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DL Open Thread Tuesday August 3rd 2021

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Crazy shitheads are perfect for each other.

Just weeks after its launch, the pro-Trump social network GETTR is inundated with terrorist propaganda spread by supporters of Islamic State, according to a POLITICO review of online activity on the fledgling platform.

The social network — started a month ago by members of former President Donald Trump’s inner circle — features reams of jihadi-related material, including graphic videos of beheadings, viral memes that promote violence against the West and even memes of a militant executing Trump in an orange jumpsuit similar to those used in Guantanamo Bay.

(CNN Business)A National Labor Relations Board official is recommending that the results of the milestone union election at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama held earlier this year be scrapped and that a new election be held due to illegal misconduct on the part of the e-commerce giant.

This guy dead at 73 

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    • Alby
      August 3, 2021,

      Exercises in correlation rather than causality. Carter’s GDP looks good because the price of everything soared during the oil crises of the ’70s. Obama’s looks bad because part of the Great Recession was technically during his term. It would be akin to judging presidents by how many baseball Hall of Famers were born during their terms in office.

      The worst thing that happened in politics over the past 30-odd years was the “It’s the economy, stupid” line that came out of the first Bill Clinton campaign. Before that, only election wonks realized the correlation between the state of the economy and presidential re-election. Afterwards, everybody knew, and immediately started to try to monkey with the economy to ensure re-election.

      This was the reason Trump reacted as he did to the pandemic — he didn’t want the economy to tank (he went about it all wrong, but that’s par for the Trump course — and par is something Trump has never shot, by the way).

      So, given that Trump’s maladministration based on it led to 400,000 unnecessary deaths, I’m going to say that “It’s the economy, stupid” has been the most lethal political idea since the Domino Theory.

      • Alby
        August 3, 2021,

        Or at least since “We can’t let the smoking gun be a mushroom cloud,” though most of those killed by that line were non-Americans. Same with the Domino Theory, for that matter.

  3. Jason330
    August 3, 2021,

    “This was the reason Trump reacted as he did to the pandemic — he didn’t want the economy to tank…”

    I agree. The DJIA was in record territory (29,398) on Feb 14th 2020. Trump was drunk on that knowledge. It combined with his uniquely arrogant stupidity and set the stage for all of his bad pandemic decisions. By March 20th the DJIA bottomed out at 19,173

      • El Somnambulo
        August 3, 2021,

        Biden has called for Cuomo’s resignation.

        More guts than virtually anyone in Delaware has shown towards Gerald Brady.

  6. puck
    August 3, 2021,

    Mike Enzi’s funeral is Friday and at least some Senators are likely to attend, which will no doubt delay work on infrastructure. And the funeral being in Wyoming and presumably maskless, how many will come back with Covid? Can Senators vote while in quarantine?

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