DL Open Thread: Sun., Nov. 17, 2019
How Fed-Ex Made Its Tax Liability Go From $1.5 Billion To Zero. Yep, the Trump tax credit. And, of course despite promises, the company didn’t reinvest the $$’s into jobs.
Trump Pardons War Criminals While Nobody Is Watching. Against the objections of the Defense Department.
Trump Spends Two Hours At Walter Reed For 30-Minute Checkup. I, for one, am not buying it. ‘Taking advantage of a free weekend’? Meaning a weekend when he’s not playing golf? I call bullshit. And, while I generally wish no ill on anyone, I hope that he’s suffering. Bigly.
Here’s Why He’s Likely Feeling Ill. By the end of next week, there will be no wiggle room for Trump or his Rethug defenders.
Sorry for the truncated edition. I’m still on a high from last night’s Albert Cummings show at the Gild Hall. Especially since the opener, Katie Henry and her band, got a standing ovation. Think that’s the first time that’s happened at the Hall. I still get extremely anxious before one of my shows, but payoffs like last night’s make it totally worth it.
What do you want to talk about?
Question re: Bolivia. If this was a popular uprising against Morales, why are hundreds of thousands in the streets protesting his ouster? And why have police gone full-on Frank Rizzo?
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/police-in-bolivia-pepper-spray-journalist-on-purpose-during-live-coverage-of-anti-coup-protests/
Looks to me like this is a nation polarized along lines of immigration — and the Europeans are the unwanted immigrants, only they run the place and were getting antsy about how long it had been since they were in control.
This is it
Watch LIVE as the $8.2 million in “nourishment” (sand) they put on the beach last week gets washed away in one day:
https://www.visitdebeaches.com/live-webcams/rehoboth-beach-boardwalk-webcam/
Irony alert: The camera is atop the Atlantic Sands.
Interesting read:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/12/how-america-ends/600757/
https://mobile.twitter.com/JMColony/status/1196241867261857799
The Bolivian legislature is ⅔ MAS party (Evo’s socialist party) so the Christian fascist dictatorship will begin arresting them today. In the name of democracy, I guess?
sOCiALiSm NeVeR wOrkS 🙃
Meanwhile, Bernard (and only Bernard) will publically say it.
https://mobile.twitter.com/zachjcarter/status/1195899676802854912