Archive for April, 2018
Kelly in hot water for telling the simple truth about Trump
The breaking news is not that the President is an idiot. That’s a well established fact that even wingnuts accept. The news is that Kelly told the truth in a work place that runs on lies and lying.
WASHINGTON — White House chief of staff John Kelly has eroded morale in the West Wing in recent months with comments to aides that include insulting the president’s intelligence and casting himself as the savior of the country, according to eight current and former White House officials.
The officials said Kelly portrays himself to Trump administration aides as the lone bulwark against catastrophe, curbing the erratic urges of a president who has a questionable grasp on policy issues and the functions of government. He has referred to Trump as “an idiot” multiple times to underscore his point, according to four officials who say they’ve witnessed the comments.
Pete Schwartzkopf Rips Dover Downs a New One
As El Somnambulo predicted last week, the casino giveway relief bill that sailed through the state Senate on a 17-3 vote faces a tougher road in the House, where its chief opponent is the most powerful man in the legislature, House speaker Pete Schwartzkopf. Schwartzkopf has long been a critic of Delaware’s racinos, and for […]
April 30 Open Thread: Won’t Someone Think of the Trumpkins?
Washington is running out of fainting couches, as dozens of media figures have joined conservative snowflakes in expressing shock, shock at Michelle Wolf’s routine Saturday night at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Even the Orange Excrescence took offense, calling her “filthy” (he’s totally skeeved by women unless he’s fucking them) and calling for an end […]
Song Of The Day: April 30, 2018
La Somnambula takes the reins this week. I agree with every single one of her choices (I want to continue to eat well and, well, they really are good choices). This song, of course, was inspired by perhaps the very first of America’s mass school shootings, memorialized here. Some of you youngsters may not even […]
Lynching Memorial Opens to Near-Universal Praise
Last Thursday the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, better known as the lynching memorial, opened to wide coverage and effusive praise from all quarters — well, almost all quarters. The memorial stands in Montgomery, Alabama, near the former site of the city’s slave auction. Montgomery also is home to the Equal Justice Initiative, founded […]
Some old dude thinks the U of D is too liberal
This confused fucknut wrote to us through the tipline.
The most remarkable thing about your article I found while searching for information about how liberal UD has become since I studied there is information about walk-in tubs. Good work, we need more information on walk-in tubs.
I am interested in how liberal the UD has become because I am 72 years old now and have been approached about leaving a bequest to UD. While I’d very much like to support UD, the coastal engineering study and research that is going on there and the athletic programs that were as important to me then as they are to students today, another thing liberals probably don’t understand because they don’t want people to get hurt. Leave that to the athletes, and leave politics to politicians, stop trying to indoctrinate malleable young minds with your short sighted narrow minded political ideals.
No, I won’t be leaving a bequest, I most definitely do not want to support the liberal thought that is unfortunately being promulgated on campus, and losing my financial support is the direct result of the University allowing people like you to get away with your nonsense on campus instead of letting the students go to the university and do what they went there for, getting an eduction. You may forward a copy of this to Heather Barron with whom I was discussing leaving a bequest. As a final comment, if I were younger and just graduating from high school today, I would not choose UD. – Ken Humiston
April 29 Open Thread: NRA Convention Bans Guns for Veep
The jokes write themselves. The NRA convention, the ultimate gathering of self-defined good guys with guns, has banned their fetish objects for a speech by VP Mike Pence because the tyrannical federal government told them to. While conservatives have spontaneous orgasms about the prospect of peace on the Korean peninsula, Max Boot throws cold water […]
R’s v D’s
Republican 1: Our guy has a long history of being a fucking shithead, and saying all manner of crazy indefensible shit. Republican 2: I know. That’s why we like him. Dem 1: Hey, Republican 1 just told me about why I shouldn’t like ___X___. It seems ___X___ took a picture pretending to grab a woman’s […]
April 28 Open Thread: Pew Says Democrats No Longer Want Compromise
Somebody please show this Pew Research graph to Chris Coons: It shows that, while Democratic voters used to value compromise more than Republicans, but over the past year that’s no longer true. Perhaps if someone attaches a clue to a TV camera lens Coons will notice it. Andy Slavitt, who served as the acting administrator […]
Delaware Cease Fire – Day 45
No fatal shootings in Delaware for 45 days!! Awesome, job everybody. Let’s keep this streak alive.
Song Of The Day: April 28, 2018
With the walls closing in on King Cheeto, songs like this become even more satisfying:
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