When Will This Madness End?

The Rubber Room Dweller in Chief has posted perhaps the most insane Tweet   Truth ever. Good lord but Fat Mussolini 2 has gone way over the cliff on this one, at least till tomorrow.

Let's break it down.

No President has ever worked as hard, except for maybe 45 others. He's stopped 8 wars, if you think he's at war with decency, literacy, humility, the truth, intelligence, and the Three Stooges. Sorry MAGAts, but those wars are still raging. He's losing them all.

He's created the greatest economy ever blah blah, brought business back into the country, rebuilt the military (again?) and instituted tax cuts. Yeah, sure Gramps, the economy sucks, the only "business" he's brought back are bribes for him, never rebuilt anything other than his own ego and tax cuts involve only him and his donors.

He's shut down the "open and dangerous" Southern Border and installed an "aura" making the whole world respect us even more. Ok, Old timer, you pardoned a Honduran drug dealer, and the only "aura" you create is the stench of your filthy diaper and the Maybelline on your hand.

He goes out of his way to undergo long, through and very boring Medical Exams, supervised by "top" doctors (well thats good lil Donnie) who all gave him "PERFECT" marks. Chrissakes Mr Universe, they gave you "perfect marks"? Most of the time doctors tell you to lose weight and stop snorting Adderall all day. And not only that, how may fucking times do you go to the "Great Walter Reed Medical Center" anyway?On 3 separate occasions, he has undergone what is known as a COGNITIVE EXAM which he ACED, and most people fail miserably. Ok, Donnie Dementia, taking THREE cognitive exams is not a sign of having your mushy noggin together. To know the difference between an elephant and a goat is not the sign of genius. It's called normalcy.

Finally, The New York Times "consistently" reports you're an old man who falls asleep at cabinet meetings and accurately publish your election results but apologize. This is TREASON. They should be shut down!

Ok Orange Hitler, look. This rant proves some things. That you are an old man, a narcissist, a Nazi, a thug, a liar, and losing your marbles. Impeach this crazy bastard or suffer the consequences. The death of America.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

The Notebook!

 I know nothing about The Notebook. Never seen the movie, never read the book. Never seen the musical. All I know about the Notebook is that picture of Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams in the rain, Sometimes that's a good thing. I went in expecting nothing, What I got was something.

The musical begins in a nursing home. We see old Noah and old Allie living there. He's got a bum knee from an old shrapnel wound from Vietnam, and she has Alzheimers. She has no idea who he is. He is reading to her from a notebook, a story she wrote about their lives in the hope she comes back to him. 

Younger Noah and Allie as teenagers fall in love over a summer. Allie's parents disapprove of Noah, a kid who works for his Dad at a lumber yard. Noah and Allie dream about Noah fixing up an old house aka "our house. The parents take her away but not until after they sleep together at their house.

The time swap is constant. We go from old to young to middle age and sometimes all at once. It keeps pace with songs that really aren't that memorable but move the story along with grace. 

Noah goes to Vietnam along with his best bud Finn. Noah and Allie separate for 10 years until she sees a story in the paper about him building "our house". Now she's engaged to a lawyer that her parents approve of. We get them back together and then we go back to the present where Allie remains not knowing who Noah is until she suddenly does. The ending is both hopeful and tragic at the same time.

The cast is perhaps the best from top to bottom I've seen in years. Everybody can sing their asses off. Everybody can act their ass off. From minor characters like the doomed Finn and his gal Georgie to the nurses to the parents to the family all are knocking it out of the park. 

But the main cast. WOW!. Kyle Mangold as young Noah and Chloe Cheers as young Allie are tremendous at playing innocence and young love. Ken Wulf Clark as middle-aged Noah (if 30 is middle aged) is great at portraying jilted love and Alysha Deslorieux is superb at playing a jilted (or so she thought) woman, She played Eliza in Hamilton on Broadway and gets the showstopper song My Days after which she gets a long and deserved ovation.

Then we get to the glue holding this all together. Beau Gravitte as older Noah keeps this moving and very real. He's a great actor and a good singer. Sharon Catherine Brown plays older Allie. Playing a role like that, where you must convince the audience,you have no idea what's going on. She's fantastic both when playing out of it and the end when she "comes back".

I thought that the story was captivating and since I knew nothing about it, it was such a pleasant surprise. Highly Recommended.

The other great surprise was the sound at the Orpheum. The orchestra is minimal thus virtually every lyric and line was decipherable. The orchestra never overwhelmed the voices like it did in the Wiz. 

Bravo all the way around.

Husker Football!

