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How Wilmington And State Government Have Traditionally Targeted Black Communities
By Mark Brunswick The Southbridge news event was held at Peter Spencer Plaza, across from City Hall yesterday. As I sat waiting for something to happen, I thought about how development has affected the city during my lifetime. The Eastside of Wilmington used to be “east of Market St”, not 10th and Pine. The Poplar […]
Song of the Day 8/9: The Supremes, “Stop! In the Name of Love”
We’ll leave the Aussies for tomorrow — Lamont Dozier of Holland-Dozier-Holland fame died yesterday at age 81. He and his partners churned out an astounding 15 No. 1 singles for Motown, including 10 by the Supremes. Dozier started out as a singer on the Anna label owned by Berry Gordy’s sisters. He hired Dozier as […]
Our Platform is Revenge
The FBI seizure of evidence at the loser’s shithole palace has the GOP and the GOP’s propaganda arm popping off and vowing revenge. It all sounds very “Banana Republic” to me.
Ingraham: “When we get power back, it’s time to hold everyone accountable.. the military leadership, the civilian leadership, the civil service, those in Congress who have abused their power”
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy: “When Republicans take back the House, we will conduct immediate oversight of this department, follow the facts, and leave no stone unturned,” McCarthy tweeted. “Attorney General Garland, preserve your documents and clear your calendar.”
Trump Under Investigation Thread
I’m moving this from the open thread:
I watched a little bit of Fox News last night to get a flavor for what kind of nonsense they were spoon feeding the moronic dipshits known as Fox News viewers. The major themes seemed to be:
- But, but , but Hilary Clinton’s email server.
- But, but, but Hunter Biden is crimes and gangstering.
- Banana Republic!
- We can’t enforce laws because fascist might get mad.
Be prepared to hear “Banana Republic” a lot. Alan Dershowitz, who Fox News considers to be smart, was exclaiming “Banana Republic!” last night, and that seemed to be picked up pretty quickly by the braying Fox News mutton heads.
There might be more, but I couldn’t stomach watching more than about 10 minutes.
DL Open Thread Tuesday August 9 2022
I met some DL commenters and chatted with some of our best legislators last night at the York fundraiser. FWIW, here is my take on York’s chances.
The convicted Auditor is popular in Sussex. She is the kind of person who shows up at everything. Knows everyone’s name asks about the kids by name and people love that shit. She is a Karen’s Karen. If it was a general election York would have a heavy lift, but this is a primary.
Primary voters aren’t normal voters. They pay more attention and know the increased value of their vote. Primary voters aren’t as easily swayed by the glad-handing things the convicted auditor excels at.
That said the wild card is the unions. I have’t tracked endorsements, but I watched the union vote swamp much better candidates in primaries because the numbers they can turn out in a primary are significant.
I Demand to See the Body Cam Footage
The FBI raided Mar a Lago today. I want to see if his Secret Service agents put up a fight. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/08/08/us/trump-fbi-raid
Song of the Day 8/8: Free Energy, “Free Energy”
Cleaning out a CD rack this weekend I ran across “Stuck on Nothing,” the debut album from this Philadelphia-based power pop quartet. Critics mostly loved it, and Rolling Stone called them one of the best new bands of 2010. They sounded a lot like Fountains of Wayne without the sense of humor — Free Energy […]
Carper and Coons, Craven to the Core
Ever since SCOTUS pulled its gangland-style execution of Roe, Josh Marshall over at Talking Points Memo has been stumping for Democrats to make the issue the centerpiece of the midterm elections. Obviously this makes a great deal of sense, and so just as obviously the people who run the Democratic Party will have to be […]
The ‘Plastic’ Straw That Broke The Kabal’s Back?
AKA ‘The Starboard And The Styrofoam’. This is a story about how Delaware’s worst miscreants, both legislative and others, conspired to kill a bill that would have taken a whole bunch of plastic and styrofoam out of the waste stream. In fact, this bill was so popular that I simply assumed that the bill had […]
Nnamdi Doubles Down On His Own Demise
I don’t think he has a political death wish. Just think he’s oblivious to the impact that his words have. Hey, at least he’s telling his own vision of the truth even if it leads to his defeat at the hands of Shane Darby. From Amanda Fries’ generally excellent (with one notable exception) article on […]
DL Open Thread Monday August 8 2022
I has been pointed out that the US Senate is a dumbass institution where it takes 51 votes to protect private equity from taxation, but 57 votes aren’t enough to ensure that diabetics have affordable insulin. If the Democratic Party had any fight in it, they’d be able to murder the GOP on this pro-Big […]
Song of the Day 8/7: Nini Music, “LongMa”
I bet when Nancy Pelosi was digging to China as a little girl, she didn’t think she’d find Taiwanese folk metal when she got there. I assume this showed up in my feed because I was reading stories about Taiwan; until a couple of days ago I never even considered that such a genre might […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, August 7, 2022
The Devolution Of The Rethuglican Party Began with–Newt Gingrich? This piece makes a pretty good case–although I think Nixon was the beginning of the party’s descent into pure hatred: Rupert Murdoch famously offered Gingrich a $4.5 million book deal in 1994. That started to smell a tad too stinky. If Gingrich writes his memoirs, he […]
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