DL Open Thread Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024
Trump cut short his Q&A session in Oaks, Pa., yesterday to – I’m not making this up – stand there and sway to the music. For, like, half an hour. “Let’s not do any more questions. Let’s just listen to music,” he told the crowd. “Who the hell wants to hear questions?” It’s becoming clear that the GOP plan is to elect this husk of a human and then replace him with that younger husk of a human, JD Vance.
What does it take to induce someone to work for Trump? In the case of his campaign manager, Chris LaCivita, the answer is “$22 million.” I’m starting to get the impression that every MAGAt is just another grifter looking to score.
We don’t think of India as an autocratic country run by murderous right-wingers, but Canada knows better. It expelled a bunch of Indian diplomats because, Canadian police say, agents of India’s government are killing and harassing Sikh activists in Canada. Who does Modi think he is, Putin?
A Space X rocket carrying a probe that will explore Jupiter’s watery moon Europa launched successfully yesterday. Don’t hold your breath waiting for its findings – it won’t get there until 2030.
The floor’s yours.
ive been saying for a while now that trump is a useful idiot patsy. the ones supporting him know that the cult will only follow him so they prop him up to have the best chance of implementing their 2025 agenda. IF he were elected i think his backers would assassinate him to move vance in. and the media wants him to win becuase they wont have to do their jobs they can just retype what he tweets and says and that will be their “news”
Assassination is unnecessary. He’s already so far gone they could invoke the 25th Amendment on Day One.
…but never will! And who wants to get stuck with Vance, a religious autocrat who, unlike Trump, is smart?
A whole host of young MAGAts and tech bros, that’s who.
theyll never invoke the 25th becuase the trumpettes wouldnt allow it and i think the regular repubes who are in hiding wouldnt come out and support it because even they know vance is worse
Sad agreement, Trump is a pawn and as noted likely to be either be neutered or sacrificed as needed, and the replacement is the evil mascara menace we call Vance. And like Alby I would not be surprised to see the 25th amendment invoked.
Spotlight Delaware has a Karl Baker story up about Michael Bloomberg funding a flurry of last-minute Meyer ads with a $250,000 donation to the Change Can’t Wait PAC in the closing days of the contest.
https://spotlightdelaware.org/2024/10/15/bloomberg-meyer-donation/
That Oaks Q&A was so long and so bonkers I was wondering if the NYT would be able to sane wash it. No need to wonder:
And so Mr. Trump, a political candidate known for improvisational departures, made a detour. Rather than try to restart the political program, he seemed to decide in the moment that it would be more enjoyable for all concerned — and, it appeared, for himself — to just listen to music instead.
They fucking love the guy.
The music was probably better than the same old shit he spews.
You’re not wrong, but there were a lot of low- energy choices… Nothing Compares 2 U, Ave Maria multiple times, Memories from Cats…?
Cats….that must have been for the Haitians in the audience. I hear they eat that shit up or so Vance says
At least cooler heads in the Trump orbit nixed his planned production number featuring Haitian dancers adorned with bibs embroidered with dogs and cats. ‘Walkin’ The Dog’ and ‘Cat Scratch Fever’ were to have been the songs. Ted Nugent was set to perform both of them.
Trump’s bib, of course, would have featured an overcooked hamburger.
Memo to SNL: If you steal this idea, I want my royalty check for ‘intellectual property’.
‘Memories from Cats’?
YIKES!
Judge Beats Back Rethug Attempt To Steal Georgia For Trump:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/15/georgia-election-certification-denier-republican
Of course, there’s always another court, another lawsuit…
DJ Trump also spun “YMCA” for them. I do not think that song means what MAGAts think it means.
If he’s elected, perhaps he could resurrect Dick Clark and give us American Bandstand in lieu of a State of the Union.