DL Open Thread: Thurs., Oct. 3, 2019

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Yep, Pence Was In On It, Too.  Two points–Trump made sure that he tainted Pence, and Pence’s defense appears to be that he is/was clueless.

USDA Lets Chicken Slaughtering Plants Sacrifice Safety For Speed.  If only the workers at those plants in Sussex County voted, or were eligible to vote…

LA’s Green New Deal. Including a goal of 90,000 newly-planted trees by the end of 2021.

Ocean Clean-Up Working!  Hey, I’ve got to offer a ray of hope every now and then…

Trump Tariffs Hit Scotch Whisky, French Wines, And Italian Cheese. OK, now I’m really angry, and I don’t drink scotch.

What do you want to talk about?

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  1. Alby says:
    October 3, 2019 at 9:24 am

    Bloomberg’s Joshua Green traces Trump’s impeachment trap back to its source as a Mercer-funded hit job on Biden.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-02/trump-s-impeachment-saga-stems-from-a-political-hit-job-gone-bad

    Rather than the wall-to-wall cable news coverage his Clinton book produced, the impact of Secret Empires landed almost exclusively in conservative media, much to the frustration of Bannon, who griped about it at the time.

    This is important for two reasons. First, the political effectiveness of projects like Clinton Cash and Secret Empires rests on their ability to enter the public’s consciousness as something other than “conservative attacks.” The information needs to be legitimized—or “weaponized,” to use Bannon’s term—through the mainstream press. This requires patience, restraint, and enough sophistication to understand why a damaging story published on the front page of the New York Times has infinitely more political utility for conservative partisans than the same story appearing on Breitbart.com. As a GAI staffer explained to me in 2015, “We don’t look at the mainstream media as enemies because we don’t want our work to be trapped in the conservative ecosystem.”

    By this past spring, it was clear the Biden attack was stuck in the conservative ecosystem. And here’s where Trump enters the story—and inadvertently kicks off the whole impeachment saga: Trump may be the single most devoted consumer of conservative media, absorbing hours of it each day. He was mainlining the Biden coverage as part of his daily media diet.

    I bring this up because it shows yet again that Trump is a directionless id without any thoughts of his own, which leads all the people around him to manipulate him. But it never works out like they think it will.

  2. RE Vanella says:
    October 3, 2019 at 11:59 am

    France has a much higher rate of state owned industry than Venezuela.

    https://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUKKBN1W934Q?__twitter_impression=true

  3. Delaware Deadbeats says:
    October 4, 2019 at 1:51 am

    Eligible to vote? You have to be a citizen, get some smarts before you rant

  4. Paul says:
    October 4, 2019 at 7:57 am

    They’re

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