DL Open Thread: Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Just an idle question: Is it possible that the reason why the Governor and certain legislators are at such loggerheads over the Port issue is because it looks like the project will never be built, meaning it’s only about who gets the blame? Between the litigation and the typical Army Corps Of Engineers’ spouting of misinformation, we are at least no closer to having this project ‘shovel-ready’ than we were a year ago. I’ve often wondered how much support for the project was just posturing for the unions and how much of it was, you know, genuine. I honestly don’t know. Please LMK what you think.
Got this in my e-mailbox. Bet you did too:
Will you sign Senator Coon’s (their spelling, not mine) birthday card?
Dear Kyle, (my name’s not Kyle, but the State Democratic Party thinks it is for some reason. Hmmm, ideas just keep coming to me–should I cross-dress as Kyle Evans Gay this Halloween?):
Senator Chris Coons makes Delaware proud every day he represents us in the United States Senate. His steady leadership, his work to bring people together, and his commitment to Delaware families have made a real difference for our state and our country.
Blahblahblah:
We know it would mean so much to him if you joined us by signing his birthday card.
Hope he’s not crestfallen by the absence of my signature. Meet the new Democratic state leadership, same as the old Democratic state leadership. This shit is utterly insipid.
Proof That Religion Is The Last Refuge Of Scoundrels. The nation’s Most Pious Pedophile sez:
“I am pleased to announce this morning that the Department of Education will soon issue new guidance protecting the right to prayer in our public schools, and it’s total protection,” the president said, to applause and cheers from attendees ahead of a meeting of the Justice Department’s Religious Liberty Commission.
Mr. Trump also talked about his administration’s efforts to offer tax credits for school choice scholarships, and his efforts to keep transgender students out of sports. The president suggested the nation’s faith and success are linked.
“When faith gets weaker, our country seems to get weaker,” the president said. “When faith gets stronger, as it is right now, we’re having a very good period of time after some rough years, good things happen for our country. It’s amazing the way it seems to work that way.”
The president said the American people “have to bring back religion in America, bring it back stronger than ever before.”
Against the backdrop of the Bible Museum, the president also announced he donated his Trump family Bible, given to him by his mother, to the museum to be put on display. It was used during both of his inauguration ceremonies.
Museums have people to, for example, unstick the pages in the ‘begat’ sections.
Yet Another Trump Tithe To Putin:
In late August, a group of Russians who had asked and not received political asylum from the U.S. government found themselves back home. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had put them on a circuitous route: after being picked up from an airport in Alexandria, Louisiana, they made stops in the Caribbean before moving onwards to Cairo, Egypt.
From Cairo, a plane took them to Moscow.
Those on board had spent months trying to persuade the U.S. government not to send them back to Russia. In the case of one man, Artem Vovchenko, he was doing so after deserting the Russian military. Activists who spoke with those deported told TPM that Vovchenko and another man were detained upon arrival in Moscow.
The episode has caused panic among Russian dissidents and exiles. Many of them fled the country in the years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Thousands sought refuge in the U.S., telling immigration authorities that they fear imprisonment or persecution
Now, anti-Putin Russian activist groups are warning against seeking refuge in the U.S. One group, the Russian Anti-War Committee, issued a statement last month saying that for those wishing to seek asylum in the U.S., “recent events demonstrate that the likelihood of ending up back in the hands of Putinist authorities are incredibly high.”
I’m calling it: Chris Coon(s) will take time from the various lobbyists’ birthday bashes in his honor to express ‘concern’. On CNN. Then back to the fund-raising.
More Sickness From The Epstein Birthday Book. No comment necessary.
What do you want to talk about?
kinda tone deaf for the dems to want people to sign coons’ birthday care with all the hullabaloo surrounding the epstein birthday card. but this is why they are so great!
Hmmm, maybe I won’t cross-dress as Kyle Evans Gay for Halloween, perhaps I’ll go as a Bearded Marxist…
Could this be a sign of an incipient spine?
https://spotlightdelaware.org/2025/09/09/delaware-senators-favor-government-shutdown-to-gop-spending-cuts/
It depends. As Josh Marshall has pointed out, the so-called Schumer ‘compromise’ would prohibit any Obamacare cuts until wait for it, after the mid-terms:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/whats-unmentioned-in-the-intra-dem-shutdown-debate
An excerpt:
“Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats are making it very clear they don’t want a shutdown. They may be willing to risk one, but they really want to avoid it. Their thinking is that Trump’s getting unpopular on his own and a shutdown gives him an opportunity to spread the blame. Suddenly the Democrats own part of everything going haywire. That is a big part of the reason for focusing so tightly on the Obamacare subsidies. Because there’s already a slice of Republicans who very much want to do the same thing. That’s mostly the endangered members in the House and to a degree in the Senate. The leadership and White House won’t say so of course but they’d probably like to kick those cuts past the 2026 midterms as well because they are almost as invested in those endangered members not losing their races as the members themselves are. Donald Trump personally is probably even more invested than some of them are.
The point is that the Democrats are focusing on this because they’re pretty close to a deal in advance. Indeed, John Thune is openly inviting Dems to “come forward with a solution”, which is code for Democrats saying in advance what cuts they’ll propose to pay for the subsidies or what future moments of power — like another CR fight — they’ll give up in advance in order to get the subsidies restored until the midterms are over. If the optimal plan is to force a confrontation on the most salient and Dem-leaning issue, then what Senate Democrats are planning is the exact opposite of that because they’re trying to avoid a confrontation.”
The bill comes due after that. That’s not nearly good enough.
Plus, for Coons, growing an incipient spine is merely an incipient sign of an approaching election. Meaning, any steeling of the spine is temporary.