DL Open Thread Monday, Feb. 12, 2024

Joe Biden might be old, but he still has enough juice to rig the Super Bowl. He even got within half a point of nailing the over/under.

A PAC supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr., on the other hand, pissed away $7 million on a 30-second ad – a rerun of a 1960 JFK ad with this sex creep’s* picture substituted for his uncle’s. It earned widespread scorn and mockery, including so much pushback from the rest of the Kennedys that RFK Jr. apologized to them. So, money well spent, I guess.

The Trump EPA approved three weedkillers that it never should have, and a federal judge in Arizona last week ruled that it broke the law in doing so. Like president, like lackeys.

This is hardly news, but a new report found that prescription drugs cost three times as much in the U.S. as anywhere else. Surprisingly, generics make up the vast majority of the medications, and they’re cheaper in the U.S. than elsewhere, but the price of patent-protected pills is so high it more than makes up the difference. Another win for the not-at-all-free market.

A Chinese New Year celebration in San Francisco turned weird when a crowcrowd in Chinatown set fire to a driverless Waymo taxi. Tell me again about how seamless the transition to robot everything is going to be.

The floor’s yours.

13 Comments

  1. SussexWatcher

    Damn! How’d the crow light the robocar on fire?

    • Alby

      The keyboard on my new laptop sucks is how.

    • Anon

      It is sad/ hilarious to think that Dems regarded the Garland appointment as an FU to Republicans for not putting him on the SC.

      Losers.

      • Garland was Obama’s namby-pamby choice for the Supreme Court b/c he didn’t think the Rethugs would oppose such an inoffensive choice.

        • mediawatch

          He might have been better off if he had brought back Bill Barr.

  2. Arthur

    What was with the kennedy Terminator glowing eye in the ad?

  3. Beach Karen

    Melania is in pics with him and the Ramaswamys in Florida, first time she’s been out since her mother died a few weeks ago.

    • Alby

      The Ramaswamys? Jesus, the fucksticks do stick together, don’t they? The little pipsqueak better keep his hand on his wallet.

    • mediawatch

      Saw some pics from a couple weeks back of her not letting the Big Orange ride in the same limo with her after the funeral service.

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