Open Thread
DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 6, 2021
Manchin Has Mini-Snit, Holds Covid Relief Hostage For Nine Hours. He may not be President, but he sure exercises power–against Democratic constituencies. Biden Dumps Another Trump Appointee. Good: The White House fired the general counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Friday, continuing a push to oust controversial Trump appointees viewed as hostile to […]
DL Open Thread Thursday, March 4, 2021
Joe Biden’s loose lips are going to cost the Democrats the Neanderthal vote. He blasted the states of the New Confederacy — white supremacy isn’t just for the the South anymore — for their “Neanderthal thinking” they demonstrated in lifting Covid restrictions because they find caring about other people’s lives tiresome, and I can just […]
DL Open Thread: Tuesday, March 2, 2021
Biden Goes To Bat For Amazon Warehouse Workers. Issues strong support for unionization: For a few minutes on Sunday night, President Biden sounded a little like a union leader. “Unions put power in the hands of workers,” he said in a video statement of support for the union drive at an Amazon fulfillment center in […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, February 27, 2021
House Passes Stimulus Bill. All Rethugs voted against it. So did two ‘moderate’ D’s–Jared Golden of Maine and Kurt Schrader of Oregon. The D’s don’t have the votes, even if we overturn the filibuster, to pass the $15 minimum wage bill in the Senate. So can we just pass this bleeping thing and get the […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, February 26, 2021
Not All Suicides Are Unfortunate. Serial exploiter of female gymnasts commits suicide after being charged. I really think the entire sport of female gymnastics needs to be reconsidered. Sexual abuse, delaying of puberty, anorexia, mental manipulation. Too many horrible bi-products. Is it ultimately good for the participants? I mean, besides the parents with stars and […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021
State Rethugs Push Voting Restrictions To Protect Fantasies Of Angry White Guys: GOP state lawmakers across the country have proposed a flurry of voting restrictions that they say are needed to restore confidence in U.S. elections, an effort intended to placate supporters of former president Donald Trump who believe his false claims that the 2020 […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, February 19, 2021
Time To Face It: Carney & The General Assembly Aren’t Gonna Do SHIT About Police Reform. Buried somewhere in this absolute mess of a story (Subscription required, not worth a penny of your money), the truth emerges. Carney and Pistol Pete Schwartzkopf have largely enabled the creation of a commission designed to do the absolute […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, February 13, 2021
Trump Defense Goes Trumpian. Bellicosity and falsehoods in equal measure. Although shorter than the average Trump campaign event. Designed to appeal to one person: Former President Donald J. Trump’s legal team mounted a combative defense on Friday focused more on assailing Democrats for “hypocrisy” and “hatred” than justifying Mr. Trump’s own monthslong effort to overturn […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, February 12, 2021
Rethugs Prepare Voter Suppression Legislation. There are two major parties: The Democratic Party and the anti-democratic party: That notion that lawmakers can simply disregard the will of the people is an affront to the very idea of representative democracy. And yet Republicans no longer seem to be exerting so much effort trying to disguise their […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, February 6, 2021
Biden To Trump: ‘No Briefings For You’. One less opportunity for him to monetize his Presidency. BTW, the President is the sole arbiter as to whether Trump is entitled to briefings. RWNJ Boebert Apparently Paid Off Restaurant Liens By Collecting Phony Travel Reimbursements. The liens, as you might expect, were for not funding unemployment insurance. […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, February 5, 2021
OK, it’s time to focus on why I like pretty much everything Biden’s done so far. (1) I think he’s aware of the sands of time passing through the hourglass. He’s the oldest person to assume the presidency, he has experienced unexpected loss, and knows that nothing is guaranteed to him. (2) And I think […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, January 30, 2021
Stolen Election Hardliner Refuses Audit–Of Her Own Election. This Arizona Rethuglican Party is self-destructing. Bigly. Keep it up. ‘Everybody Has A Plan Until They’re Punched In The Mouth’. Iron Mike might as well have been talking about the vaccine shit show the Biden Administration has inherited. Including 20 mill ‘missing’ doses of vaccine. Report: Andrew […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, January 29, 2021
Reasons To Not Read The News-Journal: You may be aware that they are doing a clickbait series on ‘The Most Influential Delawareans’. I will not provide a link. Well, this week, they did one on the most influential political leaders, and many of the choices were bad. Uninspired. Just plain wrong. Here’s what got my […]
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