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Highlands Bunker – E56 – The Scarane Train & Bonus
Ed Note:
“People get ready, Scar-rane ‘s a-coming,
You don’t need no baggage
You just get on board
All you need is faith
To hear the diesels humming
Don’t need no ticket
You just thank the Lord
I’m playing catch up here, so you may have already listened to the great Jess Scarane episode. If so, find the Coby’s Birthday Bash episode below.
US Senate candidate Jessica Scarane joins Rob in the bunker to talk about why she is running against Chris Coons, the base values that we should have as a society, and why we probably shouldn’t let billionaires run everything.
Show Notes:
The bunker heads to Wilmington Brew Works to attend Coby Owens’s birthday fundraiser and talk to WFP Pennsylvania Organizing Director Nicholas O’Rourke, Philadelphia At-Large Councilwoman Kendra Brooks, potential Wilmington resident Josh Whittaker, and State Representative candidate Larry Lambert.
Show Notes:
Photo: Coronavirus task force takes decisive action at White House
That’s Alex Azar, Coons’ Yale Law & Alfalfa club buddy, praying away with his back to the camera. Coons gushed about how good his buddy Azar was going to be when he voted in favor of his appointment.
Breaking – Klobs drops to endorse Joe Biden
Sen. Amy Klobuchar will drop out of the 2020 presidential race on Monday and endorse former Vice President Joe Biden. The Minnesota senator leaves the race a day before Super Tuesday
Super Tuesday Morning Line
The election railbirds have picked a narrative, and that narrative is Joementum. Because South Carolina’s late-deciding voters broke decisively for Biden, he vastly outperformed the final opinion polls. That’s what the political press means by momentum, so Joe has it. That could all change by Wednesday, because Super Tuesday looks to belong to Bernie Sanders. […]
Corona Virus now within a 2 hour drive of Delaware
When it is China, Iran, Italy or even Washington State it feels a world away. Now NYC has a case, so it is probably here as well. Keep washing your hands.
Song of the Day 3/2: “Where Is Love?”
Those kids who’ve been separated from their parents and kept in cages at the border haven’t gotten much media time lately — the last thing I saw, about a week ago, concerned a study that found family separation affects people the same was torture does. This barely registered as a blip in the news cycle. […]
Comment Rescue – Open Letter to Centrists
Left of Center Democrats have been a loyal constituency of the Democratic Party, but we’ve been treated with nothing but contempt.
To Democratic centrists: If you want to get back to the center, you have to proceed due left for few cycles. A four-year jog back to center-right (Biden) will only allow the hard right to regroup.
The problem with compromising with the right is they keep moving right. They have reached the end of right wing and have built cantilevers and catwalks to extend their position out into batshit territory, and have severed any remaining link to reason. Is that really who you want to compromise with?
If Democratic “moderates” are so hungry for compromise, let them start building a compromise platform with their own left wing. Chris Coons, hang up on Marco Rubio and give AOC a call. You’ll both gain from it. The Democratic party has always been strongest when it had a strong left wing.
Doesn’t matter who I support for President, because I live in Delaware. If anyone wants to know, I’m for Warren.
Buttigieg Calls It Quits
It’s all for the best. The longer he stayed in, the more people he would have alienated with his smarty-pants high school debating tactics: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/01/buttigieg-dropping-out-of-presidential-race-118489 I went from really liking him to not being able to tolerate him. Don’t think I was the only one.
Some Post-South Carolina Primary Thoughts
1) Demographics show South Carolina’s Democratic Party is no more representative than those in Iowa or New Hampshire. It’s an open primary, so some Republicans dilute the voting pool, but only 7% of white South Carolinians are Democrats. So it appears that moderate white Democrats and moderate black Democrats are the ones who can’t agree […]
What do Bernie Bros really want?
Someone asked me “What do Bernie Bros really want?” in a BlueDelaware.com FB thread.
I said, “Fairness.”
Leaving aside the lame attempt at disparaging me by calling me a “Bernie Bro” (I now own that label with pride) – let me expand on that answer for any BlueDelaware fans who are truly curious.
But first let’s imagine a Democratic nominee for the Presidency of the United States who upon accepting the nomination says something like this…
It’s time we come together as a party and as a country. And part of that is all of us accepting that there are elements to the “stop and frisk” policing policy that actually worked to reduce crime. We want opportunity for all, but some of us have to be more compliant when being interviewed by the police.”
Or imagine a nominee saying…
As Democrats we believe that all people should be treated with dignity and humanity, but our borders are sacred and if you attempt to seek the freedoms of the United States you should know that you will be separated from your children at the border and you may not get them back.”
Those things could never be said. For one thing, they are ludicrous and for another – African Americans and Latinos are regarded as important Democratic constituencies. Knowingly aggravating and alienating important Democratic constituencies would be regarded as disastrously stupid and destructive.
And yet, we can imagine a candidate saying, “sure there are quirks, but our financial system is working fine.” We can imagine candidates saying that if we “work hard and play by the rules” you can get ahead. We can imagine a Democratic candidate knowingly insulting, aggravating and alienating an important Democratic constituency group because it happens all the fucking time.
So what do Bernie Bros really want? We want you to figure out a way to acknowledge Democrats like me who see that the rapacious greed of late stage capitalism hasn’t been so great. We want a Democratic Party that doesn’t lie to our faces about “rising tides raising all boats.” We want a government that works for people not for profits and a party that regards us as an important Democratic constituency. Is that too much to ask?
I hope not. Because continuing to bully, berate and betray this constituency is not going to end well for anyone.
Here we go again
Looks like the financial sector, Democratic Party bosses and media would rather hand Trump another four years than acknowledge that the government should maybe work for the people and not the banks.
I’m not talking about South Carolina voters. They can like whoever they want to like. I’m talking about the onslaught of “blue collar hero” garbage spin that will be flowing over us like a radioactive, debris filled Fukushima tidal wave.
South Carolina Primary Results Open Thread
In 2016 Hillary Clinton beat Bernie Sander (73% to 26%) in the South Carolina primary. If Joe Biden wins but wins by less than 47 percentage point, that means Biden is doing terrible and Biden should do the country a favor and drop out.
See that?
I’m a pundit!! I just pundited THE FUCKING SHIT out of that analysis. My punditry is fucking dope.
Jess Scarane Online Fundraiser Update
The $500.00 donation is off. Thanks to all. I got a little side tracked this week with making sure everyone knows that Coons voted for and is Yale Law & Alfalfa Club buddies with Alex Azar, Trump’s guy in charge of gutting the CDC. So I didn’t hit this as hard each day as I hoped to, but it all twines together thought, doesn’t it?
Onward. It isn’t an election, its a movement.
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