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July 17, 2024 08:04 AM UTC

Wednesday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.”

–Abraham Lincoln

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  1. Today's Teleprompter News – You can't make it up. Heather Cox-Richardson

    Yesterday, just after House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced that delegates were formally nominating Trump as the Republican Party’s presidential candidate, the teleprompter failed. Unable to continue without it, Johnson quickly left the stage. This was awkward, since two weeks ago, Johnson said on the Fox News Channel of President Joe Biden: “Unless the president is reading off the teleprompter, I don’t think he’s capable of making these big decisions and that is something that should alarm all of us….” 

    1. The dogs have caught the car.

      Between all the back slapping and high fives and professions of love and devotion, the knives are being drawn…the deals are being made.

      One of the immutable facts about Republicans is their tendency to overreach. Trumps' new army of Christian soldiers is preparing to usurp and reformulate the federal government, with loyalists in every office and leadership position

      The Heritage Foundations' project 2025 is a plan to remake our Constitution. If one were to wonder if the Chicago School of Economics and the "Free Market Experiment" were wound through this attack on the working class, one would be correct in doing so, I suggest.

    2. After the debate internet personality and Republican shill Dave Portnoy made the statement that “Joe Biden is a vegetable” which left me with the question: Then what does that make Republicans. What does it say that Biden got his CRs when Republicans were calling for government shutdowns? McCarthy and Johnson can’t out think a carrot? 

      Evidence is stacking up that Biden isnt in cognitive decline rather Republicans have lost their minds. The result is an inability to interact within the same reality.

  2. Hannah Arendt on Lies:

    "This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.

    A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong.

    And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule

    of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want."

    – Hannah Arendt,

    (14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German historian and philosopher.

    The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

  3. How it started:


     

    How it's going: 

    Elon Musk just pledged to donate $45 million per month to Donald Trump.

    The richest person in the world is now on Team MAGA.

  4. One good thing did happen today, though. Musk is decamping from California to Texas, where his greed and bigotry will be more welcome. I’ll bet Governor Newsom is thinking “Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.” https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/07/elon-musk-will-move-businesses-to-texas-after-california-passes-laws-protecting-lgbtq-students/

     

      1. His narcissistic character prevents him from being a father no matter the number of children he abandons. His goal isn’t having a family its repopulating a earth that he feels has no capacity limiters. 

      2. No, Michael. I think his trans daughter is what's behind his vociferous hatred of LGBTQ people. He probably believes (or pretends to) that she was propagandized into "thinking" she's trans. 

  5. I did a double/triple/quad take reading this morning's NYT. There was a seemingly serious story about how G_d protected Tr**p's life on Saturday – printed on the middle of Page 1 above the fold. Maybe 95% of the story had people pitching the divine intervention angle, with one short and mildly critical paragraph after the jump on page 14. Apparently, things have changed since Bernie Taupin wrote for Elton John the line "the New York Times said God is dead," but to me this story was sort of ridiculous for a paper of that stature.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/us/politics/trump-followers-devotion-shooting.html

    1. I’ll just go on record that a God, any God, that would deflect that particular bullet but let a few classrooms full of young children get slaughtered is a God that sucks at his job. 
       

      These clowns are insane. 

  6. Biden has to go.  Republicans are preparing for a landslide partially evidenced by the pick of JD Vance who doesn't help with suburban women or any other GOP weakness.  I believe in the judgment of Micheal Bennet, Adam Schiff, Jason Crow, Nancy Pelosi, etc.  And, stop saying that Biden got 14 million votes in the primary, which includes mine, because I am a Democrat and was not offered an alternative nor honest information about Biden's decline when I voted.
     We have to change this ticket, preferably via a debate process.  

    "Don't Look Up" because there's an asteroid headed for us.

    1. You Dems will need to figure this out. Who will assume the role of Barry Goldwater from 1974 when he led Republican senators to the White House to tell President Nixon that it was over? Will Chris Coons from Delaware do that? Or Chuck Schumer? I think a larger percentage of Republicans are ready to quietly vote against Trump than the number from 2020. But you need to give us a viable candidate who can turn all the "dementia and vegetable" rhetoric away.

      1. You Republicans need to give us a viable candidate who is not a felon and isn't seeking to become Americas' Putin.

         Gee..what's with the "quietly voting" remark?

         

    1. So you are saying you share the views of oil shill “no labels” or you are the frustrated loser oil shill who runs “no labels” in Colorado?

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