DL Open Thread Tuesday August 8 2023
Connecticut has the most expensive weed in the country.
Delaware: Hold my beer.
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There is a madness to the method.
TLDR Version: Trump’s constant lying about everything even the absurd nonsense, is right out of the fascist playbook.
At times, the drumbeat of false assertions during Trump’s candidacy and presidency perplexed the American press and public. So did Trump’s invocation of baseless conspiracy theories, which invariably situated him as a persecuted victim of a “deep state.” But Ben-Ghiat said in her studies of authoritarian leaders such as Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Silvio Berlusconi and Jair Bolsonaro, there was precedent for this.
“The use of lies takes place in a larger effort to turn the public against alternate sources of authority,” she said. Those sources might include independent courts, legislative bodies and law enforcement agencies. Or — it may be the fourth estate.
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Kingmaker, Joe Rogan, has anointed Tucker Carlson for 2028.
Rogan shared his theory with commentator Patrick Bet-David as they discussed Carlson’s new Twitter venture and departure from Fox News on the Thursday installment of The Joe Rogan Experience.
Bet-David asked Rogan for his take on Carlson’s next move, either remaining in podcasting, becoming a billionaire, or running for office.
“Do you get the vibes from Tucker that Tucker wants to be a Netanyahu, a Churchill, a guy that is, you know, a journalist that’s been debating everybody has been reading every issue for the last 20, 30 years,” Bet-David asked. “You think it’s actually maybe he wants to make a run for 2028?”
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I’m loving Vivek Ramaswamy, mainly because I know DeSantis is is on a private jet saying “I can’t believe I’m losing to Viva Ramy-Swamey” .
VAIL, Iowa — Vivek Ramaswamy suggested canceling Juneteenth, calling it a “useless” holiday in a conversation with Iowa voters Saturday.
Less than two months ago, however, he posted a video on social media celebrating the day.
Breaking down his plan Saturday to institute a national voting holiday, Ramaswamy, a GOP presidential candidate, proposed making space for the new holiday by canceling an old one.
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See? It can happen, and the world keeps on spinning
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan awoke Sunday as an inmate in a high-security prison after a court handed him a three-year sentence for corruption, a development that could end his future in politics.
The court ruled Saturday that national cricketing hero Khan, who was ousted in a no-confidence vote in April 2022 but remains the country’s leading opposition figure, had concealed assets after selling state gifts.
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I hope this is true.
Donald Trump’s third indictment this year has many people speculating who gave evidence about the former president in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. Well, one former Trump administration insider thinks he has a clue and he’s spilling some serious Washington, D.C. tea.
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former lawyer, suggested to CNN that Jared Kushner could be the anonymous “cooperating witness” in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 45-page filing. It’s no secret that Kushner was his father-in-law’s right-hand man during his time in the White House — if anyone knew what Donald Trump was up to, it was him. There are six unnamed “co-conspirators” in the indictment, but the media been too busy trying to identify those people instead of focusing in on the “cooperating witness.”
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It seems like it might be cheaper to train cops to not murder people
How New Castle County’s 7-figure settlement for Lymond Moses killing compares with others
Xerxes WilsonNew Castle County government’s $1.05 million settlement with the family of a 30-year-old man fatally shot by county police in 2021 marks the largest police-violence settlement in Delaware since 2016.
The agreement ends litigation filed by the family of Lymond Moses against New Castle County police and likely is the final government involvement in a tragedy that saw police shoot the man in the head as he tried to flee what they described as a welfare check while patrolling outside their jurisdiction.
The settlement agreement was made public through a Freedom of Information Act request. It agrees to pay out $1,050,000 to Moses’ survivors and their attorneys in exchange for them dismissing a federal lawsuit filed in 2021. It admits no fault on behalf of the officers and the county Police Department.
Wow, the largest settlement in 7 years! But it was apparently nobody’s fault, so it’s all good.
It’s the $50,000 that makes it art.
Dog Bites Man: Yet ANOTHER DeSantis Campaign Shakeup. Deck chairs, meet Titanic:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/08/us/politics/desantis-campaign-manager-generra-peck.html
Is it possible, just possible, that the problem with the DeSantis campaign is–DeSantis?
and this:
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis may be losing his biggest donor for his 2024 election campaign according to a report from Reuters. Hotel entrepreneur and billionaire Robert Bigelow has donated $20 million to a pro-DeSantis super PAC. Bigelow told Reuters that he planned on stopping donations for the time being and that DeSantis needs to be “more moderate” with his policies.