How’d My Predictions Fare?
I said I wasn't going to make predictions, but I did. And I was pretty fucking close. I said Burns was going to beat Ramone by 5 votes and was…
DL Open Thread: Friday, November 11, 2022
The Death Of Social Media? Can't come soon enough for me. Good article, including a history of how we (well, not me) got to where we are: It’s over. Facebook…
Song of the Day 11/11: Eric Bogle, “No Man’s Land (The Green Fields of France)”
At 11 a.m. France fell silent for one minute to mark the end of World War I on the Western Front. It's a solemn day -- nearly 1.4 million French…
Return Day
In accordance with tradition, the guy in the top hat pulled the Wild West Lawman out of his burrow. Upon seeing his shadow the Wild West Lawman predicted another 4…
Coonsian Obsequious Apologies for Being Democrats are So 2014
Fetterman never apologized. He never went into a defensive crouch and tried to answer Oz's bullshit about crime. He was just mocked the shit out of Oz, said "Let's go…
Elections Should Be Decided by Merch Sales
Kari Lake is ranting today: “The people of AZ are sick and tired of elections being run like we’re in some banana republic. I was running against a basement candidate.…
Jesus Snubbed Mastriano
When voters said, "nah" and God the Father didn't show, Mastriano was banking on some last minute intervention by the Holy Spirit. Jesus had other plans. CAMP HILL, Pa. —…
Song of the Day 11/10: Al Kooper, “Brand New Day”
Al Kooper spent the '60s and '70s showing that he could do almost anything musically, from writing songs to playing as a sideman for Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Jimi…
Great News Out of Nevada (Via LGM)
The indispensable Jon Ralston: If Kelly hangs on in Arizona, which seems probable, the the Georgia runoff doesn’t affect control of the Senate. That’s doubly great news, as I can’t…
Inflation my ass. Voters Simply Don’t Like Republicans and Republicanism
Whereas all the DC-based big dollar, big brained campaign consultants and Chris Coons would have you believe that the path forward is to adopt slightly less mean spirited versions of…
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 10, 2022
The so-called mainstream media will never learn. Once again, they focused on the coming (and illusory) Red Wave to the exclusion, or at least diminution, of covering the ongoing attacks…
Return Day Returns to Georgetown
Shrouded in controversy over Georgetown's embrace of the confederate flag, "Return Day" is back. For the first time since 2018, a post-Election Day parade of the victorious and vanquished will…
Ageism
A breakdown of the mid-term vote by age and race reveals that white people between the age of 45 and 64 are the absolute worst. White people over the age of 64 are a close second, and white people 30-44 are not exactly superstars.
And yes...It is more than a little embarrassing to be in the demographic cohort most dedicated to toxic MAGA nonsense.