Some Fresh Takes

The conservative press (corporate media) is still reluctant to report anything that would seem to treat Kamala Harris & Tim Walz more positively or favorably than Dinky Tinky (SS code name) and Just Dirt (SS code name). MVP and the Democrats are filling arenas to capacity and have received roughly $500,000,000 in campaign donations in a brief time. Dinky Tinky and Just Dirt aren't matching those accomplishments, but they're still in the driver's seat according to corporate media reporting.

There's an unusual amount of encouraging stuff in the alternate media, and I'm posting links that will help me locate it again quickly when my spirits need a lift:

• Kamala Harris has raised $540,000,000 in campaign donations.
• The Waste of Shit seems to have lost his enthusiasm for election campaigning,
• The election is probably not as close as conservative press tells us it is.
• Jack Smith has filed his appeal to reverse The Runt (Judge Loose Cannon).
• Apparently Dinky Tinky's interest in running in 2024 is rooted in his ability to shift loot from his campaign funds to personal use.
• MVP is narrowing Dinky Tinky's leads in Texas and Florida.
• The Republican governor of Georgia apparently wants the authority to remove MAGA Monkeys from the State Election Board (an election security move).
• Kamala Harris leads the Waste of Shit 52% to 45% among likely voters in a national poll produced by right-wingers (Redstate.com).
• It's interesting that MVP is being supported by so many of the remaining Republicans (non-MAGA).
• The most recently updated (improved?) Covid vaccine will be available soon.
• MVP and her campaign will not allow Dinky Tinky to get away with his denial that Project 2025 has anything to do with him. That should mean he loses too many battleground states to win the election, which in turn means he'll face trial on the revised indictment charges in the January 6th election interference case.
  

Sundazed Odds & Ends

I spent fewer hours than usual this week trying to find some positive news on the liberal web pages, and it's been scarce. This morning, I made another dumpster dive and found reports on a few things that caused some smiles:

• The election interference/hush money case in Manhattan is ahead of schedule since the jury selection process has been completed much more rapidly than the media had been predicting. Now that the trial will begin soon, the pressure on Mongo Krappo is apparently extremely intense (which could maybe have an effect on his physical health?)
• It's becoming obvious that Krappo's $175,000,000 appeal bond in the New York financial fraud case is probably bogus. 
• Mike Johnson, the current House Speaker, has been a worthless MAGA Magoo during his tenure in the position, but he's finally done something good: He sent Krappo and suspected Drag Queen Empty Greene (now aka Moscow Marjorie) a hard GFY message by getting $60.8 billion in assistance for Ukraine in one of several important bills passed in the House.
• Mongo Krappo's Save America PAC has been virtually wiped out after it was used to fund about $60,000,000 in legal expenses. Meanwhile Joe is rollin' in dough.

More Mondazed Mindlessness

Every Monday, after the weekend news lull, liberal blogs are full of news updates that are always infuriating, and today's no exception. 

• Republicans in the Senate have been working on a bipartisan border control bill that would resolve a lot of the controversy in Congress, but of course, Demented Dipshit Donald is putting pressure on his House wussy boy, Speaker Mike, to make sure the bill never sees the light of day in the House. The Demented Dipshit rants constantly about how horrible the bill is, but he'll never explain why - because it's a big political win for Joe Biden.
  
• The RNC has significant financial problems, largely because the Demented Dipshit's legal expenses have wiped out millions - but of course, he's putting the blame on Ronna. 
• Franklin Graham is one of the reasons conservative evangelicals make me puke.
•  I regret wasting good money on a book written by JD Vance before he made it to Congress. My wife heard about it on NPR and thought it would be interesting. If I could see the future, I'd have talked her out of it.
• Since worthless talking face Tucker Carlson is now in Moscow where he's happy, the U.S. government should make sure he's required to stay there for at least twenty years (in exiled status as his penalty for spreading Russian propaganda in the United States).
• The Demented Dipshit's Senate wussy boy, Lindsey, may be right that DDD is scary, but he's totally wrong about who's scared of him, and the reasons why.
• Finally, it's bad enough that so many MAGA morons would happily replace traditional American democracy with a fascist dictatorship. What makes things about a million times worse is that they want their fascist dictator to be one of the nastiest, rottenest people ever born,
  

Q NOTES # 784: Mother's Day Mumbling

According to people who've devoted time and effort to studying and documenting Donnie Dump Lump's activities in public life, it's generally understood that everything he touches eventually turns to shit and dies. He got heavily involved with Pootin and Russia, and see what's happening to Russia's invasion of Ukraine (supported by Dump Lump) now.

