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DL Open Thread Tuesday June 7th 2021
Today’s Open Thread is entitled – “Come Hell and Low Water”
Catchy, right? It’s my handwringing play on the saying “come hell or high water” which is an expression of determination in the face of natural and supernatural disaster.
Minority Rule
Timothy Synder is a Yale University history professor and the author of the excellent short book, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. He’s an expert on the history of fascism and totalitarianism and in the latest issue of his newsletter he describes how the United State in on a fast track to tyranny.
The scenario then goes like this.
- The Republicans win back the House and Senate in 2022, in part thanks to voter suppression.
- The Republican candidate in 2024 loses the popular vote by several million and the electoral vote by the margin of a few states.
- State legislatures, claiming fraud, alter the electoral count vote.
- The GOP House and Senate accept that altered count.
- The losing candidate becomes the president.
- We no longer have “democratically elected government.”
No one is seeking to hide that this is the plan. It is right there out in the open.
The prospective Republican candidates for 2024, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley, are all running on a big lie platform. If your platform is that elections do not work, you are saying that you intend to come to power some other way. The big lie is designed not to win an election, but to discredit one. Any candidate who tells it is alienating most Americans, and preparing a minority for a scenario where fraud is claimed. This is just what Trump tried in 2020, and it led to a coup attempt in January 2021. It will be worse in January 2025.
9/11 led us to the invasion of Iraq, the foreign policy disaster that marked our century. 1/6 leads us to a catastrophe on that scale, but inside our own country.
Via BoingBoing
Song of the Day 6/7: Bing Crosby, “Swinging on a Star”
Does this song still turn up on children’s albums? When I was a kid, back in the Pleistocene, you heard it frequently because its sarcastic lyrics encourage little ones to go to school, exhibit good manners and not be a sneak. As an adult, I identify more with the last verse, especially when I read […]
DL Open Thread Monday June 7th 2021
In today’s news, some guy from Dover is getting some national attention for getting the Mandalorian Party recognized by the Dept of Elections because the new loves stupid bullshit.
“Digital producers” on Gannett’s Atlantic Digital Optimization (DOT) team have decided to unionize. Good for them, I suppose.
John Carney’s take on legalizing marijuana is straight out of ‘Reefer Madness’. I’m beginning to believe that Carney is just not that smart.
And speaking of dim bulb elected… Joe Manchin reviews are coming in.
Shorter Joe Manchin
The terrorists who are trying to end voting must be included in the effort to stop the terrorists who are trying to end voting.
Congratulations Coons! Your Super Secret Bipartisan Caucus is Working Wonderfully!!
Manchin says he will vote against Democrats’ sweeping voting rights bill
- Sen. Joe Manchin said he will vote against the sweeping federal election reform bill introduced by congressional Democrats.
- The decision by the moderate West Virginia Democrat essentially guarantees the legislation will fail to pass in Congress.
- The bill, also known as S.1, would require a minimum of 10 GOP votes to move past the filibuster and move to a final vote on passage.
DL Open Thread Sunday, June 6, 2021
The media must feel sheepish. For five years they treated every rally the Last Guy held as Big News, breathlessly reporting on how many of the slack-jawed gathered for his hatefests while rarely noting that, as a stump speaker, he’s dreadful — rambling, disjointed, frequently turning to his greatest hates for cheap applause. When it […]
Pence agrees with Trump on “election security” but doesn’t agree that he should be hanged by a mob
As with most things dealing with the GOP, there are jokes-a-penty to be made at the expense of Mike Pence trying to curry favor among the very voters who wanted to hang him on January 6th. And yet, Pence has a valid point.Jan. 6th was “a dark day in the history of the United States […]
Coonsian
I would add Chris Coons and Joe Biden to the list of Dems who don’t grasp the reality of what Republicans are trying to do, but otherwise, Michelle Goldberg does a good job with Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema: On Tuesday, Sinema, touring migrant facilities with her Texas Republican colleague John Cornyn, defended the filibuster […]
The sickeningly predicable failure of the Biden administration
The bad lefties were bad and made the very reasonable Republicans mad. Joe’s poor hands were tied, and on and on… When The Approval Falls The instant Biden’s poll numbers start falling, “everyone” will be quite sure it’s because he was too much of a lefty, and the “adjustment” will begin, and then a governing […]
Some Democrats are addicted to losing – Joe Biden is one of them
Fuck this weak-ass, pointless bipartisan shit. “The President is engaged in good faith with both parties in Congress to deliver historic infrastructure investments that will drive economic growth, produce the clean technologies of the future and create good-paying jobs,” a White House official told Vox. Good faith.
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