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April 30, 2019 07:04 AM UTC

Tuesday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world brother.”

–Charles Dickens

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    2. Hey, realist. Somewhere, always.

      The bubble is getting ready.
      Tipping point will be, same as it ever was, fear.
      Don't get in line, do it now.
      Who is buying farm debt? farms? Is Wilbur? Are the Russians?

      Maybe today someone gets the first '19 no hitter.
      Maybe tonight in Seattle.
      Hope is a good thing.
       

  2. I read a CNN article, (sorry..can't link to it), in which former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt called Ivanka an "American hero". 

    I have met Eric Schmidt…and I can't say I have ever met a more self-absorbed, arrogant, asshole. His opinion of Ivanka is to me, not an endorsement, but a condemnation. 

  3. Paul Krugman of the New York Times has had it with patently false, cynical arguments by the GOP, and the media reporting that gives them new life regardless of how many times they have been discredited:

    What I mean by that is that in each case those making denialist arguments, while they may invoke evidence, don’t actually care what the evidence says; at a fundamental level, they aren’t interested in the truth. Their goal, instead, is to serve a predetermined agenda.

    Thus, inequality denial is about using whatever argument comes to hand to defend policies that benefit the rich at the expense of working Americans. Climate denial is about using whatever argument comes to hand to defend fossil fuel interests. Russia denial is about using whatever argument comes to hand to defend Donald Trump.

    All of this is or should be obvious. After all, it’s a pattern that goes back decades. But my sense is that the news media continue to have a hard time coping with the essential fraudulence of most big policy debates. That is, reporting about these debates typically frames them as disputes about the facts and what they mean, when the reality is that one side isn’t interested in the facts.

    I understand the pressures that often lead to false equivalence. Calling out dishonesty and bad faith can seem like partisan bias when, to put it bluntly, one side of the political spectrum lies all the time, while the other side doesn’t.

    But pretending that good faith exists when it doesn’t is unfair to readers. The public deserves to know that the big debates in modern U.S. politics aren’t a conventional clash of rival ideas. They’re a war in which one side’s forces consist mainly of intellectual zombies.

    1. Wise observation by Krugman. Press is well equipped to report honest diagreement, which is why it does so well at reporting sports.  Who is the better quarterback, Tom Brady or Eli Manning?  Well, quote both sides, then play the game and report that the Patriots won, 99-2.

      So press is great at sports, where nothing really matters.   But when Joe McCarthy says he has a list of 85 known Communists in the state department, "objective" reporting means quoting him accurately, not saying he lies like a trooper.

      Deliberated, calculated lies are hard for the press to handle.  Trump and Goebbels knew this.  The only difference is that Goebbels had better hair.

      1. I cannot look at Stephen "We will not be questioned." Miller without seeing Der Fuhrers' propaganda minister. 

        Anyone know how the design for T***ps' Space Command Generalissimo uniform is coming along?

    2. " …whatever argument .."
      Do the math- it's always about the rich separating the non rich about whatever, so the non rich stay that way and spend all their time on that instead of the rich.

      And it goes back way more than decades.
      I like Krugamn – but I wish he would point out that the trillions of deficit spending could have spiked the stock market (and farm values) and lowered unemployment anytime Congress wanted to blow up the deficit like that.

  4. So, Betsy DeVos's brother, Erik Prince, is trying to put together a 5,000 man mercenary army to take over Venezuela. What could possible go wrong?

    On the other hand, I hear that that other famous traitor, Oliver North is available. He has experience with gun running, training death squads, and selling drugs to buy weapons from the Iranians.

    2. He was none too good at the covert part of covert actions.
      And he needed other we the people's money to get the ball rolling. Gorbahnifar ain't gonna write no checks this time.

      And besides- what can he do Pompeo can't do?
       

  5. Hopefully, the first of many legal setbacks for the *rump Crime Family holding them accountable for their lawless behavior.

    Democrats in Congress can move ahead with their lawsuit against President Trump alleging that his private business violates the Constitution’s ban on gifts or payments from foreign governments, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

    1. Nice try to the Dems. Thanks for playing.

      If I was a gambler; which I'm not, except for occasionally driving on I-25; my money would be on NY State eventually taking Trump down. Justice Department rules on not indicting a sitting president don't apply to states. I'm thinking the criminal investigations now underway for alleged bank fraud, insurance fraud, and tax fraud should do the job. As a precedent, Trump already lost two civil tax fraud cases in NY.

      1. A flanking move…designed to distract and deplete resources.

        I stick by my assessment on the day the Mueller report was released. That was the last "good day" for the "Theif in Cheif". 

        He is in for a challenge. I think Russia will take an objection to the UN. Putin is terrified of unfettered American access to Venezuela s' vast oil reserves. If the UN steps in, this could get interesting. Maybe T***p will cancel our UN membership.

  6. I saw that, M.J. He’s finding out day-by-day just how little power he really has. I think he’s disappointed that being president didn’t give him universal carte blanc.

    1. It is surprising how many presidents, at every level, mistake that word for "king". I have served in the role of president enough to know that a wise leader always remembers Albert Einsteins' admonition, "Peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved through understanding."

      Would that our current president could understand anything but his massively needy ego.

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