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DL Open Thread Tuesday April 4 2023

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DL Open Thread Tuesday April 4 2023

This story reminded me:

Sarah McBride to Primary Tom Carper.  

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) teased a potential challenge to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) in a wide-ranging interview with Politico.

Speaking from her Capitol Hill office, Ocasio-Cortez touched on her sometimes tense relationship with her party’s leadership, including Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), and she also teased a potential “higher office” in her future. The 33-year-old congresswoman was asked directly about rumors that she may be getting ready to put in a primary challenge against Gillibrand, who is up for reelection.


Leslie Stahl is 81 years old.  GET OFF THE GODDAM STAGE, YOU HACK!  

Why did 60 Minutes sacrifice the last remaining dregs of its once-noble reputation to act as Marjorie Traitor Greene’s fascist mouthpiece? CNN asks the question, which in and of itself is kind of ironic


The billionaire beggar.

Trump issues a plea for cash tonight to fight his indictment: “If you’re doing well because all the things I’ve done have brought you wealth and prosperity .. it would be really great if you can contribute .. Show the Left that nothing can destroy the greatest political movement”

The sad part is Delaware’s 10 Most Gullible Dumbfucks will gladly give. Also, as Alby noted – this diverts at least a little money from gun purchases.  


Republicans Don’t Fucking Care About Your Children Dying

It’s pretty fucking simple: If you won’t do anything at all about the number one cause of deaths in children and teenagers in this stupid country, you don’t get to say you care about children. It really is that easy. No matter what policies you support, good or shitty, you are a fucking fraud if you won’t step up on the number of and easy access to firearms, especially high-powered weapons with large magazines. If your house is on fire but you’re ignoring that because you want to spackle a hole in the wall, then your minor repair is worthless. That wall’s gonna burn, too.

After another shooting at another school, this time in Nashville, with 3 kids and 3 adults murdered by a shooter who had bought their guns legally, Republicans practically lined up to tell parents everywhere that they don’t fucking care if your children die. Senator John Cornyn from Texas, who was a Republican co-sponsor of the mild gun legislation that was signed into law in 2022, said, “I would say we’ve gone about as far as we can go” on any additional gun control laws. Profiles in chickenshit.

 

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DL Open Thread Monday April 3 2023

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Only 4 Mass Shooting events so far this April with 6 dead.   That’s a slow start.  The Delaware Sportsman’s Association is plugging away to get that number up.


Delaware joined the deadly tornado club this month.  I wonder if there is some connection between all of these deadly storms and climate change?   Hmm…?  We may never know.  Just one of those unfathomable mysteries.  

“The transgender movement” is militant and dangerous according to the rightwing hate machine.  The GOP and Fox News is ratcheting up the vitriol and prepping for an “end times” battle with militant and dangerous “activists” that only want to be left alone.   

TUCKER CARLSON: The trans movement is targeting Christians


The Romans gave this month the Latin name Aprilis[1] but the derivation of this name is uncertain. The traditional etymology is from the verb aperire, “to open”, in allusion to its being the season when trees and flowers begin to “open”,

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Poll Results: Henry Bests Hartley-Nagle 47% to 40%

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In this very scientific poll regarding County President, Karen Hartley-Nagle lost to Marcus Henry.  The 13% of “other” voters were probably for Tabatha L. Castro. Onward.

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Dear Republican Primary Voters, Please Nominate Trump!

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Dear Republican Primary Voters, Please Nominate Trump!

Republicans,
Speaking for all liberals and most Democrats – PLEASE NOMINATE Trump! Thanks! I know he could beat Joe Biden. As the only person who allowed that possibility vs Clinton, I still allow that crazy shit happens. But this isn’t 2016.

In order to defeat an incumbent President Biden in 2024, Trump needs to expand his electoral base; simply making that base more intense and upset doesn’t necessarily help him. There is no indication whatsoever that an indictment will convince undecided voters to favor Trump, or that it will convince Biden supporters to switch sides. Indeed, the indictment may simply add to the air of criminality that has followed Trump for most of his career, first as a real estate financier, then as a reality television star, and then as President. And let there be no doubt; the great many Americans who intensely dislike Donald Trump and would never consider casting a vote for him as President seems awfully happy that he’s under indictment.

All true.  Trump hasn’t won over a single additional voter since he rode the golden escalator down to the lobby of Trump Plaza.  But the electoral X’s and O’s aside, the main reason why I’m begging for Trump to be the nominee is that it makes the next Presidential election a clear cut referendum on this questions: Should the United States continue to be a democracy?

That is the one and only thing all people will be voting on. A Trump nomination sweeps all other questions aside. Whereas a DeSantis nomination could muddy the waters with CRT, anti-trans mania, oil leases, and any number of attacks on Biden, a Trump nomination makes the election about one thing – whether a government conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal can long endure.

