Happy Friday everyone. Hope you are staying cool. I’ll be floating around a lake in North Carolina this weekend, so that is my plan to beat the heat. How about you? Any good plans?
Super realistic plan they’ve got here
‘Project 2025’: plan to dismantle US climate policy for next Republican president
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/27/project-2025-dismantle-us-climate-policy-next-republican-president
Ukraine Updates
Russia’s war in Ukraine
https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-07-27-23/index.html
Stonks!
U.S. economy grew by annual rate of 2.4 percent in second quarter
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/07/27/gdp-q2-2023-economy/
Sprots!
2023 Women’s World Cup: 5 Takeaways from USWNT’s Draw with the Netherlands
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10084125-2023-womens-world-cup-5-takeaways-from-uswnts-draw-with-the-netherlands?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial
OMG
Have an awesome weekend!
Time for Mitch to retire. He’s already done an excellent job in fucking the country straight to hell. He can go on to his reward now and let some other piece of shit take over for him.
I’ve lost track of how many indictments he’s racked up.
New charges for Trump in documents case
Good analysis of how stupid Trump is:
New indictment proves Trump never learned the first lesson of Watergate
Solid analysis but flawed in that the headline assumes he knows what Watergate is.
True. I bet the imbecile can’t even spell “Nixon.”
It is absolutely bananas that there’s so much evidence of him withholding documents. Seriously, you waited til you were indicted to ask your security to delete footage? LOL
Well yeah, he had to masturbate to something since Ivanka moved out.
I don’t like the line here that “The coverup is always worse than the crime.”
One of the central charges revolves around how Trump revealed top secret plans for invading Iran. That’s awfully serious stuff, and this kind of framing seems deliberately made to minimize it. We don’t know, for that matter, other ways he abused top secret information. What are the odds he was pure in every other instance?
Marcus really doesn’t make a good argument why obstruction is worse than the underlying crime. She doesn’t even try. And the fact that he tried so hard to obstruct here and not for all of the other documents he eventually returned suggests the underlying crime itself was extremely serious.
This really seems like a pundit letting a cliche write something in order to meet a deadline and go to sleep.
That’s a good point. The two situations are not analogous. I don’t think she was deliberately minimizing the crimes, though. I tend more toward your final conclusion — she hit on a bit she thought was clever and ran with it. A sloppy comparison, yes, but I don’t think it’s intended to provide cover for Trump. But it’s still a good summary in plain language of what Expendable Walt and Captain Combover did.
I think we’re going to see a parallel issue with the looming 1/6 indictment, with a lot of pundits trying to jam it into the old “what did Nixon know and when did he know it?” framework out of Watergate.
Except in this case their takes are going to hinge on motive, so it will be modified into “what did Trump believe and when did he believe it?”
We’re already seeing a number of superficial analysts focusing on whether Jack Smith can prove Trump’s state of mind — for instance, will Pence testify in a way that undercuts that Trump believed the election was stolen?
The trouble with this framework is that for likely charges for Trump related to 1/6, motive is not a legal concern. Many of the 1/6 defendants have tried to argue that they genuinely believed the election was stolen, but the law is clear that is irrelevant. Simply trying to interfere with Congress performing its duty was enough for them to be convicted.
It’s somewhat similar to a lot of drug posession cases — believing pot is legal in a state where it’s banned is not a defense.
But the cliche exists, pundits are already jamming their takes into it, and I think it will get a lot worse.
Thing is, if they get a Trump judge, that’s exactly how it will play out and he’ll get away with it.
I’d like to say there’s a limit to how much even a scumbag Trump judge can get away with, but then I think about the Supreme Taliban who are now manufacturing rulings from fictional bullshit, and I think, “Fuck, Butcher’s probably right.”
I’m gonna go full Ugly American and say: NO MORE WORLD CUPS IN ASIA/AUSTRALIA!
Back in 2002, when the men’s WC was in Korea and Japan, I stayed up insane hours to watch a few games, but I was working nights so it was possible. This time around? I’m a daywalker, man, I can’t be watching footie at 2 a.m. and function the next day. And I hate it! I really want to watch US-Portugal but it doesn’t start until 1 a.m. and … oof. That’s probably too much of an ask.
I’m in the same boat as you. At least the first two USWNT games were at reasonable times US, but I’ve not gotten up in the wee hours to see England, Haiti, or other countries that I normally would like to see.
It seems like the obvious solution is they can keep hosting the games, but only at times convenient to us.
More Florida backlash.
Black fraternity moves Florida event over DeSantis’s ‘assault’ on minorities
Medical problems for all!
https://www.levernews.com/private-equity-wreckers-come-for-your-health-insurance/
Parody or pretty damn accurate?
https://www.theonion.com/doctors-confirm-mcconnell-had-a-stroke-after-imagining-1850683094
This doesn’t seem like a good thing…
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2023/07/uinta-basin-colorado-river-fracking-oil-gas/
no worries keeping cool here 🙂
yup….thats about right for july…little cooler than normal…but not much
anyways..here have a little tour of giethoorn….venice of the netherlands…lol
its a gorgeous place to visit…but you wouldnt want to live there… too many stupid tourists