DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 24, 2024

El Somnambulo

1 week ago

Monique Johns Is Who We Thought She Was. A grifter only in it for personal gain. Rarely has our Tip Line lit up (OK, the Tip Line doesn’t technically light up, but bear with me here) as it has. for what is the first of what presumably will be many attempts to rip off the taxpayers by the Democratic nominee for New Castle County President Monique Johns. She hasn’t been elected yet, but…

You may want to review the NCC Council Finance Committee, starting at time stamp 1:10:00 under the agenda item “other.” The Democratic Candidate for Council President came in to request approval of an expenditure of $1,250 to fund a caterer for a separate swearing-in for her. This request was being made despite the election not yet taking place. NCC is facing a budget shortfall and likely a tax increase. Yet a candidate for office is asking to spend public funds for a “party” for herself. She was also a bit indignant that she was not informed about the time of the “swearing-in,” but she has an opponent, so she is not legally yet the Council President-elect…

Y’see, she says that she has a prior engagement for the time when everybody else will be sworn in. She may be telling the truth as there is a first time for everything. Check it out for yourselves at the time stamp around 1:10:00:

https://nccde.new.swagit.com/videos/318348

If you weren’t yet voting for her opponent, Melissa Brayman, you might want to reconsider your vote.

Been holding off on discussing the brilliant Spotlight Delaware series by Nick Stonesifer on Bethany Hall Long’s Opioid Slush Fund as the third installment of the three-part series hasn’t yet been posted. But the first two articles will fill in a lot of gaps for you:

https://spotlightdelaware.org/2024/10/22/delaware-opioid-fund-part-1/

https://spotlightdelaware.org/2024/10/23/delaware-opioid-fund-part-2/

We’ll no doubt write extensively about this once the final article drops, as the details of this scandal require the public disinfectant of sunlight.

Why The Bleep Hasn’t Kamala Harris Responded To This Ad? Every time I see it, I just know it’s having an impact. Especially since the answer is that she’s following the same law that Trump did. Political malpractice.

The big joke on democracy is that it gives its mortal enemies the tools to its own destruction.

Josef Goebbels

Just thought I’d drop that in here. Along with the observation that anyone who yearns for Hitler’s generals is not only ignorant of military history, but is a Fascist:

A desire to force U.S. military leaders to be obedient to him and not the Constitution is one of the constant themes of Trump’s military-related discourse. Former officials have also cited other recurring themes: his denigration of military service, his ignorance of the provisions of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, his admiration for brutality and anti-democratic norms of behavior, and his contempt for wounded veterans and for soldiers who fell in battle.

Just Another Law-Abiding Citizen–with 120 guns and over 250,000 rounds of ammo:

The man arrested for shooting at a Democratic National Committee office in suburban Phoenix on three separate occasions had more than 120 guns and more than 250,000 rounds of ammunition in his home, prosecutors said, leading law enforcement to believe he may have been planning a mass shooting.

Jeffrey Michael Kelly, 60, has been detained on terrorism charges in connection with the shootings at the Democratic party’s campaign office in Tempe, a city just east of Phoenix, on 16 and 23 September. After the third shooting, on 6 October, the Arizona Democratic party was forced to close its office.