Archive for July, 2019
The anger double standard
If Chris Coons puts up a FB post that is mildly critical of the President, the comments are flooded by the vilest, brain dead idiots instantly turning the heat up to 11. Mixed in will be a couple of Democratic “Atta guy” comments and even fewer “A good start, but not enough” observations.
If a Democrat dares shows any well-earned anger nowadays they can quickly become a pariah among earnest, thoughtful, decent Democratic townsfolk.
This one-sidedness takes a toll. It gives Coons the impression that only Republicans hold strong views. The anger double standard gives the false impression that they are many and we are few. The over the top emotionalism also clears brush for other, less angry (but equally wrong) Republicans to backfill sounding reasonable in relative terms.
This dynamic also plays out nationally where elected Republicans are given free rein to be angry while angry Democrats are pilloried.
Song of the Day 7/20: Aaron Neville and Jim Henson (as Ernie), “I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon”
It’s been 50 years since we got there and there’s still nobody living on the moon. Heck, we don’t even visit any more. But that’s not really what this Sesame Street classic is about. Composed by Jeff Moss, one of the show’s staff writers, it first appeared on TV in 1978, sung by Jim Henson […]
DL Open Thread: Sat., July 20, 2019
LA Cops Infiltrated Anti-Trump Group. It’s the ’60’s all over again. Cops see protestors as the danger, not the RWNJ groups who are armed to the teeth and who have espoused violence. How Trump Exiled Government Agriculture Experts. Move the office to Kansas City, ensuring that most of the staff will resign/retire. And, of course, […]
Lisa Blunt Rochester would like you to know that she is proud to have pre-surrendered to the GOP on Min Wage
Here is what LBR says about the Dems vote to “raise the min wage”: “Good for the economy. Good for the workers. It’s been 10 years & it’s long past time we #RaiseTheWage.” Her is the timid, mincing schedule the Dems have promoted, to raise the min wage to $15.00 by 2025! It […]
Action Item – Call Lisa Blunt Rochester’s Office Today to Tell Her We Want a More Energetic Approach to Resisting Trump
Call LBR’s office now and ask her to help her Democratic colleagues confront Trump with a strong unified voice: (302) 830-2330
Ask your member of Congress to represent you with a more energetic approach to confronting President Trump and to stop enabling Trump by ignoring him.
Lisa Blunt Rochester resides in a bubble of DC conventional wisdom and thinks we can simply wait out Trump. Her strategy of keeping her head down isn’t working.
Your call today will be to follow up and support the work some activists did this morning in meeting with LBR’s State Director, Courtney McGregory, (who also does not view the current situation as a crisis).
Call LBR’s office now and aks her to help her Democratic colleagues confront Trump with a unified voice: (302) 830-2330
Highlands Bunker – E24 – Kingswood Country Club
Ed Note: If I ever buy a $10.00 smoothie, you fair reader, are granted a un-revocable durable power of attorney that you may use to have me committed, as that will be a sure sign that I will have taken leave of my sense.
*this post is sponsored by Mayor Purzycki’s office
Chris Johnsonjoins RE Vanella in the bunker to talk about some of the latest police violence controversies, what he’s working on, and what the future of criminal justice looks like in the state of Delaware.
Show Notes:
“Why are DL comments dwindling to a four-way circle jerk among the same four contributors?”
“Why are DL comments dwindling to a four-way circle jerk among the same four contributors?”
…especially when we have more lurkers than ever?
I’ll take a crack at it:
It is summer?
Campaigns haven’t really started yet?
People are tired of commenting?
Commenting like “planking” had its day in the sun?
It is a rare commenter who asks anything that approaches an honest question?
It is even rarer that a comment thread generates as much light as it generates heat?
We’ve turned away the most egregious trolls who could always get counted to start an argument?
What could you say about our do-nothing congressperson LBR, that I haven’t already said?
Song of the Day 7/19: Jonathan King, “Everyone’s Gone to the Moon”
The 50th anniversary of the first moon landing has triggered a wave of nostalgia for the space race of the ’60s. This song was written and recorded in 1965 by British hitmaker Jonathan King, who was still a student at Cambridge at the time. He said later that the lyrics were his attempt to satirize […]
DL Open Thread: Fri., July 19, 2019
Will Multiracial Democracy Survive Trump? An existential question for our time. Plan To Help Farmers Address Climate Change Was Buried By Trump’s Ag. Dep’t. Farmers are paying for it now. Sen. Collins ‘Tiptoeing Without A Net’. She’s in trouble. Time to take her down. Next Labor Secretary? Scalia’s Kid. He’s got both the name and […]
Lying Liar Lies
Pres. Trump met with U.S. Special Olympics athletes and was asked about the ‘send her home’ chant aimed at Rep. Ilhan Omar at his rally. Trump claimed he tried to stop it and said, ‘I was not happy with it – I disagree with it.’
Watch the video and let me know in the comments if it looks like he was trying to stop it.
Song of the Day 7/18: Johnny Clegg, “Scatterlings of Africa”
South African musician and anthropologist Johnny Clegg, who died Tuesday at age 66, had a brief window of exposure in the U.S. back in the ’80s, when apartheid came under increased pressure from most other industrialized countries. Clegg’s bands Juluka and Savuka, each formed by Clegg and a native African, broke the country’s laws simply […]
DL Open Thread: Thurs., July 18, 2019
Arson At Japanese Animation Studio Kills At Least 30. Extremely rare in a country with low incidents of mass violence. Right-Wing Nationalists Meet To Bury What’s Left Of The Conservative Movement. Didn’t know that anything was left of that movement. LGBT Supporters ThisClose To Victory In Virginia. They need to knock off one more intransigent […]
DEL Congressional Delegation DOES NOTHING as Trump intensifies attacks on four Democratic congresswomen
President Donald Trump stepped up his vilification of four Democratic lawmakers as un-American at a raucous rally on Wednesday, as Tom Carper, Chris Coons and Lisa Blunt Rochester continue to do nothing other than try to curry favour with racist Trump enablers in the GOP. I will be watching Blunt Rochester’s twitter feed today expecting […]
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