tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33518162024-03-28T22:29:34.257-05:00Ketchup Is A VegetableAaron B. Pryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.comBlogger375125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3351816.post-73123817476413225702024-01-05T23:43:00.003-05:002024-01-05T23:43:32.671-05:00Campaign Mode I think President Biden has today switched into full-on campaign mode, and what a brilliant way and time to do it. If you missed his speech today in Pennsylvania, you must take a half hour and watch it. It is sublime.
LIVE: Biden speaks at Valley Forge ahead of Jan. 6 anniversary | NBC NewsAaron B. Pryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3351816.post-11468911284835827682023-12-07T01:28:00.004-05:002023-12-07T01:28:43.751-05:00Liz Cheney Needs To Quit Dicking Around and Get On Team Biden/Harris. Now. I've been watching Liz Cheney's MSNBC book tour of late. She's been on Rachel Maddow, she's sat down with Ari Melber, FFS Nicolle Wallace came back from maternity leave for a day to interview her. In case you live under a boulder, Cheney has written a book called "I Was Completely Wrong to Vote With Preznit Carnage 98 Percent of the Time and To Vote For Him when I did, Sorry About That, Aaron B. Pryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3351816.post-30694007123652181082023-10-21T16:05:00.002-05:002023-10-21T16:06:11.799-05:00A Voter's GuideAaron B. Pryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3351816.post-12506727498789413002023-10-13T18:51:00.000-05:002023-10-13T18:51:03.683-05:00Clown CarThe most basic job the majority in the House of Representatives has to do is to choose a Speaker. According to the Congressional Research Service, the first-day routine of a new session includes: The Clerk calls the House to order. A prayer from the Chaplain and the Pledge of Allegiance led by the Clerk. The Clerk calls quorum. And, at long last, the election of the Speaker. It is literally the Aaron B. Pryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3351816.post-5570826496192111732023-09-08T18:09:00.001-05:002023-09-08T18:09:09.163-05:00Dumb ex Machina MSNBC’s Ari Melber has this spiffy little graphic that shows different aspects of the plot to overturn the 2020 election, with arrows in black and red to indicate over time when many of these activities went from being legal, such as court challenges, for example, to illegal, such as overturning the votes in Congress. It is a useful graphic, though it does not measure what I think might be Aaron B. Pryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3351816.post-78136496977841776572023-09-05T12:49:00.007-05:002023-09-05T12:49:50.638-05:00Pull the PollThis is a poll so dramatic that MSNBC had Steve Kornacki at the "big board" breaking out its results. But I rather think the X'er (hey, Elon, this re-branding of yours is stupid) known as Mueller, She Wrote, has a better angle on it:
THREAD: Can we STOP using this WSJ “poll”, please? First, it’s a poll of 600 primary republican voters. But if you LOOK CLOSELY, it was conducted by TONY FABRIZIO Aaron B. Pryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3351816.post-59266372530957852492023-08-26T22:33:00.002-05:002023-08-26T22:33:09.987-05:00Huh.Aaron B. Pryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3351816.post-77377110642144854802023-08-21T23:04:00.004-05:002023-08-21T23:04:57.513-05:00Exactly.
Why I'm Okay With the Far Left, But Not the Far Right (Steve Shives)Aaron B. Pryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3351816.post-66876745153277543732023-08-18T20:15:00.001-05:002023-08-18T20:15:05.735-05:00Margaret and Helen The nice thing about moving blog entries from one host to another, as I hope to have completed by Sept. 7, is that sometimes, when you’re reviewing your migrated entries for clarity, you recover a forgotten gem. For instance:“Trump is a hemorrhoid.“Let me explain. Hemorrhoids, also called piles, are enlarged veins in your rectum and anus. They can lead to itching, burning, bleeding, and Aaron B. Pryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3351816.post-68908730113809876992023-08-10T22:30:00.001-05:002023-08-10T22:30:10.312-05:00Yahtzee! Anita Hill, 1991: Clarence Thomas is a terrible person and should probably not be appointed to the Supreme Court.World, 2023: Holy shit! Clarence Thomas is a terrible person and should probably not have been appointed to the Supreme Court!Aaron B. Pryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3351816.post-70478671684882146692023-08-10T18:22:00.005-05:002023-08-10T18:22:37.004-05:00It Could Be WorseSo, Thom Hartmann on his fine radio program today uttered a thought that’s a little unsettling. As you know, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, erstwhile coach of college gridiron football, has been blocking senior military nominations, for the reason, he says, of protesting the military’s practice of offering resources to women/pregnant people who are stationed in anti-choice areas of the world so theyAaron B. Pryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3351816.post-48512678199035129742023-07-31T23:15:00.003-05:002023-07-31T23:15:58.892-05:00I'm So Fucking Tired Of Donald TrumpI'm so fucking tired of Donald Trump.
