Author: Michael A. Ventrella

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Unnecessary Censorship

You ever see someone write “f*ck” or something similar, as if that absolves them of writing a bad word? Like we can’t figure out what the word could possibly be, especially when taken in context?

Or when a TV censor bleeps a word but you can still tell from the context and the speaker’s mouth what the word is? Or when a comic book character says “&%@(!!” instead of what you know they’re really saying?

Who are we protecting here? You think kids haven’t heard these words before? You think they’re too dumb to figure it out? The very young ones, maybe, but then they’re not reading “f*ck” or watching the kinds of shows where those words might be used. (Or in comic books and comic strips that kids might read.)

For network TV, which has to apply for licenses from the government, it makes a bit more sense. However, I see that most cable stations don’t censor any more (Jon Stewart and the cast of “South Park” are finally free to say what they think without bleeping), and clearly we’re moving in that direction. Even our President and other politicians use words that would have destroyed their careers when I was young.

These kinds of silly word censorships are sort of like those fashion pictures you’ve seen where the beautiful female model is topless but she has her fingers covering her nipples … Gee, what could possibly be under her finger? I can’t imagine! (And seriously, it’s not the nipples we care about anyway. If all I wanted to do is see nipples, I could look in a mirror…)

Anyway, the point I was trying to make before I distracted myself with nipples is this: I sometimes have to laugh at silly censorhip. I mean, come on. No one is going to be hurt by it. It’s just a f*cking word.

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It’s only socialism if Democrats do it

Bill Bramhall

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They know they’re unpopular and they don’t care

Trump’s approval is around 35% or so, and those are mostly the cultists who will support him no matter what. It’s still lower than any other President at this point in their presidency.

The majority of Americans do not approve of anything he is doing, but the Republicans don’t care. They laugh and pretend they’re popular — mostly because they live in that bubble where they only pay attention to the news sources that suck up to them — but the fact is that they are tremendously unpopular.

And that’s why they cheat. That’s why they do everything they can to prevent people from voting. That’s why they ignore the laws and do whatever they want because they know they’ll lose otherwise.

And they’re successful often because they have spent years building to this point, filling courts with judges whose views are political instead of legal, gerrymandering to control legislatures, and knowing they can get away with it because we’re the “good guys” who won’t stoop to their level to stop them.

But hey, they don’t care who they hurt to get their power, to help their billionaire friends, to destroy people who aren’t like them.

I mean, seriously, this isn’t a fight between liberal and conservative any more; it’s more of a fight of good and evil.

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The history of Cancel Culture

Matt Wuerker

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The Republican platform 2025

“Hi, we’re the Republican party! We’re the ones who just shut down the government and are violating your Constitutional rights. We’re led by a rapist with 34 felonies who is suffering from dementia and who has the lowest approval rating of any President at this stage of his presidency. If you vote for us, we promise to cut every government program that helps you and will work to hurt everyone who is not a straight, white male! So, can we count on your vote in November?

Oh, did we mention that we’re actively hiding evidence about rich people raping young girls?”

(An apology: I’ve been so depressed over politics lately, I find it hard to write about it on this blog, although I do give small comments on my Facebook page often.)

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Paint it black

Dave Whammond
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We need more Democrats fighting back

I may have some problems with Newsom’s policies, but I love the way he’s trolling Trump. He’s posting tweets that mimic Trump’s deranged ramblings along with fake AI pictures of the type Trump posts. And when Republicans say he’s not acting like a Governor should, he just laughs and wonders why they never say the same about Trump’s unhinged posts.

There’s a reason the support for Democrats is at its lowest in years, and it’s mainly because we’re tired of moderate Democrats who are too scared to fight back and who won’t push for the liberal policies the majority of Americans want. Chuck Schumer and his “strongly worded letters” may have been how politics was done in the days of political decorum, but that ended when Newt Gingrich came along, and Democrats have yet to learn that you won’t accomplish anything that way any more.

No more “When they go low, we go high.” Ignoring the neighborhood bully only makes him more powerful.

I mean, I am not really looking forward to Newsom running for President but duh, if he gets the nomination, I’m going to vote for him. I mean, come on, the worst Democrat is still better than the best Republican these days.

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Besties

Chris Britt

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Lymph node transplant diary

I’ve been a bit depressed to write too much about politics lately, but I do have some good news, if you don’t mind me sharing.

My wife, award-winning dryer lint artist Heidi Hooper (you may have seen her on ABC’s “To Tell the Truth” with Mel Brooks or on “Access Hollywood” or in Ripley’s Believe it or Not books and museums) had a major cancer operation around the turn of the century which took away much of the use of her right arm. She developed lymphedema which got worse over the years, and for the past 10 years or so was forced to get into a massaging machine for her arm three times a day for an hour each time. If she did not, the arm would expand, she’d be in terrible pain, and have to go to the hospital (and she did, too, from time to time when it didn’t work).

Just take a second and imagine if you had to do that, every single day, no holidays, no weekends, for ten years.

So when her doctor told her about a new procedure where they could transplant lymph nodes from her stomach to her arm and thus, if successful, prevent her from having to spend three hours a day in a machine, she decided to take the chance.

She made a video diary of the experience so that other possible patients would see what it was like.

And here it is.

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Know your ICE agent

Ruben Bolling