Archive for May, 2020
Song of the Day 5/24: Scorpions, “Wind of Change”
One consequence of the Trump presidency has been a recalibration of reality, and what is possible within its supposed confines, a condition that is not contained to matters relating to Trump. I can think of no other explanation for the weirdest story of the month, a podcast series by Orwell prize-winning US journalist Patrick Radden […]
DL Open Thread: Sun., May 24, 2020
Election Doomsday Scenarios: Anybody who thinks that Trump wouldn’t go there, think again. Here’s perhaps the worst, and most likely, scenario: The bigger threat in his mind, he said, is the possibility that the Trump administration could act in October to make it harder for people to vote in urban centers in battleground states — […]
DL Open Thread: Sat., May 23, 2020
Trump Claims He Will Reopen Churches If States Don’t. Um, he can’t. But it’s red meat to his evangelical base. Until they start dying. Here’s why he did it: The president’s intervention came as his strength with religious supporters has slipped somewhat. Among white evangelical Protestants who favor Republicans, 77 percent said Mr. Trump was […]
Go back to work, serfs
“It isn’t going to touch me, so why should I be inconvenienced?”
Certain people (and political parties) still think that coronavirus only really kills nurses, cashiers & soulless poultry plant human robots. Even if it was true, we don’t have an endless supply of disposable workers.
OUTRAGE!!! PRESS FRENZY!!! BIDEN CAMPAIGN DEALS ITSELF A FATAL BLOW!!!!
Jesus H. Christ. Our media is so fucking stupid.
Trump will use pandemic to cancel election
I think we’ve all thought what Michael Moore says outloud to Vanity Fair: “There will be no November 3 election if things keep going the way they’re going right now,” Moore said. “I think he would have figured out a way, even without the coronavirus, but this is a gift to him because I think […]
Song of the Day 5/22: Spinal Tap, “Gimme Some Money”
Billionaires have taken to begging people to go back to work, using every tool at their disposal except higher wages and better benefits. The non-essential jobs, it turns out, are the ones at the top of the capitalism pyramid, and it takes a lot of cashflow to keep the money pump primed and flowing. Why, […]
Chris Kenny Sure Likes Pissing Away Money
With all of his whining about how high his taxes are, you’d think blowing piles of money on an ill conceived vanity campaign for Gov would be low on his list of things to do.
DL Open Thread: Fri., May 22, 2020
Stoopid RWNJ Trix. Steal a Coast Guard chopper, shoot out the power at a hospital, ‘liberate’ the patients, and ‘put everyone in quarantine’. No, it makes no sense, but he’s your typical Trump voter. Stoopid RWNJ Candidate. One Jo Rae Perkins, who vowed support for QAnon, wins R primary for US Senate seat from Oregon. […]
What does it mean that there is no “middle” in American politics?
I’m seriously asking. I mean I know that the fact that there is “no middle” (that there are no “persuadable” voters (that there are no magical centrists who are gong to save America with their magical sobriety and even handedness)) is bad news for fucking fuckstick collaborators like Chris Coons. It also should mean that […]
Song of the Day 5/21: Fred Willard and Catherine O’Hara, “Midnight at the Oasis”
The late, great Fred Willard couldn’t sing, and you can prove it by the lack of video clips showing him doing it. His brief vocal turn in “Waiting for Guffman,” as travel agent/community theater leading man Ron Albertson (with Catherine O’Hara as his wife/leading lady Shiela), reveals limits to both his range and his ability […]
DL Open Thread: Thurs., May 21, 2020
Trump Gave No-Bid Contract To Company For Mask-Cleaning. $413 million. The machines don’t work. More theft, pure and simple. Missouri Cops Beat Grandmother And Son For Trying To Return TV To Sam’s Club. I’m sorry, these cops are Nazis. They think they’re above the law, and they generally are. At Least 36,000 Lives Could Have […]
Trump Unveils Campaign Strategy: Expand Base Beyond Racists Idiots to Include Very Racists Idiots & Absurdly Racist Idiots
Trump’s poll numbers are terrible. It is strange to think that he hasn’t spent one minute in office trying to win over any voters who are not already Trump voters. It is almost as if he knows something that we don’t know.
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