DL Open Thead: Thurs., May 28, 2020
President Marks Deaths Of 100,000 Americans By Not Marking The Deaths Of 100,000 Americans. Here’s how he gets away with all this crap: Short answer–he has normalized the unthinkable. Eric Trump Cheers The Dow Rise In Celebration Of The Milestone.
China Takes Over Hong Kong While US Does Nothing. Pompeo couldn’t rush to recognize China’s actions fast enough. They’re gonna paint Biden as ‘weak on China’?
Senate D’s Issue Report On Rethug Court-Packing. Take your medicine, read just how bad it is.
Trump To Issue Useless Executive Order Going After Social Media Platforms. You can see what the leaked version of the order would do.
Everything Falls Apart, Ctd. US. Global. The latest carnage: 1,699,933 confirmed cases and 100,442 deaths in the United States.
Pa. Rethugs Helped Expose D Lawmakers To Virus. This is fucking unbelievable. House R’s knew that one of their colleagues had tested positive, but they kept the information to themselves, placing D lawmakers in jeopardy.
2.1 Million Americans Lost Their Jobs Last Week. Over 40 million unemployed now. Great day for the Dow, though.
Offshore Companies Got $104 Mill In Federal Relief While Avoiding Taxes. Treasury Department declines to comment.
Delaware Budget Deliberations Marked With Uncertainty. My guess is that DEFAC will put on some rose-colored glasses to get us through this year. Next year could be a challenge, though.
Wall Street loves unemployment because it lowers labor costs. Until it reaches the point where their customers no longer have income to spend; then they can whine about “lack of demand.”
Which, by the by, reveals that supply-side economics is a napkin-scribbler’s fantasy.
Re: The courts. The federal court system, even if it reaches its current full allotment of judges, does not have enough judges to handle its caseloads. The solution is the same as the SCOTUS solution — more judges. And it will be less controversial than adding justices to SCOTUS will be.
I LIKE that. Problem is, even if the D’s take the majority, Coons and his reach-across-the-aisle buds will make it ten times tougher for the D’s to do what the R’s did.