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Dec. 11 Open Thread: Plenty of Coal This Christmas
In news that will seem much more important years down the line than it does now, a global climate confab is being held in Poland, the climate-denier capital of Europe, where the U.S. pushed for increased use of coal, to outright laughter from nations without fossil fuels to peddle. Gabriel Sherman has the scoop on […]
A Brexit Post
Like all Americans, I don’t pay much attention to Not America. But I know enough about Brexit to know the Brittish fucked themselves out of shortsighted-racist-old-white-guy-malice. This tweet seems to sum it up: Hugo Rifkind ✔ @hugorifkind Replying to @hugorifkind The thing is, the best way to understand Theresa May’s predicament is to imagine that […]
Jail Time for Pharma Price Fixing? Don’t Make Me Laugh
David Anderson writing at Balloon Juice has the late stage capitalism laugh of the day. The Washington Post has a blockbuster on collusion between generic drug manufacturers: Executives at more than a dozen generic-drug companies had a form of shorthand to describe how they conducted business, insider lingo worked out over steak dinners, cocktail receptions […]
Coons’ Prayer Breakfast Confidant Plea Deal Disclosed
Coons’prayer breakfast confidant, Maria Butina, conspired with a Russian government official “and at least one other person” for Butina to act as an unregistered foreign agent. ABC News obtained a copy of the plea agreement and published excerpts of it Monday. A court filing earlier Monday suggested a plea agreement was imminent. Federal investigators have […]
Jingle my Balls
Hey, you, Yes, you, Come over here. It’s almost time to jingle my balls Whwhhhhhat did you just say? It sounded to me like you said to jingle your balls? I did. I said, ‘It’s almost time to jingle my balls.’ Or I can grab you by your mistletoe. Your call. By the way Is […]
Dec. 10 Open Thread: The Wheels Have Come Off, Trump’s Driving on the Rims
When Richard Nixon’s presidency fell apart, he was at least enough of an old political hack to keep up the outward appearance of a functioning administration. Chalk that up as yet another thing Donald Trump can’t do. After weeks of publicly courting Nick Ayers, the Karl Rove of his generation, to be his new chief […]
Dec. 9 Open Thread: Liberal Bias? If Only
I don’t make a habit of whining about media malfeasance — it’s just too common to get worked up over. But a glut of minor sins made for annoying reading this morning. First up: Reporters had a day to read the transcript of James Comey’s closed-door testimony to a House committee, which Democrats and Comey […]
Song Of The Day: Dec. 9, 2018
Little Steven’s Underground Garage sent me here. From Sweden, with three chords:
Class Unconsciousness
Trump, of course, is an asshole. But I don’t get the wage slave anglo manager in this story. He heaps abuse on workers like he has more in common with Trump than he has with the workers.
I’m here to tell you Bruv, aside from melanin you don’t have shit in common with Trump.
Dec. 8 Open Thread: So What Do We Do With Him Now?
The overnight analyses are coming in, and the consensus is that the story is going where we always knew it would: Trump likely committed all the bad acts we have suspected all along, plus possibly ones we don’t know about yet. The SDNY outright accuses him as an unindicted co-conspirator in felonies. Here’s a handy […]
Time Travel and Its Discontents
There have been a few high profile court cases, and a great deal of public debate recently dealing with time travel. Is it real, or an elaborate and lucrative hoax? According to Dr. Barbara Engle and Dr. Willet St. John, the Cal Poly research team who in 2018 famously figured out how to send fragments […]
Ammon Bundy has more integrity than Ken Simpler. …Ammon Fucking Bundy.
Ken Simpler would still be Delaware’s Treasurer if he had a portion of Ammon Bundy’s integrity.
Ammon Bundy, the rancher at the center of a 2016 standoff with the government at an Oregon wildlife preserve, said he is leaving the militia movement after criticizing President Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric.
Bundy shut down his social media accounts and announced that he was stepping away from “patriot groups,” BuzzFeed News reported Thursday.
He said the decision comes after he faced fierce backlash for opposing Trump’s attacks on a caravan of migrants.
“It’s like being in a room full of people in here, trying to teach, and no one is listening,” he told the outlet. “The vast majority seemed to hang on to what seemed like hate, and fear, and almost warmongering, and I don’t want to associate myself with warmongers.”
Bundy said it was “incorrect” for Trump to characterize the group of Central American migrants traveling toward the U.S. as “all criminal.”
“To group them all up like, frankly, our president has done — you know, trying to speak respectfully — he has basically called them all criminals and said they’re not coming in here. … It seems that there’s been this group stereotype,” Bundy said in a video posted to Facebook.
Dec. 7 Open Thread: Beto’s the One to Beat, and the Beatings Have Begun
If he isn’t, why are rhetorical knife fights already breaking out over him? Ben Mathis-Lilley surveys the skirmish that’s starting to shape up as the Battle of Bull Run in this cycle’s Democratic civil war. Political writers trying to explain why the GOP is so scared of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez aren’t going to have to try […]
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