DL Open Thread Wednesday, August 11, 2021
One certainty about the Trump coup is that this lumbering mound of seething resentment and ignorance — Trump, that is — isn’t smart enough to have done all this himself. Though the news-consuming public doesn’t seem to care, there are people at work determining who provided that help, and the most interesting facet is where the money is coming from.
The idea that anyone in Trump’s orbit knows what they’re doing is a hard sell because the right wing fever swamps are full of people like this guy, who claimed to be an expert mathematician with proof of voting irregulatiries. He was actually a swing-set installer. This came out as part of the lawsuit filed by Dominion, the voting-machine company, against OAN, one of the “Faker That Fox” new outlets that have sprung up to victimize the rubes.
Anybody who’s ever lost money in the stock market can feel for this guy, sort of: Some hedge fund manager managed to lose $20 billion — billion with a B — in a matter of days back in the spring. Now he’s lying low in New Jersey while the banks he soaked for billions look for ways to get it back. Insert Nelson Muntz “ha ha” here.
The Texas Supreme Court upheld a law that authorizes the arrest of Democratic state lawmakers who refuse to return to the state so the legislature will have a quorum. Fuck secession — isn’t there a mechanism for throwing that shithole state out of the country?
Don’t look now, but big changes are on the horizon for factory farming because a newCalifornia law banning many hideous practices goes into effect soon. It mandates that breeding sow no longer be kept in cages so small they can’t move, and that chicken cages have enough space for the birds to spread their wings.
A lesson in how the media manipulates the news: WDEL covered an anti-mask protest at Christiana Hospital last week that drew a couple of hundred people, so they covered a follow-up protest this week. The headline, “Rallies Continue Against Christiana Care’s Planned Employee Vaccine Mandate,” would lead you to believe that this second rally was as big as the first. The photo that accompanies it tells a different story — there are maybe two dozen mopes out there this time around. I know how this happens, and it’s not because of any intent to mislead — it’s because once an assignment editor sends you out to cover a story, you have to file a story, whether what you witnessed deserves any coverage or not.
One silver lining to Covid — it’s taking a toll on right-wing talk show hosts in Florida who railed against masks and vaccines. One yap-flapper is dead — the headline on that link is “Lessons From the Death of a Dick” — and another is hospitalized. If these people want to die, I wish they’d kill themselves in a manner that didn’t clog up the ICU.
The floor’s yours.
Teh Stoopid: It’s Not Merely Confined To The US Any More.
Man gets bitten by snake. In a drunken rage, he EATS the snake, refuses treatment, and, yes dies from the venom:
https://www.newsweek.com/drunk-man-dies-after-biting-venomous-baby-snake-revenge-attack-1617836
Just your average ‘Man Bites Snake’ story.
The surprising part — this happened in India, not Florida.
Speaking of snakes–and Florida–this is an absolute must-read. You will LOL:
http://www.carlhiaasen.com/book-detail.shtml?bid=40
I’ll take your word for it. Not a fan.
By which I don’t mean I dislike him, I just can’t enjoy pointing and laughing at Florida anymore, and haven’t been able to for many years now.
Florida makes me think global warming isn’t entirely bad.
Judge in Scotland OKs an investigation into how Trump purchased his Scottish golf courses, which he paid for in cash and in 16 years have never turned a profit:
https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/court-grants-permission-for-judicial-review-into-unexplained-wealth-order-against-donald-trump-3342131
The Salon piece you linked to (https://www.salon.com/2021/08/10/follow-the-money-understanding-the-deep-roots-of-donald-trumps-coup-attempt/) is absolutely bone chilling.
Rich, obscene assholes want to tear down the system that made the so. If they do it, I hope the get a shit load more “freedom” than they bargained for.
Read the Salon article, bone chilling and exactly what I had imagined was behind the coup. The super rich, never satisfied with astounding wealth, want to have it all with unlimited power and a pathetic, yet effective figure head in Trump. They will be back as will their howling idiot army of faux “patriots, unwitting dupes of their oppressors. As ever brushing up on your foreign language skills? I am.
Jane Brady took 8 buses to DC on the 6th of January. No press has asked her where she got the money and who the people are or did they take part. The Republican Attorney Generals had a hand in it. Jane ran against Biden for the senate and got toasted so was this revenge, hatred or insurection? She needs to be investigated and not by our lazy press congress and the US Attorney office in DC.
Source? If indeed she did, then that IS yet another significant story that is being overlooked.
Oh, yes. The Delaware Republicans did indeed charter buses to go to DC that day.
Thanks. Then All Seeing is right: Where did she get the money, who are the people who took part?
I’ll add a few more: Did any of those ferried to DC get arrested? To what extent was Brady aware of the planned confrontation at the Capitol? Did Brady herself attend? What, if anything, has Brady said to disassociate herself and the Delaware Rethuglican Party from the insurrection?
To what passes for the press: What role did Brady play in the insurrection? Did she use state party funds for the trip? To what extent were state Rethuglican officials involved in this? Did any state R’s breach the Capitol?
Brady, to put it mildly, is a public figure and, as such, should be questioned about her motives and actions.
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