June 12 Open Thread: “Historic” Meeting Shows Why People Think History Is Dull

The mainstream media, just as Trump foresaw, is making a fuss over his “historic” meeting with Kim Jong Un without pointing out that Neville Chamberlain’s meeting with Hitler in Munich was historic, too. But here’s a fact you’ll never see mentioned: The more the producers spend on logistics, the more airtime an event will receive. They spent all that money schlepping to Singapore, they had a schedule they could follow, everybody got to pretend they were recording history. Bored yet?

As long as there are conservatives, there will be clever dicks with cell phones who think they can be the next James O’Keefe. A couple of them showed up at the Wilmington stop on Joe Biden’s book tour demanding he apologize for “molesting” women at some specific hearing. They’re talking, of course, about Biden’s well-documented handsiness with women. If they weren’t RWNJ trolls they might point out that all Al Franken’s ass-grabbing combined wouldn’t equal the unwanted touching Biden gets away with in any given two-hour stretch.

Those worried about Kerri Harris winning a general election owe themselves a read of this breathless press release from Rob Arlett, the Sussex County RWNJ and probable GOP Senate nominee. His big news: His campaign rally will feature Bobby Knight, the disgraced ex-basketball coach, who now stumps for political candidates whose views align with his own, which align with those of, oh, Frank Rizzo.

These Trump Mini-Mes are sprouting everywhere. Here’s one from Atlantic City, a gun aptly named Grossman who’s running for Congress on the platform “Diversity is a bunch of crap.” Don’t you just love it when ethnic Americans unzip and take a leak on those below them on the ladder? Don’t y’all realize that you’re only “white” because they were running out of the real whites?

Here’s a succinct twitter thread about why it’s waste of time debating policy with Trumpkins. Sample:

I don’t engage Trump’s enablers on the merits of this or that Trump policy because I can’t take Trump’s “policies” any more seriously than Trump or his minions do. … I don’t see the need to engage in the cynical bullshittery of arguing policy with people who will change their minds on anything in nanoseconds

Anthony Bourdain’s death, unlike those of other so-called celebrity chefs, is being mourned well beyond the foodie culture, especially in the restaurant industry, where he was virtually alone in championing the Latino workers who, basically, feed America from farm to kitchen.