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July 13, 2024 12:38 AM UTC

Weekend Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.”

–Louis D. Brandeis

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    1. Orange Jesus vows to support  keep grifting off the industry.  Who knows? Maybe he can bring that #fossilonian Wilbur Ross back and take one last wrecking ball to the miners? 
       

      What would Trump 2.0 mean for coal?

      While the winner of the November election may not determine the ultimate fate of coal — which is in steep decline in the U.S. — the next president could influence how long it sticks around as a source of power in a climate-constrained world.

  2. I wonder what rural America thinks of the Project 2025 ideas.

    The link above goes to a Vox.com article that is careful to summarize the actual 2025 proposals. There are more extreme ideas being circulated that represent one or another of the more radical groups.

    As I'm sure everyone here knows, the Heritage Foundation, the influential conservative think-tank since Ronald Reagan, has been the source for Trump's "shadow cabinet". The goal is to hit the ground running with a deep and wide attack on the civil service and the administrative state.

    This is in service to a whole bunch of right-wing policy goals.

    I'm wondering how those goals play with Republican voters, especially in Rural Areas or Swing States. Surely there are a lot of Republicans (women?) who aren't in thrall to the MAGA, who would find th 2025 ideas repulsive.

    Let's have some NYT reporters hanging out in rural diners.

    1. Democracy Docket linked to the whole Project 2025 manifesto

      Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise — aka Project 2025

      The section on the Department of Agriculture makes the policy focus clear:

      Even before the Biden Administration’s radical effort to reshape the USDA’s work, the USDA’s mission was and is too broad, including serving as a major welfare agency through implementation of programs such as food stamps.

      As a reminder, things are a bit different in the past 16 years: : 

      The 2008 farm bill renamed the Food Stamp Program to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (beginning October 2008) and replaced all references to "stamp" or "coupon" in federal law with "card" or "EBT."

       

      1. It's been the alliance between the food security groups and ag that have basically assured the programs remain unscathed, although there is an attempt to do so every five years.  Gardener tried the same stunt when he was in the House, with the support of Lamborn.  Starving children has been a key component of the Koch/Tea Party platform for years. 

    2. I have a question would the opinion of the Heritage Foundation change if their members porn habits were exposed? Getting rid of “pornography” is a big tentpole to their circus. Sure they are very inclusive to what is “pornography” but what if their own predilections were exposed like maybe several very senior members extreme porn? 

      1. Porn is king in the Bible Belt

        Across two separate years, and controlling for demographic variables, we observed moderate-to-large positive associations between: (1) greater proportions of state-level religiosity and general web searching for sexual content and (2) greater proportions of state-level conservatism and image-specific searching for sex”…

        Statistics aren´t a surprise. On the Daily Beast´s  article from 2017: “Christian Right-Wingers Love Porn: New Studies Suggest the Bible Belt Has A Kinky Side.” Homegrown Video announced the results of a six-month study on amateur porn demographics. Just under a third of all homemade sex tape submissions were created in the United States “Bible Belt”.

  3. Here is an informative article examining Biden's propensity for gaffes over the last few decades.  It provides much needed context on the matter.

    Biden's gaffes aren't new. The media's obsession with them is

    Because the media seems to have completely forgotten that it spent decades chuckling over Biden’s “gaffe-prone reputation” and calling him a “human verbal wrecking crew.”

    Someone definitely has a memory issue. 

    Here’s how The New York Times described Biden in 2008, shortly after Barack Obama had selected him to be his running mate:

    Senator Joseph Biden Jr., the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, is an experienced, serious and smart man. But he does say some curious things. A day on the campaign trail without some cringe-inducing gaffe is a rare blessing. He has not been too blessed lately.

    That exact paragraph could be used in 2024. But it won’t be. Because it no longer fits the media narrative.

    If Biden should step aside, the media will simply restart the cycle of tearing down the next candidate(s), and Democrats will continue to be divided.  Only we can save ourselves by uniting and focusing on the real threat facing us — Trump fostering a Christian Nationalist Theocratic Dictatorship.  The media's narrative is starting to shift back to Trump, but as long as there is doubt over who our candidate will be, we only feed the distraction. 

     

  4. This should be interesting.  The Republican Convention planners hope to put a happy face on Trump's "accomplishments"

    Trump aides script convention to soften his image, but face challenges

    The quadrennial gathering is meant to appeal to a general election audience, but is also inseparable from Trump’s hard-line MAGA movement and his polarizing vision for a second term.

    Instead of voters seeing a candidate convicted of 34 felony counts who owes almost $500 million in New York courts due to civil findings of business fraud and liability for sexual assault, they hope to present a jocular family man by highlighting almost all of his children. Instead of one accused of trying to overturn an election, taking classified materials illegally and obstructing an investigation to return them, they are hoping to highlight speakers who cast him as stronger than Biden on national security.

    Of course the cult zombies in attendance will eat it up.  Wonder if they plan to serve Kool-Aid too?

    3. Saw the announcement that one of the speakers for the convention will be Peter Navarro, just HOURS after his release from serving his 4-month sentence. 

      That ought to be great fun to hear about "lawfare" from someone convicted, who lost appeals, and was turned down by the Chief Justice.

    1. The "Trump shooting" sounds like a false flag, set-up job. Trump had to do something to offset Biden's powerful performance in Detroit couple nights ago. 

      1. …and now it will be non-stop bs from the chattering class about how he’s like ‘Teddy Roosevelt’…even though Teddy lost that election.  “America has just crossed a rubicon”. Really?  If so we’d done so after Sandy Hook (or take your pick of a hundred others.). Thoughts and prayers. 

    1. The Independent's headline:

      Trump rally shooting witness claims he saw rifle-toting man ‘crawling up the roof’ just before gunfire

    2. In the coming days, I'm sure we will be able to see

      eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back
      of each one,

      I'm looking forward to the Republican spin on whether the shooter should have had access to a weapon or not.

  8. Anne Coulter may get "the worst-timed tweet of the campaign" today.  About five minutes before the shooting she retweeted Biden's tweet calling for banning assault rifles and universal background checks with one word: ASSHOLE.  

    1. We can be assured the Orange Horde will respond predictably. It only took a couple of minutes for Trump to see the photo op and pump his fist shouting “fight…fight”. 

      Does anyone know?  Has he inquired or commented about his supporters who paid a price for him? Kinda like Herman Cain did?

      ** I just saw his official statement. It was appropriate. Credit where due.

  9. A couple of predictions : 

    * the shooter will have no identified political leanin, although the Magats will try hard to spin it as they have done with others.

    * the shooter will be someone who should not have had access to military grade weapons.

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