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County GOP Chair charged with three counts of child pornography possession
Tucker Carlson to pivot from highlighting youth pastor menace to highlighting GOP county chair menace? Rocky Hayes, who previously served as chairman of the GOP in Jones County, South Dakota, has been charged with three counts of child pornography possession, The Argus Leader reported Thursday. The 47-year-old is facing accusations of have child sexual assault material in […]
Ted Cruz is an everyman. Some call him a working class hero, with his finger on the pulse on the concerns of “real Americans”
Ted Cruz Wants to Use Crypto in U.S. Capitol Vending Machines The ACCEPT Resolution could see the Capitol Complex accepting cryptocurrency for payment at vending machines. There’s no such thing as a free lunch (or snack) and Texas Senator Ted Cruz knows this, which is why the conservative wants to bring cryptocurrency into Congress. On Wednesday, Cruz introduced […]
Song of the Day 1/27: Rage Against the Machine, “Wake Up”
As a service to all the conservative lurkers who want to know all about wokitude, the better to turn “woke” into a pejorative, here it is: This song is what started the whole woke movement. Anyone who hears it turns woke. That’s why they used it at the end of “The Matrix,” a movie made […]
Let Joe Drive!
I never thought about this until I saw some stray comment on some automotive web site: Once someone is elected president, he never drives again. While he’s president he’s driven by Secret Service agents — that’s why Donald Trump never reached the Capitol on Jan. 6. Ex-presidents also have security details, of course, but I […]
Song of the Day 1/26: Taylor Swift, “Anti-Hero”
In honor of the senators who quoted Taylor Swift lyrics at the Senate Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Competition Policy, here’s her current single. “Anti-Hero” just spent eight weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100, giving it the longest run at the top of her nine No. 1 hits.* Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) actually quoted it during the hearing. […]
How a fictitious Hunter Biden controversy went from being invented on Twitter to a congressional investigation in 5 days
A random wingnut posts a form that Biden filled out that lists office expenses and misinterprets it. Miranda Devine, a NY Post reporter with 350K followers tweets out the false claim. Fox News (also Murdoch-owned) goes all in on the story, with Tucker Carlson claiming that “Miranda Devine of the New York Post has also […]
Tucker Carlson on “instant justice” for Youth Pastors
“What you’re seeing is a society that hates children,” Carlson said on his show Monday. “You would have to hate children in order to allow them to spend time with Youth Pastors. Because being exposed to Youth Pastors screws them up for life. Ask anyone to whom it has happened, period,” he said. “No one […]
DLOpen Thread Wednesday January 25 2023
Being a Delaware Republican must feel like being a Dallas Cowboys fan. Your ownership is scum, you have to live with knowing that you suck, you just know you will lose in some novel and embarrassing fashion, and in the meantime you need to hang around with the worst people. Like this fucking guy: Join […]
Thousands of Youth Pastors Roam Freely Around Florida, and Yet…
Florida teachers told to remove books from classroom libraries or risk felony prosecution Teachers in Manatee County, Florida, are being told to make their classroom libraries — and any other “unvetted” book — inaccessible to students, or risk felony prosecution. The new policy is part of an effort to comply with new laws and regulations […]
Song of the Day 1/24: Randy Rainbow, “Speaker of the House”
We hadn’t heard from Washington’s singing court jester, Randy Rainbow, for a while, but Kevin McCarthy’s long road to the speakership of the House of Horribles™ apparently inspired him. The tune is “Master of the House” from “Les Miserables,” but don’t hold that against it. Is it me, or is Randy working bluer than he […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday January 24 2023
Carper said that introducing a DC statehood bill reminded him of when he introduced the Hawaii, Alaska and Arizona statehood bills.
Delaware Democrat introducing DC statehood bill in Senate
Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) on Monday announced he’s reintroducing a bill to grant statehood to the nation’s capital.
“The rumors are true! I’m introducing the #DCStatehood bill in the Senate this week,” Carper wrote on Twitter.
Carper has led previous efforts to get the bill through in the Senate in partnership with the District of Columbia’s nonvoting delegate to the U.S. House, Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), whose name on Twitter is Eleanor “#DCStatehood” Holmes Norton.
Dewey Beach is in the market for a new town slogan
So far the leading candidates are:
“Highest rate of pedestrian fatalities in the state!”
“If you lived here, you’d be drunk by now.”
DL Open Thread Monday January 23 2023
I listened to Delaware House & Senate Republicans “reaction” to the State Address by Governor Carney so you don’t have to
Hocker opened up slurring through some nonsense that I couldn’t really make out. Is he drunk or having a stroke? If it’s a stoke, I don’t want to make too much fun of him. I’m decent that way.
Pettyjohn agrees with Carney on everything, but wants Delaware to shove money into the bank accounts of multi-national companies even faster and with even less oversight. Turning Delaware into the anti-regulation paradise “just like Texas” appears to be Pettyjohn’s obsession. (His campaign for Gov tag line? Spoiler Alert: It is going to be tough to run to the right of Bethany Hall Long on the issue of making the state an even bigger corporate patsy.)
Ramone wants to know…
More machine guns in circulation and fewer regulations about who can own them would probably fix this
MONTEREY PARK, Calif. (AP) — Law enforcement officials swarmed and entered a white van Sunday afternoon that officials suspect was driven by a gunman who opened fire on a Southern California ballroom dance studio, killing 10 people and wounding 10 more. Police surrounded the van with tactical vehicles and bomb squad trucks for hours before […]
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