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Losing = Winning (For Dem Consultants)
The Coonsian Center & DC-bubble Dems seriously need to be defunded.
The Losing Democrats Who Gobbled Up Money
Amy McGrath and other Senate candidates deceived donors to rake in far more cash than their Republican opponents. They got crushed anyway.
Is “Bad News for Trump” ever really “bad” news for Trump?
He has avoided so many consequences for so long that if avoiding consequences was an Olympic sport, Trump would be the Michael Phelps, Larisa Latynina, Paavo Nurmi, and Mark Spitz of it, all rolled into one.
But when Mazars, (global audit, accounting and consulting group employing more than 42,000 professionals in more than 90 countries) decides that Trump is toxic – you have to wonder if it is really bad news.
(Trump) may finally have run out of enablers, blind groupies, pliable bureaucrats, and general scapegoats. Companies want to survive. People want to keep their jobs. Nobody wants to pay whopping fines or risk jail time. Not for him. Not anymore. A collective decision is being made that in many ways, including on the balance sheets, the former president* is simply not worth it.
Song of the Day 2/16: C.W. McCall, “Convoy”
For conservatives, bad ideas never die, they just get recycled ad nauseam. So when a few dumbfuck truckers decide they’ve had enough of this mask-wearing, vaccine-taking reality, they retreat to the same dumb response their pappies and grandpappies did when faced with problems that, given their limited intellects, they couldn’t possibly understand. This was a […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday Feb 16 2022
Truth, Justice Settlements and the American Way
Remington settles with Sandy Hook families for $73 million – Prince Andrew settles with Virginia Giuffre for $? million(s)
- The civil court case in Connecticut centered on Remington’s marketing of the gun used in the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
- The lawsuit tested the scope of the 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which grants gun manufacturers immunity from lawsuits related to crimes committed with their products.
Flag of the Day – POW/MIA
For those of you too young to remember the events leading up the Viet Nam war – here is what happened. “…the North Vietnamese kidnapped 1,400 Americans and the United States had gone to war to retrieve them.” That kidnapping was immortalized in the movie Rambo: First Blood Part II and National League of Families POW/MIA […]
Crazily Unregulated NFT Markets Somehow Also Crazily Lawless
“Never invest in a business you cannot understand” -Warren Buffett Reuters: The U.S.-based Cent executed one of the first known million-dollar NFT sales when it sold the former Twitter CEO’s tweet as an NFT last March. But as of Feb. 6, it has stopped allowing buying and selling, CEO and co-founder Cameron Hejazi told Reuters. “There’s […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday The Ides of February 2022
Open thread will be late today due to supply chain interruptions related to the closing of the Ambassador bridge which links Detroit and city of Windsor, Canada. Talk amongst yourselves. Here are some possible topics: Hopefully this is the last Winter Olympics. Trump Organization’s accounting firm says 10 years of financial statements are unreliable Texas […]
DL Open Thread Monday February 14 2022 – Guess the Flag
Happy Valentines Day! Enjoy your S&M thruples, or whatever. Groovy Baby! The science of Mascot Matchups ™ deals with probabilities. It isn’t perfect. It hasn’t “solved” the NFL in the same way IBM’s Deep Blue has solved chess, or the way the GOP has “solved” politics in America. The trucks protests in Ottawa are two […]
Political Norms Don’t Work for Dems
Joe Biden (and to be honest most Dems and all DC beltway types) still cleave to 1980’s political norms. So when a “scandal” breaks, its all “OH MY! HEADS MUST ROLL!”
Whereas Republicans operate on 2020 political norms. So when a “scandal” breaks (up to and including scandalously trying to overthrow the republic) they say “LOL. Nothing matters! Fuck You.” And presto! No scandal.
I know many Dems, even commenters here, feel good about themselves and believe that they are destine to live eternity in heaven because they have the right norms. That’s comforting, I suppose.
DL Open Thread Sunday February 13 2022
Last week I asked what actual policy goals centrist like Coons are trying to enact. The answer is that there are no goals other than to cool the passions of the left and ensure that all political outcomes are far right of center thereby further enriching the rich and keeping existing class structures in place. […]
Song of the Day 2/12: Weezer, “Hash Pipe”
Very little American media output crosses the Atlantic, the obsessions of right-wing agit-prop shops like Fox even less than the rest. But enough spam email has slipped through for me to learn that these rube-fleecers are claiming the Biden administration is handing out free crack pipes, as if anyone has used a crack pipe in […]
DL Open Thread Saturday February 12 2022
Crack Pipe Joe is now cowering in the corner begging Tucker Carlson to stop kicking him. It is truly pathetic and perhaps not a great strategy going into midterms. Someone in the Democratic Party’s “leadership” must have said “Maybe if we apologize harder and compromise more ardently, the Fox News personalities will come around.” Another […]
Listen to the Highlands Bunker – NOW WITH 20% MORE BRAIN POISON!
“If all the right people hate me, I’m doing my job.” REV may or may not have said that. But it sounds like something he would say. E162 – Call Me Madinah (w/Madinah Wilson-Anton) State Representative Madinah Wilson-Anton joins Rob in the bunker to talk about the retirement of John Kowalko, what is going on […]
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