Back to the 60s (well, the period 1966-70) again this week. Much like I went for fairly common and well-known 80s acts in the previous mix, I kind of did the same this time round, only going back a decade or so, obviously. I’ve already got next week’s mix done, it’s another 60s mix, and will feature some more obtuse and out of the way bands and song choices. In the meantime, however, here’s this week’s selections:
In which a black program host on Mike Lindell’s “network” wants Kamala Harris to prove she’s… free of demons?
A host on Mike Lindell’s television network called on Vice President Kamala Harris to take a DNA test to prove a demonic spirit wasn’t prompting her to say she was Black.
During his daily “Let’s Talk About It” program on Lindell TV, host Will Johnson defended former President Donald Trump’s claim that Harris had only recently “happened to turn Black.”
Harris’ father is Jamaican, and her mother was Indian, making her the first Black and first Asian American vice president.
But Johnson suggested Thursday that Harris was lying about her race and should take a DNA test.
“How about we get Kamala Harris to do a DNA test like him and like Elizabeth Warren?” Johnson said. “Then we’ll put it to rest. She comes back, and she’s a little bit more Black than Elizabeth Warren is Indian, then we’ll, OK, go, she can be Black half the time.”
“Why not do that?” he asked. “And then they say we are the weird ones — we’re the weird ones because we don’t want to go along with the insanity.”
Johnson argued that a “demonic spirit” had caused Harris to identify as Black.
“It’s because it’s a demonic spirit,” he opined. “I know a lot of people don’t like to hear that, but it’s true.”
“These people have lost their everlasting mind, and they want us to play along,” he added. “I’m not going to, and you’re not gonna force me to play along with your insanity. These people have a mental illness that’s being controlled by a demonic spirit.”
Will, YOU’RE the one talking about a fucking demon making her lie about her ancestry when actually sensible people have no problem accepting that her ancestry is what she says it is. Hear yourself, you lunatic.
Alas for Don Don, that’s not quite how this situation turned out, cos Gershkovich just got released well ahead of the election. It wasn’t exactly for free, to be sure, a number of Russian prisoners had to be exchanged for him and a bunch of others freed at the same time (and I’m not exactly thrilled that this guy was part of the exchange)… but Putin didn’t do it for Trump, he did it for Biden. I’d feel rejected if I were Dampnut.
I did find this part of the article slightly odd, though:
The exchange is emblematic of a new era of state-sponsored hostage-taking by autocratic governments seeking leverage over rivals. It was negotiated as tensions soared between Russia and the West over the war in Ukraine.
It also offers sobering evidence of the asymmetry between the U.S. and Russia in this new, piratical order. Putin can order foreigners plucked from restaurants and hotels and given lengthy prison sentences on spurious charges—something an American leader can’t do.
Does the WSJ honestly think American leaders HAVEN’T done exactly this sort of thing? Never heard of extraordinary rendition? More to the point, does the WSJ expect its readers to believe that bullshit?
Donald Trump’s campaign is desperately trying to clean up his latest mess after he bombed Wednesday while speaking to the National Association of Black Journalists Wednesday.
In a racist tirade, Trump accused Vice President Kamala Harris of playing cynical games with her heritage.
“She was Indian all the way,” he said, “then all of a sudden she made a turn and she went—she became a Black person.”
The campaign knew it was a disaster before it was even over. What was supposed to be an hour-long question-and-answer session was abruptly cut short by Trump’s campaign after just 34 minutes—“an indication of how much of a train wreck it was for him,” tweeted Axios reporter Sophia Cai, “and also how good the questioning was.”
Jesus FUCK, this was a catastrophe even by HIS limited standards. Apparently there was a lot of anger at the NABJ inviting him at all, and I totally understand why, and I’ve seen some suggestions that they hardly covered themselves in glory… but GODDAMN they didn’t cover themselves in shit like Dampnut did. All they did was ask him questions that should’ve been asked ages ago…
I mean…FUCKING LOOK, if you can stomach it (I could only manage five or six minutes even of this cutdown). The delay problem wasn’t their equipment, by the way, it was him and his team harrumphing over the NABJ panel wanting to fact-check him in real time, cos you know, fact-checking him at all is the height of rudeness. This is the sort of thing that, had it been anyone else, would’ve ended their career. And, you know, Dampnut has the cult behind him, so, though his campaign team may be rightly aghast (the whole thing ends hilariously with one of the journalists noting that the Trump team is giving them the order to wind it up, and she very specifically names them rather than just making a vague statement about being out of time or something) they probably can’t do much about him… but I suspect even he might suffer some harm from this. I look forward to it happening.
A very belated RIP to David Freel from Swell; I only rather randomly discovered this tonight, nearly two years after the fact, after discovering an old video by them on YT and reading some of the comments thereon. Goddamn. Hadn’t heard anything from Swell in a long time—it appears that he retired from music-making about ten years ago to run a vinyl pressing plant—so this is the first I’m discovering the news. Too Many Days Without Thinking is still a favourite of mine from the later 90s, and I offer you the tremendous lead single therefrom:
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