Archive for October, 2019
“We’ve Got This Asshole in the Fucking White House”
A reporter for the local Washington, D.C., affiliate was interviewing Nationals fans at a bar in the wake of their World Series win last night when she asked one guy for his thoughts. He explained that Washington needed the boost for the reason he cited in the headline. Add that to the Washington fans watching […]
DL Open Thread: Thurs., Oct. 31, 2019
AG’s Office Ends ‘Walks’ On DUI Arrests In Sussex County. Worked around the incompetent and possibly corrupt Sussex Court Of Common Pleas. John Atkins breaks out in a cold sweat in 3-2-1… Clever ‘Carrot And Stick’ In Impeachment Package: Trump has plenty of due process rights…unless he stonewalls. Mitch McConnell Is In Deep Doo-Doo. Just […]
Nobody is really defending Trump anymore, they are defending their own bad choices and low character
You may have a strident Trump “supporter” in your life. I’d encourage you to have some empathy for them. As they parrot Laura Ingram and other Fox News personalities, they aren’t defending Trump at this point. They are defending themselves against the grim reality that they are gullible dummies and racist losers who have been taken in by a second rate swindler.
Even the least self-aware Trumper at this point knows that Trump is indefensible. So what appears to be continuing Trump support is really nothing more that a last ditch grasp at dignity and self-respect.
Songs Of The Day: Several By The Band
The Band’s self-titled second album helped me make it through my freshman year of college. Not a cure for homesickness, exactly, but a balm to salve doubts as to whether I belonged. It remains my favorite album ever. Most of you already know ‘The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down’ and ‘Up On Crickle Creek’. […]
Coons gave Joe “You Lie!” Wilson a pass but scolds Democrats
In September 2009, Addison Graves “Joe” Wilson-R (SC-2nd) interrupted a speech by President Barack Obama to the joint session of Congress by shouting “You lie!”
Did Chris Coons pull a big sad about that? Did he pen lachrymose Op-eds lamenting Wilson’s lack of civility? Did he eschew ever working with someone as lacking in civility as Wilson? Fuck no he didn’t.
You know what he did instead? After shit dies down a bit, he reached out to Wilson and in Coons-style bipartisan obsequiousness, he celebrated working with Wilson on a “bipartisan, bicameral bill to help drive investment in new energy technologies”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) today introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to establish a nonprofit foundation for the U.S. Department of Energy that would channel private-sector investments and accelerate the commercialization of innovative technologies in energy.
Coons is terrible. There is nothing Republicans can do to offend Coons, and there is nothing liberal Democrats do that doesn’t offend him.
DL Open Thread: Wed., Oct. 30, 2019
Delaware Leads Nation In Per Capita Subsidizing Of Horse Racing. I think it’s reached the point where horse racing can be characterized as animal abuse. If so, Delaware is the #1 abuser. In fact, only Pennsylvania has spent more in total to prop up this failing ‘sport’ since 2010. It may be just me, but […]
The Joe Biden Campaign is the Hillary Clinton Campaign Without the Super Delegates
In October of 2007, Joe Biden scorched Rudy Giuliani by saying that the GOP front runner for that party’s nomination was “probably the most under-qualified man since George Bush to seek the presidency [and that] there’s only three things he [needs] to make a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11.” It was the […]
Song(s) Of The Day 10/30: The Beatles-Abbey Road Medley, aka The Long One
Only two days remaining of my nostalgic trip back to 1969. This was how the medley was originally ordered before some late edits, which is why ‘Her Majesty’ appears where it does:
The world is on fire from climate change, Madinah Wilson-Anton wants it on the agenda
As we’ve noted that, in terms of any practical results, our DC congressional delegation is totally AWOL on climate change. That’s a shame, but I guess the temperature is fine in the DC Bubble.
Out here where regular people live, we are fortunate we have people like Madinah Wilson-Anton pushing to get climate change on the agenda.
Here are some highlights, but read the whole thing to see how climate action complements and builds on Wilson-Anton‘s social and economic justice focus.
– 100% renewable energy by 2050
– Creating a Green Bank to fund clean energy infrastructure
– Funding programs that will bring community solar and house retrofitting to low-income and working-class communities
– Passing a Green Amendment to make clean air, clean water, and a healthy environment a right
– Strengthening the complete communities legislation to create more walkable, sustainable communities.
Coons Doubles Down on Being a Complete Dick as Anti-Coons Momentum Builds
Hiding behind Michelle Obama’s skirt in a Washington Post OpEd, Coons (being an aloof, out-of-touch, elitist ass) continues playing the role of civility police, because civility is how reprehensible elitist ghouls tolerate each other’s company in board rooms and yacht clubs, and why shouldn’t the proles be bound by the same rules of decorum, even when the country and the constitution is being ass-raped on a daily basis?
Just pipe down, everyone. Civility and bipartisanship will save us!
Meanwhile the anti-Coons movement is growing This is Esquire’s Charles Pierce on why Coons’ “respect the office” pretext is pure bullshit.
Trump’s full 40 minutes of gloating about the killing of al-Baghdadi is just astonishingly bonkers
It is only coming out in dribs and drabs, because like medusa – nobody can look directly at it without suffering from immediate and irreversible petrification. For example, I only heard the part about special forces “not using the front door” and the “K-9, I call a dog” from watching John Oliver last night.
It alone is grounds for removal from office, but for some reason the press is avoiding it as a stand alone story. It should be front page, banner headline:
The President is a Full Blown Fucking Whack-job!
Whose Government IS It, Anyway?
The Paradee Family’s, apparently. Government by, of, and for the Paradee family. The Paradee name has been big in D circles for decades. The old man was chair of the Kent County Democratic Party. John got a job as a staff attorney when I worked for the Senate. While we had some excellent staff attorneys […]
DL Open Thread: Tues., Oct. 29, 2019
American Patriot To Describe The Trump-Zelensky Call. He speaks Ukrainian and he listened to the call. No need for the whistleblower any more. BTW, the toxic Laura Ingraham tried to use his accent to imply he was a spy. North Carolina Rethugs Lose Bid To Continue Gerrymander. And, no, they can’t use the old districts […]
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