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DL Open Thread Monday February 14 2022 – Guess the Flag
Happy Valentines Day! Enjoy your S&M thruples, or whatever. Groovy Baby! The science of Mascot Matchups ™ deals with probabilities. It isn’t perfect. It hasn’t “solved” the NFL in the same way IBM’s Deep Blue has solved chess, or the way the GOP has “solved” politics in America. The trucks protests in Ottawa are two […]
Political Norms Don’t Work for Dems
Joe Biden (and to be honest most Dems and all DC beltway types) still cleave to 1980’s political norms. So when a “scandal” breaks, its all “OH MY! HEADS MUST ROLL!”
Whereas Republicans operate on 2020 political norms. So when a “scandal” breaks (up to and including scandalously trying to overthrow the republic) they say “LOL. Nothing matters! Fuck You.” And presto! No scandal.
I know many Dems, even commenters here, feel good about themselves and believe that they are destine to live eternity in heaven because they have the right norms. That’s comforting, I suppose.
Song of the Day 2/13: Marillion, “Gazpacho”
I admit I never thought I’d actually find a song called “Gazpacho,” but when Congressdope Marjorie Taylor Greene expressed her thoughts about the gazpacho police — I understand they only take cold cases — I looked for one out of due diligence. Here it is, though unlike Trout Fishing in America’s “Pico de Gallo,” it’s […]
Predicting the Super Bowl By the Mascot Matchup Method – 2022
It almost goes without saying that there is virtually no scenario in which a Bengal Tiger doesn’t defeat a male sheep. But will they cover the points spread? My proprietary Mascot Matchup Method™ doesn’t have an opinion on that. ——————————————————————————- Until he abruptly stopped a few years ago, our own Jason 330 was the […]
DL Open Thread Sunday February 13 2022
Last week I asked what actual policy goals centrist like Coons are trying to enact. The answer is that there are no goals other than to cool the passions of the left and ensure that all political outcomes are far right of center thereby further enriching the rich and keeping existing class structures in place. […]
Song of the Day 2/12: Weezer, “Hash Pipe”
Very little American media output crosses the Atlantic, the obsessions of right-wing agit-prop shops like Fox even less than the rest. But enough spam email has slipped through for me to learn that these rube-fleecers are claiming the Biden administration is handing out free crack pipes, as if anyone has used a crack pipe in […]
DL Open Thread Saturday February 12 2022
Crack Pipe Joe is now cowering in the corner begging Tucker Carlson to stop kicking him. It is truly pathetic and perhaps not a great strategy going into midterms. Someone in the Democratic Party’s “leadership” must have said “Maybe if we apologize harder and compromise more ardently, the Fox News personalities will come around.” Another […]
Listen to the Highlands Bunker – NOW WITH 20% MORE BRAIN POISON!
“If all the right people hate me, I’m doing my job.” REV may or may not have said that. But it sounds like something he would say. E162 – Call Me Madinah (w/Madinah Wilson-Anton) State Representative Madinah Wilson-Anton joins Rob in the bunker to talk about the retirement of John Kowalko, what is going on […]
Delaware Political Weekly, February 4-10, 2022
Hoo-boy, now we’re talkin’! A hot-stove political junkie’s dream of a week. 1. More RD 4 Nomination Post-Mortems. The alleged rationales for choosing Bud Freel (other than ‘he’s one of us’ in the most clannish sense) were mere fig leafs. Whatever name recognition advantage that Bud Freel might have over Dr. Bohm would not have […]
Song of the Day 2/11: Hot Chocolate, “Brother Louie”
Hot Chocolate was a British soul band best known for their 1975 international hit “You Sexy Thing,” a disco standard that reached No. 3 in the US. But it was another band that became a one-hit wonder with this tune by the band’s songwriting team of singer Errol Brown and bassist Tony Wilson. The band […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, Feb. 11, 2022
Doesn’t Look Like Sarah Palin Starred As Star Witness. How did this case even make it to trial?: No one who has even casually followed the former governor’s career would be surprised at these specifics-free blasts against the media. Yet this time, Palin chose the wrong venue for such a critique. Adoring audiences at Fox […]
Senators Blackburn and Coons “Spitting Mad”
Senator Marsha Blackburn (R–TN) is incensed that President Biden is not including Republicans in the search for the next Supreme Court justice. “The Biden White House is not even consulting with Republican Senators,” she complained on Fox today. “They’ve sent the message that Republicans Senators are irrelevant. … They want to just put the people […]
Don’t Be a Wanker
If you aren’t fucking joining your fucking RD committee, or working for a fucking candidate you believe in, or all your activism takes place in the comments section of some dumb blog, you are just wanking. WFP is hosting a training on how to run a grassroots campaign this Saturday: Every day, our political system seems […]
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