DL Open Thread: Friday, May 8, 2020
Sussex County Poultry Workers Are Merely ‘Canaries In The Coal Mine’. Chicken is more important than people. BTW, not a single state official is quoted in the article. Reporter misfeasance? Definitely. State malfeasance? Almost certainly. This is going on all over the country. Governors leaving testing policy to the plants themselves, meaning virtually no testing. God protect our meat supply no matter how many ‘warriors’ (Trump’s word) perish in the process(ing plants). Request to John Carney: Shut down the plants until every worker is tested. I never thought ‘King Chicken’ would apply to our governor.
20.5 Million Jobs Lost Inn April. Unemployment At 14.7%. These numbers only reflect what happened through mid-April.
Yep, DOJ Dumps Flynn Case. The rampant corruption continues unabated. Which is what happens in a dictatorship. Trump again refers to those who pursued the case as ‘human scum’. ‘Never seen anything like this’, experts say. One remaining question: WWJD, what will the judge do?`
Trump Dumps (That Word Again) CDC Guidelines. There is nothing not subject to propaganda in this administration, not even keeping people safe, healthy, and alive. Fortunately, the Associated Press got a copy of the leaked guidelines, and you can read them in the article.
Everything Falls Apart, Ctd. US. Global. The latest carnage: 1,256,972 confirmed cases and 75,670 deaths in the US. That’s over 2200 more deaths in the past 24 hours. As to states reopening, this should help quell the spread (not).
Tara Reade: A Reporter’s Conundrum. A damn good story about how one reporter went about trying to get all the pertinent facts.
Trump Supporter Concocted False Sexual Assault Claim Against Anthony Fauci. Mike Dinsmore flagged this for us yesterday. BTW, this Jacob Wohl guy is a real piece of work.
TSA Hoarded 1.3 Million N95 Masks They Didn’t Need. Even while other agencies begged for them.
How Supreme Court Makes It Easier For Cops To Kill With Impunity. I learned something, bet you will too.
What do you want to talk about?
Joe Biden is not popular, but people still say they’ll vote for him over Trump.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/5/7/1943341/-In-a-battle-of-unpopular-nominees-and-both-of-them-are-Joe-Biden-is-still-beating-Trump
Al, what, if anything, do you think Biden should be doing? He’s not exactly demonstrating any sort of leadership.
Dropping out of the race. Say it’s for health reasons, say whatever, but he’s a tired old man who isn’t up to this challenge. You can only Weekend at Bernie’s the public for so long.
When this was only about defeating Trump, he might have been the best candidate for the job. That is no longer what this election is about. It’s about rebuilding the country, and a return to the past isn’t the solution. It never was, but now it should be obvious to all.
I get your point, but have a hard time agreeing with it … because I fear it is too late. Who’s the better alternative? Bernie (OK, he’s got some fans on this site, but he’s not going to rebuild the country)? Harris, Warren, Klobuchar, Mayor Pete — all of whom couldn’t sustain momentum through the primaries? Trump would be salivating at the prospect of facing someone he can label as a Democratic loser. No matter how you slice it, barring a remarkable recovery of the nation’s health or economy, Biden still has the best shot at beating Trump. While I had hoped that Harris or Warren would have prevailed in the primaries, I regrettably feel now that our best hope is for Joe to stagger through November, restore some empathy and dignity to our government and then turn the reins over to a more assertive leader. I’m thinking this through as I write, but what would be so bad about Joe serving as president for one year, resigning and retiring to Rehoboth and giving a new leader three years to establish herself before the 2024 election?
I could live with that. I just know that Joe is running on fumes, and we need a leader now, not a year from now.
At any age the only kind of leadership I would expect from Joe is choosing good people to execute a turnaround from Trump-world.
I’m hoping Joe’s low profile is a deliberate strategy; if so it certainly is working.
No love for Joe, but intense hatred for Barr, this is a pardon by default so Trump doesn’t have to own it. As for the skeptical judge let’s see what happens, but it’s very obvious the fix is in for this one.
MAGAt zombies are taking to the streets of Delaware again to spread the disease. Time to turn the fire hoses on them.
Thank you. I have said this. And fire hoses are perfect.
Armed activists escort black lawmaker to Michigan’s Capitol after coronavirus protest attended by white supremacists
” Rep. Sarah Anthony, a Democrat whose district is in the capital city, Lansing, told Yahoo News in an interview that her security detail, made up of local black and Latino activists, came together because the armed protesters bearing white supremacist symbols represented a “different level of terror.”
It’s about time.
Very big story out of Chancery Court. Chancellor rules that Delaware’s property taxes are unconstitutional.
https://eu.delawareonline.com/story/news/2020/05/08/judge-delaware-property-tax-system-unconstitutional-changes-coming/4889814002/
I say reassess at the current property value every time the property is sold…. who can argue with this? Also, reassess every 10 years on average home sale prices within gerrymandered districts, lol that aught to go over well in Henlopen Acres.