DL Open Thread: Sunday, July 26, 2020
The Real Deal On Portland. Kristof spends a lot of time there. He spoke at my youngest daughter’s graduation. His parents are both professors at Portland State. This is accurate. Trump wants a conflagration, maybe multiple conflagrations, to scare the shit out of suburban Americans. He may be getting his wish. He will stop at nothing. Who will stop him? Now. Not in November.
When You’ve Lost Ronald Reagan…hey, grifters gotta grift. Gold coins, extremely limited production. Seems like I’ve heard this scam before. Usually on late-night TV. Too much for the Reagan Foundation.
McConnell: Relief Bill In ‘Two To Three Weeks’. In that time, people will be evicted and people will lose their unemployment benefits. Political suicide. Rethugs have chosen destroying peoples’ lives over getting reelected.
Zuckerberg And Trump: Together Again? He might want to consider what happens when Trump loses…
Lebron James Is My Hero. He’s created an organization to pay off the debts of Florida ex-felons to restore their voting rights. Somewhere, Michael Jordan is playing golf. Though not with Trump. That’s what Brett Favre did.
What do you want to talk about?
With tenants evicted, and credit cheap, landlords may choose this time to renovate their properties and raise rents. In economic theory this is the long-term correct move, but in the shorter term it is a humanitarian disaster.
99 days to go. Trump’s “Operation Burn it all Down” is in full swing.
I don’t think his scare-the-suburbs strategy is working, or will work. What he’s doing is too apparent to everyone not in the cult.
It doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to figure out that he’s trying to scare people with what’s already happening, not with what might happen if Biden gets elected. Chicago ’68 was bad for Democrats because Democrats were already in power.
Alby, Have you sen the “scare the old ladies/911 is a joke” Trump ad that is running now? It is comical. I can’t imagine who they think it is going to scare who’s pants aren’t already soaked in piss.