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DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 6, 2024
I didn’t watch last week’s debate. I dreaded it, and just tried to ignore it. Wasn’t until the next day that I read the virtually 100% consensus that it was a debacle for Biden. I watched last night’s interview. I saw a man unfit to be President. Although some pundits and the D cheerleaders […]
Delaware Political Weekly: June 28-July 4, 2024
1. Filing Deadline Tuesday. At 12 noon. We’ll be providing countdown coverage, although perhaps the more notable deadline is Friday, July 12 at 4:30 pm. That is for filed candidates to withdraw without forfeiting their filing fees. Collin, are you in or are you out? Do you really want to have the governorship of Bethany […]
Song of the Day 7/5: The Ramones, “The Job That Ate My Brain”
Joe Biden’s fight for survival wasn’t helped by telling his staff he needs an early bedtime, and he’s clearly made an enemy of the New York Times. So we’ve got three old guys running for president. To paraphrase Billy Martin, one’s got brain worms and the other two are senile. Trump and RFK Jr. have […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, July 5, 2024
The Third Way Comes To England. With a less-charismatic Tony Blair: Ben Riley-Smith, the Telegraph’s political editor, suggests it is “perhaps the most significant phrase” of the speech. He posted: Perhaps the most significant phrase hidden in that Starmer speech – this will be a “government unburdened by doctrine”. His leadership has rejected the simple […]
Song of the Day 7/4: Trey Parker, “America, Fuck Yeah!”
The South Park team’s marionette movie, “Team America: World Police,” was released 20 years ago, during the Iraq War, when patriotism was running high and Hollywood action movies pandered to it. Trey Parker and Matt Stone mocked both America’s imperialism and Hollywood’s outspoken liberal contingent, but the list of American cultural exports – McDonald’s! Disney […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, July 4, 2024
Typically one of the least-read Open Threads Of The Year. Will this year be different? I write, you decide. Every columnist everywhere has weighed in on whether Biden should step down or not, with every imaginable permutation as to what should happen if he does. Haven’t read them. Won’t read them. Won’t link to them. […]
Song of the Day 7/3: Neil Sedaka, “Breakin’ Up Is Hard to Do”
A song for Joe Biden, sung by a guy who’s even older than he is. Sedaka was an established star as both a performer and songwriter with several Top 10 hits under his belt before “Breakin’ Up Is Hard to Do” hit No. 1 in 1962. His career was among the notable casualties of the […]
DL Open Thread Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Democrats, faced with adversity, are doing what they do best: Panicking and looking weak. A group of about two dozen House Democrats are planning to call on Biden to drop out. Yes, when danger rears its ugly head, they bravely turned their tails and fled. Extra bonus irony: A lot of these people are the […]
Memo To BHL: Opioids Hazardous To Your Political Health
Karl Baker captures Bethany Hall Long’s utter incompetence in screwing up one of the only things she’s responsible for. Featuring unusually harsh language from the Attorney General. State Auditor is also involved. Looks like at least some Democratic officials are tired of cleaning up and/or covering up her messes. Great reporting from Karl Baker. Oh, […]
Song of the Day 7/2: The Human League, “Don’t You Want Me”
They can play this one at the Democratic National Convention, no matter who the nominee turns out to be. I like to bust on record executives who don’t recognize a hit when they hear one, but this is an example of the artist himself lacking a clue. The Human League formed in the late ’70s, […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, July 2, 2024
All you people who were freaking out over Joe Biden’s stumblebum debate performance now have something bigger to freak out about, as the nation’s corrupt Supreme Court just made Richard Nixon’s claim – “If the president does it, it’s not illegal” – the law of the land. I’ve scoured what we used to call the […]
Song of the Day 7/1: Tom Lehrer, “I Wanna Go Back to Dixie”
First Kinky Friedman, then Martin Mull. It could be one of Friedman’s mysteries, about someone bumping off the musical satirists of the ’70s. In that scenario we should maybe worry about the greatest musical satirist of the ’60s, Tom Lehrer, who’s still with us at age 96. He wrote this one in 1960, when the […]
DL Open Thread Monday, July 1, 2024
Joe Biden’s terrible debate performance set off several days of Democratic soul searching, but sadly, the search has been fruitless. They still haven’t found one. Frankly, the widespread panic embodies why right-wingers hold us in contempt – we run around flapping our hands at every setback. We like to mock them for listening to Fox […]
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