Speaking of mothers, Moscow Mitch has come just short of promising that if Trumplicans regain the Congressional majority, they'll deliver a national ban on abortion. Even Slick Sammy Alito hasn't pushed the markers that far yet.

SLICK SAMMY ENJOYING HIS MOMENT

Q NOTES # 775: Twenty Questions, Part IV

Ninth question: Why does that foxy Jen Psaki insist on making life boring for many so-called journalists in the White House media pool? A better question is why media organizations aren't hiring journalists who are willing and able to do the necessary work, to replace thumb twiddlers who preferred the 2017-2020 clown carnival.

If the public hearings planned by the House 1/6 committee attract the level of interest the Senate Watergate hearings did, my outlook on life will improve immediately. 

Politicus USA revisits some of the lowlights of Donnie Dump's tenure in the White House, in case we needed a reminder of the close call we managed to survive. It's bad enough that a maniac was in charge of the country for four years, and it's worse to realize that so many people who thought it was wonderful are still allowed to live here and vote.

According to the dictionary, the words dago and wop are offensive terms used to insult people of Italian descent. Since both words are offensive, I won't ever use either to refer to any Trumplican politicians in the news, no matter how much they deserve to be insulted.

The Dept of Homeland Security is preparing to go to war against Russian disinformation, in a manner of speaking. Tenth question: Why does this have Trumplican bowels in an uproar?

Added 6:00 PM Sunday 5/1: After her visit to Ukraine, there's no doubt that Madam Speaker is a badass compared to a wussy boy like Donnie Dump.

Q NOTES # 759: Big Plans

Trumplicans typically try to sweep elections based strictly on the basis of everything they OPPOSE, but occasionally they make the mistake of revealing things they SUPPORT, and the stuff they intend to do is really horrible. Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, who looks like something created in a mad scientist's laboratory, has submitted the Trumplican blueprint for America's future. It has the appearance of an unexpected gift to the Democratic Party for the November election and beyond.

He has a vision. You'll hate him for it.

The usefulness of so-called corporate media is shrinking daily, since the way they cover the news allows worthless political hacks like Greg Abutt to keep screwing things up.

Q NOTES # 739: Outrageous Behavior

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg needs to explain to America why he's chosen not to prosecute Donald Dump for committing felonies. Then we need to determine if there's another jurisdiction that can resume the investigation.

On the subject of felonies, Clarence's old lady, Ginni Thomas, is back in the news again. She's involved in the attempted coup, and Clarence should be removed from the Court. 

Update Friday 11:48 AM: Crooks & Liars has more on Clarence and his old lady, their corruption, and the repeated failures of our national news journalists. 

Don Vaselini obviously believes he can make his legal woes vanish by filing another frivolous lawsuit, this time against Hillary Clinton. 

More from Daily Kos: Clarence and Ginni are links in the chain in the attempted 1/6 coup, and this should be the most interesting story in the news for a few weeks. Ginni needs to be locked up, and Clarence should retire for health reasons.

Q NOTES # 731: Hip Hip Hooray, Hypocrites

Their names are not as well-known as Empty Greene's and Bim Boebert's, but Elise Stefanik and Steve Scalise are just as rotten as any of the worst TrumpunKKKs in Congress. Considering the leaders of their party, Vladimir Pootin and Donald Pukepuddle, are enemies of Ukraine, and most Americans consider enemies of Ukraine to be enemies of the United States, the only option for worthless vermin like Stefanik and Scalise is to blame Ukraine's problems on Joe.

Some asshole named Peter Schiff needs to find a serious problem to fret about.  

Q NOTES # 705: Facts of the Matter

Excuse the repetition, but there's only one reason for Donnie Pudd to refuse to testify fully and openly in the deposition hearing: He's guilty as hell on all counts, and everybody with an ounce of intelligence knows it. The Pudd has been coddled way too long, and it needs to stop.

