This is how that 60 Minutes interview should have been conducted
— Doc (@DocAtCDI) September 9, 2023
- It’s always just below the surface, isn’t it?
Tommy Christopher reports as Trump gets sandblasted for attacking “liberal Jews” for not supporting him.
My reaction:
- So why in the universe would mr Trump attack “liberal Jews”? The Palmer Report suggests a reason common to bullies: panicky fear.
- Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged, is incandescently brilliant in her scathing reviews. Please read as she takes on NBC for the soft interview of mr Trump, with the faint gesture of a little after‑the‑fact fact‑checking. The headline is a good intro: NBC Cleaning the Augean Stables with a Squirt Gun.
Key free sample:
He is a man I’m almost certain who watches himself with the sound turned off because the bare fact of his fame is enough for him. What he says hardly matters. He doesn’t want to be loved so much as he wants to be inescapable. Omnipresent.
If I ever become a public figure and manage to tick off Vixen Strangely,
all I want is a chance to apologize.
Is that too much to ask?
- Dave Columbo has a suggestion for news media, especially when interviewing Donald Trump: good old boring on air FACT checking, with a highly entertaining, high ratings follow-up:
- M. Bouffant at Web of Evil reveals why mr Trump has never worn a mask in public. Has to do with heavy makeup.
- News Corpse brings us an unhappy Majority Leader as Kevin McCarthy discovers the real mission of the Republican Congressional caucus.
- Republicans are rolling toward a government shutdown over diffuse and largely undefined issues. Hackwhackers seems to have a handle on why it’s happening.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors has the exact quote as serial alleged Matt Gaetz demands the Republican Party take credit for the coming shutdown.
- Republicans still claim to be the party that honors and supports our troops, the party of national security. At jobsanger, General Mark Hurtling (Ret.) has a brief, harsh reaction.
- In Letters from an American, noted historian Heather Cox Richardson puts into context the success of the Senate in approving three out of hundreds of promotions, creating what may become a crack in the obstruction by Republican Tommy Tuberville (R). The attack on our military is part of larger pattern of unreasoning extremism in the Republican Party.
Key quote from Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post:
This is not normal. This is egregious. You’d think the reporting would reflect it.
- CalicoJack in The Psy of Life has a compelling theory on why Republican politicians in Wisconsin want to prevent any reversal of their intensive gerrymanders.
- Wisconsinite James Wigderson is a dedicated conservative. Well, nobody’s perfect:
Oh man!
All that diligent effort in creating a scathing comment!Then James comes along and obliterates you in just a few words.https://t.co/4Pa659gCti
— Burr Deming – @BurrLand01@mastodon.world (@BurrLand01) September 22, 2023
- @whiskeywhistle98 joins in the general brain hurt from listening to MTG analyzing ancient and current climate change:
- The back and forth continues after Lauren Boebert performs sex acts, of a sort, during a family theatre production, and gets caught on tape.
Shock jock radio personality Howard Stern criticizes her as a disgrace to this country
Conservative writer Joseph Massey isn’t having it:
I’m old enough to remember when Howard Stern sent an intoxicated dwarf to urinate on a large block of ice in Times Square that contained the magician David Blaine. The dwarf exposed himself in public. But Lauren Boebert is a “disgrace.” https://t.co/s12tTMeqlI
— Joseph Massey (@jmasseypoet) September 19, 2023
He makes an interesting point on hypocrisy: applying a different standard to someone else than to oneself.
Sadly, Cato Institute’s Julian Sanchez deconstructs Joseph’s entire point in just a few words:
Almost like different standards apply to a radio shock jock and and a member of Congress. So weird. https://t.co/oOdFWLi9AR
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) September 20, 2023
- Satiric headliner Ant Farmer’s Almanac brings us the debate about candidate Tim Scott’s girlfriend.
- At The Onion snickering teen angels prank Mike Pence, telling him he must continue running for President because God wills it.
- PZ Myers observes that comedian Russell Brand, explaining his innocence of rape, has an unusual concept of consent.
- Andy Borowitz reports on a remarkable turnabout as Xusers require Elon Musk to pay them to keep using it.
