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April 09, 2024 12:01 AM UTC

Tuesday Open Thread

  • 19 Comments
  • by: Colorado Pols

“Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”

–Franklin D. Roosevelt

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19 thoughts on “Tuesday Open Thread

  1. Ken is saying the quiet part out loud . 

    Ken Buck knocks ‘Moscow Marjorie’ Taylor Greene

    Former Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) took shots at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Monday, attacking his former GOP colleague as “Moscow Marjorie.”

    The jab comes after former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) called Greene a “very serious legislator” following her threat to force a vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) over Ukraine aid. Buck disagreed with McCarthy’s assessment

    1. Kevin McCarthy is just hoping that if Johnson is removed, he (McCarthy) might be reinstated. (I know, crazy but would that be any more unusual than some of the other stuff we've seen since 2016?)

      I'd prefer to call her "Putin's Little Margie" after the 1950's sitcom with a similar name.

  2. Grampy had some thoughts during his midnight diaper change. 
     

    if you can believe the internets this morning Sam Brown, Republican candidate for US Senate in Nevada, is quietly coordinating a mutiny at the convention.  It’s going to be “dog eat dog”, and there won’t be any napkins. (these are responses to a MAGA loon defending Trump’s moderate abortion stance) 
     

    1. ATTENTION: anti-choice Republicans!

      DRAFT MIKE PENCE!    DRAFT MIKE PENCE!    DRAFT MIKE PENCE!

      Chanted to the tune of HANG MIKE PENCE!

  3. I read this article about how the news media looks through all Trumps statements at anything public that day, finds the most coherent segments, and runs those in their nightly news, articles, tweets, etc.

    What I think would be effective is for some credible organization to find the most disjointed incomprehensible statement by Trump each day. And very important, don't cherry pick some phrase or two, find a segment where he's struggling to express something and you have something with a clear start and end. And yet, it's nonsensical.

    Then ask the campaign what was he getting at and wrap up Trump's statement, a newscaster summary of it, and the campaign response. And post that. And ask – why aren't' the main news media running this? Why do they hide this?

    If they can embarrass the news media to treating Trump as they do Biden on his statements, that will be powerful.

    1. "the news media looks through all Trumps statements at anything public that day, finds the most coherent segments, and runs those in their nightl"

      The coherent statements are so few and far between that they stick out.

      As for the incoherent stuff, there is simply too much of that to go through.

  4. Has anyone (media, public figures, ect) talk about who would replace trump if he were to have an aneurysm today? Nikki has 43 delegates DuhSantis or DeeSantis 9. If trump announces a VP nominee does that VP nominee inherit trumps delegates?

     

    1. No, the VEEP choice – which isn't officially a VEEP candidate until the convention – does not take his place by default if his head explodes or some other misfortune befalls him.

      Like any dictatorship, the leadership of MAGA has only one true leader:  DJT. The Leader has not seen fit to designate a successor – as yet.

      I have predicted this before: if he were to die before the election, all hell would break loose and there would be a struggle to select the successor. (At least in North Korea, it's hereditary.)

      I can just imagine the factions which would go to battle. DeSantis would claim to be the real MAGA leader albeit w/out the charisma of DJT. (Or even the charisma of Ted Cruz.)

      Nikki Haley might make a bid for it but even the MAGA morons – or at least some of them – can remember all the way back to early March 2024 when she was still tralking trash about the Leader.

      The lunatic fringe would also have one or more candidates in the running:  Kari Lake, Michael Flynn, Rand Paul, Dr. Ben Carson.

      And, of course, there are those with MAGA literally in their DNA:  Donnie Junior, Ivanka (just imagine Jared Kushner as First Gentleman and Secretary of State), or Lara Trump (just imagine, Eric Trump as First Gentleman).

      The GOP convention would resemble Lord of the Flies.

      1. This dude seems like he has the bona fides to carry the #DrumpfDynasty into the next generation of grifters? 
         

        PS: Joe Peyronnin is the former President of Fox News.

  5. This is William Claude Jones, the Speaker of the House for the AZ Territory when their 1864 abortion law was passed, nine years prior to the Comstock Act (they wouldn’t become a state for another 48 years) Three days after the legislative session ended, Jones married a 15 year old girl. He was 49. From the grave, he has decided reproductive rights for women in Arizona in 2024, thanks to Trump.

    The sexual age of consent for “women” in the Arizona Territory in 1864 was TEN !

  6. He was sooooooo close. There are Waffle Houses with more annual revenue than Truth, yet the market started with a valuation of Columbia Sportswear and Alaska Airlines which have billions in revenue.

    Trump no longer on Bloomberg Billionaires Index after Truth Social stock plummets

    Trump is no longer listed on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a daily ranking of the world’s 500 richest people, after the stock price for Trump Media – the parent company behind the former president’s social media company Truth Social – took a nosedive.

    1. Ouch!   

      That must sting him even more than Letitia James' big, fat civil judgment, the 91-count felony indictments, and Stormy Daniels' derisive description of his undersized endowment.

    1. Or, the legislatures could pass and executives could sign laws that encapsulate the rights we THOUGHT were there under a Supreme Court decision. 

      It did not take a great deal of time after the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision for law journals to point out that the opinion was "activist" and arbitrary.  "Privacy" was described as being the penumbra of the Constitution.  The "trimesters" of pregnancy were not clearly identifiable.  There were a variety of other ambiguities in the approach, allowing state-to-state variations. 

      What one court giveth, another was able to take away.  In the 50 years of Roe, BOTH sides had opportunities to legislate and neither was able to get it done.  I'm not certain that an effort to abolish "dead letter" legislation would have fared any better.

       

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