I’m excited that a new Borat film is coming out (Friday on Amazon Prime!), but I’m a little disappointed, too. Who decided to change the title from Borat: Gift of Pornographic Monkey to Vice Premiere Mikhael Pence to Make Benefit Recently Diminished Nation of Kazakhstan to the slightly more anodyne Borat Subsequent Moviefilm:...
Punk
Much jackboot-quaking as a much-touted demo in Portland had a weak showing north of the anarchist jurisdiction. x tickled by this because I watched 5 seconds of the KATU coverage and the proud boy on the mic said something like 2,000 people were there— voltaverse (@voltaverse) September 26, 2020 x...
Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who aren’t throwing pies at one another. Drop by to talk about music, your weather, your garden, or what you cooked for supper…. Newcomers may notice that...
Trump claims a Joe Biden presidency would cause stock gains to ‘disintegrate and disappear‘. We’re already there, no thanks to an incompetent pandemic policy, or lack of one. #TrumpHasNoPlan Where’s that health plan he promised he’d sign by today. Ultimately Trump doesn’t care, and in some ways it expresses the kind of aesthetic...
“Unprecedented, historic corruption: an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president.” — Mitt Romney x âÂÂThe president may have had the power to help his longtime friend. But that does not make it any less a perversion of justice...
Press advocates scored an important legal victory this week when a U.S. District Court judge ordered the White House to reinstate media credentials to reporter Brian Karem, whose access had been stripped away by Donald Trump's team after a dust-up during a Rose Garden ceremony in July. There, former Trump aide...
Press advocates scored an important legal victory this week when a U.S. District Court judge ordered the White House to reinstate media credentials to reporter Brian Karem, whose access had been stripped away by Donald Trump's team after a dust-up during a Rose Garden ceremony in July. There, former Trump aide...
We had a pointless and destructive government shutdown over it. Racial tensions have been raised to a rolling boil because of it. And — oh, yeah — it would be nice if “Babies in Cages” were the title of a short-lived early-’80s punk rock band from East Sheboygan instead of our current...
In the world of for-profit incarceration, one company’s loss is another company's gain. GEO Group announced on May 2, 2019, their successful contract bid with the Federal Bureau of Prisons to house 5,000 prisoners for the next ten years. CoreCivic, formerly CCA, issued a statement the day before that the...
x Frank Luntz: kids are using socialism to get sex pic.twitter.com/J8K47aNBr0 â John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) February 14, 2016 x @existentialfish @mmfa Sign me up and call me a Socialist! â Ocular Nervosa (@ocularnervosa) February 14, 2016 x I can't take him seriously, he looks like he dropped crumbs to a...
If you want the background on this, take a look-see at Jessica Sutherland’s diary from earlier today. Long story short, some anonymous idiot on Twitter thought he’d shame “commie” (actually Democratic Socialist — think Sweden/Norway/Denmark, not the gulag) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez because she was once filmed dancing with unbridled joie de vivre...
Whoo boy, just when you think you’ve heard it all… x Candace Owens Claims Trump's Popular With The Youth Generation Because He's 'Punk Rock' https://t.co/6GJgoNtI4b pic.twitter.com/fAvmuXX0PG â Contemptor (@TheContemptor) December 30, 2018 x No rock, just punk. â Lindsey GrahamâÂÂs Gay Boyfriend (@DankSinatra06) December 30, 2018 x She got one...
Looks like Donald Trump’s bestest friend in the wide world may be at it again. From The LA Times: Russian news reports say that a member of Russian punk protest group Pussy Riot has been hospitalized in grave condition for what could be a possible poisoning. Ekho Moskvy radio and...
Fuck yeah! At his annual 4th of July Picnic near Austin earlier this summer, Willie Nelson welcomed Texas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke onstage to join him on guitar for set-closing renditions of “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die” and “Will the Circle Be Unbroken.” There’s a good chance that...