Mikey Likes It!: Blondie, Jake Johnson

Tuesday, March 07, 2023

Blondie, Jake Johnson

Got another comic to note, Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS' "Get Her Somewhere, She Wants To Be A Celebrity" and "Ron DumpSantis" went up Saturday night.

Love it. Now guess what the number one film on NETFLIX today is?

THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU. That's a 2014 film with a huge cast -- only Jason Bateman and Jane Fonda and Timothy Olyphant deserve praise. But if you haven't seen it and you have NETFLIX, you should stream it. The number one TV show, by the way, is Chris Rock's new comedy special SELECTIVE OUTRAGE.

Okay, Jake Johnson (COMMON DREAMS) reports:

A group of watchdogs on Tuesday urged the Office of Congressional Ethics to launch an investigation into House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's decision to exclusively hand more than 40,000 hours of security video from the January 6 Capitol attack to far-right Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who is already selectively using the trove of footage to spin the insurrection as a largely peaceful event.

In their request for an investigation, Public Citizen's Craig Holman and Lisa Gilbert and former White House ethics officials Norm Eisen and Richard Painter wrote that "the exclusive release of the Jan. 6 video footage appears to have been the result of a political agreement between McCarthy, Tucker Carlson, and others in McCarthy's bid to become speaker."

While McCarthy has defended the arrangement with Carlson as similar to the common practice of giving select members of the media "exclusives on certain things," the watchdogs contended that "this is not like granting an exclusive interview; this is providing a valuable government resource exclusively to one news outlet and discriminating against others, which flies in the face of First Amendment values."

The ethics experts went on to argue that "the speaker's release of security footage exclusively to Tucker Carlson is pure and simple using congressional resources for partisan gamesmanship—the very type of polarizing gamesmanship that has caused such damage to the public's perception of the integrity of Congress."

Oooooh, looks like Jimmy Dore, Glenn Greenwald and Tara Reade's little buddy might be in some trouble. Boo-hoo. Poor little fat ass Tara Reade. Trashy Tara Reade. Two tons of non-fun Tara Reade. As fat as she is useless Tara Reade. Human filth Tara Reade.

You know I don't think she helped horses. I think she ate 'em. I think she did. I think that obese monster ate horses.

She's so ugly, isn't she? reTweeting her new homophobic friends on the right like Tucker and Marjorie Taylor Green. She's just garbage, yes, Tara is. Human filth.

I'm glad I called that liar out long before she reinvented herself as a fat ass of the alt-right.

Tara's so foul and smelly, I think we need something to air the room out.

I love Blondie. My top ten favorite songs by the group?

1) "Heart of Glass"

2) "Maria"

3) "Sunday Girl"

4) "Suzy & Jeffrey"

5) "In The Flesh"

6) "Pretty Baby"

7) "Picture This"

8) "Long Time"

9) "11:59"

10) "Just Go Away"

Here's C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"

Tuesday, March 7, 2023. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III sneaks into Iraq, Glenneth Greenwald loves pretending he knows something but the crazies praising Donald Trump's coded speech apparently haven't let him on their own separation from reality, and much more.

Let's start with Lloyd Austin III, the US Secretary of Defense. He's gone to Baghdad. Colin McCullough (CNN) reports, "Austin, the highest-ranking Cabinet official to visit the country since the start of the Biden administration, according to the press pool, said in a statement that he is in Iraq to 'reaffirm the US-Iraq strategic partnership as we move toward a more secure, stable and sovereign Iraq'." Idrees Ali and Amina Ismail (REUTERS) note, he visited with Prime Minister Moahmmed al-Sudani and that the the secretary declared, "U.S. forces are ready to remain in Iraq at the invitation of the government of Iraq." Chenar Chalak (RUDAW) adds, "The United States’ only purpose in Iraq is its focus on ensuring the defeat of the Islamic State (ISIS), said Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin following his arrival in the capital Baghdad on Tuesday, as the 20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq approaches."

Lloyd announced the visit on Twitter.

He announced it after he landed. In fact "unannounced visit" is a detail pretty much all the reports include.

What a glorious moment for a coward.

We've covered Iraq for years now. It's the "unannounced" that's the story this morning. A day or two less than two weeks from the 20th anniversary from the start of the Iraq War, not only are US troops still on the ground in Iraq -- with Lloyd insisting they're going to remain there -- but US officials still have to sneak into the country.

