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April 20 Open Thread: Who’s the Brains of This Operation?
I’ve seen enough crime movies to know every criminal outfit has to have a guy nicknamed “The Brain.” The question is, who would possibly qualify for that sobriquet in Trumpworld? Certainly not the genius who thought it would be a great idea to release the Comey memos. It took all of one hour from the […]
Behold the Gun Nut Throng
I can’t post the photograph here, because it’s copyrighted and also because I don’t know how, but click here for the Delaware State News coverage of a Thursday afternoon “gun rights rally” outside Legislative Hall in Dover. According to reporter Craig Anderson, about 50 people showed up — a pathetic number, to be sure, but […]
April 19 Open Thread: Democrats Rolling in the Green
I’m of the firm belief that money is not the sole, or even the most important, factor in winning elections. Still, it’s telling that Democrats are thumping Republicans in fund-raising for the midterms. Politico found that 43 Democrats have out-raised their incumbent Republicans. Remember when some people thought Trump’s constant flip-flopping meant he was playing […]
Biden Watch 2020: Decision Expected By Year’s End
A reporter for The Hill bumped into Joe Biden at the airport this morning and asked when he’ll make his decision whether to run for president in 2020. Biden replied, “Not until the end of the year.” That indicates to me that he wants to see what happens in the midterms before he commits either […]
April 18 Open Thread: Scary Stuff
As much as I enjoyed “Goldfinger” back in the day, I was always skeptical about the denouement, in which Auric Goldfinger, who’s almost as fat as Trump, gets sucked out of a broken airplane window by the pressure differential. C’mon, how is a guy that big gonna fit through a window that small? After yesterday’s […]
April 17 Open Thread: Hannity Wrecks the News Cycle
Sean Hannity has gone and done it — he’s broken the entire news media. Once word came out of federal court in Manhattan yesterday afternoon that Michael Cohen’s “secret client” was the Fox News simpleton, all other news out of Trumplandia has ceased. It’s as if this fact brought the entire Trump nightmare full circle, […]
April 16 Open Thread: Corporate Crooks Can Count on Delaware
Delaware’s sketchy system for hiding the ownership of corporate entities is back in the news thanks to hapless Michael Cohen, who apparently used his Delaware-sanctioned artificial personhood for all his non-disclosure-agreement needs. Delaware: The Backpage.com of American finance. If the Trump presidency were a football game, this is the point at which the fans would […]
April 15 Open Thread: A Democratic Unity Message That Just Might Work
You know how we tend to argue that Democrats should emphasize either race or class in their appeals to voters? Some political activists believe they’ve found an effective way to talk about racism and class interests that gains support from both people of color and white people. This January, they canvassed 800 homes, conducting half […]
April 14 Open Thread Early Edition: Consider the Dog Wagged
Donald Trump attacked several sites in Syria with missiles Friday night. Trump warned of a sustained attack; Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says it’s one-and-done unless chemical weapons are used again. Syria claims to have shot down 13 missiles, but plenty more apparently got through. Various journalists are starting to remember that however much they like […]
John Sigler Is Losing His Shit
The gun-fondling lobby held a rally Wednesday night at the Talleyville Fire Hall, and Gun Nut in Chief John Sigler used the occasion to jump the shark. Just a week earlier he was using the pages of the Delaware State News to make a legalistic, if sophistic, argument about the Delaware Constitution. He contends that, […]
Why Trump Stories Matter [Updated]
I think people lose sight of the fact that the United States of America is facing its gravest Constitutional crisis since the Civil War, and that we are now on the brink of the confrontation that will do much to decide the outcome. That piece from Benjamin Wittes at Lawfare was published Tuesday, before we […]
April 13 Open Thread, Bulldog Edition: Tawdry Tales of Trump
Busy day on the skeevy-stories-about-Trump beat. We learned: *The horrifying news that there could be another Trump scion out there somewhere, so move over Tiffany; *That Trump was obsessed with getting James Comey to disprove the pee tape, which totally couldn’t exist because Trump is a germophobe; *That the legendary New York Post “best sex […]
April 12 Open Thread, Late Edition: Delaware Dems Seek Magazine Capacity Limit
Delaware Democrats, led by Rep. Larry Mitchell, announced yesterday that they’ll push for a ban on ammo magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. Gun-hugging Sen. Brian Pettyjohn spoke for the blood-soaked opposition. The fascists who can’t shoot straight, otherwise known as the GOP, hatched a brilliant plot plan to hobble the James Comey victory […]
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