DL Open Thread: Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Barr Appoints ‘Special Counsel’ To Investigate Russia Probe. Designed by Barr to continue during Biden’s term. Utterly pathetic. Apparently designed to mollify Trump.
Pardons ‘R Us: Rudy wants one, Trump’s kids might get them. Someone offered to pay Trump for one. Justice Department is covering it up.
This Georgia Shit Has Gotten Real. ‘Someone is going to get hurt, someone is going to get shot, someone is going to get killed.’ This, from a Republican elections official.
Former Rethug Official Gets Jail Time In Adoption Scheme. Says he had ‘no idea’ that women’s passports (they were all from the Marshall Islands) were being withheld from them. Fine, what he did has been illegal since 2003. Did I mention he was an attorney? And, as a ‘fiscal conservative’, he passed on pregnancy and labor costs to Arizona taxpayers. Checks off virtually all Rethug boxes.
Yep, Portland Cops Illegally Deployed Outsized Response Against Protestors. According to a federal judge. What will Mayor ‘Tear Gas’ Ted Wheeler do?
Even More Extreme Gun Movements Rush To Replace NRA. You didn’t think that the void would remain unfilled, did you?
Biden Plan: Hire Scores Of Agency Personnel That Don’t Require Senate Approval. Oh, and to…
…replace “every political appointee of Trump immediately,” with a particular emphasis on national security positions, said a former U.S. official involved in the transition. “They have people identified all the way down to the [deputy assistant secretary] level.”
Trump Family Tries To Push Civil Scam Trial To Arbitration. No pardon can exempt them from civil action. You’re gonna see a whole lot more of these.
Delaware High-Risk Health Workers To Get First Covid Vaccines. Plan rolled out yesterday.
What do you want to talk about?
More from the criminal enterprise known as the Trump “administration”. The hits just keep on coming.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/release-ppp-loan-recipients-data-reveals-troubling-patterns-n1249629
The gun extremists looking to replace the NRA is doomscrolling at its finest. What none of them have, or ever will have, is the NRA’s claimed 5 million members, because the majority of those people are hunters, not gun fetishists.
The NRA has for decades used those people as a front for their real clients, the gun manufacturers. Sure, the manufacturers can try to recreate a pro-gun lobbying agency, but it will be obvious that it is the tool of the manufacturers, not rank-and-file hunters.
In short, they might replace the NRA but they will not have the muscle of lots of voters behind them. Gun fetishists are pretty rare even among the slackjawed.*
*I keep using “slackjawed” because it really triggers some of the slackjawed. You should see the shit that gets caught in the spam filter. You can almost see the spittle on their screens.
Nope, there are more guns for brains types out there then you might think. Remember, I live out in the country, when I encounter them the Avoid! light comes on. And yeah, they do tend to foam at the mouth. They also tend to be scared little guys, tiny man, huge gun is typical. And no, most are not hunters, as noted the are gun fetishists.
What I think is informed by how many show up to foam at the mouth at Leg Hall — typical turnout looks to be about 200-250. I figure that every one who shows up represents 19 more who are that passionate but were too busy or lazy to show up. So my guess is about 5,000 of them in Delaware. Double it if you like. I’m not talking about the number who vote pro-gun, I’m talking about the people rabid enough to make protesting about guns their hobby.
Remember, NRA membership is $45 a year. They claim 5 million members. That’s $225 million a year. No upstart outfit will get anywhere close to those numbers.
All the more reason we should have a fat tax. You alone could generate thousands. People don’t need to eat more than their fair share.
You’re really triggered, aren’t you, little guy? Poor little MAGA. Go suck your guns, cuz.
Hey, I just realized — your dick is so tiny I’ll bet you can get it in the barrel. Go fuck your gun, cuz.
Why are liberals like you so angry?
Why are conservatives such assholes?
And more to the point, why don’t you assholes have anything better to do than annoy people who are smarter and richer than you? Is this what you do because you haven’t figured out how to fuck your gun?
That escalated quickly.
Sic semper pugnae aviditate.
This is the sort of thing that happens in collapsing empires:
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/the-iconic-arecibo-observatory-has-now-collapsed-04253/?goal=0_3b5aad2288-53e58fd4d0-242794609
Wilmington born and bred TV attorney Joseph di Genova resigned under pressure from the Gridiron Club.
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/joseph-digenova-resigns-from-gridiron-club-after-saying-fired-cybersecurity-official-should-be-taken-out-and-shot/
Public shaming of these creeps is a start. It would be nice if this made him unemployable, but he’ll always have his wingnut welfare to fall back on.
Alby throws it down for the win, they are a collection of midget dicks in search of a life. And I agree, what is happening now is yet another sign of a collapsing empire.
I feel bad for him. I hope he’s on meds.