DL Open Thread Tuesday May 11th 2021

This is some lazy ass reporting  by the News Journal's Sarah Gamard.   I mean how does she get through the whole thing without ever mentioning the fact that  Delaware's minimum wage for tipped employees is $2.23 per hour? TWO dollars and twenty three cents a fucking hour. Is it possible that the laughable peanuts the Restaurant Association members want to pay their servants has anything to do with the situation? Fuck you, Delaware Restaurant Association and your preposterous drivel that News Journal reporters relay uncritically.   Fuck you very much.  Also, get your shit together, Sarah. If you couldn't find someone who could have easily debunked the Chamber's horse shit, I'd say you were't looking very hard. But first... get your ass to the polls today.

DL Open Thread Monday, May 10th 2021

In today’s open thread, the fight for $15 is coming to a state Rep district race near you. Be ready to put some heat on some of these wishy-washy piece of shit Dems who want to undermine the Democratic platform. I mean, if Joe Biden… Joe goddam Biden can get behind it, Trey Paradee can too, right? Right. The Scottish National Party won an outright majority in the Scottish Parliament, so a second referendum on Scottish independence is inevitable. Boris Johnson called this a crisis. I call it, what the hell did you think was going to happen, you clueless Brexit tossers? Coonsian Israel is really horrible, and should rightfully be an international pariah state. Psssst…Chris Kenny, just pay your fucking taxes, you dipshit. The money you are spending on people like Kathleen Rutherford and the piles of cash you are setting aflame each election is more than you’d probably actually pay if you would only nut up and do your civic duty. But first... guns are for murdering people. Any talk of guns being for "protection" is exposed as utter nonsense each and every day.

Coooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooons!

April 23rd  “The harrowing experience of Jan. 6, the sharp divisions we saw in our election last year, and the rise of a more aggressive and assertive China and Russia, has really helped focus our country in the urgency in coming together and working to make a difference," - Chris Coons, Noted Genius
May 5th “One hundred percent of my focus is standing up to this administration. What we have in the United States Senate is total unity from Susan Collins to Ted Cruz in opposition to what the new Biden administration is trying to do to this country,” - Mitch McConnell, Not Into Coons' Bipartisan Fantasies

DL Open Thread Wednesday May 5th 2021

On Thursday April 29th substitute teacher and Kansas Republican State Rep. Mark Samsel went on a deranged rant in the class room and kneed a student in the balls.  He was booked into the local county jail and released on a $1,000 bond.  This is a statement released by Samsel. As they say - read the whole thing.  It is an artifact that future historians will use to explain the mental state of the Republican Party in the year 2021.   Rudy Giuliani's people want Trump to pay Rudy's legal bills. Also, people in hell want a drink of water. But first...As the U.S. economy bounces back from the COVID-induced downturn, some employers say they’re having a hard time finding workers. GOP lawmakers blame the stimulus payments and unemployment benefits. That's 100% bullshit.

Someone explain this shit to me, please

I naively thought the GOP would be glad to move beyond the box office poison that is Donald Trump, but nope.  Fealty to Trump is THE organizing principle of the Republican Party now and through at least the mid-terms if not longer.   It makes no fucking sense to me. Cheney is now truly on her way out, so that looks like the last Republican who sounded reasonably sane when talking about America being a democracy.    

DL Open Thread Tuesday May 4th 2021

"On May 7, 1915, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner en route from New York to Liverpool. Of the more than 1,900 passengers and crew members on board, more than 1,100 perished, including more than 120 Americans. If this grim tragedy teaches us anything, it is that we need to be steadfast in our commitment to forging a bi-partisan agreement to ensure Joe Biden's infrastructure plan is watered down into nothing." - Senator Chris Coons, Noted Christian.
. With House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy now tasked with ousting Liz Cheney, I am reminded of Oscar Wilde's take on fox hunting - The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable.      Mixed Covid news - For the first time in over a year, Los Angeles County reported no Covid-related deaths, but Oregon is going back into lockdown due to the UK variant. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. A new arena floor is being added to Rome's iconic Colosseum to give visitors an idea of how the ancient Italian structure looked when gladiators fought and (no doubt) because it really doesn't work as a tourist attraction with no floor. But first... remember how Brexit happened almost by accident when David Cameron announced a referendum without giving one fucking thought to what leaving the EU actually meant? Well under the Good Friday Agreement, Northern Ireland is required to have a unification referendum if certain conditions are met. The conditions are not close to being met but you can't be too careful, and some folks are not willing to bear the consequences of more accidental upheaval.