DL Open Thread Wednesday September 20 2023
Its not like they didn't run on being the party of nonstop national crisis. An out-of-control GOP is the party of nonstop national crisis Stop me if you’ve heard this…
Assassinations & Norms
Stories like this one remind me that Trump & GWB exploded so many norms that the rest of the world is just saying "Fuck it!" and doing any shit they…
Song of the Day 9/19: Maren Morris, “Get the Hell Out of Here”
Country music's instincts have always been reactionary. Back in 1969, when people were realizing Richard Nixon's promise to end the war in Viet Nam was bullshit, Merle Haggard wrote "Okie…
The well established legal precedent of “LOL, Fuck You!”
America has always had wealthy people, but I don't think we've ever had a generation of wealthy people absolutly determined to tear down the very American democracy that created all…
DL Open Thread Tuesday September 19 2023
GOP - Going Overboard Pandering: Vivek Ramaswamy regrets taking the Covid vaccine. His wife, a surgeon, does not. The presidential candidate has previously spoken about how he and his wife…
If elected, McBride “wouldn’t be surprised” to become a Progressive Caucus member
Good to know. Being surprised sucks. Of course Coons considers himself on the left side of the caucus, so there is that. Anyway... More Earned Media for McBride REHOBOTH BEACH,…
Song of the Day 9/18: Joe South, “Games People Play”
It's hard to tell nowadays, but pop psychology wasn't always with us. The book that brought it to the masses was published in 1964 by psychiatrist Eric Berne, who noticed…
DL Open Thread Monday September 18 2023
Person, woman, man, camera, TV In Gaffe-filled Speech, Trump Issues Bold And Unusual Warning, Says Biden's Re-Election Could Lead to 'World War II' In his most recent speech, former U.S.…
Song of the Day 9/17: Jewel Akens, “The Birds and the Bees”
A little heavy petting music for Lauren Boebert, along with a suggestion that next time she get a room. Jewel Akens sang with a number of doo-wop groups in the…
New polling shows Eugene Young’s run for Congress is a big waste of political capital as Sarah McBride opens a more than twenty point lead. I hate being right about this stuff all the time.
Sarah McBride Holds Commanding Lead in Historic Run for Delaware At-Large Congressional Seat WASHINGTON—Today, a new poll by Change Research of Delaware’s At-Large Congressional race shows State Sen. Sarah McBride with…
DL Open Thread Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023
Josh Marshall makes the hard-to-argue-with case that the Republican reaction to their politically disastrous SCOTUS victory on abortion proves they don't give a flying fuck about babies. Like that was…
Last Week’s Poll Results & This Week’s Poll
So what term should MAGATs use to replace the played out and very unpopular "Pro-Life"? I liked "Pro-Freedom Fetus" as the new goto terminology for MAGAT zealots. But this being…
DEGOP Comes Out of the Pro-Vladimir Putin, Pro-War Crime Closet
It has been pretty clear that the DEGOP was on the Putin/Trump side when it came to supporting Putin's war crimes against the people of Ukraine. Now they've come out…