Lazy Weekend: 100 Days, But Who’s Counting
Posted April 25, 2021
on:- In: 2020 Election | Biden | Kamala Harris | Music | racism
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Happy Weekend Widdershins!
So we are hitting 100 days since Biden took office. And frankly, he’s managed to do an impressive amount of good things, despite unprecedented (certainly in modern politics) obstruction from the QOP. Rethuglicans just can’t find a way to attack him. They are so desperate. And if it wasn’t for 2 awful Senators (rhymes with “Manchin” and “Sinema”), so much more would already be done to improve Americans’ lives…
This report from CBS this morning is a fascinating look the song “Strange Fruit,” made famous by Billie Holiday. Specifically this ties to Manchin and Sinema in their refusal to recognize how the filibuster has kept racist laws in America on the books. And continue to this day. I just saw a statistic: in the 24 hrs after the Derek Chauvin verdict, 6 people were fatally shot by cops. Meanwhile, cops in Newark, NJ, did not fire a single shot in all of 2020. It is possible to police without shooting people. We know because Newark, NJ has done it.
Here is a fascinating segment from CBS This Morning about the song “Strange Fruit,” immortalized by Billie Holiday. A song that in effect destroyed her life because she refused to stop singing it and the Federal government thought the song was dangerous. There is an interesting plot-twist half-way (at least a plot-twist for me because I was not familiar with the background on the song.) This is an open thread.
62 Responses to "Lazy Weekend: 100 Days, But Who’s Counting"

Thanks for the great post DYB and telling us about “Strange Fruit”. How horrible of a scene with so many people not appalled by the death of those two men.
Billie Holiday was a courageous woman and suffered each time she sang that song.
@1 These two guys are really funny and using the frame of a car window as their stage, is unique.


Love the Agatha Christie photos, thank for posting DYB.


Rudy, Rudy, Rudy…get him!
I hope they find a ton of corrupt evidence and do something about it.


This pretty much sums up the seriousness of the ‘Recall Election’ against Gavin Newsome.
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California braces for another ‘clown car’ of recall candidates
OAKLAND — Running in the California recall may be the best bargain on the planet for fame and fortune seekers.
For just $4,000, any registered voter can grab an instant platform in what’s sure to become the nation’s most watched election this year — and leverage that position on social media and airwaves with some of the most attention-getting stunts possible.
State officials announced Monday that the recall has enough signatures to qualify for the ballot, three days after reality TV star and transgender activist Caitlyn Jenner launched her campaign to challenge Gov. Gavin Newsom. California is already bracing for the media frenzy that occurred 18 years ago when B-list actors and ax-to-grind residents jumped into the state’s only other gubernatorial recall.
“If you want to be famous for being famous, there’s no better way to do it than to run for governor of California — even if you have no chance of winning,” said veteran California PR guru Larry Kamer. “It’s kind of the political equivalent of running naked down the street.”


Thinking good thoughts for you Annie, that all will go well for your surgery.


I did take a deep breath when I saw Kamala and Nancy up there, behind a man, a good man.
What ran though my mind is how it should have been Hillary up there, for actually winning in 2018 as the first woman to be US President, with Bill as the past President and First Man.
I thought Biden did a good job tonight, I think the Dems will have to go at this alone again…the Rethugs basically sat there like sore losers.

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April 25, 2021 at 9:11 am