- Green Eagle reviews Elon Musk’s intervention, disrupting a Ukrainian offensive against invading Russians, turning it into a deadly failure. He later explains he destroyed the Ukrainian battle effort because a Russian official had told him it might be dangerous to irritate Putin.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit notes that, along with widespread starvation in North Korea, there has been a marked increase in suicide. So Dear Leader is secretly warning suicide will be regarded as treason.
- At The Moderate Voice retired U.S. Air Force Major Dorian de Wind marks last week’s National POW/MIA Recognition Day with a reminder of a core national value acted on by military leaders and members: you don’t leave anyone behind.
- Disaffected and it Feels So Good acknowledges (sort of) that guns don’t kill people, and explains who does.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, Bruce, confined to a wheelchair, endures the thoughtless indignities imposed while on a dinner date with his beloved Polly.
It is well written enough to make you (and me) mad.
If you occasionally are as thoughtless as am I, it may make you a little ashamed.
It does me.
- Legal experts Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo of Rewire News Group anticipate a new Supreme Court season will be conducted with the same shenanigans. The pair invite us to meet Ginni Thomas, the Tenth Justice.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara offers examples of peaceful socialism in American history and, says he, the more typical oppressive collectivism.
Among examples are okay socialisms like Harmony, Oneida, the Shakers, and Others, which are private and voluntary. He also includes Kibbutzim and the hippie commune known during my long‑ago youth.
He regards these as harmless, but ultimately non-sustainable.
Improbably, he considers southern slavery as feudal plantation communisms. Hadn’t heard that one before.
He leaves out more deeply entrenched and widely accepted, even popular, examples: Social Security, fire and police departments, public highways, parks, and sidewalks.
But then, those contradict libertarian theology, don’t they?
- Michael John Scott listens as a couple of students explain that only old people vote, and voting won’t make a difference, so why bother.
- Most of those who read Nan’s Notebook are, as she points out, non‑believers/atheists. When Nan asks those readers for “their personal ‘deconversion’ experiences”, many are thoughtful and provocative. Worth a look for those of us in the faith.
- Infidel753 provides evidence that my Christian brethren and I should consider: the ways we show we do not really believe what we insist we believe.
- Scotties Playtime introduces a video on Evidence Against God with his own remarkably horrific personal account.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz urges readers not to feel guilty about leaving the Evangelical church: Jesus has.
- YellowDog Granny has graphic opinions on health, doctors, and nerves.
- Sarah Cooper discovers a motivational speech for those of the male persuasion who are sexually inept HEY! Why you pointin’ at me?.
- The Strategic Studies Book Club explores the social theories on preliterate conflict by Steven LaBlanc. The idea is that warfare was a constant caused by, and causing, social stress.
Key stress point:
In the New Guinea highlands, raids often had to be planned in secret, excluding the men and women with close relatives among the group to be attacked, because they were expected to warn the intended victims. All types of societies from foragers to states have these friend‑enemy dual relationships.
- In Happiness Between Tails da‑AL has an epiphany that she hopes will advance her search for a literary agent. Her book is long, and brevity is a virtue. So she performs literary surgery.
She transitions to her guest, a noted blogger who tells of his unfortunate encounter as a little kid with the local police, and how it got his father into what could have become a great deal of trouble.
- Clickbait satirist Reductress brings us a grandma who borrows from a video on romantic relationship tactics and plays hard to get.
- Mark Waulberg (No, not Mark Wahlberg, the other Mark) learns parallel parking:
- SilverAppleQueen has flowers and bees.
- Georgia baseball’s Savanna Bananas visit Syracuse, home of a championship LaCrosse team, and are inspired to create the LaCrosse Pitch:
– Podcasts that may hold up well (You decide!) –
Thank you, as always, for compiling these.
To be fair to the House Republicans, they are not only struggling to fund the government while appeasing their own flaming nutballs, but at the same time trying to accomplish two other distinct and even more difficult tasks — (1) impeaching Biden and (2) thinking up a reason to impeach Biden. The last of these will prove the most challenging of all.
Well phrased and completely accurate.
Thank you for the explanation.
great lineup as always here – WhiskyWhistle98’s hashtags were entertaining too: #climatechange #thatescalatedquickly #huu #sweetjesus #nope #iceage #fyp #foryourpage #stop #justdont #imconfused #tiktokmom #whereareyougoingwiththis #thisisamerica #help #friday