1/. Interesting analysis of what the Trump Administration is really up to - feeding white resentment in every possible way.....
White resentment put Donald Trump in the White House. And there is every indication that it will keep him there, especially as he continues to transform that seething, irrational fear about an increasingly diverse America into policies that feed his supporters’ worst racial anxieties.
If there is one consistent thread through Mr. Trump’s political career, it is his overt connection to white resentment and white nationalism. Mr. Trump’s fixation on Barack Obama’s birth certificate gave him the white nationalist street cred that no other Republican candidate could match, and that credibility has sustained him in office — no amount of scandal or evidence of incompetence will undermine his followers’ belief that he, and he alone, could Make America White Again.
The guiding principle in Mr. Trump’s government is to turn the politics of white resentment into the policies of white rage — that calculated mechanism of executive orders, laws and agency directives that undermines and punishes minority achievement and aspiration.
2/. As part of his "New Rules" segment, Bill Maher had an Obama impersonator read Trumps words.....it's funny, but also strangely disturbing.....
eight minutes .....
A Barack Obama impersonator helped Bill Maher to make a point about the GOP and its backing of President Donald Trump on Friday’s “Real Time.”
Maher brought on comedian Reggie Brown to help Republicans “test their theory that they’d be cool with it if some of the crap that’s come out of Trump’s mouth was said by Obama.”
“This may not be the real Obama, but these are really Trump’s words, every one of them verbatim,” Maher said.
3/. If there is any hope of turfing out the Republican clowns in 2018, the Democrats have to change....
The Democrats’ new agenda is everything that’s wrong
with the party
More bland messaging and populist posturing won’t save the Democrats. The party needs to take a bold stand against corporate power.
The story of the Democratic Party in 2017 has been one of timidity and stubborn resistance to real change.
In the immediate aftermath of the party’s preferred candidate facing a humiliating defeat in last year’s presidential election, questions swirled over what direction the party would take to respond to the new political reality. With Democrats at their weakest position in decades, having lost over 1,000 seats in states and Congress over the previous eight years, it appeared that a drastic shift in how the party operated was in store.
And the party was offered an early opportunity to embark on such a shift, with the campaign by Keith Ellison for Democratic National Committee chair. Ellison sported a resume as a bold progressive with popular support from rank-and-file Democrats and party activists alike. And he presented a clear break with the Democratic Party’s traditional establishment.
But rather than embrace the new direction presented by Ellison’s bid, party insiders conspired to instead elect Tom Perez, a candidate with much stronger connections to the party’s establishment wing. The result came as a dispiriting blow to many in the party’s base who hoped for a clear break in Democratic leadership
4/. Stephen Colbert was upset at Lara Trump's [the idiot Eric Trump's wife] new Facebook show "Real News".....so he responded......three very, VERY funny minutes....
Stephen Colbert thinks there is something suspiciously familiar about Lara Trump’s “real news” Facebook broadcast.
On Friday’s “Late Show,” Colbert pointed out the similarities between the first “online propaganda book report” that President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law aired on Sunday ― and his own recurring “Real News Tonight” segment.
“Wait a second,” Colbert said. If Lara Trump’s pro-president show sounds familiar to you, it’s because “‘real news’ is the thing we’ve been doing since Trump got elected where we make up news we think the president would like to see.”
The comedian then imagined what would happen if Lara Trump joined his team as a special correspondent.
5/. And you wonder why you don't get the real news from the corporate media.....
Donald Trump at the GOP debate sponsored by CNN, March 10, 2016. (Reuters / Carlo Allegri)
On July 17, the Idaho television station KBOI tweeted a story about a would-be robber who allegedly “arrives early at banks to find doors locked.” Even more confusing than the indecipherable English was the photo the station ran: that of Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson being arrested at a protest in Baton Rouge (the robbery suspect was not even black). Having had the mistake called to their attention, KBOI apologized, although another story on its website used the same image of Mckesson beneath the headline “Officer wounded in deadly ambush sues Black Lives Matter.”
That KBOI is owned by Sinclair Broadcasting Group should surprise no one who has ever paid attention to the company—a category, alas, that includes precious few people. Sinclair is a far-right media operation that until recently has flown under the radar of all but the most studious media critics.
6/. "The President Show " is on Comedy Central, and it's really clever and spot on......disturbing too.....
Satirist-In-Chief: Anthony Atamanuik Mines Trump’s Darkness For Comedic Gold
His savage executive parody on “The President Show” is as disturbing as it is hilarious.
BRAD BARKET / COMEDY CENTRAL
Atamanuik, with his pitch-perfect Trump impression, is at the center of something unlike anything else on TV: a comic send-up that imagines the now president and former “Apprentice” star hosting another TV show, this one a weekly late-night series in which he holds court with the American people directly from the Oval Office. It’s a bizarro fireside chat perfectly suited for an unhinged political reality.
7/. This week's Newsweek cover...."Lazy Boy".....
8/. A story on "the Great Extinction" in the Permian era, 250 million years ago....
It has been called the “Great Dying.”
The planet’s most profound catastrophe struck 252 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period, killing 90 percent of life in the ocean and 75 percent on land. The fossil record nearly goes silent and remains startlingly impoverished for millions of years: trees disappear, bacteria replace coral reefs, insects hush. What looks like fungus spikes in the fossil record, perhaps the sepulchral rot of a dying world.
It was as close as earth has ever come to being sterilized altogether, and would take 10 million years for the planet to fully recover, setting the stage for the eventual rise of the dinosaurs.
“The End-Permian mass extinction is unique in earth history,” said Seth Burgess, a geologist with the United States Geological Survey. “Nothing else is as severe, and it’s not even close.”
