Open Thread – Page 82 – Delaware Liberal

DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 26, 2023

By El Somnambulo October 26, 202319 Comments

They Still Haven't Found The Mass Shooter? No mask. Apparently no body armor. Figured when I went to sleep that he wasn't long for this world. Figured wrong. Reportedly a…

DL Open Thread Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023

By Alby October 25, 202319 Comments

Another day, another failed attempt to elect a Speaker of the House. Contestant No. 3 lasted just four hours, not even long enough to be doxxed by MAGA World, so…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023

By Alby October 24, 202314 Comments

Handicapping the Speaker Stakes? Now there are only eight entrants as Rep. Dan Meuser of Pennsylvania has scratched himself from the race. Meuser, who represents a big slice of the…

DL Open Thread Monday, Oct. 23, 2023

By Alby October 23, 202320 Comments

Anyone who's raised children recognizes Donald Trump as an overgrown toddler. The lies he tells are the sort of incompetent falsehoods even small children outgrow. After his attorney Sidney Powell…

DL Open Thread: Sunday, October 22,2023

By El Somnambulo October 22, 20233 Comments

Pharoah And DeSantis: Separated At Birth? What do they have in common?--plagues. Hurricanes, floods, seaweed encrusted beaches, pythons who like to feast on elderly Palm Beach matrons, collapsing buildings, epidemics.…

DL Open Thread: Saturday, October 21, 2023

By El Somnambulo October 21, 202324 Comments

FINALLY, Aid Trucks Make Their Way Into Gaza. Not nearly enough, though...: A convoy of 20 trucks carrying aid moved through the Rafah border crossing into Gaza from Egypt on…

DL Open Thread: Friday, October 20, 2023

By El Somnambulo October 20, 202310 Comments

How Jim Jordan Broke The Mold And Broke The Rethuglican Caucus. Interesting analysis from Josh Marshall: The congressional party is controlled and run by the hard right minority variously called…

DL Open Thread: Thursday, October 19, 2023

By El Somnambulo October 19, 20236 Comments

I think that President Biden's trip to Israel was inspirational and substantive. He has genuine empathy, and he demonstrated it both on a one-to-one basis, and in his attempts to…

DL Open Thread Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023

By Alby October 18, 202322 Comments

The hospital bombing in Gaza has convinced his handlers that Joe Biden won't meet with Arab leaders in Jordan on his Middle East trip today. I'm not sure how yet,…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023

By Alby October 17, 202318 Comments

The media news-scape is cluttered with war porn, but not so much that it pushed the Trump porn out of the picture. Horse-race stories about the House speakership round out…

DL Open Thread Monday, Oct. 16, 2023

By Alby October 16, 20237 Comments

Whatever you think about the latest Israeli-Palestinian conflict, you have to admit that U.S. media picks and chooses its obsessions, and that dwelling on those stories stirs the deranged to…

DL Open Thread: Sunday, October 15, 2023

By El Somnambulo October 15, 20232 Comments

Louisiana Goes Full-On Right-Wing Crazy. Guess I won't be visiting N'Awlins soon: Jeff Landry, the Louisiana attorney general and a hard-line conservative, trounced a crowded field of candidates on Saturday…

DL Open Thread: Friday, October 13, 2023

By El Somnambulo October 13, 20235 Comments

Scalise Boomlet Crashes. Looks like Jordan is up next. We can only hope that his candidacy suffers the same fate: The fractious Republican conference has rejected a second speaker hopeful…