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DL Open Thread: Friday, Nov. 12, 2021
Who said it?: “…“the Black wogs and coons and Arabs and f—ing Jamaicans don’t belong here.” Answer at bottom of column. Manchin Is A Republican. Period. Sabotaging The Democratic Senate Caucus from within. Might as well admit it and move on. He will. Phil Gramm redux: “We spend so much time being polite in the […]
Fox News’ Gutfeld praises Rittenhouse for killing protesters and doing “what the government should have done”
Rittenhouse is going to walk. I think we all know that. The reality we have to confront is that this is not an isolated event. The right is organized and has a robust, well organized revolutionary infrastructure. GREG GUTFELD (HOST): People say that Rittenhouse never should have gone to Kenosha. The dead guys shouldn’t have […]
Song of the Day 11/11: The Royal Guardsmen, “Snoopy vs. the Red Baron”
In France, Armistice Day is still a big deal — a natural reaction, I suppose, considering most of the fighting in what was dubbed a “world” war was done on French soil. Nov. 11 is a national holiday, and it doesn’t get moved near a weekend. A minute of silence is still observed at 11:11, […]
Who is the “Democratic Base” voter that the Democratic Party continues to abuse?
Somebody asked if I could succinctly describe democratic base voters. I did, but they didn’t like the answer, so they took a powder. Good riddance. That’s fine but it is important to define terms so for everyone knows what I am talking about when I correctly observe that “the Democratic Party has spent the last 27 years abusing, berating and doing everything it can to drive the enthusiasm OUT of its base voters.“. So here is some “politics 101” for anybody who needs it.
First of all, “base voter” whether Democratic or Republican isn’t a demographic. Base voters don’t live in a certain zip code. Political scientist define base voters as voters who have a high degree of political participation and a strong connection to the espoused values of a political party. Therefor they are more likely to 1) show up on Election Day and 2) vote the “straight ticket.” Political scientist further describe “base voters” as being more interested in strengthen a party’s…
DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 11, 2021
“Should We Burn The Books–Or Just Ban Them?“. Not isolated. Organized efforts. Democracy, or what passes for it, dies in darkness: Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin (R) had attacked McAuliffe for, as governor, vetoing a bill to allow parents to opt their children out of reading assignments they deem to be explicit. The impetus was a famous […]
“INFLATION PANIC!” is corporate pushback against rising worker power
The inflation freakout is all about class conflict. In fact, it may be the fundamental class conflict: that between creditors and debtors, a fight that’s been going on since the foundation of the United States.
That’s because inflation is often good for most of us, but it’s terrible for the kinds of people who own corporate news outlets….
Song of the Day 11/10: Jarvis Cocker (as Tip-Top), “Aline”
I’m not a Wes Anderson buff, so I don’t know if the hubbub surrounding “The French Dispatch” accompanies all his films. Or if every time he gets a guy to sing a period piece as a period singer he talks the guy into recording an entire LP in character as a “companion piece” to the […]
Trump White House records can be given to Capitol attack panel, judge rules
The House panel should immediately release the documents to the full house and the public. Congress is the people’s house. Executive privilege arguments are bullshit. The people don’t owe that specious argument one minute’s consideration.
A federal judge in Washington has ruled that hundreds of pages of White House records from the Trump administration can be turned over to the House committee investigating the deadly 6 January attack on the Capitol, defying objections from Donald Trump.
The decision, handed down late on Tuesday by the US district judge Tanya Chutkan, clears the way for the National Archives to start transmitting the records requested by Congress as early as Friday, though attorneys for Trump immediately vowed to appeal the ruling.
General Assembly Retains Former Delaware Supreme Court Justice To Consider McGuiness Case
Yes, we were spared the Alphonse-Gaston back-and-forth that had inexplicably taken hold in Leg Hall over L’Affaire(s) McGuiness: House and Senate leadership announced jointly they’ve retained former Supreme Court Justice Randy J. Holland for guidance on the General Assembly’s powers under Article III of the Delaware Constitution. The never-before-used provision, created in 1897, permits the […]
REV Talks w/ Becca Cotto
This Highlands Bunker episode starts a little slow but builds freight train like momentum. From her web site: I am running because I believe we should all live in a just and equitable society where: Every child from Pre-K and up has a free quality education Everyone has affordable healthcare We all live and work […]
Song of the Day 11/9: The Clash, “Death or Glory”
So I’m talking the other night to a young millennial woman from London and during the conversation I tried to illustrate a point about someone going back on his stated beliefs by quoting the closing couplet of the second verse: “I believe in this and it’s been tested by research/He who fucks nuns will later […]
Delaware Political Weekly: Nov. 2 To Nov. 8, 2021
I’d imagine that this feature will migrate off of Tuesdays at some point. But I put the first one up last Tuesday, and it suits my current work schedule. Besides, I’ve got stuff. 1. First Would-Be Successor To Rep. David Bentz Surfaces. And he has all the earmarks of a legitimate candidate. Martin Willis filed […]
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