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WOTD from James Fallows at the Atlantic: "This Is How It Looks When You’re Not Afraid"
This is a great article for a number of reasons. James Fallows asks whether Anthony Fauci will be fired. It would not be so easy, as he is not a political appointee, rather the director of the NAIAD at NIH.
WOTD2 from Ian Millhiser at Vox: "Auditioning for the Supreme Court under Trump".
Inside the Conservative judge creation industry.
Daft Punk: this is the real "deep state" in action. In addition to the far right wing religious zealots, it includes the shadowy billionaires who support Trump, like Sheldon Adelson, the Mercers, the Uihleins. You'll also find the far right wing blogosphere like Breitbart, Newsmax, Rush, InfoWars, and similar.
You can include the white supremacists, the militia thug groups like Oathkeepers and the Bundys, and so on. None of these entities are dedicated to the American way of life or the Constitution.
I don't know if anybody was paying attention, but they counted votes for the election forced in Wisconsin last Tuesday. The Democratic aligned candidate won, and it wasn't even close.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/04/13/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-results-daniel-kelly-vs-jill-karofsky-conservative-liberal/2983933001/
The best part is, this election was forced by the Wisconsin Supreme Court. They were apparently convinced that pushing the election would put their ally, Daniel Kelly, on the bench with them.
The best laid plans, as they say……
Half well laid at best. Certainly they tried all they were competent to carry out, but Republicans tend to rely upon their “gut” to tell them what will work. They want to be the subtle masters of the dark arts of voter suppression just like their hero Putin. The thing is that Putin actually trained at this stuff and hires experts. Republicans generally are not ex-CIA/NSA agents (though I am sure they love to think of themselves as Jack Ryan) and they hire the son of someone they know. Sometimes that works, but just as often it blows up in their faces.
There is a thread that runs through the foundation of Republican organizations (and I will add, corporations in general) at all levels that make them believe, mistakenly, that victories they have won because they have gobs'o'money were actually accomplished because they are soooo smart.
Anyone who witnessed the dismantling of the Oily Boyz in 09 by the The Tres Miguelitos, knows better.
Karma just bitch-slapped the WI Republican Party.
I would characterize it as just a slap. Not even that hard of a slap. They retain control of the state supreme court and given the 63 to 36 majority (!) in the State Assembly there it would be pretty extraordinary if they lose control in the fall. Not impossible given the strange times, but..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_party_strength_in_Wisconsin#2000–present
It gets better…
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/13/1937005/-Ohhhhh-My-3-of-Scott-Walkers-Hand-Picked-Judges-Were-Defeated-in-Wisconsin?utm_campaign=trending
Did it not occur to the brilliant minds of the conservatives on the Wisconsin Supreme Court that their most likely supporters are also most at risk of dying from C-19?
The curse of short term thinking. Gingrich taught them to play the long game but they seem to have forgotten , I guess.
Didn't the thrice-married philanderer whose mistress-turned-wife-turned-Ambassador-to-the-Holy-See refer to *rump yesterday as a modern-day Teddy Roosevelt?
Teddy was imbued with a fairly substantial narcissism, as I understand it, but I think our bambin idiot..
is in a class by himself
@Duke, I'm thinking short term here. How many grumpy old white guys are going to stand in line and risk death just to keep some dude in office?
As for the long game, I'm surprised that RWNJs haven't accused Bezos of creating the virus in Soros' secret lab to attack Trumpers.
I think a substantial number of T***pians will go down in the second wave.
It is truly nauseating to listen to his verbal sewage. he will eventually get around to blaming Bezos. He is blaming anyone and everyone in sight.
"I take no responsibility"
"I have total authority!"
Biden 2020
A leader, not a liar.
This is the moment we have all been waiting for. Trump bashing is on the menu.
Bon appetit…
Any Competent Adult, 2020.
Joe is Competent.
#MAGA
These Photos Show the Staggering Food Bank Lines Across America
I just watched Chris Christie on "the View"…
I thought about it… I asked my Cat for her reaction…I thought about it some more…and the only word I can use to describe his response to the ODs' performance yesterday is "craven".
Is there a more weasel-tongued, mendacious, sniveling, sycophant than the guy who wanted Mike Pences' job?
This guy:
Point taken.
