Month: December 2022

Bless teachers like this. pic.twitter.com/xUpo0dsiKW

— DAPPER DON DHARSHI • K A M I L • (@SoloFlow786) November 17, 2021

• SilverAppleQueen wakes up Christmas Day to huge, huge snow. The Buffalo area could not have been that much fun.
   
• M. Bouffant at Web of Evil has an idea for a holiday gift I’d rather not give to the kids.
   
• Disaffected and it Feels So Good really, really does not like Christmas. At all.
   
• @whiskeywhistle98 decides she may not have been completely in the Christmas spirit:
   

  @whiskeywhistle98 A kid sick, mom needs to grocery shop and I’m losing my mind…God bless us everyone…#christmas #HolidayOREOke #puke #kids #tiktokmom #fyp #foryourpage ♬ original sound – That Ginger Fella

• Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has four sentences and a captioned photo that summarize the busing, presumably as directed by Governor Abbott, of ill prepared immigrants directly from Texas to icy cold destinations.
   
  Happy Holidays highlighted by Christian cruelty.
   
• Max’s Dad can’t help but notice Governor Abbott proclaim his Christian celebration of the Holiday spirit as those immigrants arrive unannounced in the bitter cold of Washington, DC. The idea seems to have been to own the libs.
   
  Key passage:
  Abbott, who presumably sat around the night the ordered the bus trip watching A Christmas Carol cheering for Scrooge and Its a Wonderful Life thinking that Mister Potter is a fine man, can rest easily knowing that the very libs he thinks he owned lived up to being REAL followers of good Christian values and took care of the frightened HUMAN refugees he sent off into the night.
   
• Nan’s Notebook sees a contradiction among conservatives between opposition to both abortion and immigration.
   
• Dave Dubya reviews Donald Trump’s messages of Christmas cheer and suggests their sentiment is reflective of the current state of contemporary conservatism.
   
• The Palmer Report pieces together Donald Trump’s spiral into deep meltdown. He seems to suffer a combination of an inflated sense of entitlement and cringing paranoia.
   
  Key query:
  Has one ever seen someone who wished they were a king more than Donald Trump?
   
• At Hackwhackers, this year’s holiday gifts for Republicans were not exactly what they asked from Santa.
   
• CalicoJack in The Psy of Life looks at expert analysis on why those who support authoritarians support authoritarians, and how to get them to reconsider.
   
  Turns out all that crazed toughness comes from timid fear going over the edge into panic.
   
  Key sentence:
  The PoC are coming to rape your fathers, murder your jobs, and want better than to live in Cancer Alley, drink Flint water, pay for Texas utilities, and die quickly and quietly when they stop contributing more than they cost like every decent god-fearing white person does so that the one percent can become even more obscenely wealthy just like Jesus decreed in the Bill of Rights to our Declaration of Independence amending the Constitution.
   
• At Unabashedly American, my long time friend conservative Darrell Michaels consistently creates posts the primary value of which is to teach us what dark fantasies extreme right wingers share with each other about evil liberals. Today, Darrell provides nine clichés about gun control. As always, we learn a mindset of stereotypes.
   
• Some brutal satire seems directly on target, so to speak.
   
  At The Onion, the NRA congratulates a school shooter for terrific aim given such small targets.

Continue reading “Holidays, Busing Immigrants, Cruel Christmas Cheer, Melting Trump”

Shamelessly stolen from HackWhackers.
Watch what happens on the evening news when the sports guy is drafted into reporting the weather:
 

• Ant Farmer’s Almanac gets creative and rewrites A Christmas Carol.
  What the Dickens! Oh, come on. I’m old.
   
• Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara makes the case that non-Christians should feel okay celebrating a secular Christmas.
   
  On those occasions when Michael is right, he sometimes demonstrates a talent for stating the obvious.
   
  Still there is a bit of history on how December was selected.
   
  Key cliché:
  Being a national legal holiday, Christmas can have non-religious, non-Christian meaning just as validly as a Christian meaning. It’s a matter of individual preference. Otherwise, what’s the point of freedom of conscience?
   
• At The Moderate Voice retired U.S. Air Force Officer Dorian de Wind sees Hanukkah through the lens of 80 years ago, when Hitler’s Nazis chose that annual celebration of Passover for the Eight Days of Auschwitz.
   
