Trevor Noah speaks "American"

 RantWoman is out of town for a few days and leaving clips to make people smile.

Binge watching Salmi

 RantWoman's binge watch of the week, in this time of global discombobulation and offerings struggling to emerge from the keyboard in memory of RantMom is a tuxedo cat named Salmi.

Behold. Check out her entire channel.

The opinions are definitely Salmi's but RantWoman is wondering whether perhaps she has persuaded her human to take dictation.

And should Salmi be able to bear sharing the spotlight with the tuxedo cat of RantWoman's childhood, please enjoy 

RantWoman and the RSOF: Mr. Tuxedo: reprint from the WA Council of the Blind Summer 2022 newsline

Adventures of RantWoman: Severe Weather Recommendations

PS RantWoman has never been to Finland in winter, but Salmi should be glad she has a radiator to sit on. And yes, winter air in CO mountain towns is probably at least as dry as in Finland. It's physics.

Rose Monday in Germany ahead of Mardi Gras

 Humor. Some will consider it tasteless humor. It's German. RantWoman laughed VERY hard.

Laissez les bonnes temps roulez

Muppets FOREVER and premiering TONIGHT on ABC and Disney Plus

RantWoman seldom flaks this blatantly for an entertainment venture, but the world needs MUPPETS right now.

Kermit the Frog on Return of The Muppet Show, Working with Seth Rogen & ...

Self-soothing with dead presidents

5 Dead Presidents ROAST Donald Trump - Club Dead

It's AI. You too can roast President #StableGenius

Justice Sotomayor: Just Shine, in English and Spanish. Oh and READ THE DECISIONS!

Justice Sotomayor Looks For The Good In Her SCOTUS Colleagues Despite ...

Why Justice Sotomayor So Powerfully Disagrees With Her SCOTUS Colleagues On How ICE Should Operate

Sotomayor On SCOTUS Immigration Ruling: ‘Think Of How Much More Is At Risk' | The View

"Read the Decisions. Not just the dissents. Read the decisions.:

(RantWoman: and don't just believe superficial reporting)

And from a panel on Roland Martin

WTH?!? Most Racist Supreme Court Ruling Since Plessy — Greenlights Racial Profiling in ICE Raids

Shan Wu

The presumption of normality: the reason Justice Kavanagh just accepted the Justice Department's claim that 10% of people in Los Angeles are undocumented.

RantWoman's additional points:

RantWoman is not a lawyer but it appears to RantWoman that Justice Kavanagh writes a lot of full employment for lawyers opinions. Currently the norm seems to be let the harm roll on while the lawyers lawyer..

RantWoman is not confident enough of her own Spanish to toy with the idea of recuiting a lot of white Spanish speakers who refuse to speak anything but Spanish in public, just to help document discrimination.

RantWoman also would love to be wrong. ICE should ONLY pick up people with convictions for serious felonies. Congress should grow a spine and get over their racism and recognize the value and values people bring to the US regardless of where they are borm.

Social Media in Russia today.

Russian Censorship is Getting Bad...

Thank you WION. Really good comedy even if Colbert goes away.

🚨Trump Gets Hit By Nobel Peace Prize BOMB, LOSES IT

"Typing in ALL CAPS is NOT diplomacy."

Leave Epstein etc. to Jon Stewart, et al.

CONTENT WARNING: Epstein, vulgar language, references to child sex abuse, body parts, racism, pretty much the whole disgusting #PedoInChief gamut.

Jon Stewart Reacts to Colbert's Cancellation & Trump's "Bawdy" Epstein D...

The Gloves Are Off | "I Absolutely Love That Colbert Got Fired" | Trump & Epstein's Wonderful Secret

WSJ's Trump-Epstein Birthday Letter Bombshell Rocks MAGA; Trump's Doodles Resurface: A Closer Look

Comedian Reacts to Luigi Terror Charge

Aside from the topic, this item has a whole raft of Gen-Z vocabulary.

What if RFK Jr double dog dares the President Elect to EAT A SALAD?

RantWoman thinks God has a weird sense of humor. RantWoman will at some point wander down that rabbit hole in search of ways to address the outcome of #Election2024, people who think differently from RantWoman or worse, don't appear to think at all.

In the meantime, RantWoman copium:

--cat videos

--recipes with no plans to cook.

--material that makes RantWoman laugh between other howling.

There is a lot besides RFK jr. to bite into. That is for another time.

RantWoman thinks that RFK Jr. will make a terrible Secretary of Health and Human Services. And he gets to get in line with a bunch of other terrible nominees.

RantWoman spent part of her weekend talking to elders now suffering post-polio syndrome, remembering the mass dosing at her elementary school and collecting a Twitter / X thread about RFK Junior going to American Samoa, arguing against polio vaccines, and leaving in his wake the germs of a huge deadly outbreak a few months later.

That, of course, is by far not the only reason one might have a very negative opinion of the current nominee to head the Department of Health and Human Services.

RantWoman, however is touched by the cabinet secretary nominee's concern for the President Elect's diet. In fact, RantWoman wonders how long the nominee will last if he dares to insist that the President Elect maybe say EAT A SALAD.

Tim Miller and CO Gov Jared Polis talk common sense

#HappyPride #COpol

Mehdi Hasan and Bassam Youssef: We're not kidding.

RantWoman's thunderous applause may or may not be the most helpful way to welcome a new podcast series into the world, but here it is. 

