10 thoughts on “Monday Open Thread”

1. State of today’s GOP: Bill Barr endorsed Orange Jesus over the weekend. Yes, this Bill Barr: 
    

   

   Log in to Reply

   1. Wasn't Barr – in Trump's words – the all time absolute worst Attorney General?  Or was that Jefferson Sessions? 

      Log in to Reply

      1. It was a very low bar during those trying years.  A choice between ”Good people don’t smoke marijuana” Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III and “Dumb, weak, slow moving, lethargic, gutless and lazy” Bill Barr!! 

         (lest you’ve forgotten, Drumpf only hires the best people!)

         Log in to Reply

         1. I'm old enough to remember the '80's when Reagan nominated these two right-wing stooges to the federal bench. One was Jefferson Beauregard Sessions and the other was Daniel Manion (who apparently was recommended by then Sen. Dan Quayle).

            Neither got confirmed and I may be mistaken about this but they may have been rejected before the Dems re-took control of the Senate in '86 meaning once upon a time, girls and boys, there were RINOs and non-crazy Republicans who roamed the Earth and from time to time would do the right, as opposed to expedient, things.

            Log in to Reply

            1. Manion did get confirmed and still sits on the 7th circuit, 38 years later.  And he's every bit as bad as one could expect.  

               Log in to Reply

               1. Then I stand corrected.

                  But Jefferson Beauregard Sessions did not and decided to get even by winning elected office in one of the only places he could ….. Alabama. That was, until FDFQ put out the Fatwah when Sessions tried to regain his old seat and was defeated by the football coach who doesn't know the three branches of the federal government.

                  Log in to Reply

         2. As for only hiring the best people…..

            Let's not leave out some of his personal lawyers:  that woman who represented parking garages or parking lots, Michael Cohen, and Roy Cohn.

            Log in to Reply

2. So says the “Today is 1776” Insurrectionist. There are over 4,700 two-year and four-year universities/colleges in the US. You and your fellow Russian sympathizers seem to have a fetish with three of them. What again is your point? (aside from ignorance)  Who is this we you refer to? 

   

    

   Log in to Reply

   1. Who said anything about mocking people for not going to college?

      I do like to mock government-funded, cheese-eating white trash from the Florida panhandle who are too stupid to use contraceptives when having teenaged, premarital sex with the local bowling alley pervert and who then cannot finish high school because they are kocked up.

      But I'm not mocking anyone for not going to college.

      Today is 2024. 

      Log in to Reply

      1. Abraham Lincoln is rolling in his grave

         All this good sense did not mean universal approval of the land-grant idea. Eastern states opposed more goodies going to the West, southern states opposed “robbing the U.S. Treasury,” and throughout the country percolated an old anti-intellectual tradition: “We want no fancy farmers; we want no fancy mechanics.” These cultural clashes, east and west, north and south, agrarian and urban, free and enslaved labor, are forces that swirled around the 19th century, what I call the Age of Lincoln.

         Log in to Reply