DL Open Thread Wednesday July 12 2023
It’s Sarah McBride on Pod Save America Day!
They gave the gay best friend from every romcom, Jon Lovett, the McBride Interview. (Not Delaware born, Dan Pfeiffer, who they often joke about returning to run against Coons.)
McBride is her usual steady as a rock centrist that you could feel okay bringing home to your far left parents. Lovett asks the questions that you’d expect the national media to ask. Mainly, how are you going to work with the Republican A-holes that comprise the majority. She is interviewed in the last segment, so you can skip to that, or just listen tot he whole thing and submit to the Pod.
I’ve been assimilated by the Pod Save America Borg for about a year now, so you won’t hear me complaining about how it skews toward centrist dipshitery. Nor will you bait me into saying that only the horrors of Trump keep them from going full Clinton. Nope.
Instead, if it comes up at all, you’d probably hear me my robotic voice talking about how Pod Save America is a no-bullshit conversation about politics hosted by former Obama aides Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer, and Tommy Vietor. And that it cuts through the noise to break down the week’s news and helps people figure out what matters and how they can help.
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Hey, lookie here. A state republican party even worse off than the DEGOP.
Minnesota GOP has just $53 in the bank with $334,000 in debt: FEC filing
Minnesota has not voted Republican in a presidential contest in over 50 years — the longest any state in the entire country has gone without doing so. But the GOP has still managed to elect a number of noteworthy Republicans from the state, from Rep. Tom Emmer, who previously chaired the GOP’s congressional fundraising arm to former Rep. Michele Bachmann, who recently argued that slavery was not “sinful.”
Years and years of major losses, however, appear to have taken their toll on the party, as it is now almost completely broke.
According to the latest filings with the Federal Election Commission, the Republican Party of Minnesota has just $53.81 in the bank — not even enough money to buy a single Amazon Fire tablet with Prime Day discounts applied. By contrast, the party is reporting almost $334,000 in debts.
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Cliffhanger Watch: Will this rogue supreme court make it illegal to collect taxes from the super-rich?
Not much of a cliffhanger actually.
Pod Save America is wonderful, but the accompanying shows, Pod Save the World and Strict Scrutiny which are about foreign policy and the Supreme Court are top tier
The Delaware Republican State Committee had $2,750.53 in the bank on December 31.
The Democrats had $66,000.
But they’re not $334K in debt.
I’d actually reverse that. Instead of her being the centrist you can bring home to your progressive parents, she’s the progressive you can bring home to your centrist parents. McBride’s policies are progressive, but she presents using more moderate rhetoric. I heard her talk in a presentation on social change about the power of using messaging that is accessible to the people who aren’t already on your side.
Excellent point. Like button needed.
I don’t know. Progressives have had to settle for Dems that are liberal on “social issues” but corporatists on economics. I guess I’d like to hear more about economic justice.
Everyone, who can afford them, has civil rights.
But on economic policy, she’s progressive. I remember hearing people upset that she supported new tax brackets on the wealthy in the GA. As far as I’ve seen, she’s been good on min wage and labor issues. Not to mention, she passed a massive new program for workers.
Also paid Family Medical Leave is economic justice. I get it. I like her. I also know that she is a Markell protege, and a Delaware Democrat. I’m not worried. She’d be a million times better that LBR in that respect. I just want my pony.
But, anyway, thanks for this, “she supported new tax brackets on the wealthy in the GA”. I’ll have two find a link because that’s what I’m talking about.
She passed paid medical and family leave. Wake me when Chris Coons pushes for such a program.
Not a LBR fan, see her as yet another corporate tool and an all too familiar Delaware Dem who is anything but. Gave up hoping for Delaware politicians many years ago, hope McBride can change my mind, but here “centrist” means little other then a soft touch for the corporations regardless of the talk.
https://delawarecall.com/2023/06/05/old-reformers/
Fool me once (or numerous times) and you all get fooled again!
There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.
Is it really being fooled if you know you are standing on the trap door the whole time?