DL Open Thread: Friday, Sept. 25, 2020
Delaware Rethugs Sue To Have Mail-In Ballots Tossed. A 50-state strategy that may end up in the Supreme Court. Judge not buying it:
Glasscock asserted that Republicans do not appear concerned about disenfranchisement, given their remedy is to toss out “100 percent” of ballots sent through the new vote by mail system.
“What you’re concerned about is not that people will not be able to have their votes counted – you’re quite willing to have people’s votes not recorded,” he said. “You’re trying to vindicate the Constitution itself in the abstract. This is not about voting rights.”
Klein refuted the assertion, stating her clients care about the sanctity of votes, but also about protections to ensure there is a reliable vote tally. Such protections “are not existent in the vote by mail” system, she claimed.
How To Debate Someone Who Lies All The Time. Debate strategies Biden can use.
Will This Non-Recusal Hurt, Or Help, Barbara Lagoa’s SC Chances? Refused to recuse herself from the Florida felons’ voting rights case after having ruled on it on a lower court.
Post Office To Reverse DeJoy Policies? Yes, according to this story. Judges made ’em do it. DeJoy says they can’t comply–already stripped sorting machines for parts.
Psychologists: Prez Is A Psychopath. So many examples to enumerate. The article enumerates them.
Death Rattle Of The Republican Party? Fact: It’s already died in Delaware. For those who can’t share Alby’s view, this might at least provide some succor. Let us hope that there is some succor born every minute.
Rethugs Seek To Drain D Governors’ Power. In Louisiana and elsewhere. Including Delaware.
Chamber Skews D. Bad for R’s, bad for D’s. We’ve seen its malevolent powers on full display here. The Delaware Way goes national? (It already has.) Excellent article, BTW.
‘Absurd Legal Maneuvering’: How Breonna Taylor was denied justice, before and after the fact. The bullet-riddled walls were legally more important than Breonna’s bullet-riddled corpse.
UD Bleeding Money, Makes Cuts. Every higher education institution in America faces this same threat. Some schools won’t survive.
What do you want to talk about?
UofD bleeding money yet refuses to draw on its 1.5 billion dollar endowment
Read the article. Yes they have.
i mean, finishing the Stadium is pretty derned important. gotta make sure there is money for that.
Just to be clear, I am not advocating a Panglossian view of our situation. I am arguing against despair, which is what I see from too many anti-Trump people these days.
You, El Som, are angry and outraged, reactions I think are good and necessary. Despair is corrosive and psychologically debilitating.
I read the “Death Rattle of the GOP” article yesterday, and I would point out that some of us have been saying this for quite a while. Indeed, without the “silver bullet” of Trump (article’s terminology), the GOP would have lost with Cruz or Rubio in 2016, allowing them to limp forward for longer.
Trump has accelerated the decline, just as the article suggests.
Democrats, however, should not gloat, because the Democratic Party is in equally dire circumstances. Absent the unifying power of anti-Trumpism, its two main branches would be fighting each other tooth and nail, as they did in 2016 and will again in the future.
University of Delaware receives over $120 million in Delaware taxpayer money every year and refuses any kind of scrutiny or accountability under cover of their FOIA exemption that I’ve tried to repeal for the last dozen years. Delaware Democratic House leadership has refused to release the legislation repealing the ridiculous exemption from the Administrative Committee (membership comprised of leadership).
Representative John Kowalko
Assanis only taking a 10% paycut? Huh!!!!
Typical liberal.
Anonymous dickhead trolling? Typical conservative.
“Typical liberal” is a small-minded comment. I respond in kind. In responding to conservatives, that means small-minded name calling.
This isn’t a forum for you to air your views — not that you’ve demonstrated that you have any worth airing.
You want a respectful response? Contribute something besides your ignorance. You’ve been trying for quite a while and have never managed it.
You can show yourself out. The door will be locked behind you.
Just out of curiosity, what kind of response did you think your empty-headed, name-calling comment deserved? Isn’t calling out someone for name-calling — right after you’ve engaged in name-calling — hypocritical?
Never mind. Conservatives are too stupid to see their own hypocrisy.
Oh come on not commie, you sound like a Russian troll. Go join Putin you fuckin traitor. There is a bed at a FEMA re-education camp waiting for you.
I just got an Anthony DelCollo ad at an online baseball site. I don’t live in his district.
Poor targeting money wasted:)
Rick Jensen should cut down on the Thirsty Thursdays.
https://www.wdel.com/news/delaware-state-police-now-investigating-man-who-appears-to-twice-pull-gun-at-political-rally/article_bf4a4fbc-ff6c-11ea-8ed6-7b0fc366b2fb.html
That dude pointed his gun at my 69 year old ass along with a group of mostly black women! It was reported to the DSP on the scene and they did nothing. Then they claimed the guy “fled”. That’s a demonstrable lie! The dude hung out until the event ended and casually drove away. His name is known. There was an investigation worthy of the ” Great Train Robbery” for egg throwing a couple weeks back. But for pointing a firearm at a group of black folks ON VIDEO, crickets! I have communicated with multiple electeds including a certain retired Trooper and more crickets! My conclusion is the DSP is not being controlled by the chain of command but by the Trump loving FOP! Mr. Carney, Ms. Jennings please prove me wrong!
Where’s the Saturday open thread El Som? I need my news fix. I read the Post but I enjoy your variety of outlets and commentary.
Sorry. Had computer challenges this morning.
Be back tom’w.