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DL Open Thread Friday, March 22, 2024
Polling shows Americans have soured on the Supreme Court, the last institution that held the respect of a majority of the American public. Its approval rating started to slip a few years ago, but the decline accelerated with Dobbs and now stands at 40%. The conservative justices’ partisan leanings and love of graft are so […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Banana republic isn’t just a clothing store anymore. First the Supreme Court blew the layup about Texas’ attempt to seize control of the border from the federal government, refusing to put the Texas law on hold. Then, after all the reporters had gone home, the Fifth Circuit itself put it on hold. We’re actually living […]
DL Open Thread Monday, March 18, 2024
Donald Trump continued his Dotard America tour over the weekend, promising a “bloodbath” if he’s not elected. Supporters are trying to pretend that he was talking about the auto industry, but everybody knows what he actually meant. He isn’t arrested for inciting violence because the country is run by a bunch of cowards who are […]
Let Them Eat Cereal
The CEO of Kellogg’s, which has raised prices post-pandemic more than any other cereal company, thought this was a good time to mention a concept food processors have been pushing for years: Eating breakfast cereal for dinner. “The cereal category has always been quite affordable, and it tends to be a great destination when consumers […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, March 13, 2024
I don’t know why this is surprising anymore, but it seems Robert Hur, the Trump-aligned special counsel who said Joe Biden’s brain was scrambled eggs, stretched the truth out of shape in his official report. Transcripts of the interview showed Biden was lucid, if occasionally confused about timelines. Democrats used Hur’s appearance before a House […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, March 12, 2024
The backlash against the police reforms that came after the George Floyd protests has been fierce, led by the police themselves. That’s led to many jurisdictions undoing those reforms in the face of reports of rising crime – which, if you bother to look at the numbers, is the opposite of the truth. Gee, I […]
Song of the Day 3/11: Roxy Music, “Virginia Plain”
People are still talking about Alabama Sen. Katie Britt’s disastrous State of the Union response, which seems to test the theory that there’s no such thing as bad publicity. I seem to remember Bobby Jindal had already disproved it back in 2009, when he was considered the GOP’s young, fresh, not-a-white-male face. All most people […]
DL Open Thread Monday, March 4, 2024
Dr. John Gartner, the Johns Hopkins psychologist who last week pointed out that what passes for Donnie Dotard’s mind is slipping fast, offers even more examples piled up in the intervening week. I’ve seen several articles claiming we’re going to miss Mitch McConnell when he’s gone, which is like saying we’ll miss Putin once he’s […]
BREAKING: Supreme Court In The Bag For Trump
They’ve inexplicably (well, not really) agreed to hear Trump’s bullshit claim that he’s immune from prosecution for any crimes he committed as President. Took them forever to rule on this, then pushed back their hearing on this case until April. Make no mistake, the Supreme Court has politicized this case: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/02/28/trump-supreme-court-immunity-claim-dc-trial/ It’s all in the […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024
Rep. James Comer, dumbest man in Kentucky, isn’t going to let a little thing like a lying Russian stooge derail his impeachment of Hunter Biden. No sirree, he’s gonna keep fucking that chicken until its feathers fall off. Some Republicans are on the Russian payroll; others, like Comer, are just following along. Israel and Hamas […]
Song of the Day 2/27: George Clinton, “Atomic Dog”
Commander, the Bidens’ German shepherd, has been sent to live “with relatives” after more than two dozen biting incidends involving Secret Service agents. I hope the relatives have figured out what nobody in the White House apparently did – how to buy and use a muzzle, something lots of owners of Rotties and pitties have […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission sued to stop the grocery mega-merger between Albertson’s, parent company of Acme, and Kroger’s, on the grounds that it would be bad for workers and consumers. I don’t know when that became the standard, but I hope they keep applying it. Not that it will change the narrative – “Biden old” […]
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