Archive for November, 2019
DL Open Thread: Fri., Nov. 22, 2019
Friday, November 22, 1963: A Date Which Will Live In Infamy. What is lost in the history of the event is the way that it traumatized so many. The assassination of President Kennedy has been with me and my contemporaries since the event happened. An event that has informed and changed our lives. Which is […]
DL Readers & Lurkers Presidential Instant-runoff Voting
The sidebar poll doesn’t reveal much, so put your top three choices in the comments section and we’ll run an “Instant-runoff voting” poll. (e.g. Biden, Klobuchar, Buttigieg)
Ballots will be initially counted for each commenter’s top choice. If a candidate has more than half of the vote based on first-choices, that candidate wins.
If not, then the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated. The commenters who selected the defeated candidate as a first choice will have their votes added to the totals of their next choice.
This process will continue until a candidate has more than half of the votes.
…that would be evil socialism
Me: We need health care like they have in Europe.
Him: We can’t have healthcare like Europe because it is too expensive.
Me: Why don’t we get a little money from all the very rich guys?
Him: We can’t get even a little money from all the very rich guys because that is evil Socialism.
Me: So American was an evil socialist country from the end of World War II until about 25 years ago?
Him: We can’t get even a little money from all the very rich guys because that is evil Socialism.
Looks like the RNC paid $94,800 to Books-a-Million to make it look like Don Trump Jr.’s book was selling
Tweets New York Times investigative reporter Nick Confessore today: New FEC disclosures show a single large RNC payment of $94,800 to Books-a-Million in October, a few days before “Triggered” was released. An RNC spokesman confirmed that the expenditure was connected to their promotion of Don Trump Jr.’s book. Purpose of disbursement: donor mementos.
Song of the Day 11/21: Gordon Lightfoot, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”
When the ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, it was among the worst maritime disasters in the history of the Great Lakes, but it’s a safe bet that few outside the shipping community would remember it today were it not for Gordon Lightfoot’s ballad commemorating the event. Rather incredibly, […]
DL Open Thread: Thurs., Nov. 21, 2019
We Need A Low-Carbon Labor Movement. More than just a call-to-arms, this piece is a blueprint. Trump, Zuckerberg, Thiel Held Secret Dinner Meeting. A meeting of this Unholy Trinity is news. You can bet that the discussion did not center around overcooked steak, although it likely took place over overcooked steak. Facebook must be broken […]
Dem Debates
I didn’t watch much. I don’t like the sniping, especially when they agree on all the important stuff if not all the details.
Anyway, I don’t have much to say about the candidates individually, I just love the stage full of such a diverse selection of Americans. Gays, Hawaiians, Old Dudes, Women Senators, Rich Guys, a Taiwanese-American… Pretty awesome. I’m old enough to remember when this type of thing would be composed entirely of white guys who went to Yale or Harvard.
Coons promises to give Mitch McConnell veto power in the Senate
This article in the Prospect does a good job delving into the elitism that is the crux of Coons unwillingness to represent regular Delawareans in the US Senate.
Coons does want the Senate to change – by becoming even more conservative than it already is. Along with Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine, Coons organized a letter, signed by 61 senators, pledging to keep the filibuster in place, which would make any sort of progressive legislation that much harder should Democrats take control of the government next year. In September, during a discussion about the Senate and bipartisanship with former Senators Joe Donnelly and Jeff Flake, Coons suggested that it might not be possible to have a Senate that’s both diverse and doesn’t “produce irreconcilable discord.”
Someone’s Gonna Hafta Explain This to Me, I’m Not Sure What It Means
The other day Michelle Malkin, a longtime player in RWNJ circles perhaps best known for founding Twitchy, was dropped from the roster of Young America’s Foundation (YAF), an organization that books conservative speakers at colleges. She got the boot for her outspoken support of a white supremacist YouTuber named Nick Fuentes. Malkin is the daughter […]
Song of the Day 11/20: Dawn Landes and Bonnie “Prince” Billy, “Dark Eyes”
One of Bob Dylan’s many quirks is that he periodically fails to appreciate some of his best material. He left “Farewell, Angelina” off “Bringin’ It All Back Home.” “Blind Willie McTell” would be an obscure demo if The Band hadn’t rescued it from oblivion. And he dashed off this apocalyptic lament in 1985 only because […]
DL Open Thread: Wed., Nov. 20, 2019
Trump Drives South Korea Into China’s Arms. His demand for $5 billion for troop assistance drove our allies away. It’s official: American policy now favors North Korea over South Korea. The beneficiary? China. A big story that is largely being overlooked. For Those Rethugs Blasting Lt. Col. Vindman For Wearing His Military Uniform To Yesterday’s […]
Highlands Bunker – Death Knell of the Delaware Way
RE Vanella heads to Jessica Scarane for Senate HQ on launch day to talk with the campaign team, the volunteers, and the candidate herself. All of the organizing we’ve been talking about for the last year, all the infrastructure that is being built up, this is what it looks like in action.
Show Notes:
Gaslighting Now Standard Procedure in Politics and Media
The Hill, once a respected Beltway publication that has devolved into an attention-seeking rag that employs conspiracy theorists as “journalists,” asked a bunch of Republican senators — none of the asswipe fire-breathers, mind you, just the few excuses for “reasonable” ones — if they would work with Joe Biden should he be elected president. Guess […]
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