Archive for May, 2023
Anyone who thinks sober centrist dipshits can’t move any further to the right – just wait ten minutes
Anything that drags the GOP further to the right also moves our dipshit centrist Dems to the right. The holy & pristine “middle” exists and by god, they will find it. PAC to draft Tucker Carlson for president launches A political action committee to get former Fox News host Tucker Carlson to run for president […]
The monumental GOP hissy fit that would ensue makes the 14th Amendment solution all the more desirable
Growing List Of Dems Urge Biden To Cite 14th Amendment To Sidestep McCarthy’s Debt-Ceiling Hostage Crisis A growing group of Senate Democrats is urging President Joe Biden to seriously consider invoking the 14th Amendment to declare the debt ceiling unconstitutional, a strategy that — if upheld by the courts — could avert a looming default […]
Song of the Day 5/19: The Who, “Bargain”
Seems Dodderin’ Joe Biden is doing it wrong again. After saying he wouldn’t negotiate on raising the debt ceiling — itself a negotiating stance — he’s now negotiating on raising the debt ceiling. This has unleashed a tsunami of punditry by giving them something besides Trump and gun massacres to talk about. Pete Townshend called […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 19, 2023
A Real Headline From Today’s Washington Post: “World Watches In Disbelief And Horror As US Nears Possible Default”. Apocalyptic, much? Here’s a sentence I can get behind: And foreign economists and policymakers are bewildered over why the United States has imposed a specific limit on its debt and then turned it into a political football. […]
“…unfortunately or fortunately.”
A Brief Observation on the Verdict Declaring Donald Trump Sexually Assaulted E. Jean Carroll There was a time in the not-so-distant past when it was just fine to sexually harass and assault women. Slapping a woman on the ass was supposed to be taken as a compliment. Discussion about women’s looks and their fuckability was […]
Yay Capitalism!
Millions of Americans in the past few years have run into this experience: filing a health-care insurance claim that once might have been paid immediately but instead is just as quickly denied. If the experience and the insurer’s explanation often seem arbitrary and absurd, that might be because companies appear increasingly likely to employ computer […]
Song of the Day 5/18: The Everly Brothers, “Gone Gone Gone”
Colorado Congressclown Lauren Boebert has been demonstrating those Republican family values again, this time by serving her husband with divorce papers. He reportedly didn’t take it well; the process server who delivered them said he sicced the dogs on him. I’m not sure if Don and Phil Everly wrote this about a romance or their […]
“Is Joe Biden the most horrible monster to ever run for President?”
The whole game for the GOP is raising enough wariness in the minds of Democratic voters to mute their election day enthusiasm. I can’t believe I still have to be saying some version of this every fucking day. And I can’t believe that enough dopes will fall for shit like this that it could work… […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., May 18, 2023
Last Session Day until June 6. Joint Finance Committee finalizing the budget until then. Meaning, in the unlikely event that Speaker Pete is true to his word, he has only 12 remaining Session days as Speaker after today. ‘True to his word’ being the operative variable. Here’s yesterday’s Session Activity Report. Good day in the […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 18, 2023
Three Headlines From This Morning’s NYTimes: South Carolina House Passes Six-Week Abortion Ban Texas Legislature Bans Transgender Medical Care for Children Montana Governor Signs Total Ban of TikTok in the State. The New Normal. Might As Well Add This One: A federal appeals court on Wednesday seemed prepared to limit access to a key abortion […]
Song of the Day 5/17: Samuel E. Wright, “Under the Sea”
A Florida man has set a new record for living underwater without depressurization — at this point, 78 days and counting. University professor Dr. Joseph Dituri intends to stay in Jules’ Undersea Lodge, which bills itself as the only underwater hotel in the United States (it’s at the bottom of a 30-foot lagoon off Key […]
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., May 17, 2023
Collegiality reigned in Dover yesterday. Don’t think there was a no vote anywhere on the Agenda. While collegiality isn’t necessarily ‘good’, as in unanimous passage of the corporate law package, it is in other cases, as in the unanimous vote on SB 9. Here is yesterday’s Session Activity Report. Someone even woke up John Carney […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday May 17 2023
Here is some stuff that happened… Is Carper really running? Roll Call is asking. Democratic Sen. Thomas R. Carper has yet to announce his plans as well and after Cardin, he had the lowest fundraising total among Democrats whose terms are up next year, raising just $195,000 in the first quarter. The 76-year-old incumbent has […]
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