  Key quote from a Holocaust survivor:

  So the Germans made a Hanukkah celebration: on the poles of the barracks, the outside poles, they hung up the prisoners who were chosen to be one of the ten, of the tens, on their feet, head down. We had to pour oil on them, and they had a bonfire, and we had to sing Christmas songs. “Heilige Nacht” [“Silent Night”], I mean, we, they, we had to sing the songs while our brothers, our fathers, our, our cousins were burning.

• Nan’s Notebook does her homework and, I think, is largely correct on how Paul, the Apostle formerly known as Saul, changed the course of Christian history.
   
• Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has a thought about hope when it is less illusory, more realistic.
   
• In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce attends the funeral of his mother-in-law, watches, listens, and becomes justifiably confrontational with the pastor.
   
• Scotties Playtime relays a story taking place at Monday’s White House Hanukkah party. A little girl interrupts as the closing music plays for Biden’s speech. Her question, and Biden’s answer, are both worth reading about.
   
• YellowDog Granny has some very good reasons for liking Nancy Pelosi.
   
• Vagabond Scholar contrasts the brightest ideals at the core of our Republic with the path chosen by one of our two political parties, and concludes that Donald Trump is not an aberration.
   
• Presumably after considering fund raising alternatives, Green Eagle is offering one of the most valuable collectible items in history:
  Green Eagle Trading Cards. Samples are wonderful!!
   
• Dave Columbo is inspired by a Trading Card to put Donald Trump and the Trumpettes into DC Comics
   

  @davecolumbo #henrycavill #superman #dc #dccomics #comics #comicbooks #superhero ♬ original sound – Dave Columbo

• tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors provides ringside commentary as Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene continue their wonderful boxing match.

Continue reading “Merry Holidays, Pelosi, DeSantis Jawed, Never Forget Hanukkah 1942, Jan 6”

We Stand with Ukraine

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Reminds me of 2nd Lieutenant reprimanded for leaping 40 feet into the ocean to rescue 2 soldiers. Michael Flynn.

Like Flynn, Benedict Arnold later betrayed his country.https://t.co/riekEdiYDx

— Burr Deming (@BurrLand01) December 22, 2022

Spider-Man surprises his biggest fan Brayan in the hospital and spends the day with him.

Spider-Man (Mattia Villardita) wrote: "Believe me when I say this. I bow to you. I am honored to be friends with one of the greatest heroes I have ever known.” pic.twitter.com/QqDwZOxrn1

— GoodNewsCorrespondent (@GoodNewsCorres1) December 10, 2022

• Frances Langum sees an annual ritual once more performed as the Fox Network launches their traditional accusation of a War on Christmas.
   
  Happy Holidays to Fox!
   
• This Christmas, if you want to contribute to freedom without getting ripped off, Hackwhackers has a list of verified charities through which you can safely help Ukraine.
   
• News Corpse has some fun with the Trump Major Announcement that turns out to be about heroic trading cards that are not really even trading cards, just jpg images of trading cards.
   
  One question occurs:
  Will the cards include nude images of Hunter Biden stolen from his laptop? Right wing twitter users seem to especially salivate over those.
   
• Trading cards for Trump? M. Bouffant at Web of Evil wants to know why we should stop there. How about something for Ted Cruz?
   
• At The Moderate Voice Joe Gandelman watches a stumbling Trump as Republican voters suddenly prefer Ron DeSantis by a lot.
   
• Iron Knee at Political Irony listens as recovering Trumper Michael Cohen speculates about Donald Trump’s presidential run.
   
• Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo of Rewire News Group take a look at Moore v. Harper, the Supreme Court case that might allow state legislatures to throw out any result they don’t like in Presidential elections.
   
  
• After a very tough couple of weeks for Donald Trump, Green Eagle begins his Wingnut Wrapup with Trump presenting his side in posts that reveal less argument than meltdown.
   
• Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged, sees one result of Trumpship loyalty is the sinking of Rudy Giuliani.
   
• At The Onion, the entire country learns a life-lesson from Republicans. The nation forgives Harvey Weinstein after he gets really good at football.
   
• Max’s Dad speculates on why Kyrsten Sinema acts so much like …well… Kyrsten Sinema.

Continue reading “Ukraine, Trump Card, Donald Melt, Rudy Dump, Brittney, Saturn Moon”

The coolest thing you’ll see today pic.twitter.com/Ner2dvCoVy

— jonathan slater☮️ (@jonslater37) October 9, 2022

• YellowDog Granny begins a list of people she will invite to kiss her nether regions and, a while later, shares her fond, visionary, hopes for a future election.
   
