Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Sunday, October 27, 2024
Yes, It Was A Great Speech. At least in part because Michelle made a very important point: “If your wife is shivering and bleeding on the operating room table during a routine delivery gone bad, her pressure dropping as she loses more and more blood, or some unforeseen infection spreads and her doctors aren’t sure […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024
The Relentless Rethug Campaign To Disenfranchise Voters. Virginia: On Friday, a Virginia judge ruled that Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s recent purge of close to two thousand voters from state rolls—within 90 days of November’s election—was illegal. Now, with that election less than two weeks away, the state must reinstate all 1,600 revoked registrations. Fourth Circuit […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 25, 2024
Melissa Brayman For NCC President. Monique Johns’ behavior since she won a five-way primary has revealed who she is: A money-grubbing grifter and a narcissist. The best that we could hope for her in office is that she becomes a laughingstock. The worst? She and the County wind up with a bunch of lawsuits on […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 24, 2024
Monique Johns Is Who We Thought She Was. A grifter only in it for personal gain. Rarely has our Tip Line lit up (OK, the Tip Line doesn’t technically light up, but bear with me here) as it has. for what is the first of what presumably will be many attempts to rip off the […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024
Another day, another raft of Trump stories about what a shit person he is. Another one of his generals, his former chief of staff John Kelly, warned that he’s a straight-up fascist and is so ignorant he praised Hitler’s generals as loyal (they tried to assassinate him three times, which is three times more than […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024
The liberal sense of dread about this election isn’t just about the danger of Trump winning. As Dave Weigel argues, no matter who wins, the country is moving to the right. The Democratic Party, after two decades of leftward post-Clinton drift, has jerked abruptly right. Facing Donald Trump for the third consecutive election, Democrats are […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Oct. 21, 2024
We’re at the stage of the presidential campaign/Trump unraveling where I expect he’ll be biting the heads off bats onstage by the end of the week. Or maybe he’ll just order JD Vance to do it. Either way, you’ll have to put up with two more weeks of punditry that’s worth nothing at all. And […]
DL Open Thread Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024
As if football weren’t destructive enough on its own – gotta love the irony of pursuing a brain-endangering pastime under the aegis of education – it’s now evolved a new tradition, post-game gunfire. Two Dover men were arrested after shots were fired during a fight after the Dover-Smyrna game Friday night. Then in Mississippi last […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, October 18, 2024
The Big Story Is That Trump Is Unhinged And Suffering From Something Very Much Like Dementia: “What’s alarming is how the rate of Trump’s bizarre speech and political decisions have been increasing. He gave an answer about childcare to the Economic Club of New York so incoherent that even his supporters were concerned. Last week […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 17, 2024
Brett Baier Tries To Mansplain Trump’s Superiority To Kamala Harris. If the Fox interview accomplished anything, it likely turned women off to Trump’s toxic masculinity as channeled through Baier: The interview with Mr. Baier gave Ms. Harris access to a large audience of Republican women whom her campaign is trying to win over. Her advisers […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024
For years we’ve wondered how bonkers Trump would have to get before mainstream media stopped normalizing him. We might have reached that point now that the brain worms have given up because there was nothing for them to eat in there. Enjoying those low gas prices? You can thank Russia’s shadow fleet of oil tankers […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024
Trump cut short his Q&A session in Oaks, Pa., yesterday to – I’m not making this up – stand there and sway to the music. For, like, half an hour. “Let’s not do any more questions. Let’s just listen to music,” he told the crowd. “Who the hell wants to hear questions?” It’s becoming clear […]
DL Open Thread Monday, Oct. 14, 2024
Normally if you told me that thousands of people went to a concert in the California desert and then got stuck there for hours because the inept organizers didn’t have enough buses to get them back to civilization, I’d feel sorry for them. But not when they’re MAGAts, because a more gullible bunch of dumbfucks […]
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