1/ We'll get over this, but this story looks ahead to the next would-be dictator........
Coup or coup not, there was definitely a try. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images
The United States has survived the 2020 election and its seemingly never-ending and increasingly bizarre aftermath. Efforts by Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the courts met abject failure at almost every turn even as a number of Republican elected officials and Republican voters embraced them. The most apocalyptic scenarios that some scholars worried about before the election did not come to pass.
https://nymag.com/
2/ A clever deep fake Christmas broadcast from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth...very well done, about five minutes....
Note this has caused a lot of controversy in the UK....
3/ The "Karen" incidents this year were actually quite useful in causing a frank discussion of white privilege and systemic racism....
There was no direct connection between the “Central Park Karen” incident in New York City and the police killing of 46-year-old George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, beyond the coincidence of timing. Time in the pandemic has been elastic and confusing, and reports of the separate incidents did not emerge immediately, but the two events occurred on Monday 25 May, Memorial Day.
4/ The Lincoln Project with a new ad "Pence"....apparently Trump saw this ad and started tweeting about Pence....awwwww, what a shame...
5/ Frank Bruni with a good column from the Times, on how Biden has an impossible task....
The year will turn, Joe Biden will take the oath of office, and we’llheal.
That was the fundamental promise of his campaign, no? That was the hope.
But I’m struggling mightily to hold on to even a sliver of it.
6/ Treason's greetings it is indeed....
7/ What's Trump going to do in the next three weeks? Who knows....he is mad after all....
And it’s getting to the point now among rabid Trump supporters where anyone close to the President who is advising him against doing a coup, is seen as being — and probably always having been — part of an ever-existing, ever-broadening plot against Trump. Which means that Trump’s lies are still working on them at least, which means there are a heck of a lot of people who are completely susceptible to propaganda out there.
8/ Are you a fan of insults? Savour these.....deliciously evil....
"Mike Pence you repressed joyless would-be witchfinder, every time you spoke you
always looked like you were straining to expel an enormous bolus of your own hypocrisy
from your clenched sphincter.
“Betsy DeVos you blandly foolish soulless entitled child-stealing witch, rotting like a corpse
inside your Chanel suit.
“All the generals, you spineless buzz-cut phallus-brained plastic Spartans fawning and
wriggling to distract yourself from your moral cowardice.
“Kayleigh McEnenay, you evacuated husk of a mean-girl cheerleader, the cavity wh
ere your heart once was pumped full of spite and moronic lies.
“Bill Barr you vast pompous pus-filled bladder of casuistry, you are an enemy of
justice, bloated with resentment and cruelty, wobbling like a jelly at the feet of the oligarchs.
“Jared Kushner, you vacuous dainty preening overpromoted nub of mediocrity,
squeezed like an entitled smear of toothpaste into a silk suit bought with tear-stained
dollars wrung out of the suffering tenants of your slum apartments.
“Ivanka Trump, you monstrous slug of vanity, you infantile ninny so marinaded in
self-regard that in your pea brain you believe we ought to love you for your crimes.
“Mike Pompeo, you bubble, you booby, you flatulent zero, that roiling in your ample
guts that you mistake for world shaking significance is just the acid reflux of irrelevancy.
“Don Junior, you scabrous single-nostriled unloved elephant-murdering human wreckage,
vibrating with bitterness and impotent rage at all the opportunities you’ve squandered.
“Sarah Sanders, you crude hulking beetle-browed bully, working your multiple chins as
you masticated another stinking quid of falsity, spitting again and again on the people you
were supposed to inform.
“Interlude: all you staffers and interns, so eager to crunch your way in your shiny new work
shoes over the bodies of the poor and powerless, I smite you and cast you out one by one.
“Eric Trump, you pallid clammy suppurating nocturnal semi-human grub, your absence of
charisma is your only notable trait and the act of flushing you from memory will so be smooth
and painless that in a month people will find it hard to picture your moon face.
“Rudy Giuliani, you capering cartoonish skull-faced bag of graft and corruption, too stupid even
to ask who’s pulling your strings just so long as you can cake your crusty face in tv make-up and
clack your jaw at a camera.
“And of course Stephen Miller, you weeping pustule upon the social body, you dreg, you homunculus,
you noxious slime felched from the gaping cavity of Jim Crow, one day may you find yourself walking
THE NICE MAN
BECAME IMPATIENT
A man was riding a bus, minding his own business, when
BIOLOGY EXAM
Students in an advanced
Biology class were taking their mid-term exam. The last
question was, 'Name seven advantages of Mother's
Milk. The question was worth 70 points or none at
all.
One student, was hard
put to think of seven advantages. He wrote:
barefoot across hot sand, desperate for water, crying for your missing child.
9/ The Democratic party is splintering already, and Benjamin Studebaker gives us some of the issues.....interesting, this is all new to
me and have not seen this anywhere else....also, who is Jimmy Dore? Read on....
