Open Thread
DL Open Thread Monday, Feb. 12, 2024
Joe Biden might be old, but he still has enough juice to rig the Super Bowl. He even got within half a point of nailing the over/under. A PAC supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr., on the other hand, pissed away $7 million on a 30-second ad – a rerun of a 1960 JFK ad with […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024
Trump’s Gonna Trump: Told NATO Allies To Pay Up, Or…: Former President Donald J. Trump said on Saturday that, while president, he told the leaders of NATO countries that he would “encourage” Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to countries that had not paid the money they owed to the military alliance. Mr. […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024
Another day, another glitch. I’m thinkin’ solar flares or lunar earthquakes. But, I digress. The press has swarmed on Biden’s age to a degree they rarely have for Trump’s misdeeds. I’m not linking to anything from the pack mentality, which includes beltway Democrats. Suffice it to say that, at some point, the collective press will […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, Feb. 9, 2024
We’re BACK! Didja miss us? So many great conspiracy theories as to what happened: Feckless Joe forgot to pay the service bill. Jason inserted a poison pill into his Super Bowl prediction. Tucker had Vladimir deep-six us. Puck got Mossad to conduct cyber-warfare against us. Bethany Hall-Long–never mind, she can’t afford to take action against […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024
Netanyahu To Biden: “Fuck You”. Waits until Blinken has almost completed delicate negotiations, then blows them up: Calling Hamas’ position “delusional,” Netanyahu renewed a pledge to destroy the Islamist movement, saying there was no alternative for Israel but to bring about its collapse. “The day after is the day after Hamas. All of Hamas,” he […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024
The Republican Party had another terrible day Tuesday. Their meritless impeachment of Biden’s Homeland Security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, failed when a few Republicans failed to vote for it, and their stand-alone bill to aid Israel while ignoring Ukraine also went down in flames. If this keeps up even the media might get the impression that […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024
The cannibalistic self-destruction of the Republican Party continues apace, as old-line Senate conservatives like Mitch McConnell and James Lankford learn that their colleagues no longer answer to the Chamber of Commerce. Lankford has been one of the Senate’s hardest-line right-wingers since his election a decade ago, but negotiating with Democrats on a bipartisan immigration bill […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Feb. 5, 2024
The FBI didn’t bother opening a locked closet at Mar-a-Lago when it searched for stolen documents. Trump’s White House pharmacy handed out drugs like a pill mill. Stories that once would have caused days of outrage now rush by with hardly a nod, such is the pace of the Great Unraveling as Trump and the […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, February 4, 2024
Cause. Effect.: Cause: “The possible consequences of a changing concentration of the CO2 in the atmosphere with reference to climate, rates of photosynthesis, and rates of equilibration with carbonate of the oceans may ultimately prove of considerable significance to civilization,” Epstein, a researcher at the California Institute of Technology (or Caltech), wrote to the group in November […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024
Cause. Effect.: It is approaching four weeks since a federal appeals court considered Donald Trump’s audacious claim that he should enjoy absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for his actions as president. Under ordinary circumstances, it can take months for appellate judges to produce a ruling. In the current case, this delay borders on unconscionable. It […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, February 2, 2024
Sad: Oregon Senators Refuse To Work, Find Themselves Ineligible To Run For Reelection: The Oregon Supreme Court said Thursday that 10 Republican state senators who staged a record-long walkout last year to stall bills on abortion, transgender health care and gun rights cannot run for reelection. The decision upholds the secretary of state’s decision to […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, February 1, 2024
NFL Broke Promise To Concussed Retired Players. Which is what happens when you have billionaires running the show: Finalized in 2015, the NFL concussion settlement resolved the most serious threat America’s most popular and lucrative sports league hasfaced. While the NFL admitted no wrongdoing, it promised to pay every former player who developed dementia or […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024
Less money, mo’ problems for the world’s richest man. Yesterday Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick called Elon Musk’s Tesla pay package “unfathomable” and voided the deal. And this just days after some Frenchie overtook him as the “world’s richest person.” This helps explain why the inveterate hypester announced that Neuralink had implanted its first device in a […]
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