Sunday, May 1, 2022
We watched the SNL rerun from January that featured the woman who is staring in West Side Story currently on Broadway. Just as it went off we caught President Joe Biden at the Correspondence Dinner and then Trevor Noah. Both were really good. Before that we watched the latest American Song Contest.
I gotta hand it to Snoop for the quote of the week, talking about the writers for the show. It went something like this, “You all make it so easy for me. I haven’t had this much fun reading since the third grade.”
And Joe? We caught him just as he said, “We had three really bad years, then we had the pandemic.”
He also pointed out that Fox News folks were there, and they were all double-vaxed and boosted.
Trevor? Wow. He walked right up to the line, many times and then jumped back. but his best was (and I paraphrase), “Fox News is like Waffle House. Everything is fine during the day. Then the sun goes down and things get weird.”
This week there were many memorable moments in cowardice and treason:
Rand Paul advocating that we shouldn’t help Ukraine because it was part of the old Soviet Union and Putin should be allowed to do what he likes there.
Don Jr saying Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the world and we shouldn’t give it money.
(He seems to forget that it was Putin who was responsible for keeping it corrupt and his dad who tried to corrupt it more.)
And the MTG (Marjorie Taylor-Greene) who has the worst memory in the world or is a terrible liar – maybe both. She can’t recall whether she told the President of the United States to impose Marshall Law to overthrow the government. Just, slipped her mind. Huh. Weird. (Yes, it should have been ‘Martial’ but that’s not what she wrote.)
Kevin McCarthy is caught on tape actually speaking the truth and admitting what needs to be done. Then like so many Republicans he wusses out.
Ron DeSantis pushes a bill through the Florida legislature that repeals Disney’s special status because DeSantis doesn’t like their standing up for people who aren’t like him. The Gov didn’t realize that he was causing the state government to pick up a one billion dollar tab. In fairness, he did realize he was causing a $136 million tax increase, but when you throw in the one billion it makes it the largest tax increase in Florida history. This is what Republican conservatism looks like today.
Elon Musk’s bid for Twitter may be in trouble, and if it falls through it may cost him one billion dollars, which would finally make Twitter profitable. Currently, Twitter appears to be profitable because part of the compensation employees get is stock and the accountants can claim the rise in stock as profit to the tune of $630M. Take that out and the company is in the tubes. If Musk’s deal goes through then he has to figure how to pay those folks. Tesla stock got pummeled, which means he’ll need to throw more in the pot to make the deal work, etc. etc. etc. Yikes.
Kids may soon get a vaccine from Moderna. So their stock went down on the news. What is wrong here?
I don’t get it.
Ah me.
Well, that’s it boys and girls.
Wait. The summer entertainment – The Jan 6th Committee public hearings will begin June 6th. You know what I love about this? All those law and order types who believe the election was stolen, etc. Will watch their heroes be pummeled by facts and truth. Well, I hope. I also hoped the Mueller investigation would do the same.
And then there’s that wheelchair Congressman from North Carolina talking about Cocaine fueled sex parties that the Republican politicians are having. What? Chuck Grassley maybe? Oh, no MTG’s sidekick, the one who looks like Butthead. How come he hasn’t been charged with sex crimes?
Speaking of sex crimes a member of Parliament resigned after being caught looking at porn while sitting in the House of Commons. He claimed the first time he was looking for tractors, but the second time he did it. Wait, what do you put into Google looking for tractors that turns up a porn site? I can’t think of the right terms to enter or the website to misspell to do that. If it was Dick’s Sporting Goods okay. I get it. But tractors? Wait. Maybe you put in “Dear” instead of “Deere”. Like Green twitted “Marshall Law” instead of “Martial Law.” Big sale on law and order, maybe?
The fundamental thing that is going on in this country is an all out attempt to overthrow our government from the inside. The tactics are right out of Stalin and Hitler. Heck, so are the words.
The Republicans are trying to claim the Dems have moved to the left, while ignoring, as one pundit put it, comparing the political landscape to a map of the U.S. that they have left the country while the Dems have moved a bit from the center, maybe.
Or as Rob Reiner twitted, “You’re Not Voting Republican, You’re Voting For Autocracy.”
And that is the fundamental issue. Will you help preserve our democracy? It’s that simple.
In the final stages of preparation for my trip to Angkor Wat. Here I am in 2015 with an old friend – the multi-headed Naga.
I finally broke ties with one of my sisters. She claimed that there are microchips in the vaccine. She and her fascist husband moved to a tiny town on the way to Portland. She is volunteering at the local church. At one time she suggested we would be be off with an autocracy. I almost turned around in the car to deck her. As of now I only have one sister out of four left. I just don’t understand how people can think like this. No microchip will fit in a small bore needle that is used for intra muscle vaccines. Now a microchip could be inserted under the skin like they do with dogs and cats but it is not in the vaccine. I went on to tell her that her phone transmits more information than any old microchip would. I sent her an article. She replied, tersely, “thank you.” We need Democratic rallies.