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Last Week’s Poll Results and this Week’s Poll

Filed in National by on June 5, 2023 12 Comments

Q: What office should Eugene Young run for? A: Governor of Delaware (53%) Vox populi, the people have spoken. There is one other open seat statewide and it isn’t getting too much attention.  That office is Lt Governor. So…Who would you like to see doing this… The lieutenant governor serves as the President of the Delaware […]

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Song of the Day 6/4: Guster, “Demons”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment, National by on June 4, 2023 0 Comments

In the modern Republican Party, the measure of success is the ability to attract media attention, which is why Lauren Witzke is the leader of Delaware’s cackle of hyenas. She landed a mention in the Philadelphia Inquirer last week by tweeting out a graphic that shows the term “pride month” morphing into just its middle […]

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Song of the Day 6/3: Rufus Thomas, “Do the Funky Chicken”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment, National by on June 3, 2023 0 Comments

Being a Republican must be exhausting. You have to be on high alert at all times, sensitive to every threat to Our American Way of Life, plus you have to keep an updated list of who’s on your team and who’s working for its triple enemies Satan, socialism and Soros. It’s not easy keeping track […]

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Magadonia

Filed in National by on June 2, 2023 3 Comments
Magadonia

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Song of the Day 6/2: Oasis, “Falling Down”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment, National by on June 2, 2023 4 Comments

Joe Biden tripped and fell on stage at the Air Force Academy graduation ceremony yesterday, thereby demonstrating, according to the wingnutosphere, his absolute unfitness for the office of the presidency. This has proved particularly vexing to some in the GOP, who claim they were bamboozled in debt-ceiling negotiations by a guy they simultaneously claim can’t […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, June 2, 2023

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Phoenix Turning Into Ashes?  Lack Of Water Will Do That: Arizona has determined that there is not enough groundwater for all of the housing construction that has already been approved in the Phoenix area, and will stop developers from building some new subdivisions, a sign of looming trouble in the West and other places where […]

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Song of the Day 6/1: The Police, “Wrapped Around Your Finger”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment, National by on June 1, 2023 3 Comments

Remember those Danish documentarians who followed Roger Stone just before and after the 2020 election? They’ve released their film, “A Storm Foretold,” in Denmark, and it’s got some bombshell moments — including one where Stone explains how he’s been manipulating Trump for decades. “He resents any implication that he is handled or managed or directed. […]

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Song of the Day 5/31: Little Feat, “Fat Man in the Bathtub”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment, National by on May 31, 2023 6 Comments

With Donald Trump in legal quagmire and Ron DeSantis flailing, the GOP’s scrubs see opportunity. Only Mike Pompeo has figured out that he has no constituency. The rest — Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, maybe Rick Perry — have donned track shoes for the presidential primary race. Come next Tuesday they’ll all have to move over. […]

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DL Open Thread Wednesday May 31 2023

Filed in National by on May 31, 2023 7 Comments

According the the Aztec Debt Ceiling Calendar, this was supposed to be the last day prior to the world being consumed by the gods Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl.  Oh Well.   Onward.   Your “truth in headline writing” winner to kick it off.   Republicans are revolting WASHINGTON (AP) — Under fire from conservatives, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy worked furiously […]

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DL Open Thread Tuesday May 30 2023

Filed in National by on May 30, 2023 9 Comments

Trump and Desantis both loudly in favor of US credit default which would destroy world financial markets, crash the dollar and put millions of people out of work. Biden gets to run against one of them. ______________________________ Rich White Women, Elizabeth Holmes, reports to actual prison today The Theranos founder turned convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes […]

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The Party of the Nostalgia

Filed in National by on May 29, 2023 1 Comment

Chris Coons is roughly my age. He was born in ’63. He shouldn’t be in lockstep with the oldsheads, but he is.  Senator Elect, Blunt Rochester was born in ’62. She is also old beyond her years. The biggest divide in the Democratic Party at this point is not liberals versus moderates. It’s age. It’s […]

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Desantis puts American Leftists on notice

Filed in National by on May 29, 2023 4 Comments

Being a proud lefty I sometimes get distracted by what we haven’t yet accomplished (like socialized medicine, gun safety, housing security, worker’s rights, living wages, etc), and so I forget that leftists are an omnipotent behemoth bestriding American politics like a colossus. Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski Desantis says Good Morning: “I will serve two terms, and […]

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DL Open Thread Monday May 29 2023

Filed in National by on May 29, 2023 5 Comments

Happy Memorial Day.  We overcame our isolation and nativism to fight two good wars in Europe. We got some good movies and songs out of the last one and were clearly the good guys.   Then we pretended to still be the good guys for a while in Korea which was a draw, and VietNam which […]

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