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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 […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday November 9th 2021
27 years ago today, the Republican Party won control of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate in midterm congressional elections. It marked the first time the GOP held both houses in 40 years.
Republicans accomplished this by consolidating and energizing their base voters and have worked that strategy for the past 27 years. Meanwhile, the Democrats have berated, abused and done everything to drive all energy and enthusiasm OUT of the Democratic base voters for the past 27 years. One electoral strategy seems to work. The other is lacking. I will leave you to figure out which seems to be more effective.
Also in today’s open thread:
– Ted Cruz trolled the US media again
– Steve Smyk is still walking around a free man, and
– Speaking of people brazenly showing their criminal faces in public, what ever happened to Dem’s stopping the indicted auditor from auditing while under indictment? . Oh yeah… Pete Schwartzkopf likes her.
Our media is now just rich people interviewing each other
Peter Eleftherios Baker is an American journalist and author. He is the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times and a political analyst for MSNBC. His net worth is estimated to be well over $1 million.
Andrea Mitchell is an American television journalist, anchor, and commentator for NBC News, based in Washington, D.C. She married her second husband, then Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, on April 6, 1997, following a lengthy relationship. Her personal net worth is estimated at over $8 million.
This is what passes for “analysis” in the United States:
Andrea Mitchell: Peter Baker, is the congressional Democratic Party just too liberal for the country?
“A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.”
I think of the amazing things would could accomplish as a people and a species if we were not hobbled by being chained to such brazenly stupid people. If we don’t have the mental acuity to think beyond labels such as “progressive” and “liberal” and instead think in terms of “people who generally favor some tangible benefit for the vast majority of people” – what hope do we have?
Read the essay by Carlo M. Cipolla that Alby mentioned last week. It explains so much about Republican Banditry and our national stupidity.
DL Open Thread Monday November 8th 2021
Yesterday was the 77th anniversary of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt winning an unprecedented fourth term in office. With the benefit of historical hindsight, we now know that he won by continually watering down his bold agenda to appeal to centrists and corporate interests. That is the only way Democrats have ever won nationally. It is […]
Song of the Day 11/8: John Prine, “Long Monday”
It’s been a long week. Time for a little John Prine. From “Fair and Square,” the 2005 album he released after his bout with cancer.
DL Open Thread: Sunday, November 7, 2021
How Cops Justify Killing Those Stopped For Traffic Offenses: ‘The Car Was The Weapon’: In a New York Times investigation of car stops that left more than 400 similarly unarmed people dead over the last five years, those words were routinely used to explain why police officers had fired at drivers. In about 250 of […]
Shawn Garvin Brings ‘Teh Weak’.
Yep, we’re talking about The Underwater City At Fort DuPont. You will surely recall this letter from Jack Guerin to DNREC Secretary Garvin concerning this boondoggle: Hello Mr. Garvin, I’m contacting you based on your dual role as Secretary of DNREC and Board Secretary of the Fort Dupont Redevelopment and Preservation Corporation (FDRPC). You are […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, November 6, 2021
D’s Finally Pass Something, And Send It To Biden. If a $1.2 Trillion Infrastructure program can seem anti-climactic, the D’s will make it so. Of course, there was a caveat: House Democrats had planned to also hold a vote on their sprawling social policy and climate bill on Friday, but it was put on hold […]
Save it for the rubes, Coonsie
Coons takes his holy bi-partisanship act to Glasgow Scotland today. His ready to disclose the top secret Republicans traveling with this afternoon at 1:00pm. This show of bipartisanship (if is happens) will surely fix the climate crisis. Coons visits climate change conference to advocate bipartisan solutions Senator Chris Coons is part of a bipartisan delegation […]
Song of the Day 11/5: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, “Can’t Let Go”
It took 14 years, but Robert Plant and Alison Krauss have finally recorded a follow-up to their “Raising Sand,” the 2007 LP that won both Grammy and Americana awards. “Raise the Roof” gets its official release Nov. 19, but three songs have been released over the past few months to prime the pump. This Randy […]
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