Tuckered Out, Bud Protest Peters, Trump Rape Trial Bully, DeSantis

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  • Nojo has a word (Yes really!) for Tucker Carlson.
     
  • tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors finds a visual self-own from the late great Tucker Long may he wave!
     
  • Hackwhackers proves you can get bitten by a cartoon, and unleashes several on poor Tucker.
     
  • Dave Columbo becomes Tucker, with a post-separation message:
     
  • News Corpse explains why, in his eventual Twitter video, Tucker Carlson revealed so little about his firing.
     
    Key deserved snark:
    Carlson’s assertion that truthtellers will always prevail over liars is at least partially correct. He, as a proven, relentless liar, is now shrunken and weaker.
     
    Key provided Tweet:

  • The Onion brings us their exclusive, satiric, fictional interview with Tucker Carlson.
     
    Favorite key question:
    The Onion: Were you fired?
     
    Key answer:
    Tucker Carlson: No, it was 100% my decision. When I showed up to work on Monday and was denied access to the building, I decided that was the last straw and quit right then and there.
     
  • At The Moderate Voice David Robertson brings us Republican posts in the wake of the Tucker ousting.
     
  • Frances Langum covers the “dystopia beat” as 4Chan, the dark conspiratorial site, has a very bad day. Seems Tucker has been borrowing their white nationalist stories and broadcasting them as his own. Now they’ve lost the influence of their most influential influence peddler.
     
  • Disaffected and it Feels So Good begins with the collapsing Bud Light boycott and zooms out to the weird self-contained bubble that started it.
     
    Key belief:
    What conservatives believe is they are the majority and it’s only because of tyrannical liberal fake news media, indoctrinating education system which poisons the minds of young people against them, and cheating Democrats who stuff ballot boxes with bamboo lined Chinese Fakes and Dominion Voting Machines that keeps True Conservatives from handily winning every election.
     
  • PZ Myers is moderately impressed that Mattel is making a Down Syndrome Barbie.
     
    Key observation:
    Every kid deserves a little happiness and recognition of their existence.
     
    A video-casting conservative thinks the idea is pretty funny, and so are kids with Down Syndrome.

  • The Palmer Report has Donald Trump treating the civil rape trial as a reality show. It is working against him.
     
    Clear headline:
    The judge in the E. Jean Carroll trial has clearly had enough of Donald Trump’s crap already
     
    Key point:
    By alienating the judge this early on, Trump is sharply decreasing his own odds of winning this trial.
     
    Key logic:
    …the judge has to make a series of – it’s right there in the judge’s title – judgment calls throughout the case. And if you’ve already used up all your rope with the judge, you’re not winning any of those close calls, because the judge has to start assuming the worst about your intentions each time.
     
    Subsequent to the Palmer post, a report that seems to support the central insight:
    Judge Chides Trump at Rape Trial
     
  • Tommy Christopher brings up a CNN report about the rape trial as Trump’s lawyer tries to rough up accuser E. Jean Carroll, and ends up looking like a thug. More important, Trump looks like the thug who hired the thug because he’s a thug who is afraid to show up himself.
     
    Key moment:
    At that point her voice was cracking. She also said that, you know, the reason why many women don’t come forward is because they get criticized for not screaming.
     
  • Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged pays attention to more, even more, previously secret – newly revealed – 2020 communications between Trump folks, unable to find any credible evidence of electoral fraud, but figuring out how to create a public impression anyway.
     
    Key summary on election fraud:
    Not proof exactly. Just, you know. Vibes.
     
    Key legal potential:
    Anyway Jack Smith will be looking into Ted Cruz’s commission and the other recordings Abby Grossberg formerly of Fox News might have.
     
  • So mr Trump has written a book, part of which is impatiently devoted to how John McCain took too damn long to get himself buried.
     
    M. Bouffant at Web of Evil links to reviews, and includes his own review, of mr Trump’s tasteless review of the war hero’s funeral.
     
    Key observation:
    As if it were the Senator’s fault a lot of people had good things to say about him.
     
  • Perpetually wonderful Sarah Cooper remembers classic advice from Donald Trump on covid research:
     

  • Iron Knee at Political Irony counts the entertaining ways it was a Mickey mistake for Ron DeSantis to attack Disney for expressing an opinion.
     
    Key Disney strategy: Do nothing
    They held back to let DeSantis hang himself, and the governor and hopeful presidential candidate took the bait.
     
  • Julian Sanchez seems to think the legal strategy DeSantis is pursuing against Mickey Mouse is idiotic:


    Or maybe he’s not after a legal victory. He just wants a cheering throng:


    So maybe he’s not a total idiot:

  • Andy Borowitz has the latest from the Florida wars. Disney has finally proven to be too tough. Governor DeSantis is ending that feud and launching an attack on the Smurfs.
     
    Key satire:
    The Governor accused the Smurfs of spreading a message of “blue supremacy” and vowed to ban the teaching of Smurf studies from Florida schools.
     
  • Scotties Playtime reports that a DeSantis official, the Florida Surgeon General, did not like a study that concluded covid vaccines are safe. So he just changed the conclusion to say something different.
     
  • Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson summarizes the current state of contemporary Republican election strategy

  • Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has the polling results as Americans are asked which political party is more concerned about them.
     
  • Think SCOTUS corruption is shorthand for Clarence Thomas? Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit has a few details as Neil Gorsuch tries to disguise a sweetheart deal.
     
    Key guilty consciousness:
    Gorsuch relied on a “cut-out” to shield the transaction.
     
