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DL Open Thread Thursday, August 26, 2021
RWNJ martyr Ashli Babbitt is the answer to the question, “How many of these kosplay kkkomandos have to die before the rest stand down?” and finally someone in the mainstream media has put a fine point on it: Her death was a turning point in the Jan. 6 Putsch. Babbitt crossed a line that had […]
Protest & Organize & Vote
Watching fanged zealots yell at school boards (and clap gleefully for their fellow yellers) I keep returning to something REV said in a podcast. I’m going to make a hash of it but it was something like – Getting protest energy and capitalizing on it by organizing and recruiting candidates and keeping everyone together to vote is the program.
I think of that political activism flywheel when I see those Karens lacerating their school boards because that program seems to be baked into the GOP DNA right now. Meanwhile party Democrats always seem to be wary of gathering any political energy.
DL Open Thread Wednesday August 25th 2021
Filed under “Trump’s Suckers” Rudy Giuliani recorded shaving himself at JFK Airport restaurant table The running commentary by Actor Michael Rapaport is a thing of beauty. Filed under “Duh” McConnell Blesses Centrist Dems’ Attempt To Blow Up Two-Track Infrastructure Plan WASHINGTON, DC – AUGUST 03: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (D-KY) (Kent Nishimura / Los […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday August 24th 2021
I was in a store yesterday and some asshole was yammering on about the “Nuremberg Code” and how it meant that he didn’t need to get vaccinated because the vaccine is experimental. The Nuremberg Code seems to be everywhere these days as MAGA shitheads have embraced it as the ultimate legal defense for their assholery.
An Alabama man who called himself the ‘vaccine police’ told pharmacists at a Missouri Walmart that they will be ‘executed’ if they continued giving COVID-19 shots…
DL Open Thread Monday August 23, 2021
I’m still not watching any opinion/talking head panel “news” but I have pieced together the fact that according to Politico, Fox News, CNN and the New York Times, Joe Biden is the worst Hitler since the original Hitler.
You know the depth of the media’s malefaction if you’ve read this: ‘The American Media (Hearts) Forever War’ Alby posted it yesterday.
Could Covid gets any better at killing wingnut radio personalities, homophobic preachers, and Red State screwball legislators?
One can hope.
Calling the GOP a “Death Cult” would be accurate but impolite – So the Media Doesn’t Do it.
Probably the most important rule of conventional media discourse in this country is that an accurate description of the contemporary GOP is not possible, because such a description would be so extreme that it would basically blow the standard structure of that discourse to smithereens.
For example, when front pagers and commentators here at LGM refer to the Republican party as a death cult, this must be interpreted by Very Serious People in the legacy media to be some sort of partisan hyperbole. In fact it’s about as hyperbolic as pointing out that the Pacific Ocean has a lot of water in it. In other words, it’s a very simple and straightforward description of an undeniable state of affairs:
If you want to take concrete action to oppose the Republicans trying to infect this country with disease and idiocy you can do these things today:
1) Research who your elected officials are from US Senator down to County Council and how they vote.
2) If they are Democrats, urge them to be more confrontational – or plan to primary them.
3) If they are republicans run against them – or support a candidate who will fight.
4) Read ‘Beyond the Super Voter’ at the Delaware Call
DL Open Thread Sunday, August 22, 2021
The hypocrisy of the media’s war cheerleading sure is coming a-cropper, with every pom-pom-waving “military analyst” shitting on Biden as their always-questionable usefulness comes to an end. No, you’re not imagining it — talking-head shows weren’t interested in booking anyone who agreed with Biden. If this doesn’t convince people to turn off the infotainment TV, […]
DEGOP has landed on its big campaign issue: Anti-Maskism
Won’t someone think of the children?!?!? SUSSEX COUNTY, Del. – The Delaware Republican Party is pushing back against Governor Carney’s newest mask requirement in schools, as school districts across the state prepare for the new mandate. The governor announced an indoor mask mandate for K-12 students in public and private schools, and daycares on Tuesday. […]
Song of the Day 8/21: Grace Vonderkuhn, “Rock and Roll Gary”
Guest post by Nathan Arizona Newark’s Grace Vonderkuhn rips headlong through her garage/psych/power-punk songs, but her burgeoning career hit a speed bump during the Covid shutdown. Her band, a trio known just as Grace Vonderkuhn, earned good reviews for its its debut album in 2018 and turned heads on the national club tour that followed. […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, August 19, 2021
Why would a guy, a Florida governor let’s say, dissuade people from getting vaccines or wearing masks, but go all-out on a treatment for people once they come down with Covid? Why do you think? Um…could it be that his second-biggest political donor owns a big chunk of the treatment company? Didn’t have to turn […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday August 18th 2021
The Delaware Call’s KARL STOMBERG knows his shit. He won in the suburbs when conventional wisdom held that the suburbs are a bastion of timid Democratic Party moderation. But Stomberg can’t be everywhere. Knowing that, can (even more) progressives win in the suburbs? Read the Delaware Call and find out.
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Building a Progressive Base in the Suburbs
Also:
-The inside the bubble DC Press corps REALLY wants Biden to come apart over the fall of Kabul. But does America hate Biden? Not so much.
– While talking about Americans remaining in Kabul, Sean Hannity managed to plug Mypillow on yesterday’s episode of “The Sean Hannity Show”
DL Open Thread Tuesday August 17th 2021
The corrupt edifice that was our invasion and 20 year occupation of Afghanistan has come tumbling down in spectacularly speedy and chaotic fashion.
Biden’s address yesterday was heartbreakingly direct and honest. My take is that given the situation he inherited from Bush, Obama and Trump, he said what needed to be said.
And yet the humanitarian crisis will be long and nauseating. Separating good faith criticism and bad faith criticism will be impossible. So, I agree with Alby. I’ll be staying far away from the Opinion Industrial Complex for a while. And also, this…
You fasten all the triggers
For the others to fire
Then you sit back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
While the young people’s blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud
Song of the Day 8/16: Bob Dylan, “Masters of War”
Who lost the war in Afghanistan? Certainly not the defense industry, which got the lion’s share of the trillion dollars the country wasted waging it. Big win for them. The Cuban Missile Crisis, which seemed to awaken Americans to the fact that they could be incinerated at a moment’s notice, was still fresh when Dylan […]
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