Friday Potpourri: 27 September 2024
As usual, I amuse myself
Last Friday, members of the show The West Wing were invited to the White House to celebrate the show’s 25th anniversary. This is not only my favourite TV show of all time, but the boxed set of West Wing CDs is the best present my husband ever bought me. When I am sad, or discouraged, I watch it. In the interest of full disclosure, sometimes I watch it just because I can. And yes, I can recite whole episodes.
In the video below, Dr. Biden makes opening remarks, and Martin Sheen begins speaking at 5:00. You can see him morph from “Martin Sheen” to “President Jed Bartlett” and his brief remarks are inspirational.
You may have noticed that Dr. Biden told everyone to sit, and everyone remained standing. If you never watched the show, that might have slipped past you, but here is why:
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Volodymyr Zelensky visited a factory in Scranton, PA a few days ago. Remember that he had made a previous visit to Utah this past July. He spoke at the Governors Association meeting (bipartisan) and attended the signing of a sister-state relationship between Utah and Kyiv Oblast. The signers were Utah Governor Spencer Cox (R) and Ukrainian Ambassador Oksana Markarova. But hey, Pennsylvania. THEREFORE, Moscow Mike Johnson has “demanded” that Markarova be recalled, and James Comer (KY - MAGA - Idiot) has opened hearings about whether this visit constitutes “election interference.”
Previous attempts at disruptive nonsense have not gone well for Comer. He ran the Biden impeachment hearings, which in a surprise to no one who has a brain, went nowhere, albeit slowly. Congressman Jared Moskowitz (FL - D) had some choice words last week about this including “legacy of incompetence” and “concepts of impeachment.”
You’ve heard the stories of people leaving Convicted Felon rallies. There are great videos of the exodus on Twitter, but I cannot get them to link nor embed. Turns out that people are paid via Venmo to attend, and the money hits their accounts 10 minutes in. So there’s this:
Fingers crossed!
This is a long article, and I have posted the link so you know I didn’t make it up. It is a litany of the idiocy of the GOP, but what caught my eye was that Kevin McCarthy (remember him?) used some of the allocated funds when he became Speaker to install a bidet in his office. Yes really.
There’s a Pennsylvania bakery making “Trump” and “Harris” cookies. They’ve been doing this for years. It’s their unofficial poll of who is going to win. Cookies can be bought in person (people, they say, drive hours) or ordered for shipping. As of Tuesday, they’d sold 12,558 red cookies and 889 blue cookies. Just goes to show - the MAGA idiots are into cookies, and we’re out canvassing.
And finally, while this doesn’t amuse me, it DOES make me very happy. Vice President Harris has released an 82-page economic plan called “A New Way Forward for the Middle Class.” Download it here. And when anyone says they don’t know enough, show them this.
We ARE amused. Enjoy your day off.