DL Open Thread Monday 9/16

Democrats, especially those running for president or re-election, are demanding impeachment -- not of Trump, but of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, based on his lies to the Senate about…

Madinah Wilson-Anton is a Democrat running for state representative in the 26th RD

Viola to face a primary unless he steps down. https://youtu.be/tUfxBz-HoaE
I'm running for office because the system is broken, and we need to fix it. Our education system is unfair, and too many of us cannot afford the rising costs of housing and healthcare. It's time to make the system work for US. Go to http://MadinahforDelaware.com to get involved! #netDE
Wilson-Anton is a legit challenger who has already built support outside of and within the Democratic Party.

DL Open Thread Sunday 9/15

The New York Times published a long story about Deborah Ramirez' experience with Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's during his time at Yale and found that yes, actually, it was…

Kathleen McGuiness

Even though McGuiness is only nominally a Democrat, this kind of thing reflects badly on every Democrat. There is no way this should be allowed to continue and it shouldn't just disappear without a public rebuke from the Governor.

Reparations for Slavery, Reparations for Jim Crow, Reparations for Today

When people say dumb fucking shit like "I never owned slaves" to me, I ask them. "What's the longest you've ever stood in line to vote?" If you are white the answer is typically maybe a half hour. I've never waited longer than ten minutes. If you are black the answer could be "all day and into the night." American mistreatment of slaves has never ended. We've run a "war on drugs" as a pretext to mistreat the grandchildren of enslaved Africans. We put heavy industry in the neighborhoods of African Americans. And now we are closing polling places where the decedents of slaves reside.

DL Open Thread for Sept. 14

Democratic dithering over their sort-of impeachment inquiry is being used against them by the Trump Department of Justice, which is arguing Congress doesn't deserve to see grand jury testimony from…

Fox News Suggests Gun Owners Should Kill Cops

A large part of the right-wing argument against gun sanity hinges on the idea that gun owners will be justified in killing cops if gun laws change.
JUAN WILLIAMS (CO-HOST): He said it, right there -- "You know what? If you have a gun that's made for the battlefield, you shouldn't have it in your home," and he explained his position. I think that's -- not only you saw the response from the audience, Dana, the other people on stage all said Beto, you did a great job. JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): So, you think that people going door to door, taking legally purchased weapons is a good idea? WILLIAMS: No, no, no. I think -- look, that's fear mongering, talking about "Oh, you gotta go door to door" -- WATTERS: -- Because that's actually going to cause more violence. ... WATTERS: This is going to cost more lives than mass shootings would cost. WILLIAMS: No, come on -- WATTERS: You're kidding me? You are going to go to people and say, "Hey, hand it over, give it the hell to me?"
So...Gun sanity will result in dead cops, so we must keep the laws as they are. While Chris Coons doesn't like ruffling the feathers of gun radical snowflakes, Beto did a great job getting these bloodthirsty motherfuckers on the record.