DL Open Thread: Tues., July 23, 2019
The Al Franken Case. In-depth profile in the New Yorker. Bottom line: He got royally screwed. Set up by a bunch of RWNJ’s, including the alleged victim, and thrown out with the trash by D senators who never bothered to even investigate the allegations. If Gillibrand had any self-respect, she’d resign. Or at least apologize. I’m still angry about this.
Chomsky: Rethuglican Party Is ‘Most Dangerous Organisation In Human History’. Go ahead, try to think of a more dangerous organi(s)ation. I’ll wait.
Alaskan Salmon In ‘Cardiac Arrest’. Due to record heat, of course.
Slow-Walking House Ways And Means Chair Draws Progressive Challenger:
Delaware’s Inland Bays Hospitable To Flesh-Eating Bacteria. Flesh-eating–It’s not just for weasels any more.
What do you want to talk about?
I’m going with Raheem Sterling. I don’t think anyone would be surprised, or care.
“‘HUGE DECISION’ Premier League ace wants to come out as gay but club is worried about backlash from fans”:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/9557810/premier-league-star-gay-club-fans/
YAY! Boris Johnson is now pm.
Only a matter of days before the next election where Corbin is SURE TO WIN. right?
RIGHT?!
I Lol’ed. Well played, Sir. We are becoming experts at squeezing comedy out of tragedy
Noam Chomsky is wrong. The Catholic Church is the most dangerous organization in human history, and it isn’t close.
I agree with Alby.
Unlike the GOP, the Catholic Church never pursued an explicit policy of hastening the end of the world.
Better read up on the Bible if you think that’s true. They’ve been actively promoting the end of the world since their Day 1.
I beg to differ. They’ve been hyping the event for centuries but I’ve seen no evidence that they’ve actually taken steps to hasten its occurrence.
They obviously don’t believe in the hell they’re always preaching about, either, or they’d stop diddling the kids.
And even is it did have an explicit plan, beyond some Latin Mumbo Jumbo, the Church never had the tools to end the world. The GOP does and it is using them.
Perhaps none of you have noticed what “faith” produced every conservative justice on the SCOTUS.
Yeah, but it’s the Rethugs who put them on the court.
“Why are DL comments dwindling to a four-way circle jerk among the same four contributors?”
So, what’s your take on all the comments, is anything going to change? New format? A creative way to get a constructive debate? Continue to berate posters? Focus more on local level, than a national one?
Thanks
Posters who are trolls will continue to be berated and will once again be banned. Consider that a challenge to up your game. Your next meaningful comment will be your first.
@Alby, Are your comments because I’m not a Liberal? The blog posted a question and was just asking what your group got out of it ….apparently nothing, in your mind!
Maybe, you’re the problem, simple questions asked. But, I’ll take it from the source.
I’m pretty sure I know you already. The new name isn’t much of a disguise.
If you’re not a liberal, you have no place here. Add something or go away.
I am in favor of heavily berating MAGAs, corporate Democrats, and their enablers.
I’m still angry about the Franken case as well – and my anger budget is maxed out.
I am SO sick of Republicans offering advice about how to beat Trump in 2020. And the Democrats who choose their advice and so eschew Democratic ideas about how to win. Not Medicare for all, no, that’s too radical. Bullshit! Etc. etc.
Seconded. Dems who are still taking advice from Republicans are the absolute worst.
I’m still seething about the forces who fucked Al Franken to achieve political gain. Gillibrand is the hypocrite in chief, but I can’t stop thinking about the mousy little woman who replace him, who has contributed NOTHING to ANY national discussion of ANY issue. If this were baseball, it’s kind of like trading are Mario Rivera for a third grader to be chosen later. All to satisfy your fucking ego, Kirsten.
I despise Gillibrand as well, she steeped all over Franken to get her face in the news. Then again I despise at least half of the Dem candidates as well, especially the ones that think “just talking” to McConnell will solve anything, gullible beyond words.
