DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 17, 2024
Linda McMahon To Help Trump Transition. See what I did there?
Tulsi Gabbard To Play The Role Of Kamala For Trump’s Debate Prep. Surely I’m not the only one who thinks he chose her b/c he thinks she’s hot. Wonder what his plan is for a diaper workaround. BTW, turns out she campaigned for the role:
Tulsi Gabbard said she would be “honored” to be former President Trump’s running mate, a day before he was convicted on 34 felony charges in his hush money trial.
“I have dedicated my entire adult life to serving our country and if asked to serve in that way, I’d be honored,” she said at an event Wednesday at the Richard Nixon Library and Museum in California.
The former Hawaii congresswoman, who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, was speaking to a crowd of supporters to promote her book, “For Love of Country: Leave the Democrat Party Behind.”
Oops, turned out she was campaigning for Veep. Had to settle for debate prep and a likely cabinet position. And, um, diaper duty?
Shower Cap’s Back! When I grow up revert to adolescence, I want to be Shower Cap. Read. You’ll thank me.
Santos To Plead Guilty. Not clear which of his multiple personalities will take the rap. Plus, is ripping off Rethuglican donors wrong?
The Veterans of Foreign Wars criticized Donald Trump’s “flippant” comments on Friday after the former president called a civilian award “much better” than the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military decoration.
“These asinine comments not only diminish the significance of our nation’s highest award for valor, but also crassly characterizes the sacrifices of those who have risked their lives above and beyond the call of duty,” said VFW National Commander Al Lipphardt in a statement.
Lipphardt said that when a candidate for the military’s commander-in-chief “so brazenly dismisses the valor and reverence symbolized” by the Medal of Honor and its recipients, they must ask whether they can take on the responsibilities with “seriousness and discernment necessary for such a powerful position.”
Inside An American Militia. ProPublica with an in-depth piece you should read:
Last February, some 20 men and their wives gathered for dinner at an upscale restaurant in Spokane, Washington, for their annual Valentine’s Day celebration. The men weren’t just friends; they did community service work together. They had been featured on local television, in khakis and baseball caps, delivering 1,200 pounds of food to an area veterans’ center; they were gearing up for their next food drive, which they called Operation Hunger Smash. A few days after the holiday, the men went camping in the snow-speckled mountains outside Spokane, where they grilled rib-eyes and bacon-wrapped asparagus over a bonfire.
They also engaged in more menacing activities. They assembled regularly — sometimes wearing night-vision goggles in the dark — to practice storming buildings together with semiautomatic rifles. Their drills included using sniper rifles to shoot targets from distances of half a mile. And they belonged to a shadowy organization whose members were debating, with ever more intensity, whether they should engage in mass-scale political violence.
They were among the thousands of members of American Patriots Three Percent, a militia that has long been one of the largest in the United States and has mostly managed to avoid scrutiny. Its ranks included cops and convicted criminals, active-duty U.S. soldiers and small-business owners, truck drivers and health care professionals. Like other militias, AP3 has a vague but militant right-wing ideology, a pronounced sense of grievance and a commitment to armed action. It has already sought to shape American life through vigilante operations: AP3 members have “rounded up” immigrants at the Texas border, assaulted Black Lives Matter protesters and attempted to crack down on people casting absentee ballots.
Now with the presidential election less than 100 days away, AP3 members see the fate of their country turning on a turbulent, charged campaign. They’re certain that Democrats will try to steal — not for the first time, in their view — the White House from Donald Trump. “The next election won’t be decided at a Ballot Box,” an AP3 leader wrote several months ago in a private Telegram chat. “It’ll be decided at the ammo box.” He has said he is ready to force his way into voting centers if need be, or “whatever it takes.”
Turned into ‘heroes’ by Rethuglican politicians who call the Jan. 6 convicts ‘political prisoners’. Highly-recommended.
As if you needed it–more proof that Pete Schwartzkopf is one of Delaware’s all-time political assholes. Skip past the banalities to the last ten minutes where Pete tries to verbally destroy Claire Snyder-Hall. That tells you that she is the biggest threat to KMG, and, in all likelihood, is whipping her ass. Time for a contribution…
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Trump must be bewildered by the blowback on his medal of honor remark. He isn’t doing anything differently, he is certainly being heard differently now thought.
I’ve known Pete since he was at Troop 7, he was in charge of security as an off duty cop at Bobby Jacob’s Slam Dunk when we met. He was a fun guy and pretty progressive for the area. I was excited to help him get my professional organization’s endorsement in his race in the brand new 14th in 2002. At that time I had a business in Dewey next door to the Starboard and saw Pete regularly at Breakfast in a little joint called Sharkeys in Dewey. Later when my life exploded Pete was kind and helpful. The guy literally gave a kidney to save a friend’s life! Then he changed as he gained power and regularly attacked anyone who her perceived was not “grateful” and challenged him politically like he did with Mike M. He is now ending his run as a bitter angry guy. I still like Pete and remember how he was but he is living in a beautiful part of our state consumed with anger and grievance. I will continue to call out his ridiculous support of KMG but I am saddened and I miss the Pete of 2002👿