DL Open Thread Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024
Despite all the post-election finger-pointing, everyone has overlooked what might have turned the tide in Trump’s favor: P’Nut the squirrel. For those too busy paying attention to important matters like the future of the nation, P’Nut was an internet star who was unfortunately in the care of Mark Longo in New York state, which bans ownership of wild animals. State wildlife officials confiscated P’Nut and a raccoon and killed them to test for rabies, supposedly because the squirrel bit someone when it was being “rescued” by the state. In the last days of the campaign people were sending out texts telling people to avenge P’Nut by voting for that noted animal lover who’s never had a pet, Trump. Now it turns out that not only were the animals not rabid – duh, they lived in a house, not the woods – but that officials intended to kill the animals all along. Longo says he’s going to sue, which is, to be fair, what Trump would do.
In other news, Trump is nominating unqualified dumbfucks for his cabinet, but I’ll wait until Antifa publishes a kill sheet to pay attention to who goes where. I’m well aware that these dumbfucks are going to dumbfuck everything into Dumbfuckland, but I don’t have to know the details. YMMV.
What’s on your mind?
Matt Meyer has hired a Network Delaware alumnus. That’s something neither Carney nor BHL would have ever done:
“Evelyn Waters Brady, Transition Director: A former public school teacher, Evelyn began her civic journey with Network Delaware and the Delaware Voting Rights Coalition and has since remained politically active as a dedicated advocate for voting rights and reproductive health. She currently serves on the Delaware Democratic Party’s 12th Representative District Committee, where she educates voters on key issues and candidates.
Evelyn serves on the Boards of Directors for Action for Delaware’s Children, Planned Parenthood of Delaware, and Serviam Girls Academy. She mentors school children through Connecting Generations and has co-chaired the Governor’s School Mentoring and Literacy Task Force. A member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, Zeta Omega Chapter, and an Associate member of the New Castle County Chapter of Jack & Jill of America, Incorporated, Evelyn is also President of Creative Hearts for the Arts, a chapter of The Society, Incorporated, which supports arts initiatives for underserved communities. She holds degrees from Dartmouth College and Lesley University and is a graduate of the Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League’s Gilliam Fellowship Program.”
i look forward to the future of our country where 20 years from now we elect a tiktok influencer and all policy decisions are made via likes
Was the Network DE a staff hire to the transition team?
Any such signals from Matt are warming my heart.
Pretty sure there’s going to be many gut punches coming, however.
Her grassroots background looks great to me.
I think she was trained by Network Delaware, meaning Drew Serres and his team.
Evelyn was honored as the DelDems volunteer of the year at the last First State Dinner. She was also a delegate to the national convention in August. She is good people and, I think, a nice bridge between Network Delaware and the larger Democratic party.
Johhny Boy needs to take a lesson! This crap is gonna end!
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I failed to mention that when WPD axed the event Matt Meyer stepped up and facilitated the moving of the event at Rt 9 Librairy. It was a fun, peaceful evening filled with the positive vibes Haneef exudes! Finally I understand FOP Frank takes issue with other legislators attending events at “his” Librairy. In addition I am hearing from multiple sources that Cooke was verbally abusive to female colleagues, this dude needs to be primaried!
Couldn’t agree more, Joe. If he keeps fucking around he will find out.
The October inflation report is out, and this article breaks out a lot of interesting numbers on food inflation. Overall, Americans seem disgruntled when the price of their favorite items goes up but are unwilling to make substitutions.
I didn’t realize “dine out” was included in food inflation. Probably shouldn’t be.
Egg prices go up, egg prices go down. If you say you voted Republican because of the price of eggs, you were going to vote Republican anyway.
Beef will never be cheap again due to climate and land use, get over it. Chicken and pork are still pretty cheap.
Citrus is f**ed due to climate:
My own observation (not in the article) is that a lot of complaints about inflation cite junk foods like chips, soda, or ice cream, which I think should be priced as high as the market will bear.
Matt Gaetz = attorney General
I think that Trump is nominating the least qualified people for these positions to deliberately piss off liberals.
You could also make the case with some of these problematic nominations — e.g., Gaetz and Rubio — that Trump believes they’ll vanish into the ether as soon as he fires them.
It’s criminals all the way down.
Tulsi is not a criminal.
How sad that only one of his appointees comes to mind as a non-criminal.
That being said, she’s acting like some power hungry freak from Game of Thrones who cares only about status and dominion.
Remember Trump has said he likes to pit his people against one another. These are trial balloons to stir the MAGA pot and trigger the libs. These aren’t nominations until Trump is sworn in and submits them to the Senate. Trump didn’t even get the Senate majority leader he wanted (Repubs chose Thune over Skeletor in a secret ballot).
That said, I am in fact triggered, and trying not to make a spectacle of myself.
I didn’t believe it was real.
It’s real.
Tulsi Gabbard-Director Of National Intelligence?
At this rate Lauren Witzke should be in line for something.
Tomorrow’s news: MTG to run the Space Corps
It will be interesting to see which of this appointees gets axed first. If you tell him an uncomfortable truth you get put on the chopping block,
Gaetz will probably outlast the rest. He is a consummate ass kisser. The rest of them will tire of Trump’s stupidity and tyranny and eventually reach breaking point.