DL Open Thread: Weds., May 6, 2020
Carney Partially Reopens Some Delaware Businesses. In general, it’s a cautious approach and, I think, a prudent one. Although I do question why we’re removing any restrictions in Sussex County as it remains a COVID-19 hot spot.
US Corporations Dump Employees While Rewarding Stockholders With Dividends. Including WWE and its avaricious boss, Vince McMahon.
Kushner’s Task Force Steered Work To Trump Pals–And Still Failed. In this case, it’s not merely the insider stench–it’s the utter, almost incomprehensible, incompetence of Jared and his pals. This is absolute must-read journalism.
Everything Falls Apart, Ctd. US. Global. 1,204,475 confirmed cases and 71,078 deaths in the US. That’s about 2200 more deaths than yesterday’s total.
Trump On Why He Didn’t Replenish Medical Stockpile: “I have a lot of things going on”. You know, ‘RussiaRussiaRussia’, ‘UkraineUkraineUkraine’. Hey, there’s only so much time in a day. Or in three years.
Shout It From The Rafters: ‘The President Is Unwell’. How have we come to normalize his consistently aberrant behavior? There needs to be a national conversation about this right now. Especially right now.
Gov. Abbott Says It Out Loud: Reopening Texas Will Lead To More Death. The people who die aren’t his constituents. His constituents aren’t people, they’re businesses.
Trump’s Shadowy Accountants. Oh, yeah, you just gotta read this. Again, from ProPublica, this time in concert with WNYC. I hope this will whet your appetite:
But Trump’s accountants are far from bystanders in the matters under scrutiny — or in the rise of Trump. Over a span of decades, they have played two critical, but discordant, roles for Trump. One is common for an accounting firm: to help him pay the smallest amount of taxes possible. The second is not common at all: to help him appear to the world to be rich beyond imagining. That sometimes requires creating precisely the opposite impression of what’s in his tax filings…
…One theme has been consistent: partners and sometimes the firm itself have faced accusations of fraud, misconduct and malpractice on multiple occasions, an investigation by ProPublica and WNYC has found.
Man, everything about Trump is so…Trumpian.
Cold-Blooded Murder Of Black Jogger In Georgia. It’s all on tape, yet prosecutors are ‘reluctant’ to charge the killers. Joe Biden called it ‘cold-blooded murder’, and that’s what it is.
What do you want to talk about?
Trump ends up in a mental hospital for criminals, and Kushner in a regular prison. That’s the only outcome that makes sense now.
Annnnd, just like that, Trump tweets that the planned closing of the Coronavirus Task Force is no longer operative, according to the Wall Street Journal.
If there is any justice Trump will end up in Arkham Asylum.
Rura Penthe or Azkaban would also work, if in a pinch.
Sussex Restaurateur to Carney: FU, I’m opening.
https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2020/05/06/sussex-restaurant-owner-defies-state-order-offering-sit-down-dining/5174292002/
A direct challenge to Carney’s manhood. What will he do?
I want to know if any new cases that lead to deaths are tracked back to being at the restaurant will he be held liable and arrested for negligent homicide
Just saw the clip with Coons saying “everything must be on the table to cut the deficit”, there was a noticeable hesitation when the interviewer asked him about cutting “Social Security benefits for all future retirees?”. His response was “I think we have to have all options on the table”, the little shit will vote for cutting Social Security. Hope he has a private island to retire to. Mad as hell.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/06/americas/maduro-venezuela-us-detainees-intl/index.html
This story has the stink of crazy uncle rudy and kushner all over it.