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Weapons of Mass Distractions
Attribution: Republicans in disarray by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com
51 thoughts on “Weapons of Mass Distractions”
GOP infighting has turned the halls of Congress into a fight club, the U.S. and China set low expectations for the Biden-Xi meeting, and the new House Speaker took heat from his own party after passing a government spending bill with help from Democrats.
The Senate on Wednesday passed legislation to extend funding for federal agencies, sending the bill to avert a government shutdown to President Biden’s desk just days before the weekend deadline.
The bill, which passed by an 87-11 vote, represents a marked de-escalation between congressional Democrats and new House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.). Without the new spending measure, called a continuing resolution or CR, the government would have shut down just after midnight Saturday, forcing federal workers — including military members and airport security agents — to work without pay or go on furlough on the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday.
[…]
“I have good news for the American people: This Friday night, there will be no government shutdown,” Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said on the Senate floor Wednesday evening. “Because of bipartisan cooperation, we are keeping the government open.”
The legislation finances the government at current spending levels and staggers expiration dates for the funding. Roughly 20 percent of the federal government would be financed through Jan. 19 and the remaining 80 percent until Feb. 2.
The structure had drawn ridicule from Senate Democrats almost up until the moment they agreed to vote for it. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), chair of the Appropriations Committee, called it “the craziest, stupidest thing I’ve ever heard of.” Schumer on Tuesday called the bifurcated deadlines “goofy.”
[…]
Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) said he was happy to vote for the resolution if it meant placating the volatile House, which he often describes as the “kids’ table” of Congress.
“If it makes the kids happy, then what the heck?” Rounds said. “It’s Thanksgiving, and you know what? If you want to eat your dessert before you eat your turkey, that’s fine. But it will make it a bigger problem down the road.”
House Democrats claimed the package as a win — and a way to leave Washington early to celebrate the holiday.
“No spending cuts, no right-wing extreme policy changes, no government shutdown, no votes tomorrow,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) told reporters. “Happy Thanksgiving.”
Indeed, the House recessed early Wednesday and won’t return until the week after next.
[continues]
Is Congress okay? (I should say, specifically, congressmen and, more specifically, Republicans.) What is happening?
They are fighting now? There is some sort of fight club going on, as far as I can tell, if reports of three separate incidents on Capitol Hill on the same day are to be believed. (Okay, one of those might have been one lawmaker telling another, “You look like a Smurf,” but the others had more of a violence vibe.) Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), a former MMA fighter, challenged the head of the Teamsters union to throw down in the middle of a committee hearing on Tuesday. Elsewhere, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) allegedly “shoved” Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.). I know that people are always asking questions like, “Are men okay?” and I think the word “Congress” can easily be added to those sentences. Seriously, are congressmen okay? What are congressmen doing? Why are congressmen acting like this?
Some of them are apparently taking a page out of the Preston Brooks playbook — you do NOT want to be taking a page out of the Preston Brooks playbook; it is a bad playbook — and whaling on one another openly, or threatening to? (That can’t be the right spelling of “whaling,” can it?) Do you know what happened to the country after Preston Brooks started hitting Charles Sumner with a cane on the floor of the Senate? It was not good, that’s for sure.
The last thing we need right now is to see a headline like “Congressman Jabs Opponent” or “Congressman Pushes Back” or “Congressman Fights Potential Nominees” and be UNABLE TO TELL WHETHER IT CONTAINS METAPHORS. Do you know what a devastating impact this would have on the day-to-day vocabulary of congressional correspondents? Now, every time I see a member of Congress is making a motion to the floor, or, worse, a motion to table, I will be nervous. Motions to vacate the chair will seem even more ominous!
Once you let the metaphor out, it doesn’t come back in so easily. It is like a bagged cat that way.
Are we going to start getting fundraising emails from our elected representatives with subject lines like: “THE FIRST RULE OF CONGRESSIONAL FIGHT CLUB” and body text like, “Dear Constituent, I need protective garb if I’m going to be able to legislate! It’s a ‘Mad Max’ situation on the floor of the Senate, and if I want to get my bill out of Appropriations, I’m going to have to fight it out!”
“P.S. Please don’t tell Kevin McCarthy I talked about Fight Club; I am not supposed to!”
