DL Open Thread Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026

Gov. Matt Meyer’s primary endorsements against incumbent Democrats who disagreed with him drew criticism from Senate Pro Tem Dave Sokola, continuing Meyer’s long-running battle with a Delaware Democratic Party that neither likes nor trusts him.

When Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff made a snarky comment the other day about Donald Trump and his groupie, Natalie Harp, I didn’t understand why the media was treating it as a tremendously big deal. Now I do. It seems every media organization was sitting on a story about her that it wouldn’t release for … reasons. Ossoff’s insult broke some sort of unspoken embargo about a woman who has attached herself to Trump like fungus to a toenail.

CNN reports that Harp once defied the Secret Service when they denied her a spot in Trump’s motorcade by jumping into the cargo area of an SUV. Trump biographer/irritant Michael Wolff said she pushed for the destruction of the East Wing of the White House, over the objections of Melania. The New York Times wrote about mash notes Harp wrote, proclaiming in one “I want to bring you joy.” Interviews with her estranged brother surfaced.

Perhaps the most telling sign that there’s fire below all this smoke was the White House reaction. Off-brand Oddjob Stephen Cheung squealed like a scalded pig, which come to think of it is exactly what he looks like. He called Ossoff a “cuck loser” amid other limp-dicked schoolyard insults, but he didn’t deny anything. It’s pretty obvious that all these media outlets already knew about the close relationship between Trump and Harp – and withheld it all until Ossoff broke the seal. They, not Ossoff, are the cucks in this scenario.

Speaking of cuck losers, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says he no longer supports Medicare for All, despite its support among a majority of voters. Yet some people, mostly Vichy Democrats, pretend they can’t understand why progressives scorn them.

More Trump-endorsed candidates lost in Republican primaries yesterday. His choice for Nevada governor fell short, and his picks for a pair of Congressional seats in Florida also limped home losers. It might have something to do with the quality of candidate he supports. At a GOP debate between run-off opponents Darline Graham and Rep. Ralph Norman, the late Lindsey Graham’s sister was asked about Taiwan. She responded, “I’m just going to be honest here. “I’m … not that informed on national security. … I’m not a polished politician up here.” It drew criticism from both sides of the aisle, but she’s got Trump’s endorsement; we’ll see next Tuesday if that’s enough to pull her through.

Elon Musk might have moved to Texas because he thought a state full of braggadocious assholes would give him anything he wants, but a federal judge there isn’t going to cover for what amounts to fraud. You might remember that Musk tried to buy an election for a conservative candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court by promising to give $1 million each day to a random person who signed some silly pledge about free speech and gun rights. As is so often the case with Musk, the “random” part turned out to be bullshit. Musk’s own lawyer admitted as much in a Philadelphia court, so the judge rejected Musk’s attempt to dismiss a class-action fraud lawsuit over it. He wrote that “a jury could surely conclude that America PAC’s process of reviewing a ‘vetting document’ to make the ‘best selection of someone who ideologically aligned with America PAC’ – which included ‘everything from criminal background history to age, marital status, children’ and social media content – was far from random.” Remember, this lying asshole is who fake progressives Bryan Townsend and Krista Griffith are carrying water for to this day.

The floor’s yours.