Posts by jason330

Most Democrats Now Identify As ‘Liberal’ Via 538

I can't stand it when someone who doesn't share my skin tone gets something because that means there will be less for people with my skin tone.

Ed Note: It is 2019 and Delaware is still the legal domicile of terrorists, arms dealers, human traffickers, dark web drug dealers, Donald Trump, and other criminal low lifes. After listening to this episode I am left with two questions which I will put in the comments section, after I select my patronage level and input my credit card digits.

It is absolutely essential that the eventual Democratic candidate appeals to the 5% of voters who are "moderates" with no coherent or settled opinions on anything. They are the real Americans. Anything other than trying to be as vague and vacuous as these voters by "moving to the center" is distasteful liberalism. And it is an iron law of American politics that distasteful liberalism cannot win.

As you read this recall that Bernie Sanders beat Clinton in Michigan, winning in 73 of Michigan's 83 counties. Also recall that Clinton went on to lose Michigan to Donald Trump.

WASHINGTON Nancy Pelosi is issuing a pointed message to Democrats running for president in 2020: Those liberal ideas that fire up the party's base are a big loser when it comes to beating President Donald Trump. Proposals pushed by Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders like Medicare for All and a wealth tax play well in liberal enclaves like her own district in San Francisco but won't sell in the Midwestern states that sent Trump to the White House in 2016, she said. "What works in San Francisco does not necessarily work in Michigan," Pelosi said at a roundtable of Bloomberg News reporters and editors on Friday. "What works in Michigan works in San Francisco talking about workers' rights and sharing prosperity." "Remember November," she said. "You must win the Electoral College.

On a good night, with the good host, Saturday Night Live can still be funny. The 'Weekend Update' segment is funny, although John Oliver gets some of the same laughs while managing to work in some trenchant analysis. The part of the show that is consistently unfunny, frequently cringe inducing and generally unwatchable is the political cold open. These segments typically starring Kate McKinnon as Elizabeth Warren or Alec Baldwin as Trump are just terrible. McKinnon's Warren (like her Hillary Clinton) is just as overly broad, dopey and lacking in any incisive commentary as Baldwin's Trump. The writers seem to be on autopilot. The "jokes" are recycled show after show which creates the awkward feeling that the cold opening is parody of itself.

Because our system puts protecting the profits of insurance companies above any public benefit they provide, insurance companies that have grown rich by raking in premiums for years, have now suddenly cancelled 350,000 California homeowners insurance policies. Cancelled. Done. All those premiums paid in? Ashes.

Jennifer Burt knows she lives in a fire-prone community. That’s why she’s done everything she can to fire-proof her home in Meadow Vista, in the bushy, densely wooded Placer County foothills, even installing a sprinkler system on the roof. Yet a few weeks ago, her insurance carrier — Lloyd’s of London, known for insuring high-risk properties — told her it was declining to renew her homeowners’ policy.

Uninsurable means unsellable. So these properties have been suddenly reassesed at some value approaching $0.00. The same fate is in store for coastal Delaware. It is an economic and climate change inevitability at this point.

Larry Lambert makes this point on an episode of 'Highland's Bunker', and it is a good one. Don't use "raise the minimum wage" but use "restore the minimum wage". It is more accurate. Setting the minimum wage at $15 per hour by 2024 and indexing it to the median wage growth thereafter would restore the minimum wage to 1968 levels. The wording, "raising the minimum wage" gives the impression that working people are getting some bonus. They aren't.

You may have a strident Trump "supporter" in your life. I'd encourage you to have some empathy for them. As they parrot Laura Ingram and other Fox News personalities, they aren't defending Trump at this point. They are defending themselves against the grim reality that they are gullible dummies and racist losers who have been taken in by a second rate swindler. Even the least self-aware Trumper at this point knows that Trump is indefensible. So what appears to be continuing Trump support is really nothing more that a last ditch grasp at dignity and self-respect.

In September 2009, Addison Graves "Joe" Wilson-R (SC-2nd) interrupted a speech by President Barack Obama to the joint session of Congress by shouting "You lie!" Did Chris Coons pull a big sad about that? Did he pen lachrymose Op-eds lamenting Wilson's lack of civility? Did he eschew ever working with someone as lacking in civility as Wilson? Fuck no he didn't. You know what he did instead? After shit dies down a bit, he reached out to Wilson and in Coons-style bipartisan obsequiousness, he celebrated working with Wilson on a "bipartisan, bicameral bill to help drive investment in new energy technologies"

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) today introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to establish a nonprofit foundation for the U.S. Department of Energy that would channel private-sector investments and accelerate the commercialization of innovative technologies in energy.

Coons is terrible. There is nothing Republicans can do to offend Coons, and there is nothing liberal Democrats do that doesn't offend him.

In October of 2007, Joe Biden scorched Rudy Giuliani by saying that the GOP front runner for that party's nomination was "probably the most under-qualified man since George Bush to…

As we've noted that, in terms of any practical results, our DC congressional delegation is totally AWOL on climate change. That's a shame, but I guess the temperature is fine in the DC Bubble. Out here where regular people live, we are fortunate we have people like Madinah Wilson-Anton pushing to get climate change on the agenda. Here are some highlights, but read the whole thing to see how climate action complements and builds on Wilson-Anton's social and economic justice focus.

- 100% renewable energy by 2050 - Creating a Green Bank to fund clean energy infrastructure - Funding programs that will bring community solar and house retrofitting to low-income and working-class communities - Passing a Green Amendment to make clean air, clean water, and a healthy environment a right - Strengthening the complete communities legislation to create more walkable, sustainable communities.

Hiding behind Michelle Obama's skirt in a Washington Post OpEd, Coons (being an aloof, out-of-touch, elitist ass) continues playing the role of civility police, because civility is how reprehensible elitist ghouls tolerate each other's company in board rooms and yacht clubs, and why shouldn't the proles be bound by the same rules of decorum, even when the country and the constitution is being ass-raped on a daily basis? Just pipe down, everyone. Civility and bipartisanship will save us! Meanwhile the anti-Coons movement is growing This is Esquire's Charles Pierce on why Coons' "respect the office" pretext is pure bullshit.