The people who write for Stephen Colbert are brilliant.
I hope you’ll check out their take on Rep. Andrew Clyde’s statement that he didn’t see an insurrection at the Capitol, and likened the event to a “normal tourist visit.”
Wow.
From this: Donald Trump was merely the trial run intended to show far more intelligent and capable wanna-be fascists how to do it, Tucker Carlson certainly being among them. Given his recent antics on his television show, it seems safe to assume that Carlson is indeed aiming for bigger things, and the left needs to prepare for what his potential run would look like.
Until 2015 when Trump came on the political scene, there was an unwritten rule that a candidate for U.S. President had to be a decent human being, and needed credentials that would at least suggest some capability in handling foreign and domestic affairs. Of course, all that’s gone now, but are we really ready for a Fox News anchor?
Fox News frequently finds itself on the wrong end of defamation law suits, which it combats with a single and historically effective response: We are not news; the material we present is not factual, and any reasonable person knows that.
Tucker Carlson is to journalism what professional wrestling is to sports. His job is to entertain, each evening, with an hour-long segment of hateful lies.
Have we fallen as a nation? Obviously. Have we sunk to this? Sorry, Tucker, you are a spoiled, detestable turd, no we haven’t.
The illustration here comes from “The Story of Stuff” project, whose efforts in environmental and social justice are legendary.
This civilization is having the devil’s own time dealing with waste plastic. There are now 4 trillion pieces of plastic in our oceans, soon to outnumber the entire population of fish.
The issue is a blend of corporate greed and consumer indifference.
Americans used about 50 billion plastic water bottles last year. However, the U.S.’s recycling rate for plastic is only 9 percent (and declining), which means over 40 billion water bottles – more than $1 billion worth of plastic – are wasted each year.
Bottled water companies keep pumping them out, and consumers keep buying them. One side or the other, preferably both, need to back off. Unfortunately, that’s not part of the American zeitgeist right now.
Someone sent me this: (Pictured here) Congresswoman Liz Cheney leaves the U.S. Capitol today after being bounced from the GOP House leadership for daring to tell the truth about the Jan. 6th insurrection. She said, “I will do everything I can to ensure that the former president never again gets anywhere near the Oval Office.” Cheney is taking up where John McCain left off in the honesty and integrity category. She is the new maverick on the Hill. (more…)
From Bloomberg:
Eleven Madison Park, a top Manhattan restaurant, is going meatless. The Epicurious cooking site stopped posting new beef recipes. The Culinary Institute of America is promoting “plant-forward” menus. Dozens of colleges, including Harvard and Stanford, are shifting toward “climate-friendly” meals.
If this continues — and the Boston Consulting Group and Kearney believe the trend is global and growing — beef could be the new coal, shunned by elite tastemakers over rising temperatures and squeezed by increasingly cheap alternatives. (more…)
As you check out the cartoon below, keep in mind that these are the people defending treason.
There is an entirely different set of Republicans committing it.
As you read the sickening gibberish below, ask yourself how it’s possible that a successful country, in fact, the most affluent country in the history of the human civilization, elected this man to run the show.
Of course, we apparently do have voters who think that Biden should be held accountable for the hacking of a private oil company’s pipeline.
From this post: This was done so professionally it even lists the Correlation Coefficient. We bet the college degree snobs would argue Trump’s supporters have no clue what that is. But hey, at least they have no college debt.
The Correlation Coefficient (“R”) is one of the measurements of the strength of the relationship that exists between two variables. A CC of 0.5 is moderate, but as we can see here, it’s quite visible. (more…)
Someone sent me this meme featuring California Governor Gavin Newsom with the note: He truly is bonkers. Everything he touches winds up in misery.
Well, maybe not everything.
There is the budget surplus of $75.7 billion. The state is rolling in money. (more…)
More good news. From National Public Radio:
