Archive for September, 2021
Song of the Day 9/30: The Replacements, “Can’t Hardly Wait”
Listening back to the Replacements, which I do fairly frequently, I’m struck by how far out of their way the band had to go to prevent Paul Westerberg’s punchy, melodic songs from becoming hits. Years of drunken performances and other self-sabotaging behavior — indie cred in those days required not just indifference toward but active […]
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 memo, laying out how Mike Pence could have thrown the election to Trump on Jan. 6, has gotten almost no attention from the mainstream media. […]
With No Black People Around to Hassle, Beat Up, or Kill – State Trooper Forced to Harass 14-yr Old Girl
If you think cops are just out to fuck with people, this story will not disabuse you of that notion.
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.”
Song of the Day 9/29: Son Volt, “Livin’ in the USA”
Son Volt’s 10th LP, “Electro Melodier,” released in July, continues Jay Ferrar’s turn toward political lyrics since Trump’s election. The music, though, fits right in with the Americana/roots furrow he’s plowed his entire career. I haven’t noticed any big market for this sort of thing, but the album has gotten some of Farrar’s strongest reviews […]
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”
Song of the Day 9/28: Bob Dylan, “Tomorrow Is a Long Time”
Bob Dylan, now 80 years old, yesterday announced the resumption of his Never Ending Tour, which took its longest break since 1984 because of the pandemic. This probably won’t make the setlist this year — I’m not sure Dylan’s reduced vocal flexibility would do it justice, and the woman he wrote it for is now […]
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 plan to attend the virtual meeting. You can, too. Right here. With that out of the way, let’s look at what might ultimately happen during […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday September 28th 2021 – Patriots Proof Goes Poof!
Notice the difference? When first announced they breathlessly claimed “We have proof!” Now, it is just “initial findings”. I guess stringing along nit wits isn’t just for pillow purveyors anymore. Or maybe Julianne Murray figured out that going full-blow J6 insurrectionist isn’t a great look for an AG candidate? Sept. 17 Yesterday: h/t […]
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.
Read This, Then Sign The Petition!
It’s finally dawned on people just how corrupt the supposed development at Ft. DuPont actually is. As you know, I’ve written about it since its inception. This article provides all the backstory you’ll need. Read it. (I need the page hits.) Delaware’s two least ethical legislators, joined by a legislator who got out of Dover […]
Coons’ “LOOK AT ME!” Bipartisanship is Directly Damaging Joe Biden
By promoting a false media narrative about “moderates” vs “progressives” Coons is directly fucking over Biden. Josh Marshall lays it all out. For months we’ve had this intra-party debate presented as one between “progressives” and “moderates.” Often that gets personalized as AOC and Bernie versus Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema. This is demonstrably false.
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