[Many thanks to two powerhouse sites,
Infidel753
and
Mock Paper Scissors
for linking here]
Magnificent hidden talent!
And…
What did you do on YOUR break, Burr?— Burr Deming – @BurrLand01@mastodon.world (@BurrLand01) May 22, 2024
- Max’s Dad remembers World War II, D-Day and how his Dad fought the Nazis.
- Sometimes parallels are clear:
“You’re the savior of the people, you bring tears to my eyes.”
“No no, you saved Europe.”
“My hero.”
“No, you are our hero.”
“I pray for you.”Heartbreaking between @ZelenskyyUa & a #DDay veteran, who knows the cost. He kisses his hand & won’t let go.
pic.twitter.com/qQoI2SekeR— Jessica Berlin (@berlin_bridge) June 6, 2024
- In Letters from an American, historian Heather Cox Richardson analyzes an eleven minute 1947 speech by General George Marshall: bland, hard to follow, saved the world from a ton of misery.
That misery, the misery averted, would have been largely economic, but also would have included lost values and Russian domination of Europe.
The same analysis is now available in audio format, as Richardson narrates in podcast.
- Hackwhackers has the best quotes from President Biden and Representative Jamie Raskin about defendant and son Hunter Biden, medical hero Dr. Anthony Fauci, and an unspecified convicted felon.
- Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson is interviewed, points out that Joe Biden was not sitting on the Trump jury, and expresses his dismay at fellow conservatives, willing to throw away our judicial system because Donald Trump was convicted.
"Joe Biden was not sitting in that jury."
Political writer @jwigderson expressed his disappointment to @WTMJSteve with Republicans' reaction to Trump's 34 guilty counts and their turn against the judicial system.
Listen to the Political Power Hour: https://t.co/3istP54Ja1 pic.twitter.com/2QSxybjku5
— 620 WTMJ (@620wtmj) June 4, 2024
- Sarah Cooper is back with mr Trump’s complaints at suh-suh-salacious details (and, by the way, nothing happened, nothing at all):
(Note: If the sound gives you trouble, try the link)
- Iron Knee at Political Irony has a list of Trump associates. Seems an amazing number are themselves felons.
- Juanita Jean has a small sample of financial weird twists in getting funds for Trump without having to notify the court-assigned monitor.
- Dave Columbo takes a look at Lock Her Up:
- In Right Wing Watch, a jury of 12 citizens convicted mr Trump, so right-wing activist Mark Meckler calls for New York City to be expelled from the United States.
- Trump and cronies have gotten convicted because of overwhelming evidence.
At The Moderate Voice Joe Gandelman covers the new Republican reaction. Democrats will get locked up not because of evidence, but because we’re furious.
My suggestion to Republicans:I see your point.
Two problems:
– The law is the law.
– mr Trump did what he did.— Burr Deming – @BurrLand01@mastodon.world (@BurrLand01) May 31, 2024
- From The Borowitz Report, the new President of Mexico warns of remorseless criminals from the north including one convicted of 34 felonies, yet roaming free.
- Another day, another cease-and-desist letter. News Corpse says mr Trump is angry. Seems a published story details how corporate Trumpers make witness tampering a daily work item.
- There is witness tampering. And then there is Putin:
Yesterday in Moscow, judge Natalya Larina, who had delivered guilty verdicts for plenty of political prisoners, fell out of a window.
Those who, even in secret, criticize the Putin Regime’s system are doomed to drink bad tea or trip near an open window. pic.twitter.com/cDUvn1C6dM
— Jason Jay Smart (@officejjsmart) June 6, 2024
- At The Onion, the Trump boys attempt to bribe a juror with a briefcase full of grape snacks.
- PZ Myers watches clumsy crooks clumsily steal millions from a charity for needy children, so blatantly clumsy they get detected, and so arrogant and clumsy they are easily caught. And it doesn’t stop there. A comically inept clumsy attempt to bribe a juror is promptly reported by the juror.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors adds Wisconsin to the list of states with election fraudsters facing prosecution.
- Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit brings us the coming imprisonment of Steve Bannon.
Why all the delays? He hopes the next President, if he happens to be a felon, will issue him a second pardon.
Key key:
The TOFF is a felon and he is surrounded by felons.
- Vixen Strangely sees the real resource of Trump world: all the bad guys love him.
Key base reason:
There are people out there who view Trump’s supposed “outlaw” image as a good thing, weighing him as a protagonist in the vein of Walter White or Tony Soprano.
Key power reason:
Why do all the bad guys love him? He’s Silly Putty, infinitely manipulable, easily taking on the impression of the last bit of newsprint or comic strip he’s pressed against. He stands for nothing, he’ll fall for anything…
- Dave Dubya looks at MAGA folk and their inability to engage in debate aside from name calling. Defending a known lie as the truth, operating from fear, belief that all who oppose are not just wrong, but are actively evil, are positions not conducive to communication, much less debate.
Instead, everyone who disagrees is a communist.
- The Propaganda Professor shows how Artificial Intelligence can help spread disinformation.
- Libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara brings up hoary old arguments, some we may recognize as originating with Professor William Archibald Dunning in the late 1800s, to defend the electoral college.
To his credit, Michael does acknowledge that the current system is anti-democracy. He sees that as a feature, not a bug. In his view, democracy inevitably leads to Robespierre and Napoleon.
Omitted from his analysis is the original purpose of our strange system of selecting presidents. Demanded by southern plantation owners, its only purpose was to defend and preserve slavery.
- CalicoJack in The Psy of Life takes a deep dive into the coming election and finds ways to decode unintentionally deceptive polls.
- Infidel753 has good news about elections in other lands, this time Mexico and India. Encouraging.
- Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr. of Princeton University is an accomplished academician. He was once president of the American Academy of Religion. He has authored widely respected books on democracy and race.
And he is a political commentator who frequently attacks liberal political figures for not being liberal enough.
He made the news in 2016 with the very public announcement that he would not be voting for Hillary Clinton because she was too moderate.
Still, he was later severely disappointed in White voters for selecting Donald Trump as their President.
Now, he attacks President Biden as too ideologically moderate.
Key academic righteousness:Folks just want you to shut up and toe the line. I refuse. I understand the stakes of this election. I have said as much. But the price of that understanding cannot be silence. I know we have to defeat Trump AND criticize @potus if we think he’s wrong. That’s DEMOCRACY!
— Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (@esglaude) June 5, 2024
driftglass has had enough. He goes step by step, confronting Dr. Glaude with his past.
- The main defense in the Hunter Biden trial seems to be that Hunter believed he was correct in saying on a gun permit application he was no longer using illegal drugs. Only later did he go back to drug use.
Tommy Christopher brings us a Fox host who speculates that Hunter cannot be convicted.
Will this be because the jury will see prosecution evidence of his guilt to be inadequate?
Well, no. It’s this:
The charges have to do with drugs, there are Black members on the jury, and you know how Black people are about drugs.
- Ever hear of The Epoch Times? Seems supernatural. I hear the eye-rolling even as I type the words.
In the past, I would get their unwanted print publication in the mail every once in a blue moon. Now they just clutter my social media with ads hawking pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy warnings.
M. Bouffant at Web of Evil has the links, and the rundown, and the charges of money laundering as the CFO is arrested in a company scheme.
- A couple of extreme conservative professors in Texas are suing the federal government. They want to fail students who travel out of state to get abortions.
Julian Sanchez, on Threads, considers their arguments:Post by @normativeView on Threads - Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger has a three sentence summary of the Supreme Court logic legalizing racial targeting in voting rights.
- Imani Gandy and Jessica Mason Pieklo of Rewire News Group pour through available accounts of the Alito insurrection flag incident and reach a conclusion: Everything about this story stinks.
The conversation is in audio podcast form, but you may prefer a complete transcript (pdf).
- Frances Langum brings us CNN coverage as Michael Flynn calls for one religion in the United States.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz suggests a stumbling block for some of us.
It's impossible to be devoted to the Jesus of the Scriptures, while refusing refugees, expelling immigrants, demonizing Muslims, vilifying people of color, worshiping political power, and neglecting the poor.https://t.co/YvfmeCW3vo
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) June 4, 2024
I have a thought:
2/2
I'm trying to imagine a small family trying to get across the river to save their kid from murderous thugs back in their own country.I'm glad those parents and their baby Jesus never encountered Greg Abbott and his supporters while crossing into Egypt.
— Burr Deming – @BurrLand01@mastodon.world (@BurrLand01) February 2, 2024
- Scotties Playtime has a personal story of Christian non-kindness.
This one is pretty horrible.
- In The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser, former pastor, current atheist, Bruce is asked whether he has ever read and considered non-canonical texts that did not make it into the Bible.
- YellowDog Granny has pictured thoughts on hair, puppies, fun, and the Supreme Court.
- Science fiction author John Scalzi has a thought on culture (good) and snobs (less good).
- Sometimes the greatest finds are hard to credit. Who tracks every step along every path, not knowing which path will lead to unexpected gold?
In this case I lucked out.
Infidel753 (Go on! See what he does!!) occasionally links to bluebird of bitterness (Do click here – lots of wonderfully weird wit), who links to John Branyan, who renders The Three Little Pigs in Shakespearean English, which I shamelessly steal.
Starts out with hyper-creative hilarity, then somehow builds to an unexpected end:
- In Happiness Between Tails da-AL finds strength and inspiration from her guest, actor, author, and publisher Betsy Robinson.
- @whiskeywhistle98 finds a surprisingly soulful sound listening to the Teskey Brothers, a blues rock band from Australia a few years back:
- Clickbait satirist Reductress helpfully tells us how to be less evil and condescending when shown a TikTok we’ve already seen.
- Mark Waulberg (No, not Mark Wahlberg, the other Mark) has a bit of a plumbing problem:
- SilverAppleQueen has cats.
- In Georgia baseball, The Savanna Bananas take another shot at confusing the opposing batter:
I never would have known of the Savanna Bananas if it wasn’t for you – thanks, Burr!
They do crack me up, da-AL.