Is this yet another thing I am going to have to worry about when sending people to Congress — that they will have to be able to hold their own if other lawmakers come at them from behind with a folding chair?
Come on. This is not the criteria I want to consider when electing someone to represent me in the nation’s legislature. I think we have been selecting for the wrong skill set for some time now, sending the people most enraged by the notion that Congress occasionally passes legislation. I understand that many lawmakers are not there to pass legislation and that they need other ways to spend time. But I never thought they would start physically challengingone another.
“If I kidney-punched him, he’d be on the ground. … Let’s be realistic,” McCarthy, formerly speaker of the House, actually told reporters after Burchett claimed McCarthy elbowed him in the back. To adapt a line from Gore Vidal, “Once again, Kevin McCarthy fails at speaking.” He is just pushing — specifically Burchett.
I understand that there are limits to using your words, and that, for many of these congressmen, those limits are reached early. And an uncharitable but fair thing you could say about this Congress is that it is like you threw a party and the theme was “collect in a room all the people least likely to legislate.” But come on.
I look away from Congress for one fraction of an instant and suddenly they are carrying on like a Hieronymus Bosch painting? This is Congress now? I am tired.
Don’t think it’s been said enough: Republicans tossing out Cheney — first from House leadership and then from office altogether — is among the leading indicators the GOP is not a real political party anymore, just a bunch of thugs.
Liz Cheney
@Liz_Cheney
Yesterday, Speaker Johnson suggested Trump could ignore rulings by 61 courts & defy our Constitution because Trump supposedly “believed” he won. Mike knows the election was not stolen and that a President who defies the rulings of our courts & attempts to seize power is a tyrant.
7:03 PM · Nov 15, 2023
speaking of turkeys, a plea for let’s enjoy and celebrate Thanksgiving before jingling bells and dreaming of white christmas songs are heard throughout the land.
Once again, Biden vote way above approval in same poll, same respondents. His approval rating always irrelevant in matchups against Trump.
10pts above his approval rating
this is the time for age-old songs like “over the river and thru the woods” and “come ye thankful, people, come” and
Adam Sandler and Kevin Nealon sing a comical ditty celebrating Thanksgiving, how much he loves to eat turkey and peppering in facts that happen to rhyme with what he’s talking about. [Season 18, 1992]
elon ‘bout to have a worse day than me, so dumb
fun/weird/sad
…succinct description of life, in general
—Bink
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
—Quentin Crisp
While I’m on Mr Quentin.
There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.
—Quentin Crisp
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It’s cheaper.
—Quentin Crisp
“So, be diligent with masking if concerned, but double-down on the hand-sanitizer and don’t touch your face is my advice”
wise counsel, Bink.
“Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It’s cheaper.”
…or deport them and confiscate their stuff, that’s the fascist way.
A fair share of anything is a starvation diet to an egomaniac.
Ukraine has claimed initiative in Black Sea and forced Russian navy to pull back, Zelenskiy says
The president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said on Thursday that Ukraine had seized the initiative from Russia in the Black Sea and forced Russia’s naval fleet to pull back in the eastern part of the sea.
“For the first time in the world, it was in the Black Sea that a fleet of naval drones began to operate – a Ukrainian fleet,” Zelenskiy wrote on the Telegram.
“I would also like to note that now – as one of the main results of our actions – Russia is unable to use the Black Sea as a springboard to destabilise other regions of the world.”
Russia lost that war the minute Joe Biden won in 2020. Russia in hanging on was just hoping for a 2024 reprieve.
Russia was throwing the dice and crapped out.
Thanks, Joe Biden.
Tuberville, JD Vance, and Rand Paul are Russian stooges….no more, no less.
The gop have set their sights and bet their all on the pumpkin’s winning in his war against democracy. They are slowly, one by one, realizing that they have backed the wrong horse, are now in deep shit, and that Russia is not going to save them.
Pompey soon will flee and take those senators with him. No self-respecting Govt-in-exile can do without senators.
One rat spotted fleeing the burning ship along a burning rope onto a burning wharf: George Santos reportedly not seeking re-election.
If he did say that, he was probably lying.
”Tuberville, JD Vance, and Rand Paul are Russian stooges….no more, no less.”