Barr, Ross, Mnuchin, Gardner, McConnell, McSally, Pompeo, Nunes, Gohmert, Guiliani, Abbott, Dewine, DeSantis . . .
. . . (of course, Graham) . . .
. . .
. . . what’s just say we call that portly McDonalds delivery guy the first among equals??
He vetoed the first attempt in New Jersey to legalize industrial hemp. Cuz, you know, slippery slope, something, something…
And how much time did he serve for Bridgegate?
As I read your question, the Beatles began singing "Piggies" from their White Album, How appropriate…
Oh…and the answer to your question, of course, is zero.
The competition for "weasel-tongued, mendacious, sniveling sycophant" is gong to be a tough call.
Perhaps Colorado Pols could develop a bracket of the "Sniveling 16" and have us vote on who should progress.
That's a great idea. I'll play!
The other day Pols compared Weld County with Denver given that Weld is currently number one for Covid-19 caused deaths. The even better comparison would be Larimer County. Both in in Northern Colorado, similar populations. Both with college towns.
Larimer County had a total of 9 deaths as of April 13.
Weld had a total of 53 on the same day.
Larimer County Population 356,899
Weld County Population 324,492
Not all of this is down to differences in leadership. Some of it is the bad luck to have cases arriving early, but Weld County leaders have almost certainly made it worse.
Some day, if there’s ever another some day after all this, I suspect that in addition to the response-time correlations, that we’ll undoubtedly see some studies that point to a high correlation between air quality (particulates, carbon monoxide, ozone, VOCs, etc.) and coronavirus deaths — even when adjusted for population. (Not that it will make any bit of difference to those Ttumpettes left alive. But, then, what would, anyway?)
Then again, the crappy air quality could also be mostly symptomatic of root idiocy and science-denying stupidity . . .
Many in the GOP are pushing back on Trump's assertion he has "absolute power" to force states to with draw stay at home orders. Wyoming congresswoman Liz Cheney, the highest-ranking Republican woman in the House stated, "The federal government does not have absolute power," before quoting the Tenth Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
The states have acted under what is known as the "police powers of the state" for the "health, safety, and welfare" of the people. Zoning and building code laws are derived from such powers for instance. The federal government has no authority to void the police powers of the respective states. Any attempt to do so is arbitrary, capricious, and unconstitutional.
Well thought and well said, sir!
Oh the webs we weave. Paging Ben Kuck….
Pork industry projects $5 billion loss from COVID-19
Without eligibility restrictions may well open the door for Smithfield Foods, a wholly-owned subsidiary of China's WH Group, to receive these benefits.
I'd like my Congressman to remember these days for the next go-around on the Farm Bill when the social justice community has to fight for every scrap that falls from the SNAP program into the mouths of the elderly, the disabled and impoverished children.
This is exactly the kind of necessary corporate “bailout-mentality” that Ken will run, not walk, to get quickly behind . . .
. . . after all, every right-thinker knows that corporations aren’t people, especially when it comes to having immunity from dependency and moral hazard!
Sweet Prosperity Jebus Easter eggs for Ken!!
It’s sure to be a Ttumptastic Presser this evening:
The Imbecile-in-chief has cut off U.S. Funding to the world health organization.
This is not satire. The imbecile-in-chief has actually done it.
Authoritah!
Every day he doesn't start a nuclear war is a "good" day – it's all relative, right?
I have been watching as much of Donnies' Blame House as I have been able to stand which, admittedly, isn't that much. Enough though to be infuriated, nauseated, agitated and mean…(a song title, perhaps)
As my bile rises and my blood pressure surges I begin to see T***pians more and more like orcs. Vile loathsome creatures, they are, with no soul in their baleful eyes, lips dripping with ichor from devouring the hated librul lefties.
I look to the rising sun…but still no Gandalf. Oh, my.
In a pitiful cry for attention, the man-child scrawls his name on the ransom note
deposited here without comment. Oops, sorry, Harry. I didn’t see your link.
Treasury Dept. orders Trump’s name to be printed on coronavirus stimulus checks
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/492861-treasury-dept-orders-trump-name-be-printed-on-coronavirus-stimulus
So they’ll be signed by the same dude who signed Stormy’s ransom check? Cool. I thought maybe he’d go with David Dennison? John Barron?
“Many people are saying…”