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DL Open Thread Friday, Sept. 22, 2023
Republicans are in disarray amid another poo-flinging fight between Team Dumb and Team Dumber. A government shutdown looks all but inevitable. I’m sure it will go as well as it usually does for the party whose mascot is Dumbo. On the other hand, people keep voting for them, proving that the real dumbos number about […]
Pssst…..they were always worthless.
Remember when NFTs sold for millions of dollars? 95% of the digital collectibles may now be worthless. Are NFTs dead? A recent study looking at the price of thousands of collections seems to suggest the answer is “yes.” A report by dappGambl based on data provided by NFT Scan and CoinMarketCap showed that out of […]
Something is rotten in GOP Sussex – Comment Rescue
Something is rotten in GOP Sussex. The email below was sent out yesterday. It appears the entire executive committee of the Sussex Republican Party has resigned: Resignation of Sussex County Republican Committee Greetings, fellow Republicans, For those who are yet unaware, the Executive Board of the Sussex County Republican Committee has resigned. Know that this […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023
Democrats who base their political decisions on what they think independents and Republicans might do still want to dump Joe Biden, so it probably won’t change their minds that Biden continues to enact more progressive policies than anyone predicted. His latest move: creation of an American Climate Corps by executive order, after Republicans in Congress […]
Isn’t now about when Democrats save Republicans from their own “government shutdown” stupidity?
Not this time – Speaker Kevin McCarthy is struggling to pass a bill to fund the government — and the White House isn’t about to throw him a lifeline. With just days to go before the government runs out of money, Biden’s team is watching Congress steam toward a shutdown, resigned to the reality that […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday September 20 2023
Its not like they didn’t run on being the party of nonstop national crisis. An out-of-control GOP is the party of nonstop national crisis Stop me if you’ve heard this one, but congressional Republicans are once again careening toward internal crisis and a damaging government shutdown. You may remember this song-and-dance from the last four or […]
Assassinations & Norms
Stories like this one remind me that Trump & GWB exploded so many norms that the rest of the world is just saying “Fuck it!” and doing any shit they feel like doing. Seems Like A Big Deal That they think it’s true and that they went very public in this way (and that it […]
The well established legal precedent of “LOL, Fuck You!”
America has always had wealthy people, but I don’t think we’ve ever had a generation of wealthy people absolutly determined to tear down the very American democracy that created all the wealth. Alabama is ignoring a Supreme Court order to comply with Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act in part because the money behind […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday September 19 2023
GOP – Going Overboard Pandering: Vivek Ramaswamy regrets taking the Covid vaccine. His wife, a surgeon, does not. The presidential candidate has previously spoken about how he and his wife don’t agree on everything. That includes their feelings about getting vaccinated against Covid. ———//——— Trump lied a lot in the Meet the Press interview ———-//———- […]
If elected, McBride “wouldn’t be surprised” to become a Progressive Caucus member
Good to know. Being surprised sucks. Of course Coons considers himself on the left side of the caucus, so there is that. Anyway… More Earned Media for McBride REHOBOTH BEACH, DEL. — Sarah McBride touts that she’d be the first openly transgender member of Congress. She also wants to be known for more than just […]
DL Open Thread Monday September 18 2023
Person, woman, man, camera, TV In Gaffe-filled Speech, Trump Issues Bold And Unusual Warning, Says Biden’s Re-Election Could Lead to ‘World War II’ In his most recent speech, former U.S. President Donald Trump caused a stir with his contentious remarks, The Independent reported. He suggested that President Joe Biden could plunge the nation into “World War II” if re-elected and […]
New polling shows Eugene Young’s run for Congress is a big waste of political capital as Sarah McBride opens a more than twenty point lead. I hate being right about this stuff all the time.
Sarah McBride Holds Commanding Lead in Historic Run for Delaware At-Large Congressional Seat WASHINGTON—Today, a new poll by Change Research of Delaware’s At-Large Congressional race shows State Sen. Sarah McBride with a commanding lead, nearly doubling the support of her closest opponent. McBride made history in 2020 as the first openly transgender state senator in the […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023
Josh Marshall makes the hard-to-argue-with case that the Republican reaction to their politically disastrous SCOTUS victory on abortion proves they don’t give a flying fuck about babies. Like that was ever in doubt. Lauren “36-Year-Old Grandma” Boebert giving a handjob in a theater isn’t the only sign that Republicans are lying about their belief in […]
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