DL Open Thread Wednesday August 4th 2021

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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

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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.

DL Open Thread Monday August 2, 2021

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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...

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.