DL Open Thread Monday November 7 2022
18 hours to go. Many of you have probably voted already. 100% of you will have voted when it is all said and done. We are all political weirdos. We are among the 52% (ish) of voting-age citizens who will go to the polls during a midterm election. Congratulations.
Nobody knows how it is going to play out. fivethirtyeight.com has competing articles by Nate Silver. One predicts a MAGA victory and one predicts a Democratic Party victory. Neither one is worth the bytes and pixels Silver takes up bloviating.
I must admit that I’m still thinking that there may be secret Blue wave. The MAGA party has been very candid about wanting to be the most horrible thing that has been inflicted on America since the TV show Hee-Haw. I have some naive hope that 52% of the 52% have somehow gleaned that message from the billions of dollars MAGA pacs have spent getting that message out.
I feel like I did the day before Lydia York trounced KMcG in the recent primary. Nobody knew what was going to happen in that one either but you had a non-criminal running against a convicted criminal, so…(?)
Well that’s enough of that. And I called Nate Silver a bloviator. If that isn’t the pot calling the kettle a bloviator. Here is some shit that happened while England slept.
The GOP primary battle for the Presidential nomination has begun:
Trump derides Gov. DeSantis as ‘Ron De-sanctimonious’
You’d think a ULTRA Super Genius! with 9 companies to run would be much too busy to hand moderate Twitter to weed out people making fun of him.
Twitter suspends Kathy Griffin’s account for impersonating Elon Musk
Speaking of Musk, this is the best rundown of how Musk is pooping the bed.
Anyway, it would be hard to find anything that exemplifies the alleged “populism” of the Trump/Hawley/Vance Republican Party as defining the “empowerment” as “paying the world’s richest man $100 a year for something with absolutely no value.” That’s all the Republican Party is — distributing wealth upward while claiming ordinary people have won because the libs have been owned.
DEGOP Proxy fervently argues that teenagers should be able to carry AR-15’s with high capacity magazine into to schools for mandatory “bring in your gun” days.
Side note – A woman has been cropped out of this picture that accompanies that WHYY article. She is standing just to the right of this guy and is holding a sign that reads. “To be honest, I’d feel safer.” That’s his ex-wife.
If we cut taxes and regulations the Mississippi River will be freed to make more water.
When it gets to the point that you can step over it – Libs will be fully owned.
In point of fact, limiting freedom actually makes people safer in myriad ways. That’s why you have to wear a seat belt, dickwipe.
Brent Burdge’s political platform is entirely centered on letting crazy people have access to firearms and keeping bike lanes off foulk road. He has the makings of a real GOP superstar.
Valerie Bertinelli also changed her screen name to Elon musk and trolled him all day
The best of Claymont. Go, Valerie.
Valerie perfected her rebelliousness at Holy Rosary another famous student learned different stuff:)
It’s not just the Mississippi, it’s also the Colorado river, the Seine in France and others. At this point it’s possible that the Hoover dam will fall below it’s ability to generate electricity. All that and the coming Republican talking point of “If we cut taxes and regulations the Mississippi River will be freed to make more water.”. Yes, they really are that pathetic.
That Hoover dam thing is going to be apocalyptic. Imagine Las Vegas with daily black outs.
If the Hoover Dam shuts down due to climate change induced drought, the even more pathetic Republican solution will be – drill more oil, burn more coal. You know Manchin will be part of that coal-ition. Even worse, they will probably get their way.
coal-ition. I LIKE it.
Get your vaccines, dipshits. Hospitals are filling up. No morgue trailers yet but stranger things have happened.
“…most horrible thing that has been inflicted on America since the TV show Hee-Haw…”
As the late Jerome Howard would have said, “I resemble that remark!” “Hee-Haw,” although noted for its cornpone “hillbilly” humor, introduced mainstream television viewers to many legitimate country and bluegrass music stars, like Loretta Lynn, Charley Pride, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton, Waylon Jennings, Linda Ronstadt, Marty Robbins, Tanya Tucker, Ricky Skaggs, Jim & Jesse, and Don Williams.
The list of guest stars is a “Who’s Who” of American (and Canadian) Country Music. They even brought in a few motion picture and television stars, like Will Geer and Sammy Davis, Jr.
You want a truly horrible thing to have been inflicted on America (other than the mango Mussolini), how about “My Mother, The Car.” Now that was truly horrible!
Ann Southern as the Car
100% of us have NOT voted! Recall: Delaware has rescinded my voting eligibility for a felony conviction, and I’m not sure if I’ll ever get it back. Neat.
Anyway, came here to post this basic article from the AP about the LBR/Murphy race — https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-delaware-dover-congress-d1745f317cf7c214745d7c04f32ea581?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=RelatedStories&utm_campaign=position_02 — with this amazing final line:
“The only [congressional] measure sponsored by Blunt Rochester to become law is a resolution naming a Wilmington post office in honor of Mary Ann Shadd Cary, a 19th-century anti-slavery activist and publisher.”
Sorry Andrew that was cavalier of me. Also…OMG, she is useless.
She is a reliable D vote, doesn’t seem to engage in behind-the-scenes efforts to weaken D legislation, and doesn’t show up on FOX or NPR talking about her Republican friends. All of which is an improvement over the rest of the DE delegation.
“She is a reliable D vote, doesn’t seem to engage in behind-the-scenes efforts to weaken D legislation” if this is your measuring stick for a good pol then Herschel Walker would be the same exact pol on the R side