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What is flesh eating bacteria?
What we call flesh-eating bacteria is really a disease called Necrotizing fasciitis. (NF). (The bacteria itself is frequently Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) but other flesh-eating bacterias are out there such as Vibrio vulnificus which has been found in Delaware’s waters just waiting for you to ignore your next underwater cut or scrape). Whatever the strain, this shit means […]
Tom Carper, Ken Simpler and John Carney’s Masters are going to hate this
End Wall Street’s Stranglehold On Our Economy Elizabeth Warren’s Plan to Rein in Wall Street Here are some bullet points, but do yourself a favor and read the whole thing: My plan would transform the private equity industry and end this looting with a comprehensive set of legal changes, including: Putting private equity firms on […]
Mainers finally sick of their version of Tom Carper
I know Susan Collins is an “R” and Tom Carper is nomnially a “D” but they are so close to each other in political philosphy that party affiliation don’t really mean much. The bad news for Sen. Susan Collins, Republican from Maine, just doesn’t stop. First she learns that she’s the second least popular senator, […]
The anger double standard
If Chris Coons puts up a FB post that is mildly critical of the President, the comments are flooded by the vilest, brain dead idiots instantly turning the heat up to 11. Mixed in will be a couple of Democratic “Atta guy” comments and even fewer “A good start, but not enough” observations.
If a Democrat dares shows any well-earned anger nowadays they can quickly become a pariah among earnest, thoughtful, decent Democratic townsfolk.
This one-sidedness takes a toll. It gives Coons the impression that only Republicans hold strong views. The anger double standard gives the false impression that they are many and we are few. The over the top emotionalism also clears brush for other, less angry (but equally wrong) Republicans to backfill sounding reasonable in relative terms.
This dynamic also plays out nationally where elected Republicans are given free rein to be angry while angry Democrats are pilloried.
Lisa Blunt Rochester would like you to know that she is proud to have pre-surrendered to the GOP on Min Wage
Here is what LBR says about the Dems vote to “raise the min wage”: “Good for the economy. Good for the workers. It’s been 10 years & it’s long past time we #RaiseTheWage.” Her is the timid, mincing schedule the Dems have promoted, to raise the min wage to $15.00 by 2025! It […]
Action Item – Call Lisa Blunt Rochester’s Office Today to Tell Her We Want a More Energetic Approach to Resisting Trump
Call LBR’s office now and ask her to help her Democratic colleagues confront Trump with a strong unified voice: (302) 830-2330
Ask your member of Congress to represent you with a more energetic approach to confronting President Trump and to stop enabling Trump by ignoring him.
Lisa Blunt Rochester resides in a bubble of DC conventional wisdom and thinks we can simply wait out Trump. Her strategy of keeping her head down isn’t working.
Your call today will be to follow up and support the work some activists did this morning in meeting with LBR’s State Director, Courtney McGregory, (who also does not view the current situation as a crisis).
Call LBR’s office now and aks her to help her Democratic colleagues confront Trump with a unified voice: (302) 830-2330
Highlands Bunker – E24 – Kingswood Country Club
Ed Note: If I ever buy a $10.00 smoothie, you fair reader, are granted a un-revocable durable power of attorney that you may use to have me committed, as that will be a sure sign that I will have taken leave of my sense.
*this post is sponsored by Mayor Purzycki’s office
Chris Johnsonjoins RE Vanella in the bunker to talk about some of the latest police violence controversies, what he’s working on, and what the future of criminal justice looks like in the state of Delaware.
Show Notes:
“Why are DL comments dwindling to a four-way circle jerk among the same four contributors?”
“Why are DL comments dwindling to a four-way circle jerk among the same four contributors?”
…especially when we have more lurkers than ever?
I’ll take a crack at it:
It is summer?
Campaigns haven’t really started yet?
People are tired of commenting?
Commenting like “planking” had its day in the sun?
It is a rare commenter who asks anything that approaches an honest question?
It is even rarer that a comment thread generates as much light as it generates heat?
We’ve turned away the most egregious trolls who could always get counted to start an argument?
What could you say about our do-nothing congressperson LBR, that I haven’t already said?
Lying Liar Lies
Pres. Trump met with U.S. Special Olympics athletes and was asked about the ‘send her home’ chant aimed at Rep. Ilhan Omar at his rally. Trump claimed he tried to stop it and said, ‘I was not happy with it – I disagree with it.’
Watch the video and let me know in the comments if it looks like he was trying to stop it.
DEL Congressional Delegation DOES NOTHING as Trump intensifies attacks on four Democratic congresswomen
President Donald Trump stepped up his vilification of four Democratic lawmakers as un-American at a raucous rally on Wednesday, as Tom Carper, Chris Coons and Lisa Blunt Rochester continue to do nothing other than try to curry favour with racist Trump enablers in the GOP. I will be watching Blunt Rochester’s twitter feed today expecting […]
News That’s Not About Trump
It’s hard to find, but news occurs that doesn’t have anything to do with the Commander ‘n’ Thief almost every day. A representative sampling: Tennessee Cops Warn Flushed Drugs Create ‘Meth Gators’: As if the skunk ape wasn’t reason enough to avoid the swamplands of the South, a Tennessee police agency wants people to stop […]
Pelosi Does Trump’s Work for Him
Remember how criticism of corporate Democrats — for example, a certain former presidential nominee — was billed as “doing the Republicans’ work for them” by her supporters? Just a reminder to Nancy Pelosi and all the other corporate-tool Democrats that when Pelosi attacks the Squad, she’s, yep, doing Trump’s work for him. And you can […]
Pelosi and Lisa Blunt Rochester’s Dismissiveness Strategy is Backfiring
I read this at TPM re Pelosi, but it really fits for our lazy-ass, do-nothing Congressperson, Lisa Blunt Rochester. Top elected Democrats are simply too dismissive of this hunger and this anger for oversight, for accountability and … yes, for confrontation. As MA himself notes, you’ve got a basic dynamic in which Democrats, even with […]
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