My work-in-progress modus operandi for this blog is to first simply collect random notes, articles, and references that I find interesting. These artifacts occasionally combine to form the raw idea of a blog topic and a few of the collections eventually morph into an actual post. This week, however, I’ve found myself largely unable to form complete sentences. Turns out I’m still thoroughly pissed off.
In the wake of the Kavanaugh confirmation: Sen. Mitch McConnell (R) took a victory lap proclaiming he wasn’t done remaking the courts; Sen. Tom Cotton (R) provided a detailed conspiracy theory that would make Flat-Earthers wince; Trump held a raw political rally with then-sitting Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh that was beyond disgusting; the latest polls are providing conflicting insights into whether the Kavanaugh Krap helps Democrats, Republicans, both, or neither; …
Breathe.
Anyway, instead of working on my blog over the weekend, I started firing off donations to several Democratic Senate candidates. While flipping the Senate is still very unlikely, monetarily flipping off Senate Republicans did make me feel just a wee bit better. Thereafter, in recognition that I violated my own advice to focus money where it can do the most good, I then felt the need to make additional donations to help flip the House. Winning the House won’t help with any future Supreme Court vacancies but it’s still the most reasonable Democratic goal this cycle.
The end result was that I was poorer, I was still pissed off, and I still had no blog post. Dandy.
In search of an idea that required minimal thought, I read through my notes and found a few video links that might not make it any further in my notes-to-blog process. Since it doesn’t get much easier than just posting links to the works of others, consider this an intermission with a few random political videos (some perhaps NSFW) that I think are worth sharing:
- Texas entertainer Lynzy Lab shot this simple but spot-on video of her response to Trump’s assertion that “it’s a scary time for young men in America“.
- This Kavanaugh / Pulp Fiction mashup video made the rounds last month and has the approval of Samuel L. Jackson himself.
- Richard Linklater (a native Texan) directed this video reminding voters why they should #FireTedCruz.
- Here’s a Willie Nelson video with a new and quite relevant song he debuted at a recent Austin rally for Texas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke (D).
- This video seriously kick-started the campaign of MJ Hegar (D) in my Congressional district (TX-31).
- Randy Rainbow did Gilbert & Sullivan proud with his video take on Donald Trump declaring himself to be a “very stable genius“.
- This 2012 SNL video on undecided voters is still sadly relevant in 2018.