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DL Open Thread Wednesday March 30 2022
The Seven Hour Gap! THE SEVEN HOUR GAP, PEOPLE!! Why is it that the media can only understand a story if it includes an easy to grasp handle? Trump worked for months to overturn the election. There is copious evidence of that. He stood in front of a crowd of loons and declared […]
N’Awlins Star Shamarr Allen Coming To Arden Gild Hall: Friday, May 13
He indeed has earned his monicker of ‘True Orleans’. He’s bringing his band The Underdawgs with him. His brand new single from his brand new album: Here is the 2nd Line he put together for the Quarantine Year: OK, why not? Here he is with the Underdawgs: Fuckin’ A!! Some official bio stuff: “Shamarr Allen […]
Song of the Day 3/29: DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, “I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson”
Rap fans might remember that Will Smith had pugilistic fantasies going back to at least 1989, when this song was released on the duo’s “And in This Corner…” LP. As the album’s lead single, it also got the expensive video treatment, and the sharp-eyed will notice that one of the its guest stars, though not […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, March 29th 2022
Biden is doing too much and also not enough Poll: A majority of Americans believe Biden has not been “tough enough” on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, but are concerned about the U.S. being drawn into an all-out war Fiery pileup kills at least three in Pennsylvania. It you, fellow American, don’t die of […]
Song of the Day 3/28: Taylor Hawkins, “Holy Man”
The headlines said Taylor Hawkins, who died at age 50 Friday in Colombia, was the drummer for the Foo Fighters, but that only captured a portion of his talent. He sang lead and played drums in a number of side projects, including his own band, Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders, and sang lead on […]
DL Open Thread Monday March 28th 2022
The GOP’s anti-trans one-upmanship festival of hate is unfolding at breakneck speed. Robert Foster, a former GOP house representative in Mississippi and failed gubernatorial candidate there, has a new message he hopes will open doors for him: kill trans people and their supporters. “Some of y’all still want to try and find political compromise with those […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, March 27, 2022
Fascinating Portrait Of Vladimir Putin. Why he is the way he is. Well worth a NYTimes subscription. Too much to even excerpt. Read it online, or try to find a newspaper edition. Basically, he hated being humiliated. OK, just one excerpt: In 1993, Mr. Yeltsin ordered the Parliament shelled to put down an insurgency; 147 […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, March 26, 2022
Rethug Congressman Found Guilty Of Lying About Illegal Campaign Contributions. Poor guy, after his conviction, he read a letter from his daughter saying how much she loves him anyway: A federal jury on Thursday convicted Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.) on three felony counts for lying to federal investigators about illegal campaign contributions from a foreign […]
Delaware Political Weekly: March 18-24, 2022
1. Whither SD 3? I’ve pretty much got only questions. I’m counting on you to provide information and/or speculation. Following her destruction of police reform, can or will Sen. Lockman run for reelection? I don’t think she can, but never underestimate the self-delusion of politicians. Who will run for the seat? I mean, you’ve got […]
Song of the Day 3/25: 10,000 Maniacs, “Peace Train”
How could a song that advocates peace become controversial? Well, how about if the guy who wrote it later supported the assassination of an author for blasphemy? Even when it was released on 1971’s “Teaser and the Firecat,” Cat Stevens’ first US Top 10 hit wasn’t universally admired. With the war in Vietnam still raging, […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, March 25, 2022
Money For Nothin’. The coming-together of Carney’s brain-dead ‘budget-smoothing’, the lack of virtually any guardrails on that windfall of Federal money, and the cynicism of the Delaware General Assembly. Because there are apparently no problems that need addressing in Delaware. We have the region’s dirtiest streams and rivers? We’re overridden by pollutants? We have too […]
Ginnie Thomas and the End of the Elite Consensus
If we elites could only get together behind closed doors and hash things out as God and nature intended – then we wouldn’t have these lower class QAnon rabble and leftist BLM whackos trying to throw the economy in the toilet.
Elites, like us, ultimately all want the same things. Stable markets, less onerous regulation, occasional insider trading info, and lower taxes for the wealthy. Sure we’ll argue about abortion or whatever – but that is a little show for the rubes.
Coonsian bipartisanship and the fetishization of “cooperation” isn’t so much about people with different views on the issues getting together. It is much more classist than that. It is about class affiliation and agreement among elites on some big worldview items, and not about political parties “finding middle ground.”
Or it was that, anyway. It is a very strange view for Coons to continue to hold these days when the elite consensus with regard to trading off control of the White House and Congress every once in a while has completely broken down.
I mean, Ginnie Thomas is going to make the next cocktail party at Bezos Manner very awkward with her nonsense. Very awkward, indeed.
Ketanji Brown Jackson is Not Going to Make It – I’m Sorry to Have to Break That News to You
I never thought she stood much of a chance. First of all, she made the mistake of having been nominated by a Democratic President. That’s damming info, right there. But there is also Murkowski and Collins looking wobbly as they don’t want to be seen going to bat for a child molester.
With those two gone, President Joe Manchin makes the call and you know, it is just so political and partisan to be nominating justices in this environment. Also, Biden never consulted with the GOP on this nomination. So there is that.
When she was nominated, quite a few people speculated that a lot of Republican senators would vote for Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination, given that “no” votes would almost certainly be futile. The members of the GOP’s rapidly shrinking club of senatorial bipartisan fetishists could therefore indulge their particular kink at no practical cost, with the extra added benefit for them of proving how totally not racist or sexist they were by voting for a black woman.
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