Maybe gun crazies in California will get a lesson in what goes around comes around.

Q NOTES # 664: Short Cuts 86

In recent news, the House Select Committee wants to request Mike Pence's personal appearance and testimony about what happened on 01/06/2021. While there's no doubt his truthful and complete account would nail down a lot of things, the conventional wisdom is that Pence used up every mg of courage available to him in January 2021, and will dodge the Committee. Too bad, since he's one of the few principal Trumplican players who actually did the right things when the chips were down.

There are plenty of liberals whose impatience is starting to irk me. They complain about Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, the Department of Justice, and the House Select Committee. Every decent American wants to see guilty parties receive harsh punishments they deserve, and the worst thing that can happen is to see them escape on technicalities because the case(s) against them were rushed through the process. The guilt that's so obvious to people who've paid constant attention to the Donnie Pudd horror show will need to be proved to millions of people who haven't, and putting that presentation together needs to be done with extreme care.

@ Daily Kos: All those trump lumps who think attacking the government is a positive thing should be required to explain in detail which freedoms their government is keeping from them. I'll bet most of them couldn't come up with a sensible reply.

Remember when Trumplicans were trying desperately to pin the blame for the 1/6 terrorist attack on left-wing groups or the FBI? Donnie Pudd just did a guest interview on hardcore right-wing OAN, much of which he spent boasting about the massive size of "his" crowd on 1/6/21, then complaining because the legitimate media failed to be properly astonished by the hugeness of his insurrectionist mob. With Pudd, everything he does is evaluated in a show biz audience context. 

By the way, that controversial audit of the votes in Maricopa County demanded by Arizona Trumplicans will go down in the books as one of the stupidest wastes of money, time and energy in U.S. history, or at least it should.

You bet, Bette.

Yesterday, Bette Midler reacted to Joe Manchin's betrayal of Joe and the Democratic Party with a caustic tweet that included a description of West Virginians as poor, illiterate and strung out. She later tweeted an apology, but it was essentially unnecessary. In 2016, Fat Assolini got 68.5 % of the state's vote, with only 26.43 % going to Hillary

The result in 2020, after witnessing four years of Assolini's incompetence, ignorance and corruption, was almost identical: Assolini with 68.63 % vs Joe with 29.69 %. These numbers don't lie. Nearly seven out of ten voters in West Virginia are hopeless morons.

Daily Kos has some articles today worth bookmarking for future reference. One concerns the Guarantee Clause and voting rights. Another summarizes a long article in Just Security. The best way to escape a successful coup in 2024 is to punish the hell out of everyone involved in the coup that failed earlier this year. 

Assolini recently admitted he received his booster shot, and now there's a notion spreading among some of the mental defectives that the real Assolini has been replaced by a clone.

Among Trumplicans, there's a contingent made up of extremely inadequate mental defectives who are comparing Kyle Rittenhouse to Jesus. This country has too many problems to keep up with now,

Q NOTES # 631: Short Cuts 79

Assuming we can't get Devin Nunes off the planet, getting him out of Congress will have to suffice for now.

Studies show that COVID fatality rates are significantly greater in red counties where Donno Guano got 60 percent of the vote than in blue counties won by Joe. Who says there's no good news? 

I nominate METADATA for most important word of the day. 

Just what Donno Guano needs: another federal investigation. 

Jim (Gym) Jordan, like all loyal Trumplicans, honors his leader by accusing Democrats of being every rotten thing that Trumplicans themselves are. What looks like a disturbing lack of self-awareness is actually just another type of psychosis. We always knew which crimes Guano was committing from what he accused his opponents of doing.

What's the deal with Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas? I hate to say it, but he deserves some credit for his honesty in evaluating those fucking assholes in the so-called House freedom caucus.

Q NOTES # 628: Short Cuts 78

He's sometimes overshadowed by his House colleagues, Empty Greene and Bim Boebert, but there's no doubt that Maddie Cawthorn is just as putrid as both of them.

Q NOTES # 609: Short Cuts 74

The traitors who schemed, plotted, and eventually produced their half-assed plan to execute a coup reversing the 2020 election were obviously so sure they would succeed, they left a trail of evidence a mile long. If the memos revealed so far are this horrifying, can you imagine what's in the ones they're desperately trying to keep hidden?

