DL Open Thread Saturday June 25 2022

Good mornin', starshine The Earth says, "Hello" You twinkle above us Coons, Biden and LBR twinkle below…
The Republican Court of Religious Orthodoxy & Zealotry is partying like it is 1868.
Essentially, Justice Alito argued that for an unwritten liberty right to be legitimate, it must be deeply rooted in the nation’s history and have been understood to exist when the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868. Back then, he wrote, many states had criminalized abortion and there was no understanding that women had a right to end their pregnancies.
Many people are wondering how this leaves Justice Clarance Thomas marriage to insane rightwing nutcase Ginni Thomas intact, but invoking the well known precedent of "LOL, Fuck YOU!" Thomas seems ready to damn the torpedoes. Collins is shocked. Biden thinks Dems need to vote HARDER! Coons thinks this came out of the blue, (had nothing to do with the US Senate where bipartisan compromise is still possible [see recent gun deal crumbs scoffingly served up by Mitch McConnell]). Lisa Blundt Rochester (rightly) thinks the work of the Republican Court of Religious Orthodoxy & Zealotry will fall "disproportionately on women of color and in rural communities across the country"  but (wrongly) thinks the answer is to VOTE HARDER. Can someone let me know when the Democratic strategy of offering nothing to voters other than scolding admonitions to "VOTE HARDER!" has actually worked?  Because from where I'm sitting it seems like offering voters nothing except  scolding admonitions to vote harder is exactly the strategy that got us here.    

REV & Bill Cover the McGuiness Trial (Day 6) – The Auditor Who Really Needed an Auditor

The very office that is charged with rooting out the state government's "waste fraud and abuse" was a hotbed of waste fraud and abuse. It's 6 days in and the trial finally touches on the fact that while Kathy was doing all this shit and bringing on her daughter and her daughter's buddy and making up loyalty oaths and misusing the state seal to glorify Kathy McGuiness, the thing she wasn't doing was her fucking job. Now that's not a crime, but it should be judged like one by the voters.
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E188 - Kathy v Kathy Pt. 8: National Lampoon's Van Horn
More witnesses on Day 6 of the Kathy McGuiness trial: more haters, more p-cards, and more hostile workplace environments. We also learn more about the man, the myth, the legend: Thomas Van Horn.

DL Open Thread Friday, June 24, 2022

So what do we call them? The Dingleberry Six? Five Jackoffs and a Jill? The Jan. 6 committee named five congressmen who asked Trump for preemptive pardons over their little…

Five Planets Lined Up

A line of five planets will be visible during the early morning hours throughout the end of June, The best morning to look up will be June 24, three days…

Noted Doofus, Chris Coons, is Disgusted but Thinks Great Gun Compromise is Still “Possible”

Coons was in rare form on TV today. Opening with the news that he "can hardly stand serving" in the wholly disgusting US Senate anymore. (Aside - Well, fucking quit then. Give someone else a chance.) Then pivoting to being "hopeful" that "at least" billions will be invested in fully kitted out ER/trauma units and mental health facilities for all schools, because school shootings cannot (and should not #freedom!) be stopped. Listen for yourself if you don't believe me.  

Shopping for the SS Grey Fox

After a week of being on trial, Park City must be feeling pretty good. The prosecution doesn't seem to be getting much traction. 14 HOURS AGO E184 - Kathy v Kathy…

DL Open Thread Monday June 20 2022

Happy belated Juneteenth. I had a wonderful weekend full of not paying attention to any news and hope you did as well. This Monday we wake to Chris Coons looking like a smacked ass, the Texas GOP officially goes full MAGA calling Joe Biden the "Acting President". A vote that should be easy for Dems ("The GOP is defunding School lunch") but will be bungled, and the anti-centrist results of the parliamentary vote in France. The new Texas Republican party platform calls homosexuality “an abnormal lifestyle choice,” says President Biden "was not legitimately elected," and says Texas students should “learn about the Humanity of the Preborn Child.” A free school lunches program that helped feed millions of children during the pandemic is set to end on June 30. It could create a “perfect storm” for families already grappling with high inflation, experts say.
Emmanuel Macron’s centrist grouping has lost its absolute majority in parliament, amid gains by a new left alliance and a historic surge by the far right in legislative elections. After five years of undisputed control of parliament, the recently re-elected Macron, known for his top-down approach to power, now enters his second term facing uncertainty over how he will deliver domestic policies such as raising the retirement age and overhauling state benefits. His centrists will need to strike compromises and expand alliances in parliament to be able to push forward his proposals to cut taxes and shake up the welfare system.