The Un-Poodling Of The Press

And thus it starts. Some of the Press Poodles have finally had enough, and they're actually calling some the liars on their lies - sometimes live, in real time, on the air.

Don Lemon smacks Jack Kingston:

Jake Tapper points out some of 45*'s malarkey:

And I'm hoping to be a little hopeful that maybe kinda sorta we're seeing the Poodles pushing back against the False Equivalence bullshit - bullshit, btw, that they've been pimping right along with assholes like 45* and his asshole acolytes like Jack Kingston.

Obviously, they're not there yet, but I'll give the 4th Estate a baby bulldog today instead of the usual rainbow poodle.

Way to go, guys. 

We are trying to be not so fucked(?)

Cakin' It

Weekend Update Summer Edition:

And in case it's blocked, here's the URL

He Has No Soul

"He is the malevolent fury..."

Lawrence O'Donnell with Bill Moyers

And here are some of the art pieces Lawrence referred to:

hat tip = Walker Thornton

Monday, August 21, 2017

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August 21, 2017:

Another dark day in the U.S. with a solar eclipse

But @stockholm_act starts that day 😀pic.twitter.com/IBI0enY3yP

— Alexander Verbeek 🌍 (@Alex_Verbeek) April 3, 2017

Trumpy Bear

Like everybody else, I keep thinking it just can't get any weirder - and then it does.

I have no idea if this is a real thing, but here it is.

The company peddling this thing is apparently real - looks that way anyway.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste or intelligence of the American consumer.

A Letter

Stonewall Jackson - Monument Avenue, Richmond VA

From 2 direct descendants of Stonewall Jackson.

Slate, Jack Christian and Warren Christian - Monuments Must Go

We are native Richmonders and also the great, great grandsons of Stonewall Jackson. As two of the closest living relatives to Stonewall, we are writing today to ask for the removal of his statue, as well as the removal of all Confederate statues from Monument Avenue. They are overt symbols of racism and white supremacy, and the time is long overdue for them to depart from public display. Overnight, Baltimore has seen fit to take this action. Richmond should, too.

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Confederate monuments like the Jackson statue were never intended as benign symbols. Rather, they were the clearly articulated artwork of white supremacy. Among many examples, we can see this plainly if we look at the dedication of a Confederate statue at the University of North Carolina, in which a speaker proclaimed that the Confederate soldier “saved the very life of the Anglo-Saxon race in the South.” Disturbingly, he went on to recount a tale of performing the “pleasing duty” of “horse whipping” a black woman in front of federal soldiers. All over the South, this grotesque message is conveyed by similar monuments. As importantly, this message is clear to today’s avowed white supremacists.

As is usually the case here in USAmerica Inc, we get hung up on the symbol itself - or we get too use to feeling comfortable with the hagiographic bullshit swirling around those symbols - and we forget about what the damned thing actually stands for.

Participation Trophies.

Jefferson Davis - Monument Avenue, Richmond VA

JEB Stuart - Monument Avenue, Richmond VA

Robert E Lee - Monument Avenue, Richmond VA

That Funny Aussie Guy

Jim Jefferies

"A name so American I can't even pronounce it."

Today's GIF

It's like a warning flasher. I wonder if somebody could develop a lapel pin like this.

Today's Tweet

Learn sumpthin', bubba

Let us be clear.
Putting the statues up in the first place was "sanitizing history."
What's going on now is fumigating history.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) August 16, 2017

Keith

How far from acceptable

Watch this video on The Scene.