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DL Open Thread Friday, April 16, 2021
County Councilman Jea Street very publicly resigned as co-chair of council’s safety committee after condemning the fatal shooting of Lymond Moses. “I go all the way back to when I was in high school and riots broke out in the 60s, and we looked up, here come the county police with long guns in riot […]
Coons’ Super Secret Bipartisan Caucus Preparing to Spring into Action
Coons has negotiated the infrastructure package in half by himself. Huzzah for compromise!!
Just wait until his SUPER SECRET BIPARTISAN caucus gets going!
Coons said that “several fairly seasoned senior Republicans” told him they were willing to support a $1 trillion infrastructure package and pay for some of it but objected to Biden’s plan to raise the corporate tax rate from 21 percent to 28 percent. Thehill.com
Anybody who has been paying the least bit of attention to Coons’ nonsense knows how this is going to end. Collins is, regrettably, voting no. All Republicans are voting no, but most have enough dignity not to look like idiots on their way to their no vote.
DL Open Thread Thursday April 15th – The ALL DELAWARE EDITION
In today’s Delaware-centric open thread Delaware AG says criminal/ex-police chief not fit to serve as Newport’s town commissioner. Also, WTF Newport? He was elected with 32 votes. Jesusfuckingchrist, get your shit together.
People waiting to claim vouchers for Delaware surf tags go away mad. Did you just say. “Fuck these people”? Or “Surf fishing, my ass”. Don’t lie. I know you did.
More than 50,000 women In Delaware live in contraceptive deserts. That is fucking pitiful. Every Delawarean should be ashamed. Get these women some goddam contraceptives.
It is now illegal in Delaware to discriminate on the basis of hair. Also, if you feel like you are about to comment on someone’s hair, just don’t. Okay?
God (or whatever) bless the ACLU and Community Legal Aid Society for successfully suing Delaware into property reassessments.
A 2nd Amendment enthusiast in Harrington shoots into a car driving down his street. Cuz, you know… freedom! tyranny? rap music? Who the fuck knows?
But first, keeping a pet deer that you’ve house-trained seems like a terrible idea.
Republicans Got Nothin’ and They Know It
It seems Jim Clyburn knew what he was doing after all. When the South Carolina Congressman endorsed Joe Biden just before the South Carolina primary and Biden carried the state, most progressives took it as a sign that the Democratic Party wasn’t ready for a progressive administration. It turns out that wasn’t the point at […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, April 14, 2021 – ONLY WORLD NEWS EDITION
In today’s seulement international open thread, what is Ramadan, anyway?
Japan is dumping tons of Fukushima wastewater Into the sea. Sounds like a plan.
Covid is real, y’all. India overtakes Brazil to become the second-worst hit country as Covid cases soar.
Heck of a Job Johnson – Brexit fallout, violent riots have broken out in Northern Ireland.
Kiwis getting shit right – New Zealand is now requiring banks to disclose climate risks when making loans.
But first… Biden to announce withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan by September 11. Its weird symbolism, but our entire war in Afghanistan has been nothing but weird symbolism.
This “Patriot” Group’s Focus On School Board Elections is Troubling
This “patriotsfordelaware.com” site reads like typical GOP dumbassery with all the flags and calls to empty flag worship. But there is something troubling going on here. The focus appears to be on electing “patriots” Q-anon believers and gun-safety opponents to Delaware’s school boards. That is worrisome because school board elections have miserable turnout, so a […]
Dear Republicans: You Have Already Been Replaced
Why are Republicans suckers for every half-witted conspiracy theory ever concocted? Consider the latest obsession of Tucker Carlson, poster boy for mediocre white dudes, the so-called Great Replacement theory. It holds that Democrats want to replace white Americans with immigrants, apparently so they can win elections. To start with, this is just recycled Hitler, who […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday April 13th 2021
The news is tiring again today, but some light breaks through and change is possible as Maryland repealed the state’s police bill of rights.
Also, on this date in 1743 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (1801-09), was born in Albemarle County, Virginia. All drunk on the Enlightenment, he wrote “all men are created equal”. Of course he meant American born white men of property were equal to Brittish born white men of property, but we commoners had our own interpretation. And a fellow commoner named Abe Lincoln worked to lock in the more expansive meaning, so Happy Birthday Thomas, you red-headed devil!
Song of the Day 4/12: Sinéad O’Connor, “Black Boys on Mopeds”
The continuing plague of police brutality against Black men has kept this song relevant more than 30 years after its release. Colin Roach was a 21-year-old Black man living in the London borough of Hackney in 1983, when police tried to pull him over, apparently thinking the moped he was driving was stolen. Hackney, a […]
DL Open Thread – Monday April 12th 2021
Very lackluster open thread this morning. All the more room for you to thread away. But first…. colonialism and slavery are still super popular in the the USA. How else can you explain the way we train our cops?
DL Open Thread Sunday, April 11, 2021
We all know that Matt Gaetz like to fuck 17-year-olds, but did you know that his real job is fucking the public? It seems the sex scandal is somehow related to a scheme to pay people to enter races to siphon off Democratic votes, one of which actually made a difference in getting a Republican […]
If Jason330 was the Chauvin Prosectuor – A Play in One Act
The prosecuting attorneys are doing a fine job, and don’t need any help from me, but if I was on the prosecution team, this is how the rest of the trial would go down.
[Sound of a gavel]
Judge: Let’s continue.
ME: Your honor, can we let the jury take five while I ask you and the defense team a quick question?
Judge: This is highly unusual, but I’ll allow it. But be careful McCoy.
[Bailiffs remove the jury.]
ME: Ha. Good ‘Law and Order’ reference, judge. Anyway… Chauvin’s defense attorney, Mr. Nelson is doing a shit job. All he seems to have is this idea that George Floyd died of a drug induced heart attack and not a 9 minute to knee to the throat as MANY experts have now testified.
Judge: Please get to your point.
ME: My point is that we can wrap this up right quit if I put my knee on Mr. Nelson’s neck for 9 minutes. If he lives – he is right and Chauvin is innocent. If he dies, then Chauvin killed Floyd and he is guilty as fuck.
Judge: I’m going to admonish you not to use profanity in my courtroom, but [turning to Nelson] he has a point Mr. Nelson. Your client is guilty as fuck. This may be the Hail Mary pass you need to win this thing.
NELSON: No thanks, your honor. We’ll continue to pray that one of the jurors is a Trumper and is going to try some jury nullification or something.
Judge: Ok then. Bring the jury in and let’s try and get out of here by five tonight.
*curtain*
That’s right, Bitch. You fucking lost.
“…By spring 1865, Confederates, who had ridden off to war four years before boasting that they would beat the North’s money-grubbing shopkeepers in a single battle were broken and starving, while, backed by a booming industrial economy, the Union army could provide rations for twenty-five thousand men on a moment’s notice. The Civil War was […]
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