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DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 19, 2023
Rudy (Desperately) Needs Trump’s Dollars. Trump Ain’t Paying Up. Sad: Rudolph W. Giuliani is running out of money and looking to collect from a longtime client who has yet to pay: former President Donald J. Trump. To recover the millions of dollars he believes he is owed for his efforts to keep Mr. Trump in […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 18, 2023
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We’se Proud Of Our Guy: Rory Ehrlich, 6, of West Pottsgrove, won the kid’s division of the USA Mullet Championships in August 2023, beating out more the 900 children for the title. Charles Fox / Staff Photographer / Philadelphia Inquirer Trump’s Lawyers Request Brief Trial Pause–Until 2026. Because he’s such a crook and they have […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 17, 2023
When You’ve Lost The Cato Institute…: We’re talking yet another Koch Bros enterprise dedicated to their version of ‘libertarianism’, aka unfettered freedom for oligarchs: Up until now, I’ve been hesitant to predict how the various prosecutions of Donald Trump are likely to turn out. But no longer. I believe yesterday’s indictment in Georgia sealed Trump’s fate, […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, August 15, 2023
The Fulton County grand jury threw the book at Trump, and the book is “Treason for Dummies.” They also lodged charges against 18 other defendants, most notably Rudy Giuliani, Sydney Powell and the rest of Trump’s collection of crooked lawyers. The dragnet also nailed some of the conspiracy’s fake electors, plus a clutch of shitbags […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, August 13, 2023
Wisconsin Rethugs Threaten To Impeach Justice Who Could Overturn Blatant Gerrymandering. Election nullification MAGAt-style: But when liberal Judge Janet Protasiewicz trounced her conservative opponent in the state Supreme Court election in April, it was a big win—not just for those who care about reestablishing their reproductive rights, but for anyone who genuinely cares about representative democracy. […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 12, 2023
The Fuck-Up That Is Hunter Biden Isn’t Going Away. Yeahyeah, I know all about false equivalency, which only matters to people who haven’t allowed their brains to rot. Still, there’s no doubt that Hunter grifted off his old man’s name, even if he was never able to deliver promised favors from the old man: They […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 11, 2023
Trump. Projection Much?: 1: “What Crooked Joe Biden, who can’t string two sentences together, has done to our once great Country […] OUR COUNTRY IS BEING DESTROYED BY A MAN WITH THE MIND, IDEAS, AND I.Q. OF A FIRST GRADER.” 2: “I think that Crooked Joe Biden is not only dumb and incompetent, I believe […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 10, 2023
Trump Fomenting Violence. Utah idiot tried to act on it–and was killed. If this TV ad isn’t a call for violence, I don’t know what is. BTW, the charge that Willis had an affair with a gang member? Completely made-up. He will not stop ignoring court orders to limit what he says publicly. Lock him […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, August 7, 2023
‘Woke’ Putting Rethug Voters To Sleep. Is it too late for DeSantis to shut down that anti-woke laboratory known as Florida?: Gov. Ron DeSantis last year used the word five times in 19 seconds, substituting “woke” for Nazis as he cribbed from Winston Churchill’s famous vow to battle a threatened German invasion in 1940. Nikki […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, August 6, 2023
Florida Hires Fake College To Teach Its Students. The ‘right’ kind of indoctrination: Last week, an organization called PragerU announced that the state of Florida had approved it as an official vendor for educational material. This was a controversial development: PragerU’s explicit mission is to combat “leftism” in education, and until now, its materials had […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 5, 2023
Mississippi Goddam: Remember when the El Supremos eviscerated the Voting Rights Act b/c they didn’t see any deliberate non-compliance on the part of the southern states? Guess they overlooked Mississippi: JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi is violating the U.S. Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment by permanently stripping voting rights from people convicted of some […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 4, 2023
All In The Timing. Looks like the DC case is gonna go first. No-nonsense judge, no pesky co-conspirators on trial with him, trial date to be set on August 28. Don’t think Trump’s mouthpieces can stop this one from happening sooner rather than later: What is coming into focus for me is that we’re likely […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 3, 2023
Fox Begs Trump To Show Up At Their Debate. Maybe he’ll agree if Fox makes its ‘fair and balanced’ coverage even more fair and balanced: Shortly after learning he was being indicted a third time, former President Donald J. Trump had a private dinner with the top leadership at Fox News as they lobbied him […]
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