DL Open Thread: Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Trump Paid Taxes–In China. We should have known. He accused the Biden ‘crime family’ of hoovering up money from China. Meaning, it was the real crime family that had its tentacles in China.
DeJoy Weaponizes Post Office To Promote Voter Suppression. Eliminates Postal Police. Bars Congress From Postal Facilities. If Biden wins, he will have overcome the most concerted effort to suppress the vote in history.
McConnell Administers Death Blow To COVID Relief. Rethugs are terrified of having to vote. You know, to help the American people.
Amy Coney Barrett Served On Boards Of Anti-LGBTQ ‘Christian’ Schools. I know it won’t matter, but it should.
Trump: ‘I’d Rather Be In Philadelphia’. Or Mar-A-Lago. Anywhere but in Erie, which is where he was.
‘Relational Organizing’. An addition to the progressive toolbox. They’re using it in Alaska. I know that one Delaware legislative campaign is adopting it. Pretty simple when you think about it.
Key Vote-Counting Win In North Carolina court. This will help counteract the postal service slowdown.
How Bloomberg’s Florida Investment Is Forcing Trump To Cut Spending Elsewhere. Too many lumps popping up in his political mattress (my new goal: one horrible analogy every day until the election).
The People Of Praise Cult That The Democrats Unilaterally Declared Off-Limits. Can we get real Democrats to replace Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein please?
Lower Slower Delaware Experiences COVID Spike. Mouthbreathers not wearing masks. What could go wrong?
What do you want to talk about?
not to reopen this can of worms….. (heheh) but the insanely poorly executed and clearly fake Hunter’s lap top conspiracy makes me more convinced that trump greatly exaggerated his symptoms as some kind of stunt. he’s trying literally everything at this point… up to and including trying to get Adam Schiff killed. expect him to give some sort of “take your country back” tweet before this is over.
Assuming polls can be trusted (they cant) MOST of this country wants him and the magats gone. No doubt they will try to coup…. but the one glimmer of hope is that the GOP-backed coup in Bolivia has already failed. Morales is back in charge. There is going to be a shitshow temper tantrum. Maybe not Civil War level, but more than likely somewhere between Waco and the Whiskey Rebellion
stay safe friends.
Yes, it makes total sense that a guy who could fuck up a one-car funeral is the same guy who could hatch and carry off a conspiracy that would require the coordinated efforts of dozens of players, each of whom would have to play his role convincingly and without error.
Yeah, right.
but they didnt. there was mixed messaging on his severity and most of the certainty was just guess work based on what they “werent” saying.
I already said, i concede that he tested positive and coughed all over chris christie for fun. All I think is fake is the hospital stunt. It was probably a set up for that ‘superman moment” he wanted to have. It didnt work bc his base already thinks he’s god and the rest of us were actually hoping he’d go wheezing.
This laptop shit…. complete with participation from the Delaware PD, Fox News, Rusty dills (lol) and the Congressional GOP… is just another spaghetti at all moment.
Putting the People of Praise cult off limits was a smart calculation. Republicans were all-too-ready for Dems to provide an opportunity to call us anti-Catholic. To use the cult in the hearings would have first required Dems to explain “This thing isn’t really Catholic, it is an extremist fringe cult” and when you’re explaining, you’re losing.
The media would have amplified the anti-Catholic charges. And Republicans would clutch their pocket Constitution and huff about “No religious test for office!” It would marginally alienate Catholics, and this election may come down to thin margins. Worst of all, exposing the cult wouldn’t change the outcome of the hearings. No benefit.
This is a fucking cult, has nothing to do with Catholicism.
Democrats have become so Stockholm Syndromed that they would enable a member of a rigid cult to ascend to the Supreme Court rather than risk some approbation.
As they say at Wimbledon, ‘new balls, please’.
Here is The Campaign Pink Rally put together by Mary Ann’s List, and featuring the incredible female candidates who are running in Delaware this year:
https://www.facebook.com/maryannslist/videos/2986877944751141/UzpfSTEwNTE2MjkxNDM1MjU4MzoxOTQ3MTE3MDUzOTc3MDM/
I’ve been meaning to bring this point up for some time: I have never, EVER, seen the synergy among and between candidates as I have seen with this group of progressives who are seeking to win their first terms in office. I believe that this group will bring a special bond to Dover that will make enacting progressive legislation much more likely. They share a common generosity of spirit.
