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July 26, 2023 08:11 AM UTC

Wednesday Open Thread

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“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”

–Benjamin Disraeli

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      1. Alternate theory — white residents make up only 15% of the total population of 275.  If there are only 42 white residents, I'd say this is an object lesson in the dangers of inbreeding.

    2. In a world where surprise is increasingly impossible to achieve, ya gotta marvel at "this town isn't ready for a black mayor" in a town with 85% black residents.

    1. Move over Malibu Barbie. There's now Flaming Barbie.

      This is one area where the far right and the far left can find common cause. 

      Barbie is the ultimate character in need of cancel culture attention.

      She is white with the perfectly proportioned body. She lives in Malibu which means that she is definitely affluent. And based on her relationship with Ken, she is a cisgendered heterosexual. The only protected class with which she could identify is being a woman.

      1. She’s not “perfectly proportioned”. Her neck is too slender to hold her head up, and her feet too small to stand. Her measurements, if she was a real woman : 

        She would be 5’9” tall, have a 39” bust, an 18” waist, 33” hips and a size 3 shoe! ✓ Barbie calls this a “full figure” and likes her weight at 110 lbs.

      2. I missed the part where:

        "This is one area where the far right and the far left can find common cause. "

        By all accounts the movie is extraordinarily funny and wickedly subversive.

        1. The hard left hates her because the concept of Barbie is anathema to the political correctness people. She is white, affluent, cisgendered, heterosexual with an attractive (if somewhat unrealistic) physical appearance. The only claim to victimhood that she enjoys is that she identifies as female.

          The hard right hates her because they think she is a stooge for the People’s Republic of China.

  3. The Biden Econmic Boom. Via Heather Cox-Richardson.

    President Biden’s determination to “build the economy from the middle out and the bottom up,” appears to be paying off. Last Friday the global financial services company Morgan Stanley credited Biden’s policies with driving a boom in large-scale infrastructure and manufacturing, a boom large enough that Morgan Stanley revised its gross domestic product growth projections upward to 1.9%, a projection almost four times higher than its original projection.

    Analysts doubled their projections for the fourth quarter, and raised forecasts for next year, as well. “The economy in the first half of the year is growing much stronger than we had anticipated,” Morgan Stanley’s chief U.S. economist Ellen Zentner wrote. 

    Part of their reasoning comes from a surge in manufacturing construction across the country thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which invests in roads, bridges, and other “hard” infrastructure projects; the Inflation Reduction Act, which invests in addressing climate change; and the CHIPS and Science Act, which invests in science and semiconductor chip manufacturing. During the 2010s, manufacturing construction generally held at about $50–80 billion a year. Now it is at $189 billion, with private investment following the government investment. 

  4. First out of the gate for Denver DA — at least, the first I've heard of.

    Leora Joseph, recently our HD9A Co-Captain (she had to resign to declare her run for District Attorney),

    Currently: Director of the Office of Behavioral Health (OBH) for the Colorado Department of Human Services.  

    Past gigs:  "Joseph has served as chief of the Child Protection Unit in the Boston (Suffolk County) District Attorney's Office and chief of the Special Victims Unit in Colorado’s 18th Judicial District. Her leadership roles include serving as managing chief deputy district attorney for the 18th Judicial District, chief of staff for the Colorado attorney general and general counsel and chief administrative officer at the Auraria Higher Education Center."

    https://www.leorafordistrictattorney.com/

     

     

     

    1. Lisi Owen declared first, I think.  She is definitely the reform candidate for DA.  I met her back when she was a law student.  Good attorney, good person.  But I doubt she can compete effectively given how Denver DAs seem to get elected.  Not in Denver, so I have no vote on it, but the Denver DA race never fails to get a fairly mediocre winner.  

    1. Good to see it down, although prices are still 25-30% higher than pre-pandemic levels and rents are out of control, so this doesn't really feel that great.