Q NOTES # 594: Short Cuts 69

There are numerous reasons why the Democrats need to win the Virginia election next week. One of them is that a Democrat beating the snot out of Donnie Doohickey's endorsed Trumplican favorite, and then other (D)s beating his chosen ones repeatedly, is something that would encourage Trumplicans to send Donnie this message: Just STFU and GFY.

Since January, it's been fairly obvious that Doohickey and his enablers want to prove their theory that once Nazis, the KKK, right-wing militia members, and other fascists have been given a secure place to play in their major political party, they'll do the dirty work of domestic terrorism with little additional encouragement. Imagine Doohickey's sexual arousal when he contemplates a private army of dimwits ready to kill for him.

Since he's both an arrogant egomaniac and a nincompoop, Doohickey commits crime after crime without hiding his trail. When he files a lawsuit to keep documents and other records locked away, he definitely did everything he's been accused of doing. Take that to the bank.

Q NOTES # 573: Short Cuts 62

There's some positive news being circulated today: Daily Kos @ a report about times when responsible bureaucrats refused to capitulate, and prevented Nacho Man from inflicting additional wounds on America. This kind of thing is very unusual, but we should be proud that somebody had the guts to do it.

Added 5:23 PM Sunday 10/10: Every morning I read a few of my favorite comic strips online, one of which is Doonesbury. I've read that one off and on for several decades. The subject of Trudeau's Sunday strip today is the insane Texas abortion bounty law, and @ www.gocomics.com had attracted nearly sixty reader comments. I usually ignore those, but today I was curious. As I read the opinions, I picked up two terms for future use in sentences like this one: Tex-Ass is controlled by Taliban-gelicals.

Sunday is usually the day of the week that I spend more time at a keyboard, before a screen, than any of the other six. Trying to catch up with national news today led me to mildly reflective thought, to be briefly summarized as follows: 

Human beings can generally be described in one of three ways: 

• People who do things or live in ways that make the world better for everybody, or at least try to.
•  People who do things or live in ways that make the world a worse place to live for most people, or at least try to. 
• People who live their lives quietly, and don't do many things that have an effect on the rest of society for better or worse. 

It seems to me that for nearly five years, news reports have been dominated by people in the second group. For various reasons, huge numbers of them have congregated around Nacho Man, who embodies every terrible characteristic of the type. It's unfortunate for those of us who occupy the other two groups that those in Nacho Man's group are often treated like normal, decent human beings instead of the bottom-feeding creatures they really are.

Q NOTES # 566: Short Cuts 58

Add me to the list of people who think it would be great if American science could eventually produce a pill that would reduce the risk of hospitalization and/or death from CV-19. Even that might not get the trump lumps on board. If we ever reach a point at which only Trumplican refusal rats are dying from the virus and its variants, we could accept that maybe there really is something like god's plan for mankind.

Occasionally I need a reminder that media organizations like newspapers and TV news networks depend on public panic to survive. People whose minds are at ease are less likely to constantly consume their product, so media organizations stay profitable by creating insecurity, uncertainty, depression or rage. Ironically, some minor problems are exaggerated, while some serious ones are practically ignored. A classic example would be Hillary's email (exaggerated) vs the former guy's subservience to Russia (largely ignored when it mattered most).

Q NOTES # 552: Short Cuts 50

We're less than two weeks away from October 2021, and the former guy, Pizza Krapp, is still trying to compel the state of Georgia to throw out the results of the election in November 2020. It's way past time for that fat motherfucker to get over himself and move along with what's left of his sorry life.

One of the popular news stories this week concerned the latest protest event planned by the White Supremacists for Former Guy movement, to be held today in Washington D.C. in a display of support for the misfits, bottom-feeders and worthless assholes who have been arrested and confined for their participation in the 1/6 insurrection riot.

At first, the stories warned that this would potentially be January 6th Riot Revisited. As September 18th got nearer, the predicted horrors were gradually scaled back. Instead of thousands of terrorists, there would probably be only seven hundred. Actually, the event drew between 200 and 300 deranged losers, and was very brief. Is it possible that tracking down, arresting and confining a bunch of 1/6 rioters sent a message to trump lumps to behave or face the consequences?