The American left is finally discussing Medicare-For-All strategy again, thanks to Jimmy Dore’s suggestion that House Democrats could demand a floor vote on the legislation in exchange for backing Nancy Pelosi’s next term as Speaker. For too long, we haven’t been discussing our substantive goals and the available strategies for pursuing them. We’ve been locked in grim, repetitive discussions of coronavirus and the presidential election. But Dore got Medicare-For-All back on the front burner.
10/ Bad Lip Reading with the Best Of the NFL.....a most amusing four minutes....
11/ Chicago police and blacks....it just gets worse. Cops raid the wrong apartment and handcuff a naked woman, leaving her standing
unclothed for a half an hour with a dozen cops milling around....a very disturbing video from CBS News....
In 2019, a Black social worker was in her home when Chicago police burst through the door and handcuffed her while she was naked in a raid meant for another apartment in her complex. Now, Anjanette Young is calling for justice after Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot's law department tried to prevent CBS Chicago from airing the footage nearly two years later.
12/ Tom Tomorrow with Trumpmas....
13/ Paul Krugman with a column about the relief bill that Trump has finally signed.....
The not-a-stimulus deal Congress reached over the weekend — seriously, this is about disaster relief, not boosting the economy — didn’t come a moment too soon. Actually, it came much too late: Crucial aid to many unemployed Americans and businesses expired months ago. But now some of that aid is back, for a while.
14/ Last week's SNL opening monologue with Kristen Wiig, joined in song by Maya Rudolph
and Kate McKinnon.....really good, six minutes....
15/ Venice is in trouble, and the very expensive floodgates they just finished won't save the city.....see it soon!
On November 3, 1966, a storm propelled by a warm Saharan wind shot up the Adriatic, pummeling northern and central Italy with rain. Venice flooded, as it had, regularly, forever. By the next morning, though, it was clear that this was no ordinary dunking, but a biblical-scale event.
16/ A bonus Tom Tomorrow.....
17/ Most amusing - Fauchi on a Couchi, your own Covid commando for your home....one minute...
18/ Michael Cohen with some predictions of what Trump will do next, from the lawyer who knows him best....
Nearly three and a half years ago, I sat across from Michael Cohen in a bustling coffee shop in the Hamptons, and over dry toast and egg whites, he told me, unequivocally and unprovoked, that he would take a bullet for Donald Trump. He felt like a member of the Trump family, or, at least that’s what he wanted to convey to a reporter taking down his every word. So much has changed since then, least of all that I’d now kill to feel safe in a busy greasy spoon.
19/ I've seen this at least four times, and it's still hysterically funny....."Meet Your Second Wife" from Amy Poehler
and Tina Fey.....four minutes....
20/ A heartbreaking story from an ICU nurse who has seen it all....
As an ICU nurse I have seen a lot of tragedy and trauma in my career. Human suffering is everywhere in a critical care unit. Nurses are accustomed to suffering, our patients' and our own, as we carry out our job. We are well versed in being uncomfortable.
21/ EW's best and worst movies of 2020....
22/ Rolling Stone with the best TV of 2020...
Today's video - time for some Clint moments......four minutes of some internet guys' opinion
of his five greatest scenes.....
Today's senior jokes
BIRTH CONTROL FOR GRANDMA
The doctor that had been
seeing an 80-year-old woman for most of her life finally
retired. At her next checkup, the new doctor told her
to bring a list of all the medicines that had been
prescribed for her.
As the doctor was looking through these, his eyes grew wide as he realized
seeing an 80-year-old woman for most of her life finally
retired. At her next checkup, the new doctor told her
to bring a list of all the medicines that had been
prescribed for her.
As the doctor was looking through these, his eyes grew wide as he realized
Grandma had a prescription for birth control pills.
"Mrs. Smith, do you
realize these are BIRTH CONTROL Pills?
"Yes, they help me sleep at night."
"Mrs. Smith, I assure you there is absolutely NOTHING in these that could
possibly help you sleep!"
She reached out and patted the young Doctor's knee...."Yes, dear, I
know that. But every morning, I grind one up and mix it in
the glass of orange juice that my 16 year old granddaughter
drinks. and believe me, it definitely helps me sleep at
night."
"Mrs. Smith, do you
realize these are BIRTH CONTROL Pills?
"Yes, they help me sleep at night."
"Mrs. Smith, I assure you there is absolutely NOTHING in these that could
possibly help you sleep!"
She reached out and patted the young Doctor's knee...."Yes, dear, I
know that. But every morning, I grind one up and mix it in
the glass of orange juice that my 16 year old granddaughter
drinks. and believe me, it definitely helps me sleep at
night."
THE NICE MAN
BECAME IMPATIENT
A man was riding a bus, minding his own business, when
the gorgeous woman next to him started to breast-feed her baby.
