DL Open Thread Tuesday August 2 2022
We killed an Al-Qaeda guy. Huzzah for us, I suppose. The Jan 6. rioter who carried gun to US Capitol got sentenced to 7 years in prison. Didn’t Trump say he was running on a platform of pardoning all of these guys? (checks notes) Why, yes. He did say that.
Two people were ound dead in charred car within California wildfire zone. Sad but I wonder if they “believed” in climate change? I wonder if the 200 missing and dead people in the Kentucky floods believed in climate change? This line of thought is verging on very horrible victim blaming on my part, but someone needs to be blamed at some point and we can’t blame corporations, as that would be like blaming the scorpion for stinging, or the baby chicks for chirping.
Pelosi expected to visit Taiwan, Taiwanese and US officials say.
The flag of the Republic of China consists of a red field with a blue canton bearing a white disk surrounded by twelve triangles; said symbols symbolize the sun and rays of light emanating from it, respectively.
The flag was originally designed by the anti-Qing group, Revive China Society in 1895 with the addition of the red field component in 1906 by Sun Yat-sen in his speech. and was made the official national flag of the Republic of China (ROC) in 1928 by the Kuomintang (KMT).
By 1949, the KMT was decisively defeated by the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) in the Chinese Civil War and withdrew the ROC government to Taiwan, where the Kuomintang ruled under martial law until 1987.
Stoopid DELDOT Trix. They recalled a vanity plate b/c of ‘perceived profanity’. The plate read FCANCER:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fcancer-license-plate-delaware-kari-lynn-overington_n_62e8562ae4b0d0ea9b79f612
It’s now in court. DMV doesn’t want to drop it, considers itself the Appointed Protector Of Public Sensitivities. This is positively Carneyesque in its blinkered stupidity:
Wonder what they would say if alumni of Fordham University wanted special plates for members of their affinity group?
of if Franklin Dicks wants to get one?
Should we care about an old man in Al-Qaeda? Great a bad guy dead but how many americans has AQ killed in the last decade vs. how many have been killed by domestic terrorists? I’ll celebrate when we start droning them.
Here, here! Drone the fuck out of those guys.
Need that like button.
As ever powerful stupidity from Dover, later I’ll feign concern. But must admit the bit with the license plate gets me, believe we all can agree FCANCER. Would also love to see a “like button”. And as ever let the drone fuckery begin!
Even with Trump running on a platform of pardoning the Jan 6 traitors, I’ll bet Coons will be able to muster some surprise, saddness and even shock when it happens.
Like climate change, I think the thing that bugs me about the ongoing coup is that it is happening all out in the open, with people who should be doing something, doing absolutely nothing.
For Coons the most pressing thing right now is promoting his bipartisan civics education bill.
is jail really the best place for J6 traitors? wont they basically be locked up with like minded A-holes and can recruit even more?
Such is the tradition of revolutionaries, jail time usually makes them even worse.
Maybe we should consider hangings.
I see my influence is finally taking hold.. lol
How about this new story Jordan wrote for the Call?
https://delawarecall.com/2022/08/02/lawsuit-gop-asks-chancery-court-to-declare-vote-by-mail-unconstitutional/
Pa. today ruled vote-by-mail constitutional:
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/pennsylvania-mail-voting-law-act-77-mclinko-20220802.html
Jordan and I spent the morning in the law library looking at all the docs for this. (Please consider supporting the Call.)
It’s interesting because they originally wanted an immediate injunction that wouldn’t allow ballots to go out. Once the thing got expedited to a September hearing they dropped it. General election ballots go out like 10 Oct.
Don’t care about the primaries… hmmm. wonder why. It’s a real head scratcher…
REV – ??? Nobody has been more against Trumpism and the threat to democracy than I have. We just disagree on how to deal with it.