DL Open Thread Monday September 27th 2021

Coons’ Super Secret Bipartisan Caucus coming out of hiding any minute now.  

However, in reaching across the aisle and creating the bipartisan committee, Coons said it has been “thrilling” to see how important climate change has become to Congress members.

Thrilling! 

Coons really is a fucking piece of shit.  Providing cover to the GOP by flogging this bipartisan nonsense morning noon and night.  While McConnell continues to state in plain English that Republicans will never provide a single vote to anything significant.   Who is the audience for Coons’ bipartisan bullshit?   I’m seriously asking because he is increasing sounding like an unhinged lunatic.  

Wasn’t Deutsche Bank one of the many shoes that was going to drop on Tump any minute now?   Whatever happened to that shoe?  

Angela Merkel’s Party Narrowly Loses To Rivals In Germany Election

Germany’s Social Democrats narrowly won Sunday’s national election, projected results showed, and claimed a “clear mandate” to lead a government for the first time since 2005 and to end 16 years of conservative-led rule under Angela Merkel.

The centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) were on track for 26.0% of the vote, ahead of 24.5% for Merkel’s CDU/CSU conservative bloc, projections for broadcaster ZDF showed, but both groups believed they could lead the next government.

Dummies 

Britain says it will issue thousands of emergency visas to foreign truck drivers to help ease supply chain problems that have led to fuel rationing and empty shelves at supermarkets. In the aftermath of Brexit, thousands of foreign drivers left the U-K, since they could no longer work visa-free. And now ordinary Britons are feeling the effects.

On this date 1779 John Adams negotiated Revolutionary War peace terms with Great Britain.  Among the Americans on hand, Jebediah Coons argued that in the interest of moderation, England should still control 6 or 7 of the newly free colonies.  “I believe we can still come together and work out our differences. There are many good people in England.”  Coons said complete missing the point of having won a war for independence.