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DL Open Thread Monday August28 2023

Filed in National by on August 28, 2023 7 Comments

Congrats Libs!  You made the Republicans turn into racist murders by being so liberal.  Happy Now? All the rightwing nuts and centrist dipshits agree.  Conservatives can’t be held responsible for anything because they have no agency.  Like babies, all conservatives can do is react to liberals and the media.     Vivek Ramaswamy blames the media […]

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What are Trump’s real chances of winning?

Filed in National by on August 27, 2023 5 Comments
What are Trump’s real chances of winning?

What does “winng” even mean for Trump? We know it doesn’t mean being found not guilty in court because he isn’t really mounting a conventional legal defense. Winning, at this point, means getting close enough in the Electoral College to push this into some omnibus Supreme Court case that finds that Trump is indeed King. […]

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Your Hot Takes on the GOP Shit Show

Filed in National by on August 23, 2023 5 Comments

I’ll start…Far fewer Hunter Biden mentions than I expected.

Vivek helped himself among Republicans by being all fighty.   Christie was terrible. Vivek knocked his off his ganme by out yelling him and blinding him with his tooth glare.   DeSantis mostly disappeared  into the hedges like the Homer Simpson meme and let the others attack Vivek.  Haley made some actual points that will be widely ignored.   All in all, the Republican Party was revelaed to be pretty awful. Pro-climate change, pro-rapists rights, pro-national abortion ban, anti-decency, and against weaponization of the DOJ unless they occupy the White House.

 

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Handicapping Tonight’s GOP Shitshow

Filed in National by on August 23, 2023 8 Comments
Handicapping Tonight’s GOP Shitshow

Trump is going to take part in tonight’s debate courtesy of Fox News showing clips of his greatness.   That is all you basically need to know about the remaining nobodies in the stage.   I’m going to watch as much as I can prior to puking.  Here is what I’ll be looking for. Burgum: Who? Next. […]

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DL Open Thread Wednesday August 23 2023

Filed in National by on August 23, 2023 4 Comments
DL Open Thread Wednesday August 23 2023

  New Jersey First in the Country requires climate change education Veteran art teacher Carolyn McGrath incorporates climate change into her art classes at Hopewell Valley Central High School in Pennington, N.J. by encouraging her students to think of art as a tool. Evelyn Lansing, a senior at Hopewell Valley Central High School in Pennington, […]

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It seems like it would be cheaper to train Priest to not f#ck kids

Filed in National by on August 22, 2023 1 Comment

Either that or don’t have a recruiting system that seems to select for sexual deviancy. San Francisco Archdiocese files for bankruptcy as it faces more than 500 sexual abuse lawsuits The Archdiocese of San Francisco has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as it faces more than 500 lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse. “The unfortunate reality is that […]

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A couple of things about Trump joking about fleeing the country

Filed in National by on August 22, 2023 4 Comments

Trump posted to his Truth Social platform that gaming out the methods by which he could flee the country. Here’s the thing – 1) He would still win the GOP nomination because Republicans a braindead cult members. 2) Do it. The failed District Attorney of Fulton County (Atlanta), Fani Willis, insisted on a $200,000 Bond […]

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DL Open Thread Tuesday August 22 2023

Filed in National by on August 22, 2023 6 Comments
DL Open Thread Tuesday August 22 2023

Republican primary voters could care less that a handful of wingnut billionaires want someone other that Trump to win the Republican nomination. 

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Didn’t ya take no civics  classes?!?!  This is how government is supposed to work: 

A bloc of hard-right Republicans released a memo threatening to shut down the government unless the Department of Justice stops its probe of former president Donald Trump.

The House Freedom Caucus released a memo stating their official position as the House begins its negotiations for spending. The US government will run out of money on 30 September.

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Hey Court, good luck with that. 

A judge signed off on a $200,000 bond for former President Trump in the Georgia election case, enacting stricter rules than his co-defendants, on Monday, according to court filings.

The order forbids Trump from intimidating any co-defendants or witnesses in the case as he awaits trial.

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I, for one, blame our extremely shitty for profit health insurance system. I didn’t read for enought in to see if  the Delaware News Journal’s  Krys’tal Griffin made the same point.  

Need to visit an emergency room in Delaware? Well, get cozy. Delaware has one of the longest emergency room waiting times in the country.

Delaware is the state with the second longest emergency room waiting time in the nation, according to a study conducted by medical expert Med.ro that compiled data from Johns Hopkins MedicineCenters for Medicare & Medicaid servicesKFF and Definite Healthcare.

The study defines the average waiting time as the time it takes for a patient to be called for treatment after arriving at the emergency room.

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Trump hanging his co-conspirators out to dry means that thinks he will win all of his cases on appeal in the Supreme Court.  And that’s actually probably a reasonable presumption.   

Trump ripping off contractors and the like has no downside for him because it would cost the marks more money to try to get and obtain a civil judgment than they would be owed. In this case, the co-conspirators do have some leverage: they can turn state’s. So presumably 1)thinks his traditional immunity will allow him to get off again no matter what or 2)omerta will prevail even if he stiffs his lickspittles. He may even be right, but this may not prove to be enlightened self-interest.

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DL Open Thread Monday August 21 2023

Filed in National by on August 21, 2023 36 Comments

These ginormous checks for Israel aren’t going to write themselves.   Or… Oh Well,  McBride signs onto maximalist Coosian Israel policy. Or… Delaware Congressional candidate Sarah McBride casts herself as a staunch supporter of Israel McBride described the “special relationship” between the U.S. and Israel as “a bedrock of America’s national security and our global values” […]

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MAGATs Find Trump More Truthful Than Their Own Friends and Family

Filed in National by on August 20, 2023 0 Comments
MAGATs Find Trump  More Truthful Than Their Own Friends and Family

I also love the low regard for “Religious Leaders”.

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50% of Americans are totally committed to being real dicks

Filed in National by on August 20, 2023 0 Comments

I have to admit to taking the whole climate change thing less seriously than I probably should have all these years.  I always thought human ingenuity would out race human block-headeness.  Now I see that the blockheads are legion.  And some blockheads are very rich and very shortsighted. More than 200 ships are stuck in […]

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Matt Marshall name checked in McBride’s “Lovette or Leave It” segment

Filed in National by on August 19, 2023 9 Comments
Matt Marshall name checked in McBride’s “Lovette or Leave It” segment

That headline makes no sense, but whatever. It is 100% true which is more than you can say about many of the headlines I’ve written over the years.

Here is the podcast.

Anyway, McBride does a fine job.

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Last Week’s Poll Results and This Week’s Poll

Filed in National by on August 17, 2023 5 Comments

Of Trump’s Jan 6 excuses, 44% of DL readers found  “If I earnestly BELIEVE I am President, then I am President”  the most ludicrous.

It is ludicrous, but it is all he’s got.  Living in an alternative reality and inviting people to live there with him is his thing.  It is not something that will work in a courtroom, but he can’t help it.   This conservative CATO institute puts it this way:

America has seen its fair share of lying politicians, but Donald Trump is in a class of his own. He appears to view literally any interaction with another human being as an opportunity to be exploited and a game to be won. In Trump’s world, rules are for chumps, norms are for losers, and the truth is whatever you can get another person to believe — nothing more. And of course, history makes clear that this approach has been quite effective at advancing Trump’s interests in certain settings — preening on the set of a game show, for example, or spinning up a fawning, frothing crowd at a campaign event.

But not only will those antics not work in a courtroom, they will backfire. Given the nature of the allegations against him, Trump will have to take the stand even though he has a right not to, and given his nature, he will lie to the jury just like he has lied to everyone else his entire life.

Which brings us to our next week’s poll.  (The last Trump poll for a while, I promise.).

 

How many felony charges will Trump add to his 91 existing felony charges on Monday when he reveals his 100 page  “report” that he says will cause all charges to be dropped?

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