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DL Open Thread Tuesday April 4 2023

This story reminded me:

Sarah McBride to Primary Tom Carper.  

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) teased a potential challenge to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) in a wide-ranging interview with Politico. Speaking from her Capitol Hill office, Ocasio-Cortez touched on her sometimes tense relationship with her party’s leadership, including Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and she also teased a potential “higher office” in her future. The 33-year-old congresswoman was asked directly about rumors that she may be getting ready to put in a primary challenge against Gillibrand, who is up for reelection.
Leslie Stahl is 81 years old.  GET OFF THE GODDAM STAGE, YOU HACK!  

Why did 60 Minutes sacrifice the last remaining dregs of its once-noble reputation to act as Marjorie Traitor Greene's fascist mouthpiece? CNN asks the question, which in and of itself is kind of ironic

The billionaire beggar.
Trump issues a plea for cash tonight to fight his indictment: “If you’re doing well because all the things I’ve done have brought you wealth and prosperity .. it would be really great if you can contribute .. Show the Left that nothing can destroy the greatest political movement”
The sad part is Delaware's 10 Most Gullible Dumbfucks will gladly give. Also, as Alby noted - this diverts at least a little money from gun purchases.  

Republicans Don't Fucking Care About Your Children Dying

It's pretty fucking simple: If you won't do anything at all about the number one cause of deaths in children and teenagers in this stupid country, you don't get to say you care about children. It really is that easy. No matter what policies you support, good or shitty, you are a fucking fraud if you won't step up on the number of and easy access to firearms, especially high-powered weapons with large magazines. If your house is on fire but you're ignoring that because you want to spackle a hole in the wall, then your minor repair is worthless. That wall's gonna burn, too. After another shooting at another school, this time in Nashville, with 3 kids and 3 adults murdered by a shooter who had bought their guns legally, Republicans practically lined up to tell parents everywhere that they don't fucking care if your children die. Senator John Cornyn from Texas, who was a Republican co-sponsor of the mild gun legislation that was signed into law in 2022, said, "I would say we’ve gone about as far as we can go" on any additional gun control laws. Profiles in chickenshit.
 

Judge Puts UD In Crosshairs

On the face of it, this lawsuit appears absurd: https://www.wdel.com/news/ud-facing-class-action-over-covid-campus-lockdown/article_7f81b176-d247-11ed-b285-a3de00196067.htm A federal judge has granted class-action status in a lawsuit in which current and former students of the University of…

DL Open Thread Monday April 3 2023

Only 4 Mass Shooting events so far this April with 6 dead.   That's a slow start.  The Delaware Sportsman's Association is plugging away to get that number up.
Delaware joined the deadly tornado club this month.  I wonder if there is some connection between all of these deadly storms and climate change?   Hmm...?  We may never know.  Just one of those unfathomable mysteries.  
"The transgender movement" is militant and dangerous according to the rightwing hate machine.  The GOP and Fox News is ratcheting up the vitriol and prepping for an "end times" battle with militant and dangerous "activists" that only want to be left alone.   

TUCKER CARLSON: The trans movement is targeting Christians

The Romans gave this month the Latin name Aprilis[1] but the derivation of this name is uncertain. The traditional etymology is from the verb aperire, "to open", in allusion to its being the season when trees and flowers begin to "open",

DL Open Thread: Sunday, April 2, 2023

Wisconsin At 'Huge Tipping Point'. The stakes in Tuesday's election: In addition, ironclad Republican majorities in the Wisconsin Legislature, abetted by favorable district boundaries, have largely limited Evers to blocking…

Dear Republican Primary Voters, Please Nominate Trump!

Republicans, Speaking for all liberals and most Democrats - PLEASE NOMINATE Trump! Thanks! I know he could beat Joe Biden. As the only person who allowed that possibility vs Clinton, I still allow that crazy shit happens. But this isn't 2016.
In order to defeat an incumbent President Biden in 2024, Trump needs to expand his electoral base; simply making that base more intense and upset doesn’t necessarily help him. There is no indication whatsoever that an indictment will convince undecided voters to favor Trump, or that it will convince Biden supporters to switch sides. Indeed, the indictment may simply add to the air of criminality that has followed Trump for most of his career, first as a real estate financier, then as a reality television star, and then as President. And let there be no doubt; the great many Americans who intensely dislike Donald Trump and would never consider casting a vote for him as President seems awfully happy that he’s under indictment.
All true.  Trump hasn't won over a single additional voter since he rode the golden escalator down to the lobby of Trump Plaza.  But the electoral X's and O's aside, the main reason why I’m begging for Trump to be the nominee is that it makes the next Presidential election a clear cut referendum on this questions: Should the United States continue to be a democracy? That is the one and only thing all people will be voting on. A Trump nomination sweeps all other questions aside. Whereas a DeSantis nomination could muddy the waters with CRT, anti-trans mania, oil leases, and any number of attacks on Biden, a Trump nomination makes the election about one thing – whether a government conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal can long endure. I may be naive, but I think enough Americans would support that proposition and therefor Biden (or Harris, or really any Dem) can win that argument.

America is despairing to death

Late stage capitalism is hitting the US harder than the rest of industrialized world. There are many reasons for this (disinformation, unwalkable built environment, educational & consumer debt, wages kept low through government intervention,  insurance attached to employment, union-busting, skyrocketing rents, etc)  but a big one is the greedy oldsters keeping all the socialized medicine for themselves.
People in what is by far the poorest, most deprived, and most drug-plagued area of England (Blackpool) now have the same life expectancy as the average American, and vastly better health than people in West Virginia ...The most startling aspect of all this is the extent to which these astonishing gaps are not COVID-driven, but rather a product of an epidemic of drug overdose deaths, gun violence, suicide, and alcohol-abuse related maladies, i.e., what Anne Case and Angus Deaton identified as “deaths of despair” a decade ago. ...These are the symptoms of very serious social breakdown. And it’s hardly a coincidence that the one American age cohort subjected to the horrors of socialized medicine — the elderly — is the only cohort that has health outcomes that are as good as those found in countries that don’t have Freedom ™.

I hate most lighting

Republicans think that America has gone to shit.  I agree that it has, but not because Mexican drag queens are giving out free abortions & blow job instructions in every elementary school.  America has gone to shit because we've adopted sterile white light as the standard lighting, which is gross and unsettling. While we've always had some paces lit by awful florescent tubes, but these days too bright, and too white lighting is impossible to escape.  We ate a new restaurant last week and when my wife asked me how I liked I said it was horrible.  The lighting ruined it. I may be turning into Jimmy McGill's brother Chuck, or I might be on one side of the bell curve when it comes to lighting but today's lighting bothers the fuck out of me.   There are even rooms in my own home that I don't like going into because the light is awful.  And sadly, it looks like the dial only turns in one direction - toward worse and worse lighting.