Sturge, don’t forget Moscow Mitch. We’d be out of this maga-mess (and onto a different maga-mess) if only Mitch had not ducked his duty when the opportunity came to deep six the Donald. He knew then and he knows now.
I’m proud of that union guy in his exchange with Okie Mullin. He didn’t flinch, blink, or back up one iota. I’d bet he surprised the crap out of Mullin. Mullin had no choice then but to lose his shit.
That was beautiful.
(Only things ya gotta know as a plumber is
A. shit rolls downhill
B. don’t chew your fingernails)
Nebraska Launches Abortion Rights Petition Drive
This’ll make 14 states so far with abortion on the 2024 ballot. Instead of Surge might need to call ensuing Dem turnout the Alito Tsunami…
Moscow Mitch. Yeah he’s got a lot to answer for. But he probably never will have to until he gets to the pearly gates. So far looks like he’s gonna skate.
“I’m proud of that union guy”
When he said, no you stand up, and Senator Stooge stood up, that was the moment.
It was beautiful.
That’s ONE way to make the monkey dance.
CNN Poll: Trump holds significant lead in New Hampshire GOP primary, while Haley moves into second. (Wow. DeSantis now a distant fourth. And Ramaswamy flaming out.)
(Only things ya gotta know as a plumber isA. shit rolls downhillB. don’t chew your fingernails
this too from an old Alabama plumber:
shit gets stuck on the way down.
Do business, flush, do paperwork, flush again.
And don’t throw dental floss down there, especially on septic.
Renee, nice thought but remember, as Imus always said, you can’t fix stupid.
Speaker Mike Johnson calls separation of church and state a “misnomer”
“The separation of church and state is a misnomer, people misunderstand it. Of course it comes from a phrase that was in a letter that [Thomas] Jefferson wrote, it’s not in the Constitution,” Johnson said.
Huh?
“The First Amendment of the Constitution stipulates that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
So, it is in the Constitution, and he swore an oath to uphold it. He’s either lying or he’s…lying.
Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann was quick to call out Judge Aileen M. Cannon in response to a decision she handed down in special counsel Jack Smith’s Mar-a-Lago documents case on Thursday, November 16.
The Guardian’s Hugo Lowell reported that Cannon, a Donald Trump appointee, has denied Smith’s “request…. that she set (a) CIPA Section 5 deadline” in the case — meaning that the “defendant is required to disclose what classified info he intends to use at trial.”
Cannon has ruled that “CIPA Section 5 deadlines” in the case “will be set following the March 1, 2024 scheduling conference.”
CIPA is short for the Classified Information Procedures Act. According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), “The linchpin of CIPA is section 5(a), which requires a defendant who reasonably intends to disclose (or cause the disclosure of) classified information to provide timely pretrial written notice of his intention to the Court and the Government.”
On X, formerly Twitter, Weissmann posted, “Breaking: Judge Cannon’s bias is showing over and over again. Smith has to be weighing whether, when, and how to seek her reversal by the Ct of Appeals and her removal.”
The former federal prosecutor also tweeted, “Not scheduling a CIPA section 5 hearing, which is routine, is a clear sign she is just as much in the bag for Trump as when she issued her horrendous pretrial rulings (both reversed in scathing language by the conservative 11th Circuit). What a piece of work is she.”
Smith alleges that Trump endangered the United States’ national security by storing highly classified government documents at Mar-a-Lago after he left the White House. Trump has argued that the documents he had at Mar-a-Lago were declassified, while Smith has maintained that under federal law, those documents should have remained in Washington, D.C.
Punchlines
“His dog doesn’t bite—but HE does !”
Nice to see a good discussion today. Still wiped out from flu and COVID vaccinations, but not hit as hard as previous years.
IBM is pulling all advertising from twit-x. Will they be leading the exodus of the last real companies? So far pillow guy has not shown up over there.
NAFO is honoring the little mouse that chewed the wiring on a ruzzian helicopter causing it to crash.
President Biden did some talking the last couple of days. Good for him, now the pandas might return to the National Zoo. Clean up the house and get some treats ready for them. I would like to know how the talk about the South China Sea went. It is possible China needs a bit more America than they thought. What is important is that America has shown itself flexible in finding sources of products, raw and manufactured.
MAGA Mike dodges position on expelling Santos
The best predictor of future bad behavior is past bad behavior without intervention.