  7. The folks over at Fox News are – metaphorically, of course – ejaculating right about now with the Hunter Biden plea agreement getting rejected.

    1. Wonder if they are presenting specifics.  AP is not particularly clear about WHAT the judge is objecting to.

      But during the hearing Wednesday, there was a dispute in court over whether the initial agreement gave him protection against any future charges. U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, raised concerns about the language of the deal…..

      The overlapping agreements created confusion for the judge, who said the lawyers needed to untangle the issues before moving forward.

      “It seems to me like you are saying ‘just rubber stamp the agreement, Your Honor.’ … This seems to me to be form over substance,” she said. She gave defense lawyers and prosecutors 30 days to explain why she should accept the deal.

      I can't tell if the judge is objecting to the possibility of an agreement blocking additional prosecution OR an agreement NOT blocking additional prosecution.

      1. "Wonder if they are presenting specifics"

        Why would Fox start now? You know what the story will be:  "Biden Crime Family … YADDA YADDA YADDA … Burisma … YADDA YADDA YADDA … cokehead with laptop porn … YADDA YADDA YADDA … Chinese Communist money."

    2. The DOJ had a losing case on its hands.

      That is, they wouldn't be able to convict in Court for at least a couple of reasons:

      (1) Hunter's laptop was hacked, and chain of custody was bizarre. Why the feck did Giuliani and Bannon have possession of it? Meanwhile, Giuliani was cavorting with know Russian spies in Ukraine.

      (2) The DOJ had sixth amendment problems. Specifically the clause that gives the defendant the right to cross-examine witnesses.

    3. Well, of course they are. That’s another 30 days of programming blather already in the can; another 30 days of reporting on stunning House “fact finding” revelations; and bonus, no one needs to forego any of their August vacation plans to find a new dead horse unicorn to beat when the next Ttump indictments are announced.

  8. Maybe not completely apolitical, but RIP Sinead O’Connor! I know exactly 3 things about her (Nothing Compares 2 U, ripping up pic of the Pope on SNL, and hairstyle at the time), so she’s not a big part of my life, but she just seemed too young to die to 2Jung2Die.

  9. The Incel Youth. via Josh Marshall at TPM

    They’re hardly only associated with the DeSantis campaign. This spring, TPM’s Hunter Walker brought us the story of George Santos consigliere Vish Burra. Then there were the staffer and intern from the office of Rep. Paul Gosar. There are numerous other examples we’ve seen over the last couple years. There’s some variety in the general profile. But some basic commonalities show through. The first is that most are quite young — like mid-20s or younger. At 32, Burra is a relative elder statesman. Their digital histories also run the gamut from willfully offensive to explicitly neo-Nazi. The common thread, however, is a political awakening in the toxic world of far-right message boards and social media “edgelords.” That’s the language and visual idiom of these DeSantis videos. If you’re not familiar with it it can just seem bizarre. If you are familiar with it it still seems bizarre but the meaning is more clear and because of that understanding usually a lot more disturbing.

    They’re also getting jobs and sinecures in what now counts as the GOP mainstream. Gonzalez’s LinkedIn biography lists bylines and jobs at various right wing publications, including Chronicles and its parent organization, The Charlemagne Institute, internships at the Claremont Institute and membership at the increasingly right wing New York Young Republican Club, where Burra was executive secretary before getting his gig with George Santos. Hochman was a staff writer at The National Review before taking his job with the DeSantis campaign. In the summer of 2021 he was an intern at Claremont’s house publication, The American Mind. He even got a lengthy think piece about the future of conservatism published in The New York Times.

    If you put this all together, it’s not a series of individual mini-scandals. It’s a generation of young Republican operatives who are fanning out into campaigns, congressional offices and think tanks. They present as edgy young conservatives but are actually wholly immersed in a world of digital racism, incel-drenched misogyny and fascist-curious strongman worship. It eventually bubbles out, either as leaked emails or too-clever-by-half laundered Riefenstahl vids.

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