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DL Open Thread Tuesday November 15 2022

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DL Open Thread Tuesday November 15 2022

Republicans cringe as Trump 2024 approaches – POLITICO

Reached for comment, Trump said that he was writing down the names of all the cringers. 

But seriously, Democrats can’t deny the fact that a Trump run will help them down ticket. But let’s not fall into the the delusional thinking that he can’t win.  With our electoral college, he clearly can win nationally. Democrats – let’s agree to not cheer the announcement this afternoon.  


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Defund the “D Triple C”

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Take everything you don’t like about the out of touch, centrist, corporate Democratic Party and create an organizations that embodies every toxic impulse of that party and you have the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. DCCC I don’t know everything, but I’ve been hearing basically the same complaints about the DCCC forever. It’s an incumbency protection […]

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How Pete ‘N Val Snookered Their Caucus–And What It Means

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on November 14, 2022 10 Comments

The short answer?  They lied.  Pete told everyone he was running against Val. Val told everyone she was running against Pete.  Then, suddenly, miraculously, on Saturday, they were a team again.  It caught most of the caucus flat-footed as there were several scenarios that had been prepared, or at least talked about, to install a […]

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Song of the Day 11/14: Bruce Springsteen, “One Step Up”

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Martin Luther King’s moral arc of the universe is, by definition, not a straight line. Sometimes it takes two steps back. The third single from “Tunnel of Love,” Springsteen’s 1987 album about the breakup of his marriage to Julianne Phillips, reached No. 13. Springsteen plays all the instruments on the song except the drum machine. […]

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Don’t Be a Dick – Support the Call

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I’m going to spring for the $50.00 ticket because it is a great investment, and because I turn into a pumpkin if I am on the other side of the canal after 10:00pm.   The “meet and greet with the Delaware Call team” is a nice bonus I suppose, but not my main thing.   […]

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What if Hillary?

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What if Hillary?

Knowing that Trump is going to officially announce his re-election bid tomorrow got me wondering about a possible rematch with Mrs Clinton. If Hillary announced tomorrow a small number of Democrats would be intensely excited. And the the majority of Democrats would call those people dangerous whackos and nutbags. I wonder if a Trump’s intense […]

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DL Open Thread Monday November 14 2022

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DL Open Thread Monday November 14 2022

plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose

Pete hangs on. If you have any insights into how we ended up with the same shitty Kop Kabal leadership team in the lower house, please feel free to enlighten us. In the comment section.


Lappy’s Pappy is Unhappy

The man who gave birth to the idiotic Lappy!(tm) saga is sad that people are being mean to him.


Delaware Launches School Security Initiative – State of Delaware News

Ok, this is nice I guess, but let’s cut to the chase and put SWAT Teams & fully kitted out ER/Trauma units in each school. The shootings are bound to happen, because teenagers and mentally ill people need to be able to buy military machine guns with high capacity magazines.  It says so in the Constitution.


A boring, centrist look back at the 2022 midterm election | Delaware First Media

Delaware First Media hosts University of Delaware Associate Professor of political science Phil Jones – who somehow seems to think the DEGOP is not fully defunct statewide.

Listen to him discuss all the bipartisan, unthreatening things you’ve already heard about the elections, but this time in the grating accent of a Limey Fop.

Ok. Limey Fop was harsh, but how do you call yourself Associate Professor of political science in Delaware and not acknowledge the progressive changes that have taken place in the Dem caucus?  It’s odd.  I want my 12 minutes back.

Ed Note:  This post was drafted prior to the progressives folding like a house of cards in the leadership vote.  So, who’s the Limey Fop now?  

 


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Song of the Day 11/13: Jerry Butler, “Only the Strong Survive”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on November 13, 2022 4 Comments

Bruce Springsteen has just released an album of the ’60s R&B songs he grew up listening to, with this as the title track. While Bruce does a passable job on them, mainly they made me want to listen to the originals again. Springsteen isn’t even the biggest name to cover what became Jerry Butler’s highest-charting […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 13, 2022

Filed in Featured, Open Thread by on November 13, 2022 11 Comments

Terrible Night For Election Deniers.  Meaning, it was a good night for democracy: Every election denier who sought to become the top election official in a critical battleground state lost at the polls this year, as voters roundly rejected extreme partisans who promised to restrict voting and overhaul the electoral process. The national repudiation of […]

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Democrats projected to keep control of the US Senate

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Democrats projected to keep control of the US Senate

With VP Harris as tie breaker, Democrats will retain control even if Warnock fails to win re-election. If Warnock wins, Dems gain a seat majority thereby making Kyrsten Sinema irrelevant.

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Breaking – Pete Remains Speaker

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Breaking – Pete Remains Speaker

Someone dropped the ball. But who?

Val lost her nerve or never really had the pieces in place. I guess we’ll learn about the rube goldberg machinations at some point.

Here is the thing though. They are politicians, so we’ll never probably know the real story. Politicians are not driven by the same sorts of things that drive normal people. They are motivated by ancient grievances, arcane grudges, weird phobias, gossamer dreams of greatness, and the voices of their ancestors.

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Disneyland Woke-ism is OUTRAGEOUS!

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Disneyland Woke-ism is OUTRAGEOUS!

Utterly cowed by the woke mob, Disneyland is unveiling two new dolls in wheelchairs for “it’s a small world”. What next, Lady Doctors?

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Song of the Day 11/12: The Kinks, “Victoria”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on November 12, 2022 1 Comment

Guest post by Nathan Arizona A lot is going on with the British monarchy. There’s a third King Charles after 337 years. The second Queen Elizabeth, it turns out, couldn’t live forever. The “red-headed stepchild” is still sulking loudly in California. Diana fixation is coming back with a new season of “The Crown,” although she’s […]

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