6 thoughts on “Wednesday Open Thread”

1. Stephen Collinson dubbed Trump’s plans a “feral political offensive.”

   Heather Cox-Richardson is particularly good this morning. (I assume y’all are on her email list.)

   Zeeshan Aleem of MSNBC today took public notice of Trump’s “deteriorating ability to clearly communicate.” His speeches “seem to be growing more discursive and difficult to comprehend by the day,” Aleem wrote. “Those speeches are making it hard, if not impossible, for people listening to them to understand what he wants to do with his power in office, and they’re reportedly turning off voters.” A reporter for The Guardian pointed out that attendees at Trump’s rallies are leaving as he rambles for nearly two hours, and complaining that he is “babbling.”

   For his part, Trump says his wandering speech is deliberate. He calls it “the weave.” I’ll talk about, like, nine different things, and they all come back brilliantly together, and it’s like, and friends of mine that are, like, English professors, they say, ‘It’s the most brilliant thing I’ve ever seen.’”

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2. Despite evidence, Trump calls Arlington Cemetery incident a 'made up story' (NPR)

   First, Trump's campaign said the Arlington staff member was "having a mental health episode" which is fucking horrible. Now he's saying that the whole thing was made up.

   Trump and his team are repeatly showing they have no respect for our military in new and creative ways every day.

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3. Public electric utilities rock!

   Xcel Energy’s peak time-of-use rate, between 3pm and 7pm, is 32 cents a kilowatt-hour compared to an overnight and morning rate of 12 cents a kilowatt-hour.

   Fort Collins city electric costs 7.5 cents off-peak and 21 cents evenings. If an electric car uses 26 kilowatt-hours to go 100 miles…. I'm paying $2.00 per hundred miles. Take THAT to the bank, gas waster car!

    

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4. Republicans used to complain about an over-litigious society, but they're a big part of the problem now, at least when it comes to elections. Check out this story from Heidi Beedle and Colorado Times Recorder, and keep an eye on Kim Monson who's both a media personality and a modern-day monkey-wrencher:

   Monson’s plan to help Republicans overcome mail-in ballots is to raise over $200,000 to pay national election conspiracy figures to file lawsuits in Colorado.

   “There’s a group called United Sovereign Americans, and they have a Colorado chapter,” said Monson. “It’s all volunteers, and this Colorado chapter, they went through our 2022 election, and they found over 1.4 [million] anomalies in the 2022 election. You might ask what those might be. Over a million of them were people that voted before they registered. Do we not think that there could be a problem? … The advisor on this is Bruce Castor, who is the former AG in Pennsylvania. But to do something in Colorado, we needed to raise $50,000 for his legal team.”

   Monson said one of their goals is to prevent the certification of the 2024 election.

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   1. "United Sovereign Americans" sounds like t-shirt wearing, big-bellied asshats who weren't allowed to join the 3%ers. 

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      1. Sure, but what about the men?

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