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DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 21, 2023

By El Somnambulo May 21, 20237 Comments

Rethugs Try To Reframe Abortion Bans As 'Mainstream'. You know, b/c The Overton Window: Nebraska antiabortion groups and GOP lawmakers were stunned. In late April, their effort to ban most…

Comment Rescue – Happy Birthday!

By jason330 May 20, 20232 Comments

Happy Birthday wishes for your betrayal of retirees and pensioners, for your commitment to giving taxpayer money to the richest corporations in the world, for your dedication to keeping the…

Chris Coons Utterly Shocked to Find that Republicans Have Been Negotiating in Bad Faith All Along

By jason330 May 20, 20234 Comments

Nobody could have predicted...

What Our Cutting-Edge State Democratic Party Is Up To

By El Somnambulo May 20, 20236 Comments

Fresh from my inbox: Kyle, (yes, guess I'm 'Kyle' now) Governor Carney makes us so proud everyday he leads our great state, and we are grateful for his decades…

DL Open Thread: Saturday, May 20, 2023

By El Somnambulo May 20, 20231 Comment

Debt Ceiling Blues, Featuring The Profound Shittiness That Is Chris Coons: So, are Democrats negotiating on the debt limit? “The president is,” replied Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), who caucuses with…

Anyone who thinks sober centrist dipshits can’t move any further to the right – just wait ten minutes

By jason330 May 20, 2023

Anything that drags the GOP further to the right also moves our dipshit centrist Dems to the right. The holy & pristine "middle" exists and by god, they will find…

The monumental GOP hissy fit that would ensue makes the 14th Amendment solution all the more desirable

By jason330 May 19, 20236 Comments

Growing List Of Dems Urge Biden To Cite 14th Amendment To Sidestep McCarthy’s Debt-Ceiling Hostage Crisis A growing group of Senate Democrats is urging President Joe Biden to seriously consider…

Song of the Day 5/19: The Who, “Bargain”

By Alby May 19, 20232 Comments

Seems Dodderin' Joe Biden is doing it wrong again. After saying he wouldn't negotiate on raising the debt ceiling -- itself a negotiating stance -- he's now negotiating on raising…

DL Open Thread: Friday, May 19, 2023

By El Somnambulo May 19, 20239 Comments

A Real Headline From Today's Washington Post: "World Watches In Disbelief And Horror As US Nears Possible Default". Apocalyptic, much? Here's a sentence I can get behind: And foreign economists…

“…unfortunately or fortunately.”

By jason330 May 19, 20232 Comments

A Brief Observation on the Verdict Declaring Donald Trump Sexually Assaulted E. Jean Carroll There was a time in the not-so-distant past when it was just fine to sexually harass…

Yay Capitalism!

By jason330 May 18, 20233 Comments

Millions of Americans in the past few years have run into this experience: filing a health-care insurance claim that once might have been paid immediately but instead is just as…

Song of the Day 5/18: The Everly Brothers, “Gone Gone Gone”

By Alby May 18, 2023

Colorado Congressclown Lauren Boebert has been demonstrating those Republican family values again, this time by serving her husband with divorce papers. He reportedly didn't take it well; the process server…

“Is Joe Biden the most horrible monster to ever run for President?”

By jason330 May 18, 20231 Comment

The whole game for the GOP is raising enough wariness in the minds of Democratic voters to mute their election day enthusiasm. I can't believe I still have to be…