DL Open Thread Wednesday September 27 2023
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The Republican debates are fake, pointless spectacles
New York Magazine’s Eric Levitz recently arguedthat Trump’s undeniable authoritarian tendencies have put the mainstream press in a difficult position: Either it describes him accurately, and sounds like a “partisan rag,” or else it deceptively treats Trump and the Republican party he controls as essentially normal. Too often, he writes, they make the latter choice — acting like “an amnesiac, or an abusive household committed to keeping up appearances, losing itself in the old routines, in an effortful approximation of normality until it almost forgets what it doesn’t want to know.”
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Not Breaking: Trump is a liar and a huge fraud
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Kari Lake’s trial to review signed ballot envelopes from Arizona election wraps – Picture of Judge Tells Entire Story
As if we doubted it, the Trump empire was built entirely on fraud. He’s already been found guilty. Unless the judge’s decision is reversed on appeal, he’s gonna have to liquidate his assets, which won’t mean selling to the Saudis as the process will be conducted through a court-appointed executor, or whatever it’s called.
From the NYT article:
“In straightforward terms, Justice Engoron punctured Mr. Trump’s bubble of protective falsehoods about the way he conducted his business.
“In defendants’ world,” Justice Engoron wrote, “rent-regulated apartments are the same as unregulated apartments; restricted land is worth the same as unrestricted land; restrictions can evaporate into thin air.”
“That is a fantasy world,” the judge went on, “not the real world.”
Mr. Trump is being constrained by the very system he often uses to try to stymie opposition: the courts. In the last two years, Mr. Trump has filed a blizzard of legal actions against news networks, political critics and even the Pulitzer Prize committee. Several of those cases have been dismissed.
But Justice Engoron’s decision hinted at a trait that has longed defined Mr. Trump’s personality and approach to doing business. He has always sought to create his own reality, often getting away with it — up to a point.”
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As of now, 10 pm Wednesday, neither Carper nor Coons have joined 30 other D Senate colleagues in calling for Menendez to step down.
Would some reporter be so enterprising as to ask them why?
https://delawareliberal.net/2023/09/23/dl-open-thread-saturday-sept-23-2023/
alby has a background in journalism. Maybe he can chime in.
I’m in Paris, and I’m not running up phone charges to piss up a rope. Their silence says everything you need to know.
Do you feel unfettered and alive?
No, and I’m not free, either.
That song was about how David Geffen could be as gay as he wanted in Paris when he was still closeted in LA.