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DL Open Thread Wednesday June 21 2023

Filed in National by on June 21, 2023 24 Comments

1) Fuck Hunter Biden. That said – for Republicans everything is always about presidential electoral politics and nothing is ever about policy.

Since they are widely hated for their policies (and because they are awful), they have to make their opponent MORE awful in the eyes of low info voters.

That was easy with Hillary Clinton. It was harder to do with Biden, but the project NEVER stops. It is relentless and bottomless.

2) “Sweetheart deal”. That’s what the DOJ kept trying to give to Trump. When Merrick Garland’s made the decision to not investigate Trump for trying to overthrow the government because Republicans might get mad – that was a pretty fucking sweet deal.

A Washington Post investigation found that more than a year would pass before prosecutors and FBI agents jointly embarked on a formal probe of actions directed from the White House to try to steal the election. Even then, the FBI stopped short of identifying the former president as a focus of that investigation.

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Song of the Day 6/20: A.L. Phipps and the Phipps Family, “The Great Titanic”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment, International by on June 20, 2023 8 Comments

Five people have been lost descending to the wreck of the Titanic in a small submersible craft. A frantic search for them is underway, but unless the story gets a miracle ending, it seems the “unsinkable” ship is still claiming lives. The mythic element of the sinking of the Titanic seems to have dissipated in […]

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BREAKING: Hunter Biden To Plead Guilty–Get Probation

Filed in National by on June 20, 2023 7 Comments

From the Washington Post: President Biden’s son Hunter has reached a tentative agreement with federal prosecutors to plead guilty to two minor tax crimes and admit to the facts of a gun charge under terms that would likely keep him out of jail, according to court papers filed Tuesday. Any proposed plea deal would have […]

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Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on June 20, 2023 2 Comments

Can there really be only six more session days with Pistol Pete as Slavemaster?  We may, or may not, find out in six more session days.   He and Our PAL Val have turned the House into something not unlike Hungary.  For the record, I doubt that he’ll follow through on his pledge to the Majority […]

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DL Open Thread Tuesday June 20 2023

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Unhinged Hateful Rhetoric Works!  Especially  when you have centrist dipshits taking up your bogus talking points.  A majority of Republicans now say same-sex relations are immoral after a year of ‘groomer’ attacks on the LGBTQ community Only 41% of Republicans say gay or lesbian relations are morally acceptable, according to Gallup. That is a 15% […]

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Democrats, once again, catch their dick in their zipper by trying to not catch their dick in their zipper

Filed in National by on June 19, 2023 0 Comments

Doing or not doing a thing because Republicans might react badly is just stupid. I Was Told This Wasn’t Happening Even though it obviously was.FBI resisted opening probe into Trump’s role in Jan. 6 for more than a year In the DOJ’s investigation of Jan. 6, key Justice officials also quashed an early plan for […]

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Last Week’s Poll Results and This Week’s Poll Question

Filed in National by on June 19, 2023 3 Comments

What happens to Trump? About 44% of us think that Trump is going to walk on the stealing, hoarding and sharing top secret documents charges.  That’s probably a good reflection of the overall probability of that happening.   Trump keeps saying the we have a two tiered justice system and he is right.  One system for […]

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Song of the Day 6/19: The Rascals, “People Got to Be Free”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on June 19, 2023 3 Comments

How does an old white guy celebrate Juneteenth? I’m going with blue-eyed soul from some of its early practitioners, the Rascals. The sentiment sounds hokey today — they don’t play this one much even on oldies radio — but it was widespread in 1968, when this song spent five weeks at No. 1 on the […]

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“Ye Are Welcome Hither”

Filed in National by on June 19, 2023 2 Comments

It is Arden’s motto, and reflects the town’s vision to create an inclusive community. Delaware is fast becoming a state that could adopt that motto.  As other states crack down on people who the Rethuglicans demonize for political purposes, Delaware is laying out the welcome mat. Enter HB 230 (Neal).   The bill: …updates House Bill […]

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DL Open Thread Monday June 19 2023

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Happy Juneteenth!  It is the most woke holiday of the year and there for most vexing to conservatives.  Read about the holiday here.  As for the balance of the open thread – I just want to highlight a couple of post from last week that didn’t get their due respect. Highlands Bunker – Are Multinational […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, June 18, 2023

Filed in Featured, Open Thread by on June 18, 2023 16 Comments

This Is How You Run A Government:  Assuming the 2000 tons of lightweight recycled glass nuggets hold steady, the Rethugs can cross Pennsylvania off their list of competitive states for 2024: “We are going to get traffic moving again, thanks to the extraordinary work that is going on here,” Shapiro (D) said during remarks at […]

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Trump lawyer bails on documents case

Filed in National by on June 18, 2023 4 Comments

To explain why Trump can’t keep lawyers, most legal experts  point to a legal doctrine known as – He’s guilty as fuck.  CNN — A lawyer who was representing former President Donald Trump in his defamation lawsuit against CNN said Friday that he was withdrawing from the case, in the latest sign of the break-up of the […]

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Song of the Day 6/17: Mungo Jerry, “In the Summertime”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on June 17, 2023 0 Comments

Some people insist summer starts with the equinox on June 21. Bollocks. June, July and August constitute “the summer,” and the people prove it every year by swarming the country’s beaches from Memorial Day to Labor Day. They take Mungo Jerry’s advice — they have a drink, have a drive and go out and see […]

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