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DL Open Thread: Thursday, September 22, 2022

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Russians Turn On Putin.  Who will put the poisoned needle in him?  Young males head for the exits,  prisoners conscripted, protestors arrested.  He’s screwed, all by himself.  Russia’s answer to Speaker Pete: Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a partial military mobilization Wednesday to call up as many as 300,000 reservists in a dramatic bid to […]

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DL Open Thread Wednesday September 21 2022

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Delawareans: Medicare is great! 

Dems:  Hey guys…Let’s privatize and fuck up Medicare. 

Delaware’s Retirees Utterly Screwed By John Carney 

The change to state pensioners’ health care plan caught both retirees and lawmakers off guard, which led to Democratic Senate leaders asking Gov. John Carney to push the implementation of the new Medicare Advantage plan.

The Carney administration has denied this request, citing contractual obligations among other reasons. Ultimately, according to a letter to lawmakers obtained by Delaware Online/The News Journal, the plan to replace retiree’s Medicare plan is already in motion and it’s too late to stop it.

The plan will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2023.


More Capitalists Behaving Badly

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DL Open Thread Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022

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Wilmington is going to get an economic boost next month when media floods the city for the Elon Musk-Twitter showdown in Chancery Court. Background coverage has already begun, such as this profile of Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick. The bus-the-immigrants stunt has succeeded in bringing national attention to a problem that affects mainly border cities in border […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, September 11, 2022

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Ukraine Offensive: Blip Or New Reality?: As the advancing Ukrainian troops regained lost territory with shocking speed, liberating the town of Balakliya and raising their blue-and-yellow flag over the city of Izyum, jubilant Ukrainians and officials in Kyiv and Western capitals indulged in a daring hope: maybe the grinding, stalemated war was swinging their way. […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, September 10, 2022

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I Finally Cut The Cord!  No, not cable, not yet, although that’s coming soon.  I finally unsubscribed from the Team LBR e-mail list that, come to think of it, I’d never subscribed to in the first place.  I figured that, as a District committee person, I should give the incessant begging the benefit of the […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, September 9, 2022

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Isn’t Charles The Guy Nobody Likes?  Oh well, I’ll always have that commemorative bottle opener.  You know the one that reads, ‘Drink Up, Chuck and Di’.  Say it three times fast. Could Be A Blue Wave In Michigan.  ‘Right To Abortion’ will be on the ballot: The Michigan Supreme Courton Thursday ordereda proposal enshrining the […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, September 8, 2022

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Steve Bannon: A Case Study In Conservative Grift: The outsize role of grift in American conservatism is a story that goes back at least a half century. But Trump glommed on to those tendencies while also exacerbating them in his own ugly ways, and the Bannon saga is a particularly grotesque example of that. Bannon […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, September 4, 2022

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News Of Lydia York’s Demise Is Greatly Exaggerated.  She had a great day of campaigning at the Arden Fair.  Three hours spent equally between the parking lot where the visitors get the buses and at the Fair proper campaigning with the indefatigable Colleen Davis.  No sign of her convict opponent.  It’s precisely where Lydia should […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, September 3, 2022

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Happy Arden Fair Day! Sen. McConnell Is–Mitcher Lonely: Not even Peter Thiel will return his calls: Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell’s grand vision for a Republican sweep in the midterm elections is not going according to plan. On Wednesday, The Washington Post reported that billionaire Peter Thiel, who funded the insurgent primary campaigns of J.D. […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, September 2, 2022

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Trump And MAGAts Threaten Democracy, Biden Says.  Yes, they do.  Or, at least, what passes for democracy: “We are still at our core a democracy — yet history tells us that blind loyalty to a single leader, and the willingness to engage in political violence, is fatal to democracy,” Biden said. “There is no question […]

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, September 1, 2022

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DL Open Thread: Thursday, September 1, 2022

Trump Tries His Hand At Three-Dimensional Chess, Loses At Checkers.  His call for a special master to review documents led to this photo: Those Secret and Top Secret documents are but a few of those that a special master would have been expected to review.  Trump tried to play rope-a-dope, but the dope got roped. […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, August 28, 2022

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Trump Judge Makes New Law To Give Trump ‘Special Master’ To Review Classified Documents.   Pure insanity: And now the Trump-appointed judge has broken with all legal precedent, and written wholly new law in the process, to give Donald Trump exactly what he wanted—a special master. Judge Aileen Cannon didn’t stop with saying she intends to […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, August 27, 2022

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Yes, The Feds Had Loads Of ‘Probable Cause’ To Raid Mar-A-Lago: The details contained in a search-warrant affidavit and related memo crystallize much of what was already known about the criminal probe into whether Trump and his aides took secret government papers and did not return all of the material — despite repeated demands from […]

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