DL Open Thread Tuesday January 31 2023
The grift is strong in this one:
Thank you to everyone who came out to Saturday’s Sussex County Republicans event featuring (professional wokeness victim and “author”) Loren Spivack!
If you missed it, CNN can fill you on Mr. Spivack’s schtick:
In the center of town where the bureaucrats dwell
And the housing projects emit their own unique smell
And there’s nothing to buy or even to sell
Lies the corpse of the beaten Gorax.
Thus begins the self-proclaimed anti-environmentalist parody book “The Gorax,” copies of which were floating through the line of supporters waiting to hear Donald Trump at a South Carolina rally.
Loren Spivack created these Dr. Seuss-themed tales for the Republican set …
“The Gorax” is one of three books written in verse.
“There are about 20,000 of these in circulation,” Spivack said. “It’s pretty good for a book that’s in zero bookstores.”
The first, written in 2010, is modeled after Seuss’ classic “The Cat in the Hat” and lampoons the Obama administration. Spivack said he followed the initial printing with five new editions over the years. He followed with “The Gorax,” which targets former Vice President Al Gore. Gorax. Gore. Get it?
Hilarious stuff.
With his squeaker of a win, Old “Phone it in” Ramone is, not surprisingly, everybody’s odds on pick to be in his last year of Leg Hall service. These are the other finalist: Lawson (13%) accidental discharge(?), Ruth Briggs King (11%) boredom (?), Speigs (8%) & Short (8%). I’ll tag this post #predictions to return to it in 24 months and see how well we made out.
Via death, defeat, or disinterest – which DEGOPer is least likely to return to elective office after the 2024 election?
Mike Ramone – 39%
Dave Lawson – 13%
Ruth Briggs King – 11%
JEFFREY N. SPIEGELMAN – 8%
DANIEL B. SHORT – 8%
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Well we know RBK will be out by at least June because she’s said as much as she’s building a home outside the district and everyone has called her out for it.
I have it on good authority that this will be Hocker’s last term as he looks to retire, as well as Wilson. From what I have heard it sounds like Vanderwende wants that seat.
There will be lots of new blood in Leg Hall come 2025.
I was surprised nobody picked Hocker. I guess I kinda heard that about RBK but it didn’t stick. Trying to pay more attention to Suxco, but it is a little work.
What about Lawson? Does someone know something or the 13% just means he is old?
Inflation is slowing and the mass layoffs have already begun, mainly in big tech, but apparently enough of us haven’t lost our jobs yet, so the Fed is planning to announce another interest rate hike this week, guaranteeing we will overshoot a soft landing.
German companies say “They fire, we hire.”
It is appalling to see “Silicon Valley” become like the old rust belt company’s that fell into the practice of goosing the qrtly report (and thereby the stock price) by laying off people and showing a temporary blip in the P&L.
Just fucking stupid. The NSDAQ, NYSE and DJIA is everything.