 Look, being a Nebraska football fan hasn't been easy the last few years. We really haven't been good since the turn of the century, but those 1962-1999 years were something to behold for a state of 2 million people. Five national titles, untold number of Big 8 titles, bowl games every year in Miami or Phoenix on New Years Day. It was glorious. And then reality caught up to the state of 2 million people. Its unsustainable. I accepted this years ago, but nobody else around here seems to agree. We have half the population of Iowa, who has two good teams. We are half the population of Kansas, who struggles yearly. And then there's us. Struggling for relevancy and unwilling to admit that the run is done.

We have brought in coaches who everybody thought would turn it around. Bo Pelini managed to right the ship to a consistent 9-3 but unfortunately, he was a madman, a ticking time bomb, a man who was ready to explode at all times. That gets old. And Bo was fired about 3 years too late. Who can forget his temper tantrum on the sideline at Texas A&M? His swinging of his hat and damn near hitting the official. The bitter speech about those "motherfuckers in the stands" booing him. His crazy speech after he was canned calling the AD a "cunt". Nobody needs that shit being the face of the program.

Bill Callahan was fresh off a Super Bowl loss and a player revolt when they fired Frank Solich. Yes, Hall of Fame coach Frank Solich. Well 58-17 wasn't good enough and Bill Callahan, NFL position coach, and failed Oakland Raider head coach was hired to bring the program up to date. No more of that option shit. We need a statue QB who throws a lot. That was a disastrous hire closed out by the worst defense in college football history (I mean come on 76-39 loss to Kansas).

Then came the Bo tirade. 

As always, we hire against form. From a Tom Osborne clone to an NFL coach. From an NFL coach to a college coach with anger problems. From a madman to a nice guy Mike Riley, a laid-back coach from the Pac 12 who treated his players as adults which was a total failure. Kids don't want to be adults and if given the chance they blow off training cuz it's harder than X Box. From nice guy Riley to hometown hero, Scott Frost, who had a bit of Bo in him. Bitter since he was booed in 1997, Frost thought he was in for life. What he was turned out to be was the worst football coach in Husker history. The 12-yard rumble of a slow Georgia Southern quarterback to beat us in Lincoln sealed Frost's fate. Then another hometown hero, Mickey Joseph, a former quarterback like Frost during the glory years. Unfortunately for him, he had a bit of Bo in him also in that he got arrested for domestic violence right before his interview for the head job.

Now we have Matt Rhule. Nice guy, blabbermouth, takes responsibility unlike Bo and Frost, but a total screwup when it comes to the Ps and Qs. His failure as NFL head coach (gee a pattern here?) got him the job here. Rhule is one of those everybody's family around here guys. In the NFL that's a joke. In college it is kind of nice at first, but it gets old when success eludes you. Rhule isn't going anywhere soon as his contract was extended earlier this season to keep him from going back home to Penn State (spoiler he was never going anywhere). So, mediocrity is the norm for the near future. 

And Husker fans, we better accept that. 6-6, 7-5 maybe an 8-4 on occasion. The games are just entertainment; they are not life. The quicker you realize that the happier you will be.

Go Big Red! Always. But I'm used to average now. And I've accepted it.

RFK Jr And MTG! The Initial Nuts!

 Ok fine. RFK Jr is a sick twisted pervert and has been his entire life. He's been accused of sexual misconduct numerous times. He kept a journal of his conquests complete with ratings and notes. He cheated on his first wife so many times she killed herself. He hung with Epstein (oh those pesky files). Kennedy over the years has openly defended his bro, Michael, for screwing with a 14-year-old girl, his cousin William Kennedy Smith for a rape at the Kennedy compound (yes he was acquitted) and his cousin, Michael Skakel, convicted of murder in the weird death of Martha Moxley by blaming two mysterious "black men". Just remember that Skakel would climb a tree outside Moxley's window and jack off something I wouldn't put past the charming RFK Jr. Now RFK Jr, Cheryl Hines's hubbie, is accused of carrying on a sexting relationship with "journalist" Olivia Nuzzi, Look, Nuzzi is no normal person herself, she screwed at the time Governor Mark Sanford (ewwww) but this whole drink my harvest "poetry" is the only qualifying plus that Trump needed to appoint him Secretary of HHS.

Kennedy is all of the above, a degenerate, a philanderer, a shitty poet but what the bottom line is this nut is in charge of the nation's health. He opposes vaccinations, falsely claims they cause autism, pushes quack drugs like Ivermectin, and claimed the Covid virus was created to kill white people and spare Jews and blacks. He's compared the CDC to Nazi death camps, pushed forward racist theories that blacks have stronger immune systems than whites making health care less important for them, and swims in shit filled streams for chrissakes.