ENJOY.

Mehdi Hasan and Sammy Obeid on campus protests

Josh Johnson: What Did Y'all Do To Elmo? + Stanley Cups Are Jordans For White Women

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMonth2024

One of RantWoman's current fave young comedians.

Audie Cornish interviews Roy Wood Jr. about The Daily Show and the Future of Comedy

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMonth2024 

RantWoman may or may not achieve coherent commentary of her own. In the meantime, RantWoman will be curating selected items that the interwebs bring her.

Enjoy.

Trump Song a Parody of American Pie

RantWoman is aware that perhaps she is supposed to make a Youtube playlist. 

Tough. Cope.

Some of these items make RantWoman laugh. A few are plenty close enough to Truth to almost make RantWoman cry.

But they are slightly refreshing compared to the the news of the week.

Dave Rucci You're so Lame

The Founders Sing: Like a Kidney Stone

Conned in the USA

Roy Zimmerman Vote Him Away The Liar Tweets Tonight

Parody Project

Matt Farmer Alternative facts

Refreshing timeline cleanse and respite from all the lawyers lawyering

The Donald Went down to Georgia pre indictment version

Another version

The Donald went down to Georgia

A Devil Went down to Georgia with the perfect phone call in the music music

Trae Crowder: Full Special "Damn Boy."

RantWoman needed to laugh.

RantWoman laughed very hard.

Content warning: language; also brief but frank commentary about a gruesome topic

Reputable Sources: Ronny Chieng Teaches You About K-Pop

Posted in appreciation for everyone reposting old clips while writers' strike...

Also, RantWoman previously knew almost NOTHING about K-pop and definitely prefers reputable sources.

Happy Arraignment--with oboes.

Oboes, RantWoman? It's Arraignment eve, the Donald has pled for help from his rampart storming fan cult, Marjorie Taylor Greene has brought something, we are not sure what to New York, and we're doing OBOES?

Yes. 

RantWoman has New York on her mined. RantWoman initially wondered whether these joyful young Oboists and English horn players hail from New York. No. RantWoman is sure there are plenty of oboists in New York but the ones here are the oboists of the 2012 National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, doing Swan Lake which probably means there are more cultural moments to be milked than RantWoman may get to. 

Note time warp, and time warp sufficient maybe to sweep up some serious historical ruminations on the occasion of The Donald's first arraignment in his LONG life of courtroom engagements.

Among the historical detritus to sweep up:

--RantWoman was on a bus on the way to an election results watch party in 2016 when she learned that Orange Jesus had been elected President. The tone was somber. RantWoman was on a different bus on a sunny afternoon when a glance at Twitter delivered the news of the indictment announcement. OH BOY! The rolling anthropology project that is the E line was particularly anthropological that day. RantWoman decided detailed look at the news could wait.

--A few days pre-indictment, RantWoman had used the Twitter hashtag #ITMFA. RantWoman meant INDICT...Already. But RantWoman was jolted back to the onset of the Trump administration when yet again a GOP candidate lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote. RantWoman's social media almost immediately filled with the same hashtag #ITMFA except then the first intended first word was IMPEACH. Free speech is awesome. And no matter how unpopular or manifestly unqualified the winner of an election is, that just is NOT a great way to launch a new presidential administration, even one where the President goes on to overachieve with not just one but TWO impeachments.

--The oboes remind RantWoman of youth and joy and what is possible in really well thought out genuinely nonviolent protest. RantWoman has gone to several such protests in New York. Typical fashion statements: lots of jeans and T-shirts with various slogans. Tactical gear stunningly absent.

No matter how joyful many people feel about the upcoming arraignment, it is a bit unseemly to approach the occasion with that much levity, even if people might want to try cheerfully to overwhelm MAGA whose disciplined commitment to nonviolence seems, to RantWoman, non existent.

--RantWoman lived on the east coast in the 1980's. RantWoman never paid any attention to Donald Trumpbut does remember that Rudy Giuliani in those days was at least a fairly respected legal figure.

--RantWoman remembers her first visit to Manhattan, on fall break freshman year of college. RantWoman was travelling with a friend who it turned out was relying on RantWoman's wobbly vision and ability to follow directions to get us both around. RantWoman remembers wanting to look up all the time to find the sky and a horizon among the midtown skyscrapers. RantWoman also remembers her friend coaching her relentlessly that RantWoman did not need to say Hi to everyone who mumbled in our direction.

RantWoman mentions the city life virgin behaviors because the illustrious Ms. Greene of GA is having her own first time in the city moments. One of her first tweets about the experience spoke of all the people falling out on the street in drug-addled stupor because of liberal harm reduction drug policies. RantWoman's first thought: "Look lady, you what, took a shuttle to the hotel and had to walk a few steps to the registration desk. Did you really see...or are you just making stuff up to fit your narrative?" Luckily for RantWoman's sanity, someone immediately posted about how the death rates per 100,000 due to fentanyl are actually higher in the Gentle Lady from GA's district than they are in NY. So we can come back to that or readers can visit the MAGA Budget link below for a preview.

With all of that, a couple links noted for posterity below, and a little more saved for tomorrow, RantWoman wishes the denizen of Trump Tower a happy arraignment

Stephen Colbert's Indictment Night Monologue

TYT on 60 Minutes MTG segment

Insane MAGA Budget proposal threatens us all