Ides of March Open Thread: Where’s Brutus When You Need Him?

The Delaware State News continues to push hard for Dover Downs to get the tax break it’s been demanding for the past several years. The paper is so eager it ran yet another interview with Sen. Brian Bushweller (D-Dover Downs), who is wasting his talents if he doesn’t go into PR for the racino after his retirement this fall. The ostensible news peg: Gov. Carney sent a flunky to a Senate Finance Committee meeting, signaling a willingness to negotiate.

Yesterday’s thread about Conor Lamb’s victory in western Pennsylvnia is encapsulated by the story in The Nation. Both sides should give it a read.

Is anyone surprised that Trump’s pick to head the CIA is not just a torturer, but a probable evidence-destroying unindicted felon? That’s the assertion of Jon Kirakou, who worked with her before he was sent to prison for leakingwhistleblowing.

In the latest episode of “White House Apprentice,” Dirty Donnie admitted that he bullshat Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, who called him on his lie about America’s trade “deficit” with Canada (we actually run a trade surplus). It was also revealed that Trump, not content with forcing the retirement of Andrew McCabe from the FBI, wants to fire him for cause a few days before his retirement to deprive him of his pension.

A couple of stories from the Schadenfreude Files: Rock icon Neil Young has a great reaction to learning that NRA spokesweasel Dana Loesch hates his music. And did you see the story about those white supremacists who escaped from the Jerry Springer Show? The head of the Traditionalist Worker Party was sleeping with his mother-in-law, the wife of the party’s “communications director,” which led to an altercation — exactly why Jerry’s show has bouncers all over the stage. Most accounts, however, lacked this key detail, which explains everything about white supremacists:

The group all live in the same trailer park compound in rural Paoli, Indiana, where the Traditionalist Worker Party is based. In statements to the police, all four listed their professions as “white nationalists.”