The Daily Jot: THIS JUST IN! IT'S GOT TO BE IN THE WATER -- OR THE GERITOL!

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

CROOKED JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO HAS DECLARED CONGRESS HAS NO CONTROL OVER THE CROOKED SUPREME COURT.

IT'S AS CRAZY AS OLIVER STONE CHATTING WITH CRACKPOT RUSSELL BRAND AND SAYING HE REGRETTED VOTING FOR JOE BIDEN NOW BECAUSE A NUCLEAR WAR MAY HIT AT ANY MOMENT.

WHAT IS IT WITH SOME ELDERLY WHITE MEN? THEY HIT A CERTAIN AGE AND, LIKE DIANNE FEINSTEIN, THEY NEED TO BE LED AWAY.

WHEN ASKED FOR COMMENT, SENATOR FEINSTEIN DECLARED, "I HAVEN'T CHANGED AT ALL. I'M THE SAME DIANNE FEINSTEIN I WAS YEARS AGO. IN 1977, I VOWED TO BOOGIE-OOGIE-OOGIE TILL I JUST CAN'T BOOGIE NO MORE. BOOGIE NO MORE. BOOGIE. AND I HAVE HELD TO THAT PROMISE ALL THE YEARS. BOOGIE NO MORE. BOOGIE NO MORE. BOOGIE."

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Let's turn to the US and let's zoom in on the pathetic. A friend of several decades is someone I often rag on and I'm not going to name him today but I've probably done so before, so if you figure it out, good for you. But when he reads this, I didn't name you in this. So my issue with him for years has been that he's the male Joan Crawford onscreen. I find his films formulaic but, most of all, I don't like them because he's Joan Crawford. Now I like THE DAMNED DON'T CRY, for example, it's a great film noir. But all the suffering and all the melodrama needed to elevate Joan above everyone else in the cast is present in his films and so is the victimization that is the hallmark of the average Joan Crawford character.

I bring that up because I finally get why the right-wing is so obsessed with masculinity.

I get it.

It's because they have none.

They have no strong men. They only have strong shoulders -- shoulder pads -- because they're an army of Joan Crawfords. They can't stop playing the victim.

It's there in Ronald DeSantis crazed attack on the world, it's there in pathetic Jason Aldean who secretly edited the video recently to take out some of the more objectionable parts and wants to pretend like it's the same video that's been airing this whole time and that he's the victim.

It's so bad even Mona Charen is calling him out in her syndicated column (briefest up to speed for those who don't know Charen, no one would ever call her "left" or even "center"):

And it’s notable that some awfully famous images of rioters attacking an iconic American landmark, desecrating the American flag and spitting on cops — those from Jan. 6 — didn’t make the cut.

Asked if he would play the song even after the controversy, Aldean took refuge in the familiar pose of victimhood. Because he’s being criticized, he thinks he’s being “canceled.” Gushing about his “bada—” fans, he whined that “Cancel culture is a thing ... which means try and ruin your life, ruin everything.” Of course he would perform the song, he declared, because “the people have spoken and you guys spoke very very loudly.” So matters of decency get decided by plebiscite?

Look, Aldean imagines that he is merely standing up for the “feeling of a community that I had growing up.” But if he really was raised with good values, where is the fellow feeling? Where is the sense of community with other Americans who may not be from the same town but are just as worthy of respect and consideration as his high school buddies? If this were really a call to community, he would have included at least one or two images of Americans who weren’t white or rural. Don’t we expect all Americans to honor their neighbors and compatriots? Isn’t that part of what being “raised up right” includes? Don’t rural people reach into their wallets when hurricanes or tornadoes hit cities and vice versa?

Aldean’s defense is fatuous. The music video is belligerent and divisive. In this age of ugly partisanship, the cheapest clicks can be purchased with us-vs.them incitement. It’s unworthy. Don’t try that in a good country.

When I read her column and thought of how pathetic Aldean is, I thought of how pathetic Jonathan Turley is who uses social media to divide the country constantly and can always be found inciting attacks on DISNEY, Bud Light, Target and anyone objecting to Aldean's racist video.

They play the victim because that's how they see themselves. It's why they're so enraged. It's why they attack everything. They're not men, if they're lucky they're boys. But they're not men. A Joan Crawford character was many things but it was never a man -- not even in JOHNNY GUITAR.

