DL Open Thread: Tues., Jan. 28, 2020
A Day In The Life Of An Impeachment. Yes, you need a Times subscription to read it. My favorite tidbit was this:
Republicans angrily pressed the White House in private about the revelations from a manuscript by John R. Bolton, the former national security adviser, that said Mr. Trump wanted to continue freezing security aid to Ukraine until he got help with investigations into Democrats. They said they were blindsided by the former adviser’s account — especially because the administration has had a copy of it since Dec. 30.
Got it? They knew that Bolton had the goods, but they didn’t know that the Administration already had a copy of the draft. Meaning, they can’t now pretend that they don’t know what they do know. What a bunch of phonys.
BTW, Bolton Reportedly Told Bill Barr That Trump Was ‘Doing Favors’ For Chinese And Turkish Strongmen. If the Rethugs stand strong with Trump, they will lose the Senate.
Washington Post Suspends Reporter For Telling The Truth About Kobe Bryant. Did Bezos have courtside seats or something? If it’s good enough for Bob Costas, who didn’t cover up the rape story, then surely it’s good enough for a reporter to tweet about.
Why Is Wilmington Buying Up Market Street Real Estate? Seriously, has Mayor Mike done anything for underserved communities? His rationale here is, to put it mildly, sketchy:
“This is a critical property and I didn’t want to see it go the wrong way.”
What, they were gonna put a Japanese massage parlor in there? So, state legislators quietly funnel the money to the city for–what, exactly? To quote the former director of Downtown Visions, Will Minster:
“I don’t know that [with] that building, somebody would have necessarily bought it and done the wrong thing.”
This stinks, just like the entire Buccini/Pollin mayoralty of Mayor Mike.
Delaware City Refinery Gets Yet Another Slap On The Wrist. Let’s be honest here. Everybody knows that this refinery is a disaster for Delaware’s air quality. A serial polluter of gargantuan proportions. But nobody wants to lose those jobs. A devil’s bargain. $70K. Chump change.
What do you want to talk about?
“ A day in the life of an impeachment“…
Every day Bernie, Warren et al spend living the impeachment, instead of living Iowa and New Hampshire lets status quo Joe swipe the D-nomination so he can play Washington Generals to the GOP Harlem Globetrotters.
Does anyone seriously believe the R-controlled Senate will actually take down Trump.
Time to wrap it up!
That’s some bad analysis right there.
Putting R senators on the horns of the dilemma is the point, not removing Trump from office. And if people in Iowa and New Hampshire don’t know Warren and Sanders by now, they never will.
Your heart is in the right place. Your political sagacity score is below zero.
I lol’ed at this tho – “lets status quo Joe swipe the D-nomination so he can play Washington Generals to the GOP Harlem Globetrotters.”
Agreed, it’s all about making the Republican senators pay the price for what they have allowed to go on at this point, also suspect there’s more to come above and beyond Bolton’s book. The longer the trial goes on the longer it remains in the public eye, especially if they are forced to allow witnesses.
Why does anyone think Ukraine-a-Rama speaks to any concern of the 59% of Americans who live paycheck to paycheck ?
It’s not “in the public eye” and it ain’t ever gonna be.
This isn’t wrong
Yes it is. It implies only one thing at a time matters.
This is concern trolling. It matters to some people — check the ratings — and it’s all over the press. If it doesn’t matter to you, fine, but you’re invited to shut the fuck up about it.
Slagging people because they care about something you don’t won’t cut it here, fellas. Back up your ignorant opinions or pack it up.
Nah, it’s a soap opera that changes nobody’s mind. It’s like a sporting event. If my team loses I still love my team.
Maybe, big maybe, there’s political pressure on certain senators like Susan Collins, etc.
You can care about the super bowl or the results of a reality show, but at a material electoral level there isn’t much here.
You’re just defensive because a sliver of people who follow politics drool about it like the super bowl.
“At a material electoral level there isn’t much here.”
That’s just, like, your opinion, man. As I said before, the object is to let Republican senators twist in the wind. Whether it works electorally won’t be known for some time. And your notion that just because you believe it won’t change people’s minds, when you have nothing to cite to back up that opinion, means it says more about your failure to care than it does about anyone else’s undocumented failure to care.
“You’re just defensive because a sliver of people who follow politics drool about it like the super bowl.”
I’m defensive when people get offensive. I’m suspicious when people throw stink bombs like the one I flagged, designed to silence someone rather than engage in conversation. You don’t have the right. Just because there’s no toll doesn’t mean people can set their own rules of this road.
Also, too, you don’t know my motivations, and you lose credibility claiming you do.
I’ll stick with the soap opera analogy.
Anyway, two huge podcasts eps coming.
This Friday is our 52nd weekly episode and our one year anniversary. So it was fitting to sit down with my friend and brother Eugene Young. We recorded 2 hours plus. We’ll see what Karl can put together.
Last evenings our guest was NCCo Executive Matt Meyer. That’ll come out the following Friday.
Also scheduled so UD Professor and Sociologist Dr Yasser Payne. The leftist activists in Wilmington Food Not Bombs. artist, activist & port union longshoreman D Marque Hall as well as old man officer Ennis challenger Kyra Hoffner.
Big month.
The soap analogy is fine if you’re talking about watching it and eating popcorn. I’m talking about the small but measurable effect on public opinion, which you don’t believe in measuring.
Well they may have convinced Mitt Romney. So there’s one guy.
I’m old enough to remember when Mueller was going to sway public opinion.
I”m old enough to remember when impeachment wasn’t going to change public opinion. That was back when the majority was against impeaching him. Now a majority is for removing him from office. So whatever.
It’s also had the effect of preventing Trump from controlling the news cycle for a bit.