DL Open Thread: Friday, Jan. 7, 2022
Biden's Speech, Annotated. He realizes how much jeopardy democracy is in. This was an essential rallying cry. How Biden Decided To Directly Confront Trump: Throughout the first year of Joe…
Delaware Political Weekly: December 31, 2021-January 6, 2022
Some reporters, like Frank Farenthold, are especially skilled at deciphering financial ledgers and the like. That's not my strength. Although--I've gotten better. Sufficiently better so that I can share some…
Breaking: Coons Calls Biden “Dagger to the Neck” Remark Unfortunate
In a statement Coons expressed disappointment for what he termed Biden's "ill-timed and divisive" rhetoric. "This is not the time to ...and Chris he didn't say anything like that but with everything we know about Coons, it was really believable. Frankly I think it speaks volumes about the Senator's character that so many people who read this headline found it totally plausible.
Song of the Day 1/6: The O’Jays, “Back Stabbers”
This 1972 song put the O'Jays on the charts, and helped Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff's Sound of Philadelphia depose Motown at the top of the soul/R&B charts. There's a…
Chris Coons Is a Battered Woman
No, I don't mean he's been dipped in buttermilk and deep-fried. I mean he has a form of PTSD from being continually abused -- in his case not by a…
DL Open Thread: Thursday, January 6, 2022
MAGAts Call Trump A Wuss. What kind of would-be insurrectionist doesn't rally his supporters in their time of need?: Edward Jacob Lang, a 25-year-old from upstate New York charged with…
Chris Coons Refuses to Blame his Beloved Republicans for Jan 6th
When people ask me why I have such a problem with Chris Coons, it is stuff like this. Blaming Democrats and Republicans equally for the "division" leading to the Jan…
One year later – how do you feel about democracy in America?
See the poll on the right side of the page. I'm curious to know what you guys think. But a little more curious to know if anyone on the bleaker…
Coons Helped Trump Appoint Crank Judges Who Are Attacking Biden’s Ability to Govern
Thanks Coons! The reactionary hacks Republicans have nominated to lower federal courts have been overrunning Biden administration policy with no serious legal basis. One obvious reason they’re doing this is…
Today Is (D)arius’ Day In Court
Here's the story: The trial of state Sen. Darius Brown starts Wednesday in a case that has revealed inconsistencies in how lawmakers are treated and could end the Wilmington Democrat's…
Song of the Day 1/5: Billy Bragg and Wilco, “All You Fascists”
It's now been a year since Trumpublicans made their intentions and methods clear. Is our media learning? I'm not betting on it. "All You Fascists" appeared on the 2000 LP…
WaPo Puts it all in a Nutshell
This one (longish) sentence sums up how utterly fucked we are.
Slow Motion General Strike Continues – Record 4.5 million Americans quit jobs in November
The jig is up. Late stage capitalism simply does not work for workers. A very large number of younger workers have lost all faith in the notion that capitalism exists to benefit them in some way. To that I say, FUCK YEAH.
[Pictured: A super-capitalist exploiter looking like a slapped ass.]