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June 23, 2023 08:06 AM UTC

Friday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.”

–Eric Hoffer

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20 thoughts on “Friday Open Thread

  1. Turns out that George Santos’ bail guarantors were actually his family members. He told the truth, for once, and could have released their names weeks ago to avoid all the negative publicity and speculation.

    But perhaps staying in the spotlight is the point for Santos. For your enjoyment, here is. Randy Rainbow’s take on Georgy Boy.

  2. The Gospel of Donald Trump Jr.

    The former president’s son told a crowd that the teachings of Jesus have “gotten us nothing.”

    Donald Trump Jr. is both intensely unappealing and uninteresting. He combines in his person corruption, ineptitude, and banality. He is perpetually aggrieved; obsessed with trolling the left; a crude, one-dimensional figure who has done a remarkably good job of keeping from public view any redeeming qualities he might have.

    There’s a case to be made that he’s worth ignoring, except for this: Don Jr. has been his father’s chief emissary to MAGA world; he’s one of the most popular figures in the Republican Party; and he’s influential with Republicans in positions of power. He’s also attuned to what appeals to the base of the GOP. So, from time to time, it is worth paying attention to what he has to say.

     

      1. Yes. The loons are back. 

        1. I’m getting confused …. MAGA’s diagnosis says “Sleepy Joe” Biden is unable to think through things and is suffering dementia.  

          MAGA’s story now is Biden is able to coordinate a broad conspiracy on a moment’s notice, finding an unplanned event to pull all media attention away from Hunter Biden’s deal with a Trump-nominated and Republican Senate confirmed US Attorney and his office?

           

          1. Biden has the dementia and is a figurehead.

            But it’s the Deep State people who surround him and who are really running the show when they aren’t chowing down pepperoni and mushroom pizzas at the Comet Restaurant, or when they aren’t playing with the Jewish space laser.

        2. Damn! Biden's White House has got one hell of a good communications office.

          That alone should warrant a second term.

        3. Seeing as how the most appropriate federal response to a civilian experimental sub getting lost in international waters while on a wholly insane frolic would be, "Sounds like a problem for someone other than U.S. taxpayers," Biden blame in this instance somehow sounds even stupider than usual.

    1. I agree Michael. Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) is spreading conspiracy theories that if the Navy and the Coast Guard had depolyed the unmanned submersible a day sooner the result may have been different even though it is clear the implosion occurred during the initial dive last Sunday before the Navy and the Coast Guard were alerted. What is most interesting about this nonsense isn't the ridiculous conspiracy theory but the fact who took Crenshaw to the mat on this – Joe Exotic, from his prison cell tweeted:

      "@DanCrenshawTX quit looking for someone to blame. They built it, got in it and took that risk, launched it and if it imploded no one could have done anything. Hats off to the @USCG and everyone who searched for it. Maybe God just don't want us at the bottom of the ocean to screw things up." 

      The Republicans can't even convince people like Joe Exotic that they know what they are talking about.  

      1. "…but the fact who took Crenshaw to the mat on this – Joe Exotic"

        When it comes to a meeting of the minds, that's a fair match.

        1. MichaelBowman … those who still are in what had once been called the "party of personal responsibility" need to go into the witless protection program.

  3. Wicked Burn. Justice Alito IS the Salmon. H/T Mahablog.

    Do see Dahlia Lithwick, Justice Alito IS the Salmon.

    "The problem with continuing to frame the Harlan Crow/Barre Seid/Paul Singer stories as “ethics” issues is that we tend to think of “ethics” scandals in league with failures to use the correct shrimp fork. This is kind of what happened when we framed the great pay-to-play Supreme Court Historical Society caper that permitted one couple, the Wrights, to purchase access to the Alitos and the Scalias for the price of $125,000, as a “leak” story. We keep centering the justices and their “ethics” misfires at the expense of the real grifting here: Billionaires being assigned, like something out of the Big Brothers program, to individual justices for the purposes of lavish gift giving and influence.

    Look again at ProPublica’s photos of Paul Singer, Antonin Scalia, Leonard Leo, and Samuel Alito and the Big Shiny Fishes they netted. If you think the fish is the trophy in this picture, you’re making a galactic-category error. The trophy is the justice. The vital question here is not why did Justice Alito agree to take the trip, because the trip sounds quite awesome. The question is why did Leo pick him to go, empty seat on the private jet notwithstanding, and why was building a friendship with someone who was in the literal business of reshaping the court to favor his own business so urgently necessary? …

    … Nobody in this world enjoys hearing that they are the salmon. But that is why we don’t allow the salmon be the sole arbiter of whether they are the salmon. Let’s please stop framing this issue in terms of “ethics” and “friendships” and “honor.” It is a big-game safari for access to powerful people, and this game has been played since power was first invented. Naming this as an influence scheme clarifies the rules and it clarifies the stakes, and most of all, it clarifies the stench."

    Do read the whole think. Use a “private” window if you hit the paywall.

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