop.
Yup. It’s true. All set to go and South West texted to say our flight was cancelled. Some quick noodling around revealed they fly the grounded jet. We were able to rebook. Now it only take nine and a half hours to fly back from NOLA to DC (via Texas and Colorado.) If you want to run out to the airport and wave let me know.
595 Days to the 2020 election and 673 Days to Inauguration Day
PS After a sess rock climbing I take the nephew to Hooters for green beer and wings on St. Patty’s day. No green beer! The manager forgot to buy the food coloring. What is this world coming to?
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