I had kinda given up on paying much attention to this intentional grammatical error because so many Democratic Party dunderheads like John Carney constantly use “Democrat Party” when they mean “Democratic Party”.
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What is “woke” anyway?
This is about as tidy a definition as I’v found:
“Woke”, in fact, is a meaningless term — a floating signifier you can stuff with whatever you want. As Zoe Williams wrote in the Guardian: “a hate figure has been created, a shibboleth, a means by which bigots can identify one another and give voice to their prejudice, without fear of censure.”
But though woke may be a senseless term, it’s a highly convenient one. Even puce-faced old buffers in Pall Mall clubs are now aware that it isn’t permissible to be openly racist or sexist, so “woke” acts as a useful displacement. You can’t be anti-women, but you can be anti-woke, which means speaking up for good old-fashioned public-school values. Shut up whining, take your punishment like a man, stop picking over your fine feelings and if your head is reeling with confusion stick it under the shower.
It is very British, coming from Terry Eagleton and Zoe Williams, but gets there.
It is Going to Be a Rematch – Biden v Trump
There is no escaping the fact that Trump still owns the GOP. And if you look at it in terms of purely mercenary electoral realities- that’s good news for Biden.
Paul Campos at LGM sums it up:
Two things make this inevitable:
(1) A collective action problem: the only way any other candidate would have a shot at the nomination would be if the race for the GOP nomination featured only two candidates: Trump and Not Trump. That’s obviously not going to happen, or at least not until it’s far too late. The GOP primary structure is heavily weighted towards winner take all, which gives Trump a completely unstoppable advantage in a race with several candidates, since 35% to 40% of Republican primary voters are locked in for him from the jump.
(2) Trump would absolutely ensure that, if someone else were to get the nomination, that person would lose the general election. He’s making the party an offer it can’t refuse — not that it’s going to be necessary to put a horse’s head in anybody’s satin sheets, given that in every significant respect it’s still very much his party from top to bottom.
It’s going to be Biden against Trump, and whatever reservations one might have about another Biden term — mine are based solely on his age — could not possibly be less relevant in this context.
Also:
DL Open Thread Wednesday March 1 2023
Biden’s student debt relief will probably be struck down based on the well known legal doctrine of “Democratic Presidents Cannot Enact Anything” and also “LOL, FUCK YOU”.
Whereas if we were living in the correct timeline right now, the case never would have been heard because there is no class of people is experiencing any harm from the program other than “hurt feelings.”
Justice Gorsuch questions ‘fairness’ of Biden’s student debt relief plan
Conservative Supreme Court justices expressed their skepticism of President Joe Biden’s controversial plan to forgive up to $20,000 in federal student loans for some borrowers and wipe away nearly half a trillion in debt. CNN’s Jessica Schneider reports.
I guess it is fine that you can now look up car crashes data, but when will we have a data base that lets you know if a Youth Pastor lives nearby? WHY WON’T STEPHANIE HANSEN THINK OF THE CHILDREN!?!?!
Lots of crashes near you? Years of Delaware crash data now searchable to the public online
When your election fraud claims are too crazy for Arizona Republicans to entertain, you’ve really achieved something.
Arizona Republicans disavow wide-ranging bribery allegation
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s Republican-controlled Legislature has for years entertained a host of unsupported theories about fraudsters manipulating election results since Donald Trump’s loss in 2020.
But lawmakers reached a limit for what they will tolerate last week, when a daylong hearing about elections ended with a presentation accusing a wide range of politicians, judges and public officials of taking bribes from a Mexican drug cartel.
Republican leaders raced Monday to distance themselves from the claims after they caught fire over the weekend on social media, where accounts that routinely share unsubstantiated claims of election fraud covered them widely. It was an embarrassment for an election fraud movement that has mostly found a sympathetic, or at least tolerant, ear among Arizona legislative Republicans.
These House Republicans really are some sick mother fuckers.
House Oversight Chair Laments That Joe Biden’s Dead Son Was Never Prosecuted
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer invoked the late son of President Joe Biden on Tuesday, lamenting that Beau Biden was never prosecuted over an investigation into illegal contributions involving his father’s 2008 presidential campaign.
