Year: 2019

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If Trump promises to quit and go back to being a reality TV character, I promise to watch every episode and buy lots of stuff from the show's advertisers.

Josh marshall lays out some basic thoughts about what happened. As they say - read the whole thing.

The President used extortion to cheat in the 2020 presidential election. He used military aid dollars meant to aid an ally against his Russian patrons in order to force Ukraine to intervene in the 2020 elections, in order to remain in office by corrupt means.

There are various crimes that get committed along the way. But that is the core of it. The President is delegated vast powers to act in the national interest and he has vast discretion to determine what he or she believes the national interest is. But when he uses those powers for his own personal or financial gain

According to 538.com in Virginia and elsewhere the Democrats overperformed (again) relative to thier "Partisan Lean"(1). Basically voters are still fucking pissed off at the Trump Party and are rushing to the polls to take it out on their local Trump Party Representatives. Politics has been nationalized. So, how will that anti-Trump Party energy look in Delaware? How will Delaware's Trump Party people do given the fact that it is a Presidential year, when even the most disengaged voters stir themselves to vote? Cathy Cloutier (SD-5) She is done. Not much to say about this, other than I doubt she even makes it to election day. Anthony Delcollo (SD-7) The Dems need a half-decent challenger, but Delcollo, like anyone representing the Trump Party in New Castle County is in deep, deep, deep trouble. Mike Ramone (RD-21) . He should already be naked swimming with the naked swimming club, but Karen Peterson prevailed on "Delaware Stonewall (not) Democrats" (c) to throw him a lifeline. Even if Peterson et al try the same thing again, Ramone is done. He is facing a strong challenger in Stephanie Barry, and being a member of the Trump Party is going to play even worse in that district this election. Good riddance. Pettyjohn and Hocker are deplorables who represent deplorable districts full of Fox News zombies who think "creation science" is science. They'll hang on, as will the SC representatives. Their names escape me. Kevin Hensley (RD-9) As a member of good standing in the Trump Party, Hensley should be very beatable in the 9th during a Presidential year. He isn't though, and that is vexing. If he was half the man he pretends to be he'd have quit the Party of Trump three years ago. That would be nice. Not happening though. He is a Trumper to the core. C'mon 9th District Dems, get it done! Jeff Speiglman (RD-11) The 11th is America's most forgotten Rep District. Nothing ever happens there. People are born, live there, and die without venturing out much. They view everything north of the canal as Wilmington. Speig's will hang on.

I never thought Joe Biden was dumb, but when he says things like this he sounds like a stone cold idiot.

“With Donald Trump out of the way, you’re going to see a number of my Republican colleagues have an epiphany. Mark my words. Mark my words,” Biden said at a DC fundraiser today at the Sidley Austin law firm. @samstein

Biden thinks his superpower is bipartisanship. It isn't. It's amnesia.

If Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren were one person (or if one of the two suddenly dropped out) the press could dispense with the nonsense that Biden is a strong…