Posted without comment.
h/t Subaru Diane
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Balloon Juice Is the Little Engine That Could (Open Thread)
WE DID IT!
I took the thermometer down because we are at $30,000! (As soon as the final angel adds theirs, and I left a little bit of room for Omnes.)
Balloon Juice peeps are the best.
We’ll be coming hot and heavy with the next fundraising very soon. No rest for the wicked weary !
To everyone who donated or encouraged others, thank you!
What else can we celebrate today?
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The Press Is Not Your Therapist
Goddam right. Some of these anonymous “senior” Dems need to go on the record or shut their fucking pieholes. Also, what kind of weak-kneed fuck says shit like that? We’re a long way from the election. No matter your position on Biden being replaced by Harris, this just isn’t helping.
Not really related, but relevant, another panic has broken out over how the assassination attempt changes everything. The DC press is very open to pimping this narrative because a big part of their job is basically a body watch. Big media organizations pay big money that would be better spent elsewhere to make sure there’s someone around at all times in case some loon takes a shot at the President (or candidate for President). So they’re incredibly invested, literally, in an assassination attempt being the biggest moment on earth. Maybe they’re at least partially right (I doubt it), but someone from the gun party being hit with a bullet from their object of worship is certainly not a no-brainer good thing for Republicans.
Finally, speaking of the gun party, I had no dog in the Jamal Bowman primary fight — I figure his district can figure out whether they want him around for another term on their own. But if even 10% of the almost $16 million spent by AIPAC and allied groups against him was available for Lauren Boebert’s opponent, it would help at least keep Boebert’s head down and her mouth shut, especially since she got caught speeding in May and then didn’t pay the ticket.
I guess that’s a semi-random list, but that’s all I have on this gloomy Monday morning.
(The tweet is via Josh Marshall and the idea for the post title is from Atrios because it’s good.)
Great News – Four Directions External Match for the next $13,000
WE DID IT!
I took the thermometer down because we are at $30,000! (As soon as the final angel adds theirs.)
I just got a call from Four Directions to say that they found a match for the next $13,000 we raise!
We don’t need much more than $13,000 to get us to our $30,000 goal!
So even though we are midway through the existing angel match, everything resets, so everyone can take advantage of this.
So… ($100 donation + $100 angel match = $200) + $200 external match = $400
Plus the $5,000 Angel Bonus when we get to $20,000.
So all donations right now are pretty close to 6x.
I know I don’t need to tell you all what’s at stake. Let’s do this!
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Cannon Dismisses Classified Docs Case
Via TPM:
Per the order, Cannon dismissed the case after finding that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s appointment violated the Constitution.
Cannon’s determination that Smith was unlawfully appointed effectively endorses a legal theory tested multiple times in previous cases and dismissed, rooted in the idea that the Attorney General cannot appoint and fund a special counsel absent authorization from Congress. That was seen as an absurd notion, and one contravened by decades of special counsel investigations under the current statute.
But it received a boost both after Cannon held a multi-day hearing on the question and after Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas supported the idea in a concurrence in the Trump immunity ruling. Cannon cited that concurrence throughout her order.
Jesus Fucking Christ!
Open thread.
Monday Morning Open Thread: Trying to Be Serious During A *Silly* Silly Season
My new mantra: “We have a good person in the Oval Office. Let’s keep it that way.”
There's no place in America for political violence.
No exceptions.
We cannot allow this kind of violence to be normalized. pic.twitter.com/taupQp1VnB
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) July 15, 2024
President Joe Biden, in an Oval Office address, decried political violence a day after former President Donald Trump was the target of an assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally. “We cannot, we must not, go down this road in America,” he said. pic.twitter.com/wm7urpiYng
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 15, 2024
Biden’s reelection campaign and the DNC will start up activities on Monday night after he halted them on Saturday following the Trump rally shooting.
Follow live: https://t.co/IDJyrsbWi1 pic.twitter.com/gaOxU4t6kn
— The Hill (@thehill) July 14, 2024
How dare the President, while condemning political violence, besmirch our beloved political violence https://t.co/r95M7TlabI
— Blitz Primary (by Oprah™) (@canderaid) July 15, 2024
Next up: The big conference, where the whole world is watching!
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Mean-Spirited Partisans Open Thread
the primary thing that keeps me from dooming is that the Republican Party is relying on low-propensity voters to win (did not vote in 2020, did not vote in 2022) and has cut its GOTV budget to zero
— golden gate theophite (@revhowardarson) July 14, 2024
there are 4 months to go. after every single event nowadays, there is a brief period of shock and then everyone retreats into their partisan camps. people who hated Donald Trump before are likely to still hate him by November, and people who loved him will still love him.
— Lakshya Jain (@lxeagle17) July 14, 2024
Senate Dems should take one of their assorted gun control bills off the shelf, rename it something like "Trump Assassination Prevention Act," and force Rs to do a talking filibuster to block it
— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) July 14, 2024
If you choose to go below the fold, don’t say you weren’t warned.