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DL Open Thread 10/25/19
In the best Donald Trump “I’m rubber, you’re glue” tradition, AG Bill Barr is now running a criminal investigation into the origins of the investigation of Donald Trump by intelligence agencies during the 2016 election. I can save them a lot of trouble: Mothafucka was acting like a Russian agent — and so are you, […]
DL Open Thread,10/23/19
Yesterday’s big news was the closed-door Congressional testimony of Bill Taylor, the ambassador to Ukraine who tangled with Gordon Sondland over Trump’s extortion of that country. Democrats said his testimony was the most damaging yet to the Trump criminal enterprise. Here’s a rundown of what was in Taylor’s 15-page opening statement from Digby. Remember when […]
How Our “Liberal” Media Promotes Liberal Infighting
I think I figured out why social conservatives are obsessed by America’s supposedly “liberal” media, when liberals know the media isn’t kind to them. It’s because there are so many stories like this one, which asks why Democratic Candidates of Color aren’t gaining any traction in the nominating race.* On its surface, that certainly sounds […]
Goodbye Columbus (Day)
Poll: Almost 80% of undergraduates support changing Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day
The video of Trump mass-murdering his enemies, shown at his resort to supporters
Click through to Boing Boing to see it. The video is nauseating in theme and its juvenile execution. Some Trump supporter put it together and apparently the Trump campaign liked it enough to share it at a gathering of Trump supporters in Miami.
Broke-ass Republican Dumbfucks hate the “wealth tax” because….reasons
Mike Konczal at The Nation writes—A wealth tax is one of the most progressive government levies, falling entirely on the extremely wealthy. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have proposed wealth taxes, with Warren’s taxing 2 percent of wealth for those worth over $50 million and 3 percent after the first $1 billion. Sanders’s plan would levy a 1 […]
Trump isn’t trying to “win” the next election – He is trying to make the election irrelevant
In increasingly unhinged speeches, he is trying to get his followers is such a high state of agitation that some segment of “persuadable” voters will read the signs and fear the violent and chaotic results of a Trump loss more then they desire a Democratic win. At two recent campaign rallies (Minneapolis on Thursday and […]
Highlands Bunker – E36 – Timbs On, Horn Out
Highlands Bunker – E36 – Timbs On, Horn Out It’s a debate episode! Fellow content producer Sam Barry joins RE Vanella in the bunker, moderated by returning champion Coby Owens, to talk about social media, leftist organizing, and the correct way to go about making change in Delaware. Show Notes: The tweet that caused all […]
State Rep John Kowalko withdraws support for and labels Senator Coons an “enabler and abettor of a criminal” over his unwillingness to confront Trump
In a recent Delaware Liberal comment, State Rep John Kowalko blistered Senator Chris Coons over his unwillingness to address the unfolding atrocity of our enabling of the Turkish attack on American allies in Syria. Because of the recent permission granted by Trump to the Turkish autocracy that will allow/encourage a campaign of genocide against the […]
This Is Why Republicans Can’t Turn on Trump
As I guessed more than two years ago, the explanation is a lot simpler than “they’re afraid of his base,” which is true but doesn’t explain why they won’t cut the Orange Albatross loose now that he’s hurting the entire party. The truth is that Russian money, much of it funneled through the NRA, didn’t […]
Trump Re: Anne Sacoolas (wife of a US diplomat) who killed a teen in the UK
“That can happen. Those are the opposite roads. That happens. I won’t say it ever happened to me, but it did … the person that was driving the automobile has diplomatic immunity.” Shit happens. Oh well. And really, what it Boris going to do about it? The UK has never needed American “friendship” like is […]
Why This Time Is Different
A significant number of Democrats, about 35% of them, are reacting to the Ukraine scandal/Trump impeachment with the resignation of the oft-defeated, convinced Trump’s wall of GOP/Fox reality-denial will turn aside the latest news of his crimes as it has all the others. I don’t think so, and for a very simple reason: The media […]
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