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Archive for March, 2023
23% of Americans are MAGA cultists & they run the assignment desks
23% of Americans are fucking idiots, and when that 23% says “jump” entire media establishment (and most centrists Democrats) leap out of their chairs, through the ceiling and into low earth orbit.
Most Americans perceive Trump has engaged in improper behavior. A plurality of Americans (46%) think the former president has done something illegal, and an additional 29% consider Trump to have done something unethical but not illegal. Only 23% of Americans say Trump has done nothing wrong.
UPDATED: A couple of thoughts on Presidents and Crimes
Trump is being defended in the “legitimate” media in some nonsensical ways. Here are a couple I’ve heard. There are many more.
1) Trump’s crimes aren’t really crimes.. For conservatives the only real crimes are street crimes. Crimes are things black people mostly do in cities. If a white person does something that appears to be a crime, they probably just didn’t understand the law.
2) “The President” cannot commit crimes by virtue of the fact that he is President.
This only applies to Republican presidents of course because they are the real Presidents. Also this immunity from prosecution extend to crimes committed by Republican Presidents that happened prior to becoming President (as in the Stormy Daniels case) because otherwise it would be “political” or something.
Song of the Day 3/31: Dewey Cox, “Guilty as Charged”
I’d like to see Donald Trump do this song when he appears in court. It’s one of the 33 tunes used in the 2007 movie “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story,” with John C. Reilly in the lead role. The film, a parody of the musician biopics that were so popular in the ’00s, didn’t […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, March 31, 2023
My thoughts on the Trump indictment. More specifically, the reaction to it. I don’t get this gnashing of teeth that this is the ‘weakest case’. It’s merely the first case that reached the point of being ready for indictment. You can’t view the case in isolation. There will almost certainly be an indictment in Georgia. […]
What happens when a political party nominates a hard core criminal?
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: March 2023
A great month of musical discovery, best this year so far: Didn’t know how to alphabetize artists whose first digits are #’s. So, I just started with this one: Newsflash: The Beths. Still good: A roots stalwart working out the lower keys on the piano. He should’a been bigger: Discovering bands like this is why […]
Grand Jury Votes To Indict Trump!
The steamy Stormy Daniels saga: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/03/30/nyregion/trump-indictment-news Lest you wonder, the LLC that was created specifically to launder the money was incorporated right here in good ol’ Delaware.
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, March 30, 2023
OK, I’m confused (said Captain Obvious). Until it’s adjusted, here is today’s Senate Agenda. No bills, but a message reading as follows: “The Senate will reconvene on Tuesday, March 30, 2023, at 2:15 PM.” Would it be impolitic of me to point out that there is NO SUCH DATE? A glitch, no doubt. I’ll update […]
Song of the Day 3/30: The Replacements, “Never Mind”
I was gonna go with something more involved, but I’m busy with houseguests, so never mind. If Paul Westerberg has ever explained the genesis of this tune from “Pleased to Meet Me,” the 1987 album the band recorded after dismissing wildman guitarist Bob Stinson, I’ve never found it. Some think it’s about Stinson getting canned. […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, March 30, 2023
Nazis Target The Trans Community. How else should I phrase it?: The Republican-dominated Kentucky legislature voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to override the governor’s veto of a bill that will create a host of new regulations and restrictions on transgender youth, including banning access to what doctors call gender-affirming health care. The bill, described by L.G.B.T.Q. […]
“Moderate” GOPers ignore Marjorie Taylor Greene as she threatens to kill the hostage (America)
All Republicans are complicit in this. “Alvin Bragg – he’s on the verge of breaking the law for bringing fake charges against President Trump and politically attacking the top Republican presidential candidate of 2024,” Marjorie Taylor Greene said. (See video, posted by Patriot Takes, below.) “I’m telling you right now, once we cross this line […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., March 29, 2023
I may, on exceedingly-rare occasions, be just a tad hyper-critical of the work of the Delaware General Assembly. So, let me be clear: There has never, EVER, been a more progressive and effective political body in the State of Delaware than the current Delaware State Senate. In fact, none is even close. Yesterday was a […]
Song of the Day 3/29: Joseph Arthur, “In the Sun”
Singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur once remarked that there’s something about this song that makes people want to record it for charity. Arthur wrote it in 1995, about a friend who died of cancer, shortly before Peter Gabriel discovered Arthur and signed him to his record company. Gabriel recorded it the next year for a Princess Diana […]
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