Kennedy is an unqualified buffoon, always has been like the rest of this regime's terrible cabinet. But this latest garbage, if his total lack of scientific knowledge isn't enough, should result in his dismissal. Not to mention the measles resurgence, the whooping cough deaths and the latest HIV breakout in the Northeast. RFK Jr isn't only dangerous to women, but to everyone.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a thorn in the side of liberals for years, has decided to resign from Congress, effective January 2026, two days after her pension benefits become official. Yeah, I don't care about that, its only smart to be honest. But the "official" reason is the toxicity of politics. Excuse Me? The what? 

 

Greene has been one of the most toxic members of Congress for damn near 5 years. Screaming at Joe Biden like a snow monkey during the State of the Union. Following David Hogg down the street yammering about gun rights. Refusing to wear a mask. Jewish space lasers. All this crazy shit. But within a week after going head-to-head with the DickTater in Chief about health care (Trump doesn't give a shit, she apparently does) and the Epstein List she's gone?. After 5 years of being hated by the left, and only 1 week of being hated by MAGA, she resigns noting the number of death threats from the flying monkeys Trump unleashes whenever he's challenged. And the left is the violent ones? Ok sure.

Anyway, good riddance to MTG with all due respect. Wish I could say the same about ol Gravel Voice Kennedy.

Tuesday Thoughts!

 I think the President is in love. With a "communist" no less. Zoldan Mamdani came to the White House last week, fresh off his New York City Mayoral election. As Trump's North Korean spokeswoman, Bullshit Barbie Leavitt was warning America that a "communist" was coming (such a cliched GOP talking point they been using for 75 years). But the meeting between the "fascist" and the "commie" went so well that Trump couldn't help but give that Relax Guy South Park grin. Like a Paul Hollywood handshake, who saw that comin'? The next day Trump began to dress like Mamdani, with an overcoat that actually fit and a scarf that still didn't hide the gobbler vagina neck. I think Donami is smitten. Until he isn't.

The Epstein Files. Oh christ. The Congress passed the release of them virtually unanimously and sent it to Trumpstein's desk where he allegedly signed the release. Now before we get all horny for the files let us remember that before this came down, Trump made Pam Bondi "investigate" Democrats allegedly on the list which means of course the Attorney General can redact everything as "national security" or as an "ongoing investigation". So yeah, we aint seeing them for quite a while so America and its attention deficit disorder can forget and concentrate on the price of cheese or whatever. This is a farce as usual.

Six Democratic Senators made a video in which they stated that members of the military are not required to follow "illegal orders", ya know like shooting protesters in the legs or something. The GOP regime went batshit. Trump, Hegseth, Leavitt, and all the flying monkeys chose to begin screeching about undermining the chain of command. Trump, a bone spur sufferer, Hegseth, an accused rapist and definite alky, and Leavitt, a woman so dense she can be seen thru, all called for charges for sedition for the six, a ludicrous claim, and Boney Spurs even called for death cuz that's what they used to do back when America was great. The target is Mark Kelley, a Senator, astronaut, Captain in the Navy and great American. Why? Cuz Hegseth and Trumpstein fear him. You think Newsom is frightening, well a hero is even more frightening. Hegseth, in between shots of moonshine, called for Kelley to be reactivated into the Navy and court martialed. I'm not sure the chain of command has stopped giggling yet.

The Comey and James indictments have been dismissed by a federal judge who couldn't have been clearer that Trump and Bondi could shove their indictments up the ass. You remember Trump appointed the 3rd place finisher in the Miss Colorado contest to be the prosecutor for these idiotic charges. Lindsey Halligan, an insurance lawyer who had never prosecuted anything, decided she could just bypass a grand jury, make shit up, and get a guilty verdict. Jesus H Christ have we found somebody lazier than Trump? Disbarment waits for Halligan and Bondi if there is any justice left.

Finally, with a regime so intent on sealing borders, how the fuck could that dry drunk Hegseth authorize a bunch of who knows what to storm a beach in Northeast Mexico, right on the Gulf of Mexico and put up signs closing the area in the name of the "commander". Yeah, that's right Pete "Wrong Way" Hegseth, you invaded Mexico by mistake. Mexican soldiers removed the signs and told them to go back to where they came from. For chrissakes, don't ever trust Uncle Pete on a road trip to Florida or you'll end up in Maine. This guy is a disaster.

On a side note, I wore my "Deranged Liberal" t shirt in public and had at least 3 people, older white men in fact, saunter up and say in a whisper "we need to stick together". Yeah agree. But why the whispering from the old white guys. Women just say "love the shirt" out loud. Cmon dudes, express it like it fuckin matters. I appreciate the support, but be loud and proud, That's how we win.

The Wiz!

 

There is white joy and celebration and then there's black joy and celebration. The Wiz is the black joy and celebration. While the Wizard of Oz, in all its various versions is a classic story of. family and love and doing the right thing, The Wiz is simply the black version of the same story.

The all-black cast is never not moving. The ensemble is portraying tornados and poppies and Ozians (residents of Oz) and Khalidas at every lull in the show. This is the most talented ensemble I've ever seen and got applause after each and every dance number. Now the story itself.

Oh hell we all know the story. Dorothy is played by 21-year-old Dana Cimone, a fireplug of energy who reminds one of a young Quinta Brunson of Abbott Elementary. She has a voice that ranges from tiny to powerful as hell. She belts out the opening number, and you immediately know this woman is going places. Along the way comes the Scarecrow, a rubber legged Elijah Lewis who reminds you of the OG Scarecrow Ray Bolger. Lewis is funny and boisterous and as I stated, quite the flexible bean pole. The Tin Man, played by D Jerome, has a great opening number and then kind of fades into the background. The Cowardly Lion, played by a flamboyant Cal Mitchell, also has a great introductory number but seems to maintain his presence throughout.

The Wiz is played by what is obviously the most experienced actor on stage, Alan Mingo Jr, whose very presence dominates the stage.

But let's talk about three women who just kill.

Amitria Fanae plays two roles. Addaperle, the Witch of the North AND the Oz gatekeeper. Her sassy attitude is the comedy of the show. She is such a natural comedian it's really a joy to see.

When we first see Kyla Jade, she is playing Aunt Em and blows it up with her first and only song. Wow! She was a finalist on The Voice a few years back and how she didn't win baffles me (I don't watch so I have no idea how the winners are chosen). She comes back as the Wicked Witch, Evillene, and she controls the musical at all times. Her voice is amazing, and her range is out of this world. When she is melted by Dorothy, her demise is both funny and sad cuz you know she won't be back.

Sheherade is Glinda and is really given little to do. But when she's out there you damn well know it. Another powerhouse voice.

Look, the talent onstage is undeniable. In fact, top to bottom it may be the most talented cast I've ever seen in a touring company. But the story is so familiar there's really nothing new. I understand the appeal of the Original Wizard of Oz since I am a white kid from the suburbs. Those people looked like me. But the Wiz could be the black kid's memory of the story and that's fine too. The music is certainly funkier than the original. The lyrics are certainly more appealing to black audiences. So, it's all a matter of taste and culture. If I had to choose, I wouldn't even try. One is as relevant as the other.

Now my mandatory complaint about the Orpheum. The sound sucks. The band often overwhelmed the singers and they were indecipherable. This happens there a lot. And it will probably always be that way. But that doesn't mean it can't be improved. Strive for it please.

The Wiz is a joy. A great fun time. Plus, you always know what is going on due to the ubiquitous story. of the Wizard of Oz. See it.

All Her Fault!

 Yeah, it's all her fault. And his and hers and etc....

An 8 part series on Peacock features a whole lot of great actors, none of whom are really lead actors but make everything they're in better than it should be.

6-year-old Milo is missing. He was snatched off the street by a mysterious man. Milo's parents, played by Sara Snook as Marissa and Jake Lacy as Peter are frantic. Was he kidnapped? Taken by traffickers? Is there a ransom demand coming? But we see that Milo is alive, living in a hotel with his kidnappers, one of whom was Jenny Kamininkis (Dakota Fanning) nanny. Oh Marissa and Peter have a nanny also, because rich people living in huge houses must have all the perks of being rich. They all work long hours, neglect their children as toys to be played with when convenient and shunned when not. 

Marissa's nanny is a suspect, Marissa is a suspect, oh hell EVERYBODY at some point is a suspect because this series is so twisty and turny, you'll be sure the perpetrators are this bunch or that guy or that woman. The press hounds the rich people and implies it's all a hoax to get attention. Meanwhile the cop, played by Michael Pena, is dogged in his pursuit of Milo. He seems like the only honest person in this series, until he's not.

Jake is a control freak. He supports his drug addicted sister (Abby Elliott) and his handicapped brother (Daniel Monks). He supports his wife and child with the control of a master. Secretive and with problems of his own, Jake is creepy from the start. You think he had something to do with it, then you don't. It's this way with everyone in the cast.

The story shows it's cards a little bit per episode until it comes to a head in episode 7 when the actual story of Milo's kidnapping is scratched. In episode 8 it's all laid out, and the results are preposterous but very very entertaining.

If you want a shaggy dog story about a crime against a child, though he's safe at every moment, this is it for you.

All Her Fault is a feminist tale at its core. That women are blamed for tragedies first and sometimes it never stops, even after the facts are known. Women, in this series, whether it be Snook, Fanning, Elliott and even Sophia Lillis as Carrie Finch are the bad guys, even when they are not. The men of this series are not who they seem to be and the women pay the price. Until they don't.

It's good.