Not So Ruby Tuesday, Lies, Fraud, RasPutin, Shutdown, Sean Melts

Andy Beshear, Kentucky Democrat, Victory Speech

  • Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson defends Republican gerrymandering in Wisconsin after Democrats overcome gerrymandering in Virginia. Seems Democratic demands in Virginia for a bipartisan commission to draw up district lines are bogus. Because, well, they just have to be. And Wisconsin? Democrats should just learn to get more votes outside of Milwaukee and Madison. I dunno. I guess I’m kind of a hippie radical for thinking each vote should count equally in a free republic.
     
  • So Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are too leftist to be elected because they want to increase taxes on the extraordinarily wealthy. Right? PZ Myers doesn’t have much sympathy for multi-billionaires who want to save Democrats from such left-wing notions.
     
  • News Corpse rat-tat-tats my president’s recent outdoor chopper conference, briefly exploding each falsehood.
     
  • So Donald Trump is fined $2 million dollars for exploiting a charity he set up and controlled as his own personal piggy bank, using contributions to pay his business debts and to buy huge expensive paintings of … well … himself. Green Eagle seems a little skeptical at Mr. Trump’s generosity as my President boasts that the fine is really his personal donation to charity.
     
  • In Scotties Toy Box, Scottie exposes the identity of the Rasputin-like person who enticed Trump to commit the latest high crime in a phone call. Bet you didn’t know his first name was Ras.
     
  • tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors wonders what our President is smoking as Trump obliquely threatens yet another government shutdown if Congress doesn’t immediately a full stop to impeachment proceedings. Yeah, that’ll work for sure.
     
  • Frances Langum explores Sean Hannity’s apparent meltdown as impeachment witnesses testify under oath that he was personally involved in Trumpian misdeeds.
     
  • At The Moderate Voice, Anthony Stahelski reminds us of Trump’s bloody betrayal of our Kurdish allies and how that betrayal also hurt our own physical safety.
     
  • Mark Bittner, at MadMikesAmerica, contrasts the pro-life image of the Republican Party with their defense of Ukrainian and Kurdish deaths, and their current demands for the endangerment of the whistleblower. Mark concludes that the high moral ground they claim is neither high nor moral.
     
  • There is something alluringly exotic about an orchestra from another nation producing, with unexpected exactitude, a television or movie theme that we consider quintessentially American. A while back, I discovered The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly performed by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. M. Bouffant at Web of Evil goes one better, for those of us elderly enough to remember the weekly noir type drama of one private detective in the late 50s and early 60s. The Qatar Philharmonic Brass, yup, from Qatar, the nation in periodic conflict against the Saudi-Trump coalition, performs the theme from Peter Gunn.

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