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White Privilege Sentencing
If these convicted Wilm Trust criminals had been caught with $5.00 of weed on them while being black, they’d be headed to jail for sure.
There’s no guarantee that four former executives of the only financial institution to be criminally charged in connection with the federal bank bailout program will be sentenced to prison for fraud.
But even if a judge orders prison time for the former Wilmington Trust officials at their sentencings later this month, they won’t be led away in handcuffs.
Dec. 6 Open Thread: Is Beto the One to Beat?
Sure seems that way. I’ve seen headlines saying he met with Obama and that he hasn’t ruled out running, which has roused sharp-eyed progressives. RE Vanella beat her to it, but WaPo’s Elizabeth Breunig looks at the Texan’s record and reaches the same conclusion Rob did: O’Rourke is no progressive. IMO, this feels like Obama […]
Announcing an opportunity
In collaboration with DelawareLiberal.net, Tino G the sound guru and an unnamed patron operating in deep undercover behind enemy lines, I will be producing a podcast for you folks.
Temporarily called In the Belly of the Beast, an episode will drop once a week beginning in the New Year. Political talk mostly, also some cultural and local art stuff. Conservation will focus on a wide variety of progressive and leftist commentators and activists. The goal is really to support solidarity in this state among all groups standing against the fascist and the corporate and the dumb. (If you think we’ll be trashing you personally by name, you’re right. We will be doing that.)
As this is a DIY/Gonzo type effort I wanted to extend a request should someone want to get involved in this venture.
So…
Dec. 5 Open Thread: Republicans Now Undermining Democracy Openly
The pending collapse of Trump, and the party that tied itself to his mast, has flushed out the rats from belowdeck, carrying only what they can stuff into their cheeks. The GOP abandoned the strategy of appealing to the public in about 1982, when it became clear that Reagan’s voodoo economics would not produce its […]
Comment Rescue – Who will be the Dem Nominee? We Don’t Know Who, But We Know How
This is an important insight from Alby.
If that’s where Wall Street puts its money, (Joe Biden) be a contender. I’d say the odds are against it, but it’s not impossible. If he catches fire with the public, they’ll back him. Who else have they got? Gillibrand and Booker. Maybe Harris. They’re not going to sit it out.
For the past few cycles, we have had two money races. These races define the nominating contest even in the absence of any candidates. One is the race for Wall Street money described above by Alby. The other is the race for small donor money.
Howard Dean was the first to identify small donors as a possible route to the nomination. Wall Street identified the threat and used the media to execute an effective takedown. Obama knitted the two funding sources together, but only after he beat Clinton. Clinton won the Wall Street money race before the starter’s pistol fired but left small donors colder than cold.
To win the Democratic nomination and the Presidency, we’ll need a candidate that wins the small donor money race, thereby creating an actual base of voters, and manages to neutralize or co-opt the Wall Street money.
John Bolton, Can you hear yourself?
This checks out: WASHINGTON — President Trump plans to hold a second summit meeting early next year with Kim Jong-un, even though North Korea has failed to follow through with promises to start dismantling its nuclear weapons program, John R. Bolton, the national security adviser, said on Tuesday. “They have not lived up to […]
Another Old Warhorse, Uncle Joe, Is Acting Frisky
With Bernie making campaign noises, don’t you forget about Joe. As if he’ll let you. WDEL has an article drawn from Biden’s book tour appearance in Montana, and he sure sounds like somebody champing at the bit: “I’ll be as straight with you as I can. I think I’m the most qualified person in the […]
Dec. 4 Open Thread: Ready for Another Bernie-Brawl?
If Donald Trump had to face a united Democratic Party in 2020, he’d have little chance of re-election. Trouble is, he won’t, at least not if Bernie Sanders runs agains — and it’s being reported that he’s laying the groundwork for a bigger campaign than in 2016. Is he too divisive? In hockey, they’d settle […]
Some top DelawareLiberal Posts from 2018
This isn’t a comprehensive look back. Just some posts from the last year that stand out for me. I may do a more comprehensive 2018 later, but probably not. With this Alby post, and your comments and calls, this community shamed a bunch of Democrats into distancing themselves from the NRA. It wasn’t organic. Mike […]
In Which It Is Shown That Progressives Can Be Just as Hostile to Truth as Republicans
The first post I wrote for Delaware Liberal back in January 2017 was about my suspicion that Trump was, in addition to his many character defects and possible psychopathy, showing signs of dementia. I got pushback from angry people who thought I was trying to absolve him of all his other defects. Their point wasn’t […]
Dec. 3 Open Thread: We Already Know Whodunit
Anyone who wonders why the Trump-Russia story gets so much ink must be blind to the popularity of mystery stories. Almost every novel, movie or TV show has some mystery at its core to keep consumers hooked. Such stories grab the eyeballs advertisers want and media operations need, so a real-life mystery is a no-brainer. […]
Republican Presidents Ranked from Least Horrible to Most Horrible
Abraham Lincoln, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Theodore Roosevelt, William McKinley, George H. W. Bush, Gerald R. Ford, Ulysses S. Grant, William H. Taft, Calvin Coolidge, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur, Herbert C. Hoover, Warren G. Harding, Ronald W. Reagan, Richard M. Nixon, George W. Bush, Donald J. Trump
Dec. 2 Open Thread: All Over But the Whining
It wasn’t hard to see that winning the presidency would be Trump’s ultimate undoing. His sleazy, corrupt business model can only exist in darkness, and Trump won an office that affords its occupants almost no privacy. That barely worked while the entire GOP colluded to keep an illegitimately elected president safe. Now that most of […]
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