Last century Rupert Murdoch filled the skies with satellites he dubbed the Clarke Ring (in honor of Arthur C. Clarke) and all kinds of sci-fi conspiracy theories erupted. This time we’re being enmeshed in Musk’s matrix mash-up. No need for tall tales now combining his brain chip project with 2-billion-dollar taxpayer-paid plans to enhance his space network.
Musk has inside track to take over contract to fix air traffic communications system
Some federal employees wrote “very rude” replies to the DOGE email that demanded they list five accomplishments, the White House declined to explain why President Trump has a huge bruise on his right hand, and beloved American restaurant chain Hooters is preparing to file for bankruptcy.
#Colbert #Comedy #Monologue
So much for Trump’s lies he’ll balance the budget. His House bill passed last night raises the debt ceiling $4 trillion to pay for tax cuts for the rich. And it’s own language shows no deficit reduction.
allegedly, over 70 million people voted for these deranged *******s
So it turns out the mineral deal with Ukraine is not finished. It’s a “broad framework” and it does not give the U.S. all the profits as Trump claimed yesterday. And Zelensky is still seeking security guarantees before agreeing to the deal.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-economic-agreement-us-72ee2cfa720f6a42455c5425007060e6
I had been hearing for a while that a bloodletting was coming as Comcast boosts bottom line to prep MSNBC for sale, but the speed and scope is surprising. And when Rachel publicly complained they fired her staff!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/25/msnbc-layoffs-rachel-maddow?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
So far I have not seen one post about how the former republican party/magat party has spent decades calling the Democratic Party/liberal “commie scum” and “socialists” and it turns out they are. Just another example of magat projecting what they are on others. A facists/socialist/communist tactic.
Another gift to Putin. We go from sanctioning his oligarchs to taking a cut when they set up criminal operations here (and I’m sure requiring membership in a Trump club is part of the deal).
Trump offers oligarchs ‘gold card’ visas for $5m each
Well, Maddow did as Olbermann requested, too bad her staff paid the price but that’s the biz they’re in
They’re trying to piss maddow off so she’ll quit and they won’t have to pay her the money on her contract. Notice they didn’t fire Maddow. She knows this and so will just go ahead with her show until they fire her and then they’ll have to pay her
She’s smart and also she saw how Olberman became rich enough to live next to Central Park without having a real job.
And besides…..Olbermann was right, she and the others SHOULD yell about it. They know the ship is sinking and that they’re all on borrowed time.
I guess the good news so far is vaccine-denier RFKjr is doing nothing about the unprecedented measles outbreak..
https://www.vox.com/health/401130/texas-new-mexico-measles-rfk-hhs-response?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
A couple of weeks back Cord Cutters, a YouTube channel, talked about the news that Comcast was looking to dump off MSNBC, CNBC and one of the Spanish language channels. Those were put into a separate company for handling the demise. What is obvious to some, moving from Dem/liberal to center right republican/magat, was causing viewers to disappear, was not seen by the management. Just as CNN became a joke, so had MSNBC.
For several years I kept cable just to watch MSNBC. Finally, the shift right/far right was too much, I could only take so many minutes a week of Joe and Mika, I gave up. For over a year I tried to get rid of cable, until finally last year I got out. On YouTube MSNBC pops segments so if there is something I want to see I can. Cable television is going down so maybe the MSNBC channel will be put on some over the air next to QVC.
The flies on the Whitehouse walls are witnessing some things never before seen in United States history. It does not bode well. Song creation and video by Don Caron. Vocal performance by Mikael Vanhanen
Executive Producers Don Caron and Jerry Pender
Pat……..how you do dat? Get the video to show instead of just being a link.
Sturg, if you’re viewing on your phone it might not allow viewing some embedded video. I had to change a setting on mine to do that. Shouldn’t be a problem on a desktop.
show us the money
Tonight on The Daily Show, Trump claims Doge is saving billions daily, but the numbers don’t add up—Wall Street Journal estimates the real savings at just $2.5 million. Meanwhile, the government struggles to cut spending, exposing Trump’s failure to identify real waste and fraud| The Daily Show on Comedy Central
alert to all you seniors and disabled on social security, Medicare or Medicaid: be prepared for ellen’s next “what did you do last week” memo demanding a response or face termination. termination in this case is literal. equivalent euphemisms are “being offed, neutralized, starved and dying a slow death.”
