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DL Open Thread Thursday, May 6, 2021
Never, ever doubt who Republicans represent. Hint: It isn’t you, unless you own a business. The new GOP obsession is a “labor shortage,” which is what Republicans call it when businesses are forced to increase wages to find employees. Or, if they’re in control, as they are in Montana, they get their shitweasel governor to […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday May 5th 2021
On Thursday April 29th substitute teacher and Kansas Republican State Rep. Mark Samsel went on a deranged rant in the class room and kneed a student in the balls. He was booked into the local county jail and released on a $1,000 bond.
This is a statement released by Samsel. As they say – read the whole thing. It is an artifact that future historians will use to explain the mental state of the Republican Party in the year 2021.
Rudy Giuliani’s people want Trump to pay Rudy’s legal bills. Also, people in hell want a drink of water.
But first…As the U.S. economy bounces back from the COVID-induced downturn, some employers say they’re having a hard time finding workers. GOP lawmakers blame the stimulus payments and unemployment benefits. That’s 100% bullshit.
Someone explain this shit to me, please
I naively thought the GOP would be glad to move beyond the box office poison that is Donald Trump, but nope. Fealty to Trump is THE organizing principle of the Republican Party now and through at least the mid-terms if not longer. It makes no fucking sense to me.
Cheney is now truly on her way out, so that looks like the last Republican who sounded reasonably sane when talking about America being a democracy.
DL Open Thread Tuesday May 4th 2021
“On May 7, 1915, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner en route from New York to Liverpool. Of the more than 1,900 passengers and crew members on board, more than 1,100 perished, including more than 120 Americans. If this grim tragedy teaches us anything, it is that we need to be steadfast in our commitment to forging a bi-partisan agreement to ensure Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan is watered down into nothing.” – Senator Chris Coons, Noted Christian.
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With House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy now tasked with ousting Liz Cheney, I am reminded of Oscar Wilde’s take on fox hunting – The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable.
Mixed Covid news – For the first time in over a year, Los Angeles County reported no Covid-related deaths, but Oregon is going back into lockdown due to the UK variant. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
A new arena floor is being added to Rome’s iconic Colosseum to give visitors an idea of how the ancient Italian structure looked when gladiators fought and (no doubt) because it really doesn’t work as a tourist attraction with no floor.
But first… remember how Brexit happened almost by accident when David Cameron announced a referendum without giving one fucking thought to what leaving the EU actually meant? Well under the Good Friday Agreement, Northern Ireland is required to have a unification referendum if certain conditions are met. The conditions are not close to being met but you can’t be too careful, and some folks are not willing to bear the consequences of more accidental upheaval.
What the fuck do liberals have to do to get a headline like this?
Some Trumper fuckwits put together a 11,000 person Facebook group (less than half Delawareans) and they are a “rising conservative movement” meanwhile progressives basically re-made the state legislature in November.
DL Open Thread Sunday, May 2, 2021
What the fuck is wrong with Republicans? Seriously, these people are some kind of fucked up. Lest you think that maybe the Mormons, who didn’t much care for Trump, are any better than the rest of them, the 2,100 attendees at the Utah GOP convention last night booed Mitt Romney and called him a communist […]
Checking in on Delaware’s Legislative Black Caucus OR Where the FUCK is Delaware’s Legislative Black Caucus on Police Reform?
Here are the very mild police reform proposal from the Legislative Black Caucus last year. Pass Senate Bill 191, a bill introduced in February, which would start the process of amending the Delaware Constitution to protect against discrimination on the basis of race, color and national origin. Create an African American Task Force that would look […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, April 29, 2021
Biden’s speech is getting good reviews — I thought I heard thunder last night, but it was just exploding Republican heads — but not so much for the rebuttal from South Carolina Sen. “Uncle Tim” Scott. He claims America is not a racist country. Hey Tim, the kapos at the Nazi death camps were Jews. […]
My quick take on Joe’s speech
Joe turned the GOP into the anti-jobs, anti-family, pro-China, pro-mass murder caucus tonight.
DL Open Thread Wednesday April 28th 2021
A so-called audit of the 2020 election in Arizona is, predictably, bonkers.
Does it feel like some Delaware stores are just ignoring the plastic bag ban?
As a steam train runs on boiling water, the right wing bonkers machine runs of the rage of old white people. In today’s boiler, a New York Post reporter just flat out made up a story about Kamala Harris. And Fox News is outraged….OUTRAGED that they are the only news outlet covering the latest John Kerry scandal.
But first, Smyrna goes full 2nd Amendment Freedom Town.
DL Open Thread Tuesday April 27th 2021
Today’s open thread includes my pick to run against Kevin Hensley in the 9th. (Hint: rhymes with Jave Jarter.) That Arizona is “auditing” the election which Joe Biden won is some fucking punk-ass, sore loser bullshit. On the bright side, at least they are doing a terrible job and the whole thing will become a festering boil that will never heal.
In the “well this sucks” file, New York state came just 89 residents short of maintaining all of its congressional districts. It also lost an electoral college vote.
Buy a house in Italy for one measly euro. But first – the most Coonsian headline and nonsensical lede paragraph ever!
DL Open Thread – Monday April 26th 2021
Two viruses continue to dominate the news. The new coronavirus wave hitting India is a real horror show. Closer to home, we our epidemic of viral stupidity is still raging. But first, I-95 in Wilmington. Cap that shit.
DL Open Thread Sunday, April 25, 2021
How did America’s police forces react to the Derek Chauvin verdict? They shot and killed six people in various jurisdictions. Hey, when all you have is a gun, everything looks like a target. Why do police escalate to fatal force so quikcly? It’s the training, stupid. Quick, show me another profession that allows union members […]
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