DL Open Thread: Tues., Oct. 15, 2019
Rudy The Human Hand Grenade. Man, this testimony from Fiona Hill is incendiary. According to Hill:
The aide, Fiona Hill, testified that Mr. Bolton told her to notify the chief lawyer for the National Security Council about a rogue effort by Mr. Sondland, Mr. Giuliani and Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, according to the people familiar with the testimony.
“I am not part of whatever drug deal Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up,” Mr. Bolton, a Yale-trained lawyer, told Ms. Hill to tell White House lawyers, according to two people at the deposition.
Trump Moves Out. Russia Moves In. Someday we’ll find out what Putin has on Trump. I think it’s a lot of things. Including showers of gold.
Trump Goons Go–Christian. Bill Barr Edition. The last refuge of these scoundrels. Attacks ‘secular terrorists’.
Trump Goons Go–Christian. Mike Pompeo Edition. This is not coincidence. All they’ve got left are white male evangelicals.
Hospitals Lead Fight Against Medicare For All. Why? Because they’re ee-vil.
Trump Has Hired At Least 281 Lobbyists For His Administration. It is, after all, the fox-torches-the-henhouse administration.
What do you want to talk about?
I want to talk about what a little establishment-loving shitbag Mayor Pete actually is, claiming that it will take money to beat Trump when there’s no evidence at all this is true:
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/pete-buttigiegs-cheap-shot-at-elizabeth-warren-blew-up-in-his-face/
Here’s an idea, Petey: Go back to South Bend and try to run your tiny little city before you tell the grownups how to do their jobs.
He is an establishment-loving candidate, but I think he’s playing his hand pretty cleverly. If Biden doesn’t fade (and he’s fading), he has no shot at the nomination. But if Biden’s descent continues, he’s put himself into position to be the so-called moderate alternative to Warren. He’s just saying that he’s literally and figuratively open for business should that become the case.
Man, what a glib know-it-all. I don’t know what tonight’s performance will do to Buttigieg’s poll standing, but he’s an obnoxious twit.
Breaking: Trump proposes massive expansion of logging in Alaska’s Tongass Forest:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/trump-administration-proposes-expanding-logging-in-alaskas-tongass-national-forest/2019/10/15/92e47db8-ef77-11e9-8693-f487e46784aa_story.html
Why? Because he’s evil, that’s why.
Warren, Booker, Bernie, Beto and Castro are the only authentic people on that stage. Everybody else appears to regurgitate whatever they’ve prepped. Biden strikes me as an actor struggling to remember their lines. I should know–I’ve been there. And I’m coming to loathe Mayor Pete.
Meaning, he’s likely to be the nominee.
Mayor Pete is the kind of guy who grew up checking all the right boxes, being told how swell he was, and so he thinks that makes him worthy of jumping from unsuccessful mayor to the presidency. In truth, all it does is make him an obedient house pet for the patriarchy.
“You got a Rhodes scholarship? Good boy! Time for a cookie!”
Something tells me that females will not take kindly to Biden’s “I got you those votes” jab at Warren. Biden revealed just who he is right there.