Memorial Day 2023: The Secret Ingredient Is Sun-Dried Tomatoes

Hope you’re enjoying your Memorial Day weekend because tomorrow your ass is going back to work, and probably the rest of you. Of course, some of you still clock i today because our society depends on essential workers who are criminally underpaid.

Memorial Day honors the US military members who died in service to the country. This means a moment of silence and maybe a brief pause from Republicans smearing them as inferior to Russia and China because they took a DEI course and are conscious of pronouns.

Or just continued anti-woke silliness — you know how Republicans are.

Seriously, what’s with these people?

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WonkTV: Tina Turner Memorial Day Special!

It’s Memorial Day weekend, so Robyn and I aren’t here “live,” but enjoy this pre-recorded chat about Tina Turner, “The Little Mermaid,” Ron DeSantis, and hostile architecture!

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Nikki Haley Mean Girls That Nice Bud Light Trans Lady Dylan Mulvaney, For Votes

Dylan Mulvaney is a 26-year-old actress and TikTok influencer who exists in the world as a trans woman. This infuriates joyless bigots, who staged boycotts and shot up beer cans after Bud Light featured her in an online promotion. Actual sitting US senators Ted Cruz and Marsha Blackburn literally launched a federal investigation into the Bud Light sponsorship and demanded that a private company sever all ties with Mulvaney.

SERIOUSLY LOOK AT THIS SHIT: Ted Cruz Investigating Bud Light For Felony Nice To Trans Lady

Yet, that is almost polite bullying compared to doomed presidential candidate Nikki Haley's repulsive attacks on a private citizen who's done nothing to anyone.

Haley visited New Hampshire Wednesday and spoke at Saint Anselm College's Politics & Eggs program, which is billed as an opportunity for New Hampshire and New England business leaders to meet with major party presidential candidates. Haley didn't bring any eggs nor even any relevant political discussion. Instead, Haley delivered her version of a humorless Dave Chappelle rant.

"Everybody knows about Dylan Mulvaney? Bud Light, right?" Haley asked the audience. "Make no mistake. That is a guy, dressed up like a girl, making fun of women. Women don't act like that. Yet, everybody's wondering why a third of our teenage girls seriously contemplated suicide last year?"

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And That's The Story Of How I Became The Mother Of Kaydon Boebert

Because it is one of the days what has occurred since December 19, 1986, there are people in America talking about how Lauren Opal Boebert might not be a particularly bright person. (That's when she was bornt.)

She was talking in a House hearing yesterday about prescription drug prices. We guess she doesn't want them lowered.

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Memorial Day 2023: The Secret Ingredient Is Sun-Dried Tomatoes

Enjoy!

Hope you’re enjoying your Memorial Day weekend because tomorrow your ass is going back to work, and probably the rest of you. Of course, some of you still clock i today because our society depends on essential workers who are criminally underpaid.

Memorial Day honors the US military members who died in service to the country. This means a moment of silence and maybe a brief pause from Republicans smearing them as inferior to Russia and China because they took a DEI course and are conscious of pronouns.

Or just continued anti-woke silliness — you know how Republicans are.

Seriously, what’s with these people?

Keep reading...Show less
WonkTV

WonkTV: Tina Turner Memorial Day Special!

We are everyone’s private dancer.

It’s Memorial Day weekend, so Robyn and I aren’t here “live,” but enjoy this pre-recorded chat about Tina Turner, “The Little Mermaid,” Ron DeSantis, and hostile architecture!

Please like, share, and SUBSCRIBE.

The chat activates at 12 p.m. PT/3 p.m. ET. Once, we’re done, it’s Open Thread action.

www.youtube.com

Follow Stephen Robinson on Twitter if it still exists.

Catch SER on his new podcast, The Play Typer Guy.

Did you know SER has his own YouTube Channel? Well, now you do, so go subscribe right now!

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Black Ariel Makes Box Office Splash In Disney’s Live-Action 'Little Mermaid’

Racists worldwide weep.

The live-action remake ofThe Little Mermaidhooked audiences to the tune of around $120 million for the Memorial Day weekend. This is the single best opening ever for a movie with a Black woman lead. (OK, technically, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever performed better with $181 million, but that was billed as an ensemble effort. Regardless, I’m happy for both Disney princesses.)

Sad baby racists have complained about this movie since actor/singer Halle Bailey (not Berry) was announced as the lead in 2019. Not even a pandemic made them get over their issue with Black mermaids.

Despite the years of racist whining, The Little Mermaid opened to mostly rave reviews from normal people, and Bailey’s performance was singled out for praise. The movie boasts an A rating from Cinemascore and a 95 percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, which is better than the original’s.

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