When he’s not busy threatening pay-TV providers for not carrying his favorite right-wing channels, or warning that Chinese spy balloons may drop “bioweapons” on the U.S., Comer has devoted much of his energy to launching an investigation into presidential son Hunter Biden’s business dealings.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to ban Black Sororities and Fraternities on the grounds of extreme wokeness
I would not be surprised to read the headline above sometime. The hate monster needs constant feeding. In the meantime, while we wait for that once unthinkable headline to become reality, did you see the Florida Nazi’s screaming threats at the Jewish residents of Volusia County? Just free speech as far as DeSantis is concerned.
Gov. Ron DeSantis refuses to condemn Nazis who have been aggressively harassing and threatening Jews on the streets of Florida. So Sheriff Mike Chitwood in Volusia County has stepped in, tearing into the white domestic terrorists known as the Goyim Defense League (GDL) while calling for unity against hate.
“These scumbags came to the wrong county… We are not going to tolerate this,” Sheriff Chitwood shouted at a press conference yesterday. “This is not about free speech. This is about violence.” Via Boing Boing
DL Open Thread February 28 2023
Coons will still fucking go on Fox News. You know he will. The guy just loves being Mr. Important. He loves being he guy with important bi-partisan insights cherished by all news outlet – even the news outlet that is not a news outlet but the propaganda arm of the GOP.
@MattGertz
Rupert Murdoch gave Trump son-in-law/aide Jared Kushner access to “Fox confidential information about Biden’s ads,” apparently showing them to him before they were public.
Speaking of shitty Democrats. Get a load of Coons’ good buddy.
Joe Manchin isn’t into labels, apparently. At least not political ones.
The West Virginia Senator went on a Fox News media run Sunday, where he refused to answer directly if he identifies as a member of the Democratic Party.
“I identify as an American,” Manchin said when asked repeatedly by host Maria Bartiromo if he still considered himself a Democrat. “I’m an American through and through.”
The Supreme Court will eventually rule that a Democratic President has no power to enact anything. But in the meantime….
Chip makers who want access to billions of dollars in new federal funding will first have to figure out how workers will access affordable child care, per a new requirement from the Commerce Department.
How it works: Companies who want to tap a slice of the $39 billion in funding set aside to build chip manufacturing plants will be required to submit a plan explaining how facility workers, as well as construction workers, will access child care, according to a presentation from the Commerce Department shared with Axios.
- The agency is agnostic on how companies get this done. They could build company-run onsite facilities, or outsource to a vendor. Companies could sponsor care directly or provide vouchers, discounts or cash.
Maybe the best/worst headline I’ve ever read in the Cape Gazette.
Dog waste dispensers could be coming to Rehoboth
Ew.
Poll Results and This Week’s Poll – Feb 27 2023
Who do you think will succeed John Carney as Governor of Delaware?
From the sharp crack of the starter’s pistol, the results were never in doubt. Bethany Hall Long is the DL readers & lurkers predicted next Governor of Delaware with 36%. I’ve comment rescued a fairly cogent comment on the topic below. As for the rest, Matt Meyer was second with 20%. DEGOPers contributed some nonsense as they tend to do and Tabatha Castro has burst onto the scene with 17%.
This week’s poll is a bit of a follow up and one that asks you to put on your campaign consultancy hat.
Which issue should Bethany Hall Long pick to be her signature issue in the upcoming gubernatorial race?
I think it’s BHL race to lose. She has sussex, Kent and sncc locked up. She works hard, has built name recognition the last 8 years and I think will perform better in the city than many think.
Matt Meyer will raise more money and prob run a sexier campaign. But his unimpressive 56 percent in the democratic primary for his re election showed how much he pissed off segments of the democratic coalition, like labor and much of south of the canal due to his developer ties. Matt’s a nice guy but I think he’s comes off fake to many outside the Uber rich areas that made him county exec like hockesin and Greenville. He ran against an old corpse Tom Gordon and got a lot of votes first time around for not being Tom Gordon.
I don’t see any other viable lanes. Mcguiness is cooked. Trini is a hack happy to have a state job. Lydia York is happy to be auditor. Colleen Davis is happy to be treasurer. Wild card who would have a shot is Kathleen Jennings but not seeing her get in at this point.
Can someone from leg hall make a run? Maybe but I don’t see them as as viable. To me McBride wants to be in DC one day not Dover.
Now the LT gov race? Once again that will be a free for all and have no clue.
DL Open Thread Monday February 27 2023
Anyone want to play “guess the state”?
