Archive for July, 2019
Carper, Coons & LBR well positioned for long term roles in the Trump Regime
Now that the Trump regime has consolidated the courts under his control, and has direct management of the nation’s intelligence operations, the calm quiet of Tom Carper and his two proteges in Congress has come into focus and begins to make a lot more sense.
For all of his faults, Tom Carper is able to see further down the road that most of us. It is a skill he brought to setting up Delaware as the usury-friendly state when governor. Similarly, Carper must have seen the Trump regime continuing and thriving well into the future. What profit could a clear thinking striver like Carper see in rocking the boat when a long (possibly multi-generational) Trump regime was practically a forgone conclusion given the cowardice of the Democrats and uselessness of the media?
There is no profit in it and that is obviously something that Coons and LBR picked up on as well. How else can you explain their preternatural calm in the face the end of our American experiment?
There is no explanation. They are calm because they see the future more clearly than the rest of us and that has given them a running start at planning for that future. They know that Trump will need the support of a faux congress to give his brand of fascism a patina of legitimacy. Carper, Coons and LBR must be high on Trump’s list when he considers how he is going to manufacture that legitimacy among DC-based talking heads and feckless political “analysts”.
It is sickening to confront this reality, but feeling sickened is going to be the least of our worries by next year at this time.
DL Open Thread: Mon., July 29, 2019
Coats To Resign As National Intelligence Chief. His Successor?: RWNJ Conspiracy Theorist. As in the Russians conspired to help Hillary Clinton. Betcha Trump saw this guy’s over-the-top performance at the Mueller hearing and decided, “That’s my guy!” Trump And Barr To Restore Federal Executions. Of course they will. What did you expect? The Pentagon’s Leadership […]
Criminals Gotta Crime
ANOTHER Trump Official Convicted of Being Illegal Foreign Agent
1) In the daily avalanche of Trump criminally ridiculous bullshit, it is easy to lose track of all the bonafide crimes and criminals.
2) Why Democrats can’t come up with some consistent messaging about Trump’s criminality is truly beyond me.
Congress Should Not Go on Vacation for Six Goddamn Weeks
It is hard to argue against CHARLES PIERCE’s point that while congress is on vacation. the president will be the whole entire government. I know this may seem a bit out of the box, but isn’t this a particularly lousy time in history for the Congress to go on vacation for six goddamn weeks. OK, […]
DL Open Thread: Sun., July 28, 2019
Waste Management Bribes Minquadale Civic Association In Exchange For More Landfill Space? Sure looks that way. $4-5 mill over 10 to 20 years. Profits from the landfill. BTW, county leaders stand firmly in opposition to the landfill height increase from 130 to 190 feet. There is, of course, a Dover connection, and it raises questions. […]
Song of the Day 7/27: The Temptations, “I Wish It Would Rain”
El Somnambulo considers David Ruffin of the Temptations the greatest soul singer of all time, and I’m not going to disagree. And it’s not just because of his great voice — watch him express this song’s pain in this live clip. This is not, like most TV appearances by pop acts at the time, a […]
DL Open Thread: Sat., July 27, 2019
How The Delaware Chamber Of Commerce Is Dismantling The Coastal Zone Act. One regulation at a time. When you’ve already got the Governor and DNREC in your back pocket, and you pay lobbyists to muck up the process every step of the way, you win, and everybody else loses. Could we have a real governor, […]
You have a moral duty to fill in this form so that Equifax will send you $125
If you fill in this form, Equifax will send you $125 as part of its settlement with the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, the FTC, and 48 out of 50 states.
Equifax doxed the nation and profited handsomely from it. $125 is a laughably small sum given how much damage the data they hemorrhaged all over the internet could cause you. Equifax should have faced the corporate death penalty, the execs who oversaw the disaster should have had their assets seized and diverted to anti-identity-theft measures and charities.
Instead, the FTC et al are hitting the company for a maximum of $700m(how much they pay depends in part on whether you fill in this form. Equifax’s market cap stands today at $16.6B, and it posted $3.412B in earnings in 2018, up 1.48% increase from 2017.
Highlands Bunker – E25 – People’s Republic of Cambridge
Highlands Bunker – E25 – People’s Republic of Cambridge Working Families Party activist Vanessa Clifford joins RE Vanella in the bunker to talk about what Working Families Party is, some of her experiences organizing in Delaware and Pennsylvania, and a new progressive group that is forming here in Delaware. Show Notes: Working Families Party Nicolas […]
Song of the Day 7/26: Rod Stewart, “True Blue”
The lead-off track to “Never a Dull Moment,” the 1972 follow-up album to Stewart’s mega-hit “Every Picture Tells a Story,” finds Rod the Mod struggling with his new-found success. Like many of Stewart’s solo records from the period, it’s hard to hear any difference from his work with the Faces, and no wonder — it’s […]
DL Open Thread: Fri., July 26, 2019
Russians Targeting Election Systems In All 50 States. While Mitch McConnell singlehandedly blocks votes on election system protections. Closet Case. Anti-LGBTQ Tenn. Representative solicited young men for gay sex on a ‘gay hook-up and dating app’. He’s resigning. In so many cases, their self-loathing takes the form of hating those who are like them. How […]
Lisa Blunt Rochester would like you to know that she now supports impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump
Credit where credit is due?. Or…If someone as cowardly and dithering as Lisa Blunt Rochester supports impeachment, she really must be hearing about it from actual voters.
Today, I’m announcing my support to begin impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.
Director Mueller has done his job. Now it’s time for Congress to do ours. My statement below:
The Onion Nails it like nothing that has ever been nailed
“I understand where these groups are coming from, but while it might feel good to vent their frustrations about the state of the country, they could undermine what I believe should be our core 2020 argument: We are dithering, incompetent doormats who are infinitesimally less objectionable than our opposition.”
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