DL Open Thread: Saturday, December 26, 2020
A Very Strange Bombing In Nashville. Warnings from the SUV alerted people, looks like infrastructure (AT&T?) may have been the target.
Guaranteed: A Lapse In Unemployment Benefits. Aid withers while Trump dithers:
Treasury Department officials, expecting that the president would sign the bill this week, had been planning to work through the Christmas holiday period to restart the Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses and to push payments through direct deposit by early next week. However, that all now sits in limbo.
Worst American ever. The Unpresident. Everything he does is unpresidential.
Is Trump Leveraging Covid Relief To Force R’s To Support Overthrowing Election Results? Possibly:
The crisis arises after the relief and government funding bill won sweeping bipartisan approval this week in the House and Senate. The relief bill includes unemployment benefits, eviction protections, and other emergency aid, including $600 checks. The White House assured Republican leaders that Mr. Trump supported it.
Mr. Trump’s decision to attack the bill has been seen, at least in part, as political punishment for what he considers insufficient backing by congressional Republicans of his campaign to overturn the results of the Nov. 3 election with unfounded claims of voter fraud.
“At a meeting in Florida today, everyone was asking why aren’t the Republicans up in arms & fighting over the fact that the Democrats stole the rigged presidential election?” Mr. Trump tweeted Thursday.
“I will NEVER FORGET!” he later added.
Make that more than possibly. Have I mentioned lately that he is utterly insane?
US Postal Service Agrees To Expedite Delivery Of Georgia Mail Ballots. Not voluntarily, of course, but due to litigation.
I will be writing a separate article about the horrible House committee assignments that Pete & Val ‘announced’ on Christmas Eve when nobody was paying attention.
What do you want to talk about?
Surprised that nobody has taken. Credit yet. It doesn’t seem like they were going for mass casualties.
No, it seems like they were going for communications disruptions. Which they accomplished.
For what purpose I have no idea.
Could be one of the “5G is causing COVID” lunatics?
Disgruntled former employee? Given that human remains were found, I’m thinking it might have been an elaborate suicide.
Emergency Systems Throughout TN Still Offline:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/emergency-systems-still-offline-after-christmas-day-explosion-in-nashville
Is this by any chance Al Massitti’s work?
This is an old friend who wondered for a long time if you had been silenced. Mutual friends lost track of you. A couple of days ago, another old friend suggested I check out this blog. El Somabulo sounds familiar.
I have been sidelined by injuries then isolated by fear of the Virus.
Do you think Iran might be responsible for bombing Nashville? They threatened to retaliate for the General.
Al writes for us under the monicker of Alby.
I do as well, and appeared on Al’s radio show as El Somnambulo.
We couldn’t silence Al even if we wanted to, which we don’t.
You can drop me your email address at the tip line.
Authorities are now calling it a probable suicide bombing.
A ‘recluse’, with ‘an interest in home security’. BTW, the music that was playing? Petula Clark’s ‘Downtown’:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/12/27/nashville-explosion-anthony-warner/
I’ll never hear it the same way again. Sort of like “Singin’ in the Rain.”