(_____________) Republican introduced a bill that would make it easier for religious people to sue those who call them out as homophobic or transphobic, a bill built on a suggestion from Gov. (___________) (R).
The bill’s author made sure everyone understood that it’s not just about journalists, it’s about everyone, even on social media.State Rep. (________) (R) filed H.B. 991 on Tuesday. The bill would make it easier to sue journalists, publications, or social media users for defamation if they accuse someone of racism, sexism, homophobia, or transphobia.
The bill specifically says that publications can’t use truth as a defense when it comes to reporting on people’s anti-LGBTQ+ sentiments by citing the person’s “constitutionally protected religious expression or beliefs” or “a plaintiff’s scientific beliefs.”
Transgender Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic instructor Alejandra Caraballo called the bill “absolutely chilling.”
“If someone calls you a fa***t or tra**y and you say they discriminated against you, they can now sue you for at least $35k and cite their religious beliefs,” she noted on Twitter. “This would apply to the internet as well. This would empower bigots to target the LGBTQ community with impunity.”
(This State) is so well off, it passed a 21 percent income tax cut with the goal of eliminating all income taxes
Senators introduced and passed a compromise version of a tax cut bill, spotlighted by a personal income tax cut of a little more than 21 percent.
The Senate Finance Committee introduced the concept and approved the bill at a Saturday afternoon committee meeting that lasted only a few minutes. There was no discussion of an overall revenue impact, although a statement by the governor characterized it as $750 million.
Later in the afternoon, the full Senate suspended constitutional rules requiring bills to be read three consecutive days and voted overwhelmingly, 32-1, to pass the tax bill. The only vote against the bill was by Senator (_________) , D. Again, there was hardly any discussion except for a basic explanation of how the tax cut would work.
Thanks, Bill Clinton!
The DLC/Clintonite/Corporate Whore version of the Democratic Party really gave the Republicans a multi-generational gift by passing NAFTA and declaring that the United States didn’t need any manufacturing jobs because “everyone can either learn computers or retire!”
Not only does it allow Republicans to pretend to be the hero’s of the rust belt, but it allows lazy-ass journalists like Jonathan Weisman of the New York Times to churn out this kind of “Opinions vary on the shape of earth question” journalism:
To Democrats, the train derailment and chemical leak in the hamlet of East Palestine, Ohio, is a story of logic, action and consequences: Rail-safety regulations put in place by the Obama administration were intended to prevent just such accidents. The Trump administration gutted them.
To Republicans, East Palestine is a symbol of something far larger and more emotional: a forgotten town in a conservative state, like so many others in Middle America, struggling for survival against an uncaring megacorporation and an unseeing government whose concerns have never included the likes of a town of 4,718 souls.
If you were walking in your community and saw a crushed soda can on the sidewalk, would you pick it up?
Let’s say there was a trash can 10 yards beyond the crushed can, so your commitment to this project would be minimal – would you then?
If you were walking in your community and saw a crushed soda can on the sidewalk, would you curse the person who carelessly threw it down? Would your mind jump to some imaginary police composite sketch of the “perp” and would that sketch look a hell of a lot like American civil rights activist Colin Kaepernick?
I’ve been thinking a lot about what makes modern Republicans tick lately and I think Republicans would take encountering that litter as yet another chance to get angry. The racism and hatred is on a hair-trigger. It’s like confirmation bias is the oxygen they breath.
Whereas normal Americans would take encountering that litter as another chance to silently and anonymously do something nice for their community. Maybe that’s pollyannaish thinking. Who knows?
Blog House Keeping
I have emptied the trash and spam folders so any new legit comments that get auto-trashed should be more immediately visible and corrected. We’re looking into what is going on.
Apologies to anyone who had thoughtful comments auto-trashed. Those comments are important to us, so keep them coming. White christan nationalist, vaccine deniers, climate change skeptics, and Putin lovers can fuck right off.
This Week’s Poll
The highly scientific integrity of this week’s poll is being besmerched (sp?) by someone who loves Tabatha Castro so much that they added her name three times. And yet doesn’t love her enough to learn how to actually spell Tabatha Castro correctly.
Just wow
@DonLew87 – Trump doubles down under oath on his ‘grab ’em’ statement. Basically says that’s how ‘stars’ roll. All the ‘stars’ out there, what say you? From Trump’s deposition in the E. Jean Carroll case…
The lawyer didn’t have to lay a very elaborate trap for Trump to incriminate the shit out of himself.