What bugs me is her BS explanation that she did it b/c she didn’t know what she would tell her daughters if she DIDN’T do it.
How about: “We conducted an investigation into the matter and found that the charges were trumped up’?
Just as Trump is merely the face of a bigger problem, so it was with Gillibrand. The left-wing press is today full of women who are attacking Mayer for becoming an “Al Franken apologist.” None of the women writing their defensive pieces have done a lick of reporting; Mayer did lots before coming to her conclusion.
One of these pieces, without noting the irony, claims Franken comes off as whiny. If that were a crime, half the left-leaning female pundits working today would be in prison.
And more than half of the men.
The problem is that none of the whining from Amanda Marcotte et al addresses any of the points Mayer raised.
Many senators Mayer spoke to now regret not going through a proper investigation, which some of us recognized right away was the right course. But, learning nothing from ACORN, Schumer caved to the pressure of the moment, which was influenced by the Alabama special election. How could Democrats condemn Roy Moore if they excused Al Franken, the thinking went, and I must concede it worked. They got Doug Jones, probably for two whole years, at the expense of one of the loudest progressive voices in the Senate.
Gillibrand took the plunge first. Is it fair that she bears the brunt of the backlash? No, but it wasn’t fair that Franken was railroaded, either.
So they traded one progressive for one quiet, centrist D (his replacement) and one conservative D (Jones) whose career will almost certainly end next year.
I have yet to hear any acknowledgement from feminists that sacrificing Franken has led to any other progress in the #Metoo movement. As we’ve seen from the Kavanaugh and subsequent Trump cases, if anything it has strengthened the MAGA belief that men are the true victims.
Re: Flesh-eating bacteria
A guy I know has stopped crabbing off his back-bay dock for fear of cutting a finger and getting infected.
Sorry, mouse, he’s a Jersey shore guy, but I would guess the situation is the same in Sussex.
That doesn’t bode well for property values.
Climate change doesn’t bode well for property’s continued habitability, either.
True dat. My house goes on the market in the spring. Going to some place safer, fewer bacteria and fewer guns.
Sounds like you want one of those high quality of life/high tax hell holes. Good luck.
Where is that? In the U.S.?
Not in the U.S.
Merida, Yucatan. One of the top 25 safest cities in North America. Plus there aren’t a lot of Americans there. Hmm. I wonder if there is some correlation?
It is the same in Sussex. I know a guy who was in the Indian River Bay who was infected in his finger. He was antibiotics for a year and had several surgeries. Finger was saved but it was touch and go.
Sussex County is a mess and getting worse! The WAY overbuilding is taxing on the overall infrastructure of the whole county. The only things the politicians care about is the tax money that is coming in. It’s a total disgrace for the environment and the future for our children’s children!
THEY NEED TO WAKE UP A PUT AN IMMEDIATE MORATORIUM ON THE BUILDING APPROVALS!
So you’re not a liberal until your interests are threatened. How pathetic.
Apparently, you do not care about Sussex county and the overgrowth, we get that. Thanks
Of course I do. I just don’t think much of people WHO TYPE IN ALL CAPS! and claim they’re not liberals, but then call for such anti-private property solutions as moratoriums on building permits, which haven’t a snowball’s chance in hell of happening. If you can’t tell what you are accurately, you’re too confused to be here.
Proclaiming you have the solution to complicated problems is another tip-off that you’re too dumb to be here. As is your greater interest in conducting flame wars than explicating your ideas.
You still haven’t contributed anything of value, and you’re running out of time.
RIP Art Neville. The mightymighty leader of the Meters and the Neville Brothers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w-ibD-wBRo
Ya say ya wanna hear one more?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEz_W3qdSC0
In the mid to late ’80’s, when they were at the height of their power, I think they were the greatest live band in the USA.
I saw Aaron Neville open for and play with Jimmy Buffett a while back. Quite a show