I may be naive, but I think enough Americans would support that proposition and therefor Biden (or Harris, or really any Dem) can win that argument.

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America is despairing to death

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Late stage capitalism is hitting the US harder than the rest of industrialized world. There are many reasons for this (disinformation, unwalkable built environment, educational & consumer debt, wages kept low through government intervention,  insurance attached to employment, union-busting, skyrocketing rents, etc)  but a big one is the greedy oldsters keeping all the socialized medicine for themselves.

People in what is by far the poorest, most deprived, and most drug-plagued area of England (Blackpool) now have the same life expectancy as the average American, and vastly better health than people in West Virginia

…The most startling aspect of all this is the extent to which these astonishing gaps are not COVID-driven, but rather a product of an epidemic of drug overdose deaths, gun violence, suicide, and alcohol-abuse related maladies, i.e., what Anne Case and Angus Deaton identified as “deaths of despair” a decade ago.

…These are the symptoms of very serious social breakdown. And it’s hardly a coincidence that the one American age cohort subjected to the horrors of socialized medicine — the elderly — is the only cohort that has health outcomes that are as good as those found in countries that don’t have Freedom ™.

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I hate most lighting

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Republicans think that America has gone to shit.  I agree that it has, but not because Mexican drag queens are giving out free abortions & blow job instructions in every elementary school.  America has gone to shit because we’ve adopted sterile white light as the standard lighting, which is gross and unsettling.

While we’ve always had some paces lit by awful florescent tubes, but these days too bright, and too white lighting is impossible to escape.  We ate a new restaurant last week and when my wife asked me how I liked I said it was horrible.  The lighting ruined it.

I may be turning into Jimmy McGill’s brother Chuck, or I might be on one side of the bell curve when it comes to lighting but today’s lighting bothers the fuck out of me.   There are even rooms in my own home that I don’t like going into because the light is awful.  And sadly, it looks like the dial only turns in one direction – toward worse and worse lighting.  

 

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23% of Americans are MAGA cultists & they run the assignment desks

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23% of Americans are fucking idiots, and when that 23% says “jump” entire media establishment (and most centrists Democrats) leap out of their chairs, through the ceiling and into low earth orbit.

Most Americans perceive Trump has engaged in improper behavior. A plurality of Americans (46%) think the former president has done something illegal, and an additional 29% consider Trump to have done something unethical but not illegal. Only 23% of Americans say Trump has done nothing wrong.

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UPDATED: A couple of thoughts on Presidents and Crimes

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UPDATED: A couple of thoughts on Presidents and Crimes

Trump is being defended in the “legitimate” media in some nonsensical ways. Here are a couple I’ve heard. There are many more.

1) Trump’s crimes aren’t really crimes.. For conservatives the only real crimes are street crimes. Crimes are things black people mostly do in cities. If a white person does something that appears to be a crime, they probably just didn’t understand the law.

2) “The President” cannot commit crimes by virtue of the fact that he is President.
This only applies to Republican presidents of course because they are the real Presidents. Also this immunity from prosecution extend to crimes committed by Republican Presidents that happened prior to becoming President (as in the Stormy Daniels case) because otherwise it would be “political” or something.

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What happens when a political party nominates a hard core criminal?

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“Moderate” GOPers ignore Marjorie Taylor Greene as she threatens to kill the hostage (America)

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“Moderate” GOPers ignore Marjorie Taylor Greene as she threatens to kill the hostage (America)

All Republicans are complicit in this. “Alvin Bragg – he’s on the verge of breaking the law for bringing fake charges against President Trump and politically attacking the top Republican presidential candidate of 2024,” Marjorie Taylor Greene said. (See video, posted by Patriot Takes, below.) “I’m telling you right now, once we cross this line […]

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DL Open Thread Wednesday March 29 2023

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Following up on yesterday’s “Biden is blowing it by chasing ‘the center’ ” story,  today’s open thread is a hasty collection of “Democrats in Array” stories.   Welcome to your end of month, half-assed open thread.   Democrats eye plan to force vote on gun reforms over GOP opposition Claire McCaskill: Democrats need to run on […]

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The Mass Shooting at William Henry Middle School in Dover (That Never Happened)

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When I moved to Dover Delaware from New Jersey in 1975 I entered  the 5th grade at William Henry Middle school.  I had no idea that from 1952 until 1966 William Henry Middle School was the “William Henry Comprehensive High School”, the only high school for African Americans in Kent County.  A showpiece school opened […]

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University of Delaware students spend THE MOST in the country for education

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University of Delaware students spend THE MOST in the country for education

Delaware is the most rip-offy rip-off in higher education.

Report: U of D is Expensive As Fuck

According to a 2022 State Higher Education Finance report, University of Delaware of net tuition revenue was more than twice the national average in 2021, at $16,517 per full-time student.

Net tuition revenue is the total amount of tuition and fees, minus state and institutional financial aid.

 

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