Open Thread For July 25, 2017
Kushner No Babe In The Woods On Russia. His carefully-parsed statement read that he doesn’t ‘rely’ on Russian money, but he never said that he hasn’t used Russian money to make transactions. He, in fact, has. Bigly.
Will McCain Pull A ‘Reverse Ted Kennedy’? Trundle his diseased body back to DC to help throw tens of millions off health insurance?
How Poles Stood Up For Democratic Institutions. All of our democratic institutions are under attack from this deranged oligarch. Fightfightfight.
Could DuPont CC Follow In B’wine CC’s Footsteps? If the Capanos ever got their hands on it, the answer would be ‘of course’. Which would be quite ironic. Seeing as how Looie the Third is the son of, wait for it, local R legislator Debbie Hudson. A relationship she has taken great pains to obfuscate. This is from her legislative webpage: “Family: Proud grandmother of a granddaughter “. Notice that she skipped a generation there?
Lawyer For Russian Bank to Head DOJ’s Criminal Division? Coincidence? You decide.
How Christie and Nominee To Head FBI Hid Public Fleecing From Public. I think this is a really big story that is being overlooked. The FBI nominee being an ethical scofflaw. Does Wray agree that he reports to Trump first and foremost?
Judge Halts Deportation of Iraqi Nationals. The courts are our last resort.
What do you want to talk about?
Trump has said that he is looking into firing Sessions. No doubt that is in order to get someone who will pull the plug on Mueller’s investigation.
I think Sessions will quit ahead of firing.
So the guy who wants to be the next FBI Director Chris Wray did $2 million of work on Bridgegate and they did not sign a formal retainer letter until 11 months after he started doing the legal work? Serious ethical questions here……… Jersey got bilked for over 2 million on this representation??
Rethugs gonna keep Trumpcare alive. As always, rumors of its death were premature. ‘Hero’ McCain comes back to help drop millions off of insurance rolls:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/gop-leaders-press-ahead-with-health-care-vote-in-hopes-of-sustaining-repeal-effort/2017/07/25/2525470c-7126-11e7-8839-ec48ec4cae25_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_healthcare-735a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.d2dcfbcb5972
Sucks.
As predicted:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/us/politics/senate-health-care.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=span-ab-top-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
The takeaway? If you’re holding your breath for Rethugs to do the right thing, you’ll die from lack of oxygen.
As usual, ‘straight-shooters’ McCain and Graham backed McConnell. Two biggest bullshit artists in the Senate.
It’s almost as if they arent worried about people being able to vote them out.
Repubs fear the primary, not the general.
When pre-existing conditions exclusions once again become the law of the land, my sympathies will lie with those who were not permitted to vote and those who voted for the Democratic Party candidate. The rest can reap what they sowed.
We agreed in November there would be dark days ahead. Steel yourself to it. And fight back as hard as you can. It will be very difficult and it will get worse. I sincerely believe the stakes are high.
Audere est facere.
McCain has pulled a reverse Caesar Rodney.
Medicine will probably evolve so much do to AI that any healthcare legislation of today may just be stop gap, and will become non applicable in the next decade or so.
This will also apply to personal transportation. Building new rail systems may just be a waste of time at this point.
Who needs a train when you will be sitting in a self driven rolling computer connected (linked) to other vehicles with farther or common destinations. You will chuckle as the recharging drone pulls into your commuter line and recharges the whole group on the fly.
No need to keep widening roads as the flow of vehicles will be completely efficient do to interconnectivity. It will be like blood flowing and pulsing through the system.
Self driven cars may have to be relegated to only rural or local areas, as they will be incompatible with the system.
I know Puck’s comment will only be appreciated by Delaware history geeks, but it’s a good one. Quality.