DL Open Thread Monday March 20 2023
We have a very exciting week in store for you news nerds. A Trump perp walk? Or a David Koresh style apocalyptic last stand? Or, more likely, neither?
Is It Tuesday or No?
I have been assuming that Trump’s unhinged reference to his being “arrested” on Tuesday is based on what Alvin Bragg’s office has told his lawyers (for arranging Trump’s turning himself in to be booked in Manhattan). In other words, the “leak” is from Trump and the information is accurate. But CNN is reporting that Robert Costello, a one time legal advisor to Michael Cohen, has been designated by Trump’s lawyers to testify to the Manhattan grand jury about Cohen’s credibility on Monday. You could still have last-ditch testimony on Monday and an indictment on Tuesday. But that makes me significantly less confident that Tuesday is the day.
Related & Yet Irrelevant:
McCarthy says Americans should not protest if Trump is indicted
The speaker’s remarks at the House GOP retreat contradict Trump, who called on supporters Saturday to “protest” and “take our nation back” if an indictment is announced.
Russia and China are either the greatest of friends or mortal enemies. Nobody knows shit, but the headlines must be go on.
As Xi visits Russia, Putin sees his anti-U.S. world order taking shape
A youth pastor story with a twist. No, not that. No drag performances were involved…
Youth pastor proclaims innocence as she gets 12-year sentence for molesting girl
“God is still good… God is strong.”
Those were the words the former youth pastor called out to her family on Wednesday as she was escorted from the Perry County courtroom after being sentenced to six to 12 years in state prison for sexual assault.
Meanwhile, a 26-year-old woman whom prosecutors say Lindsey Melnick molested 11 years ago sat in the back of the small courtroom within earshot. She was 15 when the assaults occurred.
Comrade Newsome says, the workers must control the means of pharmaceutical production.
California enters a contract to make its own affordable insulin
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced a new contract with nonprofit drugmaker Civica Rx, a move that brings the state one step closer to creating its own line of insulin to bring down the cost of the drug.
Once the medicines are approved by the Food and Drug Administration, Newsom said at a press conference on Saturday, Civica — under the 10-year agreement with the state worth $50 million — will start making the new CalRx insulins later this year.
All industries that abuse their market position should be nationalized.
Meanwhile on planet MAGAnus, the true Trump believers think that Biden’s outrages are raising a mighty army of voters that will sweep the DemaWOKES off the stage like a tsunami.
I take this to mean, that they are backing off “protests” because pictures of the sad mob-lets would be too pitiful to dislodge from the public imagination.
Yet another Shop-Rite owner/scam artist. Philly Shop-Rite store owner/mayoral candidate Jeff Brown got over $18 mill in ‘incentives’ to bring Shop-Rite to a ‘food desert’:
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/mayors-race-jeff-brown-shoprite-million-taxpayer-support-20230320.html
As thou art “Youth Pastor” so too shalt thy molest children, and of course “For Christ”, interesting to note that the gender matters not. That and it’s Viva California! Newsom does what’s right and pulls the rug out from Big Pharma, who I dare say will respond with a barrage of nuisance lawsuits and absurd claims. Such is legal. This may well be the future, and it’s a damn good start. As for Trump indicted believe it when you see it, find McCarthy’s call for non violence to be laughable, and he knows it too.
Philly to pay out over $9 mill to victims of police riot:
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/philadelphia-lawsuit-settlement-police-response-2020-protests-20230320.html