Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Sunday, December 10, 2023
Biden: ‘Screw Congress, I’ll Send More Lethal Weaponry To Israel Because I Can.’ He’s not just ineffectual, he’s now complicit in a genocide: Demanding that recipients of US military assistance comply with the laws of war is entirely unremarkable in every other context. There are multiple US laws that require monitoring and cutting off military […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023
Let The Carnage Continue. US vetoes UN resolution calling for ceasefire in Gaza: World leaders, international rights groups and United Nations officials have criticised the United States for vetoing a UN resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza and failing to halt the war that has killed more than 17,400 Palestinians and about […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, December 8, 2023
The Zieglers Of Florida. Looks like the sex was consensual, but the Liberty Mom was supposed to be part of it. Speaking Of The Mom For Taking Liberties, she’s toast: On Wednesday, the Daily Beastreported that the Leadership Institute, the conservative political training group where Bridget Ziegler works as a vice president, had removed her […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, December 7, 2023
Can’t let this LBR vote equating anti-Zionism with anti-semitism go. Yo, Lisa, 80% of Gazans have been forced from their homes by Israel. First, ordered to the south by edict of Netanyahu, now being slaughtered in refugee camps by edict of Netanyahu. I know it was a cynical vote, and an easy one. I now […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023
Everyone knows that Donald Trump has never had an original thought and that most of his insults are simply projection. You’d think the mainstream media would have noticed this by now, and investigated him for any of the complaints he has about someone else. For example, his constant drumbeat of “Joe Biden is old and […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023
Proof, as if more were needed, that politics is now professional wrestling: Disgraced ex-Rep. George Santos is monetizing his graft in various ways. One of them is selling cameo greetings – give him a few hundred dollars and he’ll record a short message for someone. Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, one of the few Democrats who […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Dec. 4, 2023
This story came out a week ago and sank without a trace: The president of the United Nations’ annual climate summit planned to use the talks to lobby dozens of countries and business leaders to increase their use of oil and gas, a fact that’s a lot easier to understand when you know that Sultan […]
DL Open Thread: December 3, 2023
A Trump Dictatorship Could Well Be Upon Us. Just in case you were enjoying your Sunday morning coffee. The article is long, but necessary. Please read it. Bush V. Gore: One reason to refrain from lionizing Sandra Day O’Connor: Yes, yes, yes, yes, & yes: a recusal, and a 4-4 decision, would have let the […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, December 2, 2023
Trump Pardoned Them. They’re Helping His Presidential Run. No other word but ‘transactional’ comes to mind: Never before had a president used his constitutional clemency powers to free or forgive so many people who could be useful to his future political efforts. A Washington Post review of Trump’s 238 clemency orders found that dozens of […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, December 1, 2023
Israel Knew Of Hamas’ Planned Attack–And Did Nothing. For over a year: Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails and interviews show. But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 30, 2023
War Criminal Dead. Finally. I mean, who gave a shit about Cambodia and Laos anyway? As was the case with Vietnam, history has judged some of his Cold War realism in a harsher light than it was generally portrayed (weasel words for ‘the media fawned over him’) at the time. With an eye fixed on […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023
This isn’t getting the media play it should: Hunter Biden said he’d testify in the House GOP “investigation” of his business dealings, but only if the session were open to the media. The Republican response: They shit themselves with fear and explained that they won’t do that, because they’ve already admitted that the sole purpose […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023
Good things happen when you get people to stop killing each other, even temporarily: The ceasefire in Gaza has been extend to Thursday, with the option open for further extensions. Biden, or more properly his people, helped make this happen, but I’m sure they did it wrong. Ask around. Here’s a story that violates Betteridge’s […]
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