DL Open Thread Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021

Quote of the Day: The contract between a Trumpist politician and their voters runs a little something like, “I will enrich myself while exacerbating every problem that lands on my desk, but in exchange for the measurable decline in your quality of life, I will lie to your face about who’s to blame, allowing you to bury your head in the sweet, soothing sand of resentment,” and honestly, the base seems more than happy with these terms.

Shower Cap’s Blog

A winter storm is scheduled to hit Delaware this afternoon, with snowfall possibly lasting through Tuesday morning.

All of Donald Trump’s impeachment lawyers quit yesterday, apparently because America’s Biggest Loser wanted them to argue that the election was rigged. Also, too, the Lincoln Project is prepared to sue shitbag “lawyer” Rudy Giuliani for defamation.

If you detected a certain dirty trickster’s dank, musky odor hanging over the Jan. 6 Putsch, it might be because several signs point to the involvement of a certain dank, musky dirty trickster with a tattoo of our previously most evil president on his back.

People are starting to figure out that we can have a democracy or a surveillance society, but not both, andunregulated social media is the problem. Whether we’ll do anything about it remains to be seen.

England is in bad shape these days thanks to its own inept autocrat, Boris Johnson, who has managed to fuck up both Brexit and the pandemic and now has to deal with an American president who doesn’t like him or trust him.

Finally, you know times have gotten hard when there’s a nationwide shortage of Post Grape-Nuts.