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DL Open Thread Monday May 30 2022
Happy (?) Memorial Day Open Thread. I’m taking today off so put anything you think we should know in the comments.
DL Open Thread: Sunday, May 29, 2022
Company That Made The Texas Killer’s Assault Weapon Marketed It To Kids. Hey, it’s just like vaping: The Texas shooting, which left 19 schoolchildren and two teachers dead and more than a dozen wounded, has put a national spotlight on Daniel Defense, a family-owned business in Georgia that has emerged as a trailblazer in an […]
BREAKING NEWS!: Stephanie Bolden Faces Primary Challenger!
While I hate to break news on a holiday weekend, news like this will brighten your day. One James Taylor (no, not that one) has announced that he will challenge one of Delaware’s most corrupt legislators. You know, Stephanie Bolden, the Slumlords’ Best Friend. My understanding is that some of our favorite political activists have […]
Song of the Day 5/28: The Black Keys, “Tell Me Lies”
There’s so much lying in public life that the media has become numb to it — producers and editors aired and printed Trump’s lies with a shrug and without bothering to check or correct them. Maybe that’s why people seem so stunned by the fumbling, bumbling lying by the Uvalde Police Department. The tune appeared […]
DL Open Thread: Sat., May 28, 2022
Police Were Slow To Engage Because They ‘Could’ve Been Shot’: Olivarez said that, while the goal for law enforcement during active-shooter situations such as the one this week in Uvalde is to stop the killing and preserve life, officers did not initially know where Ramos was located when they were shot at. “At that point, […]
Song of the Day 5/27: Emitt Rhodes, “You Should Be Ashamed”
This one’s for all the people who think that gun violence can be curtailed by doing anything other than restricting access to guns. The song, released on Rhodes’ eponymous 1970 LP, is a good example of why people thought this was actually Paul McCartney recording incognito. Rhodes’ three early ’70s albums made him a cult […]
“But, but, but… OUR Cops are good”
I can just hear it. That’s going to be the reaction to the rightful excoriation of the cops who showed up at Robb Elementary School only to hassle parents and mill around with dumb looks on their faces. If only poor Ulvade had good cops like we do! But here is the thing – NO. […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, May 27, 2022
Stealing This From Jason: The Rev And Karl Discuss WFP. The Delaware Working Families Party is utterly indispensable when it comes to promoting the progressive cause in Delaware. And, most importantly, helping to elect progressive candidates in Delaware. Listen to the podcast, then get involved. Chickenshit Cops Let Kids Die. They knew how dangerous the […]
A VERY SPECIAL EDITION Of Delaware Political Weekly: May 20-26, 2022
So special we’re putting it up on Thursday. One of our own readers broke the embargo. So, we’ve been granted permission to break the following news: 1. LYDIA YORK TO PRIMARY PARK CITY KATHY FOR STATE AUDITOR!! She filed her committee yesterday. She is quite the accomplished person: She started her career in public accounting […]
OMG – just stop it with the “mental health” & “armed teachers” nonsense
Nobody who says “We don’t have a gun crisis, we have a mental health crisis” gives a fuck about dealing with mental health. Do you know how I know that? Where’s the follow-up? Where’s the money? It’s just a little stalling ruse to allow the latest gun atrocity to fade from the headlines. Also, even the most cursory mental health screening for gun ownership would immediately put gun ownership waaaaay out of the reach of anyone who has ever said, “We don’t have a gun crisis.”
Similarly, “armed teachers” is a bunch of bullshit. Setting aside the fact that it assumes that school shootings are natural and inevitable, like tornadoes, last week they wanted teachers locked up if they mentioned in passing that “gay” is a real thing. So which is it, guns or handcuffs, for the nation’s underpaid surrogate moms and dads?
So yeah. All of the GOP’s talking points on this are pure bullshit. But it is Democrat’s that allow them to get away with it every time. At least Beto had the guts to call them on it this time. Maybe that sensibility can spread.
Song of the Day 5/26: Nilsson, “Jump Into the Fire”
I didn’t even have to finish reading the headline about actor Ray Liotta’s death at age 67 for this song to start playing in my head. As any Scorsese fan knows, this is the tune that accompanies Henry Hill’s paranoid drive while a police helicopter shadows him, and it does an effective job of heightening […]
Your US Senator is a very lazy shithead, and the US Senate is hopelessly broken and worthless
You know your country is in a bad way when you’ve developed a sort of hierarchy of the awfulness of mass shootings, depending on the location and the number and identity of the victims. It’s safe to say the worst of all happen in an elementary school. The Sandy Hook massacre was a special kind of horror that transfixed the nation for days, and now so is Uvalde, Texas, where a lone gunman butchered 19 children and two adults in a local school on Tuesday.
In response, some senators proposed a vote on a background check bill that has passed the House several times, most recently last March. The swing Democratic votes in the Senate leaped into action to clarify that nothing of the sort would be done. Reached by reporters at the Capitol asking if he would support ending the Senate filibuster to clear the way for the bill, Joe Manchin refused, insisting, “The filibuster is the only thing that prevents us from total insanity.” Kyrsten Sinema concurred, telling reporters that she doesn’t think “D.C. solutions are realistic here.”
The Senate leadership barely even pretended to try to force their hands by scheduling a vote. Instead, senators are reportedly going on their Memorial Day recess. It’s a broken, worthless institution.
Meanwhile Senator Chris Coons would like you to know that “we” have to do more, but by “we” he does not mean the US Senate.
Senator Chris Coons
@ChrisCoons
We have to do more. We have to make it harder for individuals to get access to weapons who have demonstrated the capacity, or the potential, to use them to harm themselves or their families. And we have to do more to address gun violence. We cannot become numb to this.
DL Open Thread: Thursday, May 26, 2022
Which Senator Has Taken The Most NRA $$’s? Pretty much all the R’s have cashed in. Doubt that you can guess #1. When Rethugs talk about ‘politicizing’ the issue of gun massacres, they’ve already been totally politicized. As in ‘in their pockets’. Annnd, Right On Cue, NRA To Convene In Texas. Yes, Trump will appear […]
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