Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 2, 2024
NC Rethugs About To Choose A RWNJ For Governor. Man, this guy: Surrounded by fans at a beach town bar, Mark Robinson addressed his absent critics. “Mark Robinson is not running to be governor to be a bully over anybody,” he said. Left unmentioned: The deluge of offensive comments that made such a declaration necessary. […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, March 1, 2024
Turmoil At Chemours: Can The ‘Forever Chemicals’ Company Survive? Perhaps the Business Giveaway Fund can pause before trying to bail it out with taxpayers’ money?: Wilmington-based chemical giant The Chemours Co., a spinoff of the DuPont chemical empire, is in apparent tumult at the uppermost levels of management. Three senior executive officers, including the […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024
It Was The Best Of Days For Trump. It Was The Worst Of Days For Trump. Both stories illustrate how Trump has avoided being held accountable throughout his career. Run out the clock. Offer to settle for pennies on the dollar. One court bought it: The Supreme Court that former President Donald J. Trump helped […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024
Rep. James Comer, dumbest man in Kentucky, isn’t going to let a little thing like a lying Russian stooge derail his impeachment of Hunter Biden. No sirree, he’s gonna keep fucking that chicken until its feathers fall off. Some Republicans are on the Russian payroll; others, like Comer, are just following along. Israel and Hamas […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission sued to stop the grocery mega-merger between Albertson’s, parent company of Acme, and Kroger’s, on the grounds that it would be bad for workers and consumers. I don’t know when that became the standard, but I hope they keep applying it. Not that it will change the narrative – “Biden old” […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024
Did Trump Over-perform, Under-perform In SC? I lean towards under-perform, sorta like Josh Marshall. But the MSM is peddling a different story: I’m not going to speculate what it means for the general election. But this is a lot of persistent opposition for a candidate who has always been running as a de facto incumbent. […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024
Why Did It Take Them More Than Three Years To Do This?: The United States on Friday restored its longstanding policy that settlements are inconsistent with international law, reversing a stance implemented by the former administration, hours after Israel announced a plan to advance the construction of thousands of new settlement homes in response to […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, Feb. 23, 2024
More Proof Rethugs ‘Caught The Car’ On Reproductive Rights. Virtually nobody is opposed to in-vitro fertilization. Including, among others, America’s Most Pious Politician, Mike Pence. And yet…: Kellyanne Conway, a former top aide to Mr. Trump, in December circulated polling conducted by her firm to lawmakers for a conservative women’s organization that showed vast majorities […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024
READ THIS! IN ITS ENTIRETY! Were I omnipotent, I would make you read it. I know you’re not all TPM members (you should be), so I’ll excerpt what I can: First came the news that prosecutors in special counsel David Weiss’s office had decided that the confidential FBI informant who had been one of Biden’s […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024
The White House promises new sanctions against Russia in the wake of Alexei Navalny’s death. We’ll see if being put on Double Secret Probation does anything to slow down Putin’s murderous regime. Meanwhile, Trump reacted to Navalny’s death by…comparing himself to Navalny. I’m not even going to link to it, because every click just encourages […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2024
Remember Hunter Seefried, the Laurel man who followed his Confederate battle flag-waving father into the Capitol on Jan. 6? Now into the second year of his prison sentence, he has filed for early release, noting that he chased a capitol cop but committed no violence. The 34-year-old also earned his GED and his forklift operator […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Feb. 19, 2024
It’s Presidents Day, so let’s start with the formerly anodyne holiday exercise of Historians Rankiing the Presidents. Let’s see here: Top 5 is Lincoln, FDR, Washington, Teddy, TJeff. Obama No. 7, Biden No. 14, I’m sure Trump is in here somewhere, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling … Here he is, No. 45. Last place. But that’s not […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024
Trump’s Latest Scam(s). There is no end to his Barnumesque hucksterism: Trump was met with loud boos as well as cheers at the Philadelphia Convention Center as he introduced what he called the first official Trump footwear. The shoes, shiny gold high tops with an American flag detail on the back, are being sold as […]
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