FREE IDEA: What If Trump *Wasn't* A Yooge Asshole At The Debate? Tabs, Thurs., June 27, 2024
Just kidding, impossible. Morning news roundup!
You’re going to come back and watch the debate with us, right? RIGHT? Right. 9 p.m. eastern, be here or be a big jerky idiot! I am currently rereading the last 2020 debate’s livebloog, trying to “remember” it. Thanks, I hated it. (Wonkette)
Good luck on that, Trump allies. “Trump allies urge him not to be a ‘raging asshole’ at the debate.” (Rolling Stone)
What should Joe Biden brag about tonight that his advisors don’t think he should brag about? Infrastructure, because Americans don’t know that he’s been Infrastructure! (The Fucking News)
Similarly, this! The “Quiet New Deal.” You’ve been hearing about it because you read Wonkette. Most people have no earthly idea! (Earlyworm Society)
New Trump Boxes just dropped. No, dropped like from a great height. This was *how the FBI found them*. (Jeff Tiedrich)
Trump requests special permission from defense lawyer/judge Aileen Cannon to tell all his lunatics these FBI agents tried to murder him. (Our Liz at Law and Chaos)
No, Laura Kipnis is in the computer! (Wired)
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So looks like we know how the Supreme Court is voting on EMTALA: Mandatory abortions for all! (CNN) So that’s a win right? Well, we don’t have to get murdered in Idaho (unless the ER declines to treat) but no, of course it is not a win. It’s “kick the can down the road,” while Alito for one and a whole lot of elected Republicans for two say the six-week embryo and the bleeding-out and or septic woman have “equal” rights. In fact, the EMTALA opinion in Texas from the Fifth Circuit gets to stand too, and that one says die of sepsis. (Abortion, Every Day)
How bad is Boof’s bribe opinion? THIS BAD! Madiba Dennie would like to enumerate the ways. (Balls and Strikes)
Ooof, a deeper read on the federal judges who knocked down Biden’s SAVE student loan reforms, and just how contradictory their minutes-apart opinions are from each other, and how unworkable. (David Dayen at The American Prospect / earlier from Dok at your Wonkette)
Native American girls expelled from school for doing the Apache culture’s Sunrise Dance (the school says it’s Satan). Long long (disgusting) long (infuriating) read. (Guardian)
Putin is a piece of shit, and Evan Gershkovitch is brave as hell. (CNN)
Can’t say I know what to make of John Driscoll, who just won the Democratic primary for Montana’s Eastern US House seat, who won’t take any money and won’t run any ads, probably doesn’t have a website, seems a swell fella … ??? PROFIT? (Big Sky Chat House)
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One night, two wonkmeets!
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ATLANTA G-A! July 27, 4-7 p.m. at the famous Manuel’s, 4-7 p.m.! Manuel's Tavern, 602 North Highland Ave., NE Atlanta, (404) 525-3447, manuelstavern.com. I said I was going to try to fly down for this one, but I think I have to be a big old disappointing flakeyflake. We’ll just be barely home from the Milwaukee RNC, and who’s going to watch Mom and the kids?
Two other nights, two other wonkmeets!
Milwaukee! Join us Sun., July 14, in the late afternoonish, at venue TBD (I need to email South Shore Terrace again!).
Chicago! Join us Sun., Aug. 18, ibid and ibid!
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Your hed gif today pits aphid against ladybird beetle (which I used to call a ladybug, but now I don’t!). More info, with some science, here: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/ladybird-beetle-vs-aphid
Please God, PLEASE let one of the moderators have the intelligence and courage to ask Trump why absolutely NONE of the global crisis he predicted if Biden won in 2020 have come to pass! No depression. No WWII. No collapse of society. No huge crime wave. No invasion. No US bankruptcy. None of those things. Is it simply that he makes up stuff to get people to vote for him? Maybe?