A Chorus of Empty, Rote Prayers From The Usual Bloodthirsty Ghouls.

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Ho hum....more children murdered in their elementary school.  Here is the Pro forma, boilerplate response used by many GOP leaders.  Ted Cruz even re-used an exact tweet from a mass murder of children in October.
There seems to be a formula for how right-wing politicians are now responding to mass shootings on social media that goes something like this: I [We] am [HORRIFIED, HEARTBROKEN, ETC] at the senseless tragedy in [LOCATION] today. We are [LIFTING THEM UP IN PRAYER, PRAYING FOR THEM] and thank the heroic efforts of [POLICE, FIRST RESPONDERS, ETC] on the scene.

DL Open Thread Tuesday May 24 2022

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We're in the worst timeline. I envy the fuck out of the Jason330 who is in the timeline where Gore beat Bush, climate change was taken seriously, Rupert Murdoch was stoned to death by an angry mob, and corporate hegemony was vanquished. That Jason330 is probably sitting at his lap top right now bitching and grousing about some trivial nonsense, like cakes vs pies.
 

Flag Day

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Here is a flag. It is the 9/11 commemorative flag that the dynamic duo of Hansen and Hensley propose government buildings fly each September 11th in memory of the terrorist attack which resulted in our terrorist attack in Iraq. I've got nothing against the flag, but it should maybe be flown with the cluster fuck of a flag associated with the war that even George Bush recently acknowledged was “wholly unjustified and brutal".

Park City Kathy Catches a Break

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Her personal laptop probably had the juiciest love letters to you know who...also the most explicit confessions of misconduct and lawbreaking. Will it matter? Who knows? I'm seriously asking... who knows?
DOVER, Del. – A Delaware judge has chastised prosecutors for failing to turn over information to the defense in a criminal corruption case against State Auditor Kathy McGuiness, issuing a ruling that also exposed weaknesses in the state’s cyber forensic capabilities. In a ruling on Wednesday, Superior Court Judge William Carpenter Jr. prohibited prosecutors from using material from three laptops that were seized during a search of McGuiness’ officer in September 2021. Carpenter said that prohibition was an appropriate sanction for prosecutors’ failure to provide information contained on laptops to the defense until April 6th, more than six months after the search. However, Carpenter refused to grant a defense motion to dismiss the indictment against McGuiness.

Meanwhile, Your Senator Chris Coons wants us to let bygones be bygones

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 Treason Shmeason

Jocelyn Benson, Michigan’s top election official, faced an onslaught of threats after the 2020 presidential election for refusing to overturn results that showed Joe Biden had won the state. In those hectic weeks, she says she also received an especially disturbing piece of information: President Donald Trump suggested in a White House meeting that she should be arrested for treason and executed.

THE PARTY OF LIFE: STARVING BABIES ARE GOOD IF IT’S POLITICALLY DAMAGING FOR JOE BIDEN

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I suppose the one good thing you can say about Republicans is that they are utterly transparent. There is no pretense or shiftiness. At this point, you'd have to be a Chris Coons to not see the "1+1=2" political calculus at the heart of the "Let's allow babies to starve to hurt Joe Biden" strategy.
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It’s a populist working class party now: House GOP leaders were among the 192 Republicans who voted against providing $28 million in aid to the Food and Drug Administration to address the shortage of baby formula — within days of criticizing President Biden for not doing enough on the issue. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), Whip Steve Scalise (La.) and Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (N.Y.) voted late Wednesday against the measure to provide new FDA funding, which the House approved on a largely party-line vote of 231 to 192. Twelve Republicans broke ranks and joined with Democrats in backing the money. Barney Frank’s dictum that for Republicans life begins at conception and ends at birth is one of the most enduring truths ever spoken.