I'm tired of seeing him on my TV all the time. I'm tired of him, living rent free in our brains. I'm tired of seeing his ugly, conceited, swelled-up orange face everywhere. I'm tired of hearing the audio of him shaking down Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for 11,780 votes. I'm tired of seeing new tell-all books coming out about Donald Trump Aaron B. Pryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3351816.post-55609129856514065042023-07-27T18:08:00.004-05:002023-07-27T18:08:46.550-05:00LOL
Or, as my fellow blogger John Cole calls it: Weekend At Mitch'sAaron B. Pryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3351816.post-68008444899474848972023-07-25T12:40:00.004-05:002023-07-25T12:40:29.161-05:00The SAG-AFTRA Strike and Barbecue SauceFans of the Apple TV behemoth "Ted Lasso" show don't just watch the show, and we don't just watch the show once. We'll binge watch all three seasons countless times, looking for puzzles, looking for clues, I mean, why does Isaac count to 12 and skip 8, and why so many "Cheers" references snuck in? What is the significance of the number 1,236?
(I have my own personal theory on that last one and Aaron B. Pryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3351816.post-34755499957761909302023-04-27T13:00:00.011-05:002023-04-27T13:00:57.584-05:00Age, SchmageWow, is Nikki Haley a ghoul.
I mean, it’s par for the course since she’s a Republican running for Preznit. But she’s basically like, so Biden has announced he’s running. Dude’s gonna die anyway. Seriously.
“He announced that he’s running again in 2024, and I think that we can all be very clear and say with a matter of fact that if you vote for Joe Biden you really are counting on a President Aaron B. Pryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3351816.post-37136117599253929922023-04-25T23:20:00.005-05:002023-04-25T23:22:22.856-05:00Inevitable Consequences of Abortion Prohibition, Part 172Woman with Cancerous Pregnancy Was Told to Wait in Parking Lot Until She Was 'Crashing' (Jezebel)
In Oklahoma, a woman was told to wait until she's 'crashing' for abortion care (NPR)
Aaron B. Pryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3351816.post-16140757186653922442023-01-28T00:34:00.009-05:002023-01-28T00:34:59.165-05:00Stabby StabbyMy gosh Tyre Nichols was handsome.
They keep showing his picture over and over again on MSNBC. He was beautiful. He was gorgeous. He was so pretty. And his death makes me think of a quote from the infamous movie called FIGHT CLUB. Where the guy beats the living shit out of Jared Leto and justifies it by saying: I felt like destroying something beautiful.”
Those cops. Those cops destroyed Aaron B. Pryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3351816.post-31923616662272375342023-01-10T07:42:00.009-05:002023-01-10T07:42:54.860-05:0087,000It should not come as a surprise that the first piece of legislation passed by the Republican House is based on a lie, is constructed to solve a problem that doesn’t exist and, in fact, sabotages an already-cast solution to an actual problem, and that some of the more visible people in that august body are taking to social media to shout from the rooftops as if they have performed some sort of Aaron B. Pryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3351816.post-17273058710965487522023-01-04T19:38:00.002-05:002023-01-04T19:38:15.187-05:00MasterpieceAaron B. Pryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3351816.post-81923785438304314782021-01-29T01:00:00.013-05:002021-01-29T03:03:16.788-05:00Blood Libel for Fun and ProfitOne strange development personally from the era of Former Preznit Carnage One-Term Loser Twice Impeached Inciter of Insurrection is that it has forced me to reassess the impeachment of President William J. Clinton.
For most of my life following that event, I had classified it as an impeachment "just for a blow job." Living through the Carnage Era, however, has changed my thinking dramatically. Aaron B. Pryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3351816.post-61868411263395991822021-01-20T13:18:00.007-05:002021-01-20T13:18:32.887-05:00ExhaleIt was 363 days ago today that Preznit Carnage One-Term Loser Insurrection Inciter was first asked—by CNBC's Joe Kernen at the World Economic Forum in Davos—about coronavirus, and he answered: "We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine."
From that day to yesterday, there was no serious official acknowledgement expressed of the national Aaron B. Pryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3351816.post-81843257782692967842021-01-09T01:16:00.002-05:002021-01-09T01:16:59.633-05:00The Strange OneThere was so much news to digest today that I had to turn it off and go to Turner Classic Movies, where they were featuring 1957's The Strange One. It's about this military school student who bullies everyone around him and oversteps his bounds drastically until all of his colleagues make him sign a confession and then throw him out of town on a train. I'm serious. That's the movie.
Does that Aaron B. Pryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3351816.post-63739623330685157932021-01-07T01:30:00.005-05:002021-01-07T01:32:26.568-05:00Well, That Was Some Weird Shit"Time for a shower."
This was the last line I typed into my personal journal at about 1:30 p.m. today. Previous to this, I had summarized some of what was going on in Congress on the TV.
I think the joint session approved a couple of states, and then they got an objection submitted in writing for Arizona. Now they’re debating.
Preznit Carnage One-Term Loser is seeing "0-12" in the chyron Aaron B. Pryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3351816.post-30990233360066433342021-01-01T18:00:00.001-05:002021-01-01T19:54:53.703-05:00Put A Lid On ItWell. Happy new year.
It's going to be a whiz-banger of a week. For starters, on Jan.4, we will see the first anticipated album release of the year, as Steve Earle and the Dukes will drop "J.T." as a digital release. This is sure to be a touching album as it features songs from Earle's son Justin Townes Earle, who died this year of an overdose. It is released on this date to coincide with what Aaron B. Pryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3351816.post-59283475512657912292020-12-24T14:26:00.003-05:002020-12-24T14:26:58.743-05:00Etch-A-SketchyAaron B. Pryorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.com0