Year: 2022

The Clintonite wisdom embodied by the headline has held the Democratic Party in its thrall for going on 30 years now.  In spite of the mountains of  evidence that it is pure bullshit and should have been shit-canned years ago, it has the survival instincts of Rasputin. And yet... all of my yelling on a shitty little blog in Delaware feels like it is beginning to pay off.  

We are supposed to be the workers’ party. Democrats must be that party again. We must sharpen the difference between us—historically, America’s party of workers—and the party of big business. Many are waking up to this reality. As inflation continues to batter families’ bank accounts—and the president’s poll numbers—even free-traders of yesteryear are beginning to admit the problems of a labyrinthine supply chain stretched across the globe. And for the first time in my memory, there’s real momentum to take action to fix it. Democrats just passed the kind of industrial policy we haven’t seen in many decades, to build out domestic supply chains of key inputs like semiconductors. It will create the kind of jobs that too many communities have lost. And it sends a clear message to these Americans that we have not forgotten them. None of this requires compromising on our values. A commitment to populist economics and fair trade isn’t just compatible with a commitment to social justice—the two naturally go together. One need only read Martin Luther King’s dozens of speeches to unions, and ponder what he was doing when he was killed, to remember the deep connection between workers’ rights and civil rights. A relentless focus on populist economics wins out over Republicans’ manufactured culture war.

Not Breaking News: The Mayor doesn't work for the people who live in the Southbridge neighborhood of Wilmington. He works for the rich white people that he hopes to move in there and the rich white developers that hope to make some bank from moving them in.

Attorney Mark Bankston, representing Sandy Hook parents that Alex Jones' falsely accused of hoaxing the gun massacre that killed their children, told a Texas judge today that Alex Jones' phone…

A bunch of election denying Trumpist Nutbags won last night in swing states.  Joe Scarborough thinks it is great news for Democrats because they are so crazy.  I'm not sure that math holds up. What's going on in the Sussex Recorder of Deeds GOP primary? Do you really have to go full on GunNut-Patriot-MAGA-shithead to fill this office? Speaking of primary races, we are 41 days out and if you can help out directly, money is nice. If five people give $20.00 to DeShanna Neal today to help her defeat Kop Kabalist Larry Mitchell, I'll match that $100.

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 found 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.

In addition to Julius and Augustus, other Roman Emperors attempted to name months after themselves, but they didn't stick.  August had been Sextilus but 8 BC, it was renamed in…