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DL Open Thread: Friday, April 23, 2021
First, a personal note: I’ve been binge-watching BoJack Horseman. That show’s incredible. But, I digress. NZ PM: ‘Stop Subsidies For Drilling’. Quote that makes sense to me: “We cannot take money from emitters paying for their carbon emissions and then give them money back in subsidies.” The emitters are getting about $500 billion annually in […]
Bumfight
Newsmax host accuses Fox News of being in league with China
GRANT STINCHFIELD (HOST): Fox News continues to disappoint conservatives across America. I want to know, why did Fox News can Lou Dobbs?
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I have come to the conclusion Fox News no longer supports President Trump’s America first principles, which is why they couldn’t stand Lou Dobbs on their air.
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Maybe Fox News banishing Dobbs from their network is more sinister. Maybe it’s about China. The Murdochs’ investments and business ties to that rogue nation, maybe that’s what this is about.
Here are some of them — did you know Fox News helped China’s leading state broadcaster build its website years ago? Rupert Murdoch’s third wife is a mainland Chinese. She was well-known for managing elite connections in China…
DL Open Thread Thursday, April 22, 2021
Republican officials in Georgia are getting scared because they can’t convince Trump’s hardcore fans to move on, and Trumpism disgusts the suburban voters the party needs to win elections. Ironic, isn’t it, that a party that wants to rule from a minority position is itself ruled by a minority within? That brings up the latest […]
DL Open Thread Wed April 21st 2021
Lots of “is this a watershed moment for police reform?” stuff in today’s internenet web tubes. One hopes. My reform suggestion is simply – HEY COPS, STOP FUCKING MURDERING PEOPLE.
Listen to Highlands Bunker: E123 – No Confidence (w/Crystal Womack)
BREAKING: Verdict Is Reached In Chauvin Trial: Guilty. Guilty. Guilty!!!
No way they’re acquitting him this quickly. Chauvin is already in the courthouse. Verdict announcement likely within 30 minutes. Back with the verdict as soon as it happens…
Song of the Day 4/20: Peter Tosh, “Legalize It”
Peter Tosh once told an interviewer that ganja would someday be as legal as cigarettes. That’s still years off, but as this handy map shows, in only six U.S. states, all of them deep red, does weed remain entirely illegal. Weigh that against 16 states (17 if you count D.C.) containing 43% of the population […]
Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, April 20, 2021
The prelims are out of the way. We’re in the ‘Put Up Or Shut Up’ phase of the legislative calendar. Starting with Wednesday’s committee consideration of the $15 minimum wage bill. Lest you’ve forgotten, SB 15 passed in the Senate with every single Democrat voting for it. Three putative House Democrats–Andria Bennett, Bill Bush, and […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday April 20th 2021
In today’s Open Thread….The nation holds its breath. Will one stupid fucking Trumper try to nullify the jury? I think “yes” is a safe bet.
OK. Everyone share your favorite Walter Mondale story. I kid, Walter Mondale’s wife doesn’t have a favorite Walter Mondale story.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has had it up to here with the American century.
The best way to fight poverty is direct payments to everybody. Are we brave enough to support this popular, effective, relatively inexpensive policy?
But first… cancel culture comes to Bethany Beach Delaware.
Chris Coons Is Worse Than Useless
I’m starting to think Chris Coons is taking revenge on Joe Biden for failing to name him Secretary of State. Delaware’s bipartisanship show pony is at it again, going on Fox News yesterday to announce he and Sen. John Cornyn are working on an alternative to Biden’s infrastructure bill — one that would chop the […]
DL Open Thread Monday April 18th 2021 – GUNS, GUNS, GUNS Edition
Tribalism, stupidity, paranoia, micro-dick syndrome, grifters gifting, our gun safety debate lays bare all of the DEGOP’s virtues. But first, Delaware State Sportsman Association President, Jeff Hauge, says gun safety legislation is motivated by a strong desire to make women easy targets for rapists. If that makes sense to you, congratulations – you are the everything that is wrong with America. (No link for that one because it is running as an ad on WSTW).
DL Open Thread Sunday, April 18, 2021
Why do so many Central Americans seek asylum in the United States? Because so many U.S. guns have migrated to Mexico and Central America. Officials estimate about 2 million guns have moved south over the past decade. The General Assembly is returning to Legislative Hall, but the public isn’t invited. House Speaker Pete Schwartkopf said […]
Where are you on Dems making a real gun safety push?
I have to admit, I’ve been in both the “go big” and “be realistic” camps.
Obviously, the anti-gun safety/radicalized right is a real threat to our life, liberty and well being. Every mass-murder urges us to treat easy access to military weapons like the public health crisis it is.
But I also get the more cynical electoral “x’s & o’s” argument that this issue is a proven loser for Dems.
“Nobody is more responsible for the historic success of our Party…”
Jesse Chadderdon is right to heap laurels on the head of outgoing NCC Dem Chair, Whatshisname. But I think “he welcomed new people into the Party, kept long-serving members meaningfully engaged” does not do justice to how the outgoing chair dragged the party into the modern era by allowing Democratic Party voters to decide primaries – not the party. As Joe Biden might have said, that’s a big fucking deal.
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