April 28, 2021
By: Juanita Jean Herownself
I thought y’all would be happy to know that Rudy Giuliani had visitors today.
“Executing a search warrant is an extraordinary move for prosecutors to take against a lawyer, let alone a lawyer for a former president, and it marks a major turning point in the long-running investigation into Mr. Giuliani.”
I wonder if they found the shoe polish he uses on his hair? I mean, face it, that’s gotta be criminal.
The part that struck me hard was this from Giuliana’s lawyer, who was not happy about the raid.
“What they did today was legal thuggery,” Mr. Costello said. “Why would you do this to anyone, let alone someone who was the associate attorney general, United States attorney, the mayor of New York City and the personal lawyer to the 45th president of the United States.”
So, all men are equal under the law except those who got elected?
But there is light at the end of the tunnel. Investigators for the FBI tried to execute these warrants last year.
Under Mr. Trump, senior political appointees in the Justice Department repeatedly sought to block such a warrant, The New York Times reported, slowing the investigation as it was gaining momentum last year. After Merrick B. Garland was confirmed as Mr. Biden’s attorney general, the Justice Department lifted its objection to the search.
The big wheel keeps on turning, Rudy.
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April 28, 2021
By: Nick Carraway
I originally wanted to fold this over into my last post, but instead decided it needed its own space. Tucker Carlson is at it again. Of course, it is all too predictable as Carlson has made a career of throwing bombs just for the attention. Yet, even for him this is completely outrageous and he knows it.
For those that don’t watch his program and don’t want to click on the link, Carlson suggested that if you see children wearing a mask outside that you should immediately call CPS because of the obvious child abuse. Yup, people being extra careful are guilty of child abuse. The problem is plain to see when you peruse the headlines. Carlson is obviously acting in bad faith because he wants the ratings. Other idiots don’t know any better.
While these stories are not directly related, Carlson seems to allow and encourage others to get their crazy on. Anti-maskers don’t necessarily directly relate to anti-vaxxers, but there is definitely a Venn diagram at work here. The ties that bind are the emotion involved in the grift. It entices those that already feel this way to act on their feelings no matter how ill conceived or clearly wrong.
Right on cue, a private school in Florida has decided to ban teachers that have previously gotten the vaccine. The apparent stated reason was related to the anti-vaxxing line of thinking. On the one hand, I suppose a private school can do whatever it wants to do, but the tale has to be the most ridiculous thing anyone has ever heard. That’s of course only true until you listen to Carlson’s clip. Hold my plant based beer I guess.
As I implied in the last piece, there is a special place for those that know better and inflame the passion of idiots anyway. He knows exactly what he is doing and he’s been doing it for years. I can’t even begin to address his argument because it is beneath us to do so. All I can do is sit back in shock at the unmitigated gall.
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April 28, 2021
By: Nick Carraway
It’s difficult walking the tight rope between pointing out obvious shenanigans and avoiding those shenanigans to keep from giving them oxygen. That’s the life of commentating. Ultimately, we are all part of the same game. The name of the game is eyeballs. Once you get them focused on you then you get the sponsorship dollars, the speaking engagements, and the gravitas that comes with relevance.
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April 27, 2021
By: Nick Carraway
We have three stories rattling around the brain today. First, we have Dan Patrick spouting some interesting statistics about African American voters. According to tale, half of the African American population in Texas doesn’t own a car. Therefore, we shouldn’t have drive in voting. That story was already blown up capably by JJ, so I’ll make an overall point here.
The second story involves our very own governor Greg Abbott and other conservatives. It seems Joe Biden wants us all to become vegetarians. A story circulated that he wanted beef consumption to be cut by 90 percent and wanted every American to be limited to four pounds of beef a year. Again, that story was successfully tackled earlier this week.
Finally, you get Larry Kudlow and his complaints about Biden forcing us to drink “plant based beer.” What’s next? Fruit based orange juice? Naturally, I’m sure most of you knew that beer was made from plants even before El Jefe and social media blew that all to bits. Yet, it is amazing how many folks on social media and the interwebs were ready with their pitchforks.
What do these three stories all have in common? They are three easily disprovable mistruths that are being propagated by prominent politicians. Why? Because they can. It’s part of the paradox for a public that has millions if not billions of pieces of information at their fingertips and yet bumbles on with ignorance of a serf during feudal times.
The sociological portion of it is fascinating. We see these periods in history at different points. The invention of the printing press made books affordable for the masses. It can be no coincidence that the period immediately following brought about much strife and lasting change.
We’ve had similar periods throughout history where access to knowledge expanded for one reason or another. The internet was designed originally as a way for academics to exchange ideas more freely. It really wasn’t designed with you and me in mind. Slowly but surely that evolved. We used to pay 20 dollars a month for America Online. Now, we can all access the internet from our smartphones.
It always takes society longer to adjust to technology than it takes for that technology to develop. We increasingly have access to the internet and most people now have high speed internet. That doesn’t mean we are any smarter or wiser about what we read. In fact, you could make the argument that we are collectively less informed even though we have increased access.
It’s a paradox I’m sure we share with those other important points in history when everything changed. It will take time for us to adjust as a society. Maybe someday the common man will have the wherewithal to double check these things. For now, we just have to hope there are enough people with common sense.
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April 26, 2021
By: El Jefe
Larry Kudlow, in one of his addled diatribes, yesterday complained that Biden’s climate plan will force people to drink “plant based beer”, which is interesting since beer is already plant based, it being brewed with hops and malted barley. Kudlow was immediately mocked on social media, and Schumer gleefully joined in. It’s good.
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April 26, 2021
By: El Jefe
Over the weekend, the outrage machine cranked the volume up to 11 over Biden’s new climate change requirement to cut red meat consumption by 90%. Upon hearing the news, right wing social media, fed by Fox Noise, went to DEFCON 4 and began launch sequence. All the usual characters threw wall-eyed fits including Greg Abbott:
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert both followed suit with Greene even calling Biden the “Hamburgler”. The only problem? The story is complete bullshit, fabricated by the London rag The Daily Mail, which then metastasized into a trending story on social media. Snopes did a full report on the claim and rated it False. I wish these clowns would spend the time spent on fake outrage on more important things like education, Medicaid expansion, and avoiding power blackouts, but that’s way too much too expect.
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