Trump’s “big beautiful” deficit-busting deal:
Spending cuts: $2 trillion
Tax cuts for the rich, spending increases: $4.8 trillion
Deficit increase: $2.8 trillion
The tax rate combined with tax cuts for the wealthy never should have happened. It should be at 60% for over $250K. Stealing from Social Security made it possible to cover the deficit those cuts caused, but now that SS income is only covering the outgo, this is no longer true. Congress doesn’t want to pay back those stolen funds so now they want to cut SS and Medicaid.
today’s meme…
Gotta laugh at Republicans once again trying to hide the ball on Medicaid cuts. Sure, the word itself wasn’t in last night’s budget resolution, but it directs the committee overseeing Medicaid to cut more than 800 billion dollars.
I loved Joy Reid’s original MSNBC weekend morning shows. I watched her coverage the Saturday morning of the shocking Charlottesville riots and about fell off my exercise bike while texting Mr. Ivy you won’t believe what is happening. After she moved up to weeknights, the tone changed and the schedule became less convenient for me to keep up daily. Still, I admire her greatly and will miss her. I read she got a buyout which may give her a big smile as she walks gracefully out the door to better things.
Today is Mr. Ivy’s visit to the Tooth Fairy and I am the designated driver.
First death of an unvaccinated child from measles in Texas. A disease we had eradicated until people stopped using vaccinations. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/person-dies-measles-west-texas-outbreak-rcna193812
in re musk’s matrix thread topic: remember those innocent times when we worried about Ma Bell taking over the country and then did something about it?
Breakup of the Bell System – Wikipedia
WAPO style freedom of the oppressed
Bezos directs Washington Post opinion pages to promote ‘personal liberties and free markets’ | Washington Post | The Guardian
Trump opens Cabinet with spate of lies.
MSNBC’s problem.
This head line on Bloomberg.
And that is just one platform out there. Opinion writers/broadcasters are a dime a dozen or even cheaper. It was the limited access of legacy cable and over the air broadcast that made media stars. The bad thing is that very few offered any original intelligent ideas. But then in a mass media market those things don’t sell. MSNBC’s problem is they were marketing to a smart educated audience and that audience is easily bored. With podcasting they can just move on. MSNBC is the Sears of traditional media, they can’t adjust to changing times.
Jack
Bronc, Peacock streamer has a live channels link. NBC could just add MSNBC to that line up to increase viewers. Now Sling costs $45 a month to get the channel while Peacock is only $10.
Consumer Strike Friday!
https://www.yahoo.com/news/no-amazon-no-walmart-no-fast-food-whats-behind-the-feb-28-economic-blackout-200849532.html
She had him barking mad in that debate.
“They’re eating the DOGS!” he barked.
Today is geezer in the way in Annapolis day. Roads with old people driving the white line at twenty miles per hour. Old people blocking aisles in the stores. Old people just out. It may be the weather, sort of sunny and warm. It may be some Social Security checks arrived, I think mine used to come at the end of the month, now it comes the first week of the month.
So I made it into my self happiness day. Don’t worry, be happy. Happiness is cake. I stopped into the French bakery and bought a cake. Mmm Cake! Had it decorated with “Life is Good”. The label said to let it warm up for three to four hours. Twenty minutes max. Cake then a nice cup of fresh brewed coffee. Pet the cat. Drink coffee and be calm.
Yes, big boycott this Friday, and there are rotating boycotts of chain/big box/online stores, which I don’t understand. Why not just not unless you absolutely need something and have nowhere else to get it.
Like, today, after being without a water filter for weeks, I went to WalMart because no place else has them near here. It was that or Amazon, so I made a choice.
More protests to come, and hope the military will not follow the orders of deranged megalomaniacs, since their oath is to the US Constitution.
On that note, would it be bad if my daily call to my Senators/Rep included a smattering of Russian?
And then like, change to English: Oh, are you not that far along in your internship to Putin that you’ve picked up Russian language? My bad.”
Protests
The Lincoln Project had a marvelous idea! Since Repugz are afraid to hold town halls (since they are stabbing their constituents in the back), DEMS should hold town halls in red areas!
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2025/02/26/egg-shortage-trump-administration-announces-1-billion-plan-to-lower-egg-prices/
“…leading President Donald Trump’s Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to announce an investment of “up to $1 billion to curb this crisis and make eggs affordable again.”
FFS!