Thanks, RR ♥️
…working on it
Glad to see you up and about, BB.
“There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse.”
Living “out west” for a year now, getting an idea of what the Dust Bowl was about.
“The fur balls might be coming back to Washington and San Diego.”
During his speech Wednesday, Xi said, “I learned that the San Diego Zoo and the Californians very much look forward to welcoming pandas back.”
“Pandas have long been envoys of friendship between the Chinese and the U.S. We are ready to continue our cooperation with the United States on panda conservation, and do our best to meet the wishes of the Californians so as to deepen the friendly ties between our two peoples,” he added.
[…]
Since the seventh century, China has gifted pandas to other countries to symbolize the connection between the two nations, as the Deseret News previously reported.
China has used pandas as diplomatic gifts to the U.S., the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, France and others, but, after a policy change in 1984, the pandas were considered leased to other countries, not permanently given.
Chee Meng Tan, who has studied China’s “panda diplomacy” at the University of Nottingham, explained that China taking back their animals “is perhaps Beijing’s way of signaling to the West that they may not be very happy with how things are going,” to The Washington Post.
It would be justified if the Chinese held the pandas as ransom against the re-election of Plumpty Dumpty.
Ivy – thank you. The last several years of inoculations have left me reeling for several days post, so I expected not less this time. The good part is I can salvage a few days of this week.
For heaven’s sake, stop flying poor animals around the world. They asked for none of this human nonsense. The change is probably distressing for them and captivity is captivity. How about humans involved show some actual good will toward each other.
“IBM has zero tolerance for hate speech and discrimination and we have immediately suspended all advertising on X while we investigate this entirely unacceptable situation,” a company spokesperson said in a statement.
“The move comes after the progressive media watchdog Media Matters published an analysis that showed the Musk-owned platform had run ads for IBM — as well as for Apple, NBCUniversal’s Bravo, Oracle, and Comcast’s Xfinity — on the pages for multiple accounts championing Adolf Hitler and Nazi ideology. The accounts remained active on X Thursday afternoon, hours after the report was published.”
It sounds like Orange Adolf can just shut down TS and his fascist weasels can use X.
GOP infighting has turned the halls of Congress into a fight club, the U.S. and China set low expectations for the Biden-Xi meeting, and the new House Speaker took heat from his own party after passing a government spending bill with help from Democrats.
Senate passes bill to avert government shutdown, sending it to Biden to sign – The Washington Post
ms petri’s Opinion Congressional Fight Club is not a thing we need!
They are fighting now? There is some sort of fight club going on, as far as I can tell, if reports of three separate incidents on Capitol Hill on the same day are to be believed. (Okay, one of those might have been one lawmaker telling another, “You look like a Smurf,” but the others had more of a violence vibe.) Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), a former MMA fighter, challenged the head of the Teamsters union to throw down in the middle of a committee hearing on Tuesday. Elsewhere, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) allegedly “shoved” Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.). I know that people are always asking questions like, “Are men okay?” and I think the word “Congress” can easily be added to those sentences. Seriously, are congressmen okay? What are congressmen doing? Why are congressmen acting like this?
Some of them are apparently taking a page out of the Preston Brooks playbook — you do NOT want to be taking a page out of the Preston Brooks playbook; it is a bad playbook — and whaling on one another openly, or threatening to? (That can’t be the right spelling of “whaling,” can it?) Do you know what happened to the country after Preston Brooks started hitting Charles Sumner with a cane on the floor of the Senate? It was not good, that’s for sure.
The last thing we need right now is to see a headline like “Congressman Jabs Opponent” or “Congressman Pushes Back” or “Congressman Fights Potential Nominees” and be UNABLE TO TELL WHETHER IT CONTAINS METAPHORS. Do you know what a devastating impact this would have on the day-to-day vocabulary of congressional correspondents? Now, every time I see a member of Congress is making a motion to the floor, or, worse, a motion to table, I will be nervous. Motions to vacate the chair will seem even more ominous!
Once you let the metaphor out, it doesn’t come back in so easily. It is like a bagged cat that way.