America would be a better place if the mainstream press would devote coverage to the former guy's insane behavior. Too often, it's either ignored completely or if reported, is treated as completely normal.

Updated 1:31 PM Sunday 19 September:  A perceptive article @ Daily Kos explains why it's a waste of time to attempt any serious negotiation with Trumplicans. America will only function as intended, and will only be safe, after the Trumplicans have been overwhelmingly defeated in election after election. In the meantime, get as much accomplished as possible in spite of them. 

Another update 1:49 PM Sunday: Over the years, Matthew McConaughey has grown on me a little as an actor, despite his identification with Texas U. He was recently the subject of a cover story in the AARP magazine that I read. McConaughey's been hinting that he might try Texas politics with a run for governor against Greg A-Butt, and there's at least one poll that shows he's more popular than A-Butt. 

After eight years of Ronny Reagan and four of former guy Pizza Krapp, I'm leery of show biz people who veer into politics. Only one decided to begin his political career in what previously was the most powerful office in the world. As we now know, his lack of experience was the LEAST important reason Krapp should never have been allowed within 150 miles of the White House. 

As far as I know, McConaughey hasn't revealed his party affiliation, but I haven't seen any clues that he's a goddamned Trumplican. In any event, on his first day in office, he'd be a better governor than A-Butt. 

As far as I'm concerned, too much time and effort has been wasted discussing WHAT Gen. Milley and others did, at the expense of discussing WHY they did it. 

@ Wonkette: Keep those conspiracy theories flowing, you Trumplican idiots! I  enjoy the new one that says liberal Democrats are constantly urging Trumplicans to get vaccinated because they really want Trumplicans to be exterminated by COVID, and encouraging Trumplicans to be vaccinated actually guarantees they'll REFUSE to be vaccinated and will die instead. Okay, there's a diabolical plot if I ever heard one.

Q NOTES # 542: Short Cuts 46

Maybe if right-wing media can sell the vast election fraud angle in the California recall election, it will discourage (R) voters.  

Let's be candid here and acknowledge that Greg A-Butt is more likely to commit a rape in Texas than prevent one.  

I'm not particularly a huge fan or user of social media, but I'm beginning to view it more favorably now that it's serving the purpose of getting assholes who can't behave in public fired. Too many social misfits started thinking they're the American mainstream because Cheez Doodle was allowed to get away with all kinds of shit. They need to learn that when they act like trash, they'll be tossed out like trash.

Q NOTES # 511: Short Cuts 29

Former guy Donny Pustule planted land mines and booby traps throughout the federal government during his four years, and one of the deadliest is Louis DeJoy, whose job is apparently to run the postal service for personal profit, or destroy it altogether. Apparently, once a postmaster general is appointed, even one as incompetent and corrupt as DeJoy, it's damned near impossible to get rid of his worthless ass. There are supposedly other investigations and lawsuits underway that may facilitate his removal. In the meantime, prepare to pay more to get slower service. Joe's done as much as he's allowed by law to do.

This is bad Louis. There is no good Louis.

Washington Monthly @ why we may have to choose between making the liberal side of the Democratic Party happy or saving the country for a few years longer.

Adding to Donny Pustule's legal problems, former acting USAG Jeffrey Rosen spent seven hours voluntarily testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, presumably spilling the dirt on Cheezy's determined effort to overturn the election. There must be some criminal activity in there that can be added to the list of prosecutions. The asshole left his fingerprints and DNA all over the damn scene.

Occasionally a helping hand comes from an unlikely place. 

This Mike Lindell character is the textbook example of a pathetic loser who chugs the red Kool-Aid from a two-gallon bucket. Does anyone have credible evidence that he's actually persuading sane people to believe he's dealing in hard facts?

If the small army of mentally defective domestic terrorists who were responsible for the 1/6 attack really show up for the 'huge' event planned for 9/18, they need to be greeted by law enforcement officers in overwhelming numbers, and crushed like cockroaches if they even try to start acting out.

To fully understand people who are still devoted to the former guy, it's necessary to understand how ignorance differs from stupidity, and why it may be possible to deal with the ignorant ones - while the stupid ones are probably lost causes.

There's always that two percent who never get the word.