• Green Eagle suggests that, despite his flaws, Herschel Walker did not deserve what happened to him.
   
• My long-time conservative friend Darrel Michaels is despondent to below ground level at election results this year.
   
  He can be forgiven, I think, for his near incoherent rage against the victors:
  leftist hate-America-first,
  senile and corrupt,
  flying monkeys,
  socialist/leftist candidates,
  dangerous ideas,
  demonstrably proven to fail,
  profligate spending,
  extra/un-constitutional,
  despise America,
  leftist propaganda,
  and on and on.
   
  I am reminded of the late Illinois Everett Dirksen who, while entertaining a crowd of constituents pulled out of his pocket an extravagantly scathing attack and began reading it aloud. Partway through, he stopped, looked up wide eyed at his audience and, in a shocked voice, said:
   
  Why, they’re talking about ME!
   
  Key passage from my distraught friend:
  There are ways to make sure elections always tilt to blue rather than red if the outcome is in doubt. Just ask Kari Lake in Arizona.
   
  Ah! So that’s how we overcame.
   
• In Hackwhackers, Senator Kyrsten Sinema has left the Democratic Party (or, in Republican SnideTalk, “Democrat Party”). If your first reaction is that this will pretty much screw up Senate committee composition, Hackwhackers says not to worry (too much). The Senator says she will still caucus with Democrats.
   
  Key Passage linked to Steve Benen:
  In other words, as of 24 hours ago, Democrats looked forward to having what was effectively a 51-seat majority in the chamber. As of this morning, that remains largely unchanged.
   
• Disaffected and it Feels So Good speculates on why Kyrsten Sinema has left the Democratic Party, and suggests it may have been a shrewd move.
   
• CalicoJack in The Psy of Life finds a study contrasting democracies that have successfully quelled violence with those who have not. Jack examines the conditions that accompany violence and identifies those actively working to creating those conditions.
   
• driftglass suggests that it is way too late for the Republican party to reform its way out of decline.
   
• Frances Langum walks us through the Republican plan to use the debt ceiling to threaten the economy. We will destroy the economy unless we are allowed to cut Medicare and Social Security.
   
• tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors explains the success of a program that lifted 19 million American children from the grip of poverty, how Republican opposition caused it to lapse, how those children are once more in desperate straits, and how Republicans are blocking a revival.
   
  Key passage:
  …the GOP would arm wrestle each other to see who gets to kick-away Tiny Tim’s crutch…

Continue reading “Election Returns, Sinema Drama, DeSantis Scolded, Marriage Protected”

Whether it is humans or animals, children are born with kindness, compassion, love and grace. Somewhere along the line we seem to spoil it all.
Cc: @Yoda4ever pic.twitter.com/RmccgitlDL

— DAPPER DON DHARSHI • K A M I L • (@SoloFlow786) September 7, 2022

• Vixen Strangely, at Strangely Blogged, waxes with justified harshness on the artist formerly known as Kanye.
   
  Key passage on Ye’s love for the Nazi formerly known as Hitler:
  … he was just blossoming with love for the guy who apparently invented highways and microphones. And whose culpability for the Holocaust is just, like, your opinion.
   
• Green Eagle attacks Kanye’s Hitlerlove from another direction. No, der Führer did not invent highways or the microphone Kanye uses to chant his bigotries.
   
• Dave Dubya broke down mr Trump’s dinner companion Nick Fuentes. And this was even before Kanye’s embrace of the swastika.
   
• The Palmer Report has the counts for CNN, MSNBC, and Fox. During the two weeks between the infamous Trump dinner and this past Tuesday, we can guess which 24-hour news network mentioned Fuentes the least.
   
  But by that amount?
  Over 2 weeks?
  Nearly half a month?
  Seriously?
   
• In the Borowitz Report, Trump says he did not know the identity of his dinner guest owing to the white hood.
   
  Key passage:
  “I didn’t think it was very smart to be wearing white to dinner with me,” the former President said. “When I eat, a lot of ketchup goes flying.”
   
• At The Onion, former President Trump is seriously disappointed as he is told by a Holocaust denier that the Holocaust never happened.
   
  Key passage:
  Fuentes comforted Trump by assuring him that if they worked together, the Holocaust did not have to remain a fantasy.

Continue reading “Hear Ye, Führer’s Highway, Railroads, My Dinner with Fuentes, Brain Musk”