Archive for October, 2020
DL Open Thread: Wednesday, October 28, 2020
Biden And Obama Give Great Speeches. Obama. Biden. I watched Biden’s Atlanta speech.No sign of ‘low-energy Joe’. It was a speech about reunification, and I loved it. Trump’s Omaha Rally, OTOH…. Elderly supporters left freezing for hours. So much for clinching that one electoral vote. Who Will Replace Kamala In Cali? If the D’s win […]
Song of the Day 10/27: Fleetwood Mac, “Dreams”
These are strange times in America, and not just because one of our political parties has gone full fascist. We live in a country where a 42-year-old song can re-enter the pop charts just because an Idaho warehouse worker posted a video of himself lip-synching the song and drinking cran-raspberry juice as he skateboarded down […]
Schumer and Ocasio-Cortez Respond to GOP Court Packing
AOC: Expand the court. Republicans do this because they don’t believe Dems have the stones to play hardball like they do. And for a long time they’ve been correct. But do not let them bully the public into thinking their bulldozing is normal but a response isn’t. There is a legal process for expansion. Schumer: […]
A: Republicans Aren’t Hobbled By Having Chris Coons on Their Team
Q: How do Republicans get away with it?
Duncan Black at Eschaton makes a good point: There’s something to be learned from the “we’re just doing this” way Republicans go about things. A way to stop something from being portrayed as “controversial” is to just assert that it isn’t.
Of course, the GOP isn’t burdened by having to drag around Chris Coons. A Senator who is, at his best, hand-wringing deadweight, and at his worst, working for the other side.
DL Open Thread: October 27, 2020
Rethugs Lock In Minority Government. The will of the people will be thwarted by the Supreme Court–unless Democrats do something bold. Which would be, what’s the phrase, out of character. McConnell: ‘They Won’t Be Able To Do Much About This For A Long Time”. Dems should take him up on this thrown-down gauntlet. A Plan […]
Phil Shawe setting piles of money on fire in Gov race
If you are a regular reader of caribbeannewsglobal.com you already know that John Carney “has fueled ‘The Delaware Way’ where a few elite and mostly white men stay in power while communities of color and low-income residents lose ground,” You know that because TUSK STRATEGIES spokesman, Chris Coffey, is working overtime to attack “the underhanded […]
Which Delaware Statewide candidate is going to post the biggest win vs their entirely execrable DEGOP opponent?
True. Witzke (sp?) is a train wreck, and Coons is strangely popular – but she got 350 people to donate $950 (on average) to her campaign. I’d put Witzke at about 38% right now. I’m thinking Carney is going to win by the gaudiest margin. He is a wartime Resident (of the Gov’s office). Also, […]
Song of the Day 10/26: The White Stripes, “Seven Nation Army”
It’s been an awful year all over the world, which might help explain why a woman confronted Edinburgh, Scotland, street musician Matt Grant last week by grabbing his guitar from his hands and smashing it on the sidewalk. Deprived of his means of earning a living, Grant posted an appeal on GoFundMe. He got a […]
DL Open Thread: Monday, October 26, 2020
Meadows Admits It: Pandemic’s Out Of Control: Further complicating Trump’s campaign-trail pitch was an extraordinary admission Sunday from White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows that the administration had effectively given up on trying to slow the virus’s spread. “We’re not going to control the pandemic,” Meadows said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “We […]
Song of the Day 10/25: Jerry Jeff Walker, “Mr. Bojangles”
It almost has the certainty of scientific law: Any hell-raising musician will reach his commercial peak with a song that’s slow and sentimental. It certainly proved to be the case for Ronald Clyde Crosby, better known as Jerry Jeff Walker. Like Townes Van Zandt, another Texas outlaw-country legend, he managed to become famous despite never […]
Non-Predictions Thread
In a normal year I’d have probably put up an electoral college prediction post about now. I’m just not feeling it this year. I hope the country turns out to be filled with sane people. I also hope the DEGOP gets kicked in the balls by voters vigorously and repeatedly. I guess there is a fair chance of that happening, but that’s as far as I’ll go.
DL Open Thread: Sunday, October 25, 2020
Pence Team Tests Positive. Won’t stop Pence’s campaign schedule, though. WH tried to keep it hush-hush. Dems Target Georgia. Biden is heading there on Tuesday, Kamala and Jill have already been there. If they can pull Ossoff across the finish line, that would be huge. The Left Taking Up Arms? Interesting, don’t know what to […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 24, 2020
Trump Signs Executive Order To Destroy Civil Service. While nobody was looking. Pure evil. Biden had better have his transition team prepare about a thousand Executive Orders for him to sign on Day One. Whether He’s Reelected Or Not, Trump’s Debt Collectors Are Pounding At His Door. His post-presidency could well be a living hell […]
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