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DL Open Thread: Sunday, June 12, 2022
A Case Study In Trumpism: Six years into the grass-roots movement unleashed by Donald Trump in his first presidential campaign, Angela Rubino is a case study in what that movement is becoming. Suspicious of almost everything, trusting of almost nothing, believing in almost no one other than those who share her unease, she has in […]
Jan 6th Hearings Audience of 1 – Merrick Garland
Lazy prosecutors always seem to rely on their tea leaf reading skills when they don’t indict because conviction seems improbable. Robert Kuttner Writing at The American prospect makes the case that the Jan 6th hearting is taking this excuse away from Garland. The most important thing to appreciate about the January 6th Committee hearings is […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, June 11, 2022
Should Biden Run In 2024? Of course the answer is no. Most D’s will only speak anonymously. Not David Axelrod, though: “The presidency is a monstrously taxing job and the stark reality is the president would be closer to 90 than 80 at the end of a second term, and that would be a major […]
Free Advice For Dems That Nobody Will Listen Too
I feel like it is time for me to propose my DNC rules change again.
When picking a VP, whoever comes in SECOND at the Democratic National convention should have the right of first refusal for the VP spot. Since 1984 this would have given us tickets like:
Hashtag Unity
Whatever happens, we can all agree that all of the failures of the Democrats can be laid at the feet of the all powerful liberal faction that ultimately controls everything.
Song of the Day 6/10: Randy Newman, “Guilty”
This is the song I’d like to hear played when Donald Trump is hanged for treason. The song closed side 1 of Randy Newman’s controversial 1974 album “Good Old Boys” and was released as the LP’s first single. It didn’t chart. Newman wasn’t the first to record the tune. Bonnie Raitt, backed by most of […]
“You aren’t here to protect gun rights. You are here to protect gun sales.”
Just listen to this Highlands Bunker: E180 – Kids Who Die (w/Traci Murphy) DCAGV Executive Director Traci Murphy joins Rob in the bunker to talk about the recent slate of mass shootings, the different solutions needed for different types of gun violence, and what is being worked on in Delaware right now. Show Notes: Delaware […]
Delaware Political Weekly: June 3-9, 2022
1. Matt Meyer Publicly Supports Marijuana Legalization And Regulation. Here’s his op-ed: Delaware decriminalized small amounts of marijuana in 2015, but Delawareans, and disproportionately Black Delawareans, continue to be arrested for marijuana possession. According to an ACLU report of arrest data from 2018, Black Delawareans were more than four times more likely to be arrested […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, June 10, 2022
Five Takeaways From The Jan. 6 Hearings. First and foremost, Trump was at the center: They made it clear that, for all his ongoing bluster about stolen elections, Mr. Trump had knowingly spread claims about election fraud that people closest to him knew were false, tried to use the apparatus of government and the courts […]
Early AM Jan 6th Hearings Hearings Comments
There is just so much evidence that Trump organized and executed an attempted coup to unlawfully remain in power. The shame of this continuing attempt to end our constitutional democracy touches every person in America who still calls themself a Republican.
Carney is the lamest of lame ducks. Who will be the next Governor of Delaware? Part 2
Last time we looked at the Governors of yore and I’m glad I started there because we can dispense with who we’d like to be Governor and discuss who will probably be the 75th Gov of Smellaware. There is no need for a drum roll. Based on the fact that 60% of recent Govs had previously served as Lt Gov and the probability matrix that fact establishes, the next Governor is going to be…
Song of the Day 6/9: The Weavers, “The Hammer Song”
Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson will wield the hammer of justice — a gavel, actually — when the House select committee he chairs on the Jan. 6 insurrection presents its findings tonight at 8 p.m. in that old-school format, the prime-time television broadcast. I’m not sure how that will play in our post-TV era. Pete Seeger […]
Should America Continue to be a Democracy? Views Differ
A coup against the people and government of the United States failed. That should be seriously and publicly unpacked. Arrests and convictions must made or we’ll invite bigger and more effective coup attempts.
And yet, we all know that the “objective” media coverage is going to be a nauseating “both sides” bullshit fest where the mid-term horserace is the central narrative and the FACT THAT REPUBLICANS TRIED TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT is brushed aside.
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