Good Morning. The Thursday Open Thread has been though a complete annual cycle under my voice. It is time for new thoughts and new directions. Next week Magiamma will start as caretaker of Thursday mornings.
Former CIA Director and current Secretary of State Mike Pompeo faced an angry Senate panel led by "NeverTrump Bob" Corker (R-TN) and "Sleazy Bob" Menendez (D-NJ) today and gave less than satisfactory answers (according to The Two Bobs) about Trump's private meeting with Evil Undemocratic Dictator Vladimir Putin (77% re-election win in 2018). Comments by The Two Bobs are best characterized as "Wah!! You're a big mean poopy-pants!!"
Big headline yesterday concerned the further the decimation of print news, "Tronc Fires Half the Staff of the New York Daily News in Latest Attack on Local Journalism." Juan Gonzalez of Democracy Now said,
BREAKING: GOP lawmakers introduce articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 25, 2018
Recently at the Georgia Aquarium, Tom Perez, the Democratic National Committee chairman, decided to do something long overdue.
From F. William Engdahl July 23: ‘Son of Frankenstein? UK Body Backs Human Embryo Gene Editing’
I’m posting this because:
1) it’s a prime illustration of how out-of-control this Trump derangement syndrome is and how EVERYTHING has become proof for the Clinton/DNC zealots that it was the RUSSIANS!! and not Americans that put Trump in the White House.
[video:https://youtu.be/O47wS9Sgi60]
Latest Video rant (text below)
The corporate media, and that includes NPR and PBS with their hundreds of corporate sponsors, including Exxon and the Koch Brothers, shape the narrative of what is and isn't considered news you need to know every day. And much of what they do report is either heavily slanted, sensationalized crap or complete BS.
The McResistance may oppose Donald Trump, but they love that big capitalist donor money.
Maxine Waters made it clear today where her loyalties lie.
