DL Open Thread Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024
Less money, mo’ problems for the world’s richest man. Yesterday Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick called Elon Musk’s Tesla pay package “unfathomable” and voided the deal. And this just days after some Frenchie overtook him as the “world’s richest person.” This helps explain why the inveterate hypester announced that Neuralink had implanted its first device in a human brain. He adheres to the Trumpian practice of creating a distraction whenever bad news breaks. He also Xed out “Never incorporate your company in the state of Delaware,” which I’m sure has Jeff Bullock quaking in his boots.
Speaking of the devil, Trump can appeal E. Jean Carroll’s $83 million jury award, but meanwhile he has to put a large sum in escrow. Biographer David Cay Johnston, who for years has documented Trump’s financial chicanery, is salivating at the prospect that this will force open the ‘s no-doubt-cooked books. Considering that the GOP is composed of grifters and billionaires’ bitch boys, Trump is the perfect person to lead it.
Because the cruelty is the point, Ohio is looking into nitrogen gas executions – you know, the method Alabama used last week to asphyxiate a convict over the course of seven or eight minutes. I confess I do not oppose the death penalty. I think we should use it on corporations.
From the This Time They’ve Found It For Sure file: An undersea explorer’s robot sonar has captured the image of what might be Amelia Earhart’s plane 16,000 feet below the surface about 100 miles from her destination, Howland Island. If you sense a documentary coming on, you’re not alone.
The floor’s yours.
Agreed that Musk is the very definition of a schmuck, as for Trump he’s a crook that now faces a life time of criminality under a microscope, and it is glorious to see.
I think nitrogen asphyxiation shows great promise, because the organs can be preserved for harvesting. How fitting would it be that your penance for taking a life is to give it back many times over.
I didn’t follow the nitrogen execution closely. I expected he would somehow be rendered deeply unconscious with ordinary drugs before the nitrogen was applied. I was disturbed to read reports this was not true and he was conscious as the nitrogen flowed – sounds cruel and unusual to me. For the record I am opposed to the death penalty.
The concept of “cruel and unusual was developed in an era of drawing and quartering and keel hauling”. All current execution methods are frankly more quick and painless than the condemned deserve considering the pain the inflicted on their victims, the families, and the communities writ large.
Personally I think that any physician offering assisted suicide or abortion services should be compelled to provide execution services or void their license to practice.
Me Too, I see it as Bodily Autonomy. Have seen death , extreme old age, dementia and disability. Leaving my sons my house and land, I want it preserved, not taken by a corprorate old age home.
Atta guy, LandlithLou.
Way to keep the conservative “Pro-Life” flag flying high!
Actually, that’s not true. A competent hangman knows the weight of the victim and plans the drop height accordingly, so the neck breaks almost immediately. It’s considerably less torturous than slow asphyxiation. Frankly.
I enjoyed this quote from the NY Times story:
“It’s an incredibly important decision because it establishes that there is such a thing as excessive compensation,” said Sarah Anderson, global economy project director at the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive research group.”
Claire Snyder-Hall leaves Common Cause Delaware:
https://www.commoncause.org/delaware/press-release/claire-snyder-hall-to-leave-common-cause-delaware/
Politics in her future?
Is this the carpetbagger that moved down to the beach, assumed she could outwit the locals with her fancy poli sci education, tried to run for office and lost? I think she wrote a book about it where she tried to blame the Delaware Way, and not her own hubris and total misunderstanding of eastern Sussex county politics for her failure.
Geez, didn’t take long for a troll to emerge, now did it?
She’s already announced she’s running for 14th District Rep.
Greetings from the ranks of the “fancy” Poli Sci Education, that and no fans of the “Delaware Way” here. Feel confident Eastern Shore politics are undergoing rapid change at this point, would suggest the change will do them good.
I like this
You all need to read the Cape Gazette more, it’s the best newspaper in the state. Claire’s running for the 14th District seat:
https://www.capegazette.com/article/snyder-hall-announces-run-14th-district-seat/270438
“Claire Snyder-Hall announced her candidacy for the 14th Representative District Jan. 31, the same day she announced her resignation as executive director of Common Cause Delaware.
A Senate candidate against former Sen. Ernie Lopez in 2014, Snyder-Hall said many of her supporters from then encouraged her to run for the seat that will be vacated this year by retiring Rep. Pete Schwartzkopf, D-Rehoboth Beach.
“I didn’t plan on running, but decided it was a good time to do so,” she said.”
We count on you, as our unofficial Official Downstate Correspondent, to do our work for us.
So–how do you see that race playing out?
I think Claire is going to be hard to beat. This isn’t the 6th Senate District we’re talking about with its rural areas, this is Rehoboth, and she’s very well known.
What if KMG gets in, making it a three-way primary along with Marty Rendon and Claire?
That’s a tough call. KMG is well-liked in Rehoboth. I think it would come down to her or Claire.
And here comes KMG to take advantage of a split progressive vote:)
Lose appeal run as martyr, win appeal “Vindicated!”
KMG could take advantage of her name recognition and run as a Republican. She’d get all of the R vote and take a big chunk of D’s and I’s, too. She’s still very well liked in Rehoboth and could really put up a good fight.
Rob Burton, if he’d stayed a Republican, could have also put up a good fight as an R in that District – even with his Trumpy Facebook page and narrow-minded wife.
Relationships still matter in Delaware politics, that’s why Ernie could hold that Senate Seat despite all of the very qualified Democratic opponents he faced.
I need to question the assertion that KMG is still very well-liked in Rehoboth. Didn’t Lydia York whoop her in the primary even in the Rehoboth area EDs? Am I remembering incorrectly?
Yep, KMG got her butt kicked in the 14th, but when she walks into a restaurant on the Avenue, she’s still greeted like a rock star and her colleagues on the Board of Commissioners still sing her praises. But I doubt she runs for anything until she gets that win on appeal.
I generally agree with your analysis., BK. Having been a Sussex resident and activist at the dawn of the Pete era and KMG’s heyday on Rehoboth Council they both have deep cross party connections. I think, notwithstanding her primary loss KMG is a viable choice either as a D or R. As to Claire, carpetbagger is inappropriate, but I did go to a going away event for her hosted by Karen Peterson not that long ago when she moved to Florida. She has every right to have come back and reestablish herself but that is a fact. That said neither KMG nor Marty or for that matter Pete are native to Southeastern Sussex.
Pete has a 100K plus campaign account and KMG can raise money. The chess moves in this race will be fun to watch.
“This Time They’ve Found It For Sure”
Amelia, it was just a false alarm
A perfect song. One-of-a-kind.
To the, “sHe’S sTiLl wElL LiKeD iN ReHoBotH” crowd:
14th RD Primary Results:
McGuiness: 426
York: 1,566