DL Open Thread, Tuesday July 27th 2021
We’ve been entirely too soft on Vaccine resisters
CNN)Justice Department lawyers have determined that federal law doesn’t prohibit public agencies and private businesses from requiring Covid-19 vaccines — even if the vaccines have only emergency use authorization, according to an opinion posted online Monday.
The opinion from the department’s Office of Legal Counsel paves the way for more federal agencies and businesses to require vaccinations.
Just when it seemed like some sanity was creeping in…
Sean Hannity assures audience he’s “not urging people to get the COVID-19 vaccine”
Sean Hannity issues stern rebuke to those calling him “pro-vaccine”: “Why are they saying something I didn’t say?”
Some things are beyond snark.
Josh Hawley’s sad “patriotism”
‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a’…what was that again?
Ah, yes. ‘Scoundrel’.
Yes, kids, don’t learn that your country was founded on slavery, genocide and theft. Learn instead that it was founded by a bunch of people who didn’t want to pay their taxes — goddamn, now that’s noble! Well worth the lives of tens of millions of Africans and Native Americans and the exploitation of immigrants and…America, fuck yeah!
El Som or anybody. I still believe a person who could conceptualize the phrase ‘Chink Broads’ needs to step down asap. I know you referred to him as a ‘nonentity’ and a person with poor mastery of the rules of grammar. But I know nothing about him: overall, what has his career been like? Accomplishments? Positions? Bueller??
SW: He’s been a back-bencher. He built his political career on the popularity of his dad, who was a long-time Wilmington pol, and extremely well-liked. At least two of his siblings are fantastic people. That’s one reason why Gerald is such a cipher.
In the brief two-year period when I worked for him along with two other legislators, I saw that his appeal shone through in conversations with constituents, because he either knew them, or his family had known them, and he could tell anecdotes all afternoon. Unless you were paying attention, you wouldn’t have noticed that there was no ‘there’ there.
He also engaged in ethically-dubious behavior which he saw as contributing to the greater good. He worked with Bud Freel, Wilmington Council member and DELDOT official, to move public money around so that it ended up paying for the paving of the parking lot at the St. Anthony’s Senior Center, which was not, um, legal. (BTW, I cautioned him against another ethically-dubious scheme b/c I thought it might get him in trouble as it had another legislator. Instead, I’ve been told that he fulminated against me in Caucus with a ‘How DARE he tell me how to spend my money’ tirade. One reason my services ‘were no longer required’.)
Until co-sponsoring the $15 minimum wage (you’ll notice that two labor guys were the co-sponsors), his only other legislative ‘accomplishment’ of note was his push for red light cameras in Wilmington. Which, as we were to find out, was not much of an accomplishment at all. In his early years as a legislator, he was neither pro-choice nor pro-equal-rights-for-all. If you’d like, I can dig up proof from the DL archives. He changed his views as he went along, which I suppose was a plus.
I have referred to his verbal ‘skills’ as ‘garbledygook’. He can’t put together a coherent sentence, much less the statements attributed to him in his ‘apologies’.
I agree that he needs to step down ASAP. It’s not just Asian Americans he has denigrated, but every woman as well.
“I have referred to his verbal ‘skills’ as ‘garbledygook’. ”
Not to pile on, but Brady’s own legislative bio has a typo, or maybe a Freudian slip:
“As a former Wilmington City Councilman from 1996-2006 and a native Wilmingtonian, Gerald foraged strong ties with the City”
That typo has been around for at least a decade. We’ve even quoted it here before.
Once a forager, always a forager.
Off-topic, but I’m so old I can remember when Bruce Reynolds spent $80,000 of his Suburban Street Money paving the parking lot of his employer, William Penn High School.
True. Of course, that’s a public facility.
Hey, Tom Sharp took his street funds and paved the roads down by his new beach house. After, of course, he’d decided not to run again.
Tom Sharp was the most despicable man I ever met in Delaware politics, but then I never met Vance Phillips.
” a person who could conceptualize the phrase ‘Chink Broads’ needs to step down asap.”
Morally and on principle, yes. And I guess there would be some deterrent value in making a quick example of Brady. But pragmatically, would Delaware and the 4th be better off with a hasty special election with party-designated candidates, or with an open primary on the usual primary schedule? I suspect “open primary,” but I honestly don’t know yet. Sometimes it’s best to count to ten before you decide whether to jump off the cliff. Or push someone off, in this case.
Puck is about where I am. For one thing, I’ve been around a lot of old white guys who are stupid, clueless racist and misogynist. That is to say that aren’t scheming and dangerous “Proud Boy” racist and misogynist like, currently being roasted on a spit in hell, James Vaughn.
Does that excuse the guy? Fuck no.
But I don’t see him doing any real damage if he sticks it out and maybe it is ultimately better for progressives. So there is that. And I am all about young hungry progressives beating mobbed-up old white guys in Dem primaries.
Sounds like George W. Bush Lite: amiable enough guy from a political dynasty you might enjoy a beer with. I appreciate and understand your arguments above. But a) I have two xx chromosomes; b) college roommate and best friend is Korean-American. So I’m heading for the cliff.