The baby wouldn't take it, so she said, "Come on sweetie, eat it all up
or I'll have to give it to this nice man next to us."
Five minutes later, the baby was still not feeding, so
or I'll have to give it to this nice man next to us."
Five minutes later, the baby was still not feeding, so
she said, "Come on, honey. Take it or I'll give it to this
nice man here."
A few minutes later, the anxious man blurted out, "Come on kid.
A few minutes later, the anxious man blurted out, "Come on kid.
Make up your mind! I was supposed to get off four stops
ago!"
ago!"
BIOLOGY EXAM
Students in an advanced
Biology class were taking their mid-term exam. The last
question was, 'Name seven advantages of Mother's
Milk. The question was worth 70 points or none at
all.
One student, was hard
put to think of seven advantages. He wrote:
1) It is perfect formula
for the child.
for the child.
2) It provides immunity
against several diseases.
against several diseases.
3) It is always the
right temperature.
right temperature.
4) It is inexpensive.
5) It bonds the child to
mother, and vice versa.
mother, and vice versa.
6) It is always
available as needed.
available as needed.
And then the student was
stuck. Finally, in desperation, just before the bell rang
indicating the end of the test, he wrote:
stuck. Finally, in desperation, just before the bell rang
indicating the end of the test, he wrote:
7) It comes in two
attractive containers and it's high enough off the
ground where the cat can't get it.
He got an A.
attractive containers and it's high enough off the
ground where the cat can't get it.
He got an A.
A RIDE IN THE TAXI
A woman and her twelve-year-old son were riding in a taxi in Detroit. It was
raining and all the prostitutes were standing under
awnings.
Mom," said he boy, "what are all those women
doing?"
"They're waiting for their husbands to get off work," she
replied.
The taxi driver turns around and says, "Geez lady, why don't you tell him
the Truth? They're hookers, boy! They have sex with men
for money."
The little boy's eyes get wide and he says, "Is that true
Mom?"
His mother, glaring hard
at the driver, answers "Yes".
After a few minutes, the
kid asks, "Mom, if those women have babies, what
happens to them?"
She said, "Most of
them become taxi drivers."
A woman and her twelve-year-old son were riding in a taxi in Detroit. It was
raining and all the prostitutes were standing under
awnings.
Mom," said he boy, "what are all those women
doing?"
"They're waiting for their husbands to get off work," she
replied.
The taxi driver turns around and says, "Geez lady, why don't you tell him
the Truth? They're hookers, boy! They have sex with men
for money."
The little boy's eyes get wide and he says, "Is that true
Mom?"
His mother, glaring hard
at the driver, answers "Yes".
After a few minutes, the
kid asks, "Mom, if those women have babies, what
happens to them?"
She said, "Most of
them become taxi drivers."
Todays golf joke
A group of men live and die for their Saturday morning golf game. One man transfers to another city and they're lost without him.
At the same time, a woman joins their Club. When she hears the guys talking about their golf round, she says, "I played on my college's golf team and was pretty good. Mind if I join you next week?"
No one wants to say 'yes', but they're on the spot. Finally, one man says "Okay, but we start at 6:30 a.m.". He figures the early tee-time will discourage her.
The woman says this may be a problem, and asks if she can be up to 15 minutes late.
They roll their eyes, but say, "Okay". She's there at 6:30 a.m. sharp, and beats them with an eye-opening 2-under par round. She's fun and pleasant and the guys are impressed. They congratulate her and invite her back the next week. She smiles, and says, "I'll be there at
6:30 or 6:45."
The next week she again shows up at 6:30 sharp. This time, she plays left-handed. The 3 guys are incredulous - she beats them with an even par round, despite playing with her off-hand.
They're totally amazed.
They can't figure her out. She's very pleasant and a gracious winner.They invite her again, but each man harbors a burning desire to beat her.
The third week, she's 15 minutes late, which irritates the guys. This week she plays right-handed, and narrowly beats all of them. The men grumble that her late arrival is petty gamesmanship on her part.
However, she's so charming and complimentary of their strong play, they can't hold a grudge.
This woman is a riddle no one can figure out. They have a few beers in the Clubhouse, and finally, one of the men asks her, "How do you decide if you're going to golf right-handed or left-handed?"
The lady blushes and grins. "When my Dad taught me to play golf, I learned I was ambidextrous," she replies "I like to switch back and forth."
She continued, "When I married after college, I discovered my husband sleeps in the nude. From then on, I developed a silly habit. Before I leave in the morning for golf practice, I pull the covers off him. If his Willie points to the right, I golf right-handed. If it points to the left, I golf left-handed."
The guys think this is hysterical. Astonished at this bizarre information, one of the guys asks, "What if it's pointing straight up?"
She replies, "Then, I'm fifteen minutes late."
