DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 27, 2024
Y’know, Trump makes ‘Low Energy Jeb’ look downright peppy. As someone pointed out on one of those news shows, optimism almost always wins in an election. Trump looks flat-out miserable. And Vance is already a disaster of Palinesque proportions. I hear that the Harris campaign is gonna have a ‘white dude’ event next week. I am nothing if not a white dude, so I’ll be on that call. As to Trump possibly removing Vance from the ticket…:
Too late, Trump has to carry Vance to term.
I love me some internet snark.
Trump Promises Christians A Dictatorship. No, seriously:
Former President Donald Trump urged the crowd at Turning Point Action Believers’ Summit to show up to the polls in November because the Democrats “want to cheat” in elections, promising an administration that will “fix” issues so Christians will only have to vote “just this time.”
Trump said on Friday that Democrats have “only one reason” why they do not support legislation to enact voter registration reform: “Because they want to cheat.”
“Republicans must win,” Trump said. “We have to win this election, [the] most important election ever. We want a landslide that’s too big to rig.”
“I don’t care how, but you have to get out and vote and again,” he added. “Christians, get out and vote just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what? It will be fixed. It will be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians.”
Paging Randy Rainbow: ‘My Beautiful Christians’. Go!
BTW, what, exactly, was that Opening Olympics Ceremony all about yesterday? All those computer graphics and shit? I know I’m old, but I had to turn it off. Anybody care to explain what that was supposed to be about? You know, to a Baby Boomer?
Look Who’s Been Ripping Off The Feds. The wife of that RWNJ who is running for Governor in North Carolina. Who does she think she is, Dana Long?:
North Carolina state regulators now declare a nonprofit run by wife of North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson must repay over $132,000 for what they call disallowed expenses while carrying out a federally funded child care meal program.
The state Department of Health and Human Services revealed a larger amount in a Friday letter to Yolanda Hill following a compliance review of Balanced Nutrition Inc., for which Hall is listed as owner and chief financial officer. Robinson, who is also the Republican nominee for governor this fall, worked in the nonprofit years ago before running for elected office, according to his memoir.
Balanced Nutrition, funded by taxpayers, collected roughly $7 million in government funding since 2017, while paying out at least $830,000 in salaries to Hill, Robinson and other members of their family, tax filings and state documents show.
Hey, she also employed her daughter. Had her business been here in Delaware, she surely would have received money from BHL’s opioid slush fund. She possesses precisely the lack of accountability that BHL admires every time she looks in the mirror. Uh, too bad Kathy McGuiness isn’t still the State Auditor, right, Bethany? Got news for ya–don’t think she’s gonna be carrying your water in Dover either.
Spent some time knocking doors in the 15th RD yesterday. This song was playing in my head the whole time:
Yes We Kam Kam. BTW, tried out the Kamala/Kamela meme. It works! Perhaps Val can use that Val/PAL meme–or perhaps not.
Israel Bombs Another School. Guess Bibi’s trying to get as much death and destruction in before someone less feckless takes over:
At least 30 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike on a school in Deir al Balah in central Gaza, Palestinian health officials said, reports Reuters. The Israeli military said it had struck a Hamas command centre.
According to the Reuters news agency, the Gaza health ministry and the Hamas-run government media office gave the toll for those killed in the strike on the school in Deir Al-Balah, one of the areas most populated with displaced families, and said more than 100 others were injured.
The Israeli military said in a statement it had targeted a “Hamas command and control center inside the Khadija school compound in central Gaza”. The statement said the school was being used to launch attacks against troops and as a weapons cache and that it warned civilians before the strike.
That’ll bring the hostages home. Not.
Carney Countenances Corruption. Takes his best gal Bethany Hall-Long to the State Fair. More proof, as if we needed it, that Carney has no moral compass:
While one of his favorite events — the National FFA Organization’s egg toss — was canceled due to rain, the governor was able to tour the fairgrounds and its offerings with Lt. Gov. Bethany Hall-Long. He ended the night with harness racing at the M&T Bank Grandstand.
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