Open Thread
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024
Israel has let slip its dogs of war with a military invasion of Lebanon. If the idea is to wipe out Hezbollah, well, it didn’t work last time, it almost certainly won’t work this time, and it won’t work next time they try it, either. Biden was willing to get us out of Afghanistan. Why […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Sept. 30, 2024
Reading the news has convinced me that there are way, way too many people writing about the election, which most people don’t want to read about because Republicans make them want to vomit. So I’m ignoring all that crap, and you probably should, too. If you want something to worry about, the looming strike by […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, Sept. 28, 2024
Politicians will lie about anything, but a Republican running for Congress in Virginia’s 7th District has taken it to a new level. Derrick Anderson, an ex-Green Beret, is single, but he wanted to project a family-man vibe – so he borrowed a friend’s family for campaign photos and posed as if they were his own. […]
DL Open Thread Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024
When Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race, many pundits pointed out that what seemed like a truncated campaign, a three-month “sprint” to Election Day, was the full length of campaigns in most Western nations. Skip ahead two months, and with six weeks still to go it already feels like it’s been going on […]
DL Open Thread Friday, Sept. 27, 2024
We’ll have another damp day, but nothing like the inundation in the Southeast, where Helene dumped an amount of rain seen once every thousand years. Given the lack of progress on climate change, I’m gonna to take the under on that one. Delaware’s Public Integrity Commission proved itself incapable of doing its job, declining to […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024
It was so quaint of Hillary Clinton to think that our nation’s deplorables would fit in one basket. We got more than a basketful just in yesterday’s news. New York is learning what Wilmington did: Cops don’t make good mayors. Eric Adams has become the first mayor of New York City to be indicted in […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024
There’s unquestionably something wrong with these people. Once again a right-wing loonjob is in the news for killing a dog. This time it’s an excrescence on the body politic named Kevin Roberts. He’s now the head of the Heritage Foundation, but 20 years ago he was just an undistinguished assistant professor of history at highly […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024
Slow news day yesterday. Even the reporters tasked with recording Trump’s every brain fart had to scrounge for material, so Israel’s continued attacks on Lebanon are getting more attention than they otherwise might. The fear, as always, is that the fighting will spread, as fighting often does. I have long maintained that a majority of […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Sept. 23, 2024
It was hard enough running for governor as a Black conservative, but a Black conservative sex creep? Mark Robinson’s task is well nigh impossible, especially now that all his senior staffers quit. Maybe he can ask Bethany Hall-Long for advice on how to run a campaign after your staff bails over your sketchy behavior. Congress […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024
Trump’s flailing, tweet-based excuse for a campaign is nearly exhausting the media’s informational oxygen. Everybody who fails to show him complete obeisance gets trashed on his failing social media platform, and political reporters treat every person targeted as worthy of a separate story. Did you see what Trump said about Oprah? Taylor Swift? Bill Maher? […]
DL Open Thread Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024
Let’s check in on that political movement that doesn’t want opponents calling them “weird.” North Carolina governor candidate posts comments on porn chat board, calls himself a “Black Nazi.” Florida Congressman has sex-and-drug parties with high school juniors. Presidential and vice presidential candidates lie about immigrants eating pets and brag about it. Where do we […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, September 20, 2024
‘black NAZI!’ Still Running For Governor In North Carolina. I’m calling it now–Harris wins NC: Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson of North Carolina, the Republican nominee for governor with a long history of inflammatory and offensive remarks in the battleground state, on Thursday vowed to stay in the race as CNN reported that he had once […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, September 19, 2024
‘Please Don’t Come To Springfield!’ Trump not inclined to listen: Former President Donald Trump said he plans to visit Springfield, Ohio — the city of which he has spread lies about migrants eating residents’ pets — despite local officials saying the town already has an intense strain on its resources. Trump told a rally in […]
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