January 12, 2017 Open Thread
Well, there was Trump’s cluster fuck of a press conference yesterday. A toddler throwing a tantrum would be able to run the country better than this schmuck.
Trump hires Philly lawyers to set up an ethical blind trust. Philly lawyers!
Former Mayor Dennis Williams did not write one email in the last four years on his official city account. Still trying to figure out if this was a good thing or a bad thing. Probably leaning bad, you know, since Wilmington became Murdertown during his watch.
Williams did not write a single email from his city account during his four years in office, according to records provided to The News Journal. A Freedom of Information Act request for four years of sent emails yielded 11 messages sent from Williams’ official email address: nine were sent automatically from Microsoft Outlook, one was a link related to the city code from Williams to a city assistant and one was a city message about pay stubs forwarded from Williams’ city account to his personal one.
Tags: Dennis Williams, Donald Trump
If CNN is fake news (and I’m not saying it isn’t), does this country have any real TV news outlets?
I have stayed away from the network news since the election. I clicked on MSNBC just for a second last night and saw…Greta Van Susteren hosting.
Reminds me of that bumper sticker: ‘The liberal media is only as liberal as the corporations that own them’.
Ask Carper and Coons why they were among the 13 Senate Dems who voted against cheaper drug prices last night.
We have a corrupt campaign finance that is propping up Big Pharma profits.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=115&session=1&vote=00020
Brian: It’s b/c Carper and Coons represent their contributors and not the citizens of Delaware. Here is Carper’s legacy when it comes to Big Pharma:
http://delawareliberal.net//2016/12/13/how-tom-carpers-positions-and-votes-screw-people-and-help-rethugs-screw-people-volume-4/
The vote was close, 46-52. These bastards need to be hounded out of office for voting against their constituents.
BTW, it appears that Tom Carper also withheld the deciding vote on an amendment designed to protect Medicare and Medicaid. Every single D, and 2 R’s, voted for it, except for Carper, who went Not Voting:
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=115&session=1&vote=00004
You might want to call his office and ask why he votes against protecting Medicare and Medicaid.
We’ve been saying hound the bastards out of office for more than a decade now, but their still there and still voting against the average Delawareans best interests. Even Trump said Big Pharma Is “getting away with murder” and they truly are as we pay double for drugs in America. Delaware’s Dems face the same problems the party faces nationally, lack of qualified candidates that can take out people like Carper and Coons.
We have qualified candidates, progressive candidates, even. However, the party has been controlled by Carper and his Third Way corporate cronies. That’s how we get John Carney, who literally owes his political career to Carper.
I’ve been writing a lot about Carper b/c it’s time people know just how bad his record is. I think a progressive challenger can take him out. I’d take any one of Denn, Townsend, or Young, just for starters.
And just to be clear, the votes that Carper and Coons cast against the Klobuchar amendment were votes against every Delaware health care consumer.
They don’t represent us.
No, but they sure do represent Astra-Zeneca.
Both of these amendments would have passed–the Klobuchar amendment if only the ‘D’ senators from Delaware and New Jersey voted for it instead of for the pharmaceutical rainmakers, and the Hirono amendment if Carper had only voted, and voted yes.
We just can’t afford that in this era.
Keep in mind that the amendment process is really just a stalling mechanism being used to cover for the fact that no, it wasn’t the lack of a deadline that prevented the GOP from coming up with an alternative, it was the fact that this was the best market-oriented, conservative solution the GOP think tanks could come up with — and, in its creaky fashion, it sort of works. They are seeking a second-best alternative that they can call better, the very definition of a fool’s errand.
The only actual solution would be to repeal Obamacare and replace it with something almost exactly the same that the GOP could claim credit for.
The conservative “intellectual” movement gave away the game during Bill Clinton’s presidency, when they complained that he was stealing their ideas: They don’t care about the ideas as much as they care about being credited for them. They opposed Obama not because of the content of any of his proposals, but because they don’t want Democrats to get credit for anything, ever.
Patrick Harker, failed UD president who now heads the Philadelphia Federal Reserve, gave a talk to Main Line business people this morning. Here’s the headline on Joe DiStefano’s blog post:
‘Most people can find a job if they’re looking for one,’ says Harker
He said this in the same speech in which he said economists were “puzzled” that only 88% of men in the 21-to-49 age group were working or looking.
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq-phillydeals/Philly-Feds-Harker-With-US-hiring-up-Fed-should-boost-rates-3X-in-2017.html
This is what failing upwards looks like.
“He said this in the same speech in which he said economists were “puzzled” that only 88% of men in the 21-to-49 age group were working or looking.”
Fucking eggheads.
Boycotting Trump-supporting businesses? Add L.L. Bean to your list:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/people-are-freaking-out-about-donald-trumps-ll-bean-tweet_us_58779a67e4b05b7a465e06fb
Conspiracy theorists, virtually all of whom voted for Trump, are obsessed with false-flag operations, so naturally they engage in them whenever they can:
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/revealed-pro-trump-trolls-made-vile-rape-melania-sign-to-discredit-protesters/
Markell says “fuck you” to state workers: http://news.delaware.gov/2017/01/12/governor-markell-final-recommended-budget/
More proof of how superior Nazis are to everyone else: They couldn’t raise the $125 fee for a permit to march in Whitefish, Mont.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/neo-nazis-couldnt-raise-the-125-needed-for-a-permit-for-their-montana-march/
The only way these folks can remained convinced of their own superiority is to smash every mirror they come upon.
Here’s how Democrats keep losing:
Headline at Mother Jones: “The Sexist Chatter at Elaine Chao’s Confirmation Hearing Will Make You Shudder”
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/sexist-remarks-senators-during-elaine-chaos-confirmation-hearing
I read it, and I didn’t shudder. Neither did Elaine Chao, so it’s nice to have the Democratic Delicate Flower Lobby on hand to do it for her.
Also: Biden awarded Medal of Freedom.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/obama-surprise-biden-farewell-medal-of-freedom
Which means that, pretty soon, Joe Biden and Vince McMahon will have something in common.
Hey, I posted it here before TNJ or WDEL had it.
When Drumpf called CNN “fake news”, I got so angry I fell off my rocking chair and almost broke my neck.