Are we going to start getting fundraising emails from our elected representatives with subject lines like: “THE FIRST RULE OF CONGRESSIONAL FIGHT CLUB” and body text like, “Dear Constituent, I need protective garb if I’m going to be able to legislate! It’s a ‘Mad Max’ situation on the floor of the Senate, and if I want to get my bill out of Appropriations, I’m going to have to fight it out!”
“P.S. Please don’t tell Kevin McCarthy I talked about Fight Club; I am not supposed to!”
Is this yet another thing I am going to have to worry about when sending people to Congress — that they will have to be able to hold their own if other lawmakers come at them from behind with a folding chair?
Come on. This is not the criteria I want to consider when electing someone to represent me in the nation’s legislature. I think we have been selecting for the wrong skill set for some time now, sending the people most enraged by the notion that Congress occasionally passes legislation. I understand that many lawmakers are not there to pass legislation and that they need other ways to spend time. But I never thought they would start physically challenging one another.
“If I kidney-punched him, he’d be on the ground. … Let’s be realistic,” McCarthy, formerly speaker of the House, actually told reporters after Burchett claimed McCarthy elbowed him in the back. To adapt a line from Gore Vidal, “Once again, Kevin McCarthy fails at speaking.” He is just pushing — specifically Burchett.
I understand that there are limits to using your words, and that, for many of these congressmen, those limits are reached early. And an uncharitable but fair thing you could say about this Congress is that it is like you threw a party and the theme was “collect in a room all the people least likely to legislate.” But come on.
I look away from Congress for one fraction of an instant and suddenly they are carrying on like a Hieronymus Bosch painting? This is Congress now? I am tired.
destruction of the masses hopefully averted
Biden and Xi agree to restore some military-to-military communications between the US and China – ABC News (go.com)
Don’t think it’s been said enough: Republicans tossing out Cheney — first from House leadership and then from office altogether — is among the leading indicators the GOP is not a real political party anymore, just a bunch of thugs.
Liz Cheney
@Liz_Cheney
Yesterday, Speaker Johnson suggested Trump could ignore rulings by 61 courts & defy our Constitution because Trump supposedly “believed” he won. Mike knows the election was not stolen and that a President who defies the rulings of our courts & attempts to seize power is a tyrant.
7:03 PM · Nov 15, 2023
speaking of turkeys, a plea for let’s enjoy and celebrate Thanksgiving before jingling bells and dreaming of white christmas songs are heard throughout the land.
Once again, Biden vote way above approval in same poll, same respondents. His approval rating always irrelevant in matchups against Trump.
10pts above his approval rating
this is the time for age-old songs like “over the river and thru the woods” and “come ye thankful, people, come” and
Adam Sandler and Kevin Nealon sing a comical ditty celebrating Thanksgiving, how much he loves to eat turkey and peppering in facts that happen to rhyme with what he’s talking about. [Season 18, 1992]
elon ‘bout to have a worse day than me, so dumb
…succinct description of life, in general
—Bink
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
—Quentin Crisp
While I’m on Mr Quentin.
—Quentin Crisp
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It’s cheaper.
—Quentin Crisp
wise counsel, Bink.
…or deport them and confiscate their stuff, that’s the fascist way.
—Quentin Crisp,
the guardian
Russia lost that war the minute Joe Biden won in 2020. Russia in hanging on was just hoping for a 2024 reprieve.
Russia was throwing the dice and crapped out.
Thanks, Joe Biden.
Tuberville, JD Vance, and Rand Paul are Russian stooges….no more, no less.
The gop have set their sights and bet their all on the pumpkin’s winning in his war against democracy. They are slowly, one by one, realizing that they have backed the wrong horse, are now in deep shit, and that Russia is not going to save them.
Pompey soon will flee and take those senators with him. No self-respecting Govt-in-exile can do without senators.
One rat spotted fleeing the burning ship along a burning rope onto a burning wharf: George Santos reportedly not seeking re-election.
If he did say that, he was probably lying.
Sturge, don’t forget Moscow Mitch. We’d be out of this maga-mess (and onto a different maga-mess) if only Mitch had not ducked his duty when the opportunity came to deep six the Donald. He knew then and he knows now.
I’m proud of that union guy in his exchange with Okie Mullin. He didn’t flinch, blink, or back up one iota. I’d bet he surprised the crap out of Mullin. Mullin had no choice then but to lose his shit.
That was beautiful.
(Only things ya gotta know as a plumber is
A. shit rolls downhill
B. don’t chew your fingernails)
Nebraska Launches Abortion Rights Petition Drive
This’ll make 14 states so far with abortion on the 2024 ballot. Instead of Surge might need to call ensuing Dem turnout the Alito Tsunami…
https://themessenger.com/politics/nebraska-reproductive-rights-activists-launch-abortion-measure-initiative
Moscow Mitch. Yeah he’s got a lot to answer for. But he probably never will have to until he gets to the pearly gates. So far looks like he’s gonna skate.
When he said, no you stand up, and Senator Stooge stood up, that was the moment.
It was beautiful.
That’s ONE way to make the monkey dance.
CNN Poll: Trump holds significant lead in New Hampshire GOP primary, while Haley moves into second. (Wow. DeSantis now a distant fourth. And Ramaswamy flaming out.)
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/16/politics/cnn-poll-new-hampshire-republican-primary
Haley up 8pts since September, from 12% to 20%
Time to go away. Ron
Whatever Sturg says…. I second it…
Bink… that sucks… hope you feel better soon.
today’s meme…
this too from an old Alabama plumber:
shit gets stuck on the way down.
Do business, flush, do paperwork, flush again.
And don’t throw dental floss down there, especially on septic.
Renee, nice thought but remember, as Imus always said, you can’t fix stupid.
King Fu Plumber
lol
Life imitates art or versa vice.
I swear, you can find ANYTHING on the internet.
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/15/mike-johnson-separation-church-state-misnomer
Speaker Mike Johnson calls separation of church and state a “misnomer”
“The separation of church and state is a misnomer, people misunderstand it. Of course it comes from a phrase that was in a letter that [Thomas] Jefferson wrote, it’s not in the Constitution,” Johnson said.
Huh?
“The First Amendment of the Constitution stipulates that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”
So, it is in the Constitution, and he swore an oath to uphold it. He’s either lying or he’s…lying.
alternet:
Punchlines
“His dog doesn’t bite—but HE does !”
Nice to see a good discussion today. Still wiped out from flu and COVID vaccinations, but not hit as hard as previous years.
IBM is pulling all advertising from twit-x. Will they be leading the exodus of the last real companies? So far pillow guy has not shown up over there.
NAFO is honoring the little mouse that chewed the wiring on a ruzzian helicopter causing it to crash.
President Biden did some talking the last couple of days. Good for him, now the pandas might return to the National Zoo. Clean up the house and get some treats ready for them. I would like to know how the talk about the South China Sea went. It is possible China needs a bit more America than they thought. What is important is that America has shown itself flexible in finding sources of products, raw and manufactured.
MAGA Mike dodges position on expelling Santos
The best predictor of future bad behavior is past bad behavior without intervention.
Thanks, RR ♥️
…working on it
Glad to see you up and about, BB.
Living “out west” for a year now, getting an idea of what the Dust Bowl was about.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/us/politics/pandas-china-xi-jinping.html
whoopee!
Xi Jinping hints that pandas may return to California zoos (msn.com)
It would be justified if the Chinese held the pandas as ransom against the re-election of Plumpty Dumpty.
Ivy – thank you. The last several years of inoculations have left me reeling for several days post, so I expected not less this time. The good part is I can salvage a few days of this week.
For heaven’s sake, stop flying poor animals around the world. They asked for none of this human nonsense. The change is probably distressing for them and captivity is captivity. How about humans involved show some actual good will toward each other.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/16/tech/ibm-to-pause-ad-spending-on-x/index.html
“IBM has zero tolerance for hate speech and discrimination and we have immediately suspended all advertising on X while we investigate this entirely unacceptable situation,” a company spokesperson said in a statement.
“The move comes after the progressive media watchdog Media Matters published an analysis that showed the Musk-owned platform had run ads for IBM — as well as for Apple, NBCUniversal’s Bravo, Oracle, and Comcast’s Xfinity — on the pages for multiple accounts championing Adolf Hitler and Nazi ideology. The accounts remained active on X Thursday afternoon, hours after the report was published.”
It sounds like Orange Adolf can just shut down TS and his fascist weasels can use X.
Ivy….found this article on Moscow Mitch
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/mitch-mcconnell-is-still-an-evil
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