A new Atlantic piece lays out Bernie Sanders’ 2020 strategy, and guess what, you guys? We were right — it is about splitting the party in hopes of hanging onto the largest chunk: The 2020 Race Is Going Just Like Bernie Sanders Wanted The Vermont senator is starting to think he will not only win …
Tuesday Afternoon Open Thread
I’m spending most of today in a hospital waiting room (everything is fine — elderly relative, routine procedure). Fox News is on the overhead TV, and no remote is in sight, but the volume’s mercifully low. They really are obsessed with AOC on Fox. Seriously, she’s like 80% of their content. I think she makes …
Speaker Pelosi on 60 Minutes
I haven’t seen the whole interview yet, but The Post has a top five points compilation up on YouTube: I’m glad she said this: “The Mueller report is about an attack on our elections by a foreign government. And we want to know about that. We want to know about that in terms of being …
Early Morning Open Thread
Here’s a post because nobody should have to wade into the two preceding threads in search of a insomniac/early riser company. I bailed about a quarter of the way through each, and I usually enjoy sniping that’s not directed at me. Jesus Christ! Have you noticed the past several days have been especially fraught, politically …
Friday Afternoon Open Thread
Game of Thrones returns Sunday at 9 PM Eastern. That calls for an “Every Fucking Chicken in the Room” Meal Deal. I was late to the Thrones bandwagon — didn’t start watching it until a few years ago, and didn’t get really hooked on it until the wee dragons made their first appearance. Among my …
The War on Blue America
The story about Trump’s proposed immigrant-dumping in so-called “sanctuary cities” broke last night. Unless a rogue drone snatches the clump of hair off Trump’s noggin, or Javanka are exposed as masterminds of a global kitten-pelt purveying ring, or “acting” WH Chief of Staff Mulvaney discards his skin suit to reveal himself as a razor-toothed alien …
Nothing to see here…
Hillary Clinton responds to a very good question from Citizens for Ethics researcher Robert Maguire: Yes we can. https://t.co/eUmF8hcOBe — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) April 11, 2019 To its credit, The New York Times uncovered the Trump family tax scam that led to Trump’s sister “retiring” to end an inquiry into her role in the tax …