April 12 Open Thread, Bulldog Edition: GOP Has So Much Sex and Drugs They Don’t Need Rock ‘n’ Roll
Josh Marshall highlights an overlooked passage from Michael Wolff’s book, about Trump’s longtime lawyer Mark Kasowitz dealing during the campaign with “hundreds” of women who came forward accusing Trump of sexual misconduct of one sort or another. Steve Bannon was the named source for that passage, which brings up the obvious question of what the FBI might have found in the office of Trump’s other lawyer.
Speaking of sexual misconduct, the Missouri House report on the claims against Gov. Rick Greitens was released, and the victim’s account makes it sound like straight-up rape. Given that he conducted a defiant news conference beforehand, Greitens seems ready to go with the “little bit nutty, little bit slutty” defense.
While we’re on the pervert beat, the Bill Cosby trial featured lots of courtroom drama that will make a great TV movie 10 years from now.
Former GOP House Speaker John Boehner has gone into the marijuana business, raising eyebrows everywhere. People seem to forget that his family owned and operated a tavern back in Ohio, so how surprising is it really?
Rick Wilson has made a name for himself as the conservative pundit who despises Trump the most, and his invective is the most satisfying part of his lambasting of Paul Ryan and his supposed conservative ideals.
Are conservatives dumb, stubborn or possessed by evil spirits? Whatever the explanation, they just…can’t…stop…insulting the Parkland kids, no matter how many of them get fired for doing it.
Whenever a political actor admits to wrongdoing, it means there is much more wrongdoing that actor is not admitting to, Keep that in mind when you see the NRA’s acknowledgement that it took only a couple of thousand dollars total from 23 Russia-linked contributors. That’s the ones they can’t deny. Russians don’t generally operate using their own names, but rather cutout LLCs chartered right here in Delaware.
File this one under Lifestyles of the Plutocrats: The chairman of Sinclair Broadcasting is one David D. Smith, who hails from outside Baltimore. The Guardians reporters looked up property records for his homes in Timonium, Md., and Portland, Maine, and found — surprise! — he’s unpopular with his neighbors in both locales. British tabloids understand the sales value of demonizing dickheads like Mr. Smith, who is buying up all the property around him in Maryland, presumably to quell the complaints.
“…the “hundreds” of women who came forward accusing Trump of sexual misconduct”
Trump may eventually feel like he has to cover up his arson by setting a forest fire.
One thing about Trump, there’s always more dirt, more women he molested and more games to try and keep it out of the public eye. Seems there’s more lawyers as well. Love that Boehner has jumped on the pot band wagon, like usual it’s all about the money and no, you can’t do up a doobie with John. Bummer!
Renowned “BernieBro” and woman of color Briahna Joy Gray actually went down to Dixie with Bernie last week. The reports of his death have been greatly exaggerated.
Bernie Sanders in the Deep South
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/what-really-happened-when-bernie-sanders-went-to-mississippi.html
“In fact, if Beale Street could talk, it would tell a very different story about Bernie Sanders than the now-familiar critique that he is insufficiently sensitive to racial issues. As I walked with Sanders down Memphis’s famous thoroughfare, his popularity, including among the predominantly black crowd attending the commemorative festivities, was self-evident. The senator was stopped every few feet by selfie-seekers and admirers. Yes: Perhaps this is to be expected of any politician with a national profile, but given his poor showing in Mississippi during the 2016 Democratic primary, in which he secured less than 17 percent of the black vote, I had thought the senator and his small cohort might go unnoticed. I was wrong.”
Bam, of the many people I would love to toke with, Boehner isnt even on the Z list.
Ohio already voted down legalisation and the weed advocates lead the way. This is because the thing was a corporate coup that was rejected by activists.
The Boehner business is more corporate bullshit very likely…
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/where-did-ohios-marijuana-legalizers-go-wrong/414061/
” ‘ResponsibleOhio misunderstood that there is dramatic support, not just among hippies, to say enough is enough for marijuana prohibition,’ said Berman, who advised ResponsibleOhio. Meanwhile, they believed they could take for granted the support of marijuana advocates, failing to see ‘that hippies would be against corporatization.’ ”
@REV: What did you expect? Delaware will get legal weed once they’ve nailed down assurances that all the benefits will go to the politically well-connected, particularly to the state police. That way, they’ll maintain, they know the business won’t be shady, because state cops are running it. And people will believe it because, all evidence to the contrary, people — that is, white people — have tremendous trust in police forces.
Any time you have politicians in control of a valuable franchise, like legal weed or legalized gambling, they like to make sure they’re first in line at the trough. It’s the same basic principle as ticket scalpers paying line-squatters.
Oh, it’s going down exactly as expected. Did you happen to see Cynthia Nixon’s statement on this subject yesterday? It’s was excellent. Cuomo looks nervous to me.
No, I’ve pretty much ignored the New York race. That state’s politics are really fucked up, and as much as I consider Cuomo a disgrace to his father’s memory, neither do I want to encourage the entertainer-politician trend. Down that path lies President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
Fair point. But I’ll put the entertainer-cum-politician decision on a case by case. Also, the career-politician-failed-attorney-corporate-lobbyist approach hasn’t exactly presented us with the best and brightest.
No, it hasn’t. But a desire to do good must be paired with an ability to do well to be effective. Newbies have a tendency to get played.
Trumpolini has been a filthy dog regarding women, but the report he fathered a child with housekeeper, should be a bridge too far for those scewed up evangelicals.
Didn’t Carpers long time aide get the contract for the medical dispensary in New Castle and then got the one for Sussex. These rats have known for years how profitable the “weed” would be and they want a piece of the action, while keeping state legislators with too many cops in them, pushing against legalization. I hear the dispensary in Wilmington is so backward they don’t have edibles, lolly pops etc..the run out of certain products all the time. When does the public get to hear what the profits are, how much are they selling and where does that money go?
@spk: See the Amanda Marcotte link in the afternoon open thread for her take on the Trump-evangelical agreement on the status of women.