DL Open Thread Friday, June 24, 2022
So what do we call them? The Dingleberry Six? Five Jackoffs and a Jill? The Jan. 6 committee named five congressmen who asked Trump for preemptive pardons over their little putsch, along with hearsay that Madge Taylor Greene did, too. Her response: Nuh-uh, you’re the Nazi.
The more interesting news was yesterday’s FBI raid on the home of Jeffrey Clark, the DOJ apparatchik who tried to talk Trump into believing all this was legal. Observers think this signals a search for criminal evidence that will tie him to Trump, who says he hardly knows the guy.
Meanwhile, centrist Democrats everywhere cheered passage of a “gun safety” bill that does essentially nothing but piss money down a toilet and allow centrist Democrats to pretend they’ve accomplished something. Sorry, no joke for this one — it’s shit on toast, not even a second piece of toast to make it a sandwich.
Ukraine and Moldova are the newest members of the latest NATO pledge class. Call them Pinto and Flounder.
A new landlord bought the building wants her out, so Rep. Lauren Boebert might have to close her restaurant in Rifle, Colo.. I blame a lack of oxygen at that altitude.
Robert Reich is riled up about corporate welfare, and laments that corporations have politicians by the short hairs, pointing out it’s not just campaign contributions. He suggests solutions, but we all know there’s no incentive for any of it to change.
Finally, for those looking for a fast and easy escape from the daily media shitstorm, choose your cannabis wisely. It seems some of the high-THC extracts sold as oil or wax for vaping can cause some health problems, demonstrating that you can, indeed, get too much of a good thing.
The floor’s yours.
Re Reich, corporate welfare et al:
Excellent book on the subject of Delaware’s commitment to corporate greed and secrecy.
“WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH DELAWARE” by Hal Weitzman (Princeton University Press)
In the forward “HOW THE ‘FIRST STATE’ ENABLED INTERNATIONAL CRIME, SHELTERED TAX DODGERS, AND DIVERTED HARD-EARNED DOLLARS FROM THE REST OF US”
Many interesting chapters about prominently involved “Delaware Way” manipulators and promoters including Secretary of State Jeff Bullock, Former Representative Melanie George Smith, Finance Secretary Geisenberger, Carper and Biden. Proud to say I was interviewed on the long-festering problem of Corporate/LLC anonymity and giveaways provided by Delaware and made the cut on about six different pages. Prominent names in the book are Fisker Automotive, Jeff Bezos, Delaware’s Corporation Law Council, Richard Layton and Fingers and a host of other special interest allies.
My personal favorite moment is the Melanie George Smith quote on pg. 190 “we can’t upset the apple cart and start running legislation where folks around the world are going to be like…….…”What just happened to the LLC world in Delaware?”………We hunker down in the bunkers whenever Kowalko starts flashing around draft legislation and stuff like that, part of the reason being that when he even introduces legislation, it becomes public…………….now you’ve got companies in London or Tokyo or whatever calling Delaware law firms saying, “What the hell is going on?”
I can answer that. The Delaware Way of subservience to wealthy corporations, the Chamber of Commerce and all the well-heeled special interests that roam the hallways of Dover is what’s going on.
Representative John Kowalko
Well the Supreme Court has established itself as an extreme activist court. No longer does it embrace the rule of law. The law is thrown aside in favor of religious ideology. Time to expand or abort the nation’s highest court. It no longer has any legitimacy
What is the Court says Trump is President? I don’t think it is improbable as Trump has been trying to force this yes or no choice on them for a while now.
How does Biden, or how do the dems react? “Well golly, the Court has spoken so…Maybe now if we go quietly we can have some bipartisanship, ok?”
Dems ought to frame corporate welfare as the cause of inflation #twobirdsonestone
As expected, SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade, further delegitimatizing itself.
At least we wont be surprised when they overturn any convictions (i know there wont be any) from the j6 committee hearing.
a baby in every belly and 2 guns in every house!
Striving for the more pure candidate has a cost. Everyone knew that. That cost is going to be paid over the next 50 years.
This seems to assume that people stayed home in 2016 because they were Bernie supporters. The numbers don’t bear that out. The people who stayed home were in urban centers.
One can only hope, and it is a shred of a hope, that this will energize folks during the mid-terms. The Supreme Court is giving every democratic and progressive candidate every bit of ammunition they need to pillory their GQP opponents. If this is not enough to blunt red seat gains, nothing is.
And they released their decision on a Friday. Gutless cowards.
That’s a very thin reed to hang your hopes on with the fighting Dems we have in “leadership”. If anything it will signal to Coons & Co. that we need to compromise HARDER. And clap LOUDER for the latest convoluted, means-tested tax credit.
As predicted the hated supreme court hands victory to the Evangelicals and the Catholic church, and their just getting started with their judicial reign of terror with many more targets to come. That and an avalanche of lawsuits in red states.
Why is everybody so upset about roe v wade. There are still federally legal 30th trimester abortions performed legally by at-15s