Liveblog - ICYMI & Free Chat Saturday: November 30, 2024

Below, you will find some headlines we may have missed and some interesting video clips on several subjects. Please feel free to share anything you may have run across; just make sure it’s not from a McMAGAt infested shithole.

Because we all wanted to spend some time with our families and had real life obligations, I’m combining today’s early AM blog with what was supposed to be yesterday’s Free Chat Friday. Enjoy!

Woke!

A Black Mrs. Claus has the anti-woke crowd seeing red

The Boots commercial portrays Mrs. Claus as an elegant Black woman who runs the roost as her husband rests with his feet up by the fire.

The war on “wokeness” has crept down the chimney and into the season of wonder and light, with right-wingers causing a spat over a British Christmas commercial that portrays Mrs. Claus as an elegant Black woman who runs the roost as her husband rests with his feet up by the fire.

In case you haven’t seen this ad for the company Boots, a massive health and beauty retailer known for extravagantly produced Christmas ads, let me explain. This year’s commercial, called “Making Magic,” takes the viewers inside Santa’s workshop, with a quick pit stop in Santa’s home chalet. Mrs. Claus, portrayed by Adjoa Andoh, known for her role as Lady Danbury in the Netflix romance series “Bridgerton,” stomps through the door to see her husband snoozing in his red suit.

The war on ‘wokeness’ has crept down the chimney and into the season of wonder and light.

History:

History repeats. In late February 1921, 2 weeks before taking office as POTUS, Warren Harding writes a letter to the richest man in America, William Randolph Hearst, thanking him for helping him win the presidency with favorable coverage in major newspapers he owned & begging for his advice.

Spiro’s Ghost (@antitoxicpeople.bsky.social) 2024-11-30T01:15:12.816Z

🤡 The Clown House 🤡:

Ex-FBI informant charged with lies at ‘heart’ of Biden impeachment effort indicted on new tax charges

Alexander Smirnov, federal authorities said, lied on his taxes while buying a “condominium, a Bentley, and hundreds of thousands of dollars of clothes, jewelry and accessories.”

A former FBI informant whose false claims about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden were at “the heart” of the Republican impeachment inquiry against the president has now been indicted on tax charges.

Alexander Smirnov, the former FBI informant charged with lying to the FBI about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, has now been indicted on 10 separate tax-related charges.

The Fascist and His Brownshirts:

The father of twelve children, who promotes families having more children, spent Thanksgiving with none of them. Instead, he was discussing video games with Barron and awkwardly bopping to YMCA, referred to as the ‘Gay National Anthem’.

Hoodlum (@nothoodlum.bsky.social) 2024-11-30T01:47:08.719Z

Trump is still running all his businesses while selling random junk. He has a publicly traded company, and he can easily be bribed. He once again will be in violation of the Constitution day 1. Corporate media should do their damn jobs and focus on it, instead of sanewashing him and his nominees.

Scott Dworkin (@dworkin.bsky.social) 2024-11-29T23:12:40.950Z

The Worst People in the World:

Democratic members of Congress get bomb threats on Thanksgiving

The homes of multiple Democratic members of Congress in Connecticut were targeted by bomb threats on Thanksgiving Day.

Reps. Joe Courtney, Jahana Hayes, Jim Himes, and John Larson all said their homes were targeted on Thursday.

“This morning, I was notified of a bomb threat targeting my home where I was celebrating Thanksgiving with my family,” Himes said in a statement. “Thankfully, after a swift and thorough response from the United States Capitol Police, the Greenwich Police Department and the Stamford Police Department, no evidence of a bomb was found.”

From the MarKODA Files-Family and Friends Celebrate Thanksgiving Edition:

Craven Assholes:

Texas governor threatens to pull children’s hospital funding over doctor’s viral post

Texas hospitals that take Medicaid must ask patients if they’re US citizens

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has threatened a children’s hospital with “consequences” after a doctor posted a viral TikTok telling patients they’re not legally obligated to tell a hospital their citizenship status.

On November 1, a new executive order went into effect requiring Texas hospitals that accept Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Plan to ask patients if they’re US citizens. The question now appears on intake forms at hospitals across the state, the San Antonio Express-News reports.

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