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Most people who aren't members of Cult 45 can see that Donald Trump and the GOP are peddling an idealized past to enchant their supporters. But the same people seem…

Never forget that on November 4th, Coons joined with the GOP to make automatic cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. A handful of Senate Democrats joined forces with Republicans last week…

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Obama tells big money Dem donors that it is their turn to hold their nose.

Last month, former President Barack Obama indicated that he would support any Democrat who ends up winning the primary election. But Obama has reportedly gone the extra mile to support one candidate in particular to wealthy donors: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).

Hate will make you a terrible person.  You need to let the hate go.  Every individual is valuable, and nobody was born to be your subordinate or your menial wage slave.    People of decency and goodwill outnumber people of indecency and ill will, but people of goodwill need to show up because evil is relentless.  Friendship, loyalty, and empathy are powerful.  

There were probably many more Park City Kathy stories this year.  I picked a few that included her name in the headline, and one that doesn't mention her, but discusses…

With a new corps of Democratic activists unwilling to quietly "wait their turn" in electoral politics, it was a busy ramp-up to an important election-year.  So it is no wonder that so many popular posts dealt with who was running an why.

Do you know how easy it would have been for Trump to be 51% popular? So, fucking easy. If he mixed in one normal "bipartisan" sounding observation for every 20 "red meat for the base" bullshit statement, the press would treat the normal observation like gold. You can just picture Democrats like Coons racing to be the first in front of a TV camera to give him a rusty trombone if Trump said something remotely Presidential sounding. SO...In addition to being a criminal and a scumbag, Trump is an idiot. A fucking stone-cold dummy. That's all I'm sayin'.

'member when Coons used his bipartisan superpowers on the GOP and Brett Kavanaugh wasn't put on Supreme Court, cuz some of Coons' buddies saw the light of heavenly bipartisanship? Either do I. The media, however, keeps the story of resplendent bipartisanship alive for another episode of "Moderate GOP Senators might really do it this time". Prepare yourself for Coons giving lots of earnest interviews in which his "friendships" with his "trusted partners from other side of the aisle" are highlighted.

The media is dangling the possibility that a meaningful number of Republican senators might seriously go against Donald Trump and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, in this case to force a real impeachment trial. With the Senate at 53-47, it wouldn’t take many defections to give Democrats some procedural wins to, for instance, call witnesses, and CNN reports that this is “a concern to the White House and GOP leaders.” But we’ve been through this before, and with the one (admittedly important) exception of the Affordable Care Act repeal, it never seems to happen. As with the vote for Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination and so many other times, there’s speculation about what Maine’s Susan Collins might do. She’s up for reelection in 2020 and Trump's approval rating in Maine is low. But, again, we’ve been through this. It ends in disappointment.

Insulin prices doubled between 2012 and 2016. In that period Coons pocketed over $200,000 in donations from big pharma. Probably just a coincidence.

Delaware Stonewall PAC Board has voted to require that candidates agree to a "pledge not to support Trump" before any endorsement consideration is made. This is some progress, I'd say. Delaware Stonewall PAC's Political VP, Mitch Crane, had indicated that there was a potential for something like this, so it is good to see it enacted. Now it will be up to Mike Ramone to publicly "pledge not to support Trump" (whatever that means) or forgo a possible endorsement from an organization that may have put him over the top in a close election last time out. This likely puts both Ramone and Cloutier in difficult spots. If they take the Stonewall pledge, their Fox News Zombie Dumbfuck supporters will be pissed off. If they refuse to take it, the majority of voters in their districts will have an easy choice come election day. The PAC will not be making further endorsements until the spring.

Coons has schrodinger's superpowers. They are only effective when not put to use.

Tip O'Neill is credited with saying "all politics is local". Not this year, though. Not by a fucking longshot. This year, ALL POLITICS IS NATIONAL. Donald Trump is THE issue of this election and these are the local races you should be involved with to put a hurting on Donald Jehoshaphat Trump and his network of supporters in Delaware.