DL Open Thread Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021

Are the media invested in ending American democracy? Sure seems that way to a lot of people, including Margaret Sullivan of the Washington Post, who's hopping mad that the Eastman…

Breaking: Steve Smyk thinks some of his Leg Hall Colleagues Cheated to Win – But Who?

This creep-show, Smyk, spoke to an audience of a-holes, crackpots and lunatics who think Trump is still President of the United States. Rather than inform them what they are doing is flatly un-American and anti-constitutional, Smyk agreed with them that election fraud is a problem in Delaware. However, he stopped short of naming names and saying who, among his Leg Hall colleagues cheated their way to electoral victory.
“There’s no one silver bullet” to solving the problem of election fraud, Smyk said. “It comes down to all of you. Too many people have enjoyed their freedoms and they don’t recognize we’re about to lose them.”
Via Delaware Life 

DL Open Thread Wednesday September 29th – “Both Sides”

From 1642 to 1651 the English fought a series of civil wars that ended with King Charles v1.0 killed and King Charles v2.0 in exile. Having suffered under successive horrible Kings, the first thing the English did after getting rid of the King was look around for a new King. Except for a few kooks and crackpots, nobody could conceive of a country without a King in charge. As a fish is unaware of the fact that it lives in water -the English were unaware of the fact that monarchy was not some inviolable natural law, but in fact bullshit. Bothsiderism, Glorious Moderation, The Benevolent Virtues of Centrism, these are all lazy but widely accepted paradigms. They are world-views based on nothing but consensus. They may have worked to explain the world for a while, but they could not be more toxic now. That's the bad news. The really bad news is that it takes generations to change consensus world view...and we don't have 50 years, let alone generations.

After seemingly hammering Republicans for blocking debt ceiling, NBC News host Chuck Todd then falsely blames “both parties”

WRITTEN BY ERIC KLEEFELD

In a frustrating display, NBC News host Chuck Todd came so close to giving an accurate presentation on the facts of the debt ceiling debate in Congress — in which Republicans are obstructing a necessary measure to avoid the U.S. government defaulting on its debts and plunging the economy into a catastrophic meltdown. But at the end, he reverted back to a both-sides framing that had no basis in reality. “As we expected last night, we got another clear example of just how dysfunctional Congress is right now,” Todd said on Tuesday’s edition of MSNBC’s MTP Daily. “As Mitch McConnell promised they would, Senate Republicans blocked a bill to temporarily fund the government and raise the debt ceiling. That leaves the government heading toward a shutdown on Thursday, and a much more catastrophic fiscal crisis in just weeks.”

Fun With Maps

False advertising--of a sort.  Consider this a redistricting hot-stove league thread. Timely because the General Assembly will hold a Redistricting For Dummies session tonight.  Since I fit that profile, I…

Coons “Infuriated” With Biden

Nota bene - this is Biden's bill. Lowlife motherfuckers like Coons and his fellow moderates are trying to fuck up Joe Biden's bill.
  Coons expected Biden to start twisting House progressives’ arms during their White House meeting last week. But we’re told by sources in the progressive camp and another senior Democratic aide that the president has neither asked progressives to drop their demand that the reconciliation bill pass in tandem with BIF, nor pressed them to accept a stand-alone vote on BIF this week — at least not yet. This has infuriated Coons.
Via Eschaton & Politico which uses "moderates" in place of Coons but since Coons paragon of moderates, I went ahead and fixed it.

Republicans are working hard today to steal the next election

It is not controversial to say that Republicans are laying the groundwork for stealing the 2024 election.  It isn't "hand wringing" - it is a simple statement of fact.  It is happening in the open.  The jokey "election audit" in Arizona was part of it.  The dumbassery scheduled for Milford tomorrow is part of it. Throw enough sand into the gears of democracy, allow angry imbeciles to stew in some ginned up outrage for long enough, and they are more than half-way there.