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DL Open Thread Tuesday November 9th 2021
27 years ago today, the Republican Party won control of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate in midterm congressional elections. It marked the first time the GOP held both houses in 40 years.
Republicans accomplished this by consolidating and energizing their base voters and have worked that strategy for the past 27 years. Meanwhile, the Democrats have berated, abused and done everything to drive all energy and enthusiasm OUT of the Democratic base voters for the past 27 years. One electoral strategy seems to work. The other is lacking. I will leave you to figure out which seems to be more effective.
Also in today’s open thread:
– Ted Cruz trolled the US media again
– Steve Smyk is still walking around a free man, and
– Speaking of people brazenly showing their criminal faces in public, what ever happened to Dem’s stopping the indicted auditor from auditing while under indictment? . Oh yeah… Pete Schwartzkopf likes her.
Our media is now just rich people interviewing each other
Peter Eleftherios Baker is an American journalist and author. He is the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times and a political analyst for MSNBC. His net worth is estimated to be well over $1 million.
Andrea Mitchell is an American television journalist, anchor, and commentator for NBC News, based in Washington, D.C. She married her second husband, then Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, on April 6, 1997, following a lengthy relationship. Her personal net worth is estimated at over $8 million.
This is what passes for “analysis” in the United States:
Andrea Mitchell: Peter Baker, is the congressional Democratic Party just too liberal for the country?
“A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.”
I think of the amazing things would could accomplish as a people and a species if we were not hobbled by being chained to such brazenly stupid people. If we don’t have the mental acuity to think beyond labels such as “progressive” and “liberal” and instead think in terms of “people who generally favor some tangible benefit for the vast majority of people” – what hope do we have?
Read the essay by Carlo M. Cipolla that Alby mentioned last week. It explains so much about Republican Banditry and our national stupidity.
DL Open Thread Monday November 8th 2021
Yesterday was the 77th anniversary of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt winning an unprecedented fourth term in office. With the benefit of historical hindsight, we now know that he won by continually watering down his bold agenda to appeal to centrists and corporate interests. That is the only way Democrats have ever won nationally. It is […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 6, 2021
D’s Finally Pass Something, And Send It To Biden. If a $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure program can seem anti-climactic, the D’s will make it so. Of course, there was a caveat: House Democrats had planned to also hold a vote on their sprawling social policy and climate bill on Friday, but it was put on hold […]
Save it for the rubes, Coonsie
Coons takes his holy bi-partisanship act to Glasgow Scotland today. His ready to disclose the top secret Republicans traveling with this afternoon at 1:00pm. This show of bipartisanship (if is happens) will surely fix the climate crisis. Coons visits climate change conference to advocate bipartisan solutions Senator Chris Coons is part of a bipartisan delegation […]
Song of the Day 11/5: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, “Can’t Let Go”
It took 14 years, but Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have finally recorded a follow-up to their “Raising Sand,” the 2007 LP that won both Grammy and Americana awards. “Raise the Roof” gets its official release Nov. 19, but three songs have been released over the past few months to prime the pump. This Randy […]
Election Analysis
The nothing that Biden has accomplished is too far to the left and that scared the white Virginia people. So now he needs to be mean to AOC in public and accomplish even more nothing, so Democrats can run on nothing in the mid-terms and win by not being scary leftists.
Put me on TV! I can do this.
#winning
Is There a Christo-Fascist/White Power Cell Operating Within the Delaware State Police?
Having lost to Chris Coons by 59.4% to 37.9%, Delaware’s most prominent Republican and the defacto leader of the DEGOP, Lauren Witzke, now claims to have asked the Delaware State Police to work with her to “retrieve the people’s stolen property” by overturning the election and installing her as Delaware’s “rightful” Senator. While it is ludicrous […]
RIP: Governor Ruth Ann Minner
https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2021/11/04/governor-ruth-ann-minner-delaware-dies/6285935001: Delaware’s first and only female governor Ruth Ann Minner has died at the age of 86 after living a “truly remarkable story of triumph in the face of adversity,” according to multiple government officials. Minner dropped out of high school at 16 to help out on her family farm. At 32, she was widowed suddenly […]
Witzke Needs to Be Locked Up Under DE Code Title11, § 1245A
Where the FUCK is Kathleen Jennings on this? Witzke needs to be charged and locked up…today! So far, can find nothing re: State Police response to the Crazy Lady….however, I did find this gem – By someone named “Herkie”, in a comment section on something called ‘nationalzero.com‘: “First, I have always said that republicans […]
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
This essay, by Italian economist Carlo Cipolla, has been around since 1976, but it remains fundamental to the understanding of human society and its defining characteristic, stupidity. Everyone should read it, because everyone is stupid about something some of the time, even though most of our problems are caused by the incalculably large number of […]
Song of the Day 11/3: Five Man Electrical Band, “Signs”
Before I left America, I noticed that most stores, and virtually every restaurant, had a “help wanted” sign in the window. The situation is so dire, some internet wag noted, that long-haired freaky people can now apply. I spend about an hour a day walking around Paris, and so far I’ve seen one (1) “help […]
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