If you don't get the reality of the war and what the Iraqi people think of the US, there it is. US officials have to sneak into the country. Glorious cowards all of them.

The US Ambassador to Iraq Tweets the following nonsense:

Not only had Lloyd been in the country for hours -- with the secretary having posted it on his own Twitter feed over four hours prior -- but he's also meeting with Nechirvan Barzani. When Alina leaves that out of her Tweets it does register and it has. The US has an ambassador currently who is being seen as anti-Kurd. That really doesn't happen for US ambassadors but it's happening with Alina and it's not due to those ugly circles under her eyes -- take some vitamin D -- it's happening because nearly every time she Tweets, she shortchanges the Kurds. It's becoming a very big issue.

There's another issue in the Tweets about the visit -- not her Tweets -- that we'll probably deal with tomorrow. I'm just not in the mood to go into it today.

We'll note that Iran's TASNIM is reporting of the visit:

The Fatah (Conquest) Alliance in Iraq's parliament emphasized the need for expelling all American troops during an unannounced visit by Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin to Baghdad on Tuesday.

Fatah Alliance lawmaker Karim Aliwi said that the issue of expelling US troops is not a factional decision but rather a "definitive" and "national option." He added that efforts are ongoing at both public and political levels to conclude the case of US forces' presence on Iraqi soil. "There will be no negligence or hesitation in expelling the Americans," Aliwi told Iraq's al-Maluma news agency.

Let's move over to the great Glenneth Greenwald. He's laughing at Don Lemon because Don's a sexist (as though Glenn's not?), he's such an idiot. (That's not a defense of Don Lemon, CNN needs to realize he's harming their ratings.) Glenneth also goes after an art critic because the critic has reached their saturation level with Republicans calling for lynchings and the "eradication" of transpersons. It really is more than enough for this country -- unless you're Glenneth who, of course, chose not to live in this country. Glenneth says a journalist can't do what the critic is doing -- removing all Republicans from his life. Actually, an art critic can do just that, Glenneth, you're just yet again sporting your stupidity. There's not a movement led by Republicans or conservatives in the art world.

But we mention that to lead up to this nonsense from Glenneth.

Does Glenneth have any idea?

No, I don't think he does.

"He had his head chopped off and opened up for some reason or something like that. It is really disturbing what is going on there."

What's that about?

That's a QAnon loony tune show on BITCHUTE called JUSTINFORMED TALK -- a religious extremist program apparently and, for the record, I don't think Jesus needs you to dress like Patty Hearst in her Tania phase. But, hey, you do you and we'll all pretend it's not a form of drag -- even though it is.

When JUSTINFORMED TALK (that is how they run it together) speaks of "He had his head chopped off and opened up for some reason or something like that. It is really disturbing what is going on there," he's speaking of Joe Biden. Is the host a con artist or is that ill in the head that he honestly believes Joe Biden had his head chopped off?

Glenneth wants you to know that he knows why Donald Trump got the reception he received over the weekend at that hate-bash. But really it's because Donald spoke in dog whistles that the other crazies picked up on. And JUSTINFORMED TALK wants to decode it for you so you know that "DeSantis is as deep state as it gets."

If Glenneth truly knows about why Donald got embraced by the crazies, please, write about it. Because I don't need to watch crazy ass QAnon garbage. I'd been lucky enough to avoid it until this morning. Someone e-mailed asking if I'd seen how crazy these people really were? I had no idea.

I thought they had a different take on things than I did. But I didn't know they believed that whatever walks around calling itself Joe Biden is a thing that had its head chopped off -- and yet still walks around. Deep state? Try deep s**t crazy.

JUSTINFORMED TALK wants you to know that Donald is sending out "key information out to everyone" -- you just use your decoder ring, apparently.

"I think Q is great, I think Q is necessary." I think we do need to know about these crazies. I think the more we know about them, the more the majority of the American people will reject these crazies.

"They want us divided!" says the crazy host of JUSTINFORMED TALK. We heard that garbage from RAGE AGAINST THE WAR MACHINE, remember?

And that group hosted transphobes.

And the people like JUSTINFORMED TALK insist that others "wants us divided."

But these crazies get together and there they are dividing -- calling for the "eradication" of transgender persons.

They are deep in their own crazy and rooting on Steve Bannon's speech instead of fact checking it. The KGB isn't even around anymore. Does no one grasp that was the intelligence apparatus for the Soviet Union? How stupid are these people?

Watch DEMOCRACY NOW! below for the reality of that hate-fest.