Biden is a Liar (or a really gullible dupe)
I'm not saying I won't vote for him, but I know know I'm going to have a very tough time voting for him knowing he was either lying or so…
DL Open Thread Tuesday January 18th 2022
Unless they are scared off by Trump, the GOP presidential primary is going to be a donnybrook because they all view Biden (or Harris) as incredibly beatable. With the changes they've made on the state level regarding how elections are run, they are probably right. Anyway, I guess I hope Liz Cheney runs, but I don't see that happening.
As usual the country's assholes will be choosing a "King of the assholes" to represent them. FWIW, here is the NYT on Trump v DeSantis:
Song of the Day 1/17: Peter, Paul and Mary, “Leaving on a Jet Plane”
If John Denver wrote this song today he'd have to include something about getting his Covid test before being allowed to board. Peter, Paul and Mary were an oldies act…
Happy MLK Day
"I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to capitalism that I have failed…
DL Open Thread Monday Jan 17th 2021
Another very successful weekend of me avoiding all "news" is in the books. I have no earthly idea what may have happened over the last 48 hours but I can guess that "0MG! InFLaTI0N!!" "Dems in Disarray and "Biden Presidency in Deep Trouble" stories loomed large.
Fortunately none of that stuff has any real world impact. It is all just a jolly game for DC cocktail circuit regulars. So what is on your radar? While you ponder that question here are some is one "Delaware" headline of note per the google news algorithms.
DL Open Thread: Sun., January 16, 2022
Trump Voters Dying In Droves. In places where Rethugs can't afford to have them die. To the tune of between about 1300 and 1900 Trump voters being subtracted from the…
Song of the Day 1/15: Sufjan Stevens, “Decatur, or, Round of Applause for Your Stepmother!”
The irony of Republicans trying to restrict the teaching of history when they're ignorant of it in the first place is lost on Republicans themselves, so they don't recognize when…
DL Open Thread: Saturday, January 15, 2022
What Democrats Need To Do On Voting Rights Now That Democrats Sabotaged Voting Rights Legislation. Depressing, I know: With the door slammed shut this week on federal legislation to create…
Simple explainer on why democracy in America will lose, unless Democrats wake up
This is why Coons' mania for "Bipartisanship Above the Republic Itself" is so pernicious and so unforgivable. Using a whiteboard, author and Ohio politician David Pepper posted a video (linked…
Sinema’s Statement Out Coons’es Chris Coons
Sinema saying that Dem leadership should've worked harder to build GOP support for voting rights is pure Chris Coons Bipartisanship Über Alles. "I wish there had been a more serious…
Is it time for liberals to go on strike against the radical centrist Democratic Party?
Look. "Angry liberals" will get blamed for the failure of the radical centrist Democratic Party anyway, so maybe it is time to earn that scorn and reprobation we are going to be getting no matter how badly centrist bomb throwers fuck shit up?
Maybe it is time for all left of center Dems to quit the party or at least provide zero votes (or money) to the party or to any Dem candidate until it reigns in the centrist zealots who are committed to failure?
"Liberals" have been the most loyal but most routinely ignored part of the Dem coalition. It seems to me that it is time for the party to pay a price for being in the thrall of radical centrism.
DL Open Thread: Friday, Jan. 14, 2022
How The Big Quit Happened. An absolute must-read from Mother Jones: Quits are a Janus-faced piece of economic data—a sign of how bad our work politics have gotten, and also…
No More Presidential Debates
I can't say I'm sad about this. The televised "debates" have become pretty dumb. It is all just trolling for gotcha moments and elevating the nonsense candidate to the level…