9/. Another excellent Seth Meyers segment, this one on the creepy Stephen Miller....seven amusing and indeed informative minutes....
Seth Meyers gave White House aide Stephen Miller the horror film treatment on Thursday night.
The “Late Night” host unloaded on Miller for defending President Donald Trump’s push for a bill restricting legal immigration and criticized him for his testy exchanges with reporters.He looks like the guy in a prison movie who’s in for eating his family: ‘I miss mother. She was delicious,’” Meyers joked. “He looks like the hitchhiker other hitchhikers stay away from. His catch-phrase is, ‘I didn’t mean to startle you.’ Stephen Miller knows what you did last summer!”
Although many considered Miller’s interactions with the press corps on Wednesday to be problematic and devoid of substantive responses, Fox News’ Sean Hannity and White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders seemed quite pleased with his behavior.
10/. London will have a new underground tube line soon - the Elizabeth Line......interesting story on the construction of this very expensive feat of engineering...
Before Britain voted last summer to leave the European Union, Crossrail was conceived for a London open to the world and speeding into the future. Now, with Brexit, the nightmare scenario is that this massive project, to provide more trains moving more people more quickly through a growing city, ends up moving fewer people more quickly through a shrinking city.
Crossrail was built by a Britain whose strength grew, for better and worse, out of a longstanding, stodgy but reliable confidence that the country knew itself and where it hoped to go in the century ahead. It is no longer even certain that Prime Minister Theresa May will survive the year.
It was an especially unpromising sign this spring when Mrs. May’s Conservative government, as if fearing exactly what anti-Brexiters predicted about an economic downturn, issued a campaign manifesto that conspicuously omitted funding for Crossrail 2, the long-planned, $39 billion critical north-south sequel to Crossrail’s east-west line.
11/. A Mockumentary movie trailer on the "supposed" bad boys of food marketing.....it's an ironic and mildly amusing three minutes....
Want to know how foods like kale, quinoa or wheatgrass became all the rage in the health food industry? Well, take your curiosity elsewhere, that’s not what this fake trailer is about.
Mockumentarians Alex Dobrenko and Phil Kaye of comedy duo Thanks Laura show you a funnier, alternate universe featuring two health food pioneers responsible for milk made from nut, the demise of Big Gluten and every health food fad you’ve ever thrown your money at.
The faux documentary trailer follows the rise of two health food marketing gurus, from their early “Got Milk?” days back in the 1990s to their ingenious idea for getting people to eat wheatgrass.
“People hate grass, but you know what they love?” the two actors said in character for the trailer. “Shots! Cha-ching!”
12/. I found myself riveted by this nine minute NYT Op-Doc, called "Drive In Jesus".....about a "church" in Daytona Beach that has drive in services......look at the faces!
Todays Jewish joke
An Arab had spent many days crossing the desert without finding a source of water. It got so bad that even his camel died of thirst.
He crawled through the sands, certain that he was breathing his last breath, when suddenly, he saw a shiny object sticking out of the sand several yards ahead of him.
He crawled to the object, pulled it out of the sand, and discovered that he had a Manischewitz wine bottle.
It appeared that there may be a drop or two left in the bottle, so he unscrewed the top, and out popped a genie.
BUT this was no ordinary Genie. This genie appeared to be a Chasidic Rabbi, complete with black alpaca coat, black hat, side curls, and tzitzis.
'Vell kid,' said the genie, 'you know how it voiks. You got tree vishes.'
'I'm not going to trust you,' says the Arab. 'I'm not going to trust a Jewish genie!'
'Vott you got to lose? Looks ta me - you're a goner anyvay!'
The Arab thought about this for a minute, and decided that the genie was right. 'Okay, I wish I were in a lush oasis, with plentiful food and drink.'
* * * * * * * P O O F! * * * * * * * * *
The Arab found himself in the most beautiful oasis he had ever seen and he was surrounded with jugs of wine and platters of delicacies.
'Okee-dokee kiddo, vat's your second vish?'
'My second wish is that I were rich beyond my wildest dreams.'
* * * * * * * P O O F !!* * * * * * * *
The Arab found himself surrounded by treasure chests filled with rare old coins and precious gems.
'Okay kid, you got just vone more vish. Best you should make it a good vone!'
After thinking for a few minutes, the Arab says, 'I wish that no matter where I go, beautiful women will always need and want me!'
* * * * * * * P O O F!!! * * * * * * * * *
He was turned into a tampon.
THE MORAL OF THE STORY:
If you're an Arab doing business with a Jewish genie, there's going to be a string attached.
Todays gun nut joke
You may have heard on the news about a Southern California man who was put under 72-hour psychiatric observation when it was found he owned 100 guns; and allegedly had 100,000 rounds of ammunition stored in his home. The house also featured a secret escape tunnel.- By Southern California standards, someone owning 100,000 rounds is considered "mentally unstable."- In Arizona, he'd be called "an avid gun collector."- In Arkansas, he'd be called "a novice gun collector."- In Utah, he'd be called "moderately well prepared," but they'd probably reserve judgment until they made sure that he had a corresponding quantity of stored food.- In Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, he'd be "A guy down the road you would want to have for a friend." - In Montana, he'd be called "The neighborhood 'Go-To' guy."- In Alabama, he'd be called "a likely gubernatorial candidate."- In Georgia, he'd be called "an eligible bachelor."- In North Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky and Sou th Carolina he would be called "a deer hunting buddy.” - And in Texas he'd just be "Bubba, who's a little short on ammo."
Todays homeless golfer joke....
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