Archive for August, 2022
Song of the Day 8/27: Stanley Beckford and the Starlights, “Soldering”
A footnote to “Sara Smile” by Hall and Oates, the song I wrote about a few days ago: Its B-side was another tune from the duo’s Silver Album, a reggae-flavored cover called “Soldering.” After Eric Clapton had a hit covering “I Shot the Sheriff” in 1974, rock musicians started to pay more attention to Jamaican […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 27, 2022
Yes, The Feds Had Loads Of ‘Probable Cause’ To Raid Mar-A-Lago: The details contained in a search-warrant affidavit and related memo crystallize much of what was already known about the criminal probe into whether Trump and his aides took secret government papers and did not return all of the material — despite repeated demands from […]
Outrage!
This FBI search of Maru Lorga is an OUTRAGE! We need to see the search warrant! What are you hiding?
Ok.
This search warrant for Maru Lorga is an OUTRAGE! We need to see the affidavit! What are you hiding?
Really? Ok.
These redactions on the affidavit for the search warrant for Maru Lorga are an OUTRAGE! We need to see the redacted parts! What are you hiding?
Uh… The name of the Trump family member cooperating with the FBI, and the redacted names of Trumps “criminal confederates” ? Really, you want to see those?
Coons Gravely Concerned About Biden’s “MAGA Republicans” Comments
Coons expressed disappointment and concern over Joe Biden’s use of the term ‘MAGA Republicans’ to disparage Republicans who contend that Donald Trump won the last Presidential election.
“I’m just not a fan of confrontational politics.” Coons stated on CNN’s Reliable Sources “I really think that if we continue to seek bipartisan compromise by assuming the fetal position and allowing our friends and colleagues on the other side of the isle to kick us repeatedly, they will soon become exhausted from kicking.”
Yeah this is satire. Barely. If Coons releases a statement, I trust you, dear reader, to let me know.
Which DE Republicans are NOT MAGA Republicans?
Who isn’t a MAGA Republican is a much easier list to build than the “Which DE Republicans ARE MAGA Republicans?” list. Mike Ramone? He poses as a NOT MAGA Republicans, but I doubt it. Also Kevin Hensley. He tries to pose as a NOT Republican, but that is bullshit as well. Are there any DEGOPers […]
Song of the Day 8/26: Isaac Hayes, “Theme From Shaft”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona If you have anything bad to say about Isaac Hayes’ “Shaft,” there can be only one response: Shut yo mouth. We’re talking ’bout Shaft. John Shaft. And we’re talking about “Shaft,” the exhilarating orchestral funk song, and “Shaft,” the 1971 “blaxploitation” movie. These movies turned previously ignored black actors into […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 26, 2022
Don’t Intellectuals Have Anything Better To Do? ‘Some’ argue against using the term ‘progressive’: But a backlash has been brewing. Some thinkers on the left question whether embracing “progressive” implies a certain level of comfort with the idea that history is guided by a hidden hand and somehow moves in a way that makes each […]
Unsurprising News – Leader of major Texas Anti-Abortion group arrested for soliciting a minor
Luke Bowen speaking at the Right to Life Panel at the Texas Youth Summitt Sep 19, 2020. Luke Bowen, the Political Director and the public face of Texas Right to Life, was arrested earlier this month for solicitation of a minor. The Forced Pregnancy/Rapist Rights organization fired Mr. Bowen on the same day he was […]
“Sarah McBride to Primary Tom Carper” Part 1
That is a headline I expect to read in about a year. Provided Carper doesn’t croak in the meantime. Why do I think Mcbride and not Blunt Rochester is going to take out the shambling corpse? Well, I’ll tell you. But first, someone check my math. Carper’s current term (the 116th Congress) started in January […]
“Feminists need rape.”
I don’t think even having buddies like this is enough to disqualify Vance from polite DC, bipartisan society. J.D. Vance, the Republican nominee for Senate in Ohio, is typically described as the bestselling author of Hillbilly Elegy, a venture capitalist, and a Never Trumper who came to embrace Donald Trump. But that snapshot doesn’t do justice to […]
My Influencers
I’ve been aware of electoral politics since I was four. My father ran as a Republican for New Castle County Sheriff in 1958. The Delaware Democratic party was still a Dixecrat party and Black registrations did not begin to switch over in any numbers until the JFK race. Anyway, I remember the rush when the […]
Larry’s Been Lyin’–BIG Time!
A. I understand that ex-cops struggle with Prevarication Withdrawal. All those years of lying to people they pull over, lying to suspects, lying on the witness stand, make it difficult, in some cases impossible, to return to a world where telling the truth matters. B. I also understand how politicians are prone to embellish their […]
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