Delaware’s casinos like to cry poormouth. The ink is barely dry on the Supreme Court’s ruling that states can legalize sports betting and the racinos have already announced plans to begin taking bets next month. Lest anyone think this alleviates the gambling barons’ begging for tax relief from the General Assembly, Denis McGlynn of Dover Downs explained that they’ll probably lose money on it, because they make so little on bets on individual games. The logical objections to this bit of nonsense are so obvious that only slot-machine players could miss them. In case any are reading, I’ll spell it out: They don’t have to offer sports betting if they think it will lose money. Remember, spewing out bullshit is why McGlynn gets the big bucks.
The person who leaked the bank documents on Michael Cohen’s suspicious activity said he did so because similar information was disappearing from government records. Turns out those records aren’t being destroyed, but they’ve been made unavailable to law enforcement, which is probably even more suspicious than it sounds.
While people like to speculate about treason, a more rational reason for the Trump family’s troubles hides in plain sight: They’re not anywhere near as rich as they pretend to be, and need an enormous cash flow to keep up the pretense. Gaining control of the government has made that easier, as evidenced by the news that a Qatari company with ties to its government has stepped forward to loan Jared Kushner, Trump’s fucked-up Mini-Me, enough money to bail out his white-elephant Manhattan office tower.
Michael Tomasky makes the case that the female takeover of the Democratic Party will be good for everyone. To which I reply, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.