DL Open Thread Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021

Quote of the Day: You can lead a Republican to objective reality, but you can’t make him pull his head out of Donald Trump’s ass.

Trump was acquitted by the Senate, demonstrating yet again that the Republican Party is a collection of greed-damaged shit-maggots. That they would do so in the face of Trump’s attempts to have many of them sacrificed to his drooling mob explains why the preferred insult of that drooling mob is “cuck.” What kind of limpdicks won’t act against someone who tried to have them killed? Republicans, that’s what kind.

As noted in this spot last weekend, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, heavily invested in for-profit delivery services, has released his plan to FUBAR the U.S. Postal Service, and it’s every bit as bad as pre-release advertising warned. Calls for Biden to act fast by firing the governing board are increasing.

In a blow to conspiracy theorists of the left, the New York Times found found Trump was lot sicker than they let on when he was taken to Walter Reed with covid. X-rays of his lungs showed lots of white, a sign of an acute case of the disease, and doctors considered putting him on a ventilator. X-rays of his head, of course, showed nothing.

In the What Fuckface Republican Wants to Lose in 2024 contest, vente fat-ass Mike Pompeo is getting ready to toss his MAGA hat into the ring. It should be fun watching him learn that most MAGAts have never heard of him.

The pandemic has played havoc with mass transit systems in American cities. Most are built to handle large numbers of people during the morning and evening rush hours, which are swiftly looking obsolete in a work-from-home age. Without that commuter revenue, mass transit will be forced to transition on the fly.

Think bitcoin is a harmless scam? Oh, it’s so much more, and so much worse. Something I didn’t realize until I read this: It’s an enormous energy sink. Bitcoin now consumes more energy than Argentina.

The floor’s yours.