This potentially important nugget from Talking Points Memo:
“Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, a longtime Biden ally and friend, is seen as a top contender for secretary of state, and he has been increasingly vocal about foreign policy in recent weeks. He wrote an essay in Foreign Affairs and participated in a recent panel discussion on the future of U.S. foreign policy.”
Good for the Delaware congressional delegation, bad for policy towards Israel.
“Longtime Biden ally and friend” is a flat-out lie. IIRC Biden, whose actual longtime friend and ally was Tom Gordon, pointedly snubbed Coons when Coons was NCCo executive.
Maybe 10 years qualifies as “longtime.”
Coons is nothing more than an eloquent sycophant whose political career should have ended with a trouncing by Mike Castle in the race for Biden’s old Senate seat. Without the intercession of Christine O’Donnell and the Tea Party, Coons would have been consigned to the dustbin of Delaware history.
Coons has less chance of serving as Biden’s secretary of state than Gordon does of leading the FBI.
He might not lead the FBI, but let’s see if Joe throws his old pal a bone.
How about the Bureau Of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms? He has MORE than a passing acquaintance with at least two out of three.
Just make sure that the confiscated hooch is accounted for…
I think you are behind the times on this Biden- Coons relationship. Coons was Biden’s strongest surrogate during the primary, often and effectively speaking for him when Biden’s chance to be the nominee was slim.
That does not make them “old friends and allies.” Bullshit will be called out as bullshit whenever it is presented as anything other than bullshit.
Ain’t my first rodeo, pard.
Behind the times? Because I know the history?
Yes, Coons plays the sycophant well, so now he’s Biden’s man. Not my point. My point was the relationship was mischaracterized in the linked account. It was aimed at the messenger, who made an assumption about the relationship based on its current state that isn’t true.
This is called “correcting the record.” Why does that offend you? Do you think it reflects badly on one, the other or both? Perhaps Biden should have thought of that when he stood up for Gordon and cut Coons. True, Coons’ willingness to overlook the insult pales beside the cravenness of Trump toadies like Graham, Cruz and Rubio, and can even be spun as humility and turning the other cheek. But I see no reason to not talk about it.
I don’t much care whether Coons is being considered for State. He’s smart and diplomatic, he’s just a coward, and his interest in Africa could well make up for his sycophancy on Israel.
Were he nominated and confirmed — hey, at last, a real test of his bipartisanship! — it would at least open the Senate seat, raising the possibility of filling it with a a vertebrate.
Assuming LBT is pointing toward Carper’s seat in ’24, it would be interesting to see who the party would choose as Coons’ replacement. But I doubt it comes to that.
I think you are behind the times on this Biden- Coons relationship. Coons was Biden’s strongest surrogate during the primary, often and effectively speaking for him when Biden’s chance to be the nominee was slim.
The point in the article was that he’s got a relationship with Biden that points to Coons being considered for Secretary of State. I think that’s a fair assumption.
Behind the times? Because I know the history?
Yes, Coons plays the sycophant well, so now he’s Biden’s man. Not my point. My point was the relationship was mischaracterized in the linked account. It was aimed at the messenger, who made an assumption about the relationship based on its current state that isn’t true.
This is called “correcting the record.” Why does that offend you? Do you think it reflects badly on one, the other or both? Perhaps Biden should have thought of that when he stood up for Gordon and cut Coons. True, Coons’ willingness to overlook the insult pales beside the cravenness of Trump toadies like Graham, Cruz and Rubio, and can even be spun as humility and turning the other cheek. But I see no reason to not talk about it.
I don’t much care whether Coons is being considered for State. He’s smart and diplomatic, he’s just a coward, and his interest in Africa could well make up for his sycophancy on Israel.
Were he nominated and confirmed — hey, at last, a real test of his bipartisanship! — it would at least open the Senate seat, raising the possibility of filling it with a a vertebrate.
Assuming LBT is pointing toward Carper’s seat in ’24, it would be interesting to see who the party would choose as Coons’ replacement. But I doubt it comes to that.
Lauren Witzke really not hiding her colors at all now. She’ll be saying the n-word by election day at this rate.