DL Open Thread Sunday, May 23, 2021
Maybe it’s just because of lingering cartoon stereotypes about German efficiency, but I always assumed Nazis would be, like, unusually competent, y’know? Having lived through the last five years, I understand now, of course they’re gonna be the mouth-breathingest fuckups on the planet, that’s why they need all the lying and violence in the first place. Learning that lesson sure has been fun, huh?
What’s the difference between the Delaware GOP and a clown car? The clown car has more people in it. The party held its state convention Saturday and re-elected former AG and Superior Court judge Jane Brady to lead them, which isn’t as bad as it could have been — Brady and her top deputy defeated a wingnut slate that included two of the recently defeated RWNJ school board candidates, Julianne Murray and Janyce Colmery, making it two election losses in two weeks for them. They’re Delaware Republicans, all right.
I’m starting to think Republicans follow Trump because it’s easier than thinking, which is something they’ve shown they’re really, really not good at. The GOP had a chance to cleanse itself of the loser stink of the Last Guy, but instead they have embraced their inner autocrats, making clear that civil war is their ultimate aim.
Speaking of the Last Guy, he’s fading away everywhere but the mainstream media that’s so desperate for the boost he gave them. His lame attempts to stay relevant aren’t working. According to WaPo, last week Trump’s website — including his new blog, fundraising page and online storefront — attracted fewer estimated visitors than the pet-adoption service Petfinder and the recipe site Delish. Social engagement around Trump — a measure of likes, reactions, comments or shares on content about him across Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and Pinterest — has nosedived 95 percent since January, to its lowest level since 2016.
Rick Santorum, the two-term Pennsylvania senator who crashed and burned running for president 13 long years ago, finally learned what he’d have to do to get fired at CNN — in his case, tell a bunch of fellow racists that Native Americans contributed nothing to the culture of the United States. He apparently never played cowboys-and-Indians as a kid.
Is there anybody in GOPland who isn’t a fake, a phony or a sleaze? Republican pollster Frank Luntz, who’s been treated as a seer since the Clinton days, is being exposed as a fraud by former employees.
Many of the fake, phonies and sleazes that make up the party’s congressional caucus got there because they’re rich, so it’s no surprise that Biden’s high taxes on the ultra-rich would hit a few Republican Senate opponents in their overstuffed wallets.
How desperate is are the media to drum up a scandal, any scandal, in the Biden administration? So desperate that this story was described by Politico as “one of [the administration’s] first brushes with scandal.” “Brush” seems a pretty strong word to describe a situation in which Labor Secretary Marty Walsh promoted a deputy police commissioner in his last days in Boston, just as old domestic violence accusations against the guy surfaced. Exactly how long is the handle on a tar brush, anybody know?
From the Shit You Couldn’t Make Up file: Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, in a fund-raising appeal, blamed Joe Biden for a sauce shortage at Chik-fil-A restaurants because blaming Democrats for reality is the only thing Republicans know how to do, other than fluff their friends and fuck the public whenever they get elected.
The floor is yours.
Read a number of articles that ask the question what will the Republicans do after Trump? The fat old man will die at some point, but I suspect he’ll fall from grace long before that, as noted the morons of the media are beating this dead horse relentlessly to no avail. Half a dozen Republicans are talking about a 2024 run for the presidency which means a dozen more are thinking about it. They well know what’s coming.