  • Legal specialists Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo of Rewire News Group go before a live audience at the Summit for Religious Freedom to offer expert analysis on the continuing abortion pill, mifepristone, lawsuit.
     

     
    You may prefer a complete transcript or a podcast form
     
  • We can always count on CalicoJack for informed research. The Psy of Life looks into the recent rash of shootings of innocent people making innocent mistakes, and traces the deadly firearm attacks to primal views justifying killing.
     
    Key revealing subheadline:
    One is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is a trend.
     
  • Green Eagle is not a meteorologist, but can access the work of researchers who are.
     
    Will global warming be a long term threat during the next few decades?
     
    The Great Green Bird suggests we look at both temperature and humidity to see a deadly threat that is more immediate than is generally recognized: what scientists are calling wet-bulb temperature.
     
  • Nan’s Notebook links to an interactive presentation on global warming and melting arctic ice, and notes an additional underlying cause.
     
  • In Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson reveals how House speaker Kevin McCarthy’s barely passed debt ceiling bill got the last few needed votes. He assured members it was entirely symbolic, all for show.
     
    Key strategy:
    McCarthy was pleased to have passed his measure with not a single vote to spare, but it appears he got the vote because everyone knew it was dead on arrival at the Senate.
     
  • One recurring argument posed by libertarians is that all entities (non-governmental) are equal. Those of us who have ever lived, even briefly, in one-company towns have experienced the flaw in that equivalence.
     
    Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara has favorable observations about right-to-work laws.
     
    Key challenge:
    ‘Why are the laws called “Right to Work” when in fact they are really “No Right to Work”, since they permit an employee to be fired with no reason given and usually no recourse?
     
    Key answer from Michael:
    I would make the issue clearer by reversing the question: “Why should an employee be permitted to quit a job with no reason given and leave the employer no recourse?” An employer need not give a reason to fire an employee, just as an employee need not give a reason to quit a job.
     
  • John Scalzi at Whatever bids a sad goodbye to a sidebar Twitter feed – showing John’s last few Tweets – because of a new technical problem known as Twitter’s owner is a mindless jerk.
     
  • Ant Farmer’s Almanac now contains inspiration borrowed from Elon Musk’s downed rocket.
     
  • driftglass describes the journey of Glenn Greenwald from the journalist who served as a hero to many liberals to a denizen of truly crazed crazy crazyland.
     
    I remain at peace with my original opinion:
     

  • North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz takes aim at the conservative war on everything, and wonders how exhausting it must become to remain unrelentingly angry.
     
    Key diagnosis:
    They become terrified of all difference: losing the ability to see the beauty or worth in anyone who does not look or talk or think or believe or vote or worship or love the way they do.
     
  • In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, one of my Brothers‑In‑Christ explains to atheist Bruce who and what Bruce is.
     
    Key judgment:
    I don’t know you neither have I heard of you . I just stumbled on this web-site . I know and you know that I know you are doing this for attention . You probley can’t preach very well and had no choice but to find something else to do . God is real and you know that there are no such thing as atheist and you are no acception.
     
  • Infidel753 has posted interesting thoughts about the distinction between two types of morality: that which has evolved, and that which is imposed by culture. Now he finds an ambiguity.
     
  • Max’s Dad loves the musical Jagged Little Pill; the star, Heidi Klingenstaff; and especially singer, writer, playwrite Alanis Morissette. And he joins the audience involvement in the enraged and uplifting message.
     
    Enraged:
    In the current political atmosphere this is the kind of musical that Ron Desantis and perhaps 33 members of the Nebraska Legislature would try and ban. It covers all the hot button “woke” issues. There’s pill addiction, there’s rape, there’s LGBTQ, there’s gender confusion, there’s trans gender, there’s race, there’s male indifference, there’s rage and jealousy and there is stale marriages.
     
    Uplifting:
    Issues get resolved . There’s a lot of humor and current slaps at the anti woke crowd and Fox News (which drew a LOUD cheer).
     
    On Alanis Morissette:
    She was Taylor Swift before there was a Taylor Swift. But Alanis was an adult and not afraid to lay it all out. Jagged Little Pill was her masterpiece, in fact it was a masterpiece for anyone.
     
  • @whiskeywhistle98 has a word about the better part of valor:
     
  • In Happiness Between Tails da-AL faces the challenges of finding a publisher for the book over which she has labored. She finds herself inspired by works about overcoming. Among them:
    • A book about prejudice: A child born to Korean parents and raised in an anglo family
    • A book about a woman bound by her medical bills into an abusive relationship
    • A book about an elderly assassin for hire who finds herself targeted by those who underestimate her deadly abilities
    • A beautiful piece about love, crushing loss, slow recovery, and a wider vision
       

    That last is a poem by Alitta, a blogger who guest-writes from Southern India.

  • A minor league baseball team pays attention to safety issues, as The Savanna Bananas go to major rescue when a teammate is nicked by a pitch:
     
  • YellowDog Granny explains why scrabble isn’t fun in some languages.
     
  • The Journal of Improbable Research discovers a medical study about anal insertion that finds success in using a frozen finger.
     
    Key personal plan:
    I’ll be spending the whole rest of the weekend not thinking about this research.
     
  • Clickbait satirist Reductress reveals a sure way to know how long it’s safe to keep food refrigerated.
     
  • SilverAppleQueen shows beauty in wordless flowers.
     
  • Whenever we need inspiration for some horribly difficult task. Cats are there for us:
     

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One thought on “Tuckered Out, Bud Protest Peters, Trump Rape Trial Bully, DeSantis”

  1. thanks always for injecting sanity & some comedy into these crazy days – excellent link picks – I’m always truly honored when you include mine among them

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