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July 28 Open Thread: Facebook Nosedives, and There Is Much Rejoicing
Nothing typifies modern “journalism” better than this attempt to answer the rhetorical question, “Why are people glad that Facebook stock belly-flopped?” If we’re going to answer that, how about, “Because it turns out a guy who can write computer code might not have any other useful skills for running a gigantic corporation in an ethical […]
White People Are Snowflakes
David Roberts, a writer at Vox, came across a poll by the Public Religion Research Institute that contained a telling question and answer. The question was whether the increasing demographic diversity was good or bad for the country. As Roberts notes, [T]he question is not about illegal immigrants, or even immigrants at all; it’s not […]
July 27 Open Thread: Cleanup in Aisle Trump
Trumpworld’s seams haven’t come apart, but they’re getting looser now that Trump Co.’s CFO has been subpoenaed. Mike Pompeo and John Bolton apparently see their job the same way their predecessors did: Damage control and toxic cleanup. How did the Europeans talk Trump off the trade-war ledge? Apparently by using colorful cue cards to walk […]
July 26 Open Thread: Media Falls for Yet Another GOP Stunt
Media fecklessness has been on full display since yesterday as outlets fell over each other to breathlessly report that the Freedom Caucus moved to impeach Rod Rosenstein. Very few of them bothered to point out that it’s a mostly symbolic effort with no chance of succeeding, or that it was done mostly to get Jim […]
Florida ‘Stand Your Ground’ Killer a Native of Delaware
This account by Florida TV station WFLA affirms that Michael Drejka, the armed dickhead who gunned down a black man for pushing him in a convenience store parking lot, is indeed from Delaware. He’s been in Florida for the past 12 or 13 years, and proved himself a racist hothead several times. One patron of […]
July 25 Open Thread: The Same Letters That Spell ‘Coward’ Also Spell ‘A Crowd.’
Do Republican senators like tariffs? No! What will they do about them? Nothing! A number of Republicans who support America’s idea of “free trade” have questioned Trump’s call for $12 billion in relief for farmers who are going to be hurt by retaliatory tariffs. Will they act? Please. Remember, until more than 30 members agreed […]
Green Delaware: Carper’s Environmental Record Has Always Sucked
Alan Muller of environmental watchdog Green Delaware read Tom Carper’s claim last week that Delaware’s environmental problems come from upwind coal-burning power plants and smelled revisionist history. So he penned this handy recap of Carper’s record, which boils down to the same policy Delaware’s Democrats have always had towards the environment — fuck it, let’s […]
Fox Scares Viewers With ‘Radical Agenda’ of Health Care, Education and Living Wages
Every timid Democrat needs to see this segment of “Fox & Friends.” For the second time in two days, the propaganda operation tried to scare its viewers with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “radical leftist agenda.” Problem is, some viewers might get the wrong impression. The segment was an interview with a Daily Caller writer named Virginia Kruta, […]
Charles Pierce Turns Jack Markell Into Smoking Pile of Rubble
Esquire’s Charlie Pierce has had it up to here with Democrats promulgating bullshit from the ’90s, and to show it he turned his big gun on ex-Delaware Gov. Jack Markell: No offense to the good people of Delaware, but who the hell is this guy when he’s at home, and why should I give a […]
Just for Laughs
This is the kind of thing Chris Coons doesn’t want you to laugh at because it might upset Republicans: Comedian Steve Hofstetter talking about the absurdity of conservative boycotts.
July 24 Open Thread: Stand Your Ground = License to Kill
The latest Florida outrage — I know, it’s a new one almost every day — involves the cold-blooded slaying of another black man by another white man who apparently will get away scot-free by invoking the NRA’s notorious stand-your-ground law, claiming that the white man felt his life was threatened by the black man, who […]
July 23 Open Thread: Who’s Going to Clean Up This Mess?
At this point, Trump is like a drunken frat boy lying on the floor in a puddle of his own piss loudly declaring, “I’m all right!” A lot of Republicans are going to believe him for the simple reason that the first one who acknowledges the obvious truth will have to mop the floor. It’s […]
July 22 Open Thread: Democrats in the Woods Looking for Their Balls
The timidity of the Democratic Party establishment has long been chronicled ’round these parts, but it’s getting late in the election cycle and the mainstream pundits are starting to react with the same frustration that’s common ’round these parts. America’s best daily newspaper columnist, Leonard Pitts, questions whether the party’s leaders understand that they’re in […]
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