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Biden’s Dilemma

He ran as the sensible moderate who, even in the age of unbreakable, unreasonable, recalcitrant Republicanism,  could “bring people together.”   The unreasonable, recalcitrant Republicans have called bullshit on that plan, so Biden can either renounce this key campaign promise, or make pretend that Susan Collins,  Mitt Romney, Bill Cassidy, Lisa Murkowski,  Shelley Moore Capito attending a White House signing ceremony means that he is “bring people together.”

I’d be the farm that the Biden braintrust goes with “let’s make pretend” as a strategy.

And I get it.   Calling out Republicans for what they are and charting a bold, aggressive new course of direct confrontation would be akin to admitting that his political life up until now is a bit of a scam.   You can’t blame him for not having the guts to renounce his entire political identity, who could possibly do that?

Sure.  That sucks for the country, but there you have it.

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DL Open Thread Tuesday November 16th 2021

Everybody hates Joe Biden because gas is expensive, so he passed some gimmicky pork barrel bill to try and buy back some approval points.  That’s what the very objective DC press corps is saying, so it must be true.

Kevin Goff, the defendant’s lawyer in the murder trial of Ahmaud Arbery keeps trying to make the trial about his own racism.  “How many ministers are there in the Arbury family?” Said Goff,  “The seats in the court’s public gallery are different from the courtside seats in the Lakers game.”

Steven Bannon is a fine upstanding member of the Republican Party. Liz Cheney has been removed from the Wyoming GOP. In these days of glorious bipartisanship, I guess that means Coons will be reaching out to Bannon instead of Cheney going forward (?)

The UK is still being haunted by its ill-conceived, Brexit vote.

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DL Open Thread Monday October 15th 2021

I am very happy to be living in an era bipartisan cooperation in which everyone puts the country first and petty tribalism doesn’t run the show.   But can the current golden age of Coonsian bipartisan cooperation and happiness survive the Colorado River drying up for good?  I sort of doubt it.

Also today… only 16% of Americans are hard line anti-vaxers. But they sure get a shit ton of media attention.

And speaking of airtime, UD Alum Lydia Cole joins Rob in the bunker to talk about current protests and what demands need to be made to make sure that sexual assault is taken seriously on campus.

And finally, if you never want another decent night’s sleep, read this article El Som linked to over the weekend and marvel at how hard republicans are working to install trump as President for life, while Democrats can’t be bothered to lift a finger to stop it.

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Don’t get excited about the Bannon Indictment

Nichols has been a member of the Federalist Societysince 2003.

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Americans walking away from humiliating, low pay jobs in record numbers

When owners and vulture capital firms treat workers like disposable cogs, while hoarding all the profits for 30 years, something’s gotta give. A record-high 4.4 million people, or 3% of workers, quit their job in September, according to the Labor Department’s latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey released Friday. And there’s reason to believe […]

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Song of the Day 11/12: The Jam, “All Around the World”

Guest post by Nathan Arizona Before TV fragmented so you never have to watch something that’s not exactly what you want, you had to take what they gave you. On music shows in music-mad, trend-crazy Britain, you could count on seeing hot new bands pretty much every week. But they sometimes had to jostle for […]

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Fox News’ Gutfeld praises Rittenhouse for killing protesters and doing “what the government should have done”

Rittenhouse is going to walk. I think we all know that. The reality we have to confront is that this is not an isolated event. The right is organized and has a robust, well organized revolutionary infrastructure. GREG GUTFELD (HOST): People say that Rittenhouse never should have gone to Kenosha. The dead guys shouldn’t have […]

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Who is the “Democratic Base” voter that the Democratic Party continues to abuse?

Somebody asked if I could succinctly describe democratic base voters. I did, but they didn’t like the answer, so they took a powder. Good riddance. That’s fine but it is important to define terms so for everyone knows what I am talking about when I correctly observe that “the Democratic Party has spent the last 27 years abusing, berating and doing everything it can to drive the enthusiasm OUT of its base voters.“. So here is some “politics 101” for anybody who needs it.

First of all, “base voter” whether Democratic or Republican isn’t a demographic. Base voters don’t live in a certain zip code. Political scientist define base voters as voters who have a high degree of political participation and a strong connection to the espoused values of a political party. Therefor they are more likely to 1) show up on Election Day and 2) vote the “straight ticket.” Political scientist further describe “base voters” as being more interested in strengthen a party’s…

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“INFLATION PANIC!” is corporate pushback against rising worker power

Whenever the corporate media moves en masse like this, it’s a good idea to slow down and consider what’s actually happening,

The inflation freakout is all about class conflict. In fact, it may be the fundamental class conflict: that between creditors and debtors, a fight that’s been going on since the foundation of the United States.

That’s because inflation is often good for most of us, but it’s terrible for the kinds of people who own corporate news outlets….

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The unassailable truth about Democrats

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Trump White House records can be given to Capitol attack panel, judge rules

The House panel should immediately release the documents to the full house and the public. Congress is the people’s house. Executive privilege arguments are bullshit. The people don’t owe that specious argument one minute’s consideration.

A federal judge in Washington has ruled that hundreds of pages of White House records from the Trump administration can be turned over to the House committee investigating the deadly 6 January attack on the Capitol, defying objections from Donald Trump.

The decision, handed down late on Tuesday by the US district judge Tanya Chutkan, clears the way for the National Archives to start transmitting the records requested by Congress as early as Friday, though attorneys for Trump immediately vowed to appeal the ruling.

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REV Talks w/ Becca Cotto

This Highlands Bunker episode starts a little slow but builds freight train like momentum.  From her web site:  I am running because I believe we should all live in a just and equitable society where: Every child from Pre-K and up has a free quality education Everyone has affordable healthcare We all live and work […]

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