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DL Open Thread Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024

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Today’s top story: Joe Biden turned one day older yesterday, continuing his troubling tendency to age. Worse, he refuses to do anything about it, despite the throngs demanding he step aside so Jane or Johnny Unbeatable could run in his place. That hit job report slagging his memory is being kept alive not by MAGAts, […]

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DL Open Thread Monday, Feb. 12, 2024

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Joe Biden might be old, but he still has enough juice to rig the Super Bowl. He even got within half a point of nailing the over/under. A PAC supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr., on the other hand, pissed away $7 million on a 30-second ad – a rerun of a 1960 JFK ad with […]

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DL Open Thread Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024

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The Republican Party had another terrible day Tuesday. Their meritless impeachment of Biden’s Homeland Security secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, failed when a few Republicans failed to vote for it, and their stand-alone bill to aid Israel while ignoring Ukraine also went down in flames. If this keeps up even the media might get the impression that […]

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FINALLY! Federal Appeals Court Rejects Trump’s Claim Of Absolute Immunity

Filed in Featured, National by on February 6, 2024 9 Comments

Don’t know what took them so long.  However: A federal appeals court has unanimously ruled that Donald Trump can be put on trial for trying to stay in power after losing the 2020 election, rejecting Trump’s sweeping claim of presidential immunity and moving the case one step closer to a jury. “For the purpose of […]

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DL Open Thread Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024

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The cannibalistic self-destruction of the Republican Party continues apace, as old-line Senate conservatives like Mitch McConnell and James Lankford learn that their colleagues no longer answer to the Chamber of Commerce. Lankford has been one of the Senate’s hardest-line right-wingers since his election a decade ago, but negotiating with Democrats on a bipartisan immigration bill […]

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DL Open Thread Monday, Feb. 5, 2024

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The FBI didn’t bother opening a locked closet at Mar-a-Lago when it searched for stolen documents. Trump’s White House pharmacy handed out drugs like a pill mill. Stories that once would have caused days of outrage now rush by with hardly a nod, such is the pace of the Great Unraveling as Trump and the […]

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DL Open Thread Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024

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Less money, mo’ problems for the world’s richest man. Yesterday Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick called Elon Musk’s Tesla pay package “unfathomable” and voided the deal. And this just days after some Frenchie overtook him as the “world’s richest person.” This helps explain why the inveterate hypester announced that Neuralink had implanted its first device in a […]

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DL Open Thread Monday, Jan. 29, 2024

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Did Hamas intend to set off a region-wide war with its Oct. 7 attack? It seems they did whether they meant to or not. Now three U.S. soldiers in Jordan have been killed in a drone strike. Biden has vowed retaliation “at a time of our choosing” against the Iranian-backed militia that took credit for […]

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DL Open Thread Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024

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Donald Trump won the New Hampshire primary, but in a way that allows any interpretation of the data you like. He got 54.6% to Nikki Haley’s 43.1%, which is far from a landslide. But the Northeastern state was probably Haley’s best chance at a victory. Or was it? Haley has vowed to stay in the […]

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DL Open Thread Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024

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The surest sign that Trump is off his termite-infested rocker: The months-long effort to portray Biden as senile, when of course it’s Trump whose feeble mind is splintering. Last night Trump gave a highly technical description of Israel’s anti-missile defense system: “And they calmly walk to us, and ding, ding, ding, ding, boom, whoosh, boom. […]

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DL Open Thread Monday, January 22, 2024

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A week ago, Ron DeSantis said his second-place finish in the caucuses punched his ticket out of Iowa. To be fair, he didn’t say where he was going. Turns out it’s home. Best line about it: DeSantis should have been forced to carry his non-viable campaign to term. I suppose this doesn’t matter, because research […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024

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Dems To Pick Up House Seat In Louisiana.  Not even the Rethugs had any choice but to support this: Louisiana’s Legislature has passed a new congressional map, brushing off opposition from the Bayou State’s own Speaker Mike Johnson and positioning Democrats to pick up an additional seat in the midterms. The Louisiana Legislature finalized the […]

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DL Open Thread Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024

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Are Republicans capable of empathy? As my Magic 8-Ball says, signs point to no. First example: Testimony from a Pennsylvania woman whose son died in a school shooting last year. She testified in Harrisburg in favor of a proposed gun-control measure and was horrified that many lawmakers ignored her to watch their cellphones, and a […]

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