If you're not getting it, go to YOUTUBE, search "REASON" and pull up that nonsense outlet's interview with victim Matt Taibbi.

Did you know that poor Matt is so troubled and so hurt and it's all because, grasp the tissue, he refused to support Hillary Clinton in 2016 and, sob, sob, he didn't get on board with Russia-gate. The left turned on him! The left turned on him!!!!

Grow the hell up, you fat f**k. You're the most spoiled brat in the world -- and it shows in that creepy baby face. Have you been out in the sun ever? To be fat and have that skin? We're talking THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS grotesque.

And most of the left does not care one way or another who you voted for in 2016.

Hillary Clinton, in 2016, wanted to be Barack Obama in 2008 which is why she ran such an awful campaign. It was inauthentic and it relied on celebrities. Not only did she not photograph with them as well as Barack had -- it's an issue of body types and an issue of crips lines in the clothing -- Hillary didn't have it -- but it just never rang real and only reminded people of other times when she'd come across fake thereby daily playing to her weaknesses and elevating her negatives.

But here's the thing, Matty, speaking out against Hillary didn't cost you a damn thing.

I was opposed to Barack. I knew, from Elaine and my meeting him before he was in the US Senate, that he had no plan to end the Iraq War. He made that clear which is why closed our check books and left the fundraiser. We had planned to max out because we were -- and remain -- against the war. But when we got our face time and raised Iraq to this 'anti-war' person and he told us it didn't matter anymore because "we" were in Iraq now, we left.

Barack didn't end the war. He didn't even ever pull out all US troops. There was a drawdown -- as the Pentagon rightly termed it -- not a withdrawal. And we had noted that Barack would send troops back into Iraq -- if elected president -- and we'd done that by looking at the raw interview NYT did with candidate Barack as opposed to the garbage filth they published. He said very clearly -- but they didn't put it in the article -- that he was fine with pulling troops out and with putting them back in.

ISIS was his excuse for that in 2014.

That's probably not going to cause anyone to spew their coffee today. But the media was for Barack at the time.

And he was a very popular president.

We went campus to campus speaking out against the war before he was president and we did it after. And telling the truth, especially in the weeks and months right after the election? People didn't want to hear that. They wanted to believe that the war was over, all the US troops were coming home, blah blah blah -- Hillary had a funny on that in 2008 ("the heavens will open . . .").

Point being, you tell the truth. If you have any integrity, you tell the truth.

I did. I was booed. Didn't bother me, didn't make me cry. It wasn't the first time I'd ever been booed. I know how to work a crowd and, each time, was able to turn it (the booing) into a joke so we could laugh together and them move back to the topics and reality at hand.

I think if that had happened to Matt, 15 years later, we'd find him still seated on that stage in a pool of his own urine as he sobbed.

Grow the hell up.

You chose a position. Are you happy with what you chose to fight for? Then you won. Stop the whining. Stop pretending you're a victim.

And stop pretending that you're transphobia isn't the reason most people hate you today.

You actively courted the right-wing and you served them. You betrayed yourself as a journalist -- hell, even Glenn Greenwald told THE VANGUARD that he wouldn't have agreed to the terms you did to get access to The Twitter Files. You are an embarrassment. You are a goober. You are this fat, ghostly white sloth that is physically repugnant.

You're a grifter and people caught on.

No, there was no excuse for you to be attacked in a Congressional committee and we defended you on that. But you're not eleven years old, grow the hell up.

If these pathetic right-wing males could, we'd have a better world. But too many of them are nursing perceived hurts and feeling victimized. How pathetic.

Did someone say RFK Jr?

He's begging money again. He's trying to sell the latest Harvard-Harris poll as a win. He's moved nothing and he thinks that's a victory. "I'm the same as I was last month," he brags.

The numbers aren't increasing, are they? Not the numbers of people who support you. You had name recognition and you've failed to build on it.

And the poll doesn't say what he wants it to. In the campaign e-mail, the campaign's insisting that it means he would be president if the election were held today. That's not what it means at all. This was not an issue of who would you vote for? That question was not asked -- which is why various people listed -- such as Hillary -- are people who aren't even running for office. He's such a liar.

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