Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Thursday, January 19, 2023
Famous Delaware Pro Rassler Killed In Auto Accident. Jay Briscoe, whose real name was Jamin Pugh. The Briscoes were a world-class tag team. Jay posted a homophobic tweet back around 15 years ago, which cost them a shot at WWE. However, he was exceedingly and genuinely remorseful, and sought to educate himself about LGBT issues. […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, January 15, 2023
Some Fantastic Changes To Medicare. Cap on insulin prices, free vaccinations, and more. Yes, Rethugs want to roll back some of the changes. D’s should be shouting hosannas from the rooftops. The $13 Mill Freshman QB. Well, he WAS until his NIL agreement fell apart. Great article. This is the new Bizarro World of college […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, January 14, 2023
Everybody Knew About Santos’ Lies–Except The Democrats: In late 2021, as he prepared to make a second run for a suburban New York City House seat, George Santos gave permission for his campaign to commission a routine background study on him. Campaigns frequently rely on this kind of research, known as vulnerability studies, to identify […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, January 13, 2023
The New ‘McCarthy Committee’. This new MAGAT playground has the potential to be every bit as destructive as the House Un-American Activities Committee and the anti-Communist witch hunt by Sen. Joseph McCarthy: Both the McCarthy hearings in the 1950s and investigations by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1930s and 1940s have come to […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, January 12, 2023
Could We See Vince McMahon Strutting Down King Street? There’s always a Delaware Connection, and we should be thankful for that. Vince McMahon, who had resigned from the WWE Board, and as CEO, last summer, following multiple confirmed incidents of sexual abuse and multiple payouts, forced his way back into power. Because he owns over […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, January 8, 2023
The Sham That Is Trump-Style Populism: This crisis is entirely of the party’s own making. For decades it has whipped its base into a righteous fury by promising radical policies that offer emotional satisfaction to their hardline constituents — from rolling back Medicare and Social Security to defaulting on the national debt to eliminating whole […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, January 7, 2023
McCarthy Completes Blow Job Just In Time For Gaetz To Cum To His Rescue. I’m not the most scatological contributor on here, but no other metaphor will suffice. This could well be the Worst Figurative Blowjob In HISTORY. Haven’t scoured the intertubes yet, but I’m sure I’m not the only one to come cum to […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, January 6, 2023
Remind me again–who were the Rethug House members who voted to throw out the Presidential election results from 2020? Never mind. Here they are. Gee, sure seems like it’s a whole lot more than the ‘bomb-throwers’ who the McCarthy forces are castigating. Including McCarthy himself and the so-called ‘compromise’ candidate Steve Scalise. I don’t think […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, January 5, 2022
McCarthy Gives Away Everything. Will It Net Him The Speakership?: During late-hour negotiations Wednesday, Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) made fresh concessions to a group of 20 lawmakers in hopes of ending their blockade of his speakership ahead of votes Thursday, according to four people familiar with the talks who spoke on the condition of anonymity to […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday January 4 2023
Dems Blowing a Great Opportunity to Fuck With the GOP
Just imagine the (even more) chaotic shitmess that would ensue in the Republican Party if Democrats offered to help “save” McCarthy.
House Democratic Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries mentioned to CNN that he would release 10 Democratic votes to McCarthy to settle the “nonsense and ridiculousness” that the GOP is putting itself through.
I happen to love the idea.
It will never happen.
Also today – Southwest ads insult to injury.
DL Open Thread Monday, Jan. 2, 2023
Will Donald Trump be brought to justice in 2023? If so, on which grounds? Would it be for his treasonous role in the Jan. 6 failed coup? His many apparent tax crimes? Michael Smerconish, the reasonable-conservative pundit, says indictment is most likely in the stolen-documents case because special counsel Jack Smith is a bulldog whose […]
DL Open Thread: January 1, 2023
Let’s see–went to bed at halftime of the Ohio State-Georgia game. So, I’m only a little hung over, and I’ve had my first dose of morning caffeine. I’ll try to rustle you up some interesting stuff to start the year. Oopsies–CNN Misses NYE Countdown While Host Don Lemon Shakes His Butt To “Back That Azz […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, December 31, 2022
Ex-Pope Benedict Dies. Lied About Knowledge Of Pedophile Priests: The former pope Benedict XVI has admitted providing false information to a German inquiry into clerical sexual abuse. Benedict, who resigned as the global leader of the Roman Catholic church in 2013, said on Monday that he had attended a meeting with local church officials in […]
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