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November 15, 2017 05:21 AM UTC

Wednesday Open Thread

  • 27 Comments
  • by: Colorado Pols

“I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”

–John Cage

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27 thoughts on “Wednesday Open Thread

  1. Trump's HHS nominee  drug CEO Alex Azar checks some boxes:

    Super rich: check

    Representing an industry that exploits the poor, elderly, and sick: check

    Big donor industry for the GOP: check

    Industry that worked against the Affordable Care Act: check

    No experience in governance: check

    Avowed enemy of the department he will head: check

    The only box not checked is Russian influence, but I expect that will come to light eventually.

    “He will be a star for better healthcare and lower drug prices!” Trump tweeted. Fox, meet henhouse.

     

    1. He's back on the throne tweeting during his early morning bowel movement. Poor Grandpa can't even keep from mixing up his mass murders.  Jetlag is a be-ach.  The FBI and law enforcement has arrived long ago in Sutherland Springs, Mr. President.  Yesterday's mass murder was in California.  #thoughtsandprayers

      1. I’m not sure which is is scarier, Michael,  grampyytrumpydunghead or the 30.4k people (Russians?) who heart that?

         

        @realdonaltrump. Many didn’t know 10 days ago in Sutherland Springs, Arkansas.  Backhoe operators and Funeral directors on site. #thoughtsandprayers #foolish #immaga

        . . . 

        30.4K !??!

        Send in Frederick Douglass! . . .

  2. In case you missed it, there was a not-coup in Zimbabwe overnight. Why isit not a coup? Not really sure. But Mugabe is "safe and secure" under arrest, his wife is apparently out of the country, and at least one cabinet minister has been arrested. Ousted VP Mnangagwa will be interim President "to preserve the democracy". Considering Mugabe's long history of abuse of that system, the systemic corruption, and the attempt to install his much younger wife as successor, who knows…

  3. Oops. Somebody spilled the beans.  Fluffnutz, we need a janitor on aisle 3. Stat. 

    Smith debunks his network’s favorite Hillary Clinton ‘scandal,’ infuriates viewers

    Fox News anchor Shepard Smith debunked what his own network has called the Hillary Clinton uranium “scandal,” infuriating Fox viewers, some of whom suggested that he ought to work for CNN or MSNBC.

    Smith’s critique, which called President Trump’s accusations against Clinton “inaccurate,” was triggered by renewed calls from Republicans on Capitol Hill for a special counsel to investigate Clinton.

    1. But, But, But… What about the flow chart? Louie Gomert (the country’s dumbest congressman) has proved (er, something) beyond a doubt with a flow chart:

      Vox: Behold the wonders of Rep. Louie Gomert’s conspiracy chart:

      Louie Gomert's Wacky Flow Chart

      It’s not actually clear what the lines connecting different things mean. It’s not clear why some of them are green and others are black and dotted. 

      It’s not clear why “Hillary Clinton Emails” and “Hillary Clinton Secret Server” are different things, or why they’re not connected. It’s not clear why the words “Obama” and “Mueller” are on there twice, or why the first mention isn’t connected to the second. It’s not clear why Bill and Hillary Clinton, who are right next to each other, are not connected by any sort of line (green, dotted, or otherwise).

      1. Don't mean to be "picky," but his name is spelled Gohmert. He's not the dumbest congressman; he is tied with fellow Texan Joe Barton. 

        Barton infamously blamed Obama for old style incandescent light bulbs being phased out. But it was G.W. Bush who actually signed the legislation.

      2. You gotta’ know by now, if our lying President and his RWNJ cronies are accusing anyone of anything illegal . . . 

        . . . like selling uranium to Russia and pocketing the proceeds . . . 

        . . . then Donnie TwoScoops and his son, MiniNutlid, have probably been doing exactly that themselves.

  4. Maybe if folks recast the issue of ocean rise in Biblical terms of Noah then maybe our reluctant Evangelicals could be persuaded that old problems are really new problems.

    1. Are you kidding? Those who didn't survive the Great Flood were irredeemable sinners. As God's Chosen, this bunch figures they'll all come through okay – or be taken up in to Heaven so that they can fight on the side of Righteousness in the Apocalypse. They're all looking forward to that day anyway.

    2. Nope.  Spend more time with the Bible.  You’re forgetting rainbows — god’s seal that he’ll never destroy the earth again with flooding . . .

      . . . rising ocean levels?  Just another god-denying, phony-science liberal lie.

      1. The tax plan will take care of those stuck-up sciency types. Tuition reimbursement for grad students, those rich idlers living off a fat stipend of $20k/yr, will now be counted as ordinary income. 

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