“Don’t worry about the workers. If companies create huge profits…everyone WINS!”

The Clintonite wisdom embodied by the headline has held the Democratic Party in its thrall for going on 30 years now.  In spite of the mountains of  evidence that it is pure bullshit and should have been shit-canned years ago, it has the survival instincts of Rasputin. And yet... all of my yelling on a shitty little blog in Delaware feels like it is beginning to pay off.  
We are supposed to be the workers’ party. Democrats must be that party again. We must sharpen the difference between us—historically, America’s party of workers—and the party of big business. Many are waking up to this reality. As inflation continues to batter families’ bank accounts—and the president’s poll numbers—even free-traders of yesteryear are beginning to admit the problems of a labyrinthine supply chain stretched across the globe. And for the first time in my memory, there’s real momentum to take action to fix it. Democrats just passed the kind of industrial policy we haven’t seen in many decades, to build out domestic supply chains of key inputs like semiconductors. It will create the kind of jobs that too many communities have lost. And it sends a clear message to these Americans that we have not forgotten them. None of this requires compromising on our values. A commitment to populist economics and fair trade isn’t just compatible with a commitment to social justice—the two naturally go together. One need only read Martin Luther King’s dozens of speeches to unions, and ponder what he was doing when he was killed, to remember the deep connection between workers’ rights and civil rights. A relentless focus on populist economics wins out over Republicans’ manufactured culture war.

Highlands Bunker – Financial Tyrants Come to Southbridge (w/Haneef Salaam)

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Not Breaking News: The Mayor doesn't work for the people who live in the Southbridge neighborhood of Wilmington. He works for the rich white people that he hopes to move in there and the rich white developers that hope to make some bank from moving them in.
CLICK HERE to Listen to: Financial Tyrants (w/Haneef Salaam)
Southbridge Civic Association Vice President Haneef Salaam joins Rob in the bunker to talk about how a community-supported development process was blocked by the city of Wilmington, and what that might mean for their broader goals to remake the city in BPG's image. See you Monday at noon. Show Notes:

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Attorney Mark Bankston, representing Sandy Hook parents that Alex Jones' falsely accused of hoaxing the gun massacre that killed their children, told a Texas judge today that Alex Jones' phone…

DL Open Thread Wednesday August 3 2022

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A bunch of election denying Trumpist Nutbags won last night in swing states.  Joe Scarborough thinks it is great news for Democrats because they are so crazy.  I'm not sure that math holds up. What's going on in the Sussex Recorder of Deeds GOP primary? Do you really have to go full on GunNut-Patriot-MAGA-shithead to fill this office? Speaking of primary races, we are 41 days out and if you can help out directly, money is nice. If five people give $20.00 to DeShanna Neal today to help her defeat Kop Kabalist Larry Mitchell, I'll match that $100.

DL Open Thread Tuesday August 2 2022

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We killed an  Al-Qaeda guy.  Huzzah for us, I suppose.  The Jan 6. rioter who carried gun to US Capitol got sentenced to 7 years in prison.  Didn't Trump say he was running on a platform of pardoning all of these guys? (checks notes) Why, yes.  He did say that. Two people were found dead in charred car within California wildfire zone.  Sad but I wonder if they "believed" in climate change?  I wonder if the 200 missing and dead people in the Kentucky floods believed in climate change?   This line of thought is verging on very horrible victim blaming on my part, but someone needs to be blamed at some point and we can't blame corporations, as that would be like blaming the scorpion for stinging, or the baby chicks for chirping. Pelosi expected to visit Taiwan, Taiwanese and US officials say.

One Party Will Do Anything to Win, The Other Has Some Limits

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I had two sons that were pretty good at little league baseball. They both had one big deficit that held them back though - a Dad who didn't give a fuck about little league baseball.   My kids were afflicted with a Dad (Me) who didn't push, berate & bribe them to try get better at little league baseball. They had a Dad who didn't set winning at little league baseball as an important goal. I looked at these other parents who were obsessed with winning and thought, "Well, in the long run we don't stand a chance against these guys, so let's have some fun until we quit." The children of those weirdos may have burned out and ended up hating baseball or they may be captains of industry or play for the New York Yankees now. Who the fuck knows? Crazy parents get shit done. Just ask Brian Wilson or Karen Carpenter. All this to say, I wonder if Democrats will ever win against Republicans who are obsessed with winning to the point that they can lie impunity, and drink in the lies of their comrades like it is mother's milk:
CALLER: Listen, Sean. I just want some people in the conservative party, Republican Party to fight as hard as me and my platoon did in Afghanistan. That's all I'm asking for. ... SEAN HANNITY (HOST): I appreciate, first of all, your service. I'm sorry about your injuries, they sound pretty debilitating. I know many people in your position. It alters your life, and your family's life forever. None of it is fun. And I -- I just -- we owe you a debt of gratitude. And we can't forget our vets either. Listen. I don't like Jon Stewart, but Jon Stewart is right, on him fighting for these vets the way he has. Now, the very specific issues behind the scenes, a lot of people don't know. But anyway, there's a bill. Republicans support the bill, these burn-pit victims. And the only reason it didn't pass this week was because the Democrats, what they put in the bill, they moved $400 billion in discretionary spending to mandatory spending and that $400 billion had nothing to do with veterans. And Democrats want to spend another $400 billion on new spending completely unrelated to veterans.