Closing Arguments / Inflation

The GOP:  Inflation is high so we need to fire Joe Biden and all Democrats on the ballot. Fetterman: Inflation is high so we have to tackle the corporate greed that is behind the sky high prices. Establishment Democrats:  Inflation is high so we need to raise interest rates to curb the demand for houses and cars, which will slow overall economic growth, and increases unemployment.  That will in turn reduce demand across the economy, and potentially lower prices on household staples.

It’s the GOTV, Stupid.

For 30 years now Republicans work hard to solidify their base and activate some portion of a large pool of non-voters by driving turnout around a narrow set of voter concerns and grievances. Democrats seek out the 5 "undecided" voters in "the middle" and attempt appeal to them with some watered down approach to addressing narrow set of voter concerns and grievances that the GOP says are very important.  This wins over 2 of the 5 "undecided" voters, and de-activates the Democratic base. I can't believe I've been doing this for so long and this losing strategy is still Democratic Party orthodoxy.

DL Open Thread Wednesday November 2 2022

I just love this headline.   

With its huge new debt burden, Twitter makes less money per year than what it owes its lenders in interest

No wonder Musk is trying to squeeze $8 a month from Stephen King.  Via the New York Times
My prediction for the midterms: Heads they win, Tails We Lose 

Sean Hannity says “you can never trust the vote counting” in Nevada, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Fulton and DeKalb counties

Hannity: “I always have my suspicions. I can't say for sure, but they're always there”

SEAN HANNITY (HOST): We're gonna have a tough race in Nevada. You can never trust the vote counting out in Nevada in my view, just like Milwaukee or Philly or some of the other areas of the country. Fulton or DeKalb County, I always have my suspicions. I can't say for sure, but they're always there.
At the urging of the colonized, France was getting out of the overseas colony business in 1953.  On November of that year Cambodia became a constitutional monarchy and adopted a flag that looked like this one. From 1970 until 1992 it wasn't a constitutional monarchy.  The monarchy was restored in 1993 as was the flag.Together with the flags of Portugal, San Marino and Spain, it is only one of four state flags to feature a building, and the only to feature a temple and not a castle.

Afternoon Open Thread

If you want to really test your critical thinking and logic skills one day, try to figure out who "the worst" Republican is.   DeSantis, Coons, Graham, Cotton, Roberts, Greene.. it is nigh on impossible. 

"We're Th3 cHaOs pAr1y"

I never thought much of that as a party rally cry, but it seems to working like gangbusters for the GOP. 

This is how our Democracy was lost

  Dante Atkins, a progressive communicator, and strategist, and principal at Atkins Strategies, laid out a plausible scenario for an American dictatorship. He wrote it as a New York Times…

Mike Pence is a History Doofus

Mike Pence wants America to be a Christian country. He doesn't appear to know that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States both products of the…

Hunter Biden’s lap top “Lappy!” ™ is going to be a major figure in Biden’s Q-peachment

Gosh darn it, Lappy! What in blazes did you do this time?!? The Atlantic - Via Boing Boing It seems likely that the MAGA party will take control of the house, thanks to a combination of voter intimidation and blaming Biden for global inflation. After they kill the J6 investigation, they'll tackle two other jobs: impeaching Biden and installing a MAGA president. This article in The Atlantic lays out the roadmap for impeachment, which includes linking Hunter Biden to his father.