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DL Open Thread: Tues., May 26, 2020
BREAKING: Sen. Bryant Richardson To Run For Governor. All in the name of ‘religious freedom’. He will lock down the white supremacist vote, meaning he’ll be the Rethug nominee. Inspirational quote?: “The tenants of our free society are life, liberty and pursuit of happiness … or property rights.” Ho-kay. Of course, he’s not up for […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, May 25, 2020
How Wealthiest Hospital Chains Got Billions Earmarked For At-Risk Providers. I’m starting to wonder whether any money went where it was needed: After the CARES Act was passed in March, hospital industry lobbyists reached out to senior Health and Human Services officials to discuss how the money would be distributed. Representatives of the American Hospital […]
Trump Wants Schools ‘Opened ASAP’ After Watching Fox News Segment
“Schools in our country should be opened ASAP. Much very good information now available,” Donald Trump tweeted on the eve of Memorial Day as the U.S. coronavirus death toll approached 100,000. He tagged both @FoxNews and host Steve Hilton because the “very good information” the president of the United States was receiving and passing onto […]
Coons Voted to Confirm the Worst Trump Judges
If Coons had any decency, he’d just apologize to everyone and resign.
Song of the Day 5/24: Scorpions, “Wind of Change”
One consequence of the Trump presidency has been a recalibration of reality, and what is possible within its supposed confines, a condition that is not contained to matters relating to Trump. I can think of no other explanation for the weirdest story of the month, a podcast series by Orwell prize-winning US journalist Patrick Radden […]
DL Open Thread: Sun., May 24, 2020
Election Doomsday Scenarios: Anybody who thinks that Trump wouldn’t go there, think again. Here’s perhaps the worst, and most likely, scenario: The bigger threat in his mind, he said, is the possibility that the Trump administration could act in October to make it harder for people to vote in urban centers in battleground states — […]
DL Open Thread: Sat., May 23, 2020
Trump Claims He Will Reopen Churches If States Don’t. Um, he can’t. But it’s red meat to his evangelical base. Until they start dying. Here’s why he did it: The president’s intervention came as his strength with religious supporters has slipped somewhat. Among white evangelical Protestants who favor Republicans, 77 percent said Mr. Trump was […]
Go back to work, serfs
“It isn’t going to touch me, so why should I be inconvenienced?”
Certain people (and political parties) still think that coronavirus only really kills nurses, cashiers & soulless poultry plant human robots. Even if it was true, we don’t have an endless supply of disposable workers.
OUTRAGE!!! PRESS FRENZY!!! BIDEN CAMPAIGN DEALS ITSELF A FATAL BLOW!!!!
Jesus H. Christ. Our media is so fucking stupid.
Trump will use pandemic to cancel election
I think we’ve all thought what Michael Moore says outloud to Vanity Fair: “There will be no November 3 election if things keep going the way they’re going right now,” Moore said. “I think he would have figured out a way, even without the coronavirus, but this is a gift to him because I think […]
Song of the Day 5/22: Spinal Tap, “Gimme Some Money”
Billionaires have taken to begging people to go back to work, using every tool at their disposal except higher wages and better benefits. The non-essential jobs, it turns out, are the ones at the top of the capitalism pyramid, and it takes a lot of cashflow to keep the money pump primed and flowing. Why, […]
Chris Kenny Sure Likes Pissing Away Money
With all of his whining about how high his taxes are, you’d think blowing piles of money on an ill conceived vanity campaign for Gov would be low on his list of things to do.
DL Open Thread: Fri., May 22, 2020
Stoopid RWNJ Trix. Steal a Coast Guard chopper, shoot out the power at a hospital, ‘liberate’ the patients, and ‘put everyone in quarantine’. No, it makes no sense, but he’s your typical Trump voter. Stoopid RWNJ Candidate. One Jo Rae Perkins, who vowed support for QAnon, wins R primary for US Senate seat from Oregon. […]
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