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Song of the Day 9/5: Ani DiFranco, “Amendment”
Ani DiFranco has the solution to the Supreme Court’s attack on abortion rights. I don’t think it will happen anytime soon, but that doesn’t make her wrong.
DL Open Thread Sunday, Sept. 5, 2021
The media, having accomplished its task of pulling down Joe Biden’s approval ratings, have mostly moved on from Afghanistan in favor of trumpeting the Texas Abortion Freakout, which means the End of Abortion Rights in This Country. Look, I’m not trying to minimize how despicable this is, but this is a country awash up to […]
Republicans fight / Democrats don’t
Mitch McConnell blocked Merrick Garland 8 months before election then confirmed Amy Coney Barrett 8 days before election when 65 million had already voted. AND YET – Democrats always lose elections (unless running against Trump) because they run on changing the tax rate by .00068% to encourage companies to do some inscrutable thing.
We are blowing it once again.
DL Open Thread Thursday, Sept. 2, 2021
Today’s media freak-out is over the Committee of GileadU.S. Supreme Court upholding a Texas abortion ban by a 5-4 vote. The real test will be when it’s put into practice, because the state won’t enforce it — it’s relying on private citizens to file lawsuits against providers and patients, and SCOTUS acknowledged it’s constitutionally questionable. […]
Speaking of the Media Favoring Conservative Narratives…
Here are two HUGE conservative narratives that the media has fully internalized in-spite of the fact that they are pure bullshit:
– The Courts are liberal,
– The Media is liberal
One thing Republicans did for years, electeds and certainly the broader conservative moment, was to demonize portions of the judiciary. There was no 9th circuit, just THE LIBERAL 9TH CIRCUIT, and news reports generally reflected this, making all their rulings sound somehow illegitimate (The 9th circuit is no longer liberal).For whatever reasons, Dems don’t do that, preferring to maintain happy illusions about an increasingly corrupt and illegitimate system. – via Eschaton
Isn’t it strange how Democrats never push back in that nonsense? We are both too clean to take part in that dirty stuff and too busy speaking about the merits of bipartisanship at Notre Dame University.
DL Open Thread Wednesday September 1, 2021
All of yesterday’s Open Thread stuff still holds so you can re-read that for today’s news. Just a couple of updates. For example, Joe Biden still won our 20 year war by leaving Afghanistan but now he is pushing back on dishonest wingnut critics who set the media narrative. Also..an arrest warrant for a MAGA-asshole and a little Social Security news.
How Democrats lose seats during mid-terms:
Media narratives typically favor conservatives. (eg. “Biden Debacle!” Instead of “Biden Successfully Ends 20 Year War!” Eg. “Biden Fails to Reach Vax Goal!” Not “Conservatives Literally Killing Themselves to Frustrate Biden’s Vax Goals!”)
Many Democrats allow the media narrative to influence their level of engagement.
Republicans play Democratic “moderates” against the base to drive down engagement.
Dem “Moderates” and campaign “consultants” propose timid and mostly useless tinkering with the tax code polices that appeal to conservatives but are impossible for Dems to run on.
As Dem losses begin to appear likely, Democratic “moderates” take part in vilifying the Democratic base for not supporting the timid and mostly useless agenda.
Republicans with no rational or popular policies, but a highly engaged base, win mid-term elections.
DL Open Thread Tuesday August 31, 2021
#We_won! Of course “winning” is relative. Biden brought Cheney and W’s ill-conceived, misbegotten adventure in Afghanistan to an end and we aren’t going to be in there for another 20 years. That’s my benchmark for wining. YMMV. #Oh_Snap! Wildfires are now threatening the homes of rich people in Lake Tahoe. We should see some […]
DL Open Thread Monday August 30th 2021
Here are a couple of Delaware headlines (and a song) to start off your week: Delaware Takes in Climate Change Refugees: Over 100 shelter pets from Louisiana airlifted to New Castle County as Hurricane Ida looms On the Covid front – Its like DejaVu all over again. Delaware’s COVID-19 cases, deaths and hospitalizations continue to rapidly […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, August 29, 2021
We can now definitively state that Joe Biden was wrong when he predicted that the Republican fever would break once Trump was out of office. A nation in which Republican governors push experimental antibody treatments but shun vaccines and masks and the public responds by consuming large-animal dewormer, causing an enormous spike in poison control […]
Conservative media has created the perfect economic and cultural environment for the spread of Covid19
Conservative media complex is a mechanism for tricking gullible retired people into buying gold coins, brain pills and reverse mortgages. It has created a docile flock of uncritical dummies who are easy pickings for cynical grifters hawking everything from armed insurrection to border wall segments, to horse dewormer.
Songs Of The Day August 26: The Muslims-‘Fuck These Fuckin Fascists’/’Unity’
Punk the way it’s supposed to be: crude, obnoxious and funny. In their own words: “THE MUSLIMS is a crunchy, kickass punk band of Black + brown queer muzzies. Your racist dad is a piece of shit and THIS IS NOT A SAFE SPACE.” They’re from, of all places, Durham, North Carolina. Seeing them at […]
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