Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Thursday, July 11, 2024
How Texas Kills You. Legally, I mean: The state of Texas, blocked from purchasing lethal injection drugs by major pharmaceutical companies that refuse to participate in executions, bought them instead from an in-state, compounding pharmacy with a history of more than a dozen safety and cleanliness violations, NPR has learned. Rite-Away Pharmacy and Medical Supply […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Joe Biden gave what even Politico conceded was a forceful speech to open the NATO conference. The president didn’t fumble over words as he often does during remarks. He was clear and forceful, appearing energized by the transatlanticism that he has embraced throughout his political career. For most of the political press, this was Not […]
DL Open Thread Monday, July 8, 2024
The “Fascism on the Worldwide March” storyline took a major hit the past few days. First voters in England rejected the Tories. Now France’s far-right party, Marine LePen’s National Rally, which seemed poised to take over the premiership, got its ass mightily kicked in the country’s second round of elections. Not only did they not […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, July 7, 2024
For the purposes of today’s Open Thread, I’m gonna assume that Joe will eventually realize he has no choice but to end his candidacy, so I will discuss it no further today. Breaking From The News-Journal!! Seriously?: University of Delaware researchers discovered a kissing bug found in New Castle County in July 2023 was infected […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 6, 2024
I didn’t watch last week’s debate. I dreaded it, and just tried to ignore it. Wasn’t until the next day that I read the virtually 100% consensus that it was a debacle for Biden. I watched last night’s interview. I saw a man unfit to be President. Although some pundits and the D cheerleaders […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, July 5, 2024
The Third Way Comes To England. With a less-charismatic Tony Blair: Ben Riley-Smith, the Telegraph’s political editor, suggests it is “perhaps the most significant phrase” of the speech. He posted: Perhaps the most significant phrase hidden in that Starmer speech – this will be a “government unburdened by doctrine”. His leadership has rejected the simple […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, July 4, 2024
Typically one of the least-read Open Threads Of The Year. Will this year be different? I write, you decide. Every columnist everywhere has weighed in on whether Biden should step down or not, with every imaginable permutation as to what should happen if he does. Haven’t read them. Won’t read them. Won’t link to them. […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Democrats, faced with adversity, are doing what they do best: Panicking and looking weak. A group of about two dozen House Democrats are planning to call on Biden to drop out. Yes, when danger rears its ugly head, they bravely turned their tails and fled. Extra bonus irony: A lot of these people are the […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, July 2, 2024
All you people who were freaking out over Joe Biden’s stumblebum debate performance now have something bigger to freak out about, as the nation’s corrupt Supreme Court just made Richard Nixon’s claim – “If the president does it, it’s not illegal” – the law of the land. I’ve scoured what we used to call the […]
DL Open Thread Monday, July 1, 2024
Joe Biden’s terrible debate performance set off several days of Democratic soul searching, but sadly, the search has been fruitless. They still haven’t found one. Frankly, the widespread panic embodies why right-wingers hold us in contempt – we run around flapping our hands at every setback. We like to mock them for listening to Fox […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, June 30, 2024
An Open Convention? I’m not always in tune with what Ezra Klein proposes, but this at least deserves consideration: In “The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics,” Sam Rosenfeld and Daniel Schlozman tell the history of how the strong parties of yesterday have become the hollowed-out vehicles for presidential […]
DL Open Thread: Sat., June 29, 2024
Josh Marshall: Only Alternative To Biden Is Harris. Makes sense to me: The one thing that seems clear to me is that there’s only one Plan B and that’s Kamala Harris. I do not know any universe in which a party whose bedrocks are women and African-Americans does not split into open revolt if the […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 28, 2024
Anybody at that Debate Party at DelDems HQ last night? Or is it too early to have sobered up? I’ll merely cut-and-paste what I wrote yesterday: Anyone else not gonna watch tonight’s ‘debate’? I’m almost over the denial phase of my grief, headed towards–whatever comes after the denial stage of grief. As much as Biden […]
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