DL Open Thread: Sat., Jan. 18, 2020

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Five Myths About Bipartisanship.  I think they’ve got it about right.  Maybe Chris Coons should take a look.

Is Trump’s Popularity Overstated?  Could be. Could manifest itself in lower R turnout.  Which could be offset by Rethuggery when it comes to voter suppression.

Why Isn’t Devin Nunes In Jail?  Links between Nunes and Lev Parnas surface.  He seems to be coated with Trump Teflon.

Corporate Loopholes Undermine Healing Of Ozone Layer.  I know, dog bites man.  Rapacious greed and campaign contributions win out every time.

Illinois Outlaws Drivers License Suspension For Unpaid Parking Tickets. Had you guessed that the suspensions disproportionately impacted minority workers, you would have been correct. Some good things going on in Illinois.

13 States Sue Trump Administration To Restore Food Stamp Cuts.  Their main point: How do you find jobs in areas where jobs are scarce?

Trump Pushes Rollback Of School Lunch Standards.  Standards pushed by Michelle Obama. Rollbacks announced on her birthday. More pizza and fries, less fruits and veggies.

Concord Mall Sold. The new owners?  ‘Concord DE Holdings LLC’.  That tells us about all we have a right to know under Delaware law. The previous owners had let the place run down. When confronted with the choices of giving the place a facelift, or selling, they sold.

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  1. Jason330 says:

    Coons style bi-partisanship is nothing more than class solidarity. They’ve tarted it up to appeal to dumb people, but at its core it is just rich people looking out for each other.

  2. delacrat says:

    13 states sue Trump administration to restore food stamp cuts.”

    Anyone think Delaware is among the 13?

  3. Alby says:

    Concord Mall’s previous owner was Frank Acierno, whatever the corporate name might have been.

    • mediawatch says:

      Allied Properties is the Acierno family business.
      Wouldn’t have been too hard for a reporter to find that out.
      OTOH, the reporter probably never heard of Frank Acierno, so WTF difference would it have made?

  4. paul says:

    While awaiting execution, Bonhoeffer recorded a number of his thoughts in a work we now know as Letters and Papers from Prison. One of these essays, entitled On Stupidity, records some of the problems which Bonhoeffer likely saw at work in Hitler’s rise to power:

    “Upon closer observation, it becomes apparent that every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere, be it of a political or a religious nature, infects a large part of humankind with stupidity. … The power of the one needs the stupidity of the other. The process at work here is not that particular human capacities, for instance, the intellect, suddenly atrophy or fail. Instead, it seems that under the overwhelming impact of rising power, humans are deprived of their inner independence and, more or less consciously, give up establishing an autonomous position toward the emerging circumstances. The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with him as a person, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like that have taken possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being. Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil. This is where the danger of diabolical misuse lurks, for it is this that can once and for all destroy human beings.”

    -Anne Holmquist IntellectualTakeout.org 4/2016