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DL Open Thread Sunday, October 3, 2021
My theory about why conservatives behave the way they do — they’re inferior and they know it — isn’t original to me. Angie Maxwell, an academic at the University of Arkansas, wrote an entire book about it, “The Indicted South: Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, and the Politics of Whiteness,” and explained in an interview how […]
Meet Wilmington’s Kevin Kelly
REV speaks with Kelly who has some good ideas about how to fix Wilmington. I don’t follow Wilmo politics very closely, but I found it interesting how Kelly threads the needle between being an old school Irish pol and a forward looking progressive. E143 – Wilmington Rescue Plan (w/Kevin Kelley) Former city councilman, mayoral candidate, […]
Breaking: Steve Smyk Doesn’t really thinks some of his Leg Hall Colleagues Cheated to Win – He is Just Pandering
A tipster has informed me that Smyk doesn’t actual buy into the “big lie” that Trump won the election or that Delaware elections are shot through with fraud. Rather he is just pandering to the electorate which he regards as child-like idiots.
Who is Steve Smyk Accusing of Cheating? Must be Spiros
As reported by Chris Kenny’s ‘Delaware Live’ Steve Smyk thinks Delaware elections are riven with fraud. That Smyk thinks Delaware elections are fraudulent in the abstract is one thing, but he has made a serious accusation that has implications in the real world. Who is the State Senator or Rep he is accusing of having […]
Song of the Day 9/30: The Replacements, “Can’t Hardly Wait”
Listening back to the Replacements, which I do fairly frequently, I’m struck by how far out of their way the band had to go to prevent Paul Westerberg’s punchy, melodic songs from becoming hits. Years of drunken performances and other self-sabotaging behavior — indie cred in those days required not just indifference toward but active […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021
Are the media invested in ending American democracy? Sure seems that way to a lot of people, including Margaret Sullivan of the Washington Post, who’s hopping mad that the Eastman memo, laying out how Mike Pence could have thrown the election to Trump on Jan. 6, has gotten almost no attention from the mainstream media. […]
With No Black People Around to Hassle, Beat Up, or Kill – State Trooper Forced to Harass 14-yr Old Girl
If you think cops are just out to fuck with people, this story will not disabuse you of that notion.
Breaking: Steve Smyk thinks some of his Leg Hall Colleagues Cheated to Win – But Who?
This creep-show, Smyk, spoke to an audience of a-holes, crackpots and lunatics who think Trump is still President of the United States. Rather than inform them what they are doing is flatly un-American and anti-constitutional, Smyk agreed with them that election fraud is a problem in Delaware. However, he stopped short of naming names and saying who, among his Leg Hall colleagues cheated their way to electoral victory.
“There’s no one silver bullet” to solving the problem of election fraud, Smyk said. “It comes down to all of you. Too many people have enjoyed their freedoms and they don’t recognize we’re about to lose them.”
Song of the Day 9/29: Son Volt, “Livin’ in the USA”
Son Volt’s 10th LP, “Electro Melodier,” released in July, continues Jay Ferrar’s turn toward political lyrics since Trump’s election. The music, though, fits right in with the Americana/roots furrow he’s plowed his entire career. I haven’t noticed any big market for this sort of thing, but the album has gotten some of Farrar’s strongest reviews […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday September 29th – “Both Sides”
From 1642 to 1651 the English fought a series of civil wars that ended with King Charles v1.0 killed and King Charles v2.0 in exile. Having suffered under successive horrible Kings, the first thing the English did after getting rid of the King was look around for a new King. Except for a few kooks and crackpots, nobody could conceive of a country without a King in charge. As a fish is unaware of the fact that it lives in water -the English were unaware of the fact that monarchy was not some inviolable natural law, but in fact bullshit.
Bothsiderism, Glorious Moderation, The Benevolent Virtues of Centrism, these are all lazy but widely accepted paradigms. They are world-views based on nothing but consensus. They may have worked to explain the world for a while, but they could not be more toxic now. That’s the bad news. The really bad news is that it takes generations to change consensus world view…and we don’t have 50 years, let alone generations.
After seemingly hammering Republicans for blocking debt ceiling, NBC News host Chuck Todd then falsely blames “both parties”
Fun With Maps
False advertising–of a sort. Consider this a redistricting hot-stove league thread. Timely because the General Assembly will hold a Redistricting For Dummies session tonight. Since I fit that profile, I plan to attend the virtual meeting. You can, too. Right here. With that out of the way, let’s look at what might ultimately happen during […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday September 28th 2021 – Patriots Proof Goes Poof!
Notice the difference? When first announced they breathlessly claimed “We have proof!” Now, it is just “initial findings”. I guess stringing along nit wits isn’t just for pillow purveyors anymore. Or maybe Julianne Murray figured out that going full-blow J6 insurrectionist isn’t a great look for an AG candidate? Sept. 17 Yesterday: h/t […]
Coons “Infuriated” With Biden
Nota bene – this is Biden’s bill. Lowlife motherfuckers like Coons and his fellow moderates are trying to fuck up Joe Biden’s bill.
Coons expected Biden to start twisting House progressives’ arms during their White House meeting last week. But we’re told by sources in the progressive camp and another senior Democratic aide that the president has neither asked progressives to drop their demand that the reconciliation bill pass in tandem with BIF, nor pressed them to accept a stand-alone vote on BIF this week — at least not yet. This has infuriated Coons.
Via Eschaton & Politico which uses “moderates” in place of Coons but since Coons paragon of moderates, I went ahead and fixed it.
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