Seriously – What’s with Silicon Valley’s Hard On for Self-Driving Cars?

Elon Musk keeps promising that the fully autonomous car is just days weeks months years away. Now Apple wants to build a fully autonomous electric car by 2024.   I mean, is there some research somewhere that says Americans are clamoring for self-driving cars?   Am I just being an old fart and all the kids want self driving cars so they can take their Tik-Tok selfies and play Call of Duty while eating their avocado toast and drinking their soy bubble tea?  

Two Podcasts You Should Listen To

"He Fights"  How the Republican Party Can Recover and Thrive Going into the Midterms

Everyone's favorite socialist egghead Professor, Harvey J Kaye, joins Rob in the virtual bunker to talk about the first days of the Biden presidency and how they compare to his promise of a FDR-Size Presidency vs a continuation of the Obama administration.

Stop Telling on Yourself, Fox News

Biden Admin: The Pentagon will investigate whether the Department of Defense (DOD) has adequate procedures in place to prevent white supremacists and other extremists from joining and remaining in the military. Fox News: They are trying to purge us from the military.
LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): ...to the Republicans like Liz Cheney... Refuse to allow a single U.S. taxpayer dollar to fund this ideological and un-American purge of the U.S. military. Or expect a lot of us to push for steep cuts in military spending. After all, why should we fund an organization that Democrats plan to use not to protect us, but to restrain us, in order to protect themselves and their grip on power?

Do Your Part to Help Save Democracy – Join your RD Committee

My Rep District reorganization meeting is tonight. I'm hearing that some districts have more than 30 new interested people signed up to attend. Your RD re-org meeting is coming up. Find out when and how to join it here->Delaware Democratic Party - Reorg Meetings
At this meeting, the 9th Rep. District will reorganize their Democratic Committees. All seats are vacated and members are elected/re-elected. New members encouraged to attend and join. Only registered Democrats who reside in the 9th Rep. District and have not been a member of another political party for at least one year are eligible to join.
There is no district in the state that couldn't be taken over by four dedicated liberals.

This is your post-Trump openly racist DEGOP

I guess in some ways this is a welcome change. She is only saying the racist shit in public that Lawson, Bonini, Wilson, Pettyjohn, Hocker, Richardson, Hensley, Spiegelman, Smyk, Ramone, Smith, Morris, Postles, Yearick, Vanderwende, Shupe, Briggs King, Gray, Short, Dukes, and Collins have been saying in private for years.

DL Open Thread: Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021

All the fucked up shit we know about the Trump administration is just the surface level fucked up shit. The real fucked up shit is going to be coming out for a long time.

Inside the craziest meeting of the Trump presidency

Flynn went berserk. The former three-star general, whom Trump had fired as his first national security adviser after he was caught lying to the FBI (and later pardoned), stood up and turned from the Resolute Desk to face Herschmann. "You're quitting! You're a quitter! You're not fighting!” he exploded at the senior adviser. Flynn then turned to the president, and implored: "Sir, we need fighters." https://www.axios.com/trump-oval-office-meeting-sidney-powell-a8e1e466-2e42-42d0-9cf1-26eb267f8723.html