Either he’s ignorant or lying. These two deaths today are the first since 2015. “RFK Jr. Dismisses Measles Outbreak As ‘Not Unusual’” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr-dismisses-measles-outbreak_n_67bf5519e4b053f9e3997f53
Yeah, Craig. Bobby Brainworms said there were 16 outbreaks last year, but this year we only have two outbreaks. FFS, it’s only February, Bobby.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/explainer-what-us-social-spending-programs-could-be-hit-in-trump-tax-cuts/ar-AA1zRtlo
“Explainer-What US social spending programs could be hit in Trump tax cuts?”
The CBS guys John and Maurice are good. They call out Dodo on the doodoo.
the consequences of ineptitude are coming quickly
Dems should set up an opposition shadow govt
not that they’re capable of thinking that big, still have their thumbs up their asses
can confirm Ina Garten’s method of par boiling potatoes before roasting them works well
hey, let’s pretend there’s going to be a 2028 presidential election and figure out who our nominee is
Nobody else is bothering to
it sure as shit is not Kamala
and please don’t say Amy Klobuchar
to those who donate to political campaigns pay attention who is not leading at all, and never give them any more money
which apparently is everybody except AOC and Bernie &ers
Bloated, fat and disgusting. Dodo’s talking about his sloppy self.
anon, i’m liking Mark Cuban
agree, if only he was better looking and more charismatic
yes to he fair he is speaking out along with very few others
Alex was good on Showtime’s The Circus when teamed up with John Heilemann and Mark McKinnon. I wish they’d bring that show back on a better network.
I want McKenzie Bezos to be president so Jeff has to kiss her feet too
Beshear. That’s what we need, some fire and some attitude.
Andy needs to make himself known and quick
announce an exploratory committee please Mr. Beshear
I 100% support Cuban declaring his candidacy tomorrow by the way, Mr. C
bId, Absofuckinglutely wonderful idea.
Mark Cuban said he ran it by his family before, and it was a no.
Also, lots of stuff went on for many years with sexual harassment when he ran the Mavs. He allowed a toxic workplace for over a decade, so what kind of leader would he be? (Yeah, I know there’s a grapist in the WH & SA seems to be a prerequisite right now, and Cuban was never accused of anything…but it wasn’t like an isolated thing at the Mavs organization.)
Funny story (sort of), my company’s old HR Manager went to work in HE for the Mavs. He had to go back to work because he got his young girlfriend preggers and his wife divorced him. He was someone you did not want to be alone with. Anyway, the creep joined the Mavs as HR just as a big sexual harassment suit was brought.
Not sure all of his employees would give him a glowing review, either. A lot to consider.
I think he would be a great Secretary of Commerce, but POTUS is a stretch.
I love Pete Buttigieg, Jon Ossoff, and we need someone with fire like AOC or Jasmine Crockett.
Will there be a 2028, though?
Dream scenario: Elon ODs (like, tonight); Adolf has one cheeseberder too many and plays his last game of golf on our dime on the Ides of March; a sinkhole opens up at the funeral and swallows the family, JD, and his entire cabinet, and the rest of the Russian assets in Congress; Florida flips two seats blue in April; Dems pick a new SOTH and she is sworn in as President. Yes, she…because Hakeem Jeffries has been a major disappointment. As luck would have it, AOC turned 35 last October. I’ve not been a huge fan in the past, but she has shown her leadership and tenacity, as has Jasmine Crockett. OK, sweet dreams.
Here
“…there is usually a comité d’entreprise, made up of voted-in employees, who must be consulted for all major decisions and are there to speak on behalf of the employees. Some members of the comité d’entreprise will be part of the union, giving them extra leverage.
So, for example, if you are planning on changing accounting programs, like moving from Quickbooks to SAP, you actually need the approval of the comité d’entreprise, as this is a decision that impacts the employee.”
Can you imagine having this much input?
All the French had to do was cut off their heads that one time, and then do full work stoppage once in awhile to remind them who is in charge. We can do it with boycotts and a general strike, since money is everything now.
we need declared candidates as soon as possible to reinforce the idea that we might still live in a democracy, spread the word
they don’t even need to be viable per se
They will also distract the fuck out of dipshit
put me in charge. I’ll get this country back goddamnit
or put someone in charge with a clue, goddamnit
good post btw BiD, i fully support that scenario
Mott Romney your 2028 Dem PotUs nominee
let’s go Mitt, who’s going to stop you? the party that can’t establish its own leader?
NEW THREAD
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/romania-ap-bucharest-eastern-european-europe-b2509863.html
“Romania wins legal battle against a Canadian miner over failed plans to open a gold mine”
There’s gold in them thar hills…and tRUMPsky is surely after it. That’s why they’re backing Romania’s mob boss.