DL Open Thread Monday June 13 2022
When you read this CNN headline, who do you imagine the “Senator” mentioned is?
Senator reveals how bipartisan group reached gun legislation proposal
If you guessed Coons, you are right. If you want to listen to Coons wax eloquent for 8 minutes about the greatness of glorious bipartisanship, go for it. I tapped out at the 6 minute mark.
In the meantime, I have my doubts about anything coming from this. Apparently I’m not the only one with doubts:
@ChrisMurphyCT
10/ Drafting this law and passing it through both chambers will not be easy. We have a long way before this gets to the President’s desk. But with your help and activism, we can get this done. This time, failure cannot be an option.
Wait, what? “…your help and activism” ? Clap harder ya’ll. The glorious bipartisan compromise, like tinker bell, needs you. Outside activism is required for the glorious bipartisan compromise among 20 senators to become fully agreed text and pass the senate.
Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient
If this IA learned sentience from reading the entire internet then it is the most racist, asshole IA since the last racist asshole AI.
The Jan. 6 rioter from Delaware who brought his Confederate flag to the insurrection has drawn the openly Trump-loving judge who has handed out slaps on wrists in other Jan. 6 cases.
https://www.aol.com/news/man-carried-confederate-flag-capitol-041114028-153441778.html
Roll Call Vote 115th Congress – 1st SessionXMLVote Summary
Question: On the Nomination (Confirmation Trevor N. McFadden, of Virginia to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia ) … Coons (D-DE), Yea
Heck of a job, Coonsie!
Supreme Court Rules Against Immigrants. Did you have any doubt they wouldn’t:
https://www.inquirer.com/news/nation-world/scotus-immigration-rulings-20220613.html
Going forward the supreme court will offer up a non stop attempt to roll back the clocks 70 years, while adding new outrages as they go. Suspect many of these games will generate anger and hatred of the court. Cool, and long over due. Guessing there will be insufficient will (like usual) to do anything about Thomas and he will never resign. Would love to live long enough to see a president, congress or both tell the court to go to hell. Will not happen, but we can dream, oh yes, we can dream.