July 23 Open Thread: Who’s Going to Clean Up This Mess?
At this point, Trump is like a drunken frat boy lying on the floor in a puddle of his own piss loudly declaring, “I’m all right!” A lot of Republicans are going to believe him for the simple reason that the first one who acknowledges the obvious truth will have to mop the floor.
It’s a day ending in Y, so Trump tweeted out a bunch of bullshit and threats, which the media of course played up because nothing else is happening, and the media doesn’t want to make a big deal out of the fact that more people have been killed in the U.S. this year by rednecks operating DUCK boats than by terrorists — 17 more, in fact. Unless you’re a paid media person, there’s no reason to pay attention to these tweets.
There are also lots of stories about how Brett Kavanaugh is actually Gozer the Destroyer, which amount to ghost stories told around the campfire for liberals who like to keep themselves in a state of panic.
About the only story worth linking to, and that only for purposes of schadenfreude, is the WaPo’s account of how Trump is pissed off that North Korea isn’t playing its role in his fantasy properly.
There’s also some polling on Trump’s tariffs, which naturally are still supported by Republicans, though it should be noted that the big split is between — sit down for this — the educated and the uneducated.
Beyond that, I see little reason to engage with the media today. If you have something better, please post the link.
Dover Downs gets taxpayer bailout, gets sold:
https://www.delawareonline.com/story/money/business/2018/07/23/dover-downs-purchase-rhode-island-casino-company/819717002/
Carney should have a look at this….
https://abdulformichigan.com/issues
Will the sale of Dover Downs make lawmakers realize how easily they are played? Of course not.
“Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.”
—-Robert Paxton, ‘The Anatomy of Fascism’, 2004
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working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites….
Didn’t we give MBNA some parting big break right before they sold out? Can’t remember the particulars, but I think we did.
Does Biden live in Cawley’s old joint?
AG candidate Chris Johnson releases a clean water platform after conducting a clean water workshop in Sussex County. When you think about it, it’s unconscionable that residents are forced to deal with polluted water all the time. Here is Chris’ platform:
https://www.chrisjohnsonforag.com/clean-water/
Vaporizer, I’m pretty sure that it was one of the Tiganis, the son who sued the father, who bought that money pit in Westover Hills.
Didnt we also do massive reconfiguring to 202 and 95 for Astrazeneca shortly before they bailed? The state (or the people in charge.. *chough Carpercrats*) is fucking dumb.
Hey, I’m headed to the beach for a while. Going off the internet grid. It’s very bad for you. The internet not the beach…
In the meantime, can somebody link to Cassandra’s post? The bit about the direction of the Democratic party….
I’d do it myself, but you all have some unspoken thing going. I feel it. Don’t want to wind anything up…
In this case it’s important.
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do you mean the punching left bit? Blaming “liberals” for the fact the GOP will never impeach trmp?
@Ben: No, he means the one attacking Coons for his mewling centrism. Don’t know how you could have missed it.
“Didn’t we also do massive reconfiguring to 202 and 95 for AstraZeneca shortly before they bailed?”
Not that shortly, but yes.
I would argue that the road reconfiguration was necessary and the offer to do it for A-Z was just a good opportunity. Before the reconfiguration, that intersection of 141 and 202 was the deadliest in the state, so I consider it a net positive.