“We” are all advanced politics knowers. I don’t think telling voters, “it’s not THE DEMOCRATS just SOME DEMOCRATS” is a winning message for most people.I want stuff I think is good to pass because I think it’s good, I also know that we’re one fairly likely death away from losing the Senate before that can happen, and one or two elections away from losing the whole damn country. B-b-but not OUR fault is probably not the 2022 campaign slogan I’d go with.
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Lumber prices are up 240% year-over-year
There are supply constraints, for example, sawmills cut production and inventory at the beginning of the pandemic, and the West Coast fires in 2020 damaged privately-owned timberland. And there has been a huge surge in demand for lumber. Tariffs on Canadian lumber were raised, then lowered but last week, the Commerce Department released a preliminary […]
VERY EARLY LINE: Witzke to Face Lisa Blunt Rochester
Typical Republican, far-right conspiracy theorist, fellow Goldey-Beacom alum and all around nut bag, Lauren Elena Witzke must be the odds on favorite to take on Lisa Blunt Rochester for Delaware’s At Large House seat. The only question is, will she want it? I think she will.
As we’ve discussed Witzke isn’t a candidate in the conventional sense of wanting to fill some political office. She is a grifter and her grift is taking money out of the pockets of racist trump deadeners. So Witzke’s calculus isn’t “could I win?” but “will this race offer a profitable upside?”
My sense is that the answer to that question is – yes. The national wingnut media doesn’t seem to be very discerning when it comes to promoting candidates to the national wingnut audience. As long as the correct nonsense is emanating from Witzke’s face hole, the national wingnut media will play along – as if she is a legit contender. So while her name may continue to be a punchline in Greenville, the national money and juicy speaking engagements will continue to roll in.
Additionally, losing does not appear to be an impediment to maintaining the grift. Losing, being arrested, found in humiliating circumstance, etc… these things never seem to corrode the image of the wingnut grifters. Rather, because these are viewed as attacks by ANTIFA (or whoever) losing and being indicted actually burnish the wingnut grifter’s resume.
For these reasons, and because there is literally nobody else – I’m calling it. Lauren Witzke v LBR.
DL Open Thread Wednesday June 2rd 2021
Good Morning DL Peeps –
Click through to read more about:
– Democrats should be willing to lose the Senate rather than succumb to Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin’s extortion.
– Biden gave a speech in Tulsa on the on the 100th anniversary of Tulsa massacre. “Darkness can hide much, it erases nothing.”
– Diddling kids is now frowned upon for Catholic priests.
– Robert Reich’s Twitter: Bipartisanship is a meaningless goal when one party has given up on democracy.
The earth is shifting beneath Coon’s feet. Going around claiming to be the world’s greatest bipartisan this year is going to sound increasingly like bragging about being the world’s foremost eugenicist.
DL Open Thread Tuesday June 1st 2021
I haven’t listened to, read, or viewed any news in over 72 hours. My hair is regrowing, and my soufflé’s are majestic yet fluffy. So open thread is mostly on you, dear reader. What newsworthy items do you have to share in the comments? My meager contribution is this:
Won’t Somebody Think of the Shareholders!? Off-Shore/Automate The CEO Function
Over at New Statesman, writer Will Dunn proposes a great cost-cutting measure to make businesses more efficient and profitable: replace CEOs with machines.
A few weeks ago Christine Carrillo, an American tech CEO, raised this question herself when she tweeted a spectacularly tone-deaf appreciation of her executive assistant, whose work allows Carrillo to “write [and] surf every day” as well as “cook dinner and read every night”. […] Predictably, a horde arrived to point out that if someone else is doing 60 per cent of Carrillo’s job, they should be paid 50 per cent more than her. But as Carrillo – with a frankly breathtaking lack of self-awareness – informed another commenter, her EA is based in the Philippines. The main (and often the only) reason to outsource a role is to pay less for it.
If most of a CEO’s job can be outsourced, this suggests it could also be automated. But while companies are racing to automate entry- and mid-level roles, senior executives and decision makers show much less interest in automating themselves.
There’s a good argument for automating from the top rather than from the bottom. As we know from the annotated copy of Thinking, Fast and Slow that sits (I assume) on every CEO’s Isamu Noguchi nightstand, human decision-making is the product of irrational biases and assumptions. This is one of the reasons strategy is so difficult, and roles that involve strategic decision-making are so well paid. But the difficulty of making genuinely rational strategic decisions, and the cost of the people who do so, are also good reasons to hand this work over to software.
It would save a lot more money than increasingly automating lower-level labor, which in turn would probably help reduce the extremities of income inequality.
Sure, there would probably be some less-than-ideal consequences of automating our hierarchical organizing. But it’s not like human CEOs are any better at making choices that minimize human suffering. So hey, maybe it’s worth a shot. At least we can share the wealth around that way.
- Via boingboing
DL Open Thread Monday May 31st 2021 – Wanted: A Shadow Senator
I’m taking the day off so instead of combing the headlines I’ll just leave you with this open thread random thought. Coons is terrible. I think we all agree on that. But it is nearly six years until he is up for re-election, so what to do about it? I’ve been thinking about mechanism they […]
The Only Thing Keeping the GOP Afloat is Bipartisanship Mania Among Democrats
Coon’s case of Bipartisanship Mania isn’t unique, it is just an extremely virulent and debilitating strain. 100% of the DC media and nearly all elected DC Democrats are afflicted. @sambrodey Schumer on GOP blocking of 1/6 commission: “I hope this is not the beginning of an effort from Senate Republicans to prevent this chamber […]
Did you hear the one about the clueless fucking idiot who went on twitter to talk about bipartisanship?
Coons went on Twitter to talk about how great bipartisanship is. Twitter was not having it.
“We tried to bipartisanship very very very hard, but the bad Republicans were bad.”
Coons doesn’t give a fuck. He’s got his lifetime sinecure, so fuck you!
We’ll lose score of seats, but that will not change Coons’ life one bit. His daughter will still qualify for a safe, legal abortion if she ever needs one and he will still be the first call lazy DC talking head types make when they need some reach around the aisle happy talk.
And Who Is This Message For
NPR’s Steve Inskeep Baited Coons Into Sounding Like a Goddam Idiot
The reasonable answer to the question, “Are Republicans serious about making an agreement with you?” is – Fuck No.
And yet, in spite of everything we know about Republicans, Coons thinks they will come around.
INSKEEP: Are Republicans serious about making an agreement with you?
COONS: I think we’ll find out today because there’s been….
DL Open Thread Wednesday May 26th
Trump activated a lot of new voters. They are racists and fascist who, seeing nothing much to excite them in either party, historically stayed on the sidelines.
Having been activated, these new Republicans are out to fuck shit up. In today’s Open thread I’ve collected a few articles dealing with the Proud Boys. One looks at the Proud Boys ongoing attempt to take over of the Nevada GOP. Another documents the strange affinity between the Proud Boys and Chinese nationals and members of the Chinese diaspora. But no look at the Proud Boys would be complete without a word from there leader. And while’s I’ve enjoyed utterly ignoring the last guy, I went to his failing blog to try and see what they see. Thats a fool’s errand. The Trump blog is completely bananas.
REV is Right – This is Appalling
This is some fucked up shit wrapped in racism and money:
Last week state Senator Darius Brown was arrested on charges of offensive touching and disorderly conduct after police claim he punched a woman with whom he was dining at a North Wilmington restaurant and threw a water glass, breaking it, before leaving the establishment.
Brown turned himself in to the Delaware State Police a few days later. The State Police issued a press release including Brown’s booking mug shot and held a press conference regarding the incident. The local media accordingly ran the police narrative and many outlets included the mug shot. DelawareOnline had to subsequently add this editor’s note exposing the fact that they had simply reported exactly what the police gave them:
This story has been updated to reflect the correct date. Delaware State Police initially gave an incorrect date for the incident in a press release.
The story was picked up by the Philadelphia affiliates of NBC, ABC, CBS and FOX, All duly ran the mug shot as well.
DL Open Thread Tuesday May 25th 2021
Florida and Texas are like two drunks at a wedding boastfully yelling about being the biggest drunk at the wedding. In this week’s episode, Texas says even the most meager attempts to keep guns out of the hands of school shooters is tyranny. Florida answers by attacking ‘Big Tech’ and stroking Trump’s fragile ego.
Also, what happens if the Cyber Ninjas report that Donald Trump really was the winner of the election? I mean, other than Chris Coons releasing a statement announcing the Super Secret Bipartisan Caucus is about to spring into action and release a sternly worded statement – what happens?
But first, the worst song in the modern era is…
DL Open Thread Monday May 24th 2021
I was sitting down to write this Open Thread and I just couldn’t. The news is too depressing. Biden seems to be folding his hand on the Infrastructure Bill. Carper is being Carper, giving Republicans cover for their ongoing malfeasance.
Republican nuts are being Republican nuts. And we are quickly approaching the moment when Republicans nuts are pushing us to the point when political sectarian violence is going to be inevitable. It is all too much.
So I had an Aperol Spritz and clicked over to the Arden Concert Gild.
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