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April 16, 2024 12:18 AM UTC

Tuesday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.”

–H. G. Wells

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  1. Reporting this morning that Rep. Thomas Massie told Speaker Johnson he needs to resign as Speaker or he will join Marge Greene's Motion to Vacate. To quote Rodney Dangerfield, 

    "Now I know why tigers eat their young!"

    1. I saw that but Tom Suozzi and Jarod Moskowitz, both Dems, have said that they will oppose a motion to vacate. And a few other Dems (Spanberger in VA, for one) have said that they would vote to spare Johnson provided he bring Ukraine aid up for a vote.

      So, while it's nice and it turns the heat up on Johnson, I'm not expecting it to have the same result as it did last October.

      1. I agree with you that the Dems will come to his rescue as long as he puts the Ukraine aid up for a vote. “Dems as his life raft” is only going to send Marge & Co into orbit. It’s actually a great way to keep the nutjob cockus distracted and  the circus 🎪 on full display for this Fall’s independent/moderate voting bloc. 

        1. But how is Johnson gonna feel about being beholden to Dems for saving his ass? We know what the Freedumb Caucus will say, but won't it chap Johnson's hide, too? Kinda hard to slight the people who saved you. 

          1. Does he have a third option? If not he’ll either be humiliated by Dem support or humiliated by the Orange Buffoon.  His very own Sophie’s choice? 

            1. You miss another option … Seeker Johnson cannot be humiliated by anyone, since he was chosen by God as the Moses for this moment.

              Perhaps in the moment of crisis, with Putin's army in pursuit, he'll be able to part the Potomac River and lead the Republicans across.  What awaits?  Republicans worshipping a golden animal (calf? gorilla? elephant?) and years of wandering in the desert.

      2. Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz says he would save Mike Johnson’s job if MTG brings motion to oust him. 

        Others like Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi also said they would vote to save Johnson
         
        “Democrats don’t even let her rename post offices, I’m not gonna let her make a motion to vacate,” Moskowitz told me

  3. Is this Moddy's financial advisor?  Is there a financial category for the annual Darwin Award?  Crispi is a 2024 Trump delegate. He may need to launch a Go Fund Me account to get to the convention.  
     

    2. The Bill for the DJT Grift is Presented: OPINION

      All the SPAC smart guys are having their fever dreams — eager to rip the “free profits” on their $11.50 warrants… This filing presents the banquet bill: it creates 21 million new shares for them — but only if the stock stays over $11.50. They’ll be worthless when DJT breaks single digits. The new liquidity, and the urgency to “lock in” profits on that “easy money,” will weigh on the shares toward that price as the August/ September lockup expiry approaches.

      …which means whatever pile of cash people have invested in $DJT has just been lit on fire.

      1. I have absolutely no sympathy for any of these fools.

        What the hell did they expect? I'll let them in on a little secret. He's screwed over almost everyone he's done business with beginning with those fine lenders who loaned him money only to see it all go poof in bankrupcty court. And more than once.

        Or all of his lawyers – except for the notorious late Roy Cohn – may have agreed to work for him on an hourly fee basis but found that along the way, it became their arrangement became a contingency fee contract.

        Then there are all those construction contractors he refused to pay after they did the work.

        These fools who thought they were going to ride his wave by buying into his Truth Social were just as stupid as the white trash MAGA folks who are cutting back on their booze, cigarettes and ammo to squeeze a little more $$$ to send to Trump's campaign.

        "A fool and his money are soon parted." Proverbs 21:20. Indeed.

         

        1. I sure hope that windfall Moddy accrued from Drumpf’s big ol’ tax cut (I assume he’s finished counting it by now) wasn’t invested in $DJT. 

  4. The Dominated and the Dominator. Josh Marshall at TPM.

    Donald Trump. What is clear to anyone who has ever tried to understand the man is that he lives in a binary world of the dominating and the dominated. The visuals around the man endlessly illustrate this. Most of us live in a much more fluid and textured world. We interact with most people on a ground of relative equality. Where real differentials of power exist most of us try to paper over those realities with softening trappings. Trump’s whole world view, the way he interacts with friends and foes, won’t accept any middle ground. And this is more than just performance. It’s clear that this is deeply rooted in his experience of the world. Being dominated is a kind of social and ego depth. That’s why he’s so good at his whole racket. Because it’s coded so deeply into him.

    Nothing puts you more squarely in the bucket of the dominated than being a defendant in a criminal trial and at risk of losing your freedom. The state makes its case against you and you have to sit there and take it. In case there was any question the judge told Trump you have to be here in my court and sit here. A dozen randomly picked people hold your fate in their hands. You have to make your case, an actual case. Bullshit and attitude, Trump’s coins of the realm could work. Unless those twelve people decide it doesn’t.

    Seeing Trump sitting there even on this least weighty prosecution you get a sense of why he’s fought so tooth and nail to avoid this. The biggest and most obvious reason is that is that he doesn’t want to go to jail. That is certainly a sufficient reason. But it’s not the whole story. At the most basic level, sitting in the dock is horribly and perhaps even fatally off brand. Trump’s brand is swagger and impunity. Always be dominating. Until you’re not.

    1. Trump's going to be sitting in court for full days (9:30 until the judge calls it a day — today's proceedings continued past 5:30 p.m. ET), 4 days a week, for weeks to come.  And the standard Trump defense has been to try to drag things out.

      Trump can't do social media from the courtroom.  He can't make calls to raise money.  He can't choose to attend optional events such as the Supreme Court arguments on Presidential immunity.  And every day, he will be seen for HOURS each day, sitting and unable to rant to an audience.

    1. Did you see the segment ahead of Gettysburg? Where they were arguing whether Trump was more like Mandela or Jesus?  On Mandela: "well John, Trump may not have spent 27 years in jail, but if you add up all the sentences from his friend, associates, advisors and J6-ers, he's easily racked up 10x that much!" 

    1. Shall we just say that "when Mexico Arkansa sends its people, they’re not sending their best. […] They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems to us. Some, I assume, are good people”

      1. And while we are on the subject of Arkansas, there was this piece about Sarah "La Vaca" Huckabee Sanders and her grifting (well, she certainly learned at the foot of the master)…..

        Audit Questions Purchase of $19,000 Lectern by Arkansas Governor’s Office – The New York Times (nytimes.com)

        While Tom Cotton may be the leading cause of vaginal driness for women, the image of Governor Huckabee Sanders is a leading cause of ED amongst men.

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