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Brady Resigns!
Is that a headline we even want to see? REV hosts a great conversation on the topic. (If you haven’t, def support through a Patreon donation)
Also:
Carper Resigns!
Why isn’t anyone calling for Carper to step down?
E136 – Stop Asian Haters (w/Yejoon Koh, Erika Gutierrez
Activists Yejoon Koh and Erika Guttierez join Rob in the bunker to talk about Gerald Brady’s racist comments as Asian women, the Delaware American Asian Voice group, and what it takes to bring new activists into the movement.
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Song of the Day 8/6: Stephen Stills, “4 + 20”
Back in the ’60s, when television was confined to three channels, if the counterculture wanted to confront the establishment, it had to do it in their arena. People we now remember as anti-establishment showed no qualms about taking their message to the masses via some of the squarest talk-show programming around — John and Yoko […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, August 6, 2021
RWNJ’s Have No Problem ‘Kicking The Shit Out Of Black People. But When We’re Kicking The Shit Out Of White People… …that’s a problem.’ Officer Michael Fanone, who suffered a heart attack on January 6, calling out those seeking to downplay the Insurrection. Is The Gulf Stream Endangered? Yes. Somebody? Anybody?: Such an event would […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021
I wonder if the media aren’t creating a false picture of who the anti-vax maskholes are, because apparently it’s not all the right-wingers: 90% of U.S. seniors are now vaccinated. So expect lots more articles like this one, about a Texas GOP official who mocked vaccines and masks on social media for months. He caught […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday August 4th 2021
So did Cuomo have a lot of sex with women who liked his style of retrograde sexiness, or was the sexual harassment an end in itself? Not that it matters. I’m just curious. Fuck that guy. Get out already.
Speaking of stepping down. My pillow guy says that his China symposium is so airtight that Biden will just step down and hand the White House keys to Trump when he see it. (Just like the founders envisioned.)
In Ohio’s 11th house district the Dem primary was the election and voters picked the Clintonite insider over the woman AOC had been campaigning for. I’m sure this will be taken as a rebirth of holy bipartisanship and the end of the squad.
Tennessee has a lot of junk tourist attractions.
The News Journal runs a provocative headline: Hundreds of millions in tax dollars built Wilmington’s Riverfront, was it worth it? I don’t know if it was worth it because I don’t have a subscription to the NJ but I trust one of you nice people will let us know in the comments.
If God had intended man to fly, he would have given us a well regulated airline industry. (Psst…Air travel doesn’t seem like it is “back” yet.)
Apropos of nothing, I have a new Coons theory. I contend that Coons watches a lot of cable news and thinks that the panels are an accurate representation of what Americans are thinking.
DL Open Thread Tuesday August 3rd 2021
August was originally called Sextilis in Latin because it was the sixth month in the original ten-month Roman calendar. The pre-empire Romans basically took January and February off and just had a long gap in their calendar. March was the first month of the year until January and February were added by Numa Pompilius around 700 BC. In 8 BC, Sextilis was renamed in honor of Emperor Augustus. Other later emperors tried to rename months after themselves but they didn’t stick. October and December remain mis-numbered relics of Rome’s languid youth.
August 8th is “Happiness Happens Day” and August is Happiness month. Both were established by Secret Society of Happy People (SOHP) which is an organization that celebrates the expression of happiness. Founded in August 1998, the society encourages thousands of members from all around the globe to recognize happy moments and think about happiness in their daily life. They dropped the “Secret” from their name at some point.
I’ve been thinking about happiness a lot lately because I can’t stop thinking about what a paradise we could build in this country if the GOP and Fox News were committed to happiness instead of misery.
Read on for Open Thread Headlines.
What’s in the infrastructure deal? What’s not in it?
Via Vox, here are the areas that would get major new spending: Transportation projects: The bill would spend $110 billion in new funds for road, bridges, and related projects. It also would commit $39 billion for public transit — which the Biden administration described as “the largest federal investment in public transit in history” — […]
DL Open Thread Monday August 2, 2021
Gerald Brady Resigns!
…is a headline that I still haven’t read anywhere. I find that odd, but I find a great deal of Delaware politics odd.
BTW, do you know who Brady wrote that crazily racist, misogynist shit too? It has been kind of lost in the soup, but the intended recipient was none other than…
DL Open Thread Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021
Everyone acts surprised that Republicans “don’t believe in science,” but they shouldn’t be — conservatives have never bothered to support any of their arguments with data that go beyond anecdotes. To pick the most obvious example, they prattle on and on about trickle-down economics yet have never produced any evidence that it works — indeed, […]
What would the GOP have to do for Coons to lose faith in bipartisanship?
That’s a rhetorical question. The Congressional Republicans are now in open rebellion against our constitutional democracy. There is literally nothing his friends in the GOP could do that would undermine Coons’ idiotic and dangerous faith in bipartisanship.
Already Distorting Jan. 6, G.O.P. Now Concocts Entire Counternarrative
No longer content to absolve Mr. Trump, (congressional Republicans) concocted a version of events in which those accused of rioting were patriotic political prisoners and Speaker Nancy Pelosi was to blame for the violence.
Their new claims, some voiced from the highest levels of House Republican leadership, amount to a disinformation campaign being promulgated from the steps of the Capitol, aimed at giving cover to their party and intensifying the threats to political accountability.
DL Celebrates ‘Freedumbs’: Week Of July 25-31
Chronicling this week’s capers and consequences of the anti-vax imbeciles: Maine Legislator, Outspoken Anti-Vaxxer, Gets Covid. So does his wife: Rep. Chris Johansen, a Republican legislator from the Aroostook County town of Monticello who has been an outspoken opponent of coronavirus restrictions, has reportedly contracted COVID-19. The lawmaker’s wife, Cindy Johansen, who is the corresponding […]
Song of the Day 7/31: Lindsey Buckingham, “I Don’t Mind”
You can throw him out of the band he made successful, you can put him through emergency open-heart surgery, you can cancel his tour because COVID, but you can’t stop Lindsey Buckingham from writing, playing and recording hook-laden soft-rock tunes. “I Don’t Mind” is the lead single from his upcoming eponymous solo LP, and like […]
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