Archive for August, 2023
Jan. 6 Proud Boys leader Joseph Biggs sentenced to 17 years
This defense – “I’m not a seditionist or terrorist, but was just hanging out with some seditionists and terrorists when sedition and terror broke out.” Reminds me a lot of this classic Onion headline – Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock?
BREAKING: Kyle Evans Gay Running For Lieutenant Governor
The press release in its entirety: NORTH WILMINGTON — State Senator Kyle Evans Gay announced Thursday morning her campaign to become Delaware’s next Lieutenant Governor. VIEW HER LAUNCH VIDEO HERE A mom of two young girls, attorney, and leader in Delaware’s nonprofit sector, Kyle has served in the Delaware General Assembly representing the 5th Senatorial District […]
Song of the Day 8/31: Graham Nash and David Crosby, “Frozen Smiles”
Mitch McConnell’s freeze-up yesterday seems like a gift for all those people who wished something would shut him up, but it’s also a reminder – and old people need them often – of what you get with a Government of Grandpas. When Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young broke up in 1971, each of the quartet […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 31, 2023
Submitted Without Comment… …From Mitch. Lest we feel smug, Biden’s the same age as Mitch. Home-Schooling And Christian Millionaires: A perfect match for siphoning off billions in Federal education dollars: The message Michael Farris had come to deliver was a simple one: The time to act was now. For decades, Farris — a conservative Christian […]
‘Bulo’s Fave Tunes: August, 2023
Quality and quantity. Let a few good ones go since I didn’t want this to be too unwieldy: Betcha weren’t expecting this. I wasn’t: Power pop doesn’t suck: A great artist–and a reassuring presence. He’s been away too long, thrilled he’s back: This music soothes me: Kids, before even WMMR, there was a brief period […]
Republicans Line Up to Help Big Pharma Protect High Drug Prices
Because every person in America doesn’t hate Republicans yet. ‘Go after it’: GOP strategists say Republicans need to hit Biden on drug pricing As President Joe Biden touts the first 10 drugs subject to Medicare price talks, Republicans are searching for their own message that would resonate with voters on the downsides of his signature […]
Trump admits that he has no legitimate legal defense – everything rides on being President again
I think we all knew this, but now it is confirmed.
From a Monday morning New York Times report written by Alan Feuer, “Trump has made no secret in private conversations with his aides of his desire to solve his jumble of legal problems by winning the election. If either of the two federal trials he is confronting is delayed until after the race and Mr. Trump prevails, he could seek to pardon himself after taking office or have his attorney general simply dismiss the matters altogether.
And if he doesn’t win in 432 days he’ll probably submit quietly to the FBI and serve his time.
Related:
Former President Trump told conservative media personality Glenn Beck he would prosecute his political enemies if elected president again.
“You said in 2016, you know, ‘Lock her up,’” Beck reminded Trump of his statements about Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016 during an appearance on his BlazeTV show Tuesday. “And then when you became president, you said, ‘We don’t do that in America. That’s just not the right thing to do.’”
“That’s what they’re doing,” Beck continued, asking the former president, “Do you regret not locking her up? And if you’re president again, will you lock people up?”
Trump, who dismissed the various charges he faces in Georgia, New York, Florida and Washington, D.C., said there is “no choice.” “Well, I’ll give you an example… The answer is you have no choice, because they’re doing it to us,” Trump said, adding that he “never hit Biden as hard as I could have.”
“I always had such great respect for the office of the president and the presidency … And then I heard he was trying to indict me, and it was him that was doing it,” he said.
Song of the Day 8/30: The Wonder Stuff, “The Size of a Cow”
I swear this isn’t a reference to Donald Trump, though it could be. Not because he’s the size of a cow – hey, give him his due, he’s a 6’3″ monument to unearned male vanity – but because, like the song’s narrator, he’s blown up his problems that big. The Wonder Stuff came out of […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday August 30 2023
My prediction: All of the small government conservatives with blown down houses will be yelling about the government not doing enough.
Climate Change Fortified Hurricane Idalia Set to Make Florida Even More Unlivable
The boiling waters of the Gulf of Mexico have added to Idalia’s punch making it a category 4 storm expected to bringing 12 to 16 foot storm surge to a state already suffering under a Ron DeSantis Governorship.
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DEGOP Candidate Recruitment Sputters – Winner of Dem Governor Primary May Run Unopposed
While it is well known that the DEGOP is having problem raising money, Julianne Murray chaired DEGOP is also having significant problems raising candidates. While the DEGOP would typically have a collection of angry crackpots lined up to “take one for the team” and lose in each of the statewide races, this year the party’s cupboards are bare.
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Journalism fails miserably at explaining what is really happening to America
Will Bunch writing at the Philly Inquierer smacks down our failing media and gives a glimps of that newspapers once did very well …America is entering its most important, pivotal year since 1860, and the U.S. media is doing a terrible job explaining what is actually happening. Too many of us — with our highfalutin […]
DE’s Most Intriguing Legislative Races Of 2024: #6–RD 28
I doubt that any legislator has been less distinguished, yet wielded as much power, as Lumpy Carson. At least in recent times. He has been Pete ‘n Val’s Useful Idiot during their reign of terror against their own caucus and Democratic principles. Long-time House head of the Joint Finance Committee, chair and/or member of any […]
Song of the Day 8/29: Big Star, “The Ballad of El Goodo”
Power pop was, in a way, the first alternative rock. In the early ’70s, a time when the heavy rock of Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple was ascendant, three bands assembled power pop from the discarded sounds of the second British invasion and the Byrds. Badfinger and the Raspberries actually sold some records at the […]
Last week’s Israel poll results and this week’s poll
On the question of US support for Israel, a large majority of DL lurkers/commenters are Anti-Coonsian to some degree (79%). Whereas the Coonsian approach to Israel policy is to give Israel everything the Likud Party wants, no questions asked. DL lurkers/comments think that Israel is a pariah state that should be cut off OR support […]
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