On Saturday, Joe Manchin called for Biden to step down and “pass the torch” to a younger generation of Democrats… On Sunday, immediately after Biden stepped down, 76-year-old Manchin was trying to mount his own bid against Kamala for the Democratic nomination… This is the fastest hypocrisy I’ve ever seen from a politician. The turnaround was less than 24…
Author: Alabama Liberal
Despite what You’ve Heard, President Joe Biden was Amazing! But Would Letting Kamala Run as an Incumbent Be Better?
President Joe Biden did a great, thankless job as inarguably one of the best three Presidents of the last 55 years, and in my opinion the best. It was maddening to watch the corporate media constantly harping about Biden’s “poll numbers being bad” as though they couldn’t have changed that reality merely by actually reporting…
46 Reasons Joe Biden Absolutely Deserves Your Support
“Why should anyone still support Joe Biden after the debate?” is a question I answer at length in this month’s podcast episode, but just in case you needed a refresher on the 46th President’s first-term accomplishments, here it is… 1. Passed a crucial infrastructure bill that no other recent POTUS has been able to pass…
TV Review: The Surprising Reason Why “TWD: The Ones Who Live” Worked and “The Regime” Didn’t
Both “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live” and “The Regime” are about the power moves behind oppressive states, and the lies it takes to sustain a dictatorship. By almost any conceivable metric, “Regime” is the better show–more cerebral, more realistic, more relevant, smarter characters, less “Comic Con” influenced–but, shockingly, “The Ones Who Live” actually…
ALL 2023 Movies Reviewed, Graded, and Ranked From Worst to Best
Since Alabama Liberal’s inception, I’ve been doing this annual countdown. This year’s countdown is not only the most belated (sorry) and longest (nearly 300 movies reviewed in one article is partly why it took so long), but also possibly the best year for movies since I started. It is extremely rare to have a handful…
Katie Britt Proves There’s TWO Embarrassing Senators in Alabama Now
And the Razzie goes to… Katie Britt! …I haven’t seen such an untalented alum from the Karen School of Acting since the last viral cellphone video of a white woman wrongly calling the police on black people that made her mad. Not sure if anyone reading this had a strong enough stomach to see Senator…
Good Riddance to Kyrsten Enema, Unabashed Corporate Toadie
The last few weeks have been filled with some of the worst political news since early 2022, as Russia’s last major freedom fighter Alexei Navalny was murdered, the Putin Caucus in the House looks unlikely to ever allow more aid to Ukraine, the SCOTUS seems determined to create a constitutional crisis, Alabama looks likely to…
The Co-Star Rebecca Ferguson Dissed Revealed
Recently, a rich, powerful, celebrity white woman used a press tour for an upcoming mega-budget movie to whine about past mistreatment from a star who used to be bigger than her when she started out in her career. I actually don’t think this is important–at all–and also think beautiful white women might be fascinated to…
All 2023 TV Shows Ranked from Worst to Best
Note: It is now impossible for any one human to watch all TV shows in a given year, especially all the bad ones. This list is 70-odd shows that I had a reasonable expectation would be good, and I ranked/graded them only on the basis of what I actually watched vs. hypothetically lousy shows I…
The Best TV Characters of 2023
Farewell to the best character on a bad show: Raymond “Red” Reddington (James Spader) from “The Blacklist”…Most of this list are either good characters on great shows or great characters on good shows, but Red stands out as being a truly terrific character let loose on a police procedural dull enough it could’ve been on…
The Worst TV Characters of 2023
Better late than never, right? We may be a full month into 2024, but I’ve done a countdown of the best and worst TV characters of the year ever since Alabama Liberal’s inception (many, many years ago), and it’d be a shame to miss it now. After all, I watched several lousy TV characters last…
The 2024 Movies I’m Most (and Least) Anticipating
Alabama Liberal is taking much longer than usual on the annual list of movies ranked from worst to best (2024 is now in its second month, and I’m still a week out from getting 2023’s list finished). In the meantime, I’ve put together a 2024 movie preview to get you looking at brighter days freed…
Big Question: Why Does the World’s Richest Country (for Nearly a Century) Continually Pretend It’s Too Broke to Help Its People?
Any given day of the news, you can find some story of [fill in the blank] Republican politician saying America “can’t afford” to pay for Medicaid, or “Social Security is going broke,” or some new version of a timeless theme for the Republican Party: that America’s miserly social safety net is unsustainable and antiquated and…