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20 States Join Delaware State Dipshit’s Association to try and make us have more machine guns

Filed in National by on July 16, 2023 3 Comments

These other states need to A) mind their own fucking business, and B) see that their own laws “conform with the nation’s historical tradition of firearms regulation” by sticking their  muzzle-loading long guns up their ass.   Twenty states object as Delaware pushes gun ban despite Supreme Court Bruen ruling ADelaware law banning “assault weapons” and […]

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Listen to the most DelawareLiberal Highlands Bunker Episode Ever

Filed in National by on July 14, 2023 12 Comments

Monica “Nic” Beard answers your questions forthrightly in this veryDelawareLiberal-y episode.   Are you named checked in it?  Maybe, you’ll have to listen to find out.   
One quibble – REV says were are 99% male.  That’s not true, we are 96% male.  

E251 – Mic’d Up (w/Monica Beard)

State House candidate Monica Beard joins Rob in the bunker to talk about why she is running for office, the debacle that her opponent Mike Smith helped make happen, and how to actually stand up when legislative crises happen.

Show Notes:

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The Bud Light-ization of the MAGA Mind

Filed in National by on July 13, 2023 12 Comments

The Bud Light boycott by MAGA nit wits basically worked.  People who drink shitty beer moved on to some other shitty beer because Bud Light gave a trans person a case one time. That success means everything MAGA decides is doesn’t like is going to be “the next Bud Light”.    In Florida, for example, […]

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Not “hypocritical” but criminal

Filed in National by on July 13, 2023 1 Comment

uhh… can we stop calling Republicans hypocrits and call them what they are is criminals? Voter suppression is a crime. Here is what happened. In Ohio only one specific form can be used to request absentee ballots. Jewish groups were sent the wrong form and they were rejected. Anti-abortion groups were also sent the wrong […]

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DL Open Thread Wednesday July 12 2023

Filed in National by on July 12, 2023 13 Comments

It’s Sarah McBride on Pod Save America Day! They gave the gay best friend from every romcom, Jon Lovett, the McBride Interview.  (Not Delaware born, Dan Pfeiffer, who they often joke about returning to run against Coons.) McBride is her usual steady as a rock centrist that you could feel okay bringing home to your […]

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DL Open Thread Tuesday July 11 2023

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Rumor Watch: Monica Beard working with people who know what the fuck they are doing

I’m camping out on the Highlands Bunker URL and smashing “refresh” to see if the good news I heard about Monica Bead’s campaign is true.   For now let’s just say that there is a huge quality gap between Democratic campaigns that get it and campaigns that don’t.

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Little Vermont which never did nothing to nobody ravaged by climate change.  For people who need it on the bottom shelf…

The Severe Floods are Related to the Very High Temperatures 

In more local climate change news, this tornado was less than a mile from my house.  

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When Senator Tommy Tuberville talks about White Nationalists not being racists, and blocks appointments because (reasons)  remember that we came this close (tiny gesture) to Herschle Walker being a Senator. 

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DeSantis vow to turn America into Florida isn’t even playing well in Florida. 

Poll: Trump leads DeSantis by a 24-point margin in Florida

Related: The DL DeSantis Deathwatch clock has officially started ticking.   I give him until August 15th.   

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By the time DeSantis goes back to spending more time with the family, this guy is probably going the new object of Trump’s withering insults and bullying.  I wonder what he’ll decide pick on? 

Vivek Ramaswamy is paying supporters to find him donors

It now pays to be a supporter of Vivek Ramaswamy’s presidential bid — at least for those who can convince their friends to click a link and donate.

The 37-year-old Republican is launching the “Vivek Kitchen Cabinet,” a scheme that promises to pay participants 10 percent of any money they raise for his campaign. It’s the latest attention-grabbing initiative by the longshot candidate, highlighting the frantic race underway by 2024 GOP presidential contenders to build up their grassroots donor base to qualify for upcoming debates.

Related: To hit the donor threshold to qualify for the debate stage this guy will give you a $20 gift card for a $1.00 donation.

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Türkiye Changed its Mind – Sweden to Join NATO

It was the flip-flop heard ’round the world: Turkish President RECEP TAYYIP ERDOĞAN finally backed Sweden’s request to join NATO yesterday — after months of resisting pressure from the entire Western world.

The handshake agreement — announced by Erdoğan, NATO Secretary General JENS STOLTENBERG and Swedish Prime Minister ULF KRISTERSSON — came just before the alliance’s annual meeting kicked off in Lithuania and settled one key question hanging over the confab.

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Trump’s legal team actually made a valid legal point. 

NEW OVERNIGHT — “Trump wants classified documents trial delayed until after 2024 election,”

DONALD TRUMP on Monday called for a lengthy delay before he goes to trial for allegedly hoarding military secrets at his Mar-a-Lago estate, contending that proceeding while he remains a candidate for president would make it virtually impossible to seat an impartial jury.”

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Last Week’s Poll Results & This Week’s Poll

Filed in National by on July 10, 2023 0 Comments

56% of us find “Vaccine Conspiracies” & “The world is flat” the most personally annoying conspiracy theories.   They are all dangerous in that they are all evidence of damaged, nervous brains. This week,  another place holder.  These odds makers believe the Phillies are slightly worse than a coin flip to make the playoffs.  

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DL Open Thread Monday July 10 2023

Filed in National by on July 10, 2023 2 Comments

It Rained Yesterday Weather seems bad.  Nobody is really doing anything about the world burning up, so I keep looking for insurance stories.  If reality is going to be reflected anywhere, it must be there.  Here is a story from USA about our “above-average” Atlantic hurricane season without mentioning “climate” or “change” How to prepare […]

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What’s a company without companionship?

Filed in National by on July 9, 2023 10 Comments

The word “company” comes to us from from Old French compagnie  meaning “society, friendship, intimacy, as in body of soldiers”  and prior to that from Late Latin companio, literally meaning “bread fellow, messmate,” from Latin com “with, together” (see com-) + panis “bread,” I’m an extrovert so I love company, companionship and breaking bread with my fellow workers.  […]

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The Cruelty is the Point

Filed in National by on July 9, 2023 1 Comment
The Cruelty is the Point

Surviving childbirth is too woke for Idaho. Idaho Drops Panel Investigating Pregnancy-Related Deaths as US Maternal Mortality Surges On July 1, Idaho became the only state without a legal requirement or specialized committee to review maternal deaths related to pregnancy. The change comes after state lawmakers, in the midst of a national upsurge in maternal […]

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The Highlands Bunker “If you’ve got a little fight in you, you say ‘Ha, We’ve got these motherfuckers'”

Filed in National by on July 7, 2023 2 Comments

The problem, as usual, is that the Dems have no fight in them. E250 – Rubber Stamp (w/Paul Blest) More Perfect Union journalist Paul Blest joins Rob in the virtual bunker to talk about the debacle around the vote giving LLCs and other entities the right to vote in Seaford. Show Notes: More Perfect Union […]

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Developing: Chaos in Sussex GOP – Secret/Unscheduled Meeting Held in Sussex County Council Chamber – Julianne Murray, DEGOP Party Chair Barred from Entry

Filed in National by on July 7, 2023 18 Comments
Developing: Chaos in Sussex GOP – Secret/Unscheduled Meeting Held in Sussex County Council Chamber – Julianne Murray, DEGOP Party Chair Barred from Entry

Being reported on WGMD this morning,  Sussex County GOP was give full access to, or took over the Sussex County Council Chamber for a recent meeting.  The political party used all of the county facilities including security for a partisan meeting. Party leaders sat in council persons chairs and used the council’s mics, paid for […]

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Found to be Lacking in Freedom Zeal, MTG Kicked Out of Freedom Caucus – Vows to Create Super Double Plus Freedom Caucus With 100% More Freedom Zeal Than Other Freedom Caucus

Filed in National by on July 6, 2023 5 Comments

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is no longer enough of a hardline right-wing lawmaker for the House Freedom Caucus. Freedom Caucus Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) tells Politico reporter Olivia Beavers that it’s his “understanding” that Greene is no longer a member of the caucus after it took a secret vote on her expulsion last month. Beavers says that Harris also […]

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