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Are Tizzy Lockman and Bryan Townsend Sellouts?
Delaware most valuable progressive & REV take up that question in this week’s Highlands Bunker. Also, what about WFP endorsed people who voted for Pete to be speaker? Sellouts? Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Stomberg knows.
It’s just Karl and Rob in the bunker today as they talk about Karl’s new piece on why legislators sell out and how we can fix it.
Show Notes:
A Clockwork Trumpage
@paulwaldman1 1. One thing last night made clear is that not only doesn’t “fact-checking in real time” work on Trump, it’s actually JUST WHAT HE WANTS. Allow me to explain… 2. When he says “The election was rigged” or “I did complete the wall,” gets corrected and then says the lie again, steamrolling over the […]
DelawareLiberal Style Guide VOL 1
I’m starting a list of preferred uses. Free free to add to the list with your favorites.
Socialized Medicine:
Use “socialized medicine” in place of medicare/medicaid. Eg. I can’t wait until I qualify for socialized medicine. My mother in law loves her socialized medicine. The Governor wants to take away the socialized medicine that state pensioners paid into and were promised with a fraudulent, expensive, substitute. (see below)
Disgusting:
Whenever using the name “trump” also try to use the word “disgusting” in the same sentence. It sounds a little trite, but this really pushes the MAGATs buttons. Polling confirms that they have strong reactions to disgust and disgusting. Eg. A disgusting blob, Trump slumped visibly in his chair. & Even his ardent supporters view Trump as disgusting.
DL Open Thread Wednesday May 10 2023
The DEGOP tries to cover its tracks by deleting its School Board endorsements page. https://delawaregop.com/school-board-candidates/ I should have taken a screenshot of that page when I first saw it. Anyway, here is the Town Square article from April 22nd discussing the DEGOP brazen partisan efforts in these non-partisan elections. Conservatives marshal forces as school board […]
School Board Election Results Thread
Re Jose Matthews, but true all over. Steve Newton “comfortable enough margin” true … for today … but I can still remember the days when Jose’s vote total exceeded the standard total for two candidates in a close race. Celebrate, but realize they are mobilizing as fast as they can, and will undoubtedly learn from their […]
The Democratic Party is an absurd anachronism, run by absurd, doddering anachronisms
VIA LGM It is sometimes said in defense of Dick Durbin’s maintenance of the blue slip rule that Republicans did not (completely) kill the rule when they were in charge of the Judiciary Committee. The very obvious answer is that Republicans had no reason to because Democrats frequently returned blue slips, a favor that needless to […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, May 9, 2023
Delaware holds school board elections today. The News Journal ran a useful voters’ guide, but I don’t know if it’s behind the paywall. Meanwhile, RISE Delaware, the group fighting Gov. Carney’s proposed downgrade to state retirees’ health care, has scheduled a rally at Legislative Hall from 1 to 2:30 p.m. The never-ending legal problems of […]
DL Open Thread Monday, May 8, 2023
The Texas gunman who killed eight people before being gunned down himself was a 33-year-old neo-Nazi-curious ex-security guard who lived with his parents. His name was Mauricio Garcia, which makes think we’re doing a lousy job teaching schoolchildren the Holocaust if this many non-Aryans self-identify with the Nazis. Seriously. Every time I see a photo […]
I’m sure the sober centrists think “both sides” are at fault
Conservatives on Guns: In a country of 330 million people bad people are going to be prone to violence and get murder-y from time to time. So we, “the good ones” need more guns.
Liberals on Guns: in a country of 330 million people someone is going to be prone to violence and the tools of mass murder are easily available. So maybe we should make it a little less easy to get guns.
Moving Forward with Kamala
I asked CHatGPT to translate this week’s economic news into a one act play, but include a role for Trump. This is what it came up with.
Title: Moving Forward with Kamala
Characters:
Joe, the President of the United States
Kamala, the Vice President of the United States
Tom, the Secretary of Labor
Janet, the Secretary of the Treasury
Emily, a journalist
Donald Trump, former President
Act I
Scene 1:
Joe and Kamala are sitting in the Oval Office discussing the latest job numbers.
Joe: (smiling) Today’s job numbers came in higher than expected, with the U.S. adding 253,000 nonfarm jobs in April.
Kamala: (excitedly) That’s great news, Joe! Unemployment fell yet again, to 3.4%, matching a rate not seen since 1969. Black unemployment is at an all-time low of 4.7%.
Joe: (nodding) For Hispanics it’s 4.4%, and …
Hope fades that Buckson will be normal as he jokes about Kenco/Suxco Secession
Buckson claims his remarks were intended to be funny, but like nearly all conservative “humor”, it is lacking most of the elements that make things funny such as wit, cleverness, surprise, etc. Greg Layton If you haven’t seen the video Calvin Sparks posted yesterday of state Senator Eric Buckson advocating southern Delaware secede from northern […]
The Impeach Biden Movement Gathers Momentum, if by “momentum” you mean Ted Cruz nodding like a dummy while Sean Hannity tries to get a rise out of his 11 remaining viewers
lmao Cruz and Hannity are talking about impeaching Biden for allegations the substance of which they don't even know pic.twitter.com/RsnUTO3Jhg — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 4, 2023
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