Archive for February, 2020
South Carolina Primary Results Open Thread
In 2016 Hillary Clinton beat Bernie Sander (73% to 26%) in the South Carolina primary. If Joe Biden wins but wins by less than 47 percentage point, that means Biden is doing terrible and Biden should do the country a favor and drop out.
See that?
I’m a pundit!! I just pundited THE FUCKING SHIT out of that analysis. My punditry is fucking dope.
Jess Scarane Online Fundraiser Update
The $500.00 donation is off. Thanks to all. I got a little side tracked this week with making sure everyone knows that Coons voted for and is Yale Law & Alfalfa Club buddies with Alex Azar, Trump’s guy in charge of gutting the CDC. So I didn’t hit this as hard each day as I hoped to, but it all twines together thought, doesn’t it?
Onward. It isn’t an election, its a movement.
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‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: Feb. 2020
The women rule, mostly, in this month’s bounty of great tunes. Enjoy! I just love me some Japanese math-rock! Damn, that one gives me chills. Spotify Time:
Song of the Day 2/29: David Seville, “Witch Doctor”
In a DL exclusive, sources tell us this guy was in serious consideration to be appointed Coronavirus Czar in the Trump White House, but aides couldn’t convince the president that the “witch doctor” and David Seville were the same person. They also had difficulty getting Trump to accept that “oo ee oo ah ah” had […]
DL Open Thread: Sat., Feb. 29, 2020
Potrumpkin Village Completely Unprepared For Coronavirus. Blames D’s For Criticizing (something the Rethugs never did during the Ebola scare, which was handled admirably by the Obama Administration). Blames media for inspiring stock market meltdown. Here’s what we know. Up until yesterday, virtually no significant testing was being done because public health agencies didn’t have testing […]
Song of the Day 2/28: Steely Dan, “Black Friday”
The coronavirus has infected one prominent American, a certain Mr. Wallingford “Wall” Street of New York City. His case has been marked by large, red, inky blotches and panic attacks. The Trump administration is doing everything it knows how to do for Mr. Street, including prayers and expressions of concern, but he showed no sign […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Feb. 21-27, 2020
1. Mayor Mike Announces Reelection Run. Read all about it in this WDEL interview. The gentrification of Wilmington is well under way. Given four more years, he and Buccini/Pollin will likely have succeeded in relegating those not championed by the Chamber to the margins. Nobody of any stature appears inclined to challenge him, though. I […]
DL Open Thread: Fri., Feb. 28, 2020
Pence’s Job? Silence The Scientists. This administration is not treating this as a public health emergency. To them, it’s a messaging emergency. Which is why these incompetents are once again going after a whistleblower who described just how unprepared the responders were. And, yep, Trump fired the entire US pandemic response team in 2018, and […]
Breaking: Bloomberg Staffing up to Spend $Millions in Delaware
Bloomberg staffing up to spend a portion of his fortune in Delaware doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Delaware is a state that isn’t positioned to absorb millions of dollars in media spending, nor is it going to loom large in delegates. And yet, Bloomberg is currently spending lavishly to hire a full time staff and peel as many Biden delegates as he can.
If Super Delegates Steal the Nomination from Bernie, It’s all over
I don’t know how you can say that Democratic insiders ARE NOT trying to deny Bernie the nomination through parliamentary chicanery when Democratic insiders tell the New York Times that…yes, they are trying to deny Bernie the nomination through parliamentary chicanery.
If this Democratic insider plan comes to fruition, it is all over.
Song of the Day 2/27: Little Willie John, “Fever”
This winter was the last time we’ll ever live through cold and flu season — from now on, it will be known as cold, flu and coronavirus season, because if the only thing standing between Earth and a pandemic is the Trump administration, dude, we’re getting a pandemic. Eventually we’ll all have the fever. Of […]
DL Open Thread: Thurs., Feb. 27, 2020
Mike Pence’s Brilliant Handling Of Indiana Health Crisis Was–Not Brilliant. ‘Praying away’ an HIV outbreak didn’t work. This is not a serious administration, which is why these losers are scrambling to reassemble the pandemic team that Obama had. Yes, The ‘Superdelegates’ Could Deny Bernie The Nomination. I will just say this–if he indeed is the […]
Our For Profit Health Insurance System Responds to the Corona Virus
People with insurance spending 3 hours on hold trying to get pre-approval for a blood test. People without it or with not good insurance….
After returning to Miami last month from a work trip in China, Osmel Martinez Azcue found himself in a frightening position: he was developing flu-like symptoms, just as coronavirus was ravaging the country he had visited.
Under normal circumstances, Azcue said he would have gone to CVS for over-the-counter medicine and fought the flu on his own, but this time was different. As health officials stressed preparedness and vigilance for the respiratory illness, Azcue felt it was his responsibility to his family and his community to get tested for novel coronavirus, known as COVID-19.
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But two weeks later, Azcue got unwelcome news in the form of a notice from his insurance company about a claim for $3,270.
We might find it hard to get ahead of a pandemic when the priority is stuffing additional riches in